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UN Authorizes Air Strikes Against Gaddafi`s Forces in Libya

UN goes to war against Gaddafi.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Look for a quick air strike against Muammar Al-Gaddafi. France said they could strike within hours. It's now dark in Libya, but a daylight attack against his forces may be imminent.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Al-Gaddafi’s Government Wednesday to cease hostilities immediately, warning that a potential assault on the rebel-held city of Benghazi could endanger huge numbers of civilians.

`Dulles Airport` Shadow Disproves US Government`s 9/11 Conspiracy Theory

Let’s examine the events and circumstances of 9/11, the cover-up and the “shock & awe” doctrine.

(NEWARK, Calif.) - Nearly a decade after the heinous crimes known simply as “9/11” we can finally conclude with absolute certainty that our nation has been laboring under very strong delusion about what really happened that day.

The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority recently confirmed the location and view of the video surveillance camera at “West Security Checkpoint #1” at Washington Dulles International Airport on 11 September 2001.

Africa: Faces in Words

New weekly update on the breaking stories in the African nations.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Unseen, unheard; no one should be the bearer of these two words. Unfortunately, Africa is often in the forefront of this association.

911, `How` or `Who`

Questions on the destruction of the World Trade Center.

(CINCINNATI) - The original report describing the destruction of the World Trade Center as resulting from heat from jet fuel fires, a relatively low temperature source of short duration, is simply silly.

There is more than minor evidence that the report, now rejected as outlandish by hundreds of architects and scientists, was a “whitewash” and is, in itself traced to members of the Bush administration believed complicit in a very real conspiracy.

Congratulations Gaddafi

Some questions are hard to answer...

(ISTANBUL) - Nearly 25 years ago, U.S. air strikes on Libya killed 41 people in Tripoli and Benghazi, including the adopted daughter of Muammar Gaddafi, in what Noam Chomsky has referred to as the “major single terrorist act” of 1986.

In 2009, Gaddafi himself posed the question: "What’s the difference between the U.S. airstrikes on our homes and [Osama] bin Laden’s actions?”

Pilot Flips a Friend`s Plane on Willamette River and Escapes Unharmed

The 66-year-old pilot from Tualatin was wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash.

(CLACKAMAS, Ore.) - The pilot of a floatplane attempting to land on the Willamette River Wednesday afternoon, flipped his plane as he touched down on the waters surface.

He was able to escape from the fuselage and float with the current while clinging to the submerged, upside-down craft unharmed.

Agent Orange: Thailand Military Bases

DoD determined that herbicides used on the Thailand base perimeters may have been tactical and procured from Vietnam, or a strong, commercial type resembling tactical herbicides.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Vietnam-era Veterans whose service involved duty on or near the perimeters of military bases in Thailand may have been exposed to herbicides and may qualify for VA benefits.

A recently declassified Department of Defense Report written in 1973 contains evidence that there was a significant use of herbicides on the fenced-in perimeters of military bases in Thailand.

NASA Ponders Etiquette of Sex in Space

NASA says they don't take a position on sex in space (no pun intended)

(CHICAGO) - The USA's prestigious space agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, loves to talk about nuts and bolts, engineering, space exploration and the life humans may discover "out there."

The space agency is even willing to discuss shuttle toilets and the hurdles that had to be overcome of dealing with human waste in space. Heck, that's all rocket science.

British Military Working on Invisible War Machines

No stranger to stealth and stealthy hardware, the company has projects ranging from liquid battle armor to stealthy submarines like Astute.

(CHICAGO) - If defense contractor BAE Systems has its way, within five years the entire British military will disappear. The soldiers and their equipment won't go away, the enemy will be unable to see them.

The defense company that employees 100,000 employees around the world, provides systems and services for air, land and naval forces.

The Reality of Near Earth Objects

"Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end -From 'The End', written by Jim Morrison of The Doors

(SALEM, Ore.) - The Earth has been a stage where countless scenes have played out from a script that was written by fate. Every form of life will have its time in the sun, until changing conditions allow new species to reign.

When dinosaurs roamed unchallenged, ancestral mammals were insignificant creatures that scurried about in the shadows, biding their time.