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Learn moreSoviet efforts to contain the Chernobyl nuclear disaster a quarter of a century ago were far better than Japan's "slow-motion" response to the disaster at Fukushima, a leading member of the 1986 recovery e...
*by Ken* Last night we had the first chapter of Jean Shepherd's story collection-cum-novel *In God We Trust -- All Others Pay Cash*, which brought another visit from our favorite Shepherd expert, Eugene B...
Tornadoes were forming over Dallas late this afternoon, as the weather there turned ominous, threatened by a storm system that has brought 200 reports of severe weather across the country over the last 24 ...
The Syrian army used tanks against its own people for the first time on Monday as President Bashar al-Assad resorted to overwhelming force in an attempt to crush the last vestiges of unrest against his rul...
Nintendo has deepened the gloom enveloping corporate Japan after profits hit a seven-year low because of stiff competition in the video games console market and a post-earthquake slide in consumer confiden...
The waiting is nearly over. Gross Domestic Product for the first quarter is announced on Wednesday – rarely has the data caused so much anticipation. Last quarter's surprise contraction has created confusi...
Abu Qatada and Abu Hamza, two preachers who lived off state benefits after claiming asylum, are identified by the American authorities as the key recruiters responsible for sending dozens of extremists f...
Too early to say whether the wheels are coming off the bus, but ... I'll just let this guy speak for himself. I mean, *Jesus*. A sample: ... we must focus on retaining the Liberal Party's spot in this co...
With 1.5 million Quebecers watching, Michael Ignatieff put in quite the performance on *Tout Le Monde En Parle* yesterday. He laughed, he was relaxed, he was confident. He talked about Liberal policies, he...
No, not because of the latest poll that has people somewhat prematurely speculating about Layton as Prime Minister. Rather, Harper should be worried, because it turns out Jack is a better piano player tha...
I know everyone has seen more than enough - but this one is special. Even if you don't speak Japanese, the voices capture in exquisite calibration the disbelief and shock that something so horrible could ...
*The Corporate State Wins Again* Posted on Apr 25, 2011 truthdig By Chris Hedges When did our democracy die? When did it irrevocably transform itself into a lifeless farce and absurd political theater?...
*Note that this AP video clip, which says doctors have cleared Rep. Gabrielle Giffords to attend husband Mark Kelly's space-shuttle launch this week at Cape Canaveral, and she will do so, sourcing an inte...
Photo courtesy: trekearth.com Canada, where I live, is home to over 500 species listed at some level of risk -- extinct, extirpated, endangered, threatened or of special concern. At risk species are found...
EKOS poll surveyed 3,004 Canadians, including 2,783 decided voters, between April 22 and April 24. 8% were undecided or ineligible. A poll is only a poll is only a poll. But if it has any basis in reali...
For the first time, the international organization has set a date for the moment when the “Age of America” will end and the U.S. economy will be overtaken by that of China. And it’s a lot closer than you ...
Weakness in the US dollar, which is causing everything to go up—including gas prices, food and stocks—is unlikely to go away soon as a selling frenzy hits the currency market. The greenback is approaching...
Law and order will be the first casualty when the shit hits the fan. Recent historical examples the world over, including New Orleans, Haiti, and Chile show that without policing, looting will become an im...
The United States has never defaulted on its debt and Democrats and Republicans say they don't want it to happen now. But with partisan acrimony running at fever pitch, and Democrats and Republicans so far...
A member of the Hawaii State Senate has said he believes Barack Obama is not releasing his long-form birth certificate because he may want to hide the identity or citizenship of his father. Republican Sam...
Iran has been hit with new malicious software as part of cyber attacks against the country, a military officer told Mehr news agency on Monday without specifying the target. "Certain characteristics abou...
Q: What do CNBC, George Soros, Warren Buffet and every other mainstream investment commentator on the price of gold have in common for the last ten years? *A: They are all wrong.* All the time, every ye...
Mexico was stunned by a shocking new massacre Monday after four women and a teenage girl who worked in an Acapulco beauty parlor were found stripped and slaughtered. The 14-year-old and two of the women w...
Thai and Cambodian forces battled for a fourth straight day along their disputed border Monday, as Cambodia accused its neighbor of damaging two ancient temples in weekend clashes. Southeast Asian diplom...
