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Learn more[image: At 3km from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, the airborne radiation reading is 3.64 microsieverts per hour, 3 April 2011. Tetsuo Jimbo] BY SATOSHI OTANI STAFF WRITER 10 April 2011 The gover...
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Magellanic penguin chick. Jeffrey Smith / telegraph.co.uk] By Richard Gray, Science Correspondent 09 Apr 2011 Researchers have been left puzzled by the appearan...
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Long Walk 3 northern route for the reversal of diabetes in Eagle Butte, Cheyenne River Lakota land, South Dakota, April 2011. Photos by Chris Francisco LW3. On Saturday, April 10, Chris Francisco of th...
*Movement "B"** (plus, for reasons I can't explain, the opening of the following movement), played by pianist Nelson Freire, with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana conducted by David Shallon* *by Ken...
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*Draft Land Use Plan Infringes Treaty 8**First Nations in Oil Sands Region say that the Lower Athabasca Regional Plan does not protect enough land and resources to sustain their traditional livelihood and...
[image: Little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus) in a New York cave, displaying characteristic fuzz of white-nose syndrome on nose and wings. Credit: Al Hicks, New York Dept. of Environmental Conservation] C...
[image: In this March 31, 2011 photo, a centuries-old tablet that warns of danger of tsunamis stands in the hamlet of Aneyoshi, Iwate Prefecture, northern Japan. Hundreds of such markers dot the coastlin...
The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the African American Male was a clinical study, conducted between 1932 and 1972 in Tuskegee, Alabama, in which 399 (plus 201 control group without syphilis) poor...
NOW PETER KING CALLS FOR RACIAL PROFILING: ""(I)f I'm told the White Citizens Council, the Ku Klux Klan, is going to attack Harlem, I'd be more suspicious of a white guy walking down around Harlem in a very ...
GOP Creationists Pass Anti-Evolution Bill in Tennessee: " While everyone's attention was focused on Washington DC last week, Republicans in Tennessee's House of Representatives passed a bill that will shield...
BNP election candidate arrested over Qur'an burning: " A senior member of the BNP who burned a copy of the Qur'an in his garden has been arrested following an investigation by the Observer. Footage of the bu...
Prince Charles ‘Abused’ on Faith Dialogue: " “…respecting other people's cultures is the only way to achieve unity through diversity,” Prince Charles said CAIRO – Britain’s Prince Charles has complained of ...
Donald, You’re Fired!: "If Donald Trump worked for us, we'd have to say: 'Donald, you're fired -- for incompetence.' The successful developer and TV celebrity says he'd make a good president, and maybe he wo...
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The distribution of wealth in the United States is even more unequal than the distribution of wages and income. The *Figure*, from EPI’s new paper, *The State of Working America’s Wealth.** *shows how weal...
"How many failing states before we have a failing global civilization?" asks environmental pioneer Lester Brown in Plan B: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, premiering March 30 on PBS as part of its continu...
In 2005, the average CEO in the United States earned 262 times the pay of the average worker, the second-highest level of this ratio in the 40 years for which there are data. In 2005, a CEO earned more in ...
Just as major airlines have started getting their balance sheets back in order, they're bracing for the impact of skyrocketing oil prices. "We're facing another fuel crisis, and crisis is not too strong of...
A University of Pittsburgh researcher left his post with the university to follow his new found calling: "advocating for public health."Drilling opponent to leave Pitt PostBy Luis FabregasPITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-...
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Many many years ago, I was talking with a friend about cooking and food, and she said, "You know what the key to good cooking is? Fresh, quality ingredients." At the time, I didn't know what she meant, but...
*Aishtan Shakarian, Georgian entrepreneur who doesn't believe in regulatory constraints that protect society from predators* Republicans may be getting women pissed off with all their plotting against the...
- by BK Lim (first drafted in Nov2010, revised and updated 07 April 2011) First of all the relief wells were unable to "bottom kill" or seal the real gusher (3rd well) at 18000ft below mudline. Th...
Call it the Ron Paul Revolution commentary by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand April 10, 2011 - While no personality should be followed, rather the ideals they represent, the necessity to reclaim the Tea ...
* George Oliver (left) and Frederick James Hall, the first boys to be admitted to The Children's Home – the original name for Action for Children – in 1869 * Orphanages are not always what they seem. (Sa...
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*April always is a thrilling month* for computer addicts. This year as well with *Gnome-3* finally out and *Ubuntu 11.04* on the verge of appearing with its *Unity* Desktop. Both improving the well-known, ...
A sleek satellite orbiting Earth has confirmed that the planet is not the simple squashed sphere we often imagine it to be. It is, in fact, more like a lumpy potato. Nearly a year's worth of gravitatio...
