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Learn moreA Grad rocket fired from the Gaza Strip hit a residential neighborhood in Be'er Sheva early Wednesday morning. One person was moderately wounded and some damage was caused to a building. Late Tuesday nig...
*In this 1890 gathering of the Frioleras, a social club of young Columbus married couples, says Thurber, "The pretty girl standing in the middle is my mother."* *"Aunt Mary whammed her way from room to ro...
The Government does not know how long the Armed Forces will be engaged in Libya, a defence minister admitted as debate intensified over the likely outcome, cost and leadership of the mission. Nick Harvey,...
The Department of Health report says that half the population could develop symptoms of the disease, possibly “overwhelming” hospitals and doctors as well as costing the economy £28billion, but police an...
Yemen's increasingly isolated president warned that his country stood on the brink of civil war as he made his biggest concession yet by promising step down at the end of the year. Ali Abdullah Saleh, who...
In the wake of Japan's nuclear disaster, all milk, milk products, fresh vegetables and fruit from one of four prefectures closest to the quake-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will be prevent...
Japan's Health Ministry reported Tuesday finding radioactive materials at levels "drastically exceeding legal limits" in 11 types of vegetable grown in Fukushima Prefecture, including broccoli and cabbag...
Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi made a late night speech in Tripoli on Tuesday to state the country was “ready for battle, be it long or short”. The dictator made the address at his Bab al-Aziziya comp...
The mourners had gone, but the graves remained as they were on Sunday: empty. The heaps of earth to fill them bordered the 23 vacant spaces, topped by the wreaths that were supposed to be placed in honour ...
Very happy to see my friend cityslikr writing about city politics over at Torontoist. The man puts in the time, watches and observes, and comes away with insights and analysis that he expresses with wit, v...
Translated from the original French by the blogger: Original here. *Simulations of the atmospheric dispersion of the radioactive plume formed by the ejecta from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power pl...
Ann Coulter: Radiation Is 'Good For You'
Inside Col. Moammar Gadhafi's Bab Azizya residential complex, where a building was struck this weekend by coalition fighter jets, stands another, older ruin. It is a previous home of Col. Gadhafi, struck ...
Unrest spread in southern Syria on Monday with *hundreds of people demonstrating against the government *in three towns near the main city of Deraa, but authorities did not use force to quell the latest pr...
"Well, we're in Libya because of oil. And I think both Japan and the nuclear technology and Libya and this dependence that we have upon imported oil have both once again highlighted the need for the United...
Google received its first ever fine for improperly gathering and storing data for its Street View application on Monday when it was penalized by France's privacy watchdog. The euro100,000 ($141,300) pena...
Miniscule amounts of radioactive particles believed to have come from Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant have been detected as far away as Iceland, diplomatic sources said on Tuesday. They st...
US billionnaire investor Warren Buffett said Monday that a massive natural disaster would not hamper the future of the Japanese economy and could prompt a new bout of stock buying. "I'm not looking at Ja...
As a presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama (D.-Ill.) emphatically stated that the Constitution does not give the president the authority to unilaterally authorize a military attack unless it is needed ...
*by Ken* *Alarmed by the so-called crisis in Japan?* *The invisible hand of the free market explains nuclear safety* by TOM TOMORROW [*Don't forget to click to enlarge.*] Much as I adore Tom Tomorrow, I ...
What would it be like to survey the Venusian surface firsthand -- to set foot on Earth's strange twin?
These organic compounds survived 50 million years buried in rock in Utah's Green River Formation.
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wmtc - 6 hours ago
I've just learned that Pinetop Perkins died last week. Pinetop was one of the greatest blues piano players ever, and one of my all-time favourite musicians. He lived to the advanced age of 97 and died pe...
[image: Little Penguin (Eudyptula minor), Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia, 29 November 2010. JJ Harrison / Noodle snacks / Wikimedia Commons] By Stephen Messenger, Porto Alegre, Brazil 20 March 2011 L...
EnergyAndCapital.com Peak Oil Clock Technorati Tags: Peak Oil,resource depletion,oil production
[image: Planned deforestation in Riau province, Indonesia. Concessions shown are held by affiliates of Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) and Asia Pacific Resources International Limited (APRIL) in Riau. Eyes on ...
Toyoko Numayama walks from town to town, clutching a photograph of her husband and praying someone recognizes him. "Of course, I have to have hope," she says. Missing-persons notices are like wallpaper...
Japanese officials' concerns over food contamination expanded beyond the country's borders Tuesday as tests detected radiation in ocean water offshore. Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said that h...
Donald Trump, whose flirtations with a presidential bid continue, says he has special experience dealing with Libyan leader Moammer Gadhafi. Speaking on Fox News Monday, Trump says he has more of a track ...
The controversial Florida pastor who halted plans to burn a Quran on the 9/11 anniversary last year oversaw the burning of the Islamic holy book on Sunday after it was found "guilty" during a "trial" at hi...
Reactors 1 and 2 at Japan's earthquake-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant suffered more damage from seawater than originally believed and will take more time to repair, the plant's owner said...
House prices have dropped more than £45,000 since the beginning of the credit crisis, new research reveals. The average value of a home in Britain is £201,000, down 18 per cent from £247,500 in October 20...
