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Learn moreThis little corner's taken its whacks at the Ford "vision" before, but the saga of the Fort York bridge just underlines it all over again. The context for the discussion is ably set up by cityslikr over at...
Goodwin Liu was first nominated to the
9th Circuit Court of Appeals on February 9, 2010. Today he'll finally be voted on... kind of. What will be voted on is a cloture resolution triggered Tuesday evening...
Two Mississippi fishermen have reported hooking manatees in the last week. While both incidents happened in the same area -- around the Katrina Reef near Deer Island, just off the Mississippi coast from O...
Dental disease, weight issues and fleas were the most commonly diagnosed conditions for cats and dogs -- or at least those that got to see a vet at all.
A huge fire has engulfed a scrapyard in Newcastle, prompting police to warn nearby residents to close doors and windows. Thick black smoke has been billowing from the site of the blaze in the Byker area...
CBC, via WikiLeaks : 228182 SECRET 2/10/2009 SECRET OTTAWA 000768 Subject : Visas Viper : The "Toronto 18" as candidates for Visas Viper Program SUMMARY At Embassy Ottawa's monthly Visas Viper meeting on ...
An aeroplane has skidded off a runway and burst into flames as it took off from an air base injuring three people. The Boeing 707 tanker plane was taking off from Point Mugu Naval Air Station in Southern ...
Osama bin Laden recorded a message praising the Middle East protest movements shortly before his death, predicting the revolutions would spread across the region. The 12-minute message was released as a v...
A health warning has been issued for parts of Lake Rotorua and Lake Rotoiti. The affected areas include the eastern side of Lake Rotorua from Holdens Bay to Ohau Channel and the Okere arm portion of Lake R...
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. - Gwinnett County is under a “Rabies Alert” after a two animals believed to be rabit bit a teenager and a 4-year-old boy. The attacks happened at neighboring apartment complexes in Law...
Mbombela - A hailstorm has damaged 53 houses in the Hoyi area of Mpumalanga, the provincial government said on Thursday. Some of the houses were totally destroyed in the storm on Tuesday night, the co-ope...
The following inspiring video may anger monarchists, but everything stated is fact. The Windsor gangster family are responsible for most of the evils in the modern world. Their crimes go back through their...
(Image) Sir David Attenborough yesterday said artificially-reconstructed scenes during science shows including Inside The Human Body (pictured) had become a 'big problem' Computer-generated imagery in sci...
A man who allegedly pinned a flight attendant against the wall and tried to open the exit hatch of a plane mid-air was trying to commit suicide, according to prosecutors. The terrifying drama unfolded on ...
A gunman shot dead his business partner and injured his wife because he thought he had been cut out of a lucrative patent deal, it was claimed today. Ilya Iglanov, 48, called at the house of business asso...
A High School principal has been placed on leave after he hypnotised a teenage student who committed suicide the next day. Dr George Kenney was given his orders by school chiefs in Florida as they launche...
A mother has reportedly admitted killing her son after the dead boy’s body was found on a dirt road. Julianne McCrery, of Irving, Texas, allegedly told a female trooper: ‘I killed my son. I want to kill m...
It has been 15 months since the McStay family vanished without a trace. A carton of eggs on the counter, two bowls of popcorn on the futon and two dogs in the backyard were all they left behind, clues that...
This is the dramatic moment a mother swerves towards her daughter and runs her over after a furious row in a supermarket car park. The 19-year-old was hurled to the floor after her mother deliberately aime...
A mother who admitted on national television that she gave her eight-year-old daughter Botox injections may have been lying in a desperate attempt to get publicity. Kerry Campbell caused outrage when she...
David Cameron has said that he didn’t believe a full inquest into the death of weapons expert Dr David Kelly was necessary. The Prime Minister – apparently pre-empting the findings of an official review ...
An Afghan detained at the Guantanamo Bay prison has died in an apparent suicide. The 37-year-old prisoner, identified only as Inayatullah, was accused of being an Al Qaeda member and housed at the controv...
Iran faced global condemnation today after it defied safety warnings and launched the country's first nuclear power plant. Western countries including the United Kingdom and the U.S. have for years feared...
