Welcome to the Reading List. Here are all the updates from any blogs you follow and sites you've joined using
Google FriendConnect.
An adult Khapra beetle. Photo courtesy: Wikipedia One of the world's "most feared" pests was discovered on American soil. The Khapra beetle, in larva stage, was identified by customs officials in a 10-po...
*At the moment our host doesn't seem to be loading audio or video files. Well, this too shall pass. (I hope.) -- Ken* With the addition now of the above photo (from *Write If You Get Work: The Best of...
The
NGC 1365 galaxy, also known as the Great Barred Spiral Galaxy, is seen in an image that combines observations performed through three different filters with the 1.5-metre Danish telescope at the Europe...
Let Freedom Rain: "National Necrophilia Week": Ezra Levant wears orange wig, drinks Orange Crush. Mocks Layton's passing.: What Jymn said. 'via Blog this'
Hurricane Irene is the first hurricane to follow so closely after an east coast earthquake, but the combo punch is reminiscent to 1944.
*It's all new to us, "mandantory evacuation," here in the Greater
New York area. Above you see what we now know as Zone A. (The Rockaways are actually
Zone B but have been included in the Zone A mandatory ...
Georgia Another state where ALEC members are so embarrassed about belonging to ALEC – they don’t post is on their webpage. Below you will find a list of people who have an association with to have been l...
*And maybe goodbye for a while, dear readers. The thing is supposed to come right over me.* Fast-moving Irene likely to strengthen "Hurricane Irene pounds Dominican Republic; may aim at US"* *Associated ...
So what? The BBC uses random Indian footage and we can't? Sheesh! Well it’s not exactly lemonade but it’ll do. Christopher Carr’s twelve-year-old stepson had set up a smoothie and green-tea stand near the...
China is expanding its nuclear forces with a new multiwarhead mobile missile and keeps its strategic stockpiles in deep underground bunkers, the Pentagon disclosed in its annual report to Congress on the C...
The U.S. economy grew much slower than previously thought in the second quarter as business inventories and exports were less robust, a government report showed on Friday, although consumer spending was re...
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke signaled Friday that Congress must do more to promote growth, or risk delaying the economy's return to full health. Bernanke proposed no new steps by the Fed to boos...
In what amounts to a fight over who gets to write the history of the Sept. 11 attacks and their aftermath, the Central Intelligence Agency is demanding extensive cuts from the memoir of a former F.B.I. age...
It sounds like an urban legend: giant mutant-looking rats roaming a city housing project. Only there's a picture. A photo making the rounds shows Housing Authority worker Jose Rivera minutes after he s...
A therapy horse was killed after metal thieves tore down a pasture fence, allowing some of the animals to wander near a busy highway, authorities said. An unknown number of suspects cut down a gate at...
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that Iran was determined to eradicate Israel, ISNA news agency reported Thursday. "Iran believes that whoever is for humanity should also be for eradicating the...
CASH strapped Aussies are beginning to echo TV's depression era family The Waltons, experts say. A growing number of Australian households have three and even four generations under the same roof due to ...
Facts taken from: Endhomelessness.org The homeless population in the United States increased by approximately 20,000 people -- or 3 percent -- from 2008 to 2009. * A majority -- 31 of 50 states and the ...
China's bid to rival the International Space Station is just days away from blast-off, Chinese media has reported, in a move that has raised fresh questions about the wisdom of US decisions to cut funding ...
Japan's government estimates the amount of radioactive caesium-137 released by the Fukushima nuclear disaster so far is equal to that of 168 Hiroshima bombs. Government nuclear experts, however, said the...
Have you experienced an incident involving a strange noise such as this? Have you been able to capture it on film (so that there's context and a verifiable location)? If so, send us an email and we can ...
For the past two centuries and more, life in Britain has been governed by a simple concept: tomorrow will be better than today. Black August has given us a glimpse of a dystopia, one in which the financial...
While humanity has not yet observed any extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI), contact with ETI remains possible. Contact could occur through a broad range of scenarios that have varying consequences for hum...
Elmhurst College put a question on its admissions application that won’t appear on any other school's application. "Would you consider yourself to be a member of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transge...
Pro-family advocates who attended a controversial pro-pedophilia conference in Baltimore last week say they were profoundly shaken by what they saw and heard. “As a former law enforcement officer I’ve de...
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Thursday that Israel's military will continue to hit Palestinians suspected of attacking Israel, amid escalating violence in the region since a deadly terror attack...
When dreadful events occur, reporters, readers, and interested citizens contact the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists asking whether we will move the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock. The alarming nuclear...
Americans are in step with the worldwide trend to wait longer to marry for the first time, taking that initial walk down the aisle six years later than they did four decades ago. The U.S. Census Bureau, ...
In what has come to be universally known as the "Arab Spring," in less than a year three major countries in North Africa have effectively ended nearly 100 combined years of dictatorial rule under despots n...
*Not for me. * "Gambling bill raises hopes for casinos" August 23, 2011|By Michael Levenson and Noah Bierman, Globe Staff House and Senate leaders plan today to unveil a much-anticipated bill to license ...
*Not funny.* "Urban League’s visit reflects a new Boston; 3-day convention may draw 6,000" July 25, 2011|By Akilah Johnson, Globe Staff One of the country’s oldest civil rights organizations, the National...
