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Guest contributor and spaceflight expert Lucy Rogers investigates the space debris problem and discusses how we could reduce, reuse and recycle.
*They go together quite well.* "Marijuana seized from apartment; Arlington police say unit devoted to growing plants" September 03, 2011|By Brian R. Ballou, Globe Staff ARLINGTON- It wasn’t so much the am...
"William Rosen, the nominee of Governor
Deval Patrick to fill the top administrative post in the Hampshire County Probate and Family Court, *faced outright opposition* yesterday from a majority of the Gove...
"An Alaska woman was convicted yesterday of misdemeanor child abuse after squirting hot sauce into the mouth of her adopted Russian son as punishment in what prosecutors said was a ploy to get on the “Dr. ...
[image: Dried up river bed in Eritrea. © Eye Ubiquitous / SuperStock]By Samuel Okocha 4 September 2011 There is reportedly growing evidence that Eritrea, like other countries in the
horn of Africa, is ...
*More like a dismantling.* "Layoffs, baby boomers strain Social Security disability; System seen to be on verge of insolvency" August 22, 2011|By Stephen Ohlemacher, Associated Press WASHINGTON - *Laid-o...
"Republican Party leader in N.H. quits; Rift within GOP; some attribute low fund-raising" September 02, 2011|By Shira Schoenberg, Globe Correspondent CONCORD, N.H. - Embattled New Hampshire Republican Part...
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Holy Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to
St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVA MARIA - by
Helene Fischer - video ~ link Lord Stirling's news blog EUROPE Please forward this site to several...
"Video game console case lets you play on the go" September 01, 2011|By Ron Harris, Associated Press ATLANTA - Once you’ve put your console in, you can play Call of Duty: Black Ops to your heart’s conten...
*by Ken* Howie already offered a Labor Day message, and I have nothing to add that isn't likely to be bleedingly obvious to *DWT* readers: that there hasn't been any time since the American labor movem...
"The lawsuit sets up a *high-profile antitrust battle* - a *rarity since the election of President Obama, who campaigned with promises* to revitalize the Justice Department’s policing of mergers and their ...
Over the past few months, many people have been detained and charged in connection with operations by the Anonymous collective. The most often cited op is Operation Avenge Assange. This was begun after Ma...
*I was wondering what that smell was coming from my newspaper.* "New eatery to transform landmark on Common" September 01, 2011|By Travis Andersen, Globe Staff A * former restroom* on the Boston Common th...
"End of the party for Priscilla of Boston" September 01, 2011|By Christopher Muther, Globe Staff Priscilla of Boston, the *high-end bridal boutique* that got its start on Newbury Street in 1945 and shot t...
"Obama’s uncle set to fight deportation; Same legal team helped sister stay" September 01, 2011|By Maria Sacchetti and John R. Ellement, Globe Staff The details of Obama’s life that emerged this week trace...
*The US government is scrounging around for every penny. * "Girl ineligible for dead father’s benefits" September 01, 2011|Associated Press DES MOINES - An Iowa girl who was born two years after her fathe...
So how much trouble is Barack Obama in? Well, it doesn’t get much worse. His approval rating is hovering just above 40 per cent. Unemployment is stuck at 9.1 per cent; the White House forecast that it wou...
The parents of children who play truant from school could have their child benefits taken away under plans being considered by the Government. The crackdown on what David Cameron has described as “the har...
Almost a quarter of schools are failing to do enough to keep children safe, according to Ofsted. Some 21 per cent of state schools in England are no better than satisfactory on child safety, the watchdog...
The Beijing propaganda bureau has taken control of two influential newspapers in the Chinese capital, prompting fears that they will be more strictly censored. Officials announced the move to reporters o...
Syrian forces killed at least 23 people on Friday, activists said. According to them, "huge demonstrations" were held after weekly prayers in response to calls from an Internet group that urged rallies aga...
Six heavy explosions were heard at 11 pm Sana’a local time in Sa na’a the capital of Yemen. The explosions came three months after ceasefire was brokered between the forces loyal to president Saleh and t...
