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Václav Klaus will celebrate his 70th birthday in two weeks. If you need some contacts to the Prague Castle where he works, for example because you wanted to send a gift, here they are. (...
From Louisville to Cincinnati to Dayton to Cleveland, beginning yesterday afternoon there have been thousands upon untold thousands of earthworms coming out of the ground which have subsequently ‘fried’ ...
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Joe Shlabotnik / cc via TreeHugger So often there's the sense that only with dramatic change can we bring about a more sustainable world -- but in reality, sometimes all it takes is the im...
A fisherman smokes a cigarette on the banks of the murky river Tengi. The Malaysian world heritage city of Malacca will be smoke-free from June 15, a first for the country, the health minister said Monday...
Ryan Giggs was accused yesterday of an eight-year affair with his brother’s wife as the fall-out from his ill-fated gagging order became ever more damaging. The Manchester United star, formerly regarded a...
*"During much of that epoch, I gained my livelihood writing for the silver screen, an occupation which, like herding swine, makes the vocabulary pungent but contributes little to one's prose style."* *-- f...
Read For Background: Will There Be A New False Flag Attack In Chicago's Sears Tower? What Do The Sears Tower; WTC, and Terror Drills Have In Common? The Stage Is Set For a Nuclear False Flag We live in ve...
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wmtc - 4 hours ago
Did you hear Michael Moore has offered our hero Brigette DePape a job? I hope she has many such excellent opportunities coming her way. A young woman with that much courage, poise and determination should ...
Israel was accused of shooting dead as many as 20 protesters on Sunday after Palestinian refugees and their Syrian sympathisers massed in the occupied Golan Heights. Hundreds of protesters came under fire...
The deployment of Apache helicopters might hasten Gaddafi’s departure, but Britain is facing a long stay in the country, writes James Kirkup in Benghazi. Skimming fast and low over the ground, bristling w...
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wmtc - 4 hours ago
Remember this? I wrote about this here. Thanks to the tireless efforts of my comrade Peter, we were able to organize the requisite five complaints needed to trigger a City review of advertising. And gu...
[image: General meeting at Emergency Disaster Restoration Room in Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, 27 May 2011. TEPCO] June 4 (Yomiuri Shimbun) – The government has ordered the suspension of tea ...
The right-wing's obsession and idolization of Ayn Rand is curious. It's also ridiculous considering that many of her own beliefs directly contradict many of what her most ardent followers themselves profes...
[image: Drought affected crops in East Anglia, the worst-hit area in the country. British farmers are set to lose crops worth around £400m due to dry weather of spring 2011, according to the latest estim...
Observers know universities to be the most politically sterile of institutions, the indoctrination boot-camps for the military economy's service intellectuals...That is what makes this such a remarkable news...
*How to "reinvigorate open society in America"* "First, I should like to see efforts to help the public develop an immunity to Newspeak. . . . Second, I should like to convince the American public of the...
In the wake of the Air France Flight 447 crash, experts are calling for improved pilot training that will teach them to ignore their intuition.
I came across a little-known story about our illustrious President the other day. His ancestral background of course, has been a mystery to many, but did you know that in addition to his Kenyan, Irish, and...
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Physicists at Fermilab's Tevatron particle accelerator have detected the potential signal from an unpredicted new particle. Is this a sign of "new physics"? Or is it a dud?
Sprouts grown in Germany are the likely source for an E. coli outbreak that has killed 22 people, officials said Sunday. Gert Lindemann, agricultural minister of Lower Saxony, said there is a "direct li...
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov says NATO is "one step" from sending troops into Libya in a bid to help rebels remove Moammar Gadhafi from power. Ivanov said Sunday at an Asian security confe...
Chinese policy makers are moving toward the internationalization of the yuan, amid growing worries about the country’s exposure to the fiscal woes of the United States and the U.S. dollar’s role as the glo...
Pope Benedict XVI denounced the "disintegration" of family life in Europe on Sunday and called for couples to make a commitment to marry and have children, not just live together, as he reaffirmed traditio...
A newly leaked U.S. diplomatic cable originally written over six years ago confirms that the agenda to merge the United States, Canada and Mexico into an integrated North American Union has been ongoing fo...
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A hazmat crew from Denton was dispatched to Wise County where "several thousand barrels of crude oil spilled at an Enterprise Products gathering site. “The spill is contained within the dike,” Dodd said. “An...
*St. Regis Lhasa, in occupied Tibet, owned by Starwood* In 1971 I trekked up near the Nepali-Tibetan border and wondered if I'd ever get across it. Back then no Americans were allowed. Now, China encourage...
