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Alaska's Big Village Network, Center for Water Advocacy, Cook Inlet Tribes, hunters, fisher peoples, and citizens are concerned about the critical habitat and actual recovery of Cook Inlet Beluga Whales ...
Not having a brand new car doesn't mean you can't have a rearview camera.
This smart media player does everything, except make phone calls.
Senior police said suspected rioters and looters should be remanded in custody in guidance issued to officers, it was revealed today. Scotland Yard also urged staff to recommend that defendants should be ...
Activist Communique: An open letter to
Christie Blatchford by Alice Moran | rabble.ca NOW Magazine // Daily // News // A vainglorious, partisan spectacle Sad part is, Blatchford and her enablers probably ...
Bookworms in Search of Dinner More Bookworms After Finding Dinner I was typing away in a cafe when the wall started to tremble in front of me. A man sitting on the other side of the cafe said, "Did you fee...
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nuclear power plant in Louisa County, ten miles from the epicentre of the earthquake, has been shut down. Federal officials said two nuclear reactors at the North Anna Power Station were automatically ...
The residents of Oklahoma City certainly can't complain of having a disappointing summer: for 51 days in a row the temperature has soared above 100
degrees Fahrenheit. Pushing the mercury to 103 on offic...
A 13-year-old boy has been accused of killing his sister because her crying interrupted a video game he was playing. Crystian Rivera is alleged to have shaken his nine-month-old sister so hard she suffer...
A mother has been arrested for attempted murder after an infant boy was critically injured when he plunged at four stories from hospital car park. Sonia Hermosillo, 31, is being held without bail by polic...
While a number of national monuments and government buildings escaped the Virginia earthquake unscathed, both the Washington Monument and the National Cathedral are likely to remain closed for several days...
More than 1,000 calls were made to the emergency number after the quake on the south east of the island. There was no damage or injuries. The 112 emergency number on the Canary Islands received more tha...
*Why is it that the state acts as a defense team when it comes to some? * "DA wants all charges against Strauss-Kahn dropped; Says accuser lied repeatedly to investigators" August 23, 2011|By Jennifer Pelt...
[image: Flooded homes in Britain. Britain's coalition government will reduce spending on flood defense to about 2.1 billion pounds over the next four years, from 2.36 billion pounds over the last four ye...
The hope is that the new technology will bring high-definition web streaming from Mars.
Countywide reports of structural damage were mostly unfounded following Tuesday afternoon’s 5.9-magnitude earthquake centered in Virginia. However, hours after the tremor traveled more than 200 miles nort...
A powerful earthquake felt throughout the mid-Atlantic region this afternoon (8/23) has not affected regular operation at PPL Corporation's Susquehannanuclear power plant near Berwick. Unit 1 of the plan...
Journalists staying at Tripoli's Rixos hotel have endured a fourth night trapped in the building under the watchful eye of Colonel Gaddafi's soldiers. With electricity and water cut off and no staff left...
Colonel Gaddafi's forces have attacked several locations in central Tripoli, according to rebel sources, including the former leader's own compound. A rebel spokesman said: "There were bombardments on Bab...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck the Caucasus Region, Russia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:12:59 UTC Wednesday 24th August 2011. The epicenter was 3 km ( 1.8 miles) East of Kas...
The cold rigidity of Earth's rocky shell on the East Coast causes tremors to be felt over a wider area.
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Solomon Islands at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:05:22 UTC Wednesday 24th August 2011. The epicenter was 113 km ( 70.1 miles) Southeast of Gizo...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Caucasus Region, Russia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:05:22 UTC Wednesday 24th August 2011. The epicenter was 21 km ( 13 miles) Northeast o...
A helium balloon that will take enterprising travellers into Earth's stratosphere is due to take off in just two years. The 'Bloon' will climb to a height of 22miles thanks to a huge balloon measuring 42...
As black clouds of smoke billowed from the charred remains of at least 19 NATO tankers, and flames licked the dark sky near the Afghanistan border, agog locals observed the wreckage following an ambush. G...
Although the right-wing Blue Dog caucus was all but wiped out last year-- with as much as half the Democrats in their districts staying home and refusing to vote for them on election day-- the bad dogs h...
Jack Layton will lie in state for public visitations in the foyer of the House of Commons from 12:30 to 8 pm today and 9 am to 1:30 pm tomorrow. There will be a public visitation at Toronto City Hall all...
This is an exciting and welcome addition to the action, which I first described in July. So far this effort has been an incoherent, fragmented impulse - it can't be called an organization - but then, tha...
Scientists claim to have worked out how many species there are on Earth - 8.7million. They reached the figure using an advanced mathematical model which they believe is the most accurate ever. Previous ...
[image: Link]Warning: This message is part of an update to Japanese iPhones that will tell users of an impending earthquake up to two minutes before. The latest version of Apple's iPhone iOS operating sys...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Central California at a depth of 9.8 km (6 miles), the quake hit at 11:59:51 UTC Wednesday 24th August 2011. The epicenter was 11 km ( 6.9 miles) South of Whitmore Hot...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Norwegian Sea at a depth of 9.5 km (5.9 miles), the quake hit at 10:47:31 UTC Wednesday 24th August 2011. The epicenter was 627 km ( 389 miles) Northwest of Tromso...
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The United Nations Security Council will soon meet for a second time to discuss Palestine's bid to become the world's 194th country. While I personally don't believe that "two states for two peoples" is a ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Norwegian Sea at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 09:10:14 UTC Wednesday 24th August 2011. The epicenter was 627 km ( 389 miles) Northwest of Tromso,...
Former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has defended her use of two day-release prisoners to paint her £450,000 home when they should have been doing community work. Prison bosses have now launched an investi...
A schoolboy and two friends who killed a young mother after she aborted his baby have been jailed for a total of more than 30 years. Nattalie Muir, 21, was stabbed and beaten in a frenzied attack in the st...
A mission to Mars may seem like a distant dream to cash-strapped Nasa, but a controversial scientist says we are on the verge of a breakthrough that would enable humans to settle there. U.S. scientist Cr...
An amateur rugby league player collapsed and died after being overpowered with CS spray as he was being arrested by up to eleven police officers. Jacob Michael, 25, was sprayed in the face inside his home...
FOUR people have been killed while 1800 others were displaced as result of a heavy downpour that resulted to flooding in Kari town of Darazo Local Government Area of Bauchi State. The rainfall was said to ...
An exceptionally heavy shower - more or less a cloudburst - took residents of the capital by surprise on Monday evening, blocking drains and disrupting road traffic in downtown Helsinki. Buses had to swe...
The London Fire Brigade were put on stand-by as the Met Office issued a warning for severe thunderstorms and a risk of flash flooding in the capital. Last night the Met Office predicted that heavy downpo...
The BBC has written a report about the ruling that led to the conviction and subsequent expulsion from St. Andrews University of a young history student who put his hand down his pants and rubbed it on a J...
*No más de perforación dentista. Ahora podemos estar contentos, por fin podemos ir al dentista sin miedo. Waaaooo, sólo Waaaooo ... Sigue leyendo* El líquido de la "magia" fue diseñado por investigadores...
Eurabia is a term coined by professional Zionist agitator Bat Ye'or. The darling of Zionist-propagandists such as the EDL, and heroine of Breivik (the cut and paste patsy and murderer of Norwegians), Ba...
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Broken of Britain - 4 hours ago
Six Russian soldiers were killed and another 12 injured by an explosion during the disposal of ammunition at a firing range, the Russian Defense Ministry said Tuesday. A commission, led by Southern Milit...
The family that runs the Dixon Apple Orchard near Cochiti is reeling after the floods that roared through their canyon. Now they're not sure they'll be able to go on. "We are going to have tremendous ero...
The current week is expected to be the hottest of this year, meteorologists said today (Tues). Experts explained this week’s top daytime temperatures of between 30 and 38 degrees centigrade were likely t...
A magnitude 3.0 earthquake has struck Colorado at a depth of just 5 km ( 3.1 miles), the quake hit at 07:??:?? UTC Wednesday 24th August 2011. THIS IS GETTING STUPID NOW, they are removing them faster tha...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Norwegian Sea at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:08:24 UTC Wednesday 24th August 2011. The epicenter was 643 km ( 399 miles) Northwest of Tromso,...
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Europe - 6 hours ago
Holy Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVA MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ link Lord Stirling's News Blog EUROPE *Irene to Strike Eastern North Carol...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Minahasa, Sulawesi, Indonesia at a depth of 44.9 km ( 27.9 miles), the quake hit at 19:01:51 UTC Wednesday 24th August 2011. The epicenter was 247 km (154 miles) NNE ...
