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The Bank of England has been urged to raise rates sooner and faster than expected by the world's central bank to retain its inflation-fighting credibility and "ward off" another financial crisis. "Control...
The strain of E. coli blamed for 46 deaths in Germany appears to have resurfaced in France, the French Ministry of Health said. The new outbreak has sickened eight people, who went to two hospitals in Bo...
*"In the angle of the obdurate outthrust jaw, buckwheat-flecked from the morning meal, one read quenchless resolve, a nature scornful of compromise and dedicated to squeezing the last nickel out of any en...
Armed Islamic militants have infiltrated Syria's legitimate pro-democracy movement, a government spokesman has told Sky News. Faisal Almikdad, vice foreign minister, said "extremists" were responsible for...
The bodies of soldiers killed in Afghanistan will no longer be honoured with a public parade but will be driven through back streets to avoid upset, it has emerged. For several years, the flag-draped coff...
Last week, the deficit on our Government's annual spending widened yet again, to £143 billion. We cannot avoid a reckoning for ever, warns Christopher Booker. At last the penny seems to be dropping that t...
Billionaire investor George Soros has said it is "probably inevitable" a country will eventually exit the eurozone, calling for policymakers to come up with a plan B that could rescue the European Union fr...
...and, I agree.Environmental Leaders Call for Civil Disobedience to Stop the Keystone XL Pipelineby Naomi Klein, Wendell Berry, Maude Barlow, Bill McKibben and OthersDear Friends,This will be a slightly lon...
[image: School children perform special prayers for victims of flash floods in Leh, in Jammu, 7 August 2010. With the recovery of more bodies the toll in the cloudburst climbed to 130 even as 600 more ar...
*In the episode "Second Crime Around," Mary had to deal with her least favorite kind of witness, a con man -- meet Ronnie McIntire (Maury Sterling).* *by Ken* Phew! Sorry, folks, I tried to find a little...
"Even to have come forth is something, since I see that being able to conquer is placed in the hands of fate. However, there was in me, whatever I was able to do, that which no future century will deny t...
The missing leg of a man killed in a hit and run crash has been found more than 160 feet away on a shop roof. Police in Mesa, Arizona, made the grisly discovery four days after the 25-year-old pedestrian ...
Incident: Follow up commentary (containing words we can all agree with): Of course, those who enforce the law don't feel the need to follow it:
More than 350 million people in the world now have diabetes, an international study has revealed. The analysis, published online by the Lancet* *on Saturday, adds several tens of millions to the previous e...
Media mogul Ted Turner says climate change is “probably the most serious--and, in all fairness, the most complex--problem that humanity has ever faced.” He added: “It is really easy to understand how some...
A drumbeat of disappointing data about consumer behavior, factory sales and weak hiring in recent weeks has prompted economists to ratchet down their 2011 economic forecasts to as little as half what they ...
The Brazilian government has confirmed the existence of about 200 unidentified tribal people in the Amazon rainforest. Satellite pictures in January revealed this community was living near the border with...
Incident: Follow up commentary (containing words we can all agree with): Of course, those who enforce the law don't feel the need to follow it:
Men and women from El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua make a beeline to cross the river that forms the border between Guatemala and Mexico. They want to enter Mexico, illegally. But they have another de...
More than 350 million people in the world now have diabetes, an international study has revealed. The analysis, published online by the Lancet* *on Saturday, adds several tens of millions to the previous e...
Media mogul Ted Turner says climate change is “probably the most serious--and, in all fairness, the most complex--problem that humanity has ever faced.” He added: “It is really easy to understand how some...
Thousands of people protested following prayers across the country Friday, while at least one man was killed after security forces backed by tanks fired on the funeral procession of a man who was beaten to...
A drumbeat of disappointing data about consumer behavior, factory sales and weak hiring in recent weeks has prompted economists to ratchet down their 2011 economic forecasts to as little as half what they ...
A woman has filed a complaint with federal authorities over how her elderly mother was treated at Northwest Florida Regional Airport last weekend. Jean Weber of Destin filed a complaint with the Departmen...
The return of a long-lost microscopic plant to the Atlantic Ocean is another sign of a changing climate.
*If you're going to make crazy-ass demands like that, then maybe there's no place in the "Texas Miracle" for you.* *"French cuffs and cowboy boots are, like sauerkraut ice cream, an eclectic combination, ...
