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*The set of variations by Mozart is so well known that
Adolphe Adam, composer of one of our other sets of variations on the theme, seems to have thought the theme was Mozart's -- or at any rate his publi...
[image: Peter Ward tells the crowd at TED 2008 about the perils of hydrogen sulfide, which he says wiped out 90 percent of
Earth's species during the
Permian period. Courtesy Ted Conferences] By Scott T...
Willem van der Bijl, the stamp dealer who went missing in North Korea, landed safely in the Netherlands on Saturday 13th August, according to his business partner Ronald Green. Willem has visited the cou...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Northern
Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 14:57:00
UTC Sunday 14th August 2011. The epicenter was 1324 km (822 miles) Southea...
I've always loved
Paul Krugman's ability to pinpoint common sense solutions pretty easily (even in hot crowded rooms of the badly confused and dithering), call 'em as he sees 'em, and have no care about who'...
Or how
Reuters slit its legitimacy's wrists. an editorial by Tony Cartalucci Often cited as a reliable, reputable news source, Reuters is in actuality nothing more than another den of duplicity bought an...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Guatemala at a depth of 68.9 km ( 42.8 miles), the quake hit at 15:21:27 UTC Sunday 14th August 2011. The epicenter was 10 km (6 miles) Southeast of Retalhuleu, Retalh...
[image: A woman packs shiitake mushrooms at the Anzai family farm near Fukushima, northern Japan. The Anzai family grows their mushrooms indoors, as a way to reduce the contact with high levels of airbor...
[image: School of fish in Cabo Pulmo, Baja California. The no-take reserve at Cabo Pulmo now is full of fish schools. Octavio Aburto / nationalgeographic.com] [About ten years ago, Desdemona snorkled at...
The extremely mediocre but profoundly radical Michelle Bachmann defeated her Republican presidential nomination rivals to win yesterday's Iowa straw poll. The unwittingly amusing Bachmann proclaimed her w...
An unemployed couple and their family have been moved into a luxurious London home worth £2million - and pay it with a monthly £8,000 housing benefit funded by the taxpayer. Unemployed Saeed Kahliif, 49, ...
Terrified shoppers watched as an armed officer held a gun over the head of a 15-year-old boy in a Manchester high street. This dramatic picture shows the officer standing over the boy with the semi-automa...
*Arizona Daily Sun's pitiful explanation for censorship* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Today, the Arizona Daily Sun in Flagstaff makes a pitiful explanation for its cen...
Our Climate Of Extremes | ThinkProgress Yep. They're in the middle of their worst drought ever, heat records are being broken every day, but they're going to deny the scientific evidence of climate change...
The enormity of the changes underway is finally settling in. We're coming to realize that the 21st century will not be a mere successor to the 18th, 19th and 20th. The old economics, the old industriali...
In the morning, I suffered from one of my bad habits - visiting the blog of Capitalist Imperialist Pig, something that I have done many times since the first moments when the anonymous far left alarmist ...
*Youth Riots -- Ravenous Hunger for Freedom* *Mohawk Nation News* http://www.mohawknationnews.com MNN. August 9, 2011. People and animals don’t live or breed well in captivity, unless they think they a...
Juveniles found guilty of criminal activity may lose their anonymity, Home Secretary Theresa May has warned. She told Sky News that guidance should be given to prosecutors as a way of stamping out gang c...
A number of people have been hurt when a bus toppled over close to Belfast's Central Station. It is thought around 30 people were injured when the double-decker vehicle overturned in the citybound lane of...
Mount Soputan in Minahasa, North Sulawesi, emitted a cloud of ash on Sunday morning, reaching 1 kilometer in height. The volcanic eruption drew the attention of residents of Tompaso district in Minahasa, ...
A friend emails from secure, sanitised Singapore: "What the hell is happening over there? Will it be safe to come to the Olympics?" A good question, and one that I would have answered in the affirmative t...
Federal FinMin Tiny Jim Flaherty seems to be breaking ranks with his American and European cousins and says that the federal government would consider another round of stimulus spending if Canada slips bac...
At least 21 people were killed in a Syrian military crackdown on anti-government protesters in the northwestern port city of Latakia Sunday, an opposition human rights group said. Tens of people were ...
Proudly posing with their stolen spoils, this bunch of thieves embody the greedy nature of looters who snatched whatever they could while ransacking England's streets. Peeking from behind their obligatory...
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 568 km ( 353 miles), the quake hit at 12:58:26 UTC Sunday 14th August 2011. The epicenter was 472 km (293 miles) WSW of Nuku'A...
The American population has been lulled into a trance-like state. Once upon a time, we were a nation of activists. Our founding fathers were anarchists of the highest order. But then, they didn't have tel...
