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Veterans For Peace * 216 S. Meramec Avenue St. Louis, MO 63105 (314) 725-6005 www.veteransforpeace.org *VFP Statement on Military Intervention in Libya* April 21, 2011 “The President does not h...
Did the early universe have just one spatial dimension? That's the mind-boggling question at the heart of a theory scientists say they are on the brink of solving. The theory was first proposed by physici...
* News from Veterans For Peace * 216 S. Meramec Avenue St. Louis, MO 63105 (314) 725-6005 www.veteransforpeace.org VFP Statement on Military Intervention in Libya *April 21, 2011* *“The President...
[image: Visitors gather to watch the soaring tide on the bank of Qiantang River in Haining, Zhejiang province, October 6, 2009. The most violent tidal waves are seen each year along the river during the ...
[image: In this photo taken Tuesday, April 19, 2011,
Kenyan protesters hold placards during a demonstration against food and fuel prices hikes in Nairobi, Kenya. Food prices are rising across the globe, ...
Although America doesn't buy any oil from Libya, the problems there may be adding a couple of pennies to the cost of gasoline here. But what accounts for the fact that drivers in California are *looking* ...
(IMAGE: Target: This crude mock up of Celtic boss Neil Lennon riddled with bullets was posted on Facebook) Detectives believe there are two more letter bombs in the post after Celtic manager Neil Lennon w...
These are the latest images of the man who police investigating 'The Yellow Brick Road' murder of Jia Ashton are desperate to trace. Economics graduate Jia disappeared while walking home from her workplace...
Pregnant women may want to look into buying organic produce or consider better methods to thoroughly wash foods.
This four-foot high stone may look unremarkable, but it is credited with saving the lives of the population of Aneyoshi when the tsunami struck Japan. Carved into its weather-worn rock is a warning - 'Do ...
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There's nothing that BBC greenies like better than to make us feel bad. It's glorious spring weather and it's a holiday, but David Shukman is at pains to warn us that our enjoyment should be limited...and ...
Sitting atop a vast deposit of natural gas, Pennsylvania knows how lucrative – and dangerous – this rapidly expanding industry is. But how can it prevent large-scale environmental damage? Last June, Tony ...
Alien visitations have occurred around the globe, and cites as evidence, claims that the Dogon people were given galactic knowledge by a star god; the Hopi and Zunicelebrations of Kachinas (or "gods from t...
Dear Newt Gingrich, Your Ally John Hagee is a Jew-Bashing, Demon-Casting Exorcist: " Does Newt Gingrich know that pastor John Hagee, whose San Antonio Cornerstone Church Gingrich recently gave a speech at, h...
The breast milk of four Japanese mothers has been found to contain small quantities of radioactive iodine. The government faced calls for a full investigation into the impact of the nuclear disaster on mo...
A dollar plumbing three-year lows is hitting Americans squarely in the gas tank, and one economist thinks it could drive prices as high as $6 a gallon or more by summertime under the right conditions. Wit...
Scientists may be searching for Earth-like worlds around stars like our sun, but a new study suggests that the best places to look for planets that can support life may be the dying stars called white dwar...
The ongoing spread of non-native mussels in the Great Lakes has caused "massive, ecosystem-wide changes" throughout lakes Michigan and Huron, two of the planet's largest freshwater lakes, according to a ne...
New Reconstrucitonist Documentary Wants Public Schools To "Give Children An Explicitly Christian Education": " Homeschooling activist Colin Gunn is set to release a new documentary in June on the perils of t...
In Muslim community, Lee Baca wins support through conversation, not confrontation: " Sheriff Lee Baca, a Republican, made LoonWatch’s 2010 list of anti-Loons and is in one of the leaders for 2011. Here he ...
*Apple* faced questions on Wednesday about the security of its iPhone and iPad after a report that the devices regularly record their locations in a hidden file. The report came from a technology conferen...
BP is suing Transocean, the owner of the oil rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico last year, for $40bn (£24.37bn) in damages. BP said safety systems on Transocean's Deepwater Horizon rig had failed. S...
