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[image: ep] Here’s a new re-issue of a recent book, an important bo0k, an essential book—this expanded second edition of which offers even more philosophical self-defence than the first. Allow me to jus...
You've undoubtedly got your own ideas about how inadequate the latest (perhaps the only?) Obama Tax-the-Rich scheme is, and I've certainly got mine.
The Rude Pundit has nutshelled it: So let's be sure we'...
Between the sickening execution of
Troy Davis tonight, and the outrageous police brutality against unarmed, peaceful protesters in
New York these past few days, the "Proud to be an American" notion is mor...
Image from The Last Crisis.A threat to American liberties:Dominionists and the 'Kingdom of God'They want to take over government and create a theocracy. No wonder they see nothing wrong in playing politics f...
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How small-minded are New Zealanders? At a time when the world is collapsing in an orgy of European and American debt, our second-largest city lies in ruins and the Rugby World Cup has arrived on our sho...
The government is pouring effort into bringing the temperature at Unit 2 of the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant under 100 degrees Celsius to prevent the release of radioactive materials through steam, ...
The government is calling for the Nara and Wakayama prefectural governments and local bodies to take precautions following signs that two landslide dams in the prefectures created by Typhoon No. 12 may hav...
Achieving a "cold shutdown" of a nuclear reactor is not difficult as long as the reactor is not broken. A cold shutdown is defined by experts as a situation in which nuclear reactors whose operations are s...
Sorry for lack of posts, but not been well for the past few days. BBC coverage of the* Lib-Dem Conference *has not helped my mood. You can tell just how much the BBC are lapping up the tribal trash being s...
I always looked forward to my work. But I always had pretty good jobs. Roland's best friend from childhood is among the long-term unemployed. He always worked in manufacturing jobs-- jobs that have now, i...
Seal of the Republic of Texas, 1839. Image from Wikimedia Commons.The hidden history of TexasPart 4: The independent Republic of Texas, 1836-1845By Bob Feldman / The Rag Blog / September 21, 2011[This is Par...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Sumbawa Region, Indonesia at a depth of 44.6 km (27.7 miles), the quake hit at 19:52:30 UTC Wednesday 21st September 2011. The epicenter was 171 km (106 miles) Southwe...
A few months ago, physicist and climate skeptic Prof William Happer of Princeton wrote this article: The Truth About Greenhouse Gases: The dubious science of the climate crusaders for First Things. An ...
Many people in Texas are upset about thenew Cross-State Air Pollution Rule that is scheduled to take effect in 2012.According to the EPA's FAQs on the rule it is gradually replacing the Clean AirInterstat...
Nasa scientists are working round the clock to tell us where and when a six-ton satellite will land this week - but the only thing that's certain is that pieces of it will hit the surface of the planet. ...
The cold war between North and South Korea has heated up once again - with South Korea launching a radar spy plane dubbed 'Peace Eye', which is also capable of acting as an airborne command and control cen...
If this cute little chap looks a wee bit confused, it's no wonder. His big wide eyes stare out at the world around him - which in turn is staring back at him. Because nobody has seen a creature quite like...
typography canvas by tenderbeasts on etsy *See my previous favorite things... thing #1 - dafont | thing #2 - firegestures | thing #3 - babycenter | thing #4 - allrecipes | thing #5 - w3schools* I am in t...
Remembering migrants/Photo Brenda Norrell*BORDER PATROL: A Culture of Cruelty* Add captionBy Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com TUCSON -- The Tucson-based No More Deaths is rele...
This amazing picture shows for the first time the colourful jets deep inside one of the most mysterious elements in the galaxy, the black hole. Showing the innermost parts of a black hole’s active jets, th...
A future for drones: Automated killing
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A custom-made watercraft inspired by a Orca is a sub and speedboat in one.
There's no evidence linking the vaccine -- or any other vaccine -- to mental retardation. Learn about the vaccine.
