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Learn moreRelations between Pakistan and the West were under intense strain last night amid widespread incredulity at Islamabad’s claim that it knew nothing of Osama Bin Laden’s whereabouts. Politicians and experts...
President Obama was watching on a TV screen as a commando gunned down Osama Bin Laden. Via a video camera fixed to the helmet of a
U.S. Navy Seal, the leader of the free world saw the terror chief shot in ...
The filmmakers behind the war-on-terror drama "The Hurt Locker" are moving forward with an action thriller about the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal have had t...
*In March 1914 Ty Cobb was only 25, but already a superstar veteran of eight full seasons (the AL MVP in 1911), with 1914 plus 14 more seasons still ahead of him.* *"[Manager Callahan] says And I noticed...
Pakistani security forces allegedly helped Osama bin Laden evade American troops for almost 10 years, according to secret
US government files. American diplomats were told that one of the key reasons why ...
Please note: There are views expressed in the following videos that The Coming Crisis does not necessarily agree with. The videos are presented due to their strange, interesting content and because they ra...
THE NINE LIVES OF OSAMA BIN LADEN! Obama is another bullcrapper for the banksters and a mass murderer , killing and maiming millions for his masters. His latest hit was killing the kids of Gaddafi....
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Newsflash: it's not the NDP's fault that the Liberals suck. A Conservative majority is not something anyone wanted, except people who voted Conservative. Blaming NDP voters for a Conservative majority is ...
Capitalism and full-speed-ahead economic growth, fuck the environment and anyone who's not a well-connected insider, and if you have any dissenting thoughts or ideas about any of this, probably best to kee...
Science continues to alter the shape of religious belief, so how does devotion to a god change in orbit?
A lot of us voted strategically, an "anyone but Harper" vote, thanks to the supposed NDP juggernaut that was going to depose the Furious Leader. Seems Jack's "divide the centre/left" tactic worked really w...
Osama Bin Laden did not die on May 1st, 2011. He died long before that date. But his death is shrouded in mystery, much like his life, and that is by purpose. His handlers in the CIA and the U.S. shadow st...
*Lee Camp's latest "Moment of Clarity" video: "Hedge Funds Make More in an Hour Than You Make in a Half Century"* What level of obscene does this need to reach before we stop respecting and supporting th...
Perhaps eco-catastrophe could have been averted if only we had evolved slightly differently...well I can dream, right? Dreaming may be all we have left, soon. Lately I wonder what good it will do to expo...
A deadly and contagious disease is wiping out amphibians in two continents. Although there is no cure, scientists know how it spread.
* DNA testing confirms Osama bin Laden's death* Published: Monday, May 02, 2011, 11:04 AM The Associated Press The Obama administration used DNA testing and other means to confirm that elite American f...
All the way around the gym at the local high school, out the door and round the corner. Had to wait half an hour to vote. Maybe some of the people there got robo-calls directing them to the wrong place or...
As a huge storm settled over southeastern Missouri on Sunday, the Army Corps of Engineers began the overnight task of filling an 11,000-foot system of buried pipes with an explosive material to blow a two-...
I can't remember an election in which I less wanted to vote. Having endured enough British Columbia elections in which so many of us are left to vote against the greater of two evils, negative voting is a...
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I'm volunteering for my local Liberal candidate for most of the day and will be at the campaign party tonight, so updates might be a bit sporadic - especially since I plan to spend an hour or two at some p...
Pope John Paul II was beatified yesterday before 1.5 million faithful in St. Peter's Square in Rome.
Check out the video below. It is a great message from Alex Jones. We know Bin Laden died many years ago. Pakistan's former President Musharraf is on record saying that Bin Laden most likely died because...
*My last political post before the election cutoff. Here's the sum up the current government's ethics (or lack of them). Basically, reasons not to vote for Harper. Thanks to all who checked out this res...
Have we just witnessed one of the biggest distraction events in recent memory? While America cheers over Osama's "death", another big event was set to unfold today, but will likely not get any notice. How ...
The Obama administration has photographs of Osama bin Laden’s dead body and officials are debating what to do with them and whether they should be released to the public, officials tell ABC News. “There’...
*The doctor is not in.* The United States already faces a growing physician shortage. As our population ages, we require more and more intensive health care. At the same time, enrollment in medical school...
A group of deaf friends were stabbed at a bar in Florida after a woman mistook their sign language for gang signs. Alfred Stewart, 31, was partying at the Ocean's Eleven Lounge in Hallendale Beach, Fla., ...
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China again urged an end to fighting in Libya on Monday, saying it has "always opposed" any action not authorized by the U.N. Security Council, after Libya said Muammar Gaddafi's youngest son and three gra...
Silver prices for July delivery surged $1.058, or 2.2 percent, to $48.599 an ounce. Silver prices have risen 5.5 percent this week and 57.1 percent in 2011. China said its net imports of silver nearly qua...
. By Protect Glen Cove http://www.protectglencove.org/ Members of the Cultural Resource Department of the Shingle Springs Rancheria (Miwok) brought a large truck-load of wood down from El Dorado County and...
Scammers use attractive headlines and doctored photos to lure users to malware-infected websites.
Has deep space deep-frozen the interplanetary vagabond?
Some experts say bin Laden's death strikes a serious blow against terrorist networks, meanwhile families of 9/11 victims feel a mixed sense of relief.
Has deep space deep-frozen the interplanetary vagabond?
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Here we go...
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*This isn't gonna be a soap-Opera* about Ubuntu. Too much is written already about the new User-Interface in its newest release 11.04. "Unity" needs a try, but ever more voices get loud that this *isn't th...
*Letter to don Javier Sicilia from Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos* *“The Indigenous Zapatistas Will March in Silence in the City of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas*” *By Subcomandante Marcos* *Zapat...
