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Learn moreThe Obama administration is actively seeking to deregulate a new variety of genetically-modified (GM) corn created by Monsanto that allegedly tolerates drought conditions better than natural varieties. How...
* Eh bien, c'est Le Champion! * *"'And I want the deed done before I come back,' said Grace as she rose from the table. 'You won't fall down on me, will you, hon?'"* -- Grace, to Midge, in tonight's instal...
The *New York Times* on Wednesday, 11 May, ran a feature article on pitayas, or 'dragon fruits' as they are commonly called. These are native to Bolivia, with a natural range from Bolivia to Mexico. It has...
LAUNCH: *“Evo Morales and theMovimiento al Socialismo in Bolivia: the first term in context, 2006-2010”* *Edited by Adrian J. Pearce * Wednesday 27th April 18.00-20.00 *The Senate Room*, Senate House (Firs...
Yesterday's *New York Times* had an article on the front page about quinoa, and how it is being used for Passover; with a few questions, of course, about how kosher it is, which I guess will be determined ...
Quechua Conversation Night: Quechua and Community Media CLACS Date: Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Location: Room 324 of King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center (KJCC), 53 Washington Square Sou...
SEMINAR AND BOOK LAUNCH: *“Evo Morales and theMovimiento al Socialismo in Bolivia: the first term in context, 2006-2010”* *Edited by Adrian J. Pearce * Wednesday 27th April 18.00-20.00 *The Senate Room*, S...
THE JANEY PROGRAM AT THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH AND THE CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN STUDIES AT NYU [CLACS] PRESENT: Whither Bolivia: A Conversatorio February 22, 2011 8 p.m. The New ...
Years ago NY had two Thalia movie theatres where I spent many happy hours watching vintage films. Now, sadly, those halcyon days have slipped by. But I know where to go to get my fix! La Paz, Bolivia. This...
Competitive movie-watching for Bolivia's cinephiles (AFP) – 23 hours ago LA PAZ — A Bolivian cineplex on Tuesday announced a film marathon competition likely to test the endurance of even the most avid cine...
A piece by L. Pierce Caron in the Napa Valley Register appeared on 31 December, 2010 - about a new Bolivian drink. These coca leaf licours are something else, I had them at the consulate in NY - not this...
On 7th and 8th October this year, Dr. Bennett Hennessey spoke on the Bolivian macaws. He is a conservationist in Santa Cruz, which is the largest departamento in Bolivia. His work takes him all over the co...
Wikileaks material is hosted by the Bolivian government Proof that the US is spying on us By Nick Farrell Thu Dec 09 2010, 09:46 *THE BOLIVIAN GOVERNMENT* is so miffed at what the US government has been sa...
A friend attended the NYU speech yesterday (3 December) on Bolivian immigration policy in the 1940s, and was moved to write about it, which he did - posting it first to the Jewish Chronicle site - under th...
[image: passiflora-madidiana-plant] One of the newly discovered plants from Madidi National Park in Bolivia, this is *Passiflora madidiana.*
*Eight new plants discovered in Bolivia Jeremy Hance mongabay.com November 07, 2010 * Researchers have described eight new species of plant from in and near Madidi National Park in the Bolivian Andes and ...
[image: CLACS] *Quechua at NYU Updates* *Quechua Night* [image: NYU CLACS Quechua Night]Many thanks to Cassandra Torrico, who presented at the recent Quechua Conversation night in Bolivian Quechua. We h...
Last night, 21 September, the Amigos de Bolivia crew went to hear Evo Morales speak at the Community Church on East 35th Street, after a session at the UN and a talk at Hunter College the day before. The l...
The Permanent Mission of the Plurinational State of Bolivia to the United Nations Invites you to attend a public lecture by * * *President Evo Morales* *"Nature is not for sale: the Rights of Mother E...
Evo Morales Speaks at Hunter College Monday, September 20, 1:15-2:30pm Evo Morales, President of Bolivia, will speak at Hunter College in celebration of the publication of the English language edition of Ma...
Sunday I took the bus to Hackensack, NJ, where the Bolivians had their annual festival. A couple friends showed up, one who writes for HDL in Israel, and they were quite impressed. Each departamento had th...
A big end of the summer event not to be missed is the Third Annual Festival Boliviano. See flyer below for details, and CU there!
These last few weeks we have been treated to a comedy of errors here in New York after the FBI arrested 10 spies working for Putin; caught red-handed, or red-headed as was Anya Chapman aka Anushka Koschenk...
An intimate crowd had a priviliged look inside the Bolivian Consulate in New York last month, there to mingle with artists, poets and diplomats from Bolivia. Press from around the world, press from New Yor...
THE BOLIVIAN COFFEE INDUSTRY Bolivia is a small player: it ranks 38th on the list of coffee-producing nations, even behind the U.S., which ranks 35th. In the last few years, the country’s coffee has made ...
On Wednesday, 30 June, from 5:30 - 7:30 pm, there will be a reception at the Bolivian Consulate in New York. Interested parties including journalists, playwrights, professors and students are invited to at...
An article from the *Guardian* about music in Bolivia caught my eye.... Bolivia's soaring symphonies One of Kurt Masur's mentees, American conductor David Handel's novel approach and ongoing fame fills co...
Regrettably, these days it seems that ferreting out the right investment decisions is sort of all macro, all the time. The top-down economic overview is far more important, I think, than the bottom-up fund...
