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Utah The 13th Article of the Mormon Faith begins with: *“We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, * *and in doing good to all men;”* How do these people sleep at night if they belong t...
In ancient Japan, early agriculturists worshiped mountains as the givers of life and fertility. As clouds gathered at the mountaintops, rain filled watersheds carrying nutrients from rich mountain earth d...
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said on Sunday that he expects damages from
Hurricane Irene to run into the billions of dollars along the state's
Atlantic coast and from inland river flooding. "I've got t...
New York is deserted today on what should be one of its busiest weekends for tourism of the year, as businesses count the cost of a four-day city shutdown after Hurricane Irene forced people indoors. But...
Delaware was pounded by Hurricane Irene on Saturday night, but Vice President Biden got in one last round of golf in his home state before the heavy stuff started coming down, Fox News has learned. Biden...
It is becoming abundantly clear that the rioters that took hold of the streets of Birmingham, London and Manchester two weeks ago show little remorse for their criminal behaviour. The actions of the riot...
When I was growing up, finance was mother’s milk to me, especially as I was a bit of a math geek. But for my formal education, I was trained—rather rigorously, and in spite of my laziness—as a philosopher ...
A new batch of economic figures released this week confirms a renewed economic downturn, amidst an intensified assault on jobs and living conditions internationally. The Organization for Economic Coopera...
The United Nations has warned that about 12-million people across the world have no citizenship of any country and consequently suffer from a denial of basic human rights. The problem is growing worse be...
Muslim women without headscarves are a common sight on the streets of the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur. But engaging them in a discussion about the hijab is difficult. Norhayati Kaprawi is a Malaysia...
A subterranean river said to be flowing beneath the Amazon region of Brazil is not a river in the conventional sense, even if its existence is confirmed. The "river" has been widely reported, after a stu...
More Chinese books need to be translated and more thought-provoking ideas need to be used in novels to elevate China's literary standing in the world, some of the country's top writers said Friday. Speak...
An Indian anti-corruption activist ended his hunger strike Sunday, a day after parliament resolved to accept his demands to tackle chronic corruption in the country. Anna Hazare, 74, has been fasting sin...
Typhoon Nanmadol reached the southern coast of Taiwan early Sunday, according to the Central Weather Bureau there, after killing at least seven people in the Philippines. The slow-moving storm is proj...
A man born without functioning legs ran the 400 meters in 45.07 seconds on July 19, 2011, the fastest time recorded by an amputee. The ripple effects of this historic achievement may initiate a paradigm sh...
Two children, aged four and six, have been filmed apparently shoplifting while being encouraged by their mother. CCTV footage appears to show the girl jumping onto a fridge in Muskars newsagent on Dale S...
As I write this, Hurricane Irene is on its way up the U.S. East Coast and, if the storm follows the current path projections, one thing is certain. Many buildings are soon to be destroyed -- perhaps number...
The East Coast of the United States was shaken up by a moderate earthquake on Tuesday that was felt from Maine to Florida, Virginia to Illinois. On TV we saw people run out of buildings, thinking it might ...
Up to a fifth of first class letters arrived late in parts of Britain over the three months to June, with half of UK postcodes missing their delivery targets as a result of Royal Mail cost-cutting. The p...
When Donald McAlpine and his colleagues broke through a snow barricade at the entrance to a cave in New Brunswick this March, bat carcasses covered the floor. The biologists had been conducting winter surv...
The State Department will remove a major roadblock to construction of a massive oil pipeline stretching from Canada to Texas when it releases its final environmental assessment of the project as soon as Fr...
Two major Arctic shipping routes have opened as summer sea ice melts, European satellites have found. Data recorded by the European Space Agency's (Esa) Envisat shows both Canada's Northwest Passage and ...
Scientists have named, cataloged, and described less than 2 million species in the past two and a half centuries, yet, according to an new innovative analysis, we are no-where near even a basic understandi...
McHenry County Department of Health officials have confirmed that the West Nile virus is in the area. A trap of mosquitoes in Woodstock tested positive for the virus, the health department said in a news...
South Africa's foreign minister said Monday she is hoping for compromise but expects only incremental progress in climate change talks she's hosting, further lowering hopes the Durban meeting will produce ...
