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"It's not what you know or what you think, it's how you think and how you know what you know. It's about the construction of knowledge." - Christopher Hitchens. This quote is from a discussion on the sta...
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Three bomb blasts rocked the southern Thai border city of Sungai Kolok, leaving at least four people dead and 118 wounded, officials said. The explosions happened Friday night in Thailand's Narathiwart Pro...
*The New York Philharmonic under then-music director Lorin Maazel gives a suitably rousing performance of Beethoven's Egmont Overture at the Seoul Arts Center, Feb. 28, 2008.* *by Ken* Here's some of wh...
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A green sea turtle on the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia. Photo courtesy: Tim Laman/NG/Getty Images Unusually large numbers of dead and dying sea turtles are washing up on Australia's Great Bar...
Watch this documentary called "New York's Moynihan," about Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, one of America's greatest statesman. The documentary contains various interviews and speeches that Moynihan gave ...
*As if it mattered.* "Dissatisfaction with Congress matches record; Voters slightly more critical of Republicans" by Allison Kopicki, New York Times / September 17, 2011 NEW YORK - Only 6 percent of regis...
This statement is ours, and for anyone who will get behind it. Representing ourselves, we bring this call for revolution. We want freedom for all, without regards for identity, because we are all peop...
*Didn't he have two years with a Democrat super-majority and a billion dollar stimulus that was supposed to do all this?* * I mean they put the signs up on the highway telling us they were responsible and ...
*And what it co$t taxpayers.* "The *collapse of the California company once touted by President Obama*ultimately left *taxpayers on the hook for $528 million*, raising questions if the *loan was rushed* t...
Seems to me we've always been free to die. We just weren't aware that our government (outside of military service, of course) felt easy about killing us at will. The Rethugs teach new political/economics f...
*A three-way fight*: "Rivalry is getting heated between Texas contenders WASHINGTON - A Texas-sized rivalry is brewing in the Republican presidential contest. Representative Ron Paul is calling Governor...
“Few cosmic vistas excite the imagination like the Orion Nebula, an immense stellar nursery some 1,500 light-years away. This stunning false-color view spans about 40 light-years across the region, constru...
*Send one to Palestine, Joe -- and not in the form of a missile, bomb, or WMD. * "Obama vows rescue plan for Postal Service; Retirement bills come due on Sept. 30; Saturday mail may be eliminated" Septemb...
*“Men Take Note: To Make Women Remember You,* * Talk In A Low Voice”* by ScienceBlog “Men take note: If you want women to remember, speak to them in a low pitch voice. Then, depending on what they remembe...
*I was wondering what movie to watch tonight.* "Two men are accused of engaging in a disturbing reenactment of the movie “Weekend at Bernie’s,’’ the 1989 comedy where two ne’er-do-wells find their boss de...
"Mont. asbestos case is settled for $43m" Associated Press / September 17, 2011 BILLINGS, Mont. - A judge has approved a *$43 million* settlement for more than a thousand asbestos victims who said the* st...
*This seems to happen a lot so maybe the air shows should be grounded for a while. They are killing more people than the "terrorists." That and the waste of fuel contributing to global warming if you buy i...
*It's the sewer line of corruption and it runs right through Wall Street. * "Alabama’s largest county OKs deal to skirt bankruptcy on $3.1b debt; But the plan still needs backing of state lawmakers" by Jay...
*"In today's polarized political climate, Sen. Percy would be described as a rare breed -- an unabashed liberal and skeptic about military spending and war."* *-- from the *Washington Post* obit by Emily L...
[image: People walking along Venice Beach, California. Much of Venice Beach and other local coastal areas could be significantly eroded or flooded by the year 2100 if ocean levels continue rising at curr...
The ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has claimed that Nato air strikes have killed 354 people and injured hundreds more in his home town of Sirte. A spokesman for Gaddafi told Reuters that the air stri...
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Supporters of Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis on Thursday delivered petitions bearing 638,000 signatures to a state parole board that will decide next week whether to stop the conde...
Heavy rain has already reached parts of Shikoku as the west of Japan braces for a tropical storm approaching from the south. The storm could trigger more damage to areas already battered by a storm that hi...
