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*As if one genius idea wasn't enough, this week's New Yorker features Roz on the Satan Sandwich (see below)* *"Stranger’s Day has the potential to be the greatest holiday of all, not least for the greeti...
By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – The ongoing week of action to halt the desecration of sacred
San Francisco Peaks by the Snowbowl ski resort, and the ex...
Summer of our discontent: Buildings set on fire in Tottenham, a poor neighborhood in
north London. Photo from Politicol News. Son of 'Shock Doctrine': The approaching winter of our discontent By Carl David...
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God's Warriors are dying and gangsters are their replacements." - Tim Means, from the song by Cunninlynguists Feat. Tim Means called America Loves Gangsters. "There is something shaken and shattered in...
[*The sombre, caped figure huffs audibly and then trips over the window sill and falls into the room.*] *DEATH* [*for it is no one else*]: Jesus Christ. I nearly broke my neck. *NAT ACKERMAN* [*watching...
This is by far the most amazing story I have ever been a part of. I'm still awestruck as I write this, but I am so very happy to be able to tell it. Last Friday afternoon a large church youth group from S...
Syrian tanks stormed two northwestern towns near the border with Turkey, expanding its military offensive to crush protests, local residents said, a day after Ankara pressed Syrian President Bashar al-A...
A country overrun by rioters. A government facing questions over policing. Its leader accused of having lost legitimacy. Sound familiar? But this week, rather than another country swept by an Arab Spring...
With a $6 million federal Homeland Security grant, hundreds of San Francisco’s Muni buses will soon have high-tech video surveillance cameras the transit agency can survey in real-time. While the transit...
Late last Friday night, special forces troops from the NATO-led coalition launched an operation to capture a Taliban leader in an inaccessible valley southwest of Kabul. A few hours later 38 troops -- 30...
Libyan state television broadcast images Wednesday of a man it said was Moammar Gadhafi's youngest son in an attempt to refute rebel claims that he had been killed in a NATO airstrike. Rebels claimed on ...
Israel’s social protest movement started with a tent on Tel Aviv’s Rothschild Boulevard and a few voices demanding affordable housing. In less than a month it has grown into a national phenomenon – and per...
The Hong Kong stock exchange was forced to suspend trading in stocks including HSBC Holdings after hackers broke into the exchange's website on Wednesday, preventing investors from accessing company announ...
Investors lost a trillion dollars in the stock market Monday as the debt crisis in Europe, lackluster economic news and a downgrade to the U.S. credit rating spark fears of a double-dip recession. The Wi...
More than 400 grave marker vases, valued at more than $100,000, have been recovered by police after a 35-year-old man suspected of stealing vases from cemeteries in the west suburbs was arrested. The sus...
Twitter has refused to close the accounts of London rioters who used the service to spread unrest and insisted that Tweets must 'continue to flow'. The US-based company said that 'freedom of expression' w...
London is reeling from three nights of rioting that's poured hundreds of people into the streets, leaving several local neighborhoods in shambles. One man is dead, dozens injured and arrested. The protes...
A South Korean stock broker jumped to his death from a high-rise office amid worldwide market turmoil. The 48-year-old broker, identified only as "Seo," sent text messages to colleagues expressing regret...
European shares ended sharply down on Wednesday, led lower by a steep sell-off in banking shares, with Societe Generale down more than 21 percent at one point on a slew of rumours about the bank. A SocGe...
Canadians are rightfully asking themselves whether the Canadian economy is headed for a cliff if the United States falls to recession so soon after the last one. Do we hit the rocks together, or is our saf...
Serbs in northern Kosovo have begun dismantling roadblocks set up amid increased tensions over two border crossings between Serbia and Kosovo. Last month Kosovo's mainly ethnic Albanian government sent pa...
The downgrade of US debt has focused attention on how America's largest creditor – the People's Republic of China - will react. Reactions in China have been varied. The most encouraging remarks came from C...
One country that is taking the Standard & Poor's downgrading of US debt to heart is Japan. It is no secret that Japan, with its high government debt-to-GDP ratio, was a prime target for a downgrade. Poli...
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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has warned of an alarming rise in attacks on medical facilities and personnel in conflict zones. The ICRC report, Healthcare in Danger, lists 600 attac...
The Chinese navy's first aircraft carrier has begun its sea trials, the state-run Xinhua news agency has said. It quoted military sources as saying that the refitted former Soviet warship left its shipya...
Thousands of people who are due to retire this month will find their pension income is nearly a fifth lower than what they expected a month ago because of the global stock markets crisis. They are victim...
From smoothing skin and erasing wrinkles to enlarging muscles and slimming waists, airbrushing, or "photoshopping," men and women to so-called perfection is the norm in advertising. These images don't refl...