*And the word is.... "eat?* "India to review anticorruption bill; Pressure builds to accept fasting activist’s draft" by Muneeza Naqvi, Associated Press / August 25, 2011 NEW DELHI - Indian lawmakers agr...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Central Iran at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 14:23:16 UTC Sunday 28th August 2011. The epicenter was 54 km ( 33.5 miles) South of Garmsar, Iran ...
A magnitude 3.0 earthquake has struck Central California at a depth of just 6.9 km (4.3 miles), the quake hit at 17:04:58 UTC Sunday 28th August 2011. The epicenter was 9 km ( 6 miles) Northwest of Pinnacl...
A magnitude 2.7 earthquake has struck Central California at a depth of just 7.6 km (4.7 miles), the quake hit at 12:17:53 UTC Sunday 28th August 2011. The epicenter was 9 km ( 6 miles) Northwest of Pinnacl...
It looks like train journeys are about to get a whole lot noisier. The success of the e-book is to be expanded on this week when publishers add music and sound effects to novels. One of the first multim...
TONTO NATIONAL FOREST, AZ - Crews are monitoring a 30-acre fire that sparked inside the Tonto National Forest Saturday afternoon. Forest officials said the lightning-caused Mud Fire was reported around 1...
CCTV footage has been released today of a shaven-headed man hunted by police over the killing of a pensioner bludgeoned with a hammer in her own home. Three forces in the north east are searching for miss...
*Quite a difference from the full meals the agenda-pushing media was presenting a few weeks ago.* "FLEEING FROM FAMINE -- A family from southern Somalia sat yesterday in a makeshift shelter in a refugee c...
*Carlos Kleiber conducts the first movement of the Beethoven Fourth Symphony, here "analyzed with the assistance of Robert Greenberg's Wordscore Guides."* *"The Fourth Symphony, to me, expresses a divi...
The glamour model ex-girlfriend of Colonel Gaddafi's playboy son has told of the terrifying moment she was captured by rebels who threatened to 'burn her alive'. Talitha van Zon had been with Mutassim Gad...
One of Britain's most notorious paedophiles - dubbed the Beast of Sligo- is back on the streets and free to mingle with children and families. Irishman Joseph McColgan, 69 was spotted among families at a ...
In handing Libya to Al Qaeda, the line has been forever crossed. an editorial by Tony Cartalucci First - let's not labor under any delusions. Obama, Cameron, and Sarkozy are heads of state in name only. ...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Molucca Sea at a depth of 75 km (46.6 miles), the quake hit at 12:09:54 UTC Sunday 28th August 2011. The epicenter was 204 km (126 miles) ENE of Manado, Sulawesi, Indo...
*And I'm hungry!* "Food fundamentals; In Lawrence, grocery stores are only one part of the puzzle when it comes to promoting healthy eating habits and curbing obesity" by Neena Satija, Globe Correspondent...
[image: Change in ocean pH, preindustrial-2100 CE. NRDC / Virginia Institute of Marine Science] The pH of ocean waters has decreased by about 0.1 since preindustrial times. Each tenth of a pH point repr...
Personally, I would've preferred impeachment but as long as we got Rep. Pete King out of Congress... Consider this an open thread. Tell me about your Hurricane (or tropical storm) Irene stories. Postin...
Police in London are lining up a huge police operation for the Notting Hill Carnival in the wake of the rioting and looting that hit the city earlier this month. More than a million people are expected t...
Nothing would please me more than the implementation of an entirely conservative policy platform. The conservative was US President Theodore Roosevelt. The policy platform was Roosevelt's "Square Deal...
*Now that the news coverage has again diminished to nearly nothing.* "Massacre suspect returns to scene" August 15, 2011|Associated Press OSLO - Held tightly on a police harness, the Norwegian man who con...
I was up much of the night, listening to the wind whistle, worried about the creek flooding and trees crashing. I heard four of them in the dark, but none close by. As soon as it was light I looked out th...
*Then they can use the health care. * "Medicare gives state hospitals $275m lift; Other regions rip change in rules" August 05, 2011|By Liz Kowalczyk, Globe Staff Massachusetts hospitals will get *$275 mi...
*And we all know who** calls Congre$$ home. * "Home care cutbacks put strain on elderly; Plans sacrificed to trim budgets" July 17, 2011|By John Seewer and Shaya Tayefe Mohajer, Associated Press TOLEDO, O...
