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Learn moreOne of a number of enigmatic tweets from Guido this afternoon: What can it all possibly mean? Anyway - open thread. New. Here. Now. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Marinas, casinos and former Olympic venues could be up for grabs after Greece announced a massive fire sale to help service its debt. The Greek government said it was putting vast areas of state-owned land...
Tourists heading to Rome may find it a little less chaotic than usual today - that's because hundreds of people are taking the day off following a prediction of a huge earthquake. Businesses have reported...
[image: Inside the demolished spent fuel pool of Reactor Unit 3 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, 8 May 2011. TEPCO] By KentuckyFC 9 May 2011 Nuclear reactors produce radioactive by-products tha...
Jimmy Lee, a
Daggett Brook Township resident, had a rude awakening Tuesday morning. About 5:30 a.m., a small but powerful thunderstorm passed over his residence at Crow Wing County Road 2 and Highway 25,...
* the**REALnews* *Students and Teachers Fight Education Cuts in
North Carolina* Thousands of North Carolina students and teachers take to the streets opposing Republican controlled State assembly bill to...
Health Care Law's Defenders See Good Signs In Latest Court Hearing: " WASHINGTON -- The most telling element of Tuesday’s Appeals Court arguments over the constitutionality of the president’s health care leg...
THE HAGUE—Nineteen containers from Japan showing traces of radioactivity have been intercepted in the Dutch port of Rotterdam, Dutch health authorities said on Tuesday. Five of the 19 containers showed r...
Honeybees are still in the throes of a "perfect storm" of viruses, mites and more, but beekeepers are fighting back.
Chemicals end up in slime at the bottom of streams and lakes that fish feed on.
Maine rabbis deplore mosque desecration: "The following statement has been released in response to the anti-Islam graffiti sprayed onto the Maine Muslim Community Center:We, the undersigned rabbis of Maine, ...
Brooklyn mosque row reflects wider tensions: " Some argue the row over the Sheepshead Bay mosque is the latest sign of US "Islamophobia" By Laura Trevelyan BBC News, New York Protesters who want to stop th...
These six fox cubs were discovered fighting for their lives after being squashed inside a screw-topped plastic barrel. Five more were in another barrel and seven cubs had been trapped inside a sack, which ...
Nato has been forced to deny that bombing raids on Libya last night were aimed at killing Colonel Gaddafi - but added that they did not know if the dictator was dead or alive. The Libyan leader's compound...
Millions of holidaymakers will have their personal details tracked on huge databases thanks to the latest EU diktat. Countries will be expected to record air passengers’ information, including who they tr...
Dare2Care: Unite Against Bullying in Cleveland, Ohio: "Today’s post comes from HRC Membership & Community Events Manager Zack Hasychak.Over 500 people gathered last Sunday in the historic Cuyahoga County Co...
UN Releases Video and Pamphlet to Mark the International Day Against Homophobia: "This post comes from Mark Bromley from the Council for Global Equality.The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the highest...
HRC and Bully-Free New Hampshire protect Anti-Bullying Law in New Hampshire: "This post comes from New Hampshire organizer Katie Drapcho.On May 4, the New Hampshire State Senate voted unanimously to defend c...
Full Steam Ahead In North Carolina: Fighting the Anti-LGBT Constitutional Amendment: "HRC is in North Carolina working to stop two bills in the legislature (SB 106/HB 777) that aim to ban gay and lesbian mar...
Unsettling Movement on Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill: "This week the Ugandan Parliament could take action on the Anti-Homosexuality Act, a bill that has be denounced by governments around the globe. The l...
Settlement Reached in DADT Discharge Case: "Today, after years of battling the Department of Defense about the unconstitutionality of her discharge under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” Major Margaret Witt reached ...
Patriots and Militia Supporters Flock to New Social Networking Site: "Militia members and other antigovernment “Patriot” types have a new social network where they can share and discuss the latest conspiracy...
A British Airways pilot killed his wealthy wife and buried her body in a pre-prepared grave because he thought he had been ‘stitched up’ by a prenuptial agreement, a court heard yesterday. Robert Brown, 4...
Robert Scheer: What's the GOP Without Bin Laden?: "Pity Bill O'Reilly and the rest of the Republican right wing led by the forlorn slate of candidates gearing up to challenge Barack Obama in the next preside...
The building of a new dam to contain pools of cyanide-contaminated water at a silver mining facility in western Turkey is not a permanent solution, experts said Monday following the partial collapse of the...
A game between the Minnesota Twins and Detroit Tigers was delayed Tuesday by a storm that deposited golf ball-sized hail over downtown Minneapolis. A quick-developing storm system accompanied by tornadoes...
She was walking home alone on a bright spring day – a 13-year-old girl in her blue school uniform and her hair in a ponytail. Milly Dowler had just said goodbye to her friends and had less than a mile to ...
Gunner Scott: The High Cost of Discrimination: "Massachusetts cannot afford to discriminate against its transgender residents, morally or financially, and it doesn't need to.Read More... "
Government to probe racist group (Australia): "Victoria's Multicultural Affairs Minister has called for an investigation into a white supremacist group to see if its messages of racial hatred being preached ...
The U.S. government is running a full-court press to prevent *Osama bin Laden* from becoming a hallowed martyr by by means of what are essentially out-takes of videos made by bin Laden to paint him instead...
EUROPEAN JEWISH, MUSLIM LEADERS DENOUNCE EXTREMISM: "Jewish and Muslim leaders in several European countries are joining to denounce the rise of far-right extremist groups in their countries. In a monthlong ...
It started going bad for Wall Street golden boy Paul Ryan when Paul Krugman let the whole world know that what was being passed off for an intellectual Republican was really nothing but an unserious flim ...
In his weekly radio address on Saturday, President Barack Obama stated, “Although our economy hasn’t been the focus of the news this week, not a day goes by that I’m not focused on your jobs, your hopes, ...