Senior western leaders called for Nato to adopt an assassination policy against Col Muammar Gaddafi to salvage the bombing campaign in Libya from a descent into stalemate. The calls came as Col Gaddafi w...
Advocates for transgender rights are planning a rally outside a McDonald's in Maryland where an attack against a transgender woman that was caught on video took place. The rally condemning the attack is ...
by Barbara Loe Fisher It is a short 15 second public service message on the CBS Jumbotron on Times Square in New York City that encourages everyone to make informed vaccine choices. The message is sponsor...
Trying to make sense of what the NDP's Quebec surge means in terms of seats is a difficult game. For starters, most public polls lump all of Quebec together when, in reality, a voter in Montreal is very di...
Before it got chewed up and digested and spat back out as part of another Wall Street bankster operation, I was a client of Smith Barney, soley because my financial advisor went to work there when some o...
This episode examines locations around the Earth that are proposed "hot spots" of UFO activity; such as the Bermuda Triangle; Mexico's "Zone of Silence" an area of land said to naturally disrupt radio sign...
These are the spectacular death throes of a distant star captured through the Hubble telescope. The Cat's Eye Nebula may be three thousand light years from earth - but its fate is the one that likely awai...
A two-year-old boy keeps calling for his mother after he is feared to have shot and killed her while playing with a loaded gun. Troy Bailey pointed a 9mm Glock pistol at his mother Julia Bennett after mi...
Beekeeping engineers want to use sensors, microphones and microcontrollers to monitor beehive health.
The SETI Institute is suspending its search for extraterrestrial radio beacons using its most advanced alien signal-seeking tool while it hunts for new sources of funding.
The adventure park where a boy of 11 died after falling from a 30ft high ‘zip-wire’ ride closed its doors today 'as a mark of respect' to the child's family. The Easter Sunday tragedy happened as the boy ...
A would-be hijacker armed with a knife tried to hijack an Alitalia passenger plane last night and demanded it be flown to Libya. As 131 passengers looked on in terror, Valery Tolmachev, a 48-year-old Kaza...
Three men have been arrested over the murders of an elderly couple found dead in their home in Wolverhampton. The bodies of Giuseppe Massaro, 80, and his 77-year-old wife Caterina, were discovered by thei...
Cat lovers paid thousands of pounds for security guards to patrol their neighbourhood after eight cats died from anti-freeze poisoning and another two vanished. Families living in the village of Runwell, ...
A group of teenagers dressed as Easter bunnies were turned away from a zoo - amid fears they would 'psychologically damage' the animals. Cancer-sufferer Laura Gibson, 15, and her friends were told to chang...
A teenager accidentally set his girlfriend on fire while trying to light a disposable barbecue with a bowl of petrol. Chris Flintoff, 19, had become frustrated that the barbecue wouldn't light so got a di...
A man has died after a safety net failed during a human cannonball stunt, police said today. The accident happened during a show put on by Scott May's Daredevil Stunt Show at the Kent County Showground in...
In a desperate attempt to have their asylum claims accepted by the UK government, four Iranians have sewn their mouths shut with fishing wire and gone on hunger strike with two others. The men have not ea...
The NDP platform has been given a free ride this campaign. Luckily, there are people out there willing to put the NDP's platform promises under scrutiny. Those people? The NDP: *NDP casts doubts over its ...
Still electioneering but wanted to highlight this story for you! Does Al Queda have sympathisers in the BBC? The files, obtained by the WikiLeaks website and passed to The Daily Telegraph, disclose that a...
How did Earth manage to hold onto its organics after being slammed by a Mars-sized object 4.4 billion years ago?
More than 400 prisoners, including members of the Taliban, have escaped a jail in Afghanistan after insurgents tunnelled in to free them. The majority of the 476 prisoners who fled the 1,200-inmate Sarpos...
Tests have found dangerous levels of harmful bacteria in the water at two popular Darwin beaches, causing their closure as tourists and locals flock to the recreation area of East Point. Both Lake Alexan...
Details added after the third paragraph (the first version was posted at 13:27) Iranian specialists have found a second virus named "Stars" in the country’s Internet network, commander of civil defense G...