Two police officers were injured in a bomb attack on the outskirts of Belfast overnight, the latest of a series of attacks on law enforcement in Northern Ireland, police said on Friday. Police blamed Iri...
A police officer in Fullerton, California, whom an attorney accuses of brutality in the death of a homeless man this summer and two arrest cases last year, has been placed on paid leave, a police spokesman...
According to KCBS and Bay City News Service, two bystanders were hit by gunfire after an officer-involved shooting in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood early this morning. According to police, at 2:...
A man and two women found dead in an Oakdale house each died of a single gunshot wound to the head in an apparent double murder-suicide, the Ramsey County medical examiner's office ruled Friday. The shoot...
A Staten Island couple stole at least $2.5 million in federal funds meant for nutritious meals for preschoolers, prosecutors asserted in a criminal complaint unsealed on Friday. The complaint accused the ...
The current mail system of the United States is "no longer financially sustainable," and the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is looking for billions of dollars in cuts to its services. The postal service annou...
An encoding device synonymous with one of the most remarkable episodes of World War II espionage will go under the hammer in London later this month. A version of the three rotor Enigma machine -- used by ...
French banks were the center of the European financial storm this week, after Societe Generale and Credit Agricole were downgraded by ratings agency Moody's Investors Service. Eyes were also on the unfoldi...
As gas and oil drilling accelerates along Colorado's heavily-populated Front Range, state regulators named four companies to be "Outstanding Operators" and lauded them for environmental excellence. But th...
Japan's new Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said Wednesday he was concerned about China's military build-up, urging his giant neighbour to act as a "responsible member of the international community". Japan...
Police in Ambon, Indonesia, will pursue anyone they suspect of involvement in violence between Christian and Muslim groups that left six people dead and around 80 injured. Inter-ethnic violence erupted in...
As Europe’s leaders dither in the gathering storm, its main trading partners are taking steps to safeguard their interests. The US Treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, will be making on Friday his second...
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday it was time to "raise the Palestinian flag at the United Nations" in a rallying call to Arab states before a Palestinian U.N. membership bid opposed by...
Ahead of the first high-level meeting on desertification at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the UN Convention to Combat Desertification said on Monday world leaders needed to adopt a "vacc...
In a television interview for ITV News, Mr Cameron rejected what he saw as the old principle of unemployment benefit claimants receiving payments whilst doing little to improve their job prospects. "What ...
Against the background of increased pressure from the United States for a more resolute approach to the euro debt crisis, German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday moved to crush speculation within her go...
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda says that rebuilding the disaster-hit northeast and balancing economic growth and fiscal reforms are his Cabinet's top priorities. In his first policy speech in the ...
Italy had to pay record interest to sell its bonds on Tuesday as it raced to calm market fears that it was losing control of a huge public debt and could trigger a crisis that threatened the euro zone. Pr...
The Israeli air force is expanding its wing of unmanned aerial vehicles built by Israel Aerospace Industries and Elbit Systems, some to be used as missile-armed gunships. Meantime, The Jerusalem Post repo...
Greece's exit from the euro zone would inflict untold damage on Europe's economy, further burnish the attractiveness of a rising Asia and hasten the emergence of China's yuan as a global currency. Until r...
It is becoming increasingly difficult to figure out what America's younger generation is thinking. Perhaps they are too distracted by the fast-paced blur of modern existence to notice that the freedom and ...
[image: A team of aquatic biologists use a net to collect endangered fish from the Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos River in a rural area just west of Sagerton, Texas, Friday, Sept. 16, 2011. The team ...
The death toll rose to nine Saturday in an air race crash in Reno as investigators determined that several spectators were killed on impact as the 1940s-model plane appeared to lose a piece of its tail bef...
[image: Texas State Park police officer Thomas Bigham reaches down into what remains of O.C. Fisher Lake Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011, in San Angelo, Texas. A bacteria called Chromatiaceae has turned the 1-to...
[image: Inside the Médecins Sans Frontières health clinic on the outskirts of the Dagahaley zone, Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya, September 2011. Dominic Nahr / telegraph.co.uk] By Sally Williams 17 Septe...
An evocative spacecraft name will not only get public interest but also be inspirational and memorable too.
