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*Why must everyone have to please Israel?* "Israel adjusts to new Egypt power dynamic; Officials must appeal to masses as well as leaders" August 29, 2011|By Joel Greenberg, Washington Post JERUSALEM - A ...
*Seems to be the same in all courtrooms no matter what country. * "Witness denies Mubarak ordered protesters’ shooting" by Maggie Michael, Associated Press / September 6, 2011 CAIRO - The *prosecution’s f...
*That's why they are in the streets*: "New Yemeni council set to press Saleh" August 18, 2011|Associated Press
SANA, Yemen - Yemeni *opposition groups and protest leaders formed a national council* yester...
------------------------------ *Governor fires Mayor and City Council and appoints crony to sell off town assets at fire-sale prices to his corporate donors.* *miuncut1* Cherchez la Verite
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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 severa...
“To some, the outline of the open cluster of stars M6 resembles a butterfly. M6, also known as
NGC 6405, spans about 20 light-years and lies about 2,000 light years distant. M6 can best be seen in a dark s...
*God bless 'em!* "Bahrain protesters accuse government security forces in 14-year-old’s death" September 01, 2011|Associated Press MANAMA, Bahrain - Bahraini security forces clashed with antigovernment p...
[image: AMSR-E Arctic sea ice extent, 2002 - September 2011. IARC-JAXA] By Tamino 1 September 2011 Now that August numbers for sea ice area and extent are available from NSIDC, let’s update the predicti...
Blackened fish may sound like some sleazeball is trying to con you into eating a burnt dish, but it's truly quite delicious and packed with flavor. What's great about blackened fish is you get more than...
"London carnival opens with few problems" August 29, 2011|Associated Press LONDON - The Notting Hill Carnival, Europe’s *largest street festival, has begun successfully with few problems* reported yesterda...
*Starting with the soon-to-be ex-president*: "Sarkozy denies illegal campaign cash" September 01, 2011|Associated Press PARIS - French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s office *vigorously denied*assertions in a ...
"Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s government is revamping its proposed austerity measures in several ways, including *scrapping a special tax on high-income earners* and a plan to close local gov...
*"I liked the way he bit off that guy’s hand, and the way he did his business in the middle of the stage. We need more of that in Washington."* *-- Jefferson City (MO) Tea Party supporter Gwendolene Thomaso...
"Game show highlights asylum seekers" September 03, 2011|Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The nation that brought the television world “Big Brother’’ and a *hoax game show* with a *donor kidney pr...
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Stimulus was supposed to reduce unemployment. But all it did was produce whopping deficits and a once-in-a-lifetime expansion of debt. As bad as America’s situation is post-stimulus, Europe’s is worse....
I have never been a big fan of the paranoia that runs through the UFO field. I don’t believe Men in Black are stalking UFO witnesses or investigators. I don’t believe that black helicopters routinely inspe...
*I suppose it would just take a flick of the switch?* "Belgium hits 450th day without government" Associated Press / September 6, 2011 BRUSSELS - Belgium hit a *new milestone yesterday - 450 days without ...
Well - over the course of the past few months we have heard a lot of legislators deny the fact that American Legislative Echange Council (ALEC) meetings are held in "swanky" hotels. The States and Nation ...
*Did he live on the second floor**? * "Suspect confesses to killing 2 US airmen in German airport; Says extremist material online moved him to act" September 01, 2011|By David McHugh and David Rising, Ass...
A man who was eating a taco at a Raleigh bus stop says a cop swept-kicked him to the ground, broke his leg and arrested him, then hauled him before a judge who sentenced him to 30 days in jail for contempt...
Invasive earthworms can alter the carbon and nitrogen cycles in woodland, as well as undermining native plant species, a study has said. US researchers found that the presence of non-native worms also acce...
Massive waves slamming into California's coast - killing at least one person and causing millions of dollars in damage - are being labelled the "New Zealand surf" because of where they are coming from. In...
The term mud volcano or mud-dome is used to refer to formations created by geo-excreted liquids and gases, although there are several different processes which may cause such activity. Hot water mixes wi...
In Kansas City, Missouri, a local zoning fight is going nuclear, literally: A Monday-morning courtroom showdown between activists and politicians could determine whether the city becomes host to the world'...
