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[image: Fukushima evacuee. Many evacuees have spent a month living in government shelters, sometimes just gyms, and are running low on money. CNN] By Matt Smith, CNN 22 April 2011 Tokyo (CNN) -- The wor...
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It seems hypocritical to celebrate the earth while we are raping her.Try to learn to worship dirt, water, air, plants and animals instead of cheap plastic things, dirty gold or blood diamonds.We are running ...
[image: Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) President Masataka Shimizu, center, bows in apology, with other executive, during a press conference at the TEPCO headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, Friday, April 15, ...
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Olive tree. Olea europaea cuspidata-africana. Cape Town, 3 October 2010. Abu Shawka / Wikimedia Commons]
ScienceDaily (Apr. 21, 2011) — Research released in anticipation of World Malaria Da...
[image: TEPCO officials apologize to Fukushima evacuees. Masataka Shimizu (L front), president of Tokyo Electric Power Co., and other company officials apologize on April 22, 2011, to residents of the vi...
At the 3:20 minute mark in Don Newman's interview with John Baird in December 2008, Baird explains how the Cons plan to do an end run around being defeated in Parlament by shuttering it. Baird : "I thin...
It seems like it's been decades since gruesomely conflicted Beltway Democrats, struggling with the absurdity of trying to maintain a Big Tent-- and keep the corporate money flowing-- had the courage of th...
Getting back into the swing of things, I thought I'd monitor the New Channel's coverage of the AV referendum campaign on Tuesday. On that day at least (I can't vouch for any of the others), it seemed scrup...
Syrian security forces have used teargas to disperse protesters in the capital Damascus, according to reports. It follows reports the Syrian army was deployed overnight in the city of Homs - ahead of Frid...
Iraq's *prime minister* has told the top U.S. military officer that Iraqi forces are able to maintain safekeeping in their own country, as discussions intensify larger than whether to keep any U.S. forces ...
The NDP release the kind of ad you're supposed to release when you're surging. It's all Jack, it's all positive, it plays on that sense of momentum. How would you rate this ad? A B C D FSee Results
Being short of time today I am reposting below an entry from last year, about Earth Day. I also highly recommend this essay by killing Mother, which is titled Earth Day 2011 - Do One Green Thing - Saving ...
Why did the legendary progressive trance producer Joel Zimmerman release a tune named after a random star? Perhaps there is no "why," just "is."
If you use the BBC News website's 'Search' function, as many do, you'll find that broad categories have a right-hand section where BBC editors recommend sites 'elsewhere on the web' for readers to investig...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] Rebels welcomed the operation of *U.S.* unmanned aircraft and said they hoped the move would defend civilians. Doctors at the hospital in Misrata, the rebels' l...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] U.S. Sen. John McCain, one of the strongest proponents in Congress of the American military interference in Libya, said Friday that Libyan insurgent’s hostility...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] President *Barack Obama* came to the West Coast looking to sell a long-term plan for dipping the nation's deficit. But he couldn't flee the reality that a lot o...
Not all eggs are created equal in the eyes of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Kinder Eggs, a popular European chocolate egg that contains a toy inside, is banned from importation into the United Stat...
Large explosions and the sound of jets over Tripoli Thursday night indicated NATO has likely increased the intensity of its air strikes on Moammar Gadhafi's key command and control military sites. CNN'...
A farmer from central China has discovered his mystery illness was caused by a bullet inside his brain 23 years after it lodged there. Wang Tianqing was suffering from symptoms that had grown progressively...
Christian electrician Colin Atkinson has won his fight to display a cross in his van following a nationwide outcry. The dramatic climbdown by Wakefield District Housing came after senior church figures we...
A baby girl survived a terrifying fall from a fourth-floor hotel balcony thanks to a Good Samaritan who caught her as she plummeted towards the ground. Jah-Nea Myles, just 16-months-old, landed in the arm...
