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Learn moreMen increasingly went under the knife in 2010, although women are still seeking surgery in larger numbers.
LPC, NDP and Bloc MPs forced through non-confidence motion. Harper government found in
contempt of Parliament. Writ tomorrow.
At http://fbechis.blogspot.com/ there is an article entitled "*Sarkozy declared war on Italy*" "Ma quale Gheddafi! Sarkò ha dichiarato guerra all'Italia" According to this article: *For three years Fr...
The ancient couple was virtually reunited on a photomontage following the work of two British researchers.
Bahraini opposition activists will hold protests throughout the tiny island state on Friday, defying a ban on public gatherings under martial law declared last week. It was not clear who was behind the m...
April 5 is the first day voters will be able to go to the polls and give a clear verdict on Scott Walker's runaway extremism. No, his recall won't be on the ballot until next January. But one of his cron...
Reports of yellow rain in Tokyo have got a lot of people thinking this is necessarily like the yellow rain observed after Chernobyl. Firstly, here's the story of what happened after Chernobyl: " Rememberi...
As workers continue efforts to control a steady radiation leak, the death toll from the disaster tops 10,000.
A group of nearly 50 loyalists hurled stones at Jordanian students in a protest camp set up in Amman Thursday night, leaving several injured, as security forces stood by, witnesses told AFP. Around 500 y...
[image: Smoke from one of the Fukushima nuclear plant explosions billows over the sea. crawlcraft.com] 26 March 2011 (Asahi Shimbun) -- Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, crippled by the Great East Japan Ea...
posted by David Preiser (USA) at
Biased BBC - 2 hours ago
Something very interesting happened the other day: BBC News Online allowed through an article that was slightly critical of the President, and even pointed out His escalation of Bush's war policies. Becaus...
He may not be able to compete in the Kentucky Derby, but he is surely as popular as the winner. And with appearances on Oprah and across the U.S. it has certainly been an eventful first year for Einstein,...
North Korea's government food distribution programme will run dry in May and put one-quarter of the country's 24 million people at risk of starvation, the United Nations has warned. The UN World Food Prog...
Taiwan's top intelligence chief said Wednesday that China is targeting the island with a new type of ballistic missile. "The Chinese communists have deployed the Dongfeng 16, which is a new powerful missi...
One would think that after the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, Americans could at least catch a break for a while with deflationary forces keeping the cost of living relatively low. That...
According to an analysis of newly released 2010 U.S. Census data by the Pew Hispanic Center, the Hispanic population in the United States is growing more quickly and more dramatically than demographers had...
A deadly drug-resistant bacteria is spreading to more patients in nursing and long-term care facilities in Los Angeles County, according to local health officials. Dr. Brad Spellberg, an infectious diseas...
NPR: “President Obama said Wednesday it was ‘absolutely’ out of the question that U.S. ground forces would be used in Libya.” How would the president describe the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit? There is...
More than 27,000 people are officially dead or missing after the earthquake and tsunami that struck northeastern Japan on March 11th. According to the National Police Agency, 9,811 people are confirmed dea...
A huge climbdown on rules governing MPs' expenses has been announced following pressure from David Cameron and Conservative MPs. The *Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority* (Ipsa) is softening the...
Standard & Poor's has cut Portugal's credit rating by two notches, warning that the country's political crisis heightened the risk that it would be unable to refinance its debt. S&P's downgrade in Portug...
So back in September 2008—in the throes of the Global Financial Crisis—the Federal Reserve under its chairman, Ben Bernanke, unleashed what was then known as “Quantitative Easing”. They basically printed ...
Lower-than-normal rainfall around a major technology manufacturing area in Taiwan, the Hsinchu Science Park, has prompted the government to cut water pressure at night and study more stringent measures goi...
Reporting from Sacramento and Los Angeles— The federal government's radiation alert network in California is not fully functional, leaving the stretch of coast between Los Angeles and San Francisco without...
*Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) opposes measures to reduce oil consumption, telling his constituents last year, “Passenger rail is not in Ohio’s future” (see New GOP governors kill $1.2 Billion in high-speed ra...
The Yellow-billed Continga is among many species in danger of vanishing before anyone learns fundamental facts about them.
[image: A file photograph shows employees and inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), checking a rod containing plutonium-uranium mixed oxide, known as MOX, fuel being loaded into ...
[image: No one was injured when rockfalls closed the Wakehurst Parkway, Sydney, 21 March 2011. Steven Siewert / smh.com.au] Glenda Kwek March 21, 2011 Sydney has switched from its driest start to the ye...
The Daily Bail *We Are Not Able To Measure The Amount Of Radiation Coming From The Power Plant* Uploaded by MoxNewsDotCom on Mar 23, 2011 March 23, 2011 CNN *Radiation Alert: Black smoke at Fukushi...
[image: In this undated photo provided by the Northern Territory Government, a Spotted Tree Goana is shown. Up to 45 rare and endangered animal species in an Outback region of northern Australia could be...
A possible breach of the reactor core at Japan's *Fukushima* nuclear plant could lead to further contamination in what would live a major setback to efforts to bring the post-earthquake disaster under cont...
What the GOP is doing in Congress and in state after state where they managed to grab governorships and state legislatures last year is the most classic case of overreach anyone has ever seen. Voters may...