MOBILE, Ala (Reuters) - Gulf Coast residents from Texas to Florida struggled with a third day of severe weather on Monday with one man dead and a teenager missing in rough waters as remnants of Tropical St...
The Obama administration has disappointed civil rights campaigners who had expected him to reverse most of the post-9/11 restrictions introduced by the Bush administration. On becoming president in Januar...
Famine has spread to a sixth area of Somalia and tens of thousands of people have died as a result of severe food shortages, the UN has said. A statement from the UN Somalia Food Security Nutrition Analy...
Tropical Storm Lee brought torrential rains and flash flooding to the US Gulf Coast on Sunday after making landfall near New Orleans, officials said. The storm struck as US President Barack Obama prepared ...
European stocks tumbled 4 percent on Monday, with banks plumbing a more than two year low, as fears for the future of the euro zone bubbled up against a background of weak economic growth and threats to th...
Cynthia Daily and her partner used a sperm donor to conceive a baby seven years ago, and they hoped that one day their son would get to know some of his half siblings — an extended family of sorts for mode...
Call it the showdown with the samurai. Indiana State Police say they encountered a shirtless man wielding a 35-inch-long samurai sword on the inner shoulder of Interstate 65 on Sunday afternoon near U.S. ...
A 17-year-old girl lost both of her legs after trying to climb aboard a moving train with three friends on Monday, authorities said. The incident happened in Longmont just after 1 p.m. when, according to ...
More than 1,000 homes have burned in at least 57 wildfires across rain-starved Texas, most of them in one devastating blaze close to Austin that's still raging out of control, officials said Tuesday. Spea...
Phase one of the world's first commercial spaceport, which will be the hub for Virgin's consumer spaceflights, is now 90 per cent complete. The 1,800-acre Spaceport America site, in Las Cruces, New Mexico,...
A city sewer worker made more last year than the police commissioner, the schools chancellor and the mayor - combined. Senior engineer Gerald Mistretta's pay was $771,841 - and six of his co-workers raked...
A decomposed body was found stuffed inside a suitcase on a Bronx street Sunday, sources said. The unidentified body was discovered by cops on Needham Ave. near Wilson Ave. in Williamsbridge after a neighb...
Europeans are plagued by mental and neurological illnesses, with almost 165 million people or 38 percent of the population suffering each year from a brain disorder such as depression, anxiety, insomnia or...
German benchmark borrowing costs fell below 2 per cent to all-time lows while Italy’s shot up as worries about the eurozone debt crisis and the fragility of banks once more intensified. European lenders b...
Senior IDF officer warns of 'radical Islamic winter' that may lead to regional war, could prompt use of WMDs; new, more lethal weapons discovered in hands of terrorists during latest round of fighting in G...
Three people were killed and two police officers were wounded in a shooting a few blocks from the annual West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn, capping a violent holiday weekend in which 47 people were injure...
An 18-year-old boy who lost his life to gunfire in the North Lawndale neighborhood has brought the total number of deaths caused by violence in the city this Labor Day weekend to at least eight. Sadarius ...
Public pessimism about the direction of the country has jumped to its highest level in nearly three years, erasing the sense of hope that followed President Obama’s inauguration and pushing his approval ra...
REPORTS of dolphins interacting with dead members of their pod are raising questions about whether cetaceans understand the concept of death. Bottlenose dolphins in western Greece have been seen reacting t...
Alarm bells were sounded over prospects for the British economy after growth in Britain's dominant services sector slowed last month at its fastest pace since the 2001 foot and mouth crisis. The decline i...
"BP says armed search of Moscow office is illegal" September 01, 2011|By Nataliya Vasilyeva, Associated Press MOSCOW - Russian bailiffs accompanied by armed policemen searched BP’s Moscow office yesterday...
National Thai newspaper responds to loan-anon blogger. by Tony Cartalucci Editor's Note: For the record, Land Destroyer is run by an independent, loan, semi-anon blogger whose only expense is the Internet...
Dolphins don't whistle, but instead "talk" to each other using a process very similar to the way that humans communicate.
Vietnam Veterans protest the war at the Republican National Convention in 1972. Photo by Langelle.Idiots and blinders:Military 'intelligence' then and nowThere is nothing new about such blindness to alternat...