$50 dollar silver is the first sign of blue sky after a devastating storm. It's the morning after sunshine bringing people out of hiding and together again for the process of rebuilding with the promise of...
In case you missed it, earlier this week China announced that its foreign currency reserves are excessive and that they need to return to “reasonable” levels. In politician speak, this is a clear, “we ar...
“In recent decades, the number of invasive species in Navarre has tripled”. This is the warning of Rafael Miranda, lecturer at the Zoology and Ecology Department of the University of Navarra and member of ...
Unpredictable weather coupled with a decline in natural predators is responsible for a recent plague of caterpillars in parts of the country. Though the phenomenon is centered largely in Probolinggo, East...
Military spending rose by 5.2 per cent in Africa last year, defying a global recession that halved the continent's growth, a new study shows. The region's total military expenditure in real terms was an e...
CANADA - Conservative Saskatchewan backbencher Brad Trost says his government cancelled funding to International Planned Parenthood Federation because the organization supported abortion. Trost reportedly ...
CARS/CANADA - Toronto man Marcelo da Luz has towed his solar car 160 km from Niagara Falls to Toronto, using a harness strapped to his chest, because the Ontario government won't let him drive the solar ca...
ENVIRONMENT - Japanese residents rushed back into the 20-kilometre evacuation zone around Japan's radiation-spewing Fukushima nuclear power plant today, grabbing whatever belongings and valuables they coul...
CANADA - The prices of gold and oil keep going up, but Canadians aren't noticing as much because our dollar keeps going up too. Spot gold prices today rose to an all-time high of $1,505.70 USD an ounce. G...
TECHNOLOGY - Your iPhone 4 and/or iPad 3G are tracking and recording all of your GPS movements and storing the information in public easy-to-access files, two British scientists revealed today. Working on...
White Nationalism and the Tea Party: "The NAACP recently released a Special Report on Tea Party Nationalism, which addresses the overlap and interconnectedness between white nationalist hate groups and the v...
More Tea Party Racism: " As if we needed it, the white Tea Party folks have made it clear again how some/many of their members think in blatantly racist terms — straight out of the old white racial frame. T...
We've seen snow in the Midwest, wildfires in Texas and a surge of tornadoes across the country. What's going on with the weather?
A new database of diseases specific to dog breeds is helping to identify genetic risks.
Seattle and Las Vegas Police “Pull Out” of Counter-Terror Webinars: "Last month, a report published by Political Research Associates highlighted some troubling trends in private “counter-terror” training bei...
Alan Keyes and the Oak Initiative: " Right Wing Watch has been keeping an eye on the recent Oak Initiative Summit: Addressing the dominionist Oak Initiative summit this weekend, Alan Keyes used his opportun...
Now that Canadian soldiers are about to give up their warfighting role, our senior officers don't waste an opportunity to crow about all the progress our side has achieved in Afghanistan. Really, this is ...
Bill White freed, going to Maryland for now (USA): "Free after more than two years in prison, William A. White will not be coming home to Roanoke, where he built a real estate business and a neo-Nazi organiz...
Want to stop 'bullying'? There's an 'app' for that: "Want to keep a bully from tormenting your child? Now there's an 'app' for that"
------------------------------ Go to original here. *Maddow: Mich. Gov. Snyder using new ‘Emergency Financial Managers’ law to assist corporate land grab from the poor* * Posted on 04.20.11 * By Roxan...
How quickly we forget. On July 12, 2008 in a radio address, President George W. Bush said, “Technological advances have allowed us to explore oil offshore in ways that protect the environment (1).” In hind...
A 6.1 -magnitude earthquake struck of the East Coast of Honshu, Japan The quake struck at 13.37 UTC - 64 km (39 miles) from Tokyo. Its epicenter was located with a depth of 42.9 km (26.7 miles). No damage ...
The Swiss firm, ABB, unveiled its robot, Frida, and offered a glimpse of the future of factory robots.
