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Osama bin Laden avoided capture and escaped across the Afghan border into Pakistan. Meanwhile,
al Qaeda continued to operate from along that border and operate through its affiliates across the worl...
Stocks on key Asian exchanges dropped modestly early Monday on what is likely to be an eventful day in world markets, following
Standard and Poor's downgrade of the U.S.
credit rating. In early Tokyo tr...
Seven people, including an 11-year-old child, were shot and killed in a small town in northeastern Ohio on Sunday in a rampage that ended when police killed the suspected gunman, authorities said. The sho...
Britain's economy is set to slow in the wake of the
US's credit rating downgrade, says the Bank of England. Sir Mervyn King, the Bank's governor, is expected on Wednesday to reduce its "target range" for ...
The European Central Bank will decide tonight whether to start buying Italian debt to calm eurozone bond markets, while finance ministers from leading economies hold emergency talks about how to limit the ...
My pal Andy, a CEO who does tech support for *DWT* in his spare time, sent me the above video clip (along with Hippy Fiasco) to watch, just as I was getting all worked up about the mayhem in London and r...
Photo courtesy: Dominic/CC Pandas and tigers make better poster children for human impacts on biodiversity. But in the face of news like the massive recall of turkey meat with antibiotic resistant salmone...
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[image: UoA-RBNZ] Here’s the note from our friends at the UoA Economics Group for their talk tomorrow evening: Hello Everyone This week we have Rodney Dickens coming to speak to us further about the r...
Oh, please tell me how I can help give her access to the launch codes.
*by Ken* So Wikipedia has troubles. No, founder Jimmy Wales isn't talking about passing the hat, at least not just now. He told the AP Thursday ("Wikipedia Says It's Losing Contributors"), during the we...
A Mexican military helicopter landed Saturday afternoon at Laredo International Airport by mistake, said a spokeswoman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Mucia Dovalina, the uniform public affairs of...
The apparent shooting down of a Nato helicopter by the Taliban, killing 37 people, was most likely a "lucky shot" rather than marking a new insurgent ability to destroy aircraft, military officials believe...
Iran will need some $40 billion (24 billion pounds) this year to spur the development of oil and gas fields it shares with neighbouring countries, Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi said in his first interview sin...
Business minister Vince Cable on Saturday backed China's call for a new stable global reserve currency in light of the United States losing its AAA long-term credit rating from Standard & Poor's, but said ...
Libyan opposition fighters have captured a strategic town in western Libya, as they intensify a push towards the coastal city of Az Zawiyah. Hundreds of rebels fought Muammar Gaddafi's forces in the batt...
In the UK, emergency services are dealing with a large number of incidents after heavy rain caused flooding in the north east of England and the North. Durham and parts of Northumberland are the worst hit ...
It has been a bittersweet anniversary for Chile's rescued miners, who were honoured as heroes in their home town only to come under attack by anti-government protesters. It has been a bittersweet annivers...
The Russian stock market dropped sharply on Friday morning as Moscow’s traders caught a dose of the international jitters. The MICEX index fell 4.07 per cent to its lowest point since Dec. 2010, while the...
Real estate prices were skyrocketing in the mid-2000s, and Vladislav Vorontsov was delighted at the opportunity to buy an apartment at half the market price in a building under construction just outside Mo...
The United Nations children’s agency called on Australia Friday to scrap “inhumane” plans to send unaccompanied minors to Malaysia as part of a refugee swap. Canberra has refused to exempt children from t...
A bomb destroyed at least 13 tankers on Saturday carrying fuel for Nato troops in neighbouring Afghanistan, Pakistan police said, the latest in a string of attempts to disrupt supplies. A total of 28 Nato...
The image remains chilling nearly eight years later: a pizza deliveryman sitting cross-legged on the pavement with a homemade bomb clamped around his neck, surrounded by nervous police who crouch behind ...
A 17-year-old Bel Air, MD, boy has been charged with murder in connection with the Friday night stabbing death of a blind man. Donnell Graham of the 200 block of Fairwood Road has been charged with first-...
Standard & Poor's US debt downgrade was a wake-up call for the world, a commentary in a top Chinese state newspaper said, adding that Asian exporters faced special risks. Citing economist Sun Lijian, the ...
Tel Aviv shares closed 7 percent lower on Sunday in the first response of a developed market to Standard & Poor's downgrade of the United States' credit rating that has sparked fears of another global rece...
A Standard & Poor's official says there is a 1 in 3 chance that the U.S. credit rating could be downgraded another notch if conditions erode over the next six to 24 months. The credit rating agency's mana...
Contemporary proverbs exist because of humankind’s understanding of past human-life experiences. In China, wisdom is passed on through sayings such as ‘a single grain of rice can tip the scales’ and ‘to in...
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*[image: _richardmcgrath]Libertarianz leader Dr Richard McGrath invites you down to his surgery for an inoculation against this week’s stories and headlines on issues affecting our freedom.* *This week:...