Creationists have claimed this petroglyph was proof that humans and dinosaurs coexisted. Now researchers say it's two non-dino drawings plus a stain.
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wmtc - 6 hours ago
This is a day I've been waiting and hoping for, for what seems like a very long time. Goodbye Harper Government™, hello election. Bring it! Now to glue myself to CPAC.
A 6.4 Magnitude Earthquake has just hit near the East Coast of Honshu More to Follow - *Friday, March 25, 2011 at 11:36:24 UTC* - Friday, March 25, 2011 at 08:36:24 PM at epicenter Depth: 39.2 km ...
Hilarious edition of The Reunion radio 4 just now on the Brixton riots. Discussion between some self-hating policemen, reformed rioters-done-good and Darcus Howe. Nostalgia for the days when institutionally...
Anyone can predict seat totals or popular vote. That's just the end result. The real excitement in an election is the *journey *- the campaign itself. With that in mind, I present the third (almost) annual...
*Can and should maths and physics be made much more appealing for schoolkids?* According to the Telegraph, Lucasian professor of mathematics in Cambridge, string theorist Michael Green, has agreed with ...
GULF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATE WINS HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD: The honorfor Louisiana chemist Wilma Subra comes as a new oil spill fouls thestate's coast, and as evidence of serious health impacts from the BPdi...
Opposition is a conglomeration of Western-backed "human rights activists." by Tony Cartalucci The Syrian revolution uses a strikingly familiar logo. The Otpor fist was originally used in Serbia in 2000, an...
Prof Michal Spiro is the boss of CERN Council. We learn how the CERN is becoming a global organization. Two chaps are warning the viewers from shaking a hand of an antiperson. They're right despite their...
New Delhi (Mizzima) – Around 4,000 fishermen from the Pyapon area may have lost their lives in vicious storms that struck Irrawaddy Division last week, according to Win Kyaing, the general secretary of the...
The rare event occurs when a fire is whipped up by strong, dry air currents to form a vertical whirl. They can consist of a whirlwind of hot air around or within the flames or a vortex of fire itself. ...
A kayaker off the coast of Panama City, Florida, is caught on video paddling near an enormous basking shark.
The water three men were exposed to while working at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant had 10,000 times the amount of radiation typical for that locale, an official with the Japan nuclear and indus...
Israeli aircraft struck the Gaza Strip today in response to militant rocket and mortar attacks, raising fears that fresh hostilities could destroy an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal. The retaliatory actio...
***Elizabeth Taylor* - CIA mind control victim? Elizabeth Taylor "was deeply passionate" about supporting US troops, going on hospital visits and entertaining the soldiers. (RIP Elizabeth Taylor the USO) ...
More than 60 people have been killed and dozens of buildings destroyed when a strong earthquake struck northeast Burma, close to the country's border with Thailand. Tremors were felt as far away as *Bangk...
Western diplomatic sources have confirmed to Sky News that the US is considering the legality of arming the Libyan rebels. One of the unintended consequences of *United Nations*' Resolution 1970 was to st...
Hundreds of British troops have been deployed deep inside Libya targeting Colonel Gaddafi’s forces – and more are on standby. While Chancellor George Osborne repeated that UK ground troops would not be in...
Astronomers have found that the centre of the galaxy nearest to our own hosts a twin of Sagittarius A*, the bright radio source that lies at the core of our Milky Way and which harbors a massive black hole...
The discovery of ancient stone tools at an archaeological dig in Texas could push back the presence of humans in North America, perhaps by as much as 2,500 years. Thousands of artefacts dating to between...
Western warplanes are continuing to bombard targets deep inside Libya - as Nato has agreed to take over enforcement of the no-fly zone over the country. The UK Foreign Office said British Tornado GR4 air...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] French warrior jets hit aircraft and a intersection military base deep within Libya on Thursday as the U.S. abridged its fight role in the international process...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] NATO decided late Thursday to take in excess of part of the military operations in opposition to Libya — enforcement of the no-fly zone — after days of hard bar...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] Japanese nuclear security officials said Friday that they believe that the reactor core at one unit of the anxious Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant may ha...
ENVIRONMENT/HEALTH - On Wednesday March 11th 2011 a 9.0 earthquake took place off the coast of Japan and unleashed a massive tsunami. The recorded death poll at this point is over 7,300 and another 11,000 ...
. . March 24, 2011 *Radioactivity in Food, Water Sparks Fears of Widespread Contamination in Japan* Japan is facing growing fears as radiation leaking from the badly damaged Fukushima Daiichi nucl...
*This portrait of Mary Fisher Thurber, her son wrote in the caption in The Thurber Album, was "painted only a few months ago, at the age of 85." (She lived another four years.)* *"Two or three profession...
Ut oh! Bad news for the Big Gas Mafia. Now you've pissed off the young people and they're gathering up everybody, young and old alike. For immediate releaseMarch 23, 2011Contact: Nick Magruder 214-763-5763nc...
On March 16th Devon lost control of a well in Ward County and had a full on blowout.Devon Energy Gas Well BlowoutThey finally got control of the well on March 22. That's a lot of methane and other stuff blow...