*I only use cash.* "More using credit to pay for basics" July 22, 2011|By Bloomberg News US consumers are *increasingly using credit cards* to *pay for basic necessities* as income gains fail to keep pace...
*Good thing you can get bulk at less cost. * *Now on your knees! * "Big payouts promised for BJ’s executives" July 22, 2011|By Jenn Abelson, Globe Staff BJ’s Wholesale Club Inc. chief executive Laura Sen...
"Eric Beyer named CEO of Tufts Medical Center" by Robert Weisman, Globe Staff Tufts posted a *profit* of *$5.3 million* *last year*.... But like other hospitals in Boston and across the state, Tufts will ...
*A far cry from Braveheart.* "Former legislator Wallace indicted; He is accused of failing to report political donations" July 22, 2011|By Andrew Ryan, Globe Staff A Suffolk County grand jury yesterday fi...
"Gun control advocates encouraged by recent court rulings" August 21, 2011|By Robert Barnes, Washington Post WASHINGTON - A funny thing has happened in the three years since gun rights activists won their...
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wmtc - 5 hours ago
I missed this song in the 80s, along with the video, filmed on the streets of Toronto. Perhaps it was a Canadian thing that didn't cross the border very much, but I only know "Rise Up" from the 2011 NDP ...
Friday evening, when everyone was freaking out about Irene, Chris Hayes was freaking out about something more *directly* man-made, the Ohio Republican Party's latest plan to kick the unemployed while th...
*Let the Globe be your umpire*: "Tennis star trailed by allegations of abuse; After a Hall of Fame playing career, Bob Hewitt became a coveted coach. But some young girls he taught say he preyed on them s...
Five police officers were killed and 7 more wounded in a twin bomb attack in Baghdad on Sunday, an Iranian Interior Ministry spokesman said. He added that the bombings took place in the Iraqi capital’s Gha...
Two suicide bombers hit a military barracks in Algeria on Friday, killing 18 people in one of the deadliest attacks in the North African country in recent years. The attackers arrived by motorbike near t...
The United States has so far stopped short of commenting on a Taliban claim that they killed scores of American forces in Afghanistan on Saturday. The Taliban claimed on Saturday that 64 US-led troops wer...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Southern East Pacific Rise at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 10:10:19 UTC Sunday 28th August 2011. The epicenter was 1432 km (890 miles) East of...
POLICE IN NORTHERN Ireland are searching the area around a leisure centre in Co Antrim after they received a warning that a bomb had been left there this morning. The Sixmile Leisure Centre on the Ballynu...
ANKARA, Turkey - A news report says a small bomb has exploded on a beach in a Mediterranean resort, slightly injuring six people and causing panic. NTV television says the bomb went off early on Sunday on...
*Much the way I ignore most of the Boston Globe these days. * Looming large The rain should arrive first, beginning late tonight. By early tomorrow afternoon, Hurricane Irene’s winds are forecast to pick u...
A DECADE of clinical animal mutilations in Wales is being investigation by pathologists who suspect aliens may be to blame. The organisation, called the Animal Pathology Field Unit (APFU), was set up in ...
*A huge locust swarm invaded the city yesterday shortly before 4pm. It came from the northwest and northeast directions. It was several miles long, and hovered over Karachi for at least two-and-a-half hour...
CNN is reporting that *Maryland nuclear reactor automatically* went *offline * on Saturday *due* to the wind *gusts*. Officials say the power station is safe.
Municipalities looking to clean up radiation "hot spots" caused by the disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power plant are facing stiff local resident opposition as they search for temporary disposal s...
Experts say there is no technology or machinery available that can quickly remove radioactive substances from soil. Steady and repeated efforts are required to gradually reduce radioactive substances by re...
The amount of radioactive cesium that has leaked from the tsunami-hit Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant is about equal to 168 of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima at the end of World War II, Japan's nuc...
B.C. applied at the Cohen Commission on Friday to keep private a database of its audits of dead fish at salmon farms. Environmental groups are fighting the suppression effort at the inquiry, which is exam...
So, maybe there were some local victims of Tuesday's earthquake after all. That's a possibility Loganville resident Carl Wiessel can't help but wonder about. Wiessel woke up Wednesday morning to find 60 o...
Although the storm is now far north of the Sunshine State, Hurricane Irenemay have claimed two lives in Florida on Saturday, both involving deaths in rough coastal surf. Saturday morning, a local teacher ...