"An Iron Will" by Orison Swett Marden "Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924) was an American writer associated with the New Thought Movement. He also held a degree in medicine, and was a successful hotel owne...
"The differentiations of sex, age, and occupation are not essential to our character, but mere costumes which we wear for a time on the stage of the world. The image of man within is not to be confounded ...
Trevor Paglen is a geographer, artist, photographer, writer, and a researcher at the University of California at Berkeley. His work deals with the secret world of classified military areas, CIA black sites...
* "When Death Comes"* “When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn, when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse to buy me, and snaps his purse shut; when death comes like the measle-...
These are *always* the smartest and the most dedicated guys at the table. Men and women of Steel! This afternoon, in an OpEd, for Truthout, Shamus Cooke wrote that Obama has coopted the labor movement. ...
Goal for Saturday: connect the Bernie Sanders statement above with the Anonymous statement below (without embedding another video). Ron Suskind's new book, *Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and T...
These are *always* the smartest and the most dedicated guys at the table. Men and women of Steel! This afternoon, in an OpEd, for Truthout, Shamus Cooke wrote that Obama has coopted the labor movement. ...
"I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth." - Samuel Johnson
"Argument over iPod preceded stabbing" Associated Press / September 17, 2011 BOWIE, Md. - A 19-year-old Maryland college student was charged yesterday in the *fatal stabbing* of her roommate inside their d...
*Any surprise it's phat? * "Americans’ wealth declined last spring for the first time in a year, as stocks and home values fell. At the same time,* corporations increased* the size of their *cash stockpil...
Free Download: "Star Maker" By Olaf Stapledon "Stapledon undertakes the immense task of describing the entire history of life in the universe. It dwarfs in scale even his 1930 book "Last and First Men," w...
*“Closing Cycles”* by Paulo Coelho [Several times I've received via Internet some texts attributed to me, which I did not write, as the text below. I made several changes and decided to post it here. - ...
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Captain Jean-Luc Picard is almost as iconic a figure as his predecessor, James Tiberius Kirk, when it comes to the Star Trek mythology. But was there a real-life inspiration for the name?
"Couple guilty of manslaughter in death of adopted boy" Associated Press /September 17, 2011 YORK, Pa. - There’s little debate that pint-sized Nathaniel Craver suffered from fetal alcohol syndrome, attachme...
Today on our local cable channel – I listened for as long as I could to the school board meeting. During the time I watched I listened to them try to justify an operating levy referendum for the schools t...
*You can read more about my project of making my daughter the best dress up box ever from thrift store items, here.* My dress up box is done. At least, it should be. I was doing a great job of following m...
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*Where do we come from - where are we going to...?* Ever wondered? Ever considered that since the last 10 years sciences are advancing at an ever increasing, nearly logarithmic speed, leaving behind ideas...
A bomb exploded Saturday at a private hospital in the tourist city of Agra, India, injuring three people. The bomb went off at Jai Hospital's reception area, said Brij Lal, spokesman for Uttar Pradesh pol...
"Do not trouble yourselves about standards or ideals; but try to be faithful and natural: remember that there is no greatness, no beauty, which does not come from truth to your own knowledge of things; an...
*"Earth's Ultimate Destruction - And Possible Reincarnation"* by Govert Schilling “The world may not end on 21 December 2012, as predicted by some doomsayers, but one thing is certain: Earth won't be aroun...
It's about time. The International Monetary Fund, it seems, has opened its eyes and discovered that income inequality, the growing gap between rich and poor, is ruinous to modern economies. IMF research...
Jay Edgett of Dorchester, N.B., has been fishing for many years but a lifetime of angling did not prepare him for what he saw on the end of his line last week. Edgett and his friends were fishing for bas...
(Sunset Beach, Oregon) – It's the third time in two weeks such a shark has washed up – and the second time this week Seaside Aquarium rushed to a beach situation involving some sort of creature. (All photo...
Archaeologists have made a gruesome discovery which could be straight out of a horror movie. A number of 8th Century human skeletons have been found with large stones stuck in their mouths - something res...
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A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 24.1 km (15 miles), the quake hit at 17:54:47 UTC Saturday 17th September 2011. The epicenter was 145 km (90 miles) E...
