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Germany will return Namibian skulls taken for scientific experiments after the first genocide of the 20th century.
Normally silver and aluminum are highly reflective, but on the nano-scale, they absorb sunlight better than anything.
Mint Plus has a reservoir and a stronger battery for more cleaning time.
The car company has developed an e-bike to out-race the rest; but so far, it's still a concept.
*Radiohead Is Going To Play At The #OccupyWallStreet Protest Today! * *
Liberty Park at 4 PM* *#RadioheadOccupy*
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wmtc - 25 minutes ago
The ongoing protest at
New York City's financial district is receiving a huge boost from labour unions. The Transit Workers Union voted unanimously to support Occupy Wall Street and the United Auto Worke...
Vancouver's safe injection site has been saved from Harper's attempts to shut it down. The Supreme Court of Canada has held that not allowing the clinic to operate would violate the
Charter of Rights and...
All too often these days we're visited with the consequences of defective government. By defective government I mean the weak leadership incapable of taking the hard decisions necessary to benefit the co...
This past week King Abdullah, the leader of Saudi Arabia, allowed women to vote in municipal elections starting in 2015 and recently overturned a court's ruling to lash a Saudi woman ten times for driving...
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wmtc - 1 hour ago
There's an excellent new democratic voting tool designed to show us what the upcoming Ontario election would look like under different voting systems. Although we can reconfigure actual election results u...
Should *ecocide* join the ranks of crimes against humanity? The Brits are debating that at the moment. *should the bosses of polluting companies and the leaders of environmentally-unfriendly states join...
[image: Greenland Ice Sheet surface melt anomaly, 1958-2011. Also shown are snowfall (red) and runoff (yellow). Tedesco, et al., 2011 via realclimate.org] By Gavin Schmidt 21 September 2011 After a rec...
[image: The range of possible costs in 2050 for a high climate change–rapid growth scenario estimated from 10,000 model runs. The central average value for the cost of climate change in this scenario is ...
I keep trying to believe the radical religious right isn't a threat but that isn't working. A study just released by Baylor University goes a long way to explaining the twisted thinking of our exalted Rul...
Source: DiarioChilecito.com.ar and Daniel Valverdi Date: 30 September 2011 Argentina: “We Saw Something Weird Descending from the Sky” At siesta time on Saturday there was a blackout in the San Vicente dis...
[image: The Adventures of Unemployed Man, by Erich Origen and Gan Golan] By Ben Baden, US News 28 September 2011 Next week, the Labor Department will release its much-anticipated monthly jobs report. L...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Philippine Islands Region at a depth of 187.5 km (116.5 miles), the quake hit at 13:06:35 UTC Friday 30th September 2011. The epicenter was 252 km ( 156 miles) ESE...
The Chameleon arm band device holds up to ten disposable cartridges that detect hazardous chemicals.
An expedition takes off to cross the mountainous country to figure out what makes this the happiest place on earth.
Don't worry, be happy. The Harper government knows all about climate change and it's got that one covered according to Steve's Envirostooge Peter Kent. Kent was reacting to a government report warning t...
A hitherto dormant establishment of New York labor and community groups signed on to the protest today and announced they'd join the dirty fucking spoiled computer-wielding scumbucket hippie monsters in ...
Foreign Affairs Minister Baird demands gold on new business cards MacKay racks up nearly $3-million in flights on VIP jets Peter MacKay Under Fire For Using Search-And-Rescue Helicopter Following Vacation
CNN: "About 100 people have been arrested during the protests, police said. *People were apprehended for disorderly conduct (?), resisting arrest (?), obstructing governmental administration (?) and assa...
*Locking in a Republican majority in the House* Last year it drove me crazy that the reactionary Blue Dog Caucus was able to jump start an election campaign for a turgid conservative Democrat, Lori Edward...
As we experience climate change, we also have to withstand wild swings in weather and danger.
A suspected U.S. drone fired two missiles at a vehicle in northwest Pakistan, killing three suspected militants, Pakistani intelligence officials said Friday. The drone targeted the suspected militants i...
American-born Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who preached terror as the public face of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, has been killed in Yemen, the nation's Defense Ministry said Friday. The United S...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 70.9 km (44.1 miles), the quake hit at 10:28:52 UTC Friday 30th September 2011. The epicenter was 244 km ( 151 miles) East of Kuril'sk, ...
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Broken of Britain - 5 hours ago
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Auckland Islands, New Zealand Region at a depth of 26.8 km ( 16.7 miles), the quake hit at 10:18:27 UTC Friday 30th September 2011. The epicenter was 196 km ( 122 ...
