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A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck South of
Java, Indonesia at a depth of 34.1 km ( 21.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:24:37
UTC Thursday 11th August 2011. The epicenter was 264 km (164 miles) South of T...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck South of Java, Indonesia at a depth of 35 km ( 21.7 miles), the quake hit at 16:11:01 UTC Thursday 11th August 2011. The epicenter was 267 km (166 miles) South of Tas...
This is the face of the mystery man who confronted a gang of
rioting yobs but was battered to almost death and left on a life-support machine. Richard Mannington Bowes, 68, is currently in a coma after he ...
An Olympics ambassador allegedly hurled bricks at a police car and led an attack on a mobile phone store during the riots. Chelsea Ives, 18, was today revealed as a riot suspect - after being reported to...
I never liked the idea of this SuperCongress or congressional SuperCommittee to sit down and decide our fate as a nation from the first time it was proposed as part of a "compromise," a compromise that ...
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Biased BBC - 56 minutes ago
David Cameron may have recalled Parliament today to discuss the looting and criminality, but we all know who really think they run the country. Yes, the BBC have recalled Question Time. As usual the medi...
As long-term TRF readers know, Andrew Derocher - a Canadian polar bear researcher - is an immoral jerk and one of the most aggressive members of the eco-Gestapo. In October 2009, he wrote a letter to...
ZLITAN, hit by Nazi NATO. *Video - showing what Libyans think of Gaddafi.* ** *~~* 85 people were killed during a NATO air strike on Zlitan. 33 children and 32 women were among those killed.
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 9.9 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:31:22 UTC Thursday 11th August 2011. The epicenter was 109 km (67 miles) E...
Uploaded by mrpolity1 2 Jun 2011 The Koch Brother are super-rich global warming sceptics. Which would all be fine, except for the names and fronts they seem to hide behind. The Koch's are a case stud...
By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Facebook halted two posts exposing the fact that the owner of the Arizona Snowbowl, now destroying sacred San Francisco Peaks, lives in ...
[image: EXHIBIT 50E in the case against Warren Jeffs: Jeffs wrote instructions on how this bed, found on the top floor of the limestone temple at YFZ Ranch, should be built, specifying a plastic-covered ...
Jane Fonda at the Oleo Strut GI Coffee House, Killeen, Texas, circa May, 1970. Photo by Thorne Dreyer / Space City! Jane Fonda and the 'home of the brave' By Nancy Miller Saunders / The Rag Blog / August 11...
By Duane Craig Benzene contamination devalues properties and has side effects Benzene contamination in an Illinois town has prompted six families to file a class action lawsuit against Shell Oil Company ...
*UK may disrupt social networks during unrest* *Britain is considering ways to disrupt online social messaging and networks such as Blackberry Messenger and Twitter during civil unrest, a government source...
England has been suffering riots for nearly a week. After purposely humiliating the Police by proving them to be totally useless in dealing with real criminals, the Establishment have halted the riots by...
(Where I hang out under the trees in Guilford County's Battleground Park) So much is going on below the surface. Far more than above the surface, and we need to become aware quickly of the insider chicanery...
hey, marilyn From august through Black august the drum beat us all black and blue and back again where we live inside shadows with you * Here on the sad fuming planet comes a laughing ghost beloved fu...
Researchers have discovered a new phenomenon in biology: metal-like conductivity along protein filaments.
Add Charity Hospital to the Verite and Kaufman-Hall [image: Link]Study Grand Isle warns of bacteria level in water at beaches
Nearly 60% of Americans have an unfavorable opinion of the Republican Party, even worse than when they were at the height of impeachment fever-- and even worse than the 51% of people with an unfavorable ...
Collusion is not an illusion, it is state sponsored terrorism *State-sponsored terrorism* is a term used to describe terrorism sponsored by nation-states Syria, Libya and other nations are pointing out...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Guerrero, Mexico at a depth of 15 km ( 9.3 miles), the quake hit at 11:57:50 UTC Thursday 11th August 2011. The epicenter was 454 km (282 miles) SSW ...
Bernard Moore, of Monsall, has been jailed for 20 weeks for assaulting a police officer. His is just one of the faces that represent swift justice as Britain fights back against the rioters who brought t...