*Website for this image* "For the past few years big names including Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan Chase of the US, have been popping up in places such as newly oil-rich Ghana. "In London, Hel...
"You can't continually be talking about tyrannies as if it is gun to the head, and we're being forced and coerced all the time. Sooner or later we're going to have to ask a more deeper question. What is ...
*UN Forum on Indigenous Issues Opens 10th Session * Top photo: *Todadaho Sid Hill, Chief of the Onondaga Nation*, delivers a traditional welcome at the opening of the tenth session of the UN Permanent F...
*Law & Order: L.A.'s "Gabby Giffords episode" turned out to be about a schizophrenic (played by Southland's Shawn Hatosy) who thinks a state senator is keeping him from his non-existent daughter.* *by Ken...
*US Ambassador in Quito carried out US mission of working against **adoption of UN Declaration* Children near Quito. UN photo Milton Grant. By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blo...
At least four people are reported to have been killed in an ongoing attack by armed men on a military base in the Pakistani city of Karachi. Some of the attackers are still inside the base and commandos a...
Water, it's the very stuff of life, and a high-resolution analysis of the most water-stressed places on Earth reveals anew a stark reality. The Middle East and north Africa (Mena), currently in the middle ...
The Michigan State Housing Development Authority, which sued Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (LEHMQ) in bankruptcy court over derivatives transactions, said it is seeking to move its suit to a higher court...
Let them eat bread. That refrain, from the authoritarian regime of President Hosni Mubarak, kept impoverished Egyptians from violent rebellion for decades. When food riots broke out in 2008, he containe...
China, now the second-largest economy in the world, is a vast and diverse country that is nearly impossible to sum up in a single photo essay. But here is an attempt -- a recent photographic look across th...
The number of Chinese missiles targeted at Taiwan is likely to reach 1,800 next year, despite improving ties between the former arch-rivals, Taiwanese media said Friday. The Liberty Times newspaper cited ...
The US military's top officer warned Saturday about a worrisome disconnect between civilians and troops, saying soldiers are becoming isolated from the rest of American society. Speaking to graduating cad...
The newly-elected head of Tibet's government-in-exile has warned India that it is being encircled by "Chinese interests" as Beijing strengthens its South Asian presence. China has been boosting its region...
Pakistan wants China to build a naval base at a deep-sea port in southwestern Baluchistan province, its defence minister said Sunday, while also inferring that Washington was a fair weather friend. Ahmad ...
The Dutch Catholic Church and the Salesian order are investigating revelations that a Salesian priest served on the board of a group that promotes pedophilia with the full knowledge of his boss. The order...
Over the next five days, the African nation will vaccinate 3.6 million children in a bid to reduce measles deaths by 98 percent.
A rally was held on Saturday morning for the mother who fired a gun prompting a standoff with Detroit Police a week ago. This after Child Protective Services showed up to take her child away. The Justice...
By Daniel Insdorf, Guest Writer (Please note that The Coming Crisis acts as an open forum for reporting crises and providing thought-provoking solutions, and remains neutral to guest contributions so that...
The following was written by Debra Siddons for Henrymakow.com. I apologise for the problems in text size and hope this does not overly distract the reader from the important information in the article. The...
Our perception of seismic risk is skewed into thinking earthquakes at plate boundaries are more deadly. We're wrong.
Thursday, when Hawaii's stellar progressive congresswoman, Mazie Hirono, announced her intention to run for the seat being vacated by her friend and ally Daniel Akaka, we dashed off a quick post that deta...
JUNE 3 DEADLINE By Gila River Against Loop 202 *GILA RIVER: NO 202!* *Stop the South Mountain Freeway* Support us on our ongoing effort in protecting the Gila River Indian Community's vital connection wi...
Four people have been killed in a terrorist attack on a naval aviation base in the Pakistani city of Karachi, according to reports. Militants reportedly stormed the base and witnesses reported hearing lou...
[image: Landings per unit of fishing power (LPUP) of large British trawler vessels (closed circles) into England and Wales, compared with LPUP of all large bottom-gear vessels (trawlers, liners, Danish s...
* Dawood Ibrahim, allegedly a friend of the CIA. * The 'Osama bin Laden compound' in the Pakistan town of Abbottabad has a special design. Reportedly, it is a design used by the US military. Reportedl...
*CANADIAN ANARCHIST MOVEMENT:* *THE CALGARY FESTIVAL OF ANARCHY:* How different from when I was young. Anarchist festivals in 'Calgary' !!!! *FESTIVAL OF ANARCHY! *Time Friday, May 27 at 6:00pm - May...
*By Sibel Edmonds* From Boiling Frogs Post It has been over two weeks since the orchestrated ever-changing Bin Laden Death. The question of what happened remains the same except it doesn't seem to matte...
The pilot of the Air France flight that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean nearly two years ago was not in the cockpit when the plane ran into trouble. Leading German news magazine Der Spiegel quoted an exper...
New One for a New Week Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
A Italian toddler has died after her university lecturer father forgot to drop her off at day-care and left her in his hot car for five hours. Doctors at Ancona's Salesi pediatric hospital on the Adriatic ...
[image: Police officers wearing protective suits search for victims of an earthquake and a tsunami in Fukushima Prefecture in Minamisoma City in this photo taken by Yomiuri Shimbun on March 28, 2011. REU...
