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• Season's Greetings - 1 week agoTwas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St Nicholas soon would be ...
• Better than sex! US college students value self-esteem boosts more than bodily pleasures - 1 week ago'Because you're worth it!' L'Oreal's catchphrase taps into the narcissistic zeitgeist. But it also begs the question: Are we at risk of becoming obsessed with feeling good about ourselves? According t...
• Paralysis deniers have subconscious insight into their disability - 1 week agoAnosognosia is an intriguing neuropsychological syndrome in which a patient with one or more paralysed limbs denies they have anything wrong with them. In a new investigation,  Aikaterini Fotopoulou a...
• The benefits of thinking about our ancestors - 1 week agoPsychologists have shown previously that thinking about our own mortality - 'where we're going' - prompts us to shore up our cultural world view and engage in self-esteem boosting activities. Little r...
• Harder-to-read fonts boost student learning - 1 week ago

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• Everything Is Negotiable, Except with Nature - 1 week agoYou Can’t Bargain About Global Warming with Chemistry and Physics
• Have We Really Solved the Mystery Behind the Shocking Die-off of Bees? - 1 week agoThese devices throw up a toxic cloud of pesticide as they work: bees fly through the cloud and either die or take the pesticide back to the hive. Once inside, even at low doses, it can cause disorient...
• (Spanish) Liu en Oslo, Vanunu en Berlín - 1 week agoTras 18 años en una cárcel israelí, once de ellos en régimen de aislamiento, el israelí Mordechai Vanunu tampoco puede venir a Berlín a recoger el premio de la Liga Internacional de Derechos Humanos.
• Vanunu’s Perseverance Drives Them Crazy - 1 week agoThe International League for Human Rights, one of the organizations in this area with the greatest tradition, held its annual award ceremony in Berlin with half a century of tradition, awarded this ye...
• TAPI Pipeline Prospects - 1 week ago

Kerkuk.net

 
• New Year Message - 1 day agoIraqi Turkmen Front Turkey Representative Dr. Hicran Kazancı issue a new year message for the New Year. 
• Hicran Kazancı visited the Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey to Lefkoşa - 3 days agoITF TR Dr. Hicran Kazancı visited the Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey to Lefkoşa
• Abbas Erenay, the artist who designed the Turkmen Martyrs Monument, was presented with a plaque... - 4 days agoTurkmen painting artist Abbas Erenay who designed the Turkmen Martyrs Monument in Keçiören district of Ankara visited the representation at the invitation of Iraqi Turkmen Front Turkey Representative ...
• A new voice from the Iraqi Turkmen - 4 days agoUntil recently, the Iraqi Turkmen have been a community "far" from being seen yet constantly on the agenda of Turkey.
• Deadly attacks hit Iraqi city - 5 days ago

 Voltaire

• Congress hearings on Muslim radicalization in the U.S. - 2 days agoRepublican Representative Pete King of New York was appointed chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. He immediately blazoned his intention to open a Congressional inquiry into the radicali..
  ( Would that be the radicalization due to harassment - or the scaremongering of  the  propaganda program of Islamophobia including Westerners in its scattergun slander ? It certainly puts the Black Muslim movement on target for reacting to media manipulation. These are the days when the ACLU is framed by The 'Silly' Asses as a terrorist organization. )
• Russia Today looks into our revelations on the Hariri assassination - 2 days agoRussia Today's Panorama programme of 28 December 2010 focused on Voltaire Network's revelations on the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri. The participants underlined the ...
• George Clooney sponsors satellite monitoring of Sudan - 2 days agoAn internet site dedicated to the satellite surveillance of southern Sudan goes live on 29 December 2010. Satellite Sentinel is the latest CIA find in terms of political communication: the aim is to c...
• Trilateral process towards North American integration proceeds with little notice - 3 days agoWith little attention from mainstream media, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with the foreign ministers of Canada and Mexico in a North American Foreign Ministers Meeting in Quebec, Canada. The...
• STL: Washington has no alternative plan - 5 days ago
 

 