Racial tensions rose to boiling point last night with vigilantes arming themselves with sticks and baseball bats, vowing to protect their streets during a third night of violence in Birmingham. The gangs ...
[image: Asian Stockfalls U.S.] Asian stock markets continuous their slump Thursday but European sharesclawed back ground as traders awaited data that they hoped would explain a brighter employment picture ...
David Cameron has warned council tenants they could be evicted if they are found to be involved in rioting in English towns and cities. *The Prime Minister* said the trouble after four nights of extensive...
*The main production areas and pipeline routes for natural gas (American Gas Association)* *This company (ProLiance Energy) delivers Billions of cubic feet of gas per year through 19 major pipelines. Note...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Southern Xinjiang, China at a depth of 34.8 km (21.6 miles), the quake hit at 10:06:33 UTC Thursday 11th August 2011. The epicenter was 103 km (64 miles) ENE of Kashi...
Police took revenge on dozens of riot looters last night as they kicked in their front doors and hauled them into the street. Riot officers armed with battering rams descended on a string of properties as...
During the recent EPS-HEP 2011 conference in Grenoble, almost all particle physics viewers focused on the energy frontier i.e. the "Higgs and New Physics" category of the talks. But it could have been a m...
*Japan's nuclear watchdog has deleted the results of thyroid check-ups for at least 1000 Fukushima children exposed to radiation, following the devastating earthquake and tsunami in March.* Critics have ...
Japan’s rice harvest is a time of festivities celebrated even by the emperor as farmers reap the rewards of four months of labor in a 2,000-year-old tradition. Not this year, with radiation seeping into th...
The Swarm of earthquakes which started during July of 2011 have continued into August with 1276 earthquakes being recorded since August 1st 2011, this is a significant rise of earthquakes and has Experts k...
Taliban fighters who shot down a helicopter in Afghanistan, leaving dozens of American troops dead, have apparently been killed in an airstrike. General John Allen, chief of US forces in *Afghanistan*, to...
It looks like cosmologists might be able to have their cake and eat it too in an "Eternal Inflation" universe.
A fish kill on the South Skunk River near the Hamilton and Story County line last week affected five miles of stream and killed an estimated 27,456 fish valued at $38,056. According to Iowa Department of ...
The County Health Officer has confirmed two human cases of West Nile Virus (WNV) in Los Angeles County. Both cases are middle-aged males who have pre-existing health conditions and were hospitalized. They ...
Hundreds of dead fish spotted Tuesday in Bayou Black and Thibodaux died because of low-oxygen levels in the water, scientists said. About 1,000 were discovered in Bayou Black, and an estimated 100 dead f...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Kyrgyzstan at a depth of just 1 km, the quake hit at 08:38:46 UTC Thursday 11th August 2011. The epicenter was 15 km (9.3 miles) Southeast Toktogul No Reports of Dama...
A millionaire's daughter, teacher and a lifeguard have already appeared in court over the violence around England - as hundreds more face magistrates. On Wednesday, courts in London began working through ...
Reader Contribution; A blast in a suburb of Beirut, the Lebanese capital, has killed at least one person, according to a police official. "We can confirm at least one person has been killed in an explos...
As a Missouri city continues its tireless efforts to rebuild following a devastating tornado, a newly-released video is displaying the storm's brute force. The Joplin School District released the video t...
An horrific murder-suicide last week sparked the covering of cars in Deerfield Township with racist fliers. Amanda Borsos was shot and killed on her 17th birthday last week in Ohio by her ex-boyfriend Tr...
The day after they arrived in Florida for Caylee's memorial, it has been revealed that George and Cindy Anthony are shopping for a book deal to cash in on their estranged daughter's 'most hated person in A...
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*Our Sun is on its way* to maximum activity in Solar Cycle 24. This sunspot cycle however is different from most earlier ones and appears to compare well with Cycle 5, almost 2 centuries ago. It's a weak ...
An Army sergeant convicted of murdering two fellow soldiers in Iraq was spared the death penalty today. Sgt. Joseph Bozicevich, 41, was sentenced to life in a military prison without parole for shooting a...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Ascension Island Region at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:19:40 UTC Thursday 11th August 2011. The epicenter was 199 km (124 miles) ENE of Asc...