The three giant C-130 Hercules transport planes thundered through the night towards the Libyan coastline. There was no ground radar station or air-traffic control for them to communicate with. They were fl...
Images have emerged from Syria purporting to show President Assad’s security forces opening fire on anti-government demonstrators. The video was posted on a social media website and is said to have been ...
Yoshio Hachiro, the new economy, trade and industry minister, has vowed to back Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's policy of resuming halted nuclear reactors if thorough checks confirm their safety. Hachiro...
It's become a nightly duel in Bahrain: Security forces and anti-government protesters waging hit-and-run clashes in one of the simmering conflicts of the Arab Spring. So far, the skirmishes have failed t...
After a month-long break, Congress returns to work next week facing an economy in jeopardy and a nation desperate for solutions. Republican and Democratic leaders are promising action to try and ease the ...
The center of Tropical Storm Lee lurched across Louisiana's Gulf Coast on Sunday, dumping torrential rains that threatened low-lying communities in a foreshadowing of what cities further inland could face ...
A New Mexico state police officer has been fired after security cameras caught him having sex with a woman on the hood of a car. Officer Bert Lopez's dismissal from the New Mexico state police was confir...
The 'Immokalee babies' were born with severe deformities after their mothers were each exposed to pesticides whilst harvesting tomatoes. Barry Estabrook reports on the case that shocked the US Tower Cabi...
Surging flood waters in northern and eastern India have affected millions of people, forcing many from their homes as swollen rivers wash away roads and make rescue work difficult, government and aid offic...
Permafrost soils contain enormous amounts of organic carbon, which could act as a positive feedback to global climate change due to enhanced respiration rates with warming. We have used a terrestrial ecosy...
President Barack Obama quashed proposed rules on ozone from the Environmental Protection Agency, agreeing with Republicans and industry to withdraw the costliest regulation being considered by the administ...
It sounds barmy, audacious or sci-fi: a tethered balloon the size of Wembley Stadium suspended 20km above earth, linked to the ground by a giant garden hose pumping hundreds of tonnes of minute chemical pa...
The thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus), better known as the Tasmanian tiger, has long been the poster child for human-caused extinction. Hunted out of existence by Australian farmers who feared that the s...
Warming streams could spell the end of spring-run Chinook salmon in California by the end of the century, according to a study by scientists at UC Davis, the Stockholm Environment Institute and the Nationa...
A media watchdog on Saturday called for the immediate release of a blogger sentenced by Egypt's military to three years in jail, warning that he might die after he stopped eating and drinking. The Paris-...
Friday's jobs report that showed hiring in the United States unexpectedly ground to a halt in August is increasing speculation the U.S. Federal Reserve will move to stimulate the economy. But will it help ...
Friday morning, many on Wall Street were stunned by the big fat zero put up by the August jobs report, the worst showing in 11 months. The data convinced many previously optimistic economists that the Unit...
FAWLTY Towers legend John Cleese has come under fire after declaring: "London is no longer an English city." The comic, 71, said that the mix of cultures had helped the capital win the 2012 Olympics. B...
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It’s sadly all too appropriate really that we have to commemorate the anniversary of the first Christchurch earthquake last year accompanied by news that land around Christchurch on which Cantabrians mig...
Say what you want about George Galloway. Love him, hate him, whatever? He kicks this idiots arse! This "Libyan" is a prime example of NATO brainwashing. His perception has been well-managed. He doesn'...
A magnitude 6.1 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 59.4 km (36.9 miles), the quake hit at 21:44:21 UTC Sunday 4th September 2011. The epicenter was 73 km (46 miles) Northwest of Isangel, Tanna, Va...
------------------------------ ------------------------------ *So Long, Fairness Doctrine* POSTED: *August 24, 2:11 PM ET* | By Tim Dickinson . ...
[image: Shift of Alaska marine species northward, 1982-2006. NRDC / U.S. Global Change Research Program] Increased temperatures pose a threat to the region’s fisheries and other marine species, which ar...
*Infowars Nightly News with Alex Jones is on A Mission to Save the Soul of America* *Saman Mohammadi The Excavator September 4, 2011* "Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and inf...
