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*Asia-bound on the SS President Cleveland* *"One of the worst offenders, though it costs me an effort to confess it, was my own good lady, who was frequently to be observed recumbent in a deck-chair follo...
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San Francisco Peaks desecrated for Snowbowl pipeline for sewage water/Photo Protect the Peaks*U.N. Official addresses Navajo
Human Rights at
U.N. Human Rights Council* *To watch, view a web cast at 5 a.m.,...
[image: Jake Conner, who farms 2,000 acres
Paola, Kansas, is seen in this September 1, 2011 photograph in northeast Kansas with his father-in-law, struggles to deal with crop-choking weeds that have grow...
[image: Research has shown that amphibians, such as this
Western toad that was the focus of a recent study, can better resist disease in more diverse ecosystems. Photo by Ivan Phillipsen, courtesy of Ore...
*"The Supreme Paradox"* by Robert Ardrey ․ "Man is a fraction of the animal world… We are not so unique as we should like to believe. The problem of man’s original nature imposes itself upon any human so...
“The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.” - Oscar Wilde
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services cut
Italy's sovereign credit rating late Monday, saying the nation's weakening economic growth and political uncertainty have dented its financial stability. S&P now rat...
Magnitude*5.8* Date-Time - *Monday, September 19, 2011 at 18:34:00 UTC* - Monday, September 19, 2011 at 12:34:00 PM at epicenter - Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location14.332°N, 90....
Magnitude*5.8* Date-Time - *Monday, September 19, 2011 at 08:14:15 UTC* - Sunday, September 18, 2011 at 11:14:15 PM at epicenter - Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location52.041°N, 171...
Magnitude*5.4* Date-Time - *Monday, September 19, 2011 at 07:03:09 UTC* - Sunday, September 18, 2011 at 11:03:09 PM at epicenter - Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location53.366°N, 169...
On September 12, 2011, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, the former chief of staff to Colin Powell, warned that America is being foolishly led into a disastrous war with Iran that will spark anger in the Pentagon a...
Dene Chief Bill Erasmus at White House rally to halt the pipeline in Sept./Photo Josh Lopez*Dene Nation Becomes Part of International Accord Opposed to Keystone XL Pipeline* Press statement YELLOWKNIFE, N...
*No, this isn't Nazi Germany or a Latin American dictatorship. It's Monday morning on Pine Street in Lower Manhattan.* *by Ken* Could someone remind me what country this is we're living in? Because as I ...
* * * * Denver protest Peabody Coal. Photo by Mano Cockrum, Hopi-Navajo.*When it comes to protecting human rights, you can't pick and choose. * *When it comes to Mother Earth, that's like saying 'I only rap...
[image: Arctic Sea Ice Extent, 1870-2008. Walsh & Chapman 2001 via Tamino] By Tamino 17 September 2011 […] One of the best long-term (on a century time scale) estimates of Arctic sea ice is the Walsh & ...
We have 4,000,000 visitors a year (and growing!) and have started a monthly Dollar Drive promotion that helps fund our website and journalistic efforts, while at the same time promoting local businesses an...
Yemeni troops killed at least 27 civilians on Monday, many shot by snipers on rooftops, as tens of thousands of anti-regime protesters thronged central Sanaa. The surge in violence came as President Ali...
A newly assertive Turkey offered on Sunday a vision of a starkly realigned Middle East, where the country’s former allies in Syria and Israel fall into deeper isolation, and a burgeoning alliance with Egyp...
A father and his teenage daughter were in critical condition after receiving severe burns during an alleged attempt to steal electricity from high-voltage power lines in Inglewood, a police official said S...
Europe's debt crisis has intensified after Greece's embattled government said the country's financial future would rest on a make-or-break conference call with EU and IMF officials on Monday. Signalling t...
Two US men face charges in Denver for allegedly driving around with the body of a friend after discovering him dead. The pair bought drinks, dinner and took $400 (£253) from Jeffrey Jarrett's bank, visiti...
A solar panel factory in eastern China has been shut down after protests by local residents over pollution fears. Some 500 villagers staged a three-day protest following the death of large numbers of fish...
At least 20 people have been killed by security forces in Yemen, doctors say, continuing a bloody crackdown on protesters that started on Sunday. Snipers in Sanaa fired from rooftops at a protester camp, k...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has told Greece it needs better tax collection and deeper spending cuts, not higher taxes, to avert its crisis. The warning comes as Greece prepares for further fundin...
Winnipeg police are looking into how a possibly explosive practice aircraft bomb ended up in a St. Boniface home. The Winnipeg Police Service's bomb unit was called in on Saturday afternoon, after family...
A rally held to recognize the Toronto District School Board for allowing rights and freedoms turned into a shouting match Saturday between religious groups. About 200 people squared off outside the Toront...
The European crisis that you've been reading about in the paper is worth watching carefully. In fact, it has now morphed into something much bigger than a European crisis - it could batter the entire glo...