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Europe - 10 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 *China expanding its nuclear stockp...
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Europe - 10 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 forward this site to several ...
Lord Stirling's News Blog Europe
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 f...
At least five people were killed and 53 were injured when a tourist tram was derailed in Brazil's second largest city of Rio de Janeiro, health and rescue officials reported. The accident occurred in the...
As many as 21,590 hens infected with bird flu were culled at a poultry farm in Chuadanga. With assistance from the district administration, Rafid Poultry and Hatchery on Saturday killed and buried all th...
17 people, including children, were rushed to hospital after being overcome by chlorine fumes at a public swimming pool at Markt-Indersdorf in Bavaria, Germany. The children were evacuated after experienc...
There has been another shocking twist in the death of Russell Armstrong. Alan Schram, a business associate and friend of the late Real Housewives of Beverly Hills co-star, also killed himself just 24 hour...
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Biased BBC - 11 hours ago
I love this one. According to BBC eco-warrior Matt McGrath, the number of mosquitoes is in sharp decline in parts of Africa because "climate change" has (without question) changed rainfall patterns and "di...
A paediatrician who decorated his office with Disney characters and miniature amusement park rides has been convicted of abusing scores of young patients over more than a decade and will spend the rest of ...
A 15-year-old girl has been paralysed as 11 people were gunned down in a Wild West-style shoot-out at a teen house party. Eleven people were shot at the going-away party for one of the teens, in the ear...
The owner of a frozen yoghurt shop has been accused of attacking an employee, removing her clothes, binding her with tape and locking her in a box. Robert Yachen Lee is being held on $10m bail charged wit...
When a local television reporter became covered in a mysterious foam while reporting on the hurricane he said, 'it doesn't taste great'. But what he did not know that he was actually being immersed in the...
Hurricane Irene began to batter New York City in the early hours of Sunday morning as heavy rain caused fears of severe flooding after the city had been reduced to a ghost town. As the city nervously awai...
A 10-year-old boy collapsed and died in front of his twin brother after his parents refused to let him drink water for five day, it is claimed. Jonathan James died from dehydration in Dallas after his fat...
Areas around the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant could remain uninhabitable for 20 years, Japan warned yesterday. The plant is still leaking low-level radiation nearly six months after the earthquake an...
Another week, another crisis in the eurozone and another heart attack in the markets. The FTSE is yo-yoing around the 5,000 danger mark in febrile trading and there has been a rush for safe havens: the S...
*Website for this image** *On 28 August 2011, in the UK's top-selling Mail On Sunday, *Peter Hitchens*writes: (We're cheering on a football crowd with AK-47s, who could be worse than Gaddafi ) *1.* "I...
The bodies of up to 150 Libyan civilians were found yesterday near Tripoli after allegedly being massacred by pro-Gaddafi forces. Journalists said they counted as many as 53 executed bodies in a burnt-out...
The destructive power of Hurricane Irene was revealed tonight as at least nine people, including two children, were dead as the storm lashed North Carolina and Virginia as it charged up the East Coast towa...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Offshore Valparaiso, Chile at a depth of 11.9 km (7.4 miles), the quake hit at 04:30:32 UTC Sunday 28th August 2011. The epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) WSW of Valpara...
*Dick Cheney's Heart of Evil, Psychopathic Political Systems, And The Correct Uses of Social Stigma* *Saman Mohammadi* *The Excavator* *August 27, 2011* "Ponerology was born in the crucible of attempts ...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Santa Cruz Islands at a depth of just 240.6 km (149.5miles), the quake hit at 04:24:36 UTC Sunday 28th August 2011. The epicenter was 217 km (134 miles) SSE of Lata, ...
A magnitude 3.0 earthquake has struck Central California at a depth of just 5.6 km (3.5 miles), the quake hit at 03:03:22 UTC Sunday 28th August 2011. The epicenter was 9 km ( 6 miles) Northwest of Pinnacl...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Kyushu, Japan at a depth of just 46.2 km (28.7 miles), the quake hit at 00:52:04 UTC Sunday 28th August 2011. The epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) South of Miyazaki, Kyu...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Offshore Jalisco, Mexico at a depth of just 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 00:44:52 UTC Sunday 28th August 2011. The epicenter was 69 km (42 miles) WSW of Manza...
In the wake of the Russian Progress vehicle crash, a chain of events has been set into motion that could result in the decision not to fly astronauts into orbit.
