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*Republic of Lakotah** * http://www.republicoflakotah.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=11550 ** * *Alex White Plume, Lakota: *(SATURDAY) "A large number of people from three rezs came to defend the ground of Woun...
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Press Advisory, May 1, 2010 Contact: Miyoko Sakashita, miyoko@biologicaldiversity.org, (510) 845-6703 Kierán Suckling, ksuckling@biologicaldiversity.org, (520) 275-5960 *Center for Biological Diversity Call...
posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 hour agoSkdadl reminds us that Harper sent a wee tepid request to the US government asking that the Khadr kangaroo show trial : "not use as evidence in legal proceedings there any evidence collected at GTMO by Ca...
posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 hour agoNevada Desert Experience 1420 West Bartlett Avenue Las Vegas, NV 89106 702.646.4814 http://www.nevadadesertexperience.org/ Interfaith Resistance to Nuclear Weapons and War *RECEPTION AND PEACE VIGIL IN HONO...
posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 10 hours agoCANADA - Consumer confidence in the USA and Canada is up 3.8% in the first quarter of 2010, but the parity of the Canadian dollar is hurting exports. The Canadian jobless rate remains at 8.2%, down from 8....
posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 12 hours ago
In our rural community here in Oregon, I've noticed the vital stastistics pages in the local newspaper have been growing. This is a weekly publication and has five pages of mostly foreclosures. Seven out...
posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoUnsettling clues that underscore our lack of knowledge about the asteroid threat can be found as far as 500 million miles away, and a few centuries back in time.
posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 15 hours agoENTERTAINMENT *Iron Man 2*: Starring Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow May 7th *The Trotsky*: Starring Jay Baruchel, Saul Rubinek, Emily Hampshire May 14th *MacGruber*: Starring Will Forte, Ryan Phil...
posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 17 hours agoENVIRONMENT - According to satellite imagery the surface area of a catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oil spill has quickly tripled in size in a single day. Experts now fear that the slick could become vastly mor...
posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 17 hours agoBoats and workers sit idle as the oil slick grows.
posted by Alison at Creekside - 19 hours ago
In Australia last year a massive blowout caused a rig to catch on fire and spew thousands of gallons into the sea for ten weeks. At a hearing into the accident, the federal U.S. Minerals Management Servic...
posted by Gene Charleton at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoThis humanoid robot's abilities will duplicate the same dexterity astronauts have in their suits.
posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 23 hours ago*Running through my music archive* I came upon the *Gibb brothers* and their magnificent music. No need to comment on that, everybody knows it. Less known perhaps for some the song they wrote for the Cana...
posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoLast week an organization called Noah's Ark Ministries called a press conference in Hong Kong to announce that they had made one of the most significant archaeological discoveries in history. Yeung Wing-Ch...
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by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy Halliburton, for whom George W. Bush hijacked the US military to wage war and perp capital crimes against the people of Iraq, may be and should be subject to severe ...
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*Reflections on the journey to Bolivia* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Photo: President Evo Morales, after the soccer game in Colomi. Photo by Brenda Norrell. Now, that ...
posted by Nicole Gugliucci at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoIn a galaxy, not so far away, two elusive intermediate black holes may have been spotted by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
posted by Lauren Effron at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoOscar-winning director James Cameron has come up with some out-of-this-world ideas for his movies, and now his ideas are truly going out of this world.
posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoNo fuel leaks have yet been reported, but the Coast Guard is monitoring the situation.
posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA storm system moving through the area is expected to force rescue boats into port, exacerbating the disaster/
Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoIf you're a man in Iceland or a woman in Cyprus, you have a lot less to worry about than the rest of us.
posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 day agoPOLITICS - Should the United States be worried about the growth of anti-government militia groups? Yes and no, but for different reasons. Since 2008 there has been an astonishing growth of anti-government ...
posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAlternative medicine guru Gary Null is nearly killed by his own supplements.
posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 day agoENVIRONMENT - Yesterday United States President Barack Obama said his administration will use “every single available resource at our disposal” to respond to the massive oil spill expected to reach the Gul...
posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 day agoDaphne Eviatar of Human Rights Watch is interviewed as she leaves the courtroom on Day 1 of Obama's first big pretrial for a military commission into the possible terrorist actions of a 15 year old. ...
posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoWhile ground crews work to contain the spill on the ground, satellites are monitoring the oil slick from the skies.
Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThirty-five years ago, the city formerly known as Saigon fell, marking the end of the Vietnam War.
posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoPreparations are underway at the shore and on water to try and minimize damage from the Gulf oil spill.
posted by Nicole Gugliucci at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoBecause the sun is awesome! Actually, it's more than that. Living with a star impacts our daily lives and the new Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) will help us predict its next temper tantrum.
posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 day agoCANADA - The United States and Canada could see their economies hurt if interest rates go again in the near future. Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney is warning G20 countries to keep that in mind when tr...
posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoSome animals receive priority care at oil spill wildlife rescue sites, while other animals are euthanized. Find out how experts make these life and death decisions.
posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoExperts and volunteers are streaming to Louisiana, eager for direction to help wildlife that may be affected by the Gulf oil spill.
posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoUnderreported Struggles #37, April 2010 http://intercontinentalcry.org/underreported-struggles-37-april-2010 In this month's Underreported Struggles: Paramilitaries attack peaceful caravan in Oaxaca; Kayan ...
posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe author of the best-selling book "The World Without Us" thinks that global warming has caused the recent spate of devastating earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Don't believe him.
Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoSenior adviser David Axelrod says that authorities must first determine the cause of the explosion before moving forward.
posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoOne of the first signs of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill reaching shore will be the smell of petroleum in the air.
posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 days ago** *ARIZONA LAW: On Suspicion of Being Brown* *Update: Rallies against SB 1070 in Tucson and Phoenix on May 1:* http://www.kswt.com/Global/story.asp?S=12409175 *Huge crowds expected at Los Angeles protest o...
posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoJust imagine if all the plastic around us was made from algae. We'd have thoroughly green car parts, bottles, containers, keyboards. In several years, this could be real. A California-based company is curr...
posted by Alison at Creekside - 2 days agoDebate on the Canada-Colombia FTA resumed at the International Trade Committee today with the Chair stating he wasn't going to allow a whole lot of witnesses to testify just so they could put it on their r...
posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 2 days agoENTERTAINMENT - Snoopy, Charlie Brown and the rest of the “Peanuts” gang has been sold for $175 million to Joe Boxer owner Iconix Brand Group Inc. In the deal Charles Schulz's family will receive 20% of re...
posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 2 days agoCARS - The future of cars is in China and India... Why? Because as their economies grow, China and India's population guarantees an age of freeways, expressways, super highways the likes of which will make...
*As of now you can download Ubuntu 10.04* here and detailed there. About 700 Mb as *.iso* file to simply be burned on a CD as *Live-CD* for testing (without changing anything on your computer) or installat...
posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoIf the walls could talk, they'd say, "I think an airplane just landed on me." This unmanned vehicle from a research team at the University flies straight toward a wall and then at the last second raises it...
posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoNew geological maps reveal another level of California's enchanting natural wonders.
posted by Alison at Creekside - 2 days agoKady has been trying to get some answers on how Justice Frank Iacobucci's inquiry into the Afghan detainee documents is coming along, given that Speaker of the House Peter Milliken ruled on Tuesday that ...
posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoLook mom, no hands! Can you imagine driving a car by using just your eyes? A group of researchers at the Freie Universität Berlin developed the eyeDriver software, which steers a car with eye movements. Ca...
posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoNew research argues that wildlife documentaries may deny animals their right to privacy.
posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoWhy did the rattlesnake cross the road? It didn't, and that's a problem, say conservationists.
Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoGovernment officials are racing to the scene, but time may be running out.
posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe Nuclear Compton Telescope (NCT) was being prepared for launch in Australia, but the wind changed direction, dragging the NCT across the launch site, smashing into a parked SUV. No injuries are reported.
*The planet Mars keeps intriguing us* the more high definition images of it become available. The best resolution reveals details well below 10 meter/32 feet. Are there trees on Mars, or are that traces of...
posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThe discovery of fossils in gypsum on Earth may help scientists zero in on fossils containing past life on Mars.
posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 days agoTom Goldtooth, director of the Indigenous Environmental Network, describes the work carried out by the working group on Forests at the World Peoples Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother ...
posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoEarly Americans tinkered with the forests by wielding the most powerful tool they had available: fire.
posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoAre we inadvertently sending microbes to Mars? A new study suggests this idea isn't so far fetched, recommending we do a better job of cleaning our spacecraft.
posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoA 40 year-old law is having some pleasant, unintended consequences on carbon dioxide in the northeastern U.S.
posted by Cristen Conger at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoPeople have become addicted to social media sites, so that begs the question: are those sites good or bad for you?
Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoIce and organic compounds, essential ingredients for life, have been found for the first time on an asteroid.
Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThe offshore wind farm, if built, will be the nation's first and will encompass 130 turbines.
*Disaster struck again for Mr. Gordon Brown*, on election tour through the UK. A widow, Mrs. Gillian Duffy, 66, encountered the Prime Minister and told him (a.o.) about her concern regarding too many immi...
Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoAmid the violence and chaos of one war, Afghanistan marks the 18th anniversary of the end of another.
posted by Nicole Gugliucci at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThe dirt produced by comets can actually be a hazard for visiting spacecraft, what efforts are under way to understand this cosmic pollution? For starters, you could build your own "dirty snowball."
Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoOh Eun-Sun was the first woman to scale the world's 14 highest peaks, a claim that has been met with skepticism by fellow climbers.
Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoFor the first time, the World War II diary will return to the house where Frank first wrote it.
posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoFor the first time, researchers have developed an iPhone app that translates the Iraqi dialect of Arabic to English and vice versa. The app, which was developed by researchers from Carnegie Mellon Universi...
posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThe Pentagon wants to develop a flying car not unlike the one envisioned in the space-age TV show "The Jetsons."
Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThe worm has achieved a near mythic status after scientists presumed it was extinct for decades.
posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoHumble snails are helping to prevent Cross River gorilla poaching in Nigeria, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society. (Credit: Wildlife Conservation Society) The WCS has just launched a new program...
posted by Jorge Ribas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoPanda fans hoping to experience the joy of parenthood once again will have to wait it out another year. That's because Smithsonian's National Zoo staff confirmed Tuesday that Mei Xiang is not pregnant, fol...
*Tariq Ramadan*, Oxford Professor and grandson of the founder of the Egypt 'Muslim Brotherhood', is a controversial public figure, amongst muslims themselves and for others not adhering to Islam. Some call...
posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoA new video shows how a squirrel reacts when it encounters a dead squirrel.
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