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Learn moreThe strategy game, "Fate of the World" allows players to make decisions that could save the world or destroy it.
Archaeologists have unearthed twelve sphinxes so far along the ancient sandstone road that runs toward the Nile.
The Economy Will Not Recover Until the Economic Criminals are Prosecuted, and There Are Real Investigations Into 9/11 and Other Government Failures Washington's Blog Published: November 13, 2010 This essa...
Watch it. Stand up for this Canadian and for all the troops. Stand up for democracy! Tell Stephen Harper and his coalition partner, Michael Ignatieff: *Don't extend it! End it!*
Crash JPMorgan, Buy Silver Now – A Report The Intel Hub By Avalon Published: November 14, 2010 *“We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government wil...
I wish I could say there was some fancy tutorial for this page but it is very, VERY simple. You will need: A full sheet of brown or green, depending on what you want your background to look like A full sh...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] Somalia has reinstated Iraq as the state the majority at risk from terrorist attack, according to a ranking by global analyst Maplecroft, which sees threats als...
In a surprise finding, undersea hot lava is baking ocean sediments and releasing greenhouse gases.
Looking older doesn't necessarily mean you'll die young, but youthfulness is no guarantee of longevity.
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] Fire engulf a high-rise apartment building beneath renovation in China'sbusiness center of Shanghai on Monday, killing 42 people and sending inhabitants scrambli...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] The media in the Middle East commented at length on the US proposal to offer Israel defense and security guarantee in return for renewing a partial freeze on th...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] Starved of his plea for a holdup, Rep. Charles Rangel walked out of his ethics trial Monday, leaving the ethics committee's top lawyer to cite Rangel's past sta...
Researchers identify a tasty lizard previously unknown to science. Locals loved the virgin Vietnamese lady-lizards for lunch.
*UN Human Rights Council Recommends the United States Address Indigenous Rights **Photo: Western Shoshone protest in Nevada, demanding Barrick Gold halt mining on sacred lands, including Mount Tenabo. Lar...
Contacts: Larson Bill, Western Shoshone Defense Project, 775-744-2565/775-397-6726; Seánna Howard, University of Arizona Rogers College of Law, 520-626-8223; UN Human Rights Council Recommends the United ...
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Congratulations to Navajo filmmaker Bennie Klain, now at the French International Amiens Film Festival, showing 'The Return of Navajo Boy' and 'Weaving Worlds.' The Return of Navajo Boy tells of a child ...
Smaller people expend more energy when walking because they have shorter strides than taller people.
Fossil pollen records show rainforests of northern Colombia and Venezuela diversified 56.3 million years ago during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum.
By focusing a giant cosmic lens on the distant galaxy cluster known as Abell 1689, astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to create the most detailed maps of dark matter ever constructed.
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For a truly chilling account of the dissembling, back somersaulting, contortionism and duplicity the broadcasting establishment is prepared to engage in to defend its alarmist approach to climate change, I...
Photo courtesy: Rodale The Wall Street Journal recently reported that the price of food staples, including grains, beef, coffee, cocoa, and sugar, have risen sharply in recent months. And retailers like S...
Last week, the new House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York City to privately discuss U.S. sanctions against Iran, U.S.-Palestinian rela...
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." - John Wooden
Well isn't this something. He missed a little bit from his intro, he should have said, "Up until now only those considered nutjobs questioned the official conclusion - THANKS TO COMPLICIT LAUGHING MEDIA H...
Well, Well, Well ... What Do We Have Here? Truth-tellers on television? Am I dreaming? Yesterday, November 13, 2010, Geraldo Rivera invited Bob McIlvaine and Tony Szamboti onto his Fox News program calle...
VIDEO: Aaron Huey's effort to photograph poverty in America led him to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where the struggle of the native Lakota people -- appalling, and largely ignored -- compelled hi...
This wonderful book by Marguerite De Angeli, is a childhood memory that I will never forget. *The Lion in the Box: A Christmas Stor*y, was a part of almost every single Christmas of my childhood. My mom w...
*Climate Change, Migration and Forced Relocation * By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Climate change, migration and forced relocation can not be separated from human rights,...
