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Friday, April 30, 2010
Tunnel fire- Smoke inhalation... [ 1117 ]
Tunnel fire forces riders from several MBTA trains
20 suffer smoke inhalation in Downtown Crossing area
Passengers evacuated from Park Street Station boarded buses after a tunnel fire last night. (Matthew J. Lee/Globe Staff)
At least 20 people suffered minor injuries last night when a fire that started shortly before 10 in a tunnel just north of the Downtown Crossing MBTA station shut down service on three subway lines and sent smoke billowing out of T stations and riders scrambling for safety.
Service was suspended in both directions on the Green Line between Arlington Station and North Station, on the Red Line between the Broadway and Central Square stations, and on the Orange line between Back Bay Station and North Station. The stations were shut down because authorities were concerned that smoke would drift to other stations.
Joe Pesaturo, spokesman for the MBTA, said Emergency Medical Service officials had told him that 20 people, 18 from Downtown Crossing and two from Park Street, were transported to hospitals with minor smoke inhalation. Four T workers and one firefighter were among the injured, officials said.
Hundreds of others were evacuated from the stations, with bus service being brought in for riders.
Pesaturo said last night that the Red Line would be closed this morning in the Downtown Crossing area. He said officials do not anticipate closing the Green Line and the status of the Downtown Crossing section of the Orange Line was uncertain.
At a press briefing early this morning outside Downtown Crossing, the MBTA’s general manager, Richard A. Davey, said a cable caught fire in the tunnel about 10 or 15 feet in front of a northbound train that had stopped at the station. He said the cause of the fire had not been determined.
John Callaio, 24, of Dorchester said he was taking a southbound Red Line train home last night when passengers were told to get off at Downtown Crossing. Seconds later he saw smoke, and T employees directed him to get outside.
“The smoke was filling up the whole station as we were leaving,’’ Callaio said.
John Gill, the deputy superintendent of Boston EMS, said people were coughing and complaining about having a burning sensation in their throats. He said everyone was in stable condition.
Several people outside the station in Downtown Crossing last night said the stop was filled with white smoke when they got off the train.
John Guy of Dorchester was coughing repeatedly as he described the chaotic situation. He said he had to hold on to someone he did not know to find his way out of the station.
“The smoke was so thick you couldn’t even see,’’ he said. Guy said that when he got out of the station, he doubled over in pain.
Dorchester resident Evelyn Vazquez said the smoke came into the station quickly.
“It was like two seconds, and the whole thing was white,’’ she said.
Despite the apparent severity of the fire, some passengers said, there was confusion initially as T workers told them to remain on the train.
Kevin Nguyen of Dorchester recalled that a T employee said over the intercom to stay on the train because the smoke was not coming from the trains.
“She said, ‘Everybody relax and stay on the train,’ Nguyen said. “But a couple minutes later the doors opened, and people spilled out into the station.’’
One passenger, Mattapan resident Murdock Cadogan, described how a woman he was helping passed out.
“She was just coughing and throwing up,’’ he said.
Shannon Hebert, 27, of Malden said the smoke came on fast as she was getting off the Red Line.
“The smoke was almost going as fast as me,’’ Hebert said. “I was hacking, coughing.’’
Tara Harris of Dorchester said it was chaotic when people ran from the station.
“It was like a mad rush,’’ she said. “You had to feel your way out.’’
Deputy Fire Chief Robert J. Calobrisi said that 60 to 75 firefighters responded to the scene last night and that they had to evacuate until given confirmation that the power had been shut off at the station.
Globe correspondent Christopher Girard contributed to this report. 
UL.General Elections...[ 1116 ]
Rallying calls after third debate
London,Evening Standard., 30.04.10
Both Gordon Brown and David Cameron have issued passionate rallying cries to their supporters after the Tory leader emerged as the winner from the third and final TV debate.
David Cameron told supporters the Tories had 'a good night' on Thursday
A combined series of snap polls taken after the debate declared Mr Cameron as the clear victor on 38%, Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg on 32% and the Mr Brown trailing on 26%.