After a short boat trip, the Emperor Penguin must now swim 2,000 kilometers to Antarctica.
Intriguing new details have emerged from the autopsy report on Rebecca Zahau, the woman found hanging at billionaire Jonah Shacknai’s mansion, which appear to add strength to claims by the woman's family t...
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West Point CTC Confirms LIFG Terrorists Leading Libyan Rebellion - then apologizes for them. by Tony Cartalucci The 2007 CTC Report The 2007 West Point Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) report [1] exa...
Biologists have been trying to fathom whether the innermost digit of a bird's three-pronged wing acts like a thumb or an index finger.
[image: A cow is stuck in the mud at the bottom of an empty stcok tank at Rocking H Ranch in Garfield on Wednesday July 27, 2011. The cow was rescued by a ranch hand and survived. Jay Janner / drought pr...
Dick Cheney is a chicken-shit draft dodger who deserves to be hanged for committing high treason on September 11, 2001, and for crimes against humanity in Iraq and Afghanistan. Col. Lawrence Wilkerson ho...
Lately we've been covering the overthrow of Libya's government by the CIA from the perspective of how they overthrew governments they deemed "unfriendly" in Iran, Guatemala, Ecuador, Chile, etc. Before ...
A newlywed mother-of-two was stabbed by her husband, who killed her mother and knifed another woman before snatching a child, it has been claimed. The suspect is understood to have still been holding the ...
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*[image: _Kris_Sayce]Guest Post by Kris Sayce of **Money Morning Australia* Phew! What an exhausting month. On the last day of July, the S&P/ASX 200 index closed at 4,424 points. On 9 August the index r...
*Certainly not the schools.* ".... If there are any school teachers out there with a head on their shoulders, Sept 11th should be taught as America's Reichstag event and not our Pearl Harbor. It should ...
[image: The receding waterfront of Lake Orumieh, Azerbaijan, in 2011. The salt lake has been drying up rapidly in recent years; approximately half of the area it formerly covered is now completely dry. E...
*You'll save some money, and might even make some*: "Colleges taking on city’s other dropout rate; Many graduate Boston schools unprepared" by Mary Carmichael, Globe Staff / August 28, 2011 Two years aft...
"The retracted paper is the latest example of a striking finding unraveling as harsh, public critiques are leveled after a study is published in a major journal.... * * *Which is why I no longer put much ...
"Colleges look hard to replace earmarks; Lobbyists help scour D.C. for new funds" September 01, 2011|By Tracy Jan, Globe Staff WASHINGTON - Dozens of Massachusetts colleges are scrambling to find alternat...
"After years of neglect, the middle children of academia are getting some attention of their own.... *Not here.* The *sophomore slump is a real and well-documented* phenomenon. Studies have shown that th...
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What do Chet Atkins, Duane Allman, Jerry Garcia, Chuck Berry, Charlie Christian, Sheryl Crow, Bob Dylan, Al di Meola, The Edge, the Everly Brothers, Billy Gibbons,Dave Grohl, George Harrison, Lightnin’ H...
"Student legions descend with more gear than ever; The fine art and sweet science of move-in day" September 03, 2011|By Billy Baker, Globe Staff Successfully transitioning all those students from home to d...
At least 20 people have been killed and many more are missing in Japan after typhoon Talas struck the country's west coast. Towns were turned into lakes and mudslides wiped out houses and swept away cars...
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Europe - 8 hours ago
Holy Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVA MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ link Lord Stirling's news blog EUROPE *The Real Face of the European U...
*It is a joke*: "State bans unhealthy food sales in schools; Rules apply to all except main line in the cafeteria" July 14, 2011|By Kay Lazar, Globe Staff Sugary * soft drinks, diet sodas, and artery-clog...
"From 1 struggling school to another; Many ousted in Boston teach at troubled sites" July 05, 2011|By James Vaznis, Globe Staff More than half of the teachers pushed out of seven underperforming schools i...
Before we begin with the real insights into our travestied country's future (and past), we need to comprehend exactly why the banks will never lend to us (and, no, I'm not talking about the "rich" - they o...