The seemingly limited information being provided by both the government and the operating company, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), about the ongoing disaster at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear pow...
In 2008, we didn't see the Tory platform until the dying days of the campaign. This time, we got it before the writ even dropped. With all three opposition parties ready to vote down the government, we're ...
-by Josh Hilgart Calls to cut Social Security benefits are ramping up again, with conventional wisdom pushing the idea that doing so is prudent for a nation facing large deficits. This solution is endor...
The Liberals, Bloc, and NDP all say they'll vote against the budget. Whether they fall on the Liberal opposition day Friday, the Bloc sub-ammendment Thursday, or by Harper going to the GG before then, the ...
Captain Kirk is now an octogenarian.
Citizens equipped with hand-held Geiger counters are part of a grass-roots effort to monitor and report information not always readily available from the government.
Workers desperately battling to contain a meltdown at Japan's crippled nuclear plant today faced a fresh crisis as a pool for storing spent fuel began heating up. The news came as diplomatic sources said ...
*The Mole and a Rocket, 1965* Czechoslovakia became the 3rd country in the world - after the Soviet Union and the U.S. - that has sent its citizen to the outer space. Mr Vladimír Remek joined the crew...
To copy a phrase used by the ABCAlliance, "This just in from the Department of Duh." The Texas Railroad Commission calls self right. I had to take a moment to point out the difference in reporting on this i...
Former employees of CTS Corp., based in Elkhart, Indiana, have described on videotape the company’s handling of hazardous wastes at its facility on Mills Gap Road in North Carolina. Their descriptions have...
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wmtc - 10 hours ago
I don't pay much attention to partisan campaigning, so I didn't realize just how far into the slime the Harper Government™ has sunk. I'm not surprised, but it is worth noting: a very nice post from Impuden...
Six Libyan villagers are recovering in hospital after being shot by American soldiers coming in to rescue the U.S. pilots whose plane crash-landed in a field. The helicopter strafed the ground as it lande...
Brain problems apparently caused the shockingly early death of Knut, Germany's four-year-old celebrity polar bear, the Berlin Zoo said Tuesday. Initial findings from a necropsy performed Monday by an inst...
The international community has hit Muammer Gaddafi with a raft of sanctions and asset freezes aimed at cutting off his funding. But the embattled Libyan leader is sitting on a pot of gold. The Libyan cen...
With U.N. coalition forces bombarding Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi from the sea and air, the United States’ part in the operation could ultimately hit several billion dollars -- and require the Pentago...
The leader of Portugal's main opposition party says the minority government's downfall is "inevitable" after it failed to win political support for its latest plan to cut the country's huge debt burden. P...
Israel launched air strikes in the Gaza Strip - wounding at least 19 people - after militants fired mortar shells and rockets into the Jewish state. The Israeli military confirmed one of the later air rai...
View the entire gallery of Libya war pictures here.
The combined toll of dead and missing from the Tohoku quake-tsunami disaster was 21,911 as of noon Monday, the National Police Agency said. The number of deaths reported in 12 prefectures came to 8,649, wh...
US house prices have tumbled to their lowest in almost a decade, raising the prospect that even a recovery in the labour market may not be enough to pull prices from their slump. The median price of a pr...
*Colton.* Reportedly, four year-old Colton Burpo told his mother, Sonja, "Mommy, I have two sisters....You had a baby die in your tummy, didn't you?" (Meet the boy..) On 21st March 2011 we read of the '...
I am hunkered down working on something for you, Dear Readers, so I have no time to blog. Below are a few topics of interest. Please feel free to comment and add links of your own. The Texas Railroad Commiss...
A dizzying array of doomsday predictions have been linked to the Earth-bound comet Elenin.
If you think you've seen a chupacabra in your midst, here's a handy checklist to identify the creature.
Larnaca - Cyprus said on Tuesday it had refused permission to Qatari air force jets to land at Larnaca Airport and only changed tack when they reported they were running out of fuel. "Cyprus Republic auth...
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wmtc - 12 hours ago
It's always so galling to me when members of the privileged, corporate class raise the spectre of class war. As the saying goes, "They only call it class war when we fight back." Here's a picture of the c...
We at ComingCrisis.org would like to thank all readers so far who have contributed stories, left comments and taken the time to read our material. We really appreciate it! We've added a few rules to the c...
A Libyan government spokesman has told Sky News that Colonel Gaddafi's forces would never kill civilians, insisting that the leader was "loved by millions". Moussa Ibrahim blamed *coalition forces* for k...
[image: A wheat field burns in Russia during the heat wave of Summer 2010. EPA] 18 March 2011 (AP) – Wheat prices rose Friday after Russia cut its forecast for this year's harvest, renewing concerns that...
New political steering committee, not NATO, to oversee no-fly zone over Libya, France says NOTE: Hmm..... Can Anyone tell us who this "New Political Steering Committee" is? Does anyone out there have any...
Nancy Pelosi appointed a conservative "ex"-Blue Dog-- a concept I believe in as much as I believe in an "ex"-gay-- to head the DCCC and win back the majority. Steve Israel has already boasted he's basical...
King Tut's grandmother was a legendary beauty, but high-resolution images of her mummified face suggest her complexion wasn't perfect.
