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Lethal radiation levels of more than 10,000 millisieverts per hour raise the need for caution to even greater extremes that workers at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant must take.
By Ben Dimiero August 02, 2011 In a *700 Club *segment rehashing climate science pseudo-scandals,
Cato Institute climatologist
Patrick Michaels had a peculiar observation for someone appearing on tel...
[image: Banri Kaieda, the minister of economy, trade and industry lost his composure, convulsing in sobs after
Liberal Democratic Party politician
Ryosei Akazawa berated him over the government’s energy ...
"I have no intention for the next weeks and months to be talking about this committee." -
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi when asked by reporters at a press conference about the new Super Congress. (S...
[image: Monthly July ice extent for 1979 to 2011 shows a decline of 6.8% per decade. Arctic sea ice extent averaged for July 2011 reached the lowest level for the month in the 1979 to 2011 satellite reco...
[image: Indices of Adélie and chinstrap population responses. Closed circles (●) indicate chinstrap penguins at
Admiralty Bay,
King George Island. Open circles (○) indicate chinstrap penguins at Cape Shi...
*Yesterday this seemed like a pretty trenchant cartoon from the great Monte Wolverton. Now it turns out he's got it all wrong, the problem is us liberals -- for not doing a fervent enough selling job on th...
Deep ocean searchers have found what some are calling a UFO on the ocean floor. But are there other explanations?
Is Eureka's "Higgs field disruptor" a realistic interpretation of physics? Probably not, but it makes for some great sci-fi.
Here's a link to a documentory based on Tom Ferguson's book This film is based on Thomas Ferguson's book Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Sy...
Global stock markets fell after a report showed that the pace of growth in the US services sector expanded at its slowest pace in 17 months, stoking fears that the world's largest economy could slip back i...
The largest shipment of cocaine ever seized in Britain has been uncovered in a yacht in Southampton docks, it was revealed today. The 1.2 tonne haul has a street value of £300 million. Officers believed...
Twenty Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) soldiers died and another 30 were injured yesterday in El Geneina, West Darfur, when two buildings where they were staying in collapsed as a result of heavy rain storms. ...
The footage, posted on YouTube on Sunday, has garnered over 1.8m views in the short time it has been online. Simply entitled Cat gone, the video, which originated from a user in Russia, shows a ginger f...
Europe is a "train wreck" and on the "brink of a major financial crisis," Scott Minerd, CIO of the fixed-income firm Guggenheim Partners, told CNBC Tuesday. "The way Europe is operating right now, it's wh...
China, the largest foreign investor in U.S. government securities, joined Russia in criticizing American policy makers for failing to ensure borrowing is reined in after a stopgap deal to raise the nation’...
The Congressional melodrama is over, for now, and in Washington they are tallying up winners and losers, in the insiders' calculus of electoral opportunism. The rest of the world, meanwhile, can only shak...
Prosecutors say they will ask for the maximum sentence allowed by law for a New York City man who admitted throwing his son naked in the oven as punishment. James Moss of Staten Island is scheduled to be ...
Elk Creek, Neb. (population 112), may not be so tiny much longer. Reports suggest that the southeastern Nebraska hamlet may be sitting on the world’s largest untapped deposit of “rare earth” minerals, whic...
The Hamburg data protection authority on Tuesday ruled that Facebook’s facial recognition feature, which attempts to identify people in photos uploaded to the site, violates German privacy laws. Johannes ...
A Bloomington man is facing possible jail time, accused of breaking a city ordinance that prohibits residents from feeding wild animals. In Bloomington, it is legal to use bird feeders — as long as they ...
In one of the biggest banks in the centre of Athens a clerk is explaining how his savers have been thronging to pull out their cash. Wary of giving his name, he glances around the marble-floored, wood-pane...
Investors fear the United States may be headed for a credit ratings downgrade even if the Senate approves a $2.1 trillion package of spending cuts later on Tuesday. Though the bill removes the threat of i...
Pennsylvanians on public assistance now have a new 'civil right' -- free cell phones. Meanwhile, the rest of us get to pay higher cell bills as a result. Recently, a federal government program called the ...
As far as summer fashion goes, clothes with built-in electric fans leave a little something to be desired. But Hiroshi Ichigaya has managed to turn his breezy invention into the must-have item of the summ...
Raising interest rates would leave millions teetering on the brink of financial disaster, leading economists warn today. The National Institute of Economic and Social Research says a rise from 0.5 per cen...
The US yesterday stepped back from the brink of financial disaster as a bitterly contested deal to raise the debt ceiling was passed by the US congress, enabling Barack Obama, the US president, to sign it ...
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has described the bond markets' treatment of Italy and Spain as "a cause of deep concern". Yields on Spanish and Italian bonds have hit euro-era records t...
A typhoon some 1,600 kilometers (994 miles) from the Philippine capital is supercharging summer monsoon rains, which have flooded parts of Manila and could trigger flash floods and landslides across other ...
