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Hi-Tech Wars
Turkish report on the US soldiers robotic help in the fight against the Taliban.
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106 year old nun supporting Obama is shocked by fame
A 106-year-old American nun who became a minor celebrity after she appeared on television saying she is voting for Barack Obama is "startled and a bit anguished" by all the attention she is getting, her order said Monday. A 106-year-old American nun who became a minor celebrity after she appeared on television saying she is voting for Barack Obama is �... more
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iTunes "will kill music, God bless 'em"
AC/DC's new album 'Black Ice' will not be available on Apple's hugely successful website. AC/DC lead singer Brian Johnson claims the site will 'kill music'. AC/DC's new album 'Black Ice' will not be available on Apple's hugely successful website. AC/DC lead singer Brian... more
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YouTube - Blossom Goodchild clarifies October 14th
LOL!!! The Alien's ARE coming
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Bjork: to Yorke, or not to Yorke?
Icelandic 'alternative' singer Bjork has claimed new single "Nattura" has backing vocals from Thom Yorke, though his people claim he has not recorded anything new. A sample then. Icelandic 'alternative' singer Bjork has claimed new single "Nattura" has backing vocals from Thom Yorke, though h... more
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Political films 'can't compete with the real thing'
Political movies in the US have proven unpopular as people would rather be entertained by the real thing
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Mafia orders hit on author
Roberto Saviano, author of hit book 'Gomorra' has been in hiding for two years after the mafia made it clear he was on their hitlist. Reports in Italy now state that the mob bosses want him dead by christmas. Roberto Saviano, author of hit book 'Gomorra' has been in hiding for two years after the mafia made it clear he was on their... more
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The W-Point of Future Mobility - The hybrid-lie: why innovation starts with lower ...
All innovation for cars increases weight and shifts pollution and energy waste up instead of down. Let's take a fresh look on the hybrid car ideas and see what's wrong with them: It makes us buy more technology that we drive around. The problem is the weight, the solution for the city or medium distance vehicle is very simple: It's also the weight. By Dr. Ralf Bönt All innovation for cars increases weight and shifts pollution and energy waste up instead of down. Let's take a fresh look on the... more
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Katy Perry to host MTV Europe awards
Katy Perry, the singer/songwriter of the summer smash "I Kissed a Girl," will host the MTV Europe Music Awards in Liverpool on November 6. Katy Perry, the singer/songwriter of the summer smash "I Kissed a Girl," will host the MTV Europe Music Awards in Liverpool ... more
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Son of actor Depardieu dies at 37
Reports yesterday evening that French actor's son died of pneumonia, aged just 37.
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Beckhams' staff held over 'theft'
Two housekeepers have been arrested over claims football memorabilia was stolen from their mansion, dubbed "Beckingham Palace". The items were then put up for sale on ebay. Two housekeepers have been arrested over claims football memorabilia was stolen from their mansion, dubbed "Beckingham Palace... more
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Cheadle Replaces Howard in Iron Man
Don Cheadle is to play Robert Downey Jr.'s best friend in Iron Man sequel, replacing Terrence Howard.
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Any news from ALABAMA?
This is the only sign of Aliens seen today..not prophesied but clearly seen.It seems that these insects have no barriers either..very interesting article...maybe FED of Light ,will arrive after the fires are put out in California..our thoughts go out to you all who are involved in this disaster... This is the only sign of Aliens seen today..not prophesied but clearly seen.It seems that these insects have no barriers either..very ... more
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Obama '08 A Change Is Gonna Come
Hope is Alive. Kennedy was not FDR, yet he was. Obama isn't MLK, yet he is carrying the batton. Our culture is built over successive generations. The radicalism of the '60s bears fruit early this new century. A Change Is Gonna Come. Hope is Alive. Kennedy was not FDR, yet he was. Obama isn't MLK, yet he is carrying the batton. Our culture is built over succ... more
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Hippie apes make war as well as love, study finds
Despite their reputation as lovers not fighters of the primate world, bonobos actually hunt and eat other great apes, German researchers said Monday.
Their findings, the first direct evidence of hunting by the so-called "hippie" apes, show that such behavior is not linked to male dominance as females rule bonobo society and also go on hunts.
"We always have this view that hunting is a male business," said Gottfried Hohmann of the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. "What our study shows is this is not necessarily the case.
"This has implications for models on early humans that people have proposed how humans have evolved," said Hohmann, whose findings are published in Current Biology.
Bonobos, chimpanzees and orangutans, collectively known as the great apes, are the closest genetic relatives to humans and scientists study their behavior to learn more about our own evolution.
The apes are generally considered more peaceful than their close cousins, the chimps, and have a reputation for free-loving ways because sex plays a major role their society, being used for greetings, conflict resolution and reconciliation.
Scientists had thought bonobos, found in the lowland forest south of the river Congo, only ate small animals such as squirrels, forest antelopes and rodents they encountered.
But over five years of observing a group of bonobos the researchers recorded about 10 instances when a group of the apes set out on hunting trips in search of chimpanzees.
Each time the bonobos silently crept through the woods on the ground, trying to get underneath a group of chimps before clambering up a tree in a sudden attack, the researchers said.
