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Learn morePro-AV lefty BBC producer Richard Leeming bemoans the ignorance of the plebs: The right-on metropolitan media clique knows best but for some reason the general public refuses to acknowledge it. What a s...
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou on Saturday denied there was even unofficial discussion over Greece quitting the euro zone and asked that his troubled country be "left alone to finish its task." ...
Libyan government forces have used small planes to drop bombs on oil storage tanks in Misratah, according to a spokesman for the rebel movement. Ahmed Hassan claims that forces loyal to the Libyan leader ...
The U.S. Air Force is a very tolerant organization. In January 2010, the Air Force Academy decided to add a worship area for followers of Earth-centered religions. It's all about respect. Almost no one...
YOU TOO, JEFF HALL! ROT ALONGSIDE BIN LADEN IN HELL!: "Oh, May Day 2011 is just giving us all the good news, isn't it? Aside from the fact that the death of Osama bin Laden was announced today, this is a bit...
JEFF HALL'S TEN-YEAR OLD SON SHOT HIM ON PURPOSE, SAY COPS: "We should have known really. When we heard that a National Socialist Movement (NSM) member was shot deat by his ten-year-old son, we like many oth...
Millions of birthers “disappear”: "Have literally millions of birthers been rounded up and moved to FEMA camps? Have they been murdered and buried en masse at sea? Did the appearance of Barack Obama’s long f...
Let’s move on: "That’s the theme that I’ve been seeing in newspaper articles of late:Let’s move on from Obama birther issue – Marion Star (Ohio)Hey, Luke: time to let the birther thing go. – The Baltimore Su...
Brooklyn man imprisoned woman, chained and whipped her under ”Sex slave rules’: prosecutors: " John Hopkins pleads not guilty to keeping a woman as a sex slave in his Brooklyn… (Ward for News) It wasn’t Isl...
Taliban joins al Qaeda in admitting bin Laden dead: "The Taliban has confirmed that Osama bin Laden had been killed by U.S. troops during a raid in northeast Pakistan. "
When Richard Nixon, a disgraced GOP icon whose tactics are revered, was planning his reelection campaign, he never hesitated to break the law, justifying it, Machiavelli-style, as for the good of the coun...
Our War Is Not Against Islam: ""Bin Laden was not a Muslim leader," President Obama said this Sunday, "he was a mass murderer of Muslims." Despite the President's assertion that "our war is not against I...
MAN CONVICTED OF HOLOCAUST DENIAL IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC FOR WEB CONTENT ON US SERVER: "The Prague-West District Court (Okresní soud pro Prahu - západ ) found Czech-Canadian Vladimír Stwora guilty of supporti...
Jury finds man guilty in NM swastika branding case (USA): "The first of three defendants accused of branding a swastika into the arm of a mentally disabled Navajo man was convicted Friday of conspiracy to co...
by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand May 7, 2011 - The "Bin Laden" hoax is consuming our time and energy even as the global corporate-financier oligarchs flee forward cashing in on the political capital ...
A U.S. military drone fired a missile within the last two days in Yemen aimed at the U.S.-born radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, but the strike did not appear to have killed him, a U.S. official told CNN on ...
Image: Twin Turboprop Plane - NOT the crash of 7th of May There were no survivors from the crash of an Indonesian passenger aircraft into the sea with up to 27 people on board, a navy officer says. The pl...
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com BOONE'S CHAPEL, Alabama -- Vicious storms and howling winds smacked the U.S. South, killing at least seven people in Alabama including three family members whos...
I spent a few days in Tunis during the last week of April. I was invited there by NDI to participate in their regional advisory board meeting. At first, I thought I was there "right after" the revolution. ...
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Where did Haiti's cholera come from? Most Haitians believe the bacteria that have so far sickened 286,000 of them - and killed 4870 - were brought in by United Nations peacekeeping troops from Nepal. And...
Our neighbors to the west have recorded the country's first human case of the dreaded bubonic plague. A 58-year-old man in the area of Santa Fe, New Mexico is recovering in hospital, reports Albuquerque CB...
Image: Church Service 12th May 2007, 9 Days after Madeleine Disappeared. Kate McCann was stuck in an "endless bad dream" and haunted by visions of her missing daughter Madeleine after her disappearance, sh...