By Brenda Norrell Censored News The Renegade Walkers of the Long Walk 3 across America, for the Reversal of Diabetes, are nearing their destination, Washington DC. Walking against the odds, these four ...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Eastern Iran at a depth of 37.3 km (23.2 miles), the quake hit at 19:47:01 UTC Sunday 26th June 2011. The epicenter was 48 km (29 miles) ESE of Kerman, Iran No reports...
Creekside: G20 : Caught in the Act: "When police stick to phony script : the Miami Model" Have I mentioned that Alison rocks today?
Just realized: tomorrow marks exactly one year since the day OB jumped into the blogosphere. The inaugural post: The G20 narrative: whose story is it? Guess we're still struggling with that, but since ...
Six people who died Saturday in a slide of snow and stones were found Sunday.
Modern climate models fail to reproduce rapid climate changes in the past and so are unable to accurately project the future.
Researchers in Australia showed that a class of compounds called nitric oxide donors delays the entry of toxins from potentially deadly snakebites.
A mighty good afternoon, morning and evening to all our readers. We hope you're all doing well, and keeping your eyes and ears open. Three bits of news this week: i) We're watching massive amounts of stra...
To D-fox: if you're reading this, please contact us at thecomingcrisis@gmail.com. It's important -- we believe.
Just thought you should know about THIS. The article came out earlier but I couldn't face posting it until now."We now face losing marine species and entire marine ecosystems, such as coral reefs, within a s...
Because there isn't going to be any meaningful institutional response. But this might be even more effective. Just show them being assholes, and then let public scorn do its work. If they don't act like...
And the beat goes on...Aruba Petroleum continues to endanger public health and safety while our regulators do nothing.On April 3rd I posted about how Aruba Petroleum continues to cause health problems for Ba...
Most of the central banks in the world continue to keep the interest rates at absurdly low levels. The real interest rates - which are the nominal ones minus the inflation rate - are negative at most pla...
Please tell me someone got a picture ... *Related posts:* - The day they turned the Charter of Rights into toilet paper - Care for a chaw, S-Supt. McGuire? - No name tag? You disgust me, Offic...
VILLAR-D'ARENE, France — An English climber on Sunday found the bodies of six mountaineers in the French Alps who appeared to have died after a fall caused by an avalanche of snow and stones, officials sai...
*The (eventually) ebullient finale of the Schubert Octet, played by Chen Halevi, clarinet; Radovan Vlatkovic, horn; Sergio Azzolini, bassoon; Janine Jansen and Julia-Maria Kretz, violins; Maxim Rysanov, v...
*Chinese Cheerleaders - **Sand show** by **cmaccubbin* How will the CIA destabilise China? *In Egypt, Mubarak's sucessful attempts to help the poor meant that the upper middle class had to pay more tax. ...
LulzSec, the gleeful and secretive band of hackers who appear to be responsible for a string of high-profile and sometimes embarrassing Internet attacks, said it was disbanding. "For the past 50 days we'v...
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi will not be part of the African Union's next attempt to map out a peace deal in the war-torn nation, the organization said in a statement Sunday. "The AU high-level ad hoc c...
A young emperor penguin discovered thousands of kilometers away from its home might survive ingesting a bellyful of sand, New Zealand zoo officials said. The penguin -- whose gender is unknown pending DN...
Syrian forces opened fire at funerals for slain political protesters, a human rights activist said Sunday, leaving two more people dead as Syria tries to subdue weeks of demonstrations against President Ba...
This is a really good documentary on the financial collapse, why it happened, what was done after, what was not and why the next one will be even worse. The moves made by the government – here and elsewh...
The recession might be officially over, but American views toward the institutions that brought the economic system close to collapse have never been worse. According to a new poll by Gallup, 36 percent ...
Dear friends and readers, I write this op-ed today primarily for those who are closely following the global economic, financial and political developments in the midst of an ongoing crisis of the world eco...
Postal workers will buzz across a frozen river in a hovercraft to get to a remote cabin north of the Arctic Circle. If they pick up a letter there addressed to someone on the Havasupai Indian reservation,...
When citizens of the small Mediterranean nation of Malta voted in a referendum last month to legalize divorce, they reignited debate in the Philippines, one of the last countries, along with Vatican City, ...
At a congressional hearing on Muslim radicalization in U.S. prisons, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) said that investigators needed to analyze Christian militants in America because they too might try ...