The Empire's Decline is usually a slow-moving affair. It took about 30 years to reach August 9, 2011. Things have deteriorated gradually, but that's all changing. This week we are privileged to the watch t...
Deep network uncovered as fake "indy" rag is forced to disclose funding. by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand August 11, 2011 - After initially trying to downplay, obfuscate, and deny accusations that th...
I just found that someone had transcribed and posted the discussion I was party to last year. I have not compared to the original videos. I hope you do, before quoting! Transcript by PottersvilleUSA.com. Fe...
A Roman sword, still in its leather-bound wooden scabbard, was unearthed in Jerusalem where it had apparently lain since the revolt that destroyed the Second Temple almost 2,000.
It seems every summer, one political story comes out of nowhere to dominate the headlines. After all, pundits need something to pontificate on, a task that has grown more challenging with the next election...
. Will the enemies of NATO soon recognise the UK's 'hoody' army as our lawful government? Will they arm these anti-Cameron insurgents and carry out bombing raids on their behalf? Can we expect slouc...
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If you're a long-time reader or if you've ever emailed me (feel free! iamjustlu@gmail.com) with a question about Blogger, you've probably heard me mention Blogger in Draft. In a nutshell, Blogger in Dra...
Nice hatchet job on Cameron by Nick Robinson on the 10 News. In essence, they ran Cameron talking the possibility at least of water cannon and plastic bullets and then instantly used the comments of the B...
This is divine anger. It is the perfect emotional response to the robbery of America.
This week Boehner has been raising campaign money from wealthy backers on the links at super-posh Muirfield Village Country Club in the hope of keeping the GOP in control of the House. One of the perks i...
Set goals and track your workout history by monitoring your pulse with a comfortable forearm strap.
[image: Soil contaminated by radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is stored at a school in Koriyama, Japan. Ko Sasaki for The New York Times] By NORIMITSU ONISHI and MARTIN FACKLER 8 Augus...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 71.1 km ( 44.2 miles), the quake hit at 19:39:19 UTC Wednesday 10th August 2011. The epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) SSE of Hihifo, Tonga No Tsunam...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Eastern Mediterranean Sea at a depth of 23 km, the quake hit at 19:31:34 UTC Wednesday 10th August 2011. The epicenter was 42 km South of Kale No Tsunami Warning Issu...
An experimental unmanned aircraft that fly at 20 times the speed of sound is to undergo a crucial test flight on Thursday. The Falcon HTV-2 will be launched on a rocket into space then will glide back do...
Researchers grafted human skin cells to frames meshed with spider silk.
Wonder what you make of this? The BBC today apologised for a live interview on its news channel in which the veteran campaigner Darcus Howe was accused of taking part in riots. The writer and presente...
Colonel Gaddafi's youngest son has not been killed by the rebels, according to Libyan state television, which has shown footage of him looking safe and well. Khamis Gaddafi, the youngest of seven of the L...
At least one woman was killed and 13 people injured today when Syrian tanks stormed two northwestern towns near the border with Turkey. Twelve tanks and armoured vehicles, along with 10 large buses full o...
Norwegian terror suspect Anders Behring Breivik may have filmed his massacre of 69 people on Utoya island, Norwegian police have said. The claim comes amid a series of revelations about the killings, with...
[image: A fish shop in Tokyo in April 2011. Environmental group Greenpeace warned Thursday that marine life it tested more than 20 kilometres (12 miles) off Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant showe...
[image: A cracked wall in the UK (Ramsbottom in Bury), a victim of subsiding soil. Paul Anderson, Wikimedia Commons via carbon-based-ghg.blogspot.com] August 9 (Insurance Journal) – An article on the Llo...
An ambitious project proposes building a 65-story inverted pyramid underneath Mexico City.
The Perseid meteor shower will peak this weekend, but will the moon conspire against the fainter "shooting stars"?
NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao reviews the Hollywood-slobbering-alien-sci-fi blockbuster.
Facebook and Google Plus want you to use your real name, but can they really enforce that rule?
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Solomon Islands at a depth of 30 km (18.6 miles) , the quake hit at 18:06:19 UTC Wednesday 10th August 2011. The epicenter was 164 km West of Gizo, Solomon Islands ...
The banks are made of marble: Sometimes we have to sing By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / August 10, 2011 Fred was dating a young woman who gave him the two Weavers Carnegie Hall albums for Chanukah in the wi...
What happens when one party gives tax cuts to the rich and then uses cries of “economic crisis!” to justify destroying labor unions, protections for the poorer among us, and environmental safeguards? We jus...
The circuit can operate in a much wider range of conditions with less power than traditional chips.
BBC astronomer Mark Thompson shares his "star party" experiences; where you learn about astronomy, make friends and beer is optional.