The president of Niger announced that 10 people have been arrested in connection with an attempted coup last month, the first time the nation has confirmed the failed plot. An additional suspect is on the...
South Korea has proposed sending aid to North Korea to assist with damages caused by torrential rain that hit the peninsula last week, the South's Ministry of Unification said. Seoul has proposed to send ...
They descended by the hundreds — black-shirted, bat-wielding youths chasing down dark-skinned immigrants through the streets of Athens and beating them senseless in an unprecedented show of force by Greece...
BMW, the world's largest luxury car maker, has reported a record second-quarter profit after a boom in the Chinese market saw sales reach an all-time high. The German manufacturer generated the highest pr...
PART ONE: PART 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtbpcJt1w1o&feature=related PART 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRcQLRg0lTs&feature=related PART 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wS8aJF68DI&feature=re...
PART ONE: PART 2: http://youtu.be/deMPlC1rc7U PART 3: http://youtu.be/4kePDAAEZ_s PART 4: http://youtu.be/Yf49V9QYU-k PART 5: http://youtu.be/ILIRSsGyXKM *Bathroom break* PART 6: http://youtu.be/zy0KBzipGK...
[image: Diagram showing the main exhaust stack of Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1/2, where ultra-high radiation fields in excess of 10 sieverts/hours were discovered by TEPCO on 1 August 2011. Yomiuri Shimbun]A...
*Family says FBI agent was prejudiced toward Native Americans and failed to adequately investigate the murder of their son* . By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com SEATTLE -- ...
During a three-week trip to South Africa, Nicole Gugliucci helped to build an exciting astronomical experiment in the desert.
Why settle for the usual humdrum vehicle when you could tour the course in style?
You can display them with pride -- just don't try to wear them.
The splendid lantern shark glows in the dark to create a cloak of invisibility to protect itself from predators.
Why settle for the usual humdrum vehicle when you could tour the course in style?
You can display them with pride -- just don't try to wear them.
It's summer here in my hemisphere, and around here, that means some unpredictable weather. Actually, every season in Utah means unpredictable weather. The only predictable condition is the road conditio...
If you've been thinking your Internet provider has only been serving up traffic jams online, a new FCC study may have numbers to prove it.
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 80.1 km ( 49.8 miles), the quake hit at 20:02:18 UTC Wednesday 3rd August 2011. The epicenter was 76 km (48 miles) Northwest ...
Remember what an amazing job Obama was doing when the voters gave the Democrats an overwhelming majority in the House and a veto-proof Senate? No? I don't either. He was already defining himself as a det...
One of the trio jailed over tragic north London child Baby P's death could walk free from prison this week. Jason Owen, 39, is serving a six-year sentence for causing or allowing the death of 17-month-old...
A group of holidaymakers were forced to make a dramatic escape just before their car burst into a fireball in the middle of a busy motorway. The family abandoned their Renault Scenic in the middle lane of ...
The 19-year-old son of a Thames cruise boss was killed today when he fell from a ferry and under its propeller. Ben Woollacott, of Kent, died in the horrific accident after falling from the Woolwich Ferry...
Earth may once have had two moons - the one that shines at night today and a smaller companion, according to a new theory. A slow-motion collision between the two is believed to have created the mountaino...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 52.3 km ( 32.5 miles), the quake hit at 19:23:15 UTC Wednesday 3rd August 2011. The epicenter was 115 km (72 miles) ESE from ...
US officials have broken an international child porn ring that elevated members to 'Super VIP' when they uploaded images considered to be the most depraved. Authorities said 72 bulletin board members of D...
Starting next year, many health insurance plans will be required to cover contraceptive services without charging patients a co-payment.
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Biased BBC - 7 hours ago
We all know what happened yesterday in the United States Congress, and that the President signed a debt relief bill that nobody really likes. We all know how the BBC spun it, and they continue to spin it t...
Levees.org is guest on NPR today! They beg to differ with recent Corps of Engineers' Awards for "protecting" New Orleans ~Members of the Army Corps of Engineers, the subject of emotional criticism after Hu...
Warfare Without Limits: A Darkening Human Horizon ** *By Richard Falk Published: July 27, 2011 Richard Falk's Blog: Citizen Pilgrimage* There are several pressures that push war in the direction of the abs...
We all knew the NDP’s flirtation with the separatists would emerge as an issue at some point during the 41st Parliament. I just don’t think anyone expected it to move to the forefront quite so rapidly: In...
A beluga whale named Juno intensely watches a mariachi serenade him at the Mystic Aquarium. Check out the video.
Vampire bats locate their blood meals with the help of three heat-sensing organs in their faces.
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck near the East coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 4.8 km ( 3 miles), the quake hit at 16:32:27 UTC Wednesday 3rd August 2011. The epicenter was 40 km (24 miles) ENE o...
Japan-based Hitachi is known by global customers for making TVs. But on Wednesday, the company said it is considering ending its television production operations in Japan. "We are considering ending produ...