Yesterday the Guardian splashed with the story that David Willetts was considering proposals to allow the wealthy to pay their way onto oversubscribed university courses. The BBC, brimming with righteous a...
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Biased BBC - 7 hours ago
I've been away in Italy, enjoying the spring sunshine. Meanwhile, in New Zealand, the government has seen through elements of green eco-thuggery as represented by the so-called charity Greenpeace (so often...
Who really benefited from vote splitting this election? Ken Boessenkool and Brian Topp, a Con and an NDP strategist respectively, crunch up the numbers and conclude : the Liberals did. "The Conservative...
*Ex-wife of Marc Dutroux.* The ex-wife of Marc Dutroux was given a 30 year jail sentence. On 10 May 2011, we learn that Michelle Martin, the ex-wife, is to be released after spending only 15 years in jai...
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Broken of Britain - 8 hours ago
If you're feeling "blue", then you're feeling a little sad. Early English settlers thought "blue devils" or bad spirits had followed them to their new home and that's why they'd get the blues. When peop...
*Related:* Yesterday, Czech President Václav Klaus gave a talk in Cambridge, U.K.: The Global Warming Doctrine is Not a Science: Notes for Cambridge Now let's get to the topic mentioned in the title. M...
The Real Cost of Prisons --An interview with Lois Ahrens By Angola 3 News Lois Ahrens is the Founder/Director of The Real Cost of Prisons Project (RCPP) and has been an activist/organizer for more than 4...
President Obama was heckled as he made a blatant attempt to woo Hispanic voters today by hailing the importance of immigrants to the American economy. Speaking in El Paso, Texas, close to Mexican the bord...
A University team are attempting to make history as the first people ever to fly a human-powered helicopter. While basic planes without engines have been launched by humans for decades, no one in the worl...
Colourful protests are usually borne out via creative placards or cheeky chants – not by demonstrators covered in pink liquid sprayed on them by police. That is how hardline Ugandan authorities deal with ...
Speaking at the Interlop 2011 conference on Tuesday, Vint Cerf, chief Internet evangelist for Google, discussed ongoing plans for a standardized "Interplanetary Internet."
A man has become the first person to commit suicide from the world's tallest tower in Dubai. The man, believed to be an employee in his 30s who worked at a company in the Burj Khalifa, apparently jumped f...
Shoppers could face food shortages this summer if it fails to rain in the next fortnight, experts have warned. Farmers are hoping for rain – and lots of it – to save crops that were planted early to take ...
One of Osama Bin Laden's sons went missing on the night U.S. special forces stormed their squalid hideout and shot the terror mastermind dead, Pakistani security officials have revealed. They fear he coul...
A tunnel running 250 feet beneath the U.S.-Mexican border has been discovered fully kitted out with electricity, water pumps and ventilation. Authorities in Arizona said although they've found dozens of tu...
The Chinese military could soon get its hands on the wreckage of a secret U.S. 'stealth' helicopter that crash landed in the raid on Osama Bin Laden's compound, Pakistani officials have said. The previous...
*"[F]inely [the princess] give up and went to bed and hadn't been asleep more than 3 hrs. when she woke up and says I am very uncomfortable, they must be a pea under all these quilts. So they looked it up...
Thousands of women are to take to the streets of London in revealing outfits next month as the global SlutWalk phenomenon reaches Britain. A Canadian policeman who told women to stop dressing like 'sluts' ...
The American people are prisoners of state terror and victims of totalitarian propaganda. The American mind has been under a government and media siege ever since September 11, 2001 when the Bush administr...
TECHNOLOGY - Microsoft is in the final stages of a deal to buy Skype, the popular VOIP phone service. It is Microsoft's biggest acquisition in its 36-year history with Skype being valued at $8.5 billion US...
*Fears rise over possibility of the deadly disease afflicting pregnant women * A 36-year-old woman who had recently given birth died of complications from an unidentified virus Tuesday at a Seoul hospital, ...
You remember those nasty, sadistic little pricks who used to burn ants with magnifying glasses? And then in school they used to get their kicks ganging up on younger kids? Seems they grew up, in a manner o...
[The Unit 3 spent fuel pool is completely wrecked and radiation levels are very high, lending support to Arnie Gundersen’s theory that a prompt criticality event occurred.] Uploaded by alphaspheric on M...
[image: Visit the Kidz Koal Korner for fun games! Parody site Coal Cares lampoons 'clean coal' campaigns from Peabody Energy and the coal industry. CoalCares.org] By Brandon Keim 10 May 2011 An activis...
[image: A bull tries to escape a running wildfire on April 19, 2011 in Graford, Texas. Getty Images / Tom Pennington / sacbee.com] By Robert Burns, Texas AgriLife 10 May 2011 Crop and forage production...
*The True Story* By TOM TOMORROW [*Don't forget to click on the strip to enlarge it.*] *"In what some see as conclusive proof that Osama bin Laden is dead, Dick Cheney appeared on Fox to take credit for ...
By JAKE WHITTENBERG, KING 5 News 10 May 2011 WHATCOM COUNTY, Wash. - Our La Niña winter is starting to show its affect on area crops. Berry farmers in Whatcom and Skagit Counties are struggling to dea...
Women who give birth to natural twins are probably more reproductively fit to do so, according to a new analysis.
Citing espionage fears, a clause in the U.S. spending bill approved by Congress to avert a government shut-down a few weeks ago prohibits NASA from coordinating any joint scientific activity with China.
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wmtc - 15 hours ago
As you may have noticed, my writing is in a down phase; I'm either writing personal updates or passing along found items. I used to stress over not writing, but I finally learned that my blog writing comes...
A new survey asking teens what they would wish for reveals some surprises.