An animal trust is investigating reports of a mystery illness that is killing dogs across several counties in the UK. The Animal Health Trust (AHT), based in Newmarket, is following up reports of dogs sud...
[image: Al-Qaida's al-Awlaki] The Yemeni government has released an executive statement saying the U.S.-born al-Qaida cleric Anwar al-Awlaki has been killed. The government says al-Awlaki was embattled an...
Five people were killed by an on coming train while crossing the tracks in the Nizhny Novgorod region of Russia’s Volga federal district, RIA Novosti reported. A group of passengers had just left a commu...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the Sea of Okhotsk, Russia at a depth of 458.9 km (285.2 miles), the quake hit at 09:21:21 UTC Friday 30th September 2011. The epicenter was 252 km ( 156 miles) ESE of...
Nature News published an unusually candid article about the carbon trading scheme: Clean-energy credits tarnished The text discusses diplomatic cables leaked by WikiLeaks last week. In those cables, di...
PETA says its new ad is "biting." Critics use less complimentary adjectives.
Israeli warplanes took to the air overnight Thursday, striking back after rockets were fired into territory from Gaza, Israeli and Palestinian officials said. Hamas security sources said that two Palesti...
Search and rescue teams on Friday were trying to reach an airplane that crashed with 18 people aboard in the mountains of western Indonesia, an air transportation official said. Air traffic controllers l...
Eight NATO troops have died in Afghanistan over the past two days, seven of them from war-related causes, the International Security Assistance Force said. One ISAF service member died Wednesday followin...
Hurricane Ophelia strengthened early Friday, packing winds of 85 mph as it swirled across the Atlantic, the National Hurricane Center said. The system had appeared to be weakening several days ago, only t...
At least 49 people have been killed across several cities in western Syria during the past two days of fighting between pro- and anti-government forces, an opposition group said Thursday. Most of the dea...
AP: Two ice shelves that existed before Canada was settled by Europeans diminished significantly this summer, one nearly disappearing altogether, Canadian scientists say in newly published research. The l...
Italy's Mount Etna has erupted again, with lava spewing into the sky Wednesday. Mount Etna put on an impressive display, launching flames and sparks more than 800 feet in the air. Experts were there ...
Convicted killer George Wright, who hijacked a plane after escaping from a New Jersey prison, lived openly in the West African nation of Guinea-Bissau during the 1980s under his real name and even knew U.S...
Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies sounds like a book that one might find in the library at Hogwarts in the Harry Potter books - but it's real, a book which catalogues the strangest astronomical objec...
*Å koda Pythagoras, a Greek-made magnet-powered vehicle, helped Greece to repay 1/3 of its €30-trillion debt around 2011. Or did it? Or will it? The man on the picture who introduced the new model in 2095...
Enormous swarms of jellyfish - some of them deadly - are taking over the Mediterranean, a top scientist has warned. The holiday hotspot, a favourite with Brits, has seen a sharp increase in numbers and co...
A middle-aged man charged round to the house of a schoolboy and throttled him after his online character was killed during a game of Call Of Duty, a court heard. Mark Bradford, 46, was furious when he was...
The Kepler orbiting observatory was launched with a simple mission - to find other Earths. NASA describes it as 'a search for habitable planets.' And analysis of its first 136 days of data has already beg...
Europe has given Britain two months to scrap policies preventing benefit tourists claiming billions of pounds in handouts. Last night the European Commission said it would take the Government to court unl...
It's Friday and time for a new one of these to take us off into the weekend! The floor, as ever, is yours! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
It is remarkable how much platform the BBC extends to the faux Road Safety charity, Brake. These fanatics were immediately quoted here by the BBC in response to the suggestion by Transport Secretary Phili...
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Broken of Britain - 8 hours ago
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Jalisco, Mexico at a depth of 39.3 km (24.4 miles), the quake hit at 07:23:27 UTC Friday 30th September 2011. The epicenter was 209 km ( 130 miles) So...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Southeast of the Loyalty Islands at a depth of 81.2 km (50.5 miles), the quake hit at 05:19:33 UTC Friday 30th September 2011. The epicenter was 71 km ( 44 miles) WSW ...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 32.9 km (20.4 miles), the quake hit at 05:09:02 UTC Friday 30th September 2011. The epicenter was 330 km ( 205 miles)...
One person died and about 250 fell ill after eating E.coli-contaminated food in an outbreak British officials covered up. It is thought the food affected was leeks and potatoes and sold in British stores...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 7 km (4.3 miles), the quake hit at 04:27:24 UTC Friday 30th September 2011. The epicenter was 22 km ( 13.6 miles) Northeast of Ilic, Turkey...
