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Last night, once again Africans rioted in London. Violence spread to other cities including Liverpool, Bristol, Birmingham, Nottingham and Leeds. What do these cities have in common? They have large Af...
The stock markets just closed in New York, hooray! (“Hooray,” because now the stock markets can’t fall any further today. But tune in tomorrow!) If you don’t care because you’re already poor — hello, 90% o...
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Two girls who took part in Monday night's riots in Croydon have boasted that they were showing police and "the rich" that "we can do what we want". The pair who were drinking wine looted from a local shop...
At least 30 people have died after their boat sank off the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros, officials say. The accident happened south of the main island of
Grande Comore after the boat had set off t...
An Associated Press investigation has found that Japan exposed thousands of its citizens to risk by failing to use radiation forecasts in the early days of its
nuclear crisis. The government forecasts pr...
The number of people fleeing famine-hit areas of Somalia is likely to rise dramatically and could overwhelm international aid efforts in the Horn of Africa, a United Nations aid official said Tuesday. Th...
A mother black bear that was shot and killed after it attacked a man in the Metro Vancouver suburb of Anmore had been a fixture in the community, said the mayor. But Heather Anderson said the mother bear...
British authorities might use plastic bullets to quell rioting that has swept the city for a third night and spread to other cities, a senior London police officer says. Such bullets are "one of tactics"...
Suspected Peruvian drug traffickers have destroyed a guard post protecting a recently discovered indigenous tribe in Brazil's Amazon rain forest, the aid group Survival International reports. Aerial film...
The tsunami spawned from the March 11 earthquake off eastern Japan broke up parts of an Antarctic ice shelf that hadn't moved in 46 years, scientists say. Though the tsunami waves were only about a foot ...
A Libyan government spokesman said Tuesday that a NATO airstrike has killed 85 civilians near Zlitan, the northwestern Libyan city which has been the target of an intense aerial bombing campaign. Liby...
The bonfire of the bankers is upon us, but the thousands of banking staff faced with losing their jobs could have an extra thing to worry about. According to some headhunters, nobody will want to rehire th...
New York City, whose economy rests on Wall Street's shoulders, has the most to fear from a confidence-rattling economic shock because the city's budget is prepared to adjust to a gradual decline, economist...
Hassan Ali Salman is a stocky, fit-looking young man. But he flailed in vain as the police officers grabbed him, one forcing his T-shirt roughly up over his head as three or four others laid in with their ...
Ecuador sees the loans it has agreed with China as "good news" because they are long term, and all that is required in return is "oil, and not the horrendous adjustments imposed by the IMF [International M...
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan on Sunday ruled out the chance of a US default following S&P's decision to downgrade America's credit rating. "The United States can pay any debt it has bec...
State and local education officials have been begging the federal government for relief from student testing mandates in the federal No Child Left Behind law, but school starts soon and Congress still hasn...
Eurogeddon is postponed again. Jean-Claude Trichet has saved civilization. There will not be a spiralling bond crisis in Italy and Spain in early August after all. An imminent disintegration of Europe’s fi...
Gold is not a commodity it is a currency – and the devaluation of paper money by money printing is making it more and more attractive. The metal was desirable long before the concept of money was ever inv...
I’ve always felt rather sorry for the 14 interviewees who feature in the Seven Up! series of documentaries. You’ll be familiar with the format: every seven years, film director Michael Apted chases them do...
As stock markets in the developed world tumbled last week, employees of one of the world's biggest banks were left with little doubt about where their futures lay. HSBC announced on Monday that it was cu...
This time we face the risk of double-dip recession without shock absorbers. Interest rates are already at or near zero in much of the OECD club. Fiscal deficits are stretched to the limits of safety. Far...
With their monthly income of 10,000 yuan (about $1,500), Beijing nurse Liang Huiqing and her husband would not have been able to get a foothold in China's soaring property market without government help. ...
Britain is spending 1.3 million pounds ($2.1 million, 1.5 million euros) a month on accomodation for 1,000 service personnel in Italy while they conduct air strikes on Libya, official figures showed Sunday...
A three-year-old girl has vanished without a trace while she was playing outside her house with her older brother. Breeann Rodriguez - who had been on a pink bike with training wheels - was left alone for...
Six years after disappearance of the 18-year-old Natalee Holloway, yet another American tourist has vanished on Aruba while on holiday. Thirty-five-year-old Robyn Gardner, of Frederick, Maryland, disappea...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck South of Easter Island at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:46:31 UTC Tuesday 9th August 2011. The epicenter was 2526 km (1569 miles) West of Valdivia...
A giant rare whale has washed up on a beach at a British beauty spot. The 55ft fin whale - the world's second largest animal and a globally-endangered species - washed ashore at Lynmouth, Devon. Swansea...
This is the dramatic moment a boat full of tourists narrowly escaped an extremely cold dip as they toured round glacier-filled waters. Panicked tourists watched as a huge chunk of ice broke off a glacier a...
It killed 15,000 people and caused the worst nuclear disaster in 25years. But now it turns out that the effects of the Japanese tsunami which struck the country in March were felt as far away as the Antarc...
Five young criminals including a vicious knife robber and burglars, enjoyed an all-expenses-paid trip to the Alton Towers theme park. The group enjoyed the £250 trip as part of a supervision programme orga...
Sloppy Joes is one of those meals that I like to keep around. It is easy and I usually have the ingredients on hand, especially if we use toasted bread instead of buns. This is one of two ways that I make...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Mindoro Philippines at a depth of 166.5 km ( 103.5 miles), the quake hit at 15:41:37 UTC Tuesday 9th August 2011. The epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) West of Batangas,...
Following on the heels of Britian's recognition of the Libyan "rebels" as the official government of that country, "diplomat"s named by Libya's rebel administration, the National Transitional Council (NTC...
Image from Los Angeles Times. The shame of California: Prison strike at Pelican BayThis strike has drawn worldwide attention to the widespread use of torturous practices by the United States against its own ...
Does it sound horrible and indefensible that Obama is about to make David Petraeus head of the CIA? It should-- but it shouldn't sound surprising that Petraeus will be heading the world's most hated gov...
[image: This image, taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite, shows fires burning in parts of Khabarovsk, Amur, and Sakha (Yahkutiya) on July 28, 2011. The...
President Barack Obama has refused to accept responsibility for fresh economic panic on Wall Street, insisting market freefall was sparked in Europe and that the debt crisis was one he inherited. Speaking...
Countries across the world are warning their citizens not to travel to Britain. As a third night of violence saw rioting spread from London to Bristol, Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester, governments ha...
