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Learn moreBritain's economy made a sluggish start to the year as an improved trade performance was more than offset by the sharpest fall in household spending since the recession, revised estimates of first-quarter ...
This morning when I heard Keffer on NPR exclaiming that Texas would be the first state to require 100% disclosure of hydraulic fracturing fluids, this happened.So, I want to publicly thank Kate Galbraith and...
By Ai Lung Nguyen - May 2011. CARS - Compared to decades ago the number of people who die in car accidents have dropped dramatically. Let us start in Canada, where the death toll is at its lowest level si...
*Mark Fiore* "*Tea Bag -- because other languages are just too hard!*" *by Ken* Yesterday on DailyKos Markos introduced the latest addition to the DK Comics lineup (updating my last post on the subject),...
“If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, it must be a duck.” This week, the TSA and federal government threatened the Texas state legislature to halt legislation that would class...
Tired of courtship rituals that never go anywhere? Are you a lonely lobster tired of looking for love in an sea crowded with other males, or a female fish who thinks she'll never spawn with Mr. Right? Well...
Oprah Winfrey turned a talk show into a media empire and became an entertainment icon in the process.
Alex Calls Upon All Texans to March on State Capital!! Texans Take to Capitol, Demand Representatives Resist TSA Tyranny Paul Joseph Watson and Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com May 25, 2011 Earlier today, Alex J...
A Hawksbill turtle swimming off Hondurus. Photo courtesy: Wikipedia Baby turtles are hardwired to swim the second they feel weightless. If you pick up a newly-hatched turtle using one finger on each side o...
The discovery counters the widely held belief that whale sharks, which can weigh more than 79,000 pounds, are solitary animals.
Remember SB 875? The bill that started out this session by taking away your right to protect your property from pollution is back. Due to citizen pressure, the bill, written by Senator Troy Fraser, was am...
*Environmentalists Against War* May 25, 2011 Sam Husseini / Washington Stakeout *The United States is supposed to be a country in which everyone is free to speak their mind without fear or equivocation. ...
Judge rules Jared Lee Loughner incompetent to stand trialLos Angeles Times | May 25, 2011 | 12:20 p.m. A federal judge ruled Wednesday that Jared Lee Loughner was incompetent to stand trial, all but ending,...
This post was reader contributed.
Greenpeace has found high levels of phthalates banned by the EU and the US in children’s products and toys made from vinyl plastic (also called polyvinyl chloride, or PVC) on the Chinese market. Phthalates...
White nose syndrome, a devastating disease that has killed more than one million bats in the Northeast, has been found in Maine, the last New England state to discover it, wildlife officials said on Tuesda...
Overfishing, oil slicks, acidification — the world’s oceans, which cover 71 percent of the planet’s surface, face plenty of environmental problems. As I note in this Green Column, we’ve added another serio...
A new study aimed at refining the way scientists measure ice loss in Greenland is providing a "high-definition picture" of climate-caused changes on the island. And the picture isn't pretty. In the last...
*Germany's consumer minister expressed deep concern Wednesday at an outbreak of poisoning by dangerous bacteria believed to have killed three women and left hundreds ill. * "This is really worrying," Ilse ...
China is now South Africa's biggest trading partner. But cheap Chinese imports are threatening local industries and thousands of ordinary South Africans are paying the price. Trade between South Africa ...
Two of the damaged reactors at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan may be riddled with holes, according to the facility's owner. The holes may be as big as 7 to 10 centimeters ( 2...
A campaign has been launched on Facebook calling for men to beat Saudi women who drive their cars in a planned protest next month against the ultra-conservative kingdom's ban on women taking the wheel. T...
This post was reader contributed.
Greenpeace has found high levels of phthalates banned by the EU and the US in children’s products and toys made from vinyl plastic (also called polyvinyl chloride, or PVC) on the Chinese market. Phthalates...
White nose syndrome, a devastating disease that has killed more than one million bats in the Northeast, has been found in Maine, the last New England state to discover it, wildlife officials said on Tuesda...
Overfishing, oil slicks, acidification — the world’s oceans, which cover 71 percent of the planet’s surface, face plenty of environmental problems. As I note in this Green Column, we’ve added another serio...
A new study aimed at refining the way scientists measure ice loss in Greenland is providing a "high-definition picture" of climate-caused changes on the island. And the picture isn't pretty. In the last...
*Germany's consumer minister expressed deep concern Wednesday at an outbreak of poisoning by dangerous bacteria believed to have killed three women and left hundreds ill. * "This is really worrying," Ilse ...
Two of the damaged reactors at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan may be riddled with holes, according to the facility's owner. The holes may be as big as 7 to 10 centimeters ( 2...
A campaign has been launched on Facebook calling for men to beat Saudi women who drive their cars in a planned protest next month against the ultra-conservative kingdom's ban on women taking the wheel. T...
I'll be honest... I started three posts for today and gave up on all three of them because I just wasn't feeling it. It is summer and the sun is shining (finally, after all the rain we've gotten here in my...
