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“For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile of the world once more. Think. Act. Feel. Add our little consequence to the tides of good and evil th...
Loyalty. For me--and I wonder if I'm not alone in this--the word "loyalty" seems to describe a person who stays in one place far after common sense would tell him to leave. It seems to describe a person wh...
Founder Elon Musk may be using the rocket as a testbed to chase the elusive holy grail of rocket scientists -- reusable launchers.
A dog surfing competition in California was won by Buddy, a hall of fame dog, who has won the past five contests.
Seventy years after the dramatic sinking, treasure hunters have announced the discovery of the Gairsoppa's intact wreck about 300 miles off the coast of Ireland.
*"The Fed Wants To Know What I Think"* by Karl Denninger "This tidbit is good for a chuckle today. A new RFP is out for a "tracking system" that The Fed wishes to bid to...... track the opinions expresse...
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*You could probably build a small home with all the botox in this photo* The point is being made-- loudly and clearly-- that while Republicans have been trying to politicize the Solyndra bankruptcy they th...
Rush Limbaugh says that Herman Cain won the Florida straw poll because he's "pedal to the metal conservative all the time." Rush went on to say Cain would be the first black president and that he wanted t...
THE MACHINEBy Marc Estrin / The Rag Blog / September 27, 2011The government murder of Troy Davis this week -- under odd evidential circumstances -- has once again thrust capital punishment up for public disc...
*"There's No Way In Hell We're Making It To Nov 2012"* by Ann Barnhardt "The five largest banks in the U.S. (JP Morgan Chase, Citibank, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and HSBC) are carrying $238 TRILLION...
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The cures for the economic crisis are being proffered by the folks that delivered it, using the theories that caused it. Does anyone *truly *buy any of the solutions? Not this trader, Alessio Rastani, sp...
The "fifth planet" is a hypothesized giant world that was flung out of our solar system 4 billion years ago.
No one knows who will win the Ontario election, two of the three leaders remain virtual unknowns, and the campaign still lacks a ballot question. Yet somehow, without warning, Ontario finds itself just 9 s...
Astronomer Mark Thompson investigates why the "ice giant" Uranus is at a very special point in its orbit.
*An Excerpt from a September 15th article - * *(an article that is well worth it to read.)* *Hiding the sausage* *How ALEC, a well-funded right-wing organization, is grinding out state laws * *Among the or...
*"Give Collapse a Chance"* by Bill Bonner "A big sell-off yesterday. The Dow down. The 10-year T-note yields only 1.87%. And the price of gold barely budged. In our opinion all three should be going down...
The documents are in an ultra-high resolution format and reveal details previously invisible to the naked eye.
Next year, some people may be bending and twisting remotes instead of pushing buttons.
Bacteria genetically modified with fluorescent proteins are capable of delivering color-coded messages.
A bizarre heckler labelled President Obama 'the antichrist' before he was dragged out of a California fundraiser by Secret Service agents. The man had positioned himself at the front of the stage at the Ho...
A sunspot, 62,000 miles across - so big it would dwarf the Earth - is releasing gigantic solar flares that could in theory wreak havoc with electrical communications ranging from handheld electronics such ...
Argentina: VISION OVNI Reports to the Scene of the Alleged Meteor Strike A Day For Learning – The Monte Grande Explosion – Buenos Aires By Andrea Perez Simondini At 6:00 a.m. on the 26th of Septem...
Common Dreams Tuesday, September 27, 2011 A photographer has identified the cruel and cowardly NYPD supervisor who point blank maced a penned in group of young women and then slinks away Saturday at th...
Blue Marble, an environmentalist blog at Mother Jones, has finally admitted that the debate is over: Chart: How the Climate Change Deniers Won Josh Harkinson has complained that global warming has falle...
Just a quick one for you. There is a plan afoot to reduce the Drink-Drive alcohol limit here in Northern Ireland from the current UK figure of 80mls/100mls blood to 50mls/100mls. In one of those happy co...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Southeast of the Loyalty Islands at a depth of 34.9 km (24.5 miles), the quake hit at 17:42:31 UTC Tuesday 27th September 2011. The epicenter was 55 km ( 34 miles) SSW...
Protests to draw attention to the power of Wall Street firms in the United States and world economies will continue for an 11th straight day in lower Manhattan Tuesday. "Our main concern is the way that...
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player The message sent out begins as follows: What really happened this past May 21st ? What really happened is that God accomplished exactly what He wa...
Beyond the police roadblocks that mark the no-go zone around Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, six-foot tall weeds invade rice paddies and vines gone wild strangle road signs along empty streets. T...
A sunspot, 62,000 miles across - so big it would dwarf the Earth - is releasing gigantic solar flares that could in theory wreak havoc with electrical communications ranging from handheld electronics such ...
Greece and its lenders are locked in discussion. The "Troika" of lenders - the European Union, International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank - say Greece must take more painful steps to cut its bor...
Health Canada extended the use of caffeine to non-cola soft drinks last year, even as it was being warned that children are already consuming too much of the stimulant, CBC News has learned. Canada's bloc...
Syrian troops firing machine guns mounted on tanks stormed a rebellious town in central Syria before dawn Tuesday as part of military operations aimed at crushing the six-month-old uprising against Preside...