[image: Gul Bahar, a nine-year-old flood survivor, stands with her mother in front of a damaged wall at their house in the village of Murad Chandio, some 35 km (22 miles) from Dadu in Pakistan's Sindh pr...
cellphonereviews.com Is my cell phone tapped? How do you find out if your cell phone is tapped? Well, someone who is wondering why the battery life on that newly purchased cell phone is shorter than ex...
[image: The graph shows daily Arctic sea ice extent as of March 22, 2011, along with daily ice extents for 2006, which had the previous lowest maximum extent, and 2007, the year with the lowest minimum e...
Below is a piece of fiction, a rough draft of what I think President Barack Obama might say if he was ever given a truth serum or forced by a U.S. court or an International Criminal Court to tell the truth...
Don't forget to check the interactive disaster map frequently... things are happening rather quickly now. And remember to monitor the tiny close-ups of trees. Walk outside and look at some. These laure...
The worst Texas drought in 44 years is damaging the state’s wheat crop and forcing ranchers to reduce cattle herds, as rising demand for U.S. food sends grain and meat prices higher. Texas, the biggest U...
The budget deficit is so serious an issue that it can no longer be ignored by splits in government, a group of former members of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers wrote in *an open letter in The...
In a surprising show of growth, Hispanics accounted for more than half of the U.S. population increase over the last decade, exceeding estimates in most states. Pulled by migration to the Sun Belt, America...
Warren Buffett told CNBC Thursday that the collapse of the euro zone's single currency is far from "unthinkable." "I know some people think it's unthinkable...I don't think it's unthinkable," Buffett said...
Scientists have grown sperm in the laboratory in a landmark study that could help preserve the fertility of cancer patients and shed fresh light on male reproductive problems. Fertility experts called th...
*The Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire:* *"On March 25, 1911, in New York City‟s Greenwich Village 146 workers, mostly teenage Jewish and Italian immigrant girls, perished after the fire broke out on Triang...
Many people claim to have grown up hearing about the vampire el chupacabra. Did they?
White dwarfs may technically be the remnants of dead stars, but could they provide a steady, long-term energy source to alien life?
*Hundreds of shards reveal the threat to wildlife from debris floating in our seas* [image: The debris from the stomach of a green sea turtle. Hundreds of shards reveal the threat to wildlife from debri...
*"Canada a Big Presence in Libya,* *Despite UN Snub"* * * According to Post Media's brain trust, Steven Edwards,* "Surely Muslim states now regret having spearheaded the drive to keep Canada off the United...
A cell phone camera captured the action in the Panama City Beach Burger King on Front Beach Road Saturday, as a crowd of tourists nearly rioted at the restaurant. Employees dialed 9-1-1 for help, as one...
*Iranian lawmakers—including former supporters—have moved to impeach President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for law violations that could land him in prison. Reza Aslan reports on the bombastic leader’s flagrant mi...
Palestinian sources: one injured as building catches fire; IAF hits rocket-launching terrorists, smuggling tunnels along Gaza-Egypt border and Hamas training camp; action follows rocket attacks in Beersheb...
Thousands called for liberty Thursday in the southern Syrian city of Daraa, defying a deadly government crackdown as they took to the streets in funeral marches for protesters killed by police gunfire, an ...
Hundreds of Jordanians set up a protest camp in a main square in the capital on Thursday to press demands for the ouster of the prime minister and wider public freedoms. The 500 protesters appeared to be...
A cell phone camera captured the action in the Panama City Beach Burger King on Front Beach Road Saturday, as a crowd of tourists nearly rioted at the restaurant. Employees dialed 9-1-1 for help, as one...
posted by laura k at
wmtc - 21 hours ago
Canada has long been thought of as a country with a generous refugee system. Despite recent anti-immigrant fear-mongering, Canadians are very proud of their country's history of offering haven to people fl...
Libya: Largest Military Undertaking since the Invasion of Iraq. Towards a Protracted Military Operation by Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, March 20, 2011 Outright lies by the international media...
posted by David Vance at
Biased BBC - 21 hours ago
As regards the slaughter of the Fogel family by Palestinian savages ( and I chose that word very carefully), I commend this piece to you. It doesn't single out the BBC in particular, but then again, it doe...
How we've come full-circle. commentary by Tony Cartalucci Turban wearing cavemen were never what the "War on Terror" was about. Many have said in the wake of 9/11 that the "War on Terror" was only tempo...
A new survey from Democracy Corps-- Carville and Greenberg's firm-- makes the case that their clients, the DCCC, can win back the House in 2012 and that "the new Republican majority [is] very much in play...
Yes, those are exact quotes from Flaherty's interview with Mansbridge on why Canada should accept the budget and not go to the polls. I imagine HRH the Queen is probably a bit hacked off - you'd think Jim...
Well buddy, it's time to grow a pair. You've got an election coming and the John Kerry routine isn't going to cut it. You want to win? It's really not that difficult. Get your staff to round up every...
posted by All Seeing Eye at
Biased BBC - 22 hours ago
Question Time tonight comes from London. On the panel we have ex-spook and future Foreign Secretary Rory Stewart MP, the "ginger rodent" Danny Alexander MP, newt-loving nutter Ken Livingstone, rocker-dru...
A new site discovered in Texas was occupied 15,000 years ago.
