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*Three Things That Must Happen for Us to Rise Up and Defeat the Corporatocracy* Truthout Friday 26 August 2011 by: Bruce E. Levine, Alternet |
Op-Ed Most Americans oppose rule by the corporatocracy but...
The BBC has placed supersymmetry next to the carbon dioxide and the AGW "deniers" as the ultimate enemies of Gaia. A would-be journalist, Mr
Pallab Ghosh, chose this title: LHC results put supersymmetr...
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Arctic Circle, the BP Endicott field was the world´s first offshore Arctic oilfield. BP] By Richard Hall 27 August 2011 British Petroleum has again drawn the ire of enviro...
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Biased BBC - 51 minutes ago
BBC News Online has a little piece entitled "US economy: What can be done to stimulate growth?" It's actually not so bad, with two of the four economists interviewed taking positions which aren't 100% in...
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Abraham says - 54 minutes ago
Greed comes home *In their quest to out smart the counties and the distressed home owners, Banks have tried to delay mortgage modification in an effort to foreclose on properties. In their quest to ...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 56.1 km (34.9 miles), the quake hit at 14:29:30 UTC Saturday 27th August 2011. The epicenter was 19 km ( 11 miles) ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Kepulauan Mentawai Region, Indonesia at a depth of 21.4 km (13.3 miles), the quake hit at 14:07:38 UTC Saturday 27th August 2011. The epicenter was 208 km ( 129 m...
After Blue Dog Kirsten Gillibrand left the House to run for the open New York Senate seat, she was replaced by am even more conservative Democrat, Scott Murphy, in a special election. Last November Chri...
[image: As the 2011 drought persists, trees across Texas are dying, including some pecan trees in Oakwood Cemetery in Austin. Jacob Villanueva / The Texas Tribune] By KATE GALBRAITH 26 August 2011 So, ...
Colorado The home of Estes Park and Pike's Peak. Watch it! or your ALEC members destroy them or sell them to the highest Corporate Sector bidder! ALEC "model legislation" is for timber harvesting, for frac...
*Zero Gov* by Bill Buppert * * * * *Publisher’s Note: **I published this almost two years ago and it still rings true. I was asked at the Freedom Summit in 2010 after my speech during questions what was ...
Tar Sands White House: Gathering before the storm, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011. As Hurricane Irene hits the east coast, rain begins to fall in DC. Tar Sands Action rallying at the White House today as Hurrica...
Last night’s Any Questions panel spoke for multiculturalism, women, and the Arab Spring. The solitary male member, if you’ll excuse the expression, was Jehangir Malik OBE, UK Director of Islamic Relief, wh...
The Tar Sands Action group (which essentially is = to Bill McKibben) has deliberately made what they apparently thought was a very clever strategic decision, which is to directly warn Obama regarding suppo...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 53 km (32.9 miles), the quake hit at 12:07:35 UTC Saturday 27th August 2011. The epicenter was 49 km ( 30 miles) South of Port-Vila, Efate, Vanua...
A magnitude 2.5 earthquake has struck Central California at a depth of just 5.5 km (3.4 miles), the quake hit at 11:42:08 UTC Saturday 27th August 2011. The epicenter was 6 km ( 4 miles) NNW of Pinnacles,...
A magnitude 2.5 earthquake has struck Central California at a depth of just 5.5 km (3.4 miles), the quake hit at 11:33:25 UTC Saturday 27th August 2011. The epicenter was 10 km ( 6 miles) Northwest of Pin...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Guatemala at a depth of 17.5 km (10.9 miles), the quake hit at 11:28:06 UTC Saturday 27th August 2011. The epicenter was 54 km ( 33 miles) Southeast of Guatemala, Guat...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 10:36:52 UTC Saturday 27th August 2011. The epicenter was 153 km ( 95 miles) West of Lautoka, Viti L...