Saturn's largest moon Titan might house a huge underground ocean, according to scientists. Researchers used radar aboard Nasa's Cassini spacecraft to see through Titan's dense atmosphere. They found that...
Tourists watched in horror as a security guard was stabbed outside a McDonald’s in the centre of Manhattan. The man was knifed in a busy shopping street next to Macy’s department store as he tried to esco...
Conservationists are today frantically battling to rescue more than a dozen pilot whales stranded off the Florida coast. The U.S. Coast Guard said it had found at least 16 pilot whales, including one calf...
*On 2 may 2011, Aangirfan page views went up, thanks to Osama bin Laden. **Alternative Media Rankings Surge After bin Laden Assassination Spectacle* Alternative News 7-day change according to Alexa; listed...
It was a sight that attracted the attention of space watchers the world over - but the lights which illuminated the night sky were not the result of a UFO, but rather the Russian military. The Soyuz rocke...
Thousands of people in Memphis are being told to evacuate as the slowly surging Mississippi River threatens to engulf their homes. Emergency workers are handing out fliers to nearly 1,000 homes that read ...
In an industry where unbreakable and smaller are best, the world's first interactive paper computer looks set to dominate for years to come. The PaperPhone has a flexible electronic display that is set to ...
The euro fell sharply in late trading last night amid rumours that Greece may try to exit the eurozone. Investors sold stocks of the single currency after a report in the online edition of German publicat...
A man charged with killing Yellow Brick Road murder victim Jia Ashton worked for the same company as the economics graduate, it was claimed yesterday. David Simmonds, 21, is believed to have previously wo...
The United States, reacting to the killing of 27 protesters by Syrian security forces on Friday, threatened to take new steps against the Syrian government unless it stopped killing and harassing its peopl...
Something for the weekend? New Open thread for your general BBC bias related observations Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
I guess everyone has their favorite US Ambassador to Canada. Mine has always been Paul Cellucci, who once suggested building huge aqueducts to carry Canadian water to the US and worried in 2008 that the e...
Senior European ministers were locked in secret discussions with Greece on Friday night that may lead to a restructuring of the embattled nation's mountain of public debt. Finance ministers from Germany, ...
*In the "Trick or Treat" episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David winds up conducting Wagner outside the home of his neighbor Walter who has, shall we say, wound him up.* *by Ken* It's a sort of fam...
The U.S. Drought Monitor shows that nearly all of Texas is either in exceptional drought or extreme drought.Go ahead, click and see for yourselves.Of the metered sources in the four county Upper Trinity Grou...
"Truth is stranger than fiction," said Mark Twain. Unlike fiction, truth does not serve power, but freedom and peace. Madmen in power always need a fictitious "evil" enemy to keep the game of war going, a...
Another gem of a "Moment of Clarity" from the one and only Lee Camp. *-- Ken * . . . What do you do after your Enemy No. 1 is no more? We have a choice. We can continue bombing endlessly in places like A...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 6, 2011 Report: DeSmogBlog “Fracking the Future” Uncloaks Big Oil’s Takeover of...
TEDX is pleased to announce that the TEDX List of Potential Endocrine Disruptors is now available on our website.Every chemical on the TEDX List has one or more verified citations to published, accessible, p...
The assassination of Osama bin Laden by US Special Forces in Abbotabad, Pakistan will likely assure Barack Obama’s victory in the 2012 presidential race. Republican hawks will have a hard time pressing the...
The US dollar sank further last week and gold hit $1,500 an ounce, frightening investors and destabilizing financial markets. A leading credit rating agency warned the US AAA rating might be downgraded. ...
The U.S. military used a drone to strike Thursday at an al-Qaeda target in Yemen, the first such U.S. attack using unmanned aircraft in that country since 2002, according to U.S. and Yemeni officials. Tw...
Caught on camera, a mob of young people bombarded the City Stop convenience store on Sunset Road and Pecos Road and stole $600 in merchandise. "It became a feeding frenzy," said City Stop owner Jon Athey...
In the space of just 20 minutes a year ago on Friday, Wall Street tumbled hundreds of points, dumbfounding dealers, only to rebound sharply. The extraordinary gyration in stocks, dubbed the “flash crash”, ...
-by Doug Kahn *In 1882 came the most destructive flood of the nineteenth century. After breaking the levees in two hundred and eighty-four crevasses, the water spread out as much as seventy miles. In the...