Thursday Elizabeth Warren did a guest post for Blue Mass Group, which has led a lot of people to assume she's running for the Massachusetts Senate seat currently held by wish-washy GOP flip-flopper Scott...
Is the staid cosy world of Radio 4 topical comedy really being forced into a tokenistic gesture to fend off criticism of its blatant political bias? I don't know how truthful that tweet is but it would ...
*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* Here's what Mitt recently puked up: "Corporations are people, my friend... of course they are. Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to the people. Where d...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck West of Macquarie Island at a depth of 14.3 km ( 8.9 miles), the quake hit at 10:30:10 UTC Sunday 14th August 2011. The epicenter was 1350 km (839 miles) SSW of Hobar...
Succumbing to mass protests, Chinese authorities today ordered an immediate shut down of a chemical plant in northeastern Dalian city after a toxic pollution scare sparked urgent evacuations. The authori...
A bomb ripped through a two-storey hotel in Pakistan's restive southwest on Sunday, killing at least 11 people and wounding nearly 20, police said. No one claimed responsibility for the attack in Dera All...
North Korea on Sunday lashed out at South Korea for accusing Pyongyang of hacking Seoul online game sites and stealing prize money, rejecting the allegations as an "unacceptable provocation." Seoul police...
Mushrooms joined the threats to Japan’s food chain from radiation spewed by Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, as the country expands efforts to limit the effects of the disaster....
Today’s Telegraph reports that Steven Sugar’s widow is to take on his battlewith the BBC over the Balen report. In the article a BBC spokesman is quoted as saying: “If we are not able to pursue our journal...
A 26-year-old man and a teenager appeared in court today charged with the murders of three men who died after being struck by a car during this week's riots. At Birmingham Magistrates' Court today, Joshua...
David Cameron has said it is time for a "zero tolerance" approach to street crime after Britain experienced its worst rioting for decades. The Prime Minister's comments, made in The Sunday Telegraph, foll...
Gulf Rescue Alliance Public Health Crisis in the Gulf of Mexico as a Direct Result of the Inadequate Response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout Disaster Descriptions and contact information for 34 cas...
BBC running with the story that " UK police chiefs have reacted sceptically to plans for US "supercop" Bill Bratton to advise the government. David Cameron has called for the former New York police chief t...
And that's just what they did. On August 10th I noticed some Privy Council Office googling for "suncor third largest investor in Syria" that landed on the June 1st Creekside post *Ethical oil in Syria e...
*Photos copyright Outta Your Backpack Media/Censored News. Thanks to Outta Your Backpack Media in Flagstaff for photos!* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com French transla...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 491.6 km ( 305.5 miles), the quake hit at 08:01:57 UTC Sunday 14th August 2011. The epicenter was 355 km (221 miles) West of Nuku'Alofa, ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Mindoro, Philippines at a depth of 18.5 km ( 11.5 miles), the quake hit at 07:38:03 UTC Sunday 14th August 2011. The epicenter was 125 km (77 miles) Northwest of Roxa...
The vandals/critics/guerrilla artists who do not like the official civic statue along Highway 101 in Cardiff-by-the-Sea are at it again. Officially named “Magic Carpet Ride,” the statue has provoked contr...
Many schools in Fukushima Prefecture are at a loss over what do to with their swimming pools, which can't be used or drained because the water is tainted with radioactive materials from the Fukushima No. 1...
THE NUMBER of E-Coli cases in a bacterial outbreak in South Wales has risen to seven after two more cases were confirmed by Public Health Wales. Of those cases, three victims are said to have been hospita...
Multiple environmental agencies from Louisiana and Mississippi are investigating the cause of dead fish and other water wildlife in Washington Parish along the Pearl River. The environmental investigator...
The continuous heavy rainfall for the past one week that submerged vast swathes of several districts, resulted in breaches in embankments of various rivers and caused a “flood-like situation” in a couple o...
In a suspected case of food-poisoning, 15 persons, including 5 children and 5 women, were admitted to Chhatrapati Shivaji Civic Hospital at Kalwa here today, civic sources said. They were taken to hospit...
A 19-year-old migrant worker from Mexico has become the first person in the U.S. to die of a vampire bat bite. The unnamed man died just two weeks after he was bitten in his native Michoacan before leavi...
Around 50 teenagers have been arrested for violating a newly enforced curfew in Philadelphia. The stay-at-home rule for those under 18 is part of a police crackdown on mobs, who they say are responsible ...
A Greyhound bus bound for St. Louis from New York City flipped on its side on the Pennsylvania Turnpike early Saturday, briefly trapping a woman and injuring about two dozen people, authorities said. Twe...
