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Learn moreA public servant has appeared in court on charges believed to be connected to child-sex offences under a draconian restriction which means nothing can be said about him. The Mail on Sunday is aware of his...
Extremists brought violent chaos to Central London yesterday after hijacking the much-heralded trade union protest against public spending cuts. Trouble continued to flare late into the night as hundreds o...
WORKERS EVACUATED FROM NO. 2 REACTOR AT FUKUSHIMA. MORE DETAILS FORTHCOMING.
*The Minuet (our No. 6) from Handel's Water Music -- after a fashion* *by Ken* Sometimes it's a fine line between Sunday Classics "flashbacks" and "previews." Last night we flashed back to last week, wit...
*Barack and his new best bud Jeff:* *Does the president know how to pick 'em or what?* *"He understands what it takes for America to compete in the global economy."* *-- President Obama about Jeffrey Imme...
The spectre of Bradley Manning lying naked and alone in a tiny cell at the Quantico Marine Base, less than 50 miles from Washington, DC, conjures up images of an American Guantanamo or Abu Ghraib, where ...
Some lawmakers and market analysts are expressing rising concerns that a demand for capital by earthquake-ravaged Japan could lead it to sell off some of its huge holdings of U.S.-issued debt, leaving the ...
General Electric, the nation’s largest corporation, had a very good year in 2010. The company reported worldwide profits of $14.2 billion, and said $5.1 billion of the total came from its operations in t...
On a day that Toyota has announced plans *for a possible shutdown* in the US because of supply problems in Japan, the United Auto Workers said that they are on the verge of the "largest boycott in the hist...
Throngs of demonstrators protested in the rain Friday, rallying in central Baghdad's Tahrir Square against corruption, unemployment, the lack of basic services and the treatment of prisoners. Several wom...
Yemen's president, speaking to thousands of people at a pro-government demonstration on Friday, underscored his intentions to have a dialogue with protesters and make concessions in order to avoid bloodshe...
Demonstrations turned violent in Amman, Jordan, Friday as government loyalists clashed with protesters who are pushing for reforms. Dozens were injured as the two sides converged in a hail of rocks and ...
Who is Tamar Fogel? The chances are that you will have no idea. She is a 12-year-old girl who arrived home late on Friday, March 11, to discover her family had been slaughtered. Her parents had been stab...
To listen to the hype about social networking websites and the Egyptian revolution, one would think it was Silicon Valley and not the Egyptian people who overthrew Mubarak. Via its technologies, the West...
Up to one million people have fled Ivory Coast to safer areas amid fears of an all-out civil war, the UN refugee agency has said. The office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and other aid ...
Time out from talk of elections. Sixty-two-year-old George Wass died earlier this week after someone attacked him on the steps of a Parkdale rooming house last Friday. He was hospitalized briefly and then...
by Tony Cartalucci The "barrier of legitimacy" is broken: a mob shouts "American agent" as they hurl rocks at ElBaradei who most certainly is an American agent - a trustee of the US International Crisis Gro...
Our search for life beyond Earth could take us down the road to a shocking look into the mirror -- a climax straight out of a Twilight Zone plot.
Part I - Philip D. Zelikow: The Myth Maker Behind 9/11 And The War on Terror If the mainstream press in America and the West wasn't treasonous, stupid, corrupt, cowardly, and immature, we would be hearing...
This haunting photograph depicts trees swathed in webs following the epic floods in Pakistan. Is it really because there is no home for the spiders in the water that remains standing on the land as infer...
*After the biggest mass extinction in Earth's history – 250 million years ago – algae and bacteria in the ocean rebounded so fast that they consumed virtually all the oxygen in the sea, slowing the recov...
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wmtc - 8 hours ago
I just want to re-run Bob Herbert's last column for *The New York Times*. Thank you, Mr. Herbert, for being a steadfast voice for working people and for justice. With Herbert's exit and Frank Rich's depar...
