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Pakistan's tribal region overnight, two Pakistani senior security officials told CNN on Sunday. The drone fell in the northern part of South Waziristan -- one of the seven ...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck the Ontario-Quebec Border Region, Canada at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 19:19:12 UTC Sunday 18th September 2011. The epicenter was 17 km (11 miles) E...
Texas Home of Rick Perry Guest Speaker at the ALEC Annual Meeting 2010 A tenther – wanting to get rid of constitutional amendments such as elimminating your right to elect your US Senators – he wants to re...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Solomon Islands at a depth of 63.9 km (39.7 miles), the quake hit at 18:35:24 UTC Sunday 18th September 2011. The epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) West of Kira Kira, ...
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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...
"The Grapes of Wrath" (Excerpts) by John Steinbeck "They breathe profits; they eat the interest on money. If they don't get it, they die the way you die without air, without side-meat." [referring to the ...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Fukushima, East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 50 km (31 miles), the quake hit at 18:32:23 UTC Sunday 18th September 2011. Epicenter 66 km (41 miles) Southeast o...
"The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose. Foolish people ask you, when you have spoken what they do not wish to hear, '...
** *Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy* is a spy novel by John le Carré, featuring George Smiley. British spy George Smiley hunts down an enemy agent hidden within the British security services. The enemy agen...
*"The Fall of the United States"* by John Atcheson "We have the purpose of preventing bigots and ignoramuses from controlling… the United States." -Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial. "Welcome t...
"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts." - Abraham Lincoln
A kidnapped British tourist was dragged 'kicking and screaming' into the Somali town of Kisamayo by armed men, according to a witness. Judith Tebbutt, 56, was handed to a gang of armed militants before bei...
Palestinian negotiators have accused Washington of triggering a diplomatic crisis which threatens to wreck the entire peace process. A senior official said U.S. proposals had been the 'final straw' that le...
* "The Most Difficult Part of the Job Search Is* * Waiting for Permission to Give Up"* by Michael Panzner "Maybe I'm just a glass-half-empty, cloud-behind-every-silver-lining, doddering old fool, but I c...
Most people trekking through the jungle would turn tail and run a mile the opposite direction if they came face to face with a giant anaconda. But not Niall McCann. Like a real-life Indiana Jones he decide...
To D-fox: if you're reading this, please contact us at thecomingcrisis@gmail.com. It's important -- we believe.
Are the killer bees meaner than ever in 2011? The Killer Bee Guy thinks so. They're much more ornery this year, according to Reed Booth, also know as The Killer Bee Guy. "This is the worst I've seen in 10 ...
Pirates, Spanish conquistadors and James Bond movie supervillains have all searched, schemed and even killed for it. Gold. And along a gurgling stream in Washington state, Bob Gustafson, a retired gran...
The U.S. is coming to Europe's financial rescue. So far, America's role is fairly limited. But if the crisis continues to grow and the U.S. takes on a wider role, U.S. consumers and taxpayers could feel a...
As tropical storm Lee continues to dump massive amounts of rain throughout Pennsylvania, concerns are growing over natural gas drilling pits overflowing and spilling their toxic contents into flooded creek...
When theorists approach the peak oil problem from the perspective of finding a substitute that will allow us to maintain our present energy infrastructure, their conclusion is one of despair. There may be ...
As deadly fires continue to burn across bone-dry Texas and eight inches of rain from tropical storm Lee falls on New Orleans, the US is beginning to count the cost of nine months of unprecedented weather e...
“Well, it’s not really good timing to write about global warming when the summer feels cold and rainy”, a journalist told me last week. Hence, at least here in Germany, there hasn’t been much reporting abo...
A typical family will see their living standards fall by more than £4,600 a year by 2013 because of public service cuts, benefit changes and below-inflation pay rises, the TUC has warned. A report, Unhapp...
An article published on the Economic Collapse website has criticized a $447 billion jobs plan proposed by President Barack Obama, saying that instead of addressing the fundamental issues that are causing j...
We can infer this based on his confident assertion that tens of millions of workers will absolutely have to experience prolonged bouts of unemployment because of the collapse of the housing bubble. He base...
Is the number of earthquakes increasing? Are major earthquakes becoming more frequent? In the aftermath of the magnitude-5.8 earthquake in Virginia, a whole lot of people are asking those questions. All ov...