*Maybe it will be the Patriots year this year. They have looked pretty good so far (from what little I have seen). * "Kraft, his heart heavy, lifts NFL; Patriots owner helped bring accord during his wife’...
*Here is mine to the AmeriKan media and government. * "A man who killed one Arkansas soldier and wounded another - an act he called retribution for the deaths of Muslims abroad - took an *unexpected plea ...
*War criminals and rapist bankers only get house arrest?* "War crime suspect found in Everett; Former Salvadoran official accused of role in Jesuit priests’ killings" August 17, 2011|By Mark Arsenault, Glo...
Reports of rebel leaders presiding over Tripoli a confirmed lie. by Tony Cartalucci Despite sweeping headlines claiming the Benghazi rebel terrorists have shifted their leadership over to Tripoli after c...
*In more ways with one.* "Whale dies after month in Calif. river" August 17, 2011|Associated Press A * 45-foot gray whale* that delighted people for more than a month after taking up residence in Northern...
Casey Anthony must serve Fla. probation, judge says Florida AG wants Anthony to serve probation Casey Anthony reports to Fla. probation officer *Related: Farewell to Florida* *Also see: * Rescued sea ...
"The family of a slain 17-year-old boy whose body was found dumped in the woods near his home is searching for answers after two soldiers at nearby Fort Bragg were charged with murder.... --more--"
*All the way into Ohio.* "Man kills Ind. scoutmaster on hike" August 23, 2011|Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS - As a 76-year-old scoutmaster led two young charges on a nature hike, they stopped to identify ...
"Slaying-suicide caps Idaho campus affair" August 25, 2011|Associated Press BOISE, Idaho - A college professor who alternately referred to himself as a “psychopathic killer’’ and “the beast’’ killed himsel...
*Well, the director was.* "‘Jewish Indiana Jones’ charged with fraud" August 25, 2011|Associated Press NEW YORK - A *Jewish charity cofounder *who said he crisscrossed the globe rescuing Torahs as a “Jewi...
WARNING AREA AND DURATION: East coast of the United States of America until August 27, 2011, Midnight EST. EVENT INFORMATION: A hurricane, Hurricane Irene, is currently on approach toward to the Unite...
A unique new primate was found in the Amazon and, for the first time in decades, the U.S. has a new bird species.
*Alex Jones And Ron Paul Are The Voices of Reason And Dissent Inside Babylon * *Saman Mohammadi The Excavator August 26, 2011* "Take it to the wilderness Into the jungle sun Lookin' for the voice of ...
The concept I am putting forward is a bit complex so bear with me. What do Norway and Libya have in common? You may think nothing, but then you would be wrong. Both nations are (were, at this time with L...
Several roads have been closed in the centre of Canterbury following the discovery of two suspect devices. In a statement Kent Police said they were dealing with two incidents which may be connected. T...
A "ruggedized" version of Kodak's popular Zx5 pocket camcorder comes with a gripping tripod and other goodies.
An earthquake and a hurricane? It's never happened before in the same week, in the same place.
Canadian defenxe firm, Aeryon Labs outfits Libyan Transitional National Council forces with Scout surveillance drone.
*John G. Schmitz, formerly a Nazi congressman from Orange County* *"I didn't care that Nixon went to China, I was only upset that he came back."* -Congressman John G. Schmitz (R-CA) ...
posted by Lord Stirling at
Europe - 8 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 ** *Please copy and post to as many sites ...
posted by Lord Stirling at
Europe - 8 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 *Is The CIA-Mossad-MI6 Using Holly...
posted by laura k at
wmtc - 8 hours ago
This earlier post - "we work to buy things that are built to die so that we must work to buy more things that will break" - was not meant to be about the trials and tribulations of my coffee maker, but I d...
Recycling the newspaper could power your car.
Strong winds spread large fires through thousands of hectares (acres) of forest in Greece Friday, despite a large firefighting operation with water-dropping aircraft from other European countries. Author...
New York is facing an unprecedented hurricane shutdown as officials ordered hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate their homes and a full closure of the city’s public transport network. The sensation...
As cities along the east coast of the United States' batten down the hatches in advance of the impending arrival of Hurricane Irene, spare a thought for the Lone Star state. Texans are experiencing widesp...
A main entrance to Yosemite National Park was closed Friday while firefighting crews battled a wildfire near Mariposa, Calif., officials said. Officials said the so-called Motor fire in the Merced River C...
The 48-hour forecast of a hurricane’s track is as good as the 24-hour forecast was 10 years ago.
Sgt. Charles Dyer, aka July4patriot, is innocent of the charges that the criminal and treasonous U.S. government brought against him on January 12, 2010. Watch Dyer's video series on YouTube in which h...
It's hardly the kind of decisive victory the anti-HST movement would have expected a year ago, but 55% of British Columbian have voted to replace the HST with the GST and PST. One immediate consequence...
*Day 7: Tar Sands White House Arrests* *Censored News* *http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com* *Photo Credit: Milan Ilnyckyj photos 1, 2 and 3. Photos 4 and 5 by Josh Lopez.* Weather Update for 8/27 and...
The people of British Columbia have spoken. The Harmonized Sales Tax initiative sprung on them in a totally underhanded manner by Stephen Harper's new ambassador to Britain has gone down in flames on a p...