I am not a fan of Facebook. I joined the network in order to spread the truth about what is really going on in our troubled world. Every article posted here should (in theory) have automatically been re-p...
A long-simmering movement by liberal stalwarts in southern Arizona to break away from the rest of the largely conservative state is at a boiling point as secession backers press to bring their longshot amb...
A new national alert system is set to begin in New York City that will alert the public to emergencies via cell phones. Presidential and local emergency messages as well as Amber Alerts would appear on c...
PIMCO's Bill Gross, the manager of the world's largest bond fund, raised his bet against U.S. government-related debt in April to 4 percent from 3 percent, according to the company's website on Monday. T...
Be careful of what’s being sold under the counter. Crack pipes are being sold at neighborhood stores from Detroit to the suburbs. That’s according to former Detroit police officer David Mahalab, who says ...
Chicago Public Schools is apologizing to a Chicago mother and her two young sons, ages 5 and 6, after they were denied breakfast because they came to schools wearing the wrong kind of shoes. CBS 2’s Doro...
April was a historic month for wild weather in the United States, and it wasn't just the killer tornado outbreak that set records, according to scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administ...
The historic decline this week in silver creates strong emotion. Watching great amounts of wealth disappear, quite literally in minutes amid disorderly trading conditions is a genuine fear for any invest...
The Chinese government has begun a concerted campaign of economic threats against the United States, hinting that it may liquidate its vast holding of US treasuries if Washington imposes trade sanctions to...
Even after last week’s steep selloff in the commodities markets, the “Flight to Safety” trade is still on…big time. Gold may have retreated from its all-time high, but applications to purchase a handgun co...
A historical lesson about selling your soul. by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand May 11, 2011 - Nikolai Yezhov served as a soldier in the Russian revolution, as a party member during Stalin's rise, then...
Rome will be shaved off the face of the Earth tomorrow, according to widespread rumors causing panic among residents.
Cornered like rats over the last few weeks, Republican congressmen who take legalistic bribes from Big Oil-- like John Boehner, Daniel Webster and Paul Ryan-- have publicly promised their constituents to ...
I don't think this is enough to go around.Between the Star-Telegram gleefully trying to read between the lines to find fault with the EPA and absolve Range, and that BS Newsletter and the EID hysteria about ...
You’d be forgiven for thinking that something nasty had happened in this small boating lake – but its bright-red colour was merely caused by the sun’s rays reacting with pond cleaner. It certainly caused ...
This is the basic brownie recipe that I use when we are craving something sweet. 1/2 c. butter 2 T. oil 2 eggs 3/4 C. flour 1/2 C. Cocoa 1 C. Sugar 1 t. vanilla 1/2 c. walnuts (optional) Melt butter on s...
It started going bad for Wall Street golden boy Paul Ryan when Paul Krugman let the whole world know that what was being passed off for an intellectual Republican was really nothing but an unserious flim ...
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CENSORED NEWS - 20 hours ago
By Brenda Norrell Narcosphere Native American women editors are countering the mainstream media and its politicized media frenzy over the targeted assassination of Osama Bin Laden and the shooting of una...
The terrifying new flying robot that it set to replace the CCTV camera. The Aeryon Scout is equipped with the world’s most sophisticated intelligence systems to track down criminals and spy on the public. ...
Swimming through an area of extreme natural beauty, this diver surveys the underwater canyons on his either side. But this British scuba diver is actually between two tectonic plates. Alex Mustard, 36, d...
A controversial natural gas production technique is contaminating drinking water in tens of thousands of homes, according to a study. Scientists collected 68 drinking water samples from near gas drilling ...
Studying one supercluster in the Great Wall has revealed a strange spider-like structure of galactic tendrils.
* Allegedly, this is Hamza bin Laden. * On 10 may 2011, we learn that 19 year-old *Hamza bin Laden*, the youngest son of Osama bin Laden, "escaped capture" during the raid on the compound in Abbottabad, in...
We thought we knew a little bit about some shady dealings in Argyle,Texas, but we don't know nuttin honey!There is a new website called Save Argyle Texas and it has some old, never before seen dirt and some ...
The Obama administration had "very detailed contingency plans" for military action against Pakistani forces if they had tried to stop the U.S. attack on Osama bin Laden's compound, according to two U.S. ...
An LED display woven into a T-shirt is adding a high-tech twist to a playground favorite.
Posted on May 9, 2011 by anticorruptionsociety| Leave a comment *AL Whitney (C) copyright 2011 Permission is granted for redistribution if linked to original and the AntiCorruption Society is acknowledged*...
There are two special elections for open House seats coming up, one in the L.A. area and one in the Buffalo area. Blue America has endorsed California Secretary of State Debra Bowen in the former and hasn'...
[image: Satellite image of Three Gorges Dam, China, 13 July 2003. This is is a true color satellite image of the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangzi river, Hubei province, China. Photo DigitalGlobe] YICHANG,...
The dissident writer who was to talk about China's powerless and voiceless at the Sydney Writers' Festival in Australia next week won't be there. "I can only stay at home," Liao Yiwu said early Tuesday by...
Air Canada customers are speaking out about the airline's practice of intentionally removing checked baggage from smaller aircraft — to avoid exceeding weight limits — but not telling the departing passeng...
Two University of Washington scientists have just published a study in the journal Conservation Biology in collaboration with colleagues from Rutgers University and Dalhousie University arguing that the gl...
What is the Arab Spring? People think the uprisings in the Arab world denote a kind of dawning of the age of Aquarius. “Harmony and understanding, Sympathy and trust abounding” they chirrup delusionally. ...
CANADA - The Liberal Party of Canada, which suffered its worst defeat in Canadian history and has been reduced to a mere 34 seats in the Canadian parliament, has turned to fighting amongst themselves over ...
CANADA - Gasoline prices reached a record high today in Canada and according to tomorrowsgaspricetoday.com the average price of gas in the GTA will soar 6.5 cents to hit a record $1.39.6 per litre today. ...