.Censored News Cartoon by Joseph Mishawaka Children, make sure you get each and every flower! Remember to be like the British Royalty. They've sucked the juice of every single indigenous person in every ...
- The discovery of an ‘exotic super-Earth’ that is as dense as lead and where a year lasts just 18 hours could be the most significant breakthrough yet in the study of planet evolution and su...
A one-year-old child ended up in hospital for being drunk and a six-year-old was admitted while high on illegal drugs. The cases are among hundreds of children, including babies and toddlers, being treate...
A quadruple murder investigation was underway tonight after a university lecturer, his teacher wife and their two daughters were found stabbed to death in their home. The affluent family were found by pol...
*TOYKO, Japan*, May 2, 2011 (ENS) - Radioactive substances may be leaking from fuel rods at a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, the Fukui prefectural government said Monday, noting a rise in the level of rad...
Lately I've been reading a lot-- much of it following clues in Glen Yeadon's book The Nazi Hydra In America-- about the early financing of Hitler's populist movement and how big industrialists and aristoc...
Osama bin Laden's death has been confirmed by DNA tests that show a "virtually 100%" match with the al Qaeda leader, US officials have revealed. The world's most-wanted man was buried at sea in the early...
By Franks Landing Indian communtiy Photo: Robert Free, Ofelia *Rivas and Sarah James with Huicholes at Cancun Climate Summit 2010.* *Photo by Brenda Norrell* Censored News Greetings, The Frank’s Landin...
Adolf Hitler and Osama Bin Laden were both pronounced dead on May 1st; 66 years apart. But apart from that little coincidence, the two men have little in common. One was a genocidal mass murderer and a war...
Osama bin Laden has reportedly been killed, but his body is gone.
Photo by Long Walker Manny Calapoo: Carl Bad Bear Sampson, Mrs Tom and Manny in Minn. Manny said, "Elder jingle dress dancer, champion beat out girls in there 20s." Thanks to Manny and Carl for sending c...
A tweeter in the Pakistani town where Osama bin Laden was killed, Abbottabad, inadvertently live-tweeted U.S. special forces' attack on bin Laden's compound. Read his tweets, bottom up.
*May 2, 2011 at 11:09:56* Osama bin Laden's Second Death *by paul craig roberts (about the author)* opednews.com If today were April 1 and not May 2, we could dismiss as an April fool's joke this morn...
If you're looking to kill time until the polls close, here's a look back at some of the posts here from the past 36 days. Thanks to the usual suspects for commenting, and thanks to all for reading. Electi...
Assuming the NDP rally translates into the harvest of seats predicted by some, I hope Jack will be smart enough to make peace with the Libs and forge some viable cooperative relationship. When you've got ...
By Duane Craig In what is being called one of the firsts in a long line of legal actions aimed at curtailing the activities of natural gas drillers who use hydraulic fracturing, (fracking), to open avenue...
A single shark can bring in millions of dollars worth of revenue over its lifetime as a tourist draw.
Technical hitches with the youngest of the shuttle fleet have been more complex than originally thought.
View the entire gallery of Al Jazeera images here. A close up: Update: The Coming Crisis has concluded that this photo is indeed not authentic. Thanks to our observant readers and a helpful link from Gre...
What's in a name? Apparently, more than you'd expect.
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A multitude of different inside sources both publicly and privately, including one individual who personally worked with Bin Laden at one time, told us directly that Osama’s dead corpse has been on ice for...
Which is closer to dying: Osama bin Laden or the CIA's effort to catch him? Nothing has characterized the fruitlessness of the hunt for the al-Qaeda leader so much as the recurrent — and mostly inaccurate ...
The environmentally friendly version of polythene might not be so friendly after all. Polyethylene is one of the most widely used materials in the world, and the discarded plastic bag has become one of t...
With gas prices climbing and little relief in sight, President Barack Obama is scrambling to get ahead of the latest potential obstacle to his re-election bid, even as Republicans are making plans to explo...
*- by Noah* - An Obama Death Panel You Can Believe In - Deafening “Oh, SHIT” Heard Coming From RNC Headquarters - Frantic Beck Searches For Conspiracy Connections, Scenario - Trump Hair Stands On End -...
The mastermind of the 9/11 attacks warned that al-Qaeda has hidden a nuclear bomb in Europe which will unleash a "nuclear hellstorm" if Osama bin Laden is captured, leaked files revealed. The terror group...
The circumstances surrounding Osama bin Laden's reported death raise urgent questions over how the US is so sure it got its man. US personnel have so far said they identified him by facial recognition, but...
The U.S. special forces team that hunted down Osama bin Laden was under orders to kill the al Qaeda mastermind, not capture him, a U.S. national security official told Reuters. "This was a kill operatio...
U.S. intelligence and law enforcement authorities today stepped up patrols near mosques and recalled an elite U.S. marine unit that handles chemical and biological weapons attacks in preparation for the po...
*Usama bin Laden has died a peaceful death due to an untreated lung complication, the Pakistan Observer reported, citing a Taliban leader who allegedly attended the funeral of the Al Qaeda leader.* "The ...
The operation that led to the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden took shape after detainees identified a trusted bin Laden courier as someone who may have been living with and protecting the mili...
Some of Britain's most cherished spring visitors are disappearing in their thousands. Ornithologists say species such as the cuckoo, nightingale and turtle dove are undergoing catastrophic drops in numbers...
One of the most feared spiders in North America is the subject a new study that aims to predict its distribution and how that distribution may be affected by climate changes. When provoked, the spider, co...
Termites are probably more renowned for tearing down infrastructure than building their own, but the bastards that actually take up residence in * your* house are really just the lazy ones. In the wild, ter...
POLITICS - Osama Bin Laden was killed last night by a helicopter raid in Pakistan. The raid on Osama Bin Laden's fortress in western Pakistan was a daring attack vs the equivalent of 3 army regiments. Pres...
