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Learn moreThe economy took a bigger hit from last month's disaster than anticipated, with factory output falling the most since at least the end of Allied Occupation, underscoring calls for the Bank of Japan to add ...
Follow the fold and stray no more, stray no more, stray no more. Put down the bottle and we'll say no more. Follow, follow the fold. (Before you take another swallow --) Follow the fold and stray no more,...
The source of Sun Media's latest steaming pile is an unnamed, retired cop. Poor guy. What with all the unprovoked assaults on handcuffed prisoners, threats of gang rape, and the laff riot his pals must hav...
The US Espionage Act could make “felons of us all,” a legal expert warned Monday as the House Judiciary Committee announced plans to reexamine the “constitutional issues raised by WikiLeaks.” Attorneys f...
Sadly, this is all people will be talking about over the final 3 days of the campaign: TORONTO - Jack Layton was found laying naked on a bed by Toronto Police at a suspected Chinatown bawdy house in 1996,...
[image: A tree branch covered in nitrogen-loving lichen. Martin Hutton / kqed.org] By Roger Harrabin Environment analyst, BBC News 15 April 2011 Air pollution is damaging 60% of Europe's prime wildlife...
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As of today, I have a part-time gig as a research assistant. For the month of May, and possibly for June and July, I'll be working on a very interesting project with some terrific people, and making decent...
[image: Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant watch monitors as they remotely operate robots in high-radiation zones. TEPCO / japannewstoday.com] By arevamirpal::laprimavera 29 April 2011 Afte...
... and in the process, delivers an unanswerable indictment of the depths to which public discourse has been allowed to sink. *Related posts:* - Let's hear from a couple of Sun News Network fans -...
Leavened, as always, by a heapin' helpin' of caution. The polls, to the extent that they can be relied upon, continue to show a surge in the support for the NDP, to the consternation of both the tradition...
[image: Wal-Mart supercenter. Ben Schumin / foodandwaterwatch.org] By Parija Kavilanz, senior writer 28 April 2011 NEW YORK (CNNMoney) – Wal-Mart's core shoppers are running out of money much faster tha...
*Language is a virus* [*Don't forget to click to enlarge.*] *DOES ANYONE ON THE RIGHT KNOW ANYONE WHO'S EVER SPOKEN THE TRUTH ABOUT ANYTHING?* Well, yes, when they're among themselves, or *think* they're ...
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Diego is terrific. Tala is terrific. Only the mud is not terrific. This is without a doubt the easiest new-dog transition we've ever had. After adopting dogs, we've had near-fatal health problems (Clyde, B...
In America, the miscarriage of justice for the victims of 9/11 and the war on terror has reached comical proportions. Judge John M. Walker, Jr., a cousin of George W. Bush, is one of three judges who will...
After a look at Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Alberta, we head West, to the always interesting world of BC politics. I don't have a lot of on-the-ground intel, so check out Pundits Guide for a great qualita...
*Food Freedom* By Rady Ananda Another armed food raid – this time on a company that provides nutritional supplements primarily for autism spectrum disorders and Alzheimer’s disease – another day under th...
Tornadoes and violent storms tore through seven Southern states, killing at least 306 people and causing billions of dollars of damage in one of the deadliest swarm of twisters in US history. President Ba...
A yearlong sting operation, including aliases, a 5 a.m. surprise inspection and surreptitious purchases from an Amish farm in Pennsylvania, culminated in the federal government announcing this week that it...
Authorities say a homeless man robbed a Tampa bank, fled on a city bus and handed out stolen cash to passengers. Hillsborough County Sheriff's deputies say 27-year-old Elmer McGuirt handed a note demandi...
UN inspectors may say in an upcoming report that a Syrian desert site bombed to rubble in 2007 was probably a covert nuclear reactor, opening the way for the UN Security Council to take up the case, diplom...
Three people convicted of crimes as a result of a terrorism-related investigation by the Department of Justice (DOJ) were later naturalized as U.S. citizens by the Obama administration, according to federa...
The U.S. envoy to the United Nations told the Security Council on Thursday that troops loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi were increasingly engaging in sexual violence and some had been issued the impo...
NATO warships have intercepted several boats laying anti-shipping mines outside the harbor of the Libyan city of Misrata, a senior military officer said Friday. Alliance air strikes, meanwhile, had also ...