Levees and natural bluffs have protected most of Memphis from serious flooding but other areas are submerged.
China's trade balance rebounded strongly in April as exports surged and imports came in lower than expected, according to figures released by Beijing on Tuesday. The trade surplus hit $11.4bn in April, ...
Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Tuesday that he will give up his salary until the nuclear crisis in the country is over. He also said he would review the country's energy policy and consider other ...
Gasoline prices at the pumps soared in parts of Ontario and Quebec early Tuesday, even as the price of crude oil was little changed. Motorists were paying 6.5 cents a litre more in southern and eastern O...
As with any major weather disaster these days -- from floods and hurricanes to wildfires and this week's tornado outbreak in the South -- people ask questions about its relation to the huge elephant that's...
Carbon emission reductions achieved since 1990 by the world’s developed nations were canceled out many times over by the increase of imported goods from nations without binding emissions targets, including...
The U.S. probably won’t take significant steps to curb climate change until an environmental disaster sways public view and prompts political action, Robert Stavins of Harvard University said. “It’s unli...
Arctic ice is melting faster than expected and could raise the average global sea level by as much as five feet, an authoritative new report suggests. The study by the international Arctic Monitoring and...
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CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours ago
LONG WALK 3 NORTHERN ROUTE REVERSING DIABETES: Thanks to T-Hawk, *Tongan Mohawk M*an, for allowing Censored News to publish his photos from Leech Lake, Minn and the Deer River High School Powwow! Our f...
An apparatus divides pairs of entangled photons and translates them to the bodies of a nearby couple.
By Duane Craig Throughout Minnesota 20 percent of homes are 60 years old, or more, except for Duluth. In that community about 50 percent of the homes are older than 60 years, and 90 percent were built bef...
[image: In March, the U.S. Department of Energy released data recorded from its Aerial Measuring System as well as ground detectors deployed along with its Consequence Management Response Teams. May 06, ...
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wmtc - 1 day ago
Canadian readers, if you have not already done so, I hope you will send a message to Prime Minister Stephen Harper through this excellent campaign by Leadnow. A clear majority of Canadians voted for chang...
[image: Bill Hammitt on his farm near Portsmouth, Iowa, where he has terraced the land, refrained from tilling, and taken other measures to curb soil erosion. Mark Kegans for The New York Times] By WILL...
*“…reality has a well-known liberal bias.” – Steven Colbert* All opinions are not equal. The idea that aluminum foil on the head repels alien infiltration into the mind is an opinion. Some ideas are based ...
* the**REALnews* * * *Debt and a Broken System* Hudson and Wolff: Massive public debt incurred to bail out a broken private system More at The Real News Original with full transcript here. *Bio* *Micha...
Next-To-Last Stage In Health Care Reform's Legal Battle Begins Tomorrow: " WASHINGTON -- Tuesday morning marks the next, and perhaps next to last, stage in a legal drama that will determine the fate of Presi...
Bin Laden’s Killing Raises Human Rights Questions: " Amnesty International’s Sam Zarifi on the human rights implications of Osama Bin Laden’s death for Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the US war on ter...
EU Should Ban Trade Of Death Penalty Drugs To US: " Last October, Arizona executed Jeffrey Landrigan using sodium thiopental imported from England. Other states also acquired this drug from the U...
Egyptian Copts seek protection: "At least 12 people have been killed in sectarian clashes outside a Cairo church, Egyptian state TV reports. Officials say tension began over rumors that a Christian convert t...
Source: Yemen strike missed cleric: "Anwar al-Awlaki, the U.S.-born radical cleric based in Yemen, dodged and survived an American drone assault after he switched vehicles with fellow jihadis, a senior secur...
I was tempted to just post a snide comment along the lines of "*don't let the door hit you on the way out*" and leave it at that for the Bloc post-mortem. But their collapse may very well be the most sudd...
*"Fatima, when are you bringing me the goat shawarma? (شاورما)"* Does anyone not know that the U.S. has released home videos of bin-Laden sitting around being boring. But boring was the whole idea-- the "...
Obama: Pakistan had 'support network' for bin Laden: "President Obama says Osama bin Laden had a group of supporters within Pakistan helping to keep the al Qaeda leader secure for years. "
Stadiums turned to prisons in Syria?: "Syrian security forces were using soccer stadiums as makeshift prisons Monday after raiding homes and arresting hundreds of residents in at least two cities, the direct...
Ariz. takes immigration law to justices: "Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer said Monday she is 'confident' the U.S. Supreme Court will lift the injunction on SB 1070, the state's controversial immigration law. "
Navy plans same-sex marriage on bases: "A preliminary U.S. Navy plan to allow its chaplains to perform same-sex marriages in military chapels after the end of 'don't ask, don't tell' has fired up congression...
Top Syrians hit with EU sanctions: "The European Union slapped sanctions on 13 top Syrian officials, including President Bashar al-Assad's brother, for 'violence against demonstrators,' it announced Tuesday....
Tribeca Film Festival Highlights International Overincarceration: "The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival came to a close last month, with the festival's coveted Heineken Audience Award going to Give Up Tomorrow —...
Anti-Christian Hysteria in Malaysia: "The AP reports:Malaysia’s government sought to defuse new religious tensions Monday following allegations that church leaders were conspiring to make Christianity the of...
Last night Dish became the first Barnett Shale municipality to pass a resolution asking the TCEQ to make the natural gas industry do their Fair Share for Clean Air.Group calls for cutting industry emissionsT...
NASA is looking at sending a probe to explore the methane oceans of Titan, a prime contender for finding life beyond Earth.
*Vi Waln: "If you believe that America 'honors' us by using the names of our tribes or famous leaders you might be suffering from the effects of colonized thinking."* *By Vi Waln, Sicangu Lakota, Rosebud...