Sooner or later, it happens to each of us, Richard Rohr says. “There always will be at least one situation in our lives that we cannot fix, control, explain, change or even understand,” the Franciscan prie...
World Relief, a Christian evangelical aid organization, is collaborating with Kenyan churches and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to stem the tide of acute malnutrition across the northern region of ...
When an ax-wielding man attacked people on the street in Henan Province on Wednesday, the terse media reports created headlines and public panic. Wang Hongbin, 30, killed six people, including two children...
At the same time that Russia is marking the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the West is beginning to talk seriously about the possibility of the collapse of the European Union. As wit...
Russia and North Korea will stage their first joint military exercises next year after agreeing to expand their ties during Kim Jong-Il's visit to Russia last month, a general said on Tuesday. The decisio...
Kezia Fitzgerald and her 15-month-old daughter are both blondes with bright blue eyes. They both giggle easily and share a love of peaches. The mom and daughter have more in common than Fitzgerald would li...
While the United Nations says more than 2,500 people have died in Syria at the hands of the regime, President Bashar al-Assad's point man in the United States says the figure is false and the result of a...
When Nana Clarke first heard about the protests in front of the Tottenham Metropolitan Police Service station, she walked down to join the crowd assembling several blocks from her home. Like several hundr...
A string of British schools are banning skirts after helplessly watching the trend of "hemline creep" when girls roll up skirts at the waist to show more of their legs. Rising hemlines among girls in their...
America's strong and vibrant middle class didn't just happen. It was built brick by brick in the decades after World War II by hard work and workers' strength in numbers that came from the unions that repr...
Thousands of women inmates from California prisons could soon be released to be reunited with their families under a program the state began implementing on Monday. The California Department of Correction...
*Column of the Americas* Rodriguez Photo Norrell*In Arizona: After 519 years, Indigenous Knowledge on Trial* *By Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez* *Special Length-column* Justice. That’s a word not normally ass...
“The most distant object easily visible to the eye is M31, the great Andromeda Galaxy some two and a half million light-years away. But without a telescope, even this immense spiral galaxy - spanning over ...
"Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth." - Ludwig Borne
Could a deadly roller coaster ride be the future of humane euthanasia?
*“Bad To The Bone - Are Some Children Just Born Evil?”* by Michelle Griffin "A mother sits in a playroom with her young son. The phone rings. When she picks it up, a researcher watching through a two-way ...
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[image: 276464_137539366339987_1226509_n] Here’s the news about tonight’s session from our friends at the UoA Economics Group: Hi all, In recent weeks we examined the causes of the booms and busts ...
*"Fukushima Nightmare Worsens, * *Tokyo May Have To Be Evacuated"* by Grant Lawrence "In a highly disturbing Al Jazeera News report below, experts are now saying what once would have been unthinkable: Tok...
The group of explorers and biologists tackled the massive anaconda while trekking through Surinam.
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Not PC - 6 hours ago
The Key Government seems to have learned nothing from the many mistakes of the Clark Government. Instead of avoiding them, it is repeating them. Virtually all of them. Perhaps the two highest profile* ...
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*"Three Simple Words to Help With Depression"* by Jeffrey Fishberger, MD "Transitions and change can be challenging for any of us. The recent earthquake, hurricane and flooding, in addition to the end of ...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck near Fukushima, off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 40 km (24.8 miles), the quake hit at 19:37 UTC Monday 19th September 2011. Time (JST) Lat. Long. De...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Guatemala at a depth of 40.9 km (25.4 miles), the quake hit at 20:30:04 UTC Monday 19th September 2011. The epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) ESE of Escuintla, Guatemala N...
“This I believe: That the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undire...
A violent crackdown by Yemeni authorities has left dozens dead at protests, witnesses and medical officials said Monday. Bloody violence raged Monday in the capital, Sanaa, triggering a new wave of inter...
Three earthquakes shook a major part of Guatemala in less than 90 minutes on Monday afternoon, killing at least one person, authorities said. The largest quake, a 5.8 magnitude, hit at 12:34pm, with two o...
*“Richard Cory”* by Edwin Arlington Robinson “Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We people on the pavement looked at him: He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Clean-favored and imperially slim. And ...
Franke Wilmer is a progressive Democrat running for Montana’s open at-large seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. She's currently serving her third term in the state legislature where she has sponsor...
*That's where you find scum, right?* "Santorum has been a regular visitor to New Hampshire and had six campaign events planned in a 24-hour period yesterday and today. Yet he is facing an uphill battle. H...
*You can line the cage with it, readers.* "Study finds *steep drop* in Bay State’s *native birds*" by David Abel, Globe Staff / September 19, 2011 “Unmistakable markers of climate change.’’ *************...
Among the facts you may not know about Oetzi the Iceman, he lacked a set of ribs and had an almost invisible member.
Violent storms across Italy that led to four deaths over the weekend caused damage and disruption on air, port and city transport systems on Monday, officials said. Six underground subway stations in the ...