A round-up of what *might*, but probably won't, happen tonight: *POLLS* Leger: CPC 36%, NDP 31%, Lib 21%, BQ 7%, Green 4% Angus Reid: CPC 37%, NDP 33%, Lib 19%, BQ 6%, Green 4% Ipsos: CPC 38%, NDP 33%, L...
Reagan Budget Director Slams Paul Ryan Plan, Says 'Absolutely' Raise Taxes Instead As Washington considers ways to rein in the deficit, Republicans have obstinately demanded that any tax revenue incr...
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I voted NDP. Yes, after all my talk of strategic voting, I did not vote strategically. Here's why. 1. Projections for our riding looked pretty good: Conservatives in the mid-30% range, Liberals in the ...
More reports of armed gangs, snipers, and dead Syrian security forces. by Tony Cartalucci The "peaceful," "unarmed" protesters have managed to kill over 80 Syrian security force members. The Syrian governm...
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Have Your Say, 2001: Can state assassinations be justified? US President George Bush has told the CIA to find and destroy Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda terrorist network. The president has given the a...
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Is the price of gasoline taking a toll on your wallet? Make your drive greener and more fuel efficient with the help of lasers.
On May 1, 2011, President Obama announced to the United States that Osama bin Laden had been killed. This is the full text of that speech.
Terrorist leader's body buried at sea; Americans rejoice: "DNA testing underway after the mastermind of 9/11was killed by U.S. forces in Pakistan. 'I never thought this day would come,' says a reveler. FULL ...
For Immediate Release: May 2, 2011Contacts:Sharon Wilson, Gulf Region Organizer: 469 293-1338Gwen Lachelt, OGAP Director: 970 344-4080Leading oil and gas reform organization expands presence in Gulf RegionDu...
That's the title of the very first example of Gonzo Journalism, by Hunter S. Thompson, and also marked the beginning of his famous collaboration with the artist Ralph Steadman. Back in his hometown to wri...
My friend at Off the Kuff pointed out this burning irony last night.May 1, 2003: President George W. Bush landed in a jet on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln off the California coast and, in a speech...
*She may be (tangentially) better than Blunt or Talent but McCaskill is no Benton* Thomas Hart Benton was Missouri's first senator, a Democrat who renounced slavery when his party and the powers in his ow...
The dire implications of this latest surreal ploy. Analysis by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand May 2, 2011 - It has already been illustrated that the corporate-financier oligarchs have committed themsel...
by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy Jung's influence has been keenly felt among screenwriters, novelists, and 'literati' who often speak of a "character's shadow", one of several "archetypes", a mirror...
The Globe half heartedly endorses Harper, Coyne half heartedly endorses the Liberals, and the Economist calls Harper "the least bad option". Even the Sun throws a dozen caveats at their endorsement of Harp...
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Reportedly this is Osama bin Laden with Zbigniew Brzezinski (* See note about the photo) *1.* *Osama bin Laden and the Jewish Mafia * The newspaper Scotland on Sunday reported 16/9/ 2001 that Osama bin ...
Geologists have wondered about the high plateau ever since early explorers stood on the edge of the Grand Canyon.
On Twitter, the number of "tweets" topped 4,000 per second after President Obama announced the killing of Al-Qaeda leader.
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] *Egyptian*-born doctor and medical doctor *Ayman al-Zawahri* is *al Qaeda's*second-in-command probable to do well Osama bin Laden subsequent his killing in a fi...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] Joyous at the let go of a decade's aggravation, *Americans *streamed to the site of the World Trade Center, the gates of the *White House* and smaller but no l...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] *Osama bin Laden*, the face of global terrorism and draftsman of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, was killed in a firefight with elite American forces Monday, then...
In January, Andy Strominger and friends posted a very interesting paper Geometry for every solution of Navier-Stokes (TRF) Today, Andy Strominger and Vyacheslav Lysov offer their extraordinary concis...
Most people might think that lighters are the modern way to light a fire. The truth is, lighters were invented before matches. The first lighters were used in the sixteenth centure and the flame was prod...
Globalists cartoonishly pull rabbit from hat in desperate act of misdirection. by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand May 2, 2011 - We were knowingly told verified lies to invade and occupy Iraq. We were l...
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Biased BBC - 21 hours ago
And so we wake up this morning to news that Osama bin Laden is dead. Countless trees will die as newspapers bring us details and analysis but the BBCs instant reaction has been interesting - especially as ...
President Obama heralded *Osama bin Laden's* death as a major milestone in the war against al Qaeda, and "justice" for family of the nearly 3,000 victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.Obama said the operation ca...
*Osama bin Laden at Oxford (on the right)* In 1931, Osama bin Laden's father, Mohammed, set up the the BinLaden Group. The group deals in publishing, banking, construction, property and transport and is ...
A street scene in Zabid, Yemen. Photo: Franco Pecchio / Creative Commons via TreeHugger. Approximately, one year ago, I blogged about the water crisis in the nation of Yemen resulting in water riots with ...
Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is dead, said President Barack Obama in a televised address nearly 10 years after the September 11 attacks.
On Sunday, May 1, 2011, another chapter was written in Washington's historic comedy play. The death of Osama Bin Laden was officially announced by President Barack Obama on television as cheering crowds g...
Syrian tanks have fired into the old quarter of Daraa for the first time as more reinforcements rolled into the under siege city. Daraa has been without water, fuel or electricity since Monday when govern...
I'll follow up tomorrow with a round-up of all the final polls and projections but for now, here's the running average. For those just tuning in, I assign weights to all polls based on sample size, the po...
I learned about the news because 1/3 of the TRF traffic this morning was directed to articles about Osama bin Laden. *Although many Obama's voters would prefer if this were how Osama should be treated, ...
