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* My poor old copy of In God We Trust . . . * *by Ken* Last week in "Jean Shepherd Tonight" we heard the master in his own voice, as it went out over the airwaves to those of us lucky enough to live within...
In a commercial very reminiscent of what this blog's readers voted the third best ad of the 2008 campaign, a woman frets about paying the bills and worries about the tax hikes a Liberal (or NDP!) governmen...
*The houseboat that seaman-artist John A. Noble used as a studio (mounted on a barge on the industrial
Bayonne side of the Kill Van Kill, which separates
New Jersey from the north shore of Staten Island) w...
I hope all of you have had a peaceful and fruitful Easter. I spent mine with family contemplating how Jesus was murdered by people who would now be called Zionists, but back then were called Pharisees. Th...
Harper's Scott Horton delivered a lecture at the University of Alabama Law School on April 14, 2011 called "James Madison, Corporations, and The National Security State." It is a must-read.
China has ordered its banks to conduct stress tests to see how they would be affected if property prices fell by up to 50 per cent, in a sign of growing official unease about the overheated real estate mar...
Lambert-St. Louis International Airport officials released surveillance video that shows debris swirling inside the airport as workers and passengers run to take cover when the EF2 tornado hit on Friday ...
For weeks, reports have been circulating of a growing crackdown on Tibetan areas in the southwestern province of Sichuan. In counties of Aba Prefecture, a remote region on the Tibetan Plateau--at best, a ...
In this distant Chicago suburb, a builder has finally found a way to persuade people to buy a new house: he throws in a car. Kim Meier’s spring promotion, which includes a $17,000 credit at a nearby Gene...
More and more, I am finding stories produced by the mainstream media where the headline doesn’t jibe with the actual story that follows. A USA Today (newspaper) story from the “Money” section yesterday is ...
China should reduce its excessive foreign exchange reserves and further diversify its holdings, Tang Shuangning, chairman of China Everbright Group, said on Saturday. The amount of foreign exchange reser...
A passenger screener at Philadelphia International Airport is facing charges that he distributed more than 100 images of child pornography via Facebook, records show. Federal agents also allege that Trans...
When Mitchell Crooks checked out of the county jail last month and checked into a Las Vegas hospital, the 36-year-old videographer knew he had a fight on his hands. His face was bloodied and bruised. His...
...Gilles Duceppe is desperately trying to turn this into an election referendum: *Election a federalist-sovereignist battle: Duceppe* Bloc Québécois Leader Gilles Duceppe appears to be escalating his pa...
*Glen Cove Occupation: Earth Day* (Sat., April 23, 2011) Over 300 people attended today’s Indigenous Peoples Earth Day celebration, in support of the ongoing struggle to protect the Glen Cove sacred burial...
[image: Measured distribution of radioactive contamination at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in milli-sievert / hour, 24 April 2011. Asahi Shimbun / ex-skf.blogspot.com] Measured distribution of ra...
*Republican racists? You must be crazy! No racism there!* Despite what I've read for the past two years, I have no personal empirical evidence that most teabaggers are racists. Except here in Southern Cal...
When something bad happens to Jews or Israelis the BBC reacts with indifference or worse. The reporting of two recent incidents (or non-reporting of one of them) contrast sharply with the BBC’s treatment o...
Everybody who frequents this site will know that the BBC has spent lashings of our telly tax on legal fees to safeguard the secrecy of a report they themselves commissioned. The subject was their coverage ...
It is being reported that CIA and Saudi snipers are killing protestors in Syria, in order to discredit the Syrian government. *Video Reporting Possible CIA/Saudi Snipers in Syria* The same sort of techni...
McClatchy Newspapers April 12, 2011 By Shashank Bengali BENGHAZI, Libya — Khalifa Hifter thought he'd be America's man in Libya. He'd spent the last 24 years living under what he calls U.S. government...
The Shorthorn published an article yesterday about natural gas wells and safety concerns during weather events.Concerns about natural gas well safety ariseThe article contains a first person account of a pre...
[image: Devon Island, Canadian Arctic, 28 June 2001. Image courtesy NASA / GSFC / LaRC / JPL] Washington, April 22 (IANS) – Melting glaciers and ice caps on Canadian Arctic islands play a much greater r...
Tim Ruggiero and Mayor Calvin Tillman tour dates:Mon 25th: Erie Art Museum411 State StreetErie, PA 165017 PMTues 26th: Hughesville Fire HallRailroad & Water StreetHughesville, PA7 PMWed 27th: Temple B’nai...
