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Learn moreLt. Col Anthony Shaffer on Russia Today - September 28, 2010:
As rumors spread about the United Nations appointment of astrophysicist Mazlan Othman as the first point of contact for ET, the bookmakers notice a surge in alien bets.
Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer's book "Operation Dark Heart" was originally set to release on August 31, 2010, but that date was pushed back after officials from the Department of Defense got a copy of the manus...
Bees and other pollinators in India are dwindling, raising concern that some food crops could become scarce.
ENTERTAINMENT - Who doesn't love a western about revenge? In this film version of the 1968 Charles Portis novel *True Grit* about western-style revenge Jeff Bridges has an eye patch, Matt Damon has a mu...
CANADA/SEX - An Ontario man charged with breaking Canada's nudity laws is challenging the legality of it based on the concept that its unconstutional. Brian Coldin is facing five charges for appearing nake...
CANADA - Sarah Thomson, the only female in the big five contenders to become Toronto's next mayor, has dropped out of the mayoral race. She was unable to break to break 7% in poll popularity and instead ha...
CANADA - According to Aon Consulting's People Risk Index, which compares 90 major global cities for demographics, education, employment practices and government regulations, Toronto is the lowest risk city...
CANADA/TECHNOLOGY - According to Statistics Canada more Canadians are buying more goods and services online and they're doing so more often. In 2009 Canadians bought $15.1 billion CDN worth of items and se...
Check out this amazing article by Sarah Harris called "Prostitutes of god."It's about an ancient Indian sex custom of offering up young girls to a Hindu goddess names Devadasi. Originally, it was considered...
SlowTV: Ashis Nandy - The untamed language of political dissent Part I Part II
Glowing red orbs dripping molten metal, giant cigar-shaped objects, and fully illuminated discs are among the descriptions of the unidentified flying objects that have been seen hovering over nuclear weapo...
You know, it's kind of like Pinnochio squealing, "I'm a real boy!" This time his lackey (or not?) goes one better and says Mossad was involved, which is blatantly true but nonetheless... No you aren't a r...
The Northern Lights have petered out during the second half of this decade, becoming rarer than at any other time in more than a century.
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*It was Robert Felix*, author and maintainer of the recommended *Ice Age Now * website, who focused my attention on the so-called "Carolina Bays". It is the crater-peppered scenery in the Mid-East of the US...
The number of reported tornadoes is going up. Is this the result of improvements in tornado-hunting methods, or is something changing in North America's climate?
TECHNOLOGY - The BlackBerry Playbook (or as we like to call it, "The Little Black Book") is half an inch thick, weighs less than a lb and is sure to give Apple's iPad a run for its money because its better...
POLITICS - 35-year-old Iranian-Canadian Hossein Derakhshan, the founder of one of the first Farsi-language blogs and credited with the boom in Iranian bloggers, has been sentenced to 19 years in an Iranian...
Fifty years ago, Fred, Wilma, Barney and Betty debuted before American television audiences.
Hint: the answer is 'yes'. BBCW explains all... The international usury money scam is centuries, millennia old. The Bank of England, HQ of the NWO global finance manipulation, is three hundred years old....
A Japanese firm thinks that a fleet of subs pumping cold water into the path of a typhoon could stop the storm in its tracks.
Do we need to worry about a rampant H1N1 this flu season? Probably not, say experts. But they can't rule anything out.
Not sure it'd be my cup of tea, so to speak, but if a space tourist wants to kick back and sip a brewski on the ride, there may be one on the beverage list.
Lost for decades and found badly damaged, the footage offers a brief glimpse of Neil Armstrong's historic moonwalk.
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 o...
The recent discovery of illicit drugs in public waterways is raising new concerns about the public safety hazard these compounds pose.
Numbers and letters are hackable, but clicking on a map isn't.
Stay in shape, while traveling 30 to 40 miles per hour. Wheeee!
Would an extraterrestrial with a planet-hunting telescope know our star has planets? Yes, conclude astronomers.
The naked image of a dwarf who starred at a Renaissance court is revealed after being covered for centuries.
Disney plans to remake 1979's "The Black Hole," this time with actual science! Forget casting the human leads. Which real-life cosmic singularity should play the title role?
Modernisation of the 1.13-million strong Army, grappling with critical capability gaps in areas like artillery, air defence, aviation, night-fighting and the like, is yet to gather steam despite the deter...
Amidst diplomatic tension between Tokyo and Beijing, China’s two neighbours Japan and India today signalled a significant boost in their military ties. The two nations will conduct their first ever Army-to...
