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*The third movement, Andante con moto of Brahms's First Piano Quartet is played by pianist
Brian Suits, violinist Kyung Sun Lee, violist
Sheila Browne, and cellist Brooks Whitehouse.* *by Ken* We've ...
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In Washington, William Underbaggage,
Oglala Lakota from Pine Ridge, S.D., sends a message to President Obama as to why the tar sands and its pipeline must be stopped. Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell...
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Europe - 1 hour ago
Magnitude*7.0* Date-Time - *Saturday, September 03, 2011 at 22:55:36 UTC* - Sunday, September 04, 2011 at 09:55:36 AM at epicenter - Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location20.585°S, 1...
A pilot is missing after two single-engine planes collided over western Alaska, the
Federal Aviation Administration said. A Cessna 207 and a Cessna 208 collided in midair Friday over an area southeast of...
I suppose if I'm going to go on and on about church doctrine, it's only fair of me to put it in context. What can I do? The power of Christ compels me. *Related posts:* - All this
Catholic-school b...
I'm sorry, I just can't help it sometimes. It's probably not the most famous or best-remembered scene from Blazing Saddles (and in truth, it's got a lot of competition), but in light of the Catholic sch...
And that's just for starters. The travesty that took place this week is common knowledge by now. Activist Leanne Iskander, who's got more courage in her little finger than most people have in their whole ...
*Wars of The Apocalypse: Revolutions, The Great Game, World War 3, And Nuclear Armageddon * *Saman Mohammadi The Excavator September 3, 2011* "History is full of places where hundreds of thousands of ...
*Creator-writer-director Peter Glanz talks about the AMC Web-only series The Trivial Pursuits of Arthur Banks. Here's the link to watch Episode 1.* *"I want to believe that all women aren't crazy, I rea...
During a summer work experience placement, the British student also helped with the discovery of over 20 asteroids.
The risk that an earthquake would cause a severe accident at a U.S. nuclear plant is greater than previously thought, 24 times as high in one case, according to an AP analysis of preliminary government dat...
The International Atomic Energy Agency is "increasingly concerned" about possible activity in Iran to develop a nuclear payload for a missile, the IAEA said in a confidential report obtained by Reuters on ...
U.S. employment growth ground to a halt in August, reviving recession fears and piling pressure on both President Barack Obama and the Federal Reserve to provide more stimulus to aid the frail economy. N...
The IDF uses weaponized unmanned aircraft to assassinate militants, according to a U.S. diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks. The IDF Advocate-General Maj. Gen. Avichai Mandelblit revealed this inform...
A retired mother of two was trampled to death by cows as she walked her dog in a field. Marilyn Duffy, 61, a former school secretary, was killed by the 20-strong herd on her regular morning route near he...
There's no better government job creator than the U.S. military. Americans sign up for a lot of reasons, such as to serve their country and for the health and education benefits . But CBS News corresponden...
A new strain of swine flu has shown up in two children in Pennsylvania and Indiana who had direct or indirect contact with pigs. The virus includes a gene from the 2009 pandemic strain that might let it sp...
A long way down the US housing ladder, beneath the grisly 'projects' of The Wire and the trailer parks hymned by Eminem, beneath the slums of New Orleans and the ghettos of Detroit, you'll find the long-st...
At the close of business on Aug. 31--for the first time in the history of the country--the publicly held debt of the federal government topped $10 trillion, according to data released by the U.S. Treasury ...
A Pentagon report has found that a multibillion-dollar Chinese telecommunications company that has been seeking to make major inroads in the U.S. market has close ties to China's military, despite the comp...
Nature is pummeling the United States this year with extremes. Unprecedented triple-digit heat and devastating drought. Deadly tornadoes leveling towns. Massive rivers overflowing. A billion-dollar blizza...
Oakland's reputation as the nation's most cannabis-friendly city is safe. Now, and forever, especially after the once-gritty city hosts what is touted as America's first marijuana street fair. The Intern...