Confusion after Vice President Biden landed in Chicago on Monday almost resulted in a collision between two passenger planes just above the tarmac at O’Hare International Airport, according to fed...
Solar storms could have 'devastating effects' on human technology when they hit a peak in two years' time, a leading scientist has warned. U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration assistant sec...
A three-year-old boy drowned after falling through a manhole and into an underground tank of used cooking oil. Jordy Marmolejo fell into the tank used to store waste oil as he played behind his father's f...
Tanks bombarded a Syrian border town for the fourth day on Wednesday in a military campaign to crush protests against President Bashar al-Assad, under mounting Western pressure to stop his violent repressi...
The uncle of a 14-year-old boy who was stabbed to death appeared in court today accused of his murder. Jordan Cooper was found in a house in Newriggs in the Fatfield area of Washington, Tyne and Wear, in ...
The emergency services launched a major incident operation after a man was blown up in his car today. The 58-year-old died after the blast on Old Cemetery Lane, Hartlepool, Teesside, blew the roof off his...
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Charlie Haden, an obscure jazz bassist whose hero is the muderous thug Che Guevara - to the extent that he has written whole albums in praise of him - is not widely known outside jazz circles. No matter, h...
LEFT SIDE OF 'OSAMA' HOUSE LEFT SIDE OF 'OSAMA' HOUSE. LEFT SIDE OF 'OSAMA' HOUSE BACK and LEFT SIDE OF 'OSAMA' HOUSE. In April 2011, the US military reportedly made a full scale replica of the 'Ob...
Japan's economy, sputtering since the March 11 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster, has fallen into recession, according to government figures released Thursday. The country's gross domestic produc...
[image: State food insecurity rates for U.S. seniors, 2001-2007. U.S. map containing the geographical distribution of food insecurity across states, where food insecurity rates are broken into four categ...
* Paul Stewart as Tommy Haley with Kirk Douglas as Midge in the 1949 film version of Champion * *"I don't need no contrac'. He knows it was me that drug him out o' the gutter and he ain't goin' to turn me d...
I was out shopping for groceries the other day with a friend of mine who has been living in Beijing for over a decade. We stopped by the fruit section, and I automatically gravitated to the bright red ap...
[image: Aerial view of homes destroyed by a wildfire in the town of Slave Lake, Alberta. 17 May 2011. Photograph by: Ed Kaiser, Edmonton Journal] By Scott Haggett and Jeffrey Jones; editing by Rob Wilson...
A man who claims to have had sex with 1,000 cars has defended his "romantic" feelings towards vehicles. Edward Smith, who lives with his current "girlfriend" – a white Volkswagen Beetle named Vanilla, ins...
*( I finally figured out a way to rescue my lost post from last week so sorry for the repeat post in your reader.)* I take my camera everywhere. It is both a good and bad habit of mine. Good because I have...
A super-civilization might build black holes for numerous mega-engineering projects. Interstellar travel and colonization would be a natural spinoff.
The obvious answer is because it doesn’t matter. Those pushing for cuts in Social Security and the other big items on the right’s agenda can get the basic facts about Social Security, the budget and the ...
“Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Authoritarian globalism, not terrorism...
Four white Philadelphia teachers filed federal race-bias lawsuits that accuse a black principal of creating a hostile work environment and suggesting they were unfit to teach black children. The teachers...
*At a New York screening of the new HBO adaptation of Andrew Ross Sorkin’s Too Big to Fail, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said that not only is our financial system not too large to go bust—but we’re...
A Basking Ridge homeowner would really like to know why there’s a crater in her front yard. “To me it looked like something blew out of the ground because the grass was folded back, the rocks and dirt we...
The U.S. Postal Service will begin to default on its financial obligations just over four months from now unless Congress takes action to relieve it of its obligation to pre-fund retiree health care accoun...
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Canada's principal intelligence agency, routinely transmits to U.S. authorities the names and personal details of Canadian citizens who are suspected of, but not...
China has blocked the release of a UN report accusing North Korea of sharing ballistic missile technology with Iran in violation of sanctions. China's UN ambassador said that Beijing was "still studying t...