A flood threat has prompted the evacuation of the Roseau River First Nation, 100 kilometres south of Winnipeg. There are plans to relocate approximately 850 people. About 170 had left by Saturday afterno...
[image: Nuclear Safety Commission's estimate of the total release of radioactive materials as of 5 April 2011. ...They did seem to think that after the surge on March 15 and 16 (after the Reactors 3 and ...
[image: Since April 6, more than a million acres have burned throughout the state of Texas, according to the Texas Forest Service. This image, taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (...
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By John Redhouse, Navajo *Scroll down to read or print. (There is a blank space beneath the intro, then proceed to the next page by scrolling down.) *Navajo John Redhouse: Farmington NM Police Brutality ...
*Here we hear Jussi Bjoerling's 1939 recording of the "*Ingemisco*."* *"In August, 1984 Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger stated that liberation theology has a major flaw in that it attempts to apply Christ's te...
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I've said it before, but in light of yesterday's developments – new attack ads, revised communication strategy and so forth – it bears repeating. Can we keep our eyes on the ball, comrades? We must, above ...
There will never be a better time than the present to call a spade a spade. The central bank of the United States, the Federal Reserve, has become an enemy of the people. I went to the grocery store yester...
Fearing that this could become a reality, the internal report says we must act now to decide what is 'acceptable machine behaviour'. There is increasing unrest about the use of unmanned drones in Afghanist...
French nuclear conglomerate AREVA presented this slide deck during an invitation-only meeting at Stanford University on 21 March 2011. *The Fukushima Daiichi Incident* outlines the probable course of eve...
Matthew 28:1-10 After the sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb. And suddenly there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord, des...
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Photos of the Longest Walk 3 reversing diabetes at Turtle Mountain Chippewa, North Dakota. Thanks to Chris Franicsco and Long Walk 3 for the photos! Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsno...
Poll: Americans Overwhelmingly Oppose Cutting Medicare and Medicaid: "The new Washington Post-ABC News national poll completely confirms the McClatchy-Marist poll we featured yesterday: Americans are overwhe...
'Big Government' Goes Full On Birther: "Yesterday, Andrew Breitbart signed on to the world's dumbest conspiracy theory, that Barack Obama's autobiography was secretly written by Bill Ayers.Today, Breitbart's...
Rachel Maddow on the Violent Anti-Abortion Movement: "VideoRelated:Bad Craziness Watch: Right Wing Reaction to the Tiller Murder"
Did you know that humpback whales can swim through thousands of kilometers of open ocean in an almost perfectly straight line? New high-tech tracking devices have enabled scientists to learn this, but the...
Fake Outrage of the Morning: Obama is Responsible for High Gas Prices: "Right wingers feel it's their God-given right to waste as much energy as they possibly can, just for the sheer hell of it. But if the p...
Why Sen. Ensign Really Quit: Other Women, At Least One More Staffer: "Imagine my surprise.WHY SEN. ENSIGN REALLY QUIT (Hint: It wasn’t, as his statement claimed, because of concern about his family): N.Y. Ti...
Mother Jones: Anti-Sharia Bill Sponsors Are Kind of Clueless: " Non-existant Sharia is such a burden in America, riiiiight. More idiocy on the anti-Sharia front. Mother Jones: BREAKING – Anti-Sharia Bill...
Facebook says Bye Bye to the EDL page for the second time, while hackers expose senior members names and addresses.: "Yesterday on this blog we reported that the main EDL page on Facebook had been removed.Wh...
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A so-called "investigative" scoop in the Daily Telegraph suggesting that the BBC is involved in the organisation of COMplus, an international group that supports climate change alarmism, has also caused ri...
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*The Struggle on Big Mountain/Black Mesa Continues!* *Louise Benally: Indigenous Environmental Activist and Long Time Resident of Black Mesa is Speaking at UNM!* Dine’ families and elders have been resist...
The site of a planned outdoor Easter service at one of China's largest independent "house" churches was eerily silent Sunday as police blocked more than 500 worshippers from leaving their homes and detai...
In order to maintain its massive charade of deception in claiming that genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) are the safe, practical solution to the world's food problems, the biotechnology industry has ha...
It wasn’t a scientific study, just an exercise to test methods for a possible future study, yet its findings were so stunning and conclusive they have become the subject of widespread discussion and a majo...
The relentless industrialization of renewable energy continues, now with the support of government at all levels. The case for solar “farms” and wind “farms” (note how the word “farm” summons bucolic image...