U.S. stocks fell sharply today as escalating fears about the possibility of Greek default and concern about the U.S. deficit plan prompted investors to surrender some of last week's gains. Energy and fina...
Some of Japan’s most sensitive defence secrets have been targeted by hackers, who have gained access to up to 80 computers of its biggest defence contractor - in what appeared to be a coordinated attack. ...
The latest edition of the Times Atlas of the World, which claims to be the world’s ‘most authoritative’, exaggerates the extent that ice has retreated on Greenland, according to scientists. A press releas...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Guatemala at a depth of 36.9 km (22.9 miles), the quake hit at 19:17:54 UTC Monday 19th September 2011. The epicenter was 12 km (7 miles) East of Cuilapa, Santa Rosa, G...
*Occupy Wall Street media coverage : Day 3* The Guardian *: **The call to occupy Wall Street resonates around the world* * New York Examiner *: **Protestors take Wall Street in "Day of Rage" against corp...
Rescuers battled heavy rains and cleared dozens of landslides while making their way to Sikkim, the ground zero of Sunday evening's 6.8 magnitude earthquake that has so far claimed 74 lives across three co...
I highly recommend this rebuttal (from 1976!) to the book "We Almost Lost Detroit" which addresses the claims about the Fermi I fast-breeder reactor and the accident which took it out of service. In short, ...
"Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid the pain of self-awareness. Evil is laziness carried to its u...
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck Guatemala at a depth of 39.4 km (24.5 miles), the quake hit at 18:34:00 UTC Monday 19th September 2011. The epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) ENE of Cuilapa, Santa Rosa, G...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 50 km (31 miles), the quake hit at 17:39 UTC Monday 19th September 2011. Time (JST) Lat. Long. Depth Mag. Region ...
Thousands of protesters armed with sticks and backed by armed military defectors overran a base of the elite Presidential Guards in Yemen's capital as fighting erupted across much of Sanaa on Monday. The d...
* "The California Corridor: Some Lessons on Government Largesse From the New Frontier"* by Victor Davis Hanson *"The Great Warpath*: This summer it has been a softer, modern version of living in a cabin o...
Magnox has informed UK regulators that water was found leaking from a cracked flow meter in the active effluent treatment plant at the Sizewell A nuclear power plant earlier this month, a document obtained...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Guatemala at a depth of 61 km (37.9 miles), the quake hit at 18:00:01 UTC Monday 19th September 2011. The epicenter was 17 km (10 miles) Northeast of Cuilapa, Santa Ros...
While global warming is threatening the life of our planet if not the Milky Way, Austria woke up to something that mavericks like to enjoy at the end of the summer: snow. It's been pretty intense and som...
*"Yep (Victor Davis Hanson)"* by Karl Denninger "As I read this, the one word title for this Ticker came to mind and stuck there... "Civilization ends when the pampered beneficiaries of the hard work of...
After the March 11 earthquake and tsunami off Japan damaged the Fukushima Daichi nuclear reactor, the Japanese government was presented with a scenario which would have required the evacuation of half of T...
A small, bipartisan group of lawmakers will be hunkering down this fall, negotiating ways to reduce deficits by at least $1.2 trillion over the next decade. With the country's fiscal future coming under t...
Dengue fever has killed 25 people and affected more than 6,000 over the past two months in Lahore, Pakistan, a health department spokesman said Monday. In total, 6,400 cases of dengue fever have been docum...
he number of people killed in flooding in Pakistan has risen to at least 347 in the past six weeks, the country's national disaster authority said Monday. Half a million people are living in refugee camps...
Staten Island’s Tugboat Graveyard has long intrigued—even frightened—local residents, including NYC-based photographer Chris Barreto, who grew up just a few miles away. “It took me years to build up the ne...
The United States by every measure is hanging on by a thread to its First World status. Saddled by debt, engaged in wars on multiple fronts with a rising police state at home, declining economic productivi...
As currency wars intensify, Eurozone and US debt problems deepen, Gold is setting up for its next move to the upside. Greece didn't default over the weekend, but it is quickly running out of cash with off...
here will be an unexpected sight high in the skies over the British county of Norfolk next month: a huge balloon attached to the ground by a giant hosepipe. It isn't obvious, but it is the first small ste...
A trade war with the United States loomed Wednesday after the Harper government vowed to fight the latest move by Washington to exclude Canadian companies from bidding on billions of dollars worth of econo...
In a shift, Americans increasingly view Asia, not Europe, as the region where the most important U.S. national interests lie, a poll released Wednesday reported. But a plurality of respondents in nine of ...
Russia will most likely write off North Korea's Soviet-era 11 billion-dollar-debt to clear the way for closer economic cooperation, Izvestia newspaper said on Wednesday. Moscow and Pyongyang discussed clo...
Six dangerous strains of E. coli -- dubbed "the Big Six" -- will soon be banned from the beef supply, U.S. Department of Agriculture officials said Monday. "This is one of the biggest steps forward in the...
