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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...
*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...
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...
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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 partic...
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...
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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*...
HEALTH - According to a team of British scientists releasing genetically modified, spermless male mosquitoes into the wild could help to prevent malaria transmission and reduce the chances of large outbrea...
HEALTH - Some of you may have heard about the health benefits of being vegetarian or vegan. And there is a tonne of health benefits (and sexual perks) for those people who choose to go vegetarian or vegan...
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The concept of antigravity has fascinated scientists for generations, so why are we so skeptical of its applications? This might be why.
N.O. City Council Approves Quest to List Breach Sites to National Register ~Levees.org
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honsh, Japan at a depth of 41.1 km, the quake hit at 19:35:38 UTC Tuesday 9th August 2011. The epicenter was 30 km East of Hitachi, Honshu, Ja...
There are reports of trouble in both Manchester and the West Midlands this evening as violence across Britain continues. As 16,000 police swarm London streets in preparation for a fourth night of chaos, ...
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver says his Jamie's Italian restaurant in Birmingham, was heavily damaged in this week's riots. "Sadly my restaurant in Birmingham got smashed up windows all gone whole area clos...
Sales for baseball bats on Amazon UK have risen by more than 6,000 percent over the past 24 hours, as the London riots stretch into their third day and spill to neighboring towns. The most popular choice...
-by Jersey Jim Wisconsin’s Gov. Scott Walker-- one of a cohort of rightwing Republican ideologues elected to Congress, state legislatures and governorships in 2010 (largely as a result of apathy among ...
Glenn Carle, who worked in the CIA for 23 years, said in an interview with Press TV: "You can't have someone be beyond the law. Everyone has to be subject to some series of procedures and protections and...
Road graders push seeds around and contribute to the spread of invasive plant species, research shows.
The odd orange substance that turned up in a coastal Arctic village is in fact a spawn of little eggs.
This old woman tells it like it is.
A woman battered a helpless 91-year-old man to death with a bottle of Chateauneuf du Pape wine after befriending his family, the Old Bailey heard today. Widower William Reilly, of Tottenham, north London...
Standing neatly side by side, 50 young girls pose as if for a school yearbook, their smiles every bit as uniform as their pastel outfits and tightly quiffed hairdos. Their innocent enthusiasm is focussed ...
The technology to produce the instant corn-soy blend was modeled after machines that churn out cheese and cereal puffs.
Reader Contribution; Hackers defaced a website belonging to Blackberry maker Research in Motion Tuesday afternoon, after the company said it would aid London police investigating several days of rioting ...
Skip to the 4 minute mark in the video below. The crowd cheers and does nothing as a bunch of animals attack the front window of a small store. These looters have no moral code and lack any sense of respe...
The imperial oligarchy otherwise known as the Presidency and the Super Congress, announced today that the historic subversion of the Republic and its Democratic process will be celebrated by 17 consecuti...
Cops are bad, but looters are worse. Government is bad, but mobs of idiots are worse. In between these two freedom is being squeezed out of existence along with the middle class. Visit Patrick Hennings...
There have been reports of unrest this evening in West Bromwich and Wolverhampton in the West Midlands. In Wolverhampton, some stores have been broken into, and in West Bromwich, two cars have been set o...
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.' -John Keats Beauty ...
Last night, once again Africans rioted in London. Violence spread to other cities including Liverpool, Bristol, Birmingham, Nottingham and Leeds. What do these cities have in common? They have large Af...
The stock markets just closed in New York, hooray! (“Hooray,” because now the stock markets can’t fall any further today. But tune in tomorrow!) If you don’t care because you’re already poor — hello, 90% o...
A Severe Thunderstorm Warning remains in effect until 115 PM EDT for northeastern New Castle... southwestern Philadelphia... southern Delaware and northwestern Gloucester counties... At 1256 PM EDT... th...
Two girls who took part in Monday night's riots in Croydon have boasted that they were showing police and "the rich" that "we can do what we want". The pair who were drinking wine looted from a local shop...
At least 30 people have died after their boat sank off the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros, officials say. The accident happened south of the main island of Grande Comore after the boat had set off t...
An Associated Press investigation has found that Japan exposed thousands of its citizens to risk by failing to use radiation forecasts in the early days of its nuclear crisis. The government forecasts pr...
The number of people fleeing famine-hit areas of Somalia is likely to rise dramatically and could overwhelm international aid efforts in the Horn of Africa, a United Nations aid official said Tuesday. Th...
A mother black bear that was shot and killed after it attacked a man in the Metro Vancouver suburb of Anmore had been a fixture in the community, said the mayor. But Heather Anderson said the mother bear...
British authorities might use plastic bullets to quell rioting that has swept the city for a third night and spread to other cities, a senior London police officer says. Such bullets are "one of tactics"...
Suspected Peruvian drug traffickers have destroyed a guard post protecting a recently discovered indigenous tribe in Brazil's Amazon rain forest, the aid group Survival International reports. Aerial film...
The tsunami spawned from the March 11 earthquake off eastern Japan broke up parts of an Antarctic ice shelf that hadn't moved in 46 years, scientists say. Though the tsunami waves were only about a foot ...
A Libyan government spokesman said Tuesday that a NATO airstrike has killed 85 civilians near Zlitan, the northwestern Libyan city which has been the target of an intense aerial bombing campaign. Liby...