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*A week before Ubuntu 11.04* will be released I thought it of interest to see where we currently stand regarding the new Gnome 3 shell and Unity desktops. To my amazement both new desktops had evolved much...
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*Surprising!?* The kind police officer at a traffic inspection not only asked me for my driver's license and some other car related papers, but also asked if I had an *iPhone*. I have none, as I have no m...
I wanted to be a barrister for as long as I can remember. I wanted to be an advocate, to give a voice to those in society who could not help themselves. I wanted justice to be done and believed that our ...
[image: Poll results for the question, 'How serious of a threat is global warming to you and your family?' 20 April 2011. Concern about global warming has declined across western, southern, and eastern E...
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*The Sand Creek Massacre at Cheyenne Film Festival* Photo: Donald L. Vasicek Southern Cheyenne Chief Laird (Whistling Eagle) Cometsevah. Courtesy photo. The award-winning documentary, "The Sand Creek Massac...
It is proposed that aliens have contacted man as recently as the 20th century, citing examples such as the Battle of Los Angeles and the Roswell UFO Incident. It also looks at the modernSETI project and sp...
Billions of Asians want one thing - to live pretty much like you or me. The fact is, they can't. There isn't nearly enough of anything to go around for that to happen. The UN Secretary General has warn...
*bipartisan* I started reading Nazi Hydra In America by Glen Yeadon and John Hawkins the other day and the very first page of the intro of the 700-plus page book went right at Bush and his penchant for fa...
Bit by bit American democracy is being dismembered. Masses turn to propaganda mills like FOX News for information, arguing that the very number of viewers (the unseen hand of the marketplace) vouchsafes t...
Last night I dreamed that I was on a wonderful carnival ride, one of those big swings that goes round and round, undulating up and down so you feel like you are flying. It seemed like it was getting out o...
*Umar Patek* On 31 March 2011, we learn of the arrest in Pakistan of Umar Patek, who is suspected of working for the CIA. ISI claims credit for arrest of Bali bomb suspect Umar Patek is a member of the ...
Just what does it take to become a Republican governor in the American south? That region is in a lot of trouble as in global warming and droughts. You might think that, being the first of their countrym...
An elderly couple murdered in their home were found by their granddaughter when she came to visit on Good Friday. The bodies of Guiseppe Massaro, 80, and his wife, Caterina, 77, were discovered by 23-year...
This is a Guest Post By esteemed commenter Chuffer. ______________________________________ What you missed by not watching News24 at 11 o'clock, Easter Sunday.... Dramatic Intro Music. Nicholas Owen: This...
A 29-year-old man has died after being attacked by a group of masked men in Derby last night. Derbyshire Police said they were called to reports of a fight in Cummings Street at about 7.40pm. The man wa...
Besieged Misratah has continued to be bombarded by rockets and automatic weapons, despite claims Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's army had fled the Libyan city. While rebels claim they have retaken 80% of the co...
South Sudan’s army claimed today killing 57 militia members during Saturday’s clashes with Tanginya’s forces, in Jonglei state, adding three major-generals and several high ranking officers were among them...
Multi-family rooftop solar for low-income housing as multi-problem solution. Photos courtesy: R Cruger via TreeHugger. Unfortunately, it isn't often that you hear of a city trying to make environmental ch...
The north-west coast of the U.S. could be devastated by a huge movement of undersea plates known as a ‘megathrust’ earthquake, scientists say. A review of the dangers posed by the Juan de Fuca plate releas...
A 19-year-old man who was released from custody and put on probation is facing charges of murdering his father just three weeks after being set free. Mathew Nellessen is accused of trying to rob his fathe...
A Texas man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend was arrested after he leapt into the Grand Canyon, but only fell 25 feet. Terrance Deering Black, 48, of Dallas, made the jump after police issued a warr...
The transit worker fired for burning pages of the Koran on the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks is getting his job back, being given $25,000 and receiving back pay for every day he was out of ...
A pastor under investigation for inappropriate communications with a teen shot and killed himself inside the church. Nicholas William Minerva, 52, of Tempe, near Phoenix, Arizona, had been served with a s...
Surely your first instinct would be to grab them one by one and get them to safety. But shoppers appeared to be memerised by this admittedly bizarre sight... a family of ducks trapped on a mall escalator....
This was the scene of devastation today left by a tornado which hit several counties in St Louis and tore off the roof of the city's International airport. Almost 50,000 homes had power cuts as the storm ...