Visitors to the luxurious Tripoli compound of Saif al-Islam were treated until recently to a piece of machismo theatre designed to show their host in the most fearless of lights. After lobbing pieces of r...
A non-league footballer jailed for his role in a cross-border drugs operation is being freed from prison on day-release to play football. Police found £30,000 of heroin destined for the streets of Merseys...
John Cook, a prolific hardcore crackpot and one of the numerous tiny Internet-based stalking appendices of your humble correspondent will share AUD $240,000 for his climate propaganda: Eureka moment for...
Hungary's meteorological services have issued a red heat alert, the highest, for most parts of the country from Wednesday. A warning has been given for daily mean temperatures rising above 27 degrees Cel...
A magnitude 3.6 earthquake has struck the San Francisco Bay area, California at a depth of 9.1 km (5.7 miles), the quake hit at 06:36:54 UTC Wednesday 24th August 2011. The epicenter was 4 km (3 miles) NN...
A magnitude 2.9 earthquake has struck Colorado at a depth of just 5 km ( 3.1 miles), the quake hit at 05:07:51 UTC Wednesday 24th August 2011. The epicenter was 17 km (10 miles) West of Trinidad, Colorado ...
A magnitude 3.4 earthquake has struck Virginia at a depth of just 4.9 km ( 3 miles), the quake hit at 04:45:26 UTC Wednesday 24th August 2011. The epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) ESE of Charlottesville, Vir...
A magnitude 2.6 earthquake has struck Colorado at a depth of just 5 km ( 3.1 miles), the quake hit at 02:40:39 UTC Wednesday 24th August 2011. The epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) WSW of Trinidad, Colorado N...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Virginia at a depth of just 7.9 km ( 4.9 miles), the quake hit at 00:04:36 UTC Wednesday 24th August 2011. The epicenter was 11 km (7 miles) SSW of Mineral, Virginia ...
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More digging...it turns out that the outfit that was hired by the BBC trustees to monitor BBC output in connection with the Steve Jones whitewash report on science coverage was the Imperial College Science...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu Japan at a depth of 20.1 km ( 85 miles), the quake hit at 23:32:54 UTC Tuesday 23rd August 2011. The epicenter was 137 km (85 miles) East...
A magnitude 2.8 earthquake has struck Oklahoma at a depth of just 1 km ( 0.6 miles), the quake hit at 22:40:39 UTC Tuesday 23rd August 2011. The epicenter was 22 km (13 miles) ENE of Oklahoma City, Oklahom...
The great hoax pushed by NATO and the corporate-state media is that Libya has fallen, the rebels took control of Tripoli, Gaddafi is on the ropes, and the country is now free. But this is not true. The sit...
Middle of the week, I'm writing this from my bunker in an undisclosed location awaiting your observations on BBC bias... Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Give yourself a laugh and listen to this classic piece of environmental lobbyism masquerading as a news story on the BBC this morning. Also, listen in to Thought for the Day for another dose of climate cha...
There was an interesting story on the news this morning about the best way to diagnose people to see if they suffer from high blood pressure. A quarter of patients may find visiting a GP stressful, leadin...
*Here is the speech we have written for President Obama when he explains why troops have to go into Libya: * My fellow Americans, Libya is in chaos and there are clear indications that the 'rebels' are n...
My "live report" from Lepton-Photon 2011 in Bombay ended up being somewhat unreadable, missing the big picture: that's what often happens with texts in which you don't know in advance what the final produc...
[image: Gadhafi's power] Hundreds of Libyan rebels stormed Moammar Gadhafi's compound Tuesday, charge wildly through the symbolic heart of the crumbling regime since they kill loyalist troops, looted armo...
*Bulletin No. 2* *(see Bulletin No. 1)* *DOCTOR GERHART SNUTTON (HANDSOME YOUNG PHYSICIAN):* Carrying the burden of mankind's survival is serious business, Nurse Rudehouse. But I think I've made a major ...
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Lee Brightman, Marlon Brando, and the late Vernon Bellcourt Lehman Brightman Long Walk 1978 . *Lehman Brightman Healing Fund* *By United Native Americans* *Censored News* *http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.c...
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Europe - 11 hours ago
Holy Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVA MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ link Lord Stirling's news blog EUROPE *Earthquake rocks D.C., evacuations...
CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGEThe Rag Blog, Rag Radio, and the New Journalism Project Present Noted Writer and Political Activist Carl Davidson: 'Mondragon and the Workers Cooperative Movement' A Multi-Media Pres...
*Plus: How I spent the earthquake* *NY Post caption:* *St. Vincent's officials allegedly ran the now-defunct hospital's finances into the ground in order win approval to sell it off [sic].* *"DA invest...
Those filthy yiddish khazars are murdering children in Gaza again, that they are a disgusting blood-rite cult has been proved many times over. Fact: The average yiddish high-priest is a child-molester and ...
"*US leadership in the world*, and in particular in the Middle East, *remains indispensable*. Without the president’s dogged pursuit of Khadafy, against loud and vociferous critics at home, it is unlikely ...
Tuesday's East Coast earthquake provided a useful reminder of how the Internet can work when phones don't.
*And here I was told they had been liberated.* "Disorder reigns in Libya; Rebels try to stamp out loyalists; Khadafy at large, son free" by David D. Kirkpatrick and Kareem Fahim, New York Times /August 23,...
Terrified airline passengers panicked when two hives of bees smuggled onto a plane for a flight across Russia escaped in mid-air and began swarming around the cabin. The bees - sneaked on board in cardbo...
Preparing to head off any potential counter-attack by Gaddafi forces, NATO powers are readying a “humanitarian” occupation of Libya with thousands of British and American soldiers, risking the possibility ...
Moments before she was slain last week on Chicago's Southwest Side, 17-year-old Charinez Jefferson begged the gunman not to shoot because she was pregnant, prosecutors said today. Despite her plea, Timot...
The state auditor's office on Thursday added teacher pensions to the list of high-risk issues facing California government. The report by State Auditor Elaine Howle added the nation's largest teacher pen...
New York City’s overall crime rate could increase for the first time in decades, driven by alarming spikes in murder, rapes and robberies in many neighborhoods. A 400 percent increase in murders in tony ...
Police are looking for a man who stabbed a pedestrian on Long Island after asking him for a dollar. Nassau County police say the 27-year-old victim was walking on Nassau Road in Roosevelt Monday evening ...
The FCC gave the coup de grace to the fairness doctrine Monday as the commission axed more than 80 media industry rules. Earlier this summer FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski agreed to erase the post WWII-...
Six people were injured during a shootout - one critically - at a local league basketball game attended by 500 people in the city's Kingsessing section Monday night, police said. The game was being held ...
Justin Hamilton, 31, of Paisley, and Kristin Harris, 26, of Eustis, were arrested and charged with child neglect. According to Mount Dora police, officers were called around 7:40 a.m. to the Walmart on U...
The big man is missing, but where is he? The longtime, downtown symbol of Cape Coral, Big John, has popped his bolts. He is gone with the wind, but where? Standing 28 feet tall and tipping the scales at...
Swallow all liquids in your mouth before reading any further. Updated numbers for the national debt are just out: It's now $14,639,000,000,000. When Barack Obama took the oath of office twice on Jan. 20...
The cost of U.S. military intervention in Libya has cost American taxpayers an estimated $896 million through July 31, the Pentagon said today. The price tag includes the amounts for daily military operat...
The sale of 9/11-themed alcohol by a Long Island winery is likely to raise some eyebrows and draw ire despite some monetary benefit to charity. Lieb Family Cellars of Mattituck says it has produced the 9/...
The 30ft-tall statue, which forms the centrepiece of a $120 million (£73 million), four-acre memorial to Dr King, opened to the public on Monday on the National Mall in Washington. It is the only memori...
The eurozone's dominant service sector was effectively stagnant this month after two years of growth while manufacturing activity shrank for the first time since September 2009, key surveys showed on Tuesd...
The Government’s flagship back to work scheme, the Work Programme, is in peril. The bold new scheme, which pays private and not-for-profit providers by results for getting the long-term unemployed into wor...
If you thought that 2011 was a bad year for the world economy, just wait until you see what happens in 2012. The U.S. and Europe are both dealing with unprecedented debt problems, the financial markets are...
The bad news about the economy just keeps rolling in. If this is an economic recovery, what in the world is the next "recession" going to look like? Today there was another huge truckload of bad economic n...
Libya's fledgling National Transitional Council (NTC) -- a Benghazi-based political grouping of anti-Gadhafi rebels -- stands on the cusp of power. But are skeptics justified in arguing that the NTC is in...