A handful of mobile applications to help you disconnect, philosophize and relax.
Lasers could power drones in flight and remove the need for gas deliveries to army bases.
South Korean marines returned fire Wednesday after North Korea launched artillery shells into waters near the disputed maritime line that separates the two rivals, South Korean defence officials said. Th...
Scientists say that some European house mice have developed resistance to the strongest poisons. German and Spanish mice have rapidly evolved the trait by breeding with an Algerian species from which the...
A US drone attack has killed at least 21 militants in north-western Pakistan, local intelligence officials said. The drone fired two missiles, destroying a vehicle and a compound near Miranshah town in N...
The town of el Arish in Egypt sits on the clear blue waters of the Mediterranean, its fine beaches lined by palm-trees. Developers have built luxury resorts close to this town of about 100,000 people. Bu...
Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei pledged to continue fighting injustice in his first interview since his release from detention. The outspoken critic of the nation's human rights record was arrested in ...
U.S. stocks fell sharply Wednesday, wiping out the previous session's huge rally, as fears about Europe's ongoing debt crisis resurfaced. The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) dropped 430 points, or 3.8...
A Gatineau, Que., bus driver will not be fired after he was caught on video filling out paperwork as he drove. The Société de transport de l'Outaouais (STO) representative said the transit service had a ...
Syria's military is withdrawing Wednesday from the restive city of Hama, more than a week after security forces besieged the city to crack down on a major epicenter of anti-government sentiment. This ...
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Wednesday he'll resign once new bills related to post-earthquake reconstruction pass parliament, to avoid a political vacuum. He's expected to step down by the end ...
Yesterday's post Revisited The CBO's Budget Fantasies focused on the revenue side of future deficits. I recommend you read it if you haven't already done so. (I did some updates after publishing it.) It ...
After the close of markets last night, Standard & Poors (S&P) announced that U.S. debt would no longer carry a AAA rating. From Bloomberg's U.S. Loses AAA Credit Rating as S&P Slams Debt, Politics— Stand...
It's a great time to be alive. We can say without fear of contradiction that Homo sapiens has been an unqualified success. Make no mistake about it, the future looks bright. 2011 promises to be another bum...
Thick green layers of toxic scum forming on British canals and lakes have been blamed on the hot weather and fertilisers being washed into water. Some 83 incidents of algae have been reported to environme...
Environmental groups are trying to build a critical mass around issues like global warming to inspire public action and encourage legislators to get their heads out of the sand. The Sierra Club is working ...
The world needs to awaken itself to the looming catastrophe of global warming,” said Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute, at a recent meeting in Muscat. “We must provide a safe operating space w...
Nearly 500,000 cyberattacks were aimed at computers in China last year and almost half originated overseas, the government said Tuesday, following recent suggestions Beijing might be behind long-term secur...
Americans' economic confidence plunged to -53 in the week ending Aug. 7, a level not seen since the recession days of March 2009. This deterioration coincided with the final wrangling over the U.S. debt ce...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a federal agency that focuses on the condition of the oceans and atmosphere, said a severe solar storm could cause global disruptions in GPS syst...
One year ago, record-breaking floods submerged one fifth of Pakistan's total land area for months, affecting some 20 million residents and causing some $10 billion in damage. Eleven million Pakistanis were...
In case you haven't noticed - and, in lieu of the press generated by the recent battle royal over how much to increase the U.S. national debt, most of you probably haven't - Europe is on the brink of finan...
The US Federal Reserve’s meeting on Tuesday is likely to be one of its most difficult and divisive since, well, last August. Sharply weaker economic data in recent weeks, a new peak in the eurozone debt ...
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 635 points Monday, Asia followed suit and Europe is expecting losses of up to 6 percent following the downgrade of U.S. debt by ratings agency Standard & Poor’s. ...
According to Hegel, “the only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.” The current crisis in the eurozone suggests an even more pessimistic reading. Having learned, after World W...
A concert event organized by atheist, agnostic and other non-theist soldiers has been cleared by the Army to take place next spring at Fort Bragg, concert organizers and a spokesman for the post said Monda...
Steve Colbert did his best to defend the heat index. It was pretty funny. The video clip below contains an assault against thermodynamics - Steve Colbert does the very same thing as Sean Carroll except t...
Like wildfires, the London riots have moved past the point where authorities can easily contain the violence.
All three members of the Dougherty Gang have been captured south of Pueblo, Colo., following a high speed chase that topped 100 mph and was punctuated by gunshots, according to police and the FBI. The...
All police leave has been cancelled as the Prime Minister pledged to give officers whatever they need to combat rioting and looting. The *Home Secretary* has ordered force chiefs to halt "all police leave...
