[On July 7 (yesterday)] Today over 400 people died in a single attack outside of the city of Kirkuk. More than 40 houses destroyed completely and several shops and cars. Hospitals in the nearby cities such as Kurkuk were unable to cope with the number of wounded and due to the lack of security in …
The Rise of Nuclear Power – Threat, or logical response?
Since it's birth in the United States and Russia, Nuclear Power generation has been the domain of the developed world only. The "Old Core" powers (US, Russia, France, UK, and others...) had a nearly exclusive grip on the Atom as a source of increasingly clean, abundant, and reliable power. It seems, to me, that the …
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Australia: Iraq is for Oil
Out of the "well, duh" category... The ABC in Australia is reporting on the Aussie Defense Minister, Dr. Brendan Nelson, comments about why Australian troops are still in Iraq. Obviously the Middle East itself, not only Iraq, but the entire region is an important supplier of energy, oil in particular, to the rest of the …