"Special needs agency under federal scrutiny; Grand jury seeks financial records" August 09, 2011|By Michael Rezendes, Globe Staff Federal prosecutors have ordered a *controversial agency for special needs...
"City wants to relocate two high schools; Seeks to create more seats" July 19, 2011|By James Vaznis, Globe Staff Less than a month after Boston closed the former Hyde Park High School, the city is seeking...
*In smug, self-righteous Massachusetts? * "Mass. may seek ‘No Child’ waiver; Mandate seen as needless, unrealistic" August 21, 2011|By James Vaznis, Globe Staff Massachusetts may join a growing number of ...
*Really? Then why do we have so many stoo-pid kids 'round h're?* "Children face low bar on math, reading exams; Most fall short of US benchmarks, except in Mass." August 11, 2011|By John Hechinger, Bloomb...
*I guess you are getting an education when it comes to the state that supposedly loves you, kids.* "Get-tough policies in US schools draw scrutiny; Discipline that ends in court being opposed" August 29, ...
*Who can blame them after what they have been through? * "Wisconsin facing teacher exodus; Controversial law prompts a spate of retirements" September 01, 2011|By Scott Bauer, Associated Press MADISON, Wi...
"Vocational education funding in US at risk" July 10, 2011|By Motoko Rich, New York Times GREENSBORO, N.C. - Despite a competitive economy in which success increasingly depends on obtaining a college degr...
"Schools chief forgoes $800k in pay" August 29, 2011|Associated Press FRESNO, Calif. - Some people give a bit back to their community. Then there’s Fresno County School Superintendent Larry Powell, who is ...
"S.D. schools cut costs with 4-day week" August 22, 2011|Associated Press IRENE, S.D. - When the nearly 300 students of the Irene-Wakonda School District returned to school this week, they found a lot of ...
*Who can blame them given the state of public education these days? * "Vouchers prompt Ind. school exodus" August 29, 2011|Associated Press SOUTH BEND, Ind. - Weeks after Indiana began the nation’s broades...
"Teacher-student online contact ban blocked" August 27, 2011|Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A new Missouri law prohibiting teachers from having private online conversations with students suffered ...
"Atlanta schools built culture of fear to encourage cheating; State report cites pressure to raise student test scores" July 17, 2011|By Dorie Turner, Associated Press ATLANTA - Teachers spent nights *hud...
"Parents sentenced in crossing guard assault" September 01, 2011|Associated Press LANSING, Mich. - A father has been sentenced to jail and a mother to probation for an attack on a school crossing guard wh...
Lactobacillus is found in Yogurt. Lactobacillus may make you more cheerful and optimistic. Lactobacillus may also be good for treating irritable bowel syndrome and for helping prevent some cancers an...
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Biased BBC - 10 hours ago
Another BBC reader observes; "Friday 19 August (I think). Jonathan Dimbleby at his worst and most transparent. He gave Harriet Harman a free run with little or no interruption on the riots etc. He then ac...
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The world’s developed economies are trapped at the “stall speed” of low growth and need to have greater fiscal stimulus and less austerity to kick-start growth, leading economist Nouriel Roubini told CNBC ...
A shark bit the legs off a bodyboarder at a popular surfing spot in western Australia on Sunday, killing the man, police said. Authories were reportedly searching for the shark as well as the man's missing...
Security forces to hold 'worse case scenario' drill testing enemy strike on nuclear compound, lessons learned from Japan's Fukushima disaster The defense establishment will hold a special emergency drill ...
The latest offensive against morality, decency, and sanity in America has been launched by a pro-pedophilia group and several academics who openly advocate for the normalization and legalization of pedophi...
Documents found in the abandoned Tripoli office of Muammar Gaddafi's intelligence chief indicate the U.S. and British spy agencies helped the fallen strongman persecute Libyan dissidents, Human Rights...
Yep, we are ruining the earth. We have destroyed everything in our path. Why are we teaching kids to recycle but not doing it ourselves? We ship our garbage to Washington and they sort it out and ship it t...
As was suggested in Signs of Coming Riots, there are a variety of trends developing throughout the United States that indicate mid-east, Greek and London style riots are coming to the streets of America. ...