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck Central Mongolia at a depth of 14.3 km (8.9 miles), the quake hit at 10:29:47 UTC Saturday 27th August 2011. The epicenter was 95 km ( 59 miles) ENE of Bayandalay, Mon...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 34.3 km (21.3 miles), the quake hit at 09:42:19 UTC Saturday 27th August 2011. The epicenter was 156 km ( 96 miles) West of Lautoka, Viti...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Coquimbo, Chile at a depth of just 64.6 km (40.1 miles), the quake hit at 09:23:42 UTC Saturday 27th August 2011. The epicenter was 7 km ( 4 miles) Southwest of Illap...
A magnitude 2.5 earthquake has struck Central California at a depth of just 6.5 km (4 miles), the quake hit at 09:19:43 UTC Saturday 27th August 2011. The epicenter was 9 km ( 6 miles) Northwest of Pinnacl...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Izu Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 162.5 km (101.0 miles), the quake hit at 09:11:41 UTC Saturday 27th August 2011. The epicenter was 51 km ( 31 miles) South...
Gold's Gym started in Venice, CA in 1965 as a funky, organic operation but today it's a corporate behemoth and claims to be the largest chain of coed gyms in the world-- 650 of 'em in 42 states and 30 c...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 13.8 km (8.6 miles), the quake hit at 08:04:58 UTC Saturday 27th August 2011. The epicenter was 227 km ( 141 miles) Southwest of Port-Vila, Efate...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 13.8 km (8.6 miles), the quake hit at 08:04:58 UTC Saturday 27th August 2011. The epicenter was 227 km ( 141 miles) Southwest of Port-Vila, Efate...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 34.5 km (21.4 miles), the quake hit at 08:00:10 UTC Saturday 27th August 2011. The epicenter was 129 km ( 80 miles) Ea...
Since the very beginning, the war against Libya has been built on lies. The most disturbing aspect of the propaganda, has been the reaction of the unthinking masses who have swallowed up and regurgitated...
Sky's chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay has seen evidence of a mass grave near Tripoli after as many as 150 people were massacred. Ramsay was shown the burnt out warehouse where eyewitnesses who escaped t...
US President Barack Obama is cutting short his holiday by a night to prepare for the category two storm Hurricane Irene barrelling up the US east coast. He announced the decision after telling reporters h...
Date-Time - *Saturday, August 27, 2011 at 08:39:21 UTC* - Saturday, August 27, 2011 at 01:39:21 AM at epicenter Location38.813°N, 122.791°W Depth3.1 km (1.9 miles) RegionNORTHERN CALIFORNIA Dist...
This morning there has been a spate of earthquakes located in the same are of Pinnacles, California, you will see 5 of them have been listed here and additional 3 where removed from USGS
Hundreds of Islamist militants were among the prisoners freed from a notorious Tripoli prison this week, according to a former Libyan jihadist. The freed militants had been imprisoned in Tripoli's Abu Sal...
How do astronomers know how far away that galaxy is? For starters, it would help if a star would explode.
A magnitude 2.7 earthquake has struck Central California at a depth of just 4.1 km (2.5 miles), the quake hit at 08:22:37 UTC Saturday 27th August 2011. The epicenter was 6 km ( 4 miles) NNW of Pinnacles,...
A magnitude 3.3 earthquake has struck Central California at a depth of just 7.3 km (4.5 miles), the quake hit at 08:19:03 UTC Saturday 27th August 2011. The epicenter was 7 km ( 4 miles) NNW of Pinnacles,...
A slow-moving typhoon triggered a landslide that killed two children Saturday as the storm made landfall and drenched most of the northern Philippines, officials said. The predawn landslide triggered by T...
There are growing concerns about the humanitarian situation in Libya after hundreds of dead bodies are found in a hospital near Tripoli. They were patients apparently abandoned in their beds at the Abu Sa...
A magnitude 2.6 earthquake has struck Central California at a depth of just 5.4 km (3.4 miles), the quake hit at 08:05:11 UTC Saturday 27th August 2011. The epicenter was 6 km ( 4 miles) NNW of Pinnacles,...
