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*"On Friendship"* * *by Kahlil Gibran "Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him w...
"A bright spiral galaxy of the northern sky, Messier 63 is about 25 million light-years distant in the loyal constellation Canes Venatici. Also cataloged as
NGC 5055, the majestic island universe is nearly...
"We would rather be ruined than changed; We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions die." ~ W.H. Auden
*“Elegy”* by Chet Raymo “I am seventy-five years old. I have never watched another human die. On only a few occasions have I seen animals other than insects die. It's not that death hasn't been happening ...
*The incomparable James Spader dazzled last season as the visionary genius, or perhaps megalomaniacal crackpot, Robert, interviewing for the old job of Michael Scott (Steve Carell) as manager of the Scrant...
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If you missed them this week, these are the posts that got folk excited: 1. *Three Logicians Walk Into a Bar* The humour of logic. And beer. 2. *Don, John and the right to take a toke* Eve...
*You certainly can't say they don't care about you.* "Pa. legislative corruption trial begins for 3 GOP defendants; Defense lawyers blame former House speaker" September 27, 2011|By Peter Jackson, Associa...
Ophelia strengthened Friday into a Category 3 hurricane, with winds of 115 mph as it barreled northward across the Atlantic at nearly 12 mph, the National Hurricane Center said. The system had appeared to...
The U.S. economy is staring down another recession, according to a forecast from the Economic Cycle Research Institute. "It's either just begun, or it's right in front of us," said Lakshman Achuthan, the ...
Judging by the commentary, there has been a colossal misunderstanding around the world of what has just has happened in Germany. The significance of yesterday’s vote by the Bundestag to make the EU’s €440b...
There is a growing risk that the global economy will move from the 'Great Recession' into the 'Great Stagnation', according to economists at Goldman Sachs. Stagnations typically mean long periods of slugg...
When it comes to supporting UK manufacturing, the Coalition government's record has so far proved almost as disappointing as the last one's. First there was the decision to favour Siemens over the all Bri...
The X Factor is 'playing fast and loose with people's minds', according to the distinguished mental health campaigner Marjorie Wallace. It is Britain’s most popular television programme, but The X Factor ...
Passengers donated bottles of drinking water to get their train working again after it broke down because of the heatwave. The National Express East Anglia train ground to a halt under the baking midday ...
One of the Royal Navy's most senior officers has expressed serious concerns over the loss of skilled aircraft carrier crew following redundancies. The officer, who plays a key role in maintaining the Flee...
The Obama administration told the United Nations that too few of its 10,307 workers are being cut and average salaries, currently $119,000 a year, have risen “dramatically.” The U.S. ambassador for UN man...
A leaked document from the Justice Department intended for law enforcement officials describes the length of time major cellphone companies retain sensitive customer data, including text message details an...
As the dust settles after six months of fighting in Libya, U.S. officials are stepping up efforts to identify Islamic militants who might pose a threat in a post-Gaddafi power vacuum. U.S. counterterroris...
In the year-plus since he was released from jail, scientist Hu Zhicheng has been free, free to drive from his Shanghai apartment to his office two hours away, free to get acupuncture treatment for chronic ...
Cyber-criminals stole the payment card details of almost 2.3m Betfair customers only months before the betting exchange's controversial £1.39bn float. The company was forced to inform the UK Serious Orga...
The US company SpaceX is working on the first-ever reusable rocket to launch to space and back, with the goal of one day helping humans colonize Mars, founder Elon Musk said Thursday. The vehicle would be...
*“Stone-Age Toddlers Had Art Lessons”* by Guardian.co.uk "Stone age toddlers may have attended a form of prehistoric nursery where they were encouraged to develop their creative skills in cave art, say ar...
"Gas explosion rattles north Seattle neighborhood; 2 people seriously hurt" September 27, 2011|By Associated Press SEATTLE - A natural gas leak inside a home caused an explosion and fire that destroyed a ...
"There's a great black wave in the middle of the sea For me For you" - Arcade Fire, "Black Wave/Bad Vibrations" On September 27, 2011, Politico reported on the Obama administration's decision to not relea...
"Aide allegedly stole $1m from N.Y. mayor" September 27, 2011|By Associated Press NEW YORK - A *political consultant* accused of *stealing more than $1 million* from Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been turne...