Silence follows the days after the proposed Judgment Day on May 21, 2011 as the prediction made my Harold Camping proves to be incorrect. Frustrated followers and dissenters are now unable to access the Fa...
Gunmen said to be loyal to Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh have surrounded the Emirates embassy in Sanaa. Inside a group of foreign diplomats have convened awaiting a decision from Saleh whether he w...
[image: Aerial view of the ruins of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, 30 March 2011. From top to bottom, reactors one to four. AP Photo / Air Photo Service / dailymail.co.uk] Reporting by Risa Maeda;...
Tornadoes overnight in northeast Kansas killed one person and damaged some 200 homes, and resulted in a state of emergency being declared for 16 counties, state officials said on Sunday. Elsewhere in th...
According to The Onion at least: Cash-Strapped PBS Releases Nova Special On Physics Behind Rhythmically Bouncing Breasts
[image: Level of Mississippi River at Natchez, 20 May 2011. The previous flood record was 58 feet. National Weather Service, Lower Mississippi River Forecast Center] Note that the previous record level ...
A journalist on one of Britain’s most respected newspapers – who also appears on a widely-viewed BBC programme – could face a jail sentence after naming on Twitter a Premier League footballer who had taken...
[image: Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant use heavy equipment to clear radioactive debris. TEPCO] May 21 (Mainichi Japan) – The government has discovered thousands of cases of workers at nu...
A Scottish national newspaper has claimed it has identified the footballer at the centre of a legal injunction. The Sunday Herald published a full page headshot of a football star on its front page - mer...
On 22 May 2011, TEPCO imaged the inside of Unit 1 with visible light and gamma-ray cameras. Here are a couple of photos from that expedition. Desdemona wonders if the pixel noise in the visible-light ima...
*The last time we focused on the Pastoral Symphony, it was as half of Beethoven's "fraternal twin" symphonies, the Fifth and Sixth. Here Riccardo Muti conducts the Filarmonica della Scala in the indelibly...
(click picture to enlarge!) Hello everyone, we hope you're doing well and are keeping your eyes and ears open. Here are this week's announcements: i) Blogger's poll widget is acting strangely and has eate...
[image: Grand Gulf Nuclear Power Plant and pretty flowers. Southern Nuclear / nrc.gov] [“Dilution is the solution”.] By Kevin Cooper 4 May 2011 PORT GIBSON — An unknown amount of radioactive water was...
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Does the Media Aid Israel? Does Amnesty Aid Humanity? Does the BBC Aid Amnesty? To comply with its charter the BBC needs to convince the world that its coverage of the Middle East is impartial, but you ne...
A Tucson, Ariz., SWAT team defends shooting an Iraq War veteran 60 times during a drug raid, although it declines to say whether it found any drugs in the house and has had to retract its claim that the ve...
“*Competition is a sin*” – John D. Rockefeller Sr. In many respects we don’t have a free market economy. We have cartels, which are the *escape* from free market, *not *the natural progression of free ma...
With some regret I concluded before the last election that there was not a national party or national party leader even remotely worth supporting. They were all, including the polished turd who now camp...
Like most teenage girls, sophomore Jackie Genovese, 16, of New Jersey, was so excited to attend the prom with her boyfriend that she made plans and purchased her perfect prom dress early. But tragedy str...
Northern Sudan's seizure of a contested border region is an act of war, a spokesman for the Southern Sudanese army said Sunday, raising fears that fighting over the town could re-ignite the civil war betwe...
Premier Jean Charest says the presence of Canada's Armed Forces may have to be enhanced because of changing conditions along Quebec's flooding Richelieu River. Water levels were expected to rise again so...
Followers of an evangelical broadcaster who declared that Saturday would be Judgement Day are trying to make sense of the failed prediction. Some believers expressed bewilderment or said it was a test fro...
Our chart of the day comes courtesy of Dylan Grice, and his fascinating "Hyperinflation in Japan" presentation given at the CFA annual meeting in Edinburgh which we will shortly share with readers, which s...
Imagine a country that spends and prints trillions to patch up any problem. Now imagine another country where there is no central Treasury, meaning that bail-outs are less easy, and which has a central ba...
“Space junk” or debris has become an increasing threat to commercial satellites along with spacecraft and the International Space Station. Now NASA scientists may have a new option for reducing debris. ...
A 45-year-old man now living in the Bay Area may be the first person ever cured of the deadly disease AIDS, the result of the discovery of an apparent HIV immunity gene. Timothy Ray Brown tested positi...
* Two TV sets, digital satellite decoder, computer, calculator with printer. * *"Electricity bills seen by The Sunday Times show that the compound used hardly any power, just enough for lights and a small t...
Ash from an erupting Icelandic volcano could reach northern Scotland by Tuesday and parts of Britain, France and Spain by Thursday or Friday if the eruption continues at the same rate, airlines were warn...
‘Fracking’ feud pits prosperous N. Texans against energy industryHouston ChronicleMay 21, 2011By Ronnie CrockerARGYLE — For Kelly Gant, the end of the rainbow beckoned from a former pasture subdivided into o...
RELIGION - If you missed the failed Rapture yesterday predicted by American millionaire evangelist Harold Camping, don't worry there is another chance the world might be destroyed on December 21st 2012. S...
If there are ever "spin awards", Tim Powers deserves the statue: PARLIAMENT HILL—Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s inflammatory decision to stuff two failed Conservative election candidates back into the Sen...