Every weekend when I'm watching TV, I see an article about something that happened yesterday - that I really would have liked to have gone to - but didn't know about it. Same thing today. Saw a tweet tha...
In total 26 people got poisoned during a wedding party at Continental restaurant in Yerevan. They are taken to different hospitals with diagnose of acute food poisoning, PR department of the Healthcare Min...
The Amazon river is known to be the second longest in the world, shorter only than the Nile but, remarkably, scientists have discovered another river flowing thousands of feet beneath it. Researchers from...
A huge rat has been speared to death by a pitchfork at a sprawling New York housing project. Jose Rivera, a Housing Authority worker, was clearing a rat hole at the Marcy Houses in Brooklyn when three of ...
A thief from a notorious crime family who netted £80million in stately home raids is on the run after failing to return to prison while on day release. Daniel O'Loughlin, 35, was part of a group of travell...
A failed asylum seeker who committed 26 crimes within six years of arriving in the UK could win damages after a judge ruled that he had been unlawfully detained by immigration authorities. Deputy High Cou...
Argentina: The First Multiple Daytime CE-3 By Diego Sánchez, Luis Burgos and FAO Team Introduction Back in 1999, as humanoid activity dwindled in Argentina over the course of the years, a notab...
Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner became the first woman to summit all of the world's highest peaks without supplementary oxygen.
For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the violent death of a star as it happened. But this star didn't die from natural causes.
Thomas Jefferson warned us about the monster called government. "In questions of power," he urged, "let no more be heard of confidence in man, but *bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constit...
Yesterday, the Dow was up more than 300 points, and gold hit another all-time high before dropping nearly $100 an ounce. You would think the stock market was back and the gold trade was over. Wall Street i...
Saucedo, who earns $9.70 an hour for about 26 hours a week and lives with her mother, is one of the many Americans who survive because of government handouts in what has rapidly become a food stamp nation....
We do not believe that Americans, particularly elderly Americans, understand what the elitists are up to in regard to Social Security and Medicare. The Council on Foreign Relations and the Peterson Foundat...
GDP growth across the world’s most developed economies slowed over the second quarter of 2011 to reach just 0.2%, as continued unrest in the global financial markets threatens a second economic collapse. ...
The UN's cultural body has warned international art dealers and museums to look out for artefacts that may have been looted from Libya during fighting. Unesco director-general Irina Bokova said in a stat...
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, whose approval rating tumbled following the devastating March earthquake and tsunami, announced his resignation Friday. Kan announced he is stepping down as party le...
The world's appetite for fish is now at an all time high according to the United Nations. Figures from the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) state fish is currently the most-traded food comm...
Hurricane Irene has weakened slightly but still poses a threat to a large stretch of the U.S. East Coast, putting North Carolina and New York in emergency preparedness mode before the massive storm barrels...
Five South Korean men have been charged with spying for North Korea, South Korean prosecutors say. The group is alleged to have passed military and political information to the North over the past 20 yea...
Political and media reaction to the riots has focused on single causes and punishing rioters. However, these riots were the inevitable result of an accumulation of interconnected factors: economic fluct...
Tuesday's 5.8-magnitude earthquake created a state of emergency at the North Anna nuclear-power station in central Virginia, causing it to lose electricity and automatically shut down, although generators ...
Every nation fears a downgrade of their debt, except Japan, or so it seemed on Wednesday. So muted was the reaction to Moody's message of riskier times ahead that the ratings agency's cut to AA3 barely reg...
The El Nino climate cycle, which spreads warm, dry air around the globe every four years or so, doubles the risk of civil wars in 90 tropical countries, researchers reported on Wednesday. And because El ...
A former Moody's Investors Service analyst who bolted for India and cannot be found was ordered to pay $34.56 million (21 million pounds) in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit over his alleg...
An electrician nearly died in a horrific and bizarre work accident when he was 'inflated' by a pressurised air line which went up his bottom. Dad-of-one Gareth Durrant, 26, was wiring a caravan at the fac...
“*Reprisals have begun. Be men, it’s me who writes and not my family*,” Muzamil Jaleel, Associate Editor of *The Indian Express* posted on his Facebook profile some days ago. This small statement of mammot...
The owner of a mobile phone that contains footage of women undressing in a Sydney clothing store is wanted by police for questioning. The discovery has prompted a warning for people to be on the lookout f...
The MBA reports: Mortgage Applications Decrease with Purchase Index at Lowest Level Since 1996 The Refinance Index decreased 1.7 percent from the previous week. The seasonally adjusted Purchase Index dec...
A consultant for the USCCB’s Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, which oversees the controversial Catholic Campaign for Human Development, has been a public supporter of pro-homosexual leg...
Now that NATO is within reach of overthrowing Gaddafi, the corporate media is rife with reports that al-Qaeda, tribal warlords, and disenfranchised former Gaddafi bureaucrats had plenty of help from the U....
Of all the strange circumstances surrounding the violent abduction last year of Diego Fernandez de Cevallos, the Mexican power broker and former presidential candidate known here as “Boss Diego,” perhaps n...
The Obama administration is considering further actions to strengthen the housing market, but the bar is high: plans must help a broad swath of homeowners, stimulate the economy and cost next to nothing. ...
Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com
Al Gore has invented the Internet - well, at least the part of the Internet that plans to spam the rest of the Internet by the information about an exploding Earth on September 14th, 2011 during his virt...