SOOOOOO, we will be in La Jolla (near San Diego) for the weekend for a wedding. (Thank you Kory for staying at the house and dog/cat sitting). Anyone have any suggestions on things we have to do, see, pla...
A man has been charged over the alleged murder of a university student who was killed while talking to her boyfriend via webcam. Qian Liu's semi-naked body was found in her flat near York University in no...
A businessman accused of murdering his millionaire girlfriend in a Paris hotel room has lost his fight against extradition to France. Ian Griffin, 41, is accused of murdering Kinga Legg, 32, who was found ...
An Ethiopian family of 12 are being put up in a vast house costing the taxpayer almost £1,500-a-week just two months after arriving in Britain. The couple and their 10 children are receiving a staggering £...
Con MP and anti-abortion crusader Brad Trost, who lists being a member of the cross-party Pro-Life Caucus as one of his duties as an MP on his website, addressed the Saskatchewan Pro-Life Association’s ann...
Yesterday Robert Reich did a good post on extortion politics in regard to how the GOP is trying to manipulate the debate over usually routine process of raising the debt ceiling. "Raising the debt limit s...
A special mask that produces sights and smells fooled study participants into thinking they were eating a cookie they weren't.
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[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] Investigators want to question a person of interest concerning a *pipe bomb*and propane tanks found after a fire at a Littleton mall, a discovery that raised the...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] Residents hurried back into the 12-mile (20-kilometer) evacuation zone about *Japan's* radiation-spewing *nuclear power* plant Thursday, grab whatever possessio...
Between Fall 1997 and Fall 2001, I lived in a dormitory at the Busch Campusof Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey - in greater New Brunswick. That's where an act that is effectively a murder too...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] Reduction into his 2012 movement, President *Barack Obama* is telling his group he understands their frustration over the collaboration he's made with Republica...
*According to the book 'Operation Israel', during the Falklands War, there were five flights from Israel to Argentina.** These flights carried weapons such as air to air missiles. * Israel 'supplied arms...
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Broken of Britain - 7 hours ago
Time for a new platform for all the BBC related elephants in your rooms. There is no Question Time this week, so the B-BBC LiveChat will return on the 5th May. Click through to read and contribute comme...
Two walkers have claimed to have found a dead body of an alien in frozen wastes of Siberia and posted the video on the Internet. On its side with its mouth slightly agape, the slender, badly-damage body...
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*Cars have and haven't much* of my interest. Forgive me: I don't know why. You need them to get from A to B, but to buy one because [fill in your reason], doesn't come up in my mind. Yet, I changed gear ev...
Defending the indefensible. by Tony Cartalucci The wellspring of democracy? NYT reports Africans are being beaten and robbed (and killed) on the mere suspicion of being loyal to Qaddafi. Bangkok, Thailan...
A phone call to the Ridge News on Tuesday morning alerted us to the amount of European Carp fish in a dam at Big Warrambool. There are thousands and thousands of dead fish on the water and line the banks ...
Asylum-seekers and other detainees at a detention centre in Villawood, in Sydney, Australia have set fire to a number buildings in a protest Rioters at an Australian immigration detention centre have set f...
Six people have been accused of brutally murdering a 15-year-old boy who was lured to a home, beaten, shot dead, burned, shovelled into paint cans and thrown in a dumpster. The remains of Seath Tyler Jack...
A baby who was strangled and buried alive was rescued when his cries alerted a man who assumed a cat had become trapped. A rubbish bag had been twisted around the newborn boy’s neck in an apparent attemp...
The warning message from a pensioner to criminals is simple and to the point. 'Try breaking into this house again and your head will be blown off!' The sign, with the image of a handgun, was put up in the...
A sleepover between two 14-year-old girls ended in tragedy when they were found hanged in a suicide pact after complaining that they were being bullied at school. Best friends Haylee Fentress and Paige Mo...
Rivers across England and Wales are at ‘exceptionally low’ levels for this month – prompting fears of summer hosepipe bans. Eleven rivers are experiencing the kind of levels seen once every 20 years follo...