Osama Bin Laden has been killed by the U.S. military after a decade-long hunt to avenge the 9/11 attacks. The leader of Al Qaeda was killed by a bomb along with some members of his family in a strike on ...
Brutal dictator Robert Mugabe sidestepped a European travel ban to attend the beatification of the late Pope John Paul II at the Vatican yesterday. The Zimbabwean president was able to join the crowd of 1....
Osama Bin Laden has been killed by the U.S. military after a decade-long hunt to avenge the 9/11 attacks. The leader of Al Qaeda was killed by a bomb along with some members of his family in a strike on ...
The most prominent face of terror in America and beyond, Osama Bin Laden, has been killed in Pakistan, U.S. officials said Sunday night. Bin Laden was the leader of al Qaeda, the terrorist network behind ...
With the Republican Party now dedicated to making their corporate donors' dreams come true by defunding and gutting the EPA, the American Lung Association just released an annual report showing that almos...
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Hedge funds increased their bets against the dollar to a massive $28.6bn (£17.1bn) in advance of Ben Bernanke's historic first press conference as chairman of the Federal Reserve last week. The sum held ...
Three important things you need to know before watching this video: Thing #1: It is, in the end, nothing more than a giant infomercial. Thing #2: It's being posted because the first two thirds (the last ...
Imagine a government that doesn't operate for the benefit of a handful of CEOs and international investors. A government that cultivates the best in its citizens, that represents everything good and decen...
*EKOS* poll of 2,690 Canadians April 29-May1. Regionals at link. *Seat Projections * 1) CPC 130 to 146 seats 2) NDP 103 to 123 seats 3) LPC 36 to 46 seats 4) BQ 10-20 seats 5) GP 1 seat .
Osama bin Laden is dead, sources told CNN Sunday night. A senior U.S. official tells CNN that Osama bin Laden was killed by the U.S. forces in a mansion outside the Pakistani capital of Islamabad along wi...
I've already profiled close races in BC, Alberta, the Prairies, Atlantic Canada, and Quebec. I finish off tonight in Ontario. While Quebec will decide who moves into Stornoway, Ontario will decide whether...
*"[T]here is only one person in the world who writes letters of that length. She is a sister-in-law of mine living in Indianapolis, and when she sits down to write a letter, she holds nothing back. But sh...
Shai Agassi, the founder of Better Place, the most sophisticated electric-car enterprise in the world, projects the ebullient confidence of a man facing a giant wave of money. "Within less than this decade...
Donald Trump is very proud of himself for forcing President Obama to release his birth certificate, ending the debate over whether he was legally fit to lead the country. But not everything the Donald has ...
Like a lot of other college seniors, Alexandra Leumer got her introduction to the heady and hazardous world of law school scholarships in the form of a letter bearing very good news. The Golden Gate Univer...
(It was concluded that it would be safer to simply allow a flock of sparrows to land the plane instead of FAA employees... jk.) The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday replaced three high-level mana...
Glenn Robins is grossed out. As a frequent traveler, he assumed the sheets on hotel beds are changed between guests. But a new TV ad by the Hampton Inn chain calls that assumption into question. It shows ...
PREPARE YOURSELF. THE TIME OF COMPLACENCY IS OVER. THE TIME TO ACT IS NOW. These methods were compiled by Dr. Gene Sharp and first published in his 1973 book, The Politics of Nonviolent Action, Vol. 2: The...
Monday, 18 April 2011, 12:22 pm Column: Kourosh Ziabari Breathing a word of truth about 9/11 will kill your career: Kevin Barrett Interview by Kourosh Ziabari Kevin Barrett is a renowned American journalis...
Please Manipulate, Exploit, Oppress and Enslave Me. Or; Ignorance Is Bliss. A Tea Party wish list. Be careful what you wish for. They do want lots of good jobs for working Americans. (Who doesn't? Oh yeah!...
Why America is really so concerned about the push for democracy in the Middle East. A Brief Refresher Course in History. America is the spawn of empire building and from the start has itself engaged heavil...
Psychopathology, Parasitism And Totalitarianism. Whilst doing research online I sometimes come across some really fascinating, albeit unrelated, information. One small joy of life in a world that becomes g...
The Reality of Environmental Destruction; Nature Doesn't Care What You Believe. A Simple, Fun Project You Can Try At Home! For those of you who believe that global environmental issues are something you ne...
Correspondence With The Empire; an attempt to make a difference. Without monetary reform we cannot go forward and we cannot address any of the crucial issues facing us. Most importantly, without such refor...
The decision is in the hands of a federal judge who heard arguments over a plan to intentionally break a Mississippi River levee. Judge Stephen Limbaugh Jr. heard arguments from attorneys for Missouri an...
Army chiefs from Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Algeria are on alert as the crisis in nearby Libya deteriorates, placing the entire region at risk, a military source said Saturday. Speaking after a meeting F...
Shattered glass litters the carpet at the Libyan Down's Syndrome Society, and dust covers pictures of grinning children that adorn the hallway, thrown into darkness by a NATO strike early on Saturday. It...
A top Iranian military officer on Saturday denounced what he called an "Arab dictatorial front" and claimed that the "Persian Gulf has belonged to Iranfor ever", media reports said. "The Arab dictatorial ...
An investigation into the conditions of Chinese workers has revealed the shocking human cost of producing the must-have Apple iPhones and iPads that are now ubiquitous in the west. The research, carried o...
A new illustrated map presented by the pro-Israel Americans for a Safe Israel ASFI shows that a Hamas-Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority state with or withut all the borders the PA demands would leave ...
Friday I went to a press screening for Lu Chuan's 2008 film, *City of Life And Death*, which is opening in NYC (May 11th) and L.A. (June 17th) after years of delay, and starkly depicts a snapshot, albeit ...
William Engdahl on 'uncreative destruction' in Arab world. Geopolitical researcher William Engdahl expertly guides viewers through the recent unrest throughout the Middle East and North Africa, with th...