*Tastes like s***!* "Postal Service to put living people on stamps**" September 27, 2011|By Associated Press WASHINGTON - Hoping to boost sagging revenue, the US Postal Service abandoned its longstanding...
"A rural Indiana community was on edge yesterday as police searched for answers in the deaths of five people found at two properties.... --**more--"
"GOP sees Ohio as key to capturing Senate; Aids bid to unseat liberal incumbent" September 27, 2011|By Alex Katz, Globe Correspondent DAYTON, Ohio - Liberal Democratic incumbent Sherrod Brown’s approval ra...
*The Globe would rather be out there than covering the Wall Street protests, and I'm sick of it.* *Enjoy, readers*: "Man survives 4 days in Utah desert" September 26, 2011|Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY...
Man in the street: "Who's going to fight? What are you going to do? This is revolution time, but who's going to do it?" Report by Survive And Thrive TV:
Cancer has finally erased Clifford Olson from the ranks of mankind. The serial child killer died this afternoon in a Quebec hospital.
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*"The Genesis of Evil"* by Andrew Lobaczewski, Ph.D. "Ever since ancient times, philosophers and religious thinkers representing various attitudes in different cultures have been searching for the trut...
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Holy Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVE MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ link AVE MARIA by Mirusia Louwerse - video ~ link Lord Stirling's news blog ...
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Holy Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVE MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ link AVE MARIA by Mirusia Louwerse - video ~ link Lord Stirling's news blog ...
Beware of pretenders supplied by the establishment to "save us" from collapsing system. by Tony Cartalucci September 30, 2011 - The US intelligence community, in conjunction with Wall Street corporate-f...
Like girls, boys are pressured to look fit, thin and attractive, but because of other pressures, they don't want to look like they care too much.
*"The Cult of the Plausible Lie"* by Laura Knight-Jadczyk "Never ascribe to malice those things which may be explained by stupidity." That is an important phrase, and a necessary one; it keeps people from...
"How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives ar...
*"Apple Causes 'Religious' Reaction In Brains Of Fans"* by Digital Trends "People have often talked about "the cult of Apple", and if a recent BBC TV documentary is to be believed, there could be somethin...
Everytime I tell myself that after years and years of holding my nose and voting for crappy Democrats who don't represent me politically-- primarily because they're better than the far more odious Republi...
*“How Your Brain Reacts to Mistakes * *Depends on Your Mindset”* by MedicalXpress "Whether you think you can or think you can't - you're right," said Henry Ford. A new study, to be published in an upcomin...
*"We Don’t Need to Suffer: Learn and Let Flow"* by The DailyOm "We do not need to suffer or live in poverty to be a spiritual person. The idea that we have to suffer or live in poverty in order to be spir...
Android malware is in the news, but it doesn't have to be on your phone.
SpaceX has frozen the production of the Falcon 1 rocket due to a softening in the small satellite launch market. But it's larger sibling, the Falcon 9, is seeing a boom in popularity.
Boiling Frogs Post: The EyeOpener - CIA in the News Media: A Brief History of Media Manipulation by U.S. Intelligence (By James Corbett). This is a must see video. It is so well done. The information is so...
Utilities such as water supplies and the power grid face a rising number of cyber break-ins by attackers using sophisticated attacks. Acting DHS Deputy Undersecretary Greg Schaffer said that industries ar...
The U.S. government is auctioning off land in a bid to raise much-needed capital, with the nation's economy in a critical state with an entire island that once housed an Animal research centre for sale. W...
While his nation starves, North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-Il has been spending £120,000 a year on his dogs, it has been revealed. The allegations were made in a report presented to the country's parliament...
A judge today blasted EU laws which will allow a Romanian con man who came to Britain solely to carry out a cash machine scam to stay in the country after being released from jail. Judge Graham Cottle was...
London's stock market suffered its worst quarter of trading for nearly a decade as more than £212 billion was wiped off its value since July 1. Fresh fears of another worldwide recession saw the FTSE 100 f...
*Guest blog by Prof Nir Shaviv (HUJI), astrophysicist* *Reprinted from sciencebits.com with author's permission* Three weeks ago I visited the underground laboratory of Gran Sasso near l'Aquila. Little ...
