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by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy Used to be --there was good news and there was bad news. Of late, the bad news is that there is no good news and there may not be any good news in the foreseeable fu...
NASA is planning a mission to fly directly into the sun's atmosphere to find out how it's heated.
Any nearby extraterrestrials would have to get extremely lucky to be able to find us.
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CENSORED NEWS - 12 hours ago
*US Human Rights Network issues serious report for the United Nations, following the watered-down Periodic Review issued by the US
State Department * By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.bl...
Even if you think I am basically a loon for discussing global conspiracies etc on this blog - if you aren't at least wary of the RFID then it's time to WTFU ASAP!!! Bloody facebook generation. And I'm a...
Why is it that our friendly overlords run health adverts aimed, ostensibly, at improving public awareness of health issues? I mean, if they really gave a crap about your wellbeing, they would tell you abo...
In an ABC
Nightline report by Dan Harris called *"Angry in America: Inside
Alex Jones' World"* that aired on Thursday, September 2, the highly popular
radio talk show host and documentarian Alex Jones is d...
My op-ed in the Egyptin newspaper Al-Masri Al-Yaoum Last month, as the final US combat brigade was leaving Iraq, an American soldier shouted from his armored vehicle: "We won! It's over! America, we brou...
The renowned physicist has just published a book stating that God is not required to create the Universe, just physics.
*The sanctioning of hate on the Arizona border * By Brenda Norrell Narcosphere Photo: Crosses, at San Xavier on Tohono O'odham land, to remember migrants who died in Arizona's Sonoran Desert. Photo Brend...
Barack Obama is the President of the United States of America. He is not the commander-in-chief. According to Pulitzer Prize-winning historian *Garry Willis* the difference between two titles is big, and t...
CANADA - 17 years ago in February police began a month long search of a home in Port Dalhousie at 57 Bayview Drive. Police took away boxes of evidence and gutted the house looking for more. At the centre ...
*Guns and Butter - September 1, 2010 - "Afghanistan Pakistan Imbroglio" with Pakistani General Hamid Gul.*
It seems you can teach an old telescope new tricks. The Expanded Very Large Array (or EVLA) has spotted a distant supernova during commissioning.
A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck outside of Christchurch on Saturday. While damage to the city was extensive, no one died. Why?
*Part I. A Kingdom Deceived: The Fraud of The Global War on Terrorism* "It will become clearly apparent from innumerable examples to what great instability human affairs are subject, not unlike a sea stirr...
*Part I. A Kingdom Deceived: The Fraud of The Global War on Terrorism* "It will become clearly apparent from innumerable examples to what great instability human affairs are subject, not unlike a sea stirr...
CANADA - As we write this CBC Radio (Atlantic) is tracking calls from listeners as Hurricane Earl makes landfall in Nova Scotia and moves towards Halifax. Trees and power lines are down, cars are hydroplan...
*St. Louis on the Air * Post War Iraq September 02, 2010 A discussion about reconstruction in Iraq following the pullout of U.S. troops. *Windows Media* [image: speaker icon] WMP (56 kbps) *MP3* [image...
POLITICS - Kim Jong Il, the Great Leader of North Korea, is dying and only North Korean doctors have any clue when the event might take place. In the meantime however Kim Jong Il is cementing the appointme...
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*As you know I always look* for clues about earthquakes being invoked by solar activities. The magnitude 7 quake at New Zealand and less than 6 hours before a magnitude 6.7 near Adak at the Andreanof Isla...
The simple and inexpensive design makes it perfect for the developing world.
New Zealand's most destructive earthquake in nearly 80 years caused two billion dollars' worth of damage Saturday.
by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy The essence of Sartre is found in a slim volume of just under 100 pages: Existentialism and Human Emotions. In a single sentence, Sartre turned several centuries of ...
*John T. Williams Vigil in Seattle *"We are angry and outraged that his life was interrupted for seemingly no reason, and so callously disregarded," said Jenine Grey of the Chief Seattle Club. "We are w...
Here's Korncob Kory Teneycke on CBC's Power and Politics today, stating that his baby, Quebecor's Fox News North, never asked the CRTC for a must-carry licence—the kind that would require cable and satell...
A New York hurricane in the early 19th Century set off a long debate about the size and shape of such storms.
HEALTH - Ardi Rizal, a 2-year-old toddler in Indonesia has kicked his two packs-a-day smoking habit. His parents, concerned not out of health but because it was costing them $4 per day to support his cigar...
Charlie Veitch of the Love Police at an Army Recruitment Office in central London: WikiLeaks: *CIA report into shoring up Afghan war support in Western Europe*
More than 100 tiger sharks were filmed preying on a massive school of fish off the east coast of Noosa, Australia.
CARS - According to Chinese authorities speaking anonymously over 10,000 trucks hauling coal on the Beijing-Tibet Highway have become mired in a SECOND huge traffic jam which has backed up traffic for over...
Contact: Klee Benally media@truesnow.org (928) 380-2629 www.Truesnow.org ** *Flagstaff City Council Votes No Drinking Water for Snowmaking * * Citizens and Environmental Groups Gain Victory for Wise Water ...