They have been accused of a sluggish response to last nights riots, standing back and watching looters destroy shops and taking a softly-softly approach. But today, when the Metropolitan Police had a chanc...
[image: Gulls fly around a fishing vessel. George Monbiot: 'Our obsession with cod and haddock is trashing the seabed and many of the other species which live there.' Angus Blackburn / Rex Features] By ...
ENTERTAINMENT - Over the next couple of decades there is going to be a lot of books and movies which become "Public Domain". The recent Conan movie is just an example of one such film based on books which ...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 101 km ( 62.8 miles), the quake hit at 14:04:03 UTC Tuesday 9th August 2011. The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) North ...
New implants contain cells that regenerate new tissue in disc implants.
Strong, durable grip extenders ergonomically prevent hand slippage and grip fatigue during workouts.
[image: Members of the UNSCOM team inspect mustard agent l55-mm artillery projectiles, damaged by fire, at the Fallujah Chemical Proving Ground, 01 August 1991. From left to right, the inspectors are; Jo...
It's not just moderates and progressives in the United States who are losing faith in Barack Obama. So are the Europeans. *Spiegel Online* claims that Obama's indecision and weakness are a serious threat...
In the wake of two terrorist bombings in Xinjiang province, China wants to hunt down Uyghur militants it claims are being trained in Pakistan's ungovernable tribal areas. *Since the blasts, which killed 1...
Balqon Corporation's Mule M100 all-electric truck is ideal for inner city deliveries.
Analysis of meteorites reveals they could have carried key elements of DNA to Earth.
Shoot broadcast-quality hands-free videos in full HD with a super-wide angle lens, audio out, GPS and Bluetooth.
England has sustained its third night of widespread rioting and looting. What began as an isolated uprising over a police shooting in Tottenham has rapidly spread to other greater London buroughs includi...
Last year a powerful heat wave triggered massive forest fires in Russia and led to the failure of Russia's wheat crop. So far this year, 1-million hectares of Russian forests have been burned out, alread...
I don't know how they can get away with it any longer, but folks, it's been fraud on a global level for decades(!) and it has COME HOME TO ROOST! And those of us hurting badly already? We are breathing our ...
Times-Picayune reporter David Hammer wins award for BP oil spill coverage FB sites alert motorists to checkpoints Pencils, not prayer ~Disenfranchised Citizen
Oh those crazy foaming fundamentalist rightwingers and their homophobia. On Sunday, Bachmann and her curious husband, attended a church service at which the pastor railed on, denouncing homosexuality as "u...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Myanmar-China Border Region at a depth of 24.7 km ( 15.3 miles), the quake hit at 11:50:20 UTC Tuesday 9th August 2011. The epicenter was 139 km (86 miles) ESE of Myi...
The 61-year-old had encountered strong winds and was reportedly vomiting when she was pulled out of the water after 29 hours.
Eighteen hours after it struck Japan, the March 11 tsunami hit an ice shelf in Antarctica.
The 61-year-old had encountered strong winds and was reportedly vomiting when she was pulled out of the water after 29 hours.
[image: US credit downgrade] The 2012 Republican presidential contenders contain roundly criticized President Barack Obama for economic policies they contend helped make the downgrade of U.S. credit by a ...
Months after the death of the Mars rover Spirit, its surviving twin is poised to reach the rim of a vast crater to begin a fresh round of exploration. Driving commands sent up to Opportunity directed the ...
MPs could be forced into an historic vote on Britain's withdrawal from the European Union after campaigners gathered enough supporters to trigger a debate. A petition demanding a straight vote on whether ...
Vigilantes were forced onto the streets last night to protect their homes and businesses after police failed to materialise at many of the scenes of looting and violence which swept across London. As off...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 565.6 km ( 351.5 miles), the quake hit at 11:11:23 UTC Tuesday 9th August 2011. The epicenter was 335 km (208 miles) West of Nuku'Alofa, ...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 62.1 km ( 38.6 miles), the quake hit at 10:00:07 UTC Tuesday 9th August 2011. The epicenter was 250 km (155 miles) ENE of Enarotali, Pap...
Didn't David Cameron looked pissed off having been dragged back to gritty, sweltering, seething, burning London from his lovely £10,000/week 18th Century Tuscan holiday villa near Montevarchi! His answe...
. Jew-turned-orthodox-Christian, Brother Nathaniel, hits the nail on the head.....with a big hammer....time and time again in the following 3-minute video presentation. You should try posting such ide...
An aquaculture company in Croatia claims success in spawning tuna in captivity, which may relieve the need to catch wild tuna.
British Prime Minister David Cameron said he would recall parliament from its summer recess for a day on Thursday after rioting swept through London for three consecutive nights. "This is criminality pur...
Syria defied Arab isolation and mounting international anger on Monday as President Bashar al-Assad's security forces continued attacks on pro-democracy protesters across the country. The US secretary of ...
Humphry Musyoka, a doctor at the world's largest refugee camp, knows well how quickly dehydration can ravage the body of a child. A young girl who seems OK one minute can turn on a dime. But Musyoka, w...
A cargo plane crashed in Russia's Far Eastern Kolyma region on Tuesday, killing 11 people after it disappeared from radar screens, a transport official was quoted as saying by state news agency RIA Novosti...
Heavy rains have triggered a landslide that destroyed about 100 houses in a mountainside village west of Manila. Mayor Jefferson Khonghun says no injuries were reported as the 300 or so villagers had fle...
A large fire broke out in downtown Moscow on Monday evening on the premises of the Mikoyan meat processing plant, emergencies services and police reported. The fire that engulfed 2,000 sq m (21,530 sq ft...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck South of Java, Indonesia at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 07:47:44 UTC Tuesday 9th August 2011. The epicenter was 227 km South of Kebumen, Indonesia ...
The FTSE 100 Index was trading below the 5,000 barrier for the first time in more than a year today as the turmoil in financial markets intensified. A slump of more than 5 per cent for Wall Street's Dow Jo...
This is the sickening moment an injured and bleeding teenager is robbed in broad daylight by lawless thugs who pretend to help him to his feet. The unnamed teenager is shown being apparently assisted by ki...
The building that poured flames through the streets of Croydon as the London riots raged had stood for more than 100 years. House of Reeves is a family-run independent furniture store which was so ingra...
Prime Minister David Cameron arrives back from holiday for emergency meeting at 9am 'Unprecedented' number of police to patrol London tonight as all leave is cancelled England game against Netherlands at...
