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*Hemingway in the '20s:* *His 1923 passport photo* *"I kidded Hemingway about his forthcoming novel and we laughed a lot and had fun and then we put on some boxing gloves and he broke my nose."* *-- from ...
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PDD 51 & New Executive Order Give Obama Dictator Power* ** *Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com Monday, Ja...
Honestly, where do you begin? First, Mayor Stupid's dismissing all the folks who spoke at last month's city hall all-nighter as left-wing, NDP, special-interest types trying to protect their free money. N...
*BART's shutting off of cell service to clamp down on demonstrations raises the question of whether this is legal.* *"This may be the first time a government agency in the United States has ever delibera...
Suzanne Harrison, 35, who last month quit a director of the Suffolk One sixth form centre in Ipswich, previously taught her victim at a 1,500-pupil secondary school in
Colchester, Essex. She admitted two...
A family of four from Florida visiting relatives in
New Jersey got an unwelcome surprise at the Customs gate — all because of some forgotten fruit and vegetables. The oversight was an expensive one that ...
He probably just pissed away his Olympic dreams. The drunken JetBlue passenger who treated a sleeping 11-year-old girl like his personal potty is a member of the US Ski Team who refused to apologize yest...
The city of Rockford is getting a little darker under a plan to save $500,000 by removing 2,400 streetlights. The Rockford Register Star reports that city officials and ComEd crews have already removed m...
In past few decades, the U.S. Air Force has spent untold billions researching and developing a family of stealth fighter jets that are supposed to be generations ahead of any dogfighters in the sky. But ...
Facial recognition technology being considered for London's 2012 Games is getting a workout in the wake of Britain's riots, a senior police chief told The Associated Press on Thursday, with officers feedin...
Millionaire's daughter Laura Johnson, 19, was charged with stealing £5,000-worth of electronic goods, including a Toshiba TV, Goodmans TV, microwave and mobile phones. The goods were allegedly found in a...
Gov. Pat Quinn has expanded the number of places where parents can safely give up their newborns in Illinois to include more police stations. Under the current Illinois Safe Haven Law parents can relinqui...
The investigation into 11 of the violent incidents on the opening night of the Wisconsin State Fair has resulted in the arrest of a 16-year-old African-American who reportedly told investigators he targete...
Senate Democrats are charging taxpayers for a trip to Hawaii, The Daily Caller has learned. The entire press staff of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee is in Maui, even though a field hearing there won’t...
Police in Spring Hill arrested a local music teacher Thursday morning after he was caught engaging in a sex act with a doll outside a local elementary school. Officers were called to Allendale Element...
The state of Illinois has reached a new level of broke. Come Monday, it won't have enough cash to bury its indigent dead. Illinois officials sent a letter to more than 600 funeral directors around the st...
A rash of storm grate thefts have struck the Tumwater area. As many as 100 might have been stolen in the last month, and it's getting worse. In fact, 13 were just stolen Thursday afternoon. That's on top o...
A family dog in Mission brought home a severed human hand Thursday, launching a search that turned up the body of a suspected unauthorized immigrant, police said. Sgt. Jody Tittle said police were called...
This week U.S. Senator Dick Durbin held a press conference with members of the mainstream media to talk about the downgrade crisis. But the Senator’s scripted storyline veered off-course when a conservativ...
Confidence among U.S. consumers plunged in August to the lowest level since May 1980, adding to concern that weak employment gains and volatility in the stock market will prompt households to retrench. T...
No sooner had President Barack Obama signed the bitterly contested federal budget deal than financial markets gave their verdict by nose-diving. The best that America’s reviled politicians could say was th...
This vast, pulsating city of ten million seems to have doubled in size since my last visit ten years ago. Dynamic, optimistic, high-tech South Korea is flying at Mach 9: it reminds me of Japan 25 years a...
The recent downgrade of America’s credit rating should be no surprise. The surprise is that there is still some “A” in the rating at all. If an American citizen had the same debt to earnings ration as the ...
People living in rural areas should hang up their smartphones if they want to actually make phone calls, new research from communications regulator Ofcom suggests. New models, such as Apple’s top-selling...