Matt Taibbi, the Rolling Stone writer who labeled Goldman Sachs a "vampire squid" in one of the defining stories of the financial collapse, has written another article on the Wall Street firm. This one ...
There are certain times in life when a man is faced with overwhelming adversity… times when he has no reason to adhere to society’s norms anymore. It is in these instances that the true quality of his char...
For those who thought the new Stephen Harper, free from the shackles of minority government, would be any different from the old Stephen Harper, think again: *Harper appoints three defeated candidates to...
Bad news for college students: Drinking in excess, defined as roughly five drinks for men and four for women, could affect the ability to learn.
Mayor Bloomberg wants to extend the reach of technology throughout his city to engage, serve and connects New Yorkers.
A provocative new book alleges that the Apostle Paul authored only a fraction of letters attributed to him and the Apostle Peter just wrote nothing.
A key senator has asked the Social Security Administration to investigate how people who live their lives role-playing as “adult babies” are able to get taxpayer-funded disability payments - after one of t...
*Two of Congress' most corrupt members* A few days ago we looked at a quote by President Franklin Roosevelt: “The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a...
Syria, Libya, and beyond, Globalists prepare for second phase. by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand May 18, 2011 - While the "easier" nations of Tunisia and Egypt were picked apart by foreign-funded color...
Have you ever used a computer tutorial that not only told but *showed *(using pictures) exactly what to click and how to do everything? Or seen a giveaway winner announced where they showed the number gene...
BBC news journalism to a very large extent relies on reporting stories that fit an existing left-liberal narrative and ignoring stories which challenge this narrative - the classic example being the enormo...
Just days after a young man died in Australia during a 'planking' prank, a second man is fighting for his life after seriously injuring himself during the internet craze. Simon Hallam, a plasterer from th...
Stargazers around the world are helping scientists to try and detect signals from an advanced civilisation on another planet. In February, Nasa announced that its Kepler space telescope had identified 1,2...
This is the moment a man lunges at police with a two-foot machete - as more than 30 officers try and detain him. The images shows a pot-bellied man in a distinctive floral shirt viciously swinging the hug...
A man has claimed that the Predator obsessed killer who beheaded a grandmother in Tenerife tried to kill him as well. Bulgarian Deyan Deyanov is said to have hit security guard Fermin Suarez Perez, 45, ov...
[image: Link]Hanging precariously outside a seventh-storey window, this is the dramatic moment a bride-to-be was saved from falling to the ground below. The desperate woman had clambered out on to the win...
A teenager who plunged 30ft to his death from a balcony may have been trying to recreate an acrobatic stunt from Britain's Got Talent. Christopher Hughes, 17, tried to perform a handstand on the railing of...
(Image) Ms Elisabeth Tercero visiting the grave of her son, Mr Luis Picado, who died after a kidney operation. Mr Luis Picado's mother remembers the day her son thought he had won the lottery. He came ho...
A convicted child kidnapper has admitted he was responsible for the disappearance of a 20-year-old woman in 1992, police revealed today. Larry DeWayne Hall has confessed he snatched Laurie Depies from the ...
A double murderer shouted out 'I love you' to his daughter seconds before he was executed for a crime he says he can't remember committing. Ohio man Daniel Lee Bedford, 63, confessed to shooting ex-girlfr...
Who needs a solar system? Research shows solitary planets may be more common in the universe.
Ian Thomas Ash and cameraman Colin O'Neill venture inside the Fukushima 30 kilometer radiation exclusion zone to understand the radiation danger facing local children.
One quarter of the Superfund sites in New Mexico are related to mining and near Grants, New Mexico, there are 97 old uranium mining sites that make up two Superfund sites. Together these mines produced mor...
Every time I see this guy on TV I think the same thing. When will somebody find a way to drop a water balloon on this guy's head? I so want to see the real face of Donald Trump.
Before we look at the new Cabinet, the answer to the question on everyone's mind: No, Maxime Bernier *didn't* bring a date to the swearing in. With that out of the way, a look at the new puppets in the St...
Long before European explorers ventured across the Pacific Ocean, some of the most adept sailors ever known to history made their way across the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean to settle on remote Easter...
