The National Ignition Facility opens next month in California, and promises a real solution for nuclear energy production. And, you can bet the military will come up with interesting ways to use this. "This is our vision for a safe, clean and sustainable energy source...
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I've been looking forward to this film for a very long time. The website provides excellent information. This first comment on the YouTube trailer says it all: "As Carl Sagan tried to show us decades ago, the...
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Jack Kerouac, "Belief and Technique for Modern Prose""Jack Kerouac was one of those writers who reinvented literature. He climbed in James Joyce's stream of consciousness car then careened down the streets of Beat...
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To the contrary, Her Royal Highness, the 82-year-old Queen Elizabeth II of England broke with traditional protocol when she put her arm around the First Lady in a rare public show of affection. "Michelle...
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Alanna Hartzok believes we are "living through yet another dark night of the collective human soul”"Summary: For many people, Newsweek International editor Fareed Zakaria’s The Post-American World goes as far as a “responsible” commentator can go in imagining a better...
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"Wednesday, April 1st, 2009 "We the People" to "King of the World": "YOU'RE FIRED!" ...a letter from Michael Moore" "Nothing like it has ever happened. The President of the United States, the elected representative of the people, has just told the head of General Motors -- a...
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Ohio man arrested for drunk driving on a homemade vehicle. " MARCH 31--In a law enforcement first, Ohio cops this month arrested a man for drunk driving on a motorized bar stool. That's right, a motorized bar...
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I've seen this film, and must say it is refreshing in the extreme."US comic Bill Maher is atheism's funniest advocate. He tells John Patterson how his new film proves that religion is just ridiculous. In fact ... it's Religulous.–John Patterson ...
"the finance industry has effectively captured our government" Max Keiser sums the present situation up, and offers a solution –a suggestion in one example, "RICO" – a group that crashed in 2005, on which Max...
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Amazing! that's all I can say.Frostie Dancing To Shake Your Tail Feather!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bt9xBuGWgw&feature=player_embeddedSnowball and Stevie...
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Bruce Palling travels to the colourful Jaipur Literary Festival and is impressed by the long list of prestigious authors, the hugely enthusiastic participants… and the free curry " The more insular residents of...
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High on the "wow" factor! Of course, this is a military invention! Israel did it! There are more very interesting articles on this website."George Hunka, 26 March, 2009–A remarkable new invention from Tel aviv University –a network of tiny sensors as small as dewdrops...
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Yes, we do have economic choices! The following analysis explains them very clearly. I'll mention it again: Phillip J. Anderson's book "The Secret Life of Real Estate - how it moves and why" (amazon.com) is a MUST read, and a wonderfully told story of the foundation of the...
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Australians were told today that Aussie troops will remain in Afghanistan for the long haul. " No US request for more Afghanistan troops: PM By chief political correspondent Lyndal Curtis " " Prime Minister...
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From the March edition of Tinteán, the magazine of the Australian Irish Heritage Network.–A review of Kevin Cahill's masterful work, Who Owns the World, (This website features sample chapters from the book) Published by Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh,...
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