Anti-Islam Pastor: Glenn Beck’s Jerusalem Rally Is A ‘Scam’ By A ‘Mormon Cult Member’: " Jillian Rayfield | May 17, 2011, 11:09AM Bill Keller, an anti-Islam pastor from Florida, is highly offended that “Mor...
Law School Asks Students To Choose “God’s Law” Over Man’s Law: " Imagine if they were Muslim: Liberty Law School teaches God's Law over Man's Law Law School Asks Students To Choose “God’s Law” Over Man’s L...
New alleged al Qaeda tape slams NATO: "A jihadist website on Saturday posted an audio message purportedly from key al Qaeda figure Ayman al-Zawahiri. "
Bombings in Baghdad kill 18: "Fifteen bombs explode within hours of one another, the latest in a spate of attacks that has raised concerns about Iraq's ability to protect itself. "
Obama: Bin Laden not the exception: "Given the chance, the United States would go after high-value terrorism targets in Pakistan or elsewhere in the same way it took out Osama bin Laden, President Barack Oba...
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Photo: Lianne Howie, Lucky Mutt Pet Photography In April, I blogged about a proposal in Ontario to legalize coyote-killing contests. This excellent article from a small, local newspaper explains why such...
By Adolfo Perez Esquivel Dear Barack, In addressing you I do so fraternally, and at the same time, to express my concern and indignation after seeing the destruction and death caused in several nations i...
This bill passed the House yesterday. Stand by for further instructions.UPDATE: it is too late. The bill passed the Senate on 4-19-11 and the House yesterday. Now it goes to Perry who will surely sign it. It...
*Par for the course: No good choices in NY-26* Once the Rapture passed us by, it was time to get back to watching the special election in western New York that's building up to Tuesday-- and with heavy na...
Via Montreal Simon and Alison at Creekside, this little gem: Teabaggers, Astroturfers, the Fraser Institute, robocalls directing voters to the wrong places, Harper wanking on about Canada being an "energ...
This is a cross post from Autonomous Mind "Regular readers may recall a couple of posts back in January where we told the story of an Autonomous Mind reader who complained to the BBC about an edition of H...
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Frank Lindh, father of John Walker Lindh, asks, "Bin Laden's Gone. Can My Son Come Home?" Can everyone's son and daughter come home? John Walker Lindh and Omar Khadr? Those in Afghanistan, those in Guanta...
The only thing that was new in Andrew Marr’s interview appeared to be Obama’s acknowledgment that ‘conditions on the ground have changed’ in the Middle East. People are attributing this to Netanyahu’s resp...
***The vice chairman of China's Central Military Commission meets with Sjafrie Sjamsuddin, secretary general of Indonesia's Defense Ministry, in Beijing, in 2009. * A number of countries are growing closer...
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Anyone catch William Hague on the politics show? It was interesting to see him dodge BBC questions on whether the Fatah/Hamas "reconciliation" was a step forward. It's sad to see Hague spew forth the banal...
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The reason why Tata steel is cutting 1,500 jobs from its UK operations could not be clearer. According to this report, Karl-Ulrich Köhler, head of European operations for Tata, said: “EU carbon legislati...
President Barack Obama has indicated he would be prepared to launch a fresh American raid into Pakistani territory if they discovered another leading terrorist figure hiding there. In a BBC interview ahea...
So what did you make of Andrew Marr's interview with President Obama? Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
A volcanic eruption believed to be more powerful than last year's flight-halting blast has closed airspace across Iceland. But experts say the latest rupture should not affect international flights. The...
What did you make of the Andrew Marr-Barack Obama interview? Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Among many other things, Brian Greene's new book, *The Hidden Reality*, shows very clearly that the author is kind of obsessed, to put it mildly, with Hugh Everett's interpretation of quantum mechanics. ...
A bomb has exploded in the centre of Northern Ireland's second largest city but nobody was injured after the area was evacuated. Three masked men carrying the device had burst into a branch of the Santan...
A convicted terrorist banned from Britain for being a risk to national security has been stopped by the courts from being deported. The Muslim man, who cannot be named, was found guilty of terrorism in T...
FEARS for a pod of trapped whales grew last night when they swam out to sea - only to return hours later. One was found dead and experts believe all 60 mammals could be killed if they follow the lead wha...
Families out enjoying the sunshine at Mississauga’s Jack Darling Park on Saturday were in for an unpleasant surprise: dozens of dead fish were spotted in the water and on the shoreline. Bhargavi Patel, wh...
RELIGION - If you were one of thousands of people expecting the Rapture today, as predicted by Harold Camping to happen May 21st 2011 at 6 PM, you were sorely disappointed. There was no rapture, no earthqu...
*http://therightofreply.blogspot.com/* *THE ZANDVOORT NETWORK, JERSEY, DUTROUX, PORTUGAL...* Frank Walker honoured ~~
Doomsday prophet and Family Radio President Harold Camping has gone missing ever since it became clear that his May 21, 2011 End of the World prediction is not going to come true. However, a bigger questio...
A special train carrying North Korean leader Kim Jong-il headed southwest Saturday after passing through this industrial city, raising speculation that he may have a meeting with Chinese President Hu Jinta...
North Sudan's army appears to have gained control of the main town in Sudan's disputed Abyei region after fierce fighting with the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), UN and rebel sources said. UN off...