BOGOTA – More than 29,100 people have been forced from their homes by the latest round of torrential rains blamed for 93 lives so far this year, the Colombian Red Cross said Saturday. “The situation remai...
KENDARI, INDONESIA (BNO NEWS) -- A strong earthquake struck the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on early Monday morning, seismologists said, causing some damage but no casualties. The 6.0-magnitude earth...
As the U.S. Congresswoman makes a steady recovery after the Jan. 8 shooting, her husband confirms she'll watch him launch on STS-134.
With the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster upon us, find out why radiation contamination can spark panic.
A novel battery produces electricity in places where freshwater meets saltwater.
Last weekend we took a look at the People's Budget, introduced by Raúl Grijalva and Keith Ellison on behalf of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. It's been largely ignored by this country's ruling eli...
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[image: The tsunami washed this fishing boat onto the breakwater of a river in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture. nypost.com] By Stuart Biggs, Kanoko Matsuyama, and Frederik Balfour 25 April 2011 The wrecka...
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GigaPan Time Machine enables viewers to explore space and time at extremely high resolutions.
HydroBOB lets riders zoom around underwater and interact with a school of robotic fish.
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[image: Photobucket] *SurvivalBlog.com* By James Wesley, Rawles on April 25, 2011 10:06 PM Ayn Rand's 1957 novel "Atlas Shrugged" is enjoying renewed popularity following the release of the new *Atlas S...
*“Think’st thou that duty shall have dread to speak, When power to flattery bows? To plainness honour’s bound, When majesty stoops to folly.” – Kent to King Lear* On Friday night, my husband and I were ve...
23-year-old Wang X who had been studying abroad in Japan for 5 years arrived at the arrival terminal of Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport on the night of April 1st and stabbed Gu X, his mother who ha...
Taliban militants tunnelled more than 480 inmates out the main prison in southern Afghanistan overnight, whisking them through a 320-metre-long underground passage they had dug over months, officials and i...
I recently took two trips to China just as the government launched its 12th Five-Year Plan to rebalance the country's long-term growth model. My visits deepened my view that there is a potentially destabil...
Files obtained by the website Wikileaks have revealed that the US believed many of those held at Guantanamo Bay were innocent or only low-level operatives. The files, published in US and European newspap...
The militant group Hezbollah is actively plotting with the opposition in Bahrain to overthrow the country's ruling family, the government said in a confidential report to the United Nations. "Evidence co...
Recently, the Hefei department of industry and commerce discovered a “beef extract” additive circulating widely on the market, allowing for chicken meat to be come “beef”. A city resident revealed that thi...
Unscrupulous businesses fish out stinking hogwash from urban sewages and gutters, and with filtrating, heating, subsiding, and dividing, gutter oilturns out the clear-looking “edible” oil and end up on tabl...
The Syrian government launched a major military operation Monday, sending thousands of troops into the town where the country's uprising began to carry out what witnesses described as a brutal, wider-sca...
Violent clashes over a disputed area along the Thai-Cambodian border erupted for a fourth consecutive day Monday, resulting in the death of a Thai soldier, a military official said. Four other Thai soldi...
Faced with an increasingly dire financial situation, Portugal has started negotiating a bailout package with the European Union (EU) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It follows in the footsteps o...
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Low levels of sunlight coupled with glandular fever could increase the risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS), say researchers. There are many suspected risk factors for MS and the disease is known to...
"Could you please fail me?" As a university lecturer, it is by no means unusual to have seniors drop by to check if they have sufficient credits to graduate. However, I was flabbergasted by this recent vis...
Using historical records of microwave satellite images, atmospheric scientists have discovered two patterns that indicate a storm system is about to turn into a hurricane.
The computer system you prefer can say a lot about the kind of person you are.
I would like to see the research this man bases these comments on - except there isn't any: "Is it a wise idea to encourage young people to vote who aren't well informed on politics and current events to ...
* the**REALnews* *Hudson/Wolff on debt and recession* Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff discuss the theatrics of the debt debate in Washington and why debt does matter More at The Real News Original and...
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And deporting US war resisters is the last straw! Thanks to friends-of-wmtc Stephanie, Wendy and Beth.