If you think the Federal debt ceiling is anything but an elevator, I've got news for you. Maybe you saw the story about the Air Force airlift of $12 billion in unmarked bills that landed in Iraq sometime...
Is climate change raising sea levels, as Al Gore has argued -- or are climate scientists doctoring the data? The University of Colorado’s Sea Level Research Group decided in May to add 0.3 millimeters --...
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*Today: Oglala Commemoration, Pine Ridge, South Dakota* *By Leonard Peltier* Hello my friends and relations, I always try to come to you full of good spirit and vigor. But I cannot lie. There are days wh...
The Federal Trade Commission has approved a controversial firm which scours social media sites to check on job applicants. It means anything you've ever said in public on sites including Facebook, Twitter...
A young maid is facing death by beheading in Saudi Arabia for a crime she claims she did not commit. Rizana Nafeek, who alleges she was a teenager at the time of the incident, was arrested in May 2005 on ...
A mother was arrested after she was found 'drunk and unconscious' in the street while her two-year-old child was left next to a busy road. The woman, in her 20s, was spotted by a shocked passer-by collapse...
David Cameron's constituency chairman was found dead in a portable toilet in the VIP area at Glastonbury today. Christopher Shale, chairman of the West Oxfordshire Conservative Association, was discovered...
Three people, two men aged 58 and 28, and a 21 year old woman have been killed and as many as 16 families evacuated following a fire in a residential block in Torre del Mar. First reports indicate that in...
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Alice Walker has written a long, thoughtful essay about her experiences in the Palestinian territories, and her decision to participate in Freedom Flotilla II - Stay Human, the international convoy of ship...
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There's an excellent and eye-opening story in today's *New York Times Magazine*. Jose Antonio Vargas was born in the Philippines, and came to the United States at age 12. He has lived the American dream, f...
An interview with Andre Marin, Ontario Ombudsman and author of the G20 report "Caught in the Act", sheds a little light on the blackout surrounding who was responsible for ordering kettling at the G20 a ...
*A magnitude 6.4 earthquake has struck Near the North Coast of Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 36.1 km ( 22.4 miles), the quake hit at 12:16:41 UTC Sunday 26th June 2011. The epicenter was 172 km (106 mi...
*by Ken* The other night we saw Freedom to Marry's Evan Wolfson talking about marriage equality in a segment with Anderson Cooper. In the wake of yesterday's historic enactment of marriage equality by th...
We are now into the fourth month of imperialist aggression against Libya. Daily, the lie machines of the BBC, CNN etc pump out more puerile fantasy dæmonising the titular Head of State, Muammar Al-Qaddafi....
Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) has launched a small, armed, unmanned helicopter to expand a widening portfolio in the unmanned airborne systems market.Dubbed the R-IHA - the Turkish acronym for rotary-...
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has Pagan Region, Northern Mariana Islands at a depth of 99.9 km (62.1 miles), the quake hit at 09:19:48 UTC Sunday 26th June 2011. The epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) East of Agr...
*Tell them to let our people go*** *To all: By now you’ve no doubt heard the news about Hillary’s people defining the about to take off Gaza flotilla as a “provacative act”! Could Obama be getting a bit n...
MBDA’s PARS 3 LR guided missile system has been short listed for the Indian Army helicopter future air-to-ground requirement. MBDA Deutschland has delivered proposals for its PARS 3 LR multi-target, long r...
Indonesia and Embraer have signed the final contract for eight EMB-314 Super Tucanos, clearing the way for deliveries to start in 2012.The deal was announced in November 2010 following a bidding contest in...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Southern Qinghai, China at a depth of 24.8 km (15.4 miles), the quake hit at 07:48:16 UTC Sunday 26th June 2011. The epicenter was 118 km (73 miles) WSW of Gyegu (Yushu...
Heavy rainfall and high stream flows in B.C.'s Peace Region have resulted in flooding, forcing the closure of several roads and highways in the area. Officials say there six main closures, the most signif...
Emergencies ministry's specialists decided to transfer 12 out of 55 people, injured in a household gas tank explosion in Russia's southern republic of North Ossetia, to Moscow. A gas tank exploded on Sat...
A massive downpour hit the city and flooded its roads and sidewalks, halting transportation and soaking many Bangaloreans to the bone on Saturday evening. The residents had to deal with paralysed traffic a...
In a case of suspected food poisoning, two people died and 24 fell sick at Nawanagar near Baddi, Himachal Pradesh. The victims, all in the age group 25-30, are workers of factories at Baddi and hail from J...