At least 19 people have been killed and more than 50 are missing after powerful Typhoon Talas ripped through western Japan, local media reports. The storm brought heavy rain and winds of up to 108km/h (68...
Six Syrian soldiers and three civilians have been killed in an ambush by an armed group in central Syria, state media says. A further 17 people were wounded as gunmen ambushed the bus near Hama, Sana rep...
Tropical Storm Lee has made landfall in Louisiana, hurling rain at a part of the US Gulf coast still haunted by the 2005 Hurricane Katrina flood disaster. The storm came ashore 50 miles (80km) south-west...
The drought and famine that is devastating the Horn of Africa is affecting more than 12 million people. Yet one country in the region, Eritrea, says it has escaped the crisis, reaping a bumper harvest ea...
The United Nation's refugee agency, UNHCR, says fighting has displaced thousands in Sudan's Blue Nile state. Clashes broke out on Thursday night between the government and soldiers loyal to an opposition...
Karl Marx may have been wrong about communism but he was right about much of capitalism, John Gray writes. As a side-effect of the financial crisis, more and more people are starting to think Karl Marx w...
A Chinese delicacy may soon disappear from California restaurants if a bill to ban the sale of shark fins makes it through the state Senate. A symbol of wealth and luxury, shark fin soup was once prized b...
Suicide bombers are responsible for killing more than 12,000 Iraqi civilians and wounding more than 30,000 since the war began, according to study released by the British medical journal Lancet. The stud...
Iranian forces have launched a fresh offensive against Kurdish rebels, with a senior military commander telling a state-run news agency Saturday that 30 rebels were killed or injured in the operation. Co...
n what organizers are proclaiming to be the largest social protest in Israel's history, hundreds of thousands of Israelis took to the streets of Tel Aviv and other cities to protest the high cost of living...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday refused to give ground in an increasingly harsh diplomatic confrontation with Turkey, once his country's strongest ally in the region. The two countrie...
Six troops were killed and at least eight others injured when an explosive-laden vehicle exploded in Yemen's southern Aden province on Saturday night, two security officials in Aden said. Three of the in...
AS GENERAL Ray Odierno takes command of US forces in Baghdad from troop surge architect Gen David Petraeus, America has begun planning in earnest for its phased withdrawal. The extra brigade combat teams...
In what apparently will be a landmark experiment in geoengineering, researchers from various UK universities will try to fix Earth’s climate by mimicking volcanic activity – with a 20km-high, stadium-sized...
Using the supercomputer program called SPRINTARS, researchers at Kyushu University and Tokyo University created the simulation of how radioactive materials from Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant may have dis...
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Biased BBC reader *"As I see it" *has provided us with the following thoughtful analysis - give it a read! "It is my contention that there is a left-wing bias in the output of the BBC. I happen to hav...
Tropical Storm Lee's surge causing flooding in some neighborhoods~Mark Schleifstein Images: Lee Washes Out Parts Of Plaquemines Parish ~WDSU Gulf oil spill cleanup workers' health claims drawing scrutin...
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Biased BBC - 10 hours ago
Biased BBC stalwart Graeme Thompson aka Hippiepooter writes; "I was alerted to this Evan Davis interview with the Prime Minister on the TODAY programme this Friday via the Daily Mail. PM ROWS WITH TODA...
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Biased BBC - 10 hours ago
A Biased BBC commentator asks; "Is Mark Mardell lying or just a very bad, ill informed journalist? In 2006 Mardell asked the same question about torture as he asks now. 'I find it interesting that I ...
*I'm just driving right by*: "At stops, some school buses snap images of scofflaw drivers; If lawmakers agree, tickets to be mailed" August 22, 2011|By Christina Pazzanese, Globe Correspondent Drivers wh...
*I wouldn't spend any money on a Boston Globe, parents. * Back-to-school spending apt to be flat in ’11 Back-to-school sales forecast isn’t rosy Back-to-school shopping aids many retailers *Your firs...
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[image: Plastic bust sculpture of Karl Marx] A Biased BBC reader writes; " I've just seen this ridiculously left-wing piece on the BBC News web site: "Karl Marx may have been wrong about communism but ...