A respected deputy head was sacked after she helped carry a boy of six into school when he refused to leave the playground. Debbie Ellis, who had an unblemished 20-year career, was accused of ‘physical a...
Two West Palm Beach residents are under arrest following the discovery of several emaciated cows. Acting on a tip deputies responded to a field in the 170000 block of NW 96th Street in Okeechobee County...
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“The Raging Hawk” Seneca Hawk Elder Edna Gordon, 90 years old, sends these words to the SPIRITUAL WARRIORS Fighting to SAVE GLEN COVE in Vallejo, CA Ceremonial Echoes of Ancient Cries The GREAT LAW OF PEA...
President John F. Kennedy delivered the Commencement Address at American University in Washington on June 10, 1963. President John F. Kennedy delivered two of the greatest speeches any American president...
You don't need to see a photo of Osama bin Laden dead. A picture might have been worth a thousand words, but these days technology may trump a photograph.
Other Guy Named Osama Bin Laden Can Finally Relax ZZZZZzzzzzz.....
Preparations for first daughter's wedding on May 21 are getting a bit frenzied, with meetings with the caterer, the tent rental, plus cake tastings and jewelry shopping. Not to mention making the decoupag...
A political dispute between Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country's supreme leader is reported to have intensified. Ahmadinejad is said to be contemplating r...
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*Democracy Now!Winona LaDuke interview, Part II* Transcript *Guest:* ** *Winona LaDuke, Native American activist and writer. She lives and works on the White Earth Nation in northern Minnesota. She is t...
Shamefaced Pakistani officials admitted to intelligence "shortcomings" Thursday after Osama Bin Laden was found hiding in plain sight in their country. But officials there warned that any further secret r...
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Native American activist Winona LaDuke discusses the widespread targeting of Indian country with uranium mining, radioactive experiments and toxic dumping, while explaining the history of US colonialism a...
At the start of the election, I asked 20 questions - 50 of you took the time to answer them, and now we're able to crown a winner. But first, a look at the correct answers: *1. Will Elizabeth May win her ...
It's been a busy old few months since I let blogging lapse and, of course, a great deal of nonsense has been cluttering up the interwebs in my absence. I think it's time to dust off the keyboard, flex them...
A paedophile was allowed to foster a child despite his history of abusing young boys, it has emerged. David Mason, who is in his 50s, did not have his identity checked by Kent County Council, which permit...
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange rails against Facebook, says it's a spy tool for US government NY Daily News May 2nd 2011 BY Nina Mandell DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Maybe he's a MySpace guy. WikiLeaks f...
When he was wooing Germany's wealthiest industrialists and plutocrats and the Reich Association of German Industry (roughly the equivalent of our own U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and as virulently right-wing...
A protest by hundreds of Osama Bin Laden supporters sparked fury outside the US Embassy in London today as they staged a mock 'funeral service' for the terror leader. Police stepped in to separate the pro...
[image: A worker measures radiation levels inside the reactor building of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Unit 1, 5 May 2011. TEPCO] By Yosuke Akai, Kentaro Uechi, and Yuki Takayama 6 May 2011 A...
US then promptly murders 8 Pakistanis in drone attack. by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand May 6, 2011 - Much to Wired writer Spencer Ackerman's credit, amidst the first several paragraphs of his article...
[image: Morteratsch glacier (Alps) in 1985 (above) and 2007 (below). Courtesy of J. Alean, SwissEduc] Pontifical Academy of Sciences working group of leading scientists to present report to Pope Benedic...
*"A poll published in Pakistan shows that 66% of people believe the man killed (at Abbottabad) was not Osama bin Laden" (Al-CIAda statement should kill off Bin Laden conspiracy theories) The CIA did have ...
Washing your hands regularly can help you stay healthy. But could it also get you sick?
------------------------------ * the**REALnews* May 5-6, 2011 *Part 1* *Austerity Hawks Want a Return to 1920's Capitalism* James Crotty: Objective of austerity campaign is a return to unregulated capi...
*The debt crisis in Greece has taken on a dramatic new twist. Sources with information about the government's actions have informed SPIEGEL ONLINE that Athens is considering withdrawing from the euro zone....
I don’t often watch Question Time, but anticipating a clash of cultures between Douglas Murray (Hooray) and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (Hiss) I thought it would be worth watching last night. In the event the exc...
