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A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of
Honshu, Japan at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 07:14:57 UTC Saturday 6th August 2011. The epicenter was 123 km (76 miles) ESE ...
*Gulen and friend.* On 6 August 2011,
The Economist reports on *a Moslem who is friendly towards Israel* (*A hard act to follow*). *This Moslem reportedly has links to heroin.* (Funded by Heroin Via the ...
A popular visitors attraction in
East Yorkshire has closed its doors for the last time after an outbreak of E.coli. Cruckley Animal Farm at Foston-on-the-Wolds, near
Driffield, has been a favourite for f...
Lightning sparked three wildfires in the Bitteroot National Forest after Thursday night's storm. A fire burning in the Sapphire Mountains is about 10 miles northeast of Corvallis. Two engines and 26 fire...
State and federal scientists are trying to identify a mysterious orange substance that washed up on the shore of a village in northwestern Alaska this week. Residents on Wednesday noticed an orange sheen...
Brookings' Shaikh: BRIC Nations are Spoiled Brats by Tony Cartalucci Citing the ongoing UN sanctioned, US, UK, and French led crime against humanity in Libya and the predictable revulsion it conjures up in...
Though it fell apart in the high mountains, Tropical Storm Emily’s passage across the island of Hispaniola proved deadly and destructive — but not as devastating as feared. Authorities were still surveyin...
Flood waters from a river in China's southwestern province of Sichuan forced thousands to evacuate on Friday, while residents in nearby Hunan province face severe shortages of water for drinking and crops,...
Maybe the guest filming this should have just got out, but a dramatic video was taken of a hotel ceiling collapsing during serious flash flooding. Erik Slemon and his dad Allan Goldberg, of Miami, Florida,...
Some people say it’s a dog, others think it’s a badger and one has even suggested it could be the result of secret government animal testing. But this roadkill found in Alexandria, Minnesota, has baffled l...
A Navy drone that disappeared along the coast in central Libya in June was probably shot down by Colonel Gadhafi's forces, a U.S. military investigation has concluded. According to Lieutenant Comander Mar...
A pervert with an 'uncontrollable obsession with child pornography and torture' has had his sentence slashed by the Court of Appeal. Anthony Martin Milsom, 62, had newspaper cuttings relating to high-prof...
*U.S. loses AAA credit rating from S&P* Anonymous said... Keiser report that financial oligarchies are playing financial terrorism with USA economy, banks are actually making profit...
A father-of-four accused of stabbing his wife and four young children before setting fire to their house and killing all five victims has been jailed on a charge of aggravated murder. Jordan Adam Criado, ...
The leader of a polygamist Mormon sect has been found guilty of sexually abusing girls aged 12 and 15 among his two dozen child ‘wives’. Warren Jeffs, 55, faces a possible life sentence. The self-proclaim...
A Royal Navy commander has been jailed for six months for swindling £53,000 of taxpayers’ money to send his children to an exclusive boarding school. Commander Anthony Gray, 49, was told ‘the clang of the ...
Five current or former police officers were convicted on Friday over the deadly shootings on a New Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katrina. Former officer Robert Faulcon, Sgts. Robert Gisevius and Kenneth B...
The panel set up to reform human rights laws was denounced as a ‘stitch up’ last night after it refused to confront the key issue of the power over British cases wielded by European judges. The commission...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Western Iran at a depth of 2 km ( 1.1 miles), the quake hit at 05:19:42 UTC Saturday 6th August 2011. The epicenter was 28 km (13.5 miles) Southwest of Masjed-e Soleyma...
A Royal Marine was blown up in Afghanistan by a 14-year-old boy who was promised just $80 to set off a roadside bomb. Father-of-one Stephen Curley, 26, was killed instantly when the bomb was detonated in ...
Gordon Ramsay yesterday declared war on his wife’s family by suing her father, mother, sister, brother, brother’s wife — and even her father’s alleged mistress. All six were named in an explosive writ lo...
Exactly 80 years ago, international capitalism stood on the verge of meltdown. The collapse of the banking system in the summer of 1931 sent shockwaves through Europe, bringing governments to their knees ...
Ministers admitted the British economy was in peril yesterday amid warnings that the new global financial meltdown will cause a double dip recession. Another £38billion was wiped off the value of Britain’s...
In November 1917, the Bolsheviks ignited their October Revolution and overtook Russia. They were ultimately successful despite the attempts of some forces that tried to stop them. *Czechoslovak Legion...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Mona Passage, Dominican Republic at a depth of 125 km ( 77 miles), the quake hit at 04:30:59 UTC Saturday 6th August 2011. The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) East of L...
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck Southern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 30.9 km ( 19.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:45:54 UTC Saturday 6th August 2011. The epicenter was 160 km (99 miles) Northwest ...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 42.7 km ( 26.5 miles), the quake hit at 01:03:47 UTC Saturday 6th August 2011. The epicenter was 278 km (172 miles) E...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:39:14 UTC Friday 5th August 2011. The epicenter was 638 km (396 miles) North of Santa ...
posted by David Preiser (USA) at
Biased BBC - 3 hours ago
It's happened. Standard & Poor's has downgraded the United States' credit rating to AA+ for the first time in history. Worse still, they have a negative outlook on the country fixing things in the near fut...
RFID tags could soon eliminate cash -- and attendants -- at parking garages.
*Leonard Peltier attorney claims solitary confinement a ‘setup’* By Jeff Armstrong Contributing Writer *Published with permission* Imprisoned American Indian Movement (AIM) activist Leonard Peltier has be...
Credit rating agency Standard and Poor's has downgraded the United States' credit rating for the first time in the history of the ratings. The country's top AAA rating - which it has held since 1917 - now ...
Global financial markets could face further turmoil in the wake of the US credit rating downgrade. Credit ratings agency Standard and Poor's said early on Saturday morning they had downgraded the country ...
European policymakers tried to turn a more powerful fire hose on the euro zone debt crisis on Thursday but financial markets were unimpressed with their response. The European Central Bank resumed buying ...
Syrian human rights activists said Thursday that Syrian government forces had killed more than 100 people in the rebellious city of Hama in the first 24 hours since seizing control of its central square wi...
She reclines among leopard print pillows, her rouged lips pouting at the camera. But shockingly the model in these highly sexualised pictures is only 10 years old. The provocative images of Thylane Lena-R...
A professor at Chestnut Hill College dove over a second-floor railing inside a building on campus during his class, killing him, police say. Rudolf Alexandrov, 71, an adjunct professor teaching mathematics...
The man who jumped a White House fence Tuesday night talked to us Wednesday after a court appearance. James Dirk Crudup told 9NEWS the move was a cry for help because he can't find a job in this economy...
President Barack Obama and many Democrats are talking about raising taxes on the wealthy, and new data released this week by the Internal Revenue Service reveals new details about the number of Americans w...
Nearly 15% of the U.S. population relied on food stamps in May, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. The number of Americans using the government's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance P...
*I should probably have called attention sooner in our second You Know Me Alseries to the remarkably perceptive appreciation of the "completeness" of Jack and the people around him offered by Virginia Woolf...
"When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; ...