Gunmen have attacked Egypt's main natural gas pipeline to Israel and Jordan for the sixth time since the uprising that ousted former president Hosni Mubarak in February, security officials say. The gunmen...
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has delivered an impassioned plea to German business leaders to help his country out of its current debt crisis. Mr Papandreou said German funding would not be an inv...
A Shanghai subway train has hit the rear end of another train, injuring at least 200 passengers, the train company says. Most of the injuries were slight, Shanghai Shentong Metro Group Company said after ...
Women who drink two or more cups of coffee a day are less likely to get depressed, research suggests. It is not clear why it might have this effect, but the authors believe caffeine in coffee may alter th...
he Russian army says it is halting orders of the famous Kalashnikov assault rifle until a newer model is developed by its manufacturer. Chief of the General Staff Nikolai Makarov told Russian media that th...
For decades, the economic wisdom has been that lower trade barriers create better wealth for both parties. Outsourcing low-skilled, low-wage jobs to an India or Mexico helps those developing economies, wh...
They say a crisis can bring out the best or worst in people, a society or on a continent. Seeing the situation unfold first hand and talking to politicians, business people and those on the streets, one ca...
The window for resolving the eurozone's sovereign debt crisis is closing more quickly than policymakers anticipated. Choices on Greece and the future of the euro that were once considered a long way off n...
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef seems indestructible from afar: its 2,600-kilometer-long clusters of corals are even visible from outer space. But on closer examination, the story loses some of its beauty. ...
In a move that will further complicate international efforts to get Middle East peace negotiations restarted, the Israeli government Tuesday approved the construction of 1,100 new homes in a southern Jerus...
At least seven people died, including a baby boy, as Typhoon Nesat slammed into the Philippines Tuesday. Four people were reported killed in Metro Manila, two in Central Luzon, and one in Catanduanes, t...
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou "can guarantee that Greece will live up to all its commitments," he said Tuesday as he seeks to keep his debt-ridden country afloat. "I promise you we Greeks will so...
Australian women will be able to serve alongside their male counterparts in front line combat roles, the government said Tuesday. The new plan will be phased in over a five-year period. The decision means...
A suicide attacker detonated explosives packed in his car outside a police station in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday. At least two people were killed, including a child, in the attack in Lashkar Gah in H...
Two jetliners carrying more than 600 passengers and crew came within seconds of a collision near Hong Kong last week, according to a report in The Standard newspaper. The Cathay Pacific Boeing 777 and Dra...
The sound of heavy weapons and machine gun fire echoed through the night in the restive city of Al-Rastan after a large number of tanks moved in to block key roads and areas of town, an opposition activist...
The biggest fireworks so far in the sleepy Ontario election campaign have not come between the candidates, but between the pollsters. And there's a new pollster on the block - Dean Del Mastro: Prime Mini...
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck the Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 70.3 km (43.7 miles), the quake hit at 15:06:06 UTC Tuesday 27th September 2011. The epicenter was 48 km ...
*The expression on the faces of these guests was illuminating. Varying from smug smiles, to fearful stares at the ground to unbridled anger mixed with fear. Mostly smug. Some amused. These are very rich p...
Mississippi The Hospitality State I hope the citizens of Mississippi choose to be inhospitable to the members of ALEC. Below you will find a list of people who have an association with to have been linke...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Crete, Greece at a depth of 33.8 km (21 miles), the quake hit at 13:06:35 UTC Tuesday 27th September 2011. The epicenter was 143 km (88 miles) SSW of Chania, Crete, Gre...
The new issue of *New York* magazine features a powerful call to action by former Senator Russ Feingold, one of the two most tragic losses of the 2010 teabagger tsunami-- the other we'll get to in a mome...
In Canada, white people are no healthier than our black people. When I read that my reaction was, "well, duh." Why would a Canadian achieve different health outcomes based on race? Well apparently wh...
While the farce is ongoing at the UN... Israeli Panel approves new illegal settlement building in illegally occupied territory An Israeli Interior Ministry committee has approved the construction of 1,10...
BBC Speechless As Trader Alessio Rastani Tells Truth, Collapse Coming, Goldman Rules World ------------------------------ UPDATE: Trader's Goldman Sachs comments spark BBC hoax claims By John Plun...
We're all familiar with the accounts of America's healthcare "have nots," the tens of millions who get by with no health insurance and the hundreds of millions who are vulnerable to partial health insuranc...
Last weekend at least 100 people were treated for piranha bites from beaches in Brazil's northeast.
The rhythm of speech patterns can help brain-damaged patients learn to speak again.
It's a reflection of how little most of us know about nuclear power generation that we fell apoplectic at the Fukushima reactor disaster. The tragedy of Fukushima is if we allow an accident caused by a t...
*Basic scenarios of string theory* Gordon has assured me that (almost) no non-expert has understood advanced basics of string phenomenology, despite dozens if not hundreds of blog entries about these topi...
BC jobs go to Alberta; the profits go to Texas ... The public utility BC Hydro is spending $1-billion to upgrade its transmission lines. The *Northwest Transmission Line* contract - $364-525 million with ...
*“I have spent over 20 years fighting Wall Street, General Motors, health insurance companies, the whole lot of them. A lot of that has been alone or with just a very few people. It warms my heart to see...
I've always understood "anarchy" by its dictionary definition as a state of political or social disorder resulting from absence of government control. My layman's grasp of the concept was of some wresting...