"Our intelligence is imperfect, surely, and newly arisen; the ease with which it can be sweet-talked, overwhelmed, or subverted by other hardwired propensities - sometimes themselves disguised as the cool...
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wmtc - 11 hours ago
The Humane Society International/Canada announced this morning that it assisted in the rescue of more than 400 dogs and puppies from a huge commercial breeding facility - that is, a large-scale puppy mill ...
Timothy Maxwell "Max" Keiser (born January 23, 1960) is an American broadcaster, film-maker, and former equities broker. Keiser is the host of On the Edge, a program of news and analysis hosted by Iran's...
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Biased BBC - 11 hours ago
I will be on the BBC tomorrow morning discussing the ethics of public sector strikes. I am sure you can guess my arguments. BBC NI Radio Ulster Sunday Sequence around 9.30am. If anyone has views on this pl...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Atacama, Chile at a depth of 26.1 km (16.2 miles), the quake hit at 17:41:04 UTC Saturday 17th September 2011. The epicenter was 30 km (18 miles) Southwest of Vallenar,...
Some California schools are turning away middle and high school students who have not received a required whooping cough vaccine while others are defying a law passed last year after a historic spike in ca...
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How ironic that it should be exactly three years to the day that Hank Paulson, then the U.S. Treasury Secretary, allowed Lehman Brothers to go to the wall, that an unauthorised loss of $2 billion from UBS’...
Two days ago, I learned about two young people killed by drug gangs in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, their corpses bound and hung from a bridge. Unfortunately, drug murders happen so often in Me...
In a perverse sort of way, it is always gratifying to assert a rule of life and see it applied only a few days later. I stated the rule in Another Pointless Climate Protest. When push comes to shove, econ...
Australian science writer Julian Cribb believes a strong case can be made for renaming the human species, which Linnaeus dubbed Homo sapiens (Latin, meaning "wise man") in the 18th century. I heartily conc...
Tomorrow, it will become official — the long-term unemployed are a political football. Obama will give a jobs speech proposing various ineffectual measures for creating jobs. The Republicans will reject th...
How bad off are we? Examples abound, but the fact that markets hang on every word Ben Bernanke says ought to tell you how far down the road to ruin we've traveled. Has this man ever gotten anything right? ...
I've often spoken of the enormous income and wealth inequality here in the United States. It follows that our "consumer" society has become more and more dependent on spending by the rich and well-off beca...
When a society forsakes its young people, offering them basically nothing to help them start their adult lives, that society no longer has any reason to exist. What is the purpose of a society if not to ma...
Ratings agency Fitch on Monday said it had downgraded the long-term debt of Japan's biggest automaker Toyota by one notch to "A", citing its exposure to a strong yen in another blow to the firm. Toyota is...
So much for the recovery. In none of the Group of Seven economies, including Germany, has industrial output returned to pre-crash levels. In the United States, for example, industrial output stands at 94.2...
China's central bank said Monday stabilising prices remained a top priority as the nation's politically sensitive inflation rate was still high, despite a slight easing in August. "Currently, some factors...
Over the past decade China has used the global "war on terror" to jail thousands of ethnic Muslim Uighurs in the far-western and restive Xinjiang region, a minority rights group said Sunday. Beijing has a...
US military and political leaders on Sunday paid solemn tribute to the victims of the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon and to troops who have waged a war of "vengeance" in the decade since. "Lives ended in thi...
With the 2012 election cycle heating up, US politicians this week harnessed worries over a rising China to power support for everything from patent law reform to debt reduction -- and their own ambitions. ...
Italy said Monday the blast that killed one person and injured four at a nuclear site in France highlighted its own vulnerability to such atomic incidents on the territory of its neighbours. "Unfortunatel...
Understanding animal communication has long been a fascinating and vast area of research for those who dare to welcome the challenge. Some species use body language to express their message while others us...
Cost of dying increases to £7,248 – three months' average salary. Funerals alone 60pc more expensive in seven years. The cost of dying has increased by 20pc over the past four years – to £7,248, the same ...
The AAS Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS), the world's largest organization of professional planetary scientists, has issued a statement highlighting the discoveries of highly successful planetary miss...
The creation of a united armed forces for the European Union could give Brussels superpower status to match that of Washington, Poland's opposition leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski told AFP Friday. "I want Europ...
