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Actress Daryl Hannah was the first to be arrested today, Tuesday, Aug. 30, at the White House to halt the tar sands and its dirty pipeline. Hannah was among 73 arrested. Photo 1: Indigenous Nations Netw...
*Yes, Mitt Romney is clueless* Below is an essay about
Norman Solomon I found on the Campaign Watch Facebook page. Virtually every problem facing America today can be traced back to the sell-out of our de...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Eastern
Honshu, Japan at a depth of 146.4 km (91 miles), the quake hit at 13:44:34 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011. The epicenter was 65 km ( 40 miles) SSE of Akita, Hon...
The University of Victoria in conjunction with the British Columbia government is releasing online a 4-part course on climate change. The programmes cut through the scientific jargon and present the fact...
NASA's James Hansen was arrested yesterday during a protest against a Canada to US tar sands oil pipeline.
But other forms of the deadly pathogen still plague victims today.
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Eastern New Guinea Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 43 km (26.7 miles), the quake hit at 15:00:47 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011. The epicenter was 76 km ( 47 mil...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the
Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 109.9 km (68.3 miles), the quake hit at 13:21:49 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011. The epicenter was 16 km ( 9 miles) ESE...
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CENSORED NEWS - 48 minutes ago
Clayton and Healing Walk: Photo Keepers of the Athabasca *Tuesday, August 30, 2011– The Tar Sands Protest:*Listen at 1 pm Eastern, noon Central, 11 am Mountain, 10 am Pacific: http://www.nativeamericacall...
[image: image] By Damian Carrington 30 August 2011 If, like me, you think urgent global action is needed to avert the worst impacts of global warming, then you will also agree that global opinion is c...
*Grozny, said to be like Sirte.* *NATO commits massacre at Sirte razing the city to the ground* Posted: 29 August 2011 at Mathaba. Originally from Argumenti.ru "For the third day in a row, NATO aircra...
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*Nature still has many surprises* in store for us. What about an F-111 jet seemingly transforming into a '*flying saucer*'? What about a rocket causing ripples in the atmosphere as if it's passing the sur...
[image: Refugees from Eritrea waiting to be screened by the Ethiopian authorities in Endabaguna town, Wednesday, July 27, 2011, 50 km from the Eritrean border. Ethiopia is home to more than 48,000 Eritre...
The Israeli military said Monday that it has sent two additional warships to the Red Sea border with Egypt following warnings that militants are planning another attack on southern Israel from Egyptian soi...
Hurricane Irene (2011) has killed something like 47 people. Sad. Is that a lot? *NASA's GISS picture of the Earth on August 27th. Can you find Irene? Click to zoom in. Via Andrew Revkin* Google News...
A handmade stamp has 20 punctuation marks to make more than 2,000 different Japanese emoticons.
This novelty ice tray is sure to strike up a conversation at your next party.
The Mt. Erebus ice caves in Antarctica present surprising and under-explored landscapes.
In addition to synching and storing files, this small, multipurpose device offers emergency power.
Libyan fighters are continuing their advance towards Sirte, Muammar Gaddafi's hometown and one of his last bastions of support, supported by continuing NATO air strikes in the area. Rebel forces are m...
What's going on with Syria lately? Despite the attack on Libya, slaughter of it's people and plunder of it's resources. The destabilization that started in March is still ongoing. Chaos is being created....
*The Alberta Liberals will be selecting a new leader on September 10th, from among 5 candidates: Laurie Blakeman, Hugh MacDonald, Raj Sherman, Bruce Payne, and Bill Harvey. Today, the third part of a ser...
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Biased BBC - 2 hours ago
Bill Nighy, wooden, crinkled and oozing bus pass angst, meets up with earnest young woman (Rachel Weisz, born 1970!). Nighy, as per usual, autocues his lines in a monotone to nobody in particular, is hardl...
* the**REALnews Permalink* August 30, 2011 *Hundreds Arrested in Sustained Tar Sands Protests at White House* Protests demand Obama use veto power to halt proposed exp...
[image: A worker of an office cleaning company monitors the level of radiation at a playground of an elementary school in Fukushima, northern Japan August 6, 2011. Yuriko Nakao / Reuters] By Natalia Kon...
[image: Douglas cutting tree in Papua New Guinea, from the new film 'Bikpela Bagarap' ('Big Damage'). David Fedele] By Jeremy Hance, www.mongabay.com August 29, 2011 In one scene a young man, perhaps n...
From about 1998 - An actual ALEC quote "ALEC is bringing to America a chance to recapture the soul of America ... to allow every single American man or woman, irrespective of their ethnic background- ir...
[image: Orca (Orcinus orca) breaching. Brendan Cole / NPL] By Ella Davies Reporter, BBC Nature 30 August 2011 Killer whales, the ocean's fiercest predators, are easily recognisable by their black and ...
The famous castrato singer Farinelli suffered from a thickening of the cranium that is found almost exclusively in post-menopausal women.
