Hundreds Dead or Injured in Iraq Since Monday
At least 70 people have been killed and more than 200 others injured across Iraq with car bombs, suicide belts, IEDs and gun battles since Monday, reports said.
The latest incidents bring the violence-related death toll in Iraq to about 200, so far this month, and nearly 2,000 since April.
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Disaster Declared in Nowata County, Oklahoma
Nowata County in Oklahoma has been declared a disaster area due to the losses and damage caused by recent storms, said a report.
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Diabetes death rate at record high in NYC
The number of diabetes-related deaths in NYC in 2011 climbed to a record high of 5,695, in 2011, the New York City Health Department reported.
- Since 1990, the diabetes related death rate in New York City has almost doubled, climbing from 6.0 percent in 1990 to 10.8 percent of all deaths in 2011.
- At least 16 New Yorkers die from diabetes-related causes each day.
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Severe Weather Could Hit Parts of Northern, Central Plains and Upper Midwest
The NWS Storm Prediction Center Forecast
… risk of severe thunderstorms Tuesday afternoon and evening across parts of the northern and central Plains and into the Upper Midwest. The main threats will be large hail and damaging winds, though there is a risk of very large hail, as well as tornadoes across parts of north-central and northwest Nebraska into the Black Hills.
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DISASTER CALENDAR – June 11, 2013 —
SYMBOLIC COUNTDOWN: 1,005 Days Left
Mass die-offs resulting from human impact and the planetary response to the anthropogenic assault could occur by early 2016.
- SYMBOLIC COUNTDOWN: 1,005 Days Left to ‘Worst Day’ in the brief Human History
GLOBAL WARNINGS
- WARNING: Human impact 2.85 x Earth’s diminishing carrying capacity
- WARNING: RAPID PLANETARY DECLINE IN PROGRESS!
- Europe: The First Phase of Collapse Has Started
- United States: The First Phase of Collapse Has Begun
Global Disasters: Links, Forecasts and Background
- The First Wave of World’s Collapsing Cities
- Back to the Primordial Future
- The Fate of Energy Dinosaurs
- Mass Die-offs
Fire Earth 