The imposing but sometimes difficult-to-fathom edifice of Germany since the Second World War has been built on a central foundation of international politics: that the Germans should never have to take har...
A new study has found that sea lice infections at B.C. fish farms are linked to increased mortality among wild pink and coho salmon, contradicting the conclusion of a previous study of pink salmon that fou...
The American economy is in deep trouble again; so is the world economy. Over the last century, whenever there has been a global financial crisis, events show that it started in the United States. In 1929...
*What a surprise.* "The fighting is not over in Tripoli, but the *scramble to secure access* to Libya’s *oil* wealth has begun.... Western nations, especially the *NATO countries that provided crucial air...
*The article sure reads like an obituary*: "Khadafy cut figure of a bizarre leader, defiant to the end" by Karin Laub and Ben Hubbard, Associated Press / August 23, 2011 TRIPOLI, Libya - In flowing brown...
*No more dentist drill. Now we can be happy, we can finally go to the dentist unafraid.* *Waaaooo, Just Waaaooo...Read below* The 'magic' fluid was designed by researchers in the University of Leeds' Sc...
*Didn't last.* "Obama vows aid, warns against reprisals" by Donovan Slack, Globe Staff /August 23, 2011 TISBURY - Obama’s statement on the Blue Heron Farm lawn yesterday provided a *positive diversion* fr...
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Holy Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVA MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ link Lord Stirling's news blog EUROPE Please forward this site to several...
The WWII veteran, 86 years old, told the council: "Sixty three years ago right now I was aboard a ship, and I was heading to a place called Iwo Jima. And I led a division of men into combat, and over ...
*I heard the earthquake** cracked 'em.* "Thousands of gas leaks in Boston area; As use of methane increases, old pipes pose risks, group says; utility companies see no danger" by August 17, 2011|By Neena ...
Two men set out to do something no one had done before -- traverse Idaho from south to north linking a series of remote rivers, roads and trails.
*WE ARE BACK!!! FACEBOOK SEND US AN EMAIL TELLING THAT "IT WAS A MISTAKE, SORRY"* * * *THANKS EVERYBODY FOR THE SUPPORT!*
At the trough. Image from Florida Pundit. Republican tax cut hypocrisy knows no boundsThe average current tax cut on millionaires insisted on by the Republicans and agreed to by President Obama amounts to $2...
The estimate also comes with a price tag for describing all these Earth species, most of which are still unknown: $364 billion.
3-D pixel-like "voxels" imprinted on glass can be written, erased and rewritten.
[image: Job seekers line up in front of booths at a career fair hosted by National Career Fairs in Arlington, Va, 4 August 2011. Getty Images] By Kristina Cooke, with additional reporting by Jessica Wohl...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 198.6 km ( 123.4 miles), the quake hit at 19:53:30 UTC Tuesday 23rd August 2011. The epicenter was 183 km (113 miles) WSW of Nuku'Alofa, ...
She's found a way to make @SueAnnLevy look classy. (Honorable mention to David Naylor for this. Well done, all.)
Ever hear of Robert Morrow, the guy who ran the above ad in the *Austin Statesman*? He's a wealthy Republican backer of Ron Paul from Austin. And he's warning New Hampshire primary voters that Perry isn'...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Minahasa, Sulawesi, Indonesia at a depth of 30 km ( 18.6 miles), the quake hit at 19:01:50 UTC Tuesday 23rd August 2011. The epicenter was 97 km (60.3 miles) Northwes...
A bottle belonging to the queen is found to contain a carcinogenic moisturizer.
Some lawyers tried to start a lawsuit against the ex-boss of the International Monetary Fund. They have ignored the global influence of the IMF. The word "global" is related to "globe" and one of the th...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Eastern New Guinea Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 30.8 km ( 19.1 miles), the quake hit at 19:29:52 UTC Tuesday 23rd August 2011. The epicenter was 110 km ...
A huge earthquake ripped through the East Coast of America this afternoon, causing terrifying tremors from Washington D.C. to New York. Buildings in the major cities throughout the north east - including t...
notice that now there are two cold water branches? As was pointed out in this site on several posts. The fact is that ice is no longer blocking the warm ocean current in the north Atlantic convergence p...
Good News! Bill Moyers is back and not as a prisoner to the carcass formerly known as PBS (left by the Bush Bashers). It's got to be good news in a very grim news time. Bill Moyers Returns to Public Televi...
One of the strongest quakes to hit the east coast in decades rattled buildings and residents from Virginia to D.C. and New York City.
*THEY DELETE OUR ACCOUNT AND NOW YOU CAN WATCH THIS.* * *
My husband has a love for homemade rolls. My one complaint with that is how long they take to make and rise. One day while I was helping my sister make dinner, I watch her start on the rolls less than an ...
A magnitude 2.8 earthquake has struck Virginia at a depth of just 0.1 km ( 0 miles), the quake hit at 18:46:03 UTC Tuesday 23rd August 2011. The epicenter was 9 km (5 miles) SSW of Mineral, Virginia No Re...
This earthquake was the largest in intensity and aerial extent in Virginia in historical times. MM intensity VII to VIII extended over an elliptical area - from near Lynchburg, Virginia, west to Bluefield,...
*I felt it, readers. I was lying on the bed and it shook for at least 20-30 seconds. * Earthquake strikes Va., shakes Boston A 5.9 earthquake in Virginia shook the eastern seaboard just before 2 p.m., a...
Editor's Update: Reports including the Guardian's "SAS troopers help co-ordinate rebel attacks in Libya" and the UK's Mirror's "Britain's Secret War in Libya: British Special Forces uncovered on the ground...
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Url movie: http://youtu.be/SBWi3NtND68 *We use bottles with water* to keep flying insects out of our house during summertime. Never gave thought of bringing sunlight into our house that way. Here is de Wes...
The first deep-sea current measurements of the North Icelandic Jet provide evidence of its existence and may have a profound impact on ocean circulation models.
This image of a man pushing a suitcase on a trolley through a deserted concourse at Heathrow appears to show nothing out of the ordinary. But it is in fact the grisly moment airline steward Yousseff Wahid,...
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake has struck Virginia at a depth of just 1 km ( 0.6 miles), the quake hit at 17:51:03 UTC Tuesday 23rd August 2011. The epicenter was 6 km (4 miles) SSE of Louisa, Virginia No Rep...
A woman escaped from a DIY torture chamber rigged with eight bombs designed to detonate when her German captor had finished with her. Despite being handcuffed the unnamed woman, 26, made her escape by divi...
A 12-year-old boy with special needs is in hospital after plunging from a theme park ride. The unnamed boy fell from the Excalibur 2 ride at the Camelot Theme Park in Chorley. The incident occurred at ...
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Evidence of sharks spotted in Chatham: MyFoxBOSTON.com Recent sightings of great white sharks close to shore in the Chatham area of Cape Cod have resulted in the closure of some beaches, while swimming ...
Speaking over a very crackly line CNN's Matthew Chance is reporting that there is gunfire inside of the Rixos Hotel, where around 35 international journalists are being kept. He says the mood "is getting v...
A 92-year-old widow was shot trying to confront a gunman who opened fire in a Newport hairdresser's, it has emerged. The woman got up from her chair after 45-year-old Darren Williams opened fire at Carol...
CCTV that can automatically monitor criminal behaviour and track suspects is being developed by UK scientists. Researchers at Kingston University have created a system that uses artificial intelligence t...
Complaints of mosquito bites are on the rise in the UK. So should Britons brace themselves for a future mosquito menace? Hovering perfectly at ear level with a lingering, bothersome whine, mosquitoes lea...
A limited state of emergency is in force in several areas of Trinidad and Tobago, as the government moves to tackle a recent spike in violent crime. The measures, announced on Sunday by Prime Minister Kam...
More than 2,200 people have been killed since the start of mass protests in Syria in mid-March, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Monday. Navi Pillay spoke in Geneva, Switzerland at ...
Ninety to 100 Kurdish rebel fighters have been killed during Turkey's incursion on northern Iraq, the Turkish military said Tuesday. The military carried out more than 130 airstrikes and nearly 350 artill...
When the going gets rough, China gets going. After six months of attempted neutrality between Moammar Gadhafi loyalists and rebel forces, Beijing now appears to have chosen sides. This, as the end-game ...
Libyan rebels surrounded Moammar Gadhafi's compound in Tripoli Tuesday, entering one of the gates and "attacking furiously," a rebel official told CNN. As rebel fighters battled forces loyal to the Li...
The last South Korean employees have left Mount Kumgang resort in North Korea resort Tuesday morning, as the struggle over the scenic mountain resort continues. Fourteen South Koreans and two Chinese wor...