I received an URL for a nice prankster website, Earthconfessions.com (click) On that website, you may enter your sin against the Earth - for example, you confess that you have just used natural gas to c...
Koran-burning pastor Terry Jones was jailed briefly for refusing to pay a $1 'peace' bond over his planned protest outside the largest mosque in America. Jones was also banned from demonstrating and ordere...
Self-styled superheroes have offered their help in fighting the serial killer thought to be behind the murders of over a dozen prostitutes in New York City. The New York Initiative (NYI) - a group of vigi...
Yemen's embattled president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, has agreed to a proposal to step down within 30 days and hand power to his deputy in exchange for immunity from prosecution. The plan, negotiated by Gulf A...
A suicide bomber who was shot dead before he could detonate himself in Afghanistan's defence headquarters had travelled from London, it's believed. The Times are reporting that Britain's intelligence ser...
Asylum seekers are being ferried to and from court hearings by a private taxi company costing the taxpayer thousands of pounds - even though the local bus does the trip for £1.80. Each five-mile trip from...
A swine flu vaccine which has been given to thousands of children in Britain may cause the sleep disorder narcolepsy. Symptoms include excessive daytime sleepiness and nodding off suddenly without warning...
India's economy is booming - so why is the UK still sending millions of pounds in aid? Britain gave £45m (which we haven't got) to India (which is spending £1bn on aircraft carriers sending a probe to Mar...
A prisoner who shared a cell with a British tourist allegedly beaten to death by guards in a Dubai police station has revealed how he begged him to help save his life. The witness said Lee Brown, 39, told...
High Court judge responsible for handling Britain’s most sensitive emergency court cases over Easter will be conducting hearings by phone from his holiday 1,800 miles away in Tenerife. Sir Nicholas Mosty...
Brandon Roy was amazing tonight. He led the Portland Trail Blazers to defeat the Dallas Mavericks after trailing for most of the game. Roy scored 18 points in the last quarter. Click here to watch the grea...
Anyone who's been talking about "scandal fatigue" just hasn't been paying attention. At a campaign rally Saturday, Harper's minions whip a partisan crowd into a frenzy in order to drown out Terry Milewski...
MYSTERY surrounds the discovery of thousands of dead fish which littered Marcoola Beach on Friday. Local woman Lisa Perry took several photographs of the dead fish, including some 18cm whiting. The majo...
Katelyn Mccormick (back), who recently moved across from the park, thinks the knitted art adds to the vibe of the community. Mysterious knitted cozies have been appearing around trees and lamp posts at Wil...
*The "*Rex tremendae*" of the Dies Irae of the Verdi Requiem from the 1967 Karajan-La Scala film, with bass Nicolai Ghiaurov, soprano Leontyne Price, mezzo Fiorenza Cossotto, and tenor Luciano Pavarotti* ...
Amateur footage taken on Good Friday purports to show Syrian security forces in the city of Homs opening fire on anti-government protesters. In the video protesters can be seen fleeing after gunfire halt...
Jean Chretien will join the Liberal campaign this week, and Jacques Parizeauwill join the Bloc campaign.
I haven't said anything yet about Canada's federal election. Here goes.If THIS NDP surge is true then that is great for two reasons.First, it would wipe Iggy off the map. I dislike that Harvard man. Disgusti...
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What a convenient little microcosm of the Harper Government™. Tory crowd drowns out question about support from man acquitted in Air India By Steven Chase Conservative partisans deliberately drowned out a ...
*This photo accompanied Independent Health Editor Jeremy Laurance's report on "Bahrain's secret terror," with the caption: "Medical staff of the Salmaniya Medical Complex rush a victim of the clashes betwe...
Who would have thought twenty years ago that a wrestler would become one of the heroes of our age? Then again, it shouldn't be so surprising because wrestlers are special men. They can both face the ridicu...
Shinjuku Station, Tokyo Photo credit: the blogger I discovered that the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry puts out a daily pdf givi...
Just a reminder that advance polls are open yesterday, today, and Monday. Elections.ca will gladly point you where you need to go. I just got back from voting for Christine Innes, a fine candidate in Trini...
Elon Musk has announced a time-scale for his company's planetary exploration goals.
A DAD-of-four who split up a fight in a McDonald’s was shot dead moments after being told he wouldn’t see the morning. Raymond Mitchell, 34, had only popped into the restaurant to buy a hot chocolate. B...
Gas prices are on the rise nationwide, but one filling station in Florida has earned the dubious distinction of having the highest prices in the country. Suncoast Energys, located near the Orlando Interna...
