By Uwe Paschen.The impact of radiation on the food chain in Japan is far more serious than first thought. Back in March after the gravity of the nuclear accident in Fukushima became clear the World Health...
opinion by Uwe Paschen | 22 wks ago | updated 21 wks ago 222 views | 7 recommendations | 9 comments
Concealed carry on university campuses will not make us safer. For that is the priority gentlemen, safety, and that alone. Not political ideology and not political victory, but the safety of our students, of our faculty and staff, and...
opinion by Grace H | 44 wks ago 108 views | 4 recommendations | 6 comments
Eyewitness Video: Tornado Rips Through Navarro County, Rice, TexasA tornado tore through Rice, Texas in Navarro County on Sunday, fortunately there were only a few minor injuries. "Winds toppled four rail cars before...
When asked about domestic violence, one man replied, "What else should I do besides beat her? Worship her or what?". This repulsive mentality is far too common among many Indian men. In the same report done by Samvad, a Video Volunteer's correspondent, another man...
Rice it is the grain that has shaped the cultures, diets, and economies of billions of people in Asia. Like the Thai's people... Rice is the staple food since ancient time, they depend from glutinous to...
A new rice plant has been developed which grows "snorkels" when exposed to floods. A paper in the journal Nature, describes how the plant elongates rapidly in response to being submerged. One of the scientists, Motoyaki Ashikari from Nagoya University in Japan, said "the...
opinion by Sputnic | 2 years ago 99 views | 6 recommendations | 2 comments
" MANILA, July 22, 2009 (AFP) - Genetic modification may be the only viable way to produce sufficient quantities of rice in the future as drought, climate change, and dwindling acreage impact yields, experts said...
In her statement made at the Ambassador Susan E. Rice at the International Peace Institute Vienna Seminar, June 15, 2009, she stated the willingness of USA to work with the international community ending...
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" In little-noticed comments Thursday, the former White House counsel for President Richard Nixon John Dean said Thursday that former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice may have unwittingly admitted to...
By, Uwe Paschen. As it goes here in Japan we have yet another holiday. This time it is the Golden Week, (ゴールデンウィーク), Which is also known as Ōgata renkyū (大型連休) or even as Ōgon shūkan...
created by Uwe Paschen | 2 years ago | updated 1 year ago 3358 views | 99 recommendations | 12 comments
Tha American Civil Liberties Union(ACLU) has won the battle to have access to pictures of prisoner abuse in American controlled prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan. The ACLU has maintained that prisoner abuse was...
Another Republican has come forward in a desperate attempt to defend the torture practiced by the Bush administration. This time it is Dick Cheney's daughter Liz Cheney claiming on MSNBC that waterboarding...
" A onetime senior adviser to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says that the Bush Administration collected and destroyed memos by top officials arguing that torture methods used on detainees were wrong. ...
During her appearance on the Tonight Show, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice complimented the Obama administration and said that "we owe them our loyalty and our silence while they do it." This was in...
With climate changes looming, millions of people around the world are struggling with extended floods, which kill the crops that feed those millions. Perhaps the most important staple for the majority of the world...
created by Karenke4 | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 457 views | 14 recommendations | 9 comments