Impartiality - it is in our genes. Here is Lauren Lavern of the BBC..... Good luck to everyone marching today. Give 'em peaceful, eloquent hell. #march26 about 12 hours ago via Twitter for iPhoneRetweeted ...
[image: Located in the Terre Adélie-George V Land section of East Antarctica, Astrolabe Glacier streams out from the interior of Antarctica to dump ice into the sea, November 28, 2010. This outlet glacie...
Enbridge. Pipeline. Oil tanker port. Kitimat. There's a smouldering anger among British Columbians about plans to bring oil tanker traffic through treacherous northern BC waters to a tanker port at K...
[image: Amanzi Trails structures submerged beneath the flooded Orange River, Namibia, 18 January 2011. The Orange River reached almost 9 metres over the weekend. The water level started rising after the ...
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wmtc - 9 hours ago
Geraldine A. Ferraro, the first woman nominated for national office by a major US political party, is gone. She was 75 and had suffered from multiple myeloma, a blood cancer, for 12 years. In one of the s...
[image: Asian carp. kate.gardiner via Flickr] By Andrew Stern; editing by Vicki Allen Fri Mar 25, 2011 CHICAGO (Reuters) - Voltage coursing through electrical barriers designed to keep invasive Asian c...
Rick Scott and his all-Republican state legislature-- Floridians, you asked for it; now you'll have to live with it for a while, perhaps a *long*while-- are all over the map, destroying public education, ...
Anarchists today broke away from one of the largest protests Britain has ever seen to bring chaos to the streets of London. The Ritz hotel and Fortnum & Mason were among the buildings targeted in the capi...
It looks as if the CIA, and members of the wealthy Arab elite, are using al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood to topple Arab rulers who are out of favour. On 1 March 2011, in New America Media, Yoichi Shi...
Steve McIntyre managed to uncover a piece of scientific forgery that looks even more serious than the original "hide the decline" trick: Hide the Decline: Sciencemag #3 The summary of the story is very...
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wmtc - 11 hours ago
Two weeks ago, at Toronto's Trinity St. Paul Centre, George Galloway spoke about the grassroots revolutions in the Arab world, and the intervention or interference of Western nations. I couldn't be there, ...
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Biased BBC - 11 hours ago
I'm sure everyone here will remember the BBC's official position during the Egyptian democracy protests, before Mubarak (to his eternal credit, in my view) stepped down, which was that the Muslim Brotherho...
Contributing on a regular basis to this blog about dying trees has become progressively more excruciating. It is like pulling out a splinter. Has anyone ever said that about writing? If they have, I'm s...
After creating these cute magnet flowers, I was sad that the flowers were only on my fridge and other magnetic places. So I decided to make flower push pins, to brighten up any area. You need: Fake flower...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Prosecutors unsealed an indictment on Thursday charging an accused serial killer dubbed the "Grim Sleeper" with murdering 10 girls and women during a Los Angeles-area crime spree th...
A jury took less than four hours to convict a border activist of killing a father and his nine-year-old daughter who he shot twice in the face in her home. Jason Bush, 36, is now faces the death penalty f...
We have been fed a line of bullshit by the prevailing culture for the past several hundreds of years, that monotheism is an evolved, advanced spirituality, that the patriarchal power infrastructures and ec...
A small group of protesters smashed windows and attempted to occupy shops in central London - as tens of thousands of people marched against government cuts. Anti-capitalists and anarchists attacked bran...
Police investigating the murder of Sian O'Callaghan tonight found a second set of human remains after a huge search operation. Investigators spent 24 hours digging up the isolated spot in the Cotswolds in...
Since January we've been getting a very steady stream of news from state governments that is downright ugly-- and not just from runaway fascist regimes in Wisconsin, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Texas, Ari...
If you continuously watch the LHC status, you must have noticed that on March 1st, 2011, a beam was dumped at some point. Why did it happen? Well, it happened because they told the second man on the Moon, ...