There was panic and fear when a massive search operation was launched after Jared Ropelato went missing during a camping trip in Utah. But the plucky 12-year-old used the survival skills he learned as a bo...
Police in Mississippi were left baffled when a man arrested for a traffic violation confessed to killing 11 women - at least three of whom turned out to be alive. Charles Krauss from Tennessee was caught...
Authorities in south-east Missouri today charged a neighbour of the family in connection with the disappearance of a toddler last seen riding her bicycle in front of her home last weekend. Shawn Morgan, ...
The East Coast is shaping up to experience another heat wave late this month as states including Texas continue to suffer a devastating drought, analysts warned today. Experts at Earth Risk technologies ...
These images capture the horrifying moment as four people were killed and a dozen injured as a stage collapsed during a storm last night at the Indiana State Fair. Strong winds caused the stage rigging fo...
A woman dubbed the Bad Hair Bandit, who is wanted for 18 bank robberies in two states, has struck again, police believe. The robbery of a bank in Butte, Montana, on Thursday morning was similar to several...
Cars registered to the Russian Embassy were spotted near the home of a British spy just days before his body was discovered in a locked holdall at his London flat. The unexplained presence of Russian dipl...
British tourists were yesterday warned by a senior Tory MP to steer clear of euro notes from Greece and other failing European economies. John Redwood raised the spectre of Greek euros plummeting in value ...
Oil titan Royal Dutch Shell faces a bill for hundreds of millions of dollars for two big 2008 oil spills in Nigeria's main oil-producing zone, a region devastated by 6,800 recorded spills over the last hal...
An oil slick measuring 50 square miles is heading for the British coastline after a North Sea pipeline started leaking. Crude oil has been spewing from the pipe on the seabed, at a depth of 300ft, sparkin...
A man and a 17-year-old boy were last night charged with murdering three Asians who died while protecting shops from looters. Haroon Jahan, 21, and brothers Shazad Ali, 30, and Abdul Musavir, 31, suffere...
* the**REALnews* * * *Massive Jobs Program Only Way Out* Tom Ferguson: Only a 1930s New Deal style jobs program can deal with the crisis More at The Real News *Bio* Thomas Ferguson is Professor of Poli...
The acting head of the Metropolitan Police has clashed with the Prime Minister over a suggestion that the Army could be deployed to quell rioting in London. Tim Godwin told David Cameron he would agree to...
The acting head of the Metropolitan Police has clashed with the Prime Minister over a suggestion that the Army could be deployed to quell rioting in London. Tim Godwin told David Cameron he would agree to...
The mother who faces being evicted from her council home after her teenage son was arrested over looting spoke out, insisting parents are not responsible for decisions made by their children. Charity work...
A man has been charged with the robbery of a young Malaysian student that shocked the world. Mobile-phone footage of the callous attack, branded ‘disgusting’ by David Cameron, showed a gang of looters pre...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Crete, Greece at a depth of 10.2 km ( 6.3 miles), the quake hit at 03:49:06 UTC Sunday 14th August 2011. The epicenter was 114 km (70 miles) Southwest of Chania, Crete...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 582.4 km ( 361.9 miles), the quake hit at 02:28:04 UTC Sunday 14th August 2011. The epicenter was 20 km (12 miles) Southeast of Ndoi Isla...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck North of Ascension Island at a depth of 11.8 km ( 7.3 miles), the quake hit at 01:29:39 UTC Sunday 14th August 2011. The epicenter was 731 km (454 miles) North of Asc...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 28.9 km ( 18 miles), the quake hit at 01:26:18 UTC Sunday 14th August 2011. The epicenter was 140 km (86 miles) ESE ...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Southern Greece at a depth of 10.2 km ( 6.3 miles), the quake hit at 01:05:02 UTC Sunday 14th August 2011. The epicenter was 37 km (22 miles) NNW of Kalamata, Greece ...
*Andrew Breitbart* *Andrew Breitbart* was raised Jewish His adoptive mother had converted to Judaism when marrying his adoptive father.[5][6] Breitbart has launched a number of websites, including *B...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 95.5 km ( 59.3 miles), the quake hit at 00:55:46 UTC Sunday 14th August 2011. The epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) NNE of Salina Cruz, Oaxac...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck offshore Valparaiso, Chile at a depth of 35 km ( 21.7 miles), the quake hit at 00:45:32 UTC Sunday 14th August 2011. The epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) WNW of San Ant...
TECHNOLOGY - Remember to check your bill. Your cell phone company may be defrauding you. This doesn't just apply to Virgin Mobile customers either. Rogers, Bell, Telus, AT&T... they're all overcharging cu...