*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* The GOP gets away with a big lie! The GOP has convinced millions that the GOP is the party of smaller government coupled with smaller debts and deficits. The fact ...
(This post is opinion-commentary, as should be obvious.)Have you ever noticed that every time a lawyer makes an argument for some crazy thing he always starts by saying that he doesn't want the crazy thing?I...
If there was life on Mars, scientists may have found one of its final resting spots.
Congress restores Disaster Aid --after coming dangerously close to extorting the American Taxpayer through Fear ala Shock Doctrine How's Your House by Ian Hunter (Song at NOMRF.org) [image: Link] ~Never For...
"Teachers report to me that a growing number of children cannot form letters or even hold a pencil. "Many cannot sit and listen. "Many can scarcely communicate orally, let alone frame a question. "Many ...
[image: Number of natural disasters declared by FEMA, 1953-2011. 2011 set the record for most Federal Emergency Management Agency declared disasters. Joe Romm, with data from FEMA] By Joe Romm 26 Sept...
Demonstrators carry pictures of Troy Davis, who was executed Sept. 21, 2011, in Jackson, GA. Image from Politics and Fashion.When government decides to kill:The death penalty and thequestion of actual innoce...
[image: Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and tsunami wreckage. japanfocus.org] By arevamirpal::laprimavera 26 September 2011 The Japanese government says it will abolish the "evacuation-ready" zone in ...
Devices are charged under a canopy of photovoltaic cells.
Just like an Aston Martin car, this phone is nice to look at, but not so nice to bank accounts.
Bluetooth speakerphone lets you use voice commands to do way more than just talk on the phone.
Yemen's defense minister escaped an assassination attempt Tuesday when a suicide bomber attacked his convoy, the Yemeni government said. The attack took place in Tawahi, Aden, along Yemen's southern coast...
Sixteen people, including 11 children, killed when their bus ran over a landmine in Herat, Afghanistan More to follow
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Crete, Greece at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:25:12 UTC Tuesday 27th September 2011. The epicenter was 146 km (91 miles) South of Chania, Crete, Gr...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck South of Tonga at a depth of 39.2 km (24.4 miles), the quake hit at 12:34:33 UTC Tuesday 27th September 2011. The epicenter was 391 km (242 miles) South of Nuku'Alofa, ...
Nothing to celebrate, actually. Today is estimated to be the day on which mankind has consumed the entire stocks of renewable resources our planet will generate this year. Today is Earth Overshoot Day....
Despite dipping into Earth's ecological savings for the year - water should remain a plentiful resource on the planet, if it is tapped efficiently and fairly.
Until recently, this device was only available to utility companies, but GE will be selling it to consumers soon.
For the rest of the year humans are dipping into Earth's ecological savings account.
Last week, on my travel blog, in covering the devastating earthquake in India and Nepal, I looked over the insurance industry's ratings of American states' relative risks for natural disasters. The Top 1...
At least 37 school children, two teachers and the deputy head have [image: Link]been killed in a bus crash in Pakistan. The children, all between the ages of 12 and 14, died when the bus overturned on a m...
An outspoken City trader left interviewers open-mouthed as he admitted that traders 'don't really care that much' about the prospect of an economic collapse. Alessio Rastani astonished BBC viewers yesterd...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Crete, Greece at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:08:18 UTC Tuesday 27th September 2011. The epicenter was 118 km (73.2 miles) South of Palaiokhora, Cr...
At least seven people died, including a baby boy, as Typhoon Nesat slammed into the Philippines Tuesday. Four people were reported killed in Metro Manila, two in Central Luzon, and one in Catanduanes, th...
Neither one of us can remember where it comes from, but "I love you like fried chicken," has been something my husband and I have said to each other the entire time we have been married. Problem is, neit...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Kashmir-Xinjiang Border Region at a depth of 93.8 km (58.3 miles), the quake hit at 11:03:00 UTC Tuesday 27th September 2011. The epicenter was 227 km (141 miles) ...
A man fishing from a kayak was towed half a mile out to sea after he hooked a 6ft (1.8m) shark. Devon vet Rupert Kirkwood, 51, was fishing off Ilfracombe in north Devon when the tope took his mackerel ba...
AP: Investigators following up on a nuclear sting in eastern Europe suspect that a crime syndicate was trying to sell weapons-grade uranium to buyers in North Africa. Officials in Moldova, a former Soviet...
Two subway trains collided in central Shanghai on Tuesday injuring more than 200 passengers, though none critically, prompting public anger just two months after a deadly crash between two high-speed train...
[image: Congress dodges] A bitterly divided and poll-battered Congress has almost worked its way out of a nasty fight over disaster aid, but only by abruptly abandoning efforts to immediately refill appro...
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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 ...
El Hierro has seen a spate of stronger eartquakes in the past 7 days prompting the alert level to be raised to YELLOW. Yesterday 38 earthquakes were registered due to magma bags nearing the surface of the ...
A passenger ship was burned after collision with a tugboat in a river at South Kalimantan of Indonesia on Monday, killing four people as evacuation of hundreds of passengers is underway, rescuers said. M...
Bani Walid residents reject NATO-proxy rule, defeats rebels at their gates. by Tony Cartalucci The Associated Press reluctantly reported that Libya's rebels began withdrawing from their front at Bani Wali...
