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Luis Picado’s mother remembers the day her son thought he had won the lottery. He came home to their tin-roofed cinder-block house in a Managua, Nicaragua, slum and said he’d found a way to escape poverty ...
It’s easy to become cynical in today’s world, especially for those who follow current events and have a desire to stay informed. Too many people are blind or dulled to both the great evil and goodness in t...
*Target:* President Barack Obama, United States Congress Members, Administrators of the EPA* Sponsored by:* Concerned Citizens - Lucas Whitefield HixsonThis data verifies the risk of bioaccumulation of rad...
Failure by the U.S. to get its fiscal house in order will trigger financial consequences that will “dwarf Lehman Brothers” and seriously diminish the nation’s role as a world economic leader, Jamie Dimon t...
*The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire*. That’s basically how one can summarize the situation in Europe. Several (South) European countries are on the brink of collapse. Greece is as near bankruptcy as...
The euro and stock markets across Europe have fallen, with the eurozone debt crisis showing no sign of abating. Borrowing costs for heavily indebted governments also rose further, with Italy and Spain su...
Investors have taken the old Wall Street adage of "Sell in May, then go away" to heart this year, and the stock market's slump is likely to persist during the last week of the month. The Dow (INDU), S&P 5...
For a people to be free, they must first be honest with themselves, their government, and the world at large. History is filled with stories of free nations that fell under the spell cast by their governme...
“…*where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty*.” – 2nd Corinthians 3:17 Throughout history societies have developed, flourished, and collapsed; human nature has remained the same for eons. The pag...
"Josephine" is 12 years old and several months pregnant. She's a member of the Samburu tribe, living in a small village in a remote part of Isiolo in Kenya's Eastern Province. The pre-teen, whose identi...
[image: An illegal logger cuts down a tree to be turned into planks for construction in a forest south of Sampit in Indonesia's Central Kalimantan province in this November 14, 2010 file photo. Indonesia...
Two reports about Egypt: One video, one radio.Video:Radio interview:.Mohamed El Rashidy on the Egyptian popular revolution.
TN MOSQUES FOES LOSE: MUSLIMS GIVEN BUILDING PERMIT: "Somewhere the people responsible for vandalizing this sign not to mention Nashville hatemonger Laurie Cardoza-Moore are home today crying into their Conf...
Harold Camping came out of hiding briefly yesterday after his predicted rapture did not come to pass, appearing at the front door of his Alameda home to tell the *San Francisco Chronicle* he had "a really ...
Jack Sparrow beware: A Navy software program combines multiple data to pinpoint areas at risk of pirate attacks.
Possible new discovery of a species of ancestral rhinoceros makes a record-high debut.
The “But That’s Just the Old Testament!” Cop-Out: " This article is part 8 of LoonWatch’s Understanding Jihad Series. Please read my “disclaimer”, which explains my intentions behind writing this article: ...
By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Photo copyright Ben Powless: Clyde Bellecourt and Tony Gonzales at UN Permanent Forum 2011. NEW YORK -- Clyde Bellecourt, founder of the A...
[image: WSPEEDI simulation of iodine-131 surface deposition from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, showing a very wide area in Kanto and Tohoku in green, which indicates iodine-131 deposition of betwe...
*Blogger's Note:* This is a 20-minute lecture with minimal visuals, but well worth listening to ...particularly if you're thinking about investing in green technologies and/or ever finding affordable healt...
Ash from the erupting Grimsvotn volcano in Iceland will cover Scotland and Ireland by early Tuesday morning, the Met Office has predicted. Airlines and travellers were looking nervously at the progress of...
*Javier Sicilia and North American Organizers Present Caravan Bound for Ciudad Juárez* ** *“In This March We Are Again Embracing Ourselves Amidst This Pain and Recognizing Ourselves Through Love”* By Lucer...
North Texans will want to know the answer to where the fracking sand comes from because EOG has a permit to start frack sand mining in North Texas.Frack sand mining is another one of those environmental issu...
*Leonard Lance & Scott Walker, indistinguishable faces of Republican change* Yesterday's post about the far right voting record of Hawaii's former congressman Ed Case, brought to the fore a March 17, 2005 ...