The CMEGroup announced that as of the close of trading this Friday, margin requirements are yet again going up in silver. For speculators, initial margin is increased to $14,513 per full sized silver con...
The U.S. got a sovereign credit rating of C on Thursday, in line with ratings for such smaller economies as Mexico, Estonia and Colombia. Weiss Ratings, based in Jupiter, Fla., has rated the creditworthin...
McDonald’s Corp. (MCD), the world’s biggest restaurant chain, said it hired 24 percent more people than planned during an employment event this month. McDonald’s and its franchisees hired 62,000 people in...
A pair of recent Gallup Polls shows distinct loss of confidence in the US economy. The first poll shows Americans' Economic Confidence at the 2011 Low. A second poll shows 55% still think the economy is in...
Spain's unemployment rate rose nearly a point to 21.29%, with 4.9 million jobless for the first quarter of 2011, the government reported Friday, as the prolonged economic crisis continues to squeeze the na...
India has eliminated American aircraft manufacturers Boeing and Lockheed Martin from contention for a $10 billion contract to supply new-generation combat planes to the South Asian nation. Indian Defense...
The most important fact leading up to the election date is this: Stephen Harper's ridiculous claim that he and the conservatives are the only ones that can steward the Canadian economy safely, is absolutel...
More vessels might be buried in the area, possibly indicating the exact location where the Roman empire's biggest fleet was stationed.
I came across an article about a long-term tree study and promptly contacted the author, Dr. Jim Clark of Duke University, to enquire whether he had considered the role of ozone in his research, and this ...
A few weeks ago Blue America endorsed Norman Solomon for the North Bay seat Lynn Woolsey is expected to give up next year. People have asked me why the rush and pointed out that some of the other candidat...
Video streaming by Ustream Video link: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/uranium-coal-water-and-sacred-sites-in-the-southwest *Uranium, Coal, Water and Sacred Sites in the Southwest *A panel discussion, he...
[image: image]April 27 (SWNS) -- The source of the River Thames has dried up after the UK experienced the lowest recorded rainfall in March since 1929. The Thames head spring in Trewsbury Mead near Ciren...
The big update will wait until the final round of polls come in this weekend but, for now, the latest from Nanos, Ekos, and Decima have been added. *CPC*: 36.1% (-0.2) *NDP*: 27.7% (+1.1) *Lib*: 22.7% (-1....
*Environmental Awareness Film Presentation and Forum* ** *Location Wounded Knee District School Gym * *Saturday, May 7, 1 pm to 7 pm* "The condition of Mother Earth is approaching a crisis for all human be...
*Forty years of wandering from bad decisions to neglect have done terrible damage to the lowest place on earth* [image: The receding waters of the Dead Sea are revealing peninsulas. The waters recede at ...
John Baez has always been obsessed by octonions. He sees them everywhere. I love octonions but I realize that they don't play much role in most of physics - and not even in most of string theory. In 200...
Sacred Site Protection & Rights of Indigenous Tribes (SSP&RIT). For Immediate Release: Thursday, April 28, 2011 Contact: * Corrina Gould 510-575-8408 * Morning Star Gali (510) 827 6719 *Norman “Wounded K...
A preview of the problems that *might *await the Liberals if Layton surges over 100 seats. *CdnPolitico** @stphnmaher Works for me. As a Blue Lib I would not agree to ever support an NDP-led govt. Ever. ...
Pepsi's new vending machine allows people to send out "random acts of refreshment."
Rollin’ Justin, a humanoid robot, can catch two flying balls thrown in his direction at the same time.
A device that fits on the end of your thumb can generate five to ten times the power of similar devices.
Remains of the oldest known Caspian horse, otherwise referred to as the "Kings' horse," date back to more than 3,000 years ago.
A mystery is brewing on Manatee County's beautiful beaches -- researchers are trying to figure out why sharks are washing ashore dead. Recently more than a dozen dead sharks were found on the north ends o...
There are theories that various underground places may have been extraterrestrial lairs; such as a lost cave in Ecuador said to hold metal tablets containing alien knowledge; the underground city of Derink...