A leading FBI analyst who gave a lecture last year criticising mainstream Muslims has been caught on camera giving a second presentation urging agents to 'forget Al Qaeda' and 'go after the Death Star' of ...
Scientists believe our solar system may have once had a fifth gas planet that was ejected from the solar system and 'orphaned'. A new study by David Nesvorny, from the Southwest Research Institute in Colo...
[image: Merchants of Doubt, by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway]By Anna Haynes 19 September 2011 See Tamino's post for the excellent (34 min) interview & a discussion thereof. Here are my notes from wa...
[image: Output growth for six developed nations: Japan, U.S., France, Germany, Italy, and U.K, 2003-2011. After a rapid post-crisis recovery, the world economy is slowing down from around 4 per cent GDP ...
Image from Free Health Care News.As I approach my 90th year:I despair for the state of my country(and its corrupted health care system)I look at the Republican 'debates' and wonder, where did we -- as a sup...
A super important question. This happened before Christchurch. This happened before Japan. Is it happening again? (From our fantastic friend John at PatrioticTruther on Youtube).
Local, state and federal authorities are investigating the detonation of a possible car bomb that hospitalized three people Tuesday evening. The incident happened about 5:40 p.m. at East Elm and Intersta...
The counterinsurgency tactic that is sending U.S. soldiers out on foot patrols among the Afghan people, rather than riding in armored vehicles, has contributed to a dramatic increase in arm and leg amputat...
All it took to give nearly two dozen labor leaders from Chicago a windfall worth millions was a few tweaks to a handful of sentences in the state's lengthy pension code. The changes became law with no pub...
Is it possible to hide weapons in your hair? The Transportation Security Administration thinks so. Dallas resident Isis Brantley said she was stopped on Monday at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport ...
Another TSA agent has been arrested and accused of rape. Clifton Lyles, who worked at the Nashville International Airport, was arrested earlier this week in Rutherford County, Tennessee, and charged with ...
Children as young as eight have been filmed "cage fighting" in footage medical experts have called "disturbing". The video of the bout, which lasted 10 minutes and featured a scantily clad ring girl par...
[image: Beach goers stare at at pools of oil which washed up on the beach in Gulf Shores Friday, June 4, 2010 just west of the Alabama Gulf State Park Pier. Bill Starling / Press-Register] By Bill Cato,...
I just got a call from Mariel's mom, she is free. She was deprived of her medication almost the entire time she was in police custody, and they had to return to the First Precinct to retrieve it, so "...s...
People who visit the nation's national parks burn more calories than those that don't.
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Biased BBC - 5 hours ago
Put out the bunting and crack open the champagne. It's still early days, but Cuadrilla Resources, a small but highly enterprising UK company that is surveying for shale gas, has announced that it has foun...
At least six people are dead or missing and more than a million evacuated from cities in Japan as a typhoon strikes the country. The category 2 tropical storm, known as *Roke*, is expected to head toward ...
Serial child-killer Clifford Olson is dying. That sick, twisted monster is said to be dying of cancer and to be just days from breathing his last.
Barack Obama showed what he was made of today - not very much at all. In a flaccid speech that appeared to convince no one, Obama said that recognition of Palestinian statehood was premature and the UN ins...
The iPhone 5 will be out on October 4st, introduced by Tim Cook. I wish Steve Jobs that his company won't collapse without him – but it won't forget about him, either. iPhone 5 will run iOS 5 (which allow...
You know the old adage almost universally-- if incorrectly-- attributed to Soviet totalitarian Josef Stalin: "It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes." Though he neve...
Four more cases of saline poisoning have been identified at Stepping Hill hospital. Police said the affected patients all survived despite coming into contact with the contaminated fluid. Detectives ha...
Possibly the only time the words "ring" and "sound" come together in a positive way.
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 51.4 km (31.9 miles), the quake hit at 13:31:03 UTC Wednesday 21st September 2011. The epicenter was 45 km (27 miles...