[image: Donate to The Coming Crisis] Hello everyone, 1) August Dollar Drive progress: So far, just 10 generous individuals have donated in August, putting us at under 10% of our monthly goal. If you'r...
*Mystery variation A* *by Ken* What we have here is a *variation* -- for piano and orchestra, as you can hear -- of a theme I'm pretty sure you know. In a moment we're going to hear another variation...
Toronto News: Retiring deputy chief calls G20 reaction overblown - thestar.com You know where I'm going with this, so I'll just let thwap and Lorne carry the ball on this one. They say it better than I ca...
The Next Inside Job: A Nuclear 9/11 * * *Saman Mohammadi* *The Excavator* *August 13, 2011* "Tonight, I'm going to talk about two big ideas. First, the proposition that on the current course, if we conti...
American man kidnapped by assailants in Pakistan 13 Aug 2011 15:48 | Source: Reuter * Warren Weinstein taken from his residence in Lahore * Anti-U.S. sentiment running high in Pakistan * Weinstein w...
*Modern-day social conditions and tools will naturally produce a more modern approach to ruthless state repression -- but the basic strategy is the same. * *"[T]here will be a renewed, and successful push...
If you've spotted similar posters in your city, take a picture and mail them to us: thecomingcrisis@gmail.com A reader who introduced us to Google (which we've never seen before and now marvel at due t...
A severe thunderstorm rolled through the Louisville area Saturday evening, leaving behind broken limbs, downed trees and power lines. Tens of thousands of area residents lost electricity. Shortly after ...
China has deployed an elite police counter-terrorism unit to the restive northwest region of Xinjiang after a series of deadly attacks there, state media reported Saturday. The Snow Leopard Commando unit...
The military and intelligence services of Russia and China are conducting a sustained campaign to steal American commercial and military secrets through cyber espionage, according to the chairman of the Ho...
Selina Ye is a 34-year-old Human Resources manager in the bustling southern Chinese city of Guangzhou. I went to Hong Kong last September to give birth to my son. I know most people go there to have a se...
The following is a partial transcript of a recent speech delivered by Noam Chomsky at the University of Toronto at Scarborough on the rapid privatization process of public higher education in the United St...
The continuing financial uncertainty looks set to have a bearing on what is traditionally one of the busiest weekends of the year for real estate agents in Sweden. "It is going to be tough for vendors. A...
Bay City State Recreation Area features a one-mile beach that runs south from its visitors center along Lake Huron's western shore. In reality, you can enjoy about 500 feet of it. Just south of the park's ...
A judge on Friday threw out Obama administration rules that sought to slow down expedited environmental review of oil and gas drilling on federal land. U.S. District Judge Nancy Freudenthal ruled in favo...
Over on the Atlantic site, the food politics writer Jane Black has a thoughtful post on farmers market sticker shock in brownstone Brooklyn. Confronted at her neigborhood market by the spectacle of $8/doz...
Farmers have begun to turn away from organic food production in the face of waning interest from the big supermarkets. The amount of land being converted to organic cultivation across the UK has dropped ...
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The speed of the disintegration said everything. It took less than 48 hours for London to descend from self-styled capital of the world into a circuit of burning dystopian hells. The speed of BlackBerry me...
A Brevard County teen was hospitalized after an amoeba is believed to have infected her brain while she was swimming in a local river. The young girl, identified in numerous reports as 16-year-old Courtne...
An analysis based on U.S. Census Bureau data by the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) shows that the average unemployment rate for teens ages 16 to 19 in the District of Columbia was 50.1 percent as of J...
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi announced a painful mix of tax increases and spending cuts on Friday to meet European Central Bank demands for action on shoring up Italy's strained public finances. At a...
Japan's Honda is hoping to retool its humanoid robot ASIMO for a nuclear mission so it can join emergency work inside the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant, a press report said Friday. The company aims to...
Detroit Police say they’ve conducted dozens of raids in the last six weeks netting them millions of dollars in drugs. Since July 1st, Detroit police have raided more than 90 homes, in one of the city’s big...
How far does the stock market have to go down before we officially call it a crash? The Dow is now down more than 2,000 points in just the last 14 trading days. So can we now call this "The Stock Market Cr...
Twenty-one months after Greece triggered financial and political turmoil by admitting it was broke, the eurozone still can't fix its debt crisis. The reasons: intractable disputes over who will ultimately...
Oh thank you, Wikipedia, for this definition: “Irrationality is cognition, thinking, talking or acting without inclusion of rationality. It is more specifically described as an action or opinion given th...