It seems that ALEC ALUMNI Cantor may have gotten talking points from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) for after the east coast earthquake. While touring the Virginia earthquake area Cantor...
A teenage girl from West Sussex has died in a drowning tragedy while on holiday in the Algarve, it has emerged. Mia Knight, 16, is believed to have fallen unconscious while swimming in the sea at Portim...
The English Defence League has been blocked from holding a march in London next month. Home Secretary Theresa May banned all marches in Tower Hamlets, east London, and four neighbouring boroughs for a 30...
posted by David Vance at
Biased BBC - 11 hours ago
It's been a long week and time for me to depart for the weekend. I leave you with a NEW open thread; Enjoy! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
TransCanada Corp's proposed Keystone XL pipeline to move Athabasca Tar Sands bitumen to Gulf Coast refiners cleared a big hurdle today. The US State Department reported the venture poses "no significant ...
posted by David Vance at
Biased BBC - 11 hours ago
Do yourself a favour and give this early morning debate between Sir Ronald Cohen and that Tuscan based Trot, Polly Toynbee. Whose side do you think the interviewer is on? Click through to read and contrib...
You know how Obama and the kind of Democratic lackeys who follow him blindly are always saying how they don't want to "hurt" social programs like Medicare and Social Security-- just "strengthen" them? So...
posted by David Vance at
Biased BBC - 11 hours ago
Mark Mardell, that pro-Obama shill operating Stateside is worth watching; A regular B-BBC contributor has held his latest pronouncements up to the light and this is what can be seen; "Catching up with Ma...
posted by Lord Stirling at
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 *12 Signs that we are getting dange...
The Pentagon has just announced it is again grounding the F-35 fleet, the third time this year. *The 20 operational test and training aircraft were ordered parked Wednesday until engineers and technicians...
Only 12,000 electric vehicles will be sold in the United States this year, a fraction of the 12- to 13-million-vehicle market.
We weren't supposed to have to worry about such things. The "market" was supposed to be self-regulating, self-correcting. Adam Smith told us as much and, after all, he was a Scot. But the free market ...
Permalink ------------------------------ *Independent Investigative Journalism - Reporting from the frontlines of World War III: The Economic Elete Vs. The People* ----------------------------...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 126 km (78.3 miles), the quake hit at 15:43:09 UTC Friday 26th August 2011. The epicenter was 284 km ( 177 miles) SSW of Apia, Samoa No Tsunami Wa...
*The BBC claimed this was Tripoli, but, it is actually India.* On 27 Agust 2011, The Economist has a partly honest article on *Libya** * According to The Economist: *1.* "*The Tripolitans are not chee...
[image: Coke County Extension Agent, Garrett Gilliam, walks through a sun-scorched cracked lake bed where Lake E.V. Spence was once 30 feet deep. 'The morale is to survive,' Gilliam said. 'The good times...
Can FRACKING cause earthquakes? It looks like "YES". Fracking and other "destroying our environment" news: United States, Mineral: A sign on the door lets visitors know that City Hall, which shares a buil...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 26.7 km (16.6 miles), the quake hit at 14:39:14 UTC Friday 26th August 2011. The epicenter was 261 km ( 162 miles) E...
[image: Oil bubbles to the surface of the Gulf of Mexico within one mile northeast of BP's Macondo well on 23 August 2011. Jeff Dute / Press-Register] By Ben Raines, Press-Register 25 August 2011 MOB...
The notorious hacking group, Anonymous, which has been responsible for ongoing BART protests that have created commuting chaos, now says the disruptive protests will continue every Monday evening until the...
[image: Modeled radioactive fallout from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, 11 March 2011 - 29 March 2011. The top row is the cumulative surface deposition amount of iodine-131 and cesium-137; the bott...
Levees.org "Counties with Levees Map" Goes INTERACTIVE! ~Editilla Crowtellas~For the 6th Anniversary, Your New Orleans Ladder has commissioned disaster geographer Ezra Boyd to create an interactive map us...
Mexico: A UFO Over Tlalnepantla? Mexico's El Universal newspaper presents an interesting account in its "Society" section: an article by reporter Denise Mackenzie dated August 26, 2011 that suggests tha...
A week ago, I linked to a video about the CERN's ASACUSA experiment that showed that the proton and antiproton masses coincide at the precision of 1 part per billion. *The MINOS detector in Minnesota, t...
The membership cut-off in the Alberta Liberal leadership race has passed, with the party registering over 27,000 voters as part of its new primary leadership system. As I've said before, this race makes fo...
Memo to Congress. The U.S. has tied its previous record for weather/climate-related losses. That's the bad news. The worse news is that it's only August and you've got three more months of hurricane s...
The names of those who died are known, but scientists are still trying to match identities with human fragments.
Why the extra strain on women? It may have to do with juggling the demands of work and home.
Diamond-Power skylights could offload as much as 50 percent of building's grid electricity.
Selk'bag combines mobility with comfort, whether on an outdoor adventure or snuggling indoors.
Finally made available for Macs, this wireless solar keyboard charges with indoor or outdoor light.
[image: It's not only people suffering from the 2011 drought in Texas. Susan Edwards, manager of Wildlife Rescue, holds a juvenile raccoon. The raccoon should at least be double in size, but its mother's...