The Standard & Poor's rating agency announced Friday that it has downgraded the U.S. credit rating to AA+ from its top rank of AAA. "The downgrade reflects our opinion that the fiscal consolidation plan th...
While in Roswell I had a chance, brief though it was, to talk to Stan Friedman. He had come up to me as I ate breakfast and suggested that I was probably correct about Robert Willingham which is surprising...
*Aerial view of Governors Island, off the southern tip of Manhattan (with the Brooklyn waterfront off to the right)* *by Ken* Rain, rain, stay away! For this weekend I've had a couple of Municipal Art Soc...
Markets could rebound after Thursday's global market sell-off, but investors should see any bounce as a selling opportunity, as the world economy rolls towards total collapse, Mark Faber, editor and publis...
Mortgage finance giant Fannie Mae said it would ask for an additional $5.1 billion from taxpayers as a weaker housing market causes continued losses on loans made prior to 2009. The largest U.S. residenti...
A Denver couple has filed a formal complaint with the Transportation Security Administration after a pregnant woman's insulin and ice packs were confiscated by screeners at Denver International Airport. T...
City staff are exploring authorizing a "tent city," a move that would make the Beach the first community in the state to sanction a homeless encampment - if the City Council approves the idea. Mayor Will ...
There was a time, not all that long ago, when the Pentagon sank tens of millions of dollars into remote-controlled lightning guns that it hoped would fry insurgent bombs before they killed any more troops....
Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Friday that the media has the responsibility to not give equal time or credence to the Tea Party's views: SEN. JOHN KERRY: "And I have to tell you, I s...
Two Border Patrol agents were indicted on Thursday on charges of forcing accused drug smugglers to eat marijuana and flee barefoot and nearly naked into the chilly Arizona desert. Dario Castillo, 23, and ...
A 79-year-old Oak Cliff woman succumbs to the North Texas heat and dies in her home just two days after reporting to police that her central air conditioner had been stolen. Dolores Grissom’s home sits ...
Skippy the dog was an ambassador for the Marin Humane Society. Just weeks after his death, a bronze statue donated in Skippy’s honor has gone missing. Before his death on July 17th, the Jack Russell terr...
A 40-year-old New Hampshire woman has been charged with robbing a 14-year-old girl at gunpoint in a dispute over a bicycle. Officers say the teenager was riding a friend’s bike on Ash Street in Manchester...
Police say a series of cartoons mocking officers and other city workers are criminal, and the people who posted them online are guilty of cyberstalking. One member of the police department has already been...
In Pyongyang, jittery government minders keep a vice-like control over the few journalists who make it inside and discourage them from meeting or photographing its citizens. So the true picture of life in ...
Witnesses tell Newsradio 620 WTMJ and TODAY'S TMJ4 of a mob of young people attacking innocent fair-goers at the end of the opening night of State Fair, with some callers claiming a racially-charged scene....
Libya's rebels said Friday they have reports that Moammar Gadhafi's youngest son, who commands one of the regime's strongest military brigades, was killed in a NATO airstrike in the western town of Zlitan....
It’s like something out of the movies. But, in this case the guns are real and the victims are SEPTA passengers in the wrong place at the wrong time, although remarkably no one was hit. In court, author...
Bank of New York Mellon Corp. on Thursday took the extraordinary step of telling large clients it will charge them to hold cash. The unusual move means some U.S. depositors will have to pay to keep big ch...
Thursday, August 4 was a black day on world stock exchanges. In New York, Dow Jones fell by 4.3 percent and Nasdaq closed at minus 5.3 percent "and all gains that have occurred since year-end were deleted ...
The Japanese yen is now being chosen as a safe haven. But the currency is about as safe as standing under a cliff in the way of a landslide in the pouring rain. Japan is on the verge of a financial collap...
The new slash and burn paradigm of American politics is going to be costly for the U.S. economy, and time is running out to put an end to the madness. The recent drama of our nation’s debt/deficit “crisis”...
A joint undercover investigation by BBC Newsnight and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has uncovered evidence that the Ethiopian government is using billions of dollars of development aid as a tool f...
South Korean police arrested five men Thursday for allegedly collaborating with North Korean computer experts to hack into online game systems to generate millions of dollars in illicit gains. Their inves...
The US, Britain, and Europe are together embarking on a sudden and severe tightening of fiscal policy, in unison, before economic recovery has reached safe take-off speed. The experiment was last tried in ...
Little over a fortnight ago, leaders claimed they had found the recipe to cure Europe's ills. Serving up a second bailout for Greece worth £96bn was supposed to calm the turmoil afflicting the eurozone. ...
Monkeys at Colchester Zoo have invented a unique do not disturb sign that has amazed experts. The mandrills - the largest member of the monkey family - put their hands over their eyes when they want to be...
Scientists have found new evidence for possible saltwater flows on Mars. The discovery was announced at a NASA news conference Thursday. Alfred McEwen, lead author of the Science journal study showing thes...
...and all the anonymous news reports that come with it: *NDP 'unease' surrounds Turmel's Bloc secrecy *There's a serious unease in the NDP over interim leader Nycole Turmel's memberships in two Quebec so...
Photography by Charles Taylor
posted by laura k at
wmtc - 10 hours ago
Search string of the day: doctors told me to get an abortion to save my life what should i do This is what you should do: GET AN ABORTION. Your life is more important than a fetus. You can get pregnant ag...
Not all people who are serious evangelical church goers are right-wing fanatics. An old friend of mine structures much of her life around her church and she takes it really seriously. Mostly what she take...
A Bad Week for the Army Corps of Engineers~Sandy Rosenthal
Anders Breivik is condemned by an author he once admired, as well as by a survivor of his attacks.
Because there's more to life than Shark Week...
It's been well over a year since I did this feature and I thought it was high time to resurrect it. And what better reason to blow the dust off this Pottersville staple than to concentrate on the impact P...
Tests that normally require a full-sized lab and days to complete can now be performed in real-time on a computer chip.
A fatal polar bear attack remains a relatively rare event, at least for now.
Officials in China concerned by a recent drought in parts of the country are firing rockets towards clouds in a bid to spur artificial rainfall. Workers with the Meteorological Authority in Qingzhen city, ...
A German tourist has died after collapsing following a lightning strike at Grand Canyon National Park. Park rangers said emergency medical responders performed CPR but couldn't revive the 64-year-old woma...
This blog began over two years ago as a vehicle to share and preserve photographs of the trees I saw dying all around me, and also as an archive for links to research and articles. Since the decline of tr...
A trove of small figurines and jewelry that was illegally taken from King Tut's tomb has been returned to Egypt.
While the numbers remain stable, a new report highlights the need to target certain groups more than others in the fight against infection.
An entire 20-man police force has resigned in a northern Mexican town following a series of attacks that killed the police chief and five officers over the last three months. The officers' desertion on Th...
This 12-year-old Chinese boy has been chained up by his uncle for the past two years. It’s claimed that this is for his own safety because he’s mentally handicapped – but most people will find these image...
Electricity officials in heatwave-hit Texas have warned of impending rolling blackouts from power shortages as the U.S. state struggles to cope with the relentless scorching temperatures. Texans have turn...