The Prime Minister told a group of supporters afterwards: "From now until next Thursday we have got to campaign like we have never campaigned before."
Minutes earlier, his rival Mr Cameron told a jubilant rally: "We've got just six and a half days to go between now and polling day. Don't waste one minute, don't waste one hour, this country is crying out for change, we need to explain to people the only way to get it is a Conservative government."
The election campaign was set for a new twist with former PM Tony Blair expected to enter the fray for the first time. He is expected to visit a constituency in London ahead of other visits in the UK next week.
The three current party leaders locked horns on the economy and immigration in the debate, staged at the University of Birmingham just a day after Mr Brown was forced to apologise for branding pensioner Gillian Duffy "bigoted" when she raised concerns over migrants.
The PM tried to draw a line under the row, issuing a plea to voters to judge him on his economic competence and not his personality.
Mr Cameron said that a Labour victory next Thursday would mean "more of the same", while Liberal Democrats would bring "uncertainty".
And Mr Clegg urged voters not to be frightened by the other parties out of voting for "real change".
NASA Image of the Daym Apr 29th ... [ 1115 ]
The latest NASA "Image of the Day" image.
Building Planets
This artist's animation illustrates a massive asteroid belt in orbit around a star the same age and size as our Sun.
This artist's animation illustrates a massive asteroid belt in orbit around a star the same age and size as our Sun.
Asteroids are chunks of rock from "failed" planets, which never managed to coalesce into full-sized planets.
Asteroid belts can be thought of as construction sites that accompany the building of rocky planets.
Announced on April 28, 2010, scientists using NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility have detected water-ice and carbon-based organic compounds on the surface of an asteroid.
The cold hard facts of the discovery of the frosty mixture on one of the asteroid belt's largest occupants, suggests that some asteroids, along with their celestial brethren, comets, were the water carriers for a primordial Earth.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Πέμπτη, 29 Απρίλιος 2010 7:00:00 πμ
Πέμπτη, 29 Απρίλιος 2010 7:00:00 πμ
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Αναδημοσίευση Επιστολής Μ.Θεοδωράκη [ 1114 ]
Η επιστολή του Μ. Θεοδωράκης για την κατάσταση της Ελλάδας
"Με τον κοινό νου που διαθέτω, δεν μπορώ να εξηγήσω και ακόμα περισσότερο να δικαιολογήσω την ταχύτητα με την οποία κατρακύλησε η χώρα μας από τα επίπεδα του 2009 σε τέτοιο σημείο, ώστε με το ΔΝΤ να απολέσουμε ένα μέρος της εθνικής μας κυριαρχίας και να τεθούμε σε καθεστώς κηδεμονίας...
Και είναι περίεργο ότι κανείς έως τώρα δεν ασχολήθηκε με το πιο απλό, δηλαδή την οικονομική μας διαδρομή με αριθμούς και στοιχεία από τότε έως τώρα, ώστε να καταλάβουμε κι εμείς οι αδαείς τους πραγματικούς λόγους αυτής της πρωτοφανούς και ιλιγγιώδους εξελίξεως, που έχει ως αποτέλεσμα την απώλεια της εθνικής μας αυτοτέλειας και μαζί της την διεθνή ταπείνωση.