By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com** *Photos: Navajo Klee Benally attacked and arrested by Flagstaff, Arizona, police. Photo by Youth of the Peaks.* Updated Sunday night FL...
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I don’t know about you, but we had a ball at Eden Park on Saturday night. It wasn’t the MCG—we sat on scaffolding five miles in the air whose shaking quelled the staunchest stamping—and instead of built-...
Former regulars still knocking about may be disappointed this place has been left to the tumbleweed. On the other hand, some might find the lack of blogging a big improvement. Unfortunately, my inclinati...
A Sequel to Still Positive After All These Years! Tony Robbins’ message of hope is just as relevant now in 2025 as it was then in the days of phoney debt-fuelled, energy-cheap prosperity, when as a young ...
To combat President Obama's goal of bringing down unemployment, the Republican party has systematically-- both in Congress and on a state basis in places like Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Florida, Georgia, ...
Just a link. The near side and the far side of the Moon look very different - something people have known from the beginning of the space age. An amusing new article in Nature offers a theory expla...
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*“**Malinvestment is always the result of the inability of human beings to foresee future conditions correctly. However, such human errors and the resulting malinvestments are most frequently compounded...
When I was a quality control inspector, we'd have regular MRB meetings, sometimes with executive management. MRB stands for Material Review Board and whenever our products got RMA'd (or rejected and retur...
Chinese acrobat Saimaiti Aishan, 27, set a new national record while preparing for a world record attempt at 650 feet above the ground. Aishan, the nephew of Adili Wuxor, who is better known as 'Prince of ...
A bizarre plan to tow giant icebergs thousands of miles from the polar ice caps to drought-ridden hotspots in the Third World could soon become a reality. Eco-entrepreneur Georges Mougin was dismissed as ...
Secret tapes made by Jackie Kennedy are said to contain 'explosive' contents which will lift the lid off the private life with her assassinated Husband President John F Kennedy. The tapes, which are to be...
In recent months and especially weeks, the radical leftists in the U.S. became fond of bashing Barack Obama. And I surely don't mean just Al Gore who is "disappointed" that Obama doesn't actively spread Go...
A young British honeymooning couple were killed in an horrific quad bike smash on a paradise island in the Indian Ocean. Jonathan and Emma Gray from Halifax in West Yorkshire, died yesterday as they were ...
Reader Contribution; Nationwide Emergency Alert System (EAS) Test Introduction FEMA, in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrati...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 73.1 km ( 45.4 miles), the quake hit at 17:46:42 UTC Sunday 7th August 2011. The epicenter was 127 km (78 miles)...
To D-fox: if you're reading this, please contact us at thecomingcrisis@gmail.com. It's important -- we believe.
We’ve long reported about the training of US military personnel for domestic deployment in the event of large scale economic breakdown, civil unrest, terrorism, and catastrophic natural disasters like as...
The Triple-A debt club just got even more exclusive: Late Friday, the United States was booted out of a prestigious group of countries that boast a spotless credit rating. Now only 15 countries (and the v...
A Syrian human rights group says eight premature infants dependent on incubators died after authorities cut power to a hospital in the embattled city of Hama as part of a renewed crackdown on anti-govern...
A hacking group said it has retaliated for the arrests of its members by attacking the websites of more than 70 U.S. law enforcement institutions and releasing 10 gigabytes of information. The cyberterror...
Some quarter of a million Israelis took to the streets Saturday night in protests against the mounting cost of living for the middle class in one of the largest social outcries in Israeli history. Demonst...
Syrian troops attacked the eastern city of Deir el-Zour, just before dawn Sunday, killing at least four people, in a bid to quell a five-month-old uprising against the government of President Bashar Assad,...
Emergency talks focused on the debt crises in Europe and the United States are planned Sunday for G7 finance ministers before Asian markets open, while the European Central Bank will consider buying Italia...
The Department of Homeland Security’s National Operations Center (NOC) will monitor blogs, social media, public forums, message boards and keywords to create a “real time” estimate of the U.S. national thr...
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso joined the fight to lift the region out of its financial pit, calling for expanding the EU bailout fund to help deal with the crushing debt borne by the ...
In the Halkitis shipyard in Perama, the Azul dwarfs everything. Four decks tall, it is just five metres shorter in length than the 3,000-tonne cargo ships that were once the staple of the Greek yards that ...
North Las Vegas, once one of the fastest-growing cities in the country and a symbol of Nevada’s boom and sudden economic collapse, now faces the real possibility of vanishing as an independent entity, an e...
Storms are brewing about 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) away, and if one of them reaches Earth, it could knock out communications, scramble GPS, and leave thousands without power for weeks to mo...
Terrorists strike the world's largest oil production facility in Saudi Arabia, sending global oil prices skyward: What should the U.S. president do? For three hours Wednesday, a group of former high-ranki...
The world's largest nuclear energy producer, the United States, Tuesday aired its first detailed public examination of whether stronger safety standards are needed in light of Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuc...