An international series of protests known as slut walks, sparked by a Toronto police officer's flippant comment that women should avoid dressing like "sluts" to avoid being raped or victimized, is taking r...
A consortium of Ukrainian and international scientists is making an urgent call for a $13.5m (£8.28m) programme to prevent potentially catastrophic wildfires inside the exclusion zone surrounding Chernobyl...
Japan's prime minister said Friday he has asked the operator to shut down the nuclear reactors at the Hamaoka nuclear plant until earthquake and tsunami protections can be built. The plant -- located on ...
The US government’s bin Laden story was so poorly crafted that it did not last 48 hours before being fundamentally altered. Indeed, the new story put out on Tuesday by White House press secretary Jay Carne...
The mass cull of farm animals to control the spread of foot-and-mouth disease may be unnecessary if there is a new outbreak, scientists suggest. A new analysis of disease transmission suggests that future...
“*Philanthropy is the essential element in the making of Rockefeller power. It gives the Rockefellers a priceless reputation as public benefactors which the public values so highly that power over public a...
In a study to be published in the April 21st issue of *Science*, researchers at Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science report their findings that the ozone hole, which is located o...
Britain could be fined up to £175m by the International Olympic Committee if it continues to break air pollution laws by the time the Games begin next August. The prospect of the air pollution penalty is ...
Japan's prime minister said Friday he has asked the operator to shut down the nuclear reactors at the Hamaoka nuclear plant until earthquake and tsunami protections can be built. The plant -- located on ...
The US government’s bin Laden story was so poorly crafted that it did not last 48 hours before being fundamentally altered. Indeed, the new story put out on Tuesday by White House press secretary Jay Carne...
A previous study from our laboratory showed that pet cats had much higher serum levels of flame retardants compared to humans, despite sharing the same household environment. Dogs, on the other hand, are e...
This is a familiar site to those of us living on top of the Barnett Shale.Juxtapose this video with the industry propaganda claim that Barnett Shale Natural Gas Can Help Clean Up the Air in DFW and you will ...
A program searches more than 50 popular websites to track down accounts and provide information about how to transfer, memorialize or delete them.
Washington does it. Israel does it. So does our own Furious Leader, Harper. They're all pushing this menacing narrative of an Islamic Revolution in the Arab world. Islamic as in Islamist as in radical...
It's not hard to imagine that five or ten years from, we'll be carrying around super lightweight and flexible phones and/or electronic books.
Toilet paper rolls, miniature soaps, ash trays and unattended maid carts are potentially still up for grabs.
On the lookout for ways to help manage deforestation, NSF-funded Michigan geographers map out an adventure.
Conspiracy theorists prefer complex mysteries over simple truths, and find mystery where none exists.
Al Qaeda confirmed the death of Osama bin Laden on Friday in an Internet message that vowed revenge on the United States and its allies, including Pakistan, according to a statement issued by the Islamis...
One of the best newspapers for environmentalism is Britain's *The Guardian*, successor to the legendary *Manchester Guardian.* It has a solid environmental desk staffed by excellent writers including Geor...
*Brought to you by our creative friends on Wall Street* Paul Ryan may be Big Business's Golden Boy-- the one they've tasked with their long-term dream of shredding the social safety net and doing away ent...
*Scientific American* uses the term "Cereal Killer" to describe the impacts of climate change on efforts to increase production of cereal grains to feed the planet' s burgeoning population. A recent study...
Penn State Environment released a new report that has uncanny similarities to Flowback: How the Texas natural Gas Boom Affects Health and Safety.In the Shadow of the Marcellus Boom: How Shale Gas Extraction ...
Guess not: *Michael Ignatieff jumps to University of Toronto * Michael Ignatieff has been given a cozy office with a fireplace in University of Toronto’s acclaimed Massey College and will take up teaching...
Syrian security forces have carried out another wave of arrests in Daraa and have been detaining all men over 15, residents said today. Authorities moved into central Syria and coastal areas before Friday ...
Since the death of Osama bin Laden Sunday, *administration* officials have repeatedly said that the task to kill him complied with domestic and international law. "Let me make something very clear," Attor...
Or did he duck out of the Wedding and join The Princess and Princess on the honeymoon, with President Obama providing a little distraction for everyone? Just asking... although the proof seems evident to...