Fukushima is now far and away the worst nuclear disaster in all of human history. Chernobyl was a Sunday picnic compared to Fukushima and the amount of cesium-137 released at Fukushima this year so far is ...
I’ve made some uncannily accurate predictions in the past 3 years. Back in 2008, as I ran for vice president of the United States on the Libertarian Presidential ticket, I made a prediction I’m very proud ...
What in the world has happened to the United States? Once upon a time the U.S. was one of the best places in the world to raise a child, but today it is an absolutely horrible place for children. We physic...
Are we about to see a huge push for a "United States of Europe"? As the sovereign debt crisis in Europe continues to spiral out of control, suddenly this term is popping up in the New York Times and in maj...
Every single day, America is becoming a little bit more divided. It is probably not a stretch to say that there could be more political hatred in this country today than at any time since the Civil War. In...
Should we just expect mass chaos on the streets of America every time a major holiday rolls around? At least 42 people were hit by gunfire in New York City over the Labor Day weekend. The violence got so b...
It's unfortunate that we've had to wait until a year before the next presidential election to get the American Jobs Act. There's no reason, except for politics, why we couldn't have gotten this $450 billio...
THE September 11 terrorist attacks of a decade ago continue to reverberate in financial markets. And with the benefit of hindsight, we can see that the attacks and the reaction to them played a big role i...
“In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowa...
*“Free to Die”* By Paul Krugman "Back in 1980, just as America was making its political turn to the right, Milton Friedman lent his voice to the change with the famous TV series “Free to Choose.” In epis...
*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* It was Conan Doyle who said: "When you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains however implausible must be the truth!" But --the problem is: the mainstream...
A recent CBS/NYTimes poll shows that most Americans disapprove of the job Congress is doing. It's been all over the news - earlier this week. It’s amazing to me that the MSM can spout off the percentages...
*"Hypocrisy Defined: Mayor Bloomberg"* by Karl Denniner "You just have to shake your head at this sort of crap: "Mayor Bloomberg warned Friday there would be riots in the streets if Washington doesn't ge...
*"Destiny is Demography"* by Bill Bonner "The San Francisco Federal Reserve bank came out with a gloomy forecast last month. Its analysts said that stocks were likely to earn paltry returns over the next...
Nine people -- five in Nepal and four in India -- died Sunday when a magnitude-6.9 earthquake struck the northern Indian state of Sikkim near the border between the two nations Sunday night, police said. ...
Yesterday I drove to Hoboken (*brave*) and then took the Path train to join the protest on the first day of Occupy Wall Street. After walking several blocks in the wrong direction, with the help of the mo...
NEW YORK - A coalition of groups who say they've been inspired by "Arab Spring" protests against Middle Eastern despots has initiated a large, Tahrir Square-like protest in New York City, in the heart of t...
At least 10 people were killed and 22 missing after rain-triggered landslides buried mountain-side factories in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, local officials said on Sunday. Rescuers have retrieved 1...
At least 10 protesters were killed in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Sunday, a Reuters witness said, when gunfire erupted at one of the biggest demonstrations against President Ali Abdullah Saleh in recent mo...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 50 km (31 miles), the quake hit at 15:59:57 UTC Sunday 18th September 2011. Time (JST) Lat. Long. Depth Mag. Regio...
*The finale of the Dvořák Eighth Symphony is played by the University of Suwon Symphony Orchestra under Piotr Borkowski at the Seoul Arts Center, October 2005.* In last night's preview, I proposed Dvořák'...
I never could understand David Cameron's enthusiasm for C.I.N.O. Chris Patten becoming BBC Trust Chairman, Here we see Patten once again living down to expectations; BBC Trust chairman Chris Patten has s...
*EU, US AND UK PARASITES GOING BUST!* Mohawk Nation News http://www.mohawknationnews.com MNN. Sep. 16, 2011. Those criminals who murder and plunder the world are eventually removed by nature. Their act...
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Biased BBC - 5 hours ago
A few days ago, the media got wind of a new unauthorized biography to come out about someone who holds no public office, is not running for one, and had virtually no public profile until 2008. There were a...
There have been several aftershocks from Thursday's magnitude 3.5 earthquake in the Newport Beach area. The aftershocks have all been small, the largest being a magnitude 2.2 temblor Saturday in the Irvi...
A few weeks ago, Thijs Zonneveld, a young journalist and former professional bicyclist, revealed that he had always been frustrated by his country's flatness. His sentiment is apparently shared by millio...