Texas Rep. *Ron Paul *has long been regarded as a somewhat entertaining distraction in his two presidential races over the past four years. But, on the eve of the Ames Straw Poll, the first major organizi...
A U.S. law enforcement expert who has agreed to help tackle gang violence in Britain in the wake of recent riots in urban centres says the government cannot "arrest their way out" of systemic problems faci...
The spark that lit riots in Britain last week is rooted in the government's radical alteration of the social contract with its citizens, says a Toronto psychiatrist who was born and raised in the U.K. Pe...
Somalia is known to most Americans as the setting for the book and film "Black Hawk Down" and as the world center for modern-day pirates. It is the poster child for failed humanitarian interventions and fo...
*Coupla gay blades at the faire-- one works for Karger & one for Bachmann* As expected, they went for The Crazy. Final results: Bachmann 4823 (28.55%) Paul 4671 (27.65%) Pawlenty 2293 (13.57%) Santorum...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck near the West Coast of Colombia at a depth of 57.5 km ( 35.7 miles), the quake hit at 21:58:13 UTC Saturday 13th August 2011. The epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) West ...
Color Revolutions & Geopolitics: covering a new weapon in the neo-imperialists' arsenal. There is a well-researched new blog titled "Color Revolutions & Geopolitics" run by Eric Pottenger and Jeff Friese...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Ceram Sea at a depth of 38.3 km ( 23.8 miles), the quake hit at 21:44:17 UTC Saturday 13th August 2011. The epicenter was 307 km (190 miles) South of Sorong, Papua, In...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Banda Sea at a depth of 177.3 km ( 110.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:31:20 UTC Saturday 13th August 2011. The epicenter was 219 km (136 miles) Northwest of Saumlaki, K...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the West Coast of Colombia at a depth of 62.6 km ( 38.9 miles), the quake hit at 20:30:57 UTC Saturday 13th August 2011. The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) West ...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Southern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 63 km ( 39.1 miles), the quake hit at 20:22:10 UTC Saturday 13th August 2011. The epicenter was 146 km (90 miles) SSE from B...
Oh boy... 2,000 extra bonus points from Delta, the airline that doesn't let their customers use frequent flier miles! The above ad came as an e-mail yesterday, the same day Delta threatened to follow Bla...
*Update:* Anthony is telling me that a story about the Tucker cars at the end of his blog entry shows that he reposted the report about the thorium cars as a kind of satire, and I kind of believe him aft...
Desperate Bid To Sideline Texas Congressman As Fringe Candidate *Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones* Infowars.com Saturday, August 13, 2011 The Republican establishment, spearheaded by neo-con talking hea...
SOMALIA: FAMINE FOR PROFIT AND THE EAST AFRICAN FOOD CRISIS *Written by Nile Bowie* *Photographed by James Nachtwey * Few parts of the world aptly fit the description of hell better than Somalia’s crum...
Blogger Dumb Jon, commenting below on David Starkey : I could almost put up with the whole BBC collapsing with a fit of the vapours over Starkey's comments, except that in almost any other context these ...
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*Protect the Peaks, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011. The ongoing efforts are to halt the desecration of sacred San Francisco Peaks. Photos by Youths of the Peaks for Censored News, on as it happened.* *By Bre...
A mother-of-ten who nets more than £30,000-a-year in benefits has begged for charity donations to help raise her brood - because her state 'wage' is not enough. Moira Pearce, 34, has insisted her weekly ...
A man has been arrested on suspicion of arson in connection with a massive fire that engulfed a furniture store in Croydon during the riots. The 33-year-old man is accused of starting the blaze at the Ree...
The alert level of Mount Papandayan in Garut, West Java has gone up a notch to alert level 3 — just one level below eruption. According to Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman for the National Disaster Mitiga...
Famine-hit Somalia is facing a cholera epidemic amid poor sanitary conditions, World Health Organization officials say. A majority of randomly collected samples of acute watery diarrhea collected from 4,...
Tens of thousands of Syrian protesters shouted for President Bashar Assad's death Friday in a dramatic escalation of their rage and frustration, defying bullets and rooftop snipers after more than a week o...
Frogs with fangs abound with astonishing diversity on a tropical island in Indonesia, a Canadian-led team has found. Ben Evans, a zoologist at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont., and his Indonesian an...
Hacktivist group Anonymous on Saturday (Manila time) called for "attacks" on San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit System (BART) for blocking cell phone service in some of its areas to thwart civil distur...
According to former child star Corey Feldman, child molestation is rampant in the entertainment industry, as he told Nightline in an interview. "The No. 1 problem in Hollywood was and is and always will b...
Loud explosions and gunfire were heard Saturday in the Syrian port city of Latakia, signaling a possible crackdown, according to opposition and activist organizations. Security forces were deployed ac...