The 1,500-page manifesto written by Anders Behring Breivik is a blueprint for a continent-wide revolution which reflects much of the thinking of Europe’s neo-Nazis. The document - 2083 A European Declarat...
If Democrats were looking for a conservative vision they would vote for Republicans. Last November when there appeared to be almost nothing *but*"competing" conservative visions being offered at the polls...
In an effort to slow the spread of malaria, scientists are trying to go to the source -- by stopping how mosquitoes reproduce.
Four robotic vehicles and a field service rep will support light infantry as part of a three-month assessment
Map of the State of Coahuila and Texas, 1836. Image from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. The hidden history of TexasPart 1: The pre-1821 yearsBy Bob Feldman / The Rag Blog / August 10, 2011 ...
Shrien Dewani, the British man accused of murdering his wife on their honeymoon in South Africa, is likely to stand trial after a judge gave the go-ahead for his extradition. The millionaire Bristol busin...
Anti-riot police in Chile have shown their British counterparts how to control unrest after turning water cannons and tear gas on a rampaging mob. Masked demonstrators burning cars and looting shops in the...
Riot police had been accused of adopting a hands-off approach when dealing with looters. But there was no chance of these officers, equipped with batons and shields, taking a softly-softly approach as the...
August 9 (AP) – An Associated Press investigation has found that Japanese government officials ignored radiation forecasts from their own monitoring system, failing to keep residents near a crippled nuc...
Rather than being a left-right split, this is a top-bottom split. There is a bipartisan consensus among the elites that these programs should be cut. The guiding philosophy of this drive is that publ...
The government in Russia is being blamed for another summer of wildfires, surpassing last year's catastrophic burning. Since it is generally not acknowledged that trees and plants are dying from mountin...
By Duane Craig Refinery Row in Corpus Christi, Texas is in the news again. Texas is providing free blood and urine testing to residents in the Dona Park neighborhood to see if they have unusually high lev...
[image: Detail of uncontacted native family from flyover, January 2011. The photo reveals a thriving, healthy community with baskets full of manioc and papaya fresh from their gardens. Peruvian drug traf...
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*Blockade Halts Ski Resort Destruction and Desecration of Holy Mountain* *By Protect the Peaks* Press statement Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com CONTACT: (928) 600-0856 protectpeaks@gmail.c...
. The following video was found here. I watched this part of the Beijing Olympics closing ceremony on TV and wondered at the shocking chutzpah of having a 7/7-style London bus with its roof 'blown off...
[image: Mother and baby elephants at the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage, Sri Lanka. Holly Ladd / flickr] By Bharatha Mallawarachi in Colombo 10 August 2011 Wildlife groups will boycott Sri Lanka's first c...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 271 km , the quake hit at 13:09:59 UTC Wednesday 10th August 2011. The epicenter was 238 km Northwest of Nuku'Alofa, Tonga No Tsunami Warning Issu...
[image: Pronghorn population trends along the Colorado-Wyoming border. Deer and pronghorn populations are in severe decline due to 40-acre spacing of gas drilling pads and thousands of miles of roads and...
*Trustfund jerk Harold McGraw III uses the company his grandpa built to crash the stock market to bolster his pal Mitt Romney* Worldwide stock markets crashed Monday as determined and uncompromising right...
China's first aircraft carrier today made its maiden voyage - sparking fears over the country's naval ambitions. The former Soviet craft swept through fog-shrouded waters on leaving the north-east port o...
The U.S. Air Force has spent billions researching and developing stealth fighter jets to surpass any others. But despite constructing nearly 200 of the high-tech aircraft, every single one is grounded bec...
A British tourist has been found drowned in a swimming pool at popular summer holiday destination Ibiza, and is the fifth young UK holidaymaker to die on the island this summer. Christopher Barrington di...
[image: low rate stocks] A pledge by the Federal Reserve to keep extremely small interest rates for another couple of years has calmed investors' jitters, sending stock markets approximately the world hig...
A young mountain gorilla is found in an African jail, curled up on a bed alongside poachers who attempted to smuggle her.
A BBC radio presenter and musician who arranged theme music for Have I Got News For You and The Office, died after taking illegal party drug Meow Meow, an inquest heard. Grandfather-of-three George Webley...
Courts have been holding hearings through the night as the first suspects accused of looting and rioting on Britain's streets face justice. The cases are being fast-tracked because of the huge influx foll...
An explosion at an oil refinery in Argentina has killed one person and injured five others, local media say. The blast happened shortly after midnight (04:00 GMT) at a plant near Bahia Blanca, some 450km...
Police were ordered to 'stand and observe' rioters as they laid waste to London's streets instead of confronting them, it was claimed today. Scotland Yard insiders have revealed teams were frustrated at t...