I listened in to the Today programme today and, as usual, it lived down to expectations. We had the uberliberal Church of England prelate Richard Chartres on to tell us about the "minority without hope". P...
In recent 3 days, Andrew Revkin has pleased many climate skeptics by his opinions about the Arctic climate and ecosystems: On Arctic Ice and Warmth, Past and Future ------------------------------ A Debate ...
An out-of-control SUV, its accelerator possibly jammed by a flip-flop, drove onto a sidewalk yesterday morning and killed three women in a walking group before crashing into a church, police said. The dri...
The principal of a private high school was found dead after apparently being stabbed to death by one of her students today. The body of Suzette York, 48, was found in a pool of blood inside the Memphis Ju...
Thousands of diners may have been exposed to hepatitis A after eating at an Olive Garden branch as a waiter infected with the disease served food. Health officials in Cumberland County, North Carolina, hav...
A Maryland man who claimed his travel partner apparently drowned during a getaway to Aruba has now become a suspect in her disappearance because his response to the incident raised suspicions of police. G...
Police have arrested three African refugees after finding a what looked like a home-made bomb in the carry-on luggage of a female suspect. Security agents at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix sto...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 39.1 km ( 24.3 miles), the quake hit at 06:47:05 UTC Thursday 11th August 2011. The epicenter was 160 km (99 miles) ...
Hollywood is looking to shed light on the top-secret commandos who killed the world’s top terrorist, and the White House is helping, one congressman says. The U.S.'s top brass is reportedly giving filmmak...
Simulations of the Earth’s stability on its axis carried out by American astronomers have suggested that a moonless Earth would still be able to support life. A new research paper by astronomers at the U...
‘Serial killer’ cells which can wipe out leukaemia within three weeks have been developed by scientists. Researchers have managed to treat sufferers with their body’s own cells, which have been geneticall...
POLITICS - You would think the USA would be wary of mortgages and loans, but the truth is mortgages are a necessary evil in today's economics. A "Reverse Mortgage" (I had to look this up on Wikipedia), one...
The director of an African aid charity, who fraudulently pocketed more than £30,000 of benefits, escaped jail when a judge ruled ‘taxpayers would not benefit’ from her being behind bars. Memory Mafuta, 3...
Image: The bottom row of images show viruses killing untreated human cells, but in the top pictures the drug used means there is no infection and cells are clear. Scientists may have found a cure for the...
Cities and towns across England breathed a collective sigh of relief today as the rioters' reign of terror seemingly evaporated into the night. Just as the first bursts of violence in Tottenham came from ...
Britain's most senior police officer yesterday warned that Right-wing extremists could 'hijack' vigilante patrols protecting against looters. Acting Metropolitan Police Commissioner Tim Godwin singled out ...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 35.2 km ( 21.9 miles), the quake hit at 05:43:59 UTC Thursday 11th August 2011. The epicenter was 118 km (73 miles) WNW of S...
Tens of thousands of people have called for convicted rioters and looters to lose their benefits saying they show a disregard for the country that provides for them. An online petition at epetitions.dire...
"Nim was raised as if he were human – almost. He was dressed in shorts, T-shirts and nappies. He would eat at the table with the rest of the family. "Under LaFarge’s tuition he quickly began to pick up...
After a three-year marathon across Marian terrain, the tenacious Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has arrived at a vast impact crater called Endeavour.
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck the Babuyan Islands Region, Philippines at a depth of 20.8 km ( 12.9 miles), the quake hit at 02:56:38 UTC Thursday 11th August 2011. The epicenter was 118 km (73 mil...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Ascension Island Region at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 01:36:45 UTC Thursday 11th August 2011. The epicenter was 218 km (135 miles) ENE of Asc...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 19.3 km ( 12 miles), the quake hit at 01:26:17 UTC Thursday 11th August 2011. The epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) ES...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 511.4 km ( 317.8 miles), the quake hit at 01:13:43 UTC Thursday 11th August 2011. The epicenter was 469 km (291 miles) SSW of ...
