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Do nuclear power stations pose a grave risk to our National Security?

Interesting news story on Channel 4 (UK tv) channel4.com/news/articles/so… Said an expert: Water and plutonium don't get on together too well – "could cause a radioactive cloud…" Climate change = Increased flooding. Unacceptable, to increase the risk by building more, surely ? Although you are clearly well-informed, and while I admire your enthusiasm on the [...]

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Independent Oil Producers Key to Economy

By K.J. WEBB Contributing Writer PRECISION DRILLING: This well is located in Garvin County, Okla. and is owned by Precision Petroleum Corp. of Shawnee, Okla. Editor’s Note: This article is second in a series in GTR Newspapers and GTR Online concerning the oil industry in Oklahoma. GTR also published oil industry related articles from 2005 [...]

Climate Change?

Give that the largest peer reviewed scientific study in history conducted by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated with 90% certainty man is the primary cause of global warming, (more than 2000 scientists from over 200 countries-1000 of them from the US over nearly 30 years of study) how can people still [...]

Revolution-A Rock and Roll Epistle

Revolution-A Rock and Roll Epistle By Richard Girard   Cover, Beatles’ Album “Hey Jude,” copyright Apple Records 1968 “You say you want a revolution,well you knowWe’d all want to change the world;You tell me that it’s evolution,well you knowWe’d all want to change the world.But when you talk about destruction,Don’t you know that you can count [...]

Modern English articles of confederation?

im working on a paper for world history on the articles of confederation. I need the 3rd section, and i cant quite understand whats written in the book in that form of english. Is there a site somewhere where i could read it in a more modern context? thanks Modern English articles of confederation?

On the 400th anniversary what do English (or British) people think about the Jamestown controversy?

According to news articles the original English settlers are now portrayed as killers and rapists who made sure “life was difficult" for the natives who lived peacefully in an advanced society but Elizabethan England is described as quite the opposite and the arrival of these settlers marked “the origin of environmental injustice in America.” There [...]

Archivist proud to have helped preserve university history

Font Size: NEWS RELEASE FROM UW-STOUT: Menomonie, Wis. — as archivist at University of Wisconsin-Stout for 29 years, Kevin Thorie can appreciate the meaning of the adage, “The journey is the reward.” Year after year as he worked at the university, he came to love the school, which never ceased to amaze him with its [...]

Abugida Ethiopian American Information Center » Ethiopia: “Terrorist journalists” and press freedom By Abebe Gellaw

Two young Ethiopian journalists, Woubishet Taye, Deputy Editor of Awramba Times, and Reyot Alemu, a columnist of Fetih newspaper, have been facing terrorism charges under the controversial “Anti-Terrorism Proclamation no.652/2009”. Coincidentally, it was only last week that the 547-seat Ethiopian Parliament, where the ruling party occupies all but two seats, officially named Al Qaida, Al [...]

Evolution of the federal government, including the Articles of Confederation to the drafting of the Consititut

What is your analyzation of the evolution of the federal government, including the Articles of Confederation to the drafting of the Constitution, compromises made by the framers of the Constitution, and the rivalry between the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans. We would need days to properly answer this question. I recommend several good history textbooks, some [...]

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