(IMAGE: Killer Mohammed Ibrahim allowed to stay after the United Kingdom gave him his Human Rights and 12 year Amy Houston lost her life. What about her Human Rights, her right to life was taken away, does...
The two British tourists shot dead in a Florida ghetto could have made a fatal wrong turn while walking to a 24-hour diner for an early morning breakfast, police said yesterday. Detectives are exploring a...
A line of thunderstorms moved through North and northeast Texas on Tuesday. Widespread hail was reported in the counties north and northeast of the Dallas-Fort Worth area, but there were no damage report...
911: Giuliani had pre knowledge of the collapse of WTC Uploaded by EndeavorFreedom on Jul 14, 2007 http://www.youtube.com/user/EndeavorFreedom Giuliani stated in an ABC News interview that he was giv...
Energy saving bulbs emit cancer causing chemicals it was claimed last night as new fears were raised about their safety. Scientists said they should not be left on for long periods of time or placed close...
The largest ever fossil of a prehistoric spider which was weaving webs when dinosaurs ruled the Earth has been discovered by scientists. Its fossilized features have been so perfectly preserved from 165mil...
Jack the Ripper's horrific killing spree was probed by FBI experts in the 1980s, a new document has revealed. But even agents from the U.S. elite crime-fighting unit could not solve the mystery of the Rip...
[image: Unit 4, operation floor of Fukushima Daiichi reactor building 1, 14 April 2011. TEPCO / japannewstoday.com] 20 April 2011 (Yomiuri Shimbun) – The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency has reporte...
A 6.0 -magnitude earthquake struck of the East Coast of Honshu, Japan The quake struck at 01:54 UTC - 619 km (384 miles) from Tokyo. Its epicenter was located with a depth of 7 km (4.3 miles). No damage or...
If the First Family was fretting over not being invited to the royal wedding next week, at least they won't have to sit around the White House and watch it on TV.
A new Hispanic underclass could be created unless the United States improves immigrant children's access to education.
I haven't reported on any individual polls as of yet this campaign, but this one, accurate or not, is going to be the only thing talked about tomorrow: NDP 36% BQ 31% CPC 17% Lib 13% *UPDATE*: Ekos is in....
An air of uncertainty surrounds eastern Japan as energy supplies are now at risk after the earthquake. The man from Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) slumped wearily into a chair and reached for a cup...
Here's something you don't see every day — hundreds of new islands have been discovered around the world. The Earth has 657 more barrier islands than previously thought, according to a new global survey ...
North Korea could conduct another atomic test “whenever it wants,” South Korea’s spy chief said this week, adding to security concerns as regional powers take slow but positive steps toward resuming peace ...
Israel secretly supplied arms and equipment to Argentina during the Falklands War due to Prime Minister Menachem Begin's personal hatred of the British, a new book discloses. Air to air missiles, missile ...
*One more performance of Jean Shepherd's theme music, Eduard Strauss's Bahn frei! (Clear Track) polka, by the Czechoslovak Radio (CSR) Symphony Orchestra (Bratislava) under Ondrej Lenard:* *AND NOW PART ...
View the entire gallery of Chris Hondros' last photographs of Libya here.
Florida officials are investigating an unemployment agency that spent public money to give 6,000 superhero capes to the jobless. Workforce Central Florida spent more than $14,000 on the red capes as part ...
Not only has Chicago dealt with chilly rain, hail and even snow this week, but temperatures Tuesday were at their lowest for this late spring date since the 1940s. CBS 2 Meteorologist Megan Glaros says t...
China's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that the United States must take "responsible" measures to protect investors in its debt after *Standard & Poor's* threatened to lower its *credit rating on the Uni...
The communist regime is conducting a brutal purge and jailing human rights activists – including its most famous artist, Ai Weiwei, the creator of 'Sunflower Seeds’. The world should not stand idly by, say...