Our children will grow up with ebooks and they'll always view printed books as a less convenient relic, writes Shane Richmond. A couple of weeks ago I spoke to a senior executive from a big Silicon Valley...
For too long, copyright laws have been manipulated as a cheap way of making money. Congratulations – you’re no longer a criminal. At last, it will become legal to copy a CD you’ve bought on to a computer,...
The giant earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan in March were so strong that their vibrations almost reached space, a new study says. The vertical motion of the ground shaking and swelling tsunami w...
One in four teenagers are "depressed" about their job prospects, researchers have claimed. Almost half of the 1,500 young people questioned in the O2 Youth Matters survey said they were not confident of f...
The Rev Klaas Hendrikse can offer his congregation little hope of life after death, and he's not the sort of man to sugar the pill. An imposing figure in black robes and white clerical collar, Mr Hendrikse...
What if for a moment we looked at the climate change debate from a completely different perspective? Let’s take a wider view and move away from local earth bound data to what is happening in our solar sy...
It's crunch time for America. China is getting tired of picking up America's bar tab and has put the US on notice that the days of cheap booze may soon be over. No more bad cheques, thank you very much ...
*by Ken* I think I mentioned awhile back that one of the sudden onslaught of Sony BMG "big boxed" I ordered was a reissue of the late Günter Wand's 1974-81 traversal of the nine Bruckner symphonies with ...
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. Photo copyright Destini Vaile, Blackfeet Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Destini Vaile, Blackfeet: "This well is visible from the road between East Glacier and Browning. I found Bison h...
More than 300,000 people took part in demonstrations across Israel last night to protest the high cost of living. The largest was in Tel Aviv, where an estimated 280,000 participated in one of the bigges...
A thin band of antimatter particles called antiprotons enveloping the Earth has been spotted for the first time. The find, described in Astrophysical Journal Letters, confirms theoretical work that predic...
In 1896, chemist Svante Arrhenius of Sweden became the father of global warming, the grandfather of climate change, and great grandfather of the climate disruption when he proposed a quantitative relations...
By Joe Romm 4 August 2011 In light of the sustained drought, Governor Mary Fallin today asked all Oklahomans to set aside time this Sunday, July 17, to pray for rain. That was two weeks ago. The resul...
On 6 August 2011, a helicopter crashed on a NATO mission in Afghanistan, killing all 38 personnel on board. The dead included approximately 22 SEALs from the SEAL Team Six, the unit whose members carri...
I'm reposting in its entirety a terrific article found at the Daily Impact last week, followed by the most recent drought index. Lake Ray Hubbard, a reservoir of drinking water for the city of Dallas, Tex...
For a slain innocent on the Danziger Bridge, justice and tears ~Jarvis DeBerry Natural and Political History ~Judyb54, NOLAFemmes River Commission meetings set for this month Later Gator...~American Zomb...
[image: Soil caked into a crust of dried crude oil, Ogoniland, Niger Delta. Pollution from over 50 years of oil operations in the Ogoniland region of Nigeria is poisoning communities by contaminating the...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Greece at a depth of 5.6 km ( 3.5 miles), the quake hit at 14:35:34 UTC Sunday 7th August 2011. The epicenter was 24 km (14 miles) Northeast of Patrai, Greece No damage...
*Practical Populism* April 19, 2009By Rady Ananda Posted on June 13, 2009 by Rady [image: pink_ak ArmedFemalesOfAmerica]April 19, 2009 *I am a progressive populist. As a progressive, I value, work toward,...
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CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours ago
By www.IndigenousAction.org *Protect the Peaks! Week of Action Takes to the Streets* By IndigenousAction.org www.IndigenousAction.org On Friday, August 5th, more than 50 people marched through the stree...
[image: Donate to The Coming Crisis] Hello everyone! 1. August Dollar Drive progress: So far we've had six donations, and are under 10% of our goal for August. If you haven't donated a dollar yet and ar...
I'd like to send out a big "Thank you!" to my girlfriend, Tricia (Ph.D. psychologist in Brooklyn!) for sending along (Ah! The pleasures of the morning email) this timely study of how American presidents of t...
A leaked 2004 CSIS report from LaPresse on Thursday purports to be a summary of a conversation between Abousfian Abdelrazik and Adil Charkaoui in 2000 in which they plotted to blow up an airplane enroute ...
Mean Jean Schmidt wasn't born with that name. Her parents christened her with the far more ladylike Jeannette Marie Hoffman. The Schmidt part came in when she married shady stockbroker Peter Schmidt, and ...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 247.3 km ( 153.7 miles), the quake hit at 11:01:57 UTC Sunday 7th August 2011. The epicenter was 176 km (109 miles) Northwest of Neiafu, Tonga No Ts...
The self-proclaimed 'Crossbow Cannibal' who boasted of eating parts of his victims is on the brink of death after spending ten months on a hunger strike, prison sources claim. Stephen Griffiths, 41, is un...
Twenty-six police officers were being treated in hospital today following riots which broke out two days after a man was shot dead by police. Scotland Yard said at least one of the officers had suffered he...