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This is newly elected Member of Parliament Andrew Cash (Davenport). He has a personal connection to US war resisters in Canada, war resisters live in his riding, and he'll be making our voice heard in Parl...
The Bible’s Prescriptive, Open-Ended, and Universal Commandments to Wage Holy War and Enslave Infidels (I): " This article is part 6 of LoonWatch’s Understanding Jihad Series. Please read my “disclaimer”,...
FBI's Most Wanted Fugitive List Has An Opening, Big Shoes To Fill: "With a bold red banner and the long-awaited word -- 'Deceased' -- the Federal Bureau of Investigation retired Osama bin Laden from its Most...
Racist Idaho Attorney Guilty in Plot to Murder Wife: "Edgar Steele, a North Idaho attorney who is an anti-Semitic icon and lecturer, was convicted today after a week-long trial before a federal jury in Boise...
Muslim-Basher Pamela Geller Pushes Another Obama Fairy Tale, Proudly: "Did you catch the coup?Anti-Muslim zealot Pamela Geller, who has posted such whoppers on her blog as the claim that President Obama is t...
David Barton – Extremist ‘Historian’ for the Christian Right: "The New York Times today published an article about David Barton, a self-educated, pseudo-historian who advises several prominent right-wing pol...
More Terror, Less Coverage: Discounting right-wing domestic political violence: "On the morning of January 17 in Spokane, Washington, city workers found a backpack with a bomb that was set to go off along th...
No jail time in bullying suicide case: "Two classmates of a high school freshman who hanged herself in the stairwell of her family's apartment pleaded guilty to charges of criminal harassment, but other more...
Official: Bin Laden material shows threats to rails, cities: "Information from Osama bin Laden's Pakistan compound indicates al Qaeda was mulling attacks timed to significant dates in a handful of U.S. citie...
'Deathers' take over for 'birthers': "With 'birthers' mostly silent, 'deathers' are now pushing a new conspiracy theory. "
Pakistan: Osama wife lived there 5 years: "Pakistan's armed forces Thursday acknowledged intelligence 'shortcomings' regarding al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, but warned that the U.S. raid that killed him h...
Brazil court backs same-sex unions: "Brazil's Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the nation should recognize same-sex unions. "
Alleged 'corrective rape' sparks outcry: "A 24-year-old who was stabbed to death in South Africa is the victim of 'corrective rape,' gay rights activists said Thursday, a crime where men attack lesbians in a...
Nazi war suspect's trial opens: "One of the world's most wanted Nazi war suspects, Sandor Kepiro, 97, went on trial Thursday, in Hungary charged with the murder of 36 Jews and Serbs in Novi Sad, Serbia in 19...
World turns attention to bullying: "The guilty pleas of two students in a Massachusetts school harassment case this week thrust the spotlight back on bullying in the United States, but the issue is also draw...
Human rights chiefs want to know if US operation ever considered capturing al-Qaida leader alive. Two United Nations human rights watchdogs have asked the US to provide details about the operation that ki...
A depraved primary school teacher has admitted a catalogue of horrific abuse against his own pupils - who he filmed, sexually touched and attempted to rape on school grounds. Nigel Leat, 50, of Bloomfield...
Obama to meet SEALs; 9/11 anniversary plot revealed: "As details emerged about a possible attack on the 10th anniversary of 9/11, President Obama was scheduled to meet Navy SEALs who raided bin Laden's compo...
US mosque bombing suspect shot dead: "A man wanted in the bombing of a Florida mosque was shot and killed on Wednesday when he brandished a weapon as agents tried to serve an arrest warrant in northwest Okla...
White supremacist gun dealer gets 10 years (USA): "A Milford man accused of being a white supremacist was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison for selling weapons to a government informant posing as a me...
A respected deputy head was sacked after she helped carry a boy of six into school when he refused to leave the playground. Debbie Ellis, who had an unblemished 20-year career, was accused of ‘physical a...
Warmongers seek Libyan escalation. by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand May 6, 2011 - "It is a test that the international community has to pass. Failure would shake further the faith of the people's reg...
A police officer is being investigated after a horrific video surfaced on YouTube of him fiercely pushing over a 15-year-old girl against a wall and to the ground. The teenager appears to pose no threat a...
America is on course to have its worst outbreak of measles in more than a decade. At least 89 cases have been reported in the last four months alone, compared to an annual average of around 50. Most of t...