Knut, the celebrity polar bear who died over the weekend, may have succumbed to a brain disorder.
[image: Food Prices for Meat, Dairy, Cereals, Oils, and Sugar, 2005-2011. Tamino / UN FAO] By Tamino March 21, 2011 … The 2010-2011 rise in food prices was triggered by a rise in cereals prices. It sta...
I have a confession to make. I LOVE macaroni and cheese straight from the box. I really love it. Although, I am a bit of a Kraft Macaroni and Cheese snob, I have discovered that most people WAY overcook ...
*Facebook "Is Truly A Dream Come True For The CIA".... * http://www.theonion.com/video/cias-facebook-program-dramatically-cut-agencys-cos,19753/ Democracy presupposes civic equality,the equality of all c...
[image: For sale: Captured mobula rays are lined up in the street of a remote fishing village in Indonesia ready to be sold. dailymail.co.uk] (Daily Mail) 8 March 2011 – They are known as the ocean's gen...
A fire broke out in the Egyptian Interior Ministry on Tuesday in downtown Cairo following a protest earlier in the day. Flames could be seen on the roof of the multistory building, and a dark plume of ...
Is it really any wonder that so many eligible Canadian voters are so disengaged from federal politics? What's happening is the entirely foreseeable result of the degenerated form of politics being practi...
[image: A crab in the Bellingshausen Sea. Courtesy of Richard B. Aronson / Florida Tech]By Eric Niiler March 20, 2011 Sven Thatje has been predicting an invasion of deep-water crabs into shallow Antarc...
As you may have surmised, today is indeed World Water Day, the brief and passing moment in which we recall that a billion plus of us lack access to safe water supplies and 2.6-billion live without basic sa...
[image: Women gather grass in Hor al-Hammar, Iraq, April 2009. Drought has enveloped a region starting to recover from when Saddam Hussein drained lakes and swamps to punish rebellion. Hadi Mizban / Asso...
[image: A swath of agricultural fields lies between the Japanese city of Sendai and Sendai Bay, and the area was one of the hardest hit by the tsunami on March 11, 2011. The Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on...
[image: Nightingale Island as viewed from Google Earth. mongabay.com] By Jeremy Hance, www.mongabay.com March 21, 2011 Conservation workers have found hundreds of oiled northern rockhopper penguins (*Eu...
[image: Survivor: A Laysan albatross chick that washed ashore at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge near Hawaii. Thousands of birds were killed by the 2011 tsunami caused by an earthquake off Japa...
*A new pattern of antibiotic resistance that is spreading around the globe may soon leave us defenseless against a frighteningly wide range of dangerous bacterial infections* [image: Photomicrograph of ...
A prototype system uses audio and vibration feedback to help locate potential hazards for the visually impaired.
The key isn't just quantity (how many papers get published) but quality (how often they're cited).
This Libya gig is making less sense with each passing day - and we're only getting started. Once again it's the West saying, "Oh look, there's an open door. We can push on that," only to discover it's...
Magnitude*6.0* Date-Time - *Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 13:31:29 UTC* - Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 12:31:29 PM at epicenter Location33.106°S, 16.027°W Depth14.5 km (9.0 miles) RegionSOUTHERN MID-...
As people willingly share personal information online, the age of personal privacy is passing.
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Biased BBC - 15 hours ago
Back again and wanting to hear from YOU about what is most annoying about BBC coverage today! The floor is yours and the Ministry of Truth awaits.... Click through to read and contribute comments on this ...
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Biased BBC - 15 hours ago
It looks like the tyrannical regime is split, divided, at war with itself and surely it is only a matter of time until it falls? Libya? Nope - the Coalition if one judges this on the shockingly biased BBC ...
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Biased BBC - 16 hours ago
Is it possible that the BBC is actively trying to neutralise the presence of Christianity in the UK ahead of the Census? A B-BBC reader notes the following disturbing facts; "Has anyone else noticed that ...
BEIJING/MOSCOW: China and Russia have called for an immediate ceasefire in Libya expressing concern over civilian casualties in the military strikes by allied forces in areas controlled by Libyan leader Mu...
Blue America rarely reaches out to help candidates raise money in local legislative races. We make exceptions for exceptional candidates and I asked one such candidate, Jeff Gardner of New Jersey, to writ...
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wmtc - 16 hours ago
Although I am not a Henry Rollins fan, I see he and I have something in common. Take a couple of minutes to appreciate New York City along with us.
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Despite reports of Offer - Now States 'Humanitarian Assistance' Only SYRIA Opposed to Intervention as it Faces Outbreak of Internal Violence EGYPT Won't take part in Military Alliance ...
Back in January, the NDP laid out 5 demands in exchange for their support on the federal budget: In a new memo prepared by the NDP, the party costs its main requests. The NDP wants the budget to include $...
(Reuters) - Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh told army commanders on Tuesday there could be civil war in the Arabian Peninsula state because of efforts to stage what he called "coup" against his rule. ...
Rothschild Globalist Killers Pour DU On Libyans Following the *Iraq* invasion, Dr Chris Busby says about DU fallout which *went all around the world and landed in a UK town:* *On the basis of the mean inc...