Germans shocked by brazen bullying of lawmakers during bankster bailout vote By Jane Burgermeister Published: September 30, 2011 The brazen mobbing of German lawmakers during yesterday’s vote on establish...
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*Is it by overlooking the Greek history*, is it its geography or something else that caused the hair-raising crisis that its population must suffer. There is no discussion about: Greece is bankrupt and wi...
How we live, love, reproduce, and marry is more complicated than just a change of tone.
*"US States To Financially Break Away From Federal Government?"* by Ron Hera “Earlier this week I attended the Utah Monetary Summit in Salt Lake City, Utah. As you may know, the state of Utah passed a Le...
Coffee Car drives into Guinness World Records for fastest vehicle powered by organic waste.
"You know the law - every son of Israel must have some occupation." - Lew Wallace, *Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ*, Chapter IV On September 26, *The Los Angeles Times* ran a short Calendar section itemo...
"We deny that we're tired, we deny that we're scared, we deny how badly we want to succeed. And most importantly, we deny that we're in denial. We only see what we want to see and believe what we want to ...
*Occupy Los Angeles Oct. 1st City Hall*
NASA's MESSENGER mission is turning up more questions than answers as it photographs strange recently-formed features on Mercury's surface.
The Friday News Feedbag is taped before a live studio audience .... (not really) On this week's show, James visits the school cafeteria, where new and tricky ways to get people to eat better are being impl...
JUST AFTER typhoon Pedring battered Luzon this week, another typhoon, Quiel (international name: Nalgae) entered Philippine territories Friday afternoon, the state weather bureau said. The Philippine At...
*"Bernanke’s Plot to Overthrow the US Dollar"* by Bill Bonner "Where’s the Bastille? The Dow got a boost yesterday — up 143 points. Gold remained where it was — about $1,617. Dear Readers know what we thi...
It’s not a new virus, but doctors need to keep an eye out for one that’s not usually on the radar screen, federal health officials said on Thursday. It’s called human enterovirus 68, or HEV68, and it can c...
New Zealand's credit rating has been downgraded by two of the three major ratings agencies amid increased global concern over high debt burdens in developed nations. Fitch and Standard & Poor's on Friday ...
A teenager holding her 11-month-old son was injured when she came under fire from a shotgun as she chatted to two friends in west London. Jessica Chrichlow, 18, was taken to hospital with the two others, a...
Cities could soon be looking after their citizens all by themselves thanks to an operating system designed for the metropolis. The Urban OS works just like a PC operating system but keeps buildings, traff...
One of the world's most powerful "atom smashers", at the leading edge of scientific discovery for a quarter of a century, is about to shut down. The Tevatron facility near Chicago will fire its last partic...
Prehistoric etchings found in a cave in France are the work of children as young as three, according to research. The so-called finger flutings were discovered at the Cave of a Hundred Mammoths in Rouffig...
An anonymous donor in Japan has left 10m yen ($131,000; £83,000) to charity by dumping it in a public toilet. The money was found with a letter saying it should be donated to victims of the earthquake and...
A miniature magic carpet made of plastic has taken flight in a laboratory at Princeton University. The 10cm (4in) sheet of smart transparency is driven by "ripple power"; waves of electrical current drivi...
U.S. consumers spent slightly more last month but earned less for the first time in nearly two years. The new data on spending and incomes suggest Americans tapped their savings to cope with steep gas pric...
A small Japanese company has developed a modern, miniature version of Noah's Ark in case Japan is hit by another massive earthquake and tsunami: a floating capsule that looks like a huge tennis ball. Japa...
The United States is looking at building fences along the border with Canada to help keep out terrorists and other criminals, according to a draft report by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency T...
Japan lifted some evacuation advisories around the tsunami-devastated Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant Friday to reassure tens of thousands of residents, who fled the worst atomic crisis since Chornobyl, ...
At least 49 people have been killed across several cities in western Syria during the past two days of fighting between pro- and anti-government forces, an opposition group said Thursday. Most of the deat...
A man stranded after his car plunged down a steep embankment in the Angeles National Forest survived for six days by eating leaves and drinking water from a creek, authorities said Friday. David J. Lavau,...