Women who take oral contraception remember events differently, according to a the first study on the effects of the pill on memory. The research found that the contraceptive of choice of an estimated 3.5 ...
China seeks to match US military might, hacks US government computers "daily," and is "drunk with economic power," a key US lawmaker warned Monday as he warned against new cuts at the Pentagon. "The fact ...
AE911Truth's new documentary "9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out":
*"Dead Men Don’t Spend"* by Bill Bonner "The Lehman bankruptcy was a much more important event than 9/11. It marked the end of a 60-year credit expansion. Maybe it marked the high water mark for the US E...
"Oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths; Win us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence." - William Shakespeare, "Macbeth"
There has been an severe increase in Seismic Activity at the station in Oat Mountain, California. None of these have been listed on USGS, you will see from the archive from previous days that this activity...
Pakistan's prime minister has cancelled a trip to a United Nations meeting in New York to help coordinate relief efforts amid devastating floods in his country. The southern Sindh province is one of the w...
*"What I Have Found" * by Ang "It was somewhere around 2004 that I first ran across David Icke online. Someone had posted a video of one of his day-long slide presentations at a theater in England. It...
A magnitude 2.6 earthquake has struck Virginia at a depth of 4.8 km (3 miles), the quake hit at 15:33:13 UTC Saturday 17th September 2011. The epicenter was 11 km (7 miles) South of Louisa, Virginia No repo...
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's spokesman has declared the deposed Libyan leader is personally directing loyalist fighters - and claimed that the latest Nato air strikes killed 354 people. Moussa Ibrahim told ...
Last July Chris Donovan, Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives, wrote a guest post for us, It's long past time to start rebuilding America. At the time, we pointed out why Chris is the kind ...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Northern Peru at a depth of 144 km (89.5 miles), the quake hit at 16:09:15 UTC Saturday 17th September 2011. The epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) North of Pucallpa, Peru ...
Solyndra was a solar panel company founded in 2005 which went recently bankrupt, despite half a billion of subsidies from the Obama White House. *An excellent idea – cylindrical panels surrounded by mi...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 52.9 km (32.9 miles), the quake hit at 15:13:23 UTC Saturday 17th September 2011. The epicenter was 95 km (59 miles)...
U.S. photographer Spencer Tunick photographed 1,200 naked Israelis and tourists to raise awareness about the Dead Sea drying up.
*That's odd; it said Europe at the supermarket check-out.* "Murder trial begins for mother in R.I.; She is accused of strangling daughter, 8" by Laura Crimaldi, Associated Press / September 17, 2011 SOUTH...
"Court makes distinction for sex offender who isn’t threat" by Milton J. Valencia, Globe Staff / September 17, 2011 The state’s highest court has refused to commit a *career exhibitionist*, or *flasher*, ...
*We have deer here.* "Coyotes lurking in the woods in Massachusetts have been known to attack dogs, chickens, cats, and even, in rare instances, people. But a buffalo? Tyler Kimball said it actually happe...
*Imagine waking up to this on the front page: * "School is back in session in this college town, and the 2011-2012 edition of *fake ID* season has begun again at those bars that cater to undergrads. It is...
A new Mastercard app, when linked with Kinect, allows users to make purchases with hand gestures.
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*Gradually Ubuntu 'Oneiric Ocelot' is getting shape*. Not that I like it, but who cares about that. It's becoming clear that progress has been made, but will it be enough to convince long-time Linux users...
This was a working wetland . . . ~Bayou Woman ~Hat Tweet @captainswallow Lake Pontchartrain 'Beach Sweep' extends well beyond the beach first game in da dome! wOOt! ~the hungry termite Here’s something fo...
In a hunt that makes the proverbial needle in a haystack look like easy quarry, scientists have begun the search for remains of a suspected meteor which lit up the skies over the south-western US this week...
These hysterically funny videos are linked to at PolluterWatch, a great resource from Greenpeace. It's essential to learn the names of these cretinous assholes, and to follow the connections between...
The harbor porpoise that washed ashore last month at San Francisco's Fort Funston was clearly a victim of foul play. It had two badly broken jawbones, fractured ribs on both sides and a broken scapula, e...
