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Archive for October 21st, 2008

Arctic Ocean may have been ice-free 6000 years ago

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

Recent examination of Greenland’s north coast by Scandinavian scientists indicates that the Arctic was warmer about 6000 years ago than it is today.
Recent mapping of a number of raised beach ridges on the north coast of Greenland suggests that the ice cover in the Arctic Ocean was greatly reduced some 6000-7000 years ago. The Arctic [...]

Inside the epic battle of Central Nova

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

As every Canadian knows by now, the voters of Central Nova re-elected Conservative MP and National Defence Minister Peter MacKay over Green Party leader Elizabeth May. Local sources bring scuttlebutt dirt news from behind the scenes of the titanic struggle.
Atlantic Canada Frank reports that refuse collectors recently refused to take away recyclables outside Mr [...]

Muslim convert to Christianity killed for asking for translation

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

Radical Muslims in Somalia killed Ahmadey Osman Nur, a 22-year-old man who had converted to Christianity. He is the sixth Somali Christian to be martyred in the past year.
On September 14, Nur had been invited to attend a Muslim wedding in his neighborhood. The wedding ceremony was conducted in the Arabic language, a language no [...]

Malatya ringleader says he was promised immunity for killings

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

Who was really behind the brutal torture and murder of three Christians in Malatya, Turkey, in April 2007? Did a few Turkish youths carry out the brutal crime on their own, or were they aided and abetted by a secretive nationalist group of police, army, and state officials?
The trial of five Turkish men, aged [...]