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Back by popular demand (would that Martin were too!): What's getting up your trunk about the BBC today? Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
*Today*'s Evan Davis and BBC political correspondent Louise Stewart had a lot of fun at the expense of David Cameron and Nick Clegg this morning over their disagreement over internships. They returned to t...
*By Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* The FAIRNESS DOCTRINE was attacked and trashed --not surprisingly --during the Reagan administration. It was trashed, reviled and dismantled not because it failed ...
The Debunker’s Guide to Obama Conspiracy Theories: "Weighing the factsI’m proud to announce a major new initiative here at Obama Conspiracy Theories: The Debunker’s Guide to Obama Conspiracy Theories.In reco...
Whither birthers?: " Politico.com has a new article tracing the origins of the birther movement, Birtherism: Where it all began. Here’s where they put the blame: The answer lies in Democratic, not Republica...
Tennessee Muslims gather at state Capitol for hearing on anti-sharia bill: "Hundreds of Muslims thronged the state Capitol Tuesday morning for a hearing on a bill that once targeted adherents to Islamic law....
Tennessee: Republican politician defends right to 'confront a political-militaristic-religion responsible for 10 out of the last 11 terrorist attacks on Americans': "Debate surrounding proposed state legisla...
Springfield: community backs Islamic Center against threats: "Vandalism and threats aimed at a local Muslim community have inspired others in Springfield to stand with the Muslims and in opposition to bigotr...
Terry Jones jailed: "A controversial Florida pastor was jailed on Friday after a Michigan court determined that his planned demonstration outside a mosque was likely to provoke violence and he refused to pay...
Student Group Leader Tied to White Supremacist Arrested Wednesday: "A white supremacist just arrested on federal firearms charges in the state of Washington had ties to a university student leader of a new c...
Facebook removes the English Defence League's main page on St Georges Day (UK): "Apparently the English Defence League's main page has been removed from the social networking site Facebook on St Georges Da...
Police launch operation to arrest 50 Old Firm online racists & bigots (UK): "More than 50 Old Firm internet hatemongers were last night facing arrest in a series of police raids.A top cop warned: 'We're comi...
I once ran a large company, a division of TimeWarner, and made a seven-figure income. I paid a lot of tax, a *lot* more tax than people in that position pay today. But even back then if my tax rate had go...
RELIGION - Before we get into this topic we feel it is important to point that anyone who believes the world is going to end in 2012 is committing blasphemy. The Mayan calendar is not a Christian source an...
Propagandists seeking US intervention, shift blame on puppet Obama. by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand April 23, 2011 - It is no secret that Syria has been marked for regime change for at least two deca...
TIME magazine has produced a list of the 100 most influential people in the world. This list may contain a number of CIA assets. This list includes: •Julian Assange •Colin Firth (actor) •Michelle Obama ...
McCain praises men who killed US troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand April 23, 2011 American foreign policy became surreal as long time "War on Terror" peddler John McCain...
A year after the disastrous *Gulf oil* spill, the prospect of a major accident in oil's next frontier - the icy waters off Alaska's north coast - has experts even more concerned. With no roads connecting...
*The Struggle to Control the Internet* "In addition to trying to create exclusivity (mind control) for its publications, the mainstream media and Anglosphere are trying to create 'firewalls' that will ...
Heavy winds from a severe storm caused significant damage, shattered windows and sent debris raining down on passengers at an airport in St. Louis Friday night. The Lambert-St. Louis International Airpo...
For children who live on the streets, location is not important - whether in Delhi or Glasgow their existence is surprisingly similar. Gill Martin reports. The cities of Delhi and Glasgow are worlds apart...
*Tenor Jonas Kaufmann sings the "*Ingemisco*" from the Verdi Requiem.* I groan as one who is accused; guilt reddens my cheek; Thy supplicant spare, O God. Thou who absolved Mary, and harkened to the thief...