If these riots had taken place in America, the outcome would have been very different. America has the intellectual and emotional tools necessary to deal with this kind of social disaster: Britain doesn’t....
This week, the United States nearly allowed itself to succumb to economic disaster. Increasingly, the divided country has more in common with a failed state than a democracy. In the face of America’s appar...
The 100pc mortgage is back. After becoming extinct in the wake of the credit crisis, one bank is now offering borrowers the chance to buy a property without a deposit. Northern Bank, which operates in No...
When ever I give a presentation, I always try to leave time for questions because I know there will be people whose interests are different than my own. I want to give them an opportunity to seek additiona...
Washington is controlled by crooks. Wall Street is controlled by crooks. America is controlled by crooks. Hollywood is controlled by crooks. ABC Interview of Randy and Evi Quaid in November 2010: CBS: ...
Last weekend, at the 14th International Mars Society Convention in Dallas, Texas, the message was clear: it is imperative that we send a manned mission to Mars.
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*It's already a long time ago* that I flew myself and ventured from a small German airfield to Valencia, Spain, to see if I had locked our house properly. Yes, that went faster than by car and it made gre...
Some famous actors, directors, musicians, and celebrities in the entertainment business who have publicly stated that the official 9/11 story doesn't add up and that there needs to be a new 9/11 invest...
A drowned boy's miraculous recovery sheds light on how miracles are very much in the minds of those who see them.
Discovery News readers had a knack for finding conspiracy theories in just about everything this week -- from orange goo to dancing squid.
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Antiwar.com (August 10, 2011): Scott Peterson, staff writer for the Christian Science Monitor, discusses his article “Iranian group’s big-money push to get off US terrorist list;”the dozens of top former ...
*Phillip Hinkle (R-IN), count down to resignation has begun* The message "I Need A Sugga Daddy" always drives rightists into a feeding frenzy-- especially when they're homophobes and it comes from a young ...
Antiwar.com: Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses the MEK’s rightful place on the State Department’s (admittedly flawed and politicized) terrorism list; why a lack of determined opposition (unlike...
*5) Andrew Orlowski: Chinese coal blamed for global warming er... cooling* The Register, 5 July 2011 The refusal of the global temperatures to rise as predicted has caused much angst among academics. "The ...
*Kurt Nimmo* Infowars.com August 12, 2011 On August 6, a Lebanese newspaper, *The Daily Star*, reported three men were charged by Lebanon’s Military Prosecutor General with smuggling weapons into Syri...
We at The Coming Crisis decided to delve deep into our photography archives in order to find photos of the UK London Riots that match their absurdity. Believe us when we say it's a tremendous challenge to ...
Photo taken by: *JP's Photography* As magistrates and police work tirelessly to track down and punish those who were involved in the rioting, one pretty model is already facing the consequences. Shonola...
Maybe Nycole Turmel has a friend who'd be willing to step in and help the Bloc out: *Bloc faces growing pressure to delay choosing Duceppe replacement * There is growing pressure within the Bloc Québéco...
The technique could do away with the need for green screens or full-body leotards affixed with reflective markers.
Ancient bronze coins dating back to 241 BC, were discovered by chance during a survey to create an underwater archaeological itinerary.
Software engineers have built a tool that makes time-lapse movies of your face in just a few seconds.
The social networking site says the feature has been available for months and people are only just noticing now.
Groupon and sites like it can offer amazing deals, but they can't repeal basic economics.
Arctic summer ice coverage may hold strong for a decade, despite global average temperatures rise.
For most of us, differentiating between being in flight at 20,000 feet versus 30,000 is impossible. Scientists might be onto why.
Head unit lets you talk hands-free, get text-to-speech navigation guidance, watch videos and -- oh yeah -- listen to audio.
It's long been considered that education dulls one's belief in a higher power. Not so, says one researcher.
[image: Aerial view of a member of an uncontacted tribe in the Brazilian Amazon, January 2011. This man, painted with annatto seed dye, is in the community's garden, surrounded by banana plants and annat...