The Dutch have banned barbecues, camp fires and outdoor smoking this Easter, while the Swiss are forecasting potentially the worst drought in Europe for more than a century. Either way, prayers in Europe ...
A rumor is floating around the physics community that the world's largest atom smasher may have detected a long-sought subatomic particle called the Higgs boson, also known as the "God particle." The cont...
The United States launched its first Predator drone strike in Libya on Saturday, the Defense Department said in a statement. It did not provide details on the target of the strike, saying only that it oc...
Police investigating the murder of two British tourists in Florida believe they were ordered at gunpoint into a run-down housing estate where they were robbed before being shot dead. They are working on ...
While Americans are busy focusing on the most ridiculous forms of * entertainment* such as *Dancing With The Stars*, *American Idol*, and whatever mindless reality show currently keeps them glued to their c...
A controlled diet high in fat and low in carbohydrate can repair kidney damage in diabetic mice, according to US scientists. The study, published in journal PLoS ONE, showed a "ketogenic diet" could reve...
Here's the "official" breaking news of the story that day: Part One: Part Two: Part Three: This post was reader contributed.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lost or misplaced more than $8 million in property in 2007, losing track of items including computer and video equipment, government auditors say. Agen...
NOTE: This post is developing as readers send in information and will be updated and expanded as new information comes in. We need some translations and info on this video, and second opinions from Arab sp...
No doubt you've heard by now that Nevada Republican John Ensign, formerly the 3rd highest ranking Republican in their caucus leadership has decided to stop clinging to his political career. After vowing h...
On 23 April 2011, we read that *Justin Bieber* is in Bogor, in Indonesia, at a time of heightened security fears. Bogor (ANTARA News) - "The Police bomb squad team in Bogor has been alerted to secure t...
Yemen's embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh has accepted a deal brokered by neighboring Persian Gulf nations to step down, a senior Yemeni Foreign Ministry official said Saturday. Both Saleh and the Y...
Cui Bono? by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand April 24, 2011 - Imagine you are an embattled regime fighting against a rising tide of foreign-funded protesters. The entire world is watching, one nation i...
Alien encounters have been documented in various historical texts, citing as evidence, the 13th century book *Otia Imperialia* which describes an incident in Bristol, England ascribed to UFOs; the log entr...
The world's largest atom smasher is rumoured to have found the Higgs boson, the subatomic particle otherwise known as the 'God particle'. The speculation is based on a leaked internal note, said to be from...
Solomon Islands- A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck near the Solomon Islands at a depth of 81.6 km (50.7 miles), the quake hit at 11:16:55 p.m. CDT Friday. The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) W of Kira Ki...
A 6.0 -magnitude earthquake struck of the East Coast of Honshu, Japan The quake struck at 10.12 UTC - 475 km (295 miles) from Tokyo. Its epicenter was located with a depth of 38.9 km (24.2 miles). No damag...
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Expect a lot of "what i'm reading" posts this spring and summer, because I am planning on doing a lot of reading! The thing I dislike most about being in grad school is not having time and energy to read w...
Stephen Harper couldn't have scripted this any better. *The Globe* headline says it all, "Liberal, Tory attack ads zero in on Layton as NDP rise in the polls." Harper's first electoral gift was Layton t...
*Blogger's Note:* While large doses of nuclear radiations are certainly dangerous, go *here* to see evidence that small radiation doses may actually be beneficial. Although we still lack a statistical sens...
[image: Police officers man a checkpoint in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, about 20-kilometers (12-miles) from the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant Monday, April 11, 2011....
Thursday Wisconsin's nihilistic governor, Scott Walker, wrote a glowing paean to political ally Paul Ryan for *Time* Magazine's top 100 people of the year contest: Paul Ryan, 41, came of age down the ro...
[image: A TEPCO worker sprays chemical hardening agent around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, 18 April 2011. TEPCO / japannewstoday.com] TOKYO, April 23 (Kyodo) – Workers at a nuclear power plant da...
SWELTERING Britain will be hotter than Cairo today as temperatures soar above 27C. This month’s temperatures have been 3C higher than normal. On Wednesday it was 26.5C at Heathrow, making it the warmest ...
Yemen's president has welcomed the Gulf Arab plan for a transition of power, in a speech to the largest demonstration by his supporters so far. But Ali Abdullah Saleh made no commitment to accept the plan...
Air pollution is damaging 60% of Europe's prime wildlife sites in meadows, forests and heaths, according to a new report. A team of EU scientists said nitrogen emissions from cars, factories and farming ...
