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I was at my friend’s place tonight and the police dropped by
South Korea is coming to northeast British Columbia. It was reported this week that State-run Korea Gas has signed a deal with Canadian gas major EnCana covering three fields in the province of British Columbia. Korea Gas will take a 50% interest, for a price tag of $1.1 billion.
The militarization of the continent, along with U.S.-Canada integration is taking place in areas of law enforcement, border services and the armed forces. More is being done to better protect the northern border, but somehow government needs to strike a balance between security and the movement of goods and people.
Reports are that the key witness in a grand plan to steal Canada’s water resources suddenly dies of a heart attack. How convenient.
Genocide in the Making in Canada. Who are the real criminals?
Stolen Sisters A Human Rights Response to Discrimination & Violence Against Indigenous Women
Community Media: The Thriving Voice of the Venezuelan People
Gonzalo Gomez, co-founder of Aporrea.org, says that the website is a; ...popular alternative news agency and an open mailbox for the popular and working ...
March 8, 2010 /EIN PRESSWIRE/ Subsidies established during NAFTA negotiations to help small Mexican farmers compete with their neighbors to the north are being doled out to the families of drug traffickers and senior government officials, the Los Angeles Times reports.
This corruption has both driven subsistence farmers out of operation and encouraged the planting of illegal crops.
Of the $1.3 billion in subsidies given to 2.7 million Mexican farmers, as much as 80% of the money went to 20% of the farmers. Most telling may be the fact that Mexico has gone from a country that fed itself to an importer of food.
Read more at Agriculture Industry Today at:
Mexico Farm Subsidies news
Chinese lawyers file a complaint on behalf of more than 170 consumers against Hewlett-Packard, asking the government’s quality watchdog to order a recall of allegedly faulty notebook computers.
Toyota has run into further headwinds after widely publicised reports that the driver of a Prius hybrid hatchback in California had trouble slowing his speeding vehicle on an interstate highway after the accelerator jammed.
Regulators tell US banks to hold funds
US regulators have told banks not to increase dividends or buy back shares until political and economic uncertainty surrounding the industry dissipates, in a move that will delay by months the return of capital to shareholders.
Cotton Is the Fabric of Your Lights . . . Your iPod . . . Your MP3 Player . . . Your Cell Phone
The research group of Juan Hinestroza, assistant professor of Fiber Science at Cornell University, in collaboration with researchers at Italian universities has developed cotton threads that can conduct electric current like metal wire, yet remain light and comfortable enough to give a whole new meaning to multi-functional garments. This technology works so well that simple knots in this specially treated thread can complete a circuit.
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U.S. says ‘drugged driving’ growing threat
A Possible Early Glimpse of Autism's Impact on Older Siblings
A new study suggests a trend toward developing hyperactivity among typically developing elementary-school-aged siblings of autistic preschoolers and supports the notion that mothers of young, autistic children experience more depression and stress than mothers with typically developing children.
Breast cancer patients with early stage disease that has spread to
only one lymph node may not benefit from radiation after mastectomy,
because . . .
Washington Post criticizes DPJ lawmaker for views on 9/11 attacks
Arguing that his views ''seem to reflect a strain of anti-American ... But another reason is that you are unlikely to ever DISPROVE an alternative theory. ...
Understanding Toyota’s Sudden Acceleration
By Joel S. Hirschhorn
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