Around 70 people were injured in an attack by honey bees in Chang of Sandra block in Beawar when they were attending a funeral. Forty-five people were referred to Amrat Kaur hospital. "Their condition is ...
The Caulle Volcano in the Puyehue mountain range in the Ranco Province of the Los Ríos Region erupted early this morning. Media outlets weren’t immediately alarmed and there have been no reports of evacuat...
Nearly 120 pupils of SJK Chin Kwang Wahyu in Parit Jawa here came down with food poisoning apparently after drinking some milk. The Year One to Year Six pupils were immediately treated by health teams fr...
The first measles outbreak in five years on Zanzibar’s main island has prompted health officials to mount a two-day emergency immunization of 10,000 children under five. Most of the 76 cases recorded occ...
*Misskelley, Baldwin and Echols * When it comes to such matters as top pedophile rings, child murders, and satanism, the Law likes to protect the 'bad guys', it seems. (Anger of Baby P's family as lodge...
A man in China died on the operating table after his doctors fled from a fire that broke out in the next room, a hospital official said Friday. The unnamed 50-year-old died after being left unattended for ...
A magnitude 3.8 earthquake has struck Central California at a depth of just 5.2 km (3.2 miles), the quake hit at 07:21:59 UTC Saturday 27th August 2011. The epicenter was 9 km ( 6 miles) Northwest of Pinn...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Central California at a depth of 7.6 km (4.7 miles), the quake hit at 07:18:21 UTC Saturday 27th August 2011. The epicenter was 7 km ( 4 miles) NNW of Pinnacles, Calif...
China's communist rulers have banned Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and the Backstreet Boys' from their radio playlists ‘to preserve national security’. The Ministry of Culture has announced Chinese music download ...
The 30-year-old Louisiana man who allegedly confessed to beheading his disabled 7-year-old son has been indicted on a charge of first-degree murder. Jeremiah Wright's son Jori Lirette was brutally killed...
Hurricane Irene’s outer bands of wind and rain have begun to lash the East Coast of the United States as the massive storm starts an assault which threatens to heap punishment on millions of Americans from...
An Amtrak train carrying more than 175 passengers from California to Chicago derailed Friday after striking equipment on the tracks in southwest Nebraska and a small number of people were taken to hospital...
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CENSORED NEWS - 10 hours ago
*Wikileaks reveals that the truth, censored by Indian Country Today, was already known as a fact around the world in Turkey* Navajo and Apache children imprisoned at Fort Sumner, Bosque Redondo, N.M. By ...
Police have tonight confirmed a suspicious device in a rucksack including a black cylinder attached to a mobile phone is not an explosive device. Kent Police said the package found under a bridge on a rail...
Man may have landed on the moon 42 years ago, but we don't yet know what it's made of or how exactly it was formed. Nasa hopes to change this with the launch of two spacecraft towards are nearest cosmic n...
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Nguyen Thi Lim Lien says the rivers of the Mekong Delta in Vietnam are turning salty. Photograph: Jeffrey Lau via guardian.co.uk Sitting amid buckets of rice in the market, Nguyen Thi Lim Lien issues a w...
Doctors are preparing to challenge the Government’s decision not to hold an inquest into the death of Dr David Kelly. In June, Attorney General Dominic Grieve ruled one out after telling Parliament evide...
Strolling in the sunshine as a free man, this is one of the three monsters who killed Baby Peter. Jason Owen is back on the streets after serving just two years for a crime that horrified a nation. The s...
A girl of eight was starved, beaten and forced to do chores in the freezing cold by her stepmother while her university professor father did nothing. Sarah Semple, 36, pulled out clumps of the girl’s hair ...
BP has landed itself in a new public relations disaster in the US after accidentally shooting dead a polar bear at one of its Alaskan oil fields. The British oil giant’s reputation in the US has been sever...
New York is beginning mandatory evacuations for the first time in its history because of Hurricane Irene. Thousands of people living in low-lying areas across all five boroughs – including Battery Park on...