One of the worst droughts in Texas history has unearthed a chilling discovery, a graveyard for freed slaves.. While the heat may be taking a toll on crops, livestock and people's livelihoods, it has helpe...
A Philadelphia college was rattled Wednesday by the suicide of a math professor who leapt to his death as his wife and horrified class looked on. Adjunct professor Rudolf Alexandrov was about to start his ...
Super Congress: A 12 member line-up, President Obama as the head coach, and the American people as the turf. The goal posts will be military cuts on one end, and Social Security/Medicare cuts on the other ...
As he rode the bus late one afternoon, Lefenus Pickett suddenly realised he could not stand by any longer. A mother was spanking her child for running in the aisles so the 37-year-old intervened and told ...
A polar bear clawed through a tent and mauled to death a British teenager and left four others seriously injured in a horrific attack in Norway today. The starving animal killed Horatio Chapple, 17, as he ...
Israel has carried out a second night of air strikes against targets in the Gaza Strip. Palestinians say one of the targets was a training facility for the military wing of Hamas, and smuggling tunnels al...
Call it technology in reverse: Thousands of people are lining up online to have messages they could send in an instant delivered far more slowly. And according to the creator of Snail Mail My Email, a mont...
Violence raged across the Syrian city of Hama as anti-government protesters in other cities took to the streets on Friday against the embattled regime. Hama endured steady shelling and bombing Friday mor...
Heavy rain and potential flooding threatened hundreds of thousands of Haitians living in temporary quarters early Friday as the remnants of Tropical Storm Emily made a final stand across the central Cari...
Financial anxiety gripped the globe Friday, as stock markets worldwide saw steep declines amid worries of a widening debt crisis in Europe and a stalling economic recovery in the United States. Stock mark...
Turbulence and uncertainty dominated the global financial markets on Friday as a lack of investor and trader confidence continued to drive share values downward. The global equity sell-off and subsequent ...
The front lines of Libya's grinding war weave through the western mountains and around Zlitan, the last city east of Tripoli still under the grip of strongman Moammar Gadhafi. In many places that Gadhaf...
Another day, another assault on the air conditioning systems of America. A spell of suffocating heat will grip much of the South again Friday. Heat advisories are in place for parts of 14 states. People fr...
One of the longest oil pipelines in Iran exploded Friday and burned for 10 hours before firefighters were able to extinguish it, Iranian media reported. Authorities are investigating the cause of the blas...
China has relaxed its strict birth-control restrictions for families that lost children in a mudslide that killed hundreds in the northwest last year, state media reported Friday. Women in the Zhouqu area...
*Japan radiation causes possible rice contamination - August 2, 2011* Vidéo mirrorthis2010 sélectionnée dans Actualité
The government is planning to draw up a map showing concentrations of radioactive substances in farmlands and conduct a study on contaminated debris. The measures are to be implemented before the end of t...
Nov 9, 2011 the earth will supposedly cross the threshold of the debris tail of *ELENIN* on the same plain (assuming *ELENIN* is a real object that would be catastrophic). This is a cool interactive NASA ...
To some extent, my feeling has lately been that the information age of the internet, Wikileaks, etc. is kicking away the ladder of government secrecy. Reading through this recent ACLU report on secrecy law...
Who knows what medicinal secrets lurk in a pot of honey? Scientists in Wales intend to find out and are asking beekeepers throughout the United Kingdom to send in their honey for inspection. They are espec...
The warming of the Arctic is releasing toxic chemicals that had been trapped in the ice and cold water, scientists have discovered. Researchers warn that the amount of poison in the polar region is unknown...
A California company is developing a new type of airship for transporting cargo and, possibly, passengers. It is not an airplane and not a blimp, but has elements of both. The vehicle uses new technology a...
Japan expressed concern on Tuesday over the Chinese military's recent maritime activities in its annual defense report, a week after Beijing officially announced its aircraft carrier program. "Given the m...
If the United States is downgraded over its vast debt and widening deficits, Americans may be cheered by the examples of Canada and Australia, which both restored lost "AAA" credit ratings. But others tha...
In normal times, Lake E.V. Spence is a teeming 14,600-acre reservoir with a maximum depth of 108 feet, just west of the town of Robert Lee, Texas. In normal times, the reservoir serves not only the 1,000 o...
A gap year student brutally beaten by a gang while travelling in Australia is now being forced to pay £650 for the two-minute ambulance drive to hospital. Angus Paskin Orr, 19, was kicked unconscious when...
Security experts have uncovered a five-year-long hacking scheme, believed to be from China, which targeted U.S. government and U.N. computers. The country is accused of systematically launching huge cyber ...
A horrific scene unfolded in Berlin in broad daylight yesterday morning when a gunman fired a volley of shots into a car, killing two women and seriously injuring the man driving it. The execution-style m...
Plenty of app developers seem to have trouble supporting Apple's tablet.
A robotic explorer named Juno has launched and is on its way to Jupiter.
The sensor has accurately detected date-rape drugs in drinks 100 percent of the time.
Racing's top drivers host a new action sports fantasy camp for hard-core competitors.
[image: Stocks turn lower] A stronger jobs report wasn't enough to quiet *financial markets* or stem concerns that the debt crisis in Europe can threaten the fragile *U.S. economy* the Dow Jones industria...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 24 km ( 14.9 miles), the quake hit at 16:08:48 UTC Friday 5th August 2011. The epicenter was 135 km (83 miles) Southeast of Raoul ...
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wmtc - 15 hours ago
I've finished reading *Moby Duck* by Donovan Hohn, one of the very best books I've read in some time. In earlier posts about this book (here and here), I said it is about the permanence of plastic and the ...
Really pathetic to read this on the White House Blog yesterday: Myth: President Obama caved. Even sadder that they're still defending the Satan Sandwich that has caused the stock market to crash. Sadder s...
Update on Baluchistan Violence by Tony Cartalucci The George Soros-funded Human Rights Watch (HRW) is pulling out the stops to portray the latest spat of violence in Pakistan's southwest Baluchistan provi...
Further to yesterday's blog post, the Down's Syndrome Association has issued the following statement: DSA make official complaint following Richard Bacon's Radio 5 Live Show The Down’s Syndrome Associati...
Adapter connects four devices using your home's existing electrical lines.
Still mourning the real thing? There's nothing like shiny plastic bricks to make it better.
Ricoh Europe's 'eco-board' powered by five turbines and 96 solar panels.
An engagement party ended in horror when a two-year-old boy drowned in a neighbour's swimming pool after wandering off. Toddler Ryan Pearman was found lying face-down under the pool's cover by shocked fam...
The part-nationalised Royal Bank of Scotland today reported a half-year loss of £794 million. It compares to last year's profit of £1.2 billion. RBS, which is 83 per cent state owned, also announced that ...
A three-year-old British girl has died after falling from a high-rise apartment block in Singapore. The girl, who has not been named, was reported to have been in a 13th-floor apartment in Fraser Residenc...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Oregon at a depth of 37.2 km ( 23.1 miles), the quake hit at 15:10:07 UTC Friday 5th August 2011. The epicenter was 375 km (233 miles) WNW of Coos Bay,...