Protests to draw attention to the power of Wall Street firms in the United States and world economies will continue for a 14th straight day Friday in New York City. Demonstrations are addressing various...
For the first time in U.S. history, the largest single group of poor children in any racial or ethnic category is Hispanic, according to a new survey. Calling it "a negative milestone" in Hispanics' explo...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Hinshu, Japan at a depth of 49.5 km (30.8 miles), the quake hit at 17:20:04 UTC Friday 30th September 2011. The epicenter was 103 km ( 64 miles)...
*"Banks Raise Fees on Same People Who Bailed Out Their Asses:* *Introduce New ‘Thank You’ Fee on Debit Cards"* by Andy Borowitz NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) – "The largest banks in the US made history t...
The space debris issue won't affect me, will it? Actually, as astronomer Mark Thompson explains, it will.
*Awlaki.* * *On 30 September 2011, the Yemen government announced the 'death' of Anwar Al-Awlaki, believed to be an agent of the CIA. *"It is not clear yet whether the airstrike was by Yemeni air force or...
The poem is read by British actor Sir Lewis Thomas Casson (26 October 1875 – 16 May 1969). Text: It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged w...
And then, sometimes they just write themselves.
Sponges already clean up kitchen spills and soap scum, now they may start cleaning up the atmosphere.
That's a relief - there are many fewer 'mid-sized' Asteroids near Earth than was previously thought. There are roughly 19,500 -- not 35,000. But while the risk of impact is smaller, according to NASA, the...
Barrack Obama claims the U.S. had 'gotten a little soft' in the last couple decades and needs to 'get back on track'. The president was talking about the state of the economy during an interview with a ...
The U.S. economy is staring down another recession, according to a forecast from the Economic Cycle Research Institute. "It's either just begun, or it's right in front of us," said Lakshman Achuthan, the ...
Baseball, moreso than any other sport, is predicated on, and ruled by, superstition. One of the stubbornest and most hallowed of all traditions is the firing of managers and coaches for the failed executi...
Just got the word from Ralph Goodale. The LPC Deputy Leader suggests if the party can just get another $50-grand by midnight, they'll be able to send an even stronger message to the Cons and NDP that the...
In the midst of the right-wing jihad to do away with the social safety net and turn America into an-only-the-strong-survive kind of Jungle, you may have heard the presumptive GOP presidential nominee whin...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 21.2 km (13.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:51:08 UTC Friday 30th September 2011. The epicenter was 132 km ( 82 miles)...
Ten states have two or more cities with populations > 300K living counties protected by levees ~Levees.org Editorial: Congress can't walk away from flood control Corps of Engineers loading towns with unfu...
Heavy rain from a fall thunderstorm was responsible for flooding in several east Toronto neighbourhoods early Friday morning. Areas of Scarborough were among the hardest hit when a thunderstorm rolled th...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Ecuador at a depth of 38.4 km (23.9 miles), the quake hit at 12:34:37 UTC Friday 30th September 2011. The epicenter was 5 km ( 3 miles) SSE of Guayaq...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of the North Island, New Zealand at a depth of 206.3 km (128.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:42:24 UTC Friday 30th September 2011. The epicenter was 1...
Germany will return Namibian skulls taken for scientific experiments after the first genocide of the 20th century.
Normally silver and aluminum are highly reflective, but on the nano-scale, they absorb sunlight better than anything.
Mint Plus has a reservoir and a stronger battery for more cleaning time.
The car company has developed an e-bike to out-race the rest; but so far, it's still a concept.
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The ongoing protest at New York City's financial district is receiving a huge boost from labour unions. The Transit Workers Union voted unanimously to support Occupy Wall Street and the United Auto Worke...
Vancouver's safe injection site has been saved from Harper's attempts to shut it down. The Supreme Court of Canada has held that not allowing the clinic to operate would violate the Charter of Rights and...
All too often these days we're visited with the consequences of defective government. By defective government I mean the weak leadership incapable of taking the hard decisions necessary to benefit the co...
[image: Polybrominated diphenyl ether. Wikipedia Commons]By Elizabeth Grossman 29 September 2011 Over the past 40 years, a class of chemicals with the tongue-twisting name of halogenated flame retardan...