Emergency officials across the southeast United States were closely watching Irene Tuesday as the first hurricane to seriously threaten the country in three years churned over energizing tropical waters. T...
Until recently, medical files belonging to nearly 300,000 Californians sat unsecured on the Internet for the entire world to see. There were insurance forms, Social Security numbers and doctors' notes. A...
Gold prices have been on a tear lately, topping a fresh record high above $1,900 an ounce late Monday-- just two weeks after rising above $1,800. While experts aren't too worried about each new milestones...
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British households could be paying over the odds for their gas and electricity as new research show that nearly 40pc of us are clueless of our monthly usage costs. Despite the rising year on year costs o...
Even if Europe and America slide back into recession with fiscal deficits already dangerously stretched and interest rates on the floor, financial authorities still have the means to prevent a spiral into ...
The sovereign debt problems in Europe have roiled financial markets around the world. With little relief in sight, investors are growing worried about the possibility of a credit crunch similar to the on...
The government has decided to have Prime Minister Naoto Kan explain to municipalities near the Fukushima Daiichi plant that exclusion orders in some areas will remain in effect due to high levels of radiat...
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In early summer, before layoffs began sweeping across Wall Street, billboard-sized photos of employees were plastered on the walls, pillars and elevator banks of Credit Suisse Group AG's offices in the Uni...
Victim care worker Foroozan Panahandeh, 45, claimed she was floored by a two foot length of plastic guttering which fell three feet onto her as she put out her bins. She then took out a negligence claim ...
Jama'at-ud-Da'wah (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed on Sunday said the only issue he had with New Delhi was related to Kashmir and reiterated that terrorism was “un-Islamic”. In an exclusive interview to Geo News, a...
With the global economy sputtering and financial markets on the rocks, the world needs reassurance the U.S. central bank stands ready to save the day. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will make a spe...
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*Tantoo Cardinal and Margot Kidder at the White House Protest Before Being Arrested Photo credit: Milan Ilnyckyj*, *TarSandsAction.org* Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Photo Tar Sands Actio...
It isn't a question of whether the project is scientifically valuable; it is brute economics that threatens to derail the mission entirely.
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wmtc - 21 hours ago
These are Orbees, very special dog toys made by the excellent Planet Dog. We call Orbees "Planets". Tala loves her Planet more than anything on the planet - except squirrels. Now that Tala can't chase s...
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Corn and tomato salad: tomatoes (our gardenette) corn (Ontario) scallion cilantro lime juice Friends over for dinner and baseball tonight. The menu is a little slice of summer: - grilled ...
Political cartoon by Carol Simpson / Cartoon Work. The 'free market' myth and the suicide of the capitalist systemIn a capitalist society such as ours the wealth will be redistributed to the richest people u...
If you're getting sick of me harping on CIA atrocities (like in Iran and Guatemala) and comparing them to what's going down in Libya... just skip right over this admittedly disturbing post and go back to...
This training cycle gives you accurate performance data right down to the force you apply to the left vs. right pedal.
Another Katrina? Not Funny ~Susanna Murley, Huff Post Levees.org releases previously unseen disturbing footage Comments: 17th Street Canal homeowner tries to block tractor on levee from spraying debris...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 75 km ( 46.6 miles), the quake hit at 14:28:55 UTC Tuesday 23rd August 2011. The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) North...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Kenai Peninsula, Alaska at a depth of just 21.4 km ( 13.3 miles), the quake hit at 15:34:23 UTC Tuesday 23rd August 2011. The epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) Southeast...
A magnitude 3.9 earthquake has struck Colorado at a depth of just 5 km ( 3.1 miles), the quake hit at 14:11:13 UTC Tuesday 23rd August 2011. The epicenter was 22 km (13 miles) Southwest of Trinidad, Colora...
Last Monday, San Francisco revelers were finally allowed to congregate in celebration of the 6th civilian-commuter or homeless person shot by the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Police. Crowds had wanted to...
[image: Climate change is melting Greenland's Mittivakkat Glacier faster than ever seen, and faster than predicted. Record breaking losses occurred in both 2010 and 2011. Edward Hanna] Contact: Amy Ston...
US new home sales fell for the third month a row in July, figures have shown, indicating continuing weakness in the housing market. Sales fell 0.7% in July to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 298,000,...
According to unreliable sources: Inter tribal fighting in Libya is expected to lead to the US-led coalition sending in troops and setting up a temporary government. Libya's Coalition Provisional Autho...
A new computer chip combines processing with memory, just like the human brain.
The find sheds light on how the first batches of lager were brewed.
[image: A tractor sits idle in North Texas, August 2011. Farming has come to a standstill in North Texas as the lingering drought paralyzes the area. Lara K. Richards / Special to the Times Record News] ...
From Patrick Corrigan for the Toronto Star. h/t Antonia From Your Heart's on the Left
Stay smart and safe with a mounts that secures a device to a car's dash.
Looking to invest in gold during the down the economy? This may be a good place to start.
Photo by Shadia Fayne Wood. Tantoo Cardinal, Margot Kidder and Montana Women For march in to be arrested. Tar Sands Action tody, Tuesday. 'No More!' Women in tar sands jail, Hopi file Peaks lawsuit Su...
By Duane Craig Coal ash contamination is an issue that cannot be denied. It could be that our dependence on fossil fuels has gone so far, and is so ingrained in our economy that we are on the verge of ha...
Wall Street, cognizant of the damage George W. Bush and the Republicans had done to the economy, gave obscene amounts to help elect Barack Obama in 2008. Despite giving Wall Street pretty much everything...
Press Release on Shale Gas Outreach Action Friday, August 12, 2011 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Karen Feridun, Founder, Berks Gas Truth 610-678-7726 karen.feridun@gmail.com Iris Marie Bloom, Founder a...
What had already been established for girls now seems to also be true for boys.
The news or what passes for it has forced me into blogging whilst short on time. Yesterday's news in the West, had headlines touting a win in Libya. Yes, it was all sewn up! Gadaffi was no where to be ...
Hundreds of British soldiers could be sent to Libya to serve as peacekeepers if the country [image: Link]descends into chaos, Downing Street indicated last night. Number 10 repeatedly refused to rule out ...
A magnitude 3.2 earthquake has struck Colorado at a depth of just 5 km ( 3.1 miles), the quake hit at 07:01:35 UTC Tuesday 23rd August 2011. The epicenter was 7 km (4 miles) SSW of Trinidad, Colorado No R...
It seems strange to think it was only a few months ago we were all watching Jack Layton give one of the greatest campaign performances in Canadian history. Yesterday morning he passed away, a harsh remin...
Republican primary voters aren't taking Jon Huntsman's desperate thrust left towards the mainstream seriously. But the DNC is. I know yesterday was Huntsman Day here at *DWT* but we couldn't resist runn...
The Swarm of earthquakes which started during July of 2011 have continued into August with 3277 earthquakes being recorded since August 1st 2011 until 23rd August 2011, this is a significant rise of earthq...
The Swarm of earthquakes which started during July of 2011 have continued into August with 3277 earthquakes being recorded since August 1st 2011 until 23rd August 2011, this is a significant rise of earthq...
A teenager who staged her own kidnapping in an attempt to cover up running away from home has been caught five days after she went missing. Police said 15-year-old Jasmine Fike, from Colorado, staged an e...
A particle scientists believe may have played a vital role in the creation of the universe might not exist after all, experts admitted yesterday. Last month, scientists said they were one step closer to co...
Dear Danny Boy: When you’ve lost CNN.com’s Brent Bozell, a man who is to the great issues of the day what flatulence is after a ten course Tex Mex dinner, you know you’ve strayed from the beaten path a...
A magnitude 3.2 earthquake has struck Colorado at a depth of just 5 km ( 3.1 miles), the quake hit at 09:37:57 UTC Tuesday 23rd August 2011. The epicenter was 20 km (12 miles) WSW of Trinidad, Colorado No...
The man who could expose Britain’s tangled relationship with Colonel Gaddafi embarrassed Nato allies as he made a dramatic return to the heart of Tripoli last night. The appearance of the Libyan leader’s ...
Some may have been hoping for a late burst of scorching sun to round off what has been yet another disappointing British summer. But instead, as the Bank Holiday approaches, parts of Britain are on the a...
At least two people have been killed and several others hurt, including a toddler, after increased gunfire and explosions near Colonel Gaddafi's compound in Tripoli. Sky News special correspondent Alex C...
Archil Kobakhidze of the University of Melbourne (where my uncle has taught maths since the late 1960s) released his new paper on the arXiv, Once more: gravity is not an entropic force He repeats and ...