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North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue declared a state of emergency Saturday for 29 counties as crews battled wildfires that have consumed more than 70,000 acres. “I want to assure residents of North Caroli...
Renowned TV pitchman Don Lapre has been arrested after failing to show up at a court appearance over charges that he defrauded more than 200,000 people of nearly $52million. The frontman, known for his e...
It was like a scene from the end of the Titanic. A mournful cellist played Bach by the waters of the Souris River in Minot, North Dakota, today as the town fought to brace itself from the worst floods in 1...
An influx of expectant mothers facing murder charges for the deaths of their unborn children in the U.S. has sparked outrage among women's rights activists. Thirty eight states have introduced foetal homi...
A doctor has died after his plane smashed into a garage in Michigan - eight years after he survived a similar crash that killed his wife and two children. Dr Stephen Hatch, 46, died alongside his second ...
Two bombs were detonated inside a Borders Bookstore this morning in a suburban Denver shopping mall, the FBI said. Bomb squad officers were dispatched along with police and FBI agents after the two 'crude...
This is the incredible moment a supergiant star is transformed into a rainbow of dazzling colours as it fires gasses into space. Red star Betelgeuse was captured by astronomers who used the Very Large Tel...
It was a Christmas to remember for all the wrong reasons. A mother who tricked her son into thinking she bought him an Xbox has sparked fury over the internet after a video of the prank went viral. Myster...
A British seed firm has been linked to an E-coli outbreak which has made ten people seriously ill in France. Most are thought to have eaten a chilled soup, garnished with rocket and mustard vegetable spr...
Serial killer Levi Bellfield was a paedophile who drugged and raped schoolgirls in uniform, it emerged today. He had a sex with unconscious victims - one as young as 13 - whose drinks had been spiked with...
The MI6 agent found dead in a holdall at his London flat was working on secret technology to target Russian criminal gangs who launder stolen money through Britain. The revelation adds weight to claims th...
Dragons’ Den star Peter Jones is facing more questions over his use of taxpayers’ money at a charity he set up for young entrepreneurs. Vince Cable’s Department for Business has launched a new inquiry into...
A 13-year-old boy was charged with murder yesterday after a 34-year-old foster mother was killed in her home. Dawn McKenzie is understood to have died from stab wounds after the attack on Friday night. T...
Police have been banned from arresting foul-mouthed yobs who abuse them with the most offensive swear words in the language. The rule change, which has sparked a revolt in the force and anger among MPs, ...
I don't discuss preprints that are disconnected from (or in contradiction with) the body of the research and findings about the physics beyond the Standard Model too often, especially not those that have 0...
The U.S. Air Force has been urged to prepare for war with Iran. The Rand Corp. asserted that the Air Force must increase exercises and testing of weapons as part of preparations for any order to attack Ira...
Jimbo Simmons/Photo by Brenda Norrell *American Indian Movement and Free Palestine Movement announces Jimbo Simmons of AIM West on Gaza Freedom Flotilla Delegation* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://w...
We've exposed the shale gas shell game before but now it's fully exposed and hanging out.Insiders Sound an Alarm Amid a Natural Gas RushIn the e-mails, energy executives, industry lawyers, state geologists a...
*The start of the fourth-movement theme and variations of the Schubert Octet played by Chen Halevi, clarinet; Radovan Vlatkovic, horn; Sergio Azzolini, bassoon; Janine Jansen and Julia-Maria Kretz, violin...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is hospitalized in Cuba and is in critical condition, according to a report published in the Miami, Florida-based *El Nuevo Herald* newspaper. He was last heard from on J...
Hundreds of missiles have been moved into Lebanon from Syria in the past several weeks, according to a report published Saturday in the French newspaper* Le Figaro*. A "Western expert" quoted in the repo...
The first of the Summer 2011 anti-Israel Gaza flotilla ships have set sail from France. The two vessels left port in Corsica on Saturday, according to a *Channel 2* news report. Both headed for the coast...
Rates of diabetes have exploded in the past three decades with an estimated 350 million people in the world now suffering from the disease, according to new research. Almost every region of the planet ha...
Mexican troops fanned out across the border state of Tamaulipas this weekend, taking over security operations in half the state's cities and towns. About 2,800 soldiers were deployed to 22 of 43 cities i...
t is one of the most perilous air routes in the world. Colombian pilots fly through storms in decrepit planes over dense forests to deliver food and goods to villagers isolated from the rest of the world...