Media Monitors

 
• Interim Forever! - 0 minutes ago"In practice, it is Netanyahu himself who is holding up the negotiations, because he refuses to freeze the settlements and he demands that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a “Jewish state”. And ev...
• Kashmiris remain defiant despite Indian brutality - 0 minutes ago"...for the Kashmiris, no amount of economic development in India and globalization will bring any solace as long as they remain under the boot of the unruly Indian army that has made rape a standard ...
• The Bitter Fruits of Nationalism in the Muslim world - 0 minutes ago"To have a Muslim Union on the pattern of the European Union, at this point, realistically speaking, is pie in the sky. The leaders of Muslim countries, most created and supported by foreign powers, a...
• American Nightmare for American Indians - 0 minutes ago"If the Puritans, Freemasons, and their ancestors really believed in their value systems, they wouldn’t have committed such horrendous crimes of genocide and blatant theft of millions of hectares of A...
• America's self-serving politicized double standard of 'Justice' - 0 minutes ago

 Florida Oil Spill Law

• Doomed: “They destroyed our lives” says business owner — “I’m done. It’s just too much. I’m about ready for counseling” - 20 hours agoCleanup of Gulf Coast nears end, but buried oil in sands may linger for a long time , Associated Press, December 30, 2010: Sheryl Lindsay['s]… beach wedding business in Orange Beach has tanked. “I...
• AP: “So much oil under the sand… may be washing up for months, if not years” — BP worker: “You definitely smell it. It hits you in the face” - 22 hours agoCleanup of Gulf Coast nears end, but buried oil in sands may linger for a long time , Associated Press, December 30, 2010: Dig 2 feet into the sand on this wind-swept beach and up comes the foul sme...
• “BP is going to come back from this” says member of Obama’s commission investigating oil disaster - 1 day agoBP’s spill costs look manageable , Independent Online, December, 29 2010: “It could have been a lot worse,” says Tyler Priest, a University of Houston petroleum historian who serves on President Oba...
• Florida Paper: “Oil Spill Devastates Economy” - 1 day agoOil Spill Devastates Economy , Gulfbreeze News, December 30, 2010: #1 The BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico stunts the area’s economy. Oil reaches Pensacola Beach on June...
• Aliphatic hydrocarbons in Gulf seafood test at DOUBLE the risk level set by U.S.-funded working group — “Associated with liver damage” - 1 day ago

Merco Press

• Happy New Year to all our subscribers and readers! - 1 day agoAll of us at MercoPress.com wish our subscribers and readers the very best Happy New Year!.
• Lima and Santiago airports are Latin America’s leaders - 2 days agoThe annual ranking by the British consultants Sky Research puts Lima’s Jorge Chávez Airport in front of all South America’s airports, with Pudahuel Airport in Chile coming in j...
• Lula da Silva has his own oil field according to Petrobras - 2 days agoBrazilian state-controlled energy giant Petrobras on Wednesday confirmed the commercial viability of two massive offshore oil and gas fields located deep beneath the ocean floor...
• According The Times Chile Miners Named “Team of the Year” - 2 days agoThe 33 miners who survived 69 days at a depth of some 700 meters (2,300 feet) down a Chilean mine were named “Team of the Year” on Tuesday by The Times of London
• Buenos Aires Swelters Amid Heat Wave, Power Outages - 2 days ago
 

Gawker

• This Is What Happens When a New Year's Eve Prison Party Gets Broken Up [Video] - 10 minutes agoAn open prison in Britain went up in flames this morning when inmates rioted over attempts to make them submit to breathalyzer tests. One office...
  ( Hm. Don't drink and stay put ? )
• The iPhone Alarm Bug That Made You Late for Work [Bugs] - 13 minutes agoA bug in the iPhone made one-time alarms not go off today . Judging from Twitter, this caused many people to miss their True Grit matine...
• North Korea Issues Predictably Crazy New Year Message [Threats] - 1 hour agoNorth Korea 's official Korean Central News Agency issued a New Year editorial today that called for better relations with South Korea, while th...
• Leonardo DiCaprio Rings In New Year with Motley Celebrity Crew [Gossip Roundup] - 1 hour agoHow did you celebrate New Year's Eve? Probably not with a supermodel in Mexico. Jenny McCarthy has a new boyfriend. Justin Bieber tries to win Se...
• Another Guy Robbed a Bank Dressed as Darth Vader [Crime] - 2 hours ago
 

