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The Sun : "The Tories’ house leader Jay Hill told QMI Agency the government has not agreed to allow members of the Bloc to review confidential documents related to the transfer of Afghan detainees." Have...
As crude oil keeps gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, the Deepwater Horizon rig spill is looking like it could easily end up being one of the worst environmental disasters in our nation's history. What's esp...
After President Obama's new plans for NASA, Discovery News talks with Mars Society founder Robert Zubrin and SETI Institute planetary scientist Adrian Brown to find out why Mars exploration should be a pri...
At least 25 sea turtles have washed up dead on Mississippi beaches over the past few days. Tests are ongoing to determine if the recent oil spill is to blame.
In the early days of the space program, when launching was even dicier than it is today, Pad Leader Guenter Wendt sent the early astronauts into space. He died today at the age of 86.
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*Military Helicopters at Wounded Knee? Traditional Lakota Elders Say No Way! * By Debra White Plume. May 1. 2010 Photos by James Fortier (Photo 1: Calvin Spotted Elk) Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blo...
If this is your first exposure to the Friday News Feedbag...we're glad to have you in the club. Welcome to Feedbag Nation, which stems from our weekly science news podcast that you can subscribe to here on...
ENVIRONMENT - If you're looking to cutback on electricity costs at the office there's a new solution available today for controlling your fluorescent lighting. LumiSmart is a small box which connects to a ...
ENVIRONMENT - Soon to be out of work fishermen in Louisiana were tricked into signing a contract with British Petroleum, offering them work during the cleanup effort of the BP oil spill, but included sever...
Oceanographers are keeping their eyes on the Gulf Loop Current, which could spread the oil slick through the Florida Keys and to North Carolina's Cape Hatteras.
Last week, Oscar-winning director James Cameron visited Caltech in Pasadena, Calif., to discuss the science behind his hit movie "Avatar" and Jennifer Ouellette was there to listen into the fascinating dis...
HEALTH - There are several cities in Europe, Asia and also in Latin America which have been experimenting with the concept of gym equipment in public parks to promote healthy living. The equipment is desig...
When oil spills threaten ocean and coastal environments, several techniques are employed to mitigate the damage. One of them is a chemical dispersant, a liquid typically dropped by a plane flying over the ...
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*UPDATE MONDAY: Please read Debra White Plume's article on what happened and why, when the helicopters attempted to land at Wounded Knee:* http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2010/05/debra-white-plume-military-he...
Skdadl 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...
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Nevada 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...
CANADA - 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....
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...
Unsettling 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.
ENTERTAINMENT *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...
ENVIRONMENT - 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...
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...
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*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...
Last 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...
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 ...
Since its origins, the IPCC has been open and explicit about seeking to generate a ‘scientific consensus’ around climate change and especially about the role of humans in climate change
I've been 'around' for a few years now, pursuing the shifting goal of a sharable home-made surfers resource site focused on ease of use and variety of mostly adult ( whoa : I didn't say prurient ) content.