Severe thunderstorms rolled across Oklahoma for a second straight night and authorities say one person has been killed. Mayes County Emergency Management Director Johnny Janzen said Wednesday that the de...
State and federal officials are performing a balancing act trying to prevent the death of game fish in the Grand River below Fort Gibson Dam. Fisheries experts blame the ‘unbearably hot summer” for the fi...
A North Shore car dealer and a conservation group are coming together to clean up a stream where scores of salmon were found dead last month. Staff from North Shore Kia and members of the Coho Society will...
ONE hundred fish have died after a lake filled with toxic algae. The fish, mainly carp, were starved of oxygen when blue-green algae formed at the beauty spot in Lake Meadows Park, Billericay. A Basildo...
Japanese officials withheld information and denied the facts of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, including ignoring predictions from their country’s own radiation forecasting system, in order to lim...
The sun unleashed an unusually powerful solar flare yesterday, the largest in nearly five years. The eruption launched a ten billion ton storm cloud hurtling through space at five million miles per hour. ...
Cattle Mutilation Investigation in Entre Rios, Argentina By Andrea Pérez Simondini, Visión OVNI Place: Puerto Curtiembre, Cerritos (Entre Rios) Cattleman: José Estrada Date of Animal Death...
The Prime Minister has pledged to give the police whatever they need to combat rioting and said contingency plans are in place for water cannon to be available at 24 hours' notice. David Cameron has spok...
A microscopic fungi may have contributed to the largest mass extinction in history — and may lead to a fungal disease increase in today’s forests due to the climate change, according to a study by a UC Ber...
Thailand hit piece exposes mainstream media's complete bankruptcy. by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand August 10, 2011 - Whether it is selling and promoting the Iraq or Afghanistan wars, or promoting th...
*ALASKA VOLCANO OBSERVATORY CURRENT STATUS REPORT**Tuesday, August 9, 2011 04:05 PM (Wednesday, August 10, 2011 00:05 UTC)* *CLEVELAND VOLCANO* (CAVW #1101-24-) 52°49'20" N 169°56'42" W, Summit Elevation ...
Heavy downpour at Mount Abu triggered off a landslide at Harna Hanuman temple on Tuesday morning blocking the Mount Abu road which connects the hill station with the rest of the country. Thousands of touri...
Three persons were injured and more than 40,000 people affected by a 5.2-magnitude earthquake which hit southwest China's Yunnan Province on Tuesday evening, local authorities said on Wednesday. The tremor...
An anthrax infection in Minnesota is being investigated by the FBI and the Minnesota Department of Health. The bureaus are saying that the case was caused by a very rare instance of inhaled anthrax, is cur...
Tropical Storm Muifa killed at least 10 people and damaged an estimated 2,400 acres of of farmland when it made landfall in North Korea, state-run news agency KCNA reported Tuesday. The agency estimated ...
Just before the height of the afternoon rush hour on Tuesday, torrential rains flooded much of Tampa. Reports came in of streets underwater from Bruce B. Downs to Florida Avenue and south to Dale Mabry ...
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Picture of an uncontacted Amazon tribe. Photo courtesy: Survival International Little is known about the Amazon's few remaining uncontacted tribes, who for centuries have practiced their traditional ways...
Photo courtesy: University of Northern British Columbia An anthropologist and his students from the University of Northern British Columbia believe they have discovered a 10,000-year-old village on the B....
Regarding your article, Mapping the riots with poverty: I live in one of the poorest areas in the country. It also has one of the highest concentrations of Asians. What we don't have in our area is Afro-...
Fresh violence flared around the UK as parts of the West Midlands and Manchester came under siege from a series of copy-cat riots overnight. In shocking scenes, children as young as nine were seen taking p...
A sweeping band of thunderstorms barreled through much of New Jersey today, bringing drenching rain, high winds, hail and minor flooding and forcing Gov. Chris Christie to cancel a planned trip to the boar...
A small plane from Indiana has crashed in northeast Ohio, killing three people. The Federal Aviation Administration and the Holmes County sheriff say the Piper 23 was reported missing Monday night. The wr...
Workers at the Hanford nuclear reservation were briefly evacuated from a tank farm after a small plume of smoke or steam was spotted coming from a new ventilation system. The Tri-City Herald reports that...
The garden that is causing all the controversy. Photo courtesy: Yahoo!News Flowers may seem like a strange thing to get up in arms about, but the City of Calgary is not happy with what one resident is gro...
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Biased BBC - 19 hours ago
Well, we have reached mid-week, another night of feral rioting in some of our cities, and time for a new Open Thread! Enjoy... Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
A man left in a life-threatening condition after bravely remonstrating with rioters has not been identified - because the thugs who attacked him fled with his wallet and phone. Hopelessly outnumbered, a s...