Ryanair staff tried to treat a passenger suffering cardiac arrest with a sandwich and a fizzy drink - before billing him for the food, it has emerged. Per-Erik Jonsson, 63, was on a flight from England to...
I confess oftentimes I go running in the morning just so I can tell myself I won't have to run for another 24 hours when I am done. I confess my husband has one more week left of summer. That means I have ...
A polar bear clawed through a tent and mauled to death a British teenager and left four others seriously injured in a horror attack in Norway today. The starving animal attacked the group of 13 young explo...
The first of the three people jailed over Baby P's death has been released from prison, according to reports. Jason Owen, 39, was serving a six-year sentence for causing or allowing the death of 17-mont...
There are lots of interesting articles on Anthony Watts' blog but when I saw the text by Ric Werme Andrea Rossi’s E-cat fusion device on target and noticed that it has a perfect, 5-star rating, I had to t...
posted by David Vance at
Biased BBC - 17 hours ago
Honestly, the BBC's refusal to countenance the serial failure of Obama's policies just continues in every manifestation imaginable. This afternoonthey intone, *"Instability on the stock markets has continu...
President Obama announced that he has averted a crisis with more than a trillion dollars in immediate spending cuts, a number much higher than the value of the stimulus package passed at the beginning ...
A nonlethal electronic shark-deterrent will be used for an attempt at a record-breaking swim through shark-filled waters.
The backed by NATO Libyan "rebels" are falling apart at the seams, but, that doesn't give NATO even a moments pause for thought in their civilian death campaign. Image borrowed from here As has been exp...
The drought-stricken town is taking a page from NASA, which developed a urine recycling program for astronauts.
While we're on the subject of journalistic ethics, let me just cite poggeand thwap. They've already said it better than I can. From pogge: Every year or two I find a reason to point to Declan's post on t...
*Is Argenziano a Democrat now?* Florida has a history of electing very conservative Democrats to office who reflexively vote with the GOP. The highly dysfunctional state party there, working closely with ...
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The African crested rat is the only other mammal besides humans to strategically use plant poisons.
An analysis of fossil soils indicates grasslands dominated East Africa for 7.4 million years.
Nasa is launching a mission to Jupiter that aims to uncover the giant planet's secrets. Weeks after *Nasa ended its space shuttle programme* due to budget cuts, it is sending out a probe to the solar sys...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near Eastern Honshu, Japan at a depth of 29.7 km ( 18.5 miles), the quake hit at 11:16:05 UTC Friday 5th August 2011. The epicenter was 7 km (4 miles) West of Iwaki, H...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 55.5 km ( 34.5 miles), the quake hit at 10:53:22 UTC Friday 5th August 2011. The epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) ESE ...
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- 21 hours ago
*Who cares about memory management?* For computers I mean, in particular Linux computers. This should be taken care off most assume when installing a Linux distro. True! Yet, there are some situations tha...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 229.2 km ( 142.4 miles), the quake hit at 10:38:23 UTC Friday 5th August 2011. The epicenter was 200 km (124 miles) West of Neiafu, Tonga No Tsunami...
China has called more than 7,000 fishing boats back to port in preparation for Typhoon Muifa, one of the most powerful storms to hit the region in recent years, according to state media. Authorities in t...
China is known to have told Korea that it does not know about a reported leak of radioactive materials to the Yellow Sea from a Chinese nuclear submarine moored in the Chinese port of Dalian in Liaoning Pr...
*Four people, including three children were killed and several people injured after a four-story building collapsed in the Lyari area of Karachi on Thursday.* *Express 24/7 *correspondent Ahmed Jung repo...
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's regime has accused Nato of bombing civilian targets in the western town of Zlitan, the scene of battles between rival Libyan forces. Western journalists were shown the remains o...
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's youngest son has been killed by Nato strikes in Libya, according to reports. Rebel forces have said the Libyan leader's son Khamis was among more than 30 people dead following a...
Markets around the world have fallen further as London's leading shares index suffered more heavy losses this morning. The FTSE 100 opened at more than 2.5% down, and markets in Paris, Frankfurt, Milan an...
A British tourist has been mauled to death and four other people have been injured in a polar bear attack in Norway. The attack happened today in the Norwegian Arctic Archipelago of Svalbard. "One perso...
The mother of a three-year-old girl, who was beaten to death by her own father, has admitted allowing her boyfriend to beat their children - in return for a light prison sentence. Kimberly Cantos, from Br...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Celebes Sea at a depth of 371.2 km ( 230.7 miles), the quake hit at 08:17:44 UTC Friday 5th August 2011. The epicenter was 148 km (92 miles) Northwest of Manado, Sulawe...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Eastern New Guinea Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 67.5 km ( 41.9 miles), the quake hit at 08:04:21 UTC Friday 5th August 2011. The epicenter was 108 km (67...
The U.S. claims Syria has caused the deaths of more than 2,000 of its own people in attacks on peaceful protesters during the five-month uprising. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the Syrian governm...
A boy whose obesity struggles led him to a school famous for helping kids lose weight was gunned down by his own mother before she killed herself. Maryland police made the discovery Tuesday after a co-work...
Stock markets plunged today and experienced their worst day since the banking crisis began. Panic tore through global financial centres as fears grew that the U.S. is staring at another recession and that...
A fugitive sex offender who police want to question over the disappearance of a young nursing student Holly Bobo has been arrested. Victor George Wall, 43, who was convicted of molesting a child in Washing...
The full extent of polygamist leader Warren Jeffs's underage sex ring was exposed by prosecutors today after he was found guilty of sexually abusing a 12-year-old and 15-year-old girl. As the Texas court...
A crazed woman ran over her boyfriend twice leaving him brain damaged because she thought he'd cheated her at a computer game. Erin Slingsby, 20, ploughed into boyfriend Kane Charles as he stood in front ...
A suspected gang member was killed last night in a shootout with police which left an officer seriously wounded. The victim, believed to be in his thirties, died from gunshot wounds in the back of a taxi ...
Around 100 Libyan refugees are believed to have died after a boat carrying them got into difficulties off the Italian island of Lampedusa. Reports from the area say that the dead were among more than 300 p...
A cleaner battered a vulnerable pensioner to death after befriending him to get her hands on his £250,000 fortune, a court heard yesterday. Ann Browning, 54, bewitched Bill Williamson, persuading the lonel...
The International Monetary Fund suffered a fresh setback today after an inquiry was launched into its new boss Christine Lagarde. A French court ordered the investigation into her role in a huge settlement...
Finger-like features visible in images from Mars may be streams of salty water spilling over the rims of craters, scientists believe. The puzzling clusters of dark lines fade in winter and reappear in the ...
The death penalty, pulling out of Europe and withdrawing from the European Human Rights Act topped the agenda as the public yesterday got the chance to decide what Parliament debates. The Government launc...
A School with more than 400 pupils has only four for whom English is their mother tongue. In one of Britain’s most extreme cases, it has emerged that less than 1 per cent of pupils at Bradford Moor Commu...
