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Learn moreThe trouble with a war like the one that's been fought for the past decade in Afghanistan is that there are so few, if any, clear cut "winners" or "losers." Over the span of so many years things are bound...
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Biased BBC - 8 minutes ago
The BBC have been bigging this up all day so this one is for the sistahood. Now, what has been bothering you today? Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
One of the most dedicated and inspiring candidates endorsed by Blue America in 2010,
Billy Kennedy, took on the thankless task of holding Virginia Foxx's stinky feet to the fire. Massively outraised ($322...
"Welcome back, sir," General Petraeus said to
Robert Gates as the latter arrived in Afghanistan. They were apparently unaware of an open microphone. "You gonna launch some attacks on Libya or something?"...
Strips of light-as-air aerogel could be used in robotic fingers and hands to make them super sensitive.
It looks like
Muammar Gaddafi will soon be following Charlie Sheen to the unemployment line. When you get crazy crazy somebody eventually shows you the door. Various Arab media outlets have been reportin...
By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com *Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the US media is losing the information war to alternative media: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M...
*Blogger’s Note:* Having a Ph.D. is no big deal. It’s what one does with his/her life after exiting the educational system that counts. Michael Moore is a perfect example. With only a high school degree, h...
A new system could help emergency responders estimate casualties before catastrophe strikes, giving them ample time to prepare.
A new meal-advice system helps improve health by suggesting food options.
*Evil, corrupt Stalinist clown... smiling* Yesterday the Wisconsin Democratic Party filed an ethics complaint with the state Government Accountability Board that alleges Walker repeatedly violated Wiscons...
* Bette Davis.* What we all want is some kind of bliss or rapture or ecstatic love. Something divine. We see a youthful Bette Davis, and we think she looks divine. But, is it all an illusion? *Forg...
Next time you're at the store, you might want to take a second look at your emerald-green broccoli and super-fresh red meats.
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wmtc - 6 hours ago
Happy International Women's Day. La lucha continua.
The number of security contractor working in *Afghanistan* has tripled since 2009 and is now at its highest level since the U.S. began its military participation there after 9/11, according to a new repor...
*Guest post by Demetris Koutsoyiannis* It is a year since Vít Klemeš is no longer with us. He took “residence on cloud no. 17” as he used to say. *Vít Klemeš (left), laurelled by local admirers in the...
*AMERICAN LABOUR CALIFORNIA:* *WHAT IS A LIFE WORTH ?:* The following appeal is from the American United Farm Workers, and it's about the excessively lenient sentence for the contractor responsible for ...
*"[Ross] dreamed of perfection, not of power or personal fortune. He was a visionary and a practicalist, imperfect at both, a dreamer and a hard worker, a genius and a plodder, obstinate and reasonable, co...
The worldwide grassroots campaign to launch a new international investigation into the events of September 11, 2001, is the least divisive cause in the world. The 9/11 truth movement is not a political mov...
If you've never caught of glimpse of the shuttle or space station flying overhead, it's well worth your time. And for the next couple of days, you can see two spacecraft for the effort.
* Ohmygosh, is Harvey Weinstein the face of The New Newsweek? Holy media muck, Batman! * *by Ken* Ever since it was announced that the new *Newsweek* ownership was turning the magazine over to Ms. Tina Bro...
*The answer is probably yes. This from FIREDOGLAKE: Israeli Company Hires Gadhafi’s Mercenaries – With Approval of the Israeli Government By: EdwardTeller Thursday March 3, 2011 8:34 am TEL AVIV, ...
The recent looting of Egyptian artifacts raises thorny cultural questions of preserving history.
The Green Party rolls out an attack ad...on attack ads. In my mind, this is a great ad. Likely the best so far of the pre-election cycle. It's well produced but, as the Tories have shown, production val...
Blowback, managed blowback and self-deception By Kevin Ryan Published: March 5, 2011 Learning about self-deception is important for all people today. That’s because many of our problems, both as individua...
On this week's Friday News Feedbag, we discuss everything from cartoon caricatures to ant zombies. And the Jorge Ghost makes a surprise appearance. The Friday News Feedbag podcast pits Discovery News repor...
Despite winter's lasting grasp, some people don their bathing suits and take a dip in freezing waters outside.