[image: Baby Tasmanian devil. via gs.riverdale.k12.or.us] September 21, 2011 (AAP) – A strip of dense bushland has been fenced off in a corner of NSW to create a safe haven for Tasmanian devils and rescu...
"When we come back here next year, we can have an agreement that will lead to a new member of the United Nations — an independent sovereign state of Palestine, living in peace with Israel," President Bar...
By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Navajo President Ben Shelly spoke today, Sept. 21, in Geneva at the UN Human Rights Council, urging a halt to the use of wastewater on s...
*UN Human Rights Council, Geneva* James Anaya Final Remarks, Clustered ID on Indigenous Peoples, 19th Plenary Meeting21 September 2011 Mr. James Anaya, Special Rapporteur On The Rights Of Indigenous Peo...
Final Remarks Littlechild, Remarks, Clustered ID on Indigenous Peoples, 19th Plenary Meeting 21 September 2011 *Mr. Littlechild, Member of the Expert Mechanism on the rights of indigenous peoples at t...
A couple of nights ago on one of the our right wing TV stations that I get (I only get right wing news on Charter Basic Cable) - they had a guy on that pontificated about Minnesota's stupid Voter ID Act - ...
Peta.xxx will be a full-nudity site featuring women using their bodies to advocate for animals.
Pulling hydrogen out of water can be done with bacteria, wastewater and seawater.
Peta.xxx will be a full-nudity site featuring women using their bodies to advocate for animals.
The emergency shelter fits two adults and one child and is lit by solar-powered LED lights.
These earplugs block out loud noises, while enhancing ambient sound -- just don't swim with them.
A 17 year old New Jersey Bergen Community College student, Mariel Moshiri, was arrested in Zuccotti Park yesterday at the ongoing Occupy Wall Street protest in Manhattan. Her mother, Nicole Busch, has bee...
If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them. Yet 2,000 people did occupy Wall Street last Saturday. They weren't carryin...
This is the terrifying moment a passenger boat capsized after it clashed with a restaurant boat during a rescue operation on the flooded Jialing River in southwest China's Chongqing municipality. As torre...
Caravans from the Dale Farm travellers' site have upped sticks and set up an illegal camp 55 miles away leading residents to fear that many more are on their way. Around 20 families have moved from Essex ...
Several people have reportedly been killed by government troops as thousands of mourners gathered for a mass funeral in Yemen's capital Sanaa. Conflicting reports suggest up to five people may have been f...
Europe's debt crisis has increased the risk exposure of banks in the region by 300 billion euros ($410 billion) and they need to recapitalize to ensure they can weather potential losses, the International ...
Second guesses Second glances Fleeting, cheapened Fake romances This is lust This is us Lust is such a touchy subject. Mostly because we're all forced to suffer through this war in silence. The reality is:...
Avoid the dreaded VKB (visible key bulge) with this key slider.
Male squid are just as likely to mate with other males as with females, deep-sea observations reveal.
BPA showed up in samples of canned food products marketed to children.
Iridium's AxcessPoint technology will get you and your smart phone, tablet and/or laptop online from anywhere in the world.
An outbreak of polio has been confirmed in China for the first time since 1999, leaving one person dead and hospitalizing another nine, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The disease, a co...
A music teacher who murdered his fiancee and put her body in a suitcase in his garage has been jailed for life - with a minimum term of 22 years. Andrew Lindo, 29, strangled, battered and stabbed Marie St...
Thirty-four middle school students fell ill after eating at their school canteen on Tuesday in southwest China's Guizhou Province, school authorities said Wednesday. The students, aged 13 to 15, experienc...
AP: Indonesian police say a wooden boat carrying dozens of Balinese musicians has sunk in high waves, killing 11 people. Rescuers are scouring the waters for 14 others still missing, including the captai...
Floods caused by torrential rain brought havoc in Esa Khel Tehsil, damaging around 300 houses, infrastructure and sweeping away standing crops. According to local people, torrential rain followed by flash ...
