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*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...
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 - 8 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 13 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...
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CENSORED NEWS - 16 hours ago
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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 ...
Researchers from countries across the European Union have compiled a synthesis of data distilled from the findings of hundreds of EU reports into climate change and its impact on marine systems. They also ...
Asharq Al-Awsat yesterday received a copy of the latest message sent by ousted Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, in which he called on the UN to stop the “terrorism...
South Korea's military operates giant trucks which print and send thousands of leaflets and transmit broadcasts as part of psychological warfare against North Korea, said a report disclosed Wednesday. Nor...
Spain today became the latest European country to hike taxes on the wealthy, with a new asset-based tax targeting the country's richest people. Spain's socialist government hopes that the new wealth tax wi...
Georgetown researchers have found that perchloroethylene (PCE), a potentially carcinogenic dry cleaning solvent, is retained in dry-cleaned clothes made of polyester, cotton or wool. The levels increase w...
A sudden mass starvation of turtles and dugongs, a rare sea mammal, off the coast of Queensland has prompted warnings of a long-term natural disaster in the normally sheltered waters just inshore of Austra...
Arctic sea ice cover fell to its lowest level on record, report researchers from the University of Bremen. Analyzing data from NASA's Aqua satellite, Georg Heygster and colleagues found that Arctic sea ic...
Nintendo's attempt to rescue its failed 3DS handheld games gadget failed to dispel market gloom, triggering a 5 percent share slide and stoking deep worries for an iconic brand desperate to win back users....
Herman Van Rompuy is an influential man in Europe. He is already president of the European Council, the assembly of the European Union's heads of state and government. Soon he will also serve as the chief ...
Former counterterrorism officer accuses CIA of withholding intelligence before terror attacks WASHINGTON: This is not easy news to digest. FBI agent Ali Soufan has written a memoir about his days as a cou...
Talk about a property dispute: A Peruvian family says it owns the land of the Machu Picchu ruins, and is taking the case to the United Nations. Seventy-year-old Edgar Echegaray Abril still has the sale dee...
The post office in the tiny Washington town of Malone sells beer and cigarettes. Live worms for fishing, too. The boxes for fixed-rate shipping are wedged between racks of beef jerky and $6.99 sunglasses...
Turkey's prime minister planted himself at the heart of the Arab world's turbulent politics on Tuesday, when he declared himself a champion of the Palestinian cause during a speech at the headquarters of t...
Akane Ito still cannot bring herself back to the place where she became a symbol for the human misery in the aftermath of the March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake. Ito appeared in a photo on the front pa...
Pakistan has been an unreliable ally of the United States in the war against al Qaeda and other extremist organizations, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden told CNN in an interview set to air in full Monday nig...
TLC's "Toddlers and Tiaras" has been mired in controversy since it debuted in 2009, and much of the distaste for the series stemmed from concerns about whether we were feeding the stage mothers' desire for...
Why are the markets so worried about Greece? Global stocks are slumping on fears Greece will default on its debts and trigger a crisis in the euro, a currency used by 17 European countries. Speculation ab...
Italy's centre-right government is turning to cash-rich China in the hope that Beijing will help rescue it from financial crisis by making "significant" purchases of Italian bonds and investments in strate...
Imagine that some member of Congress back in the 1990s had devoted himself or herself to toughening America against terrorism. He or she had introduced legislation to require airlines to harden their cockp...
This summer, an Exxon Mobil pipeline carrying oil across Montana burst suddenly, soiling the swollen Yellowstone River with an estimated 42,000 gallons of crude just weeks after a company inspection and fe...
The credible but as yet unconfirmed reports that three men directed by al Qaeda have plans for an attack on the United States to coincide with the 10th anniversary of September 11 reminds us of the persist...
I grew up in an interfaith home where I learned, despite what some on the far right allege today, that Islam and Christianity have much in common. My father was Muslim and born in the 1930s in what was the...
[image: A fisherman carries a fish near Chitthu Island at Ngwesaung Beach, 14 February 2010. Soe Zeya Tun / Reuters]By Deborah Zabarenko in Washington, editing by Chris Wilson 18 September 2011 (Reuter...
[image: The Little Arkansas River at 109th and Ridge shows signs of drought, 19 July 2011. Travis Heying / The Wichita Eagle] By Suzi Parker; Edited by Colleen Jenkins and Ellen Wulfhorst 18 September 20...
This illustration of the "Four Laws Ecology", which is really just a canon of evolution, can be found here: 1. Everything is Connected to Everything Else. There is one ecosphere for all living organisms...
Here's ANOTHER BUNCH of lies - probably funded by KOCH Brothers and their buddies in one of their infamous nonprofit organizations. Looks nice - sounds nice - but it's all a con job - to make the Koch Bro...
[image: New England cottontail rabbit. londonderrynh.net] By Zach Howard; Editing by Ellen Wulfhorst and Barbara Goldberg 17 September 2011 CONWAY, Massachusetts (Reuters) – The New England cottontail r...
[image: This male killer whale, known as John Coe, has been seen off the coast of south Wales and western Ireland. whaledolphintrust.co.uk]By Niamh Anderson 18 September 2011 FOR at least three decades...
*"Less Work, More Living"* by Juliet Schor "Millions of Americans have lost control over the basic rhythm of their daily lives. They work too much, eat too quickly, socialize too little, drive and sit in...
This question has bothered me for over a year - is SHRM affiliated with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)? Then I found this clip in the CSPAN archives. CSPAN is the official TV channel of a...
Four earthquakes were registered nearby the Kuril Islands in Russia's Far East, a spokesman of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in Sakhalin region said on Saturday. "The first earthquake of 7.1 magni...
When I was teaching at McGill in Montreal I'm pretty certain I was the only professor there who wasn't repulsed by students using Wikipedia for research. All the other faculty members I know there absolu...
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...
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...
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"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.* *by Ken* In last night's preview, I propos...
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 - 1 day 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 millions...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours 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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