*In the piano reduction we can see just how short the magical introduction to Beethoven's First Symphony really is. The performance is by the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by its then-music director, our...
summersk The ponzi scheme is coming down. And yes time will fix it, after the Great Depression all will be fine again. We created bubbles to keep the music playing. We relied on housing because banks cre...
Officials in the mid-Atlantic states and southern New England on Saturday sounded fresh warnings about Hurricane Irene and told residents they were nearly out of time to leave for safer ground. "Even if ...
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CENSORED NEWS - 16 hours ago
Photo copyright Stop the Tar Sands/Keepers of the Athabasca *Native American and Canadian First Nations To Take Part In Largest Act of Civil Disobedience to Stop Keystone XL Pipeline* By Indigenous Envir...
*Sure, it's a matter of appearance rather than reality, but Governor Cuomo conveys the appearance of a mealy-mouthed bureaucrat. (He's surrounded here by National Guardsmen because he was announcing a doub...
The right hook for a northern hemisphere hurricane is the most dangerous, but the location varies depending on the path the hurricane is traveling.
Scientists using data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have discovered six "Y dwarfs"-- star-like bodies with temperatures as cool as the human body. Astronomers hunted these dar...
August hasn't been a happy month the for the Monsanto public-relations team. No, I'm not referring to my posts on how Gaza and Mexico don't need the company's high-tech seeds—the ones it will supposedly be...
All the excitement about nanotechnology comes down to this: Structures of materials at the scale of billionths of a meter take on unusual properties. Technologists often focus on the happier among these ne...
Sheri Stewart didn't know what to do when a crop duster soaked her and her home with pesticide recently. "What she should have done was call us immediately," said Dave Scott, manager of the pesticide pro...
This page opposes the building of a 1,700-mile pipeline called the Keystone XL, which would carry diluted bitumen — an acidic crude oil — from Canada’s Alberta tar sands to the Texas Gulf Coast. We have tw...
Efforts to feed an extra 2 billion people by mid-century could lead to widespread destruction of forests, wetlands and other natural systems that protect and regulate the world’s water, researchers warn. ...
A Canadian woman was among as many as 50 environmental activists handcuffed and taken to jail Sunday on the second day of peaceful White House protests against TransCanada Corp.’s controversial Keystone XL...
The vultures are startled and take flight as our pickup truck arrives at the giant carcass lying in the lowveld. They have had a week to pick its bones. All that remains of "Izzy", a six-year-old white rhi...
Royal Dutch Shell's North Sea oil spill off the coast of England is just the latest example of oil fouling the environment. Other instances of leaking oil from just the past 30 odd years (millions of gallo...
European Union governments agreed on Friday to broaden their sanctions against Syria to allow for future bans on business with Syrian banks or energy and telecommunications firms, EU diplomats said. Duri...
A six-second clip on Chinese state television has provided a rare glimpse into purported cyber hacking attacks launched by the country’s military, despite long-standing official denials that the governm...
The African Union declined Friday to recognise Libya’s rebel authority as Muammar Qadhafi’s regime is collapsing, and instead called for forming an all-inclusive transitional government. With rebels stil...
Syrian security forces killed at least two people as tens of thousands of anti-government protesters flooded the streets on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramazan, a time that many activists hoped wo...
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol investigators said Tuesday that they intercepted a feared nonnative beetle in bags of rice that arrived at O'Hare International Airport from India, the latest in a surge of d...
Phone service often cuts out when it's needed the most – when disaster strikes. That applies to cellphones too, even though they seem independent of power and phone lines. Here are some tips for commun...
Ever since security giant RSA was hacked last March, anti-virus researchers have been trying to get a copy of the malware used for the attack to study its method of infection. But RSA wasn’t cooperating, n...
About half of both men and women in the U.S. will be obese by 2030 if current trends continue, health experts warned today. Obesity is fast replacing tobacco as the single most important preventable caus...
Malaria-carrying mosquitoes are disappearing in some parts of Africa, but scientists are unsure as to why. Figures indicate controls such as anti-mosquito bed nets are having a significant impact on the ...
A city officer arrested a Spring Creek man Wednesday morning at the Elko Area Regional Airport, where he works for the Transportation Security Administration, on a warrant charging six counts of lewdness w...