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CENSORED NEWS - 20 hours ago
*Cante Tenza Okolakiciye - Strong Heart Warrior Society *ACTION ALERT! YOUR ACTION IS NEEDED RIGHT NOW! PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY! Special thanks to all the people who have collected this information and expre...
Could pariah status spell the end for Zionism? By Alan Hart March 7, 2011 Definition: Pariah – a social outcast (Chambers Dictionary) One eminent Israeli who apparently thinks the answer could be yes is I...
I went for a hike yesterday and fantasized about wrting a post about how the wealthy and their political lackeys have seriously overreached. In my fantasy by the end there were Koch heads on pikes. But wh...
A couple of things here. Firstly, peak oil. Largely a Big Oil/'Green' scam, abiotic theory notwithstanding. Secondly, some reacted to this video with indignation that 'of course resources are scarce and th...
posted by David Preiser (USA) at
Biased BBC - 20 hours ago
Accompanying a news brief on the BBC website about Prime Minster Julia Gillard of Australia's first trip to the US to meet with the President is an "analysis" inset from JournoList groupie Katie Connolly. ...
posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at
- 21 hours ago
Url movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewEjktwpLAo *Amr Diab* is an Egyptian superstar who escaped my attention. Here he is. Apparently this song has much in common with Andalucian pop, I find, which r...
Below is a collection of interviews of former British soldier, Foreign Service diplomat, author and Conservative MP Rory Stewart. Stewart is the author of "The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational...
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This video fuckin' rocks. It is made by Global Fear Enterprises for Infowars.com's “The Answer to 1984 is 1776″ Video Contest.
These pachyderm problem-solvers are among the world's most cognitively advanced animals.
The "Einsteinturm" can be found in the German town of Potsdam, a building that should really be in your physics building tour guide.
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The lights are going out. We have to get used to it. Apparently. "The days of permanently available electricity may be coming to an end" The Empire Strikes Out
The Discovery crew had a special message from Star Trek's Captain Kirk just before they undocked from the space station.
Video from inside the courtroom. (see prev post)
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CENSORED NEWS - 22 hours ago
Long Walk 3 in Arizona. Photos by Rez Riders, published with permission. Thank you! Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
" HUNDREDS of anti-establishment protestors stormed a Wirral court today and "arrested" a judge. In chaotic scenes, police rescued Judge Michael Peake from their clutches and escorted him safely from the ...
*Can Brad Smith stop Englander & the big money interests behind him?* If you live in L.A. there's some kind of small chance you may be voting tomorrow. I am. And I even wrote about the City Council race in...
posted by laura k at
wmtc - 22 hours ago
Back in October, I posted about a very strange water bill we received from the Region of Peel. Our three-month bill usually runs around $60, representing 4Ms or a maximum of 5Ms of water. This bill was alm...
Douglas Rushkoff - Nothing Sacred: The Truth About Judaism Allan Gregg interviews Douglas Rushkoff:
Certain birds in the burbs are suffering big time, making these areas less-than-hospitable homes for some species.
The Beta Pictoris disk became the poster child for the possibility of planets around other star.
Libya has assets of $152bn invested outside Libya. Libya may never see its money again after the wealth grab by the USA and its fellow bad-guys. And the lies about Libya continue: Wag the Dog.
posted by Robin Horbury at
Biased BBC - 23 hours ago
Richard Black, again, I'm afraid....today he's in propaganda overdrive about the US, those nasty republicans won't allow CO2-curbing measures to be passed, and they are even daring to challenge the idea th...
On Saturday, aliens invaded. On Monday, NASA denied their existence.
Just after my daughter was born two years ago, I put together this magnet board for her room. I wanted to go out and buy really cute magnets but my husband was in the middle of his Teach for America train...
** *Northern route if off to Helena, and the southern route is in San Carlos Apache *Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Photos: Long walk northern route in Oregon by Christina Akaquiqui. Quecha...
Delivered in Madison, Wisconsin on Saturday, March 5th, 2011. Video available here. America is not broke. Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'll give up your pension, cut...
* Joey Dee of Young Talent Time. * Our post entitled "*TONY CURTIS, DAVID CASSIDY, TED HAGGARD...*", which has recently had 27,273 pageviews, mentioned a lot of Americans. So here is something for Australi...
I heard the rumour from three different people over the weekend, and it has exploded today thanks to a Hill Times story - there's a possibility we could be into an election campaign by week's end. The cau...
