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Supermassive Black Holes

A black hole does not swallow up planets and stars and blast them into another part of the universe...

(SAN DIEGO) - The Science Channel has broadcast several programs regarding black holes in which scientists state they have been unable to explain how they were created and they are unable to answer many questions about them.

This article examines excerpts of the programs with some of the mysteries they are trying to resolve and the questions they are trying to answer.

It`s a church! No, it`s a state! Stop! You`re both right!

Why We are Still in the Middle Ages: The Vatican Inquisition Strikes Back.

(NANAIMO, Vancouver Island) - Paolo Gabriele is languishing in a secret church prison tonight in Vatican City after being arrested by church police for having some of the Pope’s private papers in his possession.

The Pope’s former butler and a father of three children is threatened with thirty years in a papal jail for having uncovered some of Joseph Ratzinger’s dirty secrets.

Anti-Austerity Fight Crosses Borders

On a visit to Mexico this past week, a Los Angeles teachers’ union leader criticized California classroom conditions many Mexicans are long familiar with.

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - In the three member nations of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), austerity is the buzzword in public education.

But in Canada, Mexico and the United States, popular mobilizations continue in support of the right to a quality public education.

Vicky the Dealer and Me

Why did so many Britons hate Queen Victoria?

(NANAIMO, Vancouver Island) - I hate being Scottish. We're the lowest of the low, the scum of the earth, the most wretched, servile, miserable, pathetic trash that was ever shat into civilization.

Some people hate the English, but I don't. They're just wankers. We, on the other hand, are colonized by wankers.

God, Gays, Ganja and Mexican Politics

“Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s.”
- Shoeshine man in Ciudad Juarez

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - In the U.S., evangelical leaders have been at the forefront of pushing prayer in public schools. But in Mexico, they are in the vanguard in opposing it.

While the so-called narco war and economic distress are generally regarded as the top two issues in this year’s electoral races, fundamental issues of church, the state and religion are also swirling around the political scene.

Randy Hayes at Hallie Ford Museum of Art

“Randy Hayes: Unfamiliar Territory” is supported in part by grants from the City of Salem's Transient Occupancy Tax funds and the Oregon Arts Commission.

(SALEM) - Look closely at Seattle artist Randy Hayes’ painting and you wont find a typical canvas.

What you will find is an assemblage of photographs that intriguingly float just below the surface.

When Seeing Leads to More than Believing

"My pain and suffering is the nursing log out of which so many and so much will grow."

(NANAIMO, Vancouver Island) - What I held in my hand yesterday caused me to flee from the University of British Columbia library, and seek solace in the deep forest that surrounds the campus where I grew up, and where I have discovered the unimaginable.

It was an unusual reaction, for I had encountered much worse over the years.

Goodbye Mother`s Day: Bill Gates Wants to Stop Kids William Davies

Genetically engineered organisms might wreck the cycle of existence but they provide a synthetic cycle, not of life but of profit.

(NEW YORK ) - The destruction of our earth is coming from the massive industries behind fossil fuels, deforestation, industrial agriculture, extraction of natural resources, and the synthetic drug industry.

Volcano of Lo Plus

Once the scientists revert to the established scientific methodology of basing their theories on proven science facts instead of their basic beliefs, many of the mysteries of the universe will be resolved.

(SAN DIEGO) - In a Sept. 30, 1998 UCSD television program titled: “The Moon of Jupiter”, pictures taken in 1997 were shown. One picture was of the moon Io with one half of the moon in daylight and one half in darkness.

The picture was taken to look at the surface details but when they stretched out the image to bring out the faint details, they realized these volcanic eruptions also glow faintly like fluorescent lights.

Oregon Coast Aquarium Invites Divers to Dive with Sharks

If you've been waiting for a chance to swim with the sharks...here you go!

(NEWPORT, Ore.) - Passionate divers may join a pilot "guest dive" program at the Oregon Coast Aquarium.

They will dive with Aquarium sharks and other fishes under the supervision of Aquarium dive guides, and explore the simulated shipwreck in the Halibut Flats exhibit, swim through the kelp and become a part of the Aquarium dive show as visitors in the tunnel watch them and take photos.