The sands of time are running out for the central star of this hourglass-shaped planetary nebula. With its nuclear fuel exhausted, this brief but spectacular closing phase of MyCn18 - better known as the...
In a report by Real Coastal Warriors about the BP oil spill rig: "BOP valve was leaking, defective, installed wrong, and too weak to function in the first place. Plus it may not even have been turned on."...
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Levi Aron, the man suspected of killing eight-year-old New York boy Leiby Kletzky, has been transferred to the city's Rikers Island prison and placed on suicide watch. While awaiting trial for the grisly...
Photo courtesy: Wikipedia An inebriated thief who stole angling equipment from a store in northern Germany was caught near the scene of the crime with several fish hooks embedded in his backside, police ...
Rev. Raymond Brown pumps his fist outside New Orleans Federal Court Friday in celebration of conviction of cops involved in the post-Katrina Danziger Bridge shootings. Photo by Ted Jackson / The Times-Picayu...
Until 1870, American baseball players didn't wear gloves when they played ball. That year, Cincinnati Red Stockings catcher, Doug Allison, decided his hands were too sore; so, he fashioned half-fingered,...
The Metropolitan Police have announced that in the next 24 Hours there will be 16.000 Police deployed on the Streets of London. The Commissioner has also called for all 'Specials' to report for Duty and ca...
The body of a scuba diver recovered from Lake Tahoe has been identified as a man who disappeared 17 years ago. Dental records were used to identify Donald Christopher Windecker, from Reno, who was reporte...
Scientists have identified an orange-coloured gunk that appeared along the shore of a remote Alaska village as millions of microscopic eggs. But the mystery is not quite solved. Officials with the Nationa...
A housekeeper has accused her former employers, a Korean Buddhist monk and his family, of keeping her as a prisoner in their homes in Queens, New York, for 12 years and forcing her to work as their 'slave'...
The Telegraph highlights the behaviour of the BBC during the London rioting and focuses on the Corporation's use of the term "protesters" to describe the feral scum infesting our streets. "Two days af...
It's a tricky moment for the BBC as the US stock market drops even lower than Obama's approval ratings, so what to do to try and bolster their hero? How about inviting one of his advisers, Laura Tyson, on ...
A freight train derailed in drought-hit Texas could have come off the line due to warped tracks caused by the state's relentless heatwave after it experienced its hottest July on record. Thousands of heat...
A mystery investor or hedge fund reportedly made a bet of almost $1billion at odds of 10/1 last month that the U.S. would lose its AAA credit rating. Now questions are being asked of whether the trader ha...
POLITICS - On Saturday Afghan warlords shot down a US military helicopter during fighting in eastern Afghanistan, killing 30 Americans, most of them belonging to the same elite Navy SEALs unit that killed ...
POLITICS - The United States economy is sitting on a ticking time bomb which could strike at any time... its called a $14.35 trillion National Debt. Earlier this week S&P downgraded the USA from its AAA ra...
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Biased BBC - 10 hours ago
Well, as violent thugs *(Impoverished youth with inadequate community centre provision caused by the heartless Coalition. if you work for the BBC*) torch parts of our Capital city, and others join in the ...
An Ohio man apparently angry with his girlfriend shot her and gunned down several others during a house-to-house killing spree Sunday. After an argument in a Copley home, the gunman shot his girlfriend bef...
In his first interview since being jailed on 78 counts of wiretapping in 2008, Hollywood's most notorious private investigator has made an explosive claim concerning the late singer Michael Jackson. While...
The FBI said DNA found on the tie of hijacker D.B. Cooper does not match a new suspect in the case. Special Agent Fred Gutt cautioned that the test does not necessarily rule out the deceased suspect beca...
Asian equity markets were sharply down early today as investors fearing a possible global economic slowdown continued to flee stocks. Japan's Nikkei 225 index plunged 4.4 percent to 8,694.31 in the morning...
Life on Earth may have its origins in outer space, according to NASA research. Scientists have analysed meteorites that formed billions of years ago before falling to Earth. The carbon-rich fragments w...
In a series of incidents last night, a drawing room was severely damaged. Our reporter at the scene : "Well, I can tell you this morning that this drawing room has been almost totally destroyed. The c...
A man who stabbed a schoolboy to death in broad daylight with a broken golf club has been sentenced to life in prison. Adam Moore, 20, killed 16-year-old Adil Basharat outside his school gates last Novem...
More than 800,000 families are crippled by a mortgage larger than the value of their home, an alarming report warned yesterday. The Council of Mortgage Lenders report said the number trapped in negative ...
A doctor was cleared of beating his wife with a shoe yesterday after claiming she fabricated the assault. Simon Stacey said the nurse made up the claims out of revenge for his exposing her affair with a ...
Scotland Yard was braced for a furious backlash over the lack of police officers on the streets last night after rioting engulfed London. Several flashpoints in the capital were left completely lawless as ...
Violence and mayhem were spreading like wildfire through the capital last night with police apparently powerless to act. Scenes of mob rule became more terrifying by the minute as widespread arson and ana...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Dominica Region, Leeward Islands at a depth of 33 km ( 20.5 miles), the quake hit at 05:16:51 UTC Tuesday 9th August 2011. The epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) East...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Taupo, New Zealand at a depth of 100 km ( 62 miles), the quake hit at 01:46 pm (NZST) Tuesday 9th August 2011. The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) North of Taupo, New ...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Southern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 57.4 km ( 35.7 miles), the quake hit at 04:43:38 UTC Tuesday 9th August 2011. The epicenter was 85 km (52 miles) South of Be...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Kermadec Islands, New Zealand at a depth of 50.5 km ( 31.4 miles), the quake hit at 00:12:57 UTC Tuesday 9th August 2011. The epicenter was 77 km (47 miles) East of R...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Solomon Islands at a depth of 35 km ( 21.7 miles), the quake hit at 23:53:26 UTC Monday 8th August 2011. The epicenter was 93 km (57 miles) SSE of Kira Kira, San Crist...
Sky's Mark Stone has said he could not see any police as he filmed youths attacking shops in Clapham Junction, south London. He said people smashed the windows of a Ladbrokes bookmakers, a Wimpey fast fo...
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Nikkei Index Asian markets have been hammered amid fears that the US is heading for a recession and after Wall Street posted the biggest losses since late 2008. Japan's Nikkei 225 index fell 4.8%, South...
*"Vincent Columbraro, the Buttered Toast King, has such tight control over all buttered toast moving in and out of New Jersey that one word from him could ruin breakfast for two-thirds of the nation."* ...
