Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts signed a state of emergency declaration on Thursday after federal agriculture officials determined a second farm in the state has tested positive for the highly contagious avian flu virus H5N2.

And that is not a good thing for turkey prices, chicken prices, egg prices, or birds.

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An eastern South Dakota farm with 1.3 million egg-laying chickens is the first in the chicken-production business in the state to be infected with a deadly flu virus despite efforts to prevent it

The bird flu continues to spread.. From state to state.. bird to bird.. And your wallet. Turkey, egg, and chicken prices will continue to rise as the number of dead birds pile up..

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At least 136 people were hospitalized after an Amtrak train derailed north of Philadelphia, according to figures from several local hospitals.

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More first hand reporting on the AMTRAK train crash in Philadelphia

Thanks to an NBC NEWS producer.. MORE.. Janelle Richards, an NBC Nightly News producer, was on the train. She said all of a sudden she heard a loud crash and people flew up in the air, there was a lot of jerking back and forth, a lot of smoke, then everything just stopped and people starting asking how to get off the train. “The people that were able to get up, stood up and were able to find an exit,” Richard, who was okay, said. Richards said her car did not tip over. A passenger on the train had blood streaming from her face as they got up and made their way to the rear of the train car, where a man was able to open up a door wide enough for them to get out.

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DEVELOPING: AMTRAK CRASHES IN PHILLY!

An Amtrak train has crashed in Philadelphia, and several people appear to be injured. Train 188 was traveling from Washington, D.C., to New York City on Tuesday night when it crashed. MORE.. First responders are swarming onto the scene.. An AP reporter was on the train.. a former Congressman is too, and is tweeting pictures.. SUCH AS THIS PHOTO It would also appear that Patrick Murphy broke the news, Tweeting that he was just on am Amtrak that crashed..

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Earth shakes

Nepal earlier.. now this: A powerful 6.8 earthquake has struck off the eastern coast of Japan’s Honshu island, USGS and Japan Meteorological Agency report. Shaking has been felt in Tokyo.

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THE ‘Subway Conquestors’ hit NYC..

It’s like a setup for a new NINJA TURTLES movie… instead of Shredder and the Foot Soldiers, this is reality.. Various sources report: A rogue group of subway vandals calling them the ‘Subway Conquestors’ is allegedly on a mission to attack the rail system From CBS in NEW YORK: Police sources believe they were responsible for an explosion in the Bronx, and have been linked to one at Brooklyn’s Nostrand Avenue station in April. In the Nostrand Avenue incident, police arrestedKeyshawn Brown, 16, and accused him of placing a piece of metal on the tracks. “There are plenty of other people out there in the same gang, engaging in the same activities,” Max Diamond explained. Diamond is a self-proclaimed rail enthusiast. He has tracked the group for two years on social media. He said the acts are getting more extreme as the vandals try to one up each other. They have been accused of changing destination signs to confuse passengers, surfing train cars, and stealing MTA equipment and gear.

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Nepal shakes rattles and rolls all over again

At least four people have been killed by the 7.3 magnitude quake that hit Nepal on Tuesday, the International Organization for Migration said. Paul Dillon, a spokesman for the organization, told CNN that the deaths occurred in the town of Chautara, east of Kathmandu.

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Seymour no more Bin Laden: White House responds

Seymour Hersh rocked the world a bit today with the story that the Bin Laden raid was faked and staged.. I wrote earlier that a number of conspiracy theorists already theorized that the raid either did not occur or did not occur as said.. The White House was forced to respond to the story today, calling the Hersh story baseless Being that Seymour Hersh and not Alex Jones is saying this, I think the media will be forced to pay more attention–not that it should matter if a story is backed up by facts.. The White House refuting this isn’t going to make the story vanish. But speaking of staged. There is one thing I want to bring your memory hole back to for a moment.. Remember after Bin Laden’s death was announced, official media sources got a hold of that magic photo of the Administration paying close attention to what was described as live coverage of the raid–Hillary Clinton upped the ante a bit with her hands over her mouth in shock. But it came out a bit later–and was not widely reported–that the original White House account of the ADMIN watching the ‘firefight’ did not really happen. As a matter of fact, the head of the CIA was forced to admit that live video footage of the event did not even happen. It’s your choice what to believe. OR not believe.