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Did I mention how long I've been unemployed, and how long it's been since I've even had any interest at all shown by an employer in o...
Dear Rep. Phil Hinkle: I have read with some consternation your recent difficulties regarding a barely-legal male hooker of 18. Naturally, this is the sort of thing the sex-obsessed left wing latches o...
Darcus Howe, writer and broadcaster living in London for over 50 years had this analysis to share with the BBC: This is a rare occasion where the role of state media is most clearly exposed. Up there with...
Right now you can get the best out of your Perseids experience by participating in #MeteorWatch -- an international social media effort to create, what I like to see it as, a worldwide virtual observatory.
The NFL hopes a new HGH testing program will cut its use but critics say the test is easy to cheat.
The makers of Sesame Street say characters Bert and Ernie will not marry in a same-sex ceremony despite an online petition calling for the union. Campaigners say the best friends should marry as a way to ...
Syrian forces moved into the town of Khan Sheikhoun on Friday, extending their crackdown in a province that has been one of the flashpoints of anti-government protests, opposition activists and human right...
An explosion Friday at an gas pipeline that runs from Iran to Turkey has disrupted gas exports, Iran's semi official Fars News Agency reported. The explosion occurred early in the morning in a part of the...
British Prime Minister David Cameron thinks he's found some culprits to blame in the recent riots that have rocked London and other cities -- Facebook and Twitter. Saying the "free flow of information" c...
Syrian soldiers opened fire on protesters in several cities after Friday prayers in an attempt to crush a five-month-old uprising against President Bashar Assad's regime. More violence was reported in Ha...
The operator of Japan's damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant is building a huge tent to cover one of the worst-hit reactors, officials said Friday. Officials hope the cover will keep radioactiv...
A total of 22 fake Apple stores have been uncovered in one Chinese city. Authorities in Kunming began searching out the copycats after pictures of one convincing replica were circulated on the web. An e...
The harsh criticism leveled at the Syrian regime by Saudi Arabia and Turkey last week could prove a turning point in the popular uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. Until now Western sanctions ha...
Regulators imposed a temporary short-selling ban in four European nations, effective Friday, in order to tame the wild market volatility that has taken markets throughout the world on a roller coaster ride...
West or East, Christian, Jew or Muslim, we are all united in our quest for peace and prosperity, and must never let the voices of hatred triumph. If anyone is interested in reading an English translatio...
Users of social media, such as Twitter, Facebook and BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), could see their access to services blocked if they are “plotting violence, disorder and criminality”, David Cameron told MPs...
Weaker eurozone members face the prospect of being left with no domestic banks in future as market resistance to funding lenders in peripheral countries grows. Equity analysts at Standard & Poor's, the c...
New recession worries and market havoc posed the toughest challenge yet this year for the US Federal Reserve as its policy board met Tuesday holding a near-depleted box of stimulus tools. Economists said...
China's politically sensitive trade surplus expanded to $31.48 billion in July as exports rose by a fifth to hit a new record high, the customs agency said Wednesday. The trade surplus -- a major point o...
Some state and local governments that issue debt could face “significant stress” if market instability continues and see credit downgrades, Moody’s warned Wednesday. Although most municipal issuers are “...
Growing international instability and economic crisis are placing greater demands on UN peacekeeping even as it tries to wind down operations, the outgoing head of the 120,000-strong global force said. A...
The U.S. trade deficit unexpectedly increased in June to the highest level since October 2008 as a slump in exports exceeded a decline in shipments from overseas. The gap widened 4.4 percent to $53.1 bil...
The number of Americans claiming new jobless benefits dropped to a four-month low last week, a sliver of hope for an economy that has been battered by a credit rating downgrade and falling share prices. ...
At a time when many more cash-strapped Americans are stuck at home instead of vacationing at the beach, President Obama next week will lead an entourage of several dozens to exclusive Martha's Vineyard isl...
Those of you following the barbaric rioting in Britain will not have failed to notice that a sizable proportion of the thugs are white, something not often seen in this country. Not only that, but in a t...