[image: Children walk across the playground at Oyama primary school, which is located 40 miles from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Robert Gilhooly / guardian.co.uk] By Yoko Kubota, with addi...
"We might as well have been throwing cream pies." - Kurt Vonnegut, estimating the net effect of the Antiwar Movement on the course of the Vietnam War I certainly thought (from my own and my friends' experi...
Pioneer changed the design of their Class D amplifiers by using fewer parts and creating a more direct signal path.
posted by laura k at
wmtc - 15 hours ago
Way back in the early days of this blog, I wrote a lot about voter suppression and election fraud in the US, posts under the general category election fraud - fraud in the general sense of "fraudulent demo...
Market jitters? The American financial industry is pointing to Europe and warning that a collapse of the banking system there could be nigh-- and could be catastrophic for everyone. Insurance on the de...
Many people are feared dead after a car packed with explosives detonated outside the United Nations' main office in Nigeria's capital this morning, flattening one wing of the building and killing an undete...
[image: Hurricane Irene's] Hurricane Irene's main thrust be still a day away from North Carolina but heightened waves began hitting the state's Outer Banks early Friday since the storm continued trudging ...
Four children have been orphaned after their wealthy parents fell to their deaths from balconies just days apart during a holiday in Morocco. Roger and Mathilde Lamb were enjoying a family holiday in the e...
At least 10 people were killed in a bomb explosion at the United Nations building in the Nigerian capital Abuja on Friday, a medical worker at the sight of the blast told Reuters. "We have had 10 dead an...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 87.7 km (54.5 miles), the quake hit at 11:36:26 UTC Friday 26th August 2011. The epicenter was 136 km ( 84 miles) Southwest of Port-Vila, Efate, ...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Western Mongolia at a depth of 40 km (24.8 miles), the quake hit at 08:55:31 UTC Friday 26th August 2011. The epicenter was 141 km ( 87.3 miles) Southeast of Olgij No...
The amateur footage shows the glowing ball of rock soaring across the horizon near the Andes mountains in southern Peru. As it fell from space local officials were unable to determine where the object...
More than two dozen cases of H1N1 swine flu resistant to Roche Holding AG (ROG)’s Tamiflu pill were reported in Australia in the largest outbreak of the drug- evading influenza strain. Viruses from 25 of...
A group of fishermen may face charges for illegally catching and killing a "prohibited" young *great white shark* over the weekend on the Huntington Beach pier. Fortunately for officials, the video of the...
The United States says Libya's raw nuclear materials and chemicals are secure. During a daily press briefing Thursday, State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said the leaders of the Libyan rebel g...
Nigerian authorities and France's Areva group have sent experts to investigate eruptions, smoke and fumes spouting from a mountain in the West African nation's northern uranium mining district of Arlit, st...
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is in the fifth day of investigating a fish kill in Squaw Creek about four miles south of Stanhope in Hamilton County. Reported on Aug. 19, a DNR investigator tra...
A U.S. writer who had been held captive in Libya after being captured in the early months of the conflict has escaped from prison, his mother said. Matthew VanDyke, 32, travelled from his home in Maryland ...
Solve Climate News informs the readers that Rep. Connie Mack (R-Fla) has introduced the motion to search and destroy the financial flows from the U.S. federal budget to the wallets of AGW parasites and fra...
A dead fish floating in a lake is not uncommon, but Enid officials were notified Tuesday of a sight rarely seen. Nearly 1,000 dead crappie were floating at Meadowlake Park. "Some had been decaying for...
Two hikers are facing lengthy jail sentences having been accused of starting the largest blaze in the state of Arizona's history by allowing their camp fire get out of control. Cousins Caleb Joshua Malbo...
More than 30 men believed to be fighters loyal to Muammar Gaddafi have been killed at a military encampment in central Tripoli and at least two were bound with plastic handcuffs, indicating they had been e...
Ali Ferzat is Syria's best known political cartoonist, a mixture of the UK's Steve Bell or Gerald Scarfe. At 4am on Thursday morning he was picked up off the street in Damascus and dragged into a 4x4 by ar...
Andre, the inspiring sea turtle saved from grave injuries by innovative operations, has died weeks after he was released back into the water. Loggerhead Marinelife Centre, which had cared for the turtle, ...
At least 53 people were killed and eight others injured in a reported grenade attack Thursday at a casino in Monterrey, Mexico, the capital of Nuevo Leon, Red Cross officials said. The incident occurred ...
Police investigating the disappearance of a Utah mother searched the home of her husband and father-in-law as they hunt for fresh clues. Susan Cox Powell was last seen by her husband on December 6, 2009 i...
posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at
- 18 hours ago
*It's extremely difficult these days* to find out what hides behind political claims about our money and future. The media often stick to 'experts' with a banker's or exchange history. Not precisely the mo...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Southern Xinjiang, China at a depth of 14.7 km (9.1 miles), the quake hit at 08:55:31 UTC Friday 26th August 2011. The epicenter was 185 km ( 115 miles) NNW of Hotan, ...
Image: Caylee Anthony never received any protection. Casey Anthony will report to a top-secret location today to begin her probation sentence - for her own protection. After a hearing this morning in Flo...
A jury convicted a Kansas man of capital murder on Thursday in the shooting deaths of his estranged wife, their two teenage daughters and his wife's grandmother. The killings happened after his spouse to...
