"Canada pushing its Arctic sovereignty
Friday, 10 August 2007 11:47
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said Canada has taken its sovereignty in the Arctic region too lightly for too long.
Mr Harper was speaking during a three-day tour of Canadian territory in the...
"A powerful earthquake has struck Indonesia, rattling tall buildings and panicking residents.
The quake’s epicentre on the main island of Java was 66 miles from Jakarta and it hit with a magnitude of 7.4, the U.S. Geological Survey said."
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Perhaps Now Public Readers should read Russia's spin on their flag planting ceremony on the Arctic floor, nothing like balanced reporting I always say.A Russian flag was planted on the North Pole seabed Thursday...
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Russia has planted a titanium flag on an Arctic seabed but Peter MacKay says that doesn't mean anything. "
Published: Thursday, August 02, 2007
CHARLOTTETOWN, Prince Edward Island (Reuters) - Canada on...
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Oh, this isn't ominous at all... A Russian submarine planted a Russian flag on the seabed under the North Pole, almost 14,000 feet under water. Russia's claiming a vast swathe of the Arctic, probably because it's believed ot have massive oil and gas reserves. "MOSCOW...
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In what is the most bizarre turn of events in recent memory, as well as another display of belligerent foreign policy moves by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian scientists placed a flag...
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"Russians claim vast swaths of Arctic Ocean
Pair of ships travel through ice, reach North Pole in attempt to claim petroleum-rich Arctic sea bed; to plant flag on seabed
DOUGLAS BIRCH
Associated Press
August 1, 2007 at 7:04 PM EDT
MOSCOW — A Russian expedition aiming to...
"Russian ships reach North Pole
8/1/2007, 12:24 p.m. EDT
By DOUGLAS BIRCH
The Associated Press
(AP) — V MOSCOW — An expedition aimed at strengthening Russia's claim to much of oil and gas wealth beneath the...
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"Harry Reid was despondent after the all-night Senate session produced yet another defeat for the Democrats.
" “We did the very best we could,” he said. “I strongly believe we should have a bipartisan foreign policy…We need to do something to change the course of...
On July 20, 1969, two American men landed on the moon. Today is the 36th anniversary of that landing (at least, if you believe it happened...see below). My favourite piece of random trivia about the lunar...
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"Britain became separated from mainland Europe after a catastrophic flood some time before 200,000 years ago, a sonar study of the English Channel confirms.
The images reveal deep scars on the Channel bed that must have been cut by a sudden, massive discharge of water."
A New Minnesota Law With The American Flag"A move is under way in state governments across the country to ensure that all flags in the US are made in the United States.A new law that starts at the end of this year...
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The new era of Gordon Brown blast into the news with the main massage being, I am Listening. Few can argue that this is a very welcomed and different approach to that of Tony Blair. Allowing the flag to be flown...
Do not surrender the flag to the Republofascists. We all stood behind it on September 11th, and it is not we who corrupted that devotion afterwards.
The flag stands for a government of laws, not men. ...
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Captain America is dead: a long-time symbol of not only a nation, but an ideal. He died not at the hands of a super-villain, but was shot down by a sniper on the steps of a courthouse as he fought for justice...
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