It's starting to look like a bleak week for aviation as Air Algerie has said it's lost contact with one of its planes flying from Burkina Faso , no more detail than that at the moment. "Air Algerie - Algeria's national airline - says it has lost contact with one of its planes flying from Burkina Faso. Contact was lost about 50 minutes after take-off from Ouagadougou, the airline is quoted by Algeria's state news agency as saying. The passenger airline was bound for Algiers, it added. " Reuters report suggests there were 110 passengers and six crew members aboard the aircraft. "Spanish airline Swiftair was said to be operating the flight chartered by Air Algerie. Swiftair...

" In a new review of scientific literature and analysis of data published in Science, an international team of scientists cautions that the loss and decline of animals is contributing to what appears to be the early days of the planet's sixth mass biological extinction event. Since 1500, more than 320 terrestrial vertebrates have become extinct. Populations of the remaining species show a 25 percent average decline in abundance. The situation is similarly dire for invertebrate animal life. ... Across vertebrates, 16 to 33 percent of all species are estimated to be globally threatened or endangered. Large animals -- described...

"it happened so fast. it seemed like only a few months." my good buddy recently got back from a trip to mexico. he met a lady, and now they're touring all around north america. she's great, mid-20s, well educated, funny, sweet. we were up last night drinking on the porch, as you do. he was down there...

It's interesting to read how this is framed from the media here. I say it's interesting because it's almost mentioned as a secondary thing to the first half of the article which focuses more on rockets fired and found so far. They come to what may be far more critical, afterward. Well, this...

I think that independent media outside of the US is better suited to deal with this, no patriotic cognitive dissonance blocking via ingrained propaganda. Just the other day a sitting congressman had a press conference on making public 9/11 censored information, it is possible that one day as the younger politicians...

To those of Above Top Secret who have been following the efforts I have been posting inside your forums, this is for you. For those who have not followed my writings, well, I apologise for being a little secretive. I have good reasons I assure you. I hope this goes some way to...

" When the bodies of three Israeli teenagers, kidnapped in the West Bank, were found late last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not mince words. "Hamas is responsible, and Hamas will pay," he said, initiating a campaign that eventually escalated into the...

I very rarely comment in the ME Issues forum, and I personally think these ISIS people sound terrifying with their murdering rampages. I have just seen this piece of news ... "Militant group Isis has ordered all girls and women in and around the Iraqi city of Mosul to undergo female...

Back at the end of April I took part in an Ask Me Anything about my movie, which dramatizes people disappearing on or around Brown Mountain, NC, here on AboveTopSecret. I was blown away with the response on the thread and the amazing group...

If I didn't find this so disturbing, it would be sad. Or is it the other way around? Or are we to laugh at it? Not sure. What I can say is that it is truly a sign of what we have become if this is entertainment on the heels of so many deaths and atrocities. At another time I might...

I have followed this issue , and in the course of the last five years, it seems there is LESS attention on the problem, rather than more. Indeed, it still surprises me how few people even seem to know anything about it at all. As the map above indicates, the progression...

I actually heard about this on a local pop station's morning news chatter. Did some research and saw some older posts about this topic, Bonez had a couple on the 28 pages redacted by Bush. Was amazed...

, a lead virologist from Sierra Leon is now in a treatment ward with ebola, where three nurses have passed in the last week: " Sheik Umar Khan, the doctor leading anti-Ebola efforts in Sierra Leone—one of three western African countries that have been hit by an outbreak—has contracted the virus himself,...

So the world is really taking a turn for the worst and I have lacked in bringing you, ATS'ers, updated DOOM PORN! Here, I have searched the web and news sites to let everyone know what they need to fear, or, look forward to. ;) Tooting My Own Horn Here: I Really Stepped Up My Doom Updates with This Thread. lol :) Below is a link of the Second...