A boat capsized on Lake Tanganyika while on its way to Burundi from the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing five children and leaving three people missing, a Burundian official said Sunday. Seventeen o...
*The clean-up operation of the oil spill on Sweden's west coast continued on Sunday with more than 110 cubic metres removed so far, in what has been described by the National Coast Guard (Kustbevakningen) ...
We're all going to get pretty thick skinned in the years and decades to come. The more you want to cling to your way of life and the greater the global suffering that results, the thicker the skin you'l...
*From the Libyan Rebel's Perspective** * *Global Research* reports that 50,000 may have been KILLED IN THE LIBYAN WAR According to independent journalist Segura... 'there is talk of an estimated 1,800 kil...
A father has been arrested after a suspected intruder was stabbed to death at a house, according to Greater Manchester Police. Officers were called to Midland Road, in Bramhall, Stockport, following repo...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Sikkim, India at a depth of 20.1 km (12.5 miles), the quake hit at 13:54:18 UTC Sunday 18th September 2011. The epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) West of Gangtok, Sikkim, ...
At least a dozen houses collapsed in this Sikkim capital Sunday due to a 6.8 earthquake which jolted large parts of eastern and northern India, witnesses said. "At least a dozen houses houses have collap...
The Establishment like to portray homosexuals as normal healthy people who are different from heterosexuals only insofar as whereas heterosexuals have relationships involving a man and a woman, homosexual...
*I didn't notice any coverage of this anniversary this year.* *What I have gotten since my last** Chile post:* "Violence erupts in Chile amid 2-day nationwide strike; 450 arrests made, 42 hurt" August 26,...
Strong tremors were felt in parts of North and East India after an earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale shook Sikkim this evening. The epicentre of the quake is said to be just 64 kilometres North...
*I can't even remember the last time I saw something Brazilian** in my Boston Globe. * *Looks like the Globe contracted a caterer for the affair*: "A marriage of a dream and a scheme; Holyoke woman arrang...
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wmtc - 7 hours ago
I managed to squeeze in one more book, a few last precious moments of reading, before the must-reads of the fall term descend on me. It was a goodie. I read mostly nonfiction these days, and seem to find ...
*It's the morning after and.... * "Panel says US scientists knew Guatemala research unethical; Subjects infected with gonorrhea, syphilis in 1940s" August 31, 2011|By Rob Stein, Washington Post WASHINGTO...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Sikkim, India at a depth of 20 km (12.4 miles), the quake hit at 13:11:57 UTC Sunday 18th September 2011. The epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) WNW of Gangtok, Sikkim, Ind...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 40 km (24.8 miles), the quake hit at 13:03:27 UTC Sunday 18th September 2011. Time (JST) Lat. Long. Depth Mag. Reg...
"Cuba visit renews hope over US convict; Richardson won’t discuss agenda" September 09, 2011|By Paul Haven, Associated Press HAVANA - A *surprise visit *by Bill Richardson, New Mexico’s former governor, h...
*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* So what difference does it make if Republicans –as a class –espouse a pack of malicious lies? So what? The sane and insane alike act upon what they believe to be t...
Corps of Engineers "fools us twice": 2011 flood damage to levees and riverbanks will exceed $2 billion
Steve Harper may be in church today, probably seeking some sort of absolution for his sins, but the real altar at which jokers like Steve worship at is sepulcher of the Lord GDP. It's gross domestic prod...
A magnitude 6.9 earthquake has struck Sikkim, India at a depth of 19.7 km (12.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:40:47 UTC Sunday 18th September 2011. The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) Northwest of Gangtok, Sik...
Criminal gangs are stealing everything from power lines, metal railings and farm animals in highly organised hits. Thieves regularly put their lives at risk by hacking away live copper cabling to try and ...
*Wikileaks is an Israeli intelligence operation, and thus any releases must serve their agenda.** What do you think the **spy ring was for?* "Exposed: Uncensored WikiLeaks cables posted to Web" September ...
*Sucking secrets out of you.* "Scientist pleads guilty to trying to sell US secrets" September 08, 2011|Associated Press WASHINGTON - A former government space scientist pleaded guilty yesterday to one c...
About a month ago I passed along some investment advice from a few of the folks who help me in that department. One of them, Lisa Detanna from Wedbush, was working on a white paper at the time and she sen...
Just Couldn't Leave It Alone, could you. So I followed JJ's link to the homophobic fruit bat and found: I find myself unable to even leave the house anymore without worrying about what in tarnation we ar...