A shocking scene occurred in Tripoli on Saturday when a gun was pointed at Sky News after a woman tried to tell foreign journalists about being raped and tortured by Libyan officials. A visibly very dist...
Levels of radioactive iodine in seawater just offshore of the embattled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant spiked to more than 1,250 times higher than normal, Japan's nuclear and industrial safety agency sa...
Unemployment rose in nearly all of the 372 largest U.S. cities in January compared to the previous month, mostly because of seasonal changes such as the layoff of temporary retail employees hired for the h...
A Pentagon audit has found that the federal government overpaid a billionaire oilman by as much as $200 million on several military contracts worth nearly $2.7 billion. The audit by the Defense Department...
Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi, the Libyan rebel leader, has said jihadists who fought against allied troops in Iraq are on the front lines of the battle against Muammar Gaddafi's regime. In an interview with the ...
Violent protests erupted Friday in Syria, with dozens of people killed in and around the restive city of Daraa and a boy slain in the coastal town of Latakia, reports said. "The situation in Syria has w...
Residents living between 20 and 30 km from the wrecked Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant are being urged to "voluntarily evacuate" amid difficulties in obtaining daily necessities and the possibility of ...
The government will come up with a drastic plan by April to deal with a major electricity shortage expected this summer from the loss of two nuclear power plants damaged by the quake and tsunami in Fukushi...
An NHK survey shows that about 60 percent of survivors of the March 11th earthquake and tsunami think they cannot return to their homes or do not want to. NHK asked 488 people staying in shelters in the 3...
A new assessment of President Barack Obama's budget released Friday says the White House underestimates future budget deficits by more than $2 trillion over the upcoming decade. The estimate from the nonp...
The latest news reports reconfirm a continuing trend we at the Sovereign Society have observed since our founding in 1997; the most recent U.S. State Department figures for 2010 show the total number of U....
Millions of spiders have crawled into trees in Pakistan to escape flood waters, shrouding them with their silky webs. The eye-catching phenomenon is an unexpected side-effect of last year's flooding which...
A married veterinarian, furious over his mistress's pregnancy, shot the woman three times before dumping her body in a nature preserve, according to police. David Rapoport, 30, of Lansdale, Pennsylvania, ...
[image: Three hundred acres were covered with toxic sludge in late December 2008 when a wall of a coal ash holding pond near Kingston in East Tennessee gave way. Wade Payne / Associated Press] By SHAILA...
Goodbye board games. MIT Media Labs' Sifteo Cubes promise high-tech interactive play.
. *(you can trust us...that's not a masonic floor in the background we promise...we hate the masons...)* " A bankrupt order of priests has agreed to pay $166.1 million to hundreds of Native American and A...
And we're off. At least I assume we are - I'm away from e-mail today and this was drafted up last night with an 11 am timestamp. I wouldn't put it past Stephen Harper to cancel the election so as to ensure...
I'm fairly good at discerning now who is anglosaxon and who is a celt. Probably about half of the time you can make an educated guess just based on name and appearance. Of course that is not to say that th...
Hundreds of thousands of protesters have descended on London today in a mass protest being staged against Government cuts in public spending. The TUC had estimated that around 100,000 union activists and o...
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Biased BBC - 17 hours ago
I know that you are talking about this on the Open Thread but I spent a few minutes suffering the BBC coverage of the Denialists parade through our Capital city. Talks about bias! The BBC is openly doing e...
*Yummy American farm girl* Historically, George W. Bush had 3 of the most brazen shills of AgriBusiness as consecutive Secretaries of Agriculture: Ann Veneman, Mike Johanns and Ed Schafer. Each was charge...
...switch all your lights on to celebrate industry. 8.30-9.30pm. Bwahaha. *"It would not do if a 500 megawatt coal-fired power plant was purring along, generating 250 megawatts during “Earth Hour” when, ...
