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• Oops becomes learning Experience for Town & Nuclear Plant

  
  Root Cause Analysis Blog — Authority: 138
  Sometimes you can even learn from false alarms. See: http://dailyme.com/story/2009112300003009/millstone-false-alarm-learning-experience-groton-.html and read an article from The Day about a false alarm from a nuclear plant’s evacuation alarms. Share on Facebook
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• Oil sands threaten our survival, Al Gore warns

  
  CKA Canadian Forums — Authority: 161
  by Akhenaten Canadian_Mind wrote: I be more willing to listen if it werent for such stupid headlines. No doubt. Everytime he says something like this... Quote: Extracting oil from Albertas tar sands jeopardizes the survival of our species, says Al Gore. He destroys himself. Quote: "Gas from the tar sands ...
  8 hours ago

• Jasper caribou numbers plummet

  
  CKA Canadian Forums — Authority: 161
  by DrCaleb So, why is the picture of Reindeer? Caribou in Jasper townsite used to number in the 100 range. Man are they a PITA. go to newest post
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• Amanda Knoxs parents say their daughter is no killer

  
  MysticWicks Online Pagan Community and Spiritual Sanctuary — Authority: 166
  Quote: Seattle, Washington (CNN) -- When Amanda Knoxs parents head to Italy for closing arguments in their daughters murder trial theyll be carrying a present they hope desperately she can use soon: a plane ticket home. In that purchase lies one familys entire hope. Curt Knox and Edda Mellas say their ...
  8 hours ago

• From The WSj: ‘Lieberman Digs In On Public Option’

  
  Chris Navin — Authority: 126
  Full post here . Lieberman is likely not, on principle, entirely against the public option.  Rather: “Once the government creates an insurance company or plan, the government or the taxpayers are liable for any deficit that government plan runs, really without limit,” he says. “With our debt heading over ...
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• Trapped coma man: How was he misdiagnosed?

  
  MysticWicks Online Pagan Community and Spiritual Sanctuary — Authority: 166
  Quote: London, England (CNN) -- A Belgian car crash victim who was misdiagnosed as being in a vegetative state for 23 years was conscious the whole time, it has emerged. Rom Houben was 23 at the time of his accident, but tests carried out by Dr. Laureys of the University of Liege, in Belgium, revealed ...
  8 hours ago

• PALIN AND PRESS – OBAMA AND OPPOSITION – THE PEOPLE AND THE PROBLEM (ISSUE 309)

  
  An Octogenarian's Blog — Authority: 121
  Second in series on Sarah Palin and problems we face.There’s such an exposé in many sources of news lately about the problems facing all of us individually and as a nation, that everyone should be well-informed relative to the actuality of happenings.Sara Palin hit the trail this week on her book signing tour. ...
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• Two executed in China over tainted milk

  
  MysticWicks Online Pagan Community and Spiritual Sanctuary — Authority: 166
  Quote: (CNN) -- Two people were executed Tuesday in China for their part in a tainted milk scandal that killed at least six babies and sickened about 300,000 others, state-run media reported. Zhang Yujun was executed for endangering public safety and Geng Jinping was executed for producing and selling ...
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• Secret U.S. plan to support Afghan militias echoes Canadian

  
  CKA Canadian Forums — Authority: 161
  by ridenrain .. because democracies have 4 year attention spans. This can work but in the long term, its unsustainable because they cant keep paying them forever. I think McChrystal is resigned to not getting the troops he needs to doing the job properly. go to newest post
  9 hours ago

• Globe Trotting Man Visits Every Country on Earth

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 540
  All Over The Planet In Seven Years! 55-year-old Indian citizen Kashi Samaddar has completed an almost-seven year trip around the world. He has visited all 194 countries in the world, thereby setting a world record.He spent £350,000 to visit every country on earth in the shortest time possible and thereby earnt ...
  9 hours ago

• Is America Ungovernable?

  
  Brown Cafe - UPS info for UPSers — Authority: 155
  A good question asked at Front Porch Republic.
  9 hours ago

• Electric Motorcycle Racing – The Hot New Sport Coming Soon

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 540
  Quiet and Fuel Friendly!We might be seeing the start of a new form of motorsport. Electric motorcycles have really been at the cutting edge of development recently, and it’s going to be really interesting to see exactly what happens.In fact, the governing body of the MotoGP series is in the process of organizing ...
  9 hours ago

• Is It Intentional?

  
  Popgun's World — Authority: 130
  Please see this article over at Hot Air for references. Apologies, this article has lots of arithmetic. Facts: The ObamaCare bill, they claim, will result in saving $130 billion over ten years. This is because they start taxing immediately, but services don’t start until 2014 . If you take the ten years ...
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• Ahmadinejad goes to Brazil: 15 Minutes on Latin America - Nov 24,2009

  
  Faustas blog — Authority: 417
  Its the two Mahmouds for Lula: Having hosted Mahmoud Abbas last week, this week its Mahmoud Ahmadinejads turn. What is Lula after?
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• Composer Reinvents The Piano

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 540
  Total Tonality!For a non-pianist, the idea of a microtonally fluid piano might seem either no big deal or baffling. But this weekend a composer will reveal the result of a 10-year mission – nothing less than the reinvention of one of the most important instruments in western music. (Video).Geoff Smith believes he ...
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• Food for Thought – 24 November 2009

  
  Mostly Cajun, All American and Opinionated — Authority: 438
  A dog is a dog... [IMG: http://mostlycajun.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/bluedogs2.jpg]
  10 hours ago

• Heroes, Harmones, and Ft. Hood

  
  Timothy Birdnow — Authority: 137
  Brian Birdnow discusses the Fort Hood attack, and the military’s (and media’s) attempt to cast Sgt. Kimberly Munley as the hero in a piece at Townhall. http://townhall.com/columnists/BrianBirdnow/2009/11/23/of_heroes,_hormones_and_fort_hood?page=full&comments=true#comments Remember Linda Bray?  She was ...
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• Philippines declares emergency after 46 killed

  
  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED — Authority: 560
  The Philippine president placed two southern provinces under emergency rule Tuesday as security forces unearthed more bodies from one of the worst incidents of election violence in the nations history, pushing the death toll to 46. Police and soldiers found 22 bodies in a hillside mass grave Tuesday, adding to the 24 ...
  10 hours ago

• ANALYSIS: Ukrainian Flu: New Strain Mutated and/or BioEngineered, Much More Lethal

  
  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED — Authority: 560
  Definitive, meticulous, exhaustive - and frightening. , Even though this installment of The Baxter Files is a bit of a recap, you may want to sit down. Thank you Project Mayhem at Zero Hedge; please repost. WRH permalink
  11 hours ago

• George Monbiot Attempts Damage Control on AGW

  
  BitsBlog — Authority: 140
  George Monbiot, who is likely the biggest global warming propagandist in the press today, looks at the Global Warming emails that have been the topic of so much discussion lately and admits: George Monbiot It’s no use pretending this isn’t a major blow. The emails extracted by a hacker from the climatic ...
  12 hours ago

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