A scathing video from EnoughHarper attacking Stephen Harper for his secretive government. Here it is, for all of Canada to enjoy!
Wind speeds and wave heights over the world's oceans have been rising for the past quarter-century. It's unclear if this is a short-term trend, or a symptom of longer-term climatic change. Either way, more...
Oil firm BP has been dealt a fresh blow as its planned $16bn tie-up with Russia's Rosneft has been halted. An arbitration panel in Stockholm ruled on the case after Russian investors won a temporary inju...
It has happened to me so many times. I will be taking pictures of my little girl and her face will look completely clean to me and then I will get the images on the computer and realize that she did have s...
Damage to buildings as well as lack of electricity, water and staff is halting production at factories and disrupting worldwide supply chains
A dog-sized plant-eater from 260-million-years ago likely used its fierce-looking teeth to ward off predators.
Although climate change is a suspect, the trend could simply be a part of natural cycles that drive wind speeds up and down.
"the water temperature is high... it is unlikely this could lead to an accident"...LOL. Keep everyone calm, huh? Do you trust their surface/water temperature measurements? I am left a little sceptical. ...
Portugal's financial collapse appeared inevitable on Thursday, as markets took the government's resignation as proof the debt-heavy country will lose its year-long battle to avoid a bailout. Investors pu...
Stretched thin by two wars, the U.S. military is spending upward of $1 billion in an international assault to destroy Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's air defenses and save rebels from likely defeat, accord...
Aisha Gaddafi lives up to her reputation in the Arab press of being the “Claudia Schiffer of North Africa”, says Cassandra Jardine. You would think that Aisha Gaddafi had nothing else to think about these...
The Bank of England has warned that inflation is in danger of rocketing above 5pc in the coming months, piling more pressure on policymakers to raise interest rates. Its warning will ratchet up fears that...
Coastal communities along P.E.I.'s North Shore need to prepare themselves for the impacts from climate change, a watershed management group was told Tuesday night. About two dozen residents gathered at th...
by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy I met and interviewed Rosemary Willis --the little girl in the Red Dress seen in Zapruder's film running along the south side of Elm St. Rosemary showed me the slide...
This collection of junk may resemble the rubbish scraped from the bottom of a toolbox - but it is in fact the man-made debris found inside a dead turtle. The hundreds of shards of plastic were taken from ...
Allied planes have bombed Libya for a fifth night, targeting military sites as reports emerged a French fighter jet had shot down a Gaddafi warplane in breach of the no-fly zone. However, Colonel Muammar ...
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- 1 day ago
*Audio and video* processing in Linux remains tricky business. Certainly not by lack of tools, but rather the reverse. There is an abundant range of 'libs', 'codecs' and 'tools' available from which it is ...
BANGKOK — A strong earthquake struck eastern Myanmar Thursday, the US Geological Survey said, as Thai police reported at least one death and shaking was felt in several countries across southeast Asia. ...
When a mutual friend at DFA called me to tell me about a candidate for state Senate in New Jersey, who's running in a Paterson-based district not far from where I once lived, I was very impressed with his...
* With CIA control of North Africa, cocaine can more easily reach Europe?* Gaddafi's opponents are drugs dealers. They are involved in the trade in cocaine. (Coalition of Crusaders join with al Qaeda to o...
I hear this a lot from the 'new age' type of people, and firstly let me say that if you really do want to destroy your ego, then good luck and "I" - or "this particular area of the collective awareness" - ...
Hours after a massive fire ripped through a fuel tank at Miami International Airport, a suspicious package caused an evacuation of a terminal Thursday morning. Concourse J at Terminal 5 was evacuated and...
Radical new research proposes using an engineered virus that hitchhikes with HIV and gets in its way.
As fire and army crews race to prevent catastrophe, the disaster takes its toll on three workers.
A stuck pipe was to blame for last year's worst-ever oil spill, a study finds.
[image: Sunlight descends over flooded waters near Rockhampton, Queensland, January 6, 2011. Australia's record floods are causing catastrophic damage to infrastructure in the state of Queensland and hav...
As Melanie Phillips says, Louise Bagshawe’s piece in the Telegraph is startling, but for reasons beyond the BBC’s insultingly cursory and misleading coverage of the atrocity in Itamar. Although Louise Bag...
By piling mounds of fish remains, turtle bones and other waste, ancient people helped create the Everglades.
posted by laura k at
wmtc - 1 day ago
Today is David Suzuki's birthday, and you can give him a gift by signing the Declaration of Interdependence. The Suzuki Foundation says: The declaration is a heartfelt prayer to preserve the Earth, and a...
posted by laura k at
wmtc - 1 day ago
This story broke several months back, but it's been revived and is receiving international attention. From today's *Guardian*: An American soldier has pleaded guilty to being part of a "kill team" who de...
Enormous plant-eating dinosaurs had bodies and necks that functioned like a canister vacuum cleaner.
Just hours after a new sizable oil slick was discovered in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast, a Houston-based energy company came forward to claim responsibility for the latest round of crude tain...
WASHINGTON – Air traffic safety is under increased scrutiny by federal authorities following an incident in which two passenger jets landed without controller assistance at Reagan National Airport because ...
The European Commission was hacked into yesterday just hours before a summit of EU leaders debating the military campaign in Libya, the Euro debt crisis and nuclear safety. A spokesperson for the EC told...