Tornadoes have ripped through parts of the US Midwest killing at least 89 people in a town in the state of Missouri. The twister flattened large parts of Joplin, which has a population of 50,000 people, ...
A meltdown occurred at one of the reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant three and a half hours after its cooling system started malfunctioning, according to the result of a simulation using "...
The backlash is complete, almost, for failed doomsday soothsayer Harold Camping. Even as the world is waiting to hear from the false prophet, a member of his inner circle has fired the first salvo, saying ...
Chinese Ultimatum Warns Washington Against Attack Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net May 20, 2011 China has officially put the United States on notice that Washington’s planned attack on Pakistan wil...
The banksters through the IMF and the World Bank control today almost all of the world's wealth. They have succeeded in temporarily subjugating mankind and making them into slaves to be dictated to by the...
و لماذا علينا أن نهتم بذلك؟ بقلم : توني كارتلوشي - كاتب في جريدة أكتيفيست بوست (Original English version: Who are Egypt's Protesters?) CNN BBC قناة الجزيرة و العديد من القنوات الأخرى ملأت شاشات التلفزيو...
The BBC runs an item here on Obama's visit to the Irish Republic and suggests that this will bring much needed economic benefit. How? It seems to me that this just the beginning in a series of items the BB...
You will need a strong stomach to listen to this fulsome tribute to Obama from Mark Mardell on the BBC this morning. Note the total lack of objectivity - this is full-on Obamalove and an utter disgrace. I...
*A PORTION of the airspace over Denmark's autonomous territory Greenland has been closed because of ash from an erupting Icelandic volcano, Danish air traffic control officials said on Monday. * Naviair ...
JAIPUR: High velocity dust storms accompanied by thundershowers affected life and traffic in the state on Sunday. It was unprecedented weather for Pink City on Sunday afternoon when suddenly the sky became...
LA CROSSE, Wisconsin (WXOW) - The State of Wisconsin says that Mayor Matt Harter has declared a state of emergency in the City of La Crosse in the wake of Sunday's severe storms and possible tornado. The ...
A second pilot whale has been found dead in a Hebridean loch after experts feared more than 60 of the animals had been at risk of becoming beached. The pod had left the shallow waters of Loch Carnan in So...
A south suburban interstate ramp was reopened Sunday night, eight hours after a semi truck hauling cattle overturned -- leaving more than a dozen dead animals and others roaming the road. The ramp was re...
The wife of a top British diplomat has plunged four storeys to her death from the roof of her New York home. Mystery surrounds the circumstances of Catherine Hurd’s death, just a week before she and her f...
A teenage boy is believed to have drowned after jumping into a river to celebrate the world not coming to an end after the supposed day of Rapture failed to arrive. Anthony Thompson from Kalamazoo, Michig...
A tornado flattened buildings, snapped trees and tossed tractor-trailers like toys as it touched down in Joplin, Missouri, on Sunday night, causing an unknown number of deaths and injuries. "I would sa...
At least 30 people have been killed - and an unknown number injured and trapped - after a tornado nearly one mile wide ripped through Joplin in Missouri. Newton County Coroner Mark Bridges confirmed the n...
It's been one long series of natural disasters this year - and now it looks like another is on the way. The focus may soon be shifting from the epic flooding in the Mississippi Valley to Westwern states ...
Thirteen people were killed in two coal mine accidents in China at the weekend, state media said Monday -- the latest fatal incidents to strike the nation's notoriously dangerous collieries. In the centra...
A marine cadet found hanged after allegedly being bullied at school would still be alive if his family’s concerns had been listened to, it has been claimed. Brendon Flynn, 13, took his own life after repo...
Syrian security forces have shot dead at least five people after opening fire on a massive funeral procession for eight anti-government protesters killed the day before. The violence took place in Homs at...
Less than a third of convicted muggers and car thieves end up in jail, figures reveal. Thanks to the rise of community sentences, just over half of drug dealers go to prison – and only 43 per cent of thos...
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*'What's going on?'* Concerned friends and family called us last weekend asking this after seeing a few glimpses on their TV screens of massive demonstrations in Madrid. 'What is this *Spanish Spring* sup...