Gee, I wonder. How can we make this stop? What can we do to make the opposition parties set their differences aside and focus on the common enemy? What could possibly induce them to stop slagging each oth...
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In John Carpenter's "Big Trouble in Little China," there's a little space science thrown in where you'd least expect it.
*"Now here's the interesting part: During the half-hour when everyone thinks the hoax is true, the company's stock tumbles like crazy. GE lost billions. Dow lost billions. This means we've created a syste...
truthout Monday 18 April 2011 by: Chris Hedges, Truthdig These are remarks Chris Hedges made in Union Square in New York City last Friday during a protest outside a branch office of the Bank of Ameri...
The Harper line is that he didn't know his close advisor Bruce Carson was bent until very recently. He knew about the initial fraud, misappropriation, disbarment, conviction and imprisonment but, hey, let...
Earthjustice flattered the heck out of me by asking me to be one of three guest bloggers this week to help them launch their new video.The other two bloggers are my heros Josh Fox and Mark Ruffalo.My blog po...
A new study shows that sea temperature measurements one year are the best predictor of sea turtle nesting numbers thirty years later.
Next on the globalists' chopping block. by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand April 20, 2011 - With Libya preparing to face Western troops, and Syria fending off an overtly foreign-backed uprising, other n...
A 62-year-old woman has been charged with menacing a police officer after authorities say she pointed a weapon at sheriff's deputies attempting to serve her with an eviction notice at her Hudson Valley hom...
*This year's high stakes publishing project quietly went to press this week, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. After years of research and digging by the nation's top private investigators, here it comes: ...
The Michigan State Police have started using handheld machines called "extraction devices" to download personal information from motorists they pull over, even if they're not suspected of any crime. Natura...
The following are 20 signs that you need to prepare and store food. *#1* According to the World Bank, 44 million people around the globe have been pushed into extreme poverty since last June because of ri...
Federal Reserve Funds Rate, 2001–2011 So on Monday, Standard & Poor’s cut its ratings outlook for U.S. sovereign debt—and the markets had what can only be described as a *tizzy*. Stocks fell—commodities ...
President Obama is opting not to visit the tornado-ravaged areas of the South, choosing instead to embark today on a three day tour out West where he will try to boost his political standing by talking up ...
In June, NASA’s space shuttle program will take its last flight. The Action News I-Team has uncovered some problems NASA is facing on the ground. NASA reports obtained by the I-Team show $479,108 dollar...
Dismissing concerns over possible links between Libyan rebels and al Qaeda, the Obama administration has notified Congress it is providing $25 million in nonlethal aid to the rebels’ effort to drive Col. M...
Security researchers have discovered that Apple's iPhone keeps track of where you go – and saves every detail of it to a secret file on the device which is then copied to the owner's computer when the two ...
If this was a movie, it could be called Sleepless in Brickell. Residents in the neighborhood saw and heard several military-style, “pitch-black” helicopters flying around and hovering on top of Brickell ...
There is word on the street that Secretary of the Treasury, Timothy Geithner, has approved plans for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to absorb the Federal Reserve System with an eye to the IMF becomi...
Just stated on CNBC. I have no way to judge that, but if it comes it is both good and bad. *The good: *It's about a third of what has to happen, and as a step function it would apply *major* cooling to t...
The dwarf planet has shocked astronomers with its dynamic atmosphere -- previously undetected carbon monoxide has been discovered and it may even have a comet tail-like shape.
The necessity for brevity in BBC online articles calls for ruthless pruning of irrelevant material. Ditching the detail and binning the background lays bare the priorities and prejudices of the BBC. What’s...
People For The American Way has been bringing David Barton up for a long time. Monday their efforts went big time when Peter Montgomery spent some time (above) chatting about the GOP sewer that is Barton...
------------------------------ Original here. . . *The S&P debt warning: Wall Stree...
. This is all standard Great Game stuff. It's no good if the 'American Empire' (which is not American except in blood spilt) is simply replaced by the Chicom Empire. Would quite suit the crown either way...