Former U.S. President George W. Bush racked up at least $15 million by delivering nearly 140 paid speeches since leaving office in Jan. 2009, according to reports. Bush spokesman David Sherzer told local ...
*Last night we saw and heard Zoltán Kocsis (better known to most of us as a pianist) conduct this orchestra identified as the Hungarian National Philharmonic in the second-movement "Scene by the Brook" fr...
I really sick of this! I want the EPA to take over all environmental regulation in Texas.The TCEQ changed the results of water testing when the test were above EPA limits for radiation.LINKUPDATE: <--insert ...
*Variation On The Word Sleep by Margaret Atwood* **I would like to watch you sleeping, which may not happen. I would like to watch you, sleeping. I would like to sleep with you, to enter your sleep as its sm...
If one checks on stories dealing with Venezuela, the most prominent item concerns an autographed guitar by the Colombian singer Shakira. Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan strongman, claims that the guitar was de...
All this talk about the world ending just made me roll my eyes. Seriously. It's now 10:39 p.m. and we are all still here. :). Ran in my 2nd 5K of the summer today! Kurt was supposed to go with me, but s...
Keep these 13 companies in mind --- and their ZIONIST links 13 companies with the worst record for supporting Israel’s policies: 1) General Electric 2) CATerpillar 3) The Home Depot 4) The Limited 5) Starbu...
The active Grimsvoetn volcano began erupting Saturday, spewing a 20 kilometer-high column of smoke.
The Star doesn't always get it right, but this time it's taken a centring pass in the slot and buried it in the top corner. When the provincial Special Investigations Unit threw in the towel and said it c...
* Although this, er, "story" was a "gimme" for the cartooning community, thank you, Pat B! * [T]he rules of sovereign democratic government and global finance have mutated beyond recognition. Today when ba...
In a few hours May 21, 2011 6 p.m., the appointed time for Doomsday, will have passed, irrespective of whichever time zone we are in, thereby proving that the prediction made by Harold Camping is false. No...
[image: Smoke rises in the air as wildfire in Coke County, Texas, burns on Monday afternoon, 18 April 2011. The Abilene Reporter-News / Tommy Metthe] By Jerry Lackey 21 May 2011 Weather disasters across...
Watch this beautiful video by ViolatoR called Blue Birds Fly. Blue Birds Fly from ViolatoR on Vimeo.
[image: The official TEPCO map of radioactive contamination at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in millisieverts/hour, 20 May 2011. TEPCO / www.ex-skf.blogspot.com] The official TEPCO map of radioact...
The May 21st doomsday prophecy by Harold Camping, the man who should be ashamed of himself for bilking hundreds of thousands of people out of their money (and faith), has amounted to absolutely nothing. W...
A lingering drought in Central China's Hubei province has rendered 1,392 reservoirs virtually useless as only dead water remains in them, said the local water authority Monday. Known as the "land of a th...
France has imposed limits on water consumption in 28 of its 96 administrative departments, the environment ministry said Monday, amid signs that a prolonged dry spell that has hit grain crops would conti...
t is a supreme irony in a country once known as the land without fences. Stretching north from the capital, Ulan Bator, an endless succession of dilapidated boundary markers criss-cross away into the dista...
The produce lobby is livid that consumers might be concerned about pesticides. They are taking their fury out on the USDA for its annual report on pesticide use (via *The Washington Post*): In a recent l...
Conservationists desperately want to minimize the impact of overfishing on the oceans and their inhabitants. Doing so requires defining which species are most at risk, and so far, that has not been done on...
Imagine a scenario where tens of millions of Americans are condemned by their own illusions to hours of hot, sweaty, grueling unpaid labor every week involving expensive and potentially dangerous chemicals...
Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest has increased almost sixfold, new data suggests. Satellite images show deforestation increased from 103 sq km in March and April 2010 to 593 sq km (229 sq...
The great Mississippi River flood of 2011, cresting south of Memphis today, carries a mix of fertilizer, oil, pesticides, trash and farm runoff as it flows toward the Gulf of Mexico, say public health of...
The acidification of the world's oceans could have major consequences for the marine environment. New research shows that coccoliths, which are an important part of the marine environment, dissolve when se...
Egypt is running out of food, and, more gradually, running out of money with which to buy it. The most populous country in the Arab world shows all the symptoms of national bankruptcy - the kind that produ...
A magnitude 6.1 earthquake has struck Kermadec Islands, New Zealand at a depth of 19.8 km (12.3 miles), the quake hit at 21:17:01 UTC Saturday 21st May 2011. The epicenter was 103 km (64 miles) *L'Esperanc...
[image: Satellite view of Slave Lake fire and many others in Alberta, Canada. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured this vi...
In a few hours May 21, 2011 6 p.m., the appointed time for Doomsday, will have passed, irrespective of whichever time zone we are in, thereby proving that the prediction made by Harold Camping is false. No...
It is now confirmed that an eruption has started in Grímsvötn in Vatnajökull Glacier. The smoke from the eruption can be seen from many places in south Iceland according to RÚV television. Geologists have...
As you probably know, Blue America has been more active in House races than in gubernatorial or even Senate races. And we've never found *any*presidential candidate worthy of asking our donors to contribut...
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has upheld a decision to send a man to prison for life after he was convicted of throwing a boy off a parking ramp when he was 14 years old. Omer Ninham, now 27, had appealed h...