This past week King Abdullah, the leader of Saudi Arabia, allowed women to vote in municipal elections starting in 2015 and recently overturned a court's ruling to lash a Saudi woman ten times for driving...
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wmtc - 13 hours ago
There's an excellent new democratic voting tool designed to show us what the upcoming Ontario election would look like under different voting systems. Although we can reconfigure actual election results u...
Should *ecocide* join the ranks of crimes against humanity? The Brits are debating that at the moment. *should the bosses of polluting companies and the leaders of environmentally-unfriendly states join...
[image: Greenland Ice Sheet surface melt anomaly, 1958-2011. Also shown are snowfall (red) and runoff (yellow). Tedesco, et al., 2011 via realclimate.org] By Gavin Schmidt 21 September 2011 After a rec...
[image: The range of possible costs in 2050 for a high climate change–rapid growth scenario estimated from 10,000 model runs. The central average value for the cost of climate change in this scenario is ...
I keep trying to believe the radical religious right isn't a threat but that isn't working. A study just released by Baylor University goes a long way to explaining the twisted thinking of our exalted Rul...
Source: DiarioChilecito.com.ar and Daniel Valverdi Date: 30 September 2011 Argentina: “We Saw Something Weird Descending from the Sky” At siesta time on Saturday there was a blackout in the San Vicente dis...
[image: The Adventures of Unemployed Man, by Erich Origen and Gan Golan] By Ben Baden, US News 28 September 2011 Next week, the Labor Department will release its much-anticipated monthly jobs report. L...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Philippine Islands Region at a depth of 187.5 km (116.5 miles), the quake hit at 13:06:35 UTC Friday 30th September 2011. The epicenter was 252 km ( 156 miles) ESE...
The Chameleon arm band device holds up to ten disposable cartridges that detect hazardous chemicals.
An expedition takes off to cross the mountainous country to figure out what makes this the happiest place on earth.
Don't worry, be happy. The Harper government knows all about climate change and it's got that one covered according to Steve's Envirostooge Peter Kent. Kent was reacting to a government report warning t...
A hitherto dormant establishment of New York labor and community groups signed on to the protest today and announced they'd join the dirty fucking spoiled computer-wielding scumbucket hippie monsters in ...
Foreign Affairs Minister Baird demands gold on new business cards MacKay racks up nearly $3-million in flights on VIP jets Peter MacKay Under Fire For Using Search-And-Rescue Helicopter Following Vacation
CNN: "About 100 people have been arrested during the protests, police said. *People were apprehended for disorderly conduct (?), resisting arrest (?), obstructing governmental administration (?) and assa...
*Locking in a Republican majority in the House* Last year it drove me crazy that the reactionary Blue Dog Caucus was able to jump start an election campaign for a turgid conservative Democrat, Lori Edward...
As we experience climate change, we also have to withstand wild swings in weather and danger.
A suspected U.S. drone fired two missiles at a vehicle in northwest Pakistan, killing three suspected militants, Pakistani intelligence officials said Friday. The drone targeted the suspected militants i...
American-born Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who preached terror as the public face of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, has been killed in Yemen, the nation's Defense Ministry said Friday. The United S...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 70.9 km (44.1 miles), the quake hit at 10:28:52 UTC Friday 30th September 2011. The epicenter was 244 km ( 151 miles) East of Kuril'sk, ...
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Broken of Britain - 16 hours ago
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Auckland Islands, New Zealand Region at a depth of 26.8 km ( 16.7 miles), the quake hit at 10:18:27 UTC Friday 30th September 2011. The epicenter was 196 km ( 122 ...
An animal trust is investigating reports of a mystery illness that is killing dogs across several counties in the UK. The Animal Health Trust (AHT), based in Newmarket, is following up reports of dogs sud...
[image: Al-Qaida's al-Awlaki] The Yemeni government has released an executive statement saying the U.S.-born al-Qaida cleric Anwar al-Awlaki has been killed. The government says al-Awlaki was embattled an...
Five people were killed by an on coming train while crossing the tracks in the Nizhny Novgorod region of Russia’s Volga federal district, RIA Novosti reported. A group of passengers had just left a commu...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the Sea of Okhotsk, Russia at a depth of 458.9 km (285.2 miles), the quake hit at 09:21:21 UTC Friday 30th September 2011. The epicenter was 252 km ( 156 miles) ESE of...