Anyone catch this interview between John Humphrys and Sir Merrick Cockell, chairman of the local government association and leader of Kensington and Chelsea Council? The issue is the Conservative plan to h...
*Actress Helen Mirren, who has played the part of a Mossad agent.* In Israel, in the late 1980s, author Julia Pascal met a former agent of Mossad. (Honeypot: The startling story of the killer in heels) T...
I *confess *I asked my 2 -year-old what she wanted for Christmas today. I was expecting her to ask for toy ponies or dolls. You know what she asked for? An iphone. You and me both kid. I *confess *I am ey...
Elon Musk has announced his vision of a space launch system that will be fully-reusable. No parachutes required.
Saturday and Sunday, October 1&2 Black History Live at Wembley Stadium: Robert speaking & exhibition stand (campaign action, DVD’s and book sales). More information here. Tuesday, October 4, 7:00 PM Fr...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 279.5 km (173.7 miles), the quake hit at 01:27:27 UTC Friday 30th September 2011. The epicenter was 59 km ( 36 miles) NNE of Isangel, Tanna, Vanua...
The US State Dept. has outsourced much of its responsibility for determining whether to give approval to the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline to TransCanada consultant Cardno-ENTRIX, including : 1) the...
Three teenage girls are in hospital after being shot in west London, after a suspected drive-by shooting. Police officers were alerted to the shooting just after 7pm at John Fearon Walk, off Dart Street,...
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An excellent piece of main stream coverage on this past weekend, I'm sure this video wont be up long, but figured the folks looking at the vids on this channel would appreciate it. *Thanks for an excell...
*And let the bedbugs bite*: "Bedbug pesticides sicken scores, kill 1" September 23, 2011|Associated Press ATLANTA - Bedbugs don’t make you sick. But the poisons used to kill them can. A government study...
*And let the bedbugs bite*: "Bedbug pesticides sicken scores, kill 1" September 23, 2011|Associated Press ATLANTA - Bedbugs don’t make you sick. But the poisons used to kill them can. A government study...
*I am surprised; however, the U.S. and Saudis sent him back. Otherwise, they would not have let him leave.* "Violence leaves 15 dead in Yemen’s capital" September 23, 2011|Associated Press SANA, Yemen - ...
"Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours." - Voltaire. It is a plain fact that Al-Qaeda is a proxy army that was invented by the CIA to intimidate the ...
From The Grauniad:North Sea gas production has slumped by 25% in the second quarter of the year, an alarming increase in the rate of decline that will cut tax revenues and could put more pressure on governme...
"It is unclear what practical effect the attorneys generals’ campaign could have.... --**more--"
“In this crowded starfield spanning some 3 degrees within the high flying constellation Cygnus, the eye is drawn to the Cocoon Nebula. A compact star forming region, the cosmic Cocoon punctuates a long tra...
*We've got our own regarding the Globe, readers.* Saudi king grants women right to vote *Why does that link go here? * "Saudi Monarch Grants Women Right to Vote" by Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times | S...
Arizona senator touches down in Tripoli for celebratory stroll through ruined nation. by Tony Cartalucci As Libya's rebels, under the cover of NATO, verifiably exterminate entire cities [1], cut off othe...
*This photo accompanies Matt Stoller's interesting post "OccupyWallStreet Is a Church of Dissent, Not a Protest"* *by Ken* My concern about the OccupyWallStreet confrontation in Lower Manhattan's Financi...
Stretching for more than 100,000 km (62, ooo miles) from end to end, solar Active Region (AR) 1302 is slowly coming into position where it directly faces the Earth. The region contains a “behemoth” sunspot...
Syrian opposition groups are calling for the first time for an international intervention to protect civilians from the Assad regime's ongoing military onslaught, including the establishment of a United Na...
Climate change could cost Canada billions a year as early as 2020, depending on how severe it is and how well the country adapts, says a report released Thursday morning. The National Round Table on the ...
Philippine ex-president Fidel Ramos said Wednesday that China's recent assertiveness over sea disputes was motivated by a desire to challenge US power, as he predicted more tensions to come. On a visit t...
A self-styled drug-trafficking group calling itself the "Zeta Killers" claimed responsibility this week for the recent murders of at least 35 people believed to belong to the Zetas, Mexico's most violent c...
Stolen football equipment threatened not only the season but also Friday's big event at Frederick Douglass College Preparatory Academy for Young Men -- the Detroit school's Homecoming game. As the junior ...
China successfully launched its first space lab module into orbit in an impressive nighttime display today (Sept. 29). The unmanned Tiangong 1 module lifted off on a Chinese Long March 2F rocket at 9:16 ...