Hello everyone, You know the menu bar above the posts that says, "Home, About Us..." and so on? Could you let us know if "Contact Us" at the very end fits within the column, or if it's hanging off the edg...
by Duane Craig Residents in Franklin, Massachusetts, are tired of the delays in getting a former jewelry manufacturing site cleaned up from contamination potentially going back to 1900. One resident says ...
*Today Republicans are angry that Obama didn't fail & that the auto bailout worked* There was a lot of celebrating in Detroit yesterday-- not to mention at the White House-- when it was announced that Chr...
[image: A man and a boy made homeless by the devastating Pakistan floods wade through floodwater in the village of Baseera, in Punjab province, 23 August 2010. Daniel Berehulak / guardian.co.uk] Contact...
*Indigenous Environmental Network* *Statement on Agenda Item 7 – The Right to Water and Indigenous Peoples * *10th Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues* *May 24, 2011* Tar Sands. *Read by...
Photo by Ben Powless, Mohawk *FREE, PRIOR AND INFORMED CONSENT* *Indigenous Environmental Network Statement * *United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues* *May 16th to May 27th, 2011* *UN Headqua...
[image: A shredded American flag stands in the wreckage of a church in Joplin, Missouri, 24 May 2011. AP / telegraph.co.uk] By Bill McKibben 23 May 2011 Caution: It is vitally important not to make conn...
Research that has followed a group of people since infancy reveals strong links between childhood and adolescent relationships to later romantic life.
Tears in microgravity sure can be a hassle when you're on a spacewalk, as one astronaut found out today.
(With a tip of the porkpie to Tom Stoppard. Jesus, can't a guy even use a metaphor any more?) A triple-barrelled meme generator, starting with this piece yesterday by Lawrence Martin. It was picked up b...
[image: Fighting for life in the Fukushima exclusion zone: The bodies of dead horses lie rotting under the hay as one who survived turns its head toward the camera, 12 April 2011. Getty Images / dailymai...
Nude Socialist discusses whether the electron is egg-shaped. I honestly couldn't figure out what they were really talking about before I looked at the paper in *Nature*, Improved measurement of the shap...
President Barack Obama today reaffirmed the special relationship between Britain and America as 'one of the oldest and one of the strongest alliances the world has ever known', as he made a keynote speech ...
[image: The dried up Yangtze river in southwest China's Chongqing municipality. The severe drought has forced a massive release of water from China's Three Gorges reservoir for irrigation and drinking wa...
[image: GBIF database information about the spatial and temporal evolution of nitrophilous herbaceous plants (186 taxa), mosses (44 taxa) and lichens (78 taxa) in Spain from 1900 to 2008. Nordin, et al.,...
A "Reply to All" gaffe reported by Radio Five Live producer Rhian Roberts on Twitter: Nice work chap, whoever you are. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
* by Barbara Loe Fisher* Memorial Day is for remembering those, who have fought and died to defend America and preserve our civil liberties, including freedom of thought, speech, religious belief and co...
[image: A meadow of eelgrass. Image courtesy of Virginia Institute of Marine Science] ScienceDaily (May 25, 2011) — A team of 21 researchers from 11 nations, including professor Robert "JJ" Orth of the ...
Earth and Venus may have protected Mars from planet-building impacts common in the solar system's early days.
The bizarre animal with spiny head appendages, body blades and jointed legs thrived in the oceans 542 to 472 million years ago.
[image: A fishing boat is stranded on the cracked bed of Poyang Lake in Jiujiang, East China's Jiangxi province, 4 May 2011. Poyang Lake is at its lowest level in more than 50 years. The lake is drying u...
El Salvador Mayor UN Permanent Forum 2011 Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
As I've said all along, this was the obvious choice for interim leader. Rae is a gifted politician, and will keep the party relevent while it rebuilds. *Liberals name Bob Rae interim chief* Bob Rae says t...
*This is what the GOP is using to wreck Michigan* Most normal people look at the Republican presidential primary lineup and recoil in horror-- or just shrug it off as a freak show or circus act. With Ging...
As sea ice melts, managing Arctic fisheries emerges as an important issue.
In 1996, a storm blew up suddenly, stranding him and colleagues in the so-called "death zone."
Update: *The World Organisation for Animal Health declared today that rinderpest is now eradicated from the surface of the Earth. At the organisation's 79th annual general session in Paris, France, it was ...
A large number of dead fish have been found floating in the Manasi Ganga lake in the past three days resulting in difficulties for devotees visiting the Mukut Mukharbind temple situated adjacent to the lak...
A satellite survey of Egypt has uncovered lost treasures including 17 pyramids and more than 1,000 tombs. Three thousand ancient settlements have also been located by scientists who studied infrared image...
While Barack Obama is chugging Guinness and Congress is doing… well not much of anything, we’ve breached the US debt ceiling. That’s correct, the US now has more debt than is legally permitted. We’d cross...
