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CIA Insurrection from Libya to Yemen Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net April 3, 2011 After two weeks of imperialist attack, Libya is being mangled by al Qaeda terrorists, civil war, NATO air...
Tea Party Supporters Say $33 Billion Figure Not Enough; Democrats, * Republicans* Find Little Common Ground* *Members of parliament are working behind congested doors to hash out a deal to fund the manageme...
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Looking for a Dog Number Six is turning out to be very painful. You'll recall that we narrowed the field to two dogs. The one in the shelter has been adopted. Yay! The other, being fostered by a local res...
*Yes, Florida's worse... but at least it isn't snowing* I don't watch Fox; don't even know where it is on the TV. But Steve Benen is among several people whose work I follow who does know exactly where ch...
*New Delhi: * An earthquake measuring 6 on the
Richter scale and with an epicentre in Nepal shook parts of north India, including capital Delhi and its suburbs on Monday evening. There are no reports yet o...
Greek authorities say fighter jets were scrambled to escort a British passenger plane to Athens airport following a bomb threat while the aircraft was in its way from Britain to Egypt. Greek authorities s...
A leading elephant researcher says CEO Bob Parsons claim to shooting a "problem" bull was wrong on at least one count.
When it comes to keeping bugs at bay, some plants turn into killers -- putting their attackers on starvation diets.
The bodies of some of the 228 victims of the worst air crash in Air France’s history have been found some two-and-a-half miles below the Atlantic Ocean. Macabre images of the underwater tomb, which includ...
Carpenter John Sweeney has been found guilty of murdering two of his girlfriends and throwing their chopped up bodies into a canal. Police believe he may have butchered another five victims, making him one...
A second attempt to stop radioactive water leaking into the Pacific ocean at the Fukushima nuclear plant by using paper and sawdust plant failed today. Workers had tried to use a chemical compound mixed wi...
The MEG experiment, named after "muons", "electrons", and "gamma", tries to observe muons that decay to an electron and a photon. It's been initiated in Japan but it is currently running in Switzerland. ...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] Extra than 24 hours have passed seeing as Team India lifted the 2011 cricket World Cup but for batting genius Sachin Tendulkar the emotion is still to sink in. ...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] President Barack Obama officially launched his re-election campaign Monday, influence grass-roots supporters middle to his first White House run to mobilize aga...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] Libyan rebels pressed into the planned oil town of Brega on Monday but came under fire from Moammar Gadhafi's forces, as a government representative began a pol...
“AMERICA SHOULD BE GOVERNED BY BIBLICAL LAW”: DAVID BARTON: " “AMERICA SHOULD BE GOVERNED BY BIBLICAL LAW”: DAVID BARTON Senior Research Director Chris Rodda chronicles the proceedings of a Conservative conf...
In 2010, Wikileaks disclosed that Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah urged the US to attack Iran, describing Iran as a snake whose head should be cut off without any procrastination.[33] In April 2011, we rea...
As not quite seen on the BBC. Campaigners for the AV voting system have been accused of "airbrushing" white actor Tony Robinson out of leaflets sent to part of the country. The "Yes to AV" campaign used h...
Aid agencies are preparing for an influx of a quarter of an million refugees from Ivory Coast to neighbouring Liberia as the security situation deteriorates. Workers for the charity *Oxfam* have warned o...
TRF has discussed the Tevatron-observed asymmetry in the produced top-antitop in January and March 2011. Jester of Resonaances is reviewing the models that have been proposed to explain the discrepancy ...
BRITAIN is set to lead the search for alien life after being chosen as the base for the world's biggest collection of radio telescopes. Jodrell Bank Observatory has been placed at the heart of a new £1.3b...
I am in Madrid for the next couple of days. I'll be speaking at this conference tomorrow. Please come by if you're in Madrid. Otherwise, you can watch it live here. And here is a video from last night's ...
Scientists are growing human hearts in laboratories, offering hope for millions of cardiac patients. American researchers believe the artificial organs could start beating within weeks. The experiment is...
A girl tearaway has been sent on an anger management course after she shoved a seven-month-old baby into a bus lane. The 15-year-old was convicted of causing actual bodily harm to the baby, after magistra...
The world's glaciers are melting up to 100 times faster than any time during the last 350 years, according to new research. Scientists say the findings, based on a study of Patagonia, South America, have ...
