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Climate change and global warming - indeed, how to control them - are becoming more central to politics with every new development. Sustainable energy is the method of our times, and government’s across the globe are under pressure - from each other, from environmental groups, and from individuals - to implement genuine and successful ‘green’ […]
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August 17th, 2008 | Posted in World Affairs | No Comments
In the Autumn of next year, the third ‘Solar Decathlon’ will take place in Washington, D.C.
When it is under way, the experts and spectators alike will see some of the best examples in the world of the relationship between design and solar power.
Comprising 20 teams - each representing universities or colleges - entrants are expected […]
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August 17th, 2008 | Posted in World Affairs | No Comments
And if the case of the recent discovery of the body of a 70-year-old man in his apartment in the town of Aix-les-Bains in southeastern France is anything to go by, he had anything but “good neighbours.”
While there’s nothing too unusual perhaps in the report of an elderly person’s death going unnoticed, especially when he […]
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August 17th, 2008 | Posted in World Affairs | No Comments
It’s a question that has preoccupied many here in France over the past month, and sadly made the headlines far too often. It’s also one to which it’s difficult to provide an answer.
Over the past four weeks there have been three separate incidents of young children or babies - being left alone in locked cars. […]
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August 17th, 2008 | Posted in World Affairs | No Comments
When former Astronaut Edgar Mitchell recently told the world that he had been briefed on Aliens and UFOs by the U.S. Government, the media reacted by treating his comments with disdain. Their own bias against any acknowledgement that Aliens might be visiting our world and unwillingness to accept the word of a national hero that […]
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August 16th, 2008 | Posted in World Affairs | No Comments
After the nuclear power company British Energy announced that it was thinking about takeover approaches earlier this year, and then subsequently held talks and meetings with EDF of France, E.ON and RWE of Germany, and Iberdrola of Spain. It is the French energy power house that has emerged as the only formal bidder for the […]
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August 15th, 2008 | Posted in World Affairs | No Comments
On May 14, 2008, an oval object with a turquoise glow fell out of the sky around three o’clock in the morning and crashed west of the Colorado River near Needles, California. The crash was almost immediately followed by the appearance of unmarked vehicles with government license plates manned by non-uniformed personnel, a small fleet […]
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August 14th, 2008 | Posted in World Affairs | No Comments
After the success of Solar One - the world’s first large-scale thermal solar power plant - and its update, Solar Two, Europe has now entered into the race for sustained solar power.
Solar Tres, located West of Ejica in the Andalusia district of Spain, has been modeled on the Solar One and Two projects, which were […]
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August 11th, 2008 | Posted in World Affairs | No Comments
Edgar Mitchell was one of the twelve Americans to walk on the surface of the moon. During a recent radio interview on the UK-based Kerrang! Broadcast, he told host Nick Margerrison, “I happen to have been privileged enough to be in on the fact that we’ve been visited on this planet and the UFO phenomena […]
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August 10th, 2008 | Posted in World Affairs | No Comments
UFOs being chased by military jets has become a common theme in the USA other the past year. In all of these cases the jets almost immediately dropped flairs to cover up what was, obviously, a far more interesting mission. If any comments were forthcoming from the military, they merely stated that any military aircraft […]
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August 10th, 2008 | Posted in World Affairs | No Comments