Synagogues in California have been put on high alert after a bomb blast in Santa Monica. Jewish organisations around Los Angeles were urged to be extra vigilant after the explosion, which shattered window...
A massive wildfire that has burned more than 61,000 acres in West Texas remains out of control and could shape up to be among the worst in the state’s history. Fire chiefs said they expected the blaze to ...
A leading British banker has died after a dramatic plunge from the rooftop bar of a luxury Singapore hotel. William Hart, head of sales at the Bank of China International in Singapore, fell from the seven...
Soaring inflation and weak earnings growth has led to the biggest squeeze on household finances since 1921, research has revealed. British families are on average £910 worse off than they were two years ag...
Investigators in Mexico have discovered human bones and teeth in a pit used by a man known as 'the Stew Maker' who has confessed to dissolving 300 bodies in acid. Prosecutors said around 30 bone fragment...
At least 28 people have been killed after Syrian security forces opened fire on peaceful gatherings of protesters, it has been claimed. The National Oganisation for Human Rights in Syria said 26 were kill...
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I think increasingly that a major twist in Britain's slide into decline began in the 1980s because a number of liberal jurists - who cut their teeth in the so-called siwnging sixties - rose to power and di...
Science says so. by Tony Cartalucci This is a human being. It has a quantifiable human genetic code and independent, self-perpetuating cellular metabolic activity that will continue from the moment of conc...
An Exploration Into the World's Most Secret Societies. Lapis Exillis, the stone that is called the grail to the Illuminate, has influenced world history for centuries. This Code is the subject of this orig...
April 9th Marks the 8th year since Baghdad fell under the US military occupation. I just launched a petition calling on the US government to put an end to this bloody occupation before the end of this ...
On Tuesday, April 12th, it will have been 50 years from what was arguably the most impressive achievement of the Soviet Union. Czechoslovakia was the first country after the USSR that Gagarin visited af...
The serial killer dubbed the Craigslist Ripper has a sophisticated understanding of police investigation techniques and 'may be a cop', it was claimed today. The startling new theory emerged as it was re...
Last month at Liverpool Crown Court, Leslie Gadsby, 39, was sentenced to life for manslaughter. On the evening of March 31 last year police and firefighters had been called to the Liverpool home of his mot...
He must have wondered whether he would ever be found. However, farmer Kunio Shiga was discovered alive and well - and sitting among the debris of his home - more than four weeks after an earthquake and tsu...
As a child welfare expert who has worked amid bullets and bombs in some of the world’s toughest war zones, Jennifer Morgan is not someone easily shaken. But even she admits she was shocked by some of the o...
As the Easter holidays get under way, Julie Eurich and her son Jack are looking forward to spending their days horse-riding and visiting the local falconry centre. There will be trips out with Julie’s pare...
Two horses died during yesterday’s Grand National in one of the most ‘distressing’ races in recent history. Millions of TV viewers saw Ornais fall at the fourth fence, breaking his neck, while Dooneys Gat...
Nato forces have destroyed 17 Libyan tanks as the rebel city of Misratah came under sustained attack from forces loyal to dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Sources said Nato aircraft hit 15 tanks near the western...
After the shocking shooting took Place at De Ridderhof shopping Center in Alphen aan den Rijn, which left 7 dead and many more wounded a letter was located in the shooters car, A local known to the police ...
A chief North Korean military general said Friday that his troops will not remain a "passive onlooker" if South Korea and the United States continue their joint military exercise, according to Pyongyang's ...
*HUMOUR:* *MISSING THE POINT:* Another great cartoon from the pen of Stephanie McMillan.
Welcome to the inaugural edition. H/t both Dana and Steve V. at Far and Wide. An excerpt: " ... the news media live in a bubble too, just like their pet creation. Remember that they do not live by bread...
*The great Soviet pianist Emil Gilels (1916-1985)* *by Ken* In last night's preview we heard just the opening of what I'll call Movement "A" of a piano concerto. That's right, it's from a piano concerto. ...
Baby foods used to wean infants off milk have been found to contain "alarming" levels of toxic contaminants including arsenic, lead and cadmium. Last night there were calls for urgent new safety rules to c...
To survive in a galaxy of hard knocks, should we stay quiet to avoid getting noticed by a potentially aggressive alien race?
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------------------------------ *To The American Media: Time To Face The Reality Of Election Rigging* *By Jonathan Simon **(about the author)* opednews.com *To every Journalist and Media R...
By Brian Walker and Matt Smith, CNN April 9, 2011 4:02 p.m. EDT Tokyo (CNN) -- A brief video clip released Saturday captures the massive tsunami that crippled Japan's Fukushima Daiichi power plant, show...