*Arrests: 1,252* *"I am proudly sitting in the front row with my son before being arrested."* WASHINGTON– The largest environmental civil disobedience in decades concluded at the White House this morning w...
It's too bad that it has taken so long for climate activists to team up with environmentalists. At the Tar Sands Rally in Washington, DC, climate change was peripheral to the concerns of the most immediat...
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VIDEO: Naomi Klein arrested at the White House on Friday, Sept. 2, 2011, with Indigenous delegation. The two weeks of sit-ins were to halt the Keystone XL pipeline, planned for the heart of America and ...
Arrests: 1,252 * * *"I am proudly sitting in the front row with my son before being arrested."*says LeslieSLeff. WASHINGTON– The largest environmental civildisobedience in decades concluded at the White...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 36.1 km (22.4 miles), the quake hit at 12:40:59 UTC Sunday 4th September 2011. The epicenter was 46 km (28 miles) ...
*The start of the moody first movement of Brahms's First Piano Quartet is played by pianist Inon Barnatan, violinist Giora Schmidt, violist Teng Li, and cellist Nicholas Canellakis at the 2009 Santa Fe Cha...
It looks like the next 4 years are going be filled with a lot of banging of heads (not the music-related kind - more like the against-a-wall kind), so I figure I might as well keep the list going of reason...
September 3 (ITN) – Tropical storm Talas has hit the island of Shikoku, causing flooding which has killed two and left five missing. Technorati Tags: Japan,Asia,flood,global warming,climate change
Documents found in the abandoned Tripoli office of Muammar Gaddafi's former foreign minister and intelligence chief indicate that US and British spy agencies helped his regime persecute Libyan dissidents, ...
*Government didn't provide you with a sun block? * "US-backed solar firm files bankruptcy" September 01, 2011|By Globe Staff and Wires WASHINGTON - A *California solar panel manufacturer once touted by Pr...
"Wind farm turbines blamed for bird kills" August 30, 2011|By Darryl Fears, Washington Post WASHINGTON - Six birds found dead recently in Southern California’s Tehachapi Mountains were majestic golden eag...
*That's what comes out every time he opens his mouth.* "Obama abandons tougher ozone standard; Rule had been target of major lobbying effort" September 03, 2011|By John M. Broder, New York Times WASHINGTO...
"Quake risk to US reactors worse than once thought; About one-fourth might need safety modifications" September 02, 2011|By Dina Cappiello and Jeff Donn, Associated Press WASHINGTON - The risk that an ear...
*Set yourself free, readers. * "Tropical Storm Lee, building off Louisiana, could drench South" September 03, 2011|By Janet McConnaughey, Associated Press NEW ORLEANS - A large storm system churning in th...
"Outages force a trip to past; Residents resort to games, candles" September 01, 2011|By Mark Arsenault, Globe Staff FOXBOROUGH - Widespread power outages across Massachusetts, which entered their fourth ...
I’m forever guarding the BBC’s output, day and night. I watch all channels simultaneously, whilst listening to radios one two three four five six and seven, and the BBC World Service. Only Joking. I’m bem...
Just checking in. Any progress identifying / charging these cocksu – er, perps? No, eh? Oh, well. Pretty hard when witnesses don't come forward, isn't it. How about: - Arresting the two assholes w...
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Photo Bora Chung Photo Bora Chung Photo Bora Chung Photo Bora Chung Photo Bora Chung Photo Bora ChungPhoto Milan Ilnyckyj Photo Milan Ilnyckyj Portraits of Arrest: Final day of the two weeks of sit-ins ...
Long before he stood up on the floor of the House and defined the Republican health care plan as Don't Get Sick! And if you do get sick, die quickly, and, in fact, long before he bucked the Democratic a...
Why not just have the Americans write our legislation for us? - Peace, order and good government, eh?: What pogge said. If I might just throw one more word into the mix: Comprador. Because "whores" and...
A magnitude 2.6 earthquake has struck Colorado at a depth of 4.8 km (3 miles), the quake hit at 11:51:57 UTC Sunday 4th September 2011. The epicenter was 15 km (9 miles) West of Cokedale, Colorado No repo...