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How to find the origin of a quote on the Internet. In the matrix.

nI read a link posted by George Knapp on Facebook and Twitter tonight to a website called Educating Humanity. The link describes well respected people who say we may be living in a simulated reality. A matrix.. Just like the movie version.. This quote, in particular, was present: Rich Terrile, director of the Centre for Evolutionary Computation and Automated Design at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, has spoken out about the digital simulation. “Right now the fastest NASA supercomputers are cranking away at about double the speed of the human brain,” the NASA scientist told Vice. “ If you make a simple calculation using Moore’s Law [which roughly claims computers double in power every two years], you’ll find that these supercomputers, inside of a decade, will have the ability to compute an entire human lifetime of 80 years – including every thought ever conceived during that lifetime – in the span of a month. “In quantum mechanics, particles do not have a definite state unless they’re being observed. "Many theorists have spent a lot of time trying to figure out how you explain this. "One explanation is that we’re living within a simulation, seeing what we need to see when we need to see it. "What I find inspiring is that, even if we are in a simulation or many orders of magnitude down in levels of simulation, somewhere along the line something escaped the primordial ooze to become us and to result in simulations that made us – and that’s cool.” While searching for Rich Terrile’s actual quote in VICE (the aforementioned story didn’t link the VICE article), I found YOUR NEWS WIRE declaring this headline: Universe A Matrix Computer Game Designed By Aliens, Say NASA Now, with all due respect to YOUR NEWS WIRE, one scientist speaking doesn’t proclaim NASA’s official position. And even more, if you read then quote displayed originally by Terrille, he said that some theorists have claimed this and that he finds it cool. As do I.. But… Terrile didn’t proclaim we are all simulated and fake. And it certainly didn’t warrant this headline from another strange site I found called ST THOMAS AQUINAS VS NASA (real stuff) .. They went as far as calling this scientist insane for saying that some people say something that other people have always contemplated. The UK EXPRESS fishwrapper over in the UK also did its part, saying that a NASA scientist said we ‘May’ be living in a matrix. Even though he entertained the thoughts only of others, as I said.. With a keen eye, you may notice the text of the EXPRESS article is the same as the others.. which means someone copied off of someone. And with the net, it’s tough to tell if the chicken or the egg came first. In this case, the quote or the highly copied story reposted and reposted all over again. But finally, all of these stories regardless of who the first one to write it was, all mentioned that Rich Terrille was interviewed by VICE .. and that is where all sources are deriving the quote about the simulated matrix notion…I thought about this long and hard, and something was telling me I heard this all before.. Like I read it before. Like maybe I was in a simulated matrix and someone kept rebroadcasting the same link over and over again. So I checked the COAL SPEAKER archive and realized hat this quote was printed on my very site in 2012!! Years ago.. So did I someone hear it before St. Thomas who hates NASA did? And the Knapp linked site? And the EXPRESS? No.. I Checked VICE actually had an article in 2012. Proof here: http://ift.tt/1F9Jq68 … and even more interesting, the VICE article THEN quoting Terrille actually talks about a show he appeared on in 2010: THROUGH THE WORMHOLE.. So … that would mean all of these websites TODAY featuring this quotation as if it’s new are actually repeating news from 5 years ago. Think of it like this: If you were in your matrix, bought a car in May 2010, you now own your car. But also there is a good likelihood that your car was fixed at least 6 times and had way too many things happen to it, causing you to doubt your reality and hate your existence. But you also most likely had the chance to go to a car dealership and eat their “free” popcorn while your car was looked at by professionals, who told you that your car was ‘done for’ and that you should be a new car. And you’re going through it all over again. All in this matrix. But the theory is interesting, don’t get me wrong. I think about it often. The offensive part, to me, is how the internet has a knack for repeating and regurgitating articles simply for click porn. Especially when higher profile people link it without realizing that it was first reported in 2012. And 2010. All in the matrix. All by sims. On earth.