The city of Warren is cracking down on those who harbor mosquitoes after the suspected death this week of a Macomb County man from the West Nile Virus. Mayor Jim Fouts said those who have stagnant pools o...
An El Paso County jury on Friday awarded nearly $300,000 to the daughter of a burglar who was fatally shot in 2009 while breaking into an auto lot. Parents of the victim, Robert Johnson Fox, embraced thei...
It looks like the more telling news on Libya has migrated to the business pages. With jubilant reporting of Gaddafi's imminent downfall seizing headlines, it's the financial pages that have the clinical an...
THE Scottish justice secretary said officials are trying to contact Libyan rebel leaders as part of efforts to track down the Lockerbie bomber. Kenny MacAskill said attempts are being made to reach the Nat...
Federal agents swooped in on Gibson Guitar Wednesday, raiding factories and offices in Memphis and Nashville, seizing several pallets of wood, electronic files and guitars. The Feds are keeping mum, but in...
Please note that this video contains political opinions that do not necessarily reflect those of The Coming Crisis. The sole purpose of publishing this video is to show some previously unseen earthquake...
A *cruel and unusual punisment*, without first being accused, and *convicted of a crime.* *U.S. Constitution: Eight Amendment* Annotations "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines im...
Photo credit to Blackandbrown news If you read the whole story you will find that these rats are out of control, they tried to eat some kids who were on the playground A photo making the rounds ...
Not all that long ago I took on the propaganda phrase “Absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence.” I pointed out that it was used when there was no evidence for a particular theory and it is the last d...
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of just 503.7 km (313 miles), the quake hit at 20:31:53 UTC Saturday 27th August 2011. The epicenter was 445 km ( 276 miles) SSW ...
Right in the middle of George Clooney first working on this film centered around a morals-free candidate in a Democratic primary, Obama won and the country-- or at least Clooney's circles-- felt too upb...
At least 6 people have been killed and several others remain missing after Typhoon Mina pounded the northern Philippines with heavy rains and high winds, authorities said on Saturday. Two children aged 5...
Taiwan has issued a warning to residents of its southern and eastern regions as powerful typhoon Nanmadol approaches after hitting the northern Philippines. Nanmadol caused flooding and landslides and kn...
***Website for this image** * The people behind the Norway attacks are: *1.* Very powerful within the police, military, media and government in Norway, and, in a host of other countries worldwide. *2....
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Mariana Islands Region at a depth of just 140.1 km (87.1 miles), the quake hit at 19:15:31 UTC Saturday 27th August 2011. The epicenter was 259 km ( 161 miles) WS...
U.S. and Israeli officials say there is fear a government breakup in Syria could lead to rogue groups armed with a variety of chemical weapons. "We are very concerned about the status of Syria's weapons o...
A spokesman for the Millstone nuclear power plant complex in Connecticut says workers will shut down the two operating reactors there if winds from Hurricane Irene exceed 90 mph. Spokesman Ken Holt says ...
Russia successfully test fired its new nuclear-capable Bulava intercontinental missile which it hopes will become a key strategic weapon despite a string of setbacks, the Kremlin said. The missile was fir...
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CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours ago
*US human rights abuses exposed by world leaders at the UN, previously censored, are revealed in new Wikileaks cable* Hunting migrants on Arizona border By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell...
A magnitude 3.0 earthquake has struck Central California at a depth of just 4.9 km (3 miles), the quake hit at 16:42:48 UTC Saturday 27th August 2011. The epicenter was 8 km ( 5 miles) NNW of Pinnacles, Ca...
Al Qaeda's second-in-command, Atiyah Abd Al-Rahman, has been killed in Pakistan, delivering another big blow to a terrorist group that the U.S. believes to be on the verge of defeat. According to U.S. off...
Police today appealed for help to find the culprit behind an 'elaborate hoax' after two suspicious devices forced them to close down parts of a city centre. Parts of Canterbury, Kent, were evacuated last...
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has fled Libya to Zimbabwe on a jet provided by Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, it was claimed today, as rebels began the march on his home town. President Mugabe's political opp...
Two members of the British military are in hospital after colliding in mid-air while conducting skydiving training, officials have said. One of the skydivers was in cardiac arrest when he was taken to the ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Aruba Region at a depth of 20.5 km (12.7 miles), the quake hit at 16:15:26 UTC Saturday 27th August 2011. The epicenter was 33 km ( 20 miles) ENE of Oranjestad, Ar...