The largest earthquake to strike Colorado in almost 40 years has shaken hundreds of people near the New Mexico border. The magnitude 5.3 earthquake was recorded at about 11:46 p.m. MDT Monday about nine m...
Japan's ruling party will next week choose the country's sixth prime minister in five years, after the incumbent Naoto Kan vowed to step down after only one year in the top seat. Mr Kan has seen his appro...
We are not the only people who see the bias that so characterises the BBC output. Take the recent Radio 4 programme "The Reunion". A B-BBC contributor notes... "I didn't listen to this programme because y...
Of course it is not just Evan Davies who has interests that are not immediately obvious; A Biased BBC contributor notes... "Reference Evan Davis and his membership of the SMF board....John Humphrys is a s...
A rotten stench hung over a 60-mile stretch of Louisiana's Pearl River as boats trawled through thick layers of hundreds of thousands of dead fish, and sweating workers bent to scoop the carcasses from the...
A bacterial disease related to high water temperatures is being blamed for the deaths of thousands of catfish on Wheeler and Wilson lakes in recent weeks, conservation officials said Monday. Keith Floyd,...
The sunrise at Baballi village on Monday surprised everybody as a foggy cloud engulfed the canal flowing through the village. The sight attracted people from near and far, with children having their share ...
Image; A halo in the sky can be seen in this file photo, taken by a netizen named Chen Xu in Beijing on August 20, 2011 A huge illuminant unidentified flying object (UFO) was reported by multiple airline...
New York's night sky was lit up by bolts of lightning flashing through the darkness during a fierce thunder storm on Friday night. And one photographer was able to capture the moment one of those bolts ...
There was a particularly nasty little item HERE on Today this morning. It's yet another BBC led attack on Murdoch, this time bringing in Chris Mullins and *Sheila Gunn - *John Major's former press secretar...
NATO bluff called by Qaddafi, rebels' victory facade crumbles. by Tony Cartalucci Update: You can't make this up - the International Criminal Court (ICC) now claims it never confirmed that Qaddafi's son ...
A magnitude 3.8 earthquake has struck Colorado at a depth of just 4.8 km ( 3 miles), the quake hit at 07:17:58 UTC Tuesday 23rd August 2011. The epicenter was 12 km (7 miles) Southwest of Trinidad, Colorad...
A magnitude 3.5 earthquake has struck Colorado at a depth of just 5 km ( 3.1 miles), the quake hit at 06:56:59 UTC Tuesday 23rd August 2011. The epicenter was 10 km (6 miles) WSW of Cokedale, Colorado No ...
The number of cesium-tainted cows raised in Fukushima Prefecture has reached 12 after three more were detected Sunday, prefectural officials said. On Friday, it was reported that cesium concentrations ove...
A research agency in Fukushima Prefecture has begun testing about 110 varieties of Japanese and foreign rice in a search for strains that absorb less radioactive cesium from the soil. The project, which ...
A team of scholars led by a Hokkaido University professor has discovered geological layers suggesting that gigantic tsunami may have pounded the Miyagi Prefecture coastline six times over the past 6,000 ye...
New findings suggest that a prehistoric asteroid collision is not solely responsible for wiping out the dinosaur population in northeast Asia 65 million years ago. Scientists now claim that the end of th...
*Saman Mohammadi* *The Excavator* *August 23, 2011* I have been studying for my exams today so I have not been able to write an article as I regularly do. But I am morally obligated to write an article ab...
A 76-year-old scout leader was stabbed to death in a savage, random attack as two young boy scouts watched in terror. Elderly assistant scout leader Arthur L. Anderson, from Kokomo, Indiana, had stopped t...
At least five persons were killed and over 15 sustained serious injuries as a major explosion rocked one of the cracker making factories in Mughal Majra village near Kunjpura, here on Monday evening. After...
Damaged case: The Manhattan District Attorney's Office caught Nafissatou Diallo, left, in several lies about shady deposits in her bank account, and personal dealings after the alleged sex attack. The Ma...
A 45-year-old Northland woman is in a serious condition in hospital with a suspected case of meningococcal disease. It is the third case of the disease in Northland this month, after two toddlers were al...
A rapidly strengthening Hurricane Irene was roaring off the Dominican Republic's northern coast last night, whipping up high waves and torrential downpours on a track that could see it reach the U.S. south...
The FBI is on the hunt for this radioactive camera, not only because it was stolen, but because it's a threat to public safety. Authorities say call 9-1-1 immediately if you see it, because everyday this ...
Warning: Graphic content Strapped to wooden posts in scrubland in Mogadishu, these are the last moments of two ex-government soldiers who have been executed to prove a point. Crowds of local people had ...
*Eighty two people have been evacuated by Rescue 1122 officials from flood-affected areas of Toba Tek Singh, Gujarat and Narowal.* In a statement issued on Monday, Rescue 1122 director general Dr Rizwan ...
The mother-of-six who put hot sauce in her adopted seven-year-old son's mouth claims she did it not to punish him but to come up with sensational footage to get on the Dr Phil show. Jessica Beagley, 36, ...
One of the poorest regions of former Communist East Germany is set to become a mini Klondike after a deep-boring machine hit a rich seam of pure gold. At least £9billion worth - and possibly much more - of...
Earthquake torn Japan is the only major economy faring worse than Britain, a leading international watchdog said yesterday. The UK’s stuttering economy has grown by just 0.7 per cent in the past year, acc...
Recall that we had an El Nino in 2009/10 - which helped to make 2010 a warm year. Then we had a La Nina in 2010/11 - which is helping to make 2011 a cooler year. But there's no law that would say that El N...
I'm head down at the moment helping to write a long paper on BBC bias that I hope will appear in print in due course. I missed - Autonomous Mind and Harmless Sky didn't - that the BBC trustees had issued a...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Hokkaido, Japan Region at a depth of 45.6 km ( 28.3 miles), the quake hit at 06:04:56 UTC Tuesday 23rd August 2011. The epicenter was 143 km (89 miles) Southeast of S...
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck Colorado at a depth of just 4.9 km ( 3 miles), the quake hit at 05:46:19 UTC Tuesday 23rd August 2011. The epicenter was 5 km (3 miles) West of Cokedale, Colorado No ...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Yemen at a depth of 10.1 km ( 6.3 miles), the quake hit at 04:56:52 UTC Tuesday 23rd August 2011. The epicenter was 107 km (66 miles) ENE of Djibout...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Guatemala at a depth of just 21.6 km ( 37 miles), the quake hit at 03:55:57 UTC Tuesday 23rd August 2011. The epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) ESE of Guatemala, Guatemal...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 110.1 km ( 68.4 miles), the quake hit at 03:20:01 UTC Tuesday 23rd August 2011. The epicenter was 59 km (36 miles) Nor...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Kashmir-India Border Region at a depth of just 41.6 km ( 25.9 miles), the quake hit at 01:23:00 UTC Tuesday 23rd August 2011. The epicenter was 130 km (80 miles) SSW ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of just 519.8 km ( 323 miles), the quake hit at 00:41:14 UTC Tuesday 23rd August 2011. The epicenter was 165 km (102 miles) SSW o...
*Orchestrated riots.* http://arthurzbygniew.blogspot.com/ commented as follows: The London riots were orchestrated by outsiders ... Croydon MP, Gavin Barwell, said: "I have spoken to well into double ...
*Hopi File Lawsuit over Sewage Effluent Contract* August 22, 2011 By Hopi Tribe French translation: http://www.chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=375 *The Hopi Tribe Initiates Litigation against the City of Flag...
I have a confession to make. When I was in elementary school I lied about needing glasses. There was this amazingly smart girl in my class who wore glasses and I wanted to be as much like her as possible. ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Colorado at a depth of just 5 km ( 3.1 miles), the quake hit at 23:30:20 UTC Monday 22nd August 2011. The epicenter was 27 km (16 miles) WSW of Trinidad, Colorado No ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 57.4 km ( 35.7 miles), the quake hit at 22:24:53 UTC Monday 22nd August 2011. The epicenter was 57 km (35.7 m...
*VIDEO: With Montana Women For, Tantoo Cardinal speaks out against the tar sands as she prepares to be arrested tomorrow.* Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Tar Sands Action said on Monda...
6. Ginger: Used as a medicinal for centuries, ginger is kind of a cure-all, treating everything from headaches and stomach aches to nausea and colds. It's a great addition to marinades for fish or as a ...
[image: Libya's future] As rebels celebrated in Tripoli, President Barack Obama declared Monday so as to Moammar Gadhafi's long rule is over, "The future of Libya is during the hands of its people," he sa...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck near the Fiji Region at a depth of 629.6 km ( 391.2 miles), the quake hit at 22:18:50 UTC Monday 22nd August 2011. The epicenter was 280 km (173 miles) NNE of Ndoi Is...