China offered huge stockpiles of weapons to Colonel Moammar Gadhafi during the final months of his regime, according to papers that describe secret talks about shipments via Algeria and South Africa. Doc...
The editor of a science journal has resigned after admitting that a recent paper casting doubt on man-made climate change should not have been published. The paper, by US scientists Roy Spencer and Willi...
Robert Wiedemer’s new book, “Aftershock: Protect Yourself and Profit in the Next Global Financial Meltdown,” quickly is becoming the survival guide for the 21st century. And Newsmax’s eye-opening Aftershoc...
The August jobs report was dismal for plenty of reasons, but perhaps most striking was the picture it painted of racial inequality in the job market. Black unemployment surged to 16.7% in August, its high...
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, operator of the state's power grid, said in a report today that a new federal environmental regulation would reduce generating capacity and put the grid "at incre...
President Barack Obama, citing the struggling economy, asked the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday to withdraw an air-quality rule that Republicans and business groups said would cost millions of j...
Before Moammar Gadhafi, there were the Phoenicians. And the Greeks. The Romans. The first Arabs. They're a reminder that no civilization -- and no leader -- is forever. The Libyan transitional leaders ha...
Obsessed with keeping social order, China is now pushing to revise its laws in ways that will broaden police powers. The National People's Congress last week released a proposed revision of the Criminal ...
A massive wildfire earlier this summer in New Mexico scorched aboriginal lands, threatened one of the United States's premier nuclear facilities and pushed bears into nearby cities. But it somehow spared m...
One of the glacial rivers feeding a large lake straddling the Yukon-British Columbia border has dried up, hikers say, turning a normally fast-running watercourse into a muddy field strewn with icebergs. ...
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The federal agency that oversees the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is set to file suits against more than a dozen big banks, accusing them of misrepresenting the quality of mortgage securitie...
Plaquemines Parish levees overtop as Tropical Storm Lee hovers
The iPhone 5 prototype went missing in a San Francisco tequila bar. Apple wants it back.
-by Dave Sherbula Here in Wisconsin, you may have heard, there is an ongoing fight between Republicans and Democrats about the philosophy of big government vs limited government and public vs private s...
Over 60 percent of the deforested Amazon Rainforest is used for cattle, but much of the forest that is cleared is wasted.
*Note that it may take half a minute for your browser to display various formulae in \(\LaTeX\) that are included in the text below.* Here is a somewhat balanced, completed, and corrected version of a Co...
Thomas Mulcair has broken his silence and made it clear he will not run for his party's leadership, unless they select a timeline to his liking: OTTAWA — Thomas Mulcair says he won't run for the leadershi...
Slow-moving Tropical Storm Lee brought torrential rains to the Louisiana coast on Saturday as the heart of the storm approached New Orleans, where flood defenses were expected to be put to the test. The ...
Government says at least one intelligence official identified after complete cache of cables was published. Julian Assange could face prosecution in Australia after publishing sensitive information about...
"It not your enemy who get's you, It's always your own people." - Nas, from the song, "In Between Us," feat. Scarface. John Walsh's new article at CounterPunch.org called "Meet Professor Juan Cole, Cons...
Anti-fascists stage counter-protest in the East End of London, chanting 'they shall not pass' amid angry confrontations. Large crowds assembled in east London to oppose a demonstration by the far-right E...
Border Patrol officials are investigating an incursion by Mexican federal police into the United State on Thursday morning. U.S. Border Patrol spokesman Doug Mosier said armed officers with Mexico's Secr...
Heavy rains from slow-moving Tropical Storm Lee began to drench southern Louisiana on Saturday as officials warned the storm was expected to turn east toward New Orleans. Lee's top sustained winds early ...
It is nearly 10 years since the 9/11 attacks, a horrific day that changed the world as well as America. In a country with a reverence for its constitution, debates about practical questions often end up ...
Italy has received a stern warning from the head of the European Central Bank to stick to its austerity plan after it failed to pass key measures. Jean-Claude Trichet told a forum in northern Italy that s...