WARNING AREA AND DURATION: United Kingdom, with focus on London, until August 9, 2011, midnight EST. EVENT INFORMATION: Update - August 9, 2011 Rioters now setting fire to buildings while people still...
It's a tough time to be a space enthusiast. The space shuttle's replacement is still a decade off, budget cuts abound and the United States hasn't sent a horror movie icon into orbit since 2001.
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CENSORED NEWS - 14 hours ago
By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com WELLKNOWN BUFFALO, Montana -- Outside Crow Voices Radio station today, at Wellknown Buffalo on the Crow Nation, Trunson Big Hair prepares...
Race this weekend was super fun. Put on by the Detroit Lions in Allen Park, near their training facility. Instead of medals, they gave out glasses with Detroit Lions and the race info on it, and there were...
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CENSORED NEWS - 16 hours ago
*San Francisco Peaks Supporters Blockade Snowbowl to Protect Sacred Mountain today, Monday, August 8, 2011, at 5 a.m. Photo credit: Kyle Boggs of the Noise* *More photos, as it was happening, via ce...
Riots have spread to new areas of London while looting erupted in the cities of Birmingham and Liverpool as Britain's worst violence in decades extended into the third night. Shops and cars were set a...
In a muddy pile of sand where a pond once flowed in the Texas Panhandle, dead fish, their flesh already decayed and feasted on by maggots, lie with their mouths open. Nearby, deer munch on the equivalent o...
*Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner**, explaining his decision to hold onto his current post: “I didn’t want to look for a job -- it’s fucking scary out there.” (See "Bonus Andy" below.)* BOROWITZ REPOR...
[image: Empty streets in the Fukushima exclusion zone, 7 August 2011. Sean Bonner / safecast.org] By Sean Bonner 7 August 2011 The Safecasting drives officially started after my last trip to Japan, so ...
How far are we from #gfc2? For those not aware, #gfc2 is the Twitter hashtag used for "global financial crisis 2". And the question I ask is a real one. A couple of weeks ago I wrote a blog wondering whet...
More than 200,000 protest in Tel Aviv, 20,000 in Jerusalem demanding social justice; speakers deny that movement has become politicized; Netanyahu to appoint team of ministers to negotiate protesters’ dema...
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain recalled their Damascus envoys as Sunni Islam's top body on Monday urged an end to the crisis in Syria, increasing the regional isolation of President Bashar al-Assad. Ho...
The riots in London have made headlines around the world - here's a round-up of the coverage from our international correspondents. Pictures and descriptions of the disturbances feature prominently in the...
US and South Korean troops will practise destroying North Korean weapons of mass destruction during an annual joint exercise this month to improve their combat-readiness, a report said Sunday. The allies...
Strong resistance by Moamer Kadhafi's forces and conflicting impulses to topple the Libyan ruler and hit a political settlement are stumping France's and its allies' efforts to end the conflict, experts sa...
France, a driving force in the NATO operation in Libya, on Friday said it could not confirm reports that Moamer Kadhafi's youngest son and feared commander Khamis had been killed in an air strike. "We do...
Democrats and Republicans in Washington need to stop blaming each other over the unprecedented US credit rating downgrade and find solutions, China's official Xinhua news agency said early on Monday. The...
Newt Gingrich had an awkward moment last week when an ABC News producer presented him with one of his campaign t-shirt’s, which was made in El Salvador. This is very embarrassing, of course, since Gingri...
Belarus and South Ossetia have reacted cautiously after Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin suggested he would like to see them join the Russia Federation. Putin, speaking to a youth forum Russia's Mon...
President Ma Ying-jeou said Taiwan should strengthen its defences against Chinese espionage, following a string of spy scandals showing that intelligence gathering continues despite warming ties. Taiwan ...
A Japanese defence researcher has invented a spherical observation drone that can fly down narrow alleys, hover on the spot, take off vertically and bounce along the ground. About the size of a beachball...
We've covered before the horrible consequences of constantly given factory farm animals antibiotics so they don't get sick in the sickening conditions we make them live. And recently the USDA commissioned ...
The National Climatic Data Center's (NCDC) latest "Billion Dollar U.S. Weather Disasters" report finds the U.S. has racked up more mega-expensive natural disasters in 2011 than ever before. So far we've su...
In a muddy pile of sand where a pond once flowed in the Texas Panhandle, dead fish, their flesh already decayed and feasted on by maggots, lie with their mouths open. Nearby, deer munch on the equivalent o...
She was called the luckiest woman in the world. But now that luck is being called into question by some who think that winning the lottery four times is more than just a coincidental spell of good fortun...
Standard & Poor's downgraded the ratings of government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Monday, citing their reliance on U.S. government. Both Fannie and Freddie were lowered to AA+ from ...
Michigan has removed about 30,000 college students from its food stamp program — close to double the initial estimate — saving about $75 million a year, says Human Services Director Maura Corrigan. Feder...
More than a month after the Obama administration said it would tap the country’s emergency oil reserve to try to combat supply disruptions in the Middle East, gas prices at the pump actually have risen 10 ...
A Lakeland mother has been arrested for child abuse after family members said she bit her son. Police investigated 26-year-old Ann Marie Kane after Department of Children and Families officials reported ...
A housekeeper has accused a Korean Buddhist monk and his family of forcing her to work as a slave in their Queens home. According to the New York Times, the lawsuit alleges the family kept the woman a pr...
Gold vaulted above $1,700 an ounce for the first time on Monday after pledges by the G7 and the European Central Bank to quell the turbulence in the financial markets did nothing to put investors at ease. ...
Three Mexican nationals attempted to illegally land their boat on California's Huntington Beach Sunday -- about a mile away from where crowds were forming to watch a professional surfing contest. Lifegua...
The man who leads one of China’s top rating agencies says the greenback’s status as the world’s reserve currency is set to wane as the world’s most powerful policy makers convene to examine the implication...
On July 29, America’s government statisticians revised GDP statistics for the past few years. They showed not only that the recession was deeper than what was apparent at the time; they also showed that su...
[image: Soil contamination levels of cesium-134 and cesium-137 near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, 26 May 2011. DOE / Japan Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology / The New...
KEMP, TEXAS, August 8 (ABC) – Water conservation has been turned up a notch in one North Texas community: The water has been cut off. Kemp Mayor Donald Kile says water was turned off to residents Sunda...
U.S. and European markets closed sharply down Monday as investors responded to the unprecedented downgrade of U.S. debt on Friday and concerns around the ongoing eurozone crisis. The Dow Jones industr...
Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows, Part Two. Harry Potter through the eyes of an Afghan childUnderstanding the lesson of Harry Potter is essential to understanding the cultural values that underpin our nee...
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CENSORED NEWS - 20 hours ago
*Can't stop 'em now!* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Photos: Youths of the Peaks FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- Defenders of San Francisco Peaks are rallying outside the US Fore...
Researchers suspect a mutation in one gene may be the reason some people do not develop ridges on their fingers.
[image: Nouriel Roubini is chairman of Roubini Global Economics, professor at the Stern School, NYU, and co-author of Crisis Economics. Bruce Gilden / Magnum Photos] By Nouriel Roubini 7 August 2011 ...
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wmtc - 20 hours ago
This week is the annual Mom Visit, which I greatly look forward to. I have a special surprise planned, but just in case my mom is peeking in, it will remain a surprise. Tala's rehab did not go as well as ...
There's very little positive an honest man can say about the DCCC. They're part of the problem, not the solution to it. This year their recruitment of conservative and corrupt assholes like Marty Chavez i...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 19:46:54 UTC Monday 8th August 2011. The epicenter was 120 km East of Iwaki, ...
Rule number one about pulling off a successful heist is that you don't tell anyone - and you definitely don't post a picture of yourself online with all the stolen goods. Unfortunately, this rule was lost...
A small camera phone creates one big, stop-action movie.
You can track Diana Nyad on Twitter, Facebook and live streams as she attempts to swim from Havana to Key West.
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 104 km, the quake hit at 17:53:26 UTC Monday 8th August 2011. The epicenter was 45 km Southwest of Khorung No d...
The Vietnam Administration of Preventive Medicine on Sunday warned the northern mountainous provinces of Lai Chau, Dien Bien and Ha Giang of anthrax outbreaks in humans, the *Sai Gon Tiep Thi *newspaper re...
An exploding meteor was believed to be responsible for a huge bang that reverberated around the Pacific island nation of Niue last week, according to police. Niue police chief Mark Chenery said the loud b...
Some people claim it might be the mythical chupacabra or a top-secret animal experiment.
Sulfur applied to vineyards washes into nearby freshwater -- and there's no way to know which vineyards use the chemical.
New research debunks a previous theory about how and why chimps share.
A North Sea wind farm has provided a marine sanctuary for wildlife in an area otherwise heavy with commercial fishing and shipping traffic.
New analysis suggests they didn't but instead managed to plod on through frigid Antarctic winters.
Sporadic violence has broken out in several parts of London as shops are looted and police are attacked in a third day of civil disorder - and there is also unrest in Birmingham. The latest disturbances ...
Reader Contribution; There's gold in every Girl Scout Cookies box. Actually, it's graphene -- a single-atom-thick sheet of the same material in pencil lead -- that can be made from just about any carbon ...
A home-made drone capable of launching airborne cyber attacks and hijacking mobile phone calls has been developed by two computer security experts. The Wireless Aerial Surveillance Platform - or Wasp - was...
Planets can be ejected when a star dies during a supernova and be left to roam the galaxy, according to a new study. Experts led by astronomer Dimitri Veras at the University of Cambridge found planets ca...
"(I've seen) garbage here and there but nothing like this that's for sure," said Lloyd Ilis, whose brother discovered a shark in the woods of Milton. “He happened to smell something that didn't smell righ...
The Toronto Stock Exchange lost several hundred points Monday, as fellow markets around the world were hammered and investors fretted about debt issues on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. By midday, the...
Here is a nice lecture about the most advanced questions of contemporary climatology that a famous speaker gave in Colorado last Thursday. *If you want to hear 24 minutes of similar stuff, check the 2n...
Violence erupted in broad daylight this afternoon as rioters surrounded police vans, looted lorries and targeted shops in a series of attacks across London. Scores of police raced to Hackney as a mob of ...
A new kind of malware can steal your data and hide it in your Facebook photo sets.
Concentrated solar power plants can be cheaper to build and more efficient by simplifying the design.
* 1998* *- the CIA reportedly wanted regime change. * In August 2011 - we have *Riots in London. * This reminds us of: May 1998 - when there were *Riots in Jakarta*, reportedly organised by elements o...
[image: Link]Monday Music: Geithner reportedly still looking for the license plate number of the truck that just ran his ass over but football season is soon ~Slabbed Hippies vs Anarchists or How not to ...
Very recently, I realized - because of some URLs of pages that people visit - that in 2007, I promoted a U.S. movie about the prophet Libuše, one of the legendary founders of the Czech nation. But I have n...
A U.S. aid official warned Monday that hundreds of thousands of Somalis could die as famine spreads, amid a visit to Kenyan refugee camps by the wife of U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden. Jill Biden on Monda...
Police have condemned a wave of "copycat criminal activity" across London in a second night of looting and disorder following riots in Tottenham. More than 100 people have been arrested as officers were a...
The CIA secretly painted Pierre Trudeau as a politician torn between being a leader of the Third World and a genuine player with global industrialized nations, declassified records show. The January 1982...
A week of bad economic news has led some economists to worry: Is it 1937 all over again? But here's a second worry. Even if we avoid a repeat of 1937, we still have to worry about another 1936. Here's ...
There is much speculation surrounding the circumstances of the death of 29-year-old Mark Duggan in north London on Thursday. His shooting at the hands of police while he was riding in a cab sparked a weeke...
U.S. stocks plunged when markets opened Monday, following drops in the European markets, as investors reacted to Friday's unprecedented downgrade of the U.S. by ratings agency Standard & Poor's. The D...
In China, the state-run media is full of scathing editorials about America's mounting debt. Commentary published by the Xinhua news agency over the weekend stated the U.S. should live within its means. T...
On a recent Sunday morning just before dawn, two carloads of white teenagers drove to Jackson, Mississippi, on what the county district attorney says was a mission of hate: to find and hurt a black pers...
Double-amputee athlete Oscar Pistorius was selected Monday in the South African team for the world championships in Daegu later this month. Pistorius will run in the individual 400m and is part of the 4x4...
Europe's leaders, policymakers and bond vigilantes are engaged in a fatal three-way game of brinkmanship. The showdown will see either careers bite the dust or the end of the euro. Somehow, though, the ult...
Which of these is the most important question to ask in the present economic crisis: how can we promote growth? Should we pay off government debt more or less quickly? Is the US in worse trouble than Europ...
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Working in an office is bad for your brain and can make you less productive, according to researchers. A study has found that the hustle and bustle of modern offices can lead to a 32% drop in workers well...