*"A blue moon over salmon-pink mountains [isn't] a drink, my good man. I thought you were one of our agents, so I gave you the secret greeting. You see, I'm Elmer W. Litzinger, Spy. Here's my business c...
A glimpse of some of the array of spices available worldwide. Photo courtesy: houseofnubian Forget diamonds, spices are a girl's real best friend. Not only will adding them to most of your meals help sta...
*Open leak founder has betrayed the Internet movement, he sold out to bank of America, and is the real reason why Assange can't release the Bank of America files, is not that he doesn't want to, is that ...
Groups of canoes crossing towards Windsor, Ontario, Canada despite freighters. Lead canoe with Mona Stonefish shows her Anishinaabe Courage to the Freighter named "American Courage" Mona Stonefish ve...
August 20, 2011 Toronto, Ontario Dear Friends, Tens of thousands of Canadians have written to me in recent weeks to wish me well. I want to thank each and every one of you for your thoughtful, inspir...
As Libyan rebels fought to consolidate their hold on Tripoli on Monday and early Tuesday, reports emerged that two sons of Libya's longtime leader were free despite earlier reports that rebels had captu...
POLITICS - Libyan rebels claimed control of the Libyan capital on Monday (today) after advancing quickly on Tripoli. The capture of the capitol heralds the fall of Moammar Gadhafi's nearly 42-year regime. ...
CANADA - Jack Layton, the fiery and eloquently spoken leader of the New Democratic Party has died of cancer at the age of 61. Sometimes touted at the future prime minister of Canada, that dream now will n...
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[image: 276464_137539366339987_1226509_n]Here’s what’s being presented at tonight’s UoA Economics Group meeting. It could hardly be more topical: Hello all, The history of The Great Depression grows mor...
Alex Jones: "It is going to be absolutely horrible. We're going to have to watch the murderers, the social engineers who've done the attacks, grandstand as our saviours. And as the public gets ...
*New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman -- **Glenn Greenwald reminds us today that he predicted in May there was likely to be rough going for Schneiderman for refusing to roll over for Wall Stre...
The U.N. on Monday called for reconciliation in the newly-established Republic of South Sudan after fighting reportedly left at least 600 dead and at least 26,000 cattle stolen. The Special Representativ...
A tentative cease-fire between the different militant factions in Gaza and Israel remained in place Monday, though two rockets fired from Gaza exploded in southern Israel on Monday evening. No casualties...
A suspected U.S. drone strike killed four suspected militants in northwestern Pakistan on Monday night, Pakistani intelligence officials told CNN. The unmanned Predator drone fired two missiles at a vehi...
Laid-off workers and aging baby boomers are flooding Social Security's disability program with benefit claims, pushing the financially strapped system toward the brink of insolvency. Applications are up ...
Las Vegas, NV (KTNV)- We're learning more on why the U.S. Air Force raided a local gun store Friday. They say it wasn't guns they were looking for. An official from the Air Force is speaking to Action New...
Citigroup Inc. (C) and Bank of America Corp. (BAC) were the reigning champions of finance in 2006 as home prices peaked, leading the 10 biggest U.S. banks and brokerage firms to their best year ever with $...
Greece’s four largest banks agreed to take up a €50m convertible bond to help recapitalise Proton Bank, a small lender, the central bank announced this weekend, in what is being seen as an attempt to avert...
US conglomerate General Electric is seeking permission to build a $1 billion plant for uranium enrichment by laser, a process which has raised proliferation fears, The New York Times said Sunday. After t...
When the nearly 300 students of the Irene-Wakonda School District returned to school this week, they found a lot of old friends, teachers and familiar routines awaiting them. But one thing was missing: Fri...
Volkswagen is poised to unveil a single-seat, ultra-frugal, zero-emission electric car. The German carmaker also plans to offer a “full-service package” for customers of its electric cars by selling them p...
A 24-year-old Sleepy Hollow man threw a Molotov cocktail into a crowd Sunday afternoon at an Algonquin grocery store, police said. One man was injured at Joe Caputo & Sons Fruit Market, 100 S. Randall Roa...
A 76-year-old man has been stabbed to death while leading Boy Scouts on a hiking trip in northern Indiana, and a suspect who battered his mother and killed a dog at their home nearby is under arrest, polic...
Russia has put forward "proposals" to build new nuclear power plants in Iran after the completion of the Bushehr project, local media reported Sunday quoting the Islamic republic's atomic chief. "We have...
All over America tonight, millions of elderly Americans are wondering if their money is going to run out before it is time for them to die. Those that are now past retirement age are not going to be riotin...
The U.S. labor force is shrinking, as more Americans are giving up hope. Last month, only 58.1% of Americans age 16 and over were employed, a significant drop from before the recession and the lowest sinc...
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke told the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in 2010 that that the Wall Street meltdown “was the worst financial crisis in global history;” that 12 of the 13 most important financ...
Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz (1780-1831), the German military strategist once said that 'War is the continuation of politics by other means.' Given the political dead-end the West seems to be on, ...
Libyan rebels have celebrated their advance into Tripoli by firing guns in the air. How hazardous is this? It is, unarguably, an emphatic way to display one's jubilation. Shooting an automatic weapon in...
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For those working to curb the expansion of imprisonment and policing here in the US, David Cameron's recent plans to import US policing models, theories, and actual technicians are of grave concern, even i...
People around the world have seen the value of their investments plummet. Was the decision to downgrade the US economy from a triple A rating the catalyst or is it the Eurozone's debt crisis and fears ...
"April is the cruellest month," wrote TS Eliot at the beginning of his great poem, "The Waste Land". But, if Eliot had been a professional investor who had observed European financial markets over the last...
The giggles started when the seventh journalist in a row said that his question was for Egypt’s water and irrigation minister, Mohamed Nasreddin Allam. The non-Egyptian media gave him a bit of a hammerin...
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I don’t usually comment on polls, the mainstay of political blogs and commentators who have nothing much to say. So I don’t know why I’m bothering now—unless it’s because I hate stupidity as much as I l...
Balsamic Moon. Photo by oceandesetoiles / Flickr. Moon Musings: Waning Balsamic Moon (August 23-25, 2011) By Kate Braun / The Rag Blog / August 22, 2011 The Balsamic Moon phase is when problems are reveale...
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A couple days ago, BBC Washington correspondent and anchor of what's left of BBC World News America, Katty Kay participated in a panel discussion on Chris "Thrill Up My Leg" Matthews' show on MSNBC. Unlike...
*From Sacrilege to Sacredness: What's the Big Deal About Snowmaking?* Monday 22 August 2011 *by: Mary Sojourner, New Clear Vision | Op-Ed* *Photo by Outta Your Backpack Media: Author Mary Sojourner being a...
Stop Clinging to False Hope and Face Reality ** *By Anthony Wile The Daily Bell Published: August 20, 2011* All week long we have been witnessing a breakdown in global markets, or perhaps better state...
Photos Day 2 Tar Sands White House Arrests by Shadia Fayne Wood/Censored News *Another 52 Americans Arrested to Ask Obama to Stand Up to Big Oil* By Tar Sands Action www.tarsandsaction.org Monday, Aug....
Ejecta kicked into space from impacts on the Earth's surface appear to travel much further than anyone predicted -- but could it be a life-spreading mechanism to other star systems?
*I don't know what to tell you, readers. I have been going here to read some stories and watch some videos. If nothing else, it gives you the latest from Libya. * *It makes me feel liberated from this s*...
[image: The 'Hockey Stick' graph: Comparison of proxy-based Northern Hemisphere (NH) temperature reconstructions (Jones et al., 1998; Mann et al., 1999; Crowley and Lowery, 2000) with model simulations o...
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*Guest post by patent specialist Dale Halling * Google agreed to acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. Most people believe the main motivation for Google was to acquire Motorola’s patent portfol...
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[image: Picture from http://blogs.aljazeera.net/liveblog/Libya] Few will mourn the passing of Muammar Qaddafi, but does that mean we should already be celebrating the winners? I don't often agree with hi...
Four wealthy Russians who used an iPhone to film themselves gang-raping a student at an exclusive private college were facing jail today. The group had been in Britain for just two weeks when they carried ...
Willard is still counting on it being "his turn," on the anointment from the topdown party's Establishment, on the immense amount of money he has been able to raise among Mormons and fellow vulture capi...
Palm Pre, Pixi phone or HP TouchPad users will not be happy about this. At all.
The Toxoplasma parasite overwrites an infected rat's brain to make him want to linger in the odor of cat urine.
The weather resistant, battery-powered camera can shoot up 200 hours of HD video in AVI files.
A medical-grade thermostat maintains a steady temperature to keep beer in its coolest state.
ULTra-PRT pod cars cut down on travel times, while whisking passengers between the airport and parking lot.
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck Southwest of Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 31.3 km ( 19.4 miles), the quake hit at 20:12:20 UTC Monday 22nd August 2011. The epicenter was 176 km (110 miles) South...
Pioneer of urban farm and school learns lessons of his own, hopes struggles lead to success~Ariella Cohen, The Lens WWOZ~GAMBIT~ANTIGRAVITY ZEITGEIST~NOLAEATS~NOMENU Support WWOZ online! I renewed my memb...
*They will be back in when the fighting starts.* "Hariri case indictment names 4 in Hezbollah" August 18, 2011|By Nada Bakri, New York Times BEIRUT - The indictment will almost surely serve as fodder for ...
A dramatic video shows the moment when a police officer ran to safety and collapsed after being shot in the neck by a suspect. Two cops were responding to a call from neighbours claiming a man was brandis...
A severe hailstorm pounded Shenyang City in northeast China on Sunday evening, followed by a heavy rainstorm. The hailstorm lasted about 30 minutes and caused extensive damage to homes and vehicles. O...
An educational foundation offers psychics $1 million if they can prove their powers are real.
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August 20, 2011, Toronto, Ontario Dear Friends, Tens of thousands of Canadians have written to me in recent weeks to wish me well. I want to thank each and every one of you for your thoughtful, inspiring...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 37.1 km ( 23.1 miles), the quake hit at 17:39:38 UTC Monday 22nd August 2011. The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) SSW of Port-Vila, Efate, Vanuatu...
A mother-of-three who battered a helpless 91-year-old man to death with a bottle of French wine has been jailed for life - six years after she was cleared of another murder. Melanie Cole, 49, brutally att...
'If you’re in south Florida, now is the time to get prepared,' the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency warned on Monday. National Hurricane Centre spokesman Dennis Feltgen urged south Florida reside...
A newly-discovered deep, cold current flowing off Iceland's coast may mean the North Atlantic is less sensitive to climate change than previously thought. The North Icelandic Jet feeds the Atlantic Meridi...
Colonel Gaddafi could flee to a country not signed up to the International Criminal Court such as Venezuela or Cuba, South African sources say. The Brother Leader is alive and remains in Libya, one senior...
Tropical Storm Irene has turned into a hurricane - the first of the Atlantic hurricane season - over Puerto Rico. It has now passed the US territory and is next set to hit the Dominican Republic. It may ...
North Korea says it is seizing assets at a tourist site jointly operated with South Korea. It has given South Koreans 72 hours to leave the resort at Mount Kumgang, which lies just inside North Korea. ...
Japanese iPhone users will get the option to receive earthquake alerts under the next version of Apple's iOS operating system. 9to5Mac reports that the feature will be added to the device's notification ...
A young humpback whale is enjoying freedom after being set free from a British Columbia fisherman's gill net near Kitimat. On Thursday, two humpback researchers in Ursula Channel near Gil Island noticed ...
About 120 criminal gangs operate in British Columbia. Some are notorious for their illegal activities and have become well-known to the public, but many others do their best to maintain a low profile and d...
New Brunswick physicians may come under increased pressure on how they treat patients if a drug shortage continues much longer, according to a cancer specialist. Health Canada issued a warning last week ...
The 42-year rule of Moammar Gadhafi appeared on the verge of collapse Monday, with rebel supporters making it to the same Tripoli square where regime loyalists had congregated for month. But in a possibl...
Representatives of Arab League states have condemned "the Israeli attack on the Egyptian forces" saying that Israel bears "full responsibility for this crime". Permanent members of the league issued the s...
While the downgrade of Unites States government debt by Standard & Poor's shocked global financial markets, China has more reason to worry than most: the bulk of its $3.2tn in official foreign reserves - m...
Biofuels are an alternative energy source that can drive local development by generating jobs, know-how and technology. But they can also cause social damage, as locals fear in the case of industrial-scale...
Kashmir has been the major source of conflict between India and Pakistan since the departure of the British from the region in 1947. Both countries have fought open and covert wars on this thorny issue ove...
President Bashar al-Assad has warned against foreign military intervention in his country, in an appearance on Syrian television. In an interview broadcast live on Sunday, Assad said: "Any action again...
Cross-border exchanges of air strikes and rocket attacks between Israel and the Gaza Strip have continued for a third day, despite Palestinian factions having agreed to an informal ceasefire on launchin...
Seven Iraqis have been killed in a Turkish air strike, a part of Ankara's bombing campaign against Kurdish separatist fighters in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish zone, officials said. A rocket from a Turk...
t has been more than two weeks since al-Shabab fighters pulled out of the Somali capital, Mogadishu. But fighting has not stopped. The only difference is that the battle between the armed group and go...
Two years after the end of Sri Lanka's civil war, the north's roads, railways and homes are being rebuilt. But little attention has been placed on helping a population suffering from the trauma of being...
One year ago the world watched as 33 Chilean miners were stranded hundreds of metres underground for more than two months. Television channels from around the world focused on every move and statement...
England's streets are calm again. But there's still plenty of interesting debate going on as to the causes of the riots that swept across London, Birmingham, Manchester and several other towns, and have no...
*Until September when the s*** really hits the fan*. "Thousands of Palestinian refugees flee Syrian city; Neighborhood bears brunt of crackdown" August 17, 2011|By Anthony Shadid and Isabel Kershner, New ...
He was clean, tidy and didn't seem to be sleeping rough. But when this man walked into a hospital carrying sunglasses, a walking stick and cigarettes no-one was more confused than he was. That's because n...
Libyan state TV went off air today as rebels armed with AK47s stormed the country's broadcaster and Colonel Gaddafi cowered in hiding. Rebels said that they ambushed the concrete building in Tripoli and ki...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Tajikistan at a depth of 25.4 km ( 15.8 miles), the quake hit at 16:25:21 UTC Monday 22nd August 2011. The epicenter was 72 km (44 miles) East of Dushanbe, Tajikistan ...
Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet was among guests forced to flee after a fire sparked by a lightning strike swept through Richard Branson's opulent home on the tycoon's private Caribbean island. Sir Ric...
Your going to think how are these two stories connected? First both are "follow-ups" to recent posts I have had, but not just that, both are running topics on the blog. First- The misleading media, or sh...
A new report argues that the Coral Sea is a "biological hotspot" worthy of protection as a marine reserve.
Who'd ever think of looking for evidence of Earth-like planets around dead sun-like stars?
Technology lets reporters in war zones be their own video production studios.
A new independent cost analysis shows it will take another $3.6 billion to get the JWST ready to fly by 2018.
The humanoid robot delivered to the International Space Station in February is finally getting to work -- and tweeting about the experience.
*1.* "Libyan rebel leader Gibril Elqarfally stands before the Fortune 500-funded Brookings Institution openly declaring fealty to the globalist agenda of interdependency and subservience to a Wall Street-L...
*Another suspected bomb was found Sunday morning on a street in Sköndal in southern Stockholm. This finding follows last week’s string of discoveries in the same area. *“There was a small, green object b...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the Fiji Region at a depth of 628.5 km ( 390.5 miles), the quake hit at 16:02:08 UTC Monday 22nd August 2011. The epicenter was 422 km (262 miles) West of Neiafu...
*These are the same guys currently criticizing Syria?* "Deadly Kurd ambush draws Turkish raid" August 18, 2011|New York Times ISTANBUL - Kurdish militants in southeast Turkey ambushed a military convoy ye...
A video showing the tidy primate washing up like a human has become an Internet sensation.
Many cute tweets about the fall of the House of Qaddafi over the weekend. That was one of the cutest. But the toppling on Qaddafi wasn't Democratic policy or Republican policy. It was American policy. Un...
A visionary Canadian, a fearless advocate, a principled politician, a fighter, a decent man. Honourable, passionate, eternally optimistic, the best prime minister we never had. Jack Layton was in it for t...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 45 km ( 28 miles), the quake hit at 15:26:11 UTC Monday 22nd August 2011. The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) Northe...
PayPal founder Peter Thiel has invested $1.25 million in an ambitious project -- floating, autonomous colonies at sea.
*And cui bono?* "Cleric vows strikes if US stays in Iraq" August 08, 2011|Associated Press BAGHDAD - Moqtada al-Sadr, an anti-American Shi’ite cleric with thousands of followers in Iraq, said yesterday th...