Carl Jung - Matters of Heart - Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: Part 4: Part 5: Part 6: Part 7: Part 8: Part 9: Part 10:
A rare and potent combination of cool air clashing with warm, humid weather and extreme winds at varying altitudes ignited the deadly tornadoes that ravaged the U.S. South this week, meteorologists said on...
*You do not have to be good.* *You do not have to walk on your knees* *for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.* *You only have to let the soft animal of your body* *love what it loves.* *Tell me a...
Transitioning from socialism to pragmatic, technological solutions. commentary by Tony Cartalucci Building things, making things, technological and scientific progress moves forward the frontier of human k...
During China’s dramatic and rapid rise, pollution and resource use have skyrocketed. But how long will that trend continue?
We're excited about rainbow-colored poo. And it brought us even closer to our readers this week!
A malfunction in heaters on one of the shuttle's three onboard power generators prompted NASA to scrub today's launch.
An 18-hole floating course hopes to boost Maldivian economy while preserving the nation's ecosystem.
Four Bahrainis have been sentenced to death for the killing of two policemen during pro-democracy protests in the Gulf nation. A military court also sentenced three other Shia Muslims to life imprisonment...
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Bishop Hill has unearthed this gem, a presentation to the Cambridge Science and Policy Group by Sarah Mukherjee, the BBC's former environment correspondent, who in her time at the corporation filed hundred...
Go here for original. The Age of America is Over -- So Says the IMF *By Paul Craig Roberts (about the author)* opednews.com Today the Swiss franc made yet another new high against the super dollar, as...
Tornadoes claimed the lives of at least 313 people -- the deadliest tornado tragedy to strike the United States since 1974.
Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi crossed into neighbouring Tunisia and fought a gun battle with Tunisian troops in a frontier town as Libya's conflict spilt beyond its borders. Pro-Gaddafi forces fired she...
Rachel was amazing the other night in her analysis of the creeping corporatist (AKA- fascist) takeover of our country. Watch it. And get your friends to watch it. I'm not suggesting you watch it because ...
[image: Photobucket] *OpEdNews* *By Vi Ransel* Even as the overall population of the world continues to increase, the increase in the number of poor people outstrips that growth. How is this possible? ...
The two-hour drive from New Orleans to Venice, La., is like cutting into a slice of apple pie—it’s as American as it gets. Busy streets and high-rise buildings give way to farms, fields, and wetlands, in t...
An experiment in a US lake suggests that ecosystem collapses could be predicted, given the right monitoring. Researchers changed the structure of the food web in Peter Lake, in Wisconsin, by adding preda...
The dollar has yet to descend into a full-blown crisis but market watchers warn that ultra-loose U.S. monetary policy means that one could quickly materialize if the slide in the greenback gathers pace. ...
Conservation groups sued the Obama administration Tuesday over the fate of the endangered leatherback sea turtle, accusing federal officials of ignoring a legal deadline to protect a huge expanse of Pacifi...
Fighting raged on along the turbulent Thai-Cambodian border Friday, one day after a military source said local commanders from both sides had agreed to a cease-fire. Thai military spokesman Col. Sansern ...
Superman intends to give up his US citizenship, a story in the new issue of Action Comics declares. "I'm tired of having my actions construed as instruments of US policy," the character says in a story t...
China's currency, the yuan, strengthened past a key level against the US dollar on Friday, as part of wider efforts to contain inflation on the mainland. The yuan broke past 6.50 against the dollar, a le...
Canada's economy declined 0.2 per cent in February, hurt by a decline in manufacturing and wholesale trade. Statistics Canada said the economy declined in the month following a rise of 0.5 per cent in Ja...
FBI agents combating international cybercrime are currently battling hackers on two new fronts -- from a remote corner of China to the virtual battlefields of "Call of Duty" emanating from the family playr...
Senior executives in the fossil fuel industry have launched an all-out assault on renewable energy, lobbying governments and business groups to reject wind and solar power in favour of gas, in a move that ...
The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica is affecting weather patterns across the entire Southern Hemisphere, according to a new scientific study. The findings published by researchers from Columbia Un...
It's the world's last, great wilderness rich in natural resources, like oil and gas. But now the frozen seas of the Arctic are being opened up; its vast riches unlocked. The Yamal is one of Russia's b...