Well then, the BBC has a problem. Despite Obama's heroic raising of the Debt Ceiling and despite the best efforts of our wise rulers in the EU, financial markets decided yesterday that they no longer can t...
Piers Morgan today faced calls from the Culture Committee chairman to return to the UK to answer 'very serious questions' over allegations of phone hacking. Conservative MP John Whittingdale said the CNN ...
Leaning across the bus seat, these teenage killers shake hands in a sickening moment of self-congratulation. One is heard to say to another: ‘You’re the new young boss.’ [image: Font size] Just half an ...
A paedophile tried to rape a schoolboy after bosses at the secure unit where he was held allowed him unsupervised day release. Shaun Tudor lured his ten-year-old victim into woods and molested him after b...
Actor Rowan Atkinson cheated death last night after careering off the road in his 240mph supercar. The £650,000 McLaren F1 spun several times, smashing into a tree and ploughing into a road sign before ca...
Stock markets plunged yesterday in the biggest rout since the height of the financial crisis three years ago. Panic tore through global financial centres, raising fears of a new world recession. This mor...
In June 2010, *George Soros* said (full transcript/summary Seeking Alpha): *1.* The current economic situation is like the 1930s. Governments are under pressure to cut spending. At the same time the econ...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Santa Cruz Islands at a depth of 42.3 km ( 26.3 miles), the quake hit at 01:13:26 UTC Friday 5th August 2011. The epicenter was 85 km (52 miles) West of Lata, Santa Cru...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 42.5 km ( 26.4 miles), the quake hit at 20:18:23 UTC Thursday 4th August 2011. The epicenter was 171 km (106 miles)...
Those who the BBC labels climate deniers have been saying it along: we do not have enough accurate data to decide with certainty whether recent low levels of arctic summer ice are unusual. Richard Black, t...
Sheriff Joe poses holding the pink underwear he forced 700 male convicts to wear while parading from their old jail to their new one. Photo courtesy: reason If you are thrown in the slammer by Maricopa Co...
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*"One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way as to turn those in the 99 percent against one another: small property owners against the propert...
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*Interrupting Your Regularly Scheduled Programming.* WARNING: THE FOLLOWING VIDEO MAY BE UNSUITABLE FOR SOME VIEWERS. IT PRESENTS A RATHER UNPLEASANT SEQUENCE OF IMAGES OF SOMETHING MORE OF US NEED TO GET ...
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*The Elite and Their Political Servants* *"Senator Hutchinson,* *You are not my friend, nor that of the American People."* * * * * *My Exercise In Futility* Over the past several months I have been enga...
Once the awe of realizing we are not alone in the universe has settled in, there will be a spirited debate over whether we should send a response to an alien interstellar message.
Will Iran and Saudi Arabia become friends? On 3 August 2011 it was reported that, according to Iranian MP Hossein Sobhaninia: "*Certain Western countries are concerned about the development of* *a stron...
Anyone else remember Imelda Marcos and HER shoes? It has been said that you can never have too many shoes; but, you can have more shoes than anyone else in the world. Now, I'm not sure whether having a ...
The hoppy couple: John and Gilly Hughes on their wedding day with pet kangaroo and bridesmaid Zoe in Deans Marsh, Victoria, Australia. Photo courtesy: dailymail When Gilly Richardson and John Hughes took...
We should've known way back in December, if not sooner than that, what we'd elected as President. You may remember that chilly month when a lot of 99ers were waiting to see if their unemployment benefits ...
The screens are red and the FTSE is down 2.6pc so far today, at the tail end of what is already a terrible week. Jose Manuel Barroso has said that the euro crisis is spreading inwards from the periphery, a...
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has issued a recall notice on four varieties of Kettle Chips, while the company itself said: "As a precautionary measure, we are asking customers not to eat the product and ...
Hackers breached security on the website of the American chocolate giant Hershey's and changed a baking recipe, it has emerged. They recently targeted the firm, the United States' largest chocolate manufa...
The top share index fell more than two percent on Wednesday, driven lower by uncertainty over global growth, with commodity stocks heading the list of fallers. The FTSE 100 sank to its lowest closing leve...
A southern Chinese city has banned pet dogs, leaving tens of thousands facing a cull unless they can find new homes. Authorities in Jiangmen, Guangdong province, say they are concerned about rabies cases ...
The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday issued a statement condemning the Syrian government's crackdown on protesters and calling for an immediate end to violence by all parties. "The Security Council co...
NATO vowed to continue its air assault on Libya over the holy Muslim month of Ramadan unless Libyan dictator Mommar Qadhafi agreed to a `verifiable and credible` ceasefire, a spokesman for the western mili...
Activists from Israel’s social protest movement reacted furiously on Wednesday after parliament passed a housing bill that they say will favour the rich and endanger the environment. Police said that hund...
Norwegian police will track funds used by anti-immigration zealot Anders Behring Breivik as part of a year-long probe into his killing spree that left 77 people dead and the nation stunned. A specially cre...
*Flashpoints - August 4, 2011 at 5:00pm* Click to listen (or download)
*"I have lost all interest in the game and I don't care if Callahan pitches me to-morrow or not. My heart is just about broke Al."* *-- Jack, in his letter of October 9* *by Ken* Tonight, for a change, Ja...
Cherri Foytlin, Gulf Mom and Activist from Louisiana held a demonstration today at the New Orleans BP Headquarters to call attention to the plight of Gulf residents and wildlife that continue to suffer p...
[image: A mussel shell lies on the bank of a dried-up creek bed near Lake Arlington in Arlington, Texas, 1 August 2011. REUTERS / Tim Sharp] By Michael Hirtzer with additional reporting by Julie Ingwerse...
. Firewall Steve plays the bash Quebec card; dumbass corporate media eats it up. . Pogge ... Sinister Greg ... Thwap ... Dr. Dawg ... .
*Corporate destruction of Mother Earth most censored issue in Indian country * By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com *Photo: Marisa Joseph, Yankton Sioux, stands with Gerald Dan...
[image: The remains of a catfish decay in a dried up lake in San Angelo, Texas, on Monday, 27 July 2011. news.blogs.cnn.com] By Eileen O'Grady, with additional reporting by Scott DiSavino in New York, e...
President Obama was back in Chicago last night celebrating his 50th birthday with a few of his well-heeled liberal friends -- the kind of leftist elites who can afford to shell out $35,800 to attend a pa...
For most of human history, empires and rulers have made a killing in the business of war, land grabs, territorial conquests, natural resource exploitation, and the high stakes game of power politics. But ...
*"This Sharia law business [i.e., that it has anything to do with lawyer Sohail Mohammed's suitability to be a judge] is crap. It's just crazy. And I'm tired of dealing with the crazies. . . . It's just u...
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My apologies for such a poor effort on the blogging front this week. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your viewpoint) an old back injury flared up again, putting me out of action for most of it....
Seventy-two people have been charged with participating in an international child pornography network that prosecutors say used an online bulletin board called Dreamboard to trade tens of thousands of imag...
Britons' appetite for Facebook and social networks on the go is driving a huge demand for smartphones – with 60% of teenagers describing themselves as "highly addicted" to their device – according to new r...