Arsenic has long been recognized as a contaminant in drinking water, but now concerns are growing about worrisome levels of arsenic appearing in food, particularly apple juice. Several tests conducted by r...
China has become a top exporter, accounting for roughly 10 per cent of global merchandise exports. This manufacturing giant presents both an opportunity as well as a challenge. It is a cheap and critical s...
Tune into CNBC or click onto any of the dozens of mainstream financial news sites, and you’ll find an endless array of opinions on the latest wiggle in equity, bond and commodities markets. As often as not...
New greenhouse gas regulations for US power plants are unlikely to be proposed by the end of the month, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has admitted. The agency originally aimed at p...
Common blue butterflies were the biggest losers from the coldest summer for almost two decades, with numbers tumbling by almost two-thirds, experts have said. The results of the Big Butterfly Count 2011 r...
The Millennial generation got hit hardest by the Great Recession. You might have heard this, over and over, especially if you read The Atlantic or happen to have asked somebody from the Millennial generati...
The U.S. Postal Service, struggling to cut costs and conserve cash, said Thursday it wants to end overnight delivery of letters and postcards and will study about 250 processing sites for possible closure....
If every dark cloud has a silver lining, then perhaps the converse is true when it comes to human endeavors, especially in a time of war. Take the case of using unmanned aerial vehicles -- so-called drones...
*“You Bet It's Class Warfare “* by Andy Ostroy “Its called the "Millionaire's Tax", and it's pure genius. Finally, President Obama and Democrats have caught on to the power and importance of branding. My...
September 2nd: *Thomas Mulcair says he won't run for the leadership of the NDP unless the party agrees to hold its convention in late winter or early spring, because he wouldn't be able to compete in a sho...
Joined at the head, the twins were born with a rare condition which only one in 10 millions sufferers survived.
Residents of the UK's biggest illegal travellers' camp have won a temporary injunction against the council. Basildon Council have been prevented from clearing any structures at the site ahead of a High C...
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CENSORED NEWS - 11 hours ago
Alberta tarsands/Photo copyright Curtis HooperBy Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Photos of environmental destruction by CurtisHooper: http://www.kiapana.com/index.php?page=2 T...
By Duane Craig Phelps Dodge, BP, Texaco, NationalGrid and ExxonMobil (united under the moniker Newtown Creek Group) - to clean up the red area above. Perhaps rivaling the Gowanus Canal inpollution, Newt...
While Michele Bachmann nipped at his heels over his STD problem, it must have been excruciatingly humiliating for faux macho-man Rick Perry to be slapped around by the not very manly GOP Breck Girl, Willa...
Did you know that pieces of asteroid Vesta have been discovered on Earth? And that the first person known to be hit my a meteorite was a woman taking a nap?
A celebration of balance. Image from Lifehack.Mabon, Harvest Home:Friday is the Fall EquinoxBy Kate Braun / The Rag Blog / September 19, 2011“We can’t return we can only look behindFrom where we came...” -- ...
*Experimental claims on neutrinos that are faster than light* Tommaso Dorigo is spreading a six-sigma (6.1, to be more precise) rumor involving neutrinos and his countrymates in an experiment melodically...
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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...
Political cartoon by Joshua Brown / The Rag Blog / September 18, 2011.[Joshua Brown is the executive director of the Center for Media and Learning/American Social History Project, The Graduate Center, The Ci...
*Wait until you see who he was kicking around and stealing from.* "The long rise and hard fall of John Barranco; He found big money in an unlikely place — a regional agency serving disabled children. And t...
So you wracked up a million bucks worth of jet taxi fares. Fine, maybe it was just a mistake, an error of judgment. Forget about reimbursement. Military types aren't paid like their civilian counterpa...
*Remember s***ting your pants waiting for what seemed like forever outside? * "Chicago mayor takes plan for longer days directly to teachers" by Monica Davey, New York Times / September 18, 2011 CHICAGO ...
You teachers just don't understand kids. "US finds statewide problems in schools; Says English learners not adequately served" by James Vaznis, Globe Staff / September 17, 2011 At least 45,000 *teachers* ...
*Not this year. * "Pumpkin shortfall is a ghoulish possibility" by Chris Hawley, Associated Press / September 18, 2011 NEW YORK - Northeastern states are facing a jack-o’-lantern shortage this Halloween ...
*Wait until you see what's under the robe.* "Jail strip-search policies challenged in lawsuit; Supreme Court to rule on issue’s constitutionality" by Robert Barnes, Washington Post / September 18, 2011 N...
Two British mercenaries have been captured by Gaddafi loyalists in Libya, it has been claimed. Reports of the captures came as voluntary revolutionaries launched fresh attacks on the *deposed Libyan lead...
Hyundai adds research tools to their Facebook page and lets users share design ideas with friends.