I am checking lots of new papers that appear on the CERN website. Session III of the LHC-HCG working meeting is underway right now, on Tuesday morning (September 27th). I believe that this graph is the mos...
Dozens of firefighters and a HazMat crew responded to a chemical leak near Bush Intercontinental Airport Monday. It happened at around 11:15am at Dyna Drill Technology in the 4600 block of World Houston ...
AP: Two students at the University of Maryland have been injured in a chemistry accident that caused the evacuation of a campus building. Mark Brady, a spokesman for the Prince George’s County fire depart...
Entergy Palisades nuclear plant near South Haven is venting radioactive steam into the environment as part of an unplanned shutdown triggered by an electrical accident. This shutdown, which began Sunday ...
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) had more than 50 retired bureaucrats working for the utility firm as of the end of August -- a widespread practice in Japan called "amakudari," or "descent from heaven" -- ...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Georgia (Sak'art'velo) at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:58:54 UTC Tuesday 27th September 2011. The epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) East from Akhalka...
Libyan authorities have said they will co-operate with Scottish prosecutors and police investigating the Lockerbie bombing, the Foreign Office said last night. The National Transitional Council (NTC) has ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Babar, Indonesia at a depth of 130.4 km (81 miles), the quake hit at 08:30:08 UTC Tuesday 27th September 2011. The epicenter was 259 km (161 miles) WNW of Sa...
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao today called for North Korea to resume talks about its nuclear programme in the latest attempt to cajole the reclusive country back to the table. He said it was important that a...
The U.S. government used taxpayers' money to buy semi-automatic weapons, then sold them to criminals and allowed the guns to disappear, a leaked document reveals. The bombshell disclosure undermines the D...
Anthony Bologna, NYPD officer named in pepper-spray incident, is accused of civil rights violations at the time of the 2004 Republican national convention protests A senior New York police officer accused...
A shocking video allegedly showing Joran van der Sloot confessing to the killing of Stephany Flores has been released. Van der Sloot wears a black hooded top and smokes a cigarette as he calmly answers ...
Days after the UN general assembly where the hot topic was a potentially free Palestinian state, President Obama is touring the country giving speeches about the 'Buffett tax' intended to increase tax ra...
They were once a common sight along the Cornish coast, where their acrobatic feats have delighted visitors for decades. But the county’s bottlenose dolphins could soon be no more than a memory, experts ha...
This was the petrifying moment a woman was chased by a rutting stag before being knocked to the ground in a London park. She was left uninjured but ‘badly shaken’ from the attack, which occurred while she...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 07:56:54 UTC Tuesday 27th September 2011. Time (JST) Lat. Long. Depth Mag. Reg...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 40 km (24.8 miles), the quake hit at 07:04:17 UTC Tuesday 27th September 2011. Time (JST) Lat. Long. Depth Mag. Reg...
A worker has been killed at a Jaguar Land Rover factory. Merseyside Police launched a joint investigation with the Health and Safety Executive last night following the fatal incident at a plant in Halewoo...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 34.8 km (21.6 miles), the quake hit at 06:46:17 UTC Tuesday 27th September 2011. The epicenter was 196 km (121 ...
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Url movie: http://youtu.be/YuE2cW8NMx8 *Would he do that* in his car as well on a traffic light...? John
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The strange quality about BBC coverage of the Labour Party conference is the way in which 6th May 2010 has become Year Zero. The 13 years of Labour mismanagement of the economy are now being deliberately e...
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[image: Asher and Yonatan Palmer] A 25 year old Palestinian Dad is driving home with his baby son in the car when both are cruelly murdered by Jews throwing a large rock into their car. Can you imagine the...
Corporate media admits Libya operation is brutal genocide - keeps cheering for NATO & rebels. by Tony Cartalucci As reported earlier, weeks ago, rebel forces led by US State Department [1] and UK Home Off...
Filming the Inspiring Life of Eddy Zheng, a Bay Area Community Leader Facing Deportation --An interview with Ben Wang By Angola 3 News (First published at Alternet) Ben Wang is the Director/Producer ...
------------------------------ September 26, 2011 at 00:22:05 Promoted to Headline (H3) on 9/26/11: Permalink *Saving the Rich and Losing the Economy* *By paul craig roberts (about the author)*...
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Photo Ben Powless, Mohawk Photo Ben Powless Photo Ben Powless Photo Ben Powless Photo Ben Powless Photo Ben Powless *OTTAWA TARSANDS ACTION* Sept. 26, 2011 Photos by Ben Powless, MohawkSee all today's heroe...
Zainab Alhusni was a simple seamstress in Syria, well-loved by all her neighbors and friends. Now, in a tragic turn of events, she has become a symbol of the cruelty gripping that conflict-wracked nation...
Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Yemen's capital on Monday, rejecting claims President Ali Abdullah Saleh made in a televised address. "We are escalating, and soon we will march dir...
Prisoners have threatened to sue the Government for breaching their human rights because they get only one Sky Sports TV channel, it has been revealed. Inmates at Parc prison in South Wales claim the fai...
The cost of Britain’s military mission in Libya could hit £1.75billion – seven times what the Government predicted it would spend. The sum, calculated by one of the UK’s leading defence specialists, is an ...
A trio of foreign terrorists convicted of plotting mayhem in Britain are poised to use human rights laws to dodge deportation. The three fanatics will claim they could face ill-treatment if they return to...