When residents of some places in this Kerala district woke up Tuesday morning, they were surprised to see red coloured rain water collected in their vessels lying outside. "We normally collect rain water...
Stoking the cravings of Republican primary voters' thirst for victimization of their heroes, Perry's team is encouraging stories like David Frum's wondering aloud whether their candidate is a moron or, l...
A sleek new boat uses a gaseous layer to skim over water with 900 times less friction.
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck North of Macquarie Island at a depth of 9.8 km (6.1 miles), the quake hit at 11:36:51 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011. The epicenter was 354 km ( 220 miles) WNW of Auckl...
according to this G&M headline yesterday : *Nearly half of Canadians oppose greater integration with U.S. law enforcement.* The headline refers to the Harper government release yesterday of its summary of...
It was 40 years ago today that Peter Lougheed's Progressive Conservatives swept to power, ending Alberta's third political dynasty, and starting its fourth. Lougheed's slogan was 3 letters long ("NOW") ...
A mass murderer faces the death penalty after being found guilty of killing an extended family of five. William Craig Miller, 34, was convicted of fatally shooting Steven Duffy, 30, and Duffy’s girlfriend...
A clinic is trying to track down hundreds of patients after a nurse apparently spent years improperly using diabetic injection devices on them, potentially exposing them to blood-borne diseases such as HIV...
NBA Player Javaris Crittenton, who is wanted for murder in a drive-by shooting, will turn himself in to police in the morning. The 23-year-old's attorney said he will surrender to authorities because he ...
A mother who videoed herself punishing her adopted son by squirting hot sauce into his mouth and giving him a cold shower has avoided jail. Jessica Beagley, 36, of Alaska, was convicted of child abuse afte...
It is just one plight among thousands in New England towns swept away by the unprecedented flooding caused by the rains from Hurricane Irene. Marion Bender's home in Greenfield Massachusets was completely...
Fears of a resurgence of the deadly bird flu virus have been raised by the United Nations, saying wild bird migrations had brought it back to previously virus-free countries. A mutant strain of the disea...
Highly sensitive government documents have been published by Wikileaks putting hundreds of lives at risk. The anti-secrecy organisation posted 134,000 memos online which included the names of journalists,...
A Libyan father killed his three daughters after they were raped by Gaddafi's troops to lift the shame on his family, a human rights group said today. The girls, aged 15, 17 and 18 were allegedly assault...
At least five people were killed and 25 others injured when two trains collided on Tuesday morning in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore, reported local Urdu TV channel DAWN. Most of the injured people were...
A Melbourne man whose body was found mauled by tiger sharks had been holidaying with friends on a Queensland island. The 48-year-old builder, known to his mates as Rooster, was found dead off Fantome Isl...
*It was the world lead in my Boston Globe.* "Syria’s WMDs: The Scaremongering Begins Anew (for another war for Israel) August 29th, 2011 | Author: Patriot* * *Syria’s WMDs: The Scaremongering Begins Anew ...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Poland at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 09:37:56 UTC Tuesday 30 th August 2011. The epicenter was 6 km (3.7 miles) East of Polkowice, Poland No r...
Thunderstorms sparked nine new wildfires on the Bitterroot National Forest Sunday night, including four that were sending up smoke visible from downtown Hamilton on Monday. The four fires were burning in...
A small airplane crashed into an unoccupied home in the Sunset Park neighborhood Monday afternoon, injuring the pilot and a painter who was working on the house at the time of the accident. Osbaldo Audat...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Java, Indonesia at a depth of 308.5 km (191.7 miles), the quake hit at 09:56:01 UTC Tuesday 30 th August 2011. The epicenter was 82 km ( 51 miles) ENE of Jakarta, Java...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Hokkaido, Japan Region at a depth of 91.1 km ( 57.1 miles), the quake hit at 09:19:55 UTC Tuesday 30 th August 2011. The epicenter was 45 km ( 27 miles) ESE of Tomako...
At least 40 people have died after Hurricane Irene lashed the east coast of the US. Around five million people are without power while the total cost to country's the economy could reach $20bn. As Irene ...
Tropical Storm Katia formed over the open Atlantic Ocean on Tuesday, becoming the 11th named storm of the 2011 hurricane season, U.S. forecasters said. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Katia was a...
*So WHICH American city is GOING UP in a MUSHROOM CLOUD, sir?!!* "President recalls spirit of unity after 9/11" August 28, 2011 President *Obama is calling on Americans to rekindle the spirit of unity*that...
*I give up on him. * "Obama officials back oil pipeline from Canada; Groups warn of danger to environment" August 27, 2011|By John M. Broder and Clifford Krauss, New York Times WASHINGTON - President *Ob...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 09:06:58 UTC Tuesday 30 th August 2011. The epicenter was 175 km ( 109 miles) ES...
Since the beginning of August 2011, fish have been dying in the Wolf river in Oberwolfach. The cause is not yet clarified, and the fishermen are completely clueless. Meanwhile, the fish kill has extended...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 32.2 km (20 miles), the quake hit at 09:26:07 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011. The epicenter was 59 km ( 36 miles) Southwest of Port-Vila, Vanuatu ...
