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The West's biggest energy companies are plowing tens of billions of dollars back into oil and gas extraction rather than pursuing the kind of large-scale transition to green energy sought by environmentalists. Spending plans at ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, and Shell show the companies putting trust in returns from oil and gas, which equated to record profits this past year, over lower-carbon energy sources. In some cases, the big players are pulling back from previously planned expansions into green ventures to devote more cash to fossil fuels to get through the decade, leading some to criticize the companies for walking back...

I watched the 29 Aug 2021 airing of 'Modern Warriors: Afghan Extraction' on Fox News tonight. They provided a link of "Afghan Forces ????.net". I had missed a word or something and can't pull up that link. I want to donate to that cause. I was a Reservist Individual Mobility Augmentee in the War on Terror for three years. I want to donate to help the vets who are putting their lives on the line, using their own money to go to Afghanistan to save their interpreters and US citizens our country is abandoning. Did anyone catch that link. This...

Last year, my husband and I purchased our first house. Lucky for us new homeowners, the house needed minimal work. [snip] Last month, in the middle of the night, I woke up startled. It felt like someone had placed a chip of ice in my left earhole—but it was something way worse. I shot up out of bed, disoriented, and stumbled to the bathroom. I could feel that my ear was not right. I grabbed a cotton swab and gently inserted it into my ear to see what was up and I felt something move. When I pulled the cotton...

WASHINGTON, - An American dad made himself and his 7-year-old son into viral stars with a video chronicling a baby tooth extraction using dental floss, a golf club and a golf ball. Phil Smith said his son, Noah, complained of pain when they attempted to simply pull the loose tooth out of his mouth, so he devised a system using a piece of floss to connect the tooth to a golf ball he then struck with a club. "My 7-year-old wanted to pull his tooth but was concerned it would be too painful to pull SLOWLY," Smith wrote in the...

I know some may look at this and say "of course they can do that." I, however, am in complete awe of the training and skill it must take to pull something like this off, along with all the other things they do.

Health-care reform might have become just another political ploy to earn votes come Election Day up on Capitol Hill -- but it's causing some parents to resort to Middle Ages-style medicine that even Theodoric of York wouldn't prescribe. We don't know if the lack of adequate dental care in the country forced these two parents to pull their child's loose tooth out the "Radio Shack way" -- tying one end of a string around the tooth and another to the end of a remote-controlled car and sending it barreling toward a makeshift ramp at Mach 2 -- but we're pretty...

Junk your SUV and buy an electric scooter. Recent claims by various OPEC leaders that the world has plenty of oil left are bunk, alleges Sadad Al-Husseini, a former top executive at Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company. Oil-producing countries are inflating the size of their oil reserves by as much as 300 billion barrels by padding supposedly proven reserves with “probable” reserves and tar and oil sands, according to Husseini. Such hypothetical reserves are “not delineated, not accessible and not available for production,” Husseini said at a recent energy conference in London. Oil production has now reached its...

An MV-22 Osprey, belonging to Marine Medium Tilt Rotor Squadron 263, sits on the deck waiting for members of the 27th Infantry Brigade, 7th Iraqi Infantry Division and Marines with Military in Transition team 0720 to load up after a heli-borne operation. Photo by 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (Fwd) Public Affairs. AL-ANBAR PROVINCE — As Coalition forces continue to operate throughout the Iraqi countryside, training the Iraqi security forces (ISF) to stand on their own two feet becomes an increasingly familiar scene. Third Marine Aircraft Wing (Forward) does its own part in the transition process by participating in training operations...

Scientists have paved the way for the first permanently manned base on the Moon by developing a way to 'squeeze' oxygen out of lunar soil. Nasa experts say the technique will allow astronauts of the future to create their own supplies of the gas instead of transporting it all from Earth. The space agency plans to take its extraction system to the Moon in 2011 as part of its Robotic Lunar Exploration Program, which will test a range of equipment designed to support human life. If the technique is successful, it could lead to a permanent station like Moon-base Alpha...

By Gray Beverley Telegraph Staff Writer LIZELLA - About three days before Pfc. Jessica Lynch returned home to her family in West Virginia, one of her rescuers was visiting his parents in Lizella. Lt. Col. Jean Malone - who got back from the war about a month ago - said he was surprised by the attention given to the rescue operation, which he helped coordinate as deputy operations chief for the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade. "It's kind of surprising for me," Malone said Tuesday from his Camp Lejeune, N.C., home. "We didn't realize it was that big of a deal."...

Command Releases Details of Lynch Rescue 6 minutes ago By NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press WriterCAMP AS SAYLIYAH, Qatar - Frightened and seriously wounded, a 19-year-old supply clerk who was held by Iraq (news - web sites) for more than a week at first hid under a sheet when a team of U.S. military commandos stormed into her hospital room.   "Jessica Lynch," called out an American soldier, approaching her bed. "We are United States soldiers and we're here to protect you and take you home." Peering from behind the sheet as he removed his helmet, she looked up and said,...

NEW MISSION FOR THE SNATCH SQUAD WHICH SAVED PRIVATE JESSICA LYNCH by Gordon Thomas The snatch squad which rescued US army private Jessica Lynch is poised to carry out an even more sensational rescue – snatching Top Gun pilot Michael Scott Speicher from his TWELVE YEAR incarceration as Saddam’s prisoner. Incredibly, the CIA and other US intelligence agents in Iraq, believe the pilot is still alive – and incarcerated in one of Saddam’s torture dungeons in the north-east suburbs of Baghdad. A week before the war started, Captain Speicher was “spotted alive” being driven out of one of Saddam’s palaces...

'It worked perfectly' WASHINGTON - As U.S. special forces hurtled out of a Black Hawk helicopter to rescue Private Jessica Lynch from an Iraqi hospital in a night-time raid, Gen. Tommy Franks watched the entire operation unfold via a live video feed. The U.S. commander watched as special forces shot their way into the hospital in Nasiriya, found the wounded 19-year-old and shot their way back out again. "It was a classic joint operation done by some of our nation's finest warriors ... loyal to the creed they know that they'll never leave a fallen comrade behind and never embarrass...