Long before he joined the Bush team that saddled American seniors with Medicare Part D (and the infamous Donut Hole), Tommy Thompson was a relatively popular mainstream conservative governor of Wisconsin....
We're not to blame for it. It's what we do. It's human nature and it's also one of our greatest weaknesses. Anthropologist Jared Diamond uses the term "landscape amnesia" to describe it. Imagine regula...
Hundreds of firefighters continued to battle dozens of wildfires across Alberta on Wednesday, as evacuees from Slave Lake waited to find out whether their homes survived the fire that destroyed much of the...
In case you haven't noticed, the world is on the verge of a horrific global food crisis. At some point, this crisis will affect you and your family. It may not be today, and it may not be tomorrow, but it ...
I've been asked whether it is safe to eat salmon from Alaska and other West Coast locals. I'm copying below my article on this issue from last month. As journalist Harvey Wasserman noted on a radio progr...
Protests against Spain's economic crisis took a new turn Wednesday as social media networks fueled calls for demonstrators to take to the streets before local elections a few days away. Thousands returne...
Just as the eurozone is being threatened by faltering economies, East Africa is moving closer to its own monetary union. But some are asking if it's ready for a common currency, and in light of Europe's tr...
Over the past several days, quite a few readers have been asking us why we are so confident that QE3 (in some format: it does not and likely will not be in the form of the Large Scale Asset Purchases that ...
Get ready. We are now entering the final stages in the collapse of the U.S. dollar, and it's not going to be pretty. The massive increases in money supplies will tank the value of the dollar and erode the...
An average 30-year old who’s eaten three meals a day since birth has consumed more than 30,000 meals to date. Even if you’ve only eaten half that much you have to admit this: you’ve let some of that brea...
President Bill Clinton once described homes as something Americans "will always know that their country wanted them to have because they were entitled to it as part of the American dream". t's how the 42n...
*May 17, 2011* Two Missouri labor professors have been vindicated after a right-wing smear campaign almost cost them their jobs. Last month, the website BigGovernment.com—run by right-wing blogger Andr...
Blimps that project video and audio feeds from a remote boss are capable of overseeing workers.
posted by David Vance at
Biased BBC - 23 hours ago
I'm posting this on behalf of "The Aged P"...with thanks to him for nailing this one. "Probably much consumption of valium at the Beeb this morning as the ONS reported a 36,000 drop in unemployment, the s...
[image: The dried up banks of the Yangtze River in southwest China are seen earlier this month. Chinese factories are facing curbs on electricity use as coal prices soar and a severe drought hits hydropo...
posted by laura k at
wmtc - 1 day ago
How close it came: WikiLeaks memo suggests Canada offered to aid Iraq invasion. And how it still goes on: WikiLeaks shows CSIS continues to secretly pass names to US watchlist.
*Ryan & Daniels-- as serious as it gets in GOP-land* Beltway pundits are desperately trying to create a serious contender for the GOP. Most have proven their worth by pushing Trump and Newt into the Ameri...
A British tourist called the Islamic prophet Muhammad a terrorist in a heated row with an electronics salesman in a Dubai shopping mall, a court heard yesterday. Andrew Graham, 40, faces spending a year i...
Recent satellite images obtained by Fox News from the aerial imagery company GEOEYE show an expanding nuclear facility at the Khushab facility about 100 miles south of Pakistan's capital city of Islamabad....
In the aftermath of a devastating wildfire that destroyed much of the town of Slave Lake in Canada, an article in the Edmonton Journal invites ridicule by deniers in the comments by making an explicit lin...
(Image) David Norris (L) and Gary Dobson (R) Two men are to face trial for the murder of London teenager Stephen Lawrence 18 years ago. Gary Dobson and David Norris have been charged with killing the 18-...
'OK, Pogge, I'll see you a "Now representing Canada on the world stage" and raise you a "New face of Canadian diplomacy". The man who named his cat "Thatcher" is rumoured to be named today as our new Mi...