Police departments in several cities around the country are investigating what appear to be incidents of "flash mob"-generated violence, in which packs of dozens or even hundreds of youths appear seemingly...
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 belie...
Statement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rt Hon George Osborne MP, on the global economy: Mr Speaker, people will be concerned about the turmoil in the world’s financial markets and what it means fo...
British Conservative prime minister David Cameron made himself judge, jury and Lord High Executioner this week when he pronounced that anyone charged with rioting should be remanded in custody and anyone c...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Bismarck Sea, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 9.9 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:30:36 UTC Friday 12th August 2011. The epicenter was 212 km (132 miles) Sout...
For all the fascination with Hitler and Nazis and World War II on the History Channel and History International, Americans are reticent to engage in a serious discussion of what fascism is and how danger...
It's like a geo-political take on one of those slasher movies in a haunted house. Danger lurks behind every door. The haunted house is Pakistan. Danger lurks everywhere - along its border with Afghanist...
I confess my husband went back to work this week. I thought he would ease back into the craziest. Nope. He left at seven yesterday mornings and didn't get home until 9 at night... and people wonder why tea...
(By American Zen's Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari Goldstein.) "I'm not going to eat Barack Obama's dog food, all right?" - Mitt Romney, August 11, 2011 To paraphrase that immortal line in *The Beast...
To Conservative Brit prime minister, David Cameron, the masses of youth who took to Britain's streets this week for four consecutive nights of rioting are nothing more than common criminals. Then again, ...
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wmtc - 13 hours ago
Brian McFadden, *New York Times*, August 6, 2011. Click to enlarge.
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wmtc - 13 hours ago
Privatization frenzy threatens and destroys our quality of life in so many ways. Health care, public transit, libraries, sanitation, day care, recreation, parks - these are services that should *always* be...
Non-believers are really nice people. In fact, studies are finding that secularists are often better educated, more tolerant and more knowledgeable about God than supposed true believers. This, accord...
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CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours ago
Navajo uranium workers exposed to radiation. *Chevron gains access to sensitive data on* *Navajo soil and water* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com MARIANO LAKE, N.M. -- T...
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wmtc - 13 hours ago
*Riots are the voice of the unheard. Martin Luther King, Jr.* A comrade and friend posted this on Facebook: I just watched BBC coverage of [Edward] Miliband, leader of the British Labour Party, blaming th...
*Cop Block* by Bill Ruppert *“I said to (Haynes) that if we come up short and there are some acquittals in our cases, it will at least validate the process.”* *“At which point, his eyes got wide and he sai...
[image: Wildlife mitigation netting surrounds a holding pond that stores waste water from a hydraulic fracturing site at Piceance Basin Natural Gas Operations, 15 April 2009. EnergyTomorrow / Flickr Crea...
Prof Willian Jefferson Clinton, one of the greatest scientists alive (see his 15,000 papers) and the U.N. special envoy to Haiti, gave an important talk in Davos earlier this year. It contains some spectac...
Yesterday I touched on the news that Israel is readying the IDF for engagement in September with Syria and is land mining the border. The Israel Defense Forces is readying for possible engagement with the...
By Duane Craig Uranium mining locations near the Grand Canyon Determining the long term impact of any industry on the environment has to fall somewhere between a crap shoot and a reading from a clairvoya...
Last month, I looked at ridings where the Liberals exceeded expectations. Today, a look at ridings where the Tories did better than we would have thought given what was going on around them. If you're conf...
I missed the raucous 1972 Democratic Convention in Miami. I was living up in Afghanistan's remote Hindu Kush and no one in the village that had taken me in had ever heard of electricity. But I remember r...
A bus driver ignored signs telling him to avoid a low bridge and injured 18 schoolchildren when the roof of his double decker was sliced off. Wayne Oliver, 38, was slapped with an £85 fine for the March 1...
A Pakistani soldier has been sentenced to death and five others given life sentences after an unarmed man was shot dead in an incident broadcast widely on TV, Sarfraz Shah, 18, pleaded for mercy before b...
