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The Great Fast & Furious… Fast & Furious Data-Dump.

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The fact that the sordid details about Operation Fast & Furious (short edition: the federal government allowed guns to be illegally resold to Mexican narco-terrorists, who then proceeded to murder people with the,) are all breaking during the debt ceiling situation is either the absolute best or the absolute worst luck for the Obama administration. On the one hand, the administration is not getting… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Red State Discovery Date : 27/07/2011 20:00 Number of articles : 2

The Great Fast & Furious… Fast & Furious Data-Dump.

‘The Hunter’ Trailer: Willem Dafoe Pursues the Last Tasmanian Tiger

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Our first word on The Hunter came late last year when we learned that Daniel Nettheim would direct Sam Neill, Willem Dafoe, Frances O’Connor and more in an adaptation of Julia Leigh’s novel of the same name. Willem Dafoe plays a character who claims to be on the hunt for one thing, but is in reality working for a larger entity and seeks a more specific game: the last Tasmanian tiger. Now there is a… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : /Film Discovery Date : 27/07/2011 20:05 Number of articles : 2

‘The Hunter’ Trailer: Willem Dafoe Pursues the Last Tasmanian Tiger

BP Slammed for Safety Failings in North Sea, Months Before Deepwater Horizon Explosion

A BP rig in the North Sea. Photo via BP Could we see deja vu all over again? This little bit of news emerged yesterday, though it was received with very little fanfare (could be that the ever-vigilant media is turning it’s focus away from the BP narrative, now that the most dramatic stuff is over? Nah …) — that just months before the explosion in the Gulf , BP was cited for failing to complete safety training and emergency exercises for i… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Scientists Fight Contagious Face-Eating Tasmanian Devil Cancer

Image credit: Wikimedia Commons The wild shrieks and grunts made by Tasmanian devils as they fed on their prey terrified early English settlers in the 19th century, an experience that inspired the small carnivores’ common name. Today, however, it’s the devils that are being tormented—by an epidemic so horrific it seems otherworldly. It’s a parasitic cancer called Devil facial tumor disease, and since it first appeared in 1996 it has been responsible for a 70 percent decline in the Tasmanian devil population…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Scientists Fight Contagious Face-Eating Tasmanian Devil Cancer