Disturbing video. This is why the state can't be trusted. The defenceless pay the price of socialism i.e. allowing the state to usurp the family/community as primary collective unit. Don't worry that yo...
Fresh Louisiana crude washed into the beaches and dock areas near Grand Isle over the weekend, creating a sickening sight for the residents of this oil battered region. The reddish brown crude and oily she...
*Washington (CNN)* -- The U.S. military is considering the mandatory evacuation of thousands of American troops and their families in Japan out of concern over rising radiation levels, a senior defense off...
(Reuters) - Japanese authorities began testing for radiation in sea-water off a badly damaged nuclear plant on Tuesday although officials stressed that elevated levels already detected were no cause for wo...
This stellar fusion is the first of its kind ever observed by astronomers.
The blooming of the lily provides a mathematical surprise, showing that poets had it right all along.
The left-wing indoctrination that has overtaken a significant portion of the Western college education is often being discussed but every new example of this phenomenon disappoints us again. It's really ba...
Libyans claim civilians killed in third night of air strikes - Chief of Defence Staff in spat with ministers over suggestions Libyan leader in assassination target - U.S. warns that taking lead...
The BBC is one of the most respected news organs in the world is it not? But why? I’ve compared two reports about the recent activity in Israel. (Reuters and the BBC.) I’ve divided them both roughly into ...
Just 25 Min ago the East Coast of Honshu was hit by a 6.4 Magnitude Earthquake now a 6.6 Magnitude has hit just of the Coast of Honshu much shallower than the previous to 6+ quakes at just 9.6 Miles depth....
Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin once famously said that "the death of one single person is a tragedy, the death of one million people is only statistics." As the regime-inflicted massacres in Libya partly ...
German Magazine Der Spiegel has released hideous photographs of US soldiers posing with what looks like dead Afghan men. In one of the pictures, a US soldier holds a bleeding man's head up, and then in a...
The Yemeni Army has deployed in the southern port city of Aden as police abandon duties amid growing anti-government protests in the country. This comes as three soldiers have also been killed in clashes ...
A 6.4 Magnitude earthquake has just occured on the east coast of Honshu much closer than the 6.6 Magnitude which hit 2 hours ago. More to follow ....
Whether or not they are good for the environment or bad, invasive species are here to stay and becoming more abundant than native flora in urban landscapes.
MANAMA (Reuters) - A Bahraini woman has died after suffering gunshot wounds to the head and disappearing the day security forces launched a crackdown against protesters, the main Shi'ite Muslim oppositio...
BASRA, Iraq – Protesters in Iraq are jeering Saudi Arabia's king as a slave of America and Israel for sending troops into Bahrain. A Saudi-led force entered Bahrain earlier this week to support the nation...
Bashar Assad, the assassin in Chief of the odious White House Murder INC, in the Levant....since January 24th 2002.........it is coming fast.... Daraa is a dusty small town in the Southeastern corner ...
MANILA, Philippines - A magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck off the coast of Japan, which is still suffering from the effects of the magnitude 8.9 magnitude quake followed by a devastating tsunami last March 1...
New evidence implicates London's man in Moscow - War Cabinet discussed plans military dicatorship The story seemed so incredible it was dismissed as fiction by many for almost a century. But 90...
An enormous algae bloom 50 miles long has been discovered in the English Channel. The swarm of Skeletonema has come to the surface between the Lizard in Cornwall and Salcombe in Devon because of the warm ...
As a country they pride themselves on dignity and honour, on saving face and showing respect. But there will be few of those attributes on display tomorrow morning when Japan lines mass graves with hundre...
22nd Mar 2011 - Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant had one of the country's worst safety records and was crammed with more uranium than it was designed to hold, it has emerged. American engineers wh...
The RAF was just moments away from obliterating civilians being used as unwitting human shields by Colonel Gaddafi when SAS ‘spotters’ aborted the mission. Tornado GR4 fighter jets were closing in on Gadd...
Chief of Defence Staff rejects ministers' suggestions Libyan leader was assassination target Downing Street claims that killing Gaddafi would preserve lives of Libyan civilians U.S. warns that taking leade...
Ian Thomas Ash, originally from New York, is a freelance documentary filmmaker who has lived in Japan for 10 years. Here's his unique view of the ongoing crisis from the nation's capital city.
A review of crop trial data from thousands of sites across Africa shows that a temperature increase of 1 degree C (1.8 F) could cause declines in corn harvests in two-thirds of the continent’s maize-growin...
*A new study by researchers at the University of Georgia and Florida International University has found that the elimination of large marine predators through overfishing and habitat alteration removes a v...
Like most of the small landowners in Colombia’s lush mountainous Cauca region, Luis Garzón, 80, and his family have thrived for decades by supplying shade-grown, rainforest-friendly Arabica coffee for top ...
Republican activists in this key presidential state have a dark, foreboding feeling that America is in decline. They believe the nation is hurtling in the wrong direction and, worse, on the brink of losin...
Confidence in the U.S. system of government has dropped to a new low in more than 35 years, with public attitudes burdened by continued economic discontent, soaring gasoline prices, record opposition to th...
Yesterday, during a fun trip to Northern Bohemia, I was also exposed to the kind of *science* that is hot among those who are not exactly physicists. What's shaking? Here it is: Last Saturday, i.e. thre...