Well, has Victoria Derbyshire taken Ken Clarke's scalp following this? I don't recall such a tough approach from her with Labour Minister's during the Golden Years but that said, since I find Clarke a C.I....
posted by laura k at
wmtc - 1 day ago
The second of the three "books on books" on my spring-summer reading list was *Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare*, by James Shapiro. *Contested Will* is not an examination of who wrote Shakespeare's p...
*Click on the chart to enlarge* Looks like that half million dollars Republican Craig Huey spent out of his own pocket may have earned him a spot in the July run-off against front-runner Janice Hahn who w...
Flame retardant chemicals, some of which are probable carcinogens, turned up in car seats, nursing pillows and more.
Snakes have a viscous way of using their venom.
A fall can be fatal for these spiders, but they have a sticky trick to make sure they land safely.
Misuse of growth hormones on the melon farms in China is causing a rupture in goods.
Midweek and time for a new Open Thread as I can see the Monday one is already approaching the 200 mark! Happy with good old Auntie - no? Well, tell me why... Click through to read and contribute comments...
Following his whipping in the recent local Council elections and the heavy loss in the AV poll, Lib-Dem leader Nick Clegg evidently feels that he must be seen to be more hostile to the Coalition in which h...
A couple accused of almost beating their son to death claimed his catalogue of injuries were caused by a 'ghost' in their home. The pair insisted an evil spirit was responsible for the multiple bruises on ...
One of the more colourful attack lines the BBC is running against the Conservatives is that it is out for "revenge" against the good and kindly Police Federation ! The hilarious accusation that this Govern...
Up to 13 prostitutes have been murdered in Long Island and Atlantic City – now police believe two more murders may be connected to the killings, including a mother of three whose dissected body was found i...
A uniformed cop shot himself in the head after arguing with his girlfriend who he thought was about to leave him. Officer Philip Chlanda, 29, left his Tribeca station house at 3 am this morning and drove ...
If this stunning image of the Northern Lights looks too good to be true, then that might be because it is... almost. Photographer Stephane Vetter combined six exposures to capture not only two green auror...
Tunisia has threatened to report Libya to the UN Security Council if it fires on border areas again amid claims rockets were fired by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's forces. Pressure has been piling on *the Li...
One of the biggest questions in science - does 'the God particle' exist? - is likely to be answered by the end of next year, it was claimed yesterday. The Higgs boson, nicknamed the God particle, is theore...
He is the charismatic preacher who claims to be Jesus Christ returned to Earth. She, meanwhile, tells followers she is the repentant prostitute Mary Magdalene, the woman who first saw the risen Messiah st...
Leaked government papers in Copenhagen show officials want to own areas where melting ice is uncovering new shipping routes, fishing grounds and drilling opportunities for oil and gas. The document said D...
Jailed Amanda Knox appeared in court today to face charges of slandering murder squad detectives who led the investigation into the Meredith Kercher killing. Knox, 23, is accused of slandering seven polic...
County health officials have confirmed that fleas collected from a remote area of Doney Park have tested positive for plague. According to information from the county Health Services District, the area i...
Osama Bin Laden has got a replacement - but this man is only a ‘caretaker’ for now. Egyptian veteran militant Saif al-Adel is acting as Al Qaeda's interim operational leader before the expected permanent ...
*1.* On 28 April 2011, *Liberation* conducted an interview with Dominique Strauss-Kahn. («Oui, j'aime les femmes, et alors?» - Libération) Strauss-Kahn told *Liberation* that he had strong evidence that ...
A 13-year-old boy was interrogated at his school by Secret Service agents without his mother's permission after posting a message about Osama Bin Laden on Facebook. Following the Al Qaeda leader's death, ...
Rapists will have their jail terms halved if they admit guilt under a proposal condemned last night as ‘bonkers’. Judges say it could mean a convicted sex attacker serving as little as 15 months in prison...
Dicing with death around fountains of 1,000C glowing lava wouldn't be everyone's idea of the perfect day. But for daredevil photographer Skarphedinn Thrainsson, teetering around theworld's deadliest volca...
An artist's impression of the possible surface temperatures of Gliese 581d. It orbits a red dwarf star called Gliese 581 (right), located around 20 light years from Earth. Cooler temperatures are represent...