“It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.” - Mark Twain
"Firefighters relied on a giant air tanker to make steady progress yesterday against a *five-day-old wildfire* that has closed one of the main roads leading into *Yosemite* National Park.... --more--" * *...
*They all are*: "US doctor charged as member of drug smuggling ring; Wrote 920,000 prescriptions for painkiller" August 20, 2011|By Elliot Spagat, Associated Press SAN DIEGO - A doctor who wrote prescrip...
* "Are There Parallel Universes?"* by The DailyGalaxy ․ "The multiverse is no longer a model, it is a consequence of our models.” ~Aurelien Barrau, particle physicist at CERN. "The Hollywood blockbuster, "...
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There, I said it. I agree with John Minto. I also agree with Annette Sykes, Tamati Kruger, Barry Wilson, Keith Locke, Pita Sharples, and the lawyers for Tame Iti and the rest of the ragtag “ terrorists...
*"Study: Women's Sex Noises Have Little To Do With Their Orgasms"* by HuffPost Women "Two researchers from the University of Central Lancashire, in Preston, England have some news heterosexual men might n...
"Man gets life for killing 8 people* * CARTHAGE - A North Carolina man has been sentenced to spend the rest of his life behind bars for killing eight people at a rural nursing home. A jury convicted Rober...
*Puh-leeze!* "Teen reported held in ‘Jihad Jane’ case" August 27, 2011|Associated Press PHILADELPHIA - A Maryland *teenager from Pakistan* is being held in US custody on terrorism charges, accused of soli...
*"Why Can't Men Love Like Women?"* by Dr. Peggy Drexler "I was having one of "he can't connect emotionally" conversations. A friend was telling me about her relationship angst over his inability to unders...
"Man arrested in Ore. mosque bombing" August 26, 2011|Associated Press EUGENE, Ore. - Federal officials arrested a 24-year-old man this week in the firebombing of an Oregon mosque last year and said he was...
"Wildlife agents were trying to capture a grizzly bear in Yellowstone National Park after it killed a Michigan hiker in the second fatal bear attack this summer in the famed park, authorities said yesterda...
The writ drops tomorrow in Ontario for an October 6th vote, but for all intents and purposes, the campaign is already well under way. So for those tuning in after a summer away from politics, here's where ...
*Beep-beep!* "Mo. Ford workers authorize strike" August 30, 2011|Associated Press DETROIT - Workers at a Ford Motor Co. plant near Kansas City, Mo., have voted to let their union leaders call a strike aga...
The twists and turns of three Apollo moon crews are revealed in new pictures taken by NASA’s sharp-eyed Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Frank Rich- Ten Years After September 11 - The 9/11 Decade - New York Magazine In retrospect, the most consequential event of the past ten years may not have been 9/11 or the Iraq War but the looting of th...
Filmmakers Jules and Gedeon Naudet and were supposed to be making a documentary about New York City firefighters, following a probie named Tony Benetatos as he went from the academy to his assignment with ...
After 9/11: The War-on-Terror Machine. Political cartoon by David Baldinger / dbaldinger.com.U.S. and Chile:Two 9/11's have similar impactIn both countries the 9/11 event was followed by violence, threats to...
*Why the hell not, huh?* Last year Democratic and left leaning independent voters disappointed with Obama and the congressional Democrats who followed his lame and pathetic agenda just didn't show up at t...
*"The Rat Race"* by Wikipedia "A rat race is for rats. We are not rats. We are human beings. Reject the insidious pressures of society that would blunt your critical faculties to all the happenings aro...
[image: President Barack Obama in Tucson] Yes, he's the BBC North America editor, the man with his finger on the pulse of political events in the USA. I recall back in January when Mark Mardell brought us ...
Have to laugh at the faux hysteria the BBC are trying to whip up in their endless jihad against the evil Murdoch empire! Have you see this? Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
"You Asked Us to Believe." Music, lyrics, vocal, producer: Larry Piltz; arrangement, instruments, recording enginer: Lamar Pecorino; post-production graphics and duplication: Channel 3 Video.You Asked Us To ...
*"Permission to Simply Be: Working through Transitions"* by The DailyOm "During the pause between achievements, many people begin to question what their life is about. The elation we feel when we have lea...
Could a white dwarf's spin save it from supernova doom?