A drug-smuggling tunnel nearly 300m long which stretches from the Mexican city of Tijuana into the US has been discovered by soldiers. Mexico's army, which found the passage, said it was incomplete, but h...
Philadelphia police picked up 50 juveniles for violating the city's beefed-up curfew which took effect Friday night, authorities said Saturday. The City of Brotherly Love is cracking down after a rash of ...
Hayao Miyazaki is regarded by many as the world's greatest living animator and an icon of Japanese popular culture. In 2002, his work burst onto international screens with the ghostly animation "Spiri...
Global stocks are rallying as a partial short selling ban helps European banks rebound – reducing financial system contagion fears – while an in-line retail sales report lifts some of the gloom about the U...
Students starting university next year can expect to graduate with debts averaging almost £60,000, according to research published today. Undergraduates enrolling on courses in England – where costs are h...
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Americans are lining up to go under the knife to mimic the derrière of Pippa Middleton, a US plastic surgeon has said. The 27-year-old has sparked a wave of surgery requests since appearing in a figure-h...
Young offenders who took part in the rioting and looting that blighted Britain’s streets this week are walking free from court without facing significant penalties. Despite David Cameron's promises that ...
David Cameron, Ed Miliband and the entire British political class came together yesterday to denounce the rioters. They were of course right to say that the actions of these looters, arsonists and muggers ...
Switzerland is mulling drastic measures to fend off safe-haven flows from Euroland and stop the relentless rise of the Swiss franc crippling large parts of the country's economic base. The franc retreate...
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...
Honest energy customers are footing the bill for nearly two million households that have not paid for their gas and electricity usage. New figures from Moneysupermarket.com show that the potential cost of...
A judge said today that he had no powers to jail a 13-year-old boy who went into a riot-hit city with a hammer strapped to his leg. The boy visited Manchester with the weapon in response to a Facebook in...
Sir Hugh, president of the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), said the role of politicians in dealing with the trouble had been an “irrelevance”. He was speaking after David Cameron criticis...
The federal deficit averaged $110 billion per month through the first 10 months of fiscal year 2011, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) latest budget review. The figure comes from the C...
A hair-thin electronic patch that adheres to the skin like a temporary tattoo could transform medical sensing, computer gaming and even spy operations, according to a US study published Thursday. The mic...
On some days, the pilots with Great Lakes Airlines fire up a twin-engine Beechcraft 1900 at the Ely, Nev., airport and depart for Las Vegas without a single passenger on board. And the federal government p...
O glorious day! Another boilerplate email containing good news from our Chairman, Rinsed Penis, Rice Plebe, the former stimulus hog who replaced the black guy. Dear , The Republican Party won a great...
Even the *Wall Street Journal* is starting to toss around the idea that Marx might have been right - capitalism will destroy itself. Economist Nouriel Roubini warns the self-destructive transfer of income...
They were destined to be cooked and eaten, but these suffering dogs luckily escaped their gruesome fate. Police in Thailand rescued more than 1,000 of the animals from tiny cages when they intercepted fou...
A serial killer who buried his victims alive was caught yesterday after one of his captives managed to dig himself out of his grave and call the police. The victim said he had been lured into the woods b...
Intelligence officials have warned Barack Obama that a dangerous regional arm of Al Qaeda is trying to produce the deadly poison ricin to use in attacks against the United States. Al Qaeda's affiliate in ...
Clutching a bottle of drink, grinning broadly and struggling to carry an armful of shoes, this woman was today one of many new riot suspects being hunted by police. In another image a man in Hackney stan...
By DOROTHY SPEARS 12 August 2011 During the shooting of his 2010 documentary *Climate Refugees*, the Irish-American filmmaker Michael Nash visited nearly 50 countries in about 18 months, interviewing p...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Southern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 38.7 km ( 24 miles), the quake hit at 16:12:01 UTC Saturday 13th August 2011. The epicenter was 128 km (79 miles) WSW of Ben...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 82.1 km ( 51 miles), the quake hit at 15:42:21 UTC Saturday 13th August 2011. The epicenter was 72 km (44 miles) NNW of Hihifo, Tonga No Tsunami W...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 35.3 km ( 21.9 miles), the quake hit at 14:00:57 UTC Saturday 13th August 2011. The epicenter was 20 km (12 miles) ...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 56.6 km ( 35.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:27:54 UTC Saturday 13th August 2011. The epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) WSW of Tapac...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck South of the Mariana Islands at a depth of 33.2 km ( 20.6 miles), the quake hit at 12:16:27 UTC Saturday 13th August 2011. The epicenter was 293 km (182 miles) Sout...
