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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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On Friday, a Minnesota jury found that a blogger must pay $60,000 in damages because of statements he published in his blog about a public figure who was subsequently fired from his job. Internet publishers and free speech advocates should pay close attention to this case if it is appealed because the blogger was found liable even though the jury did not find that the blogger's statements were false.…
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Republicans introduce legislation in the House and Senate to make English the official language of the U.S. Republicans in both the House and Senate have introduced legislation that would declare English the official language of the United States and require the development of English language testing guidelines for those applying for… Continue
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