Britain could be asked to find £115billion to rescue debt-stricken countries – nearly £5,000 per household. Fears were growing last night that the International Monetary Fund might not have enough cash fo...
*Christina Hendricks as Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce office manager Joan Harris with Jared Harris as agency partner Lane Pryce in Episode 2 of Season 4 of Mad Men* *by Ken* I don't know how much good it ...
Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity may be the only currently operating manmade object on the surface of Mars, but it has friends in high places -- very high places.
A powerful typhoon has struck the Philippines, triggering floods, cutting power and halting work in the capital Manila. Typhoon Nesat also forced the closure of the Philippine Stock Exchange and the US e...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 198.6 km (123.4 miles), the quake hit at 01:36:16 UTC Tuesday 27th September 2011. The epicenter was 264 km (164 miles) North of Luganville, Espir...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 65 km (40.4 miles), the quake hit at 00:46:17 UTC Tuesday 27th September 2011. The epicenter was 47 km (29 miles...
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 528.3 km (328.3 miles), the quake hit at 00:37:34 UTC Tuesday 27th September 2011. The epicenter was 295 km (183 miles) ESE of Lambasa, Va...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands Alaska at a depth of 203.5 km (126.5 miles), the quake hit at 20:08:46 UTC Monday 26th September 2011. The epicenter was 56 km ...
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*Keep pushing for Sandra's release* No More Deaths TUCSON -- A few weeks ago we told you about Sandra Lopez, a 20-year-old Tucsonan who needs our help. Despite being a DREAMer, Sandra has been detained at ...
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Cannabis is supposed to be a “gateway” drug? The drug that leads people on to harder drugs? Bullshit. What makes harder drugs so prevalent is Prohibition. If you don’t believe me, then just ask thousa...
Olbermann calls out media hypocrisy on ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protest RawStory posted 09.21.11 By Eric W. Dolan Keith Olbermann pointed out Wednesday night on Countdown that the major newspapers had been...
[image: Kelp bass represent one of the two most important recreational fisheries off Southern California. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego]ScienceDaily (Sep. 26, 2011) – The two most imp...
*Sorry, the Big C clip seems to be iffy from the Showtime website. (Heavy pre-show use tonight, perhaps? I'm getting it OK in Firefox, but not in Safari.) But then, I wasn't going to watch it anyway! -- Ke...
[image: A typical scenario in the Brazil's Atlantic Forest at the Northeastern Biodiversity Corridor, where forest remants are surrounded by sugarcane plantations. Most of the remaining forest fragments ...
Alleged members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, attacked a Turkish army outpost on Saturday, killing six soldiers and wounding 11 in the southeastern province of Siirt. Three PKK militan...
X-men’s Magneto isn’t the only who can shield magnetic fields. Spanish researchers have designed what they call the world's first "anti-magnet," a magnetic cloak that can act as a shield they envision hel...
The federal program that insures homes against flood damage expires next Friday and is at risk of not being renewed, even as an early fall storm threatens to inundate much of the northeastern United States...
he chief of the New York Police Department says city police could take down a plane if necessary. Commissioner Ray Kelly tells CBS' "60 Minutes" that after the Sept. 11 attacks, he decided the city couldn...
There is a massive media shift taking place in America and other Western countries as more and more young people reject mainstream media institutions. They are turning to blogs, Internet news anchors, soci...
[image: Flow of the already over-allocated Colorado River, showing a general decreasing trend over the period of 1905-2010. NRDC / Data from U.S. Bureau of Reclamation] Flow of the already over-allocate...
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[image: 276464_137539366339987_1226509_n] Here’s this week’s update from our friends at the UoA Economics Group: Hi all, What is money? What are these bits of paper we carry in our pockets, or these da...
Two weeks ago, the media's heart went aflutter when it learned that the president had borrowed a page right out of ole' Joe McCarthy's communist witch hunt book with the launch of Attack Watch. The respons...
Government officials on Saturday ordered more tests after detecting elevated levels of radiation in rice crops near the crippled nuclear power plant at Fukushima. Radioactive substances have already been ...
A witness says kids ran for cover under bleachers as a guman fired shots near Issaquah High School. Police shot and killed the lone gunman. No one else was hurt. The man, said to be in his 50s and from Ma...
In one of the bloodiest days of Yemen's uprising, government troops backed by snipers and shelling attacked a square full of Yemeni protesters and battled with pro-opposition forces in the capital, killing...
Drones: every military wants ‘em. But if you’re a country like Iran, sanctions can put a bit of a crimp in your efforts to build an unmanned aerial vehicle fleet. To get around the problem, Iran is turning...
European Union governments will spend the next six weeks building a financial firewall to protect their fragile banking systems against what is now seen as an inevitable Greek default. G20 sources said th...
The U.S. economy is sick right now because there is over $5 trillion of dead money. Five trillion dollars is a big amount. It dwarfs the size of the 2009 U.S. economic stimulus package and the Federal Res...
Pope Benedict, visiting the German monastery where Martin Luther lived before launching the Reformation, warned his Lutheran hosts on Friday that what he called "a new form of Christianity" posed a challen...
The Israel Defense Forces has significantly boosted its presence along Israel's border with Egypt due to urgent warnings that Hamas was planning on carrying out a terror attack in Israel, through the Sinai...