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck the Ascension Island Region at a depth of 9.4 km ( 5.8 miles), the quake hit at 23:45:42 UTC Wednesday 10th August 2011. The epicenter was 206 km (128 miles) ENE of A...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Potosi, Bolivia at a depth of 113.6 km ( 103 miles), the quake hit at 22:59:24 UTC Wednesday 10th August 2011. The epicenter was 167 km (103 miles) East of Iquique, Ta...
FBI agents are looking into who left what appeared to be a crude explosive device attached to a natural gas line in rural Oklahoma, the bureau said Wednesday. The "potential explosive device" was found l...
North Korea on Thursday denied firing shells near a disputed maritime line, saying a frightened South Korea needlessly retaliated after mistaking normal blasting from a construction project for artillery. ...
A murder investigation has been launched after three people were killed “doing the job of the police” during widespread rioting. Keen amateur boxer Haroon Jahan, 21, and two brothers were hit by a spee...
They were, some told us, the alienated poor, those without hope, lashing out in rage and despair. But as the accused London rioters started appearing in court they included university students, a rich busi...
Secret exploratory peace talks between the United States and the Taliban leadership have broken down after details of the negotiations were leaked, Western diplomats have told The Daily Telegraph. The br...
The principal of a small private school in Memphis, Tennessee, was found dead in a classroom Wednesday, Memphis police said. Suzette York, 49, was lying in a pool of blood at Memphis Junior Academy, acco...
Asian shares have fallen, after declines in the US and Europe, amid fears that the financial crisis is spreading to bigger economies. Japan's Nikkei 225 index, South Korea's Kospi and Australia's ASX all ...
A senior Republican has called for an inquiry into reports the White House fed secrets about the killing of Osama Bin Laden to Hollywood film-makers. Peter King, chair of the House of Representatives home...
At least six people were confirmed dead due to dengue in one village in Antipolo City in Rizal province, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council has reported. In an Aug. 10 report pos...
*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...
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CENSORED NEWS - 15 hours ago
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...
"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...
*(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...
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 Note: A copy of Prachatai's recent disclosure can be found here. Editor's Addition: A conflict of interest occ...
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 laid since its last battle nearly 2,000 years ago.
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 the UK on their behalf? Can we ex...
About Prachatai Prachatai (www.prachatai.com or www.prachatai3.info) is an independent, non-profit, daily web newspaper established in June 2004 to provide reliable and relevant news and information to t...
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...
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Biased BBC - 20 hours ago
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.
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Biased BBC - 21 hours ago
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...
*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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A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck South of Java, Indonesia at a depth of 35 km ( 21.7 miles), the quake hit at 16:11:01 UTC Thursday 11th August 2011. The epicenter was 267 km (166 miles) South of Tas...
This is the face of the mystery man who confronted a gang of rioting yobs but was battered to almost death and left on a life-support machine. Richard Mannington Bowes, 68, is currently in a coma after he ...
An Olympics ambassador allegedly hurled bricks at a police car and led an attack on a mobile phone store during the riots. Chelsea Ives, 18, was today revealed as a riot suspect - after being reported to...
I never liked the idea of this SuperCongress or congressional SuperCommittee to sit down and decide our fate as a nation from the first time it was proposed as part of a "compromise," a compromise that ...
David Cameron may have recalled Parliament today to discuss the looting and criminality, but we all know who really think they run the country. Yes, the BBC have recalled Question Time. As usual the medi...
ZLITAN, hit by Nazi NATO. *Video - showing what Libyans think of Gaddafi.* ** *~~* 85 people were killed during a NATO air strike on Zlitan. 33 children and 32 women were among those killed.
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 9.9 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:31:22 UTC Thursday 11th August 2011. The epicenter was 109 km (67 miles) E...
By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Facebook halted two posts exposing the fact that the owner of the Arizona Snowbowl, now destroying sacred San Francisco Peaks, lives in ...
By Duane Craig Benzene contamination devalues properties and has side effects Benzene contamination in an Illinois town has prompted six families to file a class action lawsuit against Shell Oil Company ...
*UK may disrupt social networks during unrest* *Britain is considering ways to disrupt online social messaging and networks such as Blackberry Messenger and Twitter during civil unrest, a government source...
England has been suffering riots for nearly a week. After purposely humiliating the Police by proving them to be totally useless in dealing with real criminals, the Establishment have halted the riots by...
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