* David Cameron wins support* The UK House of Commons has voted by 557 to 13 to support the destruction of Libya and the murder of Libyan civilians. According to an ITV/ComRes poll, only 35% of UK peop...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] The new fiend quake that hit northeastern Japan distorted the earth's surface; geologists speak, loading stress onto a dissimilar section of the fault line much...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] Near the beginning comments online and in newspapers point to careful American support for an imperfect role in bombing Libyan air military protection except wa...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] Coalition forces bomb Libya for a third as the crow flies night Monday, targeting the air military protection and services of Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi, stop...
*Moonlight on the Wabash:* *At 21, on a periodic return visit from Columbus, Ohio, where he was living, to his beloved native Indiana, Charley Thurber wrote to his Columbus sweetheart: "I feel as sure that...
Rescuers are using shovels and their bare hands in a desperate effort to dig out miners buried after a gas explosion deep in a coal mine in southwestern Pakistan. More than 200 people stood outside the mi...
Fears are mounting among Japanese health authorities that food and milk from areas surrounding the Fukushima nuclear plant could be contaminated with radioactive waste. Yukio Edano, Japan's Chief Cabin...
Ali Abdullah Saleh, the Yemeni president, was clinging to power on Monday as parts of his armed forces rose up in mutiny and senior generals joined street protests demanding his overthrow. By nightfall, w...
Helicopters capable of rescuing downed American and British pilots arrived in the Mediterranean on Monday as The Daily Telegraph witnessed the scale of the coalition naval operation off the coast of Libya....
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Rescuers are using shovels and their bare hands in a desperate effort to dig out miners buried after a gas explosion deep in a coal mine in southwestern Pakistan. More than 200 people stood outside the mi...
Fears are mounting among Japanese health authorities that food and milk from areas surrounding the Fukushima nuclear plant could be contaminated with radioactive waste. Yukio Edano, Japan's Chief Cabin...
Today is the first day of spring, so it was a bit of a shock to peer outside my window upon awakening, and find that everything was covered in white melting snowfall...which promptly crystalized into heav...
North Korea advised its citizens Sunday to use their pets as an early-warning system for earthquakes, amid heightened fears following Japan's quake and tsunami disaster. Governments worldwide have focuse...
A Coast Guard officer with a command center in Morgan City, LA, said today the Coast Guard has confirmed that oil is not coming from the Deepwater Horizon well but that they have found what appear to be s...
The recent monster quake that hit northeastern Japan altered the earth's surface, geologists say, loading stress onto a different segment of the fault line much closer to Tokyo. Experts are quick to point...
A hard-core group of liberal House Democrats is questioning the constitutionality of U.S. missile strikes against Libya, with one lawmaker raising the prospect of impeachment during a Democratic Caucus con...
"None of them will tell me anything about why he was taken away or where he has been taken to," Jiang's wife Jin Bianling said Monday. She said that after her husband's disappearance last month, a Beijin...
After several polls showed Marine Le Pen more than holding her own against rivals in a hypothetical presidential match-up, FRANCE 24 sat down with the far-right leader for a wide-ranging interview touching...
* The face of right-wing thuggery in Wisconsin? Quick, somebody get this goon off the bench. * *"In a fit of temper, you were screaming at the chief; calling her [Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson] a 'bitch,...
8 years ago, I was with my parents and two brothers in Baghdad while bombs were shocking and awing us. Today, the 5 of us are on 3 different continents, more than a million Iraqis have been killed, and Ira...
Go here to watch more videos for the Infowars.com "The Answer to 1984 is 1776" Video Contest.
Japanese Coast Guard video shows just how different a tsunami wave is from a normal swell and coastal footage shows how split-second decisions sometimes made the difference between life and death.
" Universal Concerns... Reactor 3 raises the most concern since it runs on MOX or Mixed Oxide fuel -- a mixture of plutonium and uranium; MOX is far more dangerous than uranium on its own; and MOX is two...
The total cost of the quake and tsunami on the Japanese economy could hit $235 billion and take five years for the nation to rebuild, according to a World Bank report released Monday. “If history is any...
Palestinian militants fired two rockets into southern Israel on Sunday and Israeli troops killed two Palestinians in a new outburst along the volatile border with Gaza. The violence came a day after Pale...
Dozens of Saudi men and women have gathered outside the Interior Ministry in Riyadh to demand the release of their relatives who have been held without trial for years. The move came despite King Abdullah...
Crowds set fire to a headquarters of the ruling Baath Party in the Syrian city of Deraa on Sunday, residents said, as the wave of unrest in the Arab world shook even one of its most authoritarian states. ...
Driving rain on Monday disrupted rescue efforts in Japan and compounded the misery of disaster survivors now fearing radioactive fallout from the smouldering wreck of a nuclear plant. The bad weather for...
Japan faces a further crisis with concern escalating about radioactive contamination of its food and water, even as the fight to stabilise the earthquake-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant appears to...
One of Taiwan's top Japanese restaurants is offering diners the use of a radiation gauge before they eat in case of any nerves in the wake of Japan's nuclear disaster. Diners at the upscale Peony in Taip...