Unemployment rates fell in roughly two-thirds of large U.S. cities in August, despite zero job growth nationwide. Here are the cities with the highest and lowest rates: Highest unemployment rates August 2...
Spanish researchers found that 22 of 24 healthy people (92 per cent) developed an immune response to HIV after being given their MVA-B vaccine. Professor Mariano Esteban, head researcher on the project at...
The Chinese desire to win at all costs has created a culture of rampant cheating among athletes, including one team of men who donned wigs to compete in a female dragon boat race, according to a report by ...
Eighteen people have died in Northern Ireland from "one-punch attacks" in the past seven years, police have said. The PSNI has launched a new poster campaign to raise awareness of the issue. Targeted at m...
A deputy chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Thursday the force had killed more than 180 Kurdish rebels in a summer offensive along the northwestern border with Iraq, Fars news agency reported. "...
A sharp rise in the number of executions reported in Iran is raising suspicions that the Tehran regime has, in the words of a British newspaper, engaged in "a judicial killing spree" to intimidate its oppo...
North Korea on Tuesday accused the rival South of seeking "the road to war" but called again for international talks on its nuclear arsenal. South Korea's conservative government has taken relations with t...
Europe's banking woes have begun to set off a funding crunch in the emerging markets of Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe, leaving them nakedly exposed as the rich world slides into a double-dip down...
Rents have increased for the third consecutive quarter, according to research by Paragon, the buy to let lender. But rising rents appear to be causing problems for many tenants. According to new research...
Well, so much for democratic accountability. Who cares what the people think when the most precious political project of the generation is at stake? Germany's parliament has voted overwhemingly to give mor...
A young whale which died after it beached in the Humber Estuary is probably of a species rarely found stranded on the British coast, conservationists have said. Experts examining the 33ft (10m) long anima...
Hugo Chavez, who has been fighting cancer, was rushed to a military hospital for emergency care following kidney failure, according to reports. The leftist, staunchly anti-US stalwart Chavez went into the ...
Male koalas in Australia bellow so loud during mating season because their voice boxes are akin to those found in humans, scientists have discovered. Despite the tree-dwelling mammal having a cute and fu...
View more videos at: http://nbcnewyork.com. Police have released video of a shooting on a crowded street in Brooklyn in the hope that the public can help identify the gunman. The shooting happened at ...
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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 ...
Lord Stirling's News Blog Europe
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 ...
*"Oh, To Live Always In It!"* by Chet Raymo “A few years ago, when I was in England for Walking Zero, we lived within a short walk of London's Highgate Cemetery. I can't imagine that there is another cem...
“Next time you feel fear, either right after a major decision or just before one, it usually means you're exactly where you need to be.” "Nice," The Universe “Thoughts become things... choose the goo...
"All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of souls who preceded you. The speech they weave is a link between you and your huma...
As a former Liberal I'm finding the "ex" part is being overlooked these days. Whenever the Libs pass the begging bowl I can expect to get an e-mail about it. What I don't understand is exactly what the ...
If NJ Governor Chris Christie ever decides to stop the Sarah Palin political cock-teasing and throw his Mickey Mouse cap in the ring, I have the perfect idea for his campaign song: Denis Leary's, "I'm an ...
*Coming soon to our state, fellow citizens. * "From Pennsylvania, a cautionary tale of casino profits trailed by corruption" by Noah Bierman Globe Staff / September 25, 2011 *Now they tells us after it is...
Little Chute, Wisconsin, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
*“A List of Creepy Things Facebook Will Remember Forever”* by Gawker "Delete all you want, but Facebook never forgets. At least when it comes to your defriendings, pokes, and RSVPS, it doesn't. And it als...
*"Conscious Decisions: Going Against What Is Popular"* by The DailyOm "Because an idea or way of doing things is popular doesn’t mean it’s right for everyone. Just because an idea or way of doing things i...
“You go up to a man, and you say, "How are things going, Joe?" and he says, "Oh fine, fine — couldn't be better." And you look into his eyes, and you see things really couldn't be much worse. When you get...
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Not PC - 19 hours ago
“Most sovereign states are bust and so are the banks, which are today a protectorate of the state and have repaid the generosity of their protectors by lending excessively to them.” - Detlev Sch...
“Life for a punctual person is like a roller coaster. All kinds of things are going to happen to you! Sure, I can see the whole roller coaster you're on. And sure - I could give you a piece of paper that w...
*I hope you don't mind if I'm kind of quiet during the car ride. * "Mass. balks at Arizona licenses; Immigrants cite language barrier" by Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff / September 19, 2011 State Police are...