The head of a government nuclear watchdog has criticized Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) for not being transparent enough, after it submitted documents earlier this month that were mostly blacked out. "...
Supposedly there was an agreement to proceed in the Senate as though what matters is what's good for he American people, not what's best for the narrow partisan strategies for the political parties. The ...
The hare and the rabbit are not the same creature. Hares are larger and have longer legs and ears; and, unlike rabbits, when hares are born, they have alot of fur and their eyes are open. The gradual de...
Reader Contribution; NASA space junk experts have refined the forecast for the anticipated death plunge of a giant satellite, with the U.S. space agency now predicting the 6 1/2-ton climate probe will plu...
An excavation in the resort area of Chawig reveals remaining, deadly horrors from 1988. An unexploded rocket carrying chemical warheads, dating back to the 1980s? Halabja chemical bombardment, was discov...
A total of 18 insurgents were killed when warplanes of NATO-led forces pounded Taliban hideouts in Nuristan province, some 180 km east of the capital city of Kabul, provincial police Chief Zahid Nuristani ...
Resembling a pig's head, the Nation of Cymru (Wales) sits to the west of central England and in years gone by, extended non-contiguously to the south to include Kernow; the modern English county of Cornwa...
White-backed and slender-billed vultures are still at risk, the RSPB study shows. Photo courtesy: Devki Nanda/RSPB/PA Conservationists have raised concerns that a livestock drug banned in India because it...
Photo courtesy: enlewof / cc Across parts of Australia, reports have been pouring in of strange voices chattering high in the treetops -- mysterious, non-sensical conversations in English. But while this ...
Screen shot courtesy: youtube.com This technology is so simple, so cheap and so effective; it takes my breath away. These are the kinds of solutions the world needs to see us through the environmental maz...
County officials said Friday night they were testing the water at Boca Chica beach to determine whether to issue any type of warning after dead fish were found along the shore— possible victims of red tide...
The sudden death of thousands of red abalone and other invertebrates along the Sonoma County Coast over the past few weeks has prompted state wildlife officials to propose an indefinite ban on abalone fish...
The two hunters were tracking a wounded grizzly bear into an area of heavy cover along the Idaho-Montana border when the animal attacked, fatally injuring one of the men before his partner could kill the b...
A juvenile salmon shark found stranded on Seacliff State Beach on Sunday likely died from an infection commonly found in young salmon sharks, according to preliminary tests performed by the state Departmen...
A volcano in Alaska's Aleutian Islands has been in an unusual low-level eruption for two months, raising the spectre of an explosive eruption with little warning, officials at the Alaska Volcano Observator...
The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Friday to establish a support mission in Libya for an initial period of three months and to take other measures to help the country get back on it...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 40 km (24.8 miles), the quake hit at 09:04 UTC Saturday 17th September 2011. Time (JST) Lat. Long. Depth Mag. Regi...
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 62 km (38.5 miles), the quake hit at 08:59:30 UTC Saturday 17th September 2011. The epicenter was 219 km (136 miles) SSW of Severo-Kuril...
*Sleman, Yogyakarta*. Mount Merapi has completed its eruption phase, which began last year, according to a volcanologist. Subandriyo, the head of the Yogyakarta Volcano Investigation and Technology Devel...
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Biased BBC - 21 hours ago
I was doing a little research on Lib-Dem Lynne Featherstone for another post I am writing and came across this little snippet; "Lynne has been a champion of gay rights in Parliament and outspoken critic o...
Why have USGS upgraded this earthquake? The data they received is the same date I received earlier, which I posted and have just rechecked the data and this earthquake has at no time been upgraded or downg...
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Biased BBC - 21 hours ago
Let's start with the bare if not so lovely bones, so to speak. This paean to the IRA Chief of State and Irish Presidential candidate Martin NcGuinness appeared on Today this morning. (8.43am) Martin McGu...
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 07:33:54 UTC Saturday 17th September 2011. Time (JST) Lat. Long. Depth Mag. Reg...
The Palisades Nuclear Plant in southwestern Michigan has been shut down due to a loss of water in a cooling system. The lowest of four emergency classification levels was declared. The classification mea...
Umatilla County health officials today confirmed a case of plague in an adult male county resident. He may have been infected while hunting in Lake County, noted Sharon Waldern, clinic supervisor for the...