*The famous "mad as hell" scene from Network was done basically in one take -- some of the early part is from a second take director Sidney Lumet asked for, but Peter Finch was so exhausted (and already, ...
[image: image] Caption by Holli Riebeek 6 April 2011 Intense rain triggered widespread landslides in southern Thailand during the last week of March 2011. This photo-like image shows some of the slides ...
The National Conference For Media Reform held a panel discussion called "WikiLeaks, Journalism and Modern-Day Muckraking" on Friday, April 8, 2011 in Boston. The video is one and a half hours long. It star...
Poster note: We tip our hats to the brave journalists still fighting to get real information out, such as Tetsuo, the fellow who ventured into the nuclear exclusion zone to get us this information.
Earlier this week, Magistrate Daniel Cook, who handles small claims cases in Lorain, Ohio, was on the bench when he reached for his gavel and discovered it was missing. After checking “every possible place...
Remote Sensing Systems has released their satellite measured temperature data for the month of March 2011. March 2011 ended up as the coolest March globally since March of 1994. The actual global tempera...
Internationalist billionaire George Soros is holding his international conference April 8 to April 11 at Bretton Woods, N.H., the noted birthplace of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, whe...
"When a country's public debt exceeds 90% of GDP, that is the magic number. You get to 90%, there is no way back, and that is the number that the U.S. is going through pretty much as we speak. It is also t...
Japanese reactor maker Toshiba says it could decommission the earthquake-damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant in about 10 years, a third quicker than the US Three Mile Island plant. Radiation has been l...
Egypt's army has cracked down on protests in Cairo's symbolic Tahrir Square, leaving at least one person dead and dozens injured. The violence occurred overnight as the army tried to clear protesters cal...
The RCMP has confirmed that one of its officers used a Taser to subdue an 11-year-old boy after a stabbing in Prince George, B.C. Police used the electrical stun weapon after responding to a 911 call abou...
A brief video clip released Saturday captures the massive tsunami that crippled Japan's Fukushima Daiichi power plant, showing the wall of water that slammed into the facility and created an ongoing crisis...
*Gregory Stone* *February 17, 2011 - LSU scientist Gregory Stone, 54 - Unknown Illness* * * *Anthony Nicholas Tremonte* * **January 26, 2011 - age 31 - Mississippi Department of Marine Resources offic...
On Wednesday, April 6, UN Ambassador Susan Rice told Congress that it should be U.S. policy to censor the Goldstone report and ban its findings from all discussion. "What we want to see," Rice said, "is fo...
On Wednesday, April 6, UN Ambassador Susan Rice told Congress that it should be U.S. policy to censor the Goldstone report and ban its findings from all discussion. "What we want to see," Rice said, "is fo...
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wmtc - 19 hours ago
Further to my post here, please enjoy this placard. Thanks to the tweeter who said this and the organizer who put it on a sign!
We have some cool bits of Space Music to roundup this week. NASA's artist in residence program didn't work out so hot, but what about SETI?
In the midst of all the conservative kabuki over the shutdown threat yesterday-- it worked, conservatives got the immense, devastating cuts they wanted-- we also looked at this week's right-wing assault i...
A Professor of journalism from Northern Kentucky University, named Brad Scharlott, has fired up the Palin watchers on the web with the draft of a paper titled, "Palin, the Press and the Fake Pregnancy Rumo...
The corporate funded exploitation of freedom, democracy, and human rights. by Tony Cartalucci Supposedly mapping "freedom." Bangkok, Thailand April 10, 2011 - The colorful maps of press freedom, democrac...
Police have closed the main highway due to several Accidents earlier caused by very low visabillity as a very unusual Sandstorm Struck Bicske, Fejer County, Hungary on Saturday 9th Apr 2011. A desert like...
*Blogger's Note:* While Republicans are in the lead for the proposed cuts in social programs accompanied by tax cuts for the rich, a lot of Democrats are on board with this scheme. As I've said before an...
. "The ideology extends to the front line. When visiting a Muslim household, we are instructed to remove our shoes, but I have refused to obey that edict because I believe it is disrespectful to my posit...
Last night-- technically this morning-- that last act in Boehner's little drama (or Boehner and Obama's little kabuki) played out when the House passed a stopgap appropriations motion while they implement...
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wmtc - 1 day ago
Further to my essay "why i'm voting liberal even though i don't support michael ignatieff or the liberal party", Impudent Strumpet explains how strategic voting works and how you can make it work for your ...
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Today, April 9, is a pan-Canadian *Day of Action against the War in Afghanistan*. Here we are in the midst of an federal election, and for both the Conservative and the Liberal Parties, the war is not ev...