Strange Coincidence Surrounding a Known Conspiracy by Tony Cartalucci What is a known fact is that Osama Bin Laden was not killed earlier this year during the hyped-Pakistan raid, but rather died nearly a...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Dead Sea Region at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:52:25 UTC Sunday 7th August 2011. The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) Northwest of Tel Aviv-Yaf...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Hokkaido, Japan Region at a depth of 250.5 km ( 155.7 miles), the quake hit at 08:26:41 UTC Sunday 7th August 2011. The epicenter was 85 km (52 miles) South of Wakkana...
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Biased BBC - 18 hours ago
BBC coverage of the Tottenham thuggery has been utterly appalling. I note they have virtually lionised the "young man" Mark Duggan tragically killed whilst...erm...trying to murder a Police Officer, allege...
Three large explosions from the Sun over the past few days have prompted U.S. government scientists to caution users of satellite, telecommunications and electric equipment to prepare for possible disrupti...
High waters and heavy surf battered China's northern port of Qingdao as Typhoon Muifa approached Sunday on its way up the coast. Authorities closed beaches and piled sandbags along Qingdao's waterfront, a...
A man who went to check on his car during a sudden and vicious rainstorm was swept under surging water and died Friday night in a possible drowning. As a torrent of rain and hail battered his northwest str...
*The Kamchatka Peninsula, along Russia’s Pacific coast, is currently the most volcanically active area in the world: four volcanoes are erupting simultaneously, and a fifth is showing signs of an impending...
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hit Muko-Muko regency in Bengkulu on Saturday, but no casualties or damage were reported. The local Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) said the epicenter of ...
Eighteen Indonesian volcanoes are on “alert” status, two of which are at Alert Level 3, which is called “Siaga”, the Volcanology and Geology Disaster Mitigation Center says. Center head Surono said Sunday...
Officials at Glacier National Park say a grizzly bear mauled a 50-year-old hiker who was able to walk for help. Denise Germann, spokesman of the park in West Glacier, Montana, said the St. Paul, Minnesota...
Image: Kelly Thomas, unarmed and paid with his life for resisting arrest. A man whose homeless and schizophrenic son died from injuries in police custody says he has rejected compensation of almost $1milli...
*Dr Joel Hayward and the UK's General Sir David Richards, Chief of the Defence Staff * *Dr Joel Hayward claims to be a Moslem.* ** *But he has Jewish connections. * Dr Joel Hayward is the New Zealand-born h...
America's credit rating being downgraded is a crucial moment not just for the United States but for the world. The world’s most powerful nation and its President have been humbled in full global view. Mo...
The group known as Anonymous today said that it hacked into around 70 law enforcement websites in the United States - a data breach that one local police chief said leaked sensitive information about an on...
Carlos Slim, the world’s richest man, lost about $6.7 billion in the last week. The Mexican billionaire’s stock portfolio, measured in U.S. dollars, has dropped about 9.5 percent since July 29 and is valu...
An arrest has been made in connection with the murder of five-year-old Mariha Smith, whose body was found burned in an abandoned Detroit house the same day she went missing. Just hours after the little gi...
Police feared that the Iraqi immigrant family of a daughter run over and killed by her father in an apparent 'honour killing' would try to murder her as she clung to life in a hospital bed, a new tape reve...
A nephew of convicted polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs has told a Texas jury that his uncle sexually abused him as a young boy. Brent Jeffs testified on Saturday during the sentencing phase of the 55-y...
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 41.7 km ( 25.9 miles), the quake hit at 07:01:47 UTC Sunday 7th August 2011. The epicenter was 261 km (162 miles) SSE from Suva...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Izu Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 408.7 km ( 254 miles), the quake hit at 06:30:56 UTC Sunday 7th August 2011. The epicenter was 255 km (158 miles) Southwest...
Photo courtesy: screenshot from NOS Nieuws video. Every single man, woman, and child on the face of the planet can use more laughter and play injected into each and every day of their lives. More lives ar...
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck the Santa Cruz Islans Region at a depth of 411.9 km ( 256 miles), the quake hit at 06:22:35 UTC Sunday 7th August 2011. The epicenter was 437 km (272 miles) NNE of San...
Menacing and beautiful in equal measure, Mount Etna illuminates the cathedral of Zafferana Etnea with its latest violent eruptions. In these stunning pictures, Europe's most active volcano appears to be s...
More than 1,000 UK holidaymakers have been stung by the country’s most poisonous fish, the weever. Government scientists at the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) have found...
Thanks to *http://honkbonkman.blogspot.com/* for the link.
Murder squad detectives have launched an investigation after a 17-year-old boy was stabbed to death. Police were called to an address in Haslingden, Lancashire, at around 5.45am today where they found Dec...
The police are at the centre of a multi-million-pound expenses row after extraordinary spending binges on taxpayer-funded credit cards. Officials working for a Government policing quango used the cards to ...