A major hunt is underway after a tugboat overturned in Greenwich this morning and a male crew member has gone missing. The Port of London Authority says the tug, known as the Chieftan, was towing a crane ...
Thousands of workers, soldiers and volunteers fanned out across Sri Lanka on Friday to begin the country's first national elephant survey despite a boycott by some wildlife groups.
The U.S. Department of Labour fined three strawberry growers $73,000 after finding children between the ages of six and 11 working in their fields. The children were found working in fields of George Hoffm...
A boy aged just eight, who saved a 21-month-old baby from drowning in a swimming pool, has been hailed as a hero and decorated for his quick-thinking. Life-saver Jesus Lara, who had only started to learn ...
A 17-year-old student charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of a Christian school principal told investigators he had planned to stab the woman on the third day of classes, when he knew he would ...
A mechanic accused of murdering prostitutes and other women is being investigated further after police announced they are reviewing cold cases. Lonnie Franklin Jr, 58, is accused of being responsible for t...
Strumming along on a makeshift toy guitar wearing his favourite Spiderman pyjamas, little Timmothy Pitzen looks like any normal carefree young boy. But since this home video footage was taken, the youngste...
Cryptozoology: Chupacabras in Spain? (Not!) By Javier Resines Criptozoología en España presents a curious photo that reminds us of those which have – on occasion – appeared in the United States or other ...
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wmtc - 17 hours ago
I hate being away from wmtc for so long! Between Tala and my mom's visit, it's been quite the week. Yesterday we went back to the OVC in Guelph for a consult with a neurologist. He feels the most likely d...
The ‘Butcher of Brooklyn’ who has been charged with the killing and dismembering of Leiby Kletzky, 8, says it ‘hurts too much’ to think about the slaughter. Levi Aron, who has been found fit to stand tri...
The battle for the Republican Presidential nomination exploded into life last night as the eight confirmed contenders united in launching scathing attacks on Barack Obama in a fiery television debate. Mi...
Black planet: This artist's impression shows TrES-2b, a planet so hot it glows red like embers, but is also officially the darkest known planet. Astronomers have discovered the darkest known planet. The ...
A BBC sound recordist died from inhaling mustard gas 27 years ago while investigating the use of chemical weapons in the Iran Iraq war. Cyril 'Roy' Benford, 78, had travelled to the border between the cou...
A girl chosen as an 'Olympic ambassador' was turned in to police by her mother who saw her among rioters on television. An emotional Adrienne Ives, 47, said the decision which led to the arrest of her 18...
Japan will set up a new nuclear regulator under the environment ministry in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, in a bid to give the watchdog more teeth.
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Eastern New Guinea Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 51 km ( 31.7 miles), the quake hit at 10:46:29 UTC Friday 12th August 2011. The epicenter was 78 km (48 ...
Police are disappointed with sentences being handed out to the rioters that have brought chaos to England's streets, senior chiefs have revealed. David Cameron has insisted that anyone involved in the vio...
The man beaten and robbed by thugs during the London riots died in hospital late last night as it emerged he had suffered at the hands of yobs for years. After three days spent on a life support machine R...
Police officers are combing through rubble and mud under the scorching heat around an elementary school here in a desperate search for schoolchildren and other local residents missing since the March 11 ea...
The operations of United States military bases in Japan that trained personnel in waging nuclear war will be revealed by a television documentary set to air on Aug. 13. Tatsuo Sekiguchi, 61, who covered ...
Japan will set up a new nuclear regulator under the environment ministry in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, in a bid to give the watchdog more teeth, media reported Friday. The existing Nuclear and In...
Thousands of Chinese took to the streets of a southwestern town on Thursday, with some smashing police vehicles in the latest protest by citizens angered by the rough handling of local officials, according...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Crete, Greece at a depth of 57.4 km ( 35.7 miles), the quake hit at 09:35:19 UTC Friday 12th August 2011. The epicenter was 148 km (91 miles) Southeast of Iraklion, Cr...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck North of Halmahera, Indonesia at a depth of 129.7 km ( 80.6 miles), the quake hit at 09:27:32 UTC Friday 12th August 2011. The epicenter was 276 km (171 miles) NNE of...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Southern Peru at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 09:12:00 UTC Friday 12th August 2011. The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) NNW of Arequipa, Peru No Rep...