Former NBA player Javaris Crittenton has been charged with murder after a woman was shot on an Atlanta street. Police have secured a murder warrant for the arrest of Mr Crittenton, who played at Georgi...
Scotland Yard's Commander Steve Rodhouse revealed that residents across London were concerned with the Met's policing strategy following the recent deaths of three men after police used Tasers of pepper sp...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Ryukyu Islands, Japan at a depth of 47.7 km (29.6 miles), the quake hit at 15:49:59 UTC Saturday 27th August 2011. The epicenter was 257 km ( 159 miles) Northeast...
Rescuers in Russia's Far Eastern region of Primorye are checking a report of another shark attack a day after the swimming ban was lifted, a spokesman for the region's rescue service said on Saturday. "W...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 153.2 km (95.2 miles), the quake hit at 14:48:30 UTC Saturday 27th August 2011. The epicenter was 45 km ( 27 miles) ENE of Tonala, Chiapa...
[image: A sheep, overcome by heat and drought, lies dead in the Oromiya Region of Ethiopia, 2011. Andrew Heavens / sahelblog.wordpress.com] By Julio Godoy 26 August 2011 Paris (IPS) — The severe drought...
*While the US media censored the truth, the world was watching* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com The release of thousands of Wikileaks cables includes the comparison of how ...
The Associated Press and others inform that polar bear researcher Charles Monnett has been allowed to work but he won't be able to influence contracts anymore. The restriction was imposed because a w...
Hurricane Irene has begun to pummel North Carolina today with 85 mph winds and threatens 20 per cent of the U.S. population as as the massive storm makes its way up the East Coast the way up to Massachuset...
Archaeologists searching for King Arthur's round table have found a "circular feature" beneath the historic King's Knot in Stirling. The King's Knot, a geometrical earthwork in the former royal gardens be...
As Hurricane Irene barrels its way up the eastern coast of the U.S., forecasters are predicting not only brutal gale-force winds, torrential rains and massive flooding of low-lying areas, but also multibil...
THE Bureau of Economic Analysis just released its second estimate of GDP growth for the second quarter, and the pace of expansion was revised down, from 1.3% to 1.0% (a bit worse than the revision to 1.1% ...
A suicide bomb attack on a military academy in Algeria has killed 18 people, officials say. The attack took place in the town of Cherchell, about 100km (60 miles) west of the capital Algiers. One or tw...
Hurricane Irene has made landfall on the US east coast, bringing winds of more than 85 mph (140km/h), as it hit North Carolina. More than two million people have been ordered to leave their homes ahead of...
Somewhat weakened but still ferocious, Hurricane Irene slammed into the North Carolina coast Saturday morning, drenching the coastline and starting an ominous northward march up the Atlantic Seaboard. Th...
Giving vitamin A supplements to children under the age of five in developing countries could save 600,000 lives a year, researchers claim. Writing in the British Medical Journal, UK and Pakistani experts ...
For some living in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, making a living from other people's waste is their only means of survival. Portuguese photographer Jose Ferreira traveled to the Huléne garbage dump, ...
A huge underground river appears to be flowing thousands of metres beneath the Amazon River, Brazilian scientists said Thursday. Valiya Hamza of Brazil's National Observatory said researchers found indic...
At least 25 security personnel were killed when between 200 and 300 militants attacked border posts along Pakistan's border with Agfhanistan, Pakistan's military said Saturday. Those who died included Pa...
Imagine a vulnerable island, parts of it man-made, with towering buildings and lots of people crammed into small spaces. Now imagine a monster storm slamming into that island. Manhattan vs. Irene. I...
Greece will face a desperate situation this autumn, with a wave of poverty stemming from its crippled economy, a spokesman for the Orthodox Church in Athens warns. Speaking to Sky's business presenter Je...
It is easy to understand why investors are getting paranoid. On any given day this summer stock markets seem to rally or plummet hundred of points in the matter of minutes for no apparent reason. Today ...
NATO is trying to learn specifics about how many surface-to-air missiles and launchers may still be operational inside Libya and who controls them, a NATO official told CNN Thursday. Several months ago, ...
A concerned South African reader has written into The Coming Crisis to let us know about a deteriorating political situation in her country, a country rife with corruption, seizure and violent criminal act...