The Ministry of Defence has awarded a contract to Singapore Technologies Aerospace Ltd (ST Aerospace) to acquire 12 M-346 aircraft and a ground-based training system for the Republic of Singapore Air Force...
Indonesia’s Minister of Defense Purnomo Yusgiantoro (right), flanked by Russian Ambassador to Indonesia Alexander Ivanov (middle) and Indonesian Ambassador to Russia Hamid Awaluddin, pose for journalists w...
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress today of a possible Foreign Military Sale to Kuwait of one Boeing C-17 GLOBEMASTER III aircraft and associated parts, equipment and logistics suppo...
It takes a mix of land use practices, climate, and human error to spark a wildfire. And evidence suggests blazes are on the rise.
The teenager who reportedly rode a whale may have broken the law, but the culprit is lucky to have escaped without a broken neck.
The bra doubles as a protective face mask in case of an emergency.
People in Western countries thought freedom was won forever when World War II was over, but they were wrong. More than sixty years later freedom has to be won again. Since the adversary of freedom in our a...
*FORGOTTEN PEOPLE COMMENTS ON KIRKPATRICK DISCUSSION DRAFT OF THE “FORMER BENNETT FREEZE AREA DEVELOPMENT ACT” By Forgotten People* September 24, 2010 Photo: Unremediated abandoned uranium pit on Navajo Na...
The White House hopes to make it easier for intelligence services to eavesdrop on the Internet.
High estrogen levels in women while they are ovulating may be responsible for problems concentrating.
The owner of Segway met a tragic end while riding one of his company's scooters near his home.
Neanderthals may have gone out with a bang.
These fast-shrinking subterranean reservoirs are essential to daily life and agriculture in many regions.
A global map of sea turtles inadvertently caught in fishing nets highlights how human activity is contributing to the animals' decline.
Press TV: 'Americans seek probe into 9/11' An international lawyer says many now question the truth behind the 9/11 attacks, and that American citizens are demanding an international probe into the incide...
American ‘Bell Helicopter’ and Italian ‘ Agusta Westland’ have withdrawn their bids for the 197 Advance Light Helicopters (ALH) being acquired for the Army for search and rescue operations. The $600 millio...
Firefighters adopt a containment strategy when it comes to fires near urban areas, like the one that recently threatened Boulder.
On the fifth day of the Sacred Defense Week, Iran has successfully conducted the first test-flight of the domestically-upgraded C-130 aircraft.The aircraft, which is modeled after the Lockheed Martin's C-1...
*At UN, Bolivian leader proposes alliance to save humankind President Evo Morales Ayma of Bolivia* UN News Service 24 September 2010 – Bolivian President Evo Morales proposed the creation of a new alliance ...
A NASA astronaut and her two Russian crewmates are back on terra firma after freeing their stuck Soyuz capsule from a docking port on the International Space Station.
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SpaceShipTwo is complete and preparations are under way for Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic maiden voyage into suborbital space by the spring of 2012.
A series of earthquakes in Saudi Arabia is a reminder that ancient lava fields are never fully asleep.
by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy The 'Fairness Doctrine' was trashed! The right wing GOP sold 'de-regulation' with a lie. The 'Fairness Doctrine', they said, violated First Amendment free speech. In...
Long John Jim Flaherty's speech to the Canadian Club last week might well read like he was running for student council at Garden Gnome High, but at least he has finally nailed down that whole four legs goo...
Would you be willing to take off in a plane without a pilot?
Iraq inaugurated the first in a fleet of new U.S.-built patrol boats on Sept. 26, part of efforts to boost its naval capacity and secure key oil platforms ahead of an American withdrawal at the end of 2011...
Iraq is moving forward with plans to buy 24 Hawk jet training aircraft from BAE Systems of Britain, a deal worth up to $1.6 billion, as it gradually rebuilds its air force amid the U.S. military withdrawal...
*Wiped off The Map: The Rumor of the Century* By Arash Norouzi Global Research September 26, 2010 *Global Research Editor's Note* *The following text by Arash Norouzi first published by the Mossadegh Pr...
An editorial in the National Post two days ago compared the peaceful civil disobedience and incarceration of 82 year old environmental activist Betty Krawczyk with that of 62 year old anti-abortion protest...
It Is Official: The US Is A Police State By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts Global Research On September 24, Jason Ditz reported on Antiwar.com that “the FBI is confirming that this morning they began a number of ...
Uh oh. Better report them for re-education, er I mean counselling. It was teachers who were forced to report these incidents. How on earth do the teachers go along with this crap. http://www.dailymail.co....
Dedicated to the lives of Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and the enduring spirit of the American people. "America will never be destroyed from the...