Seventeen lost pyramids are among the buildings identified in a new satellite survey of Egypt. More than 1,000 tombs and 3,000 ancient settlements were also revealed by looking at infra-red images which...
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling Monday ordering California to release nearly 40,000 of its 143,435 inmates has the state in a panic as officials scramble to figure out what happens next. The SCOTUS ruling ...
A new report paints a stark picture of the toll on the U.S. military of almost a decade of war: higher stress and lower morale. The report, released Thursday at the Pentagon, relied on questions to soldi...
It's cost $600 billion of your money. And it was supposed to rescue the economy. But has Ben Bernanke's huge financial stimulus package, known as "Quantitative Easing 2," actually worked as planned? QE2 i...
The word "comic" typically conjures up images of muscly men in colorful tights who possess superhuman powers. But over the last few decades a growing number of artists have used the medium of graphic nov...
A red-crested tree rat, a rodent about the size of a guinea pig, has been sighted for the first time in decades. The relatively unknown creature made a casual reappearance in a Colombian nature reserve aft...
Right now, we are witnessing a truly historic collapse of the economy, and yet most Americans do not understand what is going on. One of the biggest reasons why the American people do not understand what i...
Idaho Anti-Semite Resurfaces in New Mexico With New Name, Same Views: "Recently released after several years in federal prison, Richard Vincent Bertollini has moved across the country and changed his name in...
*Over the past five months, I have been adding updates to my article, "The Phantom Menace: Fantasies, Falsehoods, and Fear-Mongering about Iran's Nuclear Program," whenever new predictions and allegations ...
"Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits but according to who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage -- torture, the use of hostages, forced labour, mass deportations, impris...
European neo-Nazi websites find home in US: "The website is awash with neo-Nazi symbolism and even sarcastically refers to the notorious Mauthausen concentration camp as Austria's largest open-air museum.But...
Justice Department Wins First Conviction Under Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act: "A federal jury recently convicted an Arkansas man of committing hate crimes against five Hispan...
U.N. rights chief raps Australia on refugees, racism: "The United Nations' top human rights watchdog on Wednesday attacked Australia's tough refugee policies and the treatment of outback Aborigines, saying t...
I've held off commenting on Liberal leadership timing because it's been so hard to figure out what's going on. If it wasn't for Jane Taber, I'd really have no idea what was being discussed or debated. For...
[image: A boy in Atlántico, Colombia walks through his flooded town after torrential rains in December 2010. The unprecedented flooding affected some three million people in Colombia. Credit: UN Office f...
As Missouri residents still reeled from a devastating tornado, more twisters strike neighboring states.
I was sorely disappointed to learn after first daughter's flawless wedding last Saturday that the photographers will not have any pictures available for *weeks*! I didn't take any myself and so have nothi...
For Immediate Release: 8:00AM Wednesday May 25thFor more Info: Jim Schermbeck - 806.787.6567- schermbeck@aol.com"Industry has run out of excuses to not do the right thing," says clean air group. Demands Sta...
[image: Temporary storage tank for radioactive water at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. In order to cool the fuel rods, water has been continually pumped in and radioactive water has been pumped out...
It's time for America to move into the 21st century, and one way to make that happen is by electing leaders unbound by the hypocrisies of the past. Nick Ruiz was the very first congressional candidate Bl...
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CENSORED NEWS - 14 hours ago
Photo Censored News *Líl’wat, St’át’imc, in New York at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.* By Lil'wat, St'at'imc Vancouver, BC Censored News NEW YORK -- A delegation from Líl’wa...
With the Dead Sea drying up as a result of rising water demand, the historic body of water may one day disappear.
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wmtc - 15 hours ago
I'll be spending the next few days with several things I am passionate about: baseball, socialism, good friends - and Allan. Today we're heading to Windsor, having dinner with "Gito and Mrtew", then tomo...
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Broken of Britain - 17 hours ago
Residents of Atlanta, Ga., were treated to a rare event on Friday night: a 2-meter wide chunk of cometary material entered the atmosphere right above their heads.
James Corbett The Corbett Report 15 February, 2011
A real revolution starting in our own backyards. by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand May 25, 2011 - The current system, domineered by corrupt, career politicians and the corporations and banks that mana...
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- 18 hours ago
*A major hurricane season ahead* for the USA, already being battered by numerous spectacular tornadoes leaving scores of people dead and missing. A huge, high cloud of volcanic ashes hanging over Northern...
A mother who has been arrested for murdering her two young children before trying to commit suicide told the 911 operator they were in heaven. Kelli Lynn Murphy, 41, was treated at hospital for wounds to h...
Two cops have sparked outrage after allegedly throwing a disabled man out of his wheelchair so he slammed face first into the sidewalk. The Washington D.C. officers allegedly picked up Dwight Harris and fo...
Violent thunderstorms roared across the Midwest on Tuesday, killing seven people in two states, with several tornadoes touching down in Oklahoma and high winds pounding rural Kansas. The high-powered stor...