Heavy fighting in a town in central Somalia has left at least 30 people dead and 100 wounded. A hospital in the town of Galkayou, supported by Medecins Sans Frontieres, has been coping with the casualtie...
The UN nuclear watchdog says it is "increasingly concerned" that Iran is secretly working on components for a nuclear weapons programme. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) describes its informa...
The Vatican has rejected criticism that church leaders sought to cover up extensive abuse of young people by priests in Ireland, in a lengthy statement sent to the Irish government Saturday. The Vatican ...
Tropical Storm Lee was strengthening as it swirled toward the Gulf Coast at a leisurely pace early Saturday, where it was unleashing heavy rains and strong winds over southern Louisiana. Heavy rains will...
At least three bodies were found Saturday as the search continued for a military plane with 21 people aboard that went missing Friday off Chile's Pacific coast, near the Juan Fernandez islands, CNN Chile r...
A visit to North Korea and China planned by Iran's parliament speaker was postponed Saturday, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported. Ali Larijani's trips were intended to promote parliamentary coope...
Voracious mining has hollowed out vast tracts of the north of China, leaving three million people living on ground that could collapse at any moment. To keep its glittering skylines alight, China now uses...
Tens of thousands of struggling families are to be phoned by their bank and told to cut spending or face losing their houses when interest rates rise. More than 30,000 home owners will be told to spend le...
More than a quarter of graduates were not in full time work three and half years after leaving university, new figures show. University leavers are also becoming more likely to be unemployed, the statist...
A fifth of teachers have been physically assaulted in the last 12 months amid growing concerns over a collapse in classroom discipline, it emerged today. Some 20 per cent of staff working in schools said...
Abdul Hakeem Belhaj, one of the most effective commanders among anti-Gadhafi forces in Libya, has seen plenty of combat in his 45 years. A well-built, bearded man with dark, serious eyes, he fought agai...
t the centre of a circle of cheering rebel soldiers near Colonel Muammar Qaddafi’s hometown this week stood an improbable figure who gives new meaning to the term “road trip”. Chris Jeon, a 21-year-old u...
Mandate may already be the most charged word in the health care industry, but this is a new twist altogether. The Michigan-based Munson Healthcare group has issued a new rule requiring all its employees, i...
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As part of London’s bid to host the 2012 Summer Olympics, organizers offered a plan to keep the Games green—but they’ve changed their minds. The committee will “no longer pursue formal offsetting procedure...
The consumer protection agency (Pro Consumidor) will fine propane gas stations the equivalent of 500 minimum wages (RD$3.0 million) if they swindle customers with false measurements. Pro Consumidor direc...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand at a depth of 16.6 km (10.3 miles), the quake hit at 17:26:43 UTC Saturday 3rd September 2011. The epicenter was 107 km (66 miles) S...
This is really a propos nothing in particular, but I stumbled across a nifty bit of analysis looking at the voting records of Toronto City Councillors. Using a cluster classification, the numerically-gifte...
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Biased BBC - 11 hours ago
As`part of the BBC's sensational run-up to the 10th anniversary of 9/11, Mark Mardell speaks to a CIA officer about the use of torture, and whether or not it can ever be justified. The ideas discussed in...
NATO leaders are guilty under US code of providing material support to terrorists. by Tony Cartalucci "Whoever knowingly provides material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization, or at...
Tarbes, the departmental capital of Hautes-Pyrenees, was hit by a huge storm last night that left streets flooded and cars abandoned. According to Meteo France, 45mm fell in one hour and over the two hour...
Firefighters work Friday, Sept. 2, 2011, in Oak Hill, Calif., to contain the flames of a fast-moving wildfire that erupted Friday on the main interstate between Southern California and Las Vegas. The fir...
Kennedy Lake in Pacific Rim National Park will remain closed during the long weekend as parks staff continue to hunt for the cougar that attacked an 18month-old boy on Monday. "We did not catch anything t...