This article is about Jewish terrorism in Israel. Use the Search function for articles about Jewish terrorism in the USA and elsewhere. TerminologyAs in case with other terminologies such as Christian terror...
*WHO IS THIS WOMAN? * *1997* She became speechwriter and adviser to US Treasury Secretary, Lawrence H Summers. She became principal editor of the UN's 2002 Human Development Report. *2002* She joined the...
On April 27, 2011, the United States Court of Appeals For The Second Circuit decided to affirm the judgment made by Judge Denny Chin of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New Yor...
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I've already profiled close races in BC, Alberta, the Prairies, and Atlantic Canada. Now, a look at Quebec. At the start of the campaign, the pundits confidently predicted there would be no surprises in Q...
First, I was banned from Real Climate: And then later, snipped from Open Mind:
With commercials, whatever you do, don't try to stop the video or you will have to watch the commercial again...G: Friends Without Benefits Wonder why the IAFF is moving FirePAC? IAFF Freezes Federal...
[image: Usman Chamdia's and his four children have malaria symptoms. So far, three tests have come back positive. By the end of the morning, tests will determine that all five family members are infected...
[image: Left to their fate: A cat has survived the earthquake and tsunami only to face slow starvation and death, abandoned by its owners as they fled the threat of Fukushima. Getty Images / dailymail.co...
*"Brotherhood of Man" from the 1967 film version of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, with Robert Morse as J. Pierrepont Finch, Sammy Smith as World Wide Widget Corp. chairman Wally Womper...
Looters are hampering attempts by ordinary residents to get their lives back on track in the tornado-ravaged city state of Alabama Police imposed an 8pm curfew in the areas affected and military police beg...
Residents in the tornado-ravaged South are to be 'kicked while they are down' by another severe storm that could derail the recovery efforts and claim more lives. A cold front moving East from Texas will ...
The UN is withdrawing all its international staff from the Libyan capital Tripoli following a mob attack on its offices, the BBC understands. UN buildings and some foreign missions were targeted by angry ...
The rally in silver to a 31-year high in New York shows no sign of ending because tight supply and robust demand will send the metal to a record, according to Coeur d’Alene Mines Corp. (CDE), the largest U...
Kimberly and Rick Ellis were having lunch at Meigs Park Thursday when the Shalimar couple looked out and saw what appeared to be a bag of garbage floating in the bay. Rick got out his binoculars and aime...
Just how .......d are the world's oceans? I've put the dots in that sentence so you can insert the word of your choice. According to a high-level seminar of experts in Oxford earlier this week, there's ...
[image: Michio Ishikawa of the Japan Nuclear Technology Institute points to a diagram of the Fukushima I Nuke Plant, as he appeared on Asahi TV on April 29. ex-skf.blogspot.com] By arevamirpal::laprimav...
Civil War in Tennessee: Right Wing in Dispute Over Sharia Ban: " That Sharia is pretty scary stuff, when it's written in creepy blood fontThe right wing loons supporting the anti-Sharia bill probably view...
Pamela Geller Fights On For Detroit Anti-Islam Bus Advertisements: "Geller is hanging on by the very last threads and by doing this, she is hoping to remain relevant.Pamela Geller Fights On For Detroit Anti-...
Bijendra Kumar Beheads his Girlfriend, What if he were Muslim?: "Remember the Muslim man who behead his wife? It was all over the news and Islamophobes made big hay out of it. Turning a tragic case of domest...
After NYT Article, John Tanton’s Name Disappears From FAIR Board of Directors: " John Tanton’s name disappeared from the Federation for American Reform’s (FAIR) list of its board of directors in the days fol...
Superman is giving up his American citizenship in the latest issue of the comic book series. The 900th issue by DC comics has the superhero in Tehran standing in support of protesters demonstrating again...
Artillery units loyal to Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi pounded rebel positions in Benghazi and Misrata on Sunday after his government announced that one of his sons and three grandchildren had died in a...
One sure upshot of the quantitative easing money flooding the stock market will be further distortions, chaos and unpredictability that make the value-investing proposition difficult, if not impossible, ac...
Hi folks and especially you newbies, I posted this list of quotes several months ago, but a lot of the new people haven't seen this yet, so I'll do it again. Just by reading through these quotes, you will...
In the Arctic Ocean and adjacent polar seas, the area covered by sea ice grows and shrinks over the course of the year. Sea ice reaches its largest extent at the end of winter (late February to early March...
CARBON dioxide has pillaged the Great Barrier Reef of a compound that corals and many sea creatures need to grow. The finding, from the first survey of ocean acidification around one of the world's greates...
Corn was thought to be more resistant to rising temperatures than other crops. But results from crop trials in Africa suggest that climate change could hurt corn (*Zea mays*) production. Warmer temperatur...
Outside Palm Desert, a young bobcat dies mysteriously at a nature preserve. South of Nevada City, a farmer finds an owl dead near his decoy shed. In San Rafael, a red-shouldered hawk bleeds heavily from it...
Libya's ambassador to the UK is being expelled after the British embassy in Tripoli was attacked by a mob. Foreign Secretary William Hague said Omar Jelban was "persona non grata" and had been given 24 h...
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As usual on Thursday we'll be bringing you the Question Time LiveChat session. But as it's also Local Election results night we're going to extend the chat to cover that as well. So we'll start at 10:30p...
In an interview just days before the election, Stephen Harper says: "I cannot go around the country telling people I'm the best guy to have a beer with. That's the other guy." *Which leads one to wonder ...
The Worst is Yet to Come by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand May 1, 2011 - In a one hour April 26, 2011 talk before the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Secretary of the Treasury (and CFR member) Tim...