A skin disease is fast spreading among people in the North Central Province. Around 1,170 patients have been reported from Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa districts. The disease is caused due to sand fly bi...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 47.3 km (29.4 miles), the quake hit at 09:16:54 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011. The epicenter was 70 km ( 43 miles) Southwest of Port-Vila, Vanuatu...
"An Amtrak train carrying about 175 passengers from California to Chicago derailed yesterday after striking equipment on the tracks in southwest Nebraska.... --more--"
*Why am I wasting time with this front-page filler?* "Debt panel to test Kerry’s diplomacy" August 22, 2011|By Theo Emery, Globe Staff WASHINGTON - Some liberal groups aren’t happy about what they’ve hea...
*And now they are coming down*. "Anxiety rises as stimulus dries up; Federal cuts may stall state recovery" August 22, 2011|By Casey Ross, Globe Staff Massachusetts is running low on tools to boost the ec...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 47.4 km (29.5 miles), the quake hit at 09:14:07 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011. The epicenter was 64 km ( 40 miles) Southwest of Port-Vila, Vanuatu...
A man found dead in Yellowstone Park last week was mauled by a grizzly, a month after officials refused to hunt a bear in another fatal attack. The victim was identified as John Wallace, 59, of Chassell, M...
A South Carolina police officer got more than he bargained for when a robbery suspect attacked him before stealing his police car and crashing it in a high-speed chase. And it was all caught on camera. ...
Barack Obama's 'Uncle Omar' is being held on suspicion of being in the U.S. illegally after he was allegedly being caught driving drunk. Onyango Obama, 67, narrowly avoided crashing his 4x4 into a police c...
Four people, including two college football stars, were arrested and at least 10 people hospitalised after a weekend party near Colorado State University that was advertised on Facebook grew to thousands o...
A father threw his seven-year-old son off a Southern California sightseeing cruise boat during an argument on Sunday. Orange County Sheriff's Department spokesman Jim Amormino says 35-year-old Sloan Brile...
Jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs is in a coma in hospital after reportedly starving himself in his solitary cell. Jeffs, 55, who is serving a 130-year sentence for sexually assaulting two of his many...
Ornithologists have found a new species of bird in the U.S. for the first time in nearly four decades - dead, in a museum collection. Although other examples of what has been dubbed Bryan's shearwater, a ...
Lithuania's Defence Ministry has said that a French NATO jet has crashed in mid-air with a Lithuanian plane. Both pilots survived the mid-air collision in northern Lithuania, according to reports. The N...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 11.6 km (7.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:20:52 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011. The epicenter was 123 km ( 76 miles) WSW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu No T...
A year earlier, he had been injured in a road accident and made a full recovery. So the man decided to make a pilgrimage to a shrine to give thanks for his survival – only to be knocked down and killed b...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Banda Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 539 km (335 miles), the quake hit at 07:28:51 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011. The epicenter was 317 km ( 197 miles) Northwest of Dili,...
A woman was high on a cocktail of illegal drugs when she crashed her car killing two men and leaving five children fatherless. Jessica Reynolds had taken a mind-boggling mix of cocaine, cannabis and meph...
*This may surprise you, reader; however, she** is one of my favorite artists.* * * *The reason you should say a prayer for the Globe is because we are near the end. One can only absorb so much insulting ...
Nuclear fission reactors in space? Think less "building sized" and more "suitcase sized."
A cash-strapped council is fitting its bin lorries with iPads so it can monitor households who aren’t recycling. Bury council – which needs to save £18million and cut as many as 400 jobs – is buying 22 of...
A Sky News investigation has uncovered evidence High Street banks deliberately mis-sold interest rate protection, leaving hundreds of firms struggling to meet repayments. In an interview with Sky News, e...
A magnitude 2.5 earthquake has struck Central California at a depth of just 6.7 km (4.2 miles), the quake hit at 07:57:38 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011. The epicenter was 10 km ( 6 miles) Northwest of Pinna...
A magnitude 2.9 earthquake has struck Offshore San Francisco, Northern California at a depth of 6.7 km ( 4.2 miles), the quake hit at 07:19:18 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011. The epicenter was just 3 km (2 ...
A mother is to stand trial accused of murdering her 23-month-old son and then concealing his body while pretending he was alive for almost a year. Kimberley Hainey, 36, from Johnstone, Renfrewshire, is all...
A generation could be shut out of the ‘dysfunctional’ housing market over the next decade because of higher prices and miserly mortgage-lending, a report warns. Home ownership in England will fall to 63.8...
A knifeman seen running from the scene of a stabbing at the Notting Hill Carnival is being hunted by police. Detectives are appealing for anyone who knows the identity of the man in this picture to contac...