Three men died after they were hit by a car in a hit-and-run incident in Birmingham in the early hours of this morning. The trio - two brothers, aged 25 and 21, and a friend - had just emerged from a mos...
Members of the public have taken to the streets of London to protect their communities from violence and looting. On the streets of Enfield, in the north of the capital, a group of 70 men patrolled their...
When El Niño arrives off the Peruvian coast, Montana farmers can expect a warm dry spring.
Bands of glowing magma, about 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit, are exposed as a pillow lava tube extrudes down slope. Image is about three feet across in an eruptive area about 100 yards that runs along the summi...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Kermadec Islands, New Zealand at a depth of 37.5 km ( 23.3 miles), the quake hit at 07:13:22 UTC Wednesday 10th August 2011. The epicenter was 120 km (74 miles) North...
Scientists have taken the first step to recreating the Sandman in Spider-Man 3 - with a series of self assembling robots made of metal particles. Using magnetic fields a team were able to created the doug...
They may be hundreds of miles away, but two separate cities are dealing with the same problem - race-fuelled attacks that have their citizens in fear. In Philadelphia, where the phenomenon of racially-moti...
Record breaking temperatures scorched the South today, with Dallas baking under more that 100F heat for the 38th day in a row. After enduring a high of 108F today, forecasts suggest there will be no let u...
[image: Link]A mother has been arrested for forcing her six-year-old daughter to repeatedly videotape her having group sex. According to Texas police records, the 24-year-old Dallas woman is charged with ...
Image: Thanks but no thanks: Kansas Governor Sam Brownback has handed back a grant of $31.5million because of the healthcare strings attached. Kansas has become the second U.S. state to return a large fed...
A single mother-of-two delivered a clear message to finance executives after hiring a pilot to fly over Wall Street today. 'Thanks For The Downgrade: You Should All Be Fired,' read the banner that blazed...
Scientists have discovered there is no so-called 'death star' on the edge of the solar system periodically throwing comets at the Earth, as some have believed. A new study has found that Nemesis - the sta...
A British army chief has warned the Taliban is planning a terrorism 'spectacular' in Afghanistan after a massive seizure of bomb making equipment. Brigadier Ed Davis hailed the capture of a lethal haul o...
More than £120billion has been wiped off the value of Britain’s pensions in the last month following the stock market turmoil. The National Association of Pension Funds released figures last night showin...
A mother convicted of murdering her two young children had also been charged with the death of a third child, it has emerged. Fiona Donnison, 45, was yesterday found guilty of suffocating Harry, three, a...
Some armed with swords, some carrying hockey sticks, defiant Sikhs stood guard outside their temples last night. More then 700 men, some in their 80s, took to the streets to protect the homes, businesses ...
A few weeks after the U.S. city of Detroit was ravaged by 1967 race riots in which 43 people died, I was shown around the wrecked areas by a black reporter named Joe Strickland. He said: ‘Don’t you believ...
Fresh violence has flared around the UK tonight as police were braced to use plastic bullets for the first time on the British mainland in a belated bid to reclaim the streets. After three days of humilia...
*Louis James, 19, who says he has never held a job and learned to read only three years ago, admitted to looting a $195 sweater. Photo by Tom Pilston for the International Herald Tribune (London Riots Put ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:42:27 UTC Wednesday 10th August 2011. The epicenter was 949 km (589 miles) NNW of Asc...
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck Pakistan at a depth of 54.1 km ( 33.6 miles), the quake hit at 00:53:26 UTC Wednesday 10th August 2011. The epicenter was 147 km (91 miles) SSE of Dalbandin, Pakistan ...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck South Mendoza, Argentina at a depth of 105.2 km ( 65.4 miles), the quake hit at 23:30:45 UTC Tuesday 9th August 2011. The epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) Northeast of ...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Baja California, Mexico at a depth of 11.3 km ( 7 miles), the quake hit at 23:30:39 UTC Tuesday 9th August 2011. The epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) Northeast of Ensena...
This amazing picture of a car exploding on Mare Street in Hackney was taken by Telegraph reader Miks Uzans, who writes: "There were around 30 well-equipped rioters. The police didn't even come close to thi...
Britain’s police forces could face a bill for tens of millions of pounds from insurance companies because property was damaged in the rioting while the “police effectively failed to keep law and order”. ...
What colour is Mark Duggan? Mark Duggan is the man who was shot dead by the police on Thursday in Tottenham. The Tottenham riots last night were sparked when people protested his death. This morning, I fir...
An elderly man suffered life-threatening injuries when he was attacked by rioters after he tried to extinguish a fire they had started in a bin, it is understood. A witness said rioters attacked the vict...