The Idaho Department of Lands fights a wildfire in Winchester Canyon along Highway 95, about 15 miles south of Culdesac on Friday. The call came in around 3:30 in the afternoon. Winchester Volunteer Fire ...
State and federal firefighters, along with aerial crews, are battling a major wildfire in Natchitoches Parish that has destroyed 10 residences, officials said. Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike S...
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck offshore Bio-Bio, Chile at a depth of 15.1 km (9.4 miles), the quake hit at 16:20:53 UTC Saturday 3rd September 2011. The epicenter was 53 km (32 miles) South of Lebu...
Reader Contribution; The government has requested that local administrations remain on the alert for severe risks of volcanic eruptions, as the number of volcanoes showing abnormal activity continued to ...
Authorities say two single-engine planes have collided in midair over western Alaska. Each reportedly carried just a pilot. National Transportation Safety Board investigator Clint Johnson says reports f...
They think you don't really want to know the full extent of the damage done to your future. I think they are wrong. (P.S. One of my most fervent wishes is that everyone remember that "boy genius" Robert Ru...
In the video above AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka is asking us to pledge that we all get involved with a program to put Americans back to work. That sounds like a good thing to do, especially for this La...
Every day nearly 200 criminals released on bail go on to commit further crimes, according to the latest figures. And there are fears the figures could rise when controversial funding cuts to prisons and c...
The Royal Bank of Scotland, HSBC and Barclays are three of 17 banks and financial firms which have been sued by the US government. The regulator the *Federal Housing Finance Agency* (FHFA) took the legal ...
Detectives hunting the killer of an OAP in a hammer attack have arrested their prime suspect Graeme Jarman, a 47-year-old former civil servant, was arrested in North Yorkshire in connection with the murd...
In his recent memoir, *Murdering and Torturing Brown People For Fun and Profit*, Dick Cheney recounted a dream that he'd had in a weeks-long coma following open heart surgery. Said Cheney in the epilogue...
* the**REALnews Permalink* August 29, 2011 *Secret Exemptions Allowed Speculators to Distort Futures Markets* Michael Greenberger (former Chief of Staff to Brooksley Born):...
Clearly 9/11 was an inside job, ALL real experts have proven it. And clearly the mainstream media is in on it. You can tell by the news and the talk shows. All they are showing are the criminals from the B...
Clearly 9/11 was an inside job, ALL real experts have proven it. And clearly the mainstream media is in on it. You can tell by the news and the talk shows. All they are showing are the criminals from the B...
Most Tea-Partiers won't be able understand this - its a little too erudite for them But it's an excellent read - by Mike Lofgren (R) from Arizona. It should have been evident to clear-eyed observers that...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 34.9 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 14:00:58 UTC Saturday 3rd September 2011. The epicenter was 101 km (62 miles) E...
The Libyan official suspected of policewoman Yvonne Fletcher's murder claimed benefits while studying in Britain, documents found at his home show. Matouk Mohammed Matouk, one of Colonel Gaddafi's closes...
Three Swiss men suspected of aiding an international nuclear smuggling ring that supplied Libya and Iran are likely to face charges this fall, prosecutors said Friday, The Associated Press reported. Urs T...
Fishermen pick dead shrimp out of their haul in Leting county, Tangshan, North China's Hebei province, Aug 31, 2011. Large quantities of the seafood they hauled in were dead. Hebei is located by Bohai Ba...
Nearly 2,600 gallons of a concentrated industrial detergent was inadvertently released by the Allegheny Valley Joint Sewage Authority treatment plant in Harmar on Thursday, killing close to 30 fish and sp...
Darrol Eichner, a fishery biologist with the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, said trout are dying off because of a lack of oxygen. Located on the east side of Kingsley Dam, Lake Ogallala is a popular ...
World Bank chief Robert Zoellick warned Saturday that the global economy was heading into a new "danger zone", as he urged China to speed up structural reforms to help its development. "The financial cris...
