Australia’s historic opal industry dying off By Brigid Andersen Updated March 22, 2012 01:40:41 Photo: Opal miner Branko Brankovic checks the conveyer at his opal mine in the Queensland outback town of Opalton. (Mick Tsikas: AAP) Map: Opalton 4735 As the mining boom roars on, a small, historic part of the industry has been forgotten. […]
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Heavenly View of the East Coast
This Jan. 29 panorama of much of the East Coast, photographed by one of the Expedition 30 crew members aboard the International Space Station, provides a look generally northeastward: Philadelphia-New York City-Boston corridor (bottom-center); western Lake Ontario shoreline with Toronto (left edge); Montreal (near center). An optical illusion in the photo makes the atmospheric limb […]
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Tagged Earth, NASA, Philadelphia from space, space pictures, United States, USA
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Earth
Information: Go here to view an image that explains how composite images like these are created: www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/6803619953 Responding to public demand, NASA scientists created a companion image to the wildly popular ‘Blue Marble’ released last week (January 25, 2012). www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/6760135001 The new image is a composite of six separate orbits taken on January 23, 2012 […]
Will the New Owners of FaceBook Be Responsible?
PHILADELPHIA, PA: The word on the street is FaceBook may be going public (in an IPO) as soon as this coming week. Will the new owners of FaceBook, those people who buy shares, be responsible for my privacy and security? Is it possible for individual shareholders to be accountable for what their company does? At […]
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Tagged avarice, banks, corporations, FaceBookc, freedom, freedom of speech, IPO, Law, law suitss, privacy, responsible, save our souls, Security, shareholders, SOS
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Geomagnetic Storm Watch
As the strongest Solar Radiation Storm (S3) since May, 2005 continues, the associated Earthward-directed Coronal Mass Ejection is expected to arrive about 1400 UT (9am EST) Jan 24. SWPC has issued a Geomagnetic Storm Watch with G2 level storming likely and G3 level storming possible, with the storm continuing into Wednesday, Jan 25. All of […]
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Tagged Earth, eruption, Geomagnetic Storm, radio blackout, solar radiation, storm, Sun, weather, x-ray
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Google and Wikipedia Blackout Protest Over U.S. Internet Legislation
#SOPA #PIPA If you go to Wikipedia.org today, you get a black page asking you to protest. If you to Google today, you will find their logo blacked-out and a plea to protest. WordPress.org, The Membrane.com and KingArthur.com have also *blacked-out* in support of the protest. What has Internet intellectuals all in an up-roar? Millions […]
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Tagged censorship, freedom of speech, Google, Government, intellectual property rights, Internet, IP, laws, liberty, PIPA, piracy, privacy, Protect IP Act, protest, Security, SOPA, Stop Online Piracy Act, WikiPedia, Wordpress
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President Obama Signs Indefinite Detention Bill Into Law
by the American Civil Liberties Union WASHINGTON, DC – President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law today. The statute contains a sweeping worldwide indefinite detention provision. While President Obama issued a signing statement saying he had “serious reservations” about the provisions, the statement only applies to how his administration would use […]
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Tagged ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union, detention, freedom, Government, Law, liberty, military, Obama, USA
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Just Say No To Taxes
by Daniel Brouse I suggested that there should be little (to no) taxes. You responded: How does any of this function without taxation…? I would like to know your thinking on this… it doesn’t seem to be working now and sure doesn’t favor poor to middle class… but I think this is too long to […]
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Tagged benefits, bureaucracy, Business, corruption, coss, Daniel Brouse, Economics, Government, national debt, Occupy Philadelphia, Occupy Wall Street, pay taxes, taxation, taxes, war
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What Have You Been Up To?
Daniel Brouse Gandolf Eichfeld‘s “Flight Of The Concourse” Gandalf’s Flight Of The Concourse December 27, 2011: Gandalf on Bass, Daniel on Trumpet By: KingArthur.com Like · · Share · about an hour ago Suki Wbzh likes this. Write a comment… Daniel Brouse was tagged in KingArthur.com‘s photo. — at Philadelphia City Hall. Gandalf’s Flight Of […]
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Why Christians Hate Xmas
Do you know why Christians do not like the abbreviation of xmas for Christmas? It is because the x is short for the cross, and Christmas is not suppose to be about Easter. That is to say, it is offensive to mock the birth with the symbol of his murder. Suggestion: test your minister, pastor […]