*Address by Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of the Reich, before the Reichstag. * Mr Speaker, some weeks ago the people of the Sudetenland took to the streets in protest. President Edvard Beneš has resisted th...
BBC World Service to sign funding deal with US state department The BBC World Service is to receive a "significant" sum of money from the US government to help combat the blocking of TV and internet servic...
SANAA/DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Popular unrest swelled into a crisis for one Arab autocrat and began to rattle another long seen as immune on Monday as leading figures parted ways with Yemen's president and str...
I'm supposed to go have dinner with friends in La Jolla in a few months. Roland is already complaining that the only way to get there is to pass by Southern California Edison's San Onofre nuclear plant (a...
The provocative conclusion of an Australian study suggests that the 'burbs are doomed.
No floppy-eared Easter-type bunny, this rabbit had small ears, smallish eyes and enormous heft.
With astronauts facing risks from radiation on long-duration space missions, NASA has recommended a simple solution.
It was a discovery that scientists proclaimed was the oldest evidence of life on our planet. But researchers who thought they had found 3.5 billion-year-old bacteria fossils in Australian rock have been l...
Loud explosions and barrages of anti-aircraft tracer fire have been heard near the Tripoli compound of Libyan dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Witnessed by Sky News foreign correspondent Lisa Holland, th...
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Monday likened the U.N. Security Council resolution supporting military action in Libya to medieval calls for crusades. Putin, in the first major remarks from a Russ...
Up to 1,200 people have fled an active volcano in northern Indonesia, disaster officials said Monday. The evacuations were made from two villages near Mount Karangetang, on Siau Island, the country's Nat...
A few weeks before the tsunami struck Fukushima’s uranium reactors and shattered public faith in nuclear power, China revealed that it was launching a rival technology to build a safer, cleaner, and ultima...
How should an economist react to a catastrophe such as Japan? Even thinking about the financial and commercial impact of the country's most serious earthquake since seismological records began can appear c...
In the early Eighties, I restarted Pickering & Chatto as an independent academic publishing house. The firm had been founded in 1820 by William Pickering and had published some of the major authors of the ...
The Prime Minister’s ability to multi-task has been tested to the limit this week. On Thursday alone he was trying to deal with Libya, the final Budget negotiations, a Press conference on education, dinn...
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Broken of Britain - 1 day ago
The U.N. Security Council scheduled closed talks Monday to discuss Libya's call for an emergency meeting of the U.N.'s most powerful body to halt what it called "military aggression" by France and the Unit...
Francis Boyle (not Frankie, UK readers, lol) says that invasion is possible due to the language used by the UN: *(Rebel celebrates NATO 'humanitarian' airstrike. The joke's on him though; he probably hu...
Some believed it was a wild goose chase. But after more than a month of pursuing a Canada goose with an arrow through its body, rescuers at the Wildbird Rehabilitation Center in Denver, finally caught the...
Identical speeches given by Aus PM and Canadian PM before Iraq war in 2003: Who wrote it?
It may be the first day of spring, but the season was greeted with plunging temperatures, storms, flooding and even deep snow in southern California. The bad weather stretched from Illinois to Massachuset...
This technology could pave the way for melding minds with machines.
WARNING: Animal lovers will find this video extremely distressing, please do NOT view it if you are easily upset. We have chosen to include it because of the profound animal welfare issues raised by Knut's...
Artefacts discovered in a remote cave in Jordan could hold a contemporary account of the last years of Jesus. The find of scrolls and 70 lead codices - tiny credit-card-sized volumes containing ancient He...
Colonel Gaddafi suffered a massive personal setback today when one of his sons was allegedly killed in a suicide air mission on his barracks. Khamis, 27, who runs the feared Khamis Brigade that has been pr...
It could take Japan five years to recover from the recent earthquake and tsunami, with reconstruction costing up to £144bn, the World Bank has warned. "If history is any guide, real GDP growth will be neg...
Airstrikes have "largely neutralised" Libyan air defences, according to Prime Minister David Cameron, as he confirms Nato will take control of the operation. *Mr Cameron*, speaking in a packed House of C...
In a new book about Yuri Gagarin's historic flight, the tragic tale of fellow cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov is chronicled.
The other day we took a look at sleazy Kansas freshman Kevin Yoder. A friend of mine in Wichita e-mailed me that, true Yoder is pure garbage-- and probably easier to defeat in 2012-- but that another Kans...
A decrease in female sea otters may be behind some male sea otters' violent sexual interactions with juvenile harbor seals.
Berlin's beloved polar bear 'Knut' had a massive leg spasm and died Saturday morning, the cause is still undetermined.
While many may feel climate change's effects may be exaggerated, those who live through floods and its other effects are less skeptical.
Last week we talked about making pebble magnets. Later on in the week, I had a bunch of dollar store flowers out to make hair pieces for my daughter when I decided to combine the two. Here is a cute, easy ...
[image: Build Rate of Coal-fired Power Plants in China and the US, 1998-2010. Timothy B. Hurst / National Energy Technology Laboratory] By Timothy B. Hurst August 26, 2010 We hear all kinds of stats t...
A victim of US bombing in *Afghanistan* in October 2006. Photos by Maso Notarianni. (Killing the Innocents -RAWA News) http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2009/10/15/killing-the-innocents-to-save-our-troops.ht...