A magnitude 2.6 earthquake has struck Virginia at a depth of 8.5 km ( 5.3 miles), the quake hit at 03:48:28 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011. The epicenter was 48 km (29 miles) ESE of Charlottesville, Virginia...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 123.4 km (76.7 miles), the quake hit at 02:51:47 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011. The epicenter was 16 km ( 9 mil...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Volcano Islands, Japan at a depth of 583.4 km (362.5 miles), the quake hit at 02:42:07 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011. The epicenter was 134 km ( 83 miles) Northwes...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Catamarca, Argentina at a depth of 123.8 km (76.9 miles), the quake hit at 02:16:02 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011. The epicenter was 40 km ( 24 miles) West of Belen, C...
Still taken from When Lincoln Paid. Photo courtesy: geeksofdoom The only known copy of When Lincoln Paid, a 1913 silent film about Abraham Lincoln, was accidently discovered when a contractor was cleaning...
What's remarkable about the BBC is the way in which their instinctive regard for Labour manifests itself even in the most innocent items. Take the item at 8.22am on how devolution has affected the UK. The ...
I'm sure you will be tuning in to "Class Ceiling"...it's on Radio 4 @ 9am. "Polly Toynbee explores the ever-more-pressing question of how possible it is to move up through British society. Who gets to br...
I listened to Jeremy Bowen being interviewed from his perch on Tripoli this morning on Today (8.10am). One of the issues being covered was what united the "rebels". Jeremy came back with the official BBC m...
The pyramid of Khafre. Photo courtesy: egypt news Photographer Hassan Farouq Antar wanted a better view of his surroundings so he climbed to the top of the second-largest pyramid in Egypt. The pyramid wa...
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Holy Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVA MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ link Lord Stirling's news blog EUROPE Please forward this site to several ...
Mr Ladislav Bátora is a conservative man. In the past, he was a candidate in some elections backed by a nationalist party. In February 2011, he was supposed to become the deputy minister of education. A co...
A flashlight fish comes by its name honestly. It has billions of bacteria that shine like headlights. These fish can turn the bacteria on and off - just like a flashlight - to confuse predators. The bo...
A magnitude 6.8 earthquake has struck Banda Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 465 km (289 miles), the quake hit at 06:57:41 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011. The epicenter was 276 km ( 171 miles) NNE of Dili, East ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Kepulauan Mentawai Region, Indonesia at a depth of 21 km (13 miles), the quake hit at 21:39:28 UTC Monday 29th August 2011. The epicenter was 220 km ( 136 miles) ...
Photo courtesy: the epoch times It’s no surprise that Chinese perpetually worry about food safety, especially given the drumbeat of news like this: In Beijing and Hunan it was found that the expiration d...
*The Algerian daily Al-Khabar asserted that young children have been kidnapped from Algerian cities, transported to Morocco, and then sold to Israelis and American Jews who have then harvested their organs...
*Gaddafi in Detroit * Video found at: *Facts not Fairies** * *"The drugs don't work"* ** *Libya: The Greatest Betrayal * ** *DUTCHSINSE: HURRICANE IRENE: INTENSE HAARP RING * ** *~~*
My home town council looks like it was hand picked by the Rotary Club. My provincial government is a self-proclaimed agent of free enterprise, everything from developers to fish farmers to Big Oil and Big...
[image: towns battle floods] The full determine of Hurricane Irene's fury came into focus Monday as the death toll jumped to 40, New England towns battled epic floods and millionsfaced the disappointing pr...
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Not PC - 13 hours ago
If you’re wondering, just like I was, what was happening tonight with the group, I’ve just had this message from the organisers: Hello all. Due to the mid-semester holiday the university economics group ...
Syrian security forces have killed at least six people and wounded dozens in raids across the country, as tanks and armoured vehicles rolled into various flashpoint areas, according to human rights groups....
Chinese rescuers have pulled 22 coal miners from their flooded pit after being trapped underground for a week. State television showed the men being brought slowly to the surface on Tuesday with all appa...
*AS I WROTE ORIGINALLY, IN DECEMBER:* "A Ride With Olympy" first appeared in the *New Yorker* of April 30, 1938. It was collected in *My World and Welcome to It* (1942) and then appeared in *The Thurb...
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Not PC - 15 hours ago
*“The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Pract...
Guest contributor Adam Crowl, investigates how the development of a starship will ultimately transform the way we build things on Earth.
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Europe - 15 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 *The Rothschild Formula ~ link ~...
*Fullarton U.S.S.A - Pigs Beat a man to Death and Walk!* * * *Local Citizens Step Up Against Arrogant Crooked City Hall!* *FREE PALESTINE!* *TRUTH IS NOT YIDDISH | FACTS ARE NOT ASHKENAZIM*
*Plus a final note of apology re. Hurricane Irene* *From the HuffPost World report:* *"With its panoramic views and opulent furniture, the seaside home of Hannibal Gaddafi more closely resembles a luxury...
*America is Lost in The Land of Oz* *Saman Mohammadi* *The Excavator* *August 29, 2011* "There is an apathy that is running rampant in this country that is deadly. We are truly now, at this moment, a na...