The jobs recovery slowed for a third month in a row, according to two reports out Wednesday. Private sector employers added 114,000 workers in July, marking a decrease from the 145,000 jobs added in June,...
World stocks fell Wednesday as relief the U.S. averted a debt default gave way to increasing pessimism over prospects for the world's biggest economy. Oil extended losses, trading near $93 a barrel amid ex...
The United Nations and international aid agencies are warning that the famine in Somalia will grow in size and severity unless the world community responds with more aid. Oxfam said Tuesday that Somalia f...
Anyone who thinks we can just walk away from a crisis like the famine in Africa because these things are too overwhelming and commonplace should think again. Put bluntly, natural disasters have the world b...
North America is gradually losing its native ladybugs. Three once-common domestic species are becoming rare as foreign breeds introduced decades ago — which have different habitats and diets — take over. ...
Government tanks in Syria have reportedly advanced deep into the besieged central city of Hama to put down opposition protests. Residents who spoke to Reuters said tanks had reached Orontes Square in the ...
IT security firm McAfee claims to have uncovered one of the largest ever series of cyber attacks. It lists 72 different organisations that were targeted over five years, including the International Olympi...
A story which suggested that users of Internet Explorer have a lower IQ than people who chose other browsers appears to have been an elaborate hoax. A number of media organisations, including the BBC, repo...
There is a serious new threat to the eurozone after Italy and Spain's borrowing rates hit their highest level since the single currency was established. It comes amid fears that a global economic slowdown...
*Japan Fukushima: update (The ending is Just Unbelievable...) - July 31, 2011* Vidéo mirrorthis2010 sélectionnée dans Actualité
Bargain chain Poundland is to expand into the eurozone after today announcing plans for a number of new stores, starting in debt-ridden Ireland. The new venture will shun the "Euroland" label - thus avoid...
Dieters struggle to lose weight because a lack of nutrition forces their brain cells to eat themselves, making the feeling of hunger even stronger, scientists claim. Like other parts of the body, brain ce...
Argentina has announced it is developing a nuclear-powered submarine, leading to fresh warnings that Britain would face an "insurmountable" task if the country invaded the Falkland Islands again. Arturo P...
Saudi Arabia is set to start work on building the world's tallest skyscraper in a bid to outdo Gulf neighbour Dubai, which inaugurated its own record-breaking skyscraper less than two years ago. he Saudis...
*Japan Fukushima: Facing Continued Nuclear Difficulties - July 29, 2011*Vidéo mirrorthis2010 sélectionnée dans Actualité
Crop circles are now made using lasers, microwaves and GPS technology to create ever larger and more elaborate patterns, scientist claims as days of using planks and rope long gone. Crop circles have conf...
The first close-up pictures of the massive asteroid Vesta reveal a northern hemisphere littered with craters including a trio nicknamed "Snowman" and a smoother southern half, researchers have reported. ...
Space may be the final frontier, but Mars should be the next one. At a spaceflight propulsion conference held by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics on Tuesday, Elon Musk -- the billiona...
U.S. special operations forces have regularly and “surreptitiously” slipped into Pakistan in recent years, raiding suspected terrorist hideouts on Pakistani soil. The team that killed Osama bin Laden — tho...
The find could shed light on the region's evolutionary history.
By Duane Craig Honeywell International Inc., PPG Industries Inc. and Occidental Chemical Corp. have agreed to repay New Jersey $15 million for cleanup at multiple sites with hexavalent chromium contaminat...
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wmtc - 10 hours ago
From Defend Free Speech: Help CAF beat Jason Kenney in federal court! An urgent appeal for support. Please make a donation today. Over two years ago, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Jason Kenney u...
Two top police chiefs have been suspended by Cleveland Police following their earlier arrest on suspicion of misconduct, abuse of position and corrupt practice. Chief Constable Sean Price and Deputy Chie...
Looking for the silver lining in the passage of the Boehner debt ceiling bill? There is none. Okay, okay. There are some bright spots we can look to amid the current Tea Party madness. That's what Blue ...
A 40-year-old New Zealand man was decapitated in front of horrified family and friends while testing a hovercraft he built at home Dr Alastair Kenneth Senior was on Muriwai beach in Auckland when the prop...
Fears intensified today that the deal to raise America's debt ceiling will not stave off a credit rating disaster after the leading Chinese credit agency downgraded U.S. sovereign debt. As an official do...
*Jonathan Kay - Canadian journalist and friend of Israel and Mossad.* From where did the spooks get their inspiration for the Norway Attacks? *Jonathan Kay*, at National Post, reminds us that *we've heard...
Security experts have discovered the biggest series of cyber attacks to date, involving the infiltration of the networks of 72 organisations including the United Nations, governments and companies around t...
A chief constable and his deputy were arrested today by detectives investigating allegations of corruption. Chief Constable Sean Price and Deputy Chief Constable Derek Bonnard of Cleveland Police were hel...
Up to 50,000 families face having no summer holiday this year, after the travel firm Holidays 4U went bust this morning. The budget Turkey specialist, which also traded as Aegean Flights, went into admini...