Yesterday George Will admitted that even the rubes who actually favor handing the Republicans back the keys to the car are "detecting vibrations of weirdness emanating from people associated with the par...
Cocaine should be legal, says top doctor Professor Sir Ian Gilmore said making drugs such as heroin and cocaine legal would “drastically” cut crime and addicts’ health problems. State-regulated use of dru...
I just discovered the YouTube channel of ICTP, i.e. Abdus Salam's International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy. During the last month or so, they have posted a number of recent lectures ...
A surprising mechanism may have thrust the famous mountain range skywards.
Controversy about safety during scans, at least, might be abated.
Just another manic Monday on the BBC. Please detail the bias that is spews forth.. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
ONLY on the BBC would we catch a discussion on whether Labour was "too tough" on crime (!!!) yet THAT is* exactly* what was foisted upon us earlier today. In order to provide that balance for which the BBC...
Interesting to read that the BBC's new face of religion believes that God has a wife. I suppose this is of no real significance for non-Christians but for those who do have faith it is really annoying to s...
The BBC really are first class propagandists for AGW. Did you know that BOTH Poles are melting fast? Yes, it must be true because the BBC says it is truehere I am advised by one of our readers that this ...
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- 1 day ago
*If you have a simple, inconspicuous digital camera* you can do miracles with it. Just use *Gigapan* and produce breathtaking panoramas and other very sophisticated pictures. It is impressive what can be a...
A question from Nigel Seel at Physics Stack Exchange comes in four parts. 1. What are the main problems which supersymmetry purports to solve? 2. What would constitute lack of evidence for SUSY at th...
Plants in Florida have fewer stomata now than they did a century ago - reducing the amount of moisture they release into the air.
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius broke apart a tomb inscription for a husband and wife. Now the names have been joined again.
*ANISHINABE WOMEN CALL ON BRUCE POWER TO HALT SHIPMENT OF NUCLEAR WASTE THROUGH GREAT LAKES *Press statement CHRISTIAN ISLAND, ONTARIO – Anishinabe Kweag, the group of women who successfully protested Site...
Enforcing a No-Fly Zone Could Stop Gadhafi's Ability to Launch Air Attacks As forces loyal to *Moammar Gadhafi* battle the resistance for control of key cities, the *Obama* administration is under increa...
posted by laura k at
wmtc - 1 day ago
Petition calling for resignation of Jason Kenney. Sign and share! #KenneyResignNow
*Casablanca* Ever since first falling in love with the country in the summer of 1969, I've been returning to Morocco every few years. My most recent trip was this past December, chronicled at my travel bl...
posted by laura k at
wmtc - 1 day ago
I don't know if you've all been following updates on accused WikiLeaks / Collateral Murder hero Bradley Manning. Things have gotten much worse. On Wednesday, March 2, the US Army hit Manning with 22 additi...
“An imam has retracted statements about evolution and the right of Muslim women not to cover their hair after death threats were made against him”, says the BBC. Compare the BBC's treatment of the story ab...
*A must read by Johnny Ball. Read Johnny here:*
The winds of change blowing through the Middle East are bringing enormous hopes for change. In Egypt, where Hosni Mubarak helped to maintain the siege on Gaza, there is now a big public campaign to open ...
*Chinese President Hu Jintao; King Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz.* The USA has asked Saudi Arabia to supply the anti-Gaddafi rebels with anti-tank rockets and mortars. (America's secret plan to arm Libya's rebel...
Just what are we playing at? His recent, endless rants leave no doubt but that he's batshit crazy (my guess is paresis). He appears intent on subjecting his people to what most closely resembles the fuhr...
Is FOX News ready to ditch Glenn Beck? *New York Times* media columnist, David Carr, claims that FOX execs have about had it with this lunatic: *He still has numbers that just about any cable news host wo...
With a *giant* tip of the chapeau to KenInNY at DownWithTyranny. The "Soave sia il vento" from Mozart's *Cosi fan tutte*, three different ways. There are more. Pick one. Or pick them all. And then ...
*"Ross was never conscious of his dramatic gestures, or of his natural gift of theatrical speech. At times he seemed to be on stage, and you half expected the curtain to fall on such an agonized tagline a...
Allan Gregg interviews Patricia Pearson, author of the book "A Brief History of Anxiety...Yours and Mine." It is a fascinating interview.