Last week APTN News reported that not only does the Cons new missing persons initiative entirely bypass *Sisters In Spirit*, the very group which initiated research into the nearly 600 missing and murdere...
In my recent update, I mentioned I did some pro-choice pamphletting. The anti-choice group that targets universities was planning a demonstration outside of Robarts, the main library at the University of T...
*Sunday, November 14, Noon - 2 PM Ft Huachuca, Main Gate, Sierra Vista, Arizona Vigil of Peace and Demonstration Against Torture * Photo: Josh being carried away at protest 2009/Photo Brenda Norrell Extendi...
*International Indian Treaty Council and American Indian Contemporary Arts present: Indigenous Peoples Thanksgiving Annual Sunrise Gathering on Alcatraz Island November 25th 2010 *“Giving Thanks to the Crea...
How about the BBC leading coverage of the Labour Party conference with the headline "Labour not Communists"? No? How about the BBC leading their coverage of Sinn Fein's annual conference with the headline ...
So, I'm back from the BBC. I was invited on to the William Crawley hosted"Sunday Sequence" show to discuss the issue of water-boarding. My opponent was the local Shamnesty International Supremo. Patrick Co...
First of four Pak-Chinese ZDK-03 Airborne Early Warning and Control System (AEW&C)) for the Pakistan Air Force was displayed in a rollout ceremony was held at Hanzhong in China. Pakistan Air Force’s chief ...
Israel Aerospace Industries is offering a modified version of its Gulfstream G550-based conformal airborne early warning (CAEW) aircraft that has the capability to detect targets at sea and near shores.Cur...
The third F-22P Frigate PNS Saif constructed at Hudong Zhonghua Shipyard in Shanghai, China was inducted in the fleet of Pakistan Navy in a ceremony held at the PN Dockyard here .Commander Pakistan Fleet V...
The relationship between the United States and Israel is, shall we say, complicated? Wait, why are we fooling ourselves? That word doesn't even begin to explain this strange relationship. What is required ...
When the "Water's Edge" Standard Disappears By Steven Benen Washington Monthly November 13, 2010 If our political system made more sense, this would be an astounding scandalthat would dominate the discour...
This is courage in action. Young Jews Disrupt Netanyahu at Jewish General Assembly from stefanie fox on Vimeo.
Here is a guest post by *Clameur de Haro.* "With all the protestations coming from Our Beloved Bastion of Collectivism about how impartiality is in their genes, I thought I’d occasionally delve a little...
Nick Clegg seemed television-friendly and attractive before the general election, but after gaining all that popularity during the first election debate he threw most of it away, almost snatching defeat fr...
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Biased BBC - 2 days ago
Matt Frei mused during the violent student riots on Wednesday about what he saw as a relevant problem with higher education costs in the US. Could UK students' rage find echo in US? Frei realizes there's ...
The Giant Cover Up By Michael Krieger Zero Hedge Published: November 11, 2010 From Mike Krieger of Kam LP An end to "banking as we know it" is fine with us. The "banking" in today's Western economies is ...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] Japan – Leaders of the world's three main economies — the U.S., China and Japan — all pledged Saturday to push for free trade, it seems that putting aside acrim...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] The Department of Homeland Security said on Friday it is maddening to address concerns of pilots about stepped-up show at U.S. airports and doubts in the travel...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] A group of would-be suicide bombers tried to tempest a main NATO base in eastern Afghanistan early Saturday but were repel previous to they could enter, officia...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] President Barack Obama, cap a far-flung trip of varied results, said Saturday the United States is "here to stay" as a power in Asia and pivot to Russian intern...
On Thursday November 11, 2010, financial analyst Max Keiser offered an idea on the Alex Jones show about how to bring down JP Morgan, one of the banking giants on Wall Street that stole billions of dollars...
The age of the nation state is over and the idea that countries can stand alone is an ‘illusion’ and a ‘lie’, the EU president believes. In one of the most open proclamations of the goal of a European supe...