Many voters are feeling a great deal of buyers' remorse for having elected some very extremist and anti-family Republican governors and state legislatures. Others are realizing that they made a mistake by...
After NASA invited journalists to Houston to interview the crew of the next shuttle mission, Commander Mark Kelly takes a pass.
With the government almost certain to fall in the next 48 hours, what should we expect between now and election day? Last week, I looked at the election calendar - today, a look at the strategies the part...
Several hundred dead starfish have been found washed up on a north Wales beach. It comes following the discovery at Talybont, between Harlech and Barmouth in Gwynedd. Council maritime officer Barry Davi...
Colorado and Oregon have joined several other Western states in reporting trace amounts of radioactive particles that have likely drifted about 5,000 miles from a quake and tsunami-damaged nuclear power pl...
More than 150 of the Queen’s mute swans have died on the Thames since the beginning of the year and experts say the extreme cold pushed up the sad total. Around 20 of the dead birds found by Swan Lifelin...
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is reporting that melting ice across Iowa waters is revealing some Winter Fish Kills. Numerous reports of dead fish in lakes and ponds are being reported to the DNR...
Experts call it a winter-kill. Onlookers call it devastating. Thousands of fish - much more than originally thought - are now dead in Ravenna Lake. Game and Parks officials said the extended ice and snow...
LAKE WHITNEY – A toxic golden alga bloom that has killed over 80,000 fish in Lake Granbury since the first week of January appears to be headed down the Brazos River toward Lake Whitney, according to the T...
YORK — A citizen report of a large number of dead fish at the Beaver Creek spillway near the tennis courts in Harrison Park led to photos and an inquiry to Daryl Bauer of the Game and Parks Commission. Bau...
Three of the Fukushima Fifty have been rushed to hospital with radiation poisoning as they battle to save Japan's crippled power plant from nuclear meltdown. Fumio Matsuda, a spokesman for the nuclear saf...
The Foreign Office has confirmed the only fatality from a bomb blast in central Jerusalem was a British woman. Officials earlier said they were "urgently investigating" Israeli radio reports the victim w...
Nato has again refused to take over command of military operations in Libya, with objections from Turkey frustrating US efforts to hand over control. America wants to give up its lead role in the war-torn...
*BANGKOK (Commodity Online):* Thailand is undergoing the pangs of drought with Thailand’s Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation declaring 333 districts under 45 provinces across the country as d...
A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 jolted Miyagi Prefecture and its vicinity on Thursday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. A change in the sea level may occur following the 5:21 p...
Columnar Basalts are rock formations resulting from the quick cooling of lava flow. Fractures form in a random cellular network (similar to soap bubbles, organic cells, etc.), though the average distributi...
Václav Havel (74), a playwright, a famous Czech dissident, and a former president of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, has become a film director, too. I have only seen the theater version of "Leav...
It's a good thing the outer space battles in "Star Wars" happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away -- because under a new space-based weapons treaty drafted by aerospace and military experts, huma...
Days after observers spotted a massive oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico, no one in a position of power seems to yet know where it's coming from. So far, official reports are sketchy and contradictory, as Ne...
Britain is withdrawing its embassy team from Yemen amid increasing security fears ahead of further anti-government protests. The *UK Foreign Office* said the temporary measure was imposed because Friday'...
The picture of gaping chasms in a Japanese highway demonstrated the power of the March 11 earthquake. Now the astonishing speed of reconstruction is being used to highlight the nation’s ability to get bac...
MI5 has warned that Libyan expats are plotting terrorist attacks in Britain in revenge for bombing raids on Colonel Gaddafi’s regime. The threat was exposed after intelligence officers monitored hundreds o...
Have to laugh at the BBC's unremittingly bleak coverage of the Budget. The sneering tone ran across all their media formats. I caught Osborne being interviewed on Today (8.10am) and I thought he did rather...
*Candy Jones, born Jessica Arline Wilcox.* Candy Jones, a top American fashion model in the 1940s, became a CIA mind control victim. (Candy Jones - Fortean Times UK) Candy was a Manchurian Candidate-st...
As Richard North sagely notes this morning, the most important priority with budgets is to watch what the chancellor is doing with his other hand or behind his back. Wee Georgie slipped in the news that th...
Man-made chemicals found in a variety of everyday products – from food containers to clothes – may be causing early menopause in women, say scientists. A study of almost 26,000 – the largest of its kind ...
Call it the gooey broccoli theory of climate change. Buried in the ground across the Far North are billions of tons of plant matter deposited over thousands of years since the last Ice Age. All that orga...
The number of Americans who are worried about global warming has fallen to nearly the historic low reached in 1998, a poll released Monday showed. Just 51 percent of Americans -- or one percentage point m...
An arboreal invasion of the Far North is imminent, according to a new study, with vast swaths of Alaska tundra almost certainly yielding to trees and shrubs during coming decades, as human-triggered climat...
Call it the gooey broccoli theory of climate change. Buried in the ground across the Far North are billions of tons of plant matter deposited over thousands of years since the last Ice Age. All that orga...
Extremely cold temperatures in the upper atmosphere over the Arctic have triggered a "massive" loss of ozone in just the past few weeks, a situation that could create the most severe ozone hole yet observe...