Saturday night the focus of the annual White House Correspondents Dinner (roast) was Donald Trump and that thing he wears on his head as a kind of toupee. I don't think there was a mention-- other than p...
I've already profiled close races in BC, Alberta, and the Prairies. Today, a look at some of the ridings in Atlantic Canada to watch on election night. With small poll sample sizes in the Atlantic Province...
Concern is mounting for tens of thousands of Syrians trapped in a military siege imposed on their towns as party of bloody crackdown on protests. Troops and tanks remain the town of Deraa in the south and...
1ST May - be still my beating heart. Yes, it's International Worker's Day and I am sure our comrades in the BBC are celebrating. Want to share in their celebrations? Share it HERE... Click through to rea...
Wanted to share this with you; "BBC has its ideal guests on this morning's Saturday Live in the form of 1, Mark Thomas. http://www.markthomasinfo.com/ Introduced as an 'activist' who jettisoned C...
This brought to my attention; "The BBC excelled here on the Today programme this morning bringing in a commentator that they must know is a Hamas and Hizbollah apologist and champion of the Islamist caus...
Rejoice - immigration is driving our economic growth. Or so it is alleged inthis reporton the ever reliable BBC. "Immigrants from eastern Europe have added almost £5bn to Britain's economy since 2004, acco...
* Annabel Goldsmith, Zac Goldsmith, Jemima Khan (nee Goldsmith). Zac and Jemima have a brother Ben who is married to Kate Rothschild. *"*Jacob Rothschild's hospitality to Camilla is legendary. * "He gives...
Strident eco-camapigner Sarah Mukherjee may have left the BBC, but Richard Black is carrying on her propaganda work, even over the holiday weekend. Here's his latest offering - a largely uncritical re-cycl...
Ghoulish Hunt for Qaddafi Defines NATO by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand May 1, 2011 - The very policy of targeted assassinations sidesteps any semblance of law, national or international. By extra-jud...
14 people were working in the containment area of a nuclear power plant in northeast Spain this week when water used to cool a reactor was unexpectedly released. El Pais newspaper reported Saturday that t...
The environmental protection activists in the Republic of Tatarstan have reported mysterious cattle death cases in Spasskiy district since last summer [2010]. The cause of these deaths remains unknown; h...
He is the boy who got sucked up into a tornado – and lived to tell the tale. Eight-year-old Reginald Epps Jr was picked up off his feet and pulled into the swirling darkness when one of the Alabama twister...
Eric Pickles last night accused the European Union of trying to ‘wipe England off the map’ by developing a new cross-Channel region, complete with its own ‘flag’. The Cabinet Minister condemned the EU fo...
*Russell Targ* Russell Targ is controversial. According to Targ: "Heaven and Hell are available for the asking, but no experience can take place in our lives except in our consciousness... "A master t...
This April was the warmest in central England since records began more than 350 years ago. The scorching month was the fourth sunniest in the UK in the past 100 years and the sixth driest. The hottest sp...
The story of the Syrian uprising is being told in short sentences. The regime has driven out foreign journalists, tortures people found with satellite phones and shoots those filming protests on mobile pho...
More than a month after a British cruise-line worker disappeared at sea, renewed activity on her bank account has given her family hope that she may still be alive. Rebecca Coriam vanished from the Disne...
South Korea will stage live-fire artillery exercises in the coming week on two frontline islands including one hit by a deadly North Korean shelling last November, a news report said Saturday. A defense m...
*Get past the cinematic razmataz and you get to the "Fugue for Tinhorns" from the film version of Guys and Dolls, with Stubby Kaye and Johnny Silver, who originated the roles of Nicely-Nicely Johnson and ...
The Environment Ministry said Saturday it expects that it will take three years for the three prefectures in the Tohoku region worst hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami to finish removing the massiv...
The threat of a cut to Japan's credit rating adds pressure on Prime Minister Naoto Kan to raise taxes as he wrestles with financing quake rebuilding without adding to the world's biggest public debt burden...
Police in Thailand say twin bomb attacks have killed two paramilitary soldiers and wounded nine others in the country's south. Kritsanapong Paetsit, a police spokesperson, said on Saturday that a group o...
South Korea will stage live-fire artillery exercises in the coming week on two frontline islands including one hit by a deadly North Korean shelling last November, a news report said Saturday. A defense m...
When I heard about Jack Layton getting smeared about getting an innocent massage at a Toronto rub'n tug nearly twenty years ago, I thought it was just that - a smear. I didn't know it was true until Jack'...
Well, everyone I've known has had a complaint here and there.But I haven't seen a site quite like Employvent for letting the whole world feel your pain. That is all.
One of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's sons -- Saif al-Arab Gadhafi -- was killed after a NATO airstrike, a spokesman for Libya's government said Sunday at a press conference. Moammar Gadhafi and his wif...
* Once we get the underwear right, everything in Afghanistan should fall into place. * Passed along without further comment (well, almost), from our pal Al Kamen in the *Washington Post*. -- *Ken* *Ballis...
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, ...
The Internet hackers group Anonymous plans to hack Iran on Sunday, according to a press release published on their website. The group wants to use International Workers' Day, which commemorates the first n...
The Mississippi River, its tributaries swollen by snowmelt and stormwater, is rising toward a flood level that could equal or exceed anything in its recorded history. The threat to Cairo, Illinois — just b...
(Picture is for illustrative purposes only) Two Florida witnesses report a “Frisbee-like” UFO the size of a football field came into view and hovered for 20 to 30 seconds before moving away at 2:27 p.m. o...
A Bucks County woman has been charged with child endangerment after police said her three children were left alone and filthy inside their squalid home. Chelsea Champey, 21, of Bristol, remained in the B...
Demand and supply certainly matter. But there's another reason why food across the world has become so expensive: Wall Street greed. It took the brilliant minds of Goldman Sachs to realize the simple truth...