A Texas man has been charged with the murder of his girlfriend after she was allegedly dragged behind his car by a rope around her neck. Theron Wayne Johnson is alleged to have sped off after his girlfrien...
A desperate hunt is underway for a six-year-old boy who went missing after his mother committed suicide. Timmothy Pitzen, from Aurora, Illinois, has not been seen for a week after he and his mother left f...
Jose Guerena, 26,survived two tours of duty in Iraq as a marine, only to be gunned down in a hail of 71 bullets in his own Tucson, Arizona home, while his wife and four-year old son hid in a nearby closet....
[image: Link]An Ohio woman convicted of killing her month-old baby daughter in a microwave oven was spared the death penalty and sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole. Montgomery County Commo...
An 11-year-old girl became pregnant after allegedly being raped in a YMCA sauna by a day camp counsellor who had been supervising her. The girl, who went on to give birth to the child, also contracted a ...
An order by the Spanish government banning protests after midnight last night was held up to ridicule when tens of thousands of demonstrators continued protesting after the curfew supposedly kicked in. Y...
Nasa has ordered Endeavour's crew to take a close look at a damaged tile on the space shuttle's delicate heat shield this morning. Using a robotic arm, astronauts are now scrutinising a gouge on the shutt...
The Dutch Catholic Church and the Salesian order are investigating revelations that a Salesian priest served on the board of a group that promotes paedophilia with the full knowledge of his boss. The orde...
There has been an explosion on a shopping street in Northern Ireland, police said. It happened at Shipquay Street, Londonderry, this afternoon. The area was evacuated at the time and there are no reported...
Osama Bin Laden's replacement as leader of Al-Qaeda is planning a major terrorist attack on London, ordering his followers to 'crush' the city. Soon after being officially appointed caretaker chief of the ...
image source I love apocalypse talk. Seriously. It cracks me up how serious people take it. Well, according to Evangelist Harold Camping, this is it. Today at 5:59 Eastern, those chosen by God will ascend...
*Blogger's Note*. Back in February, I was one of 175 concerned friends of Bernie Ellis to write to President Obama a letter supporting Bernie's request for a pardon of his "crime" of growing about 100 cann...
With two Italian astronauts in orbit and the shuttle program winding down, the Pope Benedict took note and spoke with the shuttle Endeavour and International Space Station crews on Saturday.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan – Militants in northwest Pakistan blew up a tanker carrying oil for NATO forces in Afghanistan on Saturday, and a secondary explosion killed 15 people as a group gathered to try to sipho...
[image: Domestic nightmare: Pictures still hang from the walls, but the rest of this house within the Fukushima exclusion zone has been reduced to rubble, 12 April 2011. Getty Images / dailymail.co.uk] ...
*Center For A Stateless Society* [image: Photobucket] by David D'Amato A couple weeks ago in *The Guardian*, Ellie Mae O’Hagan very thoughtfully bewailed the mainstream media’s treatment of anarchists. “T...
They gathered in Stockholm this week for the 3rd Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability. Their report, the Stockholm Memorandum, is an urgent call to action that will almost certainly be igno...
No signs of any rapture in New Jersey this morning yet. In fact at 11am (PT; 2pm in NJ) Ed Potosnak, Blue America-endorsed candidate for the Congressional seat currently being held by healthcare hypocrite...
6 pm has come and gone to those living on the international timeline and beyond, and the cataclysmic waves of earthquakes, floods and planetary destruction have yet to materialize. I’m glad, not in an “I t...
Dallas should use Corinth and Flower Mound as models for setting up their gas drilling task forces not Bartonville or Fort Worth. Corinth and Flower Mound municipalities now have some of the most protective ...
Newly-released e-mails from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality show the agency’s top commissioners directed staff to continue lowering radiation test results, in defiance of federal EPA rules....
The fact that people in Spain are chanting about wanting to be more like Iceland emphasizes something profound that's happening all around the world. At all levels, people are talking about now wanting t...
U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Newton) says America might have to default on its bills for the first time ever because Democrats and Republicans can’t agree to raise the government’s $14.3 trillion debt ceiling...
Libyan officials sounded alarm Saturday over NATO bombings of three ports which they said would trigger a crisis by limiting the movement of supply ships carrying critical supplies in and out of the war-to...
A senior official at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says solar storms pose a growing threat to criticial infrastructure such as satellite communications, navigation systems and e...
Spanish youths on Saturday protested across the country for a seventh day over the economic crisis, in defiance of a 48-hour ban ahead of local elections. Thousands of people crammed into the center of Ma...
Hate insects? Afraid of germs? Researchers are reporting an alarming combination: bedbugs carrying a staph “superbug.” Canadian scientists detected drug-resistant staph bacteria in bedbugs from three hos...
Fifteen obstetrics-gynecology practices out of 105 polled by the Sun Sentinel said they have set weight limits for new patients. Some of the doctors said the main reason was their exam tables or other equi...
Following in the footsteps of a rather ignominious list of nations like Argentina and Hungary, the government of lreland is set to take its ‘fair share’ of private retirement funds. Drowning in debt and ...
he Fluoride Deception is the latest mini documentary from Mike Adams, executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center. Through the use of animation and motion graphics, it exposes the truth about wher...
It's hard to believe that literally millions of inhabitants of the New York City could have survived decades without a decent restaurant. Food has been nearly unavailable - unless you count the third-world...