Tokyo will send around 100 soldiers to a remote Japanese island in the East China Sea, a report said Thursday, amid growing anxiety over China's naval activities.The ground troops will be deployed on Yonag...
China's aircraft-making giant, Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), said Friday it would showcase two types of China-made aircraft -- Seagull 300 and Little Eagle-500 -- at the upcoming Airshow C...
Russia has completed deliveries of small arms and ammunition to Afghanistan under a military assistance program.Russia has delivered a total of 20,000 Kalashnikov assault rifles and over 2.5 million rounds...
The Russian Defense Ministry plans to overhaul its four Project 1144 nuclear-powered cruisers. Notably, the Admiral Nakhimov heavy nuclear-powered missile cruiser will reenter service in 2012, after length...
Sukhoi to the end of 2010 will deliver the Russian Air Force the second batch of the Su-34, reports RIA Novosti. It is about six such aircraft. Currently bombers undergoing flight tests at the flight-test ...
Indonesian Military chief Adm. Agus Suhartono said he has been studying an offer of two squadrons of F-16 A/B Fighting Falcon fighter jets from the US.He said although it was a grant, he had to calculate t...
POLITICS - The words "Currency War" is on the lips of both politicians and the mass media today. The Lilith News used the words 6 days ago on November 6th. See "Currency War on the Horizon". But we're hard...
CANADA - Toronto's Transit Commission is losing about $2 million CDN per year due to fake TTC tokens and its due to an unlikely source: Organized crime from China. The TTC estimates that about 2,000 fake ...
An American Coup D’état – First World Nation Style By Cognitive Dissonance Zero Hedge Published: November 9, 2010 Some say all this insanity is just greed and corruption run amuck. Others claim the polit...
Here's How to Stop Market Manipulation and Show Too Big To Fail Banks Like JP Morgan Who Is Boss Washington's Blog November 12, 2010 Leading economists and financial experts say that our economy cannot re...
Guest contributor Matthew Hibbard investigates a novel approach to Martian exploration.
**Congratulations to my longtime friend, Navajo filmmaker Arlene Bowman, and the success of her new film, "Graffiti" showing at the French film festival, *Festival International Du Film D'Amiens.* In this ...
At the G20 in Korea. http://www.aboutfreemasons.com/Masonic_Secret_Handshake There are many many pictures of (to be honest, more obvious than the one above) alleged Masonic symbolism including handshakes ...
George is ready for the weekend and wants *you* to fire away! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Forgotten People P.O. Box 1661, Tuba City (Navajo Nation), AZ 86045 (928) 401-1777 http://www.forgottennavajopeople.org/ info@forgottennavajopeople.org *Letter to the Editor, The Troubling AZ Water Settleme...
A reproduction of Michelangelo’s David has been placed where the original sculpture was meant to be displayed.
Some jargon that rises up out of the realm of science and technology becomes lexicon. How and why does it happen?
Rep. Eric Cantor Tells Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu: New GOP Majority Will 'Serve As A Check On The Administration' Amanda Terkel The Huffington Post November 12, 2010 NEW YORK -- Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.)...
More info on the Missile Mystery (Background - LaRouche in 2008) Government Covering Up Evidence On 7/7 Flight Attendants Speak Out As TSA Revolt Explodes A Scathing Report of Judges and Rulings in The Fo...
At last count, planet hunters had dead eyed 495 distant planets. Granted, not of them are Earth-like, but what will we do if such a world finally pops up?
*Won't Get Fooled Again We'll be fighting in the streets With our children at our feet And the morals when they worship will be gone And the men who spurred us on Sit in judgement of all wrong They decide...
Watch Damon Vrabel's amazing video series called "Debunking Money." It is a great teaching tool for people who are unfamiliar with the fraud-based/debt-based private global banking system. Vrabel's present...
Financial Warfare and the Failure of US Military Leadership By Damon Vrabel LewRockwell.com Published: October 4, 2010 The "War on Terror" has become the most successful military diversion in history, hav...
Life might have a tough time surviving on a super-Earth, this would reinforce the Rare Earth hypothesis that proposes that only Earth-sized planets are ideal for life.