Ministers have launched an unprecedented attack on two of Britain's leading environmental charities for opposing the Government's planned shake-up of the planning system. The National Trust and the Campai...
Security experts may be underestimating the security threat posed by physical attacks to the Internet's infrastructure, a Lancaster University researcher has said. A study exploring the emerging and futur...
The US has a contingency plan to "snatch-and-grab" Pakistan's nuclear weapons, if and when the President believes they are threat to either America or its interests, a media report has said, amid strains i...
As the scale of the nationwide outbreak of Salmonella Heidelberg started to sink in Thursday — along with the stunningly large recall of 36 million pounds of ground turkey, much of it probably already eate...
Record low interest rates are preventing a rising wave of bankruptcies, experts have said. The Government has released figures showing that insolvencies are plateauing at about 30,000 a quarter, thanks to...
Growth projections issued by pension firms are misleading savers and leaving them with a false sense of security. Millions of investors are being misled about the likely returns from their pension, thanks...
Worried about the future? Don't know where to park your cash in these uncertain times? Then just type ''gold price history'' into your favourite internet search engine. You'll be astounded. That the preci...
"Over the past few weeks, Washington has seemed dysfunctional," conservative columnist David Brooks opined recently in The New York Times. "Public disgust [about the debt ceiling crisis] has risen to epic ...
“Inauguration Day was cloudy, grim,” wrote Arthur Burns in his diary on Jan. 20, 1969. As he watched President-elect Richard Nixon, Burns—an immigrant from Galicia, the son of a housepainter who had risen ...
*By Protect the Peaks* Posted at Censored News *Francias/French*: http://www.chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=242 FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- (August 7, 2011) More than one hundred people, including families with child...
Breaking News By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- Eight Snowbowl Ski Resort protesters locked down to barrels at 5 am, protesting the destruction to sacr...
Violence erupted for the first time in broad daylight this afternoon as rioters surrounded police vans, looted lorries and attacked shops. Scores of police raced to Hackney as a mob of hooded youths began ...
Schoolyard Bully. Photo by Igor Dutina /New York Times. Defeating the political and economic bullies that are destroying AmericaWhen Barack Obama was elected president, many of us thought that here, finally ...
Yesterday we looked at Drew Westen's analysis of why Obama is such a disastrous disappointment. That's not to say that any Republican wouldn't be incalculably worse nor that Obama has failed to achieve ...
-by Jersey Jim Wisconsin’s Gov. Scott Walker-- one of a cohort of rightwing Republican ideologues elected to Congress, state legislatures and governorships in 2010 (largely as a result of apathy among ...
Globalization has always been a scam. It has always been a trade of something very valuable for a vague and quite unenforceable promise of enormous benefits for all. What we traded away was sovereignty...
(Late, but interesting due to the fact that the "rebels" are deliberately damaging their country's energy export infrastructure. Does this sound like a group with their nation's best interests in mind?) ...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the Kodiak Island Region, Alaska at a depth of 22.1 km ( 13.7 miles), the quake hit at 16:00:48 UTC Monday 8th August 2011. The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) Northea...
More than £46bn has been wiped off the value of the FTSE 100 on a day that saw stock markets take a battering across Europe. London's FTSE closed down 3.4%, Germany's DAX slumped by 5.0% on the day and t...
*The Alberta Liberals will be selecting a new leader on September 10th, from among 5 candidates: Laurie Blakeman, Hugh MacDonald, Raj Sherman, Bruce Payne, and Bill Harvey. To vote, simply register here as...
So the First Lady was a conspiracy theorist. Not a huge surprise, nor is it a surprise that the media is focusing instead on sexual revelations rather than the important news that Jackie believed a conspirac...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Barbados Region, Windward Islands at a depth of 6.5 km ( 4 miles), the quake hit at 14:42:48 UTC Monday 8th August 2011. The epicenter was 99 km (61 miles) NNE of...
[image: Dump trucks unload bags containing radioactive dirt at a temporary disposal site in Fukushima Prefecture on 28 July 2011. Satoru Murata / Asahi Shimbun] By Noriyoshi Otsuki and Satoru Murata 5 A...
No celebration here. Image from the Atlanta Post. The new unemployment numbers are nothing to get excited about By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / August 8, 2011 The U.S. Labor Department released its unem...
Barney Frank: Military spending behind credit downgrade Report: Rebekah Brooks still on Murdoch payroll Second U.S. recession may be worse than the first Have you started to miss educated people making our ...
[image: A female refugee passes a kettle of tea to her husband in preparation to break their fast during the holy month of Ramadan at a camp for flood victims in Nowshera, northwest Pakistan on 2 August ...
[image: A herd of goats at Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya. The current drought conditions have been caused by successive seasons with very low rainfall. Thomas Mukoya / Reuters] By Duncan Green 8 August 2...
Modern, consumer economies are essentially a confidence game. When confidence is high, money flows; goods are produced, sold and bought; and we all (sort of) enjoy the boom. When confidence is low, tha...
This is the moment a group of teenage thugs ran over and killed a terrified black car worker after savagely beating him on a mission to find and hurt a black person, according to prosecutors. Eighteen-yea...
By Duane Craig Industrial legacy in Michigan continues to produce surprises as the Cliffs Dow site, formerly a Superfund site, recently caught the attention of Marquette Michigan's Planning and Communit...
[image: Aerial view of a blue-green algae bloom in Ranworth Broad, 31 July 2011. Mike Page / BBC] August 3 (BBC) – Holidaymakers have been warned to avoid contact with the blue-green algae which is turn...
Forget the old 3,000-mile rule -- this gadget tells you when you really need an oil change.
A computer program uses publicly available information and images from social networking sites to dig up private data.
[image: A group of newly arrived Somali refugees listens to instructions from a security officer in Dadaab, Kenya, October 2008. The conflict in Somalia has forced many people to seek refuge in northeast...
A besieged Syrian city came under fresh artillery fire early today as a deadly military assault left President Bashar Assad's regime increasingly isolated, with Arab nations forcefully joining the internat...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck the Eastern New Guinea Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 98.3 km ( 61.1 miles), the quake hit at 13:05:23 UTC Monday 8th August 2011. The epicenter was 67 km (42...
Time is running out for a massive baby humpback whale which took a wrong turn at an Australian beach - and lost his mother. The not-so-little lost boy, who weighs 1.5 tons and is thought to be just a week...