“Every day, I saw more evidence about the evils humankind will inflict on their fellow humans to gain or maintain power… What is more, those who choose not to empathize may enable real monsters. For witho...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Alaska Peninsula at a depth of 12.1 km (7.5 miles), the quake hit at 17:54:20 UTC Tuesday 6th September 2011. The epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) Southeast of False...
*“US Or The War Machine“* by David Swanson “You may have heard something about a budget crisis in Washington this summer. Were you aware that in the midst of it the House of Representatives passed a mili...
“First ask yourselves, Gentlemen, what an Englishman, a Frenchman, and a citizen of the United States of America understand today by the word 'liberty'. For each of them it is the right to be subjected on...
Meet Babe, the pig who was born with not one but two snouts. And while it might sound like a joke, it's no laughing matter. The two-month-old - part of a litter born on a farm in Deshengtang, Jilin provin...
A 15-ton Minke whale calf has been successfully saved by rescuers after becoming beached in a shallow dock this morning. The 30ft mammal became beached in Immingham Docks, near Grimsby, Lincolnshire, afte...
A teenage judo star was jailed for eight months today after taking part in looting during last month's riots, court officials said. Anthony Lloyd, 17, was found by police with his pockets 'bulging' with s...
The deaths of Colin McRae and three others in a helicopter crash were caused by the former world rallying champion's 'imprudent' flying, a sheriff has ruled. McRae, 39, his five-year-old son Johnny, the b...
As Atrios is fond of saying, "The stupid, it buuuurrrns!" You may or may not have heard of the current meme circulating around Wingnuttia and led by the waddling figure of Andrew Breitbart at its vanguar...
"Ron Paul is an unofficial member of the John Birch Society, which was founded by masons, funded by Nelson Rockefeller and run by Jesuit-trained Knights of Malta. "In other words, the JBS is a gatekeeper...
Three people were killed and six others were wounded Tuesday in a shooting at a Carson City, Nevada, IHOP restaurant, police said. Those six victims did include the shooter, who police said turned a gun o...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 27.9 km (17.3 miles), the quake hit at 17:54:52 UTC Tuesday 6th September 2011. The epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) E...
Millions of Italian trade union members are thought to be taking part in a day-long strike against the government's latest austerity measures. Flights have been cancelled, trains and buses are stationary, ...
South Korea is to buy precision-guided missiles from Israel to strengthen defences on islands vulnerable to attacks from North Korea, reports say. About 50 missiles would be deployed on two islands near th...
Two Libyan convoys have passed through Niger this week, officials there said Tuesday -- fueling renewed speculation about the whereabouts of ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. One convoy was on its w...
A deadly hail of bullets struck Syrian refugees as they tried to flee across the border to Turkey on Monday, killing one man and wounding another, the Turkish government said Tuesday. "Yesterday there w...
Jute, a vegetable fibre that can be spun into sackcloth, used to be the 'golden fibre' of Bangladesh. It brought much-needed foreign income to the impoverished nation. But it lost its lustre in the 1980s ...
At least 31 people were killed and more than 23 injured when government airstrikes hit a mosque and other buildings in downtown Jaar on Monday, a security official said. A senior security official in Jaar...
Firefighters southeast of Austin, Texas, battled strong winds Monday as they struggled to gain ground against a fast-moving wildfire that has so far scorched some 25,000 acres and destroyed close to 500 ...
After a summer fraught with uncertainty, investors in Europe returned this week from holiday to find the eurozone sovereign debt crisis may actually be getting worse. The European Union made a grand gestu...
The offices of the Palestinian Ministry of Planning, in Ramallah's upscale al-Masyoun neighborhood, were all abuzz last week. The civil servants on staff were just finishing a much anticipated report due t...
A cold economic freeze has taken control of the economies of the Caribbean countries as the recession has tightened its hold on the economies of Western Europe, the USA and North America. Several European ...
For fifty years Germany has invariably stumped up the money required to keep Europe’s Project on track, responding to unreasonable demands with grace and generosity. It bankrolled French farmers through t...
Josef Ackermann, the chief executive of Deutsche Bank, Germany's biggest bank, has warned that "numerous" European lenders would collapse if they were forced to book their losses on stricken sovereign bond...
Most holiday makers taking a stroll around a working harbour might expect to see the odd fish. But when David Copp came across a fishing trawler moored in Ilfracombe Harbour he took great offence and com...