Sign up HERE to join peaceful protests and civil disobedience in Washington DC, against the tar sands pipeline, in August. When I watched the videos and saw the massive tailing ponds full of carcinoge...
There was big news on the neutrino front last week, when the Japanese T2K (Tokai to Kamioka) experiment announced the first evidence of a rare form of neutrino oscillation.
*Alas, the Pavilion at Conference House Park was used as a stage for the "musicians," and so was off limits to us Second Annual Raritan Bay Festivalgoers.* *by Ken* So I really did it, and it all went of...
Radio host and documentarian Alex Jones delivered the keynote speech at the 2011's Talkers Magazine New Media Seminar in New York. *Alex Jones: Beyond The Box* ** *Paul Joseph Watson Infowars Saturday, ...
Guess it's good to have the occasional reminder. From Jason Kenney's favourite left-wing kook. *Related posts:* - That 'disrespectful' Brigette sparks the wrath of Ottawa's Villagers - Re Brigett...
Wednesday, June 29th at 7:30 PM @ the Texas Theater.
Activist Teacher blogger Denis Rancourt on Thursday was served with a $1 million lawsuit for posts on his U of O Watch blog about University of Ottawa law professor Joanne St. Lewis.Professor St. Lewis filed...
[image: Radiation exposure limits for food in eight nations and Codex. The limits for isotopes Iodine-131, Cesium-134, and Cesium-137 are shown for drinking water, milk and dairy products, vegetables, an...
I *confess *this morning while in a store I was irritated with my daughter's behavior and I could feel my frustration building. About two seconds later a mom walked by with a child throwing such a violent ...
[image: In Shika, Japan, a nuclear plant's visitor hall promotes nuclear power with 'Alice in Wonderland' characters. Ko Sasaki for The New York Times] By NORIMITSU ONISHI 24 June 2011 SHIKA, Japan — ...
Labour unrest is on the rise in Vietnam as the country struggles under ever rising inflation. Food costs are up and not everyone can negoatiate higher wages. Official figures show the inflation rate neari...
*The Cobell Settlement 'Rolling Snake Eyes* by Brenda Norrell Narcosphere The mainstream media is claiming the Cobell Settlement of the Indian trust fund lawsuit is a victory -- because they didn’t do their...
Senior Chinese and American officials are to meet this weekend as Beijing warns Washington that it is "playing with fire" by supporting countries that contest China's claim to own the whole of the South Ch...
The current armed conflict in Burma's northern Kachin State has effectively ended nearly two decades of ceasefire between the country's second largest ethnic army, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), and t...
Pakistan is caught today in a web of complex geopolitics and internal strife. Standing between it and total collapse are a smattering of political forces and discipline within the military. If either is un...
*A levee three-miles upstream from the Cooper Nuclear Station at Brownville failed Thursday night, but authorities said the incident presented no threat to the nuclear plant.* The failed levee, in Atchison...
The European Union is suffering on a scale much larger than just the crisis in Greece. Timothy Garton Ash, a contributing editor to Opinion, says it’s because the old political and emotional motivators of ...
When will the U.S. economy return to full employment? No sooner than 2018, according to a new report from *McKinsey* — oh, and that’s the best-case scenario. Worst case, the economy produces a measly 9-10 ...
Israel on Sunday launched a major five-day home front defence exercise intended to prepare its population and emergency services to respond to massive missile attacks, the Israeli military said. Named "Tu...
The United States and its allies are concerned that al-Qaida and other terrorist groups may have got their hands on scores, if not hundreds, of shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles plundered from Libyan m...
Unscrupulous traffickers, Burma's economic decline and militarization, and a shortage of females caused by China's “One Child Policy” have all combined to contribute to the trafficking of women from the Pa...
A Russian woman died from a heart attack brought on by the shock of waking up at her own funeral. Fagilyu Mukhametzyanov, 49, was mistakenly declared deceased by doctors, the Daily Mail reported Friday....
*GREEKS PROTEST AUSTERITY CUTS** by **Joanna* Greece is corrupt. The Greek government hospital system is said to be the most corrupt institution in Greece. (Near-bankrukpt Greece a culture of corruption.)...
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*Of course I don't want* to scare you your pants off, but sometimes unexpectedly your Linux *Debian* desktop computer can go nuts for no reason. That appears so to my opinion. Working and experimenting wi...