The Physics arXiv Blog has been intrigued by an extraterrestrial paper by Adrian Kent: Too Damned Quiet? *Science* rejected the paper in 2005 but it's fun, so why wouldn't he submit it to the arXiv in ...
Full disclosure here: I like thwap. Honest, spirited and refreshingly nasty. Although he is given to the occasional vulgarity. Makes me feel all naive and earnest by comparison. Was just reading his stu...
ALPHEN AAN DEN RIJN, NETHERLANDS (BNO NEWS) -- Authorities in the Netherlands on late Saturday afternoon decided to evacuate three shopping centers in the town of Alphen aan de Rijn, hours after a deadly s...
A PE class had to run for cover as it started raining worms. Teacher David Crichton was leading a group of pupils playing football at Galashiels Academy when dozens of the invertebrates began plummeting fr...
*The Elite keeps all of humanity in perpetual fear. *Fear of war. Fear of money. Fear of politics. Fear of status. Fear of looking stupid. Fear of being different. Fear of not being good enough. Fear of lo...
China and Russia have expressed concern over Japan discharging water contaminated with relatively low-level radiation from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean. China's...
*With the 25th anniversary of Chernobyl looming, the pro-nuclear lobby is in overdrive. * You have to hand it to the nuclear industry and its acolytes. In the middle of the second-worst nuclear power dis...
Regulators have approved generous executive compensation at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the taxpayer-backed mortgage finance giants, with little scrutiny or analysis, according to a report published Thursd...
Barack Obama has some 'splaining to do about taxpayers' profitable "investment" in General Motors. It turns out the president is imagining things. Though Democrats tout the auto bailout as a success, rece...
If you want to understand better why so many states—from New York to Wisconsin to California—are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, consider this depressing statistic: Today in America there are nearly ...
From coast-to-coast, more than forty cities joined in a day of action protesting the tax-dodging of massive corporations that they see as the real source of the country's deficit. Saturday marked US Uncut...
by Kurt Haskell Earlier this week Lori and I attended the pretrial conference for the Underwear Bomber (Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab). This was the second hearing we attended and we plan on attending all o...
Russia has vowed to build a base on the Moon within two decades which it plans to use as a staging post for a manned mission to Mars. It made the promise as Vladimir Putin, the *Russian* prime minister, c...
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Top Wall Street executives knew about Bernie Madoff's multi-billion dollar scam but didn't do anything about it, the jailed swindler has revealed in a bombshell new interview. Madoff, now 72, pointed a fi...
A massive Russian cargo plane has been used to pick one of the world's largest concrete pumps to pour water on the stricken nuclear power plant in Japan. The 95-ton pump is mounted on a 26-wheel truck and...
A woman flinches as she is about to be repeatedly caned for having an extramarital affair. Irdayanti Mukhtar, 34, received nine lashes by Sharia Police for having a relationship with another man, even tho...
CLICK ON DOCUMENT IMAGE TO READ The Roswell, New Mexico incident has captured our imaginations for the past seven decades, and has spawned numerous investigations and conspiracy theories. Explanations fo...
(Image) A motorcyclist drives through a cloud of dust in Fahrenholz, Germany, after a sand storm in the Sahara blew across Europe. With most of Britain basking in glorious sunshine this weekend, you could ...
The Conservatives! The Conservative platform promises $11 billion in cuts...without saying
where the $11 billion in cuts will come from. For more, listen to Paul Wells try to make sense of it with Jim F...
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Long Walk 3 northern route for the reversal of diabetes in Eagle Butte, Cheyenne River Lakota land, South Dakota, April 2011. Photos by Chris Francisco LW3. On Saturday, April 10, Chris Francisco of th...
*Movement "B"** (plus, for reasons I can't explain, the opening of the following movement), played by pianist Nelson Freire, with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana conducted by David Shallon* *by Ken...
Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
Debt, debt, and more debt Recollections Of My Life - Mu'ummar Qaddafi BlackListedNews.com RogueGovernment.com. The RAB Experience Dark Politricks. Dangerous Creation SUBROSA
*Draft Land Use Plan Infringes Treaty 8**First Nations in Oil Sands Region say that the Lower Athabasca Regional Plan does not protect enough land and resources to sustain their traditional livelihood and...
The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the African American Male was a clinical study, conducted between 1932 and 1972 in Tuskegee, Alabama, in which 399 (plus 201 control group without syphilis) poor...
The distribution of wealth in the United States is even more unequal than the distribution of wages and income. The *Figure*, from EPI’s new paper, *The State of Working America’s Wealth.** *shows how weal...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTop Wall Street executives knew about Bernie Madoff's multi-billion dollar scam but didn't do anything about it, the jailed swindler has revealed in a bombshell new interview. Madoff, now 72, pointed a fi...
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