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CENSORED NEWS - 14 hours ago
Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
Hooded figures, shaved heads, flags of St George… and a chilling array of guns. These are the frightening pictures posted on an anti-fascism website which appear to show English Defence League supporters ...
The U.S. has the lowest tax rates since I was a child-- when Eisenhower was president and the rich paid their fair share. The decrease in taxation on the wealthy and the rise in their power and their agg...
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wmtc - 17 hours ago
The Council of Canadians has an update on the mega-quarry that the Highland Companies (owned by a US hedge fund) tried to sneak into Ontario's Melancthon Township. You'll recall that this company posed a...
Secret files have been found by Human Rights Watch which show the close intelligence relationship between the UK, US and Libya. They reveal that MI6 and the CIA had a regular dialogue with their counterp...
I hope they warned Mark Regev that the focus of his interrogation had been altered at the last minute, from the original version on the Today website - “The "million people march" is due to take place t...
A five-year-old girl has been attacked by a bat while shopping with her mother at Walmart. The mammal flew at Zoe Zachrison in the frozen food section of the store in Cambridge, Minnesota, biting her on ...
The CIA has become ‘one hell of a killing machine’ after 9/11 with a focus on hunting terrorists rather than gathering intelligence, according to reports. Agents working for the organisation say it been ...
A husband and wife were shot execution-style by a gunman after he broke into their house and shot their son before shooting them in the head. Frugrin 'Jay' Jaggarnauth, 64, and his wife Rosie, 56, from Qu...
New images have revealed the incredible rate at which a huge glacier in north Greenland has broken up, turning from ice to water in just two years. In the largest-observed break-up since 1876, the Peterma...
The nurse charged over an alleged murder plot involving tampering with saline drips walked free last night. Rebecca Leighton said: ‘I have been living in hell and was locked up in prison for something I h...
As of 10 amlocal time, Talas, the season's 12th typhoon, landed in Kochi Prefecture in Shikokku Island, packing winds of up to 144 kms/h near its center, the weather agency said. The typhoon has left o...
This year's 600th explosive eruption was observed Saturday at Mt. Sakurajima in Kagoshima Prefecture, with the activity expected to continue, local meteorological observatory said, warning of rocks being b...
A military plane with 21 people aboard went missing off Chile's Pacific coast near the Juan Fernandez islands, authorities said on Friday. The plane tried to land twice before losing contact, Defense Mini...
A U.N. team was on the ground in Libya to re-establish the organization's presence there amid dire water, food and fuel shortages, the United Nations said Friday. The U.N. humanitarian coordinator for...
The one-month-old son of a TV reporter died after the babysitter collapsed on top of him and likely suffocated him. Michael Baldwin II, who hosts Diverse Long Island and works at News 12, said he was call...
An insect declared extinct in the UK six decades ago has been found alive and well. Experts confirmed yesterday that a breeding colony of 13-spot ladybirds was found in Devon by Richard Comont, a PhD stud...
A magnitude 3.3 earthquake has struck Central California at a depth of just 6.4 km (4 miles), the quake hit at 07:23:40 UTC Saturday 3rd September 2011. The epicenter was 3 km ( 2 miles) East of Pinnacles...
Puppies and kittens could be clubbed to death under new European Union regulations on the welfare of laboratory animals. Currently, newborn puppies, kittens, ferrets and fox cubs which are not needed for ...
The Government faces a legal challenge next week over its decision not to hold a coroner's inquest into the death of Dr David Kelly. Attorney General Dominic Grieve ruled one out in June after conducting ...
A Libyan rebel military commander negotiating over the future of his country today claimed he was tortured by CIA agents who suspected him of being an Al Qaeda terrorist. Abdel Hakim Belhaj, the former le...
Just a few weeks ago, Roger Lamb returned to his beautiful home in the heart of the Worcestershire countryside, rejoining his wife and four sons after the best part of a year working on the other side of t...