[image: Red indicates the extent of the radiation cloud on 27 April 1986 just after the accident in Chernobyl. worldprocessor.com] By Roger Highfield 21 April 2011 A quarter of a century after the wor...
*Bouazizi* The revolts in North Africa appeared to begin on 17 December 2010. That was when, in the Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid, a municipal official, Fedia Hamdi, allegedly slapped 26-year-old fruit ve...
Hillbilly "pastor" Terry Jones has taken his Islamophobia on the road. Jones and his equally inbred sidekick Wayne 'Gomer' Sapp were locked up for their own safety as they prepared to stage a protest ...
Peter Mansbridge talks coalitions with Michael Ignatieff in studio, talks coalitions with Jack Layton on the campaign trail, and talks coalitions with Stephen Harper in an empty hockey rink. All three do...
Security forces of the despotic government of Bahrain are said to have abducted 32-Bahraini doctors. The Massachusetts-based, Physicians for Human Rights, says the medics were all involved in treating th...
Chinese authorities were locked in negotiations on Friday with striking truckers who have besieged the country's largest port, in a bid to prevent the unrest from spreading to other cities. Truck drivers...
The BBC's Jeremy Bowen was shown bomb damage at a compound in Tripoli that Gaddafi supporters say was used for water storage Tribes loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi have said that if the army canno...
Needles discovered in fruit and meat products at a supermarket in southwestern Ontario forced it to close temporarily while store staff searched for signs of further tampering. The Food Basics store in L...
Syrian forces fired on mourners taking part in funeral processions Saturday for protesters killed during anti-government demonstrations, killing six people, witnesses said They said two people were kille...
Officials and aid workers in Somalia's Middle Shabelle region have raised the alarm over the plight of drought-stricken villagers urgently needing food and water. "We are experiencing the worst drought we...
A plume of radioactive blather has spread around the world from the Japanese nuclear meltdowns, stripped of information and logic (presumably by pre-radiation), seriously affecting the thought processes of...
The Arab Street — a slangy term for popular opinion and activism in that part of the world — is brimming with energy and resolve, it is, as they say, kicking ass and taking names in this amazing Arab sprin...
Biofuel produced from algae, essentially pond scum, has long titillated green energy boosters as a potential big time player in the U.S. renewable fuels portfolio. Now, a-first-of-its-kind look at industri...
Indoor marijuana cultivation consumes enough electricity to power 2 million average-sized U.S. homes, which corresponds to about 1 percent of national power consumption, according to a study by a staff sci...
Security forces of the despotic government of Bahrain are being blamed in the disappearance of 32-doctors. Massachusetts-based
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....
( Quick. How many think he's talking about Xians ? )
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* My poor old copy of In God We Trust . . . * *by Ken* Last week in "Jean Shepherd Tonight" we heard the master in his own voice, as it went out over the airwaves to those of us lucky enough to live within...
*The houseboat that seaman-artist John A. Noble used as a studio (mounted on a barge on the industrial Bayonne side of the Kill Van Kill, which separates New Jersey from the north shore of Staten Island) w...
China has ordered its banks to conduct stress tests to see how they would be affected if property prices fell by up to 50 per cent, in a sign of growing official unease about the overheated real estate mar...
For weeks, reports have been circulating of a growing crackdown on Tibetan areas in the southwestern province of Sichuan. In counties of Aba Prefecture, a remote region on the Tibetan Plateau--at best, a ...
In this distant Chicago suburb, a builder has finally found a way to persuade people to buy a new house: he throws in a car. Kim Meier’s spring promotion, which includes a $17,000 credit at a nearby Gene...
More and more, I am finding stories produced by the mainstream media where the headline doesn’t jibe with the actual story that follows. A USA Today (newspaper) story from the “Money” section yesterday is ...
China should reduce its excessive foreign exchange reserves and further diversify its holdings, Tang Shuangning, chairman of China Everbright Group, said on Saturday. The amount of foreign exchange reser...
A passenger screener at Philadelphia International Airport is facing charges that he distributed more than 100 images of child pornography via Facebook, records show. Federal agents also allege that Trans...
When Mitchell Crooks checked out of the county jail last month and checked into a Las Vegas hospital, the 36-year-old videographer knew he had a fight on his hands. His face was bloodied and bruised. His...
*Glen Cove Occupation: Earth Day* (Sat., April 23, 2011) Over 300 people attended today’s Indigenous Peoples Earth Day celebration, in support of the ongoing struggle to protect the Glen Cove sacred burial...
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