After being robbed of $1,000, U.S. District Attorney Jenny Durkan--the chair of the Justice Departments Cybercrime Committee--is taking the hard line on ATM skimming. In a video with Western Seattle news ...
In the midst of a ballooning deficit, an unbalanced federal budget and the upcoming presidential election, Congress doesn’t need to be worried about poverty in America, right? Wrong. Poverty is an all-to...
As a Muslim, I’m sick of people asking me how I feel about 9/11. What do you want me to say, seriously? Do you want me to say, “It was a great plan, mwahahaha!” before I fly off on a magic carpet? I was ...
Young people across the globe are having more unprotected sex and know less about effective contraception options, a multinational survey revealed on Monday. The "Clueless or Clued Up: Your Right to be in...
Even the dead are scamming the city. A shocking new audit from city Controller John Liu discovered that city bureaucrats paid out $11.8 million in rent subsidies in recent years to nearly 4,000 people too...
A North Carolina man crawled four days across the Utah desert after breaking his leg on a solo hike, inspired by a Hollywood movie about a man who cut off his own arm to save himself after being trapped by...
A record-high 81% of Americans are dissatisfied with the way the country is being governed, adding to negativity that has been building over the past 10 years. Majorities of Democrats (65%) and Republican...
The world's major economies are heading for a "massive jobs shortfall" by the end of next year if governments do not change their tack on policy, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) said in a study...
Allowing Greece to default on its debt now would destroy investor confidence in the euro zone and might spark contagion like that experienced after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in 2008, German Chancel...
Police found a woman's decapitated body in a Mexican border city on Saturday, alongside a handwritten sign saying she was killed in retaliation for her postings on a social networking site. The gruesome ...
Holly Purkey, 28, is one of many Floridians trying to sell her pre-purchased burial plots for some quick cash. She is selling two burial plots in Forest Hills Memorial Park in Palm City. "This is new to ...
Meeting halls A and B in HQ1 of the International Monetary Fund’s concrete plaza of buildings in Washington are a drab affair. Bare walls, muted browns and hovering interpreters’ booths perfectly capture t...
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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 ...
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player I don't know why we civilians don't wake up to the fact and realize that we vastly outnumber them. By "them", of course, I'm referring to the donut...
[image: Group of humpback whales during aerial survey in 2005. Humpbacks are easy to spot from a plane. L. Witting / natur.gl] By Emma Woollacott 26 September 2011 Bowhead whales have navigated the Nor...
There are a lot of communists at this protest. I wish it was different. I wish they didn't blame everything on "capitalism." Capitalism did not create this crisis. Corporate fascism did. The banking plutoc...
*This is the prize- the contest is at the very bottom before the video* Because it's the end of another campaign fundraising quarter-- there are, count 'em, 4 every year-- if you've ever contributed to any...
The idea that your body could suddenly burst into flames is frightening. Is it possible?
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*[image: _richardmcgrath]**Your weekly prescription of headline dissection from Libertarianz leader Dr Richard McGrath.* *This week, The FrACTured Party.* - *Royal NZ Herald)*: *“**ACT at odds with B...
Beneath fraud, media spin, & UN stamps of approval, awaits an unfolding nightmare for the people of Africa and the world. by Tony Cartalucci The New York Times recently reported in an article titled, "In S...
RIO DE JANEIRO — Authorities in a state in Brazil's northeast are scrambling to take the fright and the bite off the beach after piranhas sunk their teeth into about 100 beachgoers, UOL Noticias reported. ...
Source: INFOBAE and Martha Núñez Date: 26 September 2011 Argentina: Meteorite Case Falls Apart – Hoax or Disinformation? ** Authorities detain the man who “saw” the comet and concentrate their investigati...
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*The Spanish Canary Islands* are favorite holiday destinations just off the Atlantic coast of Morocco, Africa. Nature is beautiful, the climate tropical oceanic and the waters are blue-green. The islands ...
Libya's interim justice minister has said the Lockerbie bombing case "is closed" following a request by British lawyers for help with their inquiries. The Scottish Crown Office said on Monday afternoon th...
A few million virtual monkeys are close to re-creating the complete works of Shakespeare by randomly bashing keys on virtual typewriters.
This upcoming high-end front projector will provide home entertainment enthusiasts with more than four times the resolution of HDTV.
A West African berry known as the miracle fruit causes sour foods to taste incredibly sweet and now scientists know why.
A few million virtual monkeys are close to re-creating the complete works of Shakespeare by randomly bashing keys on virtual typewriters.
This upcoming high-end front projector will provide home entertainment enthusiasts with more than four times the resolution of HDTV.
In Spain, Italy and Greece, companies are rejecting sperm donations from redheaded men. But in Ireland they're in high demand.
From Kay in Maine we get some insight into why there is so little media coverage: The Natives Are Getting Restless: Occupy Wall Street Continues! (image found on Democracy Watchdog Action Network) Where’s ...
. A 'Conspiracy Theory Conference' was held at Conway Hall in central London yesterday (Sunday 25th Sept.). Here are a few, admittedly biased, comments about the day. In its original formation this 'con...
In April 2004, Gaddafi publicly acknowledged that, in 1996, killings had taken place in Tripoli's Abu Salim prison. The Gaddafi government said that *the killings took place during a battle between priso...
