A man from the tiny island of Forewick Holm in the Shetland islands of Scotland, has renamed an island and declared dependence from the UK and Europe. Stuart Hill, the owner of the Island claims that an...
T. Boone Pickens Sent out this letter regarding Obams Energy Team Picks " Some big pieces of the puzzle got put in place this afternoon. President-elect Obama named his Energy Team, including Steven Chu as...
Republican John McCain said Monday that drilling for oil off the U.S. coast is an essential part of any plan to lower gas prices and reduce dependence on foreign sources, and he criticized Democrat Barack Obama for opposing it." “We all know that a comprehensive solution is...
UN and UNICEF need to respond immediately regarding this. " Haiti - Every inch of Rivilade Filsame's body hurt, from his swollen, empty stomach to his dried-out, wrinkled skin. The 18-month-old had been crying...
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" AMERICANS don't like paying $4 for a gallon of gasoline or $5 for a gallon of diesel. Not one bit. Nearly 1 million Americans have signed our "Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less." petition at...
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As fears grow that both China, with its massive foreign currency reserves, and the Middle Eeastern oil states will move from the dolalr to the euro as their favored international currency, Iran has announced that...
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Ever have a night of Heavy Drinking and wake up wondering where you are? Well for William Bowman of Indiana he woke up in a very dangerious situation. He woke up with the sound of a Garbage Truck running its...
"Trade Versus Aid in Africa, Who Wins?
Posted by beninmwangi on June 4th, 2007
It seemed like the time was right for me to pen this post about trade -vs- aid. This is a discussion that has a tremendous amount of relevance in Sub Saharan Africa. But it is also relevant in...
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The Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) has agreed to help Guyana explore the feasibility of producing ethanol from sugarcane to reduce the country's dependence on fuel imports.Guyana's Agriculture Minister, Robert Persaud, said the country was aiming for a 10 per cent mix...
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"American taxpayers are now spending more than a billion dollars per year to incarcerate its citizens for pot. That's according to statistics recently released by the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice...
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"Newly-released FBI files have given more details on William Rehnquist's dependence on strong painkillers while he was a US Supreme Court judge.
Mr Rehnquist, who later became chief justice, is said to have been taking up to three times the prescribed dosage."
IRNA
Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - as dependence on the US currency would have negative
consequences for Iran in the long-term. The Islamic Consultative Assembly (Majlis) is agreable to...
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"Dec. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Fiji's army took control of the capital, Suva, as Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase said he was powerless to prevent the military staging a coup.
``Effectively I am isolated,'' Qarase said in an interview with Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio, adding he...
"In May 2002 I flew over the coalfields of Kentucky and West Virginia. From the air, I came face to face with one, but only one, of the enormous costs we pay for our nation’s dependence on coal. Leveled mountains, devastated communities, wrecked economies and ruined...
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