A doctor's daughter who stole a bottle of Lucozade and some sweets from Poundland during last months riots has been jailed for eight months, The 17-year-old also helped herself to t-shirts and sunglasses f...
On the same week when CERN has shown that cosmic rays strongly determine the rate of the birth of condensation nuclei and cloud condensation nuclei, and they and the Sun therefore decide about much of the ...
*Belhaj - the most powerful Libyan today.* Abdel hakim Belhaj is now the military boss in Tripoli. He has long been linked to both the CIA and al Qaeda. Belhaj's 'Tripoli Brigade', was trained in secre...
Cherie Blair suffered a humiliating rebuke yesterday for allowing a cocaine smuggler to walk free from court. Sitting as a Crown court judge, she gave drug dealer Lee Williams a suspended sentence even t...
Iraqi government officials say they will investigate claims U.S. soldiers shot at least 10 women and children then tried to cover it up with an airstrike, during a 2006 hunt for insurgents. The allegation...
Residents gather to begin their demonstration on Aug. 27. (Weibo.com). Photo courtesy: TheEpochTimes Residents living near a petrochemical plant in Dalian demonstrated seeking to ensure their safety af...
Trial: Casey Anthony told detectives Caylee was kidnapped by Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez. A woman with the same name, right, is now suing for defamation. Casey Anthony will have to give videotaped evidenc...
Hackers claim to have accessed the email accounts of more than two dozen law enforcement agencies in Texas and dumped the contents online. Anonymous, the loose-knit international hacking collective, said t...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 167.2 km (103.9 miles), the quake hit at 04:50:15 UTC Saturday 3rd September 2011. The epicenter was 135 km (83...
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck the Santa Cruz Islands at a depth of 101.2 km (62.9 miles), the quake hit at 01:06:56 UTC Saturday 3rd September 2011. The epicenter was 245 km (152 miles) SSE of Lat...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Mindanao, Philippines at a depth of 54 km (33.6 miles), the quake hit at 00:40:12 UTC Saturday 3rd September 2011. The epicenter was 11 km (6 miles) West of Hinatuan, ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands, Russia at a depth of 121.3 km (75.4 miles), the quake hit at 21:56:41 UTC Friday 2nd September 2011. The epicenter was 361 km (224 miles) Southwest...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Halmahera, Indonesia at a depth of 211.2 km (131.2 miles), the quake hit at 20:19:01 UTC Friday 2nd September 2011. The epicenter was 248 km (154 miles) NNE of Ternat...
Photo courtesy: GrapevineTxOnline.com/cc As Texas continues to suffer from the worst one-year drought on record along with scorchingly high temperatures, area lakes might seem like the best places to fin...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 51.2 km (31.8 miles), the quake hit at 01:25:38 UTC Saturday 3rd September 2011. The epicenter was 53 km (32 miles...
The Legend of 9/11 — 10 Years On by Anthony Lawson:
A magnitude 6.2 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 106 km (65.9 miles), the quake hit at 04:49:00 UTC Saturday 3rd September 2011. The epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) Nor...
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CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours ago
Video with footage from today's rally of Native Americans and First Nations at the White House to halt the tar sands. Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
[image: Big Bank] The government on Friday sued 17 financial firms, as well as the largest U.S. banks, for selling Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac billions of dollarsappeal of mortgage-backed securities that tu...
*AN ANTHOLOGIST CAN'T PLEASE EVERYONE, BUT --:* *As you can see from this June post, I wasn't pleased to discover that Garrison Keillor, editor of the Library of America Thurber volume, had omitted "The Cu...
Photo courtesy: IRRI Images via flickr Mississippi and Iowa, two big farm states, were recently tested for glyphosate levels in the air and water. Researchers found the key ingredient of Monsanto's Round...
Native Americans and First Nations were arrested today, Friday, Sept. 2, 2011, at the White House to send a message for President Obama to say "No!" to the Keystone XL Pipeline. In the video, Gitz Craz...