Interpol, the world's largest police organisation, is investigating whether a teenager who emerged in Berlin saying he had been living in the woods for five years is listed as a missing British child. The...
Tony Blair is today facing mounting pressure to explain his relationship with Colonel Gaddafi and his role in the early release of the Lockerbie bomber. It has emerged that the former prime minister held ...
So much to choose from, and that's without any reference to the stream of stupid coming from Michele Bachman's piehole. We'll start with another brief edition of What Pogge Said. From the beginning these ...
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wmtc - 8 hours ago
If you're interested in the issue of war resistance and the history of war resisters in both Canada and the US, you'll want to be at the Steelworkers Hall in Toronto next weekend, September 23 and 24. A ma...
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wmtc - 9 hours ago
Today, September 18, 2011, is the second anniversary of the day Rodney Watson went into sanctuary in the First United Church of Vancouver. Rodney, after serving his tour in Iraq, knew that he could no lon...
At least one billion becquerels of radiation continue to leak from Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant each day even though it is now more than five months after the March earthquake and tsunami that damaged...
India is planning to test fire by next month 'Agni-2 Prime', an advanced nuclear-capable ballistic missile with a strike range of around 3,000 km. "We are planning to test fire an advanced nuclear capable...
Some 80 members of the 400-member Bavarian State Opera have refused to join its planned tour of Japan from Friday due to concern over radiation leaks at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, sources close to ...
A man's body was found in waters off the coast of Otaru, Hokkaido, by an angler Sunday morning, according to police. The man, whose body was found at around 7:50 a.m., is believed to have been dead for s...
A lake created by heavy rainfall from Typhoon No. 12 has grabbed the attention of visitors here. The lake formed over the Odashirogahara marshland in the Okunikko region of Tochigi Prefecture following s...
A 39-year-old man has been arrested after a suspected burglar was stabbed and died at a house in Bramhall, according to Greater Manchester Police. Officers were called to Midland Road, Bramhall, following...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Uraga, Japan at a depth of 60 km (37.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:39:47 UTC Sunday 18th September 2011. Time (JST) Lat. Long. Depth Mag. Region 19...
Most people who visit the USGS site would have noticed the Elusive "?" California earthquakes, these Elusive "?" California Earthquakes appear logged for seconds sometimes even minutes before quickly being...
Alexander Lebedev, owner of the Independent and the Evening Standard newspapers, sent baron Sergei Polonsky flying after a flurry of punches during a debate on Russia on the global financial crisis.
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Jujuy, Argentina at a depth of 189.9 km (118 miles), the quake hit at 07:55:30 UTC Sunday 18th September 2011. The epicenter was 51 km (31 miles) Northwest of San Anton...
The New England cottontail rabbit, in sharp decline for decades throughout the Northeast, is on the verge of disappearing from several states, with the reason somewhat a mystery, wildlife experts say. The...
A four-year-old boy was beaten to death by his mother's boyfriend because he got in his way when he was playing a video game. Sean Stalwart, 34, from Illinois, was charged with first-degree murder for the...
American taxpayers could end up footing the bill if the United States' bailout of the faltering Eurozone turns sour. At present, U.S. citizens are fairly well protected, but if the crisis continues to gro...
They are famed as being the angriest insects in the animal kingdom. But now experts believe killer bees have gotten even more furious in 2011. Reed Booth, who calls himself the Killer Bee Guy and works wit...
One of Brazil's most high profile judges who jailed more than 60 corrupt police officers was shot dead with 21 police bullets, including some belonging to her local force, it has been revealed. Patricia A...
Blogger has introduced its new UI (User Interface) where among other changes, those familiar tabs below the Blog Title (see screen shot below): [image: Blogger old UI] has been replaced by a drop-down me...
One of the main leaders of the illegal Dale Farm travellers camp in Essex was jailed for his role in a £9 million cigarette-smuggling racket. Richard Sheridan, the main spokesman for travellers living ille...
A mystery seasonal illness that can kill dogs has returned to the Queen’s estate at Sandringham. Eleven dogs have fallen ill in the past two weeks within hours of being walked in woods on the Norfolk esta...
A former intelligence chief has been targeted by computer hackers alleged to have stolen secret documents relating to £500 million contracts for clearing mines. One man has been arrested and police are i...
Prisoners could soon have telephones installed in their cells, allowing them to make calls from their beds. Officials are searching for a suitable jail to pilot the scheme and HMP Isis, a young offenders’...