When he visited Ground Zero today, President Obama kept the ceremony deliberately low key to fend off suggestions he was revelling in the death of Osama Bin Laden. But that hasn't stop some relatives of t...
Letters containing a suspicious white powder have been mailed to 20 schools in Washington D.C., it has been revealed. The first letter was reported this afternoon at Mary Church Terrell Elementary School ...
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I *confess* that I am more stressed out right now than I have been in a long time and it is showing all over my face. Seriously, I look like teenager, which stresses me out more. I *confess * I LOVE to pl...
*Who is this?* *This is Patek* In January 2011, *Umar Patek* was arrested by Pakistani forces in * Abbottabad.* Umar Patek, an Indonesian, was reportedly an asset of the CIA. "He was captured with his I...
*Should we be getting used to light supersymmetric 7 GeV photinos?* A fascinating, full-fledged war has erupted between the teams trying to detect the dark matter particles here on Earth. The two opposing ...
The DNR is investigating why thousands of dead fish have turned up in Lake Dubay and the Stevens Point Flowage over the past two weeks. DNR Fisheries Biologist, Tom Meronek says, it appears that a virus i...
This is the heart-stopping moment a man is hurled into the air in a shocking hit-and- run incident. Dale O’Malley, 28, is swept off his feet and flung upside down before slamming on to the road. His twis...
Thousands of people from Illinois to Louisiana have been forced to evacuate their homes as officials predict a slow-motion Mississippi River disaster could break flood records dating back to the 1920s. Hi...
A police officer has been suspended without pay and forced to hand over his weapons after he was caught on camera pointing a loaded gun at a bartender. Richard Heffron was drinking while off duty at the ba...
The father of an unplanned daughter trawled the internet for information on how to kill a baby before suffocating the six-month-old in her cot, a court heard yesterday. Mark Bruton-Young, a 36-year-old ar...
Around 150,000 homeowners who have a mortgage with Lloyds Banking Group are in negative equity, the banking giant admitted yesterday. The astonishing figure highlights the mortgage misery facing families a...
*As the White Sox complete their spring-training swing out West, before returning East for the season opener in Cleveland, Jack for the first time joins his teammates in a poker game. He winds up winning...
It’s all a bit worrying. Evidence of a sharp slowdown in both the European and world economies continues to mount. Earlier confidence that the global economy was strong enough to absorb moves by China and ...
I’m not sure why everyone thought comments the other day from the German Finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, to the effect that Greece may eventually face a sovereign debt restructuring, were such a revel...
The €78bn (£69bn) bail-out package will push Portugal into recession for at least two years and cause substantial economic and social upheaval, the beleaguered country's finance minister has warned. Teix...
It's a sad day for physics crackpots bent on disproving relativity, because once again, it turns out that Einstein was right.
My friends, there's no denying the impact of the past couple of days. The way it stands now, we're going to have to live with a Harper majority for the next four or five years. And while it's nice t...
[image: Wave-cut coastal scarp near the Varandei oil terminal, Pechora Sea, Russia. State of the Arctic Coast 2010 / S. Ogorodov, Arctic Coastal Dynamics Coastal Photo Collection, Potsdam] Wave-cut coas...
When something happens and the public really needs industry to know, all industry has to do is refuse to disclose....just like Chesapeake Energy did recently after their well blowout.
Republicans, quick to claim that torture works -- though of course this country doesn’t torture, but if it did, that would have been the key to getting clues to Osama’s hideout -- said Obama just followe...
[image: Annual excess mortality attributable to heat waves in Chicago, 2081–2100, for seven climate models under the B1, A1B, and A2 SRES (with 95% CIs reflecting statistical uncertainty in risk estimati...
Energy In Depth has now written two hit pieces on Stephanie Hallowich of the Marcellus Shale and only one on me. Dang!Dear Steph, I stand in your shadow.
[image: FAO Food Price Index, 1990-May 2011. fao.org] The *FAO Food Price Index* (FFPI) averaged 232 points in April 2011, virtually unchanged from the revised March estimate, 36 percent above April 201...
[image: Firefighters tackle flames near the village of Kustaryovka in the Ryazan region of Russia, 11 August 2010, as the wildfires continued to fan out across the country and head towards the contaminat...
Common Dreams Published on Wednesday, May 4, 2011 by Wired.com by Spencer Ackerman The consortium in charge of restructuring the world’s most infamous private security firm just added a new chief in c...