The bonfire of the bankers is upon us, but the thousands of banking staff faced with losing their jobs could have an extra thing to worry about. According to some headhunters, nobody will want to rehire th...
New York City, whose economy rests on Wall Street's shoulders, has the most to fear from a confidence-rattling economic shock because the city's budget is prepared to adjust to a gradual decline, economist...
Hassan Ali Salman is a stocky, fit-looking young man. But he flailed in vain as the police officers grabbed him, one forcing his T-shirt roughly up over his head as three or four others laid in with their ...
Ecuador sees the loans it has agreed with China as "good news" because they are long term, and all that is required in return is "oil, and not the horrendous adjustments imposed by the IMF [International M...
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan on Sunday ruled out the chance of a US default following S&P's decision to downgrade America's credit rating. "The United States can pay any debt it has bec...
State and local education officials have been begging the federal government for relief from student testing mandates in the federal No Child Left Behind law, but school starts soon and Congress still hasn...
Eurogeddon is postponed again. Jean-Claude Trichet has saved civilization. There will not be a spiralling bond crisis in Italy and Spain in early August after all. An imminent disintegration of Europe’s fi...
Gold is not a commodity it is a currency – and the devaluation of paper money by money printing is making it more and more attractive. The metal was desirable long before the concept of money was ever inv...
I’ve always felt rather sorry for the 14 interviewees who feature in the Seven Up! series of documentaries. You’ll be familiar with the format: every seven years, film director Michael Apted chases them do...
As stock markets in the developed world tumbled last week, employees of one of the world's biggest banks were left with little doubt about where their futures lay. HSBC announced on Monday that it was cu...
This time we face the risk of double-dip recession without shock absorbers. Interest rates are already at or near zero in much of the OECD club. Fiscal deficits are stretched to the limits of safety. Far...
With their monthly income of 10,000 yuan (about $1,500), Beijing nurse Liang Huiqing and her husband would not have been able to get a foothold in China's soaring property market without government help. ...
Britain is spending 1.3 million pounds ($2.1 million, 1.5 million euros) a month on accomodation for 1,000 service personnel in Italy while they conduct air strikes on Libya, official figures showed Sunday...
A three-year-old girl has vanished without a trace while she was playing outside her house with her older brother. Breeann Rodriguez - who had been on a pink bike with training wheels - was left alone for...
Six years after disappearance of the 18-year-old Natalee Holloway, yet another American tourist has vanished on Aruba while on holiday. Thirty-five-year-old Robyn Gardner, of Frederick, Maryland, disappea...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck South of Easter Island at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:46:31 UTC Tuesday 9th August 2011. The epicenter was 2526 km (1569 miles) West of Valdivia...
A giant rare whale has washed up on a beach at a British beauty spot. The 55ft fin whale - the world's second largest animal and a globally-endangered species - washed ashore at Lynmouth, Devon. Swansea...
This is the dramatic moment a boat full of tourists narrowly escaped an extremely cold dip as they toured round glacier-filled waters. Panicked tourists watched as a huge chunk of ice broke off a glacier a...
It killed 15,000 people and caused the worst nuclear disaster in 25years. But now it turns out that the effects of the Japanese tsunami which struck the country in March were felt as far away as the Antarc...
Five young criminals including a vicious knife robber and burglars, enjoyed an all-expenses-paid trip to the Alton Towers theme park. The group enjoyed the £250 trip as part of a supervision programme orga...
Sloppy Joes is one of those meals that I like to keep around. It is easy and I usually have the ingredients on hand, especially if we use toasted bread instead of buns. This is one of two ways that I make...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Mindoro Philippines at a depth of 166.5 km ( 103.5 miles), the quake hit at 15:41:37 UTC Tuesday 9th August 2011. The epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) West of Batangas,...
Following on the heels of Britian's recognition of the Libyan "rebels" as the official government of that country, "diplomat"s named by Libya's rebel administration, the National Transitional Council (NTC...
Image from Los Angeles Times. The shame of California: Prison strike at Pelican BayThis strike has drawn worldwide attention to the widespread use of torturous practices by the United States against its own ...
Does it sound horrible and indefensible that Obama is about to make David Petraeus head of the CIA? It should-- but it shouldn't sound surprising that Petraeus will be heading the world's most hated gov...
[image: This image, taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite, shows fires burning in parts of Khabarovsk, Amur, and Sakha (Yahkutiya) on July 28, 2011. The...
President Barack Obama has refused to accept responsibility for fresh economic panic on Wall Street, insisting market freefall was sparked in Europe and that the debt crisis was one he inherited. Speaking...
Countries across the world are warning their citizens not to travel to Britain. As a third night of violence saw rioting spread from London to Bristol, Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester, governments ha...
They have been accused of a sluggish response to last nights riots, standing back and watching looters destroy shops and taking a softly-softly approach. But today, when the Metropolitan Police had a chanc...
[image: Gulls fly around a fishing vessel. George Monbiot: 'Our obsession with cod and haddock is trashing the seabed and many of the other species which live there.' Angus Blackburn / Rex Features] By ...
ENTERTAINMENT - Over the next couple of decades there is going to be a lot of books and movies which become "Public Domain". The recent Conan movie is just an example of one such film based on books which ...
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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...
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...
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...
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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...
posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 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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