*RED ALERT - EMERGENCY - POLICE THREATEN TO ARREST STRONG HEART AND ELDERS!* Photo: President Steele speaking to occupation (Sunday, March 6, 2011, 8 pm) This is an EMERGENCY BULLETIN for action requested ...
Considering a black hole in the fifth dimension, can it eventually become a "naked singularity"? Welcome to the bizarre world of shrinking strings.
If there was a "fun size" nuclear war, how would the climate react?
*The trailer for John Schlesinger's Sunday, Bloody Sunday (1971)* *by Ken* I tried to figure out how to work in a reference to *Sunday, Bloody Sunday*in writing earlier today about Mozart's *Così*, but c...
If they're right, the world as you've known it will never be the same again. "They" are the seers who, in growing numbers, are predicting widespread upheaval, revolution if you like, during the 21st centu...
. AANGIRFAN: KIDS WHO DON'T KNOW THEIR OWN NAMES; 8 MILLION DEATHS Just don't fight the wars. Innocent people get oppressed and killed, our troops get killed and maimed, and then their names end up on a ...
Supporters of President Barack Obama often say that he is a "deep" thinker, but, how deep a thinker is he when he has failed to look into the crimes and human rights violations that occurred under the Bush...
Even a casual reader of this blog should know that one of our favorite books of the last several years has been Nixonland by progressive historian Rick Perlstein. The Blue Dog caucus was formed until two ...
. " The second day of “National Rage” in Iraq produced again big demonstrations in all major cities in Iraq. The relevance of these protest movements cannot be underestimated. These protest are nationwide,...
"On this week's show Keelan talks with Axis4Peace about the opposite view of the Venus Project, it's ties to the United Nations and Peter Joseph's intellectual double-think in dismissing the New World Orde...
...we could send them to special Ztgst summer camp... Just Creepy.
LOL, could you possibly be more offensive to Americans than standing in front of George Washington's statue and, in the finest English voice, saying 'nice one George, what were you thinking'. We know what ...
God bless ATF agent John Dodson for going public. CBS News - Agent: I was ordered to let U.S. guns into Mexico ATF agent says "Fast and Furious" program let guns "walk" into hands of Mexican drug cartels ...
*** Ellyn Carlson is on the Longest Walk 3, northern route* Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Photo: Ellyn speaks to Nez Perce students in Lapwai, Idaho/Photo Long Walk northern route *Ellyn t...
*“The fear and dread of you shall rest on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the air, on everything that creeps on the ground, and on all the fish of the sea; into your hand they are delivered...
*Is this the most beautiful music ever written?* *MOZART: Così fan tutte: Act I, No. 10, Trio, Fiordiligi, Dorabella, and Don Alfonso, "Soave sia il vento"* Gentle be the breeze, Calm be the waves, And ev...
posted by Robin Horbury at
Biased BBC - 2 days ago
The Cleggeron transport minister Phillip Hammond has caused hoots of derision with his ludicrous claims - made on the BBC Daily Politics Show last Wednesday - that wind turbines do not attract subsidy. The...
posted by Robin Horbury at
Biased BBC - 2 days ago
Autonomous Mind waspishly but brilliantly explains here why David Cameron's claims today that he will get rid of bureaucracy and stimulate enterprise are a load of hot air. The BBC, of course, uses the spe...
*Blogger's Note:* I am led to believe that virtually all state governments have investment funds caching surplus income accumulated over the years. For example, New Jersey's Cash Management Fund currently ...
*Yeah like this isn't the oldest trick in the book...see **here** or **here* * or the wonderful double standard being applied **here**.* " Libya: SAS soldiers 'held by Libyan rebels' Up to eight soldiers w...
posted by laura k at
wmtc - 2 days ago
Michael Moore gives the progressive troops in Wisconsin a great boost. "America is not broke, and neither is Wisconsin. . . . America is awash with wealth, it's just not in your hands." Don't miss this, i...
A coral reef display at the Smithsonian relies on crocheters for contributions.
posted by laura k at
wmtc - 2 days ago
*[See below for link to petition.]* Just as the federal court unmasked the Conservative party's entrenched corruption, now the full measure of their arrogance - and their essential anti-democratic nature ...
Drunk on power, ignorance and blind ambition, the crazed Republican House majority-- as well as majorities in state houses around the country-- is trampling basic American values in their rush to enact a ...