The CIA tried to frame Bulgaria for the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II in 1981 to discredit Communism, a new book has claimed. The U.S. intelligence agency orchestrated the story that the eas...
The hunt for kidnapped nursing student Holly Bobo took a new twist today as it emerged another young woman living nearby suffered a similar attempted abduction. Heather Sullivan, 31, who lives only 45 min...
IS THAILAND NEXT? Is the CIA (the Globalists) planning to topple the government in Thailand and put Mr Thaksin back into power? From landestroyer.blogspot (*Warning Signs Over Old Siam***): "Thaksin ......
Wine bottles are seen in a restaurant in Paris 2009. The manager of a French distillery was sent a bill large enough to pop anyone's cork. Photo courtesy: Yahoo!News ..The manager of a French distillery ...
The Libs, arrogant sods that they are, should have seen it coming. He did all in his power to help Stephen Harper toss out Paul Martin. Next time he did everything he could to help Stephen Harper bludge...
TAGUM CITY – At least 10 bodies have been recovered from the landslide that hit a mining village in Pantukan, Compostela Valley on Good Friday, police and military officials said. But fears about more ca...
. EKOS and Ipsos Reid polls - just a snapshot in time of what a few thousand Canadians think today . EKOS seat projections : Cons - 134 seats, down from 143, so no majority Libs - 82 seats, up from 77 ...
Some suspect domoic acid, a biotoxin found in algae blooms off the California coast that was detected in sardines found dead in neighboring Redondo Beach's King Harbor. In the past three days, five more ...
*An expectedly light Higgs boson could be showing up unexpectedly early at the LHC* Jester at Resonaances discusses a leaked internal memo of the ATLAS Collaboration at the LHC. See also Dorigo, Gibbs, ...
At least a dozen leopard sharks have been found dead or dying within the past several days in bayfront lagoons in Redwood City, putting local researchers on alert for some kind of infection or toxic discha...
Police fear a man who is accused of killing three teenage women and videotaping himself having sex with the corpse of one of the victims may have killed before. Sonny Pierce, 27, is accused of luring Kiar...
A former university politician and international aid group worker has been charged with the murder of a college student which was witnessed by her boyfriend on a webcam in China. Canadian-born Brian Dicks...
Detectives are hunting a suspected terrorist after two propane tanks and a pipe bomb were found in a mall just two miles from Columbine High School on the 12th anniversary of the chilling massacre. Invest...
When police pulled a headless body from a river, you would not have thought it needed a doctor to confirm the person was dead. But there are rules and procedures to follow. And a medic was duly called in ...
------------------------------ April 21, 2011 *ThisBoyTV* *Thought Control: Right-Wing Koch Brothers Caught Telling Thousands of Employees How to Vote* The Nation magazine has revealed that Koch Indus...
A chemical which causes cancer has been found in a huge range of foods including bread, crisps and baby food. Scientists have identified high levels in thousands of cooked and processed products. The sub...
French police searching for a missing family have launched a murder probe after five bodies were found buried in the garden of their home. The gruesome discoveries began with a severed leg being dug up at...
Video Link>>>>>>> Syria's protest movement has promised a day of demonstrations on what is being called 'Great Friday'. It comes in spite of the lifting of draconian emergency laws which should have he...
Southern Company Spokesperson Alyson Fuqua says Unit 1 automatically shutdown at 5:34 p.m. on Wednesday. She says the plant systems all performed as designed and safely shut the unit down. An investigat...
الثورة في مصر القيام بالسيطرة على الآثار الضارة بقلم : توني كارتلوتشى (original English version here) بانكوك، تايلند 16 نيسان/أبريل 2011- تماماً كاستخدام المساعدات الخارجية و إسرائيل للإطاحة بنظام حسن...
*In case anyone thinks that Eduard Strauss, younger brother of the Waltz King, Johann Strauss II, didn't write anything *other than* the Jean Shepherd standby Bahn frei!, here's another Eduard Strauss pol...
View the entire gallery of friendly grey whales here.