There's a sad story making the rounds which should be Front Page News in this great land of ours, but it has received scant attention. *USA Today*reports that Americans depend more on government aid than e...
Colorado moved a step closer to repealing the unenforced crime of adultery Friday with a Senate vote, after arguments that the crime is outdated and never enforced. The bill also repeals the related crim...
*YOU may have heard of house calls, but this is ridiculous. * After months of enduring a leaking pipe that buckled its floors and sagged its ceilings, an empty Massachusetts house somehow called police fo...
Meet Sharlotte. Like a lot of grandmothers, she likes to keep busy. But while some grannies sit and knit scarves and afghans, this 91-year-old has a decidedly different hobby. She makes suicide masks. ...
Chevron and Total became the latest big oil companies to post sharp increases in profits as crude prices surged and refining margins improved along with global fuel demand. The price of oil has risen com...
In an otherwise quiet article on central banks today, Bloomberg quoted an analyst who says China may use a third of their $3 trillion in foreign reserves to purchase gold. China has been moving away from...
We believe there will be something similar to a QE3 by another name and the Fed will probably have to create some $2.5 trillion to buy Treasuries, Agencies, and toxic waste and perhaps inject funds into th...
Obama's corporatist trade policies are barely distinguishable from the cruel and failed trade policies rammed down America's throat by Reagan, the two Bush catastrophes, and Clinton. Perot had the giant s...
My final projections will be posted tomorrow, but we've already got the final numbers from Leger, Ipsos, and Angus. Here's the running average: *CPC*: 36.5% (+0.4) *NDP*: 30.4% (+2.7) *Lib*: 20.8% (-1.9) *...
The Liberals release their final two ads of the election - one targeting the Tories, one targeting the NDP. How would you rate this ad? A B C D FSee Results How would you rate this poll? A B C D FSee...
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Some months back, I learned I have something in common with Keith Richards: Keith wanted to be a librarian. Recently I've learned I have something in common with Superman, although the Man of Steel has gon...
If you think this all ends on May 2nd, think again: *Harper mum on post-election governing scenario* Stephen Harper is refusing to say whether he would accept a decision by the Governor General to hand po...
I'm wrestling with how to vote on Monday and I probably will be even as I take pencil in hand in the booth. It's unfortunate they don't have a specific "none of the above" option because that's the way I...
For years there has been speculation that Nazi Germany had experimented with advanced alien technology and built flying machines; such as the Haunebu and the Die Glocke (The Bell); and rumors that some of ...
Astonishing new footage has been released of Japan’s tsunami showing no mercy as it washes away cars, aeroplanes and anything else in its path. The coastguard released the video of the devastating March 11...
The White House has been accused of lying in a sensational row with a newspaper over a banned journalist. The San Francisco Chronicle has dug its heels in over the row, calling the Obama administration ou...
His menacing prowl is enough to send shivers down anyone's spine - and with good reason. This big cat is believed to be behind a string of 18 attacks on sheep savaging their throats and leaving their bloo...
[image: Toshiso Kosako, Tokyo University professor and a senior nuclear adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, announces his resignation to Kan at a press conference in Tokyo, April 29, 2011. Phot...
[image: Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant outside of a wrecked reactor building. TEPCO / japannewstoday.com] [Keep in mind that 250 millisieverts/year is the maximum radiation dose allowed ...
For the first time, scientists have shown that exposure to a compound in crude oil is associated with congenital heart disease.
As you've been reading all week, and as you can see in the compilation clip above, not all that well. And yesterday another teabaggy freshman, Rick Crawford of Arkansas, became just the latest to feel th...
Let’s Call the ‘Birthers’ What They Are: " Perhaps the time has come to state the obvious. The people who have been selling claims that President Obama is not American — the Donald Trumps, the Orly Taitzes,...
The Day After: ‘Birthers’ Regroup With Crazed Claims of Fraud: " The foaming-at-the-mouth “birthers” are hardly the type to lay down their rhetorical arms and admit defeat even when forced to see the very do...
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*PREPARE YOURSELF. THE TIME OF COMPLACENCY IS OVER. * *THE TIME TO ACT IS NOW.* These methods were compiled by Dr. Gene Sharp and first published in his 1973 book, The Politics of Nonviolent Action, Vol. ...
We at the Coming Crisis only post two things: facts, and questions that need answering. Our readers know this, and it's something we'd never give up on for any reason. When it comes to a touchy subject li...
As emergency responders continued to tally the dead on Saturday, surviving family members and friends prepared to bury loved ones who perished in what has become the second deadliest single-day tornado out...
One person is dead and at least 10 have been hospitalized in an outbreak of salmonella poisonings linked to clinical and teaching microbiology laboratories across the nation, government health officials re...
*It's 8:30 a.m.* in Silicon Valley, and Neal Gorenflo is already busy sharing. Inside his Mountain View town house, just a few short blocks from the Caltrain station where commuters pour out each morning o...
Thirty-seven hospitals in the state of Missouri had claimed cigarette companies delivered an "unreasonably dangerous" product. They sought more than $455m (£272m) reimbursement for treating uninsured smo...
The Taliban said Saturday it is launching a new offensive against foreign troops and Afghan security forces and will focus on military bases and convoys. The Taliban statement, declaring its spring milit...
A few dozen tanks fired shells and a curfew was imposed Saturday in the restive Syrian city of Daraa, the site of ongoing clashes between security forces and protesters, eyewitnesses told CNN. The assa...
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi on Saturday urged NATO to negotiate an end to airstrikes, accusing the international coalition of killing civilians and destroying the nation's infrastructure in a bid to ta...
Arctic coastlines are crumbling away and retreating at the rate of two metres or more a year due to the effects of climate change. In some locations, up to 30 metres of the shore has been vanishing every y...
Using 120 years of feathers from natural history museums in the United States, Harvard University researchers have been able to track increases in the neurotoxin methylmercury in the black-footed albatross...