Ακούω για το χρέος των 360 δισεκατομμυρίων, όμως συγχρόνως βλέπω ότι τα ίδια και μεγαλύτερα χρέη έχουν πολλές άλλες χώρες. Άρα δεν μπορεί να είναι αυτή η βασική αιτία της κακοδαιμονίας. Επίσης με προβληματίζει το στοιχείο της υπερβολής στα διεθνή χτυπήματα με στόχο την χώρα μας, μαζί με ένα τόσο καλά εναρμονισμένο συντονισμό εναντίον μιας ασήμαντης οικονομικά χώρας, που καταντά ύποπτος. Έτσι οδηγούμαι στο συμπέρασμα ότι κάποιοι μας ντρόπιασαν και μας φόβισαν, για να μας οδηγήσουν στο ΔΝΤ, που αποτελεί βασικό παράγοντα της επεκτατικής πολιτικής των ΗΠΑ και όλα τα άλλα περί ευρωπαϊκής αλληλεγγύης ήταν στάχτη στα μάτια μας, για να μη φανεί ότι πρόκειται για μια καθαρά αμερικανική πρωτοβουλία, για να μας ρίξει σε μια εν πολλοίς τεχνητή οικονομική κρίση, ώστε να φοβηθεί ο λαός μας, να φτωχύνει, να χάσει πολύτιμες κατακτήσεις και τέλος να γονατίσει, έχοντας δεχθεί να τον κυβερνούν ξένοι. Όμως γιατί; Για να εξυπηρετηθούν ποια σχέδια και ποιοι στόχοι;
Παρ’ ό,τι υπήρξα και παραμένω οπαδός της ελληνοτουρκικής φιλίας, εν τούτοις πρέπει να πω ότι με φοβίζει αυτή η αιφνίδια σύσφιξη των κυβερνητικών σχέσεων, οι επαφές υπουργών και άλλων παραγόντων, οι επισκέψεις στην Κύπρο και η έλευση του Ερντογκάν. Υποψιάζομαι ότι πίσω απ’ αυτά κρύβεται η αμερικανική πολιτική με τα ύποπτα σχέδιά της, που αφορούν τον γεωγραφικό μας χώρο, την ύπαρξη υποθαλάσσιων κοιτασμάτων, το καθεστώς της Κύπρου, το Αιγαίο, τους βόρειους γείτονές μας και την αλαζονική στάση της Τουρκίας, με μόνο εμπόδιο την καχυποψία και την εναντίωση του ελληνικού λαού.
Όλοι γύρω μας, ποιος λίγο ποιος πολύ, είναι δεμένοι στο άρμα των ΗΠΑ. Η μόνη παραφωνία εμείς, που από την επιβολή της Χούντας και την απώλεια του 40% της Κύπρου ως τους εναγκαλισμούς με τα Σκόπια και τους υπερεθνικιστές Αλβανούς, δεχόμαστε συνεχώς χτυπήματα δίχως να βάλουμε μυαλό.
Θα έπρεπε λοιπόν να καταργηθούμε ως λαός και αυτό ακριβώς γίνεται σήμερα. Καλώ τους οικονομολόγους, πολιτικούς, αναλυτές να με διαψεύσουν. Πιστεύω ότι δεν υπάρχει άλλη λογικοφανής εξήγηση παρά το γεγονός ότι υπήρξε μια διεθνής συνωμοσία, στην οποία συμμετείχαν και οι Ευρωπαίοι φιλοαμερικανοί τύπου Μέρκελ, η ευρωπαϊκή Τράπεζα, ο διεθνής αντιδραστικός τύπος, που όλοι μαζί συνωμότησαν για το «μεγάλο κόλπο» της υποβάθμισης ενός ελεύθερου Λαού σε υποτελή. Τουλάχιστον εγώ δεν μπορώ να δώσω καμμία άλλη εξήγηση. Παραδέχομαι όμως ότι δεν διαθέτω ειδικές γνώσεις αλλά μιλώ βασισμένος στον κοινό νου. Ίσως και πολλοί άλλοι να σκέφτονται όπως εγώ κι αυτό ίσως το δούμε στις μέρες που θα ‘ρθουν.
Πάντως θα ήθελα να προετοιμάσω την κοινή γνώμη και να τονίσω ότι εάν η ανάλυσή μου είναι ορθή, τότε η οικονομική κρίση (που όπως είπα μας επεβλήθη) δεν είναι παρά μόνο το πρώτο πικρό ποτήρι στο λουκούλειο γεύμα που θα ακολουθήσει και που αυτή τη φορά θα αφορά ζωτικά και κρίσιμα εθνικά μας θέματα, που δεν θα ήθελα ούτε να φανταστώ πού θα μας οδηγήσουν.
Μακάρι να έχω άδικο."
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