Who wouldn’t vote for the bid for Palestinian statehood? Why, I’d vote for it myself after reading Wyre Davies! Anyone who relied on this article couldn’t really help feeling that the Palestinians’ unilate...
Bold farmers in Indonesia routinely ignore orders to evacuate the slopes of live volcanoes, but those living on Tambora took no chances when history's deadliest mountain rumbled ominously this month. Vill...
It was a bolt from the blue - and the incredible moment lightning struck the famous CN Tower during a spectacular thunderstorm. When a ferocious storm battered Toronto's landmark building, photographer Ri...
[image: The venomous warm-water species Pelagia noctiluca has forced the closure of beaches and is now becoming increasingly common in the warming waters around Britain. ALAMY] By Richard Gray, Science ...
An Al Qaeda fanatic jailed for 10 years for his part in a mass murder plot is back on the streets after just three years behind bars. Manchester taxi driver Habib Ahmed, now 32, was sentenced to 10 years i...
An 80-year-old pensioner died on Saturday after dousing himself in petrol before setting himself on fire. The unnamed man, who lived on Hyde End Lane in Ryeish Green, Berkshire, had locked his wife in the...
The number of people killed in flooding in Pakistan has risen to at least 347 in the past six weeks, the country's national disaster authority said Monday. Half a million people are living in refugee cam...
Dengue fever has killed 25 people and affected more than 6,000 over the past two months in Lahore, Pakistan, a health department spokesman said Monday. In total, 6,400 cases of dengue fever have been docu...
Conservative MP Mark Pritchard (pictured), complained that the EU had become an ‘occupying force’ which has left Britain ‘enslaved to Europe’. A senior Tory demanded a referendum on pulling Britain out of ...
Revolutionary forces in Libya suffered a sizable blow after more than 20 fighters were killed in the northern city of Sirte Sunday, the country's transitional government said Monday. Another 31 fighter...
[image: Obama] President Barack Obama's proposal to decrease long-term deficits with $1.5 trillion in new taxes is less an opening bid in a compromise than it is an opening salvo in a struggle to draw sha...
*Extract from the 2nd part of the first Chapter** of my Novel, which is a work in progress, like fossil fuels:* *DELIVER US FROM INNOCENCE* *A story of love and war at the genesis of a Millennium.* * * *Sa...
The find in the forests of Western Ghats, India, includes one that meows like a cat.
Automatically turning off a phone's Bluetooth and Wi-Fi capabilities until a message comes in saves battery life.
In one of my previous posts I mentioned a meeting of Syrian opposition members in Ankara, Turkey. At that time they were trying to put together a "transitional" government. Sound familiar? The first try di...
"Heh, this one's for the workers who toil night and day By hand and by brain to earn your pay Who for centuries long past for no more than your bread Have bled for your countries and counted your dead I...
What it means to live in New Orleans ~The New Orleans Levee ~Editilla Crowtellas~ Congratulations to The Levee on 5 years, growing stronger and stronger! Special thanks to our herolero: editor Rudy Vorkapic...
Ice sculpture by Ligorano/Reese
Ice sculpture by Ligorano/Reese
"Wall Street banks that bundled those mortgages for investors deserve much of the blame. Their nearly insatiable appetite for subprime loans to package and sell on the securities market encouraged lenders ...
A tense stand-off is developing at the UK's biggest illegal travellers' camp as activists barricade themselves inside and bailiffs prepare to enter by force. Residents at Dale Farm in Basildon, Essex, an...
A man posing as a pilot caused a major security scare when he tried to enter a restricted part of an international airport - and then ran off when questioned. Police issued grainy footage of the fake flye...
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wmtc - 16 hours ago
New York City through the lens of Elliot Erwitt (and a few others) *You... can dress in pink and blue just like a child In a yellow taxi turn to me and smile We'll be there in just a while...*
The White House has been releasing a series of ghastly trial balloons about what el presidente plans to say today. From cutting back on COLAs to raising the age of eligibility for Social Security and Med...
Focussing the sun's energy into a super-powered laser beam gets one step closer.
Controlled studies suggest taking the pill can hinder certain aspects of memory.
A farmer has been arrested after his wife, a mother of four children, was found shot dead on remote farmland. Armed police and a helicopter arrived at a property near Parracombe in north Devon around 5.40...
*Obama and Buffett: Marx and Engels reloaded* Today, on Monday, the International Monetary Fund gave an ultimatum to Greece. The parasitic communist country should increase the cuts; otherwise it should g...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 12 km (7.5 miles), the quake hit at 05:41 pm NZST Monday 19th September 2011. The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) Southwest of ...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 48.6 km (30.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:34:27 UTC Monday 19th September 2011. The epicenter was 37 km (...
A wildfire forced the evacuation of about 1,000 people from their homes overnight on the Spanish holiday island of Ibiza, officials said Monday. The evacuations took place in Roca Llisa in the east of the ...
Hundreds of anarchists turned Europe’s largest illegal traveller site into a fortress today to defy bailiffs in what they say will be the ‘Battle of Basildon’. Menacing activists, wearing scarves over the...