Rioting and looting has spread to towns and cities throughout England, 24 hours after police were accused of losing control of the streets of London. Officers were fighting disturbances in Manchester a...
Apparently, "Anonymous" won't be accepting your friend request. Members of the shadowy collective known for its politically motivated Web hacks and attacks are targeting Facebook for what they claim to be...
Today was supposed to be an accountability day for native fascists who have infiltrated and taken over the Wisconsin Republican Party-- as well as Republican Parties all over the country. Scott Walker's...
"Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." - Galatians 6:7 "The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water." - William Blake Robert J. Grod...
reports Brazilian Foreign Ministry official Carlos de Abreu, hoping to refute an earlier story in the local Brazilian press that Steve had locked himself in the bathroom in a hissy fit over press arrangeme...
By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Photo: Youths of the Peaks FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- Defenders of San Francisco Peaks protested outside Flagstaff City Hall on Tuesday, Aug. 9...
Image from Gem's World Postcards. Letters from France VII: En vacances payé... Paid vacations and how we liveThe value placed on time off from work holds leisure, family, and the pursuit of happiness more i...
*Debtpocalypse deferred!* by Tom Tomorrow [*Don't forget to click to enlarge.*] *" Austerity during an economic slowdown isn't just bad for the unemployed. It's also bad for business."* *-- The New York...
The Film Archive: This program features Gary Shaw, assassination expert and author of Cover-Up, and former CIA official John Stockwell. The first part of the program focuses on the nature of the complex ...
I just returned from an afternoon, evening, and late evening at Quantum Theories and Symmetries 7, a massive theoretical physics conference in Prague. Martin Schnabl et al. have invited about 400 particip...
Iran is planning to retaliate against the United States for the sabotage against its nuclear program, according to an editorial in the Kayhan newspaper, the mouthpiece of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah A...
The Quebec government has acknowledged the negative effects on Inuit society of a mass slaughter of sled dogs in the province's far north in the 1950s and 1960s. Premier Jean Charest and his native affai...
Mayor Michael Nutter today announced a tighter weekend curfew in the Center City and University City regions of the city, as he continues grappling with the threat of “flash mobs” in Philadelphia. Nutter...
Mayor Michael A. Nutter, telling marauding black youths “you have damaged your own race,” imposed a tougher curfew Monday in response to the latest “flash mob” — spontaneous groups of teens who attack peop...
Authorities in Ohio say a woman who died after falling face first into a recycling bin had gotten stuck in a spot where she couldn't breathe. The woman's husband says he came home from work and found her ...
Using a hidden video camera, a Texas man filmed four naked, honey-drenched teenage girls while they showered at a church where he worked as a youth pastor. But since the statute of limitations has alread...
A school bus driver on Long Island is fighting to regain his job after being fired last week for being a Good Samaritan, apparently against company policy. George Daw claimed he was terminated because he...
A NATO helicopter crashed in eastern Afghanistan this morning, just two days after 38 people were killed in another Chinook crash. Officials said there were no apparent casualties on board the ISAF helic...
This is the shocking moment a young man is apparently forced to hand over all of his clothes after appearing to be stripped naked during lawless riots overnight. Internet rumours last night claimed that ...
VOIDING a severe global recession ''might simply be mission impossible'' after Standard & Poor's decision to downgrade he US's credit rating, a prominent US economist, Nouriel Roubini, has said. Profes...
The first week of August 2011 will probably go down in history as the time when the American dollar effectively and finally lost its status as the world’s foremost reserve currency -- and European leaders ...
Being neighbors with China is not something the people of Burma chose for themselves, but they have to heavily bear the repercussions. For many decades, China’s influence has intruded on their daily lives ...
The first week of August 2011 will be remembered as a singularly irrational, wasteful and shameful moment in the political and economic history of the United States. It reflected much of what is wrong with...
Investors in global equities markets might be feeling battered and bruised as fears of a global recession take hold but the riots in London could become a symbol of a social backlash smouldering away in th...
Maybe it is the influence of a Tisha B'Av way of looking at reality. This article is a nightmare scenario intended to act as a wake up call. How can a tiny nation, hated wherever it resides, possibly surv...
Inflation in China was higher than expected in July, despite a series of efforts by the government to rein in prices. Consumer prices in July rose 6.5% compared with the same month last year, the Nationa...
A torture camp run by Zimbabwe's security forces is operating in the country's rich Marange diamond fields, BBC Panorama has found. The programme heard from recent victims who told of severe beatings and ...
If you've seen the 1983 movie "WarGames," in which a young Matthew Broderick accidentally uses computers to bring the world to the edge of "global thermonuclear war," then you have a pretty good idea what ...
Irish property prices have yet to hit bottom and as a result the final bill for bailing out the banks is likely to be in the region of €90 billion to €100 billion, economist Morgan Kelly said last night. ...
