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Learn more*Well, sure, you know which way we run the bases in this country, but what if you were a boy from
Niles, Michigan, who learned your baseball in England ?* *by Ken* The combination of Ring's wit and his si...
Not that it should take the focus off Harper and McGuinty, who bear just as much culpability as municipal officials for the abuses that took place at last summer's G20, but Rosie DiManno's got an idea abou...
Explosions at three government facilities in eastern China Thursday left two people dead, including the alleged perpetrator, the country's state-run Xinhua news agency reported. At least six people were ...
*Kourosh Ziabari* is an Iranian journalist, author, polyglot, and contributing columnist and correspondant for numerous publications worldwide, including the Netherlands, Canada, Italy, Hong Kong, Bulgaria...
The Royal Parasites have no legal right to rule. We need a Republic - Now!
[image: April Tornado Count for the U.S., 1950–May 2011. NOAA] By Tamino 25 May 2011 Shortly after it became clear that April 2011 broke the U.S. record for the most April tornados, the Washington Post ...
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.” - Philip K. Dick "Men must have...
Keith Olbermann will be back on television on June 20, 2011 on Current TV. He also has a blog called FOK News Channel (FOK means Friends of Keith). Current TV is found on these channels: ``` DIRECTV cha...
American consumers' spending weakened more than initially estimated in the first quarter of the year, renewing concerns about the pace of the economic recovery for the rest of the year. Purchases by house...
Oxfam Bigheads at the G8 in Paris CTV quotes "sources" on Obama/Harper security perimeter meeting at the G8 bunfest today : "The Prime Minister's Office said the meeting would likely adv...
Greece could be disqualified from claiming part of its next cash injection from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the chairman of European Finance Ministers has warned. Jean-Claude Juncker said the s...
Drawing by Ariel Molvig Contest #289, May 30, 2011 *This is the current captionless cartoon for The New Yorker's weekly Cartoon Caption Contest. Entries -- 250 characters or fewer -- are accepted through ...
Links in the brain can connect the sensations of sound and touch.
------------------------------ *Texas - Go to BrasscheckTV.com* iching64 Uploaded by iching64 on May 25, 2011 For 100s of uncensored videos go to: http://www.brasschecktv.com Cherchez la Verite
Tensions remained high Thursday as the president of the Southern Sudanese government demanded an immediate withdrawal of Sudanese armed forces that continue to occupy the disputed oil-rich Abyei border reg...
The last nail is being driven into the coffin of the American Republic. Yet, Congress remains in total denial as our liberties are rapidly fading before our eyes. The process is propelled by unwarranted ...
By now, everyone knows that Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the IMF, was hauled off an Air France flight two minutes before it was due to take off, and taken into custody by the NYPD. Why? The US cover...
Environmental activist group Greenpeace warned Thursday that marine life it tested more than 20 kilometres (12 miles) off Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant showed radiation above legal limits. The...
Radioactive water appears to be leaking from a waste disposal building at Japan's Fukushima nuclear complex, operator Tokyo Electric Power said on Thursday, in a new setback to the battle to contain radiat...
Officials in Missouri have released a list of the names of people unaccounted for after a tornado hit Joplin. Missouri Department of Public Safety deputy director and general counsel Andrea Spillars says...
An astounding Department of Justice threat to cancel airline flights to and from Texas, in addition to underhanded lobbying by TSA representatives, has killed efforts in the state to pass HB 1937, a bill t...
Wisconsin's neo-fascist governor (don't ask me why we bother with the "neo" since it makes no real sense) Scott Walker does not want to see what happened in NY-26 Tuesday happen up and down Wisconsin. But...
Can using hand sanitizers get you drunk? No, but they can make you appear so on one kind of alcohol test.
The inside of the moon may have as much water as Earth's mantle, finds an analysis of moon crystals returned by Apollo astronauts.
As many as 17 pyramids, more than 1,000 tombs and 3,000 settlements were uncovered using infrared technology.
British and European space agencies have given the go ahead for the development of a reusable spaceplane that's been under development for 30 years.
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Question Time comes tonight from a location they've decided not to share with us (at the time of typing this) on the BBC QT website. Tripoli maybe? Some newly-vacated office-space in Abbottabad, Pakistan?...
[image: A fisherman collects seaweed in the Pacific Ocean near Katsuura city, Chiba province, south of Fukushima. Levels of radiation pouring into the ocean from the Fukushima reactor site are causing co...
From east to west coast, the devastating power of the tornadoes hitting the U.S. was felt last night as twisters touched down as far west as northern California. The National Weather Service reported seve...