As Japan continues to grapple with its nuclear emergency, special scorn has been reserved for the "flyjins", foreigners who made their living in the country but fled in the wake of the March 11 earthquake....
Gold's decade-long rally could last for another four years, with the price climbing to $1,700 an ounce, analysts predicted, as the precious metal reached another record high in morning trading. Inflation...
Wall Street Journal article signaling uptick in Thai-globalist agenda. by Tony Cartalucci Thailand's army has recently been flexing its military might, but to what end? The globalists make their predictable...
Read about it here. Only the party that wins the most seats gets to govern, he says. Anything else, the public will not buy. In other words, me me me me me gimme my goddamn majority and no one else gets t...
Someone running for Flower Mound Council Place 1 wants to put a well site in your backyard to keep it out of hers.Explore use of new long distance drilling methods to unify mineral owners and surface ownersT...
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1. Project Democracy now says my riding is "a safe Liberal seat" and advises, "vote your preference". If I could trust this, I'd be very happy to vote NDP. Can I trust it? 2. Is it possible the NDP will ...
[image: Cracked mud is picture at sunrise in the dried shores of Lake Gruyere affected by continous drought near the western Switzerland village of Avry-devant-Pont. A leading climate scientist warned on...
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wmtc - 13 hours ago
I thought I'd blog while I was away, but never sat still long enough. I had a lovely visit with my mother, who is doing really well, and a terrific time with my sister, gabbing, drinking wine and touring h...
[image: Collection localities and methylmercury concentrations measured in the breast feathers of black-footed albatross museum specimens from the Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology (n = 8)...
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER Last updated at 1:06 PM on 20th April 2011 These are the shocking images of the long term damage last year's BP oil spill has done to the Gulf coastline. Coming a day after scie...
Tell the Texas legislature:Make Barnett Shale pipeline placement safer!Use the momentum from the successful release of our latest report Flowback: How the Texas Natural Gas Boom Affects Health and Safety to ...
[Joint Chiefs of Staff at the 2010 State of the Union. Who do they really work for?] By Rob Kall America's Military has become the biggest THREAT to US security. The USA's military is supposed to make th...
[image: An American pika (Ochotona princeps) in Colorado. Photo in Public Domain] By Jeremy Hance, www.mongabay.com April 21, 2011 The last decade has not been a good one for the American pika (*Ochoton...
Secret memos expose link between oil firms and invasion of Iraq By Paul Bignell *Tuesday, 19 April 2011* - SHARE - PRINT - EMAIL - TEXT SIZE - NORMAL - LARGE - EXTRA LARGE ...
[image: This image, made with data collected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite, reveals high temperatures that contributed to hazardous fire condition...
*by Ken* I don't know about you, but these days I'm finding most of the political-related news so grim that when my clock radio turns on in the morning, tuned to NPR's *Morning Edition* and timed to an ...
A new kind of plastic repairs itself when exposed to ordinary light.
[image: TEPCO dumps the mineral zeolite into the Pacific Ocean to absorb radioactive substances, with the goal of slowing down the contamination of the ocean, 16 April 2011. TEPCO / japannewstoday.com] ...
*SurvivalBlog.com* [image: Photobucket] *Mullein* By James Wesley, Rawles on April 20, 2011 5:26 PM So you stock up on a year’s supply of medications. What then? There comes a tremendous sense of confi...
[image: An older nearshore wellhead is shown off the coast of California in this undated photo. In state waters, California has resealed scores of its abandoned wells since the 1980s, but in federal wate...
Way to go South Africa! South Africa halts Shell's Karoo gas plansSouth Africa's government has halted plans by the oil firm Shell to extract natural gas from the Karoo desert by using a method known as "fra...
Rep Warren Chisum did industry a huge favor when he tucked an amendment into the TCEQ Sunset bill that will shift "the burden of proof in hearings on controversial permits from companies applying for a permi...
Is a new viral video of an alien body recovered in Russia for real?