In September a political earthquake will hit the United Nations. It is almost certain that Palestine will be recognized as an official country by over 100 member states of the United Nations. The internati...
Twenty protesters, including a 12-year-old boy, have been shot dead by Israeli forces near the border fence on Golan Heights, Syrian state television is reporting. Another 325 people were injured, accord...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Police say a suicide bomber has attacked a bakery in northwest Pakistan, killing 18 people and wounding 40 others. Police official Liaquat Ali Khan says the attack occurred late Sund...
Has the world come to an end? I ask this because unbelievably something praiseworthy is coming from San Francisco. Much to the horror of Male Genital Mutilators, a campaign is underfoot to make circumcisio...
DURBAN III TO BE HELD IN NYC - AND TO BE BOYCOTTED BY THE US, CANADA, ISRAEL...: "Oh, this one is going to hit the news like a 50 megaton bomb. Ten years ago the Durban Declaration conference was all over th...
Sacramento man sentenced for beating Sikh cab driver: " Pedro Antonio Ramirez SACRAMENTO, CA – A Sacramento man was sentenced to 13 years in prison for beating up a cab driver because he thought that he was...
Hello everyone! This week we'd like to thank all the readers who keep sending in fantastic articles for us to post. We really appreciate it, and many of the stories are fantastic. Keep up the great work! ...
[image: All over the world, farmers are increasingly competing with cities for water. The fast-growing city of Hermosillo, in northwestern Mexico, is building an aqueduct to the mountains to capture wate...
To D-fox: if you're reading this, please contact us at thecomingcrisis@gmail.com. It's important -- we believe.
Thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes after a volcano which has been dormant for decades erupted in south-central Chile. The explosion resulted in a gas column more than six miles (10km...
*Soros working on Wall Street, 1962, from the NYRB article* *On his role in his "exceptional position"* "I have made it a principle to pursue my self-interest in my business, subject to legal and ethical l...
[image: A sign at a dried-up lake in Britain reads 'Danger Deep Water', 7 May 2011. This year has seen an unusually dry spring, and despite some recent rainfall the dry weather is set to continue across ...
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Biased BBC - 14 hours ago
Watching the BBC report on the bad and evil Israelis "opening fire" on harmless liberty loving and defenceless *"Pro-Palestinian"* demonstrators in Syria i.e Boy Bashar's unofficial attention diverting st...
By JIM WAYMER 2 June 2011 COCOA BEACH — The mauve stinger jellyfish spared swimmers Wednesday, after stinging about 1,800 people in the past week. But biologists say the tiny creature could pop up of...
*Saudi troops head into Bahrain, March 2011. * The US government wants change in Bahrain. According to Elliot Abrams, of the Council on Foreign Relations: "There will be no justice and no democracy unti...
*Tornadoes and rough winds wreaked havoc yesterday in the north of Sweden, tearing down a large number of trees. *One man in the northern province Västerbotten was seriously injured when a tree fell on to...
Dozens of gunmen have attacked the presidential palace at Yemen's second largest city, military officials and witnesses said Sunday, after the country's embattled leader went to Saudi Arabia to receive med...
Tokyo Electric Power Company has decided to increase the transfer of radioactive water by about 1,500 tons to a facility at the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The company says the transfer...
German Health Minister Daniel Bahr said the scale of the E. coli outbreak in the country has overwhelmed hospitals in northern Germany. Meanwhile, some experts speculated that the pathogen might be linked ...
Miami Beach police did their best to destroy a citizen video that shows them shooting a man to death in a hail of bullets Memorial Day. First, police pointed their guns at the man who shot the video, acco...
One of the largest wildfires in Arizona history threatened mountain retreats and spread ash and smoke as far away as Albuquerque, New Mexico, more than 200 miles away, officials said Saturday. Across th...
Israeli troops fired tear gas and warning shots as protesters tried to cross the heavily fortified border between Syria and the Golan Heights, the Israeli military said Sunday. Syrian television said 11...
Canadian researchers have identified what appears to be the first domestically acquired case of an NDM-1 superbug. An 86-year-old Ontario man was found to be carrying bacteria resistant to most antibioti...
Global food output may be hurt as climate change brings more extreme weather over the next decade, with China likely set for harsher droughts and North America getting heavier rain, said the World Meteorol...
The FDA has been under significant pressure to regulate Bisphenol-A, a chemical component in plastics and resins that has been linked to health problems ranging from hyperactivity and early puberty to infe...
*We are coming up on the 3 year anniversary of the 2008 financial crisis.*The economy has not improved. The unemployment payments, for most, have run out. People’s safety nets are destroyed. Housing is coll...