Long before our universe was ruled by collateralized debt obligations, derivatives, credit default swaps, hedge funds, REITs and REMICs or any other financial instruments designed entirely as a quasi-lega...
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CENSORED NEWS - 19 hours ago
*Sandra Lopez, deported and thrown on the streets of Nogales, Mexico, and now in detention, describes the terror of being alone and scared, as young girls screamed at night in Nogales.* By Brenda Norrell ...
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Not PC - 19 hours ago
Phoebe Fletcher, Tumeke’s little-seen token feminist, Martin Bradbury, the grown-up child known to other children as “Bomber”, is upset that too few are too disinterested in “the #OccupyWallSt movement.....
Bibi: Israel Will Raise ‘David’s Sword’ Against Iran By Richard Silverstein Published: September 28, 2011 While Yisrael HaYom may be the best paper Sheldon Adelson’s money can buy on behalf of his politic...
Hong Kong schools, financial markets, and businesses have shut as Typhoon Nesat brought howling winds, squalls of rain and rough seas to the territory. The city issued a number eight storm signal before ...
Wouldn't it be great if you could simply grab carbon dioxide from the air and turn it back into fuel? According to Germany-based renewable energy start-up Sunfire, you can. "In fact, the idea has been ar...
Fighting erupted Thursday morning between government troops and fighters loyal to a tribal leader in the Yemeni capital of Sana'a. Republican Guards clashed with troops loyal to Sadeq Ahmar for two hours,...
A comprehensive new study identifying the most threatened sea turtle populations worldwide has been published by conservationists. The report, jointly produced by the International Union for Conservation ...
As debt-ridden Greece braces for strikes while its prime minister attempts to reassure Europe that his country will pay its bills, the 17 eurozone countries are in various stages of deciding whether to a...
Greece's private creditors have reacted angrily to suggestions that some eurozone countries want bondholders to suffer bigger losses than those agreed in the second bail-out of Athens. Banks and other b...
*Or worse. I get about 6-7 pages in and want to put it down these days. At that point the inane garbage and agenda-pushing propaganda has usually exhausted me. I'm sorry, readers. I'm simply sick of the sh...
Yes, it is possible for a toilet to explode -- it just takes some doing.
NASA's Mercury Messenger spacecraft is unraveling a more complex planet than anyone had previously imagined.
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Ryukyu Islands, Japan at a depth of 44.9 km (27.9 miles), the quake hit at 18:26:56 UTC Thursday 29th September 2011. The epicenter was 49 km ( 30 miles) North of ...
A powerful typhoon arrived in southern China on Thursday after skirting Hong Kong and bringing death and widespread flooding to the Philippines earlier this week. Typhoon Nesat made landfall on the easte...
*"The Twilight Zone: * *At the Threshold of the Fifth Dimension"* By John W. Whitehead "I am not a meek conformist but a tired nonconformist."- Rod Serling “On Friday, October 2, 1959, The Twilight Zo...
By Duane Craig Crestline Windows responsible for Wisconsin Contamination. A product called Penta that was used at aformer windows factory in Wausau, Wisconsin is being blamed for deaths andillnesses by p...
*Man and beast, plant and soil lived on and with each other in mutual toleration, to the mutual benefit of all…[but] the new overlords did not understand this. They did not include soil, plants or birds i...
The bat's superfast muscles flex up to 200 times per second.
When the words "surfer" and "shark" appear together in a headline, the news usually bloody. Not this time.
Germany's parliament voted Thursday to increase the powers of Europe's bailout fund, as Greece's debt woes fuel fears of a wider financial crisis. The vote passed by a large majority -- 523 in favor to 85...
“We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.” - Kurt Vonnegut
“It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life. There are people, particularly dumb people, who are in terrible...
*"When Empires Change Hands"* by Bill Bonner "We got back to Buenos Aires last night. When we got into a cab, we found the driver curious and loquacious. “You have an accent. Are you French?” “No…but it...
Supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have thrown tomatoes and eggs at US ambassador Robert Ford as he met an opposition figure in Damascus. Veteran politician Hassan Abdul Azim said about 100 pr...
Twitter analysis reveals the late-day energy low is nearly universal.
[If any readers could make a contribution to this cash-strapped blog, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your past support!] Somehow I just keep remembering some rightwingnut like Ann Coulter o...
A Florida teen accused of murder claims she's a vampire-werewolf hybrid. She's not the first.