It is a place of soaring mountains, gushing rivers and green meadows considered a utopia by those who visit. But for residents, Kashmir is a place of injustice, death and destruction. It is a wounded parad...
In light of the sustained drought, Governor Mary Fallin today asked all Oklahomans to set aside time this Sunday, July 17, to pray for rain. That was two weeks ago. The result is that Oklahoma went from ...
To hear Pentagon officials tell the story, the recent agreement to deal with the federal debt by cutting military spending is a potentially catastrophic threat to U.S. security. But if you read between the...
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, an expert on the Great Depression, once promised that the central bank would never repeat its 1937 mistake of rushing to tighten monetary policy too soon and prolongi...
It's the second known large avian from the dinosaur era, adding to the list of birds that lived alongside dinosaurs.
DETAILS FROM SKY NEWS: Sporadic rioting and looting has spread to Manchester, Salford and the West Midlands - as police and some residents patrolled the streets in London. (source)
Contrary to popular belief, images of thin models and celebrities may not play a role in creating eating disorders.
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Question Time is currently on its summer break, and is scheduled to return on 8th September. But! In terrific news for Bias-Watchers everywhere - there will be a special edition broadcast live this Thurs...
And the job was to rewrite mortgage policy to make it more "robust." Sounds like a good idea, doesn't it? And I swear these were the manager's exact words to me about the assignment (and I remember thinking...
At the end of this month, conservative publisher Threshold Editions is publishing former Vice President Dick Cheney's memoir, *In My Time*. Many fellow Republicans are eagerly lining up to buy the ex VPO...
Protest today to protect sacred San Francisco Peaks! Protest now at High Desert Investment Company in Flagstaff, Arizona. There's no stopping 'em! One arrest on Friday, six arrests on Sunday and 10 arre...
Towards a Broader Middle East-Central Asian War? A two post day, a rarity as of late so don't miss the update on Libya here. BUT, Global Research has just put an article up regarding the imminent invasi...
(ABOVE: Protest at CDCR headquarters in Sacramento on July 25, photo by Indybay.org) *California Prison Crisis Sparks Statewide Hunger Strike --An interview with Isaac Ontiveros of Critical Resistance*...
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*As if one genius idea wasn't enough, this week's New Yorker features Roz on the Satan Sandwich (see below)* *"Stranger’s Day has the potential to be the greatest holiday of all, not least for the greeti...
By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – The ongoing week of action to halt the desecration of sacred San Francisco Peaks by the Snowbowl ski resort, and the ex...
*(T)he Fisher King depends for his healing on the successful completion of the hero's task.* - University of Rochester. After watching this video of Bryan Fischer's biggest hits o' hate, this four minu...
[*The sombre, caped figure huffs audibly and then trips over the window sill and falls into the room.*] *DEATH* [*for it is no one else*]: Jesus Christ. I nearly broke my neck. *NAT ACKERMAN* [*watching...
This is by far the most amazing story I have ever been a part of. I'm still awestruck as I write this, but I am so very happy to be able to tell it. Last Friday afternoon a large church youth group from S...
A country overrun by rioters. A government facing questions over policing. Its leader accused of having lost legitimacy. Sound familiar? But this week, rather than another country swept by an Arab Spring...
With a $6 million federal Homeland Security grant, hundreds of San Francisco’s Muni buses will soon have high-tech video surveillance cameras the transit agency can survey in real-time. While the transit...
Libyan state television broadcast images Wednesday of a man it said was Moammar Gadhafi's youngest son in an attempt to refute rebel claims that he had been killed in a NATO airstrike. Rebels claimed on ...
Israel’s social protest movement started with a tent on Tel Aviv’s Rothschild Boulevard and a few voices demanding affordable housing. In less than a month it has grown into a national phenomenon – and per...
The Hong Kong stock exchange was forced to suspend trading in stocks including HSBC Holdings after hackers broke into the exchange's website on Wednesday, preventing investors from accessing company announ...
Investors lost a trillion dollars in the stock market Monday as the debt crisis in Europe, lackluster economic news and a downgrade to the U.S. credit rating spark fears of a double-dip recession. The Wi...
More than 400 grave marker vases, valued at more than $100,000, have been recovered by police after a 35-year-old man suspected of stealing vases from cemeteries in the west suburbs was arrested. The sus...
Twitter has refused to close the accounts of London rioters who used the service to spread unrest and insisted that Tweets must 'continue to flow'. The US-based company said that 'freedom of expression' w...
posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoAn elderly man suffered life-threatening injuries when he was attacked by rioters after he tried to extinguish a fire they had started in a bin, it is understood. A witness said rioters attacked the vict...
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