The International Monetary Fund has called on the US and Europe to abandon fiscal austerity and switch to stimulus measures, warning that the global economy faces a "threatening downward spiral". Christin...
As the euro crisis has intensified, so the previously unthinkable has become the subject of widespread discussion. People have woken up to the idea that the euro could break up. But everywhere you hear th...
Russia on Saturday successfully tested its Topol strategic missile with a new warhead designed to breach missile shields, Russian news agencies reported, citing the defence ministry. "The experimental war...
Four years after the collapse of sub-prime mortgages turned a market that had been a matter of interest to just a couple of thousand highly paid traders and investors into the starting gun of a global fina...
Embedded in a New York Times story today on groups calling for scientists to take a more active role in public life is a statistic that caught our eye: When asked to name a scientist, 47 percent of America...
Efforts to stabilize Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, crippled by a March tsunami which triggered a nuclear crisis, are running ahead of schedule, according to the president of the Tokyo Electric P...
This capital city’s skies were clogged with pollution, as is often the case, and China’s government was concerned. So it summoned officials of the American Embassy here to a meeting. But the session had n...
At this very moment one of the fastest spacecraft ever launched - NASA's New Horizons - is hurtling through the void at nearly one million miles per day. Launched in 2006, it has been in flight longer than...
Roboticists are looking to sting rays, sea turtles, and sharks for inspiration.
*"Ten Years After 9/11: * *Have We Become the Enemy of Freedom?"* By John W. Whitehead "We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in o...
*by Barbara Loe Fisher* Every mother has had the nightmare. We dream our child, who we love more than we thought we could love anyone, has been taken away by strangers and cannot be found. The cold fear ri...
The traitor/liar Thomas Kean, Chairman of the 9/11 Commission, calls citizen-journalist Luke Rudkowski "a little bit nuts," after running away from a question. LOL! Thomas Kean Runs Away From 911 Cover Up...
What does Kan know that would cause him to have these thoughts? Japan's former premier Naoto Kan feared Tokyo would be rendered uninhabitable by the Fukushima nuclear crisis, he said in an interview publi...
The former MP who claimed for dry rot treatment on a home more than 100 miles from her constituency will be charged with fiddling her expenses by more than £60,000. Margaret Moran, the former MP for Luto...
Nine children have died of suspected encephalitis, an acute brain infection, in Bihar’s Gaya district during the last two weeks, a health official said Tuesday. The district health official said that in ...
[image: Texas's worst 6-12 month droughts through July 2011 (based on 100 years of data). Brent McRoberts and John Nielsen-Gammon, Texas A&M University via pewclimate.org] By Dan Huber 26 August 2011 ...
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Albuquerque Forest Service Protest, Protect the Peaks. Video by Krystal Curley, Dine'. Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
A 65-year-old woman is set to appear in court for an alleged hate crime - after placing a golliwog in her window. Jena Mason had been embroiled in a long-running dispute with a neighbour and his wife, who...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Solomon Islands at a depth of 28.6 km (17.8 miles), the quake hit at 15:13:36 UTC Tuesday 6th September 2011. The epicenter was 214 km (132 miles) ESE of Kira Kira,...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck South of the Kermadec Islands at a depth of just 1 km (0 miles), the quake hit at 13:10:17 UTC Tuesday 6th September 2011. The epicenter was 513 km (318 miles) Northea...
*Cecil Bothwell, the real thing* On Labor Day Asheville City Councilman Cecil Bothwell, the progressive Democrat taking on reactionary Blue Dog Heath Shuler in western North Carolina, issued a challenge t...
[image: Large slumps of coastal land are caused by the thawing and erosion of ice-rich permafrost. As a result, large quantities of sediment are introduced into the coastal ecosystem, which alters the fo...
*The 9/11 Brand Is Losing Its Grip On The Collective Mind* *Saman Mohammadi The Excavator September 6, 2011* "We are no doubt in the Great Age of the Brand." - Tom Peters "From a marketing point of view, ...
*And it is lunchtime here.* "Clawing back to lobster dominance; Maine takes on Canadians in processing catch" September 04, 2011|By Jenifer B. McKim, Globe Staff ROCKLAND, Maine - Lobster is as connected ...