A new map points out populations facing the greatest climate trouble.
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wmtc - 2 days ago
Naomi Wolf in Al Jazeera English: Among the most prevalent Western stereotypes about Muslim countries are those concerning Muslim women: doe-eyed, veiled, and submissive, exotically silent, gauzy inhabita...
Two founders of the Breakthrough Institute, a fearmongering lobby group, namely Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus are giving lectures about the long death of environmentalism. *I don't know which...
* Gaddafi bodyguards.* When the CIA puts a new government into power, they often give the new government a list of people who are to be got rid of. Mubarak was toppled by the CIA on 11 February 2011. On ...
*This was such an important post from Pounce on the Open Thread that it deserved a main post all of its own*. *Thank you Pounce*. Questions are currently being asked about why a British designer is anti-S...
*At this concert in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, as an encore -- announced by conductor Kurt Herbert Adler (1905-1988, the San Francisco Opera's general director for nearly 30 years up to his retirem...
Fossilized alien microbes have been discovered in a sample extracted from a meteorite, according to research carried out by a NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center astrobiologist.
*HUMOUR:* *THE MODERN WAY OF LIFE:* Yet another item from the pen of Stephanie McMillan.
*The first of four of his own cartoons that The New Yorker's Bob Mankoff has personally charliesheenified* *by Ken* Okay, it may be going too far to declare Charlie Sheen talentless.* Perhaps it would be...
Fox News host Bill O’Reilly mentioned Alex Jones's appearance on the View the other day, calling him "some guy on the radio, we really don’t know who he is." But as Kurt Nimmo points out, O'Reilly is not t...
There's a hot race for City Council in my part of L.A.-- first time I can remember something like this. Soon after I moved to the area, the City Councilman who had held the job since 1966, John Ferraro, d...
*They're really forcing the issue here. Can't believe more people can't see through this, just an old school imperial coup. **Reminds me of this.** Not saying Gaddafi is at all good, but chances are whoeve...
Well, while I've been running on at the mouth about labels and meaning and context, CK's been setting things on fire over at Sister Sage. I'm even going to pass up a chance to slag Julian for this. Seems t...
*Not a Talmudist. Although you may be forgiven for making that mistake. * 1877: Cecil Rhodes, "Confession of Faith" " It often strikes a man to inquire what is the chief good in life; to one the thought c...
This Here Openly Totalitarian Project " The European Union is moving rapidly towards becoming a totalitarian empire. It is becoming a place where dissidents are to keep their mouths shut, unless they want...
This week, a fellow blogger asked me for my impressions of our rapid spiral towards destruction...which led to a thought-provoking exercise. It surprised me that even he was surprised by the breadth of my a...
Blogger's Note: The first video below pertains to my first post of the day, i.e., the media (and Gov Walker) lying about the alleged higher pay and better perks of public workers. The second video is an ab...
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One of the most dedicated and inspiring candidates endorsed by Blue America in 2010, Billy Kennedy, took on the thankless task of holding Virginia Foxx's stinky feet to the fire. Massively outraised ($322...
"Welcome back, sir," General Petraeus said to Robert Gates as the latter arrived in Afghanistan. They were apparently unaware of an open microphone. "You gonna launch some attacks on Libya or something?"...
By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com *Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the US media is losing the information war to alternative media: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M...
*Blogger’s Note:* Having a Ph.D. is no big deal. It’s what one does with his/her life after exiting the educational system that counts. Michael Moore is a perfect example. With only a high school degree, h...
*Evil, corrupt Stalinist clown... smiling* Yesterday the Wisconsin Democratic Party filed an ethics complaint with the state Government Accountability Board that alleges Walker repeatedly violated Wiscons...
The number of security contractor working in *Afghanistan* has tripled since 2009 and is now at its highest level since the U.S. began its military participation there after 9/11, according to a new repor...
*Guest post by Demetris Koutsoyiannis* It is a year since Vít Klemeš is no longer with us. He took “residence on cloud no. 17” as he used to say. *Vít Klemeš (left), laurelled by local admirers in the...
*AMERICAN LABOUR CALIFORNIA:* *WHAT IS A LIFE WORTH ?:* The following appeal is from the American United Farm Workers, and it's about the excessively lenient sentence for the contractor responsible for ...
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