The number of Americans who are worried about global warming has fallen to nearly the historic low reached in 1998, a poll released Monday showed. Just 51 percent of Americans -- or one percentage point m...
Photo courtesy: Tambako the Jaguar/Creative Commons. This one belongs in the "Are you kidding me?" category. There are a few levels on which I find this morally repugnant. First, I find interfering with t...
No surprise. The blogosphere is all a-buzz with talk of impending election. Some of its progressive inhabitants are almost swooning with the thought that we might, finally, be able to rid ourselves of Spit...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] A U.S. soldier who pleaded responsible Wednesday to the murders of three Afghan civilians was sentence to 24 years in jail after saying "the plan was to kill pe...
[image: The Arrowhead Landfill near Uniontown in Perry County is a bother to neighboring residents, who say a proposed bill should be toughened and the ash classified as toxic waste. Jay Reeves / montgom...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] Israeli warplanes hit Hamas goals in Gaza early Thursday, hit back for rocket attacks on Israeli cities, as worry peaked over the first lethal bombing aims Isra...
* Young Mary Fisher Thurber * *"The day after[her 80th-birthday party], a columnist in one of the Columbus papers recklessly described her as 'a bit of lavender and old lace.' She was indignant. 'Why, he d...
A Libyan television presenter makes a bizarre vow to Muammar Gaddafi, promising to sacrifice his "last drop of blood" for the leader while holding a Kalashnikov. Appearing on channel Al Libiya, the unna...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] NATO ships began patrol off Libya's coast Wednesday as airstrikes, missiles and eager rebels compulsory Moammar Gadhafi's tanks to roll back from two key wester...
For the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl Accident, Ambientaria Records has gathered many Dark Ambient artists, including famous ones like Northaunt or Atomtrakt, for a compilation project. The album ...
God bless Retired Air Force Capt. Michael Kearns for coming forward. EXCLUSIVE: CIA Psychologist's Notes Reveal True Purpose Behind Bush's Torture Program By Jason Leopold and Jeffrey Kaye Truth-out.or...
This morning when I first woke, I found outside my window yet one more late (and unwelcome!) blanket of snow. I wondered as I often do, when I contemplate another day surviving cognitive dissonance - wha...
[image: World capture fisheries production, 1950-2008. UNFAO, The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2010] Global capture fisheries production in 2008 was about 90 million tonnes, with an estimate...
Chesapeake failed to contain runoff because they did not implement the required controls. Runoff and sediment flowed into a stream.The order to cease comes after Chesapeake did not respond to DEP's notice of...
Documenting the end of multicellular life on Earth requires a somewhat obsessive personality, which Desdemona has in spades. But the good people of the RSOE EDIS Climate Change Monitoring Service have go...
None of the 14 families who sued Cabot for their contaminated water have accepted the settlement money. They say Cabot is not telling the truth. (No duh! None of them ever tell the truth.)Attorney Marc Bern ...
Perspective:Those who argue that regulations kill jobs ignore an important fact: Lack of adequate regulation kills people.Getting serious about regulationBy Robert Reich
I. Demythologizing Terrorism Terrorism is a tricky word. First of all, it is a political categorization. Aggressive regimes like the ones in America, Israel, and Iran all have political enemies that will...
This is the best reporting I've seen on the EPA vs Texas Railroad Commission and Range Resources case. Texas Commission Defies EPA and Sides with Gas Company Accused of Water Contamination
*Justice Sammy the Hammer (left) and Justice Nino (right) with some other guy in the middle (he looks like trouble too, wouldn't you say?)* *"All the pieces of Alito’s record fit together. As a prosecutor,...
Nick Allen reports on the hundreds of people made homeless by the Fukushima nuclear disaster. It is close to midnight in a cavernous Tokyo sports centre and two little girls sit on a traditional tatami m...
New violence in a restive southern Syrian city killed as many as six people Wednesday, making it the deadliest single day since anti-government protests inspired by uprisings across the Arab world reache...
*NATO is split over whether it should take over command of the coalition military operation against Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi. German commentators warn that the alliance could be playing into the des...
Japan’s earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis could deliver a bigger blow to that nation’s economy and U.S. manufacturers than originally estimated, some economists say, due to extended disruptions to Jap...
An Indian elephant called Boy, the pride of the Kiev Zoo, collapsed and died in his enclosure. Around the same time, Maya the camel succumbed to a digestive illness and Theo the zebra died after crashing i...
An Egyptian cartoonist who was arrested and had his graphic novel banned under Hosni Mubarak's regime is to be published in English. Magdy El Shafee wrote the graphic novel "Metro" in 2008. It was banned ...
A loud explosion shook a busy street in Jerusalem on Wednesday, wounding nearly 30 people, authorities said. There were no immediate reports of deaths in the first serious bombing in Jerusalem in four ...
The Egyptian stock market plunged 5% in the opening minute Wednesday, triggering circuit breakers as the exchange opened for the first time in nearly two months. The sell-off was expected. Traders had p...
he international coalition is continuing to launch airstrikes against targets in Libya -- but now speculation is growing about what is likely to follow the U.N.-backed bombardment. The air campaign was l...
Practical astronomy doesn't necessarily require expensive telescopes. Astronomer Mark Thompson shares some tips on how to explore the night sky using just your eyes.