A farm labourer who murdered four people in the 1980s by blasting them at point-blank range with a sawn-off shotgun has been handed four life sentences. John Cooper was also found guilty of a string of se...
A murdering asylum seeker who worked as a torturer for the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe will not be deported - because of concerns for his safety if he returns home. Phillip Machemedze smashed a man's jaw wi...
[image: Collecting Samples near Fukushima. Left to right: Giorgia Monti of Greenpeace Italy (far left of pic), Sakyo Noda of Greenpeace Japan, Tuomas Heikkila (driving boat), Jacob Namminga (at rear of b...
Written in red paint, the symbols may help Egyptologists figure out why mysterious shafts were built into the pyramids.
*Billy Long (R-MO) don't need no freakin' makeup* Eric Cantor and the House GOP have made a cruel and political connection between global warming and the tornado that devastated Joplin, Missouri, that sta...
[image: Three men in Borena Zone, Oromia Region, Ethiopia help a weak cow to stand up, May 2011. CARE / Gemechu Dida] By Audree Montpetit 25 May 2011 I arrived in Borena Zone, Oromia Region, in the sout...
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[image: In this May 19, 2011 photo, Tyler Gray stirs up a cloud of dust as pulls a tiller across a dry cotton field near Lubbock, Texas, trying to break up hardened ground. A historic drought has already...
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CENSORED NEWS - 12 hours ago
UN Permanent Forum Central, South and the Carribean 2011 Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
One of our dedicated readers has submitted a bizarre, if not disturbing radar image released by the NOAA, and we're at a loss as to what it could be, despite our research. Are they meteors? Radar artefacts...
* the**REALnews* May 25, 2011 *Family Farmers Worse Off Despite High Prices* Tim A. Wise: Family farmers caught in the middle between corporate monopolies More at The Real News Original w/ transcript h...
[image: Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station viewed from the observation deck, 6 April 2011, 18:00. TEPCO] By arevamirpal::laprimavera 25 May 2011 Remember TEPCO has been transporting the highly radi...
Zimbabwe may sell diamonds for gold, so that it can have a gold-backed currency, according to a recent proposal from the governor of Zimbabwe’s central bank. The Zimbabwean dollar is no longer in active u...
Chinese investors are snapping up gold bars and coins, buying more than ever before in the first quarter of 2011 and overtaking Indian buyers as the world's biggest purchasers of the metal. China's invest...
An Amazonian tribe has no abstract concept of time, say researchers. The Amondawa lacks the linguistic structures that relate time and space - as in our idea of, for example, "working through the night". ...
A five-year survey of 200,000 galaxies, stretching back seven billion years in cosmic time, has led to one of the best independent confirmations that dark energy is driving our universe apart at accelerati...
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s ongoing release of the Guantanamo Bay prison files, and large numbers of classified State Department cables, attempts to expose what he calls American corruption. But su...
Four Muslim men were jailed today after they carried out a brutal attack on an RE teacher because they did not approve of him teaching religious studies to Muslim girls. Gary Smith, 38, received 'appallin...
A vegetarian curry. Photo courtesy: cookfood For Your Health - Fad diets come and go; but, no one disagrees that getting more fruits and vegetables into your diet has a protective effect against cancer, h...
Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA - Toronto) is practicing hyper-effective activism by fighting its own oppression against Canada's Israel Lobby. Brilliant video! Brilliant liberation strategy!RELATED ...
------------------------------ MONDAY, MAY 23, 2011 Original here. 50 consecutive ballots for Prosser in a city where Kloppenburg had 75%. If true, it is absolute MATHEMATICAL proof of fraud https://...
Aurasma app lets users create and view images, videos and animations on real-life life objects.
Your's Truly getting back at the Armageddon Apoplectic
Your letters/calls helped defend our property rights from their last attackLet's do it again: tell Troy Fraser & the TX senate to beat backthe drilling industry's latest attempt to squelch Texans' property r...
The North Central Texas Council of Governments' Clean Air Steering Committee voted to send a letter to TCEQ asking them to adopt a watered down version of the Fair Share for Clean Air campaign.Downwinders At...
Helical coils and an omnidirectional drive are key to this robot's unique maneuverability.
A app allows customers to pay for purchases without a credit card or even tapping a smart phone against a device at the cashier's counter.
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CENSORED NEWS - 14 hours ago
Photo copyright Ben Powless, Mohawk*Global Indigenous Youth Statement: Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms * ** *Intervention to the Tenth Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues 20ll * *...
When trying to uncover the identities of the forces behind the drive for a single global authority to enslave humanity, the phenomenon of Zionism frequently comes to the surface. When one delves more close...