The names and faces of the victims of the tornado which ravaged Joplin, Missouri, have emerged today along with terrifying stories from those who saw their families and friends swept into the deadly twiste...
High-flying bugs in the atmosphere may largely be to blame for bad weather, scientists believe. Numerous bacteria have been found concentrated in the centre of hailstones. The discovery suggests that airb...
Four celebrities at the centre of the Twitter row over Ryan Giggs's affair with Imogen Thomas were named today as being Piers Morgan, Dom Joly, Toby Young and DJ Boy George. The quartet, who between them ...
The founder of Facebook says he will ‘fight’ to allow under-13s to use the social networking website – despite warnings it would put the most vulnerable children at risk. At present, those under 13 are ba...
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Biased BBC - 19 hours ago
Can you imagine the coverage the BBC would have provided had George W Bush signed the WRONG YEAR in a visitor's book at Westminster Abbey or entirely fluffed a toast to Her Majesty? But when Obama does it,...
Two sick teenagers repeatedly bit a friend in a vampire-style attack on a mountainside that left their victim mentally unstable. James Orr and Xenia Borichevsky, both 19, bit the victim, who cannot be nam...
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Biased BBC - 19 hours ago
Mid-week and time for a new open thread! Are you enjoying the BBC's sycophantic coverage of The One's visit? Any other issues bothering you? Let me know...! Click through to read and contribute comments ...
Astonishingly beautiful, this is the most detailed image of particle jets erupting from a super-massive black hole yet captured. It shows a region in the nearby galaxy of Centaurus A that is just under 4.2...
Britain is poised to deploy Apache helicopters against Colonel Gaddafi's forces, as Nato warplanes battered Tripoli this morning with some of the heaviest air strikes yet. Apaches stationed onboard HMS Oc...
Armed teams of British Transport Police are to patrol the railways and London Underground to counter the terrorist threat - currently at its second highest level. Until now BTP officers have not carried w...
A mother has been charged for trying to sell her 13-year-old daughter's virginity for $10,000. Felicia Rea McClure's alleged proposal was discovered by her boyfriend Richard Glazer, who found a series of ...
Everyone wishes they could turn back the clock sometimes, and it turns out Barack Obama is no different. He got the date wrong by three years when he signed the guestbook at Westminster Abbey today on his...
Whatever the problem, whatever the cruelty, whatever the injustice - look for the money. Unfortunately, the love of money has no boundaries it won't break; no living creature it won't destroy; no crime i...
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Biased BBC - 21 hours ago
Energy companies, thank God, are not consumed with green lunacy to the extent that they have stopped exploring for new resources. Cairn Energy, for example, is a UK success story which is making £1bn a yea...
As I wrote in December 2009, January 2010, and March 2010, the chieftains of Micronesia decided to start lawsuits against the Czech coal power plant in Prunéřov because, according to the wildest prediction...
*"Just a kid; that's all he is; a regular boy. Get what I mean? Don't know the meanin' o' bad habits. Never tasted liquor in his life and would prob'bly get sick if he smelled it. Clean livin' put him up ...
An outstanding piece of poetry that sums up Bankster thinking.
WALL STREET has Highjacked Washington and the Banksters make merry on the bail outs given to THEM and NOT THE AMERICAN MIDDLE AND LOWER CLASSES!
Beware the China bubble because until hedge funds have found a way of directly shorting the soaring economy it will remain unchecked, says Greg Zuckerman, author of The Greatest Trade Ever. Mr Zuckerman's...
A damaging political stalemate is threatening to plunge Greece deeper into crisis as hopes of cross-party support for further austerity measures were dashed on Tuesday by the main opposition leader. Anton...
Police in Mexico seize a three-tonne homemade tank from the Zetas gang amid an escalation in drug-related violence. Police found the tank during a raid on a remote ranch in Jalisco, western Mexico. The...
Tonight Mayor Calvin Tillman handed the mayor's gavel over to William Sciscoe.I taped Calvin's speech but the sound of heavy raid and thunder makes it inaudible. Here is Sciscoe's touching speech instead.May...
[image: Workers sample radioactive materials in the air above the reactor building of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Unit 4, 23 May 2011. TEPCO] By arevamirpal::laprimavera 24 May 2011 So says...
*The Right to Water and Indigenous Peoples * *UNPFII 10th Session 16-27 May 2011* *American Indian Law Alliance 11 Broadway, 2nd Floor New York, NY 10004 Email: aila@ailanyc.org * *United Nations Perman...
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wmtc - 1 day ago
It comes as no surprise that NBA great - and peace-loving Canadian - Steve Nash supports same-sex marriage. But it's damn great to hear him say it. Does anyone know of a list or compilation of all the N...
The Alex Jones Show: World War III by Quasi Stealth - Part 1: Part 2: Part 3:
NASA has confirmed news that was as inevitable as it was unwelcome: orbiting Mars satellites will cease search operations for the fallen rover at the end of the month.
*Want to see Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC), a creature who may never in his life have knowingly spoken a word of truth, call Elizabeth Warren a liar?* *by Ken* Patrick McHenry, of course is an old *DWT* fa...
So the climate-change debate is roaring on thanks to the disastrous increase of tornadoes, flooding, earthquakes,tsunamis and such occuring all over the planet. While most of what I am seeing lately is w...
When dogs drink, water looks like it is standing in mid-air before the dog gulps it. But how does that happen?
Of the170 multiple-planet systems of two or more planets found so far by Kepler, many have remarkably flat orbits.
[image: Aerial view of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. ALBERTO CESAR / GREENPEACE] By Raymond Colitt; Editing by Stuart Grudgings 24 May 2011 BRASILIA (Reuters) - An Amazon rainforest activist a...
The tombs house the men who once made up Tut's inner circle, including his treasurer, his butler and more.
Bacteria could be to blame for bad weather and may even influence climate change.
The US is spending $4 billion a day more than it is taking in, putting the country on an unsustainable fiscal path perpetuated by both Democrats and Republicans, according to David Walker, head of the Come...
Most analysts have missed the fact that QE3 has already started in earnest. Of course, it would have been easy to miss. Ben Bernanke has not made any grand pronouncements. He hasn’t done some public thinki...
The White House is stepping up its rapid response media operation, creating a communications position to respond to unfavorable stories on the Web, the Huffington Post reports. HuffPo’s Sam Stein writes ...
It's like a flash mob gone bad. Security footage from a Manhattan Dunkin' Donuts shows a group of youths climbing on counters, throwing chairs and throwing tables in a violent attack on workers. It happ...
A Salt Lake City woman has been charged with offering her 13-year-old daughter's virginity to a man for $10,000. The 32-year-old woman was charged Monday in Utah's 3rd District Court with two first-degre...
Lee Min kyong stretches on the ballet bar in the dance studio. The 12-year old is a little awkward and nervous in front of strangers, until the music begins. Min-kyong moves to the classical tune, sprin...
At least two people were killed and many more injured Tuesday afternoon after tornadoes and severe storms punished counties west and south of Oklahoma City, officials said. Canadian County Sheriff Randal...
Addison County, Vermont, is on an accelerated witch hunt for potential contamination sources so it can maintain its low level of toxic contamination, and can take advantage of $100,000 in Environmental ...
I didn't think I'd be mentioning Tim Pawlenty so soon again after Steve's rip of Pawlenty's tea party ad for his own election campaign, but for the *third time in five days* the G&M has run a story on TeaP...
Virtually *everything* about Minnesota Republican Michele Bachmann's extreme right, Know Nothing political reeks of all the classic strains of anti-Semitism. Except, anti-Semitism is no longer in fashio...
This tropical bat likely evolved from ancestors that marooned on a Caribbean island.
A new threshold for flying around volcanic ash plumes will lead to less delays and cancellations during the current Icelandic eruption.
A new study suggests that images accompanying news stories about obesity may promote stigma, but there's reason for caution.
It seems like only yesterday that I was sitting here having a bitter laugh at the book Bad News From Israel. Actually, it was only yesterday (or the day before.) Anyway, now the authors have brought out th...
Being overweight can hurt a woman in the workplace, according to a new study.
A fungus blamed for killing more than a million bats in the US since 2006 has been found to differ only slightly from an apparently harmless European version. The minor genetic differences could hold the k...
GENEVA — The Swiss government says it has extended an asset freeze for senior Syrian officials to include the country's President Bashar Assad. The Swiss Cabinet says banks must now declare any assets belo...
I love garlic mashed potatoes. I could seriously eat an entire batch of them. I came up with this recipe back when we were newly married and I was craving Outback but didn't have one close by. You will n...
by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy When the Zapruder film was, at last, released to the public, Dan Rather of CBS described what he had seen in these words: 'back and to the left'! He was referring of...
Crossing someone's palm with gold or silver could soon become more than just a figure of speech. It has already become a reality in one state as Utah legislators became the first in the country this month...
Photo Klee Benally/Indigenous Action Media *Ski Area Pipeline Construction Threatens Holy San Francisco Peaks* *By Klee Benally* *www.indigenousaction.org* Published at Censored News French translat...
Satellite images reveal the extent of illegal logging near the home of Paraguayan Aboriginals is caught on camera by satellite.
Cars belonging to journalists and photographers camped outside the home of Manchester United footballer Ryan Giggs have been vandalised. A group of masked men pulled up in a transit van to the street in W...
The Testimony of Douglas Wollmar by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand May 24, 2011 - While misguided youth light their cities on fire around the world, clashing with local police and battling with their ...
Yesterday I was a guest on Nicole Sandler's program, and one of the topics we discussed was why the DCCC and DSCC back such dreadful candidates, who are such unconvincing champions of working families. Ni...
People who go to museums and concerts or create art or play an instrument are more satisfied with their lives, a study finds.
The operator of Japan's damaged nuclear power plant said today that fuel rods inside three of the facility's reactors probably melted in the days immediately after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The...
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A tiny camera that could be embedded in your clothing detects interactions on your palm and uses the info to control your phone.
Given the right temperature and wind, car noise can be bent and then plopped down near residents far from highways.
Muslim activists descended on Downing Street today in protest at Barack Obama's state visit to London. As the president met David Cameron in Whitehall, an angry crowd of burka clad women as well as protes...
A student who stabbed her mother five times said she was 'possessed' by her grandmother has been allowed by a judge to walk free from court. Teenager Lorraine Mbulawa was convicted of unlawful wounding aft...
Large swarms of locusts have laid waste to vast tracts of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, with authorities expecting the plague to worsen as the weather heats up. The locust plague be...
The number of Canadian soldiers helping flood victims along Quebec's Richelieu River doubled to about 500 in the past day as water levels hit a record high. Winds from the south of up to 80 kilometres an...
*TENTH SESSION OF THE **UNITED NATIONS PERMANENT FORUM ON INDIGENOUS ISSUES* The Doctrine of Discovery is directly responsible for the disproportionate levels of incarceration, the violent assaults commit...
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he wants the social networking site to let children under the age of 13 use it. At the moment that age limit is dictated by the Children's Online Privacy Pro...
In the aftermath of the deadliest tornado to strike the United States in almost 60 years, hard-hit Joplin, Mo., is bracing for a possible second punch Tuesday. A single twister in Joplin on Saturday kill...
Airlines and air traffic controllers across Europe watched and waited nervously Tuesday as a cloud of volcanic ash spread east and south from Iceland, threatening to disrupt flights on a wide scale. The...
The European Commission is planning to reform the EU's fishing industry by giving vessels quota shares guaranteed for periods of at least 15 years. The commission will issue a proposal on reforming the Co...
It was an era that defined a generation. The Great Depression marked the bitter and abrupt end to the post-World War 1 bubble that left America giddy with promise in the 1920s. Near the end of the 1930s th...
Janice Tunnicliffe spends every night playing Scrabble by candlelight with her husband because she claims to have a rare condition called electrosensitivity. She cannot bear to be anywhere near electro...
One in three university students in the German capital would consider sex work as a means to finance their education, a study from the Berlin Studies Center said Wednesday. The figure in Berlin, where pr...
Give this video by Rodney Atkinson some of your time. Whilst discussing the EU it also does mention the BBC's censorship of Churchill between 37-39. It's interesting to compare Rodney's dissection of the E...
I am sure that the Monty Python team would never get away with their "Bruces" sketch in this politically correct BBC era. I note that the BBC was trawling an item here which alleges that Aborigines in ur...
Poetry for Palestine The Spider’s Web The Spider’s Web The *ADL* and other Jewish Zionist organizations continue to agitate the public with the scarecrow of anti-Semitism attempting to suppress truth abou...
The Bible’s Prescriptive, Open-Ended, and Universal Commandments to Wage Holy War and Enslave Infidels (III): " This is page III of IV. To return to page I, go here. To return to page II, go here. No am...
There has been a lot of talk about Liberal Party renewal since election night. Which is encouraging - after a punch to gut like that, it's easy to give up, but it sounds like there's a real appetite out th...
Here's a list of sponsors for 2009 Heartland Institute Conference: http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institutes-2009-climate-conference-new-york-funding-history-sponsors So I guess one question would b...
*Blogger's Note:* As is well known to those who have been following stolen elections in the U.S., Ron Paul was the winner of the GOP 2008 Iowa straw poll, according to *a professionally run exit poll*. In ...
[*En Español*. RI says that if you enable captions in the player, you’ll see subtitles, but this hasn’t worked for Desdemona.] By Alice Thomas 19 May 2011 *Unprecedented rain that has hammered Colombia ...
Two species enter; one species leaves. Don't bet against the beetle.
On Metro Morning today, Matt Galloway talked to police union boss Mike McCormack about the nameless asshole who broke Dorian Barton's arm at the G20 last summer, and about the SIU's investigation coming to...
Tornado researchers can't yet explain why some storms are strong, others weak, some small and others are mile-wide giants.
Dutch Catholic Priest Pedophilia Endorsement Shocks Church: " Robert Spencer's co-religionist supports pedophilia. Will we be seeing this story on JihadWatch? Imagine if these priests were Muslim, Islam wo...
My Take: This just in, Tennessee court says Islam is a religion: " Editor’s Note: Stephen Prothero, a Boston University religion scholar and author of “God is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions that Run the ...
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wmtc - 1 day ago
My annual Movie Season post is appearing later and later every year, but at long last, I've carved out the time to write it. We started out with TV serieses and comedies this year, especially a massive L...
This past weekend's Wisconsin Republican Party convention in the Dells was a real mess-- especially for Tommy Thompson's apparently stillborn Senate campaign-- but the state's extremely controversial gov...
We've already landed spacecraft on the moon, but can we do it on the cheap?