Green Life

• Happy Holidays! - 1 week agoWe're taking a holiday break until January 4th. In the meantime, you can check out our tips for how to have an eco-friendlier holiday season , our gift guide for greener giving , and a few ideas for...
• Daily Roundup: December 23, 2010 - 1 week agoUnder Control: The Obama administration will regulate emissions from fossil-fuel power plants and petroleum refineries, which together emit nearly 40% of U.S. greenhouse gases. Grist Fat Chance: A L...
• An Online Game With Real-World Results — in Uganda - 1 week agoAs a culture, we often struggle to balance our attraction to new technology with our need for a real, physical connection with the planet and other people. We're seeing a new trend e...
• Worth a Shot: Eco-Liquors - 1 week agoForget the menudo. The next time you plan to party hard, mitigate the morning-after misery by limiting your intake to these sustainable spirits. The planet, if not your liver, will thank you. ...
• Kids Do Groundbreaking Bee Research - 1 week ago
 

No Quarter

• Dear NQ Readers: Happy 2011 - 15 hours agoHi NQ Readers–I don’t know how 2011 is going to go down. But maybe our leaders got the message this last election that we want to see some solid solutions and forward movement. I made my ...
• Euro Wolves - 19 hours agoMore of the same theme of terror cells, this time in Copenhagen — a lone-wolf team that stands up without much if any communication to the outside networks. Stratfor.com Scott Stewart argues effectiv...
• What a Year at the Checkpoint! Are we “Objectively Safer”? - 23 hours agoLast Sunday my morning routine of CNN and coffee was punctuated by a fascinating interview with DHS Secretary Napolitano where it was stated that the events of the last year have made the “Homeland” (...
• ‘Round the Water Cooler *Open Thread - 1 day agoThe pundits talked, and I typed. Below are some of what I’ve been hearing on the pundit cable news channels, including one particularly great prospect for Hillary … Gary Berntsen , a...
• Fox News Ultimate Irony Moment (UPDATE) - 1 day ago

 

EV Worldwire

 
• More Cities Getting Tough on Fighting Traffic Congestion - 1 day agoBeijing and San Francisco have enacted or are considering measures to the rise of traffic gridlock.
• Chevy Volt Energizes Modesto Dealership - 1 day agoFirst Volt electric hybrid slipped away from American Chevrolet less than 24 hours after being delivered to the dealership.
• Tata Funds Hydrogen Fuel Research at MIT - 1 day agoThe project involves generating hydrogen by splitting water and storing it in a safe method to drive an automobile
• Former Shell President Sees U.S. Gas Prices at $5 by 2012 - 1 day agoOthers see prices not reaching that level until 2020.
• Valence Technology: The Quiet Growth Leader - 1 day ago

RAW Story

 
• 21 dead in Egyptian church bombing at New Year’s Mass - 43 minutes agoALEXANDRIA, Egypt – A powerful bomb, possibly from a suicide attacker, exploded in front of a Coptic Christian church as a crowd of worshippers emerged from a New Years Mass early Saturday, killing at...
• Obama resolves to fix economy in 2011 - 56 minutes agoHONOLULU - President Barack Obama has set his New Year's resolution high for 2011: repair the struggling economy. In his weekly radio and Internet address on Saturday, the vacationing president said r...
• Anti-whaling activists clash with Japanese whalers - 14 hours agoJapanese whalers shot water cannons at anti-whaling activists on Saturday, the conservationist group's founder claimed, hours after the activists tracked down the whaling fleet in the remote and icy s...
• 200,000 displaced in Australia floods - 16 hours agoby Torsten Blackwood BUNDABERG, Australia (AFP) – Australia started forced evacuations of a major town on Friday as floods that have already affected 200,000 people swamped more communities in the str...
• Few Americans support FCC’s so-called ‘Net Neutrality’ regulations, poll finds - 18 hours ago