Bob Dylan turns 70; still hasn’t Recanted Praise for Rabbi Meir Kahane: " Bob Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman (Hebrew name Shabtai Zisel ben Avraham) to a Jewish family in Duluth, Minnesota, turned 70...
The first former MP jailed over the parliamentary expenses scandal has been released from prison after serving just a quarter of his 18-month sentence. David Chaytor spent four and a half months behind bar...
Tuesday night we tweeted the NY-26 special election returns and, until now, there hasn't been a post-mortem at *DWT*. Both the *New York Times* and A.P. drew the correct conclusions: this election results...
Alleged Philly crime boss arrested: "FBI agents Monday arrested alleged Philadelphia crime boss Joseph Ligambi and 10 others in a takedown federal authorities hope represents a crushing blow to organized cri...
Elizabeth Smart's kidnapper gets life: "Brian David Mitchell, the homeless street preacher who abducted, raped and kept a 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart captive for "
Deputy caught in human trafficking bust: "Three employees of Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, known for his tough stand on illegal immigration, are accused of aiding human traffickers. "
Serb war crimes suspect arrested after years on run: "Ratko Mladic was the highest-ranking war crimes suspect still at large from the 1990s Balkan wars. He's charged with genocide, extermination and murder. ...
The BBC’s bias against Israel is not merely a case of offending a few Zionists. It has serious ramifications. Who can blame people for being inflamed with outrage if they are fed a continual stream of my...
A mushroom beginning to emerge from the soil. Photo courtesy: Waldo Jaquith, used under Creative Commons license Mushrooms are being used in a number of ways to improve the environment naturally. From bre...
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CENSORED NEWS - 16 hours ago
** *Seneca Nation points out that the US has not adopted the UN Indigenous Rights Declaration -- which President Obama earlier gave lip service to* Photo Susan Andrews/Salamanca Public Schools at UNB...
The Serbian president has confirmed that alleged war criminal Ratko Mladic has been arrested following an anonymous tip-off. Mladic, now 68, is accused of masterminding the 44-month siege of Sarajevo tha...
Just because consciousness is a mystery and quantum theory is mysterious, it doesn't mean they're connected.
Forecasters warned thousands to take cover as severe storms pummeled parts of Arkansas and Tennessee early Thursday, while communities in neighboring states picked up the pieces after tornadoes cut a path ...
The United States has warned Americans against travel to Yemen and advised those in the Gulf nation to depart, citing "terrorist activities and civil unrest." In addition, the State Department "has order...
Egypt will permanently open its Rafah border crossing into Gaza beginning Saturday, an Egyptian official reported Wednesday. The move provides Gazans with an open door to the outside world for the first ti...
The failed prediction of Jesus to return to Earth over the weekend is prompting calls for the ouster of the Doomsday preacher and a congressional probe of his broadcasting network. Harold Camping, 89, of...
These two stellar siblings don't seem to like each other very much. But it's OK, they make up in the end.
Harold Camping, the failed Doomsday prophet, appeared on Monday, May 23, 2011 at the Open Forum in Family Radio headquarters in Oakland, Calif. where he announced October 21, 2011 to be the new Doomsday da...
A 14-year-old girl Russian girl was so scared by the doomsday predictions of Californian evangelist Harold Camping that she hanged herself, investigators said Wednesday. Camping warned the world would en...
It sounds like something out of science fiction - a huge swathe of the moon covered with solar panels to beam captured energy back to Earth. But plans to turn the moon into a gigantic mirrorball manned by ...
Astronomers may have detected the most distant and ancient object ever seen, a massive explosion that lit up the early universe soon after its birth. When the blast, known as a gamma ray burst (GRB), occur...
A mother left her nine-month-old son home alone while she went to the bowling alley on a date, police say. Leah June Rabon, 20, from Pensacola, was arrested on Monday night after authorities received an a...
It looks to all like a happy and normal scene. A lively young boy jumps up and down and around as his mother waits to check out of a water park resort where they had just spent the night. But the silent ...
The former student accused of shooting U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was ruled mentally incompetent to stand trial today after an angry outburst in federal court. Horrified survivors of the Januar...
Casey Anthony paraded for a 'hot body' contest at a Florida nightclub four days after her two-year-old daughter went missing, a court heard today. The single mother from Orlando carried on as normal durin...
Mark Zuckerberg has denied allegations he was trying to open up Facebook to children under the age of 13, claiming his comments were taken out of context. The social networking site, which has more than ...
Dozens of pensioners are preparing to risk their lives heroically in an effort to clean up the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant in Japan. The Skilled Veterans Corps, as the volunteers have named themselves, have ...
The most complete 3D map of the local universe has been unveiled by British astronomers. The 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS) from the University of Portsmouth extends to a distance of 380 million light years...