Stocks took a hammering today as Greece struggled to convince international creditors that it can meet its obligations in return for more bailout cash that it needs to avoid running out of funds as soon as...
On 19 September 2011, we learn that Gaddafi loyalists have captured 17 foreign mercenaries Reuters is reporting that the Gaddafi forces say they have captured some British and French mercenaries. The Ga...
It may seem like it is a little early to be talking ornaments, but Christmas is less than 100 days away! I have been starting my Christmas present crafts early to ensure I have no last minute projects th...
Japan's biggest defense contractor, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd, said on Monday hackers had gained access to its computers, with one newspaper saying its submarine, missile and nuclear power plant comp...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 50 km (31 miles), the quake hit at 09:36:35 UTC Monday 19th September 2011. Time (JST) Lat. Long. Depth Mag. Regio...
A Kenyan court has charged a man with the murder of a British holidaymaker and the kidnap of his wife, reports say. David Tebbutt was killed and his wife Judith abducted while on a trip in the country ear...
A team of astronomers are planning an epic quest to track down the 42 year-old lunar module that's adrift in the solar system.
The level of a slow-acting liver toxin created by blue-green algae is now over the safety threshold at Gibbs Lake south of Port Townsend, preliminary results of the most recent lake sample tests show. “T...
China is calling Monday for the resumption of six party talks on North Korea's nuclear disarmament two days before planned inter-Korean talks. "We are happy to see that there have been some new, positive i...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Northwest of the Kuril Islands at a depth of 417 km (259.3 miles), the quake hit at 09:07:23 UTC Monday 19th September 2011. The epicenter was 302 km (188 miles) North...
The upper North Island will be ravaged by hundreds of thunderstorms bringing a risk of flash flooding and tornadoes this afternoon, predicts a weather service. Torrential rain and thunderstorms are headi...
The UK criminal justice system 'can be criminal'. *su* drew our attention to: http://www.*bentlawyersandcops*.com/a_*rotten_judiciary*.htm The following are quotes from the above site: "SENIOR CIRCUIT J...
The first catch/batch/harvest of fish from the first aquaculture farm with an at-sea permit from NOAA to float freely offshore in U.S. federal waters will be ready for market in March 2012.
A 16-year-old boy whose leg had been bitten off by a shark, has died at the Coast General Hospital. The boy was swimming at the shores of the Indian Ocean, near Mama Ngina Drive, when the sea beast attac...
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck the Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 34.7 km (21.6 miles), the quake hit at 08:14:10 UTC Monday 19th September 2011. The epicenter was 162 km (100 m...
Several thousand people are marching in downtown Tokyo calling on the government to abandon nuclear energy in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear accident. The demonstrators chanted "Sayonara nuclear power"...
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Biased BBC - 19 hours ago
Monday morning, a fresh week, and a brand new OPEN thread for you to detail what is annoying you about BBC coverage. If the bias is there, please expose it here! Click through to read and contribute comm...
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Biased BBC - 19 hours ago
BBC's *Bob Ballard* seems the very modern definition of Impartiality. Hat-tip to eagle eyed Keith. [image: Bob Ballard] @bobballardsportBob Ballard @*LanceBass* what happened to land of the free Lance...
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Biased BBC - 20 hours ago
B-BBC contributor Alan notes the following; "Watching a film recently on the BBC I spotted the name *'Michael Nyman' *in the credits for musical composition. His name rang a bell and Google delivered t...
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Biased BBC - 20 hours ago
It's been a busy morning for the thoroughly impartial *Justin Webb*. Just after 7.18am he was "breaking the traditional "mood of the conference" at the Liberal Democrat Party Conference in Birmingham, by t...
SEVEN ARRESTED IN MAJOR COUNTER TERRORISM OPERATION Six men have been arrested in Birmingham overnight as part of a large pre-planned, intelligence-led counter terrorism operation. All were detained on s...
Noel Todd and Leon Howard weren't expecting to reel in a massive beast when fishing near Shell Creek in McIntosh County.But that is precisely what they got when tossing out lines from a boat slip at Ocean ...
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Biased BBC - 20 hours ago
Remarkably biased coverage of the planned eviction of Gypsies from the illegal part of the Dale Farm on BBC Today this morning. There were two interviews conducted by Chris Patten favourite* Sarah Montague...
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck the Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 154.5 km (96 miles), the quake hit at 07:03:08 UTC Monday 19th September 2011. The epicenter was 89 km (55 mile...
After fishing through the night, Albert Zertuche hooked this 12.5-foot tiger shark and hauled it to the beach. It's the biggest tiger shark ever caught in Texas and we've got the photos and video. Albert...
*A SERIES of shark sightings has sparked a warning to swimmers on the Sunshine Coast. * Surf Life Saving Queensland said aerial patrols by the Westpac Lifesaver Helicopter Rescue Service spotted several ...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck just offshore of Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 12.9 km (8 miles), the quake hit at 06:20:37 UTC Monday 19th September 2011. The epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) SSW from...