On Sunday, I lamented that this election campaign was still lacking a defining storyline. Given the polls today, it's safe to say we finally have it. The NDP surge is one of those surprises that maybe sh...
[image: Polar stratospheric clouds in the Arctic. These Polar Stratospheric Clouds (PSC's) are composed of ice crystals that provide the surface for a multitude of reactions, many of which speed the degr...
A new climate change culprit in the Southern Hemisphere has been identified -- the ozone hole.
A week-long simulation would be the first step in a series of increasingly more complicated -- and realistic -- Mars-like operations.
A whopping 657 new barrier islands have been identified, some in locations never thought possible.
Swedbank in its economic outlook published on Tuesday raised the gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecast for Estonia for 2010 from 1.5 percent to 2.2 percent. For both 2011 and 2012 Swedbank is predi...
Iran has reportedly stepped up arms smuggling to its proxies in the Persian Gulf and the Levant to take advantage of the political tumult shaking Arab regimes and expand Tehran's influence. Saudi Arabia, ...
Rebels fighting Moamer Kadhafi's rule acquired weapons either by buying them with "Libyan money" or they were supplied by "friends", the head of Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) said Wednesday. ...
Procurement request: http://www.gpo.gov/gpo/bidopps/bidopps.action?region=chicago Handbook here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/22092329/ICE-National-Detainee-Handbook-2007 This post was reader contributed.
Thousands of gallons of fracking fluid have spilled following an accident at a natural gas well in Pennsylvania, WNEP reports. The Chesapeake Energy well in Bradford County lost control late Tuesday nig...
The front page of Tuesday morning’s *New York Times *had a stunning headline: *“Iraq Suffers as the Euphrates River Dwindles.”* The drying up of this historic river in the land of ancient Babylon is so s...
This is the entire 28 minute documentary. Also visit Poison Fire's official documentary website.
Billionaire* Donald Trump* recently proclaimed he is the Democrats' worst nightmare, but it's hard to imagining someone more frightening than *Charles Manson* ending a 20-year silence to call you out. Th...
A visit by U.S. President Barack Obama’s top military officer to Pakistanunderscored disagreements over the use of drone aircraft to target militants in the country’s mountainous northwest. Admiral Mike M...
Some hand sanitizer producers are making fraudulent claims and the U.S. Food and Drug Aministration has warned them to stop. The claims violate federal law, the FDA says. The claims in question say that ...
Click on picture to expand. For many months now I've been warning we were going to have a dollar crisis and that dollar crisis would drive the final leg up in gold's ongoing two year C-wave advance. We ar...
Iran has reportedly stepped up arms smuggling to its proxies in the Persian Gulf and the Levant to take advantage of the political tumult shaking Arab regimes and expand Tehran's influence. Saudi Arabia, ...
Rebels fighting Moamer Kadhafi's rule acquired weapons either by buying them with "Libyan money" or they were supplied by "friends", the head of Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) said Wednesday. ...
Procurement request: http://www.gpo.gov/gpo/bidopps/bidopps.action?region=chicago Handbook here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/22092329/ICE-National-Detainee-Handbook-2007 This post was reader contributed.
Two Delta Airlines employees were attacked on a MARTA train. MARTA police said they were investigating the incident. A witness said he watched the violent attack unfold Sunday."We were intimidated. Everyon...
21 April 2011 (NECN/CNN) - Japan has made it illegal to enter the exclusion zone near the Fukushima Nuclear Plant, but authorities say some people have moved back in, and others have been collecting pos...
Vive la France!France may be the first country in Europe to ban hydraulic fracturing.France Mulls Banning Shale ExplorationIt's good to know that someone is paying attention.Les Français apprendre de nos err...
I meant to put the above clip up on Tuesday night but Rachel's powerful analysis is so relevant-- and will be for so long-- that this message is fresh any time you hear it. It isn't really just about a s...
The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) will be the size of a continent and potentially turn our view of the Universe upside down.