Jurist - US Legal News

• Texas challenges EPA emissions rule - 1 day ago[JURIST] The state of Texas filed a petition [text, PDF; press release] Thursday in the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit [official website] asking the court to overturn rules limiting greenhouse...
• US denies Poland request for assistance in secret CIA prison investigation - 1 day ago[JURIST] The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights [advocacy website] announced Tuesday that the US government has refused to provide legal cooperation to Polish prosecutors investigating whether Saudi...
• Microsoft co-founder re-files patent suit - 1 day ago[JURIST] Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen on Tuesday filed an amended patent infringement complaint [complaint, PDF] against Apple, eBay, Google [corporate websites] and eight other corporations claimi...
• Mentally disabled immigrants facing deportation accorded right to representation - 1 day ago[JURIST] A federal judge has ruled that US Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) [official website] officials must provide representation to two mentally disabled immigrants [JURIST news archive] ...
• SEC sues investors for insider trading in acquisition of biosciences corporation - 1 day ago

Afghanistan Sun

• Year 2011 seen as make-or-break year for coalition forces in Afghanistan - 4 hours ago2011 will become the make-or-break year for the Afghan mission after ambitious campaigns and a US troop build-up in 2010 failed to yield dramatic results against the Taliban.
• US failed to get Pakistani Army chief to target Taliban - 5 hours agoAll efforts by US officials to convince Pakistani Army chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani to attack the Taliban's safe havens in Pakistan have failed so far and the US intelligence believe he is unlikely...
• Taliban's top-ranking leader killed in Afghanistan - 7 hours agoA top-ranking Taliban leader, who was trained in Pakistan and involved in making improvised explosive devices, suicide vests and anti-aircraft weapons, has been killed by the NATO troops in Afghanista...
• Coalition forces have killed Taliban leader Mullah Bahador - 8 hours ago

 San Jose Mercury

 
• San Jose: Police searching for suspects in city's first homicide of the year - 2 hours agoOfficers found a 15-year-old boy suffering from gunshot wounds, San Jose police Officer Jose Garcia said.
• New laws launched today statewide affect everyone from bakers to paparazzi - 8 hours agoBeginning today, carrying a small amount of pot in California is no longer a crime. Unlabeled baked goods will be trans fat-free. And children with pre-existing conditions will have better access to i...
• Roadshow: Highway 17 tops list of most improved roads - 8 hours agoGone but not forgotten -- the dangerous center 'suicide' lane on 17 and other Bay Area highways.
• Flood closes busy courtrooms - 8 hours agoTwo of the busiest courtrooms in Santa Clara County will remain closed for repairs next week after rainwater leaked into the Hall of Justice, forcing officials to scramble to reassign cases in time fo...
• Police arrest suspect in Valley Fair armed robbery - 9 hours ago

 UK News

• Prison blazes as inmates riot
• 2011 welcomed with a bang
• Police get more time to quiz landlord
• Call to read 'meaning of life' book
• Tornadoes strike US midwest
• Deadly Egypt bomb 'foreign-backed'
• Wait for water in Northern Ireland
• Taiwan couples rush to wed
• Comic book The Green Hornet hits the big screen
• Smith and Cumberbatch head to head

 BBC - England

• Family tribute to murdered woman - 13 minutes agoThe family of murdered Bristol landscape architect Joanna Yeates pay tribute to the 25-year-old.
• Two die in hot air balloon crash - 1 hour agoTwo men are killed as a hot air balloon crashes on a bowling green in Somerset.
• Officers tackle Ford prison riot - 59 minutes agoSpecialist prison guards in body armour are brought in to quell a riot by inmates at an open jail in West Sussex.
• Two charged with athlete murder - 7 minutes agoTwo people are charged with murdering a "model athlete" in south London.
• New Year parade draws thousands - 45 minutes ago