The bonobo hunts were successful on fewer than half the excursions and in some cases shared the meat, evidence they were willing to share to encourage group hunting, Hohmann and colleagues said.-----------------this is our follow up to the monkeys serving drinks(: Despite their reputation as lovers not fighters of the primate world, bonobos actually hunt and eat other great apes, German researche... more -
Exotic spiders invading the UK
Exotic species of spiders are making their homes in the UK, scientists say.
Researchers believe arachnids arriving in imports of food and plants are now able to survive and spread thanks to the UK's increasingly mild climate.
The new inhabitants include a species of false widow spider and some believe the deadly black widow could be next to invade.
Conservation group Buglife wants import rules to be strengthened to stem the tide of alien species invasion.
Matt Shardlow, director of Buglife, told BBC News: "Other countries in the world take great care about what biological material they allow in, because it can contain pests that can damage our goods, our livelihoods, our health and our biodiversity.
Our increasingly warm climate is starting to suit many more spiders
Stuart Hine, Natural History Museum
"Currently in the UK, we have a laissez-faire attitude - there is an open licence for people to bring in dangerous pests."
But a spokesperson for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said that a new strategy was in place to "tackle the threat to the UK's native biodiversity from unwanted pest species which have 'hitchhiked' into the UK on plants".
Aggressive arachnid
John Partridge from the British Arachnological Society said his organisation had had an increase in the number of enquiries about "strange spiders".
He added: "We are certainly getting more spiders coming into the UK - and it seems that more are spreading around the country once they are in." --------------more of this creepy crawler story and more videos at the link!------------------------------------------------
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This story makes your skin crawl! But you know what? Spiders are important. One example: I owned a home on a river in the Rockie Mountains and we would get a massive amount of mosquitoes in certain months. One time I noticed a very beautiful large web being made at the front door and decided to leave it and watch the spider do his thing. The next day there were probably several hundred mosquitoes in his web and I said, Wonderful, I don't have to use chemicals to rid the mosquitoes! It seriously cut down the mosquitoes entering my house! Now, I always remember this and praise the creepy spider and let him do his thing. He's there to protect and eat many spiders! The circle of life... Exotic species of spiders are making their homes in the UK, scientists say. ... more -
Well I guess debate with the other side proved to be too much
Goodbye, All NOBAMAJON signing off. I had a lot of fun here, learned how to read and write again,Thanks for the lessons. I will miss the good topics. Good arguement. And good people. Now I know how Stalins Generals felt during the PURGES. Just not needed anymore, too risky. Hell the truth might get out. But you have VIERCHOTCKA to write every thing you will be reading. Hell why not let someone who isn't even an American tell you how to think. Well I guess Obama is the same thing. What was it ol trickey Dick said in south America? You wont have ol Nixon to push around anymore. I was set up last night,Brendan loves calling me trailer trash, child molester etc. But I call him a chickenshit little boy and I am kicked off. Just a coinsedence that I wrote my first article which had 103 post in 20 hours. And my second was taking off, just a coinsedence. Maybe you should ask your selves if you REALLY want to live the next 8 years like this. Where dissinters just dissapear!!! This just makes me sick!!! I loved it here.Too bad for all of you also, you may of hated me but really you didn't. Sure I am an ass sometimes, I meant to be. But this place is gonna be a boring site after I am gone. HELL IT already is. "Semen makes you feel good" I read that 5 years ago on YAHOO.COM!!! You deserve bread lines, old cars, and travil visas just to go across State lines and all the stuff that comes with Obama. Wake up folks before it is too late. If it was soooo great in EUROPE Swiss Miss wouldn't spend all of her time talking to Americans just to be close to what SHE LOST!!! GOODBYE AND GOOD LUCK NOBAMAJON NOBAMA not now, not EVER!!!!! Goodbye, All NOBAMAJON signing off. I had a lot of fun here, learned how to read and write again,Thanks for the lessons. I will miss t... more
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Next to Nuclear
Welch, MN
A small native American community lives closer to a nuclear plant than any community in the United States. John McCain wants to expand nuclear power plants - find out what people who live with one in their backyard have to say. Producer: Sonya "Sonny" Tormoen
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HP: A little expertise...
All you need to know about wireless printing...
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Debt Collectors: India call centers get another view of U.S. - Washington Post- ms...
For the past three years, Chaturvedi has been a top collection agent at her call center, phoning hundreds of Americans a day and politely asking them to pay up. As the U.S. financial crisis plunges Americans into debt, her business is one of the fastest-growing sectors in Indian outsourcing. It is also one of the few sectors of outsourcing in India that is still aggressively hiring.
"Lately, 25-year-old Americans are telling me that they are declaring themselves bankrupt," said Chaturvedi, raising her eyebrows in shock. "These days the situation is so emotional, so fragile. We have to have so much empathy and patience."
"It's like people are totally drowning," said Omkar Gadgil, 24, who goes by the alias Richard Rudy and was a math major in college. He is brainy and considered the office expert on the intricacies of debt collection. "There has just been years of overspending and now: the crash."
Chaturvedi said she has never seen it so bad. Many of the young employees say they are flabbergasted at just how widespread the financial ruin appears to be. For the past three years, Chaturvedi has been a top collection agent at her call center, phoning hundreds of Americans a day and polit... more
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