[image: Seashore side of Fukushima Daiichi reactor building 4, 14 April 2011. TEPCO / japannewstoday.com] April 20 (Asahi Shimbun) – High levels of radiation discovered at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear po...
[image: Cows eating the entrails of a dead cow, in drought-stricken central Somalia, 20 April 2011. © WOCCA] NAIROBI, 20 April 2011 (IRIN) - Officials and aid workers in Somalia's Middle Shabelle region...
"They want to force us to be just like everybody else, like they are eventually. We are like a bone in their throat. If they try to bend us, to bring us down to our knees, we will at least resist. We will f...
[image: Admiral Thad Allen, ret. USCG, left, and Dr. Jane Lubchenko, right, National Oceanic and Atmospheric administrator, release the first two of 23 rehabilitated Kemp's Ridley sea turtles in the Gulf...
Armed US Predator drones will start missions in Libya as rebels take control of a key post on the border with Tunisia. US President Barack Obama has given the go-ahead to use the unmanned aircraft which ...
In the future, a computer virus may be wiped out in much the same fashion that humans overcome a cold.
Right-handedness, a uniquely human trait that has right-handers outnumbering lefties nine-to-one, dominated as far back as half a million years ago.
*Bandar and Bush* VIDEO: Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia gets Pakistani military support to counter any CIA Colour Revolution. A Russia-Saudi-Pakistan-China Bloc could challenge Wall St. and the City of ...
Scientists have developed a super-material that is thinner than paper but ten times stronger than steel. Developers of graphene paper, a compound based on graphite, claim it is not only lighter, stronger,...
** This Obvious HOAX turned up on Youtube Several days ago, this was the reason we didnt post it. We said it was too good to be true and, sadly, it was. The students behind the discovery of an alien's bod...
Zionists love war and hate peace because they can only get away with their crimes and deception under the umbrella of war. Caroline Glick, a whore for war and a senior fellow for Middle East Affairs at t...
Two bottles of 200-year old champagne recently salvaged from a Baltic Sea shipwreck will be auctioned off in June.
Some animals and plants that reproduce asexually "can in principle achieve essentially eternal life," according to a new study.
A 6.0 -magnitude earthquake struck of the East Coast of Honshu, Japan *The quake struck at 16.11 UTC - 76 km (47 miles) from Fukushima. Its epicenter was located with a depth of 36.6 km (22.7 miles).* *No ...
Austrian museum agrees to return $29-$44 million Gustav Klimt painting to the only surviving descendant of original Jewish owner.
I wasn't feeling very snap happy this morning, so I decided to forgo Photo Thursdays today, in order to post another stashbusting craft. I personally love flower pens. They make my desk brighter, my husban...
Investigative journalist Gareth Porter explains the genesis and growth of the U.S. role in Pakistan to Antiwar.com's Scott Horton.
*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...
[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 ...
Hidden Tracking Files Found in Ipad as well now
*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...
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It seems like it's been decades since gruesomely conflicted Beltway Democrats, struggling with the absurdity of trying to maintain a Big Tent-- and keep the corporate money flowing-- had the courage of th...
Syrian security forces have used teargas to disperse protesters in the capital Damascus, according to reports. It follows reports the Syrian army was deployed overnight in the city of Homs - ahead of Frid...
Iraq's *prime minister* has told the top U.S. military officer that Iraqi forces are able to maintain safekeeping in their own country, as discussions intensify larger than whether to keep any U.S. forces ...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] Rebels welcomed the operation of *U.S.* unmanned aircraft and said they hoped the move would defend civilians. Doctors at the hospital in Misrata, the rebels' l...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] U.S. Sen. John McCain, one of the strongest proponents in Congress of the American military interference in Libya, said Friday that Libyan insurgent’s hostility...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] President *Barack Obama* came to the West Coast looking to sell a long-term plan for dipping the nation's deficit. But he couldn't flee the reality that a lot o...
posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago*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...
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