Bearly a contest~moosedenied ~Well, I guess that'll just have to do. Oh I bet you thought I'd be over the moon with that righteous beatdown the Saints put on the asshole Bears Sunday afternoon. Well, you'd...
Sorry Beltway Democratic Party careerists, but Blue America worked hard last year to help rid *our* party of corporate, anti-family slugs in the congressional Blue Dog Caucus. (Help us eliminate more of t...
A week ago US Attorney General Eric Holder told the Northern Border Summit : "[T]here are areas in which the U.S. and Canada can enhance cooperation in criminal investigations and prosecutions. And I belie...
Technically, Mammoth Mountain is not an active volcano. *According to the Smithsonian’s Global Volcanism Program, “active” is a description reserved for volcanoes that have erupted in the last 10,000 years...
Two American hikers jailed on spying charges in Iran have been released after a $1m bail deal was approved by the courts. Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal had spent more than two years in custody, having been...
Actresses from several British soap operas are appearing nude to protest age discrimination in TV roles.
*Update at 7:47 a.m. ET:* CNN reports that the pair have been released from prison, quoting an unnamed U.S. official. *Update at 7:39 a.m. ET: *Iranian state reports that the Judiciary of the Islamic Repu...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck offshore Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 41.8 km (26 miles), the quake hit at 10:27:30 UTC Wednesday 21st September 2011. The epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) East of Salin...
Photo courtesy: thebestlandscapingtips Choosing Plants - select plants appropriate to your garden's conditions: for example - plants requiring dry, sandy conditions will not live in a boggy environment - c...
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Broken of Britain - 12 hours ago
Lord Stirling's News Blog Europe
Holy Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVA MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ link Lord Stirling's news blog EUROPE ** Please forward this site to sever...
***Peter Pan, starring Philippe de Lacy 1924. * "When the shades of night began to fall, certain young mathematicians shed their triangles, crept up walls and down trees, and became pirates in a sort of Od...
Indigenous Eurasians were the first to make long-distance romantic relationships work, but they had a continental advantage. Native Americans that moved north or south however made their new homes permanent.
Reader Contribution; Workers struggling to bring the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant under control are stepping up precautions in advance of the approaching typhoon. Typhoon Roke is expected to approach F...
Reader Contribution; The Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, says a large amount of groundwater may be entering the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. TEPCO says it has found that 200 to...
[image: Obama] Scrambling to head off a diplomatic clash, President Barack Obama will openly push for the Palestinians to fall a statehood bid when he addresses the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday. Ob...
Cathy Glass has written *The Night The Angels Came* (HarperCollins). The little boy who taught me how to love again. Cathy Glass, as a foster carer, looked after around 100 children. One of these childre...
*Maldives president signs a resolution before the Copenhagen 2009 meeting.* This is getting increasingly hilarious or unbelievable. Yesterday, James Delingpole, a well-known and witty climate skeptic wri...
Wildlife officials have discovered thousands of dead fish along the Arkansas River in Little Rock and were still counting carcasses on Tuesday, a day after an angler reported seeing dozens of dead white ba...
An unidentified decomposing dead whale carcass washed up at Clifton beach in Karachi, Pakistan, early Tuesday. According to local media reports, Pakistan’s Cetacean Conservation Project will remove the c...
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Europe - 16 hours ago
Holy Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVE MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ link AVE MARIA by Mirusia Louwerse - video ~ link Lord Stirling's news blog ...
“The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone...
The number of those infected with respiratory syncytial virus, which causes serious pneumonia in infants, is expanding, a study by the National Institute of Infectious Diseases showed Wednesday. While th...
Japan has held discussions with Philippine diplomats on resolving territorial disputes in the South China Sea, wading into a contentious debate involving China. Philippine and Japanese diplomats recently...
