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Iran Will Build Nuclear Weapons Unless Someone Stops ThemIran is dead set on building up a nuclear arsenal, having an atomic bomb and building enough warheads to put on top of each of its new Chinese Rockets it has purchased many of which capable of 1200 miles of range.

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More Flooding in North East; Hurricane Season Starts TooEach Hurricane Season remnants of Hurricanes make their way into the North East and cause severe flooding and yet the Northeast has been seeing flooding all Winter long and now even in spring they will start out with a soaked ground cover before the first big Hurricane hits.

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National Guard on the Border; It is TimeSome say that there are 12 million illegal aliens in the United States and 4 million over stayed Visas or 16 million total. Others believe the number to be over 20 million and a few think the number is more like 24 million total.

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Tropical Storm ChanchuAs we wait in the United States of America for our first Hurricane or Tropical Storm Alberto, we should also note that in the Asian Pacific they are already on storm number three; Tropical Storm Chanchu, which although not even a full Typhoon it still killed 32 people.

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Birds, Farm Animals and Even Snakes Can Predict EarthquakesIt is widely known that animals pick up precursory signs of impending Earthquakes, but what do they know that modern many in our civilization inundated with information seem to have forgotten? Has mankind grown so far from nature that he can no longer feel the same precursory clues of Earthquakes that animals can? We know that the Indian Tribes in Indonesia

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11,000 Protest Illegal Immigrants Rights in France?Well we all know that the French will use just about any excuse to riot and cause a scene; they feel it is their God given write to run around and act like un-couth Peanut Gallery wannabes. And they do it so well, but others watch in dismay and cannot believe the smell of the crowds as they torch cars

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Many Animals Can Detect Earthquakes in AdvanceMany animals can predict Earthquakes in Advance, but how are they doing this? They obviously have senses, which help them know when the Earthquakes are imminent. We know that Elephants, Farm Animals, Domestic Pets, Birds and even snakes can predict Earthquakes.

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Los Angeles Times Coverage of Hwang Indictments Misses Points of Relevance to Proposition 71In discussing the indictments of Korean stem cell worker Hwang Woo Suk and five associates, the May 12 Los Angeles Times article by Barbara Demick neglected to mention the indictment for breach of the Korean bioethics law concerning procurement of human eggs. Issues surrounding the obtaining of human eggs are immensely significant in the implementation of Proposition 71, and the saga of what happened in Korea is important to what should happen in California. Separately, the Times article neglected to point out the presence of two distinct frauds in the Hwang matter, one committed by a junior researcher for the purpose of obtaining an exchange fellowship to come to the U.S. to work in the lab of Gerald Schatten of the University of Pittsburgh.

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Mexico City Waiting on the Big OneMexico City is waiting for the next big Earthquake and if you will recall the 8.5 Earthquake in 1985 you can certainly understand why. Over 20,000 people had died there, some say it was white washed and many more perished during and after the big quake.

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Icebergs Breaking Apart Cause Seismic Events; But Should We Label Them Earthquakes?When icebergs break apart due to melting or other reasons they make a lot of noise and cause massive movements of ice shaking the surrounding area but does that mean we should label the shaking event an Earthquake?

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Iceland Earthquakes and Glacier Ice MeltsIceland is an not a very interesting place to study tectonic as no Earthquake fault lines are known to exist there yet lately they have been having some seismic activity there. Now that you are thinking how can that be you are inline with the discussion

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Greenland Seismic Activity; Are the Earthquakes Related to Glacier Melting?Tectonic Plates on the Earth Crust move a little bit and we little humans living on the surface can feel this and we have named the more abrupt movements Earthquakes. Earthquakes can be triggered when there is stress on a fault line and it gives way to slippage of any type.

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Earthquakes in Iceland Five Times More Common in the WinterHave you ever heard anyone in California tell you it feels like Earthquake weather or Do not worry this is not Earthquake season? Well it just so happens that much of this is partially based on reality and partly based on humble urban myth or legends.

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New Orleans Dodged the Bullet for 100-Years; Can They do It Again?Some find it fascinating that New Orleans built under sea level dodged the bullet for over 100 years without a scratch really. Oh sure there were Hurricanes, nothing to major, but they squeaked by. Only once was there big damage before Hurricane Katrina. Can New Orleans make it another 100-years without a scratch? Can it make it 50-years? How about 25-years?