Major energy companies have been given free carbon allowances worth more than £100m this year for closed or mothballed power stations – despite the fact that the plants are producing little or no emissions...
Sulak Sivaraksa, author of The Wisdom of Sustainability: Buddhist Economics for the 21st Centry, tells Robert Miller why Buddhism will help to conserve dwindling commodity reserves and how charges of tre...
South Africa’s vast game reserves are known for their wildlife yet, as Graham Boynton discovers, its most famous national park is facing serious problems with a surge in rhino poaching, tourist development...
ummm ... may want to ... *rethink* that ... Jesus, man. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?
[image: An Iraqi electrician checks last June the wires leading to a block of flats all connected to a generator which runs when the national power grid is down. Ali al-Saadi / AFP / Getty Images] By Ji...
BP officials tried to take control of a $500m fund pledged by the oilcompany for independent research into the consequences of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, it has emerged. Documents obtained under the ...
*Axl and Mike are less than respectful of Frankie's precious collectible Royal Wedding souvenir cup. (We saw the companion collectible Royal Wedding souvenir plate last night.)* *(DAD) MIKE HECK:* Frankie...
Planets in multi-star systems may host exotic forms of the more familiar plants we see on Earth.
What – decided you wanted more fish? Ladies and gentlemen, we are called upon to perform a sacred duty. Anything that brings CC's unique mix of humour, snark and concentrated smartassery back. A gentleman...
The only thing that sets the U.S. empire apart from despots like Libya's Gaddafi, Iraq's Saddam and Syria's Assad is the amount of power Washington has, including the power over truth and the power to crea...
This week we explain why you WON'T die (probably not, at least) as a result of a supervolcano eruption.
Rita Levi-Montalcini, the fourth woman ever awarded the prize, has had a significant influence on research exploring cancer, Parkinson's disease and more.
Apple Inc.'s iPhones and Google Inc.'s Android smartphones regularly transmit their locations back to Apple and Google, respectively, according to data and documents analyzed by The Wall Street Journal—int...
Investigations have concluded that President Obama was, in fact, born in Hawaii in 1961, as he has always said. Just this week, on the news program “Good Morning America” on ABC, George Stephanopoulos pro...
Texas Governor Rick Perry called on Texans to pray for rain as cooler temperatures on Thursday helped firefighters contain wildfires that have charred more than 1.5 million acres across the state. Perry...
Here is another fine example of the trend of violence in fast food restaurants. Two black females beating the hell out of a white patron, while several black employees stand by and watch. One black male ...
Greece's prime minister has lashed out at credit ratings agencies, as borrowing rates in the crisis-hit country at record levels threaten plans to return to the bond markets next year. George Papandreou i...
The dollar dropped to its lowest level in more than two-and-a-half years on Thursday as buoyant risk appetite prompted investors to sell the currency to fund carry trades. Analysts said robust corporate e...
Americans are more pessimistic about the nation’s economic outlook and overall direction than they have been at any time since President Obama’s first two months in office, when the country was still offic...
The combination of rising gasoline prices and the steepest increase in the cost of food in a generation is threatening to push the US economy into a recession, according to Craig Johnson, president of Cust...
At least three Thai soldiers were killed Friday in a new round of clashes with Cambodian troops in a disputed border region, a military official said. Thirteen other Thai troops were injured, Lt. Col. Si...
Beyond ForeclosureGate - It Gets Uglier Submitted by Michael Collins on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 21:14 Michael Collins The ForeclosureGate scandal poses a threat to Wall Street, the big banks, and the polit...
According to NRCC political director, Mike Shields, the GOP will once again mostly be targeting Blue Dogs and other conservative Democrats who vote with the Republicans so frequently that they can't inspi...
CERN's powerful accelerator has pushed particle physics into a new, powerful era.
*The Chinese have been paying visits to Tunisia and Egypt. Deals are being done.* (Website for this image) What will happen to North Africa? "Business is booming in Africa thanks mostly to the Chinese." ...