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*Apartheid Board Complicit in Destroying Ethnic Studies*By Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez In a previous column, I used the term CULTURAL GENOCIDE to describe the attempt by the state of Arizona to criminali...
Another hydraulic fracturing accident at a Chesapeake well.Gas Drilling Emergency in Bradford County A massive operation is underway in Bradford County to deal with a spill at a natural gas well in LeRoy To...
Celebrities reveal stories of childhood abuse. But should they identify the perpetrators?
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Paul Owns the Sabre, Cheyenne River Lakota, with Northern Cheyenne youths in Lame Deer, Montana. Today, Wednesday, April 20, the Long Walk 3 northern route is with Turtle Mountain Chippewa in Belcourt, ...
Award-winning British photographer and filmmaker Tim Hetherington has been killed in Libya. The Oscar-nominated photojournalist is reported to have been killed by mortar fire in the city of Misratah. He ...
Despite businesses and beaches reopening, the health effects of the oil spill on humans haven't entirely gone away.
Once again, a guy who can't work and play well with others. No plans to compromise, because they're not going to let me have my way. And for good measure, he throws in a little misdirection and BS about a ...
A British pensioner was fighting for her life in hospital after she was dramatically dropped into sub-zero sea waters during a bungled rescue attempt from a cruise ship. Janet Richardson, 73, from Cumbria...
There are intricate links between the development of physical traits and what turns on the opposite sex.
A possible Neanderthal burial ground suggests that they practiced funeral rituals and possessed symbolic thought before modern humans.
Nature readers such as Gordon were told that Nature has just started to publish a new "excellent" sub-journal, Nature Climate Change (click) You may also check the current issue - April 2011 Vol 1 Issue 1...
A recording of a frantic 911 call made in the moments after two British tourists were gunned down in a crime-ridden Florida street has been released by police. In the clip, the female caller can be heard...
The British businessman accused of ordering his wife's murder on honeymoon in South Africa is being compulsorily held at Fromeside Clinic in Bristol under the Mental Health Act. He is said to be suffering...
*We are doomed* Let me try to tie two posts together-- yesterday's screed against the Gang of Six (and particularly Dick Durbin's embrace of über-conservative positions) and this morning's post on tax pol...
Simple foods provide protection against radiation exposure "Sulfur-containing antioxidants found in ... broccoli, kale, cabbage, and garlic have been found to provide protection against radiation exposure...
Suggestion that aliens have made contact with primitive humans, and cites as evidence, Indian Sanskrit texts from around 3000 BC that are suggested to describe flying machines calledVimanas; Egyptian megal...
BREAKING: The Russell Pearce Tea Party Surprise: " Blog for Arizona According to Russell Pearce… “…“Mexico is a F***ing @$%#!”…”The United States has a higher standard of living than Mexico because it’s p...
Texas firefighters Wednesday battled blazes that have scorched over one million acres and have been burning for more than a week, according to the Texas Forest Service. "We're actually seeing Texas burn ...
Japan will begin enforcing an often-flouted evacuation order and keep people out of the 20-km zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, a top official announced Wednesday. About 78,000 peop...
Disease-causing bacteria carrying the new genetic resistance to antibiotics, NDM-1, have been discovered in New Delhi's drinking water supply. A Cardiff University-led team found new strains of resistant b...
An education department in one Malaysian state is sending effeminate boys to a boot camp to change their behavior, a move that's drawn fire from educators and activists. The Terengganu state Education De...
An elderly Texas couple were killed by bees this week after they apparently tried to remove the insects from a fireplace in a house on a remote ranch, the Valley Morning Star reported Wednesday. William ...
More than 1,000 people in Manitoba and Saskatchewan have been forced from their homes as flood waters continue to rise, with concerns that the Assiniboine and Red rivers could crest at the same time in Win...
Rapid warming in the Arctic is creating a new and fast-growing pool of fresh water in the Arctic Ocean. Measuring at least 7500 cubic kilometres, it could flush into the Atlantic Ocean and slow the Gulf St...