Airline passengers are facing potential travel chaos amid fears that ash from a newly erupting Icelandic volcano could reach Britain tomorrow. Forecasters said the plume from the Grimsvotn volcano could be...
*Your humble correspondent's holographic modification of gravity for low accelerations passes a quantitative test* Sean Carroll mentions a preprint arguing that it's been experimentally demonstrated tha...
This spring is on course to be the hottest since records began 100 years ago. And despite the prospect of showers over the next few days, forecasters say there is still no sign of the heavy rain needed to...
*Douglas Hurd, formerly the government minister in charge of MI6, with Sir John Sawers, currently head of MI6. Douglas Hurd is the father of Thomas Hurd. (With Douglas Hurd... the Speedo spy chief Mail On...
As a child, I remember being fascinated by ladybirds. They were everywhere with their armour-like wings that formed a shield when folded. I used to be like every other child - I would hold a ladybird del...
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Biased BBC - 9 hours ago
A bit of a revolution is going on in Canada. The Conservatives won a thumping election majority on May 3, and new premier Stephen Harper has wasted no time in cutting taxes, asserting national sovereignty ...
As you can see in the right sidebar of this blog, the maximum instantaneous luminosity that the ATLAS detector has experienced so is 1100/μb/s = 34.7/fb/year. So each major detector has surpassed 1/nb du...
*CANADIAN POLITICS:* *MARCH WITH OCAP AND CUPE THIS THURSDAY:* This appeal from the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) asks you to join the 'Raise the Rates' contingent at the upcoming Canadian...
Less than a month after a tornado outbreak devastated the U.S. southeast, a deadly twister touched down in the town of Joplin on Sunday.
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CENSORED NEWS - 10 hours ago
*BEN POWLESS PHOTOS UN PERMANENT FORUM 2011* Photos copyright Ben Powless. Special thanks to Mohawk youth photographer Ben Powless for allowing Censored News to post these photos from the UN Permanent...
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...
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 ...
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*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...
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CENSORED NEWS - 15 hours ago
*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...
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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...
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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...
To D-fox: if you're reading this, please contact us at thecomingcrisis@gmail.com. It's important -- we believe.
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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wmtc - 1 day ago
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...
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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Broken of Britain - 1 day ago
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...
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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...
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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. E...
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...
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It’s easy to become cynical in today’s world, especially for those who follow current events and have a desire to stay informed. Too many people are blind or dulled to both the great evil and goodness in t...
*Target:* President Barack Obama, United States Congress Members, Administrators of the EPA* Sponsored by:* Concerned Citizens - Lucas Whitefield HixsonThis data verifies the risk of bioaccumulation of rad...
Failure by the U.S. to get its fiscal house in order will trigger financial consequences that will “dwarf Lehman Brothers” and seriously diminish the nation’s role as a world economic leader, Jamie Dimon t...
*The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire*. That’s basically how one can summarize the situation in Europe. Several (South) European countries are on the brink of collapse. Greece is as near bankruptcy as...
The euro and stock markets across Europe have fallen, with the eurozone debt crisis showing no sign of abating. Borrowing costs for heavily indebted governments also rose further, with Italy and Spain su...
Investors have taken the old Wall Street adage of "Sell in May, then go away" to heart this year, and the stock market's slump is likely to persist during the last week of the month. The Dow (INDU), S&P 5...
For a people to be free, they must first be honest with themselves, their government, and the world at large. History is filled with stories of free nations that fell under the spell cast by their governme...
“…*where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty*.” – 2nd Corinthians 3:17 Throughout history societies have developed, flourished, and collapsed; human nature has remained the same for eons. The pag...
Harold Camping came out of hiding briefly yesterday after his predicted rapture did not come to pass, appearing at the front door of his Alameda home to tell the *San Francisco Chronicle* he had "a really ...
By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Photo copyright Ben Powless: Clyde Bellecourt and Tony Gonzales at UN Permanent Forum 2011. NEW YORK -- Clyde Bellecourt, founder of the A...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoIt's been one long series of natural disasters this year - and now it looks like another is on the way. The focus may soon be shifting from the epic flooding in the Mississippi Valley to Westwern states ...
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