*A senior faculty member of the Bolan Medical College, Surgeon Dr Ayaz Mandokhail, who was admitted to a private hospital in the city about a week back after being infected with the Congo virus, died here ...
*Police have booked three officials of a chemical firm in connection with leakage of poisonous gas at the company's plant in* *Tarapur Industrial Estate* *in Thane district, which resulted in the death of ...
*"The Denial of Death"* by Ernest Becker “The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely to avoid the fatality of de...
Mathieu Schiller, former 1994 French bodyboarding champion, has passed away after being attacked by a shark, in Saint-Paul, Reunion Island. The death of the rider and lifeguard has shocked his friends, fam...
It has been one of the deadliest and most destructive tornado seasons in U.S. history. And while for many it has been a summer to forget, it seems one man's sorrow is another man's business opportunity. ...
A blast at an oil rig in Oklahoma lit up the night sky forcing terrified residents to flee their homes. Houses within a two-mile radius of the drilling rig near Watonga, about eighty miles northwest of Ok...
A mission to Mars may be high on NASA's wish list but the agency will have to solve a serious problem first. Scientists fear astronauts could go blind after discovering an eye condition that erodes the vi...
They are the government department charged with investigating financial mismanagement in the build up to the economic crash. But the Justice Department has come under fire for wasting hundreds of thousan...
A Louisiana congressman who works as a doctor and owns several businesses is crying poverty over President Obama's tax plan, saying he's struggling to get by on the $400,000 left over after he feeds his fa...
Professional gamblers would not have put their money on Florida teenager Tim Stroh coming out on top in his latest Friday-night fight. The 19-year-old college student has a wiry frame, stands 6ft 3in and w...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck South of the Kepulauan Tanimbar Region, Indonesia at a depth of 50.2 km (31.2 miles), the quake hit at 04:40:04 UTC Wednesday 21st September 2011. The epicenter was 17...
How will NASA deal with an asteroid? First, they'll send some scientists into the ocean.
------------------------------ * the**REALnews Permalink* September 20, 2011 *Obama's Tax on Wealthy Too Little Too Late?* Tom Fergu...
Hello everyone, we hope you're all doing well and enjoying the fall/spring (I forgot that the world was round!). 1) The new Dollar Drive! We've made the Dollar Drive even more exciting. For every dollar y...
A landslide in western Guatemala killed at least three people and 10 are missing, officials said Tuesday. Guatemala's National Coordinator for the Reduction of Disasters, known as CONRED, reported that t...
Four people in Japan have been killed amid heavy rain from a powerful typhoon that is expected to make landfall Wednesday afternoon, authorities there said. The center of Typhoon Roke, which had sustai...
At least 35 human bodies were found in a roadway during rush-hour traffic in the Mexican coastal state of Veracruz Tuesday, the state attorney general said. Police in the eastern state found two trucks c...
Millions of pounds could have been saved if Basildon Council had used an alternative strategy to evict travellers from Dale Farm, a planning expert has told Sky News. As a row grows over how officials ha...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 131.3 km (81.6 miles), the quake hit at 22:44:42 UTC Tuesday 20th September 2011. The epicenter was 162 km (100 miles) Southwes...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 209.9 km (130.4 miles), the quake hit at 21:28:28 UTC Tuesday 20th September 2011. The epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) North of Isangel, Tanna, Van...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 57.5 km (35.7 miles), the quake hit at 20:59:05 UTC Tuesday 20th September 2011. The epicenter was 82 km (50 miles) ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 18.1 km (11.2 miles), the quake hit at 20:24:59 UTC Tuesday 20th September 2011. The epicenter was 168 km (104 ...
*"Do you know what I had to pay for a box of beauty clay here?"* *"To what degree the destruction of Manila and the anguish her inhabitants had endured shook the equilibrium of some of our fellow travelers...
Houston singer/songwriter and storyteller Don Sanders (right) with Rag Radio host Thorne Dreyer at the KOOP studios in Austin. Photo by Tracey Schulz / Rag Radio / The Rag Blog.Legendary Houston folksinger D...