Alan Grayson via bounces.salsalabs.net Yesterday, the Commission on Wartime Contracting released its final report. The Commission reported that between $31 billion and $62 billion of the tax money spent o...
*Charlie Allen, A Real Terrorist From The American Shadow State* *Saman Mohammadi The Excavator September 2, 2011* "Charles Allen is the spy who came out of the ‘shadow state’, with the intent to make...
*BRAHMS: Piano Quartet No. 2 in A, Op. 26*
*The most charitable description I can think of for Sunny John is "worthless pile of garbage," but he sure made the president and his Brainless Trust look like jackasses.* *"[President] Obama had sought ...
Read this... Through the looking glass. We have obtained total Orwellian Mediatopia: "Doublespeak" is language that deliberately disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words. A simple rule of thu...
Opportunity, NASA’s long-lived Martian robotic workhorse, has started a new round of studies at a place unlike anything seen before on Mars.
New Orleans Levees Won’t Be Tested by Gulf Storm, Officials Say ~Bloomberg ~Sandy Rosenthal, president and founder of Levees.org, a group set up after Katrina to monitor the status of the improvements, sai...
March/April 2011 Issue Permalink ------------------------------ POLITICS → Economy, Money in Politics, Top Stories *It's the Inequality, Stupid* Illustrations by ...
Delegations from 60 countries are attending Thursday’s “Friends of Libya” conference in Paris to discuss the oil-rich North African nation’s future in the post-Muammar Gaddafi era. Alongside the politica...
The Greek finance ministry backpedalled on Thursday after a new budget watchdog released an internal report warning that debt was "out of control" just as officials held critical talks with creditors. ...
Federal and state environmental teams on Wednesday investigated the extent of health risks related to damaged sewage and water treatment plants in more than a dozen Vermont towns where flash flooding has l...
The dobostorta cake, a five-layer vanilla and chocolate buttercream dessert with a caramel-glazed top layer, is probably Hungary's best-known treat -- at least after goulash. The cake can be seen in the vi...
Arctic sea ice cover has already shrunk to its third lowest level on record this year, in an irreversible trend which may see an ice-free summer around 2030, said the head of the world's main monitoring ce...
Now we know what the Navy plans to do with its experimental hybrid of laser cannon and machine gun: zap pirate ships. Two defense giants, Boeing and BAE Systems, announced late last month that they would...
He's in uniform, in public, and definitely caught in flagrante. But investigators said the state police officer caught on camera having sex on the hood of a car did not commit a crime, CBS News affiliate K...
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Magnitude*7.0* Date-Time - *Saturday, September 03, 2011 at 22:55:36 UTC* - Sunday, September 04, 2011 at 09:55:36 AM at epicenter - Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location20.585°S, 1...
A pilot is missing after two single-engine planes collided over western Alaska, the Federal Aviation Administration said. A Cessna 207 and a Cessna 208 collided in midair Friday over an area southeast of...
The risk that an earthquake would cause a severe accident at a U.S. nuclear plant is greater than previously thought, 24 times as high in one case, according to an AP analysis of preliminary government dat...
The International Atomic Energy Agency is "increasingly concerned" about possible activity in Iran to develop a nuclear payload for a missile, the IAEA said in a confidential report obtained by Reuters on ...
U.S. employment growth ground to a halt in August, reviving recession fears and piling pressure on both President Barack Obama and the Federal Reserve to provide more stimulus to aid the frail economy. N...
A retired mother of two was trampled to death by cows as she walked her dog in a field. Marilyn Duffy, 61, a former school secretary, was killed by the 20-strong herd on her regular morning route near he...
There's no better government job creator than the U.S. military. Americans sign up for a lot of reasons, such as to serve their country and for the health and education benefits . But CBS News corresponden...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA five-year-old girl has been attacked by a bat while shopping with her mother at Walmart. The mammal flew at Zoe Zachrison in the frozen food section of the store in Cambridge, Minnesota, biting her on ...
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