Paper is getting a 21st-century technology makeover and going beyond the e-book.
Former NASA administrator James C. Fletcher played a crucial role in the first three decades of human space exploration. To what extent did his Mormon faith fuel his enthusiasm?
A new 1,100-year history of the El Niño cycle promises to help improve how climate models see the impact of global warming.
A New York City hawk, Violet, needs medical attention, but a surprise hatching over Mother's Day weekend may complicate matters.
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck LOYALTY ISLANDS at a depth of 26.5 km (16.5miles), the quake hit at 08:55:11 p.m. UTC Tuesday 10th May 2011. The epicenter was 134 km (83 miles) SW of Isangel, Tanna, Van...
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Broken of Britain - 1 day ago
The Pakistan security services were involved in the events at Abbottabad. "A number of local residents have confirmed to the BBC that they were visited by Pakistani army personnel two hours before the att...
Pakistan's prime minister yesterday dismissed allegations that his country’s military and intelligence service had helped Osama Bin Laden as ‘absurd’. Announcing an investigation into how the Al Qaeda chie...
Human Rights Watch calls for Rapid Action Battalion to be disbanded and for UK and US to withdraw support. The Bangladeshi government has allowed a British-trained paramilitary force to secretly detain, t...
White House set to clash with Congress as concerns mount about Osama bin Laden's presence in Pakistan and its nuclear stockpile. The Obama administration is facing a clash with Congress where pressure is ...
Pakistan struck secret deal for U.S. cross border raid on Bin Laden TEN years ago. The U.S. and Pakistan agreed ten years ago to a secret deal allowing American forces to conduct a raid inside the country...
Army engineers today dramatically opened the floodgates at a huge spillway on the bank of the Mississippi River in a last-ditch attempt to prevent the devastation of record-breaking floods. Workers pulled...
Kate McCann has revealed that she felt too guilty over the disappearance of her daughter to take any pleasure in life… and was even unable to make love to her husband Gerry. In the book, she says there we...
A woman has given birth to a baby girl with two heads in the Chinese province of Sichuan. The conjoined twins, who share a single body, two arms and two legs, were born by Caesarean section last week, acc...
When their teenage daughter got in with the ‘wrong crowd’ after they emigrated to New Zealand, Emily Longley’s middle-class parents sent her back to Britain to begin a new life with her grandparents. But...
At least two and possibly as many as four killers dumped the remains of their victims on the same stretch of a Long Island beach, a prosecutor said today, confirming the theory that the 'Craigslist Ripper'...
At least 68 bodies spread out across 10 burial mounds have been found in a mass grave recently discovered on a soccer field in Abidjan. UN investigators in the Ivory Coast have determined there were at lea...
Hundreds of Egyptians, many of them Coptic Christians, demonstrated in Cairo yesterday over Muslim-Christian clashes that left 12 dead and a church burned. Demonstrators, who numbered about 1,000, said th...
Two teenage girls terrorised their community so badly that they left one neighbour too terrified to switch on the lights in his home at night and a teenage boy frightened of sleeping in his own bedroom. ...
A teenage boy allegedly murdered his mother and buried her in the back garden of the family home. The body of Beth Spartichino, 42, was dug from a shallow grave at the house in Boston and her 17-year-old...
A British couple were among seven tourists whose deaths in Thailand have been linked to a toxic bed bug pesticide. Pensioners George Everitt, 78, and his wife Eileen, 73, from Boston, Lincolnshire, were f...
This is the dramatic moment a man pulls a gun on a Ukrainian nationalist protester as tensions boil over on Victory Day in the Ukraine. The shady figure, wearing a suit and hiding behind sunglasses, is a ...
The United Nations Refugee Agency reports that a ship carrying 600 migrants trying to flee the violence in Libya, sunk off the African nations coast on Friday. The vessel reportedly broke apart shortly a...
The latest pictures show that the cold, blue strip along the equatorial Pacific Ocean - which is associated with La Nina - has largely disappeared: On the contrary, a warm, orange cloud is spreading from...
*AMERICAN POLITICS:* *ANOTHER SORT OF FIRST OF JULY:* Well now that the great *raison d'être* for America's far flung wars is safely swimming with the fishies it might just be time for that count...
"What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, You cannot say, or guess, for you know only A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives...
[image: Tarballs are easy to find on the uninhabited portion of Dauphin Island. Though BP performed some cleanup operations on that section of the island during the winter, work was halted March 1 to pro...
Five large explosions have rocked the Libyan capital Tripoli in what is the heaviest night of Nato bombing for over a week. Shortly after 2am local time there were three loud explosions followed a few mi...
Thanks to Sophie Morel for sharing her photos with Censored News! The Long Walk 3 southern route for the reversal of diabetes was in Louisiana this week, at the Zwollie Powwow and at the Caddo Cultural ...
[image: Foreclosure actions to housing units, March 2011. realtytrac.com] May 9 (Reuters) – U.S. home values fell in the first quarter at the fastest rate since late 2008, real estate data firm Zillow sa...
. The Long Walk 3 northern route is now in Wisconsin. Photos at Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe, Wis. "We are looking for a Van to haul people and a trailer to haul our gear. If anyone want to donate please c...
is what an editorial in the Windsor Star is calling for now that Steve has his majority despite "opposition MPs who claimed it would weaken Canadian sovereignty": "The reality is this: There is no other w...
... but I'd be willing to part with some serious coin for a lapel button reading "Flippant Annex Secularist." The money quote from Jason Kenney, in a Star piece from Linda Diebel: I’ll be honest with y...
The Mississippi River was approaching levels it has not reached in over 70 years as it rolled through here on Monday, attracting a festive crowd of spectators to its banks but also sending residents out of...