According to RSS AMSU, the first 7 months were the 2nd coldest January-July period in this century so far (second among 11 candidate years). The top 15 ranking of the years 1979-2011 according to the av...
* London Rioters.* *Paul Ray*, an anti-Jihad Englishman, is alleged to be the mentor of *Anders Breivik*. According to Paul Ray ( http://lionheartuk.blogspot.com/2011/07/conspiracy.html): Right-wing E...
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Biased BBC - 20 hours ago
Well, we have reached Friday and it's been another rollicking week here on Biased BBC with more and more people visiting us and more and more comments appearing! Last night, we had our busiest EVER Questi...
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Biased BBC - 20 hours ago
BBC keen to give *Ed Miliband* the prime time slot on Today this morning. 8.10am .Not only did he get the usual soft shuffle interview in which he was allowed to waffle about the "complex" reasons behind ...
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Biased BBC - 20 hours ago
I noticed the BBC covered the imminent announcement by Texas Governor Rick Perry that he will be running for the GOP Presidential nomination. Now, I am quite a fan of Perry (along with Palin/Bachmann) but ...
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Biased BBC - 21 hours ago
I know I've been banging on about this but the BBC really is using *Sir Hugh Orde t*o undermine David Cameron's authority. This morning, the BBC's official candidate for next Met Chief, was to the fore in...
A volcano that has been erupting for several days in Alaska's Aleutian Islands may be preparing for a more explosive event, scientists said on Wednesday. Cleveland Volcano, a 5,676-foot peak located on C...
A girl was in an Orlando hospital Thursday after an amoeba infected her brain when she went swimming in North Brevard, according to FLORIDA TODAY news partner Local 6. The incident occurred in the Indian...
It promises to revolutionise air travel, slashing the flying time from London to Sydney to just an hour. Yesterday the 13,000mph aircraft of the future took off for a crucial test flight. Within hours h...
As thugs have wreaked havoc with riots throughout the UK, many have speculated about what authorities should have done to put the violence to a swift end. And it appears the U.S. has already got detailed ...
Sean Carroll reasonably discusses the tension between "rationalism" and "empiricism". These are two competing philosophical paradigms when it comes to the question what we need to acquire new knowledge...
A 15-year-old South Carolina boy has been jailed for six years for planning a Columbine-style attack on his school. Christian Helms pleaded guilty to adult charges of attempted murder and carrying pipe b...
The first images of the Chinook wreckage were revealed today, at the same time five more American troops were killed in Afghanistan by a roadside bomb that exploded in the southern part of the country. T...
Casey Anthony has escaped being punished for the death of her daughter, despite a child welfare report finding she failed to protect two-year-old Caylee. The report by Florida's child welfare agency publ...
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Completed project. All photos courtesy: visiondivision Sometimes something comes along that makes us all go "Wow!" Chop Stick is such a project. If we all used our resources as thoughtfully and thorough...
A woman and her son have been jailed for plotting to murder an 89-year-old relative to get their hands on his money. The pensioner's adopted daughter, 49, was sentenced to 17 years and her 19-year-old son...
Convicted looters and rioters could be stripped of benefits and council houses after David Cameron warned they would ‘pay’ for their behaviour. A fresh wave of councils yesterday announced that they would...
French farmers have begun attacking shipments of fruit and vegetables from Spain as an international crisis rips through the European agriculture industry. The problems stem from the lethal E.coli outbrea...
Panellus stipticus, one species of glowing mushrooms. Photo courtesy: Wiki Commons If you think glowing mushrooms are the figment of some trippy imagination, think again. After its initial discovery back...
David Cameron may have sounded tough this week, promising night curfews, tougher sentencing and new police powers in response to the outbreak of almost untrammelled anarchy in several of our cities. Poli...