*Obama's mother, who moved to Indonesia in 1967. Ann Dunham reportedly worked for a CIA front organisation. * How does the USA topple a government? We learn about *"The CIA, and a Secret War" from L. Fletc...
*SLS to launch in 2017, bring Yankees to Mars later* Space News and many others disuss the 2012 budget for NASA. The money is going down by 3% or so but I find most of the other news positive. First of ...
Lord Stirling's News Blog Europe
Holy Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVA MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ link Lord Stirling's news blog EUROPE ** Please forward this site to sever...
A surfer was bitten this morning as he paddled out on his board about a quarter mile south of the jetty at the 2800 block in New Smyrna Beach, said Capt. Tammy Marris. While the attack left a 3-inch deep...
The Department of Health and Family Welfare has informed that it had received a message through telephone on 12th September 2011 of an outbreak of fever of unknown cause leading to three deaths at Poilwa v...
Three people have been killed and at least 56 injured after a World War II fighter plane crashed at an air show in the US state of Nevada. The vintage plane spiralled out of control and crashed into a VIP ...
This is the terrifying moment a man set himself on fire outside a branch of Piraeus bank in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki. The unnamed 55-year-old was heard to shout out that he was in debt as h...
Mayor Bloomberg today warned there will be widespread rioting on the streets if more jobs are not created. As it emerged the number of people applying for unemployment benefits in the U.S. jumped last wee...
An armed soldier described as dangerous and suicidal is on the loose after escaping from military custody. Police in central New York are using helipcopters and K9 teams to search for Russell C. Marcum. ...
The world economic situation has, according to IMF boss Christine Lagarde, entered a “dangerous phase”. Central banks from around the globe have promised yet another bailout fund to stop Europe’s banks r...
Scientists working on the Cryogenic Rare Event Search with Superconducting Thermometers (CRESST) experiment may have recorded evidence of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) - a crucial step towar...
This is the horrific moment a 19-year-old girl was grabbed by a stranger while working at a store, hours before she was found dead in the trunk of her car. Wendy Zapata Hernandez was abducted yesterday fr...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 543.4 km (337.7 miles), the quake hit at 05:03:32 UTC Saturday 17th September 2011. The epicenter was 233 km (144 miles) SSE of Lambasa, V...
A teenager who claims he has been living rough in woodland in Germany for the last five years has handed himself in to police. The boy, believed to be aged 17, speaks English and said his father moved in ...
A young woman was praised by a judge for courageously stopping two drunken thugs as they battered a defenceless man in a brutal street attack. Pedestrians and motorists looked on without intervening as the...
Britain is prepared to recognise Palestine as a state next week, putting the UK on a collision course with Israel and America. Senior officials say the UK is happy for the Palestinians to be given the sam...
Last Tuesday two events occurred within hours of one another that perfectly demonstrate the gulf between rhetoric and reality. In London, the Prime Minister announced that benefits claimants who cannot s...
Three years ago this week, the collapse of the American investment bank Lehman Brothers signalled the onset of the global financial crisis, which has since escalated into a sovereign debt nightmare, boilin...
Several people are feared dead and up to 75 injured after a plane crashed near to spectators at an American air show. A vintage World War Two fighter plane crashed near the grandstand at the Reno Air Rac...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck off the Santa Cruz Islands at a depth of 45.6 km (28.3 miles), the quake hit at 01:32:55 UTC Saturday 17th September 2011. The epicenter was 166 km (103 miles) South o...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 34.7 km (21.6 miles), the quake hit at 01:18:55 UTC Saturday 17th September 2011. The epicenter was 133 km (82 miles)...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off Southern Iran at a depth of 33.8 km (21 miles), the quake hit at 23:07:43 UTC Friday 16th September 2011. The epicenter was 80 km (49 miles) NNE of Lar, Iran No rep...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the Banda Sea at a depth of 242.1 km (150.4 miles), the quake hit at 22:09:31 UTC Friday 16th September 2011. The epicenter was 208 km (129 miles) Southeast of Ambo...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck off near the Coast of Central Peru at a depth of 64.2 km (39.9 miles), the quake hit at 21:50:09 UTC Friday 16th September 2011. The epicenter was 46 km (28 miles) ESE...
