http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420ap_wa_acid_seawater.htmlLast updated May 27, 2008 5:17 p.m. PT
Rising acidity of seawater could disrupt NW food chains
By DAN CATCHPOLEASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
SEATTLE -- Puget Sound faces an
uncertain future due to the...
"In the permafrost bottom of the 200-meter-deep sea, enormous stores of gas hydrates lie dormant in mighty frozen layers of sediment. The carbon content of the ice-and-methane mixture here is estimated at 540 billion tons. "This submarine hydrate was considered stable until...
"Hirsi Ali Returns to the Netherlands after Losing Body Guards Former Dutch legislator and Islam critic Hirsi Ali has been under state-funded protection since extremists began threatening her life in 2004. Now the Dutch government has said it won't pay for her protection if...
"Wilders Sparks Political Protest By Gerald Traufetter in Amsterdam It is little more than a makeshift collage, but it contains a horror show of images meant to distort Islam. Dutch right-wing politician Geert...
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"How a Film Triggered a Global Panic By Henryk M. Broder It is the kind of stunt that has many fearing the worst: Dutch right-wing populist Geert Wilders plans to release a film about Islam. Politicians worldwide are...
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" Prophet Muhammad with a time bomb in his turban: That is how the film by Dutch politician Geert Wilders begins. The Danish cartoonist responsible for the drawing explains to Spiegel Online why he wants his drawing...
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About Fitna, the Netherlands and Wilders
Very rarely has a film sparked off as much pre-release controversy
as Dutch MP Geert Wilder’s ‘Fitna,the movie’. Even without...
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Holland? Flowers!
by Guy La Roche
I am loathe to add to the Wilders-hype, created both by him and the Dutch government, but the following video by Thomas Erdbrink is simply too amazing to let slip by AFOE’s international radar.
Thomas Erdbrink is a...
"Even though automakers and environmentalists are pushing new
electric and hybrid electric cars, claiming less pollution to make our Mother
Earth unhappy with our wasteful ways, it seems they come with demons of their
own. Well, maybe not so much.
The media has certainly...
"Night of the Living Fed
Paul Krugman is writing about The Face-Slap Theory."The scariest thing I’ve read recently is a speech given last week by Tim Geithner, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Mr. Geithner came as close as a Fed official can to...
"About 300 Afghan MPs demonstrated outside the parliamentary building in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Tuesday
4 March 2008KABUL – About 300 Afghan MPs demonstrated outside the parliamentary building in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Tuesday in protest...
"Do not broadcast critical Islam movie, says Dutch foreign minister
29 February 2008AMSTERDAM - Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen on Thursday called upon legislator Geert Wilders, founder of the right-wing Freedom Party, not to broadcast a movie that...
"Emergency Management and Preparedness:
Under this heading, the press release states that SPP minister will work to, "Strengthen emergency management cooperation capacity in the North American region before, during...
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"How the spooks took over the news
In his controversial new book, Nick Davies argues that shadowy intelligence agencies are pumping out black propaganda to manipulate public opinion – and that the media simply swallow it wholesale
Monday, 11 February...
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