By now you should know how we feel about HB 3328 the Texas disclosure bill that doesn't disclose. However, if you slept through the past few months, you can get caught up HERE, HERE, where we listed the amen...
Radical charged in 'South Park' case: "Federal authorities are using words uttered by the co-founder of a radical Islamic group to charge him with threats against the creators of 'South Park.' Keeping i...
It's becoming dirtier and more dangerous to be rich in Britain. At least that's the conclusion in *Bankrupt Britain, An Atlas of Social Change,* due to be released soon. *Levels of crime, pollution and a...
The Republicans on the US House Energy and Commerce Committee have drafted a "North American-Made Energy Security Act" - legislation which would ensure swift approval of the proposed $7-billion 2,000-mil...
Blast hits U.S. vehicles in Pakistan: "A car bomb targeted U.S. Consulate vehicles in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing one person and wounding 11 others, police said. "
Gadhafi forces claim biggest attack yet: "Moammar Gadhafi's forces have been using the naval vessels to launch attacks on civilians and to lay mines aimed at hampering humanitarian aid, NATO says. "
Farrakhan aide released in Guyana: "A top Nation of Islam official was arrested in Guyana on suspicion of terrorism and is being held in a Georgetown detention center, police said. "
Taliban claim deadly suicide bombing at Afghan hospital: "A suicide bombing at a military hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, killed six people and wounded 26, a ministry of defense spokesman said. The Taliban s...
Tim LaHaye Against “Trivializing” Bible Prophecy: " Stern words from Tim LaHaye: The Rev. Tim LaHaye, co-author of the “Left Behind” series of Christian prophecy novels, said [Harold] Camping “trivializes t...
MEDIA COMPLICIT IN RISE OF XENOPHOBIA (Europe): "As European leaders increasingly question the concept of Europe without borders and follow each other in announcing the end of multiculturalism, the media res...
Facebook pages of Czech MP and mayor spreading racism: "The Facebook page of Czech MP Jiří Šulc (Civic Democrats - ODS) features photographs next to a text calling for Czech Roma people to be resettled in Ha...
Hungarian Nazi war crime trial resumes: "The trial of Hungarian Nazi war crime suspect Sandor Kepiro resumed on Thursday after physical and mental health checks showed the 97-year-old was fit enough to atten...
*The Guardian* has published a series of photographs of the tsunami inundating Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant. Here are four of them showing just what occurred inside the plant: It's prett...
Either God gave Australia and New Zealand a pass or Christian doomsday seer Harold Camping is just another windy bag of shit. Camping prophesied that "the end" would arrive today at 6 p.m. according to wh...
ENTERTAINMENT - Randall Mario Poffo, aka Randy Savage, aka the Macho Man, the legendary professional wrestler known for his deep raspy voice, sunglasses and bandannas, has died in a car accident earlier ye...
Electrodes implanted in man's body stimulated his spinal cord's neural network to help him take his first steps in four years.
Researchers manipulate DNA strands to solve computational problems.
Deranged right-wing gun shill and ex-rocker Ted Nugent was on CNN with Piers Morgan the other night to rant and rave about how much he hates President Obama: "Anybody that wants to disarm me can drop dea...
Being as how this afternoon oldest daughter is to be married, rather than dwell on ecosystem collapse and mass extinction, I will instead share some poems. I found them - with torn edges, printed on old ...
Perception management & US-funded unrest used to justify regime change. by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand May 21, 2011 - After admittedly organizing, training, funding, and equipping the very mobs lit...
Saturday morning thunderstorm left over 30 people dead in west and central parts of Uttar Pradesh. The storm lashed many parts of UP including Noida, Ghaziabad, Shahjahanpur, Badayun, Meerut, Bulandshahr, ...
Regular readers of this blog will know that David Preiser, DB and myself (in the comments) have had our purely metaphorical cross hairs trained on Katie Connolly - the lead reporter at BBC Online's Washing...
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*Much a-do about Desktops these days... * Last week I spent my spare-time investigating the Linux desktop situation, some new distros and *Linux Mint Debian*. The latter I assume to become a 'replacement'...
* Kissinger does not want India and Pakistan to be friends? * What are Henry Kissinger's plans for Pakistan, India, Russia and China? How can they all be made weaker, to the advantage of the USA? How about...
One species of ladybug. Photo courtesy: Wikipedia I have to admit that ladybugs had me twisted around their antennae from the moment I heard that children's rhyme: "Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home. Your...
KAJANG, MALAYSIA: A landslide hit an orphanage and the bodies of two children from the Rumah Anak Yatim Hidayah, Madrasah Al-Takwa, FELDA Semungkis, 14th mile, Hulu Langat, near here have been pulled out. ...
During the Second World War, the army relied on K rations for their emergency nutritional field rations. The K stood for the man who invented the portable meals - biologist Ancel Keys. An underground ho...
"It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can." -Jane Hamilton "For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your...
Photo courtesy: law_keven/cc via TreeHugger In nature, raising tiger cubs to maturity is almost always the job of mom alone, with tiger-fathers showing little interest in child rearing if any at all. For ...
Too bad more buildings aren't designed to let the green energy flow. Photo courtesy: B. Alter via TreeHugger Madrid's green wall is a veteran...it was designed by Patrick Blanc, who has created some of t...