For those who think there's a real world beyond their video-game trading terminals and bubble-induced "Fed's got my back" commodities speculations comes yet another instance of what will be a long chain re...
Each year, an estimated 10,000 shipping containers fall off container ships at sea. Although many of these containers float at the surface for months, most eventually sink to the seafloor. No one knows wha...
Millions of bank customers mis-sold payment protection insurance will be given the chance to claim compensation after a ruling in the High Court today. In what was described as a ‘huge victory’ for custom...
Wildfires raging for more than a week in Texas have so far burned through a million acres of land and show no signs of dying down. Firefighters continue to battle some 22 separate blazes throughout the st...
Meet "Hammer-Biter," a newly discovered marsupial that lived 10 to 17 million years ago and had hammer-like teeth.
Who is David Barton?: " He's a favorite historian among conservatives like Glenn Beck, Mike Huckabee and Michele Bachmann. Newt Gingrich even plans to use him for advice on his 2012 election bid.But who is t...
** [image: Troubled waters: the Deepwater Horizon aflame on 21 April 2010. The stricken rig sank the following day. AP] By Farron Cousins 18 April 2011 Emails obtained by Greenpeace last Friday have r...
Patriot Academy: " Devin Burghart of the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights reports that a recent regional Tea Party Patriots conference held in Idaho was a far-right stew of "...raci...
NEO-NAZI BILL WHITE MAY BE GETTING RELEASED TODAY - HITLER'S BIRTHDAY!: "You know, we knew Bill White was going to get out of jail sooner or later. We knew that he was probably going to get some of his convi...
By now, all of you living in the US should have filed and paid your taxes (or, gotten a nice refund :). You even had an extra few days this year! If you haven't yet... umm... run and hide? Now that you've...
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*News from Veterans For Peace * 216 S. Meramec Avenue St. Louis, MO 63105 (314) 725-6005 www.veteransforpeace.org *VFP Statement on Military Intervention in Libya* April 21, 2011 “The President does not h...
Did the early universe have just one spatial dimension? That's the mind-boggling question at the heart of a theory scientists say they are on the brink of solving. The theory was first proposed by physici...
* News from Veterans For Peace * 216 S. Meramec Avenue St. Louis, MO 63105 (314) 725-6005 www.veteransforpeace.org VFP Statement on Military Intervention in Libya *April 21, 2011* *“The President...
Although America doesn't buy any oil from Libya, the problems there may be adding a couple of pennies to the cost of gasoline here. But what accounts for the fact that drivers in California are *looking* ...
(IMAGE: Target: This crude mock up of Celtic boss Neil Lennon riddled with bullets was posted on Facebook) Detectives believe there are two more letter bombs in the post after Celtic manager Neil Lennon w...
These are the latest images of the man who police investigating 'The Yellow Brick Road' murder of Jia Ashton are desperate to trace. Economics graduate Jia disappeared while walking home from her workplace...
This four-foot high stone may look unremarkable, but it is credited with saving the lives of the population of Aneyoshi when the tsunami struck Japan. Carved into its weather-worn rock is a warning - 'Do ...
Sitting atop a vast deposit of natural gas, Pennsylvania knows how lucrative – and dangerous – this rapidly expanding industry is. But how can it prevent large-scale environmental damage? Last June, Tony ...
The breast milk of four Japanese mothers has been found to contain small quantities of radioactive iodine. The government faced calls for a full investigation into the impact of the nuclear disaster on mo...
A dollar plumbing three-year lows is hitting Americans squarely in the gas tank, and one economist thinks it could drive prices as high as $6 a gallon or more by summertime under the right conditions. Wit...
Scientists may be searching for Earth-like worlds around stars like our sun, but a new study suggests that the best places to look for planets that can support life may be the dying stars called white dwar...
The ongoing spread of non-native mussels in the Great Lakes has caused "massive, ecosystem-wide changes" throughout lakes Michigan and Huron, two of the planet's largest freshwater lakes, according to a ne...
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