Nature News published an unusually candid article about the carbon trading scheme: Clean-energy credits tarnished The text discusses diplomatic cables leaked by WikiLeaks last week. In those cables, dipl...
PETA says its new ad is "biting." Critics use less complimentary adjectives.
Israeli warplanes took to the air overnight Thursday, striking back after rockets were fired into territory from Gaza, Israeli and Palestinian officials said. Hamas security sources said that two Palesti...
Search and rescue teams on Friday were trying to reach an airplane that crashed with 18 people aboard in the mountains of western Indonesia, an air transportation official said. Air traffic controllers l...
Eight NATO troops have died in Afghanistan over the past two days, seven of them from war-related causes, the International Security Assistance Force said. One ISAF service member died Wednesday followin...
Hurricane Ophelia strengthened early Friday, packing winds of 85 mph as it swirled across the Atlantic, the National Hurricane Center said. The system had appeared to be weakening several days ago, only t...
At least 49 people have been killed across several cities in western Syria during the past two days of fighting between pro- and anti-government forces, an opposition group said Thursday. Most of the dea...
AP: Two ice shelves that existed before Canada was settled by Europeans diminished significantly this summer, one nearly disappearing altogether, Canadian scientists say in newly published research. The l...
Italy's Mount Etna has erupted again, with lava spewing into the sky Wednesday. Mount Etna put on an impressive display, launching flames and sparks more than 800 feet in the air. Experts were there ...
Convicted killer George Wright, who hijacked a plane after escaping from a New Jersey prison, lived openly in the West African nation of Guinea-Bissau during the 1980s under his real name and even knew U.S...
Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies sounds like a book that one might find in the library at Hogwarts in the Harry Potter books - but it's real, a book which catalogues the strangest astronomical objec...
*Škoda Pythagoras, a Greek-made magnet-powered vehicle, helped Greece to repay 1/3 of its €30-trillion debt around 2011. Or did it? Or will it? The man on the picture who introduced the new model in 2095...
Enormous swarms of jellyfish - some of them deadly - are taking over the Mediterranean, a top scientist has warned. The holiday hotspot, a favourite with Brits, has seen a sharp increase in numbers and co...
A middle-aged man charged round to the house of a schoolboy and throttled him after his online character was killed during a game of Call Of Duty, a court heard. Mark Bradford, 46, was furious when he was...
The Kepler orbiting observatory was launched with a simple mission - to find other Earths. NASA describes it as 'a search for habitable planets.' And analysis of its first 136 days of data has already beg...
Europe has given Britain two months to scrap policies preventing benefit tourists claiming billions of pounds in handouts. Last night the European Commission said it would take the Government to court unl...
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Biased BBC - 19 hours ago
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It is remarkable how much platform the BBC extends to the faux Road Safety charity, Brake. These fanatics were immediately quoted here by the BBC in response to the suggestion by Transport Secretary Phili...
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A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Jalisco, Mexico at a depth of 39.3 km (24.4 miles), the quake hit at 07:23:27 UTC Friday 30th September 2011. The epicenter was 209 km ( 130 miles) So...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Southeast of the Loyalty Islands at a depth of 81.2 km (50.5 miles), the quake hit at 05:19:33 UTC Friday 30th September 2011. The epicenter was 71 km ( 44 miles) WSW ...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 32.9 km (20.4 miles), the quake hit at 05:09:02 UTC Friday 30th September 2011. The epicenter was 330 km ( 205 miles)...
One person died and about 250 fell ill after eating E.coli-contaminated food in an outbreak British officials covered up. It is thought the food affected was leeks and potatoes and sold in British stores...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 7 km (4.3 miles), the quake hit at 04:27:24 UTC Friday 30th September 2011. The epicenter was 22 km ( 13.6 miles) Northeast of Ilic, Turkey...
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Biased BBC - 19 hours ago
Anyone catch this interview between John Humphrys and Sir Merrick Cockell, chairman of the local government association and leader of Kensington and Chelsea Council? The issue is the Conservative plan to h...