Now in its 41st year, Earth Day is an annual opportunity to raise awareness of environmental issues. But what issues concern Americans the most?
It is a letter that even the steeliest of people would struggle to find touching. In fact, it was so touching that when eight-year-old Ashwin Cresswell's letter reached Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gi...
The taxpayer is to foot an incredible £6million bill following a massive court case which was tried four times because of farcical errors and a catalogue of legal delays. Littered with judicial complicati...
For dogs, urine is a sort of Facebook profile of their personal life.
At least 27 people are reported to have been killed after Syrian security forces fired live bullets at thousands of people protesting for democracy. Massive protests have been reported in Douma, the centra...
Families have been warned to be extra vigilant after a group of prolific crooks were released early from prison due to the series of bank holidays, it emerged today. Police chiefs warned homeowners in Cam...
*A guest post by Hippiepooter*: If I was an anti-Semitic despot desperately trying to cling to power and I wanted to give an interview with pliant Western journalists to make propaganda, I know that Jerem...
You can read about my previous stashbusting entries, here (Stationary/Car Organizer), here (No Sew Zipper Roses) and here (Flower Pens). Remember the flower pens from yesterday? Today I will show you how to...
I once lived in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, which is in Monroe County, part of Pennsylvania's 11th congressional district. A blue collar Democratic district that voted for Gore and Kerry and gave Obama 57%...
Spencer’s Hypocrisy With Election Violence: " Robert Spencer, or “Police Blotter Bobby” as we have come to know him here, is completely hypocritical when it comes to Muslims and violence. His “IIT,” or “Is...
Piss Christ Art Work Destroyed by Protesting Christians, What if they were Muslim?: " The famously distasteful artwork by Andres Serrano titled “Piss Christ,” caused quite a stir when it was first shown. N...
Extraterrestrials have a mission plan for Earth and mankind, and cites as evidence, Sumerian tablets that allegedly describe the Anunnaki as a race of creatures that came to Earth to mine gold; the purpose...
Clergy united in their mission to protest rally by Florida pastor: " The Rev. Daniel Buttry of the American Baptist Church in Hamtramck and Essra Moussawi of the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn were...
Wife of ‘Sovereign’ Who Killed Arkansas Police Officers Sues Police: " Since her common-law husband and his son died 11 months ago in a gunfight with police after killing two officers, Donna Lee Wray has iss...
The Balochistan Gambit by Tony Cartalucci Troops will never leave Afghanistan until regional hegemony and its full integration into the "international system" is complete. When they say "Long War," they me...
FBI — White Supremacist Groups: "White Supremacist Groups Part 2 of 2 ... Policy | USA.gov | White House FBI.gov is an official site of the U.S. Federal Government, U.S. Department of Justice.v...
Certain think tanks, pressure groups, unions, associations (etc) can pretty much rely on the BBC to report their press releases, reports and studies. Articles appear daily on the BBC website devoted to suc...
Suspect in MLK Day bomb plot charged with hate crimes (USA): "A reputed neo-Nazi accused of planting a backpack bomb along the parade route of a Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration was newly charged on Th...
HAPPY EARTH DAY PEASANTS! *The Sovereign Independent* By Neil Foster – The Sovereign Independent - At a recent event, the Hungarian government held a lavish dinner for European Ministers with responsibi...
Serbia far right leader gets 2 years in prison: "A Serbian far right leader has been sentenced to two years in prison for inciting violence during a gay pride march that left scores of people injured.Belgrad...
Mars once had an atmosphere so dusty and stormy that its climate was a lot like the American Dust Bowl of the 1930s, but far worse, according to scientists. The discovery of a huge underground reservoir o...
A full-scale riot broke out on the streets of Bristol leaving eight police officers injured after an operation to arrest just four squatters dramatically escalated. Around 160 officers in riot gear swoope...