Hurricane Earl pounded North Carolina on Friday as it sped up the U.S. East Coast, threatening dangerous waves and riptides across the eastern seaboard.
An autonomous turbine swarm in the works could tap the power potential in the Gulf's underwater currents. But should we even go there?
A group of people who lived nearly 2,000 years ago in Sudanese Nubia took doses of tetracycline -- through their beer.
Nine years after the attacks of 9/11, the psyches of people who were even distant from the events, show permanent changes.
The technology pushes against Earth's magnetic field for propulsion.
With electronic warfare becoming central to all military operations, the Army is planning to procure helicopter-mounted electronic warfare systems to augment its capabilities, which, at present, are restri...
by Inder Malhotra TWO facts stand out in the wake of China’s offensive refusal of a visa to one of India’s top generals bound for Beijing to lead the Indian delegation in a high-level exchange with the nor...
China will be the biggest exhibitor at the Africa Aerospace and Defence (AAD) 2010 expo in South Africa later this month, reflecting the growing military might of the Asian giant. The move to be the bigges...
Army's Northern Command Chief Lt Gen BS Jaswal today remained unruffled by the Chinese action denying him a visa that fuelled a diplomatic row with India but said it reflected their "predilection". "My nam...
The quest to procure basic trainer aircraft for new pilots will acquire momentum with the Indian Air Force (IAF) scheduled to begin trials for six competitors at Jamnagar, Gujarat, this month. The training...
Der Spiegel in July: "Billions of dollars are being secreted out of Kabul to help well-connected Afghans buy luxury villas in Dubai." The Dubai villas are usually registered in the name of those issuing t...
Talk about your David and Goliath story: ant colonies have found a way to ward elephants away from their turf with painful, precise attacks.
*To learn about the "strategy of tension" read Norway's Le Monde Diplo's 2006 **interview** with Daniele Ganser, author of **NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe**, read t...
ENVIRONMENT - Another oil rig has exploded in the Gulf of Mexico today and is burning off the coast of Louisiana. The offshore petroleum platform belongs to *Mariner Energy Inc.* denies there is a leak, bu...
A new study has found that the mantle plume that feeds Yellowstone's famous geysers is even more powerful than anyone ever thought.
Listen to internet radio with Brenda Norrell on Blog Talk Radio Derechos Humanos, Pan Left Productions and Migra-Copwatch launched new patrols today, Sept. 2, 2010, to document abuse by police and Border ...
Shortly before the sun set Tuesday, the USS McInerney was no more.Within a few minutes, the PNS Alamgir floated in its place.Dozens of feet above the water at Mayport Naval Station, a Pakistani sailor was ...
Northrop Grumman Corporation has received a $68 million award to provide personnel for operating Counter-Rocket, Artillery and Mortar (C-RAM) systems at forward operating bases (FOB) supporting Operation E...
Aggressive posturing by China on Jammu and Kashmir and its unusual interest in the Indian Ocean has annoyed New Delhi, forcing it to seriously consider ways to counter Beijing. India is considering adoptin...
The number of US soldiers killed in the Afghan war in 2010 is the highest annual toll since the conflict began almost nine years ago, according to an AFP count today. A total of 323 US soldiers have been k...
The Bofors gun is back in the competition for a record fourth time for a multi-billion dollar heavy artillery gun order from the Indian Army. BAE Systems, the current owner of Bofors, has said that that it...
Brahmos, the missile joint venture between India and Russia, has an order book of $13 billion, helped by increased demand from other countries including Brazil, South Africa and Chile, a senior defence off...
An increasingly apparent reason for the Ministry of Defence's slow decision-making on a second submarine production line for the Indian Navy is: the deep divisions within the navy over India's submarine fo...
A major extinction event is taking place now, with many wondering what animals will disappear from the planet forever.
India has signed an agreement with the US government to purchase 24 Harpoon Block II missiles for its Jaguar strike aircraft, in a bid to ramp up its maritime warfare capability.Boeing country head, defenc...
Saab AB is stepping up a campaign to sell its Gripen warplane in Asia and eastern Europe as Switzerland’s decision to delay a $1 billion fighter purchase threatens to curtail production of the 1,320 mile-p...
In response to the article "Can NASA Help Trapped Chilean Miners?", Discovery News space producer Ian O'Neill was asked to appear as a guest on NPR's "Talk of the Nation" program.
For the first time, a structure comparable to our cerebral cortex has been found in an invertebrate -- a humble marine ragworm.
Over 850 pounds of illegal wildlife from nearly 20 species was just seized from restaurants in Vietnam, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society.
All 13 workers escaped into the water, but the rig appeared to be leaking oil.
ENTERTAINMENT - A gunman who took two Discovery Channel network employees and a security guard hostage at the company's HQ in Washington has been shot dead by police yesterday. All three hostages escaped u...
RELIGION/SEX - We've been asked to post something about gay marriage rights in Montana. *"I am a singer/songwriter from Great Falls, Montana. Gay marriage is not legal here in Montana and I wish that it w...