It was only a matter of time before someone grew a conscience, and disclosed to the world that in addition to the massive cover up currently going on with respect to the true extent of the Fukushima catastrophe, the actual plant itself, in borrowing from the BP playbook, was built in a hurried way, using cost and labor-cutting shortcuts, and the end result was a true "time bomb." Bloomberg has just released a report that… Continue
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The man who wrote this was a personal friend of the publisher at the time. The article is given as he wrote it in 1937, in boyish handwriting. He had fallen from a horse at age 17 and for days he had a concussion. During this period of time a continuing… Continue
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against a local mosque that ultimately could decide who controls $2.2 million in state money. Hillsborough Circuit Judge Richard Nielsen said he will decide in a lawsuit against a local mosque, the Islamic Education Center of Tampa, " whether the parties in the litigation properly followed the teachings of the Koran in obtaining an… Continue
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Natalia Manzurova, one of the few survivors among those directly involved in the long cleanup of Chernobyl, was a 35-year-old…
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03/16/11 Baltimore, Maryland – “…little electricity or gasoline…” reports an eyewitness from The Washington Post, visiting Sendai, Japan. “Nearly all restaurants and shops are closed…roads blocked…supplies depleted…the devastation is catastrophic.” “Fuel almost non-existent…survivors will spend a fourth night in near freezing… Continue
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China is tightening up its online censorship even more, the Times reports. The story recounts an eye-opening anecdote: a Chinese entrepreneur was on the phone with his girlfriend, and quipped, quoting Shakespeare: "The lady doth protest too much." Upon the word "protest," the phonecall cut off. He was speaking in English, but this has… Continue
Added by Swtnlovabl on March 22, 2011 at 11:38am —
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Oil giant BP has confirmed it will begin drilling off the Libyan coast in the next few weeks. The deepwater drilling will take place in the Gulf of Sirte following a deal signed in 2007 with Libya on oil and gas development. The news comes amid… Continue
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Global anxiety rose over radiation from Japan’s earthquake-damaged nuclear plant even as engineers had some success in the battle to avert disaster from the world’s worst atomic crisis since Chernobyl. [...] Yet away from the… Continue
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Thanks to dysfunctional regulation of genetic engineering and misguided biofuels policy, the world's poorest are going hungry Food prices worldwide were up by a whopping 25% in 2010, according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation, and February marked the eighth consecutive month of rising global food prices. Within the past… Continue
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Monday, March 21, 2011HAARP Data Says Japan Quake was Induced ExoHuman THE UNITED STATES Air Force and Navy has provided a… Continue
Added by Swtnlovabl on March 21, 2011 at 3:17pm —
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Anyone can request information from U.S. officials under the Freedom of Information Act, a law designed to allow people to know what their government is up to. When a government agency withholds information from a requester, it typically must invoke one of nine FOIA exemptions that cover everything from national security to personal… Continue
Added by Swtnlovabl on March 20, 2011 at 6:12pm —
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Zechariah 14 1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. 2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and… Continue
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My specialty is American history, but graduate school forces you to learn other branches of history as well, so it was not any great struggle to teach Western civilization. Still, when I do teach a class outside my concentration, I spend some time reading recent scholarship as well. If a student asks a question beyond what the textbook covers, it helps to be sufficiently well read in the field not to look stupid!… Continue
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Through modern science one learns the Pacific Ring of Fire is ancient and constantly in motion, that devastating earthquakes and tsunamis within the "Ring" are cyclical events rather than singular ones. The fault lines in California and the Cascadia Subduction Zone in the Pacific Northwest are due for natural adjustments. Scientists… Continue
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In 1975, according to the National Geographic, government officials in China evacuated a million residents from Haicheng, ‘just days’ before a 7.3 magnitude earthquake. The evacuation based, in part, on unusual animal behavior. National Geographic:… Continue
Added by Swtnlovabl on March 19, 2011 at 2:59pm —
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Chinese In Mexico Followup--From The Truck Driver Himself
Steve Note: The reason we post this information is to give a heads up. Others who provide their conjectures and google earth searches must keep in mind that google earth will block certain areas at the request of our government. The housing development is not the base. We asked some very real people to go and take a look and risk their lives. They…
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Telecommunications giant AT&T said this week that it will join Comcast and other providers in a controversial business model that limits the amount of information subscribers can access, and imposes penalties for overages. The move will see AT&T broadband users forced into a tiered Internet that would limit accounts to a… Continue
Added by Swtnlovabl on March 17, 2011 at 1:52pm —
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St. Paul, Minn. (AP) - A Jewish Minnesota lawmaker is asking Senate leaders to allow only nondenominational prayers to open sessions, after feeling "highly uncomfortable" when a Baptist pastor repeatedly mentioned Jesus Christ and Christianity in one of the invocations. Democratic Sen. Terri Bonoff says she wants Republican Senate… Continue
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Did Russia Cause the Recent Earthquake in Japan? We can whine about high gas prices and economic downturns. We can surely complain about the fits and starts of the Obama administration on Libya. And we inevitably grumble about what a wretched winter this has been. And then . . .… Continue
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We are now two days into Japan’s nuclear reactor crisis. It is time for a dose of reality to put out the flames of some of the fiction circulating throughout the Internet: 1) Run on KI As I predicted yesterday, there has been a surge of panic buying… Continue
Added by Swtnlovabl on March 14, 2011 at 4:34pm —
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