Definition of Communism: "A system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single, often authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social orde...
Paleoclimate scientists have found similar trends in warming, like the current expected trend due to human-induced carbon emissions, that took thousands of years for Earth to recover from.
A shipment of fava beans had been contaminated, officials report, as smoke drove workers from the country's overheating nuclear plant.
Combining studies trying to identify the best type of corn to grow in Africa with weather data shows that corn overall is a risky crop during droughts and high temperatures.
Smoke spewed Monday from two adjacent reactors in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, a nuclear safety official said, setbacks that came despite fervent efforts to prevent the further release of rad...
The heart of Moammar Gadhafi's compound in Tripoli lay in shambles Monday following bombing by the United States and its allies, prompting a debate about whether the allies were trying to kill the Libyan...
*Pictures of polar bears on melting ice caps make little difference to climate campaigns because people do not care about global warming until it happens on their doorstep, a survey has found.* [image: ...
[image: Air pollution in Hong Kong, China. Alex Hofford / alexhoffordphotography.com] By David Kirby From the April 2011 issue; published online March 18, 2011 “There is no place called away.” It is a s...
Since Mayor Murphy took office, the citizens of New Milford have been overtaxed to create discrete government piggy bank. The over-taxation has led to the bloating of the Internal Service Fund (ISF) by a w...
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If you're reading this from the Greater Toronto Area, I hope you'll join us *tonight* for dinner, music, community, and an update on the War Resisters Support Campaign. Time and place details below. We've...
The Syrian army deployed on Monday at the entrances to the southern city of Deraa as officials tried to calm passions following protests for freedom in which five civilians died, residents said. Thousand...
Four New York Times journalists who have been held in Libya have been reportedly released to the Turkish ambassador in Tripoli. Reporter Anthony Shadid, photographers Tyler Hicks and Lynsey Addario and ...
Liam Fox has sparked ructions in the coalition of countries fighting Colonel Muammar Gaddafi by suggesting he is a "legitimate target". *The Defence Secretary* was directly contradicted by the US who stres...
by Duane Craig In a case that should serve as a warning to anyone considering buying property these days, it is glaringly clear how important it is to know the history of the land. Many people who own lan...
Florida was an absolute electoral disaster zone last November. I don't care at all that two ultra-conservative corporate shills, Allen Boyd and Suzanne Kosmas were defeated in their reelection bids-- they...
Bahrain on Friday tore down the 300-foot (90-meter) monument at the heart of a square purged of Shiite protesters this week, erasing a symbol of an uprising that's inflaming sectarian tensions across the...
SANA, Yemen — In an apparent erosion of military support for Yemen's embattled president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, five army commanders on Monday threw their support behind protesters calling for his immediate ...
Allied bombs reduced an administrative building inside Colonel Gaddafi's Tripoli compound to rubble last night in a massive display of firepower. The three-storey block is close to the dictator's iconic te...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] Leading Republican Sarah Palin toured Jerusalem's Western Wall on Sunday as she began a two-day, private visit to Israel. She too planned on assembly with Prime...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] A U.S..-led alliance has succeed in scattering and dividing Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi's forces after a weekend of demanding air attacks, Pentagonofficials...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1fR3aYV4dQ?rel=0&w=480&h=390 ** * جدار الصمت يتداعى والشعب السوري سيُشعل الثورة * ** *لا شك ان مشهد خروج مئات والاف المتظاهرين هاتفين بالتغيير والاصلاح والديمقراطي...
by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy I have been urging a 'peaceful revolution' for some 20 years now! I might have been wasting my breath and keyboard! The time for that has come and gone! In America,...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] A journey projectile blasted Moammar Gadhafi's housing compound in an attack that accepted as much symbolism as military result, and fighter jets smashed a line...
These majestic cats once spread from the southern United States to southern Argentina, but they have since vanished from many of their old strongholds.
The electric utility company managed to connect all six reactors in Fukushima to the grid, so they may cool the reactors under business as usual. The crisis is clearly over. Bombing of the power plant by...
The full moon looms large over Florida Saturday night.
The universe is constantly emitting a chorus of strange sounds. Most of the time, however, we can't hear them. So we're compelled to create our own amazing music about it.
Anyone catch Foreign Secretary William "Lost his Mojo" Hague on the BBC this morning? Here is the interview in case you missed it. The sneering tone used by Humphrys is no big surprise and Hague did all h...
Is anyone surprised that the BBC despises the Christian roots that made this country great? Consider this if you will, as pointed out by a Biased BBC reader; " Does 'Biased BBC' do a good job, is it worth...
I hope the White House appreciates the effort the BBC puts in to keeping Obama's reputation afloat. Mardell is, of course a snivelling sycophant and a reader picks up on the sheer scale of his grovelling;...
Inayat Bunglawala, the Mr. Bean-alike chair of Muslims4UK has instigated a police investigation of Melanie Phillips because she said "The moral depravity of the Arabs is finding a grotesque echo in the mor...
One of the worst characteristics bout BBC bias is the sheer scale of it and even as we watch or listen to one programme you can be sure there will be another one on the network that is equally reprehensibl...