Army units in Syria have clashed with each other over President Bashar Assad's orders to crack down on protesters. Witnesses described army divisions refusing to shoot at protesters and then coming under ...
A picturesque reservoir has been reduced to dried, cracked mud and a splash of water after the prolonged dry spell. The Cod Beck reservoir near Osmotherley, North Yorkshire, can now be walked across, and...
Pamela Geller Watch: Ties Gas Tanker Explosion in Congo to Electoral Violence in Nigeria: " Professional hate blogger Pamela Geller is going to be exposed once again in the following article. She is goin...
A new round of education legislation in several U.S. states has stirred controversy in recent months.
60 Plus Wrong on Rationing: "The chairman of the conservative 60 Plus Association made the bogus claim that the Food and Drug Administration has "declassified" a breast cancer drug "because of cost and cost ...
------------------------------ *RECOUNT ALERT! SERIOUS BREAK IN CHAIN OF CUSTODY IN WAUKESHA COUNTY! * Thursday, 28 April 2011 18:14 Citizen Journalist *Breaking News Out of Waukesha County Wisconsin* -...
Racial Inequality Is Still A Problem In America: "When I was a child this country had some serious racial problems. Segregation was the king in the South and even practiced in places other than the South (re...
Wait Until The Teabaggers Hear This: "I posted yesterday about how unpopular Donald Trump is with the general public (64% say they definitely would not vote for him). His popularity, thanks to his 'birtheris...
The Civil War was about slavery, folks: "Unfortunately, Gen Xers younger than me seem to have believed the Reagan/GOP propaganda - as a new Pew poll notes, while 48 percent of Americans overall say it was pr...
Rev Moon and the President of Sierra Leone: " News from Sierra Leone; Cocorioko reports: The President of the Republic of Sierra Leone Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma has been awarded the “PEACE MEDAL AWARD” by the U...
------------------------------ *THE INVISIBLE HAND: A CASE STUDY IN STRIPPING AWAY ELECTION RIGHTS* By Bev Harris Permission to reprint or excerpt granted, with link to http://www.blackboxvoting.org You ...
Yesterday, I looked at Alberta. Today, we head east. Keep in mind, there's not a lot of polling data from the Prairies, so this is a fairly superficial overview. Any intel those of you on the ground have i...
Tonight, at 9:47 pm Prague Summer Time i.e. 12:47 pm Californian Daylight Saving Time, the space shuttle Endeavour was scheduled to be launched to bring the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) towards the In...
When building 3 of the Fukushima Daiichi plant exploded last month, those who saw the video footage were left to wonder why it was more severe than the other explosions. Adding to the mystery were repor...
By arevamirpal::laprimavera 28 April 2011 FNN News Network in Japan has rare footage of Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant from the ground-level. The video was taken by Shigeharu Aoyama, a member of Japan...
by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy American Airlines itself is the source for information that AA Flights 11 (North Tower) and 77 (Pentagon) did not fly on 911. These flights are critical to the gover...
Yesterday we got the morning off to a strange start with a look into the resurgence of American fascism. The arrest and brutalization of my friend Nicole Sandler at an Allen West town hall meeting in Flor...
As the penultimate shuttle launch counts down, traffic jams may cause gridlock on the Space Coast.
HB 3105 will be a disaster for Barnett Shale municipalities because it strips away all authority of municipal drilling ordinances. I http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifthink you need to know who voted for t...
Beyond the dramatic videos and the devastating stories, the sheer intensity of the storms has many wondering what's going on.
Prince William and Kate Middleton have become Duke and Duchess of Cambridge after they married, congratulations. The British imperial taxpayer has happily paid $40 million for the wedding, enough money to ...
A boy of 13 brought Britain's busiest airport to a grinding halt after accidentally torching himself during a family barbecue at his home near Heathrow Airport. Regan Fisher engulfed himself in flames by ...
*Jan-18-2011 23:56*[image: print][image: comments] Evidence Emerges that BP Gulf Disaster Not Over *Terrence Aym Salem-News.com * New reports of fissures and oil leaks are routinely being suppressed. (CH...
Investigators in Huntington County made a gruesome discovery Thursday when they found more than 80 dead or dying llamas in rural Andrews. About 3 p.m., investigators found at least 38 llama carcasses in v...