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Not PC - 16 hours ago
So what does it mean when the religion of global warming goes from insane to batshit insane? Amy Peikoff reckons it means they’ve jumped the shark. If an idea’s proponents grasping at ever more implaus...
Why he must never be considered for the White House - NEVER!! From the ALEC 2000 Annual REport Well over 100 ALEC members hold senior leadership positions in their state legislatures, while hundreds more h...
Yoshihiko Noda, whose election Monday to lead Japan’s ruling party means he will become prime minister, campaigned for the job by comparing himself to the loach, an unattractive, bottom-feeding fish. “My...
For years, national security experts have warned that Mexico’s drug violence could send a wave of refugees fleeing to the United States. Now, the refugees are arriving — and they are driving BMWs and snapp...
In 2008, a secret State Department cable warned of a growing chemical weapons threat from a Middle Eastern country whose autocratic leader had a long history of stirring up trouble in the region. The leade...
A Puerto Rico lawmaker has resigned following reports that explicit photos of him surfaced on an iPhone application for gays and bisexuals, the head of the U.S. territory’s Senate announced Sunday. Sen. ...
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah was given a presentation on the new project to expand the mataf (the circumambulation areas around the Holy Kaaba). The project, which will be completed in...
Israel would not be able to halt Iran's reported quest for atomic weapons with a single strike, a senior Israeli defense official said on Sunday. Israel and the West suspect Iran is trying to use its nucl...
She was expected to wreak havoc on Manhattan, wrecking homes, flooding cars and toppling trees as she roared across the city. But while Hurricane Irene did not strike New York with the ferocity many expe...
Somalia, a nation that has endured two decades of civil war, has fallen deeper into an abyss. This time the culprit is famine. The Islamist militia al-Shabab has prevented international aid from reaching t...
Chairman Ben Bernanke is not calling for another fix to the economy by the Federal Reserve because he's already used up all the quivers in the Fed's bow, Rep. Ron Paul said Sunday. Paul is a 2012 Republi...
A former federal security officer has admitted helping a man accused of running a drug ring evade security and smuggle money through the Buffalo Niagara Airport. Minnetta Walker was arrested in March. Sh...
Forget the moral rights and wrongs. Forget, too, talk of a woman’s right vs a baby’s right. Britons should see abortion as a consumer issue. Then they ‘ll cheer Nadine Dorries MP for ending the monopoly en...
The last bastion of silence in Britain has been breached. As today’s Telegraph reports, publishers are now producing the first “enhanced e-books”, where soundtracks are provided along with the text. The fi...
China’s maverick artist Ai Weiwei has spoken out directly for the time about his 81-day incarceration at the hands of China’s secret police, likening his experience to a Kafkaesque nightmare. In an emoti...
Terminally ill patients who want to commit suicide should be able to receive medical help to die, a government adviser on care for the elderly has said. Martin Green, a dementia expert for the Department ...
For the television reporter, clad in his red cagoule emblazoned with the CNN logo, it was a dramatic on-air moment, broadcasting live from Long Island, New York during a hurricane that also threatened Manh...
One day climate change skeptics will be seen in the same negative light as racists, or so says former Vice President Al Gore. In an interview with former advertising executive and Climate Reality Proj...
Copper wire thieves have left a 33 mile stretch of I-95 in Palm Beach County in the dark. More than 175,000 feet of copper wiring needed for the overhead lighting has been stolen from 18 sites in the las...
The Texas power grid operator said electric usage this week could break the all-time peak seen earlier this month and urged consumers to reduce power use to avoid rolling outages. A brutal heatwave now e...
I'm sitting in the expansive spaces of Renzo Piano's four-storey airport outside Osaka, sipping an Awake tea from Starbucks and waiting for my bus home. I've chosen to live in Japan for the past 20 years, ...
Disney's best-selling Cars toys are being made in a factory in China that uses child labour and forces staff to do three times the amount of overtime allowed by law, according to an investigation. One wo...
A former Webster University student who was studying to be a family counselor says in a lawsuit that he was dismissed from a master's degree program after it was determined that he lacked empathy. The su...
Some people give back to their community. Then there's Fresno County School Superintendent Larry Powell, who's really giving back. As in $800,000 — what would have been his compensation for the next three ...
Cornelius Osborne may not seem like baby-sitting material. He was convicted of raping two women. A succession of felonies, from robbery to failing to register as a sex offender, repeatedly sent him to pri...
The United Nations warned of a possible major resurgence of bird flu and said a mutant strain of the H5N1 virus was spreading in Asia and elsewhere. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Mon...
Tripoli's sole psychiatric hospital, already unable to cope under Kadhafi, struggled Sunday with a flood of new cases brought on by the revolution's battles, as well as a lack of drugs, staff and space. ...
*Gee, we made the regional and national news because of the floods 'round h're. State big wigs have been up in the air all day, and I saw their procession down the main street of town (technically city now...