*"A Look at Economic Growth During a Great Correction"* by Joel Bowman "We’ve a couple of corrections to deal with today, Fellow Reckoner. First, a minor one. Then something much larger… In yesterday’s is...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck East of Severnaya Zemlya at a depth of 13.6 km (8.5 miles), the quake hit at 16:08:13 UTC Thursday 29th September 2011. The epicenter was 700 km ( 434 miles) NNE of No...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 25.7 km (16 miles), the quake hit at 15:44:47 UTC Thursday 29th September 2011. The epicenter was 136 km ( 84 miles)...
*"Humanity's Main Event, What a Show!"* by Eric Blair, Activist Post "Sometimes I meditate about sitting on the Moon watching events unfold on Earth. It seems to help me keep observational perspective on ...
posted by All Seeing Eye at
Biased BBC - 23 hours ago
On the Question Time panel from the Labour conference in Liverpool tonight we have Grant Shapps, housing minister; Tim Farron, president of the Liberal Democrats; Caroline Flint, shadow communities and lo...
posted by David Preiser (USA) at
Biased BBC - 23 hours ago
Here's another "Viewpoint" from the Left. And it's a real insight into the beliefs of the Left and the BBC on this particular issue. When I directly associate this viewpoint with the BBC, I do it because t...
The Americans are talking about fencing off part of the Canada-US border. Their term is "selective fencing." The US Customs & Border Protection Agency is canvassing local governments from Maine to Was...
[image: Link]Dramatic footage of a teenager being shot at point-blank range in a gun ambush outside McDonald's has been released today. The shooting, which shows the victim thrown into the road after being...
The msm is calling the protestors "Pro-Assad". It is more likely they are awake and aware to the manipulations emanating from the West and are trying to control their own destiny. Who can blame them? Lik...
Blue America is doing its due diligence in the campaign to replace Montana's one congressman, Denny Rehberg, a corrupt multimillionaire who, laughably, joined the House Tea party Caucus headed by Michele...
I have been seeing a lot about this on the MN news channels. On the MNSlutwalk webpage they have the following statement: People are not required to dress “slutty” or reclaim the word “slut”....
The biscuit, taken by Sir Ernest Shackleton on his Antarctic expedition, sold for 1,250 Euro at auction.
The social media music website that lets users be DJs finally has an app.
At least 70 people across the city were hospitalized for food poisoning after consuming items made out of a special type of flour to prepare food for those observing fast, officials said today. The incid...
Hazmat crews, firefighters and police were called to an apartment complex in La Jolla on Wednesday after reports of a chemical irritant in the air. The fumes were reported just before 8 p.m. at the La Joll...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck offshore Bio-Bio, Chile at a depth of 12.6 km (7.8 miles), the quake hit at 15:40:51 UTC Thursday 29th September 2011. The epicenter was 148 km ( 92 miles) Northwest o...
*The war criminals must go!* On 29 September 2011, Reuters reports on the Libyan town of Tawargha, which is among those which have been wrecked and looted by the opponents of Gaddafi. *Ruined Libya town...
A new way to cut diamonds opens the way to building microscopic machines.
[image: Food Security Levels in the Face of High Food Prices. Bingxin Yu, Liangzhi You and Shenggen Fan (2009) via www.zentrum-transformation.bundeswehr.de] If nothing else, existentially important good...
*Here's the link* - planning meeting on Saturday, 10/1 at 4:00pm *Watch this to see why you MUST participate**.* See you there!
Source: INFOBAE and Marcelo Metayer Date: 29 September 2011 Argentina: Probing a Possible "UFO Origin" for the Monte Grande Explosion? Manifestations of unidentified flying objects have been investigated i...
Behold a *real* closer. That's the late Dick Radatz, the first great closer in MLB, the kind of guy you'd feel comfortable putting into a bases loaded, no out situation against the Yankees with Mickey Ma...
This watch enhances workouts with with a sports community website.
The unique design offers a way to harvest wind energy from offshore turbines even when the wind isn't blowing.
The USGS today identified 24 regions in Afghanistan with high-value minerals that are ready to be mined.
*Plus comments on Nobel prizes and Tevatron's retirement* As Phil Gibbs reminded us, Nobel prizes for medicine, physics, chemistry, nothing, and peace will be distributed next week on Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, a...
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Url movie: http://youtu.be/866yHuh1RYM -- far more about Delingpole here and there. John
The Rag Blog and Rag Radio present Jonah Raskin in AustinJonah Raskin will be our special guest at a Rag Blog Happy Hour, Friday, Oct. 7, 5-7 p.m., at Maria's Taco Xpress, 2529 S. Lamar Blvd. All are welcome...
Community Prays For Mid-City Shooting Victim Levees.org is now #1 on Whitehouse.gov ~Humid Beings I’m getting that old familiar feeling again. In my pants. ~moosedenied~I guess it really is in the eye of...