America's most fearsome policeman has been appointed David Cameron's top adviser on gang warfare. Bill Bratton, who introduced zero-tolerance policing to New York and turned around crime-ridden Los Angele...
Image: Laura Johnson, left, and friend in a photo posted on Facebook last year. Balaclava. Gloves. Bandana. Could the ‘evidence’ allegedly in the car Laura Johnson was found driving be more sinister? The...
Image 'Hate crime': Larry King was shot dead three years ago by a classmate. A police detective stood by his testimony that a California teenager charged in the shooting death of his gay classmate was in...
Peace talks between American and the Taliban, which were being held in secret, have been 'blown out of the water' after details - including the identification of the Taliban's negotiator - were leaked. In...
Months after the death of the Mars rover Spirit, its surviving twin has reached the rim of a vast crater to begin its final and most important exploration. Opportunity will now examine rocks older than ...
It was a claim that was handled with a certain amount of scepticism - that two men dressed as TV's Mork and Mindy had come to investigate a UFO. A woman complained to police that the mystery pair came to ...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 29.9 km ( 18.6 miles), the quake hit at 04:21:57 UTC Friday 12th August 2011. The epicenter was 199 km (124 mil...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Nicaragua at a depth of 67 km ( 42.2 miles), the quake hit at 04:37:26 UTC Friday 12th August 2011. The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) West of Rivas...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 243 km ( 151 miles), the quake hit at 03:15:12 UTC Friday 12th August 2011. The epicenter was 202 km (125 miles) Southeast of Ndoi Island...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Mindoro, Philippines at a depth of 218.7 km ( 135.9 miles), the quake hit at 02:29:34 UTC Friday 12th August 2011. The epicenter was 25 km (15 miles) West of Calapan,...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Nicaragua at a depth of 91.3 km ( 56.7 miles), the quake hit at 02:23:55 UTC Friday 12th August 2011. The epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) WSW of Riva...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Northern Iran at a depth of 10.3 km ( 6.4 miles), the quake hit at 22:32:18 UTC Thursday 11th August 2011. The epicenter was 30 km (18 miles) Northwest of Shahrud, Ira...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Western Xizang at a depth of 35 km ( 21.7 miles), the quake hit at 22:01:27 UTC Thursday 11th August 2011. The epicenter was 226 km (140 miles) WNW of Xigaze, Xizang (...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck the Dominican Republic Region at a depth of 20 km ( 12.4 miles), the quake hit at 17:56:03 UTC Thursday 11th August 2011. The epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) ENE from ...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Dominican Republic Region at a depth of 9 km ( 5.6 miles), the quake hit at 17:17:32 UTC Thursday 11th August 2011. The epicenter was 101 km (63 miles) ENE from H...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck South of Java, Indonesia at a depth of 33.3 km ( 20.7 miles), the quake hit at 16:39:24 UTC Thursday 11th August 2011. The epicenter was 273 km (169 miles) South of T...
[image: gopdebate obama] Minnesota rivals Tim Pawlenty and Michele Bachmann sparred bitterly Thursday night through an eight-candidate Republican debate, looking for to break out of the GOP presidential p...
* Tonight Nat Ackerman's drawing and discarding for his life. * *NAT*: You want to play a tenth of a cent a point to make it interesting? *DEATH*: It's not interesting enough for you? *NAT*: I play bette...
"It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder." - Albert Einstein On Saturday August 6, 2011, a U.S. military Chinook transport helicopter was shot down in Af...
Western governments are responding to the global economic collapse and calls for revolution against the private central banks, Wall St. investment banks and global hedge funds with repression, terror, inte...
Richard Mannington Bowes, 68, who was set upon as he tried to stamp out a fire during riots in Ealing, west London, has died, Scotland Yard has confirmed. Mr Bowes, of Haven Green, Ealing, suffered serio...
Rattlesnake Island Press Release Aug 2011 Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
Yesterday in Colombia, Harper attacked the critics of his Canada-Colombia free trade investment agreement who object to the deaths of a couple hundred unionists and the displacement of 4.9 million people ...