In 2008, David Mermin gave an Oppenheimer lecture at UC Berkeley which was called "Spooky Action at a Distance?" (PDF form here). It's a nice presentation why there is no "reality" as imagined by Einst...
The United States launched an ambitious new plan yesterday to stamp the internet with American values such as freedom of expression. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton unveiled the new national strategy on...
A wild camel stands on top of a sand dune in the Simpson Desert, Australia. Ezra Shaw/Getty Images. Photo courtesy: Discovery News Australia boasts the only "wild" camel herds in the world. It started wi...
May 17, 2011 at 19:08:36 *The Amerikan Police State Strides Forward* *by paul craig roberts (about the author)* opednews.com Dominique Strauss-KahnThe International Monetary Fund's director, Dominique...
*CANADIAN POLITICS:* *SOME LATE LATE NIGHT THOUGHTS ON THE RECENT CANADIAN ELECTION:* It's been decades since I voted in any governmental elections (the associations that I belong to don't count). Sti...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] *Tunisia* has threatened to statement *Libya* to the UN Security Council if it fires on boundary areas once more amid claims rockets were fired by *Colonel Gad...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] *IMF* chief Dominique *Strauss-Kahn* was placed under a suicide watch in jail, while weight mounted on him to leave Tuesday and the hotel maid who accused him ...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] The *Senate* blocked a bill Tuesday that would cancel about $2 billion a year in tax breaks for the five major oil companies, a Democratic retort to $4-a-gallo...
Chinese provinces are rationing electricity as soaring coal prices squeeze power generation companies, underlining the challenges facing the world's largest energy consumer as global fuel prices rise. Whi...
*The 1949 film version of Champion was a great vehicle for the young Kirk Douglas. I realize I've never actually seen it, probably because I've had the impression that beyond the use of the basic plot and ...
Rebel forces in the Nafusa Mountains of western Libya were under heavy attack Tuesday by forces loyal to leader Moammar Gadhafi and had issued a call for help, the National Transitional Council said. "Re...
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In the cavernous lobby of the Tokyu Hotel in Tokyo, executives sip US$14 coffees, crisply dressed waiters hover with English-language menus and bilingual reception clerks wait patiently for incoming guests...
Photo by Marlin Harms via Flickr CC via TreeHugger In the United Kingdom, everyone became so used to others complaining about swallows building their mud nests under eaves and along fascia boards that a r...
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AMERICAN EMPIRE - 1 day ago
*THE REAL VALUE OF GOLD* *"Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence."* Robert Anton Wils...
"The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the People vs. the Banks." - Lord Acton "The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a finan...
[image: A wildfire burns through Slave Lake, Alberta, Canada on 17 May 2011. In what's been called the largest-ever mass evacuation in Alberta history, thousands of Slave Lake residents are waiting to le...
Bartonville passed the Fair Share for Clean Air resolution tonight. It was on the Southlake agenda for tonight but I haven't heard anything yet. Last night Flower Mound passed it. DishDallas CountyFlower Mou...
In this photo taken Friday May 13, 2011, a farmer holds up the packaging for chemicals used on watermelons that had burst in Danyang city in eastern China's Jiangsu province. Watermelon fields in eastern C...
European Union and International Monetary Fund officials are in Athens carrying out a review of Greece's finances and reform measures to determine whether the indebted nation merits a critical new slice of...
Six orphan girls aged between 12 and 18 were flogged in Saudi Arabia after being convicted of attacking the head of their orphanage, an official said today. The girls received 10 lashes each under the cou...
By arevamirpal::laprimavera 17 May 2011 From the blog of Professor Bin Mori of Tokyo University Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences: Autoradiograph of Equisetum arvense (Horsetail; young s...
[image: A dead zone the size of the state of New Jersey lies in the Gulf of Mexico near the mouth of the Mississippi River. Here water from the Mississippi, laden with sediments, organic material, nutrie...
May 17 (AP) – Wildfires that blazed through a northern Canadian town forced the evacuation of nearly 7,000 people. The mayor of Slave Lake nearly one-third of the buildings were destroyed after strong w...