President Obama is scheduled to tour the aftermath of Alabama’s deadly tornadoes today as his administration’s approach to emergency management faces its first major test. On Thursday, Obama called the st...
One man in Pittsburgh caught dressed as a ninja claimed he was 'just out for a jog' U.S. police are investigating a mysterious crime wave in Pittsburgh of offences carried out by ninjas. The spate of cr...
A Facebook group has called for Syrians to partake in a 'day on anger' on Friday as protests continue against President Bashar al-Assad's regime. A notice was today posted on the Syrian Revolution 2011 Fa...
A new laser can tell scientists what you ate for breakfast - just by looking at one of your hairs. The beam gives unprecedented sensitivity to chemical analysis and allows researchers to create an hour-by...
One of the secrets of the MRSA superbug's resistance has been cracked by scientists, paving the way for new drugs to fight infections. Despite medical advances and numerous hygiene campaigns, the bug still...
An angry mother has described how she was warned by 999 operators that an ambulance would not be sent to help her collapsed daughter unless they stopped shouting. Paula Rudd had to wait an hour and fiftee...
President *Obama* and the first lady determination travel to the south this morning, following the deadly storms that left more than 300 dead across six states this week. Obama will visit the hardest hit s...
A father found his son’s body in woods 13 hours after he was killed in a car crash. Bill Gonzalez went to the scene of a crash in Atascocita, Texas, after Eddie McPayne, 23, was found lying outside the ca...
Omar Bin Laden, the son of fugitive terrorist Osama Bin Laden, has said that he believes his father is still alive, although he does not know where he is. "My dad is on the Earth but I don't know where. ...
Amazon faced further headaches today after it emerged a crash that caused thousands of websites to shut down also resulted in the loss valuable customer data. Businesses that relied on Amazon's huge cloud...
by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand April 29, 2011 - Of course, a candidate must meet legal requirements before running for public office. This is a universally agreed upon concept which has been enumera...
A seismologist claims he has finally solved the geological mystery of how the Grand Canyon was formed - and it turns out it could be younger than previously thought. Professor Alan Levander, of Rice Unive...
A father set fire to his home killing himself and his five children because he was so devastated by his bankruptcy and failed marriage, police believe. Tuan Dao, 37, and the children, aged from six to 12 y...
Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle made a series of errors before the plane he was piloting crashed into a Manhattan apartment building, a court has heard. Mr Lidle, 34, and his instructor Tyler Stanger, 26, were ...
I confess my husband finally learned not to ask what was in all the boxes that came in the mail today and like an idiot I showed him anyway. What? I was really proud of my good deals. I confess my husband...
And the dangerous separation of state & military. by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand April 29, 2011 - The latest game of Washington musical chairs expects to see General David Petraeus head the CIA whil...
ENTERTAINMENT - A few years ago we published an article in the Entertainment eZine about the Pillow Fight League. At the time we just thought it was an amusing oddity. But by now the Pillow Fight League h...
Jews and Japanese Imperialism | Wake Up From Your Slumber Jews and Japanese Imperialism Peter Stuyvesant on April 12, 2011 The institution of the United Nations (UN) Holocaust Remembrance Day and the U...
The shadow history of the United States of America and also of the world is a history of murders and massacres that are done by cynical and arrogant men in the seats of authority who have an overbearing th...
*by Ken* Tonight, after Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3, our story reaches its epic climax. As we left off last night, with Christmas bearing down on Ralph, and his fevered dream of the promised land of "a Re...
*The concentration of money and power in Tokyo is to a degree unthinkable in the United States.* — Edward Seidensticker A recent issue of the somewhat disreputable Shukan Jitsuwa looked into a "rumor" tha...
The pound touched a 17-month high against the dollar as the world's reserve currency slumped on fears about the US economy's recovery. Slower-than-forecast growth figures from the US reinforced expectatio...
Some 1,500 people, many of them women and children, have fled across the Syrian border to Lebanon escaping gunfire from President Bashar al-Assad's forces. Mahmood Khazaal, former mayor of the Lebanese bo...
Hundreds of President Bashar al-Assad's ruling Ba'ath party have resigned in protest at an increasingly bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters that is believed to have claimed at least 500 lives. Ne...
