Posted by ChiefJack Hawk on Wednesday, October 27, 2010,
The Amazon region is being hailed as a treasure trove of biological diversity by the World Wildlife Fund. Studies made by the Fund between 1999 and 2009 have revealed 1.220 new species of animals and plants, including a large brown hairy spider with neon blue fangs and a huge catfish that feeds on monkeys. Scientists are worried, however, that these species may be wiped out. In the last 50 years, an area twice the size of Spain has been destroyed in the Amazon by logging interests and farm... Continue reading ...
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk on Monday, October 25, 2010,
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Movies
New Zealanders love their movies, love Peter Jackson, and have sided with Jackson against film-related trade unions who were protesting working conditions for the shooting of a proposed two-film series about Hobbits. Jackson filmed the original Lord of the Rings trilogy in New Zealand, but when the unions gave Jackson a hard time this time around, he declared that he would take his production off the island nation. When New Zealanders made their displeasure known, the unions backed down, an... Continue reading ...
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk on Friday, October 8, 2010,
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Food
After several similar attempts in other states, New York City is trying to control what you can't buy with food stamps. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Governor David Paterson made a joint announcement yesterday that they have petitioned the U.S. Department of Agriculture for the right to add sodas, packaged tea drinks, sports drinks, and any other drinks sweetened with sugar (except milk, soy products, and fruit drinks with no added sugar) to the list of things you can't buy with food stamps, s... Continue reading ...
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk on Monday, September 27, 2010,
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Music
The Doobie Brothers are back in the limelight some 40 years after their debut. The group, famous for such hits as "China Grove", "Black Water", and "Long Train Running" is releasing its first album since 2000's "Sibling Rivalry". The rockers include founding guitarist Pat Simmons, founding vocalist Tom Johnson, drummer Michael Hossack, and multi-instrumentalist John McFee, and they were "surprised and amazed" that their new music, which they played at recent concerts, got such great respons... Continue reading ...
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk on Wednesday, September 22, 2010,
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Animals
New Zealand has the dubious distinction of being a popular place for whale beachings, with its history of such occurances dating back to 1840. Pilot whales are the ones that this happens to most often, and scientists say this is because New Zealand is on the animals' migration route, but truthfully, these same scientists actually don't have any idea why whales beach themselves. Now, for the second time in a month, pilot whales have wound up on the shore at Spirits Bay. An 80 member pod of ... Continue reading ...
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk on Wednesday, September 15, 2010,
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Celebrities
Updating our breaking story on Edwin Newman's death: NBC announced that Mr. Newman died of pneumonia in Oxford, England on August 13. Newman and his wife had moved to Oxford in 2007 in order to be closer to their daughter. NBC further added that the family delayed the report of his passing in order to give them time to grieve privately. Continue reading ...
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk on Wednesday, September 15, 2010,
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Television
It was announced at 8:30 AM on Sept. 15, and we were first to report on it, that Edwin Newman, long a mainstay of NBC's news and documentary programming, has died. NBC has yet to announce where and when he died and what the cause of death was. Natural causes should be a suspect since Mr. Newman was 91. He was in the Navy during World War II, then began a career in jounalism. After a stint with CBS in New York, Newman switched to NBC in 1952 in London and remained with the Peacock Network... Continue reading ...
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk on Monday, September 6, 2010,
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Earthquakes
That 7.1 quake that struck New Zealand over the weekend continues to bring more problems to theis island nation that's been struggling to break out of an 18 month recession. Officials have revealed that as many as 100,000 buildings out of 160,000 have suffered some sort of structural damage, and as many as 80 aftershocks, some as big as 5.4, have continued to rock the area. Many roads and railroad lines have been broken and twisted out of shape, and over parts of the affected area, the temb... Continue reading ...
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk on Friday, August 27, 2010,
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Science
A recent three week mission to Indonesia's coastal waters has revealed at least 50 new animal and plant species living there. Over 100 hours of video and some 100,000 photos were taken by a robot submarine's HD equipment. Scientists were amazed to see that crinioids, or sea lillies, which were abundant in prehistoric seas but very rare today, grow in large numbers and varieties here. Among the oddities spotted durig the video exploration sea spiders the size of dinner plates, a purple colo... Continue reading ...
Forget Arizona--if you want to see real anti-Mexican behavior, the place to go is Port Richmond on New York City's Staten Island. In the past decade, the Hispanic population there has grown by 40 percent, and that growth has reignited hostilities between blacks and Spanish speaking people. Mexicans say that they are being targeted by blacks because illegal day laborers head home with cash every day after being paid "under the table". African Americans contend that it's actually drug abuser... Continue reading ...
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk on Monday, July 12, 2010,
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Music
New Jersey rock legend Jon Bon Jovi suffered a leg injury during his concert Friday night at East Rutherford's New Meadowlands arena. The injury happened during the band's cover of the Dave Clark Five hit "Glad All Over". Jon informed the crowd by saying "I just blew out a calf muscle", then adding as he leaned on a microphone stand for support "I got another leg. I don't need this one". He then finished the full set while hobbling across the stage, then came back out for an encore of "Li... Continue reading ...
Chief Jack has hosted The Mohawk Radio Show since August 1969. He is a champion for the cause of Indie artists, and many Indies have had great success since having their music played on the station. He is a Mohawk chief who played with a Canadian band for about 10 years. He publishes articles under the name Jacques Boulerice for Yahoo! Voices and is working on a new movie script.