The city council of South America's biggest city has adopted legislation calling for a Heterosexual Pride Day to be celebrated on the third Sunday of each December. Sao Paulo Mayor Gilberto Kassab must si...
A mother accused of punching her toddler son in the mouth on a city bus and shouting expletives at him was surrounded by a "hostile" crowd of passengers until police arrived, authorities said Wednesday. ...
Many House and Senate conservatives are reviving their battle against federal regulations, claiming that the president hasn't stopped issuing job-killing rules during the debt ceiling fight. "While Washing...
A German court on Thursday awarded a man convicted of murdering an 11-year-old boy euro3,000 ($4,290) in damages because a police officer had threatened violence during an interrogation. The Frankfurt sta...
"Now, they've been around for a while, but they are spreading far and wide and more people are getting involved. We need to have an American spring, you know, the Arab spring. The non-violent part of it is...
A California desert school's aluminum baseball field bleachers have been stolen. Students returned Monday to Apple Valley's Academy of Academic Excellence campus and learned a large section of the bleache...
Breath mints are usually refreshing, but a Knoxville legislator believes a University of Tennessee bookstore's selling of novelty candies mocking President Barack Obama stinks. UT officials pulled the min...
U.S. debt shot up $239 billion on Tuesday — the largest one-day bump in history — as the government flexed the new borrowing room it earned in this week’s debt-limit increase deal. The debt subject to the...
The Department of Health (DOH) has noted a rapid growth in the number of typhoid fever cases in Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental. From June to July 2011 alone, there were already 78 recorded typhoid fever ...
The mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital, has come up with an unusual solution to solve the problem of illegal parking: Frustrated by the behaviour of luxury car owners, the office of Arturas Zuokas relea...
Police arrested more than 1,000 people and seized millions of dollars worth of illicit goods during a massive anti-crime joint operation by Hong Kong, Macau and Chinese police, authorities said Thursday. ...
We are now being asked to "share" in the hardships that are admittedly the result of the greed of powerful and unrestrained world "owners." The corruption and greed that preceded this most recent world-wid...
For several GOP lawmakers, the decision on whether to vote for the debt deal hinged on how the prescribed cuts will affect defense spending. In the end, enough Republicans in the House put their concerns a...
Oh what a tangled web we weave… The deal is done. The House passed it, the Senate passed it and the president signed it. Done deal, debt ceiling raised. So, we can all sigh a huge relief right? Er, not re...
After the 2008 financial collapse and Barack Obama’s election, millions of Americans hoped that our country would create a New Deal for the 21st century. Instead, it feels like we are getting a Raw Deal, ...
In a post to the Buzz & Banter, published Monday afternoon, I wrote the following: Putting all of this together, my take on the most likely scenario going forward is the following: After a relief rally as...
Combine class warfare, demonizing the rich, getting as many people onto the welfare rolls as possible, and pushing the economic system to collapse and you have a flawless formula for Cloward-Piven 2.0 -- a...
Nigeria's Ogoniland region could take 30 years to fully recover from oil spills, a UN report says. The long-awaited UN study says environment restoration could prove to be the world's "most wide-ranging a...
Two instances of glass falling off highrise buildings in Toronto this week have people wondering whether it's pure coincidence or a sign of some pervasive construction flaw. Similar incidents have occurre...
Six-year-old Karina Ricci doesn't ever have a typical day. She has no schedule to follow, no lessons to complete. She spends her time watching TV, doing arts and crafts or practicing the piano. She learne...
Computer-based brain training looks to be effective for treating some symptoms.
Male túngara frogs attempt to woo females with calls reminiscent of at least one 70's disco song. See if you can hear it.
Male túngara frogs attempt to woo females with calls reminiscent of at least one 70's disco song. See if you can hear it.
The National Conference of State legislators leadership has proposed a resolution in support of repealing the Dodd Frank consumer protection bill be voted on at their annual meeting next week in San Anton...
20.53 A new watershed moment, the Dow is down 513 points. US must just be praying for the bell to close trading. 20.50 NBC is to air a special report on the US markets when they close at 4pm Eastern time....
*Police in the Chilean capital Santiago fired water cannons and tear gas on Thursday to disperse hundreds of student protesters calling for education reforms, and detained at least 130 people.* * * *Stud...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Kepulauan Mentawai Region, Indonesia at a depth of 36.6 km ( 22.7 miles), the quake hit at 16:34:03 UTC Thursday 4th August 2011. The epicenter was 226 km (140 mil...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Kyushu, Japan at a depth of 117.3 km ( 72.9 miles), the quake hit at 15:09:43 UTC Thursday 4th August 2011. The epicenter was 56 km (34 miles) Northwest of Miyazaki, Ky...
*Jesus Vicente Zambada-Niebla* On 3 Agust 2011, it was reported that US government agents brought several tons of cocaine into the United States from Mexico. These federal agents then 'allowed' Mexico's...
This bothered me greatly earlier today. It concerns the whinging of a bunch of lefties who the BBC alleges have dealt the a blow to the government's inquiry into allegations that British security services...
The other morning, when the BBC was on strike and there was no Today, I watched instead a film about the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, on the channel known as ‘Yesterday.’ The film began with the birth o...
From up to 30 feet away, send high-def video and 5.1 surround sound audio from your laptop to your television.
An orbiting camera spies evidence of seasonal water on Mars' surface.
Why tote around multiple devices when you could have it all in one?
I've never quite figured out how evangelical Protestantism and extreme fiscal conservatism are entangled. But they are, at least here in the U.S. Apparently, the God worshipped by the most fundamentalist ...
Tropical Storm Emily caused flooding and damaged hundreds of homes in Haiti on Thursday as hundreds of thousands of vulnerable earthquake victims around the capital waited nervously in flimsy shanties and ...
This video shows images of protests in Syria, captured by a foreign journalist who managed to gain rare access inside the country. CBC News has agreed not to identify him because he fears for his safety. ...
If you're a longtime AT&T iPhone user whose unlimited data plan was grandfathered in when AT&T stopped offering unlimited plans last year, a brand new twist on your plan might seem like a pretty significan...
The former director of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center raised concerns Wednesday about an impending "code war" in which hackers will tamper not just with the Internet but with technology that runs real-w...
Forty years ago the Arabian oryx was extinct in the wild. Today this large antelope, native to the Arabian peninsula, is back from the brink with 1,000 animals across five Middle Eastern countries, thank...
Royal Dutch Shell faces having to pay compensation of potentially more than £250m ($410m) after the Anglo-Dutch oil group admitted liability for two spills in Nigeria following a legal claim brought in the...
The Japanese government said Thursday three top nuclear officials will be let go following their handling of the Fukushima Daiichi crisis, which has eroded public confidence in the country's nuclear policy...
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has warned that the sovereign debt crisis is spreading beyond the periphery of the eurozone. In a letter to European governments, he called on them to give...
The number of first-time filers for unemployment benefits fell last week, but remained at a key level signaling that the job market remain sluggish. There were 400,000 initial unemployment claims filed in ...