Cases of Leptospirosis disease have been reported from various parts of Goa and neighbouring states. For the year 2011 till date, 1172 samples of suspected patients have been tested and of these 103 are po...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 20 km (12.4 miles), the quake hit at 17:30:36 UTC Monday 26th September 2011. Time (JST) Lat. Long. Depth Mag. Reg...
Christine Lagarde has signalled that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) may have to tap its members – including Britain – for billions of pounds of extra funding to stem the European debt crisis. The h...
The cost of treating cancer in the developed world is spiralling and is "heading towards a crisis", an international team of researchers says. Their Lancet Oncology report says there is a "culture of exces...
China's richest man is set to join the ruling Communist Party's Central Committee, media reports say. If Liang Wengen, 55, is chosen by the party's 2012 congress, he will be the first entrepreneur to join...
Syrian tanks have bombarded a strategic town in the restive central province of Homs overnight, injuring three people, activists and residents say. Troops fired with machine guns mounted on tanks in the to...
More than two million people have been affected by floods in India as torrential rains lash Orissa, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar states. Heavy monsoon rains have been battering parts of India for the past fort...
As the prospect of a disastrous debt default hung over Greece, the government faced more strikes and protests against its new austerity measures needed to appease the country's rescue creditors. Athens co...
The federal government is funding a team of 16 scientists to try to figure out how farmers can use fewer antibiotics in the chickens, pigs and cows Canadians eat. Antibiotics are used in animal feed to pr...
U.S. diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks have exposed a troubling case of a mentally ill Canadian-Egyptian held in a U.S.-run Afghanistan prison for more than 18 months. Khaled Samy Abdallah Ismail, ...
Hundreds of protesters flocked to Parliament Hill Monday to voice their displeasure with TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline project, a $7-billion plan to ship crude oil from Alberta to Texas. Protest orga...
As workers suck up leaves covering the Yukon government building lawn and drain the sprinkler system before freeze-up, residents of Whitehorse's first 'tent city' are doing their best to fend off the bitte...
A sold-out crowd of nearly 20,000 recently gathered to see the last bullfight in Barcelona. Though a bullfighting ban doesn't take effect until January 1, 2012, three of Spain's top matadors executed thei...
Ex-USSR leader Mikhail Gorbachev has warned Russia risks wasting six years if PM Vladimir Putin returns to the presidency in March as expected. Reacting to the news Mr Putin will run for office in 2012, Mr...
A few million virtual monkeys are close to re-creating the complete works of Shakespeare by randomly mashing keys on virtual typewriters. A running total of how well they are doing shows that the re-creati...
About 80 people were arrested on the eighth day of protests in New York on Saturday, the greatest number since demonstrations started near Wall Street. Earlier arrests in the week totaled about 20 on previ...
China’s wealthy now can get up to 2.5 kilograms of gold via ATMs in the city’s upscale clubs and private banks, state media reported. The machines made their debut in a Beijing shopping district on Sunday,...
Speaking in Washington at an international banking conference, Evangelos Venizelos said Sunday that his country will do "whatever it takes" to meet its financial obligations. "Greece wants to make it and ...
The International Monetary Fund annual meetings wrapped up in Washington on Sunday with widespread concern over the eurozone sovereign debt crisis but no immediate consensus on the solution. Participants ...
An Afghan employee of the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan opened fire Sunday evening in a CIA annex at the embassy, killing a U.S. citizen, a U.S. government official said. Security personnel used a flash-b...
The historic Palestinian bid for statehood goes before the United Nations Security Council Monday, where it looks set for a largely symbolic debate in the face of a promised American veto. Lebanon's Nawaf...
It's meant to be racist, and it's meant to be discriminatory. And the controversial "Increase Diversity Bake Sale" hosted by the Berkeley College Republicans is still on, the club's president said, despi...
" "The New York Times ran a patronizing and snarky story with a ridiculous and bizarrely photoshopped picture about Occupy Wall Street, mocking the protesters who are, let's admit it, a motley crew. But I...
The report of a death and injuries related to the impact of an alleged meteor in the Argentinean community of Esteban Echevarria has already made headlines around the world. Spain's El Mundo newspaper has ...
*Cartoon by Martin Rowson* On 26 September 2011, the media reported that prosecutors in Scotland asked the new Libyan leadership for its help with the Lockerbie bombing inquiry. Scotland's Lord Advocate ...
The existence of the first exoplanet to be directly observed by the Hubble space telescope has come under close scrutiny.
Climate change may be a gradual thing, but the Yup'ik people of Alaska are already seeing the effects.
By Duane Craig The only coal-fired power plant in Oregonwill pay out $2.5 million to restore land along the Columbia River, accordingto this articlein The Columbian. The plant will also have to reduce its...
The largest seizure of sharks ever confiscated by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department game wardens was recently unloaded at South Padre Island after wardens pulled in approximately three miles of illegal...
Couldn't help taking a minute to look up who was on NBC's "Education Nation - Governors Summit" Guess if this is who is going to guide state education - we're screwed. Will be interesting to see who get...
The sound of heavy weapons and machine gun fire echoed through the night in the restive city of Al-Rastan after a large number of tanks moved in to block key roads and areas of town, an opposition activist...
The incident occurred in a neighbourhood in Buenos Aires district a mysterious explosion caused damage upto two blocks away, the origin of the explosion could not be determined. The explosion occurred ar...