BBC - Home

• Deadly blast at Egyptian church - 1 hour agoEgypt blames a suicide bomber with foreign links for a blast which killed at least 21 people at an Alexandria church and sparked a Christian-Muslim clash.
• Dilma to be inaugurated in Brazil - 52 minutes agoDilma Rousseff is to be sworn in as Brazil's new president, succeeding the popular President Lula, who leaves office with approval ratings of 80%.
• Russian band in plane fire drama - 21 minutes agoA Russian pop group describe the scenes of panic on board a plane which caught fire at a Siberian airport, killing at least three people and injuring dozens.
• Australia facing 'biblical' flood - 4 hours agoAn official warns of the economic impact of flooding in Queensland, describing the disaster as one of "biblical proportions".
• Pope to hold Assisi peace summit - 1 hour ago

 Reuters

 
• Rioting prisoners set fire to British jail  - 35 minutes agoARUNDEL, England (Reuters) - Rioting prisoners torched buildings at a low-security British jail on Saturday, an incident the prison guards' union said highlighted the risks of government plans to slas...
• Ivory Coast Gbagbo's last chance to avoid force - rival  - 52 minutes agoABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo has only days in which to leave power peacefully with immunity, the prime minister of Ivory Coast's presidential rival Alassane Ouattara said on Saturd...
• Estonia joins crisis-hit euro club  - 3 hours agoTALLINN (Reuters) - Estonia joined the euro zone as its newest member on Saturday, but the currency club's deepening crisis is likely to put off bigger eastern European entrants from joining for up to...
• Charities call for bank bonus tax to help fund them - 3 hours agoLONDON (Reuters) - Britain should tax bank bonuses and give the proceeds to charities to help cushion them from funding cuts that will hit elderly and disabled people, a leader of the charity sector s...
• Pope to hold peace summit with religious heads  - 3 hours ago

Yahoo! Search Results

• The Best Stocks for 2011: Yahoo! - 2 days agoYahoo! is a hated stock with some beloved (and valuable) assets.
• Who Is Using Google or Yahoo! to Search for Facebook or YouTube? - 1 day agoYesterday, Experian Hitwise reported that the top 10 most-searched terms in 2010 were Facebook, Facebook login, YouTube, Craigslist, MySpace, Facebook.com, eBay, Yahoo, www.facebook.com, and Mapquest....
• WHIP MY HAIR HITMAKER WILLOW SMITH TO COVER PARENTS JUST DON’T UNDERSTAND? - 13 hours agoWILLOW Smith might be remaking the song that helped launch her father Will Smith’s career. The Whip my Hair hitmaker told Yahoo! Music that she’s considering doing a cover of the 1988 hit Parents Just...
• Ryan Gosling Sings 'My Little Pony' Song - 2 days agoActor recalls a favorite when asked to sing.
• Who's going to buy Delicious? No one, yet - 1 day ago

 

Yahoo! Politics

• GOP hopefuls trip, explain in early 2012 jockeying (AP) - 4 days agoAP - This month's early, under-the-radar campaigning by potential Republican challengers to President Barack Obama is a reminder of something too easily forgotten: Running for president is harder than...
• Obama, Clinton 'most admired' in 2010 (AFP) - 4 days agoAFP - US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were the "most admired" man and woman in the United States in 2010, according to an annual Gallup poll.
• Obama says Vick deserves second chance (AFP) - 4 days ago

 

Yahoo! Business
• Hangover or afterparty for stocks? (Reuters) - 3 hours agoReuters - A bout of profit taking seems likely early next year after the S&P 500 ended its best December in almost two decades, but stocks may have further to run at the start of 2011.
• Indexes end strong year and month with quiet day (Reuters) - 19 hours agoReuters - U.S. stocks closed out a year of double-digit gains and the S&P's best December since 1991 with a quiet and little changed session on Friday as investors found no reason to make big bets ahe...
• United loses arbitration in regional jet dispute (Reuters) - 20 hours ago

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