ENTERTAINMENT/POLITICS - We've all done it. Confused the names Obama and Osama at some point. Its just funnier when the news media does it. The following clip is from Jimmy Kimmel Live! and features news ...
*May 5, 2011* *Pakistani Military Faces Scrutiny as Unfolding Evidence Suggests Direct Role in Harboring bin Laden* Numerous questions have been raised on how Osama bin Laden could have been livi...
The threats came in the mail and to date, there have been 25 letters that warn of nuclear bombs destroying America. People who got them called the FBI and CBS 2′s Kristyn Hartman learned, the Bureau’s Ch...
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The Treasury has told lawmakers a roughly $2 trillion rise in the legal limit on federal debt would be needed to ensure the government can keep borrowing through the 2012 presidential election, sources w...
The Obama administration has floated a transportation authorization bill that would require the study and implementation of a plan to tax automobile drivers based on how many miles they drive. The plan is...
A new study suggests that Canada's millionaire club is going to have a lot more members over the next decade. The study, released by the Deloitte Center for Financial Services, predicts the number of Can...
I do not always agree with 86-year old Richard Russell, author of the Dow Theory Letters, but there is no disputing that he has been on the money with his gold recommendations ever since the low of $250 te...
Mexico has quietly purchased nearly 100 tons of gold bullion, as central banks embark on their biggest bullion buying spree in 40 years. The purchase, reported in monthly data published by Mexico’s central...
World food prices rose to near a record in April as grain costs advanced, adding pressure to inflation that is accelerating from Beijing to Brasilia and spurring central banks to raise interest rates. An...
Two Pennsylvania school districts are considering switching to a four-day week to save money. The Coatesville Area School District in Chester County and the Warren County School District are considering ...
According to a new report, 47 percent of Detroiters are ”functionally illiterate.” The alarming new statistics were released by the Detroit Regional Workforce Fund on Wednesday. WWJ Newsradio 950 spoke w...
Related: American Patriot Dr. Steve Pieczenik Says The War On Terror Is A Fraud, And Bin Laden Died Long Before May 1st, 2011 America needs a new peaceful revolution says Dr. Steve Pieczenik, a former De...
Fifty years ago when Alan Shepard climbed inside his Mercury capsule to blast off into space, things were looking pretty grim for the fledgling U.S. space program.
One of the questions I get asked the most, is where I print my photos. I thought I would start a series on my favorite printers and tell you about why I love them. It is no secret that I love Shutterfly. ...
First the good news: House Democrats unveiled a series of proposals Wednesday that are meant to for the basis of a Make It In America agenda. Their proposals would aggressively boost manufacturing output ...
truthdig Posted on May 1, 2011 Chris Hedges, speaking at a Truthdig fundraising event in Los Angeles on Sunday evening, made these remarks about Osama bin Laden’s death. I know that because of this anno...
*Spending Caps: The Republican Plan with Lipstick * *karinmoveon* Robert Reich describes the new threat, a Medicare Kill Switch disguised as a reasonable-sounding spending cap. As he puts it, it's t...
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Pro-AV lefty BBC producer Richard Leeming bemoans the ignorance of the plebs: The right-on metropolitan media clique knows best but for some reason the general public refuses to acknowledge it. What a s...
Libyan government forces have used small planes to drop bombs on oil storage tanks in Misratah, according to a spokesman for the rebel movement. Ahmed Hassan claims that forces loyal to the Libyan leader ...
The U.S. Air Force is a very tolerant organization. In January 2010, the Air Force Academy decided to add a worship area for followers of Earth-centered religions. It's all about respect. Almost no one...
When Richard Nixon, a disgraced GOP icon whose tactics are revered, was planning his reelection campaign, he never hesitated to break the law, justifying it, Machiavelli-style, as for the good of the coun...
A U.S. military drone fired a missile within the last two days in Yemen aimed at the U.S.-born radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, but the strike did not appear to have killed him, a U.S. official told CNN on ...
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com BOONE'S CHAPEL, Alabama -- Vicious storms and howling winds smacked the U.S. South, killing at least seven people in Alabama including three family members whos...
I spent a few days in Tunis during the last week of April. I was invited there by NDI to participate in their regional advisory board meeting. At first, I thought I was there "right after" the revolution. ...
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