Air Force Seeks New Land-Based and Air-Launched Nukes ... Advancing what could become a near-total rebuild of the U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal, the Air Force ... solicited industry proposals to build a new fleet of land-based nuclear missiles as well as replacements for its air-launched nuclear cruise missile force. The two projects are part of a broader modernization of the nuclear arsenal expe...Read More
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The Jesse Creek porphyry copper property, located north of Merritt, BC (pictured).Junior exploration and development firm, Wealth Minerals (CVE:WML), has signed an option agreement for a 100% interest in porphyry copper deposits located in British Columbia, Canada.Under the option agreement Wealth must pay US$1 million in cash and issue 3 million shares to the property owners over a four-year peri...Read More
Aerial view of the Mount Polley mine tailings pond shows the area where the dam wall gave way early on the morning of August 4, 2014. Image from archives)It has been two years since Mount Polley and nearly a year since Samarco. It has become apparent that Mount Polley had both design and management issues, while the jury is still out on the causes of failure at Samarco. So what has the industry do...Read More
Psalm 40: Here Am I, O God - Performed by Christopher McGilton and composed by Marty HaugenThis setting never made it in the hymnals but it's one of my favorites - thanks for listening :)Read More
UK & EU Shut Out 3D Printing Community ... It's amazing what an eruption Brexit had in the headlines, only to be superseded by worse things in the news shortly after ... What an interesting law they have chosen to pass. -3DPrintThe disease of government is like an ineradicable plague that sickens without ceasing. Now patent and copyright law have been extending in the UK and EU.Why should we...Read More
To commemorate the seventieth anniversary of the first Bikini Atoll nuclear tests, the nonprofit National Security Archive has published declassified footage of the Able and Baker “shots” in the summer of 1946. -Maritime ExecutiveThese new photos and films of the Bikini Atoll atom bomb blast seem artifical.The most obvious, apparent fakery can be seen in the "Baker" atom-bomb test,...Read More
UK & EU Shut Out 3D Printing Community ... It's amazing what an eruption Brexit had in the headlines, only to be superseded by worse things in the news shortly after ... What an interesting law they have chosen to pass. -3DPrintThe disease of government is like an ineradicable plague that sickens without ceasing. Now patent and copyright law have been extending in the UK and EU.Why should we...Read More
To commemorate the seventieth anniversary of the first Bikini Atoll nuclear tests, the nonprofit National Security Archive has published declassified footage of the Able and Baker “shots” in the summer of 1946. -Maritime ExecutiveThese new photos and films of the Bikini Atoll atom bomb blast seem artifical.The most obvious, apparent fakery can be seen in the "Baker" atom-bomb test,...Read More
In New York trade on Tuesday copper for delivery in September suffered another down day despite indications of continued strong Chinese demand.Copper dipped to $2.14 per pound ($4,718 a tonne), a four-week low. While other industrial metals and steelmaking raw materials have jumped in value this year, industry bellwether copper has been underperforming badly. The red metal is now trading...Read More
Gold investors will soon be able to buy and sell the precious metal through a London-based futures contract, as the London Metal Exchange, the World Gold Council and a group of banks and trading firms have announced a new venture, called LMEprecious.The new trading platform, due to launch in the first half of 2017, aims to prepare the world's largest bullion hub for new regulations and increased...Read More
Shares in Taseko Mines (TSX:TKO) (NYSEMKT:TGB) were slightly up Tuesday morning in Toronto after the company announced the acquisition of new mineral claims next to its Gibraltar mine, Canada's second largest open pit copper mine.The new claims, said the Vancouver-based company, represent nearly 6,000 acres of land located roughly 2 km from the extension zone of Gibraltar, which is also Canada's s...Read More
Sailors And Marines Can Officially Declare They Are Transgenders This Fall ... Before declaring transgender status, these service-members have to be at the start, in the middle of, or finished transitioning. Only then will they be able to ask for a formal gender switch in the database system, Navy Times reports. -Daily CallerIt is helpful for transgender people that the Pentagon now has a pol...Read More
Sailors And Marines Can Officially Declare They Are Transgenders This Fall ... Before declaring transgender status, these service-members have to be at the start, in the middle of, or finished transitioning. Only then will they be able to ask for a formal gender switch in the database system, Navy Times reports. -Daily CallerIt is helpful for transgender people that the Pentagon now has a pol...Read More
Globalization and its New Discontents ... Fifteen years ago, I wrote a little book, entitled Globalization and its Discontents, describing growing opposition in the developing world to globalizing reforms. It seemed a mystery: people in developing countries had been told that globalization would increase overall wellbeing. So why had so many people become so hostile to it? – Project Syndicat...Read More
In just over seven months, humanity has used up a full year’s allotment of natural resources such as water, food and clean air - the quickest rate yet, according to a new report. The point of “overshoot” will officially be reached on Monday, said environmental group Global Footprint Network — five days earlier than last year. -France 24We are running out of water, food and...Read More
Clinton said Trump shouldn’t be trusted with nuclear weapons. ... When Hillary Clinton spoke directly to the danger of Donald Trump having access to the United States' nuclear arsenal, she may have tapped into a familiar angst with the public. Although the country is decades removed from the Cold War, people are still anxious about nukes. – Morning Consult Hillary Clinton is battling...Read More
If you're new, Subscribe! ?-? http://bit.ly/1Jy0DbOR&B singer, Guordan Banks, stopped by iHeartRadio HQ to give an exclusive live, stripped down performance of his hit single "Keep You In Mind".LYRICSI see you 'round, but now I think its time to take some time offOh baby that made you smile nowI know that you been running for a while nowDon't run I got so much for youI know you feel the love is in...Read More
Globalization and its New Discontents ... Fifteen years ago, I wrote a little book, entitled Globalization and its Discontents, describing growing opposition in the developing world to globalizing reforms. It seemed a mystery: people in developing countries had been told that globalization would increase overall wellbeing. So why had so many people become so hostile to it? – Project Syndicat...Read More