Our food-club, Rawesome, was raided by federal, California State and Los Angeles County Health Officials and Police with guns drawn and threatening. They unplugged our surveillance camera to hide their act...
A Swedish man who was arrested after trying to split atoms in his kitchen said Wednesday he was only doing it as a hobby. Richard Handl told The Associated Press that he had the radioactive elements radiu...
Three Himalaya glaciers have been shrinking over the last 40 years due to global warming and two of them, located in humid regions and on lower altitudes in central and east Nepal, may disappear in time to...
Popular energy and environmental programs should prepare for a decade of spending cuts under the debt deal reached late Sunday between the White House and congressional leaders. Less clear, however, is th...
Russia's vast permafrost areas may shrink by a third by the middle of the century due to global warming, endangering infrastructure in the Arctic zone, an emergencies ministry official said Friday. "In th...
Two University of Manchester academics have attempted to rewrite the meteorological manuals by claiming that the way the world learns about the weather is wrong and has been wrong for 90 years. Dr David S...
Only small amounts of subsurface warming of water is required to trigger a rapid collapse of ice shelves, according to a new report to be published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Scien...
The oceans cover 71% of our planet, with over half with a depth greater than 3000 m. Although our knowledge is still very limited, we know that the deep ocean contains a diversity of habitats and ecosystem...
The United States is on a pace in 2011 to set a record for the cost of weather-related disasters and the trend is expected to worsen as climate change continues, officials and scientists said on Thursday. ...
Gary Rinehart clearly remembers the summer day in 2002 when the stranger walked in and issued his threat. Rinehart was behind the counter of the Square Deal, his “old-time country store,” as he calls it, o...
Freshwater fish are the most endangered group of animals on the planet, with more than a third threatened with extinction, according to a report being compiled by British scientists. Among those at the gr...
Gold at $2,000? I didn’t used to think so – but now I am not so sure. In fact, I’m almost convinced it will happen before the year is out. Last week’s events on Capitol Hill in the US were very damaging. A...
Algae and pond weed have become the scourge of the summer taking over swimming ponds, canals and reservoirs around the country. British Waterways is attempting to clear out canals in London by hauling scu...
A battle of the colonels is brewing on the Pacific island of Fiji after fast-food chain KFC was forced to close three of its outlets due to a dispute with the government over ingredients vital to its famou...
But despite months of patrolling their local seaside resorts, the pair – in real life a financial adviser and a shop worker – have failed to find any trouble at all. In fact, police say they are more worr...
*Do not be afraid to ask for a radical change of system. The country is not owned by corporations. Enough. CHANGE NOW.*
All was quiet on the Syria news front, for a time anyway. This week that all changed. Most of the action has been taken place in Hama. Hama is not too far from Lebanon, and also near Tartus. (Russia's naval...
You wait roughly 4.55billion years for something to happen and then it's over so quick you could blink and miss it. Until the early morning of July 6 this year no-one had ever managed to capture footage o...
Gigantic insects including a dragonfly with a wingspan of 75cm died out millions of years ago due to a lack of oxygen which had made them giant in the first place. The emergence and decline of gigantic fl...
A TV news report on an assault has sparked an internet sensation – because the journalist presenting it looks almost identical to the police artist’s sketch of the suspect. The CBS Baltimore broadcast by ...
As the devastated family of a missing New Hampshire girl found dead struggles to come to grips with their loss, the girl's grandfather is speaking out. The body of Celina Cass, of New Hampshire, was found...
A widow charged in her husband’s murder has admitted she married the man 16 years her senior for his money, only to find out he was a con artist, police have revealed. Raelynne Simonin, 23, is charged wit...
The voluntary recall comes after one person died and 76 others were infected with the drug-resistant strain of salmonella.
Andrew Dessler is employed as a climate alarmist in Texas (at Texas A&M). He recently expressed his opinion about the new paper by Spencer and Braswell (reactions in the media via Google News). According...
Here's Richard Bacon introducing one of his guests this afternoon: "Doug Stanhope is here. Just a remarkable stand-up comic. If you haven't seen him and want a flavour of what he's like go to YouTube now a...
A former director of the CIA's Counterterrorism Centre has warned of an imminent 'code war' where hackers target technology that runs real-world infrastructure such as power stations and water plants. Cof...
Stone Age man created a massive network of underground tunnels criss-crossing Europe from Scotland to Turkey, a new book on the ancient superhighways has claimed. German archaeologist Dr Heinrich Kusch sa...
Tumbling energy and materials stocks launched the markets to session lows, with the Dow sinking more than 200 points and the broad S&P 500 shedding 2.2%, as traders grappled with economic fears and a soari...
*Here's a reason for this!* Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousands words and the one above, should get across the point we're making this morning. Wednesday night, Sioban Hughes, writing for the ...
*This is the guitar* The trigger got triggered and we've now collected over $2,000 for Ilya Sheyman's campaign. So, like we said yesterday, at 6pm today, we'll be randomly choosing one contributor-- regar...
A council has come under fire for planting one of the world's deadliest flowers right next to a children's park. The purple-flowered Monkshood can be deadly to humans and animals if eaten, despite its col...
Athlete Liz McColgan appeared in court today charged with attacking her estranged husband at her home. The 47-year-old, from Carnoustie in Angus, Scotland, denied repeatedly punching Peter McColgan on his...
[image: Syrian city] Syrian authorities kept the agitated city of Hama under a blackout Thursday, cutting phone lines, Internet and electricity as division of a brutal, five-day-old crackdown on anti-gove...
Over on Autonomous Mind, we have an excellent exposure of more *bias by omission* by the State Broadcaster. It concerns the *Duncan Bannatyne* story and the parts of it the BBC decided not to run! Make s...
OK, what is concerning you about the BBC today? Here is your new weekend proof Open Thread! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
The BBC is always keen enough to advance the Nanny State. Take this interview on the BBC earlier concerning the wheeze by *Centre Forum think tank *that the State should be providing lessons in how to be a...
If just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will be adopted by the majority, a new study says.
The man contacted Sweden's nuclear authority and asked if it was permitted for an individual to build a nuclear reactor.
A fuel tank from the crashed shuttle is found in a lake in drought-stricken Texas.
A new theory suggests the two moons then crashed together, forming our current moon.
You know, when you listen to this biased trash masquerading as Thought for the Day, it enrages you. The politicising is not very subtle! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Although we concern ourselves most frequently with BBC news, I though this was an interesting tour de force commentary from a B-BBC reader. "I'm concerned not so-much by the News Content (which, whilst bi...
A gunman is reported to have been spotted at Virginia Tech university - scene of the worst college shooting in US history. "Person with a gun reported near Dietrick," the university said in a bulletin on...
A Swedish man who was arrested after trying to split atoms in his kitchen yesterday said he was only doing it as a hobby. Richard Handl said he had the radioactive elements radium, americium and uranium i...
Been busy hence lack of posts! Anyway, catch up time. First this...with regard to Cleveland Police Authority. "I wonder why the BBC neglects to mention the party affiliation of the Chairman in its report ...
Desperate Lakeview gardeners rebreach 17th Street Canal! ~The New Orleans Levee ~ReTweet @theharryshearer~#HappyBdayMrPresident Why not read Maria Garzino's letter to you as a gift to yourself? About Floo...