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Broken of Britain - 21 hours ago
Jim Parsons has defended his Emmy for best comedy actor: Reuters. Congratulations! Don't forget that the fifth season of The Big Bang Theory starts this Thursday.
A huge unidentified, luminous disk, many times larger than the full moon, was observed in the skies of Beijing and Shanghai on the night of Aug. 20. Many flight pilots as well as individuals on the gro...
*Government scientists recently captured compelling video evidence that climate change puts Alaskan walruses at risk.* Typically, these creatures spend their summers far from shore, searching for in the ...
In a fresh indication of growing public anger over pollution, hundreds of demonstrators in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang on Sunday were camped outside a solar panel manufacturing plant that stan...
At least 48 people have been killed after a 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit north-east India and neighbouring Nepal. The quake was felt across a wide region after it struck the small, landlocked Himalayan s...
They wanted to turn New York’s financial district into an ‘American Tahrir Square’ by protesting against what they claim is the greed and corruption of the richest people in the U.S. More than 1,000 prote...
TAINTED: Despite crackdowns on major honey smugglers over the past two years, tainted Chinese honey continues to enter the United States in record amounts via other Asian countries. Photo courtesy: theepoc...
A saucepan containing cooking garlic chive and soft tofu. Photo courtesy: Le Hoan Nha via theepochtimes One of my absolutely most favourite vegetables. When cooked properly, they are delicious. Now, unfor...
A long-haul trucker accused of murdering three prostitutes in different southern states is suspected of killing many more - even by his own lawyer. John Boyer, who lives with his mother near Augusta, Georg...
Videogame players have solved a molecular puzzle that stumped scientists for years and could hold the key to finding a cure for AIDS. A team of gamers needed just ten days to produce an answer to an enzyme...
Autumn is the season the arachnophobic dreads - and this one is set to be worse than most. For Britain's homes and gardens are facing an invasion of spiders. 'The warm spring brought an influx of pollen, ...
A powerful cross-party coalition of MPs plans to put unprecedented pressure on the Government to pull back from Europe – as support grows at Westminster for Britain to leave the EU altogether. Amid mount...
Almost 400 cases of deadly new superbugs resistant to even the most powerful antibiotics have been discovered in hospitals this year. Super-resistant bacteria are at their highest levels yet, having accou...
Photo courtesy: momstownbarrie Reading is rapidly becoming a lost art. With television, movies, computers; and, other techno devices I have absolutely no knowledge about becoming so popular, the quiet enj...
* the**REALnews Permalink* September 17, 2011 *Nurses Hold Actions Across Country Demanding Wall Street Transaction Tax* Nurses link increasing poverty to health prob...
A wealthy family man was arrested on suspicion of murder yesterday after allegedly stabbing a burglar to death with his own knife. Businessman Vincent Cooke, 39, was relaxing when he heard a knock at the ...
Libya's interim leaders failed to agree a new cabinet on Sunday and the forces that forced Muammar Gaddafi from power remained bogged down in fighting with troops loyal to the former ruler. Interim gover...
At least 18 people -- 13 in India and five in Nepal -- died when a magnitude-6.9 earthquake struck the northern Indian state of Sikkim near the border between the two nations Sunday night, local government...
The eviction of the UK's biggest illegal travellers' site is set to begin - with angry clashes expected between bailiffs and residents. Hundreds of residents at Dale Farm in Basildon, Essex, and their sup...
*Eight people including six police officers were killed and several more wounded Monday in a car bomb attack targeting a senior policeman in Pakistan’s financial capital Karachi, officials said.* Senior ...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 12 km (7.5 miles), the quake hit at 01:51:30 UTC Monday 19th September 2011. The epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) Southeast of Chr...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Kepulauan Sula, Indonesia at a depth of 5.1 km (3.2 miles), the quake hit at 23:09:18 UTC Sunday 18th September 2011. The epicenter was 346 km (214 miles) Northeas...
Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Support the Blood Women who stood in front of the trucks in court on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. The court date has been set for September 19, 2011 at 10 am at ...
*Six hundred escapists beyond the reach of Milton Berle and the National Retail Credit Association* [drawing by Al Hirschfeld] *"As he perched on a stool in the Hurricane Bar, pensively sipping his aperiti...
"After more than 50 years, desegregation still an issue in Ark.; 3 school districts, state at odds over payments" by Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press / September 18, 2011 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - More than a ...
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Europe - 1 day ago
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...
"Korean diplomats to meet in Beijing; Renewed nuclear talks could open 6-nation dialogue" by Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times / September 17, 2011 SEOUL - The top nuclear negotiators from North and South Kore...
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Not PC - 1 day ago
After another weekend of great games and celebrations, the puritans want to take the city back. “Auckland’s party mood worries officials” reports a po-faced Royal NZ Herald this morning, with stories not...