*by Ken* I don't know if you've been following the fracas, so far focused mainly on GLAAD (the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) -- leading to the resignation of executive director, Jarrett Bar...
And why not take this opportunity for a reprise of the most famous Wit's End Koch Climate Zombie Top Hat Hits parade?? *Update*: "Clarence Thomas Must Go" from Truthout - an exploration of his lin...
"For 40 years, secret terrorist organisations, many trained by Western intelligence agencies, have manipulated the political control of European sovereign states by a campaign of terror and murder. Origi...
Conservative firebrand Sen. Jim DeMint has a message to fellow Republicans in Congress: If you support increasing the debt ceiling without first passing a balanced budget amendment and massive across-the-b...
It seems that the situation in the South China Sea is taking a turn for the worse. The increasingly harsh rhetoric is now being backed by a display of muscle. China sent one of its most modern surveillance...
The top U.S. admiral involved in the Libya war admitted to a U.S. congressman that NATO forces are trying to kill Libyan leader *Muammar al-Qaddafi*. The same admiral also said he anticipated the need for ...
The Souris River's full weight hit Minot on Friday, swamping an estimated 2,500 homes as it soared nearly 4 feet in less than a day and overwhelmed the city's levees. City officials said they expected more...
SEVENTEEN people have been hospitalised after two further outbreaks of food poisoning in France. Health authorities are investigating what appears to be an E.Coli infection in Bègles-en-Gironde, near Borde...
That's it! The United States has gone terminally FUBAR. Pregnant women who lose babies are actually being charged with murder. This is madness, Christofascist lunacy. *Rennie Gibbs is accused of murde...
[image: Fukushima nuclear disaster: Trucks drive past piles of rubble collected after the tsunami and nuclear disaster. Kiyoshi Ota / Getty Images / guardian.co.uk] By Takemichi Nishibori, Yoshinori Hay...
[image: Minoru Yokota, 58, a carpenter from Tomioka town, Fukushima Prefecture, says at an event facility in Koriyama in the same prefecture, which is his current home, "We do not know how many years it ...
Florida nursing home operators must have a powerful lobby. State Republicans turned down federal grants to help remove patients from nursing homes and provide the same level of care to them in their own ...
It was just weeks ago that Steve Harper declared Canada's mission to Afghanistan a "great success." Actually he couched it by saying we had to "consider" our military excursion a great success. But any d...
[image: The body of a bird killed by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill lies on a Louisiana beach. From the Animal Planet documentary, BLACK TIDE: VOICES FROM THE GULF. discovery.com]On July 28, Animal P...
*"Republicans are silent on Thomas for a simple reason. He’s doing their bidding on the Supreme Court today, and they don’t want to do anything that compromises his ability to enforce a political agenda i...
Operation Gladio [BBC Timewatch, 1992] State-Sponsored Terrorism in Europe
[image: Long-beaked Common Dolphin, Los Angeles County, California, 2 November 2008. Martin Meyers] By Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist 24 June 2011 Two dolphins that would be more at home frolicking in t...
Ft. Calhoun is the designated spent fuel storage facility for the entire state of Nebraska...and maybe for more than one state.* Calhoun stores its spent fuel in ground-level pools which are underwater an...
Scientists have shown off a "cloaking device" that makes objects invisible - to sound waves. Such acoustic cloaking was proposed theoretically in 2008 but has only this year been put into practice. Desc...
NATO airstrikes hit a bakery and a restaurant in the Libyan city of al-Brega Saturday, killing 15 civilians, a Libyan government official told CNN. NATO denied the claim and said it had struck key command...
Jorge Mollinedo and Alex Choque are best friends. They have worked together in the tin mines of Bolivia, hammering out a living from the underground rock. They are now teenagers and looking for a way ou...
It was a giant leap for mankind, a truly historic moment, and so many people wanted a apart of it. Now, 40 years after some moon dust brought back from the Apollo 11 mission went missing, it has been reco...
The small town of Fort Chipewyan in northern Alberta is facing the consequences of being the first to witness the impact of the Tar Sands project, which may be the tipping point for oil development in Ca...
Between 14,500 and 17,500 people are trafficked into the U.S. each year, according to a 2005 report from the U.S. State Department. (Source)
Male bluestreak cleaner wrasses tend to punish female "co-workers" more severely if they are at high risk of turning into males, a British researcher has found. Cleaner wrasses remove parasites from the f...