Doug Stanhope is encouraging his adoring fanbase to contact the BBC to defend Richard Bacon. In trademark foul-mouthed style he rants against the "fuck-mouth" at the Down's Syndrome Association who wrote F...
Even without a moon, the tilt of Earth's axis would be stable enough to support life.
Looming ominously over the mid-west American sky threatening to destroy everything in their path, these dramatic 'tornado-scapes' provide a close-up account of the most deadly U.S. storm season in living...
A cleaner who beat an 82-year-old widower to death before burying him in the garden so she could get his money was jailed for life today. Ann Browning, 54, was ordered to serve a minimum of 25 years for th...
Wim van der Bijl, Owner of a stamp Trading company in Utrecht, has gone missing while in North Korea. He was supposed to return to the Netherlands on July 30th 2011, but never arrived. Since then there has...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Hokkaido, Japan Region at a depth of 93.4 km ( 58 miles), the quake hit at 12:35:23 UTC Monday 8th August 2011. The epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) Southwest of Obihiro...
If you have been following along here, oh since about mid March/11, then you will understand that Syria has been under attack. I'm not about to rehash the whole sordid affair, take the time to read all abo...
In terms of crucial votes taken in their entire congressional careers, only three Democrats-- Dan Boren (Blue Dog-OK), Jason Altmire (Blue Dog-PA) and Joe Donnelly (Blue Dog-IN)-- have voted more consist...
A lightning strike has resulted in power outages at data centres belonging to Microsoft and Amazon, leading to disruption for users of Amazon's EC2 cloud computing platform and Microsoft’s Business Product...
On 8th August 2011 we learn that in the London *Tottenham riot: the Bullet fired at a police officer 'belonged to the police'.** *The riots in London started after the shooting of Mark Duggan by the po...
La Niña over the Pacific Ocean results in stronger winds and less rainfall over East Africa.
The FTSE is on unsteady ground as the world's economic confidence falters after the downgrade of the US credit rating and renewed eurozone fears. The FTSE 100 opened 1.2% down but bounced back to around 0...
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Recently, I talked about a few states in the US that had actually taken strong steps towards fixing their own economies, even moving into surplus, by decreasing spending, entitlement reform, and tax breaks...
A flaming meteor streaked over Hungary late Friday evening, according to eyewitness accounts on several websites. Weather portal Idokep hu put the meteor over Western Hungary at 9:46pm, based on eyewitne...
According to the report, Iran's total oil exports to China stood at 13.47mln tons during the same period. China's General Administration of Customs also announced that the country's total oil imports in...
An aircraft worker in New Zealand has been killed after he was sucked into a plane engine during 'routine maintenance'. The 51-year-old engineer was working at an aircraft testing centre when the tragedy ...
An investigation has been launched after a 62-year-old worker became the third person to be killed at a 'cursed' factory in under a year. James Kay had been working on a cherry picker crane over the weeken...
Police have arrested a man on suspicion of murder after the bodies of two women were discovered inside a burning house. The arrest comes after officers were called to the property in Fulwood, near Presto...
A British soldier fighting in Afghanistan has been accused of cutting off the fingers of dead Taliban fighters - which he then kept as 'macabre' souvenirs. The squaddie, from the Argyll and Sutherland Hig...
Officials at Constellation Energy are investigating a leakage in a containment structure that caused the shutdown of the Nine Mile Point Unit 2 reactor on Lake Ontario over the weekend. The Oswego Pallad...
A young child has reportedly died from meningococcal disease, one week after Fulton Hogan chief executive Bill Perry was killed by the aggressive bug. The child – whose age and gender have been withheld -...
Towering waves from a tropical storm threatened to hit a chemical plant in a Chinese port city, raising fears it might lead to a toxic chemical spill, a Chinese state media report said Monday. Waves as hi...
One worker died, while eight others were affected after leakage of gas at a chemical unit at Sachin industrial estate here, police said on Sunday. "Sandeep Karve, a worker at Anupam India Rasayan Ltd, die...
Heavy rain has caused localised flooding and led to disruption across Scotland. Downpours forced the cancellation of a Highland games in Montrose, north east Scotland. Roads were closed and firefighters ...
A sudden storm that whipped through the metro area Sunday knocked out power to more than 50,000 electrical customers as it tore down power lines and knocked over trees. Skies that had blazed with another ...
*A VOLCANO that has been spewing lava and clouds of searing gas high into the air has let out a new, powerful burst, sending panicked villagers streaming down the sides of the mountain. * A man who fell ...
They have become sad summer rites in local waters that feed the Chesapeake Bay: algae blooms, also known as red tides or brown tides. And once again, they have arrived to stain creeks and rivers, frighten ...
A state of emergency has been declared in a district in the Krasnodar Region in south Russia over a swine fever outbreak, the regional emergencies center said on Sunday. The swine fever virus was found i...
Multi-culturalism has yet again shown its ugly face in once English London. In scenes reminiscent of the 1985 riots, Tottenham was set ablaze this weekend, with burning cars and buildings. The only disc...
A student has died after being shot with a Taser by campus police. Everette Howard, from Cincinatti, went into cardiac arrest after being struck by the stun gun after police were responding to reports of ...
Members of the Disabled American Veterans Department in Indiana are outraged after discovering ten convicted sex offenders are working at a local medical centre where student volunteers and veterans are tr...
It's the kind of news that would have a President calling his defence staff to the White House Situation Room. A Mexican military helicopter packed with soldiers has landed on United States soil, uninvite...
When police stormed a home in Canada last month, they were prepared to face a man who had killed his mother and was threatening to kill his sister. But instead they found Jason Myles, a software consultant...
Just another manic Monday and a fresh Open Thread to accompany it. World financial metldown, London aflame, how is the BBC doing in terms of balanced coverage? This is where you get your say... Click th...
I try to avoid BBC 5 LIVE on the basis that listening to Today is as much as I can stomach but thankfully other B-BBC readers do tune in... "BBC 'Weekend Breakfast' happy to have a 'local resident' tell u...
Did you catch this interview this morning with the omnipresent on the BBC *Claudia Webbe* on Today? If I heard it correctly, she appeared to suggest that whilst all violence is utterly repellent (wait for...
Widow Kimberly Vaughn saw television reports of the helicopter downed in Afghanistan on Saturday morning, before her doorbell rang and Navy officers told her that her husband was killed in action. Aaron C...
The miners rescued after 69 days trapped underground in Chile have become the targets of anti-government protesters. Demonstrators threw fruit and stones at the group as they commemorated the first annive...