*It's on. * "In India, environmentalists and energy producers clash over coal" by Rama Lakshmi, Washington Post / September 18, 2011 MADANPUR, India - The forest provides Ran Singh Marpachi with the betel...
Bear crashes car *by itnnews* A bear got into an empty car, honked the horn and then sent it rolling 125 feet into a thicket, with the bear still inside, a Colorado family said. Seventeen-year-old Ben ...
Le Tarp? Don't we hate those French enough? Come on, already! Actually, I believe we've come pretty close to the end of the "smart" guys being able to outfox the already-been-had-enough citizens. The cards...
See cold, distant Neptune and its moon Triton as you've never seen them before -- through the eyes of the Keck infrared observatory.
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Not PC - 1 day ago
It looks like the rebuilding of Christchurch will happen, if it happens at all, without the folk who built it in the first place--“as quake-weary CBD property owners start using their insurance money to ...
*I'm down on my Globe*: "UK officials evict nomadic group; Irish Travelers lose 10-year fight over settlement" by Jill Lawless, Associated Press / September 18, 2011 CRAYS HILL, England - Within days, bab...
"Nuclear plants roll out welcome mats PARIS - Every year at a weekendlong “heritage’’ event, France throws open doors to centuries-old castles and monuments. This year, for the first time, the list inclu...
"Man hired women for Italian leader; Some recruited as prostitutes, prosecutor says" by Alessandra Rizzo, Associated Press / September 17, 2011 ROME - An Italian businessman recruited more than 30 women to...
*Can't put a veil over it, either*: "Netherlands to ban face veils in public" by Bloomberg News / September 17, 2011 AMSTERDAM - The Netherlands plans to *ban facial veils* in public places, with women c...
*I don't even listen to it anymore. * "Afghanistan clipped talks between US, Taliban" by Kathy Gannon, Associated Press / August 30, 2011 KABUL - Direct US talks with the Taliban had evolved to a substant...
*Here again is the performance of Beethoven's Egmont Overture we saw and heard in last night's music preview, by the New York Philharmonic under then-music director Lorin Maazel, at the Seoul Arts Center,...
"Injured soldiers trying to leave military slowed by red tape; Long wait causes some to turn down jobs, delay college" August 19, 2011|By Kimberly Hefling, Associated Press WASHINGTON - Staff Sergeant Nic...
[image: People flee flooded areas in Tando Muhammad Khan, Sindh province, Pakistan, 18 September 2011. The number of people affected in recent floods in Pakistan rose above seven million, as authorities ...
The head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Largarde, said Friday the world economy is entering a “dangerous new phase.” Lagarde is referring to a debt bubble, the likes of which the planet has ...
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*Asia-bound on the SS President Cleveland* *"One of the worst offenders, though it costs me an effort to confess it, was my own good lady, who was frequently to be observed recumbent in a deck-chair follo...
San Francisco Peaks desecrated for Snowbowl pipeline for sewage water/Photo Protect the Peaks*U.N. Official addresses Navajo Human Rights at U.N. Human Rights Council* *To watch, view a web cast at 5 a.m.,...
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services cut Italy's sovereign credit rating late Monday, saying the nation's weakening economic growth and political uncertainty have dented its financial stability. S&P now rat...
Magnitude*5.8* Date-Time - *Monday, September 19, 2011 at 18:34:00 UTC* - Monday, September 19, 2011 at 12:34:00 PM at epicenter - Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location14.332°N, 90....
Magnitude*5.8* Date-Time - *Monday, September 19, 2011 at 08:14:15 UTC* - Sunday, September 18, 2011 at 11:14:15 PM at epicenter - Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location52.041°N, 171...
Magnitude*5.4* Date-Time - *Monday, September 19, 2011 at 07:03:09 UTC* - Sunday, September 18, 2011 at 11:03:09 PM at epicenter - Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location53.366°N, 169...
Dene Chief Bill Erasmus at White House rally to halt the pipeline in Sept./Photo Josh Lopez*Dene Nation Becomes Part of International Accord Opposed to Keystone XL Pipeline* Press statement YELLOWKNIFE, N...
*No, this isn't Nazi Germany or a Latin American dictatorship. It's Monday morning on Pine Street in Lower Manhattan.* *by Ken* Could someone remind me what country this is we're living in? Because as I ...
* * * * Denver protest Peabody Coal. Photo by Mano Cockrum, Hopi-Navajo.*When it comes to protecting human rights, you can't pick and choose. * *When it comes to Mother Earth, that's like saying 'I only rap...
A newly assertive Turkey offered on Sunday a vision of a starkly realigned Middle East, where the country’s former allies in Syria and Israel fall into deeper isolation, and a burgeoning alliance with Egyp...
posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Six hundred escapists beyond the reach of Milton Berle and the National Retail Credit Association* [drawing by Al Hirschfeld] *"As he perched on a stool in the Hurricane Bar, pensively sipping his aperiti...
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