A catalogue of excess spending on Government credit cards has emerged in recent weeks. Everything from a limousine tour of California to Apple iPads and luxury hotel rooms has been paid for on the procure...
Fears are growing this weekend that two of Europe’s largest banks may require a bailout, having been hugely damaged by the worsening crisis across the eurozone. In France, President Nicolas Sarkozy is hav...
Emergency services were tonight dealing with a large number of weather-related incidents after heavy rain caused flooding in the north east of England and Northern Ireland, while Scotland is also on flood ...
Violent riots have broken out in north London following a protest over the fatal shooting of a young father by police. A crowd of around 300 set fire to buildings, bins and vehicles, as well as throwing m...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Saint Lucia Region, Windward Islands at a depth of 38 km ( 23.6 miles), the quake hit at 04:01:11 UTC Sunday 7th August 2011. The epicenter was 72 km (44 miles) ES...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 9.8 km ( 6.1 miles), the quake hit at 03:34:51 UTC Sunday 7th August 2011. The epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) NNW of...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the Fiji Region at a depth of 613.5 km ( 381.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:22:44 UTC Sunday 7th August 2011. The epicenter was 15 km (9 miles) Northwest of Ndoi I...
"As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes." - Terence McKenna "History is past politics, and politics present history." - John Robert Seeley "W...
The dismembered bodies of four young men were dumped near a high school and five young men were found dead near a middle school in two separate incidents in northern Mexico, officials said Saturday. The s...
Saudi Arabia's stock market dropped 5.46pc on Saturday as it became the first exchange to react to the historic US credit downgrade. The Tadawul All-Shares Index closed down 350.43 points 6,073.44 as all ...
Italy and Nato were embroiled in a row over accusations that an alliance warship failed to come to the rescue of a boatload of desperate refugees fleeing the fighting in Libya. The Italian government dema...
The FTSE 100 slumped to its worst week since the depths of the financial crisis as fears of a new global recession wiped more than $2.5tn (£1.5tn) from the value of stock markets around the world. The blu...
Standard and Poor’s announced tonight that it downgraded the U.S. debt from AAA to AA+. Commentators are split as to whether this would have major negative consequences for both the U.S. and world economy,...
Japan’s coast guard said it arrested two Chinese sea captains for operating in an exclusive economic zone on the coast of Ishikawa prefecture without permission. The coast guard is now inspecting the ship...
Making good on a vow taken by Mayor Pablo Zalaquett and Interior MInister Rodrigo Hinzpeter, Chile’s Carabinero police came out in full force throughout downtown Santiago on Thursday, preventing all protes...
The Italian offices of Moody's and Standard & Poor's have been raided by local authorities over allegations that the ratings agencies were involved in "anomalous" movements in domestic share prices. Docum...
Several lines under the message contained names while a line of text hinted at a need "For More Security." There was no initial sign the attacker was Philippine-based, or allied with AntiSec, the hacktivi...
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Since it’s Sunday, here’s Jeremy Clarkson with the closest thing to a religious experience you’re likely to see here: a tribute to the best car ever made, on the occasion of its fiftieth birthday! Top G...
By Denis G. RancourtTake the most “progressive” recent development in social design theory in the First World. Take critical race theory, as developed in the seminal essays collected in the 1993 book “Words ...
* Or better still, just listen to it. (There's no prize.) * *by Ken* I think the reason I have such a hard time controlling my on-line record purchases (I mean, really now, is there any sense in which I ca...
Credit to MOXNEWSd0tCOM The soldier's name is Don Vance. Hopefully, his lawsuit against the traitor Rumsfeld prevails.
Somewhere on this planet an American commando is carrying out a mission. Now, say that 70 times and you're done ... for the day. Without the knowledge of the American public, a secret force within the Unit...
Malware used in the attack against RSA Security earlier this year was controlled from China, a well-known botnet researcher said Wednesday. Joe Stewart, director of malware research for Dell SecureWorks, t...
Italy will likely default but Spain could scrape through, a leading think tank has warned, as the eurozone debt crisis continued its threat to claim its next two victims. The Centre for Economics and Busi...
As noted previously, with the Quantitative Easing 2, against a background of growing distrust vis-à-vis the Dollar and the US economy, the Fed has become virtually the only buyer of US Treasury Bonds. Offi...
Deputy finance ministers from the Group of 20 leading economic powers will hold a conference call on Saturday to discuss the crises in Europe and the United States, a Brazilian finance ministry official sa...
US officials have granted Anglo-Dutch energy giant Shell conditional approval to begin drilling exploration wells in the Arctic Ocean from next year, in a move swiftly slammed by conservationists as "inexc...
In the wake of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami last March, I started seeing a lot of headlines like this: "Does climate change mean more tsunamis?" "Did climate change cause the Japanese earthquake?" I...
Scientists are probing whether pollution may have caused 70 pilot whales to strand in north west Scotland last month. The whales may have been poisoned by years of toxic waste. Experts have now asked the ...