Counter terrorism experts say a retaliation attack for Osama bin Laden’s death is inevitable. Terrorists are expected to aim for more vulnerable soft targets like shopping malls or museums. They are plac...
Speaker John Boehner will call on Congress to offset a debt ceiling hike with spending cuts of a greater amount, an ambitious proposal that puts House Republicans on a collision course with Democrats who w...
US house prices have suffered their biggest quarterly fall since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, underlining the scale of the headwinds still facing the world's biggest economy. Average house prices slu...
NATO's secretary-general told CNN on Monday that Moammar Gadhafi and his regime "have no future," but refused to predict how long the Libyan leader could hold on. Anders Fogh Rasmussen denied that the s...
*Then there's Good Aaron and Bad Aaron . . .* * This is definitely Good Aaron -- with a certain degree of nakedness and no sound coming out of his mouth. * *"Good Newt and Bad Newt will both be running in ...
Once upon a time, last October, my Sister-in-law was married. I was extremely fortunate to be able to fly to Utah to take the pictures for their wedding. The day the got married was beautiful, but bright. ...
JetLev R200 lets pilots fly 22 mph over water and soar 30 feet.
Sen. Charles Schumer is calling for better rail security now that the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound has turned up plans to attack trains in the U.S. “Anyone, even a member of al-Qaida could purchase...
Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's has lowered Greece's bond grade further into junk status, citing risks that the country will have to negotiate an extension on its debt repayments. S&P lowered Gree...
There has never been such an opportunity for the U.S. government to stage a false flag event in order to start yet another war as there is today. The set up is obvious to libertarians and some sane others,...
Consider this doomsday scenario: Catastrophic impacts felt by every American. A broad range of government payments stopped, limited, or delayed, including military salaries, Social Security, and Medicare...
The videos below are the title track and a new single, "Far From Home," from the newest Doobie Brother's album, *World Gone Crazy* and the two songs, taken together, pay respect to everyone trying to make...
Insert feigned shock.Scientific Study Links Flammable Drinking Water to FrackingIt's a peer-reviewed study from Duke.Here's my favorite part:They also found that the type of gas detected at high levels in th...
This ancient Egyptian site once attracted swarms of pilgrims, but is all but unknown to modern-day tourists.
No helpless child, this juvenile dinosaur didn't have to rely on mom and dad for a meal.
Humans may not have had much, if any, time to interact with Neanderthals.
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BBC North America editor Mark Mardell is in a dark place these days. After his beloved Obamessiah turned out to be a cold-blooded assassin, he doesn't know which way to turn. He's tried blaming ugly United...
The more government is involved in people's lives, the more satisfied they are, finds a survey that looked at 15 industrialized countries across the globe.
[Fig.1 from Trenberth et al. 2009 : reference-[1]][This article was first published on this Activist Teacher blog, on May 9, 2011. Reviews from peers are invited (e.g.). The University of Ottawa tried to sto...
[image: Exceedance of critical loads for eutrophication by nitrogen deposition in 2010 under current European legislation (courtesy of CCE, 2008). Whitfield, et al., 2011] Exceedance of critical loads f...
Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck West of Macquarie Island at a depth of 1 km (0.6 miles), the quake hit at 18:54:42 p.m. UTC Monday. The epicenter was 730 km (453 miles) WSW of Macquarie Island, Australia ...
Gilani (left) Yousaf Raza Gilani is prime minister of Pakistan. Reportedly he is related to American 'CIA agent' David Headley, whose father's name was Gilani. * Headley * Reportedly, Prime Minister Gil...
Credit ratings agencies hammered Greece on Monday after senior euro zone policymakers acknowledged that Athens will need a second bailout package soon to avert a disorderly overhaul of its debt obligations...
*West palling around with fascist publicity hound Pamela Geller* There's a lot of competition for the title but probably the most unhinged and deranged of the teabaggers elected last November is Florida wa...
by Duane Craig Trees link to soil contamination how? One of the age old problems with identifying contaminants in the soil may be getting simplified, and much cheaper. The current approach is to drill tes...
Things have come a long way since the late '60s re-release of 2001: A Space Odyssey promised a hippy audience 'the ultimate trip'. Quite what they would have made of an image as psychedelic and, more impo...
Hey TCEQ! We've got your 140 tons PER DAY of missing VOCs right here:The TCEQ's new air plan for the DFW area is short 140 tons PER DAY of VOCs and they are scratching their heads trying to figure out where ...
She stars alongside Resse Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson in the latest Hollywood film Water For Elephants. But as this shocking video shows, Tai the elephant has been mistreated by the trainers that mad...
A father and daughter who only just escaped death four years ago when they suffered a plane wreck have now tragically died in another air crash. Elzie Warren, 70, and 54-year-old Phyllis Ridings were on th...
Crew members and passengers wrestled a 28-year-old man to the cabin floor after he began pounding on the cockpit of a plane approaching San Francisco. The man was yelling unintelligibly as he brushed past ...
Employers who want to know more about applicants can simply turn to Facebook, claims a study.
Deforestation is threatening an already limited forest habitat for these critically endangered tigers.
Guest contributor Andreas Tziolas overviews a potential mission to another star.
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*What's the alternative?* For Microsoft's Windows we know: Linux Ubuntu. But with Ubuntu rather unexpectedly drifting from the desktop PC towards the smartphone and tablets market, many have started worry...
Extraterrestrials may have contacted various humans throughout history, such as Moses and Joan of Arc, to help guide and inspire them to achieve great things; or to pass on important messages for humanity;...
Syrian security forces were using soccer stadiums as makeshift prisons in at least two cities Monday after raiding homes and arresting hundreds of residents, the directors of two human rights organizations...
ISHINOMAKI, Japan — When water begins to trickle down the streets of her coastal neighborhood, Yoshiko Takahashi knows it is time to hurry home. Twice a day, the flow steadily increases until it is knee-de...