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts has written: *The "Critics" of 9/11 Truth. Do They Have a Case?** * According to Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: "The 9/11 Truth movement was ... created by professional architects and eng...
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Holy Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVA MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ link Lord Stirling's news blog EUROPE *Intelligence Leak: 'Perfect Storm...
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Holy Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVA MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ link Lord Stirling's news blog EUROPE ** Please forward this site to sever...
*Happily mated rabbit terrified by motor-car* *"Still other [writers] attribute the whole menace of the machine to sex, and so confuse the average reader that he cannot always be certain whether he has be...
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Can somebody please read this update of the BBC Agreement (as in "Charter & Agreement") and tell me if "Editorial Independence" actually translates into "Unaccountability"? Continuing Agreement Concerns ...
Yep. They had a plan. And what a humdinger of a new global order plan it was. Are you getting the feeling that Cheney wasn't really as clever a guy as he still is trying to convince us he is? (Keep paying ...
Thanks to the sun, we now have a date when NASA's 6-ton Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) will meet its demise.
[image: Distribution of Mississippi River crest levels per decade, 1900s-2010. NRDC / Data from NOAA] Increased precipitation could increase streamflow by 51 percent, due to more rain falling on near-sa...
*The Rise of 9/11 Truth And The Second Western Enlightenment* *Saman Mohammadi The Excavator September 16, 2011* "Ayo, I'm American born. Love America. Love my people. Love all mankind, all nationalities....
Bill Manning Closes National Memorial Service in Washington, D.C. *$elling Out the Investigation* Bill Manning, editor of Fire Engineering Magazine had this to say about the official investigation. "F...
*In this cartoon by Brian Farrington, which accompanies Tina Dupuy's column on cagle.com, I especially admire the speaker, who could be the poster boy for modern-day American Crap Christianity.* *"Republi...
The realization that our water is in fact a finite resource has become all the more clear over the last year where parts of the country have experienced the worst droughts in a century. The changes in glob...
There are times when I sit and think about the collision course this country is on and the so-called leaders who put us here. It is excruciating to watch and see the signs that no one wants to see. Rather ...
Public sector job cuts imposed as part of the government's austerity drive have sent unemployment back through the 2.5m barrier, according to official figures released on Wednesday. The Office for Nationa...
Ten-year-old Shiloh Johnson lay in a hospital bed for 43 days as medical tubes protruding from her chest slowly drained suffocating fluid from her heart and lungs. Each day brought a new challenge, many of...
“Unless changes are made, continued waste and fraud will undercut the effectiveness of money spent in future operations, whether they involve hostile threats overseas or national emergencies here at home r...
Are we on the verge of a massive financial collapse in Europe? Rumors of an imminent default by Greece are flying around all over the place and Greek government officials are openly admitting that they are...
The US economy is going from bad to worse and will not fully recover until structural problems caused by the collapse of the housing market and the financial crisis are resolved, according to Capital Econo...
A magnitude- 6.2 earthquake struck off Japan’s battered northeastern coast Thursday, but there was no risk of a tsunami and there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. Japan’s Meteorological Age...
It seemed as if the mysterious rumblings had subsided, according to Grete MaKenzie, but Sunday night through early Monday the low pitch humming came back with a vengeance. “It was the loudest it’s ever be...
Cars and trucks cruise along Cedar Bridge Avenue, drivers listening to radio anchors reporting the headline that a record 46 million Americans are living in poverty, while 50 feet from the bustling boule...
North Canberra residents were woken by a series of huge explosions and fireballs from a factory fire in Mitchell early this morning, as emergency services raised fears over the spread of toxic smoke plumes...
The number of people applying for unemployment benefits jumped last week to the highest level in three months. It's a sign that the job market remains depressed. The Labor Department said Thursday that we...
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Three bomb blasts rocked the southern Thai border city of Sungai Kolok, leaving at least four people dead and 118 wounded, officials said. The explosions happened Friday night in Thailand's Narathiwart Pro...
A green sea turtle on the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia. Photo courtesy: Tim Laman/NG/Getty Images Unusually large numbers of dead and dying sea turtles are washing up on Australia's Great Bar...
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