Globalization Floats on a Sea of Lies & Ignorance by Tony Cartalucci As reported by Thailand's the "Nation" daily English newspaper, "Chiranuch Premchaiporn, the embattled director of prachaitai.com, has b...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Batu, Indonesia at a depth of 28.1 km (17.5 miles), the quake hit at 06:45:40 UTC Sunday 18th September 2011. The epicenter was 279 km (174 miles) West of Pa...
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 po...
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 07:04:19 UTC Sunday 18th September 2011. The epicenter was 188 km (117 miles) ESE...
The death toll in the Nevada air show tragedy has risen to nine - as a second military aircraft crashed at a separate spectator event. Officials at the Reno air show said the number of fatalities had ri...
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*This old video goes viral* on the Internet. Why? See and hear for yourself... Url movie: http://youtu.be/X8eWtsDvHe8 - the mentioned Michael Flatley from Chicago is here. For translation of some revealing...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Mozambique Channel at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 06:27:03 UTC Sunday 18th September 2011. The epicenter was 294 km (183 miles) SSE of Nacala,...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Southern Iran at a depth of 10.2 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 23:37:27 UTC Saturday 17th September 2011. The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) Southwest of Jahrom, Ira...
Watch live streaming video from globalrevolution at livestream.com *Protesters invade NYC Financial District * #occupywallstreet .... #takewallstreet .
*Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan (Left) attends a CIA-Al-Qaeda meeting in Libya. "In the last 17 days, more than 2,000 residents of the city of Sirte were killed in NATO air strikes." (Libyan fighters prep...
9/11: The Day History Went Dark, And The World Went Crazy Saman Mohammadi The Excavator September 18, 2011 "It's not what you know or what you think, it's how you think and how you know what you know. It'...
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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...
"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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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...
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...
Blogs of Note
September 16, 2011
http://eksibesiktas.blogspot.com/
September 15, 2011
http://www.katoninetales.com/
September 14, 2011
http://blog.whoismrmister.com/
September 13, 2011
http://www.nearsightedowl.com/
September 9, 2011
http://atardecerenlalagunilla.blogspot.com/
September 8, 2011
http://mountainwandering.blogspot.com/
September 7, 2011
http://www.whatsgoodattraderjoes.com/
September 6, 2011
http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/
September 1, 2011
http://cafecartolina.blogspot.com/
August 31, 2011
http://santacruzwarhammer.blogspot.com/
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A suspected U.S. drone fell on Pakistan's tribal region overnight, two Pakistani senior security officials told CNN on Sunday. The drone fell in the northern part of South Waziristan -- one of the seven ...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck the Ontario-Quebec Border Region, Canada at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 19:19:12 UTC Sunday 18th September 2011. The epicenter was 17 km (11 miles) E...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Solomon Islands at a depth of 63.9 km (39.7 miles), the quake hit at 18:35:24 UTC Sunday 18th September 2011. The epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) West of Kira Kira, ...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Fukushima, East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 50 km (31 miles), the quake hit at 18:32:23 UTC Sunday 18th September 2011. Epicenter 66 km (41 miles) Southeast o...
** *Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy* is a spy novel by John le Carré, featuring George Smiley. British spy George Smiley hunts down an enemy agent hidden within the British security services. The enemy agen...
A kidnapped British tourist was dragged 'kicking and screaming' into the Somali town of Kisamayo by armed men, according to a witness. Judith Tebbutt, 56, was handed to a gang of armed militants before bei...
Palestinian negotiators have accused Washington of triggering a diplomatic crisis which threatens to wreck the entire peace process. A senior official said U.S. proposals had been the 'final straw' that le...
Most people trekking through the jungle would turn tail and run a mile the opposite direction if they came face to face with a giant anaconda. But not Niall McCann. Like a real-life Indiana Jones he decide...
To D-fox: if you're reading this, please contact us at thecomingcrisis@gmail.com. It's important -- we believe.
Are the killer bees meaner than ever in 2011? The Killer Bee Guy thinks so. They're much more ornery this year, according to Reed Booth, also know as The Killer Bee Guy. "This is the worst I've seen in 10 ...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThey are famed as being the angriest insects in the animal kingdom. But now experts believe killer bees have gotten even more furious in 2011. Reed Booth, who calls himself the Killer Bee Guy and works wit...
posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWomen 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 ...
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