How Congress Rewarded the Corps of Engineers for Drowning New Orleans ~Sandy Rosenthal, Huff Post ~Sandy hipped us to this gallery of 6th Anniversary pics and captions.Personally I'm not into it, slamming ...
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Not PC - 17 hours ago
We have it reconfirmed this morning, as if we needed reconfirmation, that earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis and other natural disasters are not good for economies, or for people. First of all, we’re now...
New Orleans after Katrina. Image from Slate. Six years after Katrina: The battle for New Orleans continuesPolitical power has shifted to whites, but blacks have not given up their struggle for a voice -- and...
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Biased BBC - 19 hours ago
We'd be very grateful if commenter *Terminal* could get in contact with one of the Biased BBC administrators: *David Vance* via here or *All Seeing Eye*through here. We have a favour to ask, please! Clic...
Two illumination modes -- steady glow and flash -- make it hard to miss you during those nighttime rides.
A high-tech 'kitchen garden' may be the answer to the worry about what astronauts may eat on a long journey to Mars.
Non-dairy ice creams can be disappointing, but a new, plant-based ice cream promises a better taste and the creamy texture of milk.
*Authoritarian religion & fascism: a match made in Heaven* Although the right-wing/Know Nothing faction of the Republican Party has traditionally been not just Protestant but vehemently anti-Semitic and a...
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CENSORED NEWS - 20 hours ago
Top scientists arrested/Photo by Josh Lopez/Tar Sands Action By Tar Sands Action http://www.tarsandsaction.org WASHINGTON, DC – America’s top climate scientist and a large group of religious leaders were...
This incredible cosmic image shows a nebula with an open cluster of stars inside it. Described by Nasa as 'a busy workshop of star formation', NGC 281 is better known as the Pac-Man Nebula due to its dist...
It would be easy to dismiss the failures in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall in New Orleans six years ago today on Monday, August 29, 2005, thusly: It was a storm of virtually un...
Police have arrested six people after an explosion ripped through a kebab shop, destroying it. Passers-by were 'incredibly lucky' to have not been hit by flying debris from the blast which rocked the buil...
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*“I don’t know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We’ve had an earthquake; we’ve had a hurricane. He said, ‘Are you going to start listening to me here?’ Listen to the American...
Because of noise pollution, some birds are forced to sing at higher frequencies making them less attractive.
"In the last several months there have been reports about Libya that have turned out to be part of the stunningly foreign-orchestrated regime change agenda... "One example that comes to mind is British...
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 204.2 km (126.9 miles), the quake hit at 18:57:39 UTC Monday 29th August 2011. The epicenter was 127 km ( 79 miles) Southeast of Santo (Luganvill...
Major South Korean news outlets, commenting on the expected elevation of Japan's Yoshihiko Noda to prime minister this week, expressed concern Monday about Noda's "far-right and militaristic view of histor...
By Duane Craig I only thought this kind of problem happened in rural areas where people have more land than they know what to do with. But apparently no matter where you are buying property, you have to b...
*Malaria 2007* Global warming will put millions more people at risk of malaria and dengue fever, according to a United Nations report that calls for an urgent review of the health dangers posed by climate...
Libya's de facto government considers Algeria's sheltering of members of fallen strongman Muammar Gaddafi's family an act of aggression and will seek their extradition, a National Transitional Council spok...
Rebel commanders say Khamis Gaddafi, one of Colonel Gaddafi's most feared sons, has been killed in an air strike 60km south of Tripoli. He is said to have been in an armoured Toyota Land Cruiser when it w...
A day care worker in Shanghai attacked eight children with a knife Monday, sending five boys and three girls to the hospital with cuts on their necks and faces, Chinese state media reported. The reports ...
Raised in a $1.5 million Barrington Hills, Ill., home by their attorney father, two grown children have spent the last two years pursuing a unique lawsuit against their mom for "bad mothering" that alleges...
The F word is back. Back in the financial markets, back in the conclaves of central bank governors, back among the manufacturers and the high-street retailers. The four-letter word is fear. Back in the s...
Unless you are a multi-millionarie or even billionaire, you will be damaged by the coming economic collapse. I think those that thought they were Rich are quickly finding out they are not so...Charles Ar...
Last month’s 117,000 expansion in nonfarm payrolls wasn’t even strong enough to meet population growth — and the August report may even be worse. Economists polled by MarketWatch are expecting the Labor D...
Economic inequality has grown across Massachusetts, but no one has to tell Mindy Shoestock that. Laid off several years ago from a $12-an-hour job as a housekeeping supervisor at a ski lodge, she took a ...
I WONDER whether President Obama, vacationing in Martha’s Vineyard, read last Sunday’s front-page story about conditions in North Adams (“Between haves, have-nots, an ever greater gulf’’). How would he rea...
Police are investigating after a male motorcyclist's neck was slashed when he rode into a thin wire on an east-end street Sunday afternoon. The motorcyclist was on his way to work when his neck caught a l...