*I found this painting, "Optimism," by John Slaby, illustrating an October 2007 blogpost by John Fenzel called "Your Brain on Optimism. . . "* *"I do know that when I want to have good time at a party, o...
Syrian forces killed five people Thursday as they stormed another two towns in pursuit of anti-regime protesters, defying Western calls for action after a "chilling" UN Security Council briefing. The ...
As you can see from the chart below (or perhaps not given the quality of the reproduction, for which apologies), UK government bond yields have fallen to historic lows the depths of which even six months a...
Authorities involved in the arrest of a protester who removed his shirt and pants at a security checkpoint at Richmond International Airport were doing their jobs and acted appropriately, a government atto...
The top NATO commander in Afghanistan said Wednesday that the doomed Navy SEALs mission that claimed 30 American lives was intended to stop fleeing Taliban fighters and not necessarily a rescue mission as ...
For Karrell Johnson of Dallas, a painful brush with a carbuncle started as a seemingly benign knot on his back. “I went out and played golf, “ said the UNT music instructor, “only nine holes because o...
Italian police have arrested 20 gladiator impersonators in an undercover sting aimed at ending a violent racket operating around Rome's most famous tourist sites, Italian press reported on Thursday. Poli...
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*Hemingway in the '20s:* *His 1923 passport photo* *"I kidded Hemingway about his forthcoming novel and we laughed a lot and had fun and then we put on some boxing gloves and he broke my nose."* *-- from ...
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*BART's shutting off of cell service to clamp down on demonstrations raises the question of whether this is legal.* *"This may be the first time a government agency in the United States has ever delibera...
Suzanne Harrison, 35, who last month quit a director of the Suffolk One sixth form centre in Ipswich, previously taught her victim at a 1,500-pupil secondary school in Colchester, Essex. She admitted two...
A family of four from Florida visiting relatives in New Jersey got an unwelcome surprise at the Customs gate — all because of some forgotten fruit and vegetables. The oversight was an expensive one that ...
He probably just pissed away his Olympic dreams. The drunken JetBlue passenger who treated a sleeping 11-year-old girl like his personal potty is a member of the US Ski Team who refused to apologize yest...
The city of Rockford is getting a little darker under a plan to save $500,000 by removing 2,400 streetlights. The Rockford Register Star reports that city officials and ComEd crews have already removed m...
In past few decades, the U.S. Air Force has spent untold billions researching and developing a family of stealth fighter jets that are supposed to be generations ahead of any dogfighters in the sky. But ...
Facial recognition technology being considered for London's 2012 Games is getting a workout in the wake of Britain's riots, a senior police chief told The Associated Press on Thursday, with officers feedin...
Millionaire's daughter Laura Johnson, 19, was charged with stealing £5,000-worth of electronic goods, including a Toshiba TV, Goodmans TV, microwave and mobile phones. The goods were allegedly found in a...
Gov. Pat Quinn has expanded the number of places where parents can safely give up their newborns in Illinois to include more police stations. Under the current Illinois Safe Haven Law parents can relinqui...
The investigation into 11 of the violent incidents on the opening night of the Wisconsin State Fair has resulted in the arrest of a 16-year-old African-American who reportedly told investigators he targete...
Senate Democrats are charging taxpayers for a trip to Hawaii, The Daily Caller has learned. The entire press staff of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee is in Maui, even though a field hearing there won’t...
The state of Illinois has reached a new level of broke. Come Monday, it won't have enough cash to bury its indigent dead. Illinois officials sent a letter to more than 600 funeral directors around the st...
A rash of storm grate thefts have struck the Tumwater area. As many as 100 might have been stolen in the last month, and it's getting worse. In fact, 13 were just stolen Thursday afternoon. That's on top o...
A family dog in Mission brought home a severed human hand Thursday, launching a search that turned up the body of a suspected unauthorized immigrant, police said. Sgt. Jody Tittle said police were called...
This week U.S. Senator Dick Durbin held a press conference with members of the mainstream media to talk about the downgrade crisis. But the Senator’s scripted storyline veered off-course when a conservativ...
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