Recently I've been posting about the protest at Occupy Wall Street, because the injustice of the economic system at the heart of the revolt there is a significant cause of my main concern, which is ecosyst...
Another wind storm has hit the West Coast of B.C. on Monday morning, forcing the cancellation of three ferry routes, knocking out power to thousands and closing some highways with flooding. Southeast win...
Last Tuesday we introduced you, briefly, to Dr. Lee Rogers (D), a podiatrist running for Congress against Howard “Buck” McKeon (R) in California’s newly-drawn 25th district. I highlighted the differences ...
When I was a boy I occasionally read the Viz comic. Perhaps it was my youth which made me titter at the nonsense inside the covers. As I grew older its charm wore off and I found my sense of humour beco...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:46:03 UTC Monday 26th September 2011. Time (JST) Lat. Long. Depth Mag. Regi...
Jailed Amanda Knox was subjected to a brutal character assassination today as she was described as a 'diabolical, Satanic, demonic she-devil' by a lawyer representing the man she initially accused of murde...
A prison van travelled 96 miles to transfer a defendant just 60 yards from a police station to a court because walking would 'infringe his human rights'. Despite it being just a 30-second walk from Banbu...
** I always get a charge when I see an entry that is boycotting an ALEC Corporate Sector member. I say to myself – “Bless their souls - good on them – they are wasting their time.” I pulled a quick list ...
(Many tips o' the tinfoil hat to Michael Collins.) It's true. No need to blink or rub your eyes at that headline. At 5:30 this afternoon, Dick Cheney is going to 915 West Hastings St., the address of the ...
Information continues to come in on the possible meteor impact in Argentina. The following is from www.perfil.com: [...] The Monte Grande explosion, which caused dozens of families in this Buenos Aires c...
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Whirlwind Tour of Failed Corps Levees ~Society of Professional Journalists ~On board the bus will be a senior representative of the Army Corps of Engineers’ New Orleans District office, which oversaw the co...
*This process would work with almost any type of shoe, not just boots. * * * When I was younger I dreamed of riding horses and working on a farm, years later, reality has set in and I know that I am no...
. Terrifying NATO Cluster Bomb in Libya - Raw Footage Even with absolute freedom to bomb as it likes, it seems that there are many places in Libya where NATO still cannot gain the upper hand. .
Rebuffed from the U.S.-led space station, China is launching a module to practice docking at its own station planned for 2020.
. Terrifying NATO Cluster Bomb in Libya - Raw Footage .
Source: INFOBAE, ELANTRO.CL and Grupo GABIE Date: 09-26-11 Argentina: Possible Meteor Strike Kills One; Destroys Homes One woman died and six other people were injured as a result of the event. A local re...
[image: Global aquifer depletion, 1960-2010. Church, et al., gives an improved estimate of aquifer depletion (0.3 mm / yr), partially offsetting the retention of water in dams and giving a total terrestr...
Tantoo Cardinal Photo by Ben Powless Photo Ben Powless Photo Ben Powless Photo Ben Powless Photo Ben Powless Photos by Ben Powless: http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2011/09/ottawa-tarsands-protest-portraits-of....
[image: A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration vessel cruises past blobs of oil bubbling up near the Deepwater Horizon wellhead on Aug. 30, 2011. Federal officials said they have collected sam...
Fire up your recipe apps and videos; it's cooking time.
A convicted child molester who is one of America's most wanted criminals is secretly living in London. American Shawn Sullivan has been wanted in the U.S. since 1994 for allegedly molesting two 11-year-ol...
Picture borrowed from Black Agenda Report ** *"How can one make peace with a state that claims the right to adjust its borders according to its own whims?"* Reporting from Australia The US will veto th...
Among the greatest moments of European history were the judicial executions of tyrants Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1649, of Louis XVI of France in 1793 and of Nicholas II of Russia in 19...
A crudely made pipe bomb was found Sunday afternoon in a mailbox in the *8000 block of Licking Pike* in the Alexandria area, the fifth such device found recently in unincorporated Campbell County. County ...
It's meant to be racist, and it's meant to be discriminatory. And the controversial "Increase Diversity Bake Sale" hosted by the Berkeley College Republicans is still on, the club's president said, desp...
An Afghan employee of the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan opened fire Sunday evening in a CIA annex at the embassy, killing a U.S. citizen, a U.S. government official said. Security personnel used a flash-ba...
The innovation is based on the ability to capture 3D with one single stereo-camera.
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This morning CBC News reports that WikiLeaks has exposed that a Canadian is being held at the notorious Bagram prison, the US-run torture camp and holding tank for Afghans who were either trying to defend ...
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*You could probably build a small home with all the botox in this photo* The point is being made-- loudly and clearly-- that while Republicans have been trying to politicize the Solyndra bankruptcy they th...
Rush Limbaugh says that Herman Cain won the Florida straw poll because he's "pedal to the metal conservative all the time." Rush went on to say Cain would be the first black president and that he wanted t...
The cures for the economic crisis are being proffered by the folks that delivered it, using the theories that caused it. Does anyone *truly *buy any of the solutions? Not this trader, Alessio Rastani, sp...
No one knows who will win the Ontario election, two of the three leaders remain virtual unknowns, and the campaign still lacks a ballot question. Yet somehow, without warning, Ontario finds itself just 9 s...
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