Sentencing for man who threatened John Boccieri: "A Tennessee man convicted of threatening Ohio Congressman John Boccieri during last year's heated health care debate could receive prison time."
Sen. John Ensign of Nevada to step downLos Angeles Times | April 21, 2011 | 4:15 p.m. Nevada Sen. John Ensign, facing an ethics investigation stemming from an affair with a campaign aide, will resign his se...
The Antarctic ozone hole is about one-third to blame for Australia's recent series of droughts, scientists say. Writing in the journal Science, they conclude that the hole has shifted wind and rainfall p...
A new study has revealed widespread reductions in the greenness of Amazon forests caused by the last year's record-breaking drought. "The greenness levels of Amazonian vegetation – a measure of its health...
Cornell University researchers say that natural gas pried from shale formations is dirtier than coal in the short term, rather than cleaner, and "comparable" in the long term. That finding -- fiercely dis...
At least three people have been killed and 21 more are missing after a landslide struck homes and destroyed mining tunnels in the Philippines. Mud and rocks buried miners' houses in the remote village in ...
**The dollar is doing just what the Fed wants it to do -- it's sinking, sinking and sinking more. Sadly, the great American public doesn't understand what's happening, and if they were told they couldn't...
Epidemiologist, Dr. Steven Wing, Discusses Global Radiation Exposures and Consequences with Gundersen from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.
Tokyo Electric Power Company says radioactive substances that leaked into the sea at the damaged Fukushima plant over six days from April 1st are estimated at 4,700 terabecquerels. This is 20,000 times mor...
Nitrogen pollution is costing every person in Europe up to £650 a year in damage to water, climate, health and wildlife, a major new study warned today. Scientists behind the research said nitrogen was n...
Numbers of Chinstrap and Adélie penguins in the Antarctic Peninsula region have dropped by more than 50 percent in the last 30 years, driven mainly by dramatic declines in supplies of tiny, shrimp-like kri...
A new study finds that the general public thinks getting a suntan poses a greater public health risk than nanotechnology or other nanoparticle applications. The study, from North Carolina State University,...
[image: Change in cognitive scores for a 10-fold increase in prenatal creatinine-adjusted DAP, DM, and DE organophosphate pesticide concentrations, CHAMACOS. Bouchard, et al., 2011] By Liz Szabo, USA TO...
Apparently Salon has a story claiming that Sarah Palin really is the birth mother of Trig. It's impossible that this woman gave birth to a 6 lb baby less than two weeks after this video was filmed. Look...
Knowing how beer becomes unpleasantly bitter can help breweries craft a beverage with a longer shelf life.
[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, ...
[image: Wild 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...
From Tunisia to Thailand, it's a global gambit. by Tony Cartalucci Thailand's army has recently been flexing its military might, but to what end? The globalists make their predictable suggestions. Bangko...
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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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...
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...
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...
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...
Back by popular demand (would that Martin were too!): What's getting up your trunk about the BBC today? Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
*By Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* The FAIRNESS DOCTRINE was attacked and trashed --not surprisingly --during the Reagan administration. It was trashed, reviled and dismantled not because it failed ...
I once ran a large company, a division of TimeWarner, and made a seven-figure income. I paid a lot of tax, a *lot* more tax than people in that position pay today. But even back then if my tax rate had go...
Propagandists seeking US intervention, shift blame on puppet Obama. by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand April 23, 2011 - It is no secret that Syria has been marked for regime change for at least two deca...
TIME magazine has produced a list of the 100 most influential people in the world. This list may contain a number of CIA assets. This list includes: •Julian Assange •Colin Firth (actor) •Michelle Obama ...
McCain praises men who killed US troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand April 23, 2011 American foreign policy became surreal as long time "War on Terror" peddler John McCain...
A year after the disastrous *Gulf oil* spill, the prospect of a major accident in oil's next frontier - the icy waters off Alaska's north coast - has experts even more concerned. With no roads connecting...
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