*Actress Helen Mirren, who has played the part of a Mossad agent.* In Israel, in the late 1980s, author Julia Pascal met a former agent of Mossad. (Honeypot: The startling story of the killer in heels) T...
I *confess *I asked my 2 -year-old what she wanted for Christmas today. I was expecting her to ask for toy ponies or dolls. You know what she asked for? An iphone. You and me both kid. I *confess *I am ey...
Elon Musk has announced his vision of a space launch system that will be fully-reusable. No parachutes required.
Saturday and Sunday, October 1&2 Black History Live at Wembley Stadium: Robert speaking & exhibition stand (campaign action, DVD’s and book sales). More information here. Tuesday, October 4, 7:00 PM Fr...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 279.5 km (173.7 miles), the quake hit at 01:27:27 UTC Friday 30th September 2011. The epicenter was 59 km ( 36 miles) NNE of Isangel, Tanna, Vanua...
The US State Dept. has outsourced much of its responsibility for determining whether to give approval to the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline to TransCanada consultant Cardno-ENTRIX, including : 1) the...
Three teenage girls are in hospital after being shot in west London, after a suspected drive-by shooting. Police officers were alerted to the shooting just after 7pm at John Fearon Walk, off Dart Street,...
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An excellent piece of main stream coverage on this past weekend, I'm sure this video wont be up long, but figured the folks looking at the vids on this channel would appreciate it. *Thanks for an excell...
*And let the bedbugs bite*: "Bedbug pesticides sicken scores, kill 1" September 23, 2011|Associated Press ATLANTA - Bedbugs don’t make you sick. But the poisons used to kill them can. A government study...
*And let the bedbugs bite*: "Bedbug pesticides sicken scores, kill 1" September 23, 2011|Associated Press ATLANTA - Bedbugs don’t make you sick. But the poisons used to kill them can. A government study...
*I am surprised; however, the U.S. and Saudis sent him back. Otherwise, they would not have let him leave.* "Violence leaves 15 dead in Yemen’s capital" September 23, 2011|Associated Press SANA, Yemen - ...
"Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours." - Voltaire. It is a plain fact that Al-Qaeda is a proxy army that was invented by the CIA to intimidate the ...
From The Grauniad:North Sea gas production has slumped by 25% in the second quarter of the year, an alarming increase in the rate of decline that will cut tax revenues and could put more pressure on governme...
"It is unclear what practical effect the attorneys generals’ campaign could have.... --more--"* * *Related: Globe Lets Carp Get Away in Chicago*
“In this crowded starfield spanning some 3 degrees within the high flying constellation Cygnus, the eye is drawn to the Cocoon Nebula. A compact star forming region, the cosmic Cocoon punctuates a long tra...
*We've got our own regarding the Globe, readers.* Saudi king grants women right to vote *Why does that link go here? * "Saudi Monarch Grants Women Right to Vote" by Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times | S...
Arizona senator touches down in Tripoli for celebratory stroll through ruined nation. by Tony Cartalucci As Libya's rebels, under the cover of NATO, verifiably exterminate entire cities [1], cut off othe...
*This photo accompanies Matt Stoller's interesting post "OccupyWallStreet Is a Church of Dissent, Not a Protest"* *by Ken* My concern about the OccupyWallStreet confrontation in Lower Manhattan's Financi...
Stretching for more than 100,000 km (62, ooo miles) from end to end, solar Active Region (AR) 1302 is slowly coming into position where it directly faces the Earth. The region contains a “behemoth” sunspot...
Syrian opposition groups are calling for the first time for an international intervention to protect civilians from the Assad regime's ongoing military onslaught, including the establishment of a United Na...
Climate change could cost Canada billions a year as early as 2020, depending on how severe it is and how well the country adapts, says a report released Thursday morning. The National Round Table on the ...
Philippine ex-president Fidel Ramos said Wednesday that China's recent assertiveness over sea disputes was motivated by a desire to challenge US power, as he predicted more tensions to come. On a visit t...
A self-styled drug-trafficking group calling itself the "Zeta Killers" claimed responsibility this week for the recent murders of at least 35 people believed to belong to the Zetas, Mexico's most violent c...
Stolen football equipment threatened not only the season but also Friday's big event at Frederick Douglass College Preparatory Academy for Young Men -- the Detroit school's Homecoming game. As the junior ...