Helen Thomas "disinvited" from anti-AIPAC event Helen Thomas and the Political Cleansing of America Silencing Israel’s Critics By JAMES ABOUREZK CounterPunch.org April 25, 2011 You remember Helen Thomas? She...
Helen Thomas "disinvited" from anti-AIPAC event | Wake Up From Your Slumber
by Manlio Dinucci The objective of the war against Libya is not just its oil reserves (now estimated at 60 billion barrels), which are the greatest in Africa and whose extraction costs are among the lowe...
On Wednesday, SpaceX released a pretty cool promo video for its commercial crew development program.
Some 1,500 people, many of them women and children, have fled across the Syrian border to Lebanon escaping gunfire from President Bashar al-Assad's forces. Mahmood Khazaal, former mayor of the Lebanese bo...
*The following piece was co-written by myself and the outstanding journalist/blogger Alex Kane and was originally published on* Mondoweiss *under the headline: "Zuckerman rag prints bald-faced lies on upco...
* Well, whose brains did you expect them to test? Right-wingers'? The researchers needed brains that function somewhat like human ones. * *"Such tired neurons in an awake brain may be responsible for the at...
Discovery Storm Chasers in action yesterday worked with emergency responders to help track the directions of the tornadoes as they swept across the the Midwestern United States.
[image: Height of Violent Storms Over Eastern U.S., 28 April 2011. NASA / SSAI / Hal Pierce] Contact: Rob Gutro Robert.j.gutro@nasa.gov 443-858-1779 NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center 28-Apr-2011 The Trop...
[image: Nepalese women carry hay as they walk through a paddy field in 2009. AFP] PARIS, April 26 (AFP) — Himalayan villagers have won the backing of climate science for their suspicions that snow cover...
Wednesday’s storms took out all of TVA’s electric power transmission lines in Mississippi and North Alabama, and forced Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant unto diesel backup power and into emergency and automatic ...
We were feeling lucky. We were about the close the deal on a fantastic villa in Damascus for the summer just when the Middle East exploded in protest. We've been wanting to visit Damascus forever but we w...
[image: A tale of two lakes: Paul (reference lake) is smaller lake; Peter (manipulated lake) in background, and they provide the first experimental evidence that radical ecosystem change can be detected ...
How about 26 gallons of it? One man did, at least for a little while. And that man was dressed in a cow costume. In the category of You Can't Make This Stuff Up If You Tried, the 18-year-old crawled into...
A devastating drought intensified across Texas over the last week, with high winds and heat causing "massive crop losses," and weather experts said Thursday that little relief was in sight. The latest re...
Many Americans were shocked yesterday when President Obama finally released his long-form birth certificate from the state of Hawaii. The real surprise, however, is that for the past three years, our democ...
Barack Hussein Obama II was born on Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. For over two years, the president has resisted pressure to divulge this simple biographical information, which proves he’s a natural-b...
The dollar dropped after economic indicators pointed to a dismal employment picture and slowing economic growth. First-time claims for unemployment benefits jumped 25,000 to 429,000, indicating employers ...
In his first regular news conference, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the central bank *was continuing its stimulus policy *because it was projecting slower growth in the economy with only a mod...
A rift is emerging between Iran's president and its supreme leader, prompting several members of the parliament to call for the impeachment of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has not been seen in public for days....
The Oklahoma Senate on Wednesday approved a bill that would create criminal penalties for undocumented immigrants who work in Oklahoma and those who smuggle them into the state. It would also give police...
Sony Corp could face legal action across the globe after it delayed disclosing a security breach of its popular PlayStation Network, infuriating gamers and sending the firm's shares down nearly 5 percent i...
When a month ago the CEO of Wal Mart Americas told the world to "prepare for serious inflation", the Chairman laughed in his face, saying it was nothing a 15 minutes Treasury Call sell order can't fix (gra...
Do you have enough larder to feed your family and some friends if grocery stores ran out of food? How about several assault rifles and a few thousand rounds of ammo? Solar panels, a water filter, medical k...
House prices are falling again—and the decline is accelerating. Today’s big housing numbers comes from the Case-Shiller home price indexes. The indexes, which measure how prices have changed over the prev...
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Bene Diction at Religious Right Watch asks, "Is Chapters Indigo playing politics with paperback release of The Armageddon Factor?". The answer is: it's highly possible. Chapters Indigo is owned by Heathe...