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Hydro Electricity and Drought ConsiderationsWhen we talk about energy we should never forget to mention such things as Hydro-Electric energy, which at one point in the last decade accounted for almost 22% of our energy resources. Hydro-electric generation really makes sense as the water keeps flowing in an unending cycle as rain fall brings it in and then it attempts to go back to the sea or into a lake.

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Can We Really Afford 24 Million Illegal Aliens in the United StatesMany people in the United States are told that there are between 10 and 12 million illegal aliens in the nation. But that is completely a misrepresentation to the true number of illegal aliens.

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Legalizing Drugs in MexicoPresident of Mexico Senior Vincent Fox has said that they must legalize drugs in Mexico. Well if they do this I have a problem because if addicts come to the United States will they also be strung out and steal to buy drugs here and will they then march in our streets in protest for free-court appointed rehabilitation?

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Hurricane Katrina Wrath; Levees Are Secure, Clean Up Incomplete and Here We Go Again?Well the 2006 Atlantic Tropical Hurricane Season is about ready to roar, weather patterns are changing the ocean surface temps are heating up and we have some activity forming off the Coast of Africa so it will soon be upon us.

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Hurricanes Suck, So Let Us Capture the Energy to Power Up CivilizationIt has been said that a high Category Hurricane develops enough energy that it is equal to on Hiroshima Atomic Bomb going off every 10-minutes? Ah hello, and wow Mother Nature is the Goddess of Energy indeed, nothing can compete with that now can it? Well why compete, if she so graciously has shown us how that works?

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Prowling the BordersI’ve been trying to comprehend a few things. I have been trying to understand the singular obsession the Minuteman Movement has about running all the "illegals" out of town.

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Not all Security Threats are Created EqualThe most boneheadedly stupid causes of major security scares in the post 9-11 world

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German-American Israelites?Did Providence sift Israelite tribes through Germany en route to the United States of America?

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Lawsuit Filed to Declare Legislation that Reduces Financial Aid for Student Loans UnconstitutionalThe Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, S. 1932 was recently signed into law but continues to come under attack. The legislation will impact student loan programs by cutting $12 billion from financial aid programs for college students.

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Remembering September 11, 2001On the occasion of our oldest son taking his own life, I bought a new Bible and culled out every promise of love and comfort I could find. In this national horror, I would like to share these verses and encourage all to pray for our President and our nation.

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Bizarre Flag Facts – Q & AsInteresting flag facts to test your American Flag knowlege. Do you know which flag to raise first when raising the flags of several countries? Or why you would (almost) never fly the flag upside down? Check this out and then you'll be the expert on flying the American Flag!

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Death on the Shore -The Story of a MutinyIn 1779 Seventy Highlanders of the 42nd and 71st (the known as the Master of Lovat’s Regiment) when marched down to Leith refused to embark as a rumour had been spread that they were to be drafted into a Lowland Corps and they wouldn’t be able to wear the Kilt and they deeply resented this.. They decided to resist this to the death and mutinied.

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Steering Hurricanes Away From Our CitiesIt maybe possible to steer Hurricanes ever so slightly and thus allow us to prevent them from hitting one of our major cities causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damages and killing thousands of people. How so you ask?

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Can Sharks Predict Future Hurricane Landfalls?Some believe that sharks are so in tune with their ocean environment that they know when Hurricanes are coming and where they will make landfall? Of course many skeptics say; Oh Hogwash or that is utter hokum and BS? Yet the observers of sharks near beaches in high intensity Hurricane years

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Indigenous Peoples of Indonesia; Can They Really Sense Future Earthquakes?It is interesting that the World came together to build a huge Tsunami relay warning system and yet the Indigenous Peoples of Indonesia knew of the Sumatra Quake and the Indonesia Tsunami the night before and had already left their village by the sea and headed for high ground and took to the hills

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Indonesia Indigenous Indians How Did They Know the Tsunami Was Coming?We have all heard the incredible tale of the 2004 Sumatra Quake and the Tsunami Wave, which followed and how one Indian tribe the night before left for higher ground. But how did they know of the future events that would unfold?

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