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Climate Change and Effects on Plants

Green thumbs across the world are confused. They can no longer predict when their lilacs’ and forsythias’ will bloom, and tomato farmers no longer have bumper crops as they did merely two decades ago. When scientists warned the world of possible global warming effects on climate, few were listening. In fact, many are...

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‘Snowmageddon’ Panics Nation’s Capital

The Washington, DC area got hit with the largest snowstorm in years last December, and then in late January a few more inches fell. Despite the fact that cross country skiing was just sublime in both cases, these events caused all kinds of problems, partly because the people responsible for clearing the roads were relying – as...

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‘Bonus’ Snowfall Should Not Gratify Climate Change Deniers

The facts are that areas of the U.S. and in particular the Mid-Atlantic region have been hit with record, or near-record amounts of snow this winter. Europe got snowed in rather severely as well. As far as we know at this time, avalanches have killed at least 165 people in Afghanistan. These facts of course are bringing up all...

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Dumb Gordon Brown, just Like Bush’s Poodle Defends Iraq Invasion

The present British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said it was right to go to war, also saying that the United States dismissed warnings of chaos and violence once Saddam Hussein was toppled.  Brown testified for over four hours before a public inquiry panel about Britain’s role in the conflict and its aftermath. Defending his role in...

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Lets Get to the Core of the Problem

There is little doubt that without finally solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict we can probably forget about ending all kinds of jihads, anti-western and anti-American conflicts and movements and can comfortably continue to wage Bush’s “war on terror” for the foreseeable future. Here is a fragment of one of Washington...

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Groping, or not Groping? The Short Congressional Career of Eric Massa

As most of you probably know by now, Democratic Representative from New York, Eric Massa, has resigned his post, which he has held only since 2009. The official House of Representatives website of the former congressman resolves into one, where Office of the Clerk informs that: “Office of the Twenty-Ninth Congressional District of...

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