*Happy Libyan children by* *CharlesFred**. * Brian alerted us to the following: British economic journalists David Blundy and Andrew Lycett observed the following about LIBYA: "The young people are wel...
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wmtc - 18 hours ago
Please take a break from politics to enjoy a few moments of canine cuteness and joy. Because when a sweet dog interrupts your game, there's nothing else you can do. Canadians may now return to thinking ab...
*Otsuchi, Japan (CNN)* -- You can see the survivors making the choice as they walk through the debris-strewn main street of Otsuchi in Japan -- stay or go? Some ramble as they walk, as if in a daze, try...
* * *Ajdabiya, Libya (CNN)* -- Outside the Libyan city of Ajdabiya, tents have sprouted in the rolling desert, where the sands blow and farmers grow figs and grapes. In the city, a fierce fight rages f...
Libya's rebel forces are now in control of the strategicaly important eastern town of Ajdabiyah after pushing back troops loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. On the eastern road, where Gaddafi's forces had...
"Earth Hour" special by Tony Cartalucci Nothing embodies the corporate hijacked environmental movement more than the despicable hoax that is "Earth Hour." Once a year, we are bombarded worldwide by a feel...
The Public Safety Committee report on the G-20 tabled in the House yesterday calls for an independent inquiry into the decision-making by all levels of government that resulted in the outrageous cost, the ...
Light Pillars: Visual Phenomena created by the Reflection of Light.
Light pillars are a common sight around cities in winter. Urban lights bounce off ice crystals in the air, producing tall luminous columns sometimes mistaken for auroras. But the light pillars Mike Holling...
Ian Stevenson (Wikipedia) who studied reincarnation Life is a mystery. "Several years ago, when my daughter was just over three years old, my husband and I were watching a TV show about 9/11... "My dau...
THOUSANDS of beetles are swarming Surfers Paradise in a never before seen phenomenon that has stumped local scientists. The water beetle invasion captured on amateur youtube footage shows the large black ...
Police continue searching a Gloucestershire field after a man suspected of killing Sian O'Callaghan allegedly pointed out where he previously dumped another victim. The location was provided by the 47-ye...
THOUSANDS of dead fish have been found floating in a picturesque stream after harmful pollution was allegedly poured down drains. The surface of a small stream in Caldy Valley Nature Park in Huntington wa...
* More tests to show if strain was high-pathogenic * Poultry transport banned within 1 km zone around farm AMSTERDAM, March 25 (Reuters) - Dutch authorities said on Friday they will cull about 127,500 eg...
Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke has warned that the Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi could seek revenge on Britain for its involvement in airstrikes. In an interview with The Guardian newspaper, th...
Night Stalker rapist Delroy Grant smiled as he was led from the dock after a judge jailed him for life for violently attacking 18 elderly victims. The 53-year-old serial sex predator had showed no emotion ...
An inquest has returned verdicts of suicide for Derrick Bird and unlawful killing for each of the 12 people he shot dead in West Cumbria last year. The self-employed taxi driver went on a 45 mile shooting...
With each repeated blow, the pitchfork makes a sickening thwack as it slams into Anne the elephant's hide. She flinches, at one point even appearing to lose her footing under the weight of a particularly ...
Vets say it’s impossible - but to Chinese farmer Liu Naiying his birth is a miracle. For Mr Liu insists one of his sheep has given birth to a dog The 'puppy' has wool like a lamb but its mouth, nose, eyes...
THE cradle of America's industrial might lies in ruins - ravaged by the world recession. Scarce jobs at its remaining automobile plants - including Chrysler and General Motors - mean a third of homes...
Anarchist groups are threatening to ‘release all hell’ today at a trade unions march to be addressed by Labour leader Ed Miliband. Police fear scores of violent anti-capitalist demonstrators could hijack t...