Anyone spotted this on the BBC yet? It's over on Harry's Place but the State Broadcaster with it's multi-billion resources seems to have overlooked it; 'Press Release: British Muslims for Israel condemns J...
The Lilith News is back after a 5 week vacation... and oh boy do we have some catching up to do. Tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan, the Canadian government teetering on collapse/election, revolution an...
Palestinian rockets struck two cities deep in Israel on Wednesday, wounding a resident and prompting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to threaten lengthy "exchanges of blows" with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Str...
With crisis-hit Portugal on the verge of government collapse and a cry for financial help, European leaders face an uphill task at a summit meant to seal defences against a year-long debt crisis. Leaders...
Germany is determined to show the world how abandoning nuclear energy can be done. The world's fourth-largest economy stands alone among leading industrialized nations in its decision to stop using nucle...
An outbreak of the H1N1 virus, known commonly as the swine flu, has hit the Venezuelan Andean state of Merida, the country's health minister said, the state-run AVN news agency reported. More than 100 ca...
A Japanese animation created to help the artist explain the nuclear crisis to his child becomes an online sensation. Amid the devastation of an earthquake and tsunami, how does a parent explain a nuclea...
The Federal Reserve has "done a bit too much" quantitative easing amid signs "of speculative excess" in the the US, according to a senior official at the central bank. Richard Fisher, who heads the Dallas...
View gallery of Japan's quake and tsunami clean up here.
Britons are suffering their biggest drop in living standards for 30 years, according to a new report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). The average household's "real" income – what is coming in af...
Palestinian rockets struck two cities deep in Israel on Wednesday, wounding a resident and prompting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to threaten lengthy "exchanges of blows" with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Str...
With crisis-hit Portugal on the verge of government collapse and a cry for financial help, European leaders face an uphill task at a summit meant to seal defences against a year-long debt crisis. Leaders...
Germany is determined to show the world how abandoning nuclear energy can be done. The world's fourth-largest economy stands alone among leading industrialized nations in its decision to stop using nucle...
An outbreak of the H1N1 virus, known commonly as the swine flu, has hit the Venezuelan Andean state of Merida, the country's health minister said, the state-run AVN news agency reported. More than 100 ca...
There was a lot of procedural wrangling today, but the end results is that it *appears* the government will fall this Friday, sometime after 1:30 pm Eastern, on the following Liberal motion: *That the Hou...
It's odd the things that Stephanie Flanders overlooks; A B-BBC reader observes; "Distinct lack of interest from the BBC economic reporters on the record borrowing for February. This gives the lie to ...
[image: The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement and U.S. Coast Guard show off the BP blowout preventer, which is lashed to a barge docked at the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility i...
*Larry Craig & one of his lovers did not meet at a church social* A few weeks ago Sam Stein took a look at the post-senatorial careers of Larry Craig and other recent ex-Senators. Many, like Craig, are cas...
A Dutch man has been intercepting radio broadcasts from Operation Odyssey Dawn in Libya and tweeting them.
Australian prime minister Ms Julia Gillard suffers from a Messiah complex. She decided to impose an insane carbon tax on the economy of the most compact continent. Fortunately, today, she suffered a seri...
*By Joe Emersberger* * March 23, 2011 **"**Information Clearing House**" *--* - Iraq a*lone should have made any progressive support for Western military intervention in Libya negligible. It is very sad t...
[image: Drought threatens the marshes of southern Iraq. Jim Muir / BBC] Baghdad (AFP) March 21, 2011 - Fifty percent of water resources are wasted in Iraq, where six million people have no access to clea...
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Embassies from more than two dozen countries have either closed down or moved operations to cities south of Tokyo since the March 11 earthquake and the resulting nuclear crisis in northern Japan, the cou...
Despite being urged not to hoard bottled water, residents of Japan's capital on Wednesday snapped it up in droves after testing showed radioactive material in tap water at levels unsafe for infants. The...
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[image: Extent of oil palm plantations in Papua New Guinea from 1980-2007. mongabay.com / FAO] By Jeremy Hance, www.mongabay.com March 23, 2011 During a meeting in March 2011 twenty-six experts—from bio...
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Vital information. If you are scratching your head wondering what I mean, when I talk about 'British Irsael' here on this blog, then, usual caveats withstanding, I recommend you read: http://zionistgoldre...
[image: Application of anhydrous ammonia fertilizer at planting time. Photo by Lynn Betts, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. (1999)] By ROBERT BURNS 21 March 2011 OVERTON — Escalating unrest...
Yesterday the House of Commons unanimously approved Canada's participation in the ongoing no fly zone over Libya mission. Unanimously. Everybody's in. Tory, Bloc, Liberal & NDP. Approval wasn't automa...
Abu Yahya al-Libi urges anti-Gaddafi forces not to retreat; reports of mutiny among Gaddafi forces slowing attack on rebel-held Misrata. A senior member of al Qaida urged Libyan rebels to continue their fi...
With the one year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon spill approaching, the anniversary of the Exxon Valdez spill can still provide some lessons.
The Navy could run out of Tomahawk missiles after a fifth of the Navy stockpile has been used against Libya, sources disclosed yesterday. Defence insiders say as many as 12 of the weapons have been fired ...