German-grown beansprouts are the likely cause of the E.coli outbreak, say health authorities investigating the crisis. A spokesman for the agriculture ministry in Germany's Lower Saxony state said peopl...
This is your chance to participate in KIDS SPEAK: National ad campaign to expose impacts of natural gas drillingVideo Submission Guidelines:"FRACKING : CHILDREN'S VOICES FROM ACROSS THE NATION"Now's the time...
*“Wilderness is not a luxury, but a necessity of the human spirit (Edward Abbey).”* Most spend lives caged in the artificial concrete and steel habitats of humanity. But instinctively, we crave a return ...
*Ask your bank to provide proof of ownership before you pay anything!* *Banks are irresponsible and feed on your fear of default.*
*The questions were asked by Mr Vítězslav Kremlík M.A., a historian and a blogger at klimaskeptik.cz; see original URL* *An interview with Ing. Ivanka Charvátová, CSc. from the Geophysical Institute of th...
Strong but light composite materials drastically reduce weight and accommodate a smaller engine that saves on fuel.
When I was at faculty of Harvard, Ed Fredkin was among the fun and famous people who came to me and wanted to chat on a periodic basis. He told me that Richard Feynman had died some time ago but Feynman us...
*Arnold Böcklin's original Isle of the Dead, from 1880. (You can click on it to enlarge.) The second Isle, painted later the same year, is housed in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.* *"A great pai...
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake has struck West of Macquarie Island at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 11:51:12 UTC Sunday 5th June 2011. The epicenter was 794 km (493 miles) WSW of Macquarie Isla...
SINGAPORE: Singapore national water agency PUB said heavy and intense rain fell over the central and eastern parts of Singapore early Sunday morning, resulting in flash floods in various locations. PUB s...
At least four persons including a woman were killed and eight others injured due to blast at Sheikhupura Road here in Gujranwala on late Saturday night. Building of a private bank, three shops and a house ...
A loud explosion has gone off in Nairobi and set a petrol station ablaze near the junction of Kirinyaga and Accra roads. Huge flames were witnessed in the petrol station before fire fighters put it out af...
INDIANAPOLIS — Severe weather moving across central Indiana has left one person dead, more than 35,000 utility customers without power and much of the state under a thunderstorm watch. State Police Publi...
Food and drink sold in Britain is under a growing threat from terrorist groups which might try to poison supplies, the Government’s security advisers have warned. Manufacturers and retailers have been to...
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Biased BBC - 22 hours ago
Wonder what you make of this? The BBC was at the centre of a new decency row last night after ruling that the most offensive word in English is acceptable for broadcast. The Corporation decided that the w...
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Biased BBC - 22 hours ago
Sandy Toksvig, presenter of Radio 4's so-called News Quiz - actually a propaganda fest for the presenter's and panellists' liberal prejudices - summarises all that I loathe about the BBC. She's a lefty, sm...
Southern Chile's Puyehue volcano has erupted for the first time in half a century, prompting evacuation orders for 3500 people as it sent smoke billowing into the sky, authorities said. The National Ser...
The House harshly scolded President Barack Obama on Friday for launching U.S. military forces against Libya without congressional approval, fiercely disputing constitutional powers and flashing bipartisan ...
A 13-year-old Arizona boy was killed in a freak accident after a baseball hit him over the heart as he tried to bunt. Hayden Walton went for the bunt during a game Tuesday night in the close-knit norther...
A couple who allegedly left their son in a hot car while they were inside a strip club later complained about the heat of the police car they were being driven away in, a Kentucky court has heard. Police ...
Wildlife officials are warning people to stay away from a popular creek in Philadelphia after a rabid beaver bit three people in the past few days. The Pennsylvania State Game Commission confirmed on Frid...
Today marks an agonising milestone for the mother of Kyron Horman - it has been one year to date since her son mysteriously vanished from his elementary school in Portland, Oregon. Desiree Young has been ...
An FBI forensic expert said a hair removed from the trunk of Casey Anthony's car is consistent with hair from a dead body. That was the testimony of Karen Korsberg Lowe Saturday in Anthony's sensational m...
We have all heard of little green men from Mars. But now an American 'armchair astronaut' claims to have discovered a mysterious structure on the surface of the red planet - by looking on Google earth. D...
A teenage couple who are accused of killing the then 14-year-old girl's mother after she disapproved of their relationship, considered killing themselves like Romeo and Juliet. Tylar Witt, now 16, told a...