A teenage boy survived being buried alive on a California beach for half an hour after a tunnel he built in the sand caved in. In a desperate scramble, dozens of holidaymakers pitched in to try to dig out...
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake has struck Kuril Islands, Russia at a depth of 49 km ( 30.4 miles), the quake hit at 13:51:36 UTC Thursday 4th August 2011. The epicenter was 230 km (142 miles) SSW of Severo-Kuri...
Shares in Britain's top firms plunged even further today after the FTSE 100 slumped to its lowest close for nine months last night. The stock market, which lists the UK's 100 biggest public companies has ...
*Navajo Nation government caters to coal mines and power plants, while Navajo elderly go without water* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com *Photo: Navajo elderly drinking co...
It is the much-hyped Government website bringing democracy directly to the people - but the project crashed as soon as it was launched today. The new site for e-petitions allows members of the public to ha...
A British student murdered in Poland was beaten to death by a bus driver after a row over a missed stop, police in the country have said. The body of 21-year-old Catherine Zaks was discovered lying next t...
The President of the European Commission has warned that the eurozone debt crisis is spreading. In a letter to European Union leaders, Jose Manuel Barroso said: "Whatever the factors behind the lack of su...
Speed hiker Jennifer Pharr Davis covered an average of 47 miles a day on the Appalachian Trail.
Millennials who exhibit high levels of narcissism don’t update their status more than anyone else.
My hometown soccer team, Viktoria Pilsen, the winner of the Top Czech Gambrinus Soccer League (Gambrinus, the sponsor, is the most widely drunk beer in Czechia, one produced in Pilsen as well, of course, a...
*Leonard Peltier imprisoned in small cell, dangerously hot* *Wednesday, 27 July 2011 By Leonard Peltier* Dear Friends, For over 35 years I have been in federal prison for crimes I did not commit. Since ...
At last, a way to see who else is viewing your Facebook profile.
Tuesday the Senate took a big giant bite of the Satan Sandwich. Once the phony-baloney teabaggers agreed to the unanimous consent to bring it up, here was never any doubt they would. Only 26 Senators vot...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Kermadec Islands, New Zealand at a depth of 50.4 km ( 31.3 miles), the quake hit at 11:48:44 UTC Thursday 4th August 2011. The epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) ESE of Ra...
George Carlin knew exactly what was coming up for U.S. taxpaying citizens. He said years ago that "they are coming for your Social Security!"He wasn't kidding.The Hostage Crisis Continues: Why Obama Can't Pi...
Hawaii Island’s east rift zone has an active lava flow once again, according to Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists. The following media release was just issued: HAWAI‘I ISLAND, Hawaii — At 2:05 p.m....
A growing lava dome has been spotted in the summit crater of an Alaska volcano, leading officials to raise the alert level.The Alaska Volcano Observatory says the observation increases the possibility but ...
Mrs Simona Monyová (44) was the most successful Czech author of romance novels. Nicknamed "Viewegh in the skirts", after a bestselling male author, she has been a compulsive writer since her childhoo...
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I notice whenever I do a "we like lists" post that I'm never satisfied with my own list. On our hanging out in history list, I forgot Clarence Darrow. In our all-time celebrity crushes, I forgot Bruce Spri...
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A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 07:14:57 UTC Saturday 6th August 2011. The epicenter was 123 km (76 miles) ESE ...
*Gulen and friend.* On 6 August 2011, The Economist reports on *a Moslem who is friendly towards Israel* (*A hard act to follow*). *This Moslem reportedly has links to heroin.* (Funded by Heroin Via the ...
A popular visitors attraction in East Yorkshire has closed its doors for the last time after an outbreak of E.coli. Cruckley Animal Farm at Foston-on-the-Wolds, near Driffield, has been a favourite for f...
Lightning sparked three wildfires in the Bitteroot National Forest after Thursday night's storm. A fire burning in the Sapphire Mountains is about 10 miles northeast of Corvallis. Two engines and 26 fire...
State and federal scientists are trying to identify a mysterious orange substance that washed up on the shore of a village in northwestern Alaska this week. Residents on Wednesday noticed an orange sheen...
Brookings' Shaikh: BRIC Nations are Spoiled Brats by Tony Cartalucci Citing the ongoing UN sanctioned, US, UK, and French led crime against humanity in Libya and the predictable revulsion it conjures up in...
Though it fell apart in the high mountains, Tropical Storm Emily’s passage across the island of Hispaniola proved deadly and destructive — but not as devastating as feared. Authorities were still surveyin...
Flood waters from a river in China's southwestern province of Sichuan forced thousands to evacuate on Friday, while residents in nearby Hunan province face severe shortages of water for drinking and crops,...
Maybe the guest filming this should have just got out, but a dramatic video was taken of a hotel ceiling collapsing during serious flash flooding. Erik Slemon and his dad Allan Goldberg, of Miami, Florida,...
Some people say it’s a dog, others think it’s a badger and one has even suggested it could be the result of secret government animal testing. But this roadkill found in Alexandria, Minnesota, has baffled l...
A Navy drone that disappeared along the coast in central Libya in June was probably shot down by Colonel Gadhafi's forces, a U.S. military investigation has concluded. According to Lieutenant Comander Mar...
A pervert with an 'uncontrollable obsession with child pornography and torture' has had his sentence slashed by the Court of Appeal. Anthony Martin Milsom, 62, had newspaper cuttings relating to high-prof...
*U.S. loses AAA credit rating from S&P* Anonymous said... Keiser report that financial oligarchies are playing financial terrorism with USA economy, banks are actually making profit...
A father-of-four accused of stabbing his wife and four young children before setting fire to their house and killing all five victims has been jailed on a charge of aggravated murder. Jordan Adam Criado, ...
The leader of a polygamist Mormon sect has been found guilty of sexually abusing girls aged 12 and 15 among his two dozen child ‘wives’. Warren Jeffs, 55, faces a possible life sentence. The self-proclaim...
A Royal Navy commander has been jailed for six months for swindling £53,000 of taxpayers’ money to send his children to an exclusive boarding school. Commander Anthony Gray, 49, was told ‘the clang of the ...
Five current or former police officers were convicted on Friday over the deadly shootings on a New Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katrina. Former officer Robert Faulcon, Sgts. Robert Gisevius and Kenneth B...
The panel set up to reform human rights laws was denounced as a ‘stitch up’ last night after it refused to confront the key issue of the power over British cases wielded by European judges. The commission...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Western Iran at a depth of 2 km ( 1.1 miles), the quake hit at 05:19:42 UTC Saturday 6th August 2011. The epicenter was 28 km (13.5 miles) Southwest of Masjed-e Soleyma...
A Royal Marine was blown up in Afghanistan by a 14-year-old boy who was promised just $80 to set off a roadside bomb. Father-of-one Stephen Curley, 26, was killed instantly when the bomb was detonated in ...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoYou wait roughly 4.55billion years for something to happen and then it's over so quick you could blink and miss it. Until the early morning of July 6 this year no-one had ever managed to capture footage o...
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