A British manufacturer will build a fleet of airships for Yellowknife’s Discovery Air to supply remote communities and enterprises in the North, the two companies say. The futuristic giant blimps from Hy...
Turkish jets bombed Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq in a series of air strikes last week which killed up to 160 rebels, Turkish officials say. There has been an increase in attacks by the Kurdistan W...
A Palestinian man has wounded seven Israelis near a Tel Aviv nightclub, ramming a car into a checkpoint and stabbing five people, police say. The man drove a stolen taxi into the checkpoint, injuring two ...
Avian flu shows signs of a resurgence, while a mutant strain - able to sidestep vaccines - could be spreading in Asia, the United Nations has warned. The variant appeared in Vietnam and China and its ris...
European Central Bank (ECB) president Jean-Claude Trichet has called for swift action to help Greece. He urged eurozone governments to rapidly implement the 21 July agreement, which allows for a second b...
Rebel fighters gave loyalists in Moammar Gadhafi's hometown a Monday deadline to disarm or face "liberation," an opposition spokesman said. Thousands of rebels gathered Sunday on the outskirts of the f...
An environmental group on Monday urged the incoming Japanese prime minister to delay the start of school near a nuclear plant crippled by a massive earthquake and tsunami six months ago. Fukushima city s...
A day care worker in Shanghai attacked eight children with a knife Monday, sending five boys and three girls to the hospital with cuts on their necks and faces, Chinese state media reported. The reports ...
On Oyu Tolgoi -- "Turquoise Hill" -- the biggest business venture in Mongolia is taking shape. The copper resources aren't new to locals -- after all, for thousands of years locals dug out copper to m...
(click picture to enlarge) THE Arab Spring is a hopeful chapter in Middle Eastern politics, but the region’s history points to darker outcomes. There are no recent examples of extended power-sharing or p...
The hardline Chinese official removed last week as Communist Party chief of restive Tibet has been made head of the province in the centre of contention over China's Catholics, giving him an influential ...
With British Prime Minister David Cameron authorizing the use of rubber bullets and water canons in wake of the turbulent London riots spreading through Britain, questions have been raised about how aut...
In this following PDF published by the Asian Developing Bank, hidden away on pages 119-120 of this behemoth report is a small section called, "Roles of Crises in Shaping Regional Integration". This mostly ...
With the cost of filling a family car rising by almost a third in a year, many Britons have opted to ditch a vehicle rather than bear the cost, according to a YouGov survey of 2,000 adults. Almost 20 per...
Imagine if long-term drought were to strike a part of the rural United States, Wyoming say, or Montana. There would be bank foreclosures as the price of cattle would fall because there was too many of th...
A STATION was evacuated and 15 people needed emergency treatment after a train on line 1 of the Madrid metro caught fire today. When the fire broke out at Alvarado station, all passengers were forced to ...
One in seven people are convinced that the U.S. government was involved in a conspiracy to stage the September 11 attacks which killed nearly 3,000 people. A survey, which interviewed 1,000 people in the...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Central Peru at a depth of 173 km (107.5 miles), the quake hit at 16:37:06 UTC Monday 29th August 2011. The epicenter was 62 km ( 38 miles) ESE of Pucallpa, Peru No r...
[image: San Francisco's Oceanside Wastewater Treatment Plant, sludge digesters. Paul Cockrell / wp.cwea.org] By Lisa Song, SolveClimate News 19 August 2011 Ten of the nation's largest water utilities ha...
We've All Gone Saucer-Happy! by Manuel Carballal There can be no doubt that the UFO phenomenon is a fascinating subject. Some of us are so enthusiastic about it that it drives us crazy. Intoxicated b...
[image: Two Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority trains sit in water on flooded tracks at Trenton train station Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011, in Trenton, N.J., as rains from Hurricane Irene are ca...
The wife and three children of Moammar Gadhafi are in Algeria, the state press agency said on Monday, citing the nation's Foreign Ministry. His wife Safia, his daughter Aisha, two of his sons, Hannibal an...
A nanny who worked for one of Colonel Gaddafi's sons has told how boiling hot water was poured over her head after she refused to beat his daughter. Shweyga Mullah's entire body is covered in weeping scab...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Moro Gulf, Mindanao, Philippines at a depth of 605.7 km (376.4 miles), the quake hit at 15:28:33 UTC Monday 29th August 2011. The epicenter was 79 km ( 49 miles) Sout...
The three-man crew was to return on Sept. 8, but due to a Russian cargo ship crash, they will now likely return in mid-September.
[image: A crane is used to sample dust at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Unit 3, 24 August 2011. TEPCO] By David McNeill 29 August 2011 Soma City (The Independent) – Yoshio Ichida is recal...
These Twisted Ribbon Roses are no sew, easy to make, pretty and different. Add them to a hair clip or glue them directly onto a bag to create a perfect accent. You will need: Three Paper Clips A length o...