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Biased BBC - 3 days ago
What can I say? Mr Harrabin is definitely back with a vengeance. His scare today - after the energy alarmism earlier in the week - is water shortages. Climate change, he faithfully recycles from a residen...
On the Edge with Max Keiser - Damon Vrabel Interview (Nov 5, 2010) Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy The back to back debacles of Bush-Perry have turned the state prison system into a domestic Abu Ghraib in which 'prisoners' are tortured, attacked by dogs, shocked a...
The goldfish serve as figurative canaries to test the purity of the water supply.
What causes particles to blast off a comet's body? Ice, ice, baby.
POLITICS - News flash... Canada is opening free trade talks with India. And while we are at it, the USA is in a growing trade war with China. The former, the negotiation of free trade with India, seems lik...
HEALTH - People with severe acne are more likely to attempt suicide, says a new study from Swedish researchers at the Karolinska Institute. But the researchers make it clear whether they're not certain whe...
IRELAND: Top Current Affairs Radio Presenter, Keith Finnegan, Questions Official 9/11 Story! Declan O’Shea Infowars Ireland November 12, 2010 *Keith Finnegan*, current affairs talk-show host and CEO of *G...
The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas will soon decide their next move in managing bluefin populations.
In an interview with Rachel Maddow, Jon Stewart shares his thoughts on the pundit media, the rally to restore sanity, and his show.
Fraud and Complicity Are Now the Lifeblood of the Status Quo (Banality of Financial Evil, Part 2) Charles Hugh Smith Of Two Minds November 12, 2010 *The status quo would collapse were systemic fraud and c...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] President Obama on Friday praise Iraq’s steps to form a new government as “one more landmark in the the past of modern Iraq,” even as a long-overdue power-shari...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] Israel's exhausted former Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, was moved home to his ranch Friday, almost five years after being debilitated by a series of strokes whi...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] The Philippine president lashed out at the United States and five other Western allies on Friday for subject what he said were unproven warnings of a possible t...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] President Barack Obama claimed a stronger hand on the world stage Friday despite electoral defeats at home, breakdown to get a free-trade accord with South Kore...
Get three cents for trash, including pens and spent glue tubes, that would otherwise head to a landfill.
We've all been sprayed by a shaking soaked pooch. Now their technique could be applied to washing machines.
Updates, we have updates. I am better! I feel like myself again. Myself before I fell off the cliff last week - the almost-50, fibromyalgia version of myself. My brain functioning has returned to its usual...
Like the Sound of Music's Von Trapp family, plants may be able to hide away from a warming climate in the mountains.
*CBS, Nov 10, 2010*, : "The U.S. military has destroyed hundreds of Afghan civilian homes, farm houses, walls, trees and plowed through fields and buildings using explosives and bulldozers in war-torn Zha...
Maggots, leeches and intestinal worms may be effective treatments in the fight against everything from irritable bowel disease to allergies.
During a rare occultation event, Eris was measured by telescopes in Chile and it turns out the dwarf planet behind Pluto's demotion may not be that big after all.
Iran will soon test-fire its new domestically manufactured long-range anti-aircraft missiles, including a system similar to the Russian S-300 missile system, Brigadier General Mohammad Hassan Mansourian sa...
Two pilots died after their surveillance plane crashed into a mountain in the southwest of the country during a routine training mission, the Air Force said Friday.The RF-4C reconnaissance plane went down ...
A report by U.N. experts saying North Korea is exporting banned nuclear and missile technology to Iran, Syria and Myanmar has been sent to the Security Council after China dropped its objections, U.N. dipl...
A consortium based in Italy, from where Turkey already receives attack helicopters and military surveillance, wants to further boost its role in the Turkish defense market. Italy and Turkey should carry th...
The Defense Ministry will not specify which type of next-generation FX fighter jet it plans to purchase for the Air Self-Defense Force in a new midterm national defense program to be compiled next month, a...
Russia started the first day at an arms show in Jakarta with a contract on the delivery of munitions for Sukhoi-family fighters to Indonesia, worth $54 million, a senior defense official said on Wednesday....