Suspense novelist David Lindsey during broadcast of Rag Radio, Friday, Sept. 23, 2011, at the studios of KOOP 91.7-FM in Austin. Photo by Tracey Schulz / Rag Radio / The Rag Blog.Suspense novelist David Lind...
Fish are adept at using rocks as tools, and a researcher has the video to prove it.
Royal Dutch Shell Plc is shutting its half-a-million barrels-per-day Singapore refinery and could also shut the linked chemical complex as firefighters struggle to contain a blaze that has been burning for...
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We now have an answer to the burning question: can a baseball team that wins seven games in September play in the postseason? The Red Sox walked the razor's edge all week. Last night, a night of incredib...
Knock, knock. You Mr Smith? Delivery. Sign here please. Whoa! Massive box! But there must be some mistake - I didn't order anything. You are Mr Smith, apartment 1A... Yes, but ... No worries, it's prep...
The most talked about political column in the last week, *New York*'s In Praise of Extremism doesn't need such a provocative title to ask the question about the uselessness of Obama's determined bipartisa...
In the current listeria outbreak, the microorganisms are likely on the outside rind of the fruit.
Frogs and other amphibians will have a hard time finding escape routes from warming environments.
*The video was censored, but you can read the content here:* * * *Greetings, people of the world. We are Anonymous.* As many of you are aware, over the past several days, significant demonstrations have ...
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A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 389.6 km (242.1 miles), the quake hit at 10:23:54 UTC Thursday 29th September 2011. The epicenter was 151 km ( 93 miles) Southeast of Siga...
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck Fukushima, Near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 10:05:08 UTC Thursday 29th September 2011. The epicenter was 28 km ( 17 ...
INEXPLICATA contributing editor Guillermo Gimenez reports: “I find the Monte Grande case highly intriguing. I was talking to Andrea P. Simondini yesterday via text message and the Internet, and she still f...
More revealing tweets from a BBC journalist, this time BBC Home Affairs correspondent Matt Prodger: The Tobin tax is a good idea because of those who oppose it: An appearance by the Taxpayers' Alliance...
Bahrain's special security court on Thursday sentenced a protester to death for killing a policeman, and gave doctors and nurses who had treated injured protesters during the country's uprising earlier thi...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Vanuatu depth of 211.9 km (131.7 miles), the quake hit at 09:13:36 UTC Thursday 29th September 2011. The epicenter was 268 km ( 167 miles) North of Santo (Luganville), ...
Celebrating 200 years of learning about the ichthyosaur, DNews talks with fossil expert Ryosuke Motani of the University of California at Davis.
[image: Election-year] President Barack Obama's landmark health care renovate appears headed for a Supreme Court ruling as the presidential election season hits full stride in the coming year the health c...
LAKE FOREST – Every evening after work and on weekends Terry Whatley looks for dead and dying mallard ducks around the city's lakes and watersheds. In the past two weeks she's seen them listlessly sitting ...
The Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly on Wednesday suspended all fishing activities in the Butuah Lagoon at New Takoradi until further notice. This was contained in a statement signed by Mr. Opoku B...
FARMERS and fishermen were left baffled after the River Mole stopped flowing last week. The river used to disappear into "swallow holes" in the river bed, caused by the permeable chalk bedrock beneath, b...
One policeman and seven civilians were killed when a car bomb exploded in Russia's Muslim North Caucasus province of Dagestan on Wednesday, authorities and local media said. Three car bombs killed six pe...
The CIA is largely run by people who believe in creating the greatest happiness of the greatest number. These people are called 'utilitarians'. A utilitarian might approve of torture - for the greater ha...
Massive flooding hit the Philippines capital last night as typhoon winds and rains isolated the historic old city where residents waded in waist-deep waters, dodging tree branches and debris. At least se...
Cape Town city officials are due to meet on Thursday morning to decide on whether to reopen beaches along the False Bay coast after Wednesday’s shark attack. A 42-year-old man is in a critical but stab...
At least nine people were killed when their bus was swept away by floodwaters from the Tres Quebradas River in eastern Guatemala, officials say. Nine bodies have been recovered and the search continues fo...
As the world decided to finally report on El Hierro after 3 Months of activities and 10.000+ earthquakes later. They managed to grab attention with huge headlines "Mass Evacuation" "Imminent Eruption" when...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Philippine Islands Region depth of 42 km (26.1 miles), the quake hit at 05:16:33 UTC Thursday 29th September 2011. The epicenter was 94 km ( 58 miles) East of Hina...