It is a village where normally little happens out of the ordinary. But the death or disappearance of 20 cats in the last month has changed the tranquil nature of Low Westwood, County Durham. Now residents...
Tens of thousands of Americans are fleeing the East Coast as one of the country's leading experts warned that Hurricane Irene would cause a 'nightmare scenario' when it makes landfall tomorrow morning. A ...
The National Police Agency said Friday that more than 90 percent of cyberattacks on its website carried out overnight on July 10 originated from Internet Protocol addresses in China. The findings came af...
The intensity of Hurricane Irene and the extent of the flooding on the East Coast could be made worse by a new moon and high temperature of water in the Atlantic, scientists warn. During new and full moon...
It is certainly what you could call a gem of a discovery. Astronomers believe they have found an entire planet made of diamonds. Scientists at the University of Manchester think they have unearthed a on...
Twenty-two percent of the cesium-137 that spewed out of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has since settled on land in eastern Japan, a study showed Thursday, confirming a widespread relea...
Warning Graphic Content Rebel gunmen claimed to have cornered Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi yesterday as they laid siege to a possible hideout and broke into his secret labyrinth of underground tunnels...
Firefighters are responding to approximately 30 small fires ignited by Tuesday night’s lightning and rain storm in the Central Cascades, the Willamette National Forest said. As of approximately 10 a.m. T...
Migration added 239,000 to Britain’s population last year – because immigration remained sky-high while Britons can no longer afford to leave the country to live abroad. The figure is more than a fifth hi...
Dangerous anti-psychotic drugs may have been deliberately placed in thousands of packets of Nurofen Plus by animal rights activists, it emerged last night. A safety alert was issued after packs of the pop...
Council workers could be forced to take a week's unpaid leave as bosses try to save tens of millions of pounds. If plans being put forward by leaders at Rochdale council in Greater Manchester go ahead, t...
Paramedics responded this afternoon to a Cocoa Beach private school where 38 students suffered bee stings. The incident was reported about 12:50 p.m. at Church of Our Savior Catholic School on North At...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Guam Region at a depth of 126.6 km (78.7 miles), the quake hit at 07:47:12 UTC Friday 26th August 2011. The epicenter was 35 km ( 22 miles) Northwest of Hagatna, G...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 124 km (77.1 miles), the quake hit at 07:41:22 UTC Friday 26th August 2011. The epicenter was 64 km ( 39 miles) North ...
***Morocco has greater poverty than Egypt. * Why is NATO not bombing Morocco? Morocco has "widespread corruption, an appallingly low level of literacy, high rates of unemployment among university gradua...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Banda Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 150.6 km (93.6 miles), the quake hit at 05:39:07 UTC Friday 26th August 2011. The epicenter was 212 km ( 131 miles) Northwest of Sa...
Authorities on Thursday declared a red alert in the southeastern Guatemalan province of Santa Rosa after flooding caused five deaths and damaged the property of more than 6,200 people. The spokesman for t...
A mystery man who woke up on a beach claiming to only remember his first name has been reunited with his family. Police have identified the 59-year-old who walked into Victoria Hospital in Deal, Kent carr...
Six members of the same family, including three young children, have been killed in a horrific car crash while on holiday in Turkey. The accident claimed the lives of six of the Kilinc family - the younge...
Santander UK has seen profits slump by 51% after putting aside £731m to cover claims over the mis-selling of payment protection insurance (PPI). Along with the UK's other high street banks, Santander is ...
*Vacuum selection is a short-distance problem and cosmologists' buttocks should be kicked out of this serious business* Alexander Vilenkin released a new paper, The Principle of Mediocrity, based on a ...
posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at
CENSORED NEWS - 22 hours ago
A thank you, and health update, from Russell Means, recorded Monday. Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
*South Africa's Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe.* South Africa tried to block US attempts to seize $1.5 billion in frozen Libyan assets. On 25 August 2011, at http://therearenosunglasses.wordpress.co...
To train for Mars, a return to the lunar surface is essential, according to the first man to set foot on the moon.
In a move described as the "last stand for Greek banks", the embattled country's central bank activated Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA) for the first time on Wednesday night. Raoul Ruparel of Open E...
A leading Nobel economist has backed Labour's warnings that the UK is slashing spending too fast and risks tipping a fragile economy into another downward leg. "Britain has jumped on the band-wagon of fi...
Warren Buffett's $5bn (£3.1bn) lifeline for Bank of America has earned the Sage of Omaha a paper profit of $280m in just 24 hours. The billionaire investor bought $5bn of preferred stock with 700m warrant...
*Bulletin No. 4* *(see Bulletin No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3)* *"We are ready to go round in our second, deciding go-round in our Grand National Semifinal Spelling Bee. Our contestants are still bickering amon...
NEWSMAX Tuesday, 23 Aug 2011 Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, has been an outspoken critic of U.S. military action in Libya since it began six months ago, even saying President Barack Obama’s policy a...
A news director in Australia has resigned and three journalists have been fired for faking news reports about the hunt for a missing teenager's remains. The Channel Nine journalists in Brisbane had filed...
Norman Patrick Brown, Navajo, holds sign "President Obama supports destruction of sacred sites." Photo by Ethan Sing Outta Your Backpack Media/Censored News Outta Your Backpack Media/Censored News B...