The BBC mentioned it once but they think they got away with it. The US administration is examining the legality of continuing in the Nato-led Libya campaign beyond Friday. The War Powers Resolution, passe...
When you change the URL of a blogspot blog, the permalink (individual post URL) also changes and if the blog already has incoming backlinks, these links will become dead links (page not found). So if you a...
The boss of Ryanair has claimed there was "no volcanic ash material over Scotland" after one of the airline's planes was flown through a "high concentration zone" and returned unaffected. The Irish airlin...
According to a local Venezuelan news agency, an explosion took place Monday at the state-owned Cardon oil refinery, which has been offline since a power outage in mid-May. The blast took place in a furna...
TEHRAN, Iran - An explosion has rocked Iran's largest oil refinery as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was about to arrive at the site for a scheduled visit. The semi-official Fars news agency says the explo...
The preacher who predicted the end of the world has taken to the airwaves to reveal why we are all still here. Harold Camping, 89, said he was 'astounded' when May 21 came and went without the Rapture. B...
There will be widespread disruption to flights to and from Scotland today as ash from an Icelandic volcano reaches Britain. *Eurocontrol*, the European air traffic control agency, said a total of 252 fli...
Since the first plea for help came over a Florida Keys radio station, hundreds of volunteers have worked around the clock to save pilot whales that mysteriously stranded in shallow waters. The massive eff...
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*The Icelandic Met Office* reported on May 21: "An eruption began at Grímsvötn volcano at approximately 17:30 UTC, May 21st 2011. Eruptions in Grímsvötn start as subglacial eruptions, which quickly break...
Thousands of dead fish are washing up on West Ship Island, and it's unclear how long it will take to start picking them up. The Sandy Point was carrying the menhaden also known as pogy fish when it collide...
Thousands of dead walleye are washing ashore. The dead fish have been located on the beaches of Lake Erie, primarily from Oak Harbor to the islands. Biologists with the Ohio Department of Natural Reso...
It's a strange phenomenon: hundreds of dead fish piling up along the Ogeechee River, and no one knows what killed them. The dead fish have been spotted along the Ogeechee River in Screven, Bullochand Brya...
The inner-core of Earth is simultaneously melting and freezing due to circulation of heat in the overlying rocky mantle, according to researchers. Their findings could help scientists understand how the i...
Millions of people in Europe, the Middle-East and Asia are at risk from deadly tremors which can strike out of the blue in unmapped earthquake zones, scientists warned last night. Attention should be focu...
Nato warplanes were repeatedly hitting Tripoli early today in what appeared to be the heaviest night of bombing of the Libyan capital since the start of the air campaign against Muammar Gaddafi's forces. ...
A study shows white Americans feel they are more discriminated against than blacks. Sociologists from Harvard and Tufts universities asked 209 White and 208 black men and women to rate 'racism' against bo...
A couple in rural Washington face charges of criminal mistreatment and assault after allegedly starving their five adopted children to near-fatal levels. Jeffrey and Rebecca Trebilcock, both 44, were arre...
(Image) Funnel clouds gather above Topeka, Kansas, during a number of freak tornadoes which ravaged the south coast over the weekend. After the devastating floods which left part of the state under water, ...
(Image) This 6ft-long fruit-eating lizard is on a list of 10 new species drawn up by scientists. A 'T-Rex' leech with enormous teeth, a 6ft-long fruit-eating lizard and a glowing tree fungus are on a top ...
From a safe distance, the blue-tinted mass on the horizon of Jupiter's volcanic moon has a mesmerising beauty. However these destructive eruptions put the 12-mile-high mushroom cloud currently emitting fr...
Two people have been killed by falling trees in separate tragedies as gale-force winds battered much of Britain today. A woman died after the car she was travelling in was hit by a falling tree in Corbrid...
Thousands of people were left without homes to go tonight after the deadliest single tornado to strike the United States in over 60 years touched down on Missouri, reducing the city of Joplin to rubble, ri...
Politics can be a stressful business. But thankfully British politicians have always showed a little more restraint than this hot-tempered official in Ukraine. Vice speaker of the Ukrainian parliament Ada...
Traces of Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s sperm have been found on the dress of the chamber maid he allegedly raped, it emerged tonight. Police sources in Paris revealed that they had been sent DNA samples from ...
A gang of four Muslim men launched a horrific attack on an RE teacher because they did not approve of him teaching religious studies to Muslim girls, a court heard yesterday. Gary Smith, 28, was left with...
Tens of thousands of internet users flouting injunctions were last night warned they could be in for a ‘rude shock’. Attorney General Dominic Grieve said that until MPs decided to overhaul privacy legisla...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] A *U.S.* government team flew to *North Korea* to assess food shortages Tuesday, while the country's cloistered leader Kim Jong Il allegedly traveled to an eas...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] He down a pint of Guinness with a far-away cousin and checked out centuries-old parish records tracing his family to Ireland. From the tiny village of Money ga...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] *NATO* warplanes bombard targets in Tripoli with more than 20 airstrikes early Tuesday, striking around *Moammar Gadhafi's* housing complex in what appeared to...