In the last few years, electrical utilities have begun equipping their customers’ homes with new meters that have Internet connections and increased computational capacity. One envisioned application of th...
New technology for extracting oil from oil sands could more than double the amount of oil that can be extracted from these abundant deposits. It could also reduce greenhouse-gas emissions from the process ...
Britain had a record-breaking spring this year with swallows arriving, trees opening and insects emerging earlier than usual. The Woodland Trust survey of 40,000 volunteers found that the traditional sign...
A Libyan rebel commander said Saturday that his forces have unconfirmed reports that NATO struck and destroyed a caravan of camels carrying weapons from neighboring Chad. Abdullah Aitha, who commands rebe...
The US Postal Service warned on Friday that it could default on payments it owes the federal government, just days after the US government itself narrowly averted a default. The government's mail service ...
They have an exhibit at the Smithsonian and a line of toys depicting their epic rescue. But most of the 33 men whose saga in a collapsed mine captivated the world a year ago face a new crisis today: povert...
You’ve heard recent reports about a woman who died from the heat just days after her central air conditioning unit was stolen. But homeowners aren’t the only target for these crooks, churches are being hit...
In the past four years, Russia’s intelligence services have stepped up a campaign of intimidation and dirty tricks against U.S. officials and diplomats in Russia and the countries that used to form the Sov...
China bluntly criticised the United States on Saturday one day after the superpower's credit rating was downgraded, saying the "good old days" of borrowing were over. Standard & Poor's cut the U.S. long-t...
Oakridge is facing a serious cash shortage after its bank statement showed the City had $420,000 less than planned, prompting a city planning commissioner to solicit private loans from citizens. George Cu...
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood movement, the country's largest political group, has held its first open internal election since the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak. Until the longtime leader's fall, the Isl...
An entire 20-man police force resigned in a northern Mexican town after a series of attacks that killed the police chief and five officers over the last three months, state officials said Thursday. The of...
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi's four-year effort to "Green the Capitol" is officially no-more, having been dumped into an existing energy-savings program on the Hill in a move that Republicans say w...
I feel like Lincoln freed everyone but me… the American working class Joe, the small business owner and operator, the hands that built this country. Planning should be my foundation, my legs, keeping my wo...
Breaking News: “Bin Laden” Heroes Probably Murderered to Keep Them Quiet Some Possibly Killed in Abbottabad Helicopter Crash Months Before * By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor Veterans Today August 6, 2011* Tod...
Deaths of SEAL Team 6 Exposed *Aaron Dykes & Alex Jones Infowars.com August 6, 2011* Associated Press sources are reporting a statistically impossible tragedy for U.S. forces in Afghanistan– that of the 3...
Before the vote on the Boehner/Obama SatanSandwich last week, Blue America announced that no incumbent who voted for it would be eligible for an endorsement this cycle under any circumstances. We also ask...
You can read about my Thrift Store Christmas Project here. I was quite pleased with my thrift store purchase for this week. I always make sure to hit up the thrift store on Monday because every item with ...
America's biggest creditor isn't amused by that country's newly downgraded, AA+ rating. Now China says the "good old days" are over for the U.S. China has renewed its demand for a new reserve currency to ...
Corps to re-evaluate bids for permanent pump stations after irregularities uncovered ~Hat Tweet @LeveesOrg Rising Tide 6 Is Aug. 27: Register Today!~Levees Not War
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Tarapaca, Chile at a depth of 98.8 km ( 61.5 miles), the quake hit at 18:08:00 UTC Saturday 6th August 2011. The epicenter was 131 km (82 miles) East of Iquique, Chile ...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 33.1 km ( 20.6 miles), the quake hit at 17:58:34 UTC Saturday 6th August 2011. The epicenter was 228 km (142 miles) E...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Unimak Island Region, Alaska at a depth of 29.3 km ( 18.2 miles), the quake hit at 18:05:15 UTC Saturday 6th August 2011. The epicenter was 103 km (64 miles) South of ...
Via Centennial Courier *August 2nd and 3rd, 1911: While the contemporaries are "driven up the wall" because of the rainy Summer, one hundred years ago people were dying because of genuine seizures cause...
Chinese authorities have evacuated more than 200,000 people from its east coast as the region braces for its most powerful typhoon in years. More than 7,000 fishing vessels have been called to harbour, wit...
China, the largest foreign holder of U.S. debt, demanded Saturday that America tighten its belt and confront its "addiction to debts" in the wake of Standard & Poor's decision to downgrade the U.S. credit ...
1. The Bankers/Wall Street own the False Left Right Paradigm: View the rest of the cartoons here.
The latest jobs report changes nothing. We had no engine of economic growth when we all woke up on Friday morning, and we still don't have one. We have no operative plan to fix what ails us. We are in a ba...
A plant has killed and "eaten" a great tit at a garden nursery in Somerset. Nurseryman Nigel Hewitt-Cooper, from West Pennard, was inspecting his tropical garden when he discovered one of his pitcher plant...
