Jack's Newswatch

UNITED NATIONS (AP) – At a tumultuous time in U.N.-led climate negotiations, one of the world’s most credible scientific groups agreed Wednesday to plug the recent cracks in the authoritative reports of the United Nations’ Nobel Prize-winning global warming panel.
“We enter this process with no preconceived conclusions,” said Robbert Dijkgraaf, a Dutch mathematical physicist who [...]

Along with her difficulties ramming health care down our throats, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has an ugly, slightly “cobwebbed” credibility issue that is about to get dusted off and given full, sunlit exposure due to new documents being pried loose by court order.
Pelosi’s “credibility” is under scrutiny due to her unusually harsh criticism of [...]

Rusty rifles and rounds of ammunition lay on a courtroom floor to back up piracy charges against seven Somali men on trial in Kenya.
But today it was a prosecution witness who was under fire.
Eliud Lagat, a Kenyan policeman and weapons expert, had just declared the arms were in working order, but his account was [...]

Dear Friends, Colleagues and Others,
Yesterday (on March 9) a provincial prosecutor in the province of Ontario standing before a provincial judge withdrew charges of impaired driving and cocaine possession against former Tory MP Rahim Jaffer. Mr. Jaffer pleaded guilty to the outstanding charge of careless driving.
As he was required to do, the judge sentenced Mr. [...]

Have you ever witnessed an old office tower or hospital being levelled by implosion? Demolition experts detonate charges placed strategically throughout the building so it falls in on itself. The procedure can be done so precisely that nothing around the razed building is damaged.
Now imagine the same procedure carried out by do-ityourselfers who have only [...]

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday the scene at President Barack Obama’s first State of the Union address was “very troubling” and that the annual speech to Congress has “degenerated into a political pep rally.”
Responding to a University of Alabama law student’s question about the Senate’s method of confirming justices, Roberts [...]

Combat drones are much in the news these days. Such weapons constitute the major current focus of effort against organized jihadi terrorism, with nearly weekly strikes carried out in the unassimilated areas of northern Pakistan and the Taliban-occupied districts of Afghanistan, along with less frequent strikes elsewhere.
Drones have compiled an impressive record, taking out a [...]

‘Kill the Avatar bill!” That’s the cry at this week’s annual meeting of the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada in Toronto. Not quite in those words, mind you, but the private member’s bill in question, C-300, is based on the same lurid anti-capitalist, anti-mining fantasies that provided the psychic substructure for James Cameron’s mega-grossing [...]

#1 — BBC | China’s exports see sharp increase
China’s exports jumped by 46% in February compared with a year ago, raising hopes of a strong recovery in global trade.
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#2 — BBC | LHC to shut down for a year to address safety concerns
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) must close at the end of 2011 for [...]

#1 — CBC | Ex-politician suspected in deadly police shootout
Fred Preston, a former Ontario township council leader who was struggling with marital problems, has been identified as the suspect in a shootout on a rural road that killed an Ontario Provincial Police officer.
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#2 — CBC | Federal budget survives 1st vote
Stephen Harper’s minority Conservative government [...]