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] Israel's prime minister assured to present his vision for an * Israeli-Palestinian* peace in a talking before *U.S.* lawmakers on Tuesday, but vowed his country...
The rate of particle collisions in the world's largest particle accelerator has multiplied 10-fold in the space of a month.
Banksters Committ THE GREATEST ROBBERY! The greatest hypocrites are The US and the mass murdering Zionist stooges in office, like HITLERY CLINTON.
To the BBC, the opening of Britain's loony "green bank" - a new way to waste billions of our cash - is clearly a cause for unqualified celebration and cue for the usual carping greenie comment about the me...
NATO aircraft launched more than a dozen strikes on the Libyan capital early Tuesday, and smoke could be seen rising from the area near Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's Bab-al-Azizia compound in Tripoli. ...
The Supreme Court has affirmed a federal order telling California to reduce its overflowing prison population, a situation the majority said "falls below the standard of decency." The 5-4 ruling Monday f...
*"'What do you want?' [Midge] demanded. "'I guess you know,' said Lou Hersch. 'Your wife's starvin' to death and your baby's starvin' to death and I'm starvin' to death. And you're dirty with money.'"* ...
The euro and the Spanish and Italian bond markets came under pressure on Monday amid growing investor fears that the problems of Greece are hitting the bigger economies of Europe's single currency. The ...
An example of a floating power plant. Photo courtesy: floatingpowerplant Someone once said that we must remember the past in order to avoid making the same mistakes in the futures. It would appear that we ...
Although this is its last mission to the space station, shuttle Endeavour has just made a first in space history: it is the first shuttle ever to be photographed while docked with the space station.
The commenting rules for the website (should you like your comment to remain posted) have been changed to streamline discussions, and are now as follows: ***(1)*No links in comment text unless you have pri...
A rainbow lorikeet in the wild. Photo courtesy: Wikipedia Commons Every year around this time, medical offices in Australia are deluged with cases of loud drunks that are so intoxicated they've tumbled t...
* "Sunny John" Boehner sheds a wee tear as Catholic University's commencement speaker, May 14. * *"If the headline is 'Conservative Catholics Denounce Liberal Politician on Abortion,' all the boilerplate is...
A distressed species the leaves may return but will likely never be the same. Photo credit: pjan vandaele/Creative Commons via TreeHugger Human activity creates countless disturbances in ecosystems around ...
Picture shows the growing ash plume from the Grimsvotn volcano, under the Vatnajokull glacier in southeast Iceland, as its eruption begins... Photo courtesy: Yahoo!News An eruption by Iceland's most activ...
*WIKILEAKS: Border Guards feared Mohawks* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ The US Embassies in Montreal and Quebec monitored Mohawks and Indigenous activists. In a serie...
The bottom line: that the bridge fuel concept for natural gas represents ‘wishful thinking’ and is not possible to achieve.Natural Gas: a "bridge" to where?
I signed up for Pinterest almost a year ago and immediately started pinning like crazy. Pinterest is a fun site that allows you to keep track of pictures and ideas from sites all over the Internet. You hav...
A Christian doctor in England has been threatened with an official warning from his professional body for discussing Jesus with a patient, The (London) Sunday Times reported. Richard Scott, a doctor for ...
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Britain's economy made a sluggish start to the year as an improved trade performance was more than offset by the sharpest fall in household spending since the recession, revised estimates of first-quarter ...
*Mark Fiore* "*Tea Bag -- because other languages are just too hard!*" *by Ken* Yesterday on DailyKos Markos introduced the latest addition to the DK Comics lineup (updating my last post on the subject),...
A Hawksbill turtle swimming off Hondurus. Photo courtesy: Wikipedia Baby turtles are hardwired to swim the second they feel weightless. If you pick up a newly-hatched turtle using one finger on each side o...
Greenpeace has found high levels of phthalates banned by the EU and the US in children’s products and toys made from vinyl plastic (also called polyvinyl chloride, or PVC) on the Chinese market. Phthalates...
White nose syndrome, a devastating disease that has killed more than one million bats in the Northeast, has been found in Maine, the last New England state to discover it, wildlife officials said on Tuesda...
Overfishing, oil slicks, acidification — the world’s oceans, which cover 71 percent of the planet’s surface, face plenty of environmental problems. As I note in this Green Column, we’ve added another serio...
A new study aimed at refining the way scientists measure ice loss in Greenland is providing a "high-definition picture" of climate-caused changes on the island. And the picture isn't pretty. In the last...
*Germany's consumer minister expressed deep concern Wednesday at an outbreak of poisoning by dangerous bacteria believed to have killed three women and left hundreds ill. * "This is really worrying," Ilse ...
posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA campaign has been launched on Facebook calling for men to beat Saudi women who drive their cars in a planned protest next month against the ultra-conservative kingdom's ban on women taking the wheel. T...
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