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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A federal wildlife biologist whose observation in 2004 of presumably drowned polar bears in the Arctic helped to galvanize the global warming movement has been placed on administrative leave and is being investigated for scientific misconduct, possibly over the veracity of...

If I made my own bio-fuel from involuntary oil seed or weed seeds?

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REGINA, Sask. -- The Global Transportation Hub in Regina got a shot in the arm this week, with Yanke Group of Companies breaking ground on a 40-acre transportation and logistics centre. Yanke is the first trucking firm to commit to the project and also the first homegrown Saskatchewan company...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. firearms agents told lawmakers on Wednesday they were instructed to only watch as hundreds of guns were bought, illegally resold and sent to Mexico where drug-related violence has raged for years. Agents for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in...

YouTube - ‪Afghan President Karzai's brother shot dead‬‏

It just doesn't get more ridiculous than this. Julie Bass of Oak Park, Michigan -- a mother of 6, law-abiding citizen, and gardener -- is facing 93 days in jail after being charged with a misdemeanor. Her crime? Planting a vegetable garden in the front yard. Bass says that she planted the...

The US has conducted its first drone strike on Islamist militants in Somalia, marking the expansion of the pilotless war campaign to a sixth country. The missile strike on a vehicle in the southern town of Kismayo, reported last week as a helicopter assault, wounded two senior militants with...

The future of the Keystone pipeline. TransCanada’s controversial Keystone pipeline, which if completed would ship oil more than 1,700 miles from Alberta to Gulf Coast refineries, has faced intense criticism from environmentalists and landowners. It's also created a deep rupture between the...

For the better part of a century the foundations for a semi-comfortable retirement for many Americans have rested on the financial pillars of rising real estate and equity prices, positive real interest rates on savings, the continued solvency of public and private pension plans, and the...

National Post is getting into Conspiracy Theories? OTTAWA — The integration of North America’s economies would best be achieved through an “incremental” approach, according to a leaked U.S. diplomatic cable. The cable, released through the WikiLeaks website and apparently written Jan...

Isn't that what Orwell called Double Speak? They say they want to put an end to negative attack ads by attacking them with positive attack ads. When is the disrespect for the intelligence of Canadians going to end?

Rainfall Warning Issued at 3:45 PM CST Thursday 16 June 2011 Summary 50 to 75 mm rain totals beginning this evening into tomorrow night. That's about 2-3 INCHES Details An upper disturbance currently located over Idaho will track northeast this evening producing an area of...

NEW YORK — Finance Minister Jim Flaherty on Wednesday ramped up his warnings to the United States about the U.S. failure to tackle its deficit, telling New York's business elite the fate of the world's economic recovery rides on what Washington lawmakers decide. Building on a warning...

Scientists have created genetically modified cattle that produce "human" milk in a bid to make cows' milk more nutritious. The scientists have successfully introduced human genes into 300 dairy cows to produce milk with the same properties as human breast milk. Human milk contains high...

SINGAPORE – Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov says NATO is "one step" from sending troops into Libya in a bid to help rebels remove Moammar Gadhafi from power. Ivanov said Sunday at an Asian security conference in Singapore that Russia didn't know that a United Nations resolution it...

I suggest the World Bank take a 'flying ****" at a rolling dougnut. Since when do banks vote? (Reuters) - The World Bank will suggest a global levy (TAX) on jet and shipping fuel in recommendations to G20 governments later this year on raising climate finance, a senior official said on...

Prepare for More Money Printing: Analyst Investors should prepare themselves for a third round of quantitative easing, Simon Maughn, co-head of European equities at MF Global, told CNBC Wednesday. “The bond market is going in one direction which is up-falling yields which is telling you...

by James West on May 30, 2011 By James West MidasLetter.com May 30, 2011 As shares in uranium exploration companies continued to shed value, Japan’s nuclear nightmare is still getting worse. News this weekend that the hope of ‘stabilizing’ the leakage of radiation by steam into the atmospohere...

The US Department of Homeland Security has begun field testing new technology which it thinks can identify people who intend to commit a terrorist act, just by looking at them. According to the magazine Nature, which we get for the spot the Schroedinger's cat competition, the US spooks have...