A new study suggests that more than 40 fish species in the Mediterranean could vanish in the next few years. The study released Tuesday by the International Union for Conservation of Nature says almost h...
A worldwide growth in the price of gold has accelerated the pace of deforestation in some of the most pristine parts of the Peruvian Amazon, where miners are cutting down trees in order to extract the valu...
A digital "lost and found" site is helping people reconnect with important photos and documents scattered by the tornadoes.
It is Obama who is using the race card and he should be called out on it.... *April 30 - May 1, 2011 -- Commentary: Obama and race baiting* Many Americans would agree that racism has no place in Americ...
A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck southern Panama early Saturday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake hit 384 kilometers (238 miles) southwest of the capital, Panama City. There were no ...
I wish somebody else had written this because it’s about the usual, and believe me, I don’t want to be repetitive. But needs must. Anyone who heard R4’s Saturday Live this morning will know what I mean. Th...
It's time to think far outside of the box regarding our preconceptions of how to find extraterrestrial civilizations.
Word is, you're supposed to be a respected journalist. OK then. Hypothetical question for you. If you encountered an anonymous former sex-trade worker who told you that 20 years ago, @brianlilley and Sam ...
At least I think that's the appropriate analogy. As I understand it, it's one of the gentler martial arts, based on redirecting your opponent's attack and turning the energy back upon him, rather than meet...
There is no doubt that Texans are taking a beating in the legislature this year. Here is another case where our right to enjoy our property is under attack.
*Princess Diana with Jemima Goldsmith and her close friend Lady Annabel Goldsmith. Photograph: John Giles/PA* What do the following have in common? *1.* Tony Blair (prime minister at the time of the dea...
When I was a child I hated the treacley bitter-sweet taste of Coffee-Time in my milk. But it's the closest I ever came to drinking a cup of coffee. Nope-- never had one. But lately we've been revisiting t...
Her support among *Republicans* has shrunk. She's kept an unusually low profile. And there's no evidence that she's anywhere close to announcing whether she will run for president. But it's clear she stil...
Fortune dictated I was sadly exposed to about a minute of that evil, wicked ceremony on TV yesterday. (Thankfully though, spiritual docs say it was not a fatal dose and I will make a full recovery...) Any...
Steven Miller has sent me a cute 41-minute video: Richard Feynman, in the BBC Horizon 1964 program called "Strangeness Minus Three", discusses the coming revolution in the understanding of nuclear phy...
And the greater World War. by Tony Cartalucci We are presented with what we are told are isolated crises. In reality, from Desert Storm to the Eastern European color revolutions, to the "War on Terror" to t...
* People of Marrrakech* A website has accused friends of Morroco's King Mohammed VI of being behind the bombing in Marrakech. The website Hibapress accuses Mounir Majidi, the king's secretary, and WFP (A...
The planet is going to die. The only thing that the global warming cultists are uncertain about is what kind of death it will choose. *The Capitol of a state filled with climate change deniers is being t...
QUITO, Ecuador — Ecuador's Tungurahua volcano hurled truck-sized pyroclastic boulders more than a mile Friday in a powerful eruption that prompted at least 300 people to flee their homes, authorities said....
Nasa engineers were set to work through the weekend to try to resolve a technical hitch that led to Endeavour’s final space voyage being dramatically called off with three and a half hours to spare. Shutt...
An unexpectedly bright asteroid that sported short-lived plumes had collided with a smaller body, scientists have said. The aftermath of the impact on Scheila was first spotted by the University of Arrizo...
There could be no mistaking the voice as it crackled over the airwaves. ‘The time is now,’ it said, exhorting its followers to stand firm. ‘Arm your women and your children against the infidel!’ The CIA o...
As residents across the South pick themselves up after the worst system of tornadoes for 40 years, amazing stories of survival and bravery are emerging. And images from Tuscaloosa in Alabama – one of the ...
Violent protesters have clashed with riot police outside a controversial branch of Tesco for the second time in a week. A ‘good natured’ demonstration developed into angry scenes as bottles and stones we...
In a detailed letter Amazon finally explained today why its much vaunted EC2 cloud computer network crashed last week. The grovelling explanation - described by one customer as being like a 'Catholic pena...
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Relations between Pakistan and the West were under intense strain last night amid widespread incredulity at Islamabad’s claim that it knew nothing of Osama Bin Laden’s whereabouts. Politicians and experts...
President Obama was watching on a TV screen as a commando gunned down Osama Bin Laden. Via a video camera fixed to the helmet of a U.S. Navy Seal, the leader of the free world saw the terror chief shot in ...
The filmmakers behind the war-on-terror drama "The Hurt Locker" are moving forward with an action thriller about the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal have had t...
Pakistani security forces allegedly helped Osama bin Laden evade American troops for almost 10 years, according to secret US government files. American diplomats were told that one of the key reasons why ...
Capitalism and full-speed-ahead economic growth, fuck the environment and anyone who's not a well-connected insider, and if you have any dissenting thoughts or ideas about any of this, probably best to kee...
*Lee Camp's latest "Moment of Clarity" video: "Hedge Funds Make More in an Hour Than You Make in a Half Century"* What level of obscene does this need to reach before we stop respecting and supporting th...
* DNA testing confirms Osama bin Laden's death* Published: Monday, May 02, 2011, 11:04 AM The Associated Press The Obama administration used DNA testing and other means to confirm that elite American f...
As a huge storm settled over southeastern Missouri on Sunday, the Army Corps of Engineers began the overnight task of filling an 11,000-foot system of buried pipes with an explosive material to blow a two-...
posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoU.S. intelligence and law enforcement authorities today stepped up patrols near mosques and recalled an elite U.S. marine unit that handles chemical and biological weapons attacks in preparation for the po...
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