I knew my old pal Denise Sullivan has been working on a book about Black music as a part of political expression in America and I knew she's been working on it for at least 4 or 5 years. So when I got a...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 14:19:58 UTC Monday 29th August 2011. The epicenter was 185 km ( 114 miles) ESE ...
La Araña – When Time Stood Still... By Luis Burgos, Fundación Argentina de Ovnilogía Introduction While the return of a considerable portion of unidentified craft to the “scene of the crime” (based on ...
[image: Cover of 'A Climate of Suffering: The Real Costs of Living with Inaction on Climate Change', published 26 August 2011. climateinstitute.org.au] By Erik Jensen Health 29 August 2011 RATES of me...
*Just following up on the NEW FIELD OF MEDICINE* Mutated by the overuse of broad-spectrum antibiotics, Clostridium difficile — a bacteria that can take over the intestines and destroy the bowel — kills ...
***Ronald Lauder, David Rockefeller, George Pataki, Mayor Bloomberg * It has been said that the the most powerful person in the world is David Rockefeller. Some researchers say the Rockefeller family is...
According to *Asia Times*, the Libyan rebel commander now in charge in Tripoli and his colleagues elsewhere throughout the country are al-Qaeda assets. *His name is Abdelhakim Belhaj. Some in the Middle E...
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[image: Rapid spread: a bushfire races through small farms in the north-west Sydney suburb of Ebenezer, August 2011. Nick Moir / smh.com.au] By Nicky Phillips 29 August 2011 A THICK blanket of grass sp...
BREAKING NEWS: 143 ready to be arrested, biggest crowd by far yet! Big crowd ready to be arrested at the White House. Halt the Tar Sands Pipeline. Already 381 people arrested. Hello President Obama! (Are ...
The Australian government is moving to protect steelworkers' jobs against the impacts of its own carbon pricing regime at a cost of $36,000 per year per worker. *In a report to be released today, the inst...
Karl Marx had a theory of capitalism that few of us have managed to understand and fewer still accept. We wrote him off as a communist agitator, an enemy of democracy and our economic model. In that, ...
Francis Emule News (Spanish) direct our attention to a very interesting conference that took place in Madison, Wisconsin last week: String Phenomenology 2011 (talks) There are many interesting talks in he...
An upcoming book about a girl who goes on a diet is being widely criticized, but the book's threat is likely overstated.
I get an awful of of email to B-BBC and 99.9% of it is a pleasure to read and I regularly post some of the numerous excellent observations. However every now and again I get mail from deep inside Arkham ...
This is just one of many action items that I have done in relation to trying to educate people about ALEC. This Saturday - September 3 until noon, max. I am looking for three volunteers to help at the M...
The response likely evolved from when we had to run after -- or from -- animals for survival.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel no longer has enough coalition votes in the Bundestag to secure backing for Europe's revamped rescue machinery, threatening a consitutional crisis in Germany and a fresh eru...
After a week of tributes and mourning, the talk in Ottawa is sure to turn to "what now" this week, as the NDP begins the process of replacing Jack Layton. Of course, some did not wait that long. Anonymou...
I just finished reading Glen Yeadon's fantastic book, *The Nazi Hydra In America* I've been quoting at such great length for the last couple months. Towards the end is the story of the CIA assassination...
I have to wonder about the increasing "news" of space aliens and visitations? Hell, Paul Krugman even suggested that an alien invasion, even a fake one, could help the ailing economy. What nonsense!...
As goes the quotes by Maxwell “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”The best example for these quotes is MR Frank Delape the CEO of benchmark equity group and he is the real ...
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Actress Daryl Hannah was the first to be arrested today, Tuesday, Aug. 30, at the White House to halt the tar sands and its dirty pipeline. Hannah was among 73 arrested. Photo 1: Indigenous Nations Netw...
*Yes, Mitt Romney is clueless* Below is an essay about Norman Solomon I found on the Campaign Watch Facebook page. Virtually every problem facing America today can be traced back to the sell-out of our de...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Eastern Honshu, Japan at a depth of 146.4 km (91 miles), the quake hit at 13:44:34 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011. The epicenter was 65 km ( 40 miles) SSE of Akita, Hon...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Eastern New Guinea Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 43 km (26.7 miles), the quake hit at 15:00:47 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011. The epicenter was 76 km ( 47 mil...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 109.9 km (68.3 miles), the quake hit at 13:21:49 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011. The epicenter was 16 km ( 9 miles) ESE...
Clayton and Healing Walk: Photo Keepers of the Athabasca *Tuesday, August 30, 2011– The Tar Sands Protest:*Listen at 1 pm Eastern, noon Central, 11 am Mountain, 10 am Pacific: http://www.nativeamericacall...
*Grozny, said to be like Sirte.* *NATO commits massacre at Sirte razing the city to the ground* Posted: 29 August 2011 at Mathaba. Originally from Argumenti.ru "For the third day in a row, NATO aircra...
The Israeli military said Monday that it has sent two additional warships to the Red Sea border with Egypt following warnings that militants are planning another attack on southern Israel from Egyptian soi...
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