*It's the regional flagship (why I'm buying and reading it) and this makes the front page?* "In sports, there really is no place like home; Research finds calls likely behind effect" September 03, 2011|By...
Five people went missing early Sunday after their houses in Wakayama Prefecture were swept away by a landslide caused by a powerful typhoon that made landfall Saturday on Shikoku Island in the region, loca...
The Department of Fish and Game (DFG) has confirmed reports of dead red abalone and sea stars inside coves along the coast in Sonoma County. The number of dead and dying abalone is not known, but reports h...
Wildlife officials say the tens of thousands of fish dying in North Carolina rivers are just a sign of more fish kills to come after Hurricane Irene. The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va., reported that tho...
This 5-foot long shark was found washed up near La Push, Wash. on the weekend of Aug. 26, 2011. Campers found a shark washed up on the beach near La Push last weekend. David Sparks was near Toleak Point...
FANS fled in terror and staff were left injured when a bomb scare hit Big Brother. Police were called to Elstree Studios after a guest told staff in a bar area he had a bomb in his bag. Show insiders fe...
Images taken in a town close to Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant have been released showing a community frozen in time. The new set of photographs, taken in the town of Futaba 12 miles from the ...
"Breakaway region elects president" Associated Press / August 28, 2011 SUKHUMI- The vice president of the breakaway Georgian province of Abkhazia was preliminarily declared the winner of the presidential e...
A young surfer has been killed in a horrifying shark attack near a crowded beach in Western Australia. Witnesses said the shark - believed to be a feared great white - came up beneath him, grabbed the ma...
A young woman sat next to the body of her boyfriend for nine hours after he choked to death while eating an in-flight meal. Girlfriend Vanessa Preechakul told today how she watched in horror as 31-year-ol...
A murder investigation has been launched after two women were found dead at a house early today, police said. Officers were called to Ireton Court in Thame, Oxfordshire, at 2.21am where the pair were foun...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 07:01:43 UTC Sunday 4th September 2011. The epicenter was 119 km (73 miles) Ea...
Six people were killed and 22 others received serious burn injuries when a huge explosion took place in the Dudhsagar Dairy at Mehsana on Saturday at 1.30pm. The blast resulted in a huge fire and caused ma...
A severe thunderstorm that swept through Metro Detroit Saturday evening left about 100,000 customers without power and ended early the University of Michigan season opener football game in Ann Arbor and th...
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Southern Louisiana was coping fairly well with wind and rains from Tropical Storm Lee on Saturday but New Orleans officials warned residents against complacency amid the storm's slow onslaught. New Orlean...
A New Mexico state police officer has been fired after security cameras caught him having sex with a woman on the hood of a car. The bizarre scene, which was witnessed by a nearby chihuahua, was filmed by ...
The FBI and Homeland Security have issued a nationwide warning about Al Qaeda threats to small airplanes, just days before the anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks. Authorities say there is no speci...
A Colorado mother has defended herself after she was charged with child abuse for leaving her toddler in a 135F while she went to a tanning salon. Imene Nouis, 31, said it was 'just a misjudgement' after ...
Casey Anthony is unemployed, has not consumed alcohol or drugs and not made any money over the past month her probation officers have revealed, as a judge decides if she should pay $517,000 for the investi...
An Indiana news programme was caught in a web of chaos last week after a tarantula crawled its way onto an anchor. The furry eight-legged creature spooked a set full of squeamish reporters when it made a...
A Chinese tycoon has sparked fears that his country has a covert plan to dominate new Arctic shipping lanes after buying up a huge chunk of frozen wilderness in Iceland. Former Communist Party official Hu...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 35.4 km (22 miles), the quake hit at 06:53:33 UTC Sunday 4th September 2011. The epicenter was 121 km (75 miles) ENE...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 95.2 km (59.2 miles), the quake hit at 20:52:49 UTC Saturday 3rd September 2011. The epicenter was 34 km (21 miles)...
Britain paved the way for the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Al Megrahi after receiving repeated threats of 'dire consequences' from Colonel Gaddafi if he died in his Scottish prison cell. Officia...