The moon has had its day and Mars is just, well, too far away. Nasa plans to put a man on an asteroid by 2025 in a real-life version of the film Armageddon. Astronauts will embark on a six-month mission t...
Up to 100 people were feared dead and many more injured after Syria exploded in violence yesterday. Soldiers opened fire on pro-democracy campaigners in several cities, after tens of thousands took to the...
Most people taken down to jail by officers will usually accept it silently. But not Latasha Williams, 36, who fought being taken into custody after a mental health hearing in an incredible outburst insid...
Scientists probing the deaths of baby dolphins in the area affected by last year's BP oil spill have been ordered by the government not to speak about the project. Wildlife biologists who have been contra...
For decades they lay beneath the sea, undisturbed by time or tide. But after 70 years, almost 100 Second World War bombs finally fulfilled their explosive destiny yesterday, thanks to the power of the 'Sup...
Scientists probing the deaths of baby dolphins in the area affected by last year's BP oil spill have been ordered by the government not to speak about the project. Wildlife biologists who have been contra...
A vicious killer who attacked and murdered a New Hampshire woman and maimed her daughter will die in jail, a judge ordered today. Christopher Gribble, 21, who hacked Kimberley Cates to death while her ser...
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A public servant has appeared in court on charges believed to be connected to child-sex offences under a draconian restriction which means nothing can be said about him. The Mail on Sunday is aware of his...
Extremists brought violent chaos to Central London yesterday after hijacking the much-heralded trade union protest against public spending cuts. Trouble continued to flare late into the night as hundreds o...
WORKERS EVACUATED FROM NO. 2 REACTOR AT FUKUSHIMA. MORE DETAILS FORTHCOMING.
The level of radioactive iodine detected in seawater near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant was 1,250 times above the maximum level allowable, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said Saturday, ...
*Barack and his new best bud Jeff:* *Does the president know how to pick 'em or what?* *"He understands what it takes for America to compete in the global economy."* *-- President Obama about Jeffrey Imme...
The spectre of Bradley Manning lying naked and alone in a tiny cell at the Quantico Marine Base, less than 50 miles from Washington, DC, conjures up images of an American Guantanamo or Abu Ghraib, where ...
Some lawmakers and market analysts are expressing rising concerns that a demand for capital by earthquake-ravaged Japan could lead it to sell off some of its huge holdings of U.S.-issued debt, leaving the ...
General Electric, the nation’s largest corporation, had a very good year in 2010. The company reported worldwide profits of $14.2 billion, and said $5.1 billion of the total came from its operations in t...
On a day that Toyota has announced plans *for a possible shutdown* in the US because of supply problems in Japan, the United Auto Workers said that they are on the verge of the "largest boycott in the hist...
Throngs of demonstrators protested in the rain Friday, rallying in central Baghdad's Tahrir Square against corruption, unemployment, the lack of basic services and the treatment of prisoners. Several wom...
Yemen's president, speaking to thousands of people at a pro-government demonstration on Friday, underscored his intentions to have a dialogue with protesters and make concessions in order to avoid bloodshe...
Who is Tamar Fogel? The chances are that you will have no idea. She is a 12-year-old girl who arrived home late on Friday, March 11, to discover her family had been slaughtered. Her parents had been stab...
To listen to the hype about social networking websites and the Egyptian revolution, one would think it was Silicon Valley and not the Egyptian people who overthrew Mubarak. Via its technologies, the West...
Up to one million people have fled Ivory Coast to safer areas amid fears of an all-out civil war, the UN refugee agency has said. The office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and other aid ...
by Tony Cartalucci The "barrier of legitimacy" is broken: a mob shouts "American agent" as they hurl rocks at ElBaradei who most certainly is an American agent - a trustee of the US International Crisis Gro...
Part I - Philip D. Zelikow: The Myth Maker Behind 9/11 And The War on Terror If the mainstream press in America and the West wasn't treasonous, stupid, corrupt, cowardly, and immature, we would be hearing...
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