The government has discovered thousands of cases of workers at nuclear power plants outside Fukushima Prefecture suffering from internal exposure to radiation after they visited the prefecture, the head of...
City of Ashland officials are warning residents and tourists to take precautions after a man walking his dog spotted a cougar feeding on a deer carcass on a Lithia Park trail at about 7 a.m. today. "This ...
[image: Link]Syria has given its response to Barack Obama's call on President Assad to lead his country to democracy or stand aside. Tanks have been sent into a number of towns and a number of people are ...
*DUDAYEV, former Chechen president.* *The CIA is reported to have used bin Laden and al Qaeda against the Russians in Chechnya. * Dzhokhar *Dudayev* (1944 - 1996) was the first President of the breakaway C...
The global warming orthodoxy is predicting a judgement day. But some competitors of the IPCC propose that the end of the world will come earlier than that. In particular, Harold Camping (89), an engin...
Joseph, Faith and Grace Haddad appear like any other American teenagers - except for the fact their parents Robert and Abby believe the world is about to end. Two years ago their father Robert and mother ...
Honeybees are dropping like flies in the Okanagan, leaving bee keepers baffled . A number of bee farms are reporting they've lost a number of hives and according to Owner of Planet Bee Honey Farm, Ed Now...
It was a routine bomb drill that had actually gone very well - it was just a shame the TSA failed to tell the police. So when a man posing as a terrorist was caught going through scanners with a fake bomb...
One of America's most notorious child kidnappers was stabbed by another prison inmate with knives named after his two young victims. Evil Michael Devlin is recovering from his injuries after being attacked...
Al Qaeda wanted to hijack and blow up oil tankers to provoke an 'extreme economic crisis' in the West, it has been revealed. According to documents seized from Osama Bin Laden's Pakistan compound, the ter...
Brown stink bugs are causing millions of dollars in crop damage, with the apple industry being hit the hardest. Growers in the mid-Atlantic region have reported the worst problems with about 18 per cent ...
A paedophile priest expelled from the Catholic Church over his vile sex crimes has been found living just yards from a children's play area. Bill Carney was described as a 'serial sex abuser of children' ...
A search and rescue operation has been launched in the English Channel following reports that a person had fallen overboard a cruise ship. Solent Coastguard Maritime Rescue said it had received informatio...
Iran knew about 9/11 before it happened and helped train hijackers, court papers say. Lawyers representing September 11th victims’ families claim new evidence shows Iranian officials assisted in training ...
Dark energy is driving our universe apart at accelerating speeds, according to a five-year survey of 200,000 galaxies, stretching back seven billion years in cosmic time. The study offers new support for ...
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What with all the noise about the US President selling Israel down the river due to a combination of naiveté, wrong-headedness, and a soupçon of anti-Israel sentiment, but apparently still not doing enough...
The scandal-hit factory where Apple makes its iPads faced a fresh probe today after an explosion ripped through the building killing two people. A blast rocked a compound at the building in southwest China...
Shocking new figures released today revealed that over the past five years almost 200 rapists have escaped with just a caution. The startling statistics, disclosed by 14 police forces in response to Freed...
America may be facing a second dotcom bubble, according to former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers. His warning came as shares in professional networking site LinkedIn surged for a second day in New Y...
The ocean floor shifted sideways by 79 feet in the Japanese earthquake in March - much further than scientists originally predicted. And researchers are warning that immense amounts of seismic stress remai...
Areas of Britain left bone dry by near-drought conditions were yesterday warned they were experiencing ‘a taste of things to come’. Environment minister Lord Henley said climate change would make parched ...
Workers were allowed back into the Brevard County Sheriff’s complex this afternoon, hours after 22-people were treated for carbon monoxide exposure. Several employees reported feeling light-headed and were...
The Obama administration is actively seeking to deregulate a new variety of genetically-modified (GM) corn created by Monsanto that allegedly tolerates drought conditions better than natural varieties. How...
* Eh bien, c'est Le Champion! * *"'And I want the deed done before I come back,' said Grace as she rose from the table. 'You won't fall down on me, will you, hon?'"* -- Grace, to Midge, in tonight's instal...
LAUNCH: *“Evo Morales and theMovimiento al Socialismo in Bolivia: the first term in context, 2006-2010”* *Edited by Adrian J. Pearce * Wednesday 27th April 18.00-20.00 *The Senate Room*, Senate House (Firs...
Quechua Conversation Night: Quechua and Community Media CLACS Date: Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Location: Room 324 of King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center (KJCC), 53 Washington Square Sou...
SEMINAR AND BOOK LAUNCH: *“Evo Morales and theMovimiento al Socialismo in Bolivia: the first term in context, 2006-2010”* *Edited by Adrian J. Pearce * Wednesday 27th April 18.00-20.00 *The Senate Room*, S...
[image: passiflora-madidiana-plant] One of the newly discovered plants from Madidi National Park in Bolivia, this is *Passiflora madidiana.*
*Eight new plants discovered in Bolivia Jeremy Hance mongabay.com November 07, 2010 * Researchers have described eight new species of plant from in and near Madidi National Park in the Bolivian Andes and ...
[image: CLACS] *Quechua at NYU Updates* *Quechua Night* [image: NYU CLACS Quechua Night]Many thanks to Cassandra Torrico, who presented at the recent Quechua Conversation night in Bolivian Quechua. We h...
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