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Raging Inferno in Victoria Australia | Photo 02

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Black Saturday: Follow-up to the 2009 Raging Inferno in Australia

An inquiry begins today on the causes of the fires and performance of the fire fighters who fought the inferno that was Melbourne in Australia. I sincerely hope that the fire fighters will be glowing with all the...

opinion by Swan | 32 wks ago
782 views | 42 recommendations | 4 comments

Various African Snakes, both venomous and non-venomous | Photo 02

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Man Bites 13 Foot Python to Save His Life

What would you do, if a 13' hungry python wrapped itself around you, then literally dragged you up a tree? This is exactly what happened to Kenyan farm worker Ben Nyaumbe, living in the Malindi area of Kenya....

opinion by Swan | 34 wks ago | updated 34 wks ago
1208 views | 40 recommendations | 9 comments

Various models of King Air planes | Photo 02

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Pilot Dies - Passenger Succeeds with Emergency Landing

A retired jet pilot, Joe Cabuk died just after a smooth take-off in a twin engine plane at Forty Myers, Florida. Doug White, only a novice pilot himself took the pilot's seat, however White had never flown a...

created by Swan | 34 wks ago | updated 34 wks ago
1362 views | 20 recommendations | 3 comments

Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Pacific Airlines Finally Emerge!

Again in the news today, is the topic of yet another new airline taking to the skies this week. The airline is named Trans-Pacific and has a cousin named Trans-Atlantic. Perhaps there aren't enough airlines going under? It does seem a difficult time to launch a new...

opinion by Swan | 35 wks ago | updated 35 wks ago
312 views | 20 recommendations | 2 comments

Jerry Cohen - Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Genetics

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Can Religion and Science Be Compatible?

There has been a veritable tsunami of contradictions regarding religion -v- science for the lifetimes of many people who have considered this question. . It is an old argument, but one that still prevails...

opinion by Swan | 36 wks ago | updated 35 wks ago
509 views | 46 recommendations | 7 comments

Spiropent - Trade name for Clenbutoral Hydrochloride | Photo 02

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Chinese Pork Tainted with Banned Chemicals!

Why am I not surprised. Are the Chinese able to do anything right with their exports these days? It seems that they're always in the news, often for dangerous reasons. Today's news is not any different....

opinion by Swan | 36 wks ago | updated 36 wks ago
231 views | 20 recommendations | 1 comment

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Coke Anyone? Ashley Biden: "Me! (sniff) Me! (sniff) Me!"

Well hasn't the youngest daughter of our Vice-President been caught in a pickle? Actually no, she's been caught on a 43 minute video snorting cocaine and the asking price has been touted to be between $250,000 and...

opinion by Swan | 36 wks ago | updated 36 wks ago
579 views | 12 recommendations | 3 comments

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Selling Police Badges to the Public - No way!

There is something wrong with allowing fake/real police badges to be bought by the public. Each day, as a news junkie and writer, I scan dozens of headlines in my 80 or more RSS feeds. Then I mentally...

opinion by Swan | 36 wks ago
2570 views | 18 recommendations | 5 comments

Thousands of babies ill after contaminated milk identified

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Got Milk?

The milk scandal in China, still reads like a horror story. Six babies poisoned and dead, 300,00 thousand babies still critically ill and grieving mothers crying at their precious baby's death beds. The poisonous...

opinion by Swan | 36 wks ago | updated 36 wks ago
229 views | 10 recommendations | 2 comments

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Camel Spiders Could Eat You for Supper!

Beware the Camel Spider! Though it may look like a spider, they are quite different. Like scorpions and harvestmen, camel spiders belong to a distinct arachnid order called Araneae. I must admit when...

opinion by Swan | 37 wks ago | updated 37 wks ago
3404 views | 49 recommendations | 12 comments

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Peas Could Be Your New Best Friend

Do you have high blood pressure, or chronic kidney disease? If so, this article could be vital to your health. "New research from Canada found that proteins in the common garden pea may provide a natural...

created by Swan | 37 wks ago
1325 views | 63 recommendations | 32 comments

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7 Children and 7 Adults Die in Plane Crash

BREAKING NEWS: Karen Byrd, a Federal Aviation Administraion operations officer in Renton, Washington, has confirmed the death toll of the plane crash, which crashed into the Holy Cross cemetery in Butte. Steve...

created by Swan | 37 wks ago | updated 37 wks ago
274 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment

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Baby Ordered to Die Today

This is what the parents of an unnamed baby will face today. "Parents battling to keep their seriously ill baby alive have failed to overturn a ruling allowing him to die. The nine-month-old boy has a rare...

opinion by Swan | 37 wks ago | updated 37 wks ago
910 views | 79 recommendations | 21 comments

Mug shots, The Family, members, victims,

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Charles Manson - The Story That Stopped the World in it's Tracks

Few crimes literally strike fear and horror into the collective hearts of this world. However the story of the Manson Family and specifically Charles Manson himself in 1969 managed to do exactly that, with...

opinion by Swan | 37 wks ago | updated 37 wks ago
1889 views | 69 recommendations | 18 comments

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Are We Killing Ourselves With Water?

It's funny how the mind works. I've always thought that I prefer bottled water to tap water, and prefer the water that pours from the door of my refrigerator to bottled water. An interesting and somewhat disturbing...

opinion by Swan | 38 wks ago | updated 38 wks ago
1004 views | 78 recommendations | 24 comments

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