*(1) THE GOP FRONT-RUNNERS IMAGINED AS CHARACTERS FROM THE SIMPSONS* [*Don't forget to click to enlarge.*] Is this brilliant or what? It's by Rob Tornoe, whose work I was unfamiliar with. *(2) NYC TOU...
posted by PC at
Not PC - 1 day ago
Parliament's Committee for Wankers, Wowsers and Bluestockings has finally returned its verdict on the Law Commission's proposal to hinder access to alcohol-fuelled fun and enjoyment for you and I and you...
Officials in New Jersey have ordered a mandatory evacuation which could affect 750,000 people as Hurricane Irene looms. The Philadelphia Inquirer said officials in Cape May county have told people to lea...
As one Youtube commenter eloquently put it: It looks like BBC couldn't find any celebrating Libyans, so they used an old shot of celebrating Indians and bet that we were too stupid to notice, jus...
Forecasters Thursday issued watches and warnings for the U.S. East Coast in advance of Hurricane Irene, a monstrous storm that could bring large amounts of rain and a storm surge to North Carolina and othe...
An 80-year old Austrian man has been taken into custody for allegedly sexually abusing his wife and his two mentally disabled daughters for more than 40 years, police and a prosecutor said Thursday. "We ...
Also, some recent bizarre sound recordings in other parts of the world:
A 16-year-old has been charged in the rape of a 68-year-old woman at a Gary train station earlier this month. Aarion Mosley of Gary has been charged as an adult with rape and robbery in the Aug. 13 at...
A congressman from Ohio had cops grab the cameras of constituents during a town hall meeting. Steve Chabot, a Republican, had cell phones and cameras confiscated in order to “prevent an embarrassing You...
A 95-year-old Redondo Beach man attacked by bees Wednesday afternoon was stung up to 600 times. The man was treated at a hospital and released. Authorities said they could not confirm whether the bees a...
Two cousins who allegedly left a campfire unattended have been charged with starting Arizona's largest ever wildfire that torched more than 800 square miles of wilderness before it was contained. prosecuto...
An inspection of the Washington Monument Wednesday found more cracks in the pyramidion, the top section of structure, according to the National Parks Service. A crack 4 feet long and an inch wide was fou...
At least 20 rockets were fired at Israel's southern communities since Wednesday evening with calm nowhere in sight. A rocket fired at Ashkelon Wednesday evening exploded near a house in the Hof Ashkelon ...
China's state news agency on Thursday condemned a Pentagon report on China's growing military might, calling its account of Beijing's weapons modernization drive an alarmist "cock-and-bull story." The Pe...
New U.S. claims for jobless benefits rose last week, lifted by striking workers at Verizon Communications, according to government data that showed little sign of layoffs in response to plunging share pric...
Prosecutors confirmed Wednesday that the infant who was allegedly dropped off a parking garage at the Children’s Hospital of Orange County was a patient there. According to prosecutors, Sonia Hermosillo ...
Picture this: You stop in front of a digital advertising display at a mall and suddenly an ad pops up touting makeup, followed by one for shoes and then one for butter pecan ice cream. It seems to know y...
Viewers of China Central Television got an unusual glimpse last month of that nation’s cyber-weaponry: A video clip showed a military computer program on which an unseen user selects a “target” — in this c...
Chile is set for the second day of a 48-hour national strike called by the main trade unions who are demanding a raft of reforms. Wednesday's stoppage began peacefully but violent clashes erupted after so...
Israeli air strikes have killed five people in Gaza, while a barrage of rockets fired by Palestinian militants into Israel has wounded a baby. Two Islamic Jihad leaders died and three civilians, one of th...
Berkshire Hathaway will invest $5 billion US into America's biggest lender, a vote of confidence in the U.S. economy by one of the world's richest investors. Bank of America will sell preferred stock pay...
A small, 160-million-year-old Chinese fossil has something big to say about the emergence of mammals on Earth. The shrew-like creature is the earliest known example of an animal that used a placenta to p...
The founder of the Ikea furniture chain, Ingvar Kamprad, is facing further questions about his Nazi past following claims in a new book. Author Elisabeth Asbrink says Mr Kamprad was an active recruiter fo...
Former US Vice-President Dick Cheney reveals in his autobiography he urged President George W Bush in 2007 to bomb a suspected nuclear site in Syria. According to the New York Times, Mr Cheney says in his...
Dog thefts in the US have more than trebled in recent years, according to new figures. So what's behind the surge in stealing pet pooches? Getting home in the afternoon to find your home ransacked would b...
Seriously, this is just getting ridiculous. Has there ever been a politician who has come back from the brink more often than Jean Charest? A poll released Monday suggests support for the sovereignty mo...
Photos by Ben Powless, Mohawk. Arrested today, on Day 6 of the Tar Sands Protest at the White House. North Dakotans joined protesters to stop the fracking of their state. *NOW: 322 Arrests* Ottaw...
posted by Lord Stirling at
Europe - 1 day 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 *Lord Stirling will be on the NutriMed...
Lord Stirling's Europe News Blog
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 ...
You don't bomb a "captured" city. by Tony Cartalucci Each NATO warplane that passes over Libya's coast and releases its ordnance upon the city of Tripoli is a glaring reminder that not only have the NAT...