Despite clear evidence that his actions have led to multiple murders and widespread violence in the Middle East, controversial Florida pastor Terry Jones has vowed to step up his provocative campaign again...
How its supposed to look: The reef consists of 55 giant submerged sand-filled bags, which are believed to have been displaced and require repositioning How it really looks: It is thought the concern is th...
The United States has concluded Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh will not likely enact reforms demanded by opposition protesters and must be eased out of office, The New York Times reported Sunday, cit...
On 3 April 2011, in the UK's Sunday Express, Gordon Thomas and Marco Giannangeli report that MOUSSA KOUSSA, the former Libyan head of Intelligence, has been working for MI6 and the CIA for many years. *...
*The first part of a Bob and Ray appearance with a young David Letterman -- we'll have the second part, in which the boys do some actual material, tomorrow night* *"I've discovered over the years that i...
BP is planning to resume drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, a year after one of its wells exploded, causing a devastating oil spill. The energy company has been negotiating with US regulators to restart dee...
South Korea's military Wednesday staged a live-fire artillery exercise on an island hit by a deadly North Korean bombardment last November, officials said. The exercise on Yeonpyeong island near the tens...
Coalition military strikes on Libya could violate the "intention" of the UN resolution if civilians suffer, Chinese President Hu Jintao on Wednesday told visiting French leader Nicolas Sarkozy. The tough ...
North Korea told South Korea Thursday to choose between dialogue or war, as Seoul made its first concession on aid since the North's deadly bombardment of a border island last November. The communist stat...
*A POWERFUL earthquake which struck off Java in the early hours of today has stoked the lingering fears many Indonesians have years after a tsunami devastated much of the western coast of Aceh. * The qua...
*Poll Soup*: I'll post updated projections soon, but Nanos has the Tories up 41% to 29% and Ekos has it 37% to 26%. *Election Prediction Project*: CPC 113, Lib 63, NDP 22, Bloc 35, Too close 77 *Gaf...
[image: Record flooding in the Sossusvlei region of Namibia's Namib Desert, February 2011. Jennifer Dickinson, Dawie Minaar, and Kobus Bekker / considerafrica.com] JOHANNESBURG, 1 April 2011 (IRIN) - Na...
New York City lawyer Joseph Rosenthal says his client is suing the police and education department for one million dollars in order to send a message about overreacting to misbehaviour. When Alexa Gonzal...
The word "quarantine" comes from the Italian word "quaranta", meaning a 40-day period. During the Black Death of the 14th century, 40 days became the standard length of time for the ship's crew to be "qu...
The gutsy woman who got in John Baird's face yesterday has a message for us. Follow the links. It's worth your time. She's also very graciously allowed me to reproduce her e-mail messages to me. I can on...
Bill alert request from an email:H.B. 3105 (Keffer) - Regulatory Takings/Oil and Gas: would make a city regulation that damages, destroys, impairs, or prohibits development of a mineral interest subject to t...
And see if you can buy a 2015 membership. Because that's when Stephen Harper is promising you a tax credit for it. Until then, grab another beer.
"When things come to this point, when all the springs are thus strained, war becomes desirable in order to bring about a release. Thus, in the physical world, at the approach of a storm, nature is in a s...
*In this "Any Regrets?" clip from Bravo's Watch What's Happening Now live post-Top Chef-finale show, featuring finalists Richard Blais and Mike Isabella, runner-up Mike talks to host Andy Cohen exceptio...
There's good reason to be afraid – be very afraid – of a Harper majority. I'll defer to more eloquent and more experienced observers on that, because I'm not sure I can add anything to what they've already...
South Korean activists Thursday launched tens of thousands of anti-regime leaflets across the border into North Korea, defying threats from Pyongyang to open fire on launch sites. Members of Fighters for ...
Raging protests over the burning of a Qur'an at a Florida church boiled over into Afghanistan's turbulent east and south on Sunday, as the Taliban joined the chorus of condemnation. Pleas from the Wester...
Susumu Sugawara looks bemused and a little embarrassed at all the attention he's getting. The 64 year old has become a local hero on the Japanese island of Oshima. Smashed boats adorn the coastline of t...
French peacekeepers in war-torn Ivory Coast took control of the airport in the main city late Saturday night, the French Ministry of Defense said Sunday, as a battle for Abijdan seemed to be looming. An ...
"God, we especially want to plead to you as we face these dangerous trials. Please find a way out for us." China has arrested and detained dozens of lawyers, bloggers and dissidents after the online call...