Police are investigating the killing of a man who was shot on Monday afternoon in Kensington in west London. The shooting happened in broad daylight at Lakeside road at around 4pm. Police officers and a...
Newt Gingrich To Bid For Obama's Job and the list of opponents continue to grow as America enters into greater unrest is to launch a bid to become the Republicans' candidate for the 2012 presidential elect...
Forensic experts have unearthed about 68 bodies from another cluster of mass graves in war-torn Ivory Coast, a United Nations spokeswoman said Monday. Ravina Shamdasani, spokeswoman for the U.N. High Comm...
Waging war on a flood of historic proportions that has already affected thousands in eight Midwestern and Southern states, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers flooded a spillway Monday north of New Orleans ...
A mandatory evacuation notice has been issued for 900 homes in Brandon, Man., due to the threat of severe flooding that has sent Canadian troops to areas in western Manitoba. "The evacuation notice has b...
A group of B.C. condominium owners is upset Canada's largest credit union allowed the treasurer of their complex to cash about $50,000 in cheques that were payable to others. "It just upsets me that this...
Winchester and its neighbors along Interstate 81 in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley have much to recommend themselves to potential employers, including a low cost of living, access to a major highway and view...
This year there have been a baker's dozen Democrats who have consistently voted with Boehner and Cantor on almost every big issue. Dan Boren is, by far, the worst-- with a ProgressivePunch score of 15.15,...
In China, Apple products are hot. Long lines of eager customers and swarms of lurking scalpers are typical each time Apple launches a new product here. The release of the iPad 2 and white iPhone 4 last w...
Syrian security forces were using soccer stadiums as makeshift prisons in at least two cities Monday after raiding homes and arresting hundreds of residents, the directors of two human rights organizations...
The world's biggest greenhouse gas emitters do not expect a legally-binding deal to tackle climate change at talks in South Africa in December, two leading climate envoys said on Wednesday. U.S. climate ...
It holds more power than an atomic bomb, yet it rattles little more than a tea cup these days. Centered beneath the sandy soil near the Mississippi River, the New Madrid earthquake fault stretches across...
Make hay while the sun shines. So goes the old adage to never let a precious opportunity slip through your fingers because you never know when another will come along. That pretty much sums up the spot ...
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Biased BBC - 2 days ago
Quick, here's a new open thread before Scotland secedes. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Some Americans are questioning the propriety of the celebrations which followed the killing of Osama bin Laden.
The Gamera is more than 1/3 the size of a football fields and weighs just 140 pounds.
May Day, 2011 *BREAKING ALERT: Mass Arrests, Tear Gas, Sound Weapons used Against WIU Students * *lonelantern* Cherchez la Verite
Posted by Andy Kroll at 5:50pm, May 8, 2011. *How the McEconomy Bombed the American Worker The Hollowing Out of the Middle Class * By Andy Kroll Think of it as a parable for these grim economic tim...
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Al Qaeda Crumbling? Senior Leader Turns Himself In: "Saudi Arabia announced today that a top Al Qaeda figure has surrendered.In the wake of Osama bin Laden's demise, is al Qaeda falling apart?The Saudi Inter...
WaPo Poll: The Birther Movement Collapses: "A new Washington Post poll shows, amazingly, that President Obama's release of his 'long form' birth certificate actually did have a big impact on the Birther delu...
GOP Debate Sponsored by Oath Keepers Militia and John Birch Society: "Tonight's first GOP presidential primary debate in Greenville, South Carolina, (at 9pm ET, live on Fox News) will be brought to you in pa...
[image: Dried out: A broken sink lies covered in dust over the cracked tiles of a tsunami-ravaged house in Odaka Town, Minamisoma, within the Fukushima nuclear exclusion zone. Getty Images] By arevamirp...
*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* Many 'progressives' who voted for Obama expected a 'savior'. There are none! The best strategy left to disappointed progressives is to take back the party many bel...
Florida Tea Party Gov. Is About to Start Drug Testing Welfare Recipients: "Florida's Tea Party governor Rick Scott is going to do his part to advance 'limited government' by making it mandatory for welfare r...
Muslims travelling to Islamophobia conference removed from plane: "Two Muslim religious leaders on their way to a Charlotte conference on 'Islamophobia' said they were removed from a commercial flight Friday...
US court rules in favour of Muslim inmate: "A Muslim inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Loretto didn't get a fair shake when he filed a lawsuit claiming religious discrimination, the 3rd U.S. ...
Bill Clinton Supports Marriage Equality in New York: "As New York state lawmakers returned to Albany this week, the Human Rights Campaign released a statement by President Bill Clinton supporting marriage eq...
Ian Thomas Ash and cameraman Colin O'Neill venture inside the Fukushima 30 kilometer radiation exclusion zone to document the conditions the local population are enduring.
Chelsea Clinton Kicks Off Phone Banking for Marriage Equality in New York: "Last night Chelsea Clinton joined more than 50 New Yorkers United for Marriage volunteers at 1199 SEIU Headquarters to kick off the...
A hurricane has swamped south China in the past two days. The hurricane which struck Foshan City in Guangdong Province led to the collapse of a 2,000 square meter food factory, killing 4 people and injur...
A pretty blonde teenager has been found dead three days after revealing she had a stalker. Emily Longley, 17, told friends on Facebook: ‘I have a stalker!’ before adding she had been bombarded by calls f...
We all know about a panic room, but a team of architects literally thought inside the box to come up with the ultimate safety zone for anyone harbouring apocalyptic thoughts. The Safe House, built on the...
The United States has demanded that Pakistan hand over Osama bin Laden's three widows whom it has held since the daring U.S. commando raid on the terror chief's home last week. National Security Adviser T...
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Of all our new videos, I think this is my favourite. Orion Smith, the General Secretary of the Canadian Friends Service Committee (the Quakers), supports US Iraq War resisters, and explains why they should...