An overview of an area in the Amazon rain forest in northern Brazil, in 2005. Brazilian scientists have discovered an underground river some 4,000 meters (13,000) feet deep, which flows from west to east l...
Part of the preparation of the old roof to make way for the new green roof. ALL photos courtesy: B. Alter It's always a tonic for me when I see news such as this. What better way to show everyone that ...
Astronomers using NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have discovered the coldest Y-class brown dwarf, potentially revealing the secrets of this type of mysterious celestial object.
*If I red it, you get it. If not, sorry.... * "Russian rocket with space station supplies crashes after launch; Impact in Siberia felt for 60 miles; crew still stocked" by Kenneth Chang, New York Times / ...
According to keepers at the Smithsonian National Zoo, the giant pandas did not respond to the earthquake. Here's a look at how others reacted.
*Using my Boston Globe road map.* "Kosovo’s prime minister backs action in Serb-run north; EU condemns operation to seize border crossings" July 27, 2011|By Nebi Qena, Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo -...
*About all I could afford in your city*: "Rents hit a record high in Hub area; Tenants scramble to find vacancies in a tight market" July 25, 2011|By Jenifer B. McKim, Globe Staff Boston-area * rents *are...
posted by PC at
Not PC - 1 day ago
From the howtoarchitect Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)
Instead of blogging and tweeting, I spent most of Wednesday hanging out with Miles Solay, the singer from Outernational. A mutual friend, Casey, introduced us a few days ago and Miles reminded me a lot ...
*IKEA founder a NAZI at heart?* *Read below...* Author Elisabeth Asbrink says Mr Kamprad was such an enthusiastic supporter of the Swedish Nazi party that he recruited new members and "missed no opportun...
*Let's try it and see how it goes*: "Bull market for stress; On the securities trading floors of Boston, the recent madcap market gyrations have made for some long, frenzied and, yes, exhilarating days" A...
posted by laura k at
wmtc - 1 day ago
Some of you may have recently received this somewhat cryptic email from Maureen O’Reilly of the campaign to save Toronto Public Library. In a few days, I will be announcing an exciting new contest called M...
Summary Weather conditions for these regions are favourable for the development of severe thunderstorms. Some of these storms could produce large hail - damaging winds - heavy rain and intense lightning. ...
*What do you mean it is all lies? * Rebels offer $2m bounty for Khadafy’s capture (By Kareem Fahim and Rick Gladstone, *New York Times*) *Related*: * * *America Must See! FAKE YouTube Twitter Accounts Fr...
Found this on Huffington Post And it's been such a bad day -----------in every way ----------- I really didn't need to see this today ----------- and then I looked at the rest of the page. And I looke...
August 26, 2011
http://oilchanges.blogspot.com
August 25, 2011
http://advancedstyle.blogspot.com/
August 24, 2011
http://www.frillsinthehills.com/
August 23, 2011
http://carscoop.blogspot.com/
Image via Wikipedia
Photo courtesy: Julio Dalponte In a race to beat loggers, scientists traveled to Mato Grosso, a Brazilian state that is home to a largely unexplored section of the Amazon rainforest—and some of the highe...
An adult Khapra beetle. Photo courtesy: Wikipedia One of the world's "most feared" pests was discovered on American soil. The Khapra beetle, in larva stage, was identified by customs officials in a 10-po...
*At the moment our host doesn't seem to be loading audio or video files. Well, this too shall pass. (I hope.) -- Ken* With the addition now of the above photo (from *Write If You Get Work: The Best of...
The NGC 1365 galaxy, also known as the Great Barred Spiral Galaxy, is seen in an image that combines observations performed through three different filters with the 1.5-metre Danish telescope at the Europe...
So what? The BBC uses random Indian footage and we can't? Sheesh! Well it’s not exactly lemonade but it’ll do. Christopher Carr’s twelve-year-old stepson had set up a smoothie and green-tea stand near the...
China is expanding its nuclear forces with a new multiwarhead mobile missile and keeps its strategic stockpiles in deep underground bunkers, the Pentagon disclosed in its annual report to Congress on the C...
The U.S. economy grew much slower than previously thought in the second quarter as business inventories and exports were less robust, a government report showed on Friday, although consumer spending was re...
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke signaled Friday that Congress must do more to promote growth, or risk delaying the economy's return to full health. Bernanke proposed no new steps by the Fed to boos...
In what amounts to a fight over who gets to write the history of the Sept. 11 attacks and their aftermath, the Central Intelligence Agency is demanding extensive cuts from the memoir of a former F.B.I. age...
It sounds like an urban legend: giant mutant-looking rats roaming a city housing project. Only there's a picture. A photo making the rounds shows Housing Authority worker Jose Rivera minutes after he s...
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that Iran was determined to eradicate Israel, ISNA news agency reported Thursday. "Iran believes that whoever is for humanity should also be for eradicating the...
CASH strapped Aussies are beginning to echo TV's depression era family The Waltons, experts say. A growing number of Australian households have three and even four generations under the same roof due to ...
Facts taken from: Endhomelessness.org The homeless population in the United States increased by approximately 20,000 people -- or 3 percent -- from 2008 to 2009. * A majority -- 31 of 50 states and the ...
China's bid to rival the International Space Station is just days away from blast-off, Chinese media has reported, in a move that has raised fresh questions about the wisdom of US decisions to cut funding ...
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment