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CENSORED NEWS - 6 minutes ago
Indigenous peoples suffer abuses in race for natural resources – UN rights expert * * *Special Rapporteur
James Anaya* *UN News Centre* *20 September 2011 * *Posted at Censored News* * * Extraction of natu...
Art from RepublicanDirtyTricks.com / Keep on Keepin' On.Talk about your 'class warfare':Shameless opposition to jobs bill reveals
GOP hatred of working classBy Carl Davidson / The Rag Blog / September 20, 20...
Update to this mornings breaking news covered in the previous post- Explosion rocks Turkey's capital, Ankara. Recall -Eye witness reports had a burning gas cylinder thrown onto the street from a window ab...
Here are a few different technologies and websites that let you watch sports wherever and whenever you want.
The Twitter name for Netflix's new Qwikster is already registered to a foul-mouthed pothead.
Why does Netflix hate the DVD business? That's the right question to ask.
Thumbs down at Republican debate. Image from The Godless Liberal.'Just let him die':The Republicans and health careThe indisputable fact is that the U.S. is alone among the advanced societies in failing to a...
*The
Peoples Voice* *by Jonathan Azaziah* Welcome to hell madames and sirs, ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters, friends and enemies. Welcome to dystopia, a nightmarish incarnation where Orwellian...
"We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves." - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Historically, Blue America has been more about House races than about Senate races and this year is no different. So far, Senate-wise, we've endorsed one incumbent seeking reelection, Bernie Sanders, and ...
After Saturday's first round of voting, it seems all but certain that Gary Mar will be the next Premier of Alberta: Gary Mar: 24195 (41%) Alison Redford: 11129 (19%) Doug Horner: 8635 (15%) Ted Morton: 69...
*“The BBC, the Science of Psychopathy and the New World Order”* by Ron Logan “I have been following the scientific research on psychopathy by Canada's Professor Robert Hare for some years given his semina...
*"What Does It Feel Like To Fly Over Planet Earth?" * by IBTimes * * "NASA may have retired its Space Shuttle Program, but astronauts are still finding creative ways of bringing images from space down to e...
Know your pet's whereabouts with a mobile network-enabled tracker.
The baby dinosaur, measuring a mere five inches, likely drowned in a stream.
A magnitude 3.1 earthquake has struck Greece at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 20:02:48 UTC Tuesday 20th September 2011. The epicenter was 1 km (0 miles) Southeast of Ayios Vasilios, Greece ...
*And could 15% of Greenland's ice melt in a decade?* It is not only Al Gore who began to jump the shark every day. The most active members of the IPCC are doing the same thing. Be careful: the shark may...
Scientists' predictions about the mysterious dark matter purported to make up most of the mass of the Universe may have to be revised. Research on dwarf galaxies suggests they cannot form in the way they ...
Stolen from Mike Papantonio on the Ed Schultz show today - but I felt it needed to be repeated and nothing else needs to be said - it says it all.
Any time a true peacemaker arises (anywhere), he or she (or they) must be stopped. I no longer believe stories from war zones about peacemakers being killed by those who benefit from their efforts and are ...
** The Russian press broke the story of the 17 captured British and French commandos on August 23 *According to information from Tripoli, serious losses have been suffered in Libya by British special for...
as emailed to me by Lt. Martin Speechley: ...seven individuals were arrested in two separate incidents in Zuccotti Park today in connection with the Wall Street protest there, including one for the use o...
Senator Bernie Sanders on the Senate Floor Feb. 16, 2011 The Nation September 18, 2011 John Nichols Declaring that “Social Security is the most successful government program in our nation’s history,” ...
“But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” - Ernest Hemingway, "The Old Man and the Sea"
Analysis of an outbreak of the disease in California shows that some vaccinated children are still vulnerable.
Some credit the wider availability of medications, although it could also mean that deadly car accidents have declined.
Of course, there are some eager, willing and able to escort you out of there...
Renowned: Robert Raecke carries an American Flag with him while jumping from an aeroplane at the Schenectady Airshow in 2001. A veteran skydiver killed himself by shedding his parachute mid-air and freefa...
“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.” - Ernest Hemingway
*“The Old Man And the Sea – 2011”* by James Quinn “The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent rui...
*BUSHFIRES started by arsonists in the Blue Mountains will take days to extinguish after strong winds yesterday brought down power lines and fanned dozens of blazes across NSW. * Two blazes threatened ho...
Seismologists around the world watch trial of officials who have been charged with manslaughter for not warning the public aggressively enough of an earthquake that killed more than 300 people. Six Italia...
Poachers in Zimbabwe have poisoned waterholes in five game reserves to kill animals, say wildlife officials. Nine elephants were found dead with their tusks removed from the carcasses. Five lions also di...
Little Rock -The view of the Arkansas River enjoyed by bicyclists and walkers using the new Two Rivers Bridge is currently being marred by hundreds of dead fish. Investigators with both the Arkansas Game...
Markets continued their now familiar nosedive Tuesday on news that Italy, the eurozone's third largest economy, was downgraded by credit ratings agency Standard & Poor’s. The second paragraph of S&P’s rep...
About 80,000 residents have been ordered to flee and more than 1 million people were urged to evacuate Nagoya, a city in central Japan, Tuesday as a typhoon was expected to hit the area. Despite the evacu...
Two B.C. families whose infants died inexplicably are sounding the alarm about mothers taking antidepressants while pregnant. Both mothers took Effexor, which Health Canada has warned can have adverse eff...
The "Big Three" Southern California grocery chains are bracing for a strike and possible shut down after the union representing grocery workers canceled their contract with the stores. About 62,000 worker...
Food shortages, unemployment, 43 million on food stamps… and they say we are in a recovery period? People, it is just beginning. In, Now is the Time to Redouble Your Families Preparedness Efforts an artic...
All over America today, desperate people are doing desperate things. As the economy continues to crumble, the American people are starting to become very frustrated. Millions have lost their homes and mill...
What if a Muslim country, such as Iran, launched a nuclear attack against us, or if agents aligned with Pakistan using dirty bombs were to attack America? Would Barack Hussein Obama retaliate with nuclear ...
The American dream has given way to a rude awakening. The financial crisis and recession have eroded the wealth and hopes of the U.S. middle class and swelled the ranks of the impoverished, leaving a lega...
Of California’s 12.1 percent unemployed, not many of them are teachers. Teachers here, thanks to their powerful public employee union, are doing pretty good, pulling down well above average wages and exces...
A FORMER head of Saudi Arabian intelligence and ex-ambassador to Washington, Turki al-Faisal, has warned that an American veto of Palestinian membership of the United Nations would end the ''special relati...
Tonight Regulation Nation week continues. It's our look at how the regulatory culture of this country is impacting businesses - and consumers. And it turns out the public is growing more and more frustrate...
For a former high-level official in Israel's security services, the news this week was not upsetting - that Iran on its own had produced new, advanced nuclear centrifuges. According to a report of the Int...
A decade of close ties with the US is now showing its side effects in Delhi. Kissnger said it best when he cliamed that “it was dangerous for countries to be America’s enemies, but even more dangerous for ...
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul said Monday that America could save trillions of dollars if the country cut funding from wars - "and all the nonsense that we do around the world." The Texas Rep...
In yet another display of government inefficiency, government officials in Bethesda, Maryland, located just outside of Washington, D.C., have decided to spend $4 million to house 12 homeless people for a s...
Greece has a 98 percent chance of defaulting on its debt in the next five years as Prime Minister George Papandreou fails to reassure investors his country can survive the euro-region crisis. “Everyone’s ...
China is shifting some of its massive foreign holdings into gold and away from the US dollar, undermining the dollar's role as the world's reserve currency, accoding to a recently released WikiLeaks cable....
President Obama sent his new jobs proposal to Congress on Monday with a plan to pay for the $447 billion package by raising taxes on the wealthy. Noam Chomsky says, "The healthcare system...the huge mili...
The government wants to unload 677 foreclosed single-family homes in the 15-county Greater Cincinnati region that it or government-sponsored Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac now own. Washington is so stumped ab...
The global economy is in danger once again. Europe is engulfed by a debt crisis that threatens the existence of its common currency the Euro and America is now on the cusp of its first debt default trigger...
By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com GENEVA -- The UN Human Rights Council's half day session on the preservation and revitalization of Indigenous languages and cultures t...
*"More Missing The Mark From The MSM"* by Karl Denninger "Once again, with feeling ('cause that's all they got!) "Asking the wealthiest among us to pay more, and taking new steps to help the least well-...
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wmtc - 4 hours ago
For those of you following... *First, and most importantly, Tala.* She is doing really well! After our last trip to Guelph, we added on a second medication, one designed to specifically target nerve pain....
There is no more expressive a text than one that has been blacked out. I am, of course, speaking of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant accident manuals and other documents submitted to a Diet science commit...
A suspected car bomb which exploded outside a secondary school in Ankara, Turkey, has killed at least three people and injured more than 15. Television reports showed several vehicles on fire. CNN-Turk te...
A Nigerian man convicted of rape has been allowed to stay in the UK following a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights. The man, known only as AA, was allowed to stay after the court in Strasbourg s...
An ergonomic, adjustable multipurpose platform improves your posture and comfort when reading or computing.
Airbag technology that goes to your head.
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 30 km (18.6 miles), the quake hit at 14:46 UTC Tuesday 20th September 2011. Time (JST) Lat. Long. Depth Mag. Region...
*"As the World Economy Turns"* by Bill Bonner "What keeps this world economy turning around? Not the US. America’s private sector isn’t spinning at all. It’s stuck…dead in the water…out of gas…pumped out...
*Buck & Schmuck want more wars* California's congressional districts have been severely cut up and will likely end the political dominance of several career politicians. One such politicians who's been de...
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wmtc - 6 hours ago
Unless there is a last-minute stay, the US state of Georgia will murder a man tomorrow, even though there is significant doubt that he has committed any crime. That's what passes for justice in TGNOTFOTE. ...
The International Monetary Fund has warned that there is a 17% chance of a 'double dip' recession in the UK. The IMF's twice yearly *World Economic Outlook report* also said the world economy has "weaken...
The chairman of the Afghan High Peace Council, Burhanuddin Rabbani, has been killed in a bomb attack at his home in Kabul, officials told the BBC. He was meeting two members of the Taliban at his home at ...
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Biased BBC - 7 hours ago
Apologies for the lengthy title, but there are two issues here which need to be covered, and I'm combining them into one post. First, the BBC's continued attempts to lie and rewrite history. Q&A: Palestin...
[image: Dover sole. fish2fork.com]By Lewis Smith 20 September 2011 Changes in the water temperature have put an end to hopes that the North Sea cod population can return to the levels it enjoyed in the ...
New Orleans first in appearing on ranked lists~The New Orleans Levee Change disaster regulations for small businesses: A letter to the editor Upon further review~Slabbed While waiting for federal grant, L...
A fossil of the feathered raptor reveals it damaged its clawed foot -- most likely during a fight.
When you get laid off from NASA, what do you do? Design a new kind of three-wheeler, that's what.
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wmtc - 8 hours ago
Everyone reading this should know that conditions for working people at Walmart - the largest employer in the United States - are nothing short of criminal. We should also know that the *only* way working ...
Badly decomposed human remains found in a Californian canyon are those of a nursing student who disappeared four months ago. The body of 26-year-old Michelle Le was found off a secluded dirt track near Sa...
Details of America's plans for an attack to wipe out a major part of the British Army and bring our nation to its knees are today being revealed for the first time in the UK in a Channel 5 documentary. In...
iHome's petite yet potent iDM15 speakers come well-packaged and belt out impressive bass-filled sound.
The colorful choral reef dwellers have adapted a complicated jaw structure to take advantage of their tricky surroundings.
New research upends the theory that you have to be a giant galaxy to have a super-massive black hole.
*Ankara hit.* Israel has fallen out with Turkey. And, on 20 September 2011, a bomb blast outside a high school in the Turkish capital of Ankara killed at least three people. Ankara bomb blast: explosion...
Good line (that title up there from Obama's speech yesterday), ostensibly aimed right at Wall Street darling Paul Ryan (not at Krugman, thankfully); everyone I know tweeted it. But the devil's the detail...
The European Union's competition commissioner warned Tuesday that more than the nine banks that failed the stress tests this summer may need to be recapitalized because of the debt crisis. In light of the...
* Did God create mosquitoes?* Is there an old man in the sky who created the universe? Su writes in her blog about "the child in a burn ward screaming, screaming, screaming." Su refers to Eastern religio...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 120 km (73.3 miles), the quake hit at 08:55:37 UTC Tuesday 20th September 2011. The epicenter was 24 km (15.5 miles) N...
New photos taken from space have revealed in unprecedented detail the concentration camps that North Korea deny exist but use to imprison more than 200,000 of its citizens. Men, women and children are fo...
A philandering music teacher was today found guilty of the murder of his fiancee who he strangled, battered and stabbed before storing her body in a suitcase in the garage. Andrew Lindo, 29, admitted mans...
Admittedly I was more then a little surprised to see the news of an alleged bomb blast/explosion in Ankara, Turkey at this time. Ankara has been a real happening place as of late. As has been the Turkish P...
Taiwan would be pleased if the US has indeed agreed to help upgrade its fleet of F-16A/B aircraft and plans to move toward selling it the even more sophisticated F-35 model at some point, Deputy Minister o...
An upgrade of Taiwan's fleet of F-16s would provide essentially the same quality as new fighter jets, a U.S. government official said on Monday as Taiwan officials renewed a push for the latest model. The ...
Infra-red flares worth over Rs 3 crore procured for IAF fighter aircraft were rendered useless as their shelf life expired while still in storage on account of slow pace of the project to upgrade MiG-21 Bi...
ZDK-03 Karakoram Eagle AEW&C in Pakistani Air Force Colors This is the image of the first of four Sino-Pak ZDK-03 Airborne Early Warning and Control System (AEW&C) Karakoram Eagle in its final colors befor...
POF & DEPO Banned at DSEi Defence & Security Equipment international (DSEi) closed the stand and the Pavilion of the Pakistan Ordnance Factory (POF) stand and Pakistan’s Defence Export Promotion Organisat...
French Soldiers Prepare Sperwer UAVs In Afghanistan French soldiers prepare a medium-range Sperwer SDTI unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for a reconnaissance mission over south Kapisa province at Tora camp, e...
Turkish Stand-off Precision Guided Munition (SOM) At DSEI 2011 4:55 AM Qamar No comments Turkey displayed its Air Launched Stand-off Precision Guided Munition (SOM) At DSEI 2011 READ MORE
Indian Air Force is getting ready to make its final decision on the purchase of 75 basic trainers to modernize its trainer fleet and replace its 114 ageing piston-engined HPT-32s and 137 Kiran-I & II
People's Liberation Army's Navy (PLAN) Type 041 YUAN Class Submarine.Click Here for More Pictures
At least six people were killed on Tuesday in a third day of violence in Yemen's capital, medics said, and Reuters reporters saw snipers positioned on the upper levels of buildings as protesters took to th...
AP: Police have found a fake explosive device in a vehicle near the Israeli consulate of Marseille. The consulate spokesman says the street and surrounding area of the consulate in the Mediterranean port ...
* Nagoya city calls in troops for disaster prevention * No major disruption to plant operations reported TOKYO, Sept 20 (Reuters) - More than 1.3 million people were advised to evacuate on Tuesday as ty...
Around 1,200 people have been forced out of their homes by a forest fire raging in Ibiza. Some 150 firefighters were battling to control the blaze yesterday, which threatened to engulf the exclusive Roca...
[image: Obama] Drawing clear battle lines for next year's elections, a aggressive President Barack Obama on Monday demand that the richest Americans pay higher taxes to help cut soaring U.S. deficits by m...
*Anonymous caller alerts of bomb threat; suspicious device found in van outside Israeli consulate in southern France. * Israel's consulate in the southern French port city of Marseille was evacuated on Tu...
A powerful explosion killed two people and left up to ten injured in the Turkish capital Ankara on Tuesday morning. Turkish television broadcasters are showing several vehicles on fire in the city follow...
TY 1115 (ROKE) Issued at 08:40 UTC, 20 September 2011 Scale-IntensityStrongCenter positionN29°35'(29.6°) E132°50'(132.8°)Direction and speed of movementENE 20km/h(10kt)Central pressure950hPaMaximum wind sp...
More than a million people in the central Japan city of Nagoya were advised to evacuate on Tuesday as typhoon Roke approached the country, bringing heavy rain. The major city in the industrial prefecture...
Hundreds of Humboldt squid washed up on Black's Beach over the weekend.San Diego lifeguard Sgt. Ben Lewis said the squid rode the tide in on Saturday afternoon."It was quite a scene to see with the beach s...
A deadly listeria outbreak linked to Jensen Farms near Rocky Ford has prompted a recall of cantaloupe across the state, leading all CSU dining centers to toss their melons. “We pulled our cantaloupe the ...
In the last two weeks, more than 30 dead or dying ducks have been found at ponds and lakes around the city. Residents of the Lake I and Lake II communities have reported finding hen and drake mallards floa...
The Spaceship Company, a joint-venture between Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic and Scaled Composites of Mojave, Calif., has opened the doors of a new spacecraft facility.
Former environment minister Elliot Morley has been released from prison after serving a quarter of his sentence for fiddling his parliamentary expenses. The former Labour MP was sentenced to 16 months ...
Another case of measles has been confirmed in the Milwaukee area. The Greendale Health Department confirms a new case of measles in an infant too young to be vaccinated against the highly contagious disea...
AN avian paramyxovirus outbreak has spread to racing pigeons, with one case confirmed in Keilor Downs. The Department of Primary Industries has placed 27 premises across the state under quarantine, while...
Paraguay has ordered an immediate halt to beef exports after detecting foot-and-mouth disease in cattle from a farm northeast of Asuncion, in a potentially devastating blow to its cattle industry. The out...
On Monday, a two-year-old child was brought to the emergency unit of a private hospital with high fever. After blood analysis, doctors found that both the dengue and malaria were negative in the patient. ...
9 11 and Libya - *The Slumber of the Fleeced** * * **What Really Happened to the Jews of Libya** * *ROBERT HALFON: You CAN drop democracy from a B-52 bomber ...* *911, No-Planes, and the meaning of If...
The websites of some Japanese government agencies came under cyberattack the past weekend, and access to them was temporarily interrupted, the National Police Agency said Monday. The attacks were carried...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:05:35 UTC Tuesday 20th September 2011. The epicenter was 443 km (275 miles) WSW of...
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., a major manufacturer of arms for Japan's Defense Ministry, said Monday its servers and computers have been infected with viruses which may have enabled unauthorized access...
NASA hopes some U.S. companies will soon be giving the Russians a run for their money to fly astronauts to the International Space Station.
It must be ISS flyover video season, because here's another breathtaking beauty made from images taken by the Expedition 28 crew aboard the space station!
A festival in Nisshin, Aichi Prefecture did not use fireworks produced in Fukushima Prefecture during a Sunday night display after some citizens expressed fear of radiation, city officials said Monday. T...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck offshore El Salvador at a depth of 83.5 km (51.9 miles), the quake hit at 06:32:44 UTC Tuesday 20th September 2011. The epicenter was 43 km (26 miles) SSW of Acajutla,...
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in downtown Tokyo on Monday to call for the shutdown of all nuclear power plants in Japan, in the largest protest rally in the country since the Fukushima Da...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 8 km (4.9 miles), the quake hit at 05:31 pm NZST Tuesday 20th September 2011. The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) West of Chris...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 7 km (4.3 miles), the quake hit at 04:30 pm NZST Tuesday 20th September 2011. The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) Southwest of ...
A NASA satellite is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere on or around Friday, September 23, according to NASA officials on Monday. Re-entry of NASA's Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, or UARS, was ...
Iran has detained six documentary filmmakers on accusations that they worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation's Persian service, activists said on Monday. The International Campaign for Human Rig...
A day after authorities announced that the body of a Mexican congressman was found along a highway in the coastal state of Guerrero, lawmakers from his political party called Monday for a swift investigati...
It may be unthinkable that the chocolate we enjoy could come from the hands of children working as slaves. In Ivory Coast and other cocoa-producing countries, there are an estimated 100,000 children work...
A gunman who allegedly killed his wife and shot two pastors in a church on Sunday killed his previous wife 25 years ago, court records have revealed. Jeremiah Fogle, 57, was tackled by people attending a p...
A Florida man drove to a police station and handed himself in saying 'lock me up' after he allegedly beat his wife to death with a baseball bat. According to police, Lawrence Dickey, 44, killed his wife Be...
Most visitors to Florida go home with a souvenir from the Sunshine State. But Connie Hancock will return from her visit having caught and killed one of the state's biggest alligators. The 27 year old spen...
Protesters complaining about the power of the financial industry staged noisy demonstrations that slowed pedestrian traffic on Wall Street for a third day on Monday, vowing to continue 'for as long as it t...
UFO sightings in the U.S. have more than doubled this summer, according to new research. The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) - an organisation that tracks reports of unidentified flying objects - said some st...
*The author, Lisa Randall (see also Twitter), is a professor of physics at Harvard* *Knocking on Heaven’s Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World* is out and...
A mother and her three children are fighting for their lives today after her jilted former-boyfriend set himself on fire during a row at their family home. The 30-year-old, is believed to have doused him...
Tony Blair sent a gushing personal letter to Colonel Gaddafi – after yet another visit to Libya – offering to help the dictator identify African projects to invest in, the Daily Mail can reveal. Correspon...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Guatemala at a depth of 24 km (14.9 miles), the quake hit at 04:28:52 UTC Tuesday 20th September 2011. The epicenter was 51 km (31 miles) Southeast of Guatemala City, G...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 38.1 km (23.7 miles), the quake hit at 03:48:49 UTC Tuesday 20th September 2011. The epicenter was 108 km (67 miles) WNW of Enarota...
ParkNShop has been ordered to temporarily shut the fish counter at its Tsuen Wan Town store after cholera bacteria was found in a tank. The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department said the counter will r...
The solar-panel plant in the Chinese city of Haining was the target of four days of demonstrations by villagers who said it was causing air and water pollution. Its operator, JinkoSolar, apologizes. Autho...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Central East Pacific Rise at a depth of 9.8 km (6.1 miles), the quake hit at 02:40:22 UTC Tuesday 20th September 2011. The epicenter was 1635 km (1015 miles) WSW o...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the North Coast of Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 40.7 km (25.3 miles), the quake hit at 02:31:07 UTC Tuesday 20th September 2011. The epicenter was 48 km (29 mil...
A Royal Navy sailor has been jailed for a minimum of 25 years for shooting dead an officer on a submarine. Able Seaman Ryan Donovan, 23, admitted murdering Lieutenant Commander Ian Molyneux on board the ...
The asteroid believed to have led to the extinction of the dinosaurs may not have been the culprit according to Nasa, the American space organisation. While scientists are confident a large asteroid did c...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Tanzania at a depth of 8.4 km (5.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:21:46 UTC Tuesday 20th September 2011. The epicenter was 185 km (114 miles) ENE of Tabora, Tanzania No re...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Guatemala at a depth of 40.1 km (24.9 miles), the quake hit at 00:22:52 UTC Tuesday 20th September 2011. The epicenter was 64 km (39 miles) Southeast of Guatemala City,...
Heavy shelling and machinegun fire has rocked Yemen's capital Sanaa, on the third day of violence sparked by a deadly crackdown on pro-democracy activists. Shots could be heard across the city in the ear...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Southern Iran at a depth of 104.2 km (64.7 miles), the quake hit at 22:30:55 UTC Monday 19th September 2011. The epicenter was 100 km (62 miles) East of Sirjan, Iran No...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 172.1 km (106.9 miles), the quake hit at 21:31:47 UTC Monday 19th September 2011. The epicenter was 73 km (45 mi...
*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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CENSORED NEWS - 18 hours ago
*U.N. Official addresses Navajo Human Rights at U.N. Human Rights Council* * * *By Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission* *Censored News* San Francisco Peaks desecrated for Snowbowl pipeline for sewage wate...
[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
The asteroid suspect that wiped out the dinosaurs may have been misidentified.
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...
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CENSORED NEWS - 21 hours ago
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 ...
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CENSORED NEWS - 21 hours ago
* * * * 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...
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*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
The Euthanasia Coaster is a hypothetical machine engineered to end a life with elegance and euphoria.
*“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 snake wranglers made sure the anaconda couldn't escape with its mouth taped, which would have been a death sentence for an animal with no appendages.
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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...
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Indigenous peoples suffer abuses in race for natural resources – UN rights expert * * *Special Rapporteur James Anaya* *UN News Centre* *20 September 2011 * *Posted at Censored News* * * Extraction of natu...
*The Peoples Voice* *by Jonathan Azaziah* Welcome to hell madames and sirs, ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters, friends and enemies. Welcome to dystopia, a nightmarish incarnation where Orwellian...
Historically, Blue America has been more about House races than about Senate races and this year is no different. So far, Senate-wise, we've endorsed one incumbent seeking reelection, Bernie Sanders, and ...
After Saturday's first round of voting, it seems all but certain that Gary Mar will be the next Premier of Alberta: Gary Mar: 24195 (41%) Alison Redford: 11129 (19%) Doug Horner: 8635 (15%) Ted Morton: 69...
A magnitude 3.1 earthquake has struck Greece at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 20:02:48 UTC Tuesday 20th September 2011. The epicenter was 1 km (0 miles) Southeast of Ayios Vasilios, Greece ...
*And could 15% of Greenland's ice melt in a decade?* It is not only Al Gore who began to jump the shark every day. The most active members of the IPCC are doing the same thing. Be careful: the shark may...
Scientists' predictions about the mysterious dark matter purported to make up most of the mass of the Universe may have to be revised. Research on dwarf galaxies suggests they cannot form in the way they ...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoMost visitors to Florida go home with a souvenir from the Sunshine State. But Connie Hancock will return from her visit having caught and killed one of the state's biggest alligators. The 27 year old spen...
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