Telecommunications companies have a reputation for making hyperbolic claims about their products. But one firm has been forced into an embarrassing climbdown after suggesting it helped inspire this year's...
Scientists hunting the source of the deadly mutant E.coli outbreak in Germany have switched the focus of their investigation to a restaurant and a festival attended by 1.5 million people. More than 30 dine...
The killer who beheaded a British grandmother in Tenerife has been moved to a jail after attacking a nurse in a psychiatric unit. Deyan Deyanov, 28, was being held in a hospital on the Spanish island afte...
The American driver who killed two British businessmen in Florida in a hit-and-run accident in 2009 has escaped going to jail - after the men's widows agreed to it as part of a compensation deal. Ryan LeV...
Firefighters and forestry workers in Russia's Far East extinguished 14 wildfires and continue putting out another 12 in the past 24 hours, the regional emergencies ministry said on Sunday. "Satellite mon...
REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. — Thousands of small, partially processed fish are washing ashore on Delaware's Rehoboth Beach that may have been dumped from a commercial vessel. The menhaden fish dump is forcing p...
A recent reader expression of apprehension of converting blogspot blog to custom domain is the reason for this post. Worries about the effect of conversion to custom domain is very understandable as it inv...
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Update: The Federal Government has, in connection with the dangerous EHEC intestinal bacteria not told the truth to the German and European population, latest news sources talk about that tests and “resear...
An outbreak of a virulent strain of E. coli has killed 19 people in Europe and infected more than 2,000 in at least 12 countries, the World Health Organization said on Saturday. All but one of the fatal...
*Here's the original Capitol issue of the Leinsdorf "Opera Overtures" LP, nearly all of which has been reissued on a terrific Seraphim CD, with some almost equally good additional material.* *by Ken* In ...
Radioactive byproducts indicate that nuclear chain reactions must have been burning at the damaged nuclear reactors long after the disaster unfolded. Nuclear reactors produce radioactive by-products that d...
Greece has been hit by protests in central Athens, after its prime minister agreed to strict new austerity measures in return for the next €12bn instalment of the International Monetary Fund’s bail-out. ...
A volcanic eruption in southern Chile Saturday shot smoke and ash miles into the sky and forced the evacuation of some 3,500 people. "We are taking all necessary precautions," said Chilean Interior Minist...
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Czech president Václav Klaus will celebrate his 70th birthday in two weeks. If you need some contacts to the Prague Castle where he works, for example because you wanted to send a gift, here they are. (...
Photo courtesy: Joe Shlabotnik / cc via TreeHugger So often there's the sense that only with dramatic change can we bring about a more sustainable world -- but in reality, sometimes all it takes is the im...
A fisherman smokes a cigarette on the banks of the murky river Tengi. The Malaysian world heritage city of Malacca will be smoke-free from June 15, a first for the country, the health minister said Monday...
Ryan Giggs was accused yesterday of an eight-year affair with his brother’s wife as the fall-out from his ill-fated gagging order became ever more damaging. The Manchester United star, formerly regarded a...
*"During much of that epoch, I gained my livelihood writing for the silver screen, an occupation which, like herding swine, makes the vocabulary pungent but contributes little to one's prose style."* *-- f...
Did you hear Michael Moore has offered our hero Brigette DePape a job? I hope she has many such excellent opportunities coming her way. A young woman with that much courage, poise and determination should ...
The deployment of Apache helicopters might hasten Gaddafi’s departure, but Britain is facing a long stay in the country, writes James Kirkup in Benghazi. Skimming fast and low over the ground, bristling w...
Remember this? I wrote about this here. Thanks to the tireless efforts of my comrade Peter, we were able to organize the requisite five complaints needed to trigger a City review of advertising. And gu...
The right-wing's obsession and idolization of Ayn Rand is curious. It's also ridiculous considering that many of her own beliefs directly contradict many of what her most ardent followers themselves profes...
*How to "reinvigorate open society in America"* "First, I should like to see efforts to help the public develop an immunity to Newspeak. . . . Second, I should like to convince the American public of the...
I came across a little-known story about our illustrious President the other day. His ancestral background of course, has been a mystery to many, but did you know that in addition to his Kenyan, Irish, and...
[image: Colección de animales, peces e insectos (7 imágenes)][image: Colección de animales, peces e insectos (7 imágenes)] [image: Colección de animales, peces e insectos (7 imágenes)] [image: Colección de...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoREHOBOTH BEACH, Del. — Thousands of small, partially processed fish are washing ashore on Delaware's Rehoboth Beach that may have been dumped from a commercial vessel. The menhaden fish dump is forcing p...
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