"If you stay up long enough, you can watch both suns set. Such might be a common adage from beings floating in the atmosphere of Kepler 16b, a planet recently discovered by the space-based Kepler satellite...
A Second Western Renaissance (Or Not) Saman Mohammadi The Excavator September 20, 2011 "Recovery is a re-gaining---regaining of a clear view." - J. R. R. Tolkien In a previous article I referred to a new...
*(Harvard Law and Policy Review - September 20,2011)* Death is in the news! Hot on the heels of Rick Perry’s avowed affection for the death penalty, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the appeal of Duan...
Washington Post*'s **Tom Toles's "outtake" for yesterday.* *by Ken* Here in the Wall Street bunker (no, I'm not in the financial-services industry; my company just rents space here), the barriers are stil...
A radio station run by Somalia's al-Shabab Islamist group has awarded weapons to children who won a Koran-reciting and general knowledge contest. Andulus radio, based near Mogadishu, gave the group which w...
Windsor Police say thieves stole more than 1,000 pairs of high-end sunglasses from a specialty store overnight Friday. Police say thieves entered the Sunglass Hut through the roof of Devonshire Mall and m...
Rapidly escalating street battles between opponents of Yemen's regime and forces loyal to its embattled president spread to the home districts of senior government figures and other highly sensitive areas ...
At least 80 students, teachers and staff at Ennis High School have tested positive for exposure to tuberculosis. The skin tests were ordered because a teacher now on medical leave was diagnosed with the b...
A group of Italian scientists went on trial Tuesday for failing to predict an earthquake that killed more than 300 people in central Italy in 2009 despite signs of increased seismic activity in the area. ...
The number of people killed by a contaminated batch of Colorado cantaloupes has risen to four, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) said Monday. The victims were from Colorado, Oklahoma and New Mexico wher...
At least 25 Shia Muslim pilgrims have been killed after gunmen opened fire on a bus in western Pakistan, officials said. The pilgrims had been travelling through Mastung in Balochistan province on their w...
German industrial firm Siemens has withdrawn 500m euros (£436m) from a French bank and put it in the European Central Bank, according to reports. According to the Financial Times, it withdrew the cash over...
Japan's top weapons maker has confirmed it was the victim of a cyber attack reportedly targeting data on missiles, submarines and nuclear power plants. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) said viruses were f...
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 inte...
Draped in a white shroud, the body of a man is engulfed in flames atop a massive pile of wood, the insatiable fire churning out ashes for hours. A few yards away, a group of mourners chants prayers as the ...
Autumn has come twice this year, according to the Woodland Trust, after the dry spring and invasive pests caused some trees to drop their leaves early. Traditionally the season of “mists and mellow fruitfu...
Super Girl, one of China's most popular talent shows, has become the first major casualty of a new campaign to cleanse Chinese television of "vulgar" programming. The show, produced by Hunan Satellite Tel...
Katherine Garrett-Cox, chief executive of Alliance Trust, has dismissed Europe's attempts to solve its debt crisis as "economic cosmetic surgery", warning there is "more pain" to come over the next few mon...
An english-speaking boy who claims he lived rough for five years in a German forest walked in off the street and told staff at Berlin's City Hall: "I'm all alone in the world, I don't know who I am. Please...
Greece is quickly running out of the cash it needs to keep the lights on as the latest lifeline from the rest of Europe remains just out of reach. Evangelos Venizelos, the Greek finance minister, discussed...
A look at the plot of the No. 1 film at the box office, “Contagion,” shows a striking thematic resemblance to the debt crisis in Greece. “’Contagion’ follows the rapid progression of a virus that kills wit...
A French banking system shaken by a crisis of confidence and hobbled by the need to deleverage and write down assets could choke off credit to consumers and businesses and shatter France's fragile recovery...