The downgrading of America is a humiliation for a nation constantly fretting about its potential decline. It reinforces a very common belief here, that the squabbling politicians in Washington are to blame...
A NATO helicopter crash in eastern Afghanistan has killed 31 U.S. troops and seven Afghan soldiers, Afghan President Hamid Karzai says. The death toll would surpass the worst single day loss of life for th...
Like deep-fried butter, cheeseburger in a bag and chocolate-covered bacon before it, the latest artery-clogging menu item to hit the Canadian National exhibition already has people talking! The Doughnut B...
A senior Obama administration official is calling Standard & Poor's move to downgrade U.S. credit "a facts-be-damned decision," saying the rating agency admitted to an error that inflated U.S. deficits b...
Typhoon Muifa is set to bring gusty winds and rainfall to coastal areas of China late Saturday or on Sunday, after drenching the southern Japanese island of Okinawa. The typhoon -- the ninth to hit China ...
The European Central Bank has abandoned Italy and Spain to their tortured fate. Its refusal to act in the face of an existential threat to monetary union has set off violent tremors across the global fina...
Somali government soldiers shot dead seven civilians as a riot broke out at a refugee camp in the capital Mogadishu. Witnesses claimed the chaos erupted when the soldiers tried to steal some of the 290 to...
Buddhist monks offer prayers for victims of the world's first atomic bombing in 1945 during World War Two in front of the A-bomb Dome at Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima. (view entire photo gallery here)
Taking regular exercise, drinking only in moderation and watching what you eat makes no difference to one's chances of reaching 100, research has found. Those who are lucky enough to qualify for a telegra...
The New Yorker has published a story planted on Nicholas Schmidle by unidentified sources who claim to be familiar with the alleged operation that murdered Osama bin Laden. There is no useful information ...
It promises super-cheap motoring at less than 2p a mile. But as Jeremy Clarkson and the chaps from BBC TV’s Top Gear have shown with electric cars – if only you could find somewhere in town to charge it up...
Euronews’ exclusive interview with Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came on the day that the former Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, went on trial. Afterwards, euronews interviewed Ahmad Salamatian, ...
China has arrested around 2,000 people and closed nearly 5,000 businesses in a major crackdown on illegal food additives, the government said, after a wave of contamination scares. China launched the camp...
What do you do when the target you’re spying on slips behind his home-security gates and beyond your reach? Launch your personal, specially equipped WASP drone — short for Wireless Aerial Surveillance Pla...
Despite eons of mingling inside our cells, gene networks we’ve inherited from primitive, singled-celled ancestors have stayed separate. Our cells remain chimeras, a hybrid fusion of unrelated creatures. T...
[image: Link]A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck off the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 38.9 km ( 24.2 miles), the quake hit at 17:17:22 UTC Saturday 6th August 2011. The epicenter wa...
While I was asking if America is ready for a Mormon president yesterday, most commentators were poking around Mitt Romney's outrageous and clearly unethical, if not illegal, campaign finance practices. Al...
The Associated Press has learned that more than 20 Navy SEALs from the unit that killed Osama bin Laden were among those lost in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan. The operators from SEAL Team Six were f...
Three teenagers were plotting ‘an incredible and devastating’ attack at their high school during the first day of classes, authorities have revealed. The 15-year-old boys, self-titled ‘Day Zero’, had plan...
We have to choose - will it be the survival of mankind or will it be whatever wealth we can extract from the Athabasca Tar Sands? It seems to be an "either-or" proposition, at least according to a leading...
[image: Brown runoff is visible at the mouth of the Atchafalaya River in Summer 2011. This year's dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is roughly equal to the land area of the state of New Jersey, scientists ...
A British school party goes on an outing to a part of Norway where there are polar bears to study the effects of global warming. It's so cold up there that the trip wires meant to protect campers from the ...
Here is the great irony with regard to the deficit reduction process that we have just gone through: In poll after poll, the American people have made it clear that they believe in shared sacrifice. Instea...
[image: Mean duration of U.S. unemployment, 1948-2011. US Dept. of Labor; BLS; research.stlouisfed.org (August 2011)] By Joe Weisenthal 5 August 2011 We used to say that the chart showing the pace of th...
Some people want to blame Boehner and Cantor. Others say it's McConnell's fault. Or the GOP's or the screwed up political system, or the fault of the out-of-whack social system that's become less and less ...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 15 km ( 9.3 miles), the quake hit at 14:45:04 UTC Saturday 6th August 2011. The epicenter was 390 km (242 miles) ESE ...
The cargo has yet to be opened, but funder Captain Morgan USA hopes it's rum.
David Cameron made a bid to get a former American 'supercop' to head up Scotland Yard - but Home Secretary Theresa May blocked the move insisting a British citizen should be in charge. Downing Street is u...
Armed with a white marker pen and a determination to preserve the English language, a new caped crusader has emerged in the fight against society's ills. The mystery superhero, dubbed Grammar Man, has bee...