Prominent Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has been stopped by the authorities from leaving the Chinese capital, Beijing, reports say. There has been no contact with him since, and no comment from th...
A missing 2-year-old boy in Elgin was found Saturday morning after Kershaw County deputies say the family dog kept him warm and safe all night. Sheriff Jim Matthews said 22-month-old Tyler Jacobson was r...
More information is coming out about the Southwest Airlines’ Boeing 737-300 that had a hole open up on its roof during flight Friday afternoon. The flight was on its way from Phoenix to Sacramento when it...
The first few requests were tolerable. A Census Bureau worker would knock on John and Beverly Scott's door and ask them to fill out an American Community Survey. The McKinley Park couple would politely dec...
The image is eerily familiar: a bearded young man with flowing curly hair. After lying for nearly 2,000 years hidden in a cave in the Holy Land, the fine detail is difficult to determine. But in a certain ...
The Department of Health says: it's an outbreak. There are now FOUR confirmed cases of dengue fever on Oahu – with results of 12 more suspected cases still pending. But, health officials are hoping this ep...
Some people say political conservatism is just a cover for those who want to fuck you. I hate to be vulgar, but they're correct. That means they want to take what is yours, generally your wealth. If you ...
Free Wars are Dumb Wars By Benjamin H. Friedman The National Interest Published: March 29, 2011 A myth has developed that funding U.S. wars outside the normal defense budget process is the norm. Continu...
Not a good week for the Harper Machine, so, in keeping with the Rove playbook, watch for the complaints about media bias. I can practically hear the clutch grinding as they switch gears from swaggering bul...
I guess Steve thinks we're all swept up in the "faith-based" society because he's counting on you to have faith in his child credit and annual fitness credit proposals that won't be coming before 2015. On...
*Presented March 17, 2011, to **the hearing of the Domestic Monetary Policy & Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Ron Paul.* James Grant is the long time publisher of Grant's Interest Rate Observer. In ...
VIDEO: Somalis flee drought zones 30 March 2011 (UN News Service) – The number of people in need of emergency food aid in East Africa has increased by 2 million to nearly 8.4 million as drought continue...
*The opening of Verdi's Otello:* *Sir Georg Solti conducts at Covent Garden, 1992, with Plácido Domingo as Otello.* *by Ken* Formally this is still part of our "Remembering Margaret Price" series, but i...
This has already been linked to on the Open Thread, - H/T La Cumparsita - but it deserves further attention. I posted here on this programme “A Walk in the Park” at the time. It was so one-sided that I saw...
[image: 'For us, the seawall was a source of pride, an asset, something that we believed in,' said Eiko Araya, 58, the principal of Taro No. 3 Elementary School. Like several other tsunami survivors, Ms....
The U.S. military’s secret spaceplane is spotted by astronomers.
[image: A withered sunflower crop in Central Russia during the 2010 heatwave. Photo © climatesignals.org via peopleandplanet.net]31 March 2011, Rome (FAO) - "Potentially catastrophic" impacts on food pro...
[image: Discarded tires line a polluted river in Lahore, Pakistan. The green color is caused by an algae bloom. Grand Trunk Road, near Lahore, Punjab, September 1996. Picture by zerega / posted by sawsen...
Scientists have created genetically modified cattle that produce "human" milk in a bid to make cows' milk more nutritious. The scientists have successfully introduced human genes into 300 dairy cows to p...
*Tokyo Electric Power* is struggling to block a crack discovered in a pit that is leaking highly radioactive water into the ocean at its Fukushima Daiichi plant, and said it had discovered the bodies of it...
Guess what! America is on the mend. That’s right, the world’s biggest economy is now forging ahead, escaping its sub-prime malaise. Strengthening jobs data last week show the US has reached a “turning poi...
Ocean wind speeds and wave heights around the world have increased significantly over the past quarter of a century, according to Australian research that has given scientists their first global glimpse of...
A Mexican human rights organisation says thousands of people have disappeared in Mexico since 2006. Mexico's human rights commission, CNDH, said 5,397 people had been reported missing since President Fel...
$105 per barrel oil. Cotton prices at record levels. Food prices at 2008 highs. Typically, such commodity price increases would send central banks running to the U.S. Dollar to secure the value of their sa...