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Biased BBC - 20 hours ago
This latest exercise in naked partisanship by Richard Black has already been noted by B-BBC readers, but I was away yesterday and could not let it go without further comment. What it shows is that Mr Black...
Felipe Camiroaga, a well-known and popular TV presenter in Chile, was among five TVN staff on the plane. All 21 people aboard a military plane that went missing off Chile's Pacific coast, near the Juan F...
The husband of a woman who fell to her death during a holiday in Morocco remained upstairs in their apartment while she lay dying in the street below, according to a new witness. His account deepens the ...
Police investigating an alleged paedophile ring at Windsor Castle have arrested a second soldier from the Queen's elite Household Cavalry. Detectives raided the home of Lance Corporal Mark Neal, 28, on the...
The Vatican has denied claims by Irish premier Enda Kelly that it tried to frustrate an inquiry into child abuse by priests. In an unprecedented attack in the Dail parliament in July, Mr Kenny had accused...
*CHAMA District in Eastern Province has recorded cases of suspected anthrax in more that 120 people.* Ministry of Health spokesperson Kamoto Mbewe said in a statement yesterday that the outbreak was susp...
The startling extent to which Labour misled the world over the controversial release of the Lockerbie bomber is exposed today in top-secret documents obtained by The Mail on Sunday. In public, senior Mini...
The hunt for the Higgs particle is well ahead of schedule, say researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Earlier this year they said they would either discover the Higgs or confirm it does not exis...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands, Russia at a depth of 42.1 km (26.2miles), the quake hit at 05:02:05 UTC Sunday 4th September 2011. The epicenter was 132 km (82 miles) South of Kur...
A magnitude 3.7 earthquake has struck Washington at a depth of just 2.5 km (1.6 miles), the quake hit at 04:13:39 UTC Sunday 4th September 2011. The epicenter was 14 km (9 miles) North of Richland, Washing...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands at a depth of 31.9 km (19.8 miles), the quake hit at 03:43:57 UTC Sunday 4th September 2011. The epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) WN...
A magnitude 3.4 earthquake has struck Northern California at a depth of 10.2 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 23:07:59 UTC Saturday 3rd September 2011. The epicenter was 7 km (4 miles) Northwest from Red B...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Solomon Islands at a depth of 94.1 km (58.5 miles), the quake hit at 01:27:00 UTC Sunday 4th September 2011. The epicenter was 82 km (50 miles) West of Dadali, San...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 35.3 km (21.9 miles), the quake hit at 01:10:00 UTC Sunday 4th September 2011. The epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) ...
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*Tar Sands White House Protest concludes, a movement is born* *Two weeks of arrests in front of the White House concluded today with a total of 1,252 arrests* *Censored News* *By Tar Sands Action* Photos...
According to John Loftus,aan Irish-Catholic American who worked for the US Justice department, the elite in the USA have "invested their money in three mafias: the Bolsheviks, the Nazis and the Wahhabist...
*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 ...
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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Holy Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVA MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ link Lord Stirling's news blog EUROPE Please forward this site to sever...
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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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...
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*by Ken* Howie already offered a Labor Day message, and I have nothing to add that isn't likely to be bleedingly obvious to *DWT* readers: that there hasn't been any time since the American labor movem...
Over the past few months, many people have been detained and charged in connection with operations by the Anonymous collective. The most often cited op is Operation Avenge Assange. This was begun after Ma...
So how much trouble is Barack Obama in? Well, it doesn’t get much worse. His approval rating is hovering just above 40 per cent. Unemployment is stuck at 9.1 per cent; the White House forecast that it wou...
The parents of children who play truant from school could have their child benefits taken away under plans being considered by the Government. The crackdown on what David Cameron has described as “the har...
Almost a quarter of schools are failing to do enough to keep children safe, according to Ofsted. Some 21 per cent of state schools in England are no better than satisfactory on child safety, the watchdog...
The Beijing propaganda bureau has taken control of two influential newspapers in the Chinese capital, prompting fears that they will be more strictly censored. Officials announced the move to reporters o...
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