Out of all the phones that appear to have been hacked into by rogue reporters at the News of the World elusive graffiti artist Banksy was probably not one of them. So it is perhaps no wonder the notorious...
Britain's richest man became the nation's biggest loser this week as £164bn was wiped off British shares in a single week. The world's largest steel maker Lakshmi Mittal lost £2.16bn following a calamitou...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck offshore Maule, Chile at a depth of 22.9 km ( 14.2 miles), the quake hit at 14:14:36 UTC Saturday 6th August 2011. The epicenter was 103 km (64 miles) North of Concepc...
Victims of BP oil spill still need health care: A guest column by Kerry Kennedy BP: talk to Feinberg, Feinberg: they did, and the answer is no… ~Disenfranchised Citizen Laid-off Groton artist puts skills ...
Who says all good things must come to an end? With this kit you can boldly go to your heart's content.
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck offshore Maule, Chile at a depth of 22.4 km ( 13.9 miles), the quake hit at 13:22:36 UTC Saturday 6th August 2011. The epicenter was 109 km (68 miles) North of Concepc...
At least seven Somali refugees have been killed after government troops opened fire during a handout of corn rations in the famine-stricken country. Soldiers have been accused of sparking the chaos by tr...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the North Island of New Zealand at a depth of 188 km ( 117 miles), the quake hit at 12:40:10 UTC Saturday 6th August 2011. The epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) WSW of Ro...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the Fiji Region at a depth of 566.2 km ( 351.8 miles), the quake hit at 11:53:30 UTC Saturday 6th August 2011. The epicenter was 59 km (36 miles) SSW of Ndoi Isla...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 37.6 km ( 23.4 miles), the quake hit at 11:23:31 UTC Saturday 6th August 2011. The epicenter was 113 km (70 miles) NNW of L'E...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 114.7 km ( 71.3 miles), the quake hit at 08:57:43 UTC Saturday 6th August 2011. The epicenter was 88 km (54 miles...
Yesterday *Politico* published a scorching OpEd by neo-liberal economist Jeffrey Sachs. Sachs isn't a one-dimensional drooling right-wing ideologue and, although his overall theme is anti-Keynsian claptra...
Reader Contribution; Somalia's al-Shabab Islamist rebels have pulled out of all positions in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, government and rebel spokesmen say. President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed declared th...
Article link sent in by reader: More than two dozen American troops are believed to have perished in the deadly helicopter crash in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, a U.S. military official told CNN. Ma...
A Letter to a US-funded "Independent" Newspaper Foreword by Tony Cartalucci: Prachatai is just one of many so-called "independent newspapers" funded by the US government to propagate US State Department t...
For good or for ill, there is a tendency for people to be labelled and categorised. I am not speaking of natural categorisation which is self-evident to all but politically-blinkered oafs; rather I am spea...
As esteemed B-BBC contributor David Preiser has repeatedly noted, one of the main BBC denigrators of the Tea Party movement is the US bureau's Katty Kay. See here for an explanation of her venom. Ms Kay, a...
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...
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Seven people, including an 11-year-old child, were shot and killed in a small town in northeastern Ohio on Sunday in a rampage that ended when police killed the suspected gunman, authorities said. The sho...
Britain's economy is set to slow in the wake of the US's credit rating downgrade, says the Bank of England. Sir Mervyn King, the Bank's governor, is expected on Wednesday to reduce its "target range" for ...
The European Central Bank will decide tonight whether to start buying Italian debt to calm eurozone bond markets, while finance ministers from leading economies hold emergency talks about how to limit the ...
My pal Andy, a CEO who does tech support for *DWT* in his spare time, sent me the above video clip (along with Hippy Fiasco) to watch, just as I was getting all worked up about the mayhem in London and r...
Photo courtesy: Dominic/CC Pandas and tigers make better poster children for human impacts on biodiversity. But in the face of news like the massive recall of turkey meat with antibiotic resistant salmone...
Oh, please tell me how I can help give her access to the launch codes.
*by Ken* So Wikipedia has troubles. No, founder Jimmy Wales isn't talking about passing the hat, at least not just now. He told the AP Thursday ("Wikipedia Says It's Losing Contributors"), during the we...
A Mexican military helicopter landed Saturday afternoon at Laredo International Airport by mistake, said a spokeswoman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Mucia Dovalina, the uniform public affairs of...
The apparent shooting down of a Nato helicopter by the Taliban, killing 37 people, was most likely a "lucky shot" rather than marking a new insurgent ability to destroy aircraft, military officials believe...
Iran will need some $40 billion (24 billion pounds) this year to spur the development of oil and gas fields it shares with neighbouring countries, Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi said in his first interview sin...
posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Associated Press has learned that more than 20 Navy SEALs from the unit that killed Osama bin Laden were among those lost in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan. The operators from SEAL Team Six were f...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBritain's richest man became the nation's biggest loser this week as £164bn was wiped off British shares in a single week. The world's largest steel maker Lakshmi Mittal lost £2.16bn following a calamitou...
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