An Australian schoolgirl who spent more than 10 hours with a bomb strapped to her by a hooded intruder who broke into her house was reunited with her parents tonight after a dramatic rescue. Police bomb d...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Salta, Argentina at a depth of 182.9 km ( 113.7 miles), the quake hit at 14:23:24 UTC Wednesday 3rd August 2011. The epicenter was 105 km (66 miles) West of San Salvado...
*Health Freedom Alliance* Submitted by Lois Rain on August 2, 2011 13Share * * *What is the slingshot that will bring the mighty Goliath down? What is Monsanto’s Achilles heel; the two things it does not ...
[image: Mubarak trial] An ailing, 83-year-old Hosni Mubarak, lying ashen-faced on a hospital bed within a metal defendants cage with his two sons position protectively beside him in white prison uniforms,...
*Bush Greeting ALEC, 2007* State legislators from every corner of America are flocking to New Orleans today, summoned to the Big Easy by ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council. ALEC is the clear...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Mentawai Region, Indonesia at a depth of 9.3 km ( 5.8 miles), the quake hit at 14:35:00 UTC Wednesday 3rd August 2011. The epicenter was 252 km (157 miles) W...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Molucca Sea at a depth of 35 km ( 21.7 miles), the quake hit at 13:32:50 UTC Wednesday 3rd August 2011. The epicenter was 122 km (76 miles) WSW from Ternate, Moluccas, ...
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CENSORED NEWS - 12 hours ago
*Indigenous Peoples gather to halt devastation from mining, tar sands, oil and gas wells and other environmental destruction now causing global warming and climate change* *By Brenda Norrell* *Censored...
Sydney police have safely resolved a situation in which an 18-year-old woman was attached to what was thought to be a bomb. After the incident on Sydney's lower north shore entered its 10th hour on Wedne...
The family of a man who died in a Sept. 11 plane crash is asking to be paid for her son's fear and suffering, but what's it worth?
To help you avoid repetitive strain injury, this keyboard subtly moves as you type.
Why throw your caps away when they could create a unique work of table lamp art?
By feeding just below the ocean's surface, North Atlantic right whales are at high risk of colliding with ships.
[image: Verhalen, Texas — Dry weeds surround a wooden cross in a field near the town of Verhalen, in May 2011. The state is suffering from a severe drought that is causing wildfires and hardship for ranc...
Now here's some economic (bankstering) dissection that you can lap up and rate easily.Funny how little of this there seems to be outside of Krugman, Reich, Baker and Warren, isn't it? (And for very good reas...
[image: World map of natural disasters, first half of 2011. Münchener Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft, Geo Risks Research, NatCatSERVICE] US contact: Terese Rosenthal, Tel.: +1 609 243 4339 12 July 2011 ...
A RADIO 5 Live sports presenter claims he spotted a UFO circling near to Stansted Airport this morning (Wednesday, August 3). Mike Sewell told the breakfast show that he saw a "disc-shaped" object hoveri...
[image: Parched and cracked soil is prevalent throughout the Minqin Oasis, Gansu province, China, making the growing of crops and plants increasingly difficult. Sean Gallagher] Analysis by Lester R. Bro...
'Is Land' was a £9,000 helium-filled sculpture of a desert island which floated above the heads of revellers at the Secret Garden Party festival recently. However, the art project drifted off somewhere w...
On Wednesday, August 3rd, Tropical Strom Emily continued its path through the Caribbean Sea after passing near Puerto Rico. The storm is currently threating southern Dominican Republic and Haiti, where a...
The Republicans were perfectly happy to scurry out of town for a month with the unexpected and unprecedented victory Barack Obama handed them on a silver platter. Obama and his apologists are-- laughably-...
The technology could be used to augment infrared and sonar to see at night or even underwater.
A species of rat coats itself in deadly toxin that it obtains by gnawing on a poisonous tree, scientists have discovered. The Crested Rat - Lophiomys imhausi - from East Africa is the first mammal known t...
Former Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak was today flown on a military helicopter to Cairo to face charges of corruption and ordering the killing of protesters. Scuffles broke out between hundreds of supporte...
Three suspects have been arrested over the brutal murders of a mother and daughter who were beheaded during a home invasion. Six other suspects are being sought for the killing of Charmaine Rattray and he...
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*The ninth month of the Islamic Calendar* is important for Islam and the billion and a half or more people all over the world who adhere to its spiritual and social lifestyle. That month is called *Ramada...
Massive quantities of dead fish have been resolved in Adjara, where several hundred kilograms of dead fish were found in lakes near Batumi during the last two days. The local authorities have begun study...
About 7,000 fish were killed last week when a flash flood swept manure into Little Sandy Creek, according to an Ohio Department of Natural Resources investigation. The dead fish, which included crawfish ...
*A wildfire that started in no less than 25 separate locations on the Ionian island of Corfu on Tuesday led authorities to declare a state of emergency. *The outbreaks, recorded in the north, west and sout...