In an interview on radio service Kol Israel IAF Chief of Staff described the sequence of events of last night flights and talked about the jet’s experienced crew “The crew flying the Soufa jet which crashe...
The Chinese military’s non-nuclear missiles have “the capability to attack” and close down five of six major U.S. Air Force bases in South Korea and Japan, an unpublished government report says.China’s imp...
Six types of precious relics became mew members of the Chinese Aviation Museum on the morning of Nov. 11, including the AN-26 transport plane, the F-7M fighter, the J-6 Supersonic fighter, the Shenyang JJ-...
A MiG-27 fighter plane of the IAF on Wednesday crashed near Jodhpur in Rajasthan shortly after take off for a routine sortie, but the pilot bailed out safely.The crash occurred at 1320 hrs, 15 minutes afte...
A Pakistan Air Force (PAF) contingent comprising JF-17 Thunder fighter aircraft and the ‘Sherdils’ formation aerobatics team, along with pilots and technicians, departed for China to participate in the for...
Russia has started in-flight tests of an Indian domestically-designed gas turbine engine for an indigenous light fighter, state-run arms exporter Rosoboronexport said.The engine, dubbed Kaveri, has been de...
By Greg Waldron Indonesia should make a decision on a mid-life upgrade for its Lockheed Martin F-16A/Bs in 2011 or 2012, but could also buy an additional batch of six Block 50/52 fighters.If the upgrade ta...
By Greg Waldron Jakarta has earmarked $65 million for new medium utility helicopters, but the Indonesian defence ministry has yet to receive the funds.Previous reports have suggested that Indonesia's total...
Brazilian aviation giant Embraer announced Wednesday that it has won an international competition to supply eight Super Tucano light attack turboprops to the Indonesian Air Force.Embraer did not say how mu...
Pilot, navigator missing after Air Force's most advanced plane crashes during routine training flight. No problems were reported before tragedy occurred. IDF, police rescue units search area An Israel Air ...
Hawker Beechcraft Corporation’s (HBC) T-6 military trainer will come to India later this month to take part in field evaluation trials with the Indian Air Force officials as part of its competition for a n...
India is the largest buyer of combat aircraft in the world , with the US topping the list of sellers, a leading international think tank has said. According to a report released Wednesday by Stockholm Inte...
In his testimony to the Public Safety Committee on Nov 3 about G20 police abuses, Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair claimed that detained members of the public complained of sexual assault and being threaten...
"I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it." - Siegfried Sassoon
The Belize Zoo sustained major damage from Hurricane Richard and is just the latest small zoo to suffer after natural or manmade events.
Tides acting on the Moon might explain the odd difference in crust thickness on the lunar near and far sides.
People often think about things other than what they're doing and it generally makes them unhappy.
A combination of YouTube videos and high-speed digital footage reveals how cats lap liquids so gracefully.
Discovered at a major pre-Columbian site, the 15th-century dogs may have been religious offerings.
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I wish I could say there was some fancy tutorial for this page but it is very, VERY simple. You will need: A full sheet of brown or green, depending on what you want your background to look like A full sh...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] Somalia has reinstated Iraq as the state the majority at risk from terrorist attack, according to a ranking by global analyst Maplecroft, which sees threats als...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] Fire engulf a high-rise apartment building beneath renovation in China'sbusiness center of Shanghai on Monday, killing 42 people and sending inhabitants scrambli...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] The media in the Middle East commented at length on the US proposal to offer Israel defense and security guarantee in return for renewing a partial freeze on th...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] Starved of his plea for a holdup, Rep. Charles Rangel walked out of his ethics trial Monday, leaving the ethics committee's top lawyer to cite Rangel's past sta...
*UN Human Rights Council Recommends the United States Address Indigenous Rights **Photo: Western Shoshone protest in Nevada, demanding Barrick Gold halt mining on sacred lands, including Mount Tenabo. Lar...
Contacts: Larson Bill, Western Shoshone Defense Project, 775-744-2565/775-397-6726; Seánna Howard, University of Arizona Rogers College of Law, 520-626-8223; UN Human Rights Council Recommends the United ...
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