A senior U.S. military commander who led the investigation into UFO sightings in Suffolk has spoken out about the incident for the first time in 30 years. The incident in 1980 was dubbed Britain's Roswell...
British aid cash is being given to the families of suicide bombers, it was claimed last night. The Palestinian Authority, which gets £86million of British aid a year, has authorised payments of almost £5m...
An eagle eyed B-BBC reader notes; How odd....an article in the Guardian by one of Ken Livingstone's matesechoes precisely a BBC article: Both suggest it was Tory cuts wot done it....to youth clubs, jobs ...
The rifle used to kill a polar bear which mauled an Eton schoolboy to death failed to fire four times, investigators revealed last night. The news paints a dramatic picture of expedition leader Mike Reid’s...
Violent foreign criminals have been wrongly freed into the community after a series of blunders by the Home Office. The eight foreigners – including at least one killer – had been convicted of sexual or ...
Image: Although George Osborne is on holiday, he has launched an attack on indebted countries George Osborne called on France, Germany and America to act now to prevent further financial carnage last nigh...
The bullet which lodged in a police officer’s radio in the gunfight which led to Mark Duggan being shot dead was police issue ammunition, it was reported last night. The revelation will fuel the fury in T...
London endured a second night of violence last night as questions were raised about the shooting by police of a suspected gangster. In Enfield, South London, a mob of 200 anarchists smashed their way into...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 71.8 km ( 44.6 miles), the quake hit at 03:34:12 UTC Monday 8th August 2011. The epicenter was 40 km (24 miles) ...
The problems of the economy in the USA, and elsewhere, are easy to solve. Think of France facing bankruptcy in 1789. The problems of France in 1789 would have been solved if the rich had paid their fair ...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Java Sea at a depth of 505.6 km ( 314.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:35:04 UTC Monday 8th August 2011. The epicenter was 155 km (96 miles) Northeast of Semarang, Java, I...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 53.1 km ( 33 miles), the quake hit at 01:05:33 UTC Monday 8th August 2011. The epicenter was 194 km (120 miles) East ...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Kuril Islands at a depth of 47 km ( 29.2 miles), the quake hit at 23:18:30 UTC Sunday 7th August 2011. The epicenter was 396 km (246 miles) ENE of Kuril'sk, Kuril Islan...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Kepulauan, Indonesia at a depth of 9.2 km ( 5.7 miles), the quake hit at 23:05:11 UTC Sunday 7th August 2011. The epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) Northwest of Dobo, Kepu...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Molucca Sea at a depth of 56.3 km ( 35 miles), the quake hit at 22:16:53 UTC Sunday 7th August 2011. The epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) WSW or Ternate, Moluccas, Indone...
*Published in "Hospodářské noviny" (an economics-oriented daily), August 8th, 2011. Via klaus.cz, Czech president's personal website.* *May a bill save a country from bankruptcy?* Initially I didn't wan...
[image: Asian stock markets] Asian stocks nose-dived Monday as the first-ever reduce of the U.S. government's credit rating jolted the global financial system, reinforcing fears so as to the world economy...
A dwarf galaxy called Segue 1 is hard to see. Why? Because it contains the highest concentration of dark matter found in a galaxy to date.
Halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays. What's not to like? Candy corn, pumpkins, corn mazes and, of course, dressing up. My little girl started early this year, changing her mind every othe...
"Yet 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.* *UPDATE: Protect the ...
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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 boxes" I ordered was a reissue of the late Günter Wand's 1974-81 traversal of the nine Bruckner symphonies wit...
. 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 Z...
[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,...
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...
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...
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Last night, once again Africans rioted in London. Violence spread to other cities including Liverpool, Bristol, Birmingham, Nottingham and Leeds. What do these cities have in common? They have large Af...
The stock markets just closed in New York, hooray! (“Hooray,” because now the stock markets can’t fall any further today. But tune in tomorrow!) If you don’t care because you’re already poor — hello, 90% o...
A Severe Thunderstorm Warning remains in effect until 115 PM EDT for northeastern New Castle... southwestern Philadelphia... southern Delaware and northwestern Gloucester counties... At 1256 PM EDT... th...
Two girls who took part in Monday night's riots in Croydon have boasted that they were showing police and "the rich" that "we can do what we want". The pair who were drinking wine looted from a local shop...
At least 30 people have died after their boat sank off the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros, officials say. The accident happened south of the main island of Grande Comore after the boat had set off t...
An Associated Press investigation has found that Japan exposed thousands of its citizens to risk by failing to use radiation forecasts in the early days of its nuclear crisis. The government forecasts pr...
The number of people fleeing famine-hit areas of Somalia is likely to rise dramatically and could overwhelm international aid efforts in the Horn of Africa, a United Nations aid official said Tuesday. Th...
A mother black bear that was shot and killed after it attacked a man in the Metro Vancouver suburb of Anmore had been a fixture in the community, said the mayor. But Heather Anderson said the mother bear...
British authorities might use plastic bullets to quell rioting that has swept the city for a third night and spread to other cities, a senior London police officer says. Such bullets are "one of tactics"...
Suspected Peruvian drug traffickers have destroyed a guard post protecting a recently discovered indigenous tribe in Brazil's Amazon rain forest, the aid group Survival International reports. Aerial film...
The tsunami spawned from the March 11 earthquake off eastern Japan broke up parts of an Antarctic ice shelf that hadn't moved in 46 years, scientists say. Though the tsunami waves were only about a foot ...
The bonfire of the bankers is upon us, but the thousands of banking staff faced with losing their jobs could have an extra thing to worry about. According to some headhunters, nobody will want to rehire th...
New York City, whose economy rests on Wall Street's shoulders, has the most to fear from a confidence-rattling economic shock because the city's budget is prepared to adjust to a gradual decline, economist...
Hassan Ali Salman is a stocky, fit-looking young man. But he flailed in vain as the police officers grabbed him, one forcing his T-shirt roughly up over his head as three or four others laid in with their ...
Ecuador sees the loans it has agreed with China as "good news" because they are long term, and all that is required in return is "oil, and not the horrendous adjustments imposed by the IMF [International M...
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan on Sunday ruled out the chance of a US default following S&P's decision to downgrade America's credit rating. "The United States can pay any debt it has bec...
State and local education officials have been begging the federal government for relief from student testing mandates in the federal No Child Left Behind law, but school starts soon and Congress still hasn...
Eurogeddon is postponed again. Jean-Claude Trichet has saved civilization. There will not be a spiralling bond crisis in Italy and Spain in early August after all. An imminent disintegration of Europe’s fi...
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