Fire was extinguished at a thermal power plant substation in the city of Mytishchi northeast of the Russian capital, a spokesman for Moscow Region emergencies service said on Wednesday. The alert about f...
While reading the most excellent book- Empire of the City, recommended byChuckyman. BTW: Chuckyman, I am half-way through it and it is a gem! The author EC Knuth was quoting from Encyclopedia Brittanica. Hey...
Firefighters are responding to a new wildfire ignited by the lightning storm that passed through Central Oregon Monday afternoon. The Deadman Canyon Fire started Monday on private land and moved on to BLM...
Equine influenza has broken out in 14 provinces of Mongolia, China's official Xinhua news agency has reported. It said the outbreak had been confirmed by the Mongolian government's news office on Tuesday,...
Brazil’s Air Force says one of its planes crashed in the country’s southeast, killing all eight people aboard. An Air Force statement says the single-engine Cessna Grand Caravan C-98A crashed Tuesday aft...
Severe lighting and thunderstorm has hit the Single Valley of Ghizar District in Gilgit-Baltistan, causing severe mudslide downstream. The powerful lighting hit the valley gorge (Nala) at about 7.10 A.M, i...
A mustard gas leak was detected Tuesday afternoon at a U.S. Army chemical storage site in Pueblo, Colorado, but no one was sickened, a local newspaper reported. The dangerous vapors were found in a munit...
While Broward County was looking east toward Tropical Storm Emily, residents in the western cities were jolted by a rare tornado that touched down Tuesday in Tamarac. The funnel also skidded over parts of...
Vermont health officials say radioactive strontium-90 has been found in a fish sample taken from the Connecticut River 9 miles upstream from the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant. William Irwin, the state’s c...
Australian bomb squad officers are working to defuse a suspicious device found at a home in a wealthy suburb of Sydney, police have said. Surrounding streets have been closed to traffic and emergency servi...
The crack team of Navy Seals who launched the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan were always planning to kill him, it has emerged. There was "never any question" the al Qaeda chief would be ca...
An enormous plasma twister rising from the sun’s surface has been caught on video by a Nasa satellite. And the twirling eruption, which swirled up to 93,206 miles above the solar surface, has a remarkable...
Scientists have found the darkest known galaxy, a treasure trove of around 1,000 ancient, small and dim stars located just outside the Milky Way. The dwarf galaxy - Segue 1 - is mostly an enormous cloud of...
A murder suspect who was acquitted of shooting dead a co-worker in 2002 has called police and confessed to the crime — but there is nothing they can do about it. Double jeopardy laws mean Isaac Turnbaugh ...
A tropical storm that could be headed for Florida has has stalled south of Puerto Rico, experts warned today. Tropical Storm Emily is making its path toward Puerto Rico and Hispaniola, causing possible mu...
Previously unseen FBI documents have revealed the son of legendary mobster Al Capone drunkenly threatened to 'assassinate' the late Senator Edward Kennedy. Three weeks after his brother Senator Robert Ken...
The estranged husband of Jacque Sue Waller, the mother of young triplets who has been missing for two months, has been arrested on charges unrelated to his wife's disappearance. James 'Clay' Waller, 40, f...
High-security prisons could be easy targets for hackers wanting to spring dangerous criminals out of jail. High walls and barbed wire will not be enough of a defence against escapees as computer systems a...
The man behind America's only unsolved airline hijacking may have lived for 30 years after parachuting from the passenger jet over Washington with $200,000 cash and then vanishing. The elusive DB Cooper, ...
Forensic experts are to use the DNA of serial killer Ted Bundy to see if an eight year old girl was his first victim. The notorious killer is suspected of abducting and killing Ann Marie Burr who disappea...
This is the shocking video of a heartless thief as he snatches a 78-year-old woman's purse from her lap - as she is pushed in a wheelchair. The cowardly hoodlum can be seen walking just a few yards in fron...
The FBI has joined the police investigation into a spate of sex attacks on young women near the University of Michigan college campus. Five were sex assaults, including two rapes, and all happened within ...
Some thought it as ‘horrifying’, others labelled it ‘unbelievable’ and one man even described feeling a shock wave from a sonic boom. But this was not the end of the world - rather a freak outbreak of hai...
If you're wondering what's happening in the "mainstream" alarmist climate science, aside from "real climate" scientists' attempts to invent increasingly contradictory talking points to downplay Spencer's...
Casey Anthony’s legal team claim that a judge is putting her life in ‘great peril’ by making an order that could make her report to a probation office in the same city where she was acquitted of murder. A...
A homeless man was in custody Tuesday night after climbing over the White House fence. The man was immediately captured by uniformed Secret Service agents, who guard the complex around the clock, said age...
An autopsy conducted on 11-year-old Celina Cass was unable to determine how she died, authorities said yesterday. Celina's death has been deemed suspicious, based on what divers found, and investigators w...