Why do we still go to war? We seem unable to stop. We find any excuse for this post-imperial fidget and yet we keep getting trapped. Germans do not do it, or Spanish or Swedes. Britain's borders and Britis...
Don't let the perma bulls fool you, this is not a normal correction, and it has nothing to do with Greece or Spain. This is the beginnings of the next leg down in the secular bear market and the start of t...
... with a few nice words about accountability and regaining public trust. Here are some suggestions for you. - Do something about the assholes who brutalized Lacy MacAuley. - Out the sons of bitche...
Another international disgrace for Canada - thanks to Greasy Steve Harper. The Canadian delegation to a UN conference in Geneva agrees that chrysotile asbestos fully deserves to be labelled as "hazardous" ...
Being as how Wit's End so recently posted about unsustainable overpopulation, I have to embed this very funny (and dirty!) clip of Bill Maher's version of the topic - which mercilessly encapsulates in one ...
UPDATE: For more on how one man made this all come about, see the Dallas Drilling blog.This was posted on the Cross Timbers Gazette: (thanks Westchester Gasette for the heads up)U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ...
New poll finds ‘monumental shift’ in public perception of Toronto police because of G20 actions - thestar.com I might just have to revise my opinion of the Star again. This is clearly adding to the pressu...
A design for a New York City pool proposes that it float on the Hudson River and filter water through its sides.
Last night at 11:55, New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the bill that had caused such furor in the closing week -- or should we say the *post*-closing week -- of the legislative session. At 11:57 a ...
I can't recognize this city anymore. What a sad sad reality. I can't recognize streets because of the concrete walls, and I don't know anymore here anymore. All my friends, family, colleagues, neighbors,...
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New York State, thank you for doing the right thing! Forty-two years after Stonewall, same-sex couples have the legal right to marry in New York State. Whoo-hoo! New York is the state of birth, of my par...
Boeing has announced the signing of a previously announced order for 10 C-17s for the Indian air force that will extend production of the tactical airlifter by one year.The signing of the $4.1 billion orde...
Gene has sent me a link to this fascinating article in the Wall Street Journal: China Trips Up Major Airbus Deal A few days ago, the European media celebrated an amazing, record-breaking deal: AirAsia ...
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The Bank of England has been urged to raise rates sooner and faster than expected by the world's central bank to retain its inflation-fighting credibility and "ward off" another financial crisis. "Control...
The strain of E. coli blamed for 46 deaths in Germany appears to have resurfaced in France, the French Ministry of Health said. The new outbreak has sickened eight people, who went to two hospitals in Bo...
*"In the angle of the obdurate outthrust jaw, buckwheat-flecked from the morning meal, one read quenchless resolve, a nature scornful of compromise and dedicated to squeezing the last nickel out of any en...
Armed Islamic militants have infiltrated Syria's legitimate pro-democracy movement, a government spokesman has told Sky News. Faisal Almikdad, vice foreign minister, said "extremists" were responsible for...
The bodies of soldiers killed in Afghanistan will no longer be honoured with a public parade but will be driven through back streets to avoid upset, it has emerged. For several years, the flag-draped coff...
Last week, the deficit on our Government's annual spending widened yet again, to £143 billion. We cannot avoid a reckoning for ever, warns Christopher Booker. At last the penny seems to be dropping that t...
Billionaire investor George Soros has said it is "probably inevitable" a country will eventually exit the eurozone, calling for policymakers to come up with a plan B that could rescue the European Union fr...
*In the episode "Second Crime Around," Mary had to deal with her least favorite kind of witness, a con man -- meet Ronnie McIntire (Maury Sterling).* *by Ken* Phew! Sorry, folks, I tried to find a little...
The missing leg of a man killed in a hit and run crash has been found more than 160 feet away on a shop roof. Police in Mesa, Arizona, made the grisly discovery four days after the 25-year-old pedestrian ...
More than 350 million people in the world now have diabetes, an international study has revealed. The analysis, published online by the Lancet* *on Saturday, adds several tens of millions to the previous e...
Media mogul Ted Turner says climate change is “probably the most serious--and, in all fairness, the most complex--problem that humanity has ever faced.” He added: “It is really easy to understand how some...
A drumbeat of disappointing data about consumer behavior, factory sales and weak hiring in recent weeks has prompted economists to ratchet down their 2011 economic forecasts to as little as half what they ...
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