There are growing concerns about the humanitarian situation in Libya after hundreds of dead bodies were found in a hospital near Tripoli. It is thought they belonged to patients who were abandoned in thei...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Mariana Islands Region at a depth of 88.1 km (54.7 miles), the quake hit at 04:41:16 UTC Saturday 27th August 2011. The epicenter was 238 km ( 147 miles) Northwes...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Southern Iran at a depth of 34.7 km (21.6 miles), the quake hit at 02:56:04 UTC Saturday 27th August 2011. The epicenter was 48 km ( 29 miles) West of Kazerun, Iran N...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 40.9 km (25.4 miles), the quake hit at 00:16:40 UTC Saturday 27th August 2011. The epicenter was 34 km ( 21 miles) ...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Mariana Islands Region at a depth of 82.6 km (51.3 miles), the quake hit at 22:17:46 UTC Friday 26th August 2011. The epicenter was 231 km ( 143 miles) Northwest ...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 20.4 km (12.7 miles), the quake hit at 22:01:55 UTC Friday 26th August 2011. The epicenter was 154 km ( 95 miles) Southwest of Port-Vila, Efate, ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Jujuy, Argentina at a depth of 182.6 km (113.5 miles), the quake hit at 21:00:07 UTC Friday 26th August 2011. The epicenter was 50 km ( 31 miles) WNW of San Antonio de...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 64.2 km (39.9 miles), the quake hit at 20:57:05 UTC Friday 26th August 2011. The epicenter was 426 km ( 264 miles) ENE of Kuril'sk, Kur...
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 199.1 km (123.7 miles), the quake hit at 20:32:40 UTC Friday 26th August 2011. The epicenter was 74 km ( 45 miles) So...
by Tony Cartalucci Alternative media activist David Icke, who has been warning about the false nature of the "Arab Spring" since it began over six months ago, has pointed out an astounding "flashback" re...
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...
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.
*With Saturday post-noon update (below)* *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 ...
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) ...
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Europe - 21 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 ...
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Europe - 21 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...
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wmtc - 22 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...
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CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours ago
*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. ...
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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 virtua...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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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 ...
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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...
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*Three Things That Must Happen for Us to Rise Up and Defeat the Corporatocracy* Truthout Friday 26 August 2011 by: Bruce E. Levine, Alternet | Op-Ed Most Americans oppose rule by the corporatocracy but...
Greed comes home *In their quest to out smart the counties and the distressed home owners, Banks have tried to delay mortgage modification in an effort to foreclose on properties. In their quest to ...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 56.1 km (34.9 miles), the quake hit at 14:29:30 UTC Saturday 27th August 2011. The epicenter was 19 km ( 11 miles) ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Kepulauan Mentawai Region, Indonesia at a depth of 21.4 km (13.3 miles), the quake hit at 14:07:38 UTC Saturday 27th August 2011. The epicenter was 208 km ( 129 m...
After Blue Dog Kirsten Gillibrand left the House to run for the open New York Senate seat, she was replaced by am even more conservative Democrat, Scott Murphy, in a special election. Last November Chri...
Tar Sands White House: Gathering before the storm, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011. As Hurricane Irene hits the east coast, rain begins to fall in DC. Tar Sands Action rallying at the White House today as Hurrica...
The Tar Sands Action group (which essentially is = to Bill McKibben) has deliberately made what they apparently thought was a very clever strategic decision, which is to directly warn Obama regarding suppo...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 53 km (32.9 miles), the quake hit at 12:07:35 UTC Saturday 27th August 2011. The epicenter was 49 km ( 30 miles) South of Port-Vila, Efate, Vanua...
A magnitude 2.5 earthquake has struck Central California at a depth of just 5.5 km (3.4 miles), the quake hit at 11:42:08 UTC Saturday 27th August 2011. The epicenter was 6 km ( 4 miles) NNW of Pinnacles,...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Guatemala at a depth of 17.5 km (10.9 miles), the quake hit at 11:28:06 UTC Saturday 27th August 2011. The epicenter was 54 km ( 33 miles) Southeast of Guatemala, Guat...
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