It might just be the moment fossil fuelers dread most - their production tied to direct environmental consequences. The Queensland, Australia coal-mining giant, Xstrata is going to court today over a plan...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Barat Daya, Indonesia at a depth of 170.2 km ( 105.8 miles), the quake hit at 14:55:33 UTC Monday 22nd August 2011. The epicenter was 304 km (188 miles) ENE...
*So am I.* "Officials worry Basra falling behind region’s oil powers; Cite lack of Maliki help, competition from Iran, Kuwait" August 14, 2011|By Ed O’Keefe, Washington Post BASRA, Iraq - Iraq will suppl...
[image: The Safecast Map depicts over 500,000 radiation data points collected by the Safecast team throughout Japan. For each square, numerous geiger readings have been collected and color-coded. safecas...
New research shows insects, animals and plants are on the move north toward cooler climates as they try to escape the effects of global warming. About 2,000 species examined are moving away from the equat...
Heavy clashes broke out near Moammar Gadhafi's compound in Tripoli on Monday, but the longtime Libyan leader's whereabouts were not known. "The real moment of victory is when Gadhafi is captured," said re...
Norway wants explorer Roald Amundsen's three-mast ship, Maud, back -- 80 years after it sank in the Canadian Arctic.
Small robots armed with cameras and explosives let soldiers inspect and fight from a distance.
by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy Until police 'hot dogs' and taser fetishists are brought to heel, I propose some survival hints that might help keep you alive in the face of rising police thuggery...
News you missed, *Who owns the house that was foreclosed, being foreclosed, or even not foreclosed at all. In fact this mess is so large that people who are current and not in trouble at all also had t...
*The story as it is understood, Shortly after Apollo 15 found the object shown on the picture, NASA cancelled Apollo 18,19,20 with the pretext of building the SKYLAB Project. There's v...
*Marshall Watson * 27 Castle Harbor Int FT lauderdale Fl 33316 19 Harborage Isle Dr Ft Lauderdale fl 33316 JUDGE Tobin; There is only one Judge Tobin in Broward county *Victor Tobin* 6711 E Cypresshead D...
Banks are using credit to pay off Tarp loans, this means they don't have resources and must borrow money to pay off their loans. What they are doing is..."using VISA to pay MASTERCARD" 银行使用信贷还清TARP贷款，这意味...
*With the death of the Murdoch whisle blower, whose death seems like a suicide. There are a lot of people who right now are thinking that this is just too much of a coincidence. There are even some peopl...
*Doctors are baking up the wrong tree. Cancers are not made by genetic mutation. But a virus creates the mutation in the genes.* There are three known transmissible cancers, including devil facial tumo...
*More news you missed. * *A recent decision on the 3rd court of Appeals in Virginia comes as no surprise to anyone. Thse judges while correct in the laws of Virginia Non judicial foreclosures. However at...
*2019 the American Supreme Court lead by justice Roberts and Alito have ruled individual genes can be patented.* *2051 Enrique Slim, Great grandson of Mexican Carlos Slim has completed the hostile take...
*THE BANKS ARE BROKE AND SO IS THE SYSTEM. (FED)* *When it was pointed out that American banks are Bankrupt, The scope of the bankruptcy was not known until today. The story today from bloomberg news is ...
*As they claim, 'the road to hell is paved with good intentions gone bad.'* *The article below make it obvious. the police want to enlist your cell phone to monitor your surroundings, the worse part is ...
*The cyberwar continues in the latest salvo the group appears to have wiped clean the computer memories on the law enforcement sites in some five state. look for denials by state officials. If true, this...
*The headlines scream time travel impossible. * *While the respectect scientist is correct in the work done and his measurement are absolut. His conclusion is also correct, but only if have a flawed conc...
*News you missed and extrapolation.* *The articles below point to the inescapable road of human sexuality. A long time ago in a movie called "The sleeper." the actor named Woodie Allen portrayed an perso...
للشعب السوري : إن العالم يقف معكم ضد النظام الوحشي لبشار الاسد. أعرف أن الوقت والتاريخ ، هي على الجانب الخاص بك -- الطغاة استخدام العنف لأن لديهم أي شيء آخر ، وأكثر عنفا هم، أكثر هشاشة يصبحون. نحيي تصميم...
*Below is an excerpt for a must read explanation of the Mortgage mess.* *Robo-signers are back and so are false mortgage foreclosure papers.* A mortgage really has two parts. One is the actual mortgage...
After a few months of use age. This card was useful only for paying established online accounts, The 4.95 fee for reloading the card is a bit too high considering most people don't have 7 or 8 hundred do...
World breaking news *AUTHORITIES are investigating the theft of 64 missile warheads from a train transporting military equipment to Bulgaria. * Interior ministry spokesman Marius Militaru said Sunday the...
Como ellos dicen, "el camino al infierno está empedrado de buenas intenciones que salió mal." El siguiente artículo hace obvio. la policía quiere dar de alta su teléfono celular para controlar su entorno...
The difference between walking away free and being convicted is $Money$ kill the messenger that shows how weak your defences are, look at what they've done to NATO. Seed Newsvine
*Former soldiers want to bring these drone to everyday use in america, the trend is now unstoppable.* *there will be instances where some drones will malfunction and crash into streets and backyards. * ...
كما يزعمون ، "الطريق إلى الجحيم معبد بالنوايا الطيبة عندما تسوء".المقالة أدناه جعله واضحا. الشرطة تريد كسب هاتفك الخلوي لرصد محيطك ، وأسوأ جزء هو أنهم يريدون لك volunter لك التجسس على نفسك وجيرانك.ما هي ...
*The hacker group Antisec hit a former FBI agent who was doing shoddy work for homeland security and defence contractors. Below are links to the entire saga of Antisec and luntz battle so far. It’s an...
*Just as predicted this case is going to be the most watched in the nation as nothing less than the concept of the American dream of home ownership. If scotus rules in favor of MERS then anybody with a c...
La feliz pareja abajo, son los nuevos miembros que an alcanzado el nivel de Diamantes fundadores. A ellos le presentaron un checke de regalilla de un million de Dollars por su esfuerzo en canbiar los vid...
*The early results are in.* *\ As more and more state legislators assume that drug testing welfare recipients will cut back the costs to the state. They are sorely mistaking in assuming that a lot of peo...
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*Alaska's Big Village Network, Center for Water Advocacy, Cook Inlet Tribes, hunters, fisher peoples, and citizens are concerned about the critical habitat and actual recovery of Cook Inlet Beluga Whales ...
Senior police said suspected rioters and looters should be remanded in custody in guidance issued to officers, it was revealed today. Scotland Yard also urged staff to recommend that defendants should be ...
A nuclear power plant in Louisa County, ten miles from the epicentre of the earthquake, has been shut down. Federal officials said two nuclear reactors at the North Anna Power Station were automatically ...
The residents of Oklahoma City certainly can't complain of having a disappointing summer: for 51 days in a row the temperature has soared above 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Pushing the mercury to 103 on offic...
A 13-year-old boy has been accused of killing his sister because her crying interrupted a video game he was playing. Crystian Rivera is alleged to have shaken his nine-month-old sister so hard she suffer...
A mother has been arrested for attempted murder after an infant boy was critically injured when he plunged at four stories from hospital car park. Sonia Hermosillo, 31, is being held without bail by polic...
While a number of national monuments and government buildings escaped the Virginia earthquake unscathed, both the Washington Monument and the National Cathedral are likely to remain closed for several days...
More than 1,000 calls were made to the emergency number after the quake on the south east of the island. There was no damage or injuries. The 112 emergency number on the Canary Islands received more tha...
Countywide reports of structural damage were mostly unfounded following Tuesday afternoon’s 5.9-magnitude earthquake centered in Virginia. However, hours after the tremor traveled more than 200 miles nort...
A powerful earthquake felt throughout the mid-Atlantic region this afternoon (8/23) has not affected regular operation at PPL Corporation's Susquehannanuclear power plant near Berwick. Unit 1 of the plan...
Journalists staying at Tripoli's Rixos hotel have endured a fourth night trapped in the building under the watchful eye of Colonel Gaddafi's soldiers. With electricity and water cut off and no staff left...
Colonel Gaddafi's forces have attacked several locations in central Tripoli, according to rebel sources, including the former leader's own compound. A rebel spokesman said: "There were bombardments on Bab...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck the Caucasus Region, Russia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:12:59 UTC Wednesday 24th August 2011. The epicenter was 3 km ( 1.8 miles) East of Kas...
posted by veritas6464 at VERITAS 6464 - 14 hours agoThose filthy yiddish khazars are murdering children in Gaza again, that they are a disgusting blood-rite cult has been proved many times over. Fact: The average yiddish high-priest is a child-molester and ...
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