Tag: Mission
Metallica Takes Fans Inside New Album
Will Metallica opt for a pay-what-you want, free, or fixed price level of fan engagement? Note the last line of this highlighted story. It sounds like it's anyone's guess."As the September release of its first album...
Study ranks Canadians second-last on environment
Canada has been ranked second to last, only beating the US in a new study of consumer habits and how they affect the environment.Out of 14 countries, Canada scored a very low rating from the National Geographic...
Spacecraft Observes Powerful Electrical Storm on ...
"The mission of Cassini spacecraft continues as it monitors the powerful electrical storm on Saturn, where the lightning is 10,000 times more powerful than the lightning on Earth."
UN peacekeeping chief calls for law, order in Kosovo
"The UN peacekeeping chief Jean- Marie Guehenno on Sunday called on Kosovo Serb leaders to respect law and order as violence is not a way to solve problems.Guehenno, the UN undersecretary-general for peacekeeping operations, made the appeal after meeting the presidents of...
Canada Reaches Out To Taliban
" Khenjakak, Afghanistan - Canadian troops are reaching out to the Taliban for the first time, military and diplomatic officials say, as Canada softens its ban on speaking with the insurgents. After years of...
Coalition Treats Afghans in Medical Outreach Effort
" BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, April 28, 2008 – Several hundred citizens from a village near Tag Ab Valley in Afghanistan’s Kapisa province swarmed a makeshift hospital April 19 during a village medical outreach hosted by Task Force Gladiator servicemembers....
India ready for Mission on moon:ISRO scientist up...
India Government has given a green signal for the manned mission to moon called Chandrayan mission.India plans to send an unmanned spacecraft to the moon by 2008 and has begun to study technologies needed...
Yes, It Is Apartheid
"The anchorwoman was clearly shocked: I don't have time now to respond to what you have said, she told the former U.S. president, allowing Jimmy Carter to make a narrow escape from her clutches. Then she added that...
The Clintons & Monsanto-A Profitable Family Affair
Though this article deals only with Bill Clinton's sleezy yet profitable involvement with Monsanto, GMO's, and mega-agribusinesses, Hillary's self-serving ongoing involvement with Monsanto is also well...
Venezuela Sending 364 Tons of Food to Haiti
"President Hugo Chávez said that tons of seven extended-consumption food will be shipped and recalled the terrible situation of Latin America’s and the Caribbean’s first independent nation“We are providing...
New Orleans Panel Questions Law as Solution to Ho...
Please keep in mind that many of these 'homeless' actually work, though at relatively low-paying, and sometimes sporadic, jobs. Many also make use of daytime facilities available that includes showers, laundry, meals, and phones. They are not 'filthy vagrants'."A month after...
British Columbia: Serial Rapist & Killer escapes
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorMany British Columbians are asking themselves, what the hell was a repeat rapist and murderer allowed in Minimum Security Prison given his long record of offences? ...
Soyuz Lands in Kazakhstan
Russia's Soyuz TMA-11 has landed in Kazakhstan, intact but off-course. ON board was a small international crew, including South Korea's first astronaut, Yi So-yeon."The crew are safe, but were subjected to severe...
Making Pledges and Smashing Toys: Global Day for ...
Five years on, and the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region continues. Around the world today, human rights campaigners are holding events to return this tragedy to the public eye; the region seems to be a vidtim of...
Semantics Can't Mask Bush's Chicanery
Opinion: "This goes beyond hollow laughter. Since when did armies go around 're-liberating'?" says Robert Fisk in this scathing assessment of the latest semantic shenanigans exuding from the mouth of George W. Bush...