Warren Jeffs, head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, is accused of sexually assaulting two girls, ages 12 and 15, he took as brides in 'spiritual marriages.' The Texan cou...
Investors seemed to find little to cheer after the Senate agreed to a deal to raise the debt ceiling. There is concern the deal will not stave off a downgrade of the U.S. government's AAA rating, although...
ENTERTAINMENT - Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian has spawned its 4th movie and numerous novels and short stories (including the free ebook Conan the Berserker). But the latest movie looks to be the ...
A damning dossier has shown how bungling officials failed to capture Jaycee Lee Dugard’s abductors while she was in captivity for almost 20 years. Phillip Garrido, who raped the girl and fathered two child...
It seems that Kunming in the southwest corner of China is the world capital of knock-off shops. Apple recently found five counterfeit versions of its stores there after blogger Bird Abroad posted photos o...
A man has been killed after being struck by lightning as he scattered his brother's ashes on an Italian mountain. The bizarre tragedy happened as Federico Dean, 41, stood at the beauty spot favoured by hi...
A married lesbian couple who saved 40 children from white supremacist Anders Breivik's murder spree at a youth summer camp have been hailed as the unsung heroes of the massacre. Hege Dalen and her partner...
A politician who emailed a woman nude photos of himself that were posted on a GOP activist's website has resigned and said he will consider all legal options to have the pictures taken down. New Jersey de...
Sharon Shoesmith is in line for £1million in compensation from the taxpayer because of her sacking over the scandal of Baby P, who died four years ago today. The Supreme Court refused to allow an appeal a...
Italy is set to be the next European Union to introduce a burkha ban after parliament announced today it would debate legislation after the summer recess. France and Belgium already have bans in place an...
The mother of a Britain's Got Talent star was yesterday exposed as a benefits cheat who swindled £20,000 out of the taxpayer by pretending to be a struggling single parent while her 12-year-old son perform...
A postman who called Scottish tennis star Andy Murray a 'useless Jock' has been fined £3,000 - after being convicted of racism. Darren Swain, 45, who called himself 'the scarlet pimpernel of the post offi...
The man who murdered Milly Dowler is suing the prison service for an astonishing £30,000 - after he was attacked in jail. Triple killer Levi Bellfield, 43, reportedly suffered only minor cuts and bruises ...
A doctor threatened to kill his estranged wife after she accidentally sent him a text message intended for her lover, a court heard yesterday. Nurse Victoria Stacey wrote a message for a family friend wit...
The Indian man challenging immigration laws which block non-English speakers from coming to live in Britain said yesterday he hopes ‘many other people’ will come if he wins. Talking about his case for the...
The man who allegedly shot honeymooner Anni Dewani is likely to never face justice because he is dying from a brain tumour, a court heard today. Xolile Mngeni, 23, was deemed unfit to appear at a hearing a...
A piece of debris from the doomed space shuttle Columbia has been found in a lake in Texas after drought caused the water levels to recede, exposing the relic eight years after it fell to Earth. Police in...
A super-salmonella bug that cannot be treated by any drug is on the rise in Britain, scientists warn. They think the strain originated in Egypt and is now being spread across Europe by contaminated fruit,...
Dub alerts us to: 21 July 2011 - "*A treaty between Russia and Norway paves the way toward bilateral energy work on the arctic continental shelf... * "Oslo and Moscow enacted a treaty July 7 regarding coo...
A young woman lured two white teenage girls to be raped by three Asian men with the promise of a night out. Stephanie Knight, then 17, told the pair they were going clubbing but instead plied them with vo...
There is a serious new threat to the eurozone after Italy and Spain's borrowing rates hit their highest level since the single currency was established. It comes amid fears that a global economic slowdow...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Sangihe, Indonesia at a depth of 129.4 km ( 80.4 miles), the quake hit at 06:11:33 UTC Wednesday 3rd August 2011. The epicenter was 213 km (132 miles) SSE of...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Fox Islands. Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 34 km ( 21.1 miles), the quake hit at 06:10:48 UTC Wednesday 3rd August 2011. The epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) So...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Central Alaska at a depth of 5 km ( 3.1 miles), the quake hit at 06:08:40 UTC Wednesday 3rd August 2011. The epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) ENE of from Chisana, Alaska ...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 597.5 km ( 371.3 miles), the quake hit at 04:51:42 UTC Wednesday 3rd August 2011. The epicenter was 223 km (138 miles) West of Neiafu, Ton...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 19.1 km ( 11.9 miles), the quake hit at 03:20:21 UTC Wednesday 3rd August 2011. The epicenter was 284 km (176 miles) SSE of Sigave, Ile Fu...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Ethiopia at a depth of 15 km ( 9.3 miles), the quake hit at 23:24:33 UTC Tuesday 2nd August 2011. The epicenter was 110 km (68 miles) WNW of Hargeysa, Somalia No damage...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Western Iran at a depth of 44.1 km ( 32 miles), the quake hit at 22:09:49 UTC Tuesday 2nd August 2011. The epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) SSW of Shahr-e Kord, Iran No d...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 13 km ( 8.1 miles), the quake hit at 22:07:17 UTC Tuesday 2nd August 2011. The epicenter was 155 km (96 miles) South...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Eastern Iran at a depth of 27.9 km ( 17.3 miles), the quake hit at 18:08:37 UTC Tuesday 2nd August 2011. The epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) Southeast of Birjand, Iran N...