*Once upon a time* by Tom Tomorrow [*Don't forget to click to enlarge.*] *by Ken* When Tom Tomorrow signed on with Daily Kos following his long stint with Salon, one of his stated reasons was the opportun...
[image: The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite took this image at 12:35 p.m. local time on May 16, 2011. Similar images of central Canada are available twice ...
*"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" -- Lord Acton * Dees Illustration *Activist Post* For a people to be free, they must first be honest with themselves, their government, and the w...
[image: A shelf cloud passes over one of the driest regions on the African continent: the Namib desert. The shelf cloud is associated with a high-precipitation supercell thunderstorm. In 2010 and 2011, h...
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This disease has killed more than a million hibernating bats in eastern North America alone since 2006.
On Sunday, May 1, 2011, in the late hours, news stations across America carried Barack Hussein Obama's address to the world, announcing that Osama bin Laden had been taken down. Initial reports were sket...
Stop us if this sounds familiar: An antagonistic South American strongman invites one of America's worst enemies to build long-range missiles in his country, sending the region -- and damn near the world -...
Russian authorities arrested a man Tuesday in connection with dismembered body parts that were scattered around Moscow, police said according to reports. The suspect was arrested after police found a stew...
Toyota has warned it could move manufacturing out of Japan because the strength of the yen is damaging the car maker. The yen hit post-war highs against the dollar in March and on Wednesday it was reveal...
A major NewsChannel 5 investigation has uncovered serious questions about Tennessee's war on drugs. Among the questions: are some police agencies more concerned about making money off the drugs, than sto...
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Goodwin Liu was first nominated to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on February 9, 2010. Today he'll finally be voted on... kind of. What will be voted on is a cloture resolution triggered Tuesday evening...
Two Mississippi fishermen have reported hooking manatees in the last week. While both incidents happened in the same area -- around the Katrina Reef near Deer Island, just off the Mississippi coast from O...
A huge fire has engulfed a scrapyard in Newcastle, prompting police to warn nearby residents to close doors and windows. Thick black smoke has been billowing from the site of the blaze in the Byker area...
An aeroplane has skidded off a runway and burst into flames as it took off from an air base injuring three people. The Boeing 707 tanker plane was taking off from Point Mugu Naval Air Station in Southern ...
Osama bin Laden recorded a message praising the Middle East protest movements shortly before his death, predicting the revolutions would spread across the region. The 12-minute message was released as a v...
A health warning has been issued for parts of Lake Rotorua and Lake Rotoiti. The affected areas include the eastern side of Lake Rotorua from Holdens Bay to Ohau Channel and the Okere arm portion of Lake R...
The following inspiring video may anger monarchists, but everything stated is fact. The Windsor gangster family are responsible for most of the evils in the modern world. Their crimes go back through their...
(Image) Sir David Attenborough yesterday said artificially-reconstructed scenes during science shows including Inside The Human Body (pictured) had become a 'big problem' Computer-generated imagery in sci...
A man who allegedly pinned a flight attendant against the wall and tried to open the exit hatch of a plane mid-air was trying to commit suicide, according to prosecutors. The terrifying drama unfolded on ...
A gunman shot dead his business partner and injured his wife because he thought he had been cut out of a lucrative patent deal, it was claimed today. Ilya Iglanov, 48, called at the house of business asso...
A High School principal has been placed on leave after he hypnotised a teenage student who committed suicide the next day. Dr George Kenney was given his orders by school chiefs in Florida as they launche...
A mother has reportedly admitted killing her son after the dead boy’s body was found on a dirt road. Julianne McCrery, of Irving, Texas, allegedly told a female trooper: ‘I killed my son. I want to kill m...
It has been 15 months since the McStay family vanished without a trace. A carton of eggs on the counter, two bowls of popcorn on the futon and two dogs in the backyard were all they left behind, clues that...
This is the dramatic moment a mother swerves towards her daughter and runs her over after a furious row in a supermarket car park. The 19-year-old was hurled to the floor after her mother deliberately aime...
A mother who admitted on national television that she gave her eight-year-old daughter Botox injections may have been lying in a desperate attempt to get publicity. Kerry Campbell caused outrage when she...
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