NATO-backed rebels suffer further losses in Bani Walid as field commander Daw Saleheen is killed by Libyan forces. by Tony Cartalucci As reported earlier, rebel fighters tasked by NATO to take Bani Walid ...
A small 2 mm × 2 cm cylinder with radium-226 buried in kids' place in Prague *Was the excavator that was digging a hugely radioactive material in the Czech capital caught by the Google StreetView minivan...
When you think of 'Americanised' countries, such as the Philippines, you think of crime and poverty. The most Americanised state in Europe is the UK. A new survey of 10 developed European countries shows...
Goats on trees are found mostly only in Morocco. The goats climb them because they like to eat the fruit of the argan tree, which is similar to an olive. Farmers actually follow the herds of goats as they...
Another case of FBI entrapment, proving the only terrorism Americans must fear, comes from within the bowels of their own government. By Tony Cartalucci The United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (...
This undated handout image, obtained by Reuters, shows a Massachusetts cat with two faces that has become the world's longest surviving so called "janus" feline at 12 years of age. Photo courtesy: REUTERS/...
I find myself agreeing with Alan Grayson on just about everything in the political sphere. And who else have I ever found who loves weird places like Mali, Afghanistan and Paraguay as much as I do? And w...
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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 ...
Animal experts admit they still cannot explain a recent upsurge in sightings of stranded whales found along the British coast. The latest young whale to have died beached in the Humber Estuary, around 800...
Up to 11 convicted terrorists who should be deported are walking our streets, it emerged last night. The Home Office confirmed that in at least seven of the cases the extremists are using human rights law...
It is supposed to be autumn but it feels like summer – after a summer that felt more like winter. And if that’s confusing you, you’re not alone. Plants have become so perplexed by the unseasonably warm wea...
MEDIAite by Alex Alvarez | 9:21 pm, September 28th, 2011 » 181 comments Filmmaker Michael Moore, who continues his vigil at the ongoing Occupy Wall Street protest in lower Manhattan, dropped in on The L...
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A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Kepulauan Tanimbar Region, Indonesia depth of 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 00:27:11 UTC Thursday 29th September 2011. The epicenter was 82 km ( 50 miles) W...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 10.4 km (6.5 miles), the quake hit at 00:08:03 UTC Thursday 29th September 2011. The epicenter was 563 km ( 349 miles) So...
Syrian forces shelled the country's western city of Al-Rastan, just north of Homs, for a second consecutive day Wednesday in a battle against military defectors, opposition activist groups reported. Syri...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Guerrero, Mexico at a depth of 67.2 km (41.8 miles), the quake hit at 23:17:45 UTC Wednesday 28th September 2011. The epicenter was 70 km ( 43 miles) North of Zihuatane...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the North Coast of Papua, indonesia at a depth of 29.2 km (18.1 miles), the quake hit at 22:45:36 UTC Wednesday 28th September 2011. The epicenter was 163 km ( 10...
A man and a woman have been injured after a faulty underground cable sparked a series of explosions near Crewe railway station. Manhole covers on Nantwich Road were blown off in the blasts. The two injur...
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck offshore Bio-Bio Chile at a depth of 12.9 km (8 miles), the quake hit at 22:40:13 UTC Wednesday 28th September 2011. The epicenter was 43 km ( 26 miles) SSW of Lebu, B...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Seram Indonesia at a depth of 45.9 km (28.5 miles), the quake hit at 22:30:18 UTC Wednesday 28th September 2011. The epicenter was 267 km ( 165 miles) South of Sorong, ...
A British man has lost his legs in a shark attack after he ignored a warning not to go swimming at a South African beach. The 42-year-old, who has not yet been named, ignored signs at the beach in Cape T...
President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Martin Luther King, Jr. in the White House Cabinet Room. Photo from Wikimedia Commons.Remembering the Great Society:Addressing poverty and hunger in AmericaBy Harry Tar...
Northern Paiute gatherer and craftsman Kwassuh, Wesley Dick. *Traditional Northern Paiute gatherer Kwassuh, Wesley Dick, is scheduled to go appear in US court -- the day after Columbus Day -- for practicin...
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This past week King Abdullah, the leader of Saudi Arabia, allowed women to vote in municipal elections starting in 2015 and recently overturned a court's ruling to lash a Saudi woman ten times for driving...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Philippine Islands Region at a depth of 187.5 km (116.5 miles), the quake hit at 13:06:35 UTC Friday 30th September 2011. The epicenter was 252 km ( 156 miles) ESE...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe Kepler orbiting observatory was launched with a simple mission - to find other Earths. NASA describes it as 'a search for habitable planets.' And analysis of its first 136 days of data has already beg...
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