Paul Feldman reports on giant Israeli protests Peoples Assembly Network 08.01.2011 Highlights: * On Saturday night, more than 150,000 people – out of a population of seven million – gathered in 12 ci...
Typical bleeding-heart tree-hugger, getting all squishy about caribou and weeping into his tofu. Never mind the jobs involved in forestry and the Ethical OilTM Sands. And where's he getting his information...
U.S. stocks plunged on Tuesday as fears about a weak U.S. economy were enflamed after investors got another disappointing economic report - this time on consumer spending. The selloff was so broad and so ...
At least 30 people were killed in Karachi on Monday night and Tuesday, the latest deaths in cycle of ethnic and political violence in Pakistan's commercial capital. On Sunday, 60 motorcycles and five vehi...
A drone strike in Pakistan's tribal region killed four militants Tuesday, two Pakistani intelligence officials said. The incident occurred in the Mirah Shah area of North Waziristan when two missiles were...
A car bomb exploded outside a Catholic church in central Kirkuk, Iraq, early Tuesday, wounding at least 20 people, authorities said. The attack took place in Kirkuk's Shatterlo neighborhood around 5:30 a.m...
LONDON aquarium staff have weaned a chocoholic giant gourami on to a healthier menu of grapes and bananas after inheriting the creature raised entirely on Kit Kats. Staff at the Sea Life London Aquarium w...
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on Monday urged the UN Security Council to take a "clear stand" to end the violence in Syria. "It is time for the Security Council to take a clear stand on the need...
France on Monday said it had given Libyan rebels 259 million dollars (181 million euros) in frozen funds that used to belong to the regime of strongman leader Moamer Kadhafi. "The NTC (National Transition...
America is on a path to becoming a Greek-style welfare state. Thanks to the Bush-Obama spending binge, the burden of federal spending has climbed to about 25% of national economic output, up from only 18.2...
*"It was cloudy before the game started and when I was warming up I made the remark to Callahan that the dark day ought to make my speed good. He says Yes and of course it will handicap Johnson."* *-- Jack...
"Perhaps I was asleep, or have amnesia, or maybe I was abducted by aliens, but I don't remember ever having elected a Super Congress. However, apparently there will be a committee of twelve that will eff...
*U.S. DEBT CEILING IS OLD PONZI SCAM – WHICH WILL COLLAPSE AND SCATTER THE SCAMMERS* . *Mohawk Nation News* *http://www.mohawknationnews.com* MNN. August 1, 2011. The European invaders to Onowaregeh/G...
[image: FLOTSAM AND JETSAM: Boats at Port Hinchinbrook, Queensland, Australia are piled up like toys in the wake of Cyclone Yasi. AAP] By EVAN SCHWARTEN 30 July 2011 (AAP) – SOME day it'll be one of th...
Here are a few tidbits to ponder: Industrial agriculture is one of the leading contributors to climate change. This is because everything about industrial agriculture is based on fossil fuel. Fertilizer i...
Dear Congressman: Thanks to the XIV Amendment, Rejecting the Budget Sellout is an Easy No Vote for All Sides By Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. Washington DC, August 1, 2011— As the twilight descends over the n...
*Thomas Friedman, Private Eye* by Tom Tomorrow [*Don't forget to click to enlarge.*] *by Ken* I admit was surprised that "the deal" was struck yesterday, which was merely August 1, a full day ahead of the...
Foreword: This letter was sent to the below e-mail addresses in response to an Amnesty International campaign focusing on pressuring the governments of India, Brazil, and South Africa into approving of yet...
WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO The bloodied bodies lay stuffed and tangled in the back of a pickup like garbage. Men lifted the bodies one by one and hurled from them from a bridge into a river below as cursing...
Rebels said they arrested dozens of militiamen loyal to Moamer Qadhafi in their eastern bastion but suffered a blow on Monday in Libya’s west, losing a village at the foot of a key mountain range. At leas...
Two African Union soldiers and two would-be suicide bombers were killed Monday during a shootout in Mogadishu, an AU force spokesman said. A firefight erupted between the AU troops and the would-be attacke...
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused the United States Monday of living beyond its means "like a parasite" on the global economy and said dollar dominance was a threat to the financial markets. "...
Pockets of lethal levels of radiation have been detected at Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in a reminder of the risks faced by workers battling to contain the worst nuclear accident since...
No state in the union was safe from July's blistering heat wave, according to data from the U.S. National Climatic Data Center. The horrible July heat wave, lasting weeks in some cities, the entire month ...