The local tradition of lining up to be the first customer of the season at Belt's Soft Serve, Stevens Point, WI. Photo courtesy: flicker.com Brayden Banks is one lucky did. His grandmother, Michelle Cuesta...
None were ever even tried, although they were the financial backers of a coup against FDR that sought to install a fascist dictatorship in the U.S. similar to the ones they were backing in Germany and Ita...
The latest Osama. *Exclusive: Osama bin Laden's Nose and Left Ear** * A previous Osama. *Exclusive: Osama bin Laden's Nose and Left Ear** * "The real bin Laden has "a pronounced deep and flattened... top o...
"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do." - Freya Madeline Stark "There is nothing in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a l...
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Photo courtesy: Wikipedia When it comes to insect control, few creatures are as efficient as bats. A single colony of 150 brown bats will consume 38,000 cucumber beetles; 16,000 June bugs; and, 50,000 lea...
Photo by NOAA via Flickr CC via Treehugger. In the last few years, there has been an unexplained spike in the number of whales washing ashore. While the National Marine Fisheries Service has declared an...
Declaration of food sovereignty just the beginning? by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand May 9, 2011 - Like a single worn edge of a roof tile on a windy day, the town of Sedgwick, Maine invites the winds...
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Url movie: http://youtu.be/7SqIBBj7GIA Make yourself a sunny weekend, John
Yep, that's right: proton beam facilities once used for physics research are now helping treat (if not cure) cancer.
TOKYO, May 9, 2011 (AFP) - The operator of Japan's Hamaoka nuclear plant, located near a tectonic faultline southwest of Tokyo, Monday said it would temporarily shut down its reactors as requested by Prime...
Kate McCann slept alone the night before Madeleine vanished because her husband had offended her at dinner, it emerged yesterday. Upset by Gerry’s ‘abrupt’ behaviour, she took to a spare bed in the childr...
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Sadly, Robert Brout, an American Belgian physicist who was born in the New York City on June 14th, 1928, passed away on May 3rd, 2011. Together with Francois Englert, they were the first pair that publis...
Fukushima Prefecture, Japan -- Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA), and the Japanese government gave a joint press conference on Sunday and explained that an...
Victorian animal activists have dumped two swans and 35 other birds outside the electoral office of Premier Ted Baillieu. The Coalition Against Duck Shooting says hunters have shot nine swans and destroy...
Condition of the Number 3 reactor at the quake and tsunami-crippled Fukushima power plant in Japan turned for the worse with the temperature rising more than 40 degrees in less than a day. Tokyo Electric ...
Police in Detroit are looking for a gang of elderly-looking women, dubbed the 'Mad Hatters,' who are believed to be responsible for a string of robberies, purse snatching and fraud. According to police, t...
Even though use of painkiller diclofenac on animals has been banned in India, it continues to take a toll on the vulture population. Heavy content of diclofenac, which is poisonous for vultures, has been ...
*Safe Gulf Seafood?* Gulf seafood, an array of Gulf fish including the prized Gulf red snapper, are not looking very "safe" to scientists today. Skin lesions, fin rot, spots, liver blood clots and other ...
Claim comes as four women shot dead by security forces in first use of violence against an all-female demonstration. Iran is playing an increasingly active role in helping the Syrian regime in its crackdo...
Downing Street will defy the European Union’s wishes today by refusing to fly its flag on Europe Day. The decision highlights a split within the Coalition on how to mark May 9, which has been celebrated a...
Eman al-Obeidy, who garnered worldwide attention for her vocal rape allegations against the regime of Moammar Gadhafi, says she has fled Libya, fearing for her safety. Al-Obeidy told CNN that she cross...
Migrants fleeing the Libyan civil war were left to die in the boat they escaped in when Nato and European military crews ignored their pleas for help, it was claimed today. Sixty-one migrants who left the...
*SAN PEDRO, CALIF.* — The battered body of a humpback whale that may have been hit by a ship has washed ashore in San Pedro. The Los Angeles Times reports that authorities discovered the whale’s carcass o...
McDaid was a special forces officer and became a radical Moslem? *McDaid Who?* "ISI Chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha reportedly met CIA Station Chief Mark Carlton a few days ago." *Pakistan Media Name Man They Sa...
Screaming with pain as he collapses on the ground, a suspected gunman with two hostages is Tasered by police at the end of a two-day siege. The shaven-headed man, who emerged from a house dressed only in s...
One of a number of enigmatic tweets from Guido this afternoon: What can it all possibly mean? Anyway - open thread. New. Here. Now. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Marinas, casinos and former Olympic venues could be up for grabs after Greece announced a massive fire sale to help service its debt. The Greek government said it was putting vast areas of state-owned land...
Tourists heading to Rome may find it a little less chaotic than usual today - that's because hundreds of people are taking the day off following a prediction of a huge earthquake. Businesses have reported...
Jimmy Lee, a Daggett Brook Township resident, had a rude awakening Tuesday morning. About 5:30 a.m., a small but powerful thunderstorm passed over his residence at Crow Wing County Road 2 and Highway 25,...
These six fox cubs were discovered fighting for their lives after being squashed inside a screw-topped plastic barrel. Five more were in another barrel and seven cubs had been trapped inside a sack, which ...
Nato has been forced to deny that bombing raids on Libya last night were aimed at killing Colonel Gaddafi - but added that they did not know if the dictator was dead or alive. The Libyan leader's compound...
Millions of holidaymakers will have their personal details tracked on huge databases thanks to the latest EU diktat. Countries will be expected to record air passengers’ information, including who they tr...
posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 14 hours ago*The True Story* By TOM TOMORROW [*Don't forget to click on the strip to enlarge it.*] *"In what some see as conclusive proof that Osama bin Laden is dead, Dick Cheney appeared on Fox to take credit for ...
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