* the**REALnews* *GOP Budget Ends Medicare* Dean Baker: Media is failing to report how radical Republican budget is More at The Real News Original and transcript available here. *Bio* *Dean Baker* is ...
By Duane Craig Pompton Lakes, New Jersey residents find themselves caught in a catch 22 because a district judge has ruled they cannot sue DuPont for vapor intrusion damages. The ruling affects 113 homeow...
Because really, it's not fair of me to single out Sun *readers.* Especially now that there's a TV network for them. I confess, I'm not an expert in physics. How *does* a person's brain hold this much...
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/history/rel-christians.html Christians Discriminated Against by Israel By Donald Neff Former Israel Bureau Chief for Time Magazine Excerpted from Fifty Years of Israel On De...
People often ask why I never wear jewelry.Gold jewelers, activists urge clean karat buysBy SUSAN SALISBURYPalm Beach Post Staff WriterIt's hard to believe that the gleaming gold rings, earrings and other jew...
Saudi Arabia Jails House Church Christians Without Trial: " Two Indian Christians of a thriving Pentecostal house church in Saudi Arabia have been moved from pre-trial detention to a prison in the Saudi cap...
*A guest post by Hippiepooter*. This is overdue but I think you’ll agree very worthwile covering. H/T to ‘Buggy’ for bringing this up in the Open Thread a couple of weeks ago. Here is a BBC Online report ...
Don't Listen to Glenn Beck: " "
Mississippi Republicans Still Struggling With Interracial Marriage: "A recent poll revealed that 46% of registered Republican voters in Mississippi believe that interracial marriage should be against the law...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] The real meaning of the audacious break-out of prisoners from a Kandahar jail lies in the fact those more than 100 *Taliban* commanders are supposed to be in t...
Pace of Federal Lobbying Slows in First Quarter: " Facing a newly divided Congress and a murky legislative outlook in the near future, many of the nation's most active government lobbying powerhouses are slo...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] *Syria *sharply raise its already lethal campaign to crush a five-week uprising near the beginning Monday, sending troops backed by tanks, snipers and knife-wi...
Jordan to try Danish artist over Mohammed cartoon: " Danish artist Kurt Westergaard, known for his controversial caricature of the Prophet Mohammed, said Friday he had not been informed of a trial against hi...
Cult expert Hal Mansfield stepping down: " After 35 years of tracking cults and hate groups, counseling victims of mind control, and monitoring end-of-the-world prophecies on the Internet, cult expert Hal Ma...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] *Taliban* militants dug a drawn out tunnel subversive and into the main jail in Kandahar city and whisked out more than 450 prisoners, the majority of whom wer...
Sharron Angle: 'She Has Risen': "This Easter, the right wing Las Vegas Review-Journal is running this crazed editorial by Glenn Cook, comparing Tea Party/John Birch Society lunatic Sharron Angle to ... you g...
Wikileaks Gitmo Documents Released: "Just in time for the weekly news cycle, a new batch of classified documents from Guantanamo Bay has been released by Wikileaks, with details on the whereabouts of al-Qaed...
Taliban militants dug a long-lasting tunnel underground and into the main jail in *Kandahar* city and whisked out more than 450 prisoners, most of whom were *Taliban fighters*, officials and insurgent sa...
'Imams in the House of Lords' – Sunday Telegraph report provokes outpouring of anti-Muslim hatred: "The Sunday Telegraph reports: 'David Cameron is considering plans to create a 'multi-faith' House of Lords ...
One GOP candidate rejects Muslim-baiting: " Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson by Justin Elliott We’ve been putting some energy into tracking Muslim-baiting statements made by members of the GOP president...
*Monkey in the middle... Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right* You're not likely to find a more persistent, outspoken voice for the conservative consensus than the Orlando *Sentinel*'s in any news...
Whoever controls the Dictators will control the Oil/Food Supply and Banksters have been hoarding and speculating to create Bubbles. Who suffers?
*Mail Online*, which has just overtaken *The Huffington Post* to become the second most popular newspaper website in the world, reports on a story that the BBC is also running near the top of its news agen...
Tyrants beware. What goes around might come around. by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand, April 25, 2011 - Peddling a policy that includes assassinating the leader of a sovereign nation, besieged under bla...