*U.S. CEOs IN BRAZIL WITH OBAMA* *JEFFREY R. IMMELT - CEO, GENERAL ELECTRIC* Jeffrey Robert Immelt is the chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the U.S.-based conglomerate General Electric...
Americans are in more debt than ever before, and the banks are going to new extremes to squeeze us for every last penny:* If you can't pay up, they'll try to get you locked up.* The Wall Street Journal...
The seemingly endless flow of young Chinese workers that helped to create the country's economic miracle has now finally "dried up", according to a leading economist. For decades, China has been able to r...
$105 per barrel oil. Cotton prices at record levels. Food prices at 2008 highs. Typically, such commodity price increases would send central banks running to the U.S. Dollar to secure the value of their sa...
*U.S. CEOs IN BRAZIL WITH OBAMA* *JEFFREY R. IMMELT - CEO, GENERAL ELECTRIC* Jeffrey Robert Immelt is the chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the U.S.-based conglomerate General Electric...
[image: Loktak Lake, Manipur, India. neceer.org.in] By Sobhapati Samom, Hueiyen News Service 30 March 2011 Imphal: The largest global environmental network, International Union for Conservation of Natur...
Americans' belief in global warming may have fallen significantly in recent years but its inescapable signs are beginning to arrive and their complacency is yielding to anxious concern. The U.S. is just ...
The State of Israel is literally between a rock and a hard place, both of its own making. It's a new Middle East today and not one to Israel's liking but the new reality is narrowing Israel's options. Ac...
*Humala (Peru) and Lula (Brazil)* *Peru's presidential election*. According to The Economist, 31 March 2011: *1.* During the last ten years, Peru’s GDP has grown by over 5% a year. The number of Peruvi...
Religious leaders tell Terry Jones he's not welcome in Detroit: " Everything he's doing here is a violation of the Gospel,' said Pastor Ed Rowe with Central United Methodist Church. Metro Detroit religiou...
Bryan Fischer dedicates yet another program to attacking Islam: " Last week, the American Family Association's Bryan Fischer declared that the First Amendment does not apply to Islam and therefore, Muslims h...
Useful backgrounders from the ADL: "The Anti-Defamation League have published a couple of useful briefings over the past week, on ACT! for America and David Yerushalmi. They have also updated their briefing ...
Debunking conservatives' skewed interpretation of sharia law: "Over at the Center for American Progress Wajahat Ali and Matthew Duss have prepared a briefing on sharia law and how the issue has been misrepre...
Why the Republican Party has embraced Islamophobia: "Press TV talks with author Max Blumenthal who illuminates a hate campaign against Barak Obama by the Republic Party that targets Obama's religious identit...
Staten Islanders support rally against war, terrorism and hostility toward Muslims: " Staten Islanders were among interfaith leaders who gathered yesterday at City Hall in Manhattan, as 100 imams condemned t...
Hajj Suit Raises Host Of Questions: " By Daniel Burke Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) In 2008, Safoorah Khan, a math teacher in Illinois, asked for 15 days of unpaid leave (19 days including weekend...
Judge rules for group touting anti-Islam ad on Metro buses (Detroit, USA): "A national group that wants to advertise its anti-Muslim messages on Metro Detroit buses has won the right to display their ads on ...
Anti-Islam Pastor Responds to Killings in Afghanistan (USA): "Terry Jones, the pastor whose Quran-burning event on Mar. 20 triggered mob violence that resulted in at least 11 deaths in Afghanistan on Friday,...
Earliest eyewitness account of the Holocaust finally to be published in UK: "Story of Catholic who infiltrated Nazi death camp and brought report to Allies could become new film.The extraordinary memoir of a...
*A 6.4 Magnitude Earthquake has hit the Fiji Region, 252 km (156 miles) West of Lambasa, Vanua Levu at a depth of 555.5 km (345.2 miles) today Sunday, April 3rd 2011 at 14:07 UTC * There have been no repo...
The airline was inspecting its aircraft after a hold in a fuselage forced a plane to land.
Analysis of a portrait uncovers a 19th century do-over.
One of my readers asked me to post something about President Obama's call to development more natural gas. What is there to say? We've been betrayed. We live in a designated sacrifice zone.You can read what ...
Aruba Petroleum arrogantly continues to cause health problems in Barnett Shale residents.The Aruba Petroleum business model calls for, among other abhorrent actions, performing workovers at their wellsites o...