As Sue rightly points out, the BBC aren't that bothered by the Hamas onslaught against Israel and that is understandable when you have such important issues to cover as.....a gay football player. Earlier t...
SLEMAN, INDONESIA (BNO NEWS) -- At least 21 houses were buried on Saturday night by a flood of volcanic material from Mount Merapi in Indonesia's Central Java. According to the Jakarta Post, no one was k...
Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh has sacked his entire government in the face of ongoing protests demanding his resignation. The president reportedly asked the cabinet to stay on in a caretaker role fo...
Cuba and Venezuela have condemned the airstrikes on Libya by allied forces. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called the air assaults "indiscriminate bombing" and said the US was after Libya's oil. Cuba'...
Workers have been evacuated from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan after a plume of smoke rose from one of the reactors, the operator has said. Tokyo Electric Power Company spokesman Hiroshi A...
Just after the Big Bang, the Universe's dimensions may have been completely different to the four-dimensional space-time we know and love today.
The recent escalation of rocket attacks from Gaza is of little interest to the BBC. Scanty reporting treats Israelis impersonally, while Palestinian individuals are likely to be given names and ages. Repor...
When a U.S. stealth bomber was shot down over Serbia, agents from around the world descended to scavenge parts like these - and in China's case, build their own stealth programme. Live reports on the most ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel refused to take part in the no-fly zone over Libya. On 25 February 2011, it was reported that Merkel "sternly rebuked the Israeli prime minister ... in an unusually fracti...
The rapid growth of smartphones and electronic tablets is making the internet favourite for people seeking news, a report released today said. News consumption online increased 17 per cent last year from t...
Hello. My name is Porter Stansberry. A little over ten years ago I founded Stansberry & Associates Investment Research. It has become one of the largest and most recognized investment research companies ...
A butterfly flapped its wings in Tunisia creating a hurricane that is swirling across the globe, wreaking havoc with the existing social order and sweeping away old crumbling institutions and dictatorshi...
The American banking industry is trying to convince the public that simply by hiding bad debts in the deep levels of corporate balance sheets that taking on leveraged risk is somehow safe. FDIC insured ban...
*theREALnews* ** Blogger's Note: To properly judge the all-is-well-with-U.S.-reactor-safety defense, the reader is advised to first read this column and this one. Interestingly, the interviewer mentions ...
It's a Japanese month on TRF so this blog may take notice of events that wouldn't be normally discussed. Awards are among them. You could think that the European Geosciences Union must be a totally politi...
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A Grad rocket fired from the Gaza Strip hit a residential neighborhood in Be'er Sheva early Wednesday morning. One person was moderately wounded and some damage was caused to a building. Late Tuesday nig...
*In this 1890 gathering of the Frioleras, a social club of young Columbus married couples, says Thurber, "The pretty girl standing in the middle is my mother."* *"Aunt Mary whammed her way from room to ro...
The Government does not know how long the Armed Forces will be engaged in Libya, a defence minister admitted as debate intensified over the likely outcome, cost and leadership of the mission. Nick Harvey,...
The Department of Health report says that half the population could develop symptoms of the disease, possibly “overwhelming” hospitals and doctors as well as costing the economy £28billion, but police an...
Yemen's increasingly isolated president warned that his country stood on the brink of civil war as he made his biggest concession yet by promising step down at the end of the year. Ali Abdullah Saleh, who...
In the wake of Japan's nuclear disaster, all milk, milk products, fresh vegetables and fruit from one of four prefectures closest to the quake-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will be prevent...
The mourners had gone, but the graves remained as they were on Sunday: empty. The heaps of earth to fill them bordered the 23 vacant spaces, topped by the wreaths that were supposed to be placed in honour ...
Translated from the original French by the blogger: Original here. *Simulations of the atmospheric dispersion of the radioactive plume formed by the ejecta from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power pl...
Inside Col. Moammar Gadhafi's Bab Azizya residential complex, where a building was struck this weekend by coalition fighter jets, stands another, older ruin. It is a previous home of Col. Gadhafi, struck ...
Unrest spread in southern Syria on Monday with *hundreds of people demonstrating against the government *in three towns near the main city of Deraa, but authorities did not use force to quell the latest pr...
"Well, we're in Libya because of oil. And I think both Japan and the nuclear technology and Libya and this dependence that we have upon imported oil have both once again highlighted the need for the United...
Google received its first ever fine for improperly gathering and storing data for its Street View application on Monday when it was penalized by France's privacy watchdog. The euro100,000 ($141,300) pena...
Miniscule amounts of radioactive particles believed to have come from Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant have been detected as far away as Iceland, diplomatic sources said on Tuesday. They st...
US billionnaire investor Warren Buffett said Monday that a massive natural disaster would not hamper the future of the Japanese economy and could prompt a new bout of stock buying. "I'm not looking at Ja...
As a presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama (D.-Ill.) emphatically stated that the Constitution does not give the president the authority to unilaterally authorize a military attack unless it is needed ...
*by Ken* *Alarmed by the so-called crisis in Japan?* *The invisible hand of the free market explains nuclear safety* by TOM TOMORROW [*Don't forget to click to enlarge.*] Much as I adore Tom Tomorrow, I ...
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