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Hydrogen Fuel to replace Oil!?

By, Uwe Paschen. Hydrogen, one of my favorrite topics! After all I did write my engenering teases on the subject in the early 1980 th! Well it seems that Honda finally build a Hydrogen powered car, however...

US lobbyists making a killing of killings in Sri Lanka

A famous newspaper from Sri Lanka, Sunday Leader found the government of Sri Lanka is paying a Washington  firm Patton Boggs 35,000$ per month to "to provide guidance and counsel to the Embassy of Sri Lanka regarding its relations with the Executive and Legislative...

Pres. Obama Kisses Dick Cheney' Republican Torture Policy Ass

Cross-posted at the Francis L. Holland Blog and Democratic Afrosphere.Take two paragraphs from two Washington Post articles together and you understand exactly why President Barack Obama is acting like a wishy, washy wimp on the torture photos. (Yes, I said "torture" and...

Top Intelligence pick hits 'Israel lobby' on way out

A story that is getting a lot of attention in the blogosphere has pitted one of Obama's top Intel picks against pro Israeli government officials.  In announcing his departure Charles Freeman blames this group for his inability to accept the role."President Barack Obama's...

France 120 000 protest Gaza massacre, Jews and Arabs for peace

France 120 000, Paris alone 20 000 protesters The movement "Juifs et Arabs pour la paix", "Jews and Arabs for peace" a special Paris peace action marched together to stop the massacre in Gaza. On the photos to...

Exclusive ABC report questions Palin reason for firing public safety chief

"Legal pleadings filed earlier this week said Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin fired her public safety chief because of a planned trip to lobby Washington to fund a program to fight sexual violence.  That was the "last strraw" of his bucinking...

The Battle for Net Neutrality: Comcast throws army of lawyers at the problem

This is a classic battle between giant corporate interests vs. the rest of us.  If you value the Internet and don't want it to turn into the kind of trash you see on TV then please do what you can to support...

Tampa Bay: Southern Stingray Gives Birth to Five Pups!

FLORIDA Aquarium has proudly announced the birth of five pups to a Southern Stingray.   " The Florida Aquarium is proud to announce the arrival of five new Southern stingrays. One of the aquarium’s...

Police: Gunman kills self after standoff in bank

"WHEATON, Illinois (AP) -- A gunman who took a dozen hostages in a suburban Chicago bank after wresting a gun from a police officer Friday died after shooting himself in the head, police said. ...

NY Times confirms US involvement in Nuclear Black Market

"In last Monday's New York Times, David Sanger and William Broad wrote a front-page article about the CIA's involvement in the nuclear black market.The article demonstrates (again) that the New York Times, Sanger & Broad in particular, has simply become a mouthpiece for...

MI5 seeks gay spies in attempt to expand its recruiting base

M15, the British equivalent of the CIA, has instituted a new policy of actively seeking gay men and women as new recruits. The agency says its part of a wider mission to attract more diverse recruits from throughout society rather than just selecting people from Oxford or...

China’s Visa Policy Threatens Olympics Tourism

I think this is in relation to a previous article about the lack of attendance (1million tickets unsold) for the Olympics. The visa policy is definitely hampering the crowds of people and tourism.  " With the...

Obama Claims Nomination, Begins Making Promises

The moment has arrived. Having successfully claimed the U.S. Democratic nomination Tuesday night, Barack Obama received congratulations from President Bush and Condoleeza Rice, made a strongly pro-Israel speech...

UK Moves to Ban Cigarette Machines as WHO Calls for Tobacco Advert Ban

When I first moved to the UK, I saw reps for Silk Cut handing out free cigarettes in Paddington station. This is before "WTF" was in the common parlance, but I was thinking its pre-web equivalent. That practice...

Protesting the sponsors not the host country of the 2008 Beijing Olympics

Suddenly the big money sponsors of the Olympic Games are re-branding themselves as born-again companies with a social conscience, as champions of the poor perhaps? ""[H]aving spent huge sums, the companies sponsoring the Beijing games are about to find themselves the...

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