Carbon nanotube technology could give us brighter lights and bigger, thinner screens.
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Further to my post here, Judith Timson in the *Globe and Mail*: ...But why should Canadian women believe Stephen Harper when he says he and his government won’t reopen the issue? Surely, by denying financi...
A couple weeks ago we brought up Jamie Oliver's beef with the L.A. School system: namely they've been serving up (government sanctioned) garbage to the students and they were working hard to prevent him ...
29th April 2011 is not only the anniversary of the wedding day of the traitor to all Europe and enemy of Germany (Adolf 'Rothschild' Hitler), it is also the day that two inbred parasites will wed in order...
CANADA - The Lilith News is going on the record to predict a coalition government between the Liberals and NDP following the Canadian election on May 2nd. We are making this prediction based on surging su...
Over these final 5 days of the campaign, I plan to take a look at the seats to watch in each region, with a little help from my seat projections. There's not much in terms of new polls today, so I'll save ...
President Obama *picked* Lieutenant General John Allen to replace General Betrayus as the commander in Afghanistan. *Allen* was "the first Marine Corps officer inducted as a Term Member of the Council on...
Tornadoes get their incredible power by capturing the forces inside a much bigger "parent" thunderstorm.
A 'spurned lover' is accused of beheading a 17-year-old girl in broad daylight in front of horrified students on a college campus. Vijendra Kumar, 20, waited for pretty Khushboo Kumari outside St Xavier's ...
Mexican drug cartels are being armed with weapons supplied by the U.S., leaked documents show. The WikiLeaks files, written by U.S. military chiefs, reveal that grenades and light anti-tank weapons seized...
The deadliest storms for 40 years have obliterated large swaths of land from Mississippi to Georgia, killing at least 250 people in six states, wiping out homes and businesses and causing a nuclear power p...
Dusky sharks return to breeding grounds - a trait that may put them in further jeopardy to finning and overfishing.
Severe storms and tornadoes moving through the U.S. Southeast dealt a severe blow to the Tennessee Valley Authority on Wednesday, causing three nuclear reactors in Alabama to shut and knocking out 11 high-...
A tablet computer that looks remarkably like an iPad seems to spring up on a weekly basis. But this device, also hailed as the future of home computing, was made 17 years ago. Called The Tablet, it provi...
Benefits cheat John Pickard left Department of Work and Pensions officials red-faced after scamming £18,000 while working at his local Job Centre. The 64-year-old fiddled taxpayers' cash, including incapa...
Larry Bell of Forbes wrote a nice article: Climate Change As Religion: The Gospel According To Gore He kindly credits Michael Crichton for some of the first crisp and complete explanations why the globa...
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The economy took a bigger hit from last month's disaster than anticipated, with factory output falling the most since at least the end of Allied Occupation, underscoring calls for the Bank of Japan to add ...
The US Espionage Act could make “felons of us all,” a legal expert warned Monday as the House Judiciary Committee announced plans to reexamine the “constitutional issues raised by WikiLeaks.” Attorneys f...
... and in the process, delivers an unanswerable indictment of the depths to which public discourse has been allowed to sink. *Related posts:* - Let's hear from a couple of Sun News Network fans -...
*Language is a virus* [*Don't forget to click to enlarge.*] *DOES ANYONE ON THE RIGHT KNOW ANYONE WHO'S EVER SPOKEN THE TRUTH ABOUT ANYTHING?* Well, yes, when they're among themselves, or *think* they're ...
*Food Freedom* By Rady Ananda Another armed food raid – this time on a company that provides nutritional supplements primarily for autism spectrum disorders and Alzheimer’s disease – another day under th...
Tornadoes and violent storms tore through seven Southern states, killing at least 306 people and causing billions of dollars of damage in one of the deadliest swarm of twisters in US history. President Ba...
A yearlong sting operation, including aliases, a 5 a.m. surprise inspection and surreptitious purchases from an Amish farm in Pennsylvania, culminated in the federal government announcing this week that it...
Authorities say a homeless man robbed a Tampa bank, fled on a city bus and handed out stolen cash to passengers. Hillsborough County Sheriff's deputies say 27-year-old Elmer McGuirt handed a note demandi...
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