*Join the Caravan in Support of Indigenous Communities Resisting Massive Coal Mining Operations on Their Ancestral Homelands of Big Mountain & Black Mesa, Arizona November 20-27, 2010 * *Photo Sierra Club...
*Reflections of Injustice * ** *Artwork and comments by Mohawk artist Tracy Thomas* * *PHOTO: This is Everson Museum pic of my new mirror painting titled "Reflections of Injustice" my statement on what happ...
Senator Mike Gravel Explains Why There Should Be A New 9/11 Investigation
*NATIVE VOICE TV on the web:* Cihuapilli Rose Amador talks with activist Wounded Knee De Ocampo and Native Voice TV, still photographer,Cipactzin David Romero about the desecration of sacred sites on N...
Airmen and two C-130 Hercules aircraft traveled to the Asian nation to train with the Bangladesh air force to better respond to regional disasters. The exercise - which took place at Kurmitola Air Base - f...
Aiming to strengthen country's security along the sealine, the government today approved a Rs 1,100 crore coastal security scheme to be implemented from April 1, 2011. The Cabinet Committee on Security (CC...
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*Out of memory* errors are a nuisance that every operating system suffers from at times. For a few weeks I updated my Linux Mint (9) version to discover a gradual deterioration of processing speeds that I...
Boeing announced today that it has completed production of the first Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) F/A-18F Super Hornet that has the capability to be converted into an electronic attack aircraft. Boein...
Israel is reconsidering a Russian request to buy advanced unmanned aerial vehicles in line with a military cooperation agreement the two countries signed earlier this month.Israel and Russia signed a milit...
IAF now wants a major induction of long-range surveillance radars (LRSRs) and high-power radars (HPRs) to bolster air defence coverage in ''hilly terrain'' in the hinterland as well as along the borders wi...
A MiG-27 crashed in the Narayangarh region of West Bengal's Paschim Medinipur district on Friday – exactly two months after a similar fighter jet crashed into a human habitation in north Bengal, killing fi...
A user trial of the nuclear weapons-capable, surface-to-surface Prithvi-II ballistic missile from Chandipur in Orissa ended in an embarassing failure as the missile did not take off.The nine metre-long, si...
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has suggested that mainland missiles pointing at Taiwan could one day be removed, Taipei-based media reported Friday."I believe the issue you mention will eventually be realised,...
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress on September 13 of a possible Foreign Military Sale to Iraq of 18 F-16IQ Aircraft as well as associated equipment and services.The total value, if ...
Russia has delivered three Mi-35M Hind assault helicopters to Indonesia, a military source said on Thursday.Russia signed an agreement with Indonesia in September 2007 to provide a $1 billion credit line t...
*As usual, all show and ceremony, propaganda and subversion* Many people are aware of the Hegelian process by which public opinion has been shaped throughout history. That is, if you control both the thesi...
Media Roots: Foreign Policy & War Profiteering
Ethical Reflections on the 9/11 Controversy: The Responsibility of the Media to To Tell the Truth Do Information Science and Media Professionals Have a Duty to Provide Evidence-Based Information to a Ques...
Ethical Reflections on the 9/11 Controversy: The Responsibility of the Media to To Tell the Truth Do Information Science and Media Professionals Have a Duty to Provide Evidence-Based Information to a Quest...
The Court Jester and 9/11 Truth By Cosmos 9/11 Truth News September 19, 2010 Attacked by the Left. Attacked by the Right. Attacked by “edgy” political comedians for scant, confused laughs – with no discer...
Calculating how long global supply will hold out is trickier than it seems.
The strong smell produced by native birds is making them an easy target for invasive predators.
The Credit Meltdown and the Shadow Banking System: What Basel III Missed By Ellen Brown The Huffington Post September 24, 2010 *While local banks are held in check by the new banking czars in Basel, Wall ...
And the teeny tiny thing about him being history's biggest mass murderer. Davy Rockefeller's favourite. Part 1 / 2 / 3 btw interesting fleur de lis shirt Alex. Loyal to the royal huh? *From A China Travel...
A new cyber weapon may have been designed to find and sabotage a nuclear facility in Iran.
*Even your best friends won’t tell you* *Jerry Mazza* Infowars.com September 24, 2010 As I remember, that has been a headline for everything from bad breath to dandruff sufferers to those suffering from b...
Just finished watching a streaming video of the National Endowment of the Arts discussing the idea of 'creative placemaking'.. I liked the dependencies identified between the arts and communities: 1. Arts...
A quote from a police brainwashing chief in a FEMA training session on July 19, 2001: "Your founding fathers, my founding fathers, were involved in acts of terrorism against British officials because they ...