A woman who feared her continual migraines were life-threatening died weeks after a GP allegedly told her: ‘Don’t worry, you won’t drop dead.’ Lucy Rudol visited her doctor up to 50 times to voice her worr...
A respected High Court judge battered his wife in a fit of temper after being forced to do without his dinner while she comforted their cleaner over a personal problem, a court heard yesterday. James Alle...
A teenage burglar who broke into an 80-year-old woman’s home gloated on Facebook, ‘Bring it on, easy!’ just minutes after a judge ruled he and his accomplice would not face manslaughter charges over her de...
Gary McKinnon’s hopes of avoiding extradition to the U.S. suffered a severe setback yesterday when Barack Obama declined to allow him to be tried in Britain. Campaigners had hoped the President would halt...
The Met Office was last night under fire for its ‘unreliable’ predictions about the movement of the volcanic ash cloud which had threatened to ruin the holiday plans of millions of families. Ryanair boss...
Doctors are prescribing drinking water for neglected elderly patients to stop them dying of thirst in hospital. The measure – to remind nurses of the most basic necessity – is revealed in a damning report...
Two RAF pilots have been sent home in disgrace amid claims they were found drunk just hours before they were due to fly on bombing mission Libya. The officers from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire have been d...
The United Nations' top human rights watchdog has attacked Australia's tough refugee policies and the treatment of outback Aborigines, saying there was a strong undercurrent of racism in the country. Acc...
The daughter of an Indian diplomat is suing police for $1.5m for having to use a toilet in front of cellmates after she was falsely arrested over cyberbullying claims. Krittika Biswas, 18, was pulled out ...
As many as 1,300 people may have been killed in Syria by troops and security forces since the uprising against the Assad regime began, a human rights group has claimed. The organisation, Sawasiah, said it...
I've hardly been alone, but that's no excuse. For more than a year now, I've been regularly predicting the euro crisis's final denouement, yet still it hasn't arrived. So I've been forced to reach a diffe...
*The 2004 reprint of How to Write Short Stories (whose title was suggested by F. Scott Fitzgerald)* *"Scott Fitzgerald was the catalytic agent in the transformation of Ring Lardner from a journalistic funn...
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 ...
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...
Variety is the spice of life and animals know it pays to be flexible.
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.
*Well, sure, you know which way we run the bases in this country, but what if you were a boy from Niles, Michigan, who learned your baseball in England ?* *by Ken* The combination of Ring's wit and his si...
Explosions at three government facilities in eastern China Thursday left two people dead, including the alleged perpetrator, the country's state-run Xinhua news agency reported. At least six people were ...
*Kourosh Ziabari* is an Iranian journalist, author, polyglot, and contributing columnist and correspondant for numerous publications worldwide, including the Netherlands, Canada, Italy, Hong Kong, Bulgaria...
American consumers' spending weakened more than initially estimated in the first quarter of the year, renewing concerns about the pace of the economic recovery for the rest of the year. Purchases by house...
Oxfam Bigheads at the G8 in Paris CTV quotes "sources" on Obama/Harper security perimeter meeting at the G8 bunfest today : "The Prime Minister's Office said the meeting would likely adv...
Greece could be disqualified from claiming part of its next cash injection from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the chairman of European Finance Ministers has warned. Jean-Claude Juncker said the s...
Drawing by Ariel Molvig Contest #289, May 30, 2011 *This is the current captionless cartoon for The New Yorker's weekly Cartoon Caption Contest. Entries -- 250 characters or fewer -- are accepted through ...
------------------------------ *Texas - Go to BrasscheckTV.com* iching64 Uploaded by iching64 on May 25, 2011 For 100s of uncensored videos go to: http://www.brasschecktv.com Cherchez la Verite
Tensions remained high Thursday as the president of the Southern Sudanese government demanded an immediate withdrawal of Sudanese armed forces that continue to occupy the disputed oil-rich Abyei border reg...
By now, everyone knows that Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the IMF, was hauled off an Air France flight two minutes before it was due to take off, and taken into custody by the NYPD. Why? The US cover...
Environmental activist group Greenpeace warned Thursday that marine life it tested more than 20 kilometres (12 miles) off Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant showed radiation above legal limits. The...
Radioactive water appears to be leaking from a waste disposal building at Japan's Fukushima nuclear complex, operator Tokyo Electric Power said on Thursday, in a new setback to the battle to contain radiat...
Officials in Missouri have released a list of the names of people unaccounted for after a tornado hit Joplin. Missouri Department of Public Safety deputy director and general counsel Andrea Spillars says...
posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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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