Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday asked Congress to approve nearly $190 billion more in spending for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In prepared testimony to a Senate committee, Gates said the Bush administration sought the money for more training and equipment for the U.S. military, including new armored vehicles that give extra protection to [...]
Pentagon seeks $190 billion more for Iraq and Afghanistan
Gen. Sean Hannity And Fox News Lay Out Their War Plan For Attacking ‘Ticking Bomb’ Iran
The Fox News network is now in full drumbeat mode, trying to promote a war against Iran.
Last night, armchair General Sean Hannity did his part to beat the Iran war drums. On Hannity and Colmes, the bellicose host devoted half the show to previewing “what a U.S. strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities would look like“:
HANNITY: [...]
Instead of sending HUMANS to Mars 11 times, the USA sent them on a Mission to Iraq
Way back in the day (2004), President Bush promised to send people to Mars. NewScientist reported that the cost of the mission was “expected to cost $40 billion to $80 billion”. That really seemed like a lot of money. A year earlier, in 2003, Bush sent his country’s soldiers into Iraq. It is believed [...]
Bush to Skip U.N. Talks on Global Warming
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 — Dozens of world leaders are to gather at the United Nations on Monday for a full agenda of talks on how to fight global warming, and President Bush is skipping all the day’s events but the dinner.
Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary general, is hoping to jump-start negotiations on replacing the [...]
NASA : “Men on Mars” by 2037
In 2057, “We should be celebrating 20 years of man on Mars,” hopes Michael Griffin.The NASA administrator addressed an international astronautics congress in Hyderabad, India on Monday.
A few years back, President Bush announced an ambitious plan to return to the moon by 2020 and use it as a stepping stone for manned missions to Mars [...]
Photo in the News: Bizarre Object Found Circling Star
An object recently detected orbiting a neutron star is among the strangest planet-mass bodies ever found, astronomers say.
Instead of circling around a normal star, the low-mass object—likely the “skeleton” of a smaller star—orbits a rapidly spinning pulsar, or neutron star.
The neutron star spins hundreds of times a second—faster than a kitchen blender.
The odd mass, which [...]
Global Warming Could Cause World Crop Collapse
With the U.N.-affililated Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) already warning of declining grain harvests due to extreme weather, a U.S. study released last week suggests that global warming could cause world agricultural systems to face possible collapse by 2080, with countries in the south being the hardest hit.
India, Pakistan, most of Africa and most of [...]
5 Deadliest Effects of Global Warming
5. Spread of diseaseAs northern countries warm, disease carrying insects migrate north, bringing plague and disease with them.
4. Warmer waters and more hurricanes
As the temperature of oceans rises, so will the probability of more frequent and stronger hurricanes. We saw in this in 2004 and 2005.
3. Increased probability and intensity of droughts and heat waves
Although [...]
Russia tests powerful ‘dad of all bombs’
MOSCOW – The Russian military has successfully tested what it described as the world’s most powerful non-nuclear air-delivered bomb, Russia’s state television reported Tuesday.
It was the latest show of Russia’s military muscle amid chilly relations with the United States.
Channel One television said the new weapon, nicknamed the “dad of all bombs” is four times more [...]
Mars Rovers Survive Dust Storms, Ready for Next Objectives
PASADENA, Calif. – Two months after sky-darkening dust from severe storms nearly killed NASA’s Mars exploration rovers, the solar powered robots are awake and ready to continue their mission.
Opportunity’s planned descent into the giant Victoria Crater was delayed, but now the rover is preparing to drive into the 800-meter-diameter crater (half-mile-diameter) as early as Sept. [...]