Today : Kent backtracks over Tory candidate in Tamil Tigers row “I regret any embarrassment that my remarks may have caused the Prime Minister.” And so, with apologies for the massacre of The Beatles '...
* The Thai King* In Bangkok and in Pattaya in Thailand, 'Al Qaeda' operatives often meet with their CIA and MI6 'liaisons'. (Reported CIA and MI6 links to al Qaeda.) Bangkok was the site of one of the CI...
When on the cutting edge of physics, try not to pay too much attention to internal memos.
Either this is a brazen contempt for voters or an attempt to hide an embarrassing ineptitude at public speaking – neither of which is the hallmark of a suitable candidate. One Conservative candidate, Jili...
So let me get this straight. The Standard and Poor's rating agency last week took the historic step of putting the US government's AAA credit rating on "negative watch". There is now, according to S&P, "...
Either this is a brazen contempt for voters or an attempt to hide an embarrassing ineptitude at public speaking – neither of which is the hallmark of a suitable candidate. One Conservative candidate, Jilia...
This morning in Eastern Oklahoma:http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifLightning Sparks Tank Battery Fire. They have video and it looks like nothing much is left on the pad site. Tonight on the Turner Turnpike...
*Previously: Week 1, Week 2, Week 3* Last week, I said the election was still searching for a storyline - with the Bloc imploding and Quebec turning orange, it seems we finally have one. Over the last 7...
* 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 buria...
[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 (...
By John Redhouse, Navajo Censored News *In light of the latest incident of police brutality committed against Navajos in Farmington, we can see that nothing has really changed since the 1945 police beatin...
*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...
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...
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...
*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...
*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...
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Soviet efforts to contain the Chernobyl nuclear disaster a quarter of a century ago were far better than Japan's "slow-motion" response to the disaster at Fukushima, a leading member of the 1986 recovery e...
*by Ken* Last night we had the first chapter of Jean Shepherd's story collection-cum-novel *In God We Trust -- All Others Pay Cash*, which brought another visit from our favorite Shepherd expert, Eugene B...
Tornadoes were forming over Dallas late this afternoon, as the weather there turned ominous, threatened by a storm system that has brought 200 reports of severe weather across the country over the last 24 ...
The Syrian army used tanks against its own people for the first time on Monday as President Bashar al-Assad resorted to overwhelming force in an attempt to crush the last vestiges of unrest against his rul...
Nintendo has deepened the gloom enveloping corporate Japan after profits hit a seven-year low because of stiff competition in the video games console market and a post-earthquake slide in consumer confiden...
The waiting is nearly over. Gross Domestic Product for the first quarter is announced on Wednesday – rarely has the data caused so much anticipation. Last quarter's surprise contraction has created confusi...
Abu Qatada and Abu Hamza, two preachers who lived off state benefits after claiming asylum, are identified by the American authorities as the key recruiters responsible for sending dozens of extremists f...
Too early to say whether the wheels are coming off the bus, but ... I'll just let this guy speak for himself. I mean, *Jesus*. A sample: ... we must focus on retaining the Liberal Party's spot in this co...
I know everyone has seen more than enough - but this one is special. Even if you don't speak Japanese, the voices capture in exquisite calibration the disbelief and shock that something so horrible could ...
*The Corporate State Wins Again* Posted on Apr 25, 2011 truthdig By Chris Hedges When did our democracy die? When did it irrevocably transform itself into a lifeless farce and absurd political theater?...
Photo courtesy: trekearth.com Canada, where I live, is home to over 500 species listed at some level of risk -- extinct, extirpated, endangered, threatened or of special concern. At risk species are found...
EKOS poll surveyed 3,004 Canadians, including 2,783 decided voters, between April 22 and April 24. 8% were undecided or ineligible. A poll is only a poll is only a poll. But if it has any basis in reali...
For the first time, the international organization has set a date for the moment when the “Age of America” will end and the U.S. economy will be overtaken by that of China. And it’s a lot closer than you ...
Weakness in the US dollar, which is causing everything to go up—including gas prices, food and stocks—is unlikely to go away soon as a selling frenzy hits the currency market. The greenback is approaching...
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