A Texas lake that turned blood-red this summer may not be a sign of the End Times, but probably is the end of a popular fishing and recreation spot. A drought has left the OC Fisher Reservoir in San Angelo...
Auto body shops in Queens and Long Island are overwhelmed with repair calls today, a day after severe summer storms lashed the region, in some places dropping tennis-ball-sized hail that dented cars and sm...
A woman allegedly beat her boyfriend to death with the spiked heel of a stiletto shoe. Thelma Carter, 46, struck her live-in boyfriend Robert Higdon, 58, with the shoe at their trailer park home in August...
Bicycle racks are used to keep your bikes secure. But they may not be so secure themselves. Authorities told the Eagle-Tribune that they have seen increasing reports of empty bike racks being stolen in Sa...
As temperatures rise, so do air conditioner thefts. Police in west suburban Riverside say more and more of them are going missing in the village, regardless of size. Window units and commercial units alik...
Police closed down a lemonade stand in Coralville last week, telling its 4-year-old operator and her dad that she didn't have a permit. An officer told Abigail Krutsinger's father Friday that she couldn't ...
Americans cut their spending in June for the first time in nearly two years after seeing their incomes grow by the smallest amount in nine months. The latest data offered a troubling sign for an economy th...
China has begun work on its first aircraft carrier and probably will develop two or more, along with outfitting a former Russian carrier that is set to begin sea trials soon, Pentagon officials said. “We ...
Boston’s TSA screeners — part of a security force whose competency has come under fire nationwide — soon will be carrying out sophisticated behavioral inspections under a first-in-the-nation program that’s...
Police in Fair Oaks reported another woman was slashed in the buttocks by a razor blade in northern Virginia. According to authorities, the victim was a 21-year-old woman shopping at T.J. Maxx at Fairfax ...
Oak Hill eliminates police department: MyFoxORLANDO.com In a surprise move Monday night the city of Oak Hill eliminated its entire police department. The police chief and a few officers were under scru...
Eleven-year-old aspiring veterinarian, Skylar Capo, sprang into action the second she learned that a baby woodpecker in her Dad's backyard was about to be eaten by the family cat. "I've just always love...
A quadriplegic man died in a weekend skydiving accident, Flathead County officials said Monday. Zack Fogle, 27, who had five years of skydiving experience died Saturday afternoon when his parachute did no...
Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group, known for assembling Apple's iPhones and iPads in China, plans to use more robots, with one report saying the company will use one million of them in the next three years...
The markets — and the American people — always assumed Congress and President Barack Obama would reach a deal. But as late as Sunday, the White House considered economic collapse an increasingly likely out...
The bill to increase the federal debt limit that has been put before Congress today would increase that limit by up to $2.4 trillion, which would be the largest increase in the debt limit in U.S. history b...
One of astronomy's longest-running "missing persons" investigations has concluded: astronomers have found molecular oxygen in space. While single atoms of oxygen have been found alone or incorporated into ...
Nato is sending hundreds of extra troops to Kosovo amid rising tension in the north along its border with Serbia. The military alliance said the situation had not deteriorated but that reinforcements were...
Ford is recalling 1.2 million pick-up trucks in the United States and Canada because of fears their fuel tanks could fall off and start fires. The recall affects some versions of the F-150, F-250 and Linco...
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*Yesterday this seemed like a pretty trenchant cartoon from the great Monte Wolverton. Now it turns out he's got it all wrong, the problem is us liberals -- for not doing a fervent enough selling job on th...
Here's a link to a documentory based on Tom Ferguson's book This film is based on Thomas Ferguson's book Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Sy...
Global stock markets fell after a report showed that the pace of growth in the US services sector expanded at its slowest pace in 17 months, stoking fears that the world's largest economy could slip back i...
Twenty Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) soldiers died and another 30 were injured yesterday in El Geneina, West Darfur, when two buildings where they were staying in collapsed as a result of heavy rain storms. ...
Europe is a "train wreck" and on the "brink of a major financial crisis," Scott Minerd, CIO of the fixed-income firm Guggenheim Partners, told CNBC Tuesday. "The way Europe is operating right now, it's wh...
The Congressional melodrama is over, for now, and in Washington they are tallying up winners and losers, in the insiders' calculus of electoral opportunism. The rest of the world, meanwhile, can only shak...
Prosecutors say they will ask for the maximum sentence allowed by law for a New York City man who admitted throwing his son naked in the oven as punishment. James Moss of Staten Island is scheduled to be ...
Elk Creek, Neb. (population 112), may not be so tiny much longer. Reports suggest that the southeastern Nebraska hamlet may be sitting on the world’s largest untapped deposit of “rare earth” minerals, whic...
The Hamburg data protection authority on Tuesday ruled that Facebook’s facial recognition feature, which attempts to identify people in photos uploaded to the site, violates German privacy laws. Johannes ...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoOne of the trio jailed over tragic north London child Baby P's death could walk free from prison this week. Jason Owen, 39, is serving a six-year sentence for causing or allowing the death of 17-month-old...
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