The Government has suffered a setback in its plan for a great rebalancing in Britain from services to manufacturing, the latest official figures show. Growth in the UK in the three months to June was driv...
Two Telegraph stories have stood out for me this week. Could they by any chance be related? Clive Aslet writes: When the present Government threw out the South-East Plan, Thame breathed a sigh of relie...
With the United States facing a national debt of more than $14 trillion, the largest since World War Two, wouldn’t it make sense for the White House itself to start trimming its own spending? A good place ...
A group of intrepid British explorers yesterday became the first people to row to the magnetic North Pole after the ice caps melted in a journey that encountered polar bears, collisions with icebergs and b...
In Libya, anti-government forces that have virtually toppled the Qadhafi regime have entered full-fledged efforts to form a transitional government. But they continue to face pockets of resistance from for...
Reinsurers and their insurance broking colleagues are creating new products to cover previously uninsured areas of risk, brought on by a series of extreme natural and man-made disasters in the last few yea...
The global financial crisis has finally made its way to this small Swiss valley. When Hans Stadelmann talks about currency speculators, it seems like two worlds are colliding. There is Stradelmann, the 4...
Russia grounded its Soyuz rockets after one of the unmanned craft crashed following blast-off while carrying tonnes of cargo for the International Space Station, a space official said Thursday. "A decisi...
There has been a lot of uninformed opinion by people in distant parts of Canada about the meaning and significance of the referendum in which a majority voted to repeal British Columbia's harmonized sales ...
Hurricane-savvy animal experts share their pet safety tips as Irene causes evacuations.
*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 supersymmetry...
[image: 250 miles north of the 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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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...
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...
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In ancient Japan, early agriculturists worshiped mountains as the givers of life and fertility. As clouds gathered at the mountaintops, rain filled watersheds carrying nutrients from rich mountain earth d...
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said on Sunday that he expects damages from Hurricane Irene to run into the billions of dollars along the state's Atlantic coast and from inland river flooding. "I've got t...
New York is deserted today on what should be one of its busiest weekends for tourism of the year, as businesses count the cost of a four-day city shutdown after Hurricane Irene forced people indoors. But...
Delaware was pounded by Hurricane Irene on Saturday night, but Vice President Biden got in one last round of golf in his home state before the heavy stuff started coming down, Fox News has learned. Biden...
It is becoming abundantly clear that the rioters that took hold of the streets of Birmingham, London and Manchester two weeks ago show little remorse for their criminal behaviour. The actions of the riot...
When I was growing up, finance was mother’s milk to me, especially as I was a bit of a math geek. But for my formal education, I was trained—rather rigorously, and in spite of my laziness—as a philosopher ...
A new batch of economic figures released this week confirms a renewed economic downturn, amidst an intensified assault on jobs and living conditions internationally. The Organization for Economic Coopera...
The United Nations has warned that about 12-million people across the world have no citizenship of any country and consequently suffer from a denial of basic human rights. The problem is growing worse be...
Muslim women without headscarves are a common sight on the streets of the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur. But engaging them in a discussion about the hijab is difficult. Norhayati Kaprawi is a Malaysia...
A subterranean river said to be flowing beneath the Amazon region of Brazil is not a river in the conventional sense, even if its existence is confirmed. The "river" has been widely reported, after a stu...
More Chinese books need to be translated and more thought-provoking ideas need to be used in novels to elevate China's literary standing in the world, some of the country's top writers said Friday. Speak...
An Indian anti-corruption activist ended his hunger strike Sunday, a day after parliament resolved to accept his demands to tackle chronic corruption in the country. Anna Hazare, 74, has been fasting sin...
A man born without functioning legs ran the 400 meters in 45.07 seconds on July 19, 2011, the fastest time recorded by an amputee. The ripple effects of this historic achievement may initiate a paradigm sh...
Two children, aged four and six, have been filmed apparently shoplifting while being encouraged by their mother. CCTV footage appears to show the girl jumping onto a fridge in Muskars newsagent on Dale S...
As I write this, Hurricane Irene is on its way up the U.S. East Coast and, if the storm follows the current path projections, one thing is certain. Many buildings are soon to be destroyed -- perhaps number...
The East Coast of the United States was shaken up by a moderate earthquake on Tuesday that was felt from Maine to Florida, Virginia to Illinois. On TV we saw people run out of buildings, thinking it might ...
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