China successfully launched its first space lab module into orbit in an impressive nighttime display today (Sept. 29). The unmanned Tiangong 1 module lifted off on a Chinese Long March 2F rocket at 9:16 ...
Unemployment rates fell in roughly two-thirds of large U.S. cities in August, despite zero job growth nationwide. Here are the cities with the highest and lowest rates: Highest unemployment rates August 2...
Spanish researchers found that 22 of 24 healthy people (92 per cent) developed an immune response to HIV after being given their MVA-B vaccine. Professor Mariano Esteban, head researcher on the project at...
The Chinese desire to win at all costs has created a culture of rampant cheating among athletes, including one team of men who donned wigs to compete in a female dragon boat race, according to a report by ...
Eighteen people have died in Northern Ireland from "one-punch attacks" in the past seven years, police have said. The PSNI has launched a new poster campaign to raise awareness of the issue. Targeted at m...
A deputy chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Thursday the force had killed more than 180 Kurdish rebels in a summer offensive along the northwestern border with Iraq, Fars news agency reported. "...
A sharp rise in the number of executions reported in Iran is raising suspicions that the Tehran regime has, in the words of a British newspaper, engaged in "a judicial killing spree" to intimidate its oppo...
North Korea on Tuesday accused the rival South of seeking "the road to war" but called again for international talks on its nuclear arsenal. South Korea's conservative government has taken relations with t...
Europe's banking woes have begun to set off a funding crunch in the emerging markets of Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe, leaving them nakedly exposed as the rich world slides into a double-dip down...
Rents have increased for the third consecutive quarter, according to research by Paragon, the buy to let lender. But rising rents appear to be causing problems for many tenants. According to new research...
Well, so much for democratic accountability. Who cares what the people think when the most precious political project of the generation is at stake? Germany's parliament has voted overwhemingly to give mor...
A young whale which died after it beached in the Humber Estuary is probably of a species rarely found stranded on the British coast, conservationists have said. Experts examining the 33ft (10m) long anima...
Hugo Chavez, who has been fighting cancer, was rushed to a military hospital for emergency care following kidney failure, according to reports. The leftist, staunchly anti-US stalwart Chavez went into the ...
Male koalas in Australia bellow so loud during mating season because their voice boxes are akin to those found in humans, scientists have discovered. Despite the tree-dwelling mammal having a cute and fu...
View more videos at: http://nbcnewyork.com. Police have released video of a shooting on a crowded street in Brooklyn in the hope that the public can help identify the gunman. The shooting happened at ...
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The U.S. economy is staring down another recession, according to a forecast from the Economic Cycle Research Institute. "It's either just begun, or it's right in front of us," said Lakshman Achuthan, the ...
Judging by the commentary, there has been a colossal misunderstanding around the world of what has just has happened in Germany. The significance of yesterday’s vote by the Bundestag to make the EU’s €440b...
There is a growing risk that the global economy will move from the 'Great Recession' into the 'Great Stagnation', according to economists at Goldman Sachs. Stagnations typically mean long periods of slugg...
When it comes to supporting UK manufacturing, the Coalition government's record has so far proved almost as disappointing as the last one's. First there was the decision to favour Siemens over the all Bri...
The X Factor is 'playing fast and loose with people's minds', according to the distinguished mental health campaigner Marjorie Wallace. It is Britain’s most popular television programme, but The X Factor ...
Passengers donated bottles of drinking water to get their train working again after it broke down because of the heatwave. The National Express East Anglia train ground to a halt under the baking midday ...
One of the Royal Navy's most senior officers has expressed serious concerns over the loss of skilled aircraft carrier crew following redundancies. The officer, who plays a key role in maintaining the Flee...
A leaked document from the Justice Department intended for law enforcement officials describes the length of time major cellphone companies retain sensitive customer data, including text message details an...
As the dust settles after six months of fighting in Libya, U.S. officials are stepping up efforts to identify Islamic militants who might pose a threat in a post-Gaddafi power vacuum. U.S. counterterroris...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe Kepler orbiting observatory was launched with a simple mission - to find other Earths. NASA describes it as 'a search for habitable planets.' And analysis of its first 136 days of data has already beg...
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