For those who were distraught to find out that Alan Grayson was taking some time off from representing working families in Congress for a couple years, there was always quick understudy Anthony Weiner to ...
I don’t know. You go away for a week, and all sorts of things happen behind your back. Sensational things such as Judge Goldstone’s OpEd in the Washington Post. “Sorry, I was a bit wrong!” he said. “Silly ...
At the call of the election, I asked Calgary Grit readers to answer 20 questions about the campaign. Here's what those who entered had to say: *Will Elizabeth May win here seat? * One-in-five (21%) say ...
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My heart goes out to the amazing Japanese rescue people who went to such lengths to save a dog's life. The Japanese coast guard today rescued a dog washed out to sea with a house by the tsunami from th...
On Thursday, April 7th, 2011, CBS will air another, 04x20 episode of *The Big Bang Theory*. It's called "The Herb Garden Germination." Amy and Sheldon will try to spread rumors and Howard will act to upgra...
Celia Imrie is a film star. At the age of 14, being underweight, she was sent to St Thomas' Hospital in London. She became a patient of the world-famous psychiatrist William Sargant. My electric shock ...
SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN -- On an island chain located halfway between Africa and Argentina, local authorities say a massive penguin rescue operation is under way. A mix of island officials and resident volun...
Russia is making its final preparations for the launch of its Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station ahead of the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's first manned journey into space. The TMA-2...
Facebook and its co-founder Mark Zuckerberg are being sued for more than $1billion over a page that was on the social networking site that called for violence against Jews. The page, entitled Third Palest...
A demonstration by far-right group the English Defence League again descended into violence today as extremists began fighting among themselves. Around 2,000 'protestors' - some wearing makeshift Burqas da...
(Image) - Surface: Mars is covered with a thin layer of radioactive substances including uranium, thorium and radioactive potassium. Mars has not always been red. At least that is the theory proposed by a...
Openly aggressive and filled with defiance, these are the 18 people Scotland Yard want to identify over the chaos in Central London last week after extremists hijacked a union protest against spending cuts...
Scientists in China have created genetically modified cows that produce 'human' milk, it is reported today. They have introduced human genes into dairy cows to produce milk similar to human breast milk, a...
Libya’s feared ‘torturer-in-chief’ has been offered asylum in the UK in return for his help to topple Muammar Gaddafi and his hated regime. The secret offer to Libya’s former foreign minister, Moussa Kous...
Tea Party Supporters Say $33 Billion Figure Not Enough; Democrats, * Republicans* Find Little Common Ground* *Members of parliament are working behind congested doors to hash out a deal to fund the manageme...
*Yes, Florida's worse... but at least it isn't snowing* I don't watch Fox; don't even know where it is on the TV. But Steve Benen is among several people whose work I follow who does know exactly where ch...
*New Delhi: * An earthquake measuring 6 on the Richter scale and with an epicentre in Nepal shook parts of north India, including capital Delhi and its suburbs on Monday evening. There are no reports yet o...
Greek authorities say fighter jets were scrambled to escort a British passenger plane to Athens airport following a bomb threat while the aircraft was in its way from Britain to Egypt. Greek authorities s...
The bodies of some of the 228 victims of the worst air crash in Air France’s history have been found some two-and-a-half miles below the Atlantic Ocean. Macabre images of the underwater tomb, which includ...
Carpenter John Sweeney has been found guilty of murdering two of his girlfriends and throwing their chopped up bodies into a canal. Police believe he may have butchered another five victims, making him one...
A second attempt to stop radioactive water leaking into the Pacific ocean at the Fukushima nuclear plant by using paper and sawdust plant failed today. Workers had tried to use a chemical compound mixed wi...
The MEG experiment, named after "muons", "electrons", and "gamma", tries to observe muons that decay to an electron and a photon. It's been initiated in Japan but it is currently running in Switzerland. ...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] Extra than 24 hours have passed seeing as Team India lifted the 2011 cricket World Cup but for batting genius Sachin Tendulkar the emotion is still to sink in. ...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] President Barack Obama officially launched his re-election campaign Monday, influence grass-roots supporters middle to his first White House run to mobilize aga...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] Libyan rebels pressed into the planned oil town of Brega on Monday but came under fire from Moammar Gadhafi's forces, as a government representative began a pol...
In 2010, Wikileaks disclosed that Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah urged the US to attack Iran, describing Iran as a snake whose head should be cut off without any procrastination.[33] In April 2011, we rea...
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