*Right-Wing con-artist Grover Norquist* Sometimes I mention something I got from "my financial advisor." If he sounds like a conflicted mess, it's because "he's" half a dozen different people from 4 diffe...
A link to this incredible mashup was posted in the ever-ebullient comments at Decline of the Empire. It's a scathing indictment of the malevolent corporate control over American society, tracing the growi...
The second largest city of Czechia, Brno, has already survived its first "gay pride" (even though it did lead to some battles). However, today's happening was the first time when the march came to the Czec...
Thailand's "Red Shirts" boast of NED, Fortune 500 Washington D.C. Visit by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand, August 13, 2011 - While it is well established that Thailand's "red shirt" street mob is work...
Washington State Health Department officials say they have the first case of a strain of shellfish poisoning making a people in the United States ill. Samples in a small bay on the Strait of Juan de Fuca ...
I shall be sorely grieved when the inevitable occurs and the publicity vortex subsides forever. News Corpse had the most lucid analysis as to why we can expect to lose her when she can no longer pretend t...
Pyramids and "Ancient Astronauts" By Scott Corrales “Ancient astronauts” – a term that conjures up the covers of dozens of paperbacks in the mid-Seventies, juxtaposing advanced technical machinery, huma...
So a few people – Thor and Nancy for starters – are linking to this piecefrom the Globe's ideologically reliable urban affairs curmudgeon, who's arguing, not without reason, that Mayor Stupid should have kn...
If you don't study this chart for a few quiet moments, you do not care what Congress and the President have decided to do with your future. (And, no, these people are not your friends.)[Welcome to Pottersvil...
I missed the Republican debate in Iowa. I hear I didn't miss much. Instead I was at a gathering of future progressive leaders (Young People For). It was very inspiring to meet some of these idealistic yo...
. An interesting exchange on Facebook is reproduced below regarding some Councils' determination to evict persons convicted of involvement in the recent UK riots. Wandsworth Council want to evict an ent...
Iran reiterated to China on Saturday it could take back control of a gas field being developed by its national oil company unless it speeds up investment, one week after the new Iranian oil minister said n...
The Independent Police Complaints Commission has admitted it may have mistakenly given "misleading" information to journalists in the wake of the Mark Duggan shooting, it has emerged. The body admitted t...
*Devastating rains in Pakistan killed at least 21 people overnight, destroying crops and houses in the flood-prone south of the country, a government official said Friday.* “At least 21 people died, most...
Syrian firefighting teams have made no effort to control a forest fire that broke out on the Turkish-Syrian border late on Thursday, the Cihan news agency reported. The fire, which started on the Syrian ...
A 23-year-old firefighter was killed and four others were injured fighting a lightning-sparked blaze on U.S. Forest Service land in western South Dakota's Black Hills, officials said Friday. Trampus Hask...
In a move to prevent the dreaded yellow fever entering Sri Lanka, a special Quarantine Unit (QU) has been set up at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) to monitor passengers especially those arriv...
The Beale fire 11 miles north of Parks, which dropped smoke into Flagstaff this morning, is now at 3,042 acres. According to information from the U.S. Forest Service, the fire is being managed within a d...
Washington State Health Department officials say they have the first case of a strain of shellfish poisoning making a people in the United States ill. Samples in a small bay on the Strait of Juan d...
ABOUT ten seal pups have been found dead on Northumberland beaches, but officials say there is no cause for alarm. Concerned Hadston resident Janette Govia said she has noticed an unusually high number o...
Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has said it is working to stop a leak at one of its North Sea oil platforms. The leak was found near the Gannet Alpha platform, 180 km (113 miles) from Aberdeen, Scotland. Sh...
Police were in open conflict with the Government yesterday over who can claim credit for turning the tide against the rioters. Officers at all levels denounced criticism by the Prime Minister and claims b...
Millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money could be ending up in the pockets of Taliban insurgents and corrupt Afghan officials, a damning report has revealed. The International Crisis Group warned that up t...
Reader Contribution; Communities cannot "arrest their way out" of gang crime, the prime minister's new crime adviser, US "supercop" Bill Bratton, has warned. The former New York police chief meets Davi...
Image: Far left, Shonola Smith provided by JP's Photography. Young and attractive, they hardly conform to the identikit image of the violent looter. But the 22-year-old model and two teenage girls pictu...
A Paratrooper who fought in Afghanistan faced court yesterday accused of stealing a £1,900 guitar during the riots. The serving soldier was among the mobs which trashed shops in Manchester on Tuesday – h...
Reader Contribution; An American citizen has been abducted by gunmen from his house in the Pakistani city of Lahore, police say. The US embassy confirmed the abduction but has not identified the man. Re...
The exhausted secret intelligence officer was heading home after a heavy session analysing reports from Iraq. As he stepped out through the high-security air-lock exit from MI6’s grand headquarters beside ...
A shock investigation of possible insider trading at Standard & Poor's has reportedly begun, with the country still reeling from the rating agency's historic downgrade of U.S. debt. Authorities want to kn...
Two police officers have been rushed to hospital after being stabbed in the street while they were on duty. The officers went to speak with a man who was acting suspiciously in a back street in Darlington...
The father of a 23-year-old university graduate who went missing more than a year ago while hiking in Nepal, says he is organising a new investigation into her disappearance because he believes she is aliv...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck New Zealand at a depth of 40 km ( 24.8 miles), the quake hit at 10:57 am (NZST) Saturday 13th August 2011. The epicenter was 40 km (24.8 miles) Northeast of Matawai, N...
President Barack Obama's healthcare law suffered a setback on Friday when a U.S. appeals court ruled that it was unconstitutional to require all Americans to buy insurance or face a penalty. The U.S. App...
Ten employees of a cellular phone company in were hospitalized on Friday after a powdery substance was released from a package containing two phone batteries. On one of the two batteries sent to Pure Talk...
A baby-faced 16-year-old, who had acquired the chilling nickname 'Uzi', has been charged with the brutal killing of a gang rival. The school girl, who is thought to have been named after the sub-machine g...
OK, I didn't see it or hear it but the BBC has been making much if David Starkey's comments on Newsnight (and 5live?). Did you catch these? Opinions? Click through to read and contribute comments on this p...
Shell have confirmed a leak in a pipeline serving one of their North Sea platforms. Photo courtesy: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images Who would have guessed it? Yet another oil leak from a company which has ...
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck North Pacific Ocean at a depth of 33 km ( 20.5 miles), the quake hit at 07:22:00 UTC Saturday 13th August 2011. The epicenter was 2005 km (1248 miles) Southeast of Sen...
Photo courtesy: I'll Never Grow Up via Flickr/cc Researchers have been looking for better alternatives for providing skin grafts to wounds, and it turns out they need look no further than the animal king...
*Stand By Me (1986) River Phoenix, Wil Wheaton, Corey Feldman (Directed by Rob Reiner) *Former child star Corey Feldman says Hollywood's biggest problem is child abuse. Corey Feldman blames the death o...
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Willem van der Bijl, the stamp dealer who went missing in North Korea, landed safely in the Netherlands on Saturday 13th August, according to his business partner Ronald Green. Willem has visited the cou...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 14:57:00 UTC Sunday 14th August 2011. The epicenter was 1324 km (822 miles) Southea...
Or how Reuters slit its legitimacy's wrists. an editorial by Tony Cartalucci Often cited as a reliable, reputable news source, Reuters is in actuality nothing more than another den of duplicity bought an...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Guatemala at a depth of 68.9 km ( 42.8 miles), the quake hit at 15:21:27 UTC Sunday 14th August 2011. The epicenter was 10 km (6 miles) Southeast of Retalhuleu, Retalh...
An unemployed couple and their family have been moved into a luxurious London home worth £2million - and pay it with a monthly £8,000 housing benefit funded by the taxpayer. Unemployed Saeed Kahliif, 49, ...
Terrified shoppers watched as an armed officer held a gun over the head of a 15-year-old boy in a Manchester high street. This dramatic picture shows the officer standing over the boy with the semi-automa...
*Arizona Daily Sun's pitiful explanation for censorship* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Today, the Arizona Daily Sun in Flagstaff makes a pitiful explanation for its cen...
*Youth Riots -- Ravenous Hunger for Freedom* *Mohawk Nation News* http://www.mohawknationnews.com MNN. August 9, 2011. People and animals don’t live or breed well in captivity, unless they think they a...
Juveniles found guilty of criminal activity may lose their anonymity, Home Secretary Theresa May has warned. She told Sky News that guidance should be given to prosecutors as a way of stamping out gang c...
A number of people have been hurt when a bus toppled over close to Belfast's Central Station. It is thought around 30 people were injured when the double-decker vehicle overturned in the citybound lane of...
Mount Soputan in Minahasa, North Sulawesi, emitted a cloud of ash on Sunday morning, reaching 1 kilometer in height. The volcanic eruption drew the attention of residents of Tompaso district in Minahasa, ...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA woman dubbed the Bad Hair Bandit, who is wanted for 18 bank robberies in two states, has struck again, police believe. The robbery of a bank in Butte, Montana, on Thursday morning was similar to several...
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