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Chewing gum dumb

There is news about a study today proving–proving no less–than chewing gum increases the chances of getting a song stuck in your head OUT OF YOUR HEAD.. The conclusion of this revolutionary study came from asking less than 100 people and asking them about whether they had songs stuck in their head after chewing bubble gum.. No mention on the type of gum–maybe the aspartame of the sugar free brand fried their remaining brain cells just trying to stay happy with a good tune..? Nonetheless, while the study is being shared on social media locations with ease, I am doubting the conclusions. I don’t chew gum often–mostly because I have researched a little too much of the added chemicals. I chew fresh ginger.. And if it’s strong enough, that will make you forget anything.. Next for the researchers of this University: Scaring people gets rid of hiccups. A study of 5 people.

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Days like today...

…when I think a self-hosted Wordpress blog is the worst idea ever for a person like me who often has little time to keep up with it. And then someone hacks into it and posts 1000 posts about Viagra. UGHH..

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The sounds high above our heads on the edge of space

http://ift.tt/1Joo98s The source of the noises, which were captured 22 miles above Earth, remain a mystery to scientists, though many have speculated about the cause. Those speculations include ocean waves, gravity waves, clear air turbulence, noise from the balloon cable itself, and even a wind farm under the balloon’s path

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A strong 7.4-magnitude earthquake has struck the southern coast of Papua New Guinea, US Geological Survey reports. The quake set off a tsunami warning for an area spanning 300 kilometers around the epicenter, which includes Indonesia and Australian coast.

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Now come the locusts..

What plague will be next!? There is a fascinating story making the rounds online.. Originally reported in the Courier Mail in the UK, PLAGUES of locusts have been devouring their way through the state’s central west compounding the hardships suffered by drought-affected farmers. Get this..Matthew Killoran writes, More than 150 swarms have been reported to Biosecurity Queensland so far this year, with some reported to be more than 40ha in size and thick enough to “black out the sky”.While their activity has been dying down as winter approaches, there are fears eggs are lying dormant waiting to return in favourable weather conditions.There were only 15 swarms reported throughout the state from 2011 and 2013. But before you get ready for a Christian style rapture, keep in mind that this pest is somewhat normal and there are stories from history of it happening. And while that’s fine and dandy, just picture a wall of locusts flying at you.. Maybe it’s time to consider harvesting them. I hear they can be tasty morsels of crunchy flavor.

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Two people were shot and killed by police outside of an event billed as the "Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest" in Garland, Texas, Sunday night, according to Garland Mayor Douglas Athas.

MORE HERE..

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Life by the book. Die by the author. JK Rowling has an apology for us

17 years later, JK Rowling says sorry for killing off HARRY POTTER character.. This brings up a thought. I have always wondered if authors become glued to their characters that the create, almost with a parental duty to keep them safe. And likewise, when they kill them off, do they face some sort of never ending guilt about the consequences of creating a life and then ending it?

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THE END GAME: David Letterman special will air May 4.. and then only a few days later the host will be off TV for good as an era ends

DAVID LETTERMAN SPECIAL to air Monday May 4.. the show is targeted to new fans–those who have no clue as to how David Letterman remade TV forever.. I will undoubtedly have many more thoughts over the coming days on David Letterman..

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The WALKING DEAD becomes the SCREAMING ACTOR OF THE WALKING DEAD

WALKING DEAD star says sorry after weird NYC subway rant.. Chad Coleman blamed his three-minute rant Friday on “built-up frustration” caused by Freddie Gray’s death in Baltimore — and insisted he wasn’t drunk.. he was screaming at passengers..

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BIRD IS THE WORD.

And it’s spreading.. Iowa BIRD FLU prompts Governor to declare a state of emergency.. Four new farms have tested positive. Minnesota and Wisconsin did it, now Iowa joins in the expanding issue.. NEW BIRD FLU DISCOVERED IN CHINA!

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