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California: Fossil Gas use Declining, replaced by Solar Plus Megabatteries
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California: Fossil Gas use Declining, replaced by Solar Plus Megabatteries

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Two-thirds of California’s electricity retail sales are now generated by renewables.

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From Sykes-Picot to Silicon Valley: Why Middle East Fault Lines now run through American Tech

From Sykes-Picot to Silicon Valley: Why Middle East Fault Lines now run through American Tech

12/19/2025 By Jasim Al-Azzawi

“We cannot Negotiate with the Melting Point of Ice:” World’s Ice Sheets shed 640 bn. Tons in 12 Months

“We cannot Negotiate with the Melting Point of Ice:” World’s Ice Sheets shed 640 bn. Tons in 12 Months

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Iraqi Election Results Shiites Near

Iraqi Election Results Shiites Near

Iraqi Election Results: Shiites Near Majority in Parliament Shiite clerical leader Abdul Aziz al-Hakim narrowly avoided being assassinated as the election results were announced in […]

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Iraq Minorities Among Most Threatened

Iraq Minorities Among Most Threatened

Iraq Minorities Among most Threatened Al-Hakim Warns on Sunni Arab Violence Iraqi minorities are among the more endangered in the world, according to Minority Rights […]

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50 Dead In Wave Of Violence Petroleum

50 Dead In Wave Of Violence Petroleum

50 Dead in Wave of Violence Petroleum Industry, Electricity Generation Paralyzed The Washington Post reports that guerrillas killed 50 Iraqis on Wednesday. In Salahuddin, they […]

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Guerrillas Kill 18 Sunnis Offered Only

Guerrillas Kill 18 Sunnis Offered Only

Guerrillas Kill 18 Sunnis offered only 6 Cabinet Posts The newly elected Iraqi government is planning to offer Iraqi Sunni Arabs only 6 cabinet posts. […]

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Taliban Kamikazes Kill 26 Motorscooter

Taliban Kamikazes Kill 26 Motorscooter

Taliban Kamikazes Kill 26 A motorscooter suicide bomber in Spin Baldak and a car bomber in Qandahar killed 26 persons and wounded dozens in twin […]

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Cheney Will Ask Mubarak For Egyptian

Cheney Will Ask Mubarak For Egyptian

Cheney will Ask Mubarak for Egyptian Troops for Iraq: al-Zaman Will Cairo counter Tehran? Vice President Richard Bruce Cheney will meet Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak […]

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Only 1% of Dec. 15 Votes Thrown Out by Commission Iraq Results Unchanged by Investigation The rash of helicopter downings, with another Apache shot out […]

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10 Things Martin Luther King Would

10 Things Martin Luther King Would

10 Things Martin Luther King Would have Done about Iraq Every year we honor Martin, and we hear again his stirring speech, “I have a […]

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5000 Protest In Karachi That Was Worse

5000 Protest In Karachi That Was Worse

5,000 Protest in Karachi “That was worse than a crime; it was a mistake.” –Talleyrand on Napoleon’s execution of the Duc D’Enghien Dawn reports that […]

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