Here’s an alarming chart to ponder (click to enlarge). HSBC has calculated what would happen to energy consumption by 2050 given plausible forecasts for economic growth and assuming no constraint on resour...
William Hague has warned that autocratic leaders including Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe could be shaken and even toppled by a wave of popular uprisings rippling out from north Africa. The Foreign Secretary ...
by Duane Craig Perhaps New York has the right idea. Don’t look at land contamination as a problem, but rather as an opportunity for economic gain. General Motorspolluted 270 acres near Massena over a 40-y...
Today I’ve been mostly looking at reports of the terrorist bomb in Jerusalem. Leaving aside the unnecessary inclusion of: ”Jerusalem suffered a spate of bus bombings between 2000 and 2004 but attacks had ...
Trade unions said on Tuesday their march this weekend will be the country's biggest protest for years, but police fear splinter groups will attempt to repeat last December's street violence. The Trades ...
Controversial Government reforms will spell the end of the NHS as it stands, academics warn, as the Health Secretary was forced to reassure MPs that hospitals and doctors would not face accusations of runn...
The rate of inflation has hit the highest level for more than two years as the price of fuel, food and clothing continues to rise. Newly-released figures show the CPI rate of inflation soared to a higher-...
Reader reports picture taken recently off of Grand Isle, Lousiana. Reader reports that spill resembles BP Deep Water Horizon oil spill plume. Reader adds: This is yesterday's goop after sitting in the frid...
*Faheem and his wife Shumaila: 'Murdered by American Terrorist Raymond Davis'* On 23 March 2011, we learn of the disappearance of the families of the two men murdered by the CIA's Raymond Davis. Pak cour...
*Asia Times'* columnist 'Pepe Escobar' claims Washington and the Arab League despots are on the same page. Revolution is tolerable west of the Suez but the *status quo* is to be maintained by whatever mea...
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A bomb exploded at a crowded bus stop Wednesday in central Jerusalem, killing one and wounding at least 38 people in what Israeli police are calling a "terrorist" attack. Israel's national emergency serv...
Over the past half century at all the nuclear reactors in the West how many have died from nuclear accidents? Would it surprise you to learn that it's the very same number who have died from the Fukushim...
Palestinians carry the body of a youth in Al-Shifa hospital after Israeli tank fire struck a home. An Israeli tank fire struck a home in the Gaza Strip, killing four Palestinians, including three youths, a...
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Radioactive iodine in the city's tap water was measured to be twice the safe level for infants.
Previously the American Academy of Pediatrics said children more than one year old could switch to forward-facing seats.
The darkness is broken only by the flashing torchlight of the heroes who stayed behind. These first images of inside the stricken Fukushima Dai-Ichi power plant reveal the terrifying conditions under whic...
[image: Natalia Manzurova, shown here in 1988 in the 'dead zone' of the Pripyat, is one of the relatively few survivors among those directly involved in the cleanup of Chernobyl. Courtesy of Natalia Manz...
ZAGREB, CROATIA—Slovenian officials say a nuclear plant has shut down automatically because of a minor incident. Ida Novak Jerela, a spokeswoman for the plant in Krsko, some 30 kilometres west of Zagreb,...
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At http://fbechis.blogspot.com/ there is an article entitled "*Sarkozy declared war on Italy*" "Ma quale Gheddafi! Sarkò ha dichiarato guerra all'Italia" According to this article: *For three years Fr...
Bahraini opposition activists will hold protests throughout the tiny island state on Friday, defying a ban on public gatherings under martial law declared last week. It was not clear who was behind the m...
Reports of yellow rain in Tokyo have got a lot of people thinking this is necessarily like the yellow rain observed after Chernobyl. Firstly, here's the story of what happened after Chernobyl: " Rememberi...
A group of nearly 50 loyalists hurled stones at Jordanian students in a protest camp set up in Amman Thursday night, leaving several injured, as security forces stood by, witnesses told AFP. Around 500 y...
He may not be able to compete in the Kentucky Derby, but he is surely as popular as the winner. And with appearances on Oprah and across the U.S. it has certainly been an eventful first year for Einstein,...
North Korea's government food distribution programme will run dry in May and put one-quarter of the country's 24 million people at risk of starvation, the United Nations has warned. The UN World Food Prog...
Taiwan's top intelligence chief said Wednesday that China is targeting the island with a new type of ballistic missile. "The Chinese communists have deployed the Dongfeng 16, which is a new powerful missi...
One would think that after the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, Americans could at least catch a break for a while with deflationary forces keeping the cost of living relatively low. That...
According to an analysis of newly released 2010 U.S. Census data by the Pew Hispanic Center, the Hispanic population in the United States is growing more quickly and more dramatically than demographers had...
A deadly drug-resistant bacteria is spreading to more patients in nursing and long-term care facilities in Los Angeles County, according to local health officials. Dr. Brad Spellberg, an infectious diseas...
NPR: “President Obama said Wednesday it was ‘absolutely’ out of the question that U.S. ground forces would be used in Libya.” How would the president describe the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit? There is...
More than 27,000 people are officially dead or missing after the earthquake and tsunami that struck northeastern Japan on March 11th. According to the National Police Agency, 9,811 people are confirmed dea...
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