Greece on Sunday pledged to take the tough decisions needed to avoid default but announced no new austerity measures to secure international bailout funds next month. Prime Minister George Papandreou canc...
As crowds marched through Atlanta in support of a death row inmate, the slain Savannah police officer's mother said Saturday she remains convinced of Troy Davis' guilt. "I will never have closure," said...
The looming showdown at the United Nations this week over Palestinian statehood could be either a "once-in-a-lifetime" opportunity to restart peace talks or the spark that inflames a new wave of violence i...
British Airways faces a bill of nearly €50m, the highest of any airline, when carriers around the world are brought into the European Union’s carbon emissions trading scheme next year, a new study estimate...
As Washington looks to squeeze savings from once-sacrosanct entitlements like Social Security and Medicare, another big social welfare system is growing as rapidly, but with far less scrutiny: the health a...
In a blunt rejoinder to congressional Republicans, President Barack Obama called for $1.5 trillion in new taxes Monday, part of a total 10-year deficit reduction package totaling more than $3 trillion. "We...
"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple." - Oscar Wilde
"Political Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes" by Andrew M. Lobaczewski "Imagine - if you can - not having a conscience, none at all, no feelings of guilt or remors...
"Compassion and Enabling" by admin "Sometimes there is a very blurry line between feeling and expressing compassion, and enabling someone. Showing compassion is giving someone space and understanding so ...
Statistics point to the waning of male dominance in the workplace and in education.
Pneumonia has hit our house hard these last couple of weeks, and for the first time ever, it is my husband who has it and not me. The old saying that man are babies when they are sick is as true now as whe...
*I'm no longer falling for the election-year fooleys the way I once did. * "Obama to seek minimum tax rate for millionaires; GOP is expected to oppose plan named for Buffett" by Jackie Calmes, New York Tim...
Seal, "Crazy" "In a church by the face He talks about the people going under. Only child know... A man decides after seventy years That what he goes there for Is to unlock the door While those around him c...
Statement of Special Rapporteur to the UN Human Rights Council, 2010[image: Print]20 September 2010 *Statement of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigen...
"Do not grieve. Misfortunes will happen to the wisest and best of men. Death will come, always out of season. It is the command of the Great Spirit, and all nations and people must obey. What is past is p...
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*"When Economic Growth is a Thing of the Past"* by Bill Bonner "We think we’re onto a big story. A BIG story. This correction is aiming high…it’s going to take down the entire capital structure of the wor...
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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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...
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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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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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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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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...
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The colorful coral 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
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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 ...
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Between the sickening execution of Troy Davis tonight, and the outrageous police brutality against unarmed, peaceful protesters in New York these past few days, the "Proud to be an American" notion is mor...
The government is pouring effort into bringing the temperature at Unit 2 of the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant under 100 degrees Celsius to prevent the release of radioactive materials through steam, ...
The government is calling for the Nara and Wakayama prefectural governments and local bodies to take precautions following signs that two landslide dams in the prefectures created by Typhoon No. 12 may hav...
Achieving a "cold shutdown" of a nuclear reactor is not difficult as long as the reactor is not broken. A cold shutdown is defined by experts as a situation in which nuclear reactors whose operations are s...
I always looked forward to my work. But I always had pretty good jobs. Roland's best friend from childhood is among the long-term unemployed. He always worked in manufacturing jobs-- jobs that have now, i...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Sumbawa Region, Indonesia at a depth of 44.6 km (27.7 miles), the quake hit at 19:52:30 UTC Wednesday 21st September 2011. The epicenter was 171 km (106 miles) Southwe...
A few months ago, physicist and climate skeptic Prof William Happer of Princeton wrote this article: The Truth About Greenhouse Gases: The dubious science of the climate crusaders for First Things. An ...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA music teacher who murdered his fiancee and put her body in a suitcase in his garage has been jailed for life - with a minimum term of 22 years. Andrew Lindo, 29, strangled, battered and stabbed Marie St...
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