*They didn't call me.* "Brown’s support high, but slipping; Poll also finds majority favor more gambling" September 04, 2011|By Noah Bierman, Globe Staff Senator Scott *Brown remains the most popular* maj...
Globalist organization ponders whether Al Qaeda has "snookered" NATO. by Tony Cartalucci First, a Conflict of Interest The Atlantic Council claims to be a "preeminent, non partisan institution devoted t...
[image: Flooding in Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy, 1 November 2004. By Gwenael Piaser / flickr] By Evan V. Symon 6 September 2011 If you turn on the news and hear that some city is being devastated b...
"Divided Congress returns to work amid dismal public approval" September 04, 2011|By David Espo, Associated Press WASHINGTON - After a five-week break, Republican and Democratic leaders alike promise acti...
*What's with the flood of **sports stories** on the **front page** lately? * "For ticket resellers and fans, the game may be changing" by Shira Springer, Globe Staff / September 6, 2011 Newlyweds Michael ...
"*Job cuts have accelerated* as recent data showed the *economy slowed more than previously reported *in the first half of the year.... *Meaning you have been lied to once again, readers. * --more--" *R...
*Alt-Market.com* Brandon Smith Is freedom a place, or an idea? A state of society, or a state of mind? Does it begin around us, or within us? In today’s world of the all-you-can-eat sensory buffet, whe...
FEMA's app helps users prepare for imminent natural disasters, with or without service.
*They are no different than anybody else. * "Under Obama, few gains for labor; Leaders evaluate political alliance" September 05, 2011|By Sam Hananel, Associated Press WASHINGTON - In the *early days of t...
On Wednesday, August 24th, I wrote the following blog entry: John Cook will receive lots of money for climate propaganda In that text, I claimed that a hardcore crackpot and one of the numerous redundan...
[image: A boat is stranded and coated with salt deposits, as the rapidly drying Lake Orumiyeh recedes, October 2008. Navid Jadidoleslam / ISNA] Tehran, Sept 5, 2011 (AFP) – The drying up of Iran's larges...
"The scene at yesterday’s rally was gleeful boosterism as the former Alaska governor took to the stage. Many in the crowd shouted encouragement to Palin, and while *there were more signs for Ron Paul* than...
*Literally*: "Tropical Storm Lee dumped *more than a foot of rain* in New Orleans and *spun off tornadoes* elsewhere yesterday as its center came ashore in a slow crawl north that raised fears of inland f...
[image: Smoke billows from a wildfire in Bastrop County, Texas, on Sunday, 5 September 2011. Wendy Moore / CNN] By Dave Montgomery, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, with contributions from Anna Tinsley and Ale...
This is the first aftermarket receiver to integrate the Pandora app on all three major smart phone platforms.
A concept that integrates solar panels with OLED screens yields a dazzling array of functions.
*Will likely be my last in the series.* "Budgets cut, teachers dig deeper for supplies" September 05, 2011|By Peter Schworm, Globe Staff ROCKLAND - Public school *teachers paying for classroom supplies* i...
[image: Two boys look to the camera in Madang Province, northern Papua New Guinea (PNG). © David Swanson / IRIN] BANGKOK, 5 September 2011 (IRIN) – Aid workers say more than 6,000 people on a remote clu...
"Mercury spill affects 30 preschoolers" September 03, 2011|Associated Press TOLEDO, Ohio - Authorities in Ohio say a show-and-tell item got broken at an * Ohio day care* and *spilled mercury*, leading to *...
Vinyl Chloride Plaquemine, Louisiana has a vinyl chlorideproblem and recently a judge ordered Dow Chemical Company to clean it up. Dowclaims it isn't responsible and has been working with the state and fe...
Anthony Lloyd,17 a Olympic Hopeful Sentenced to EIGHT MONTHS in a young offenders Institute over RIOTS - more to follow
Levee Safety Data and methods used to calculate Corps of Engineers’ LSAC ratings should be released ~Levees.org ~Surely the nation will fare much better if objective prioritization replaces the current pra...
Phase one of the world's first commercial spaceport, which will be the hub for Virgin's consumer spaceflights, is now 90 per cent complete. The 1,800-acre Spaceport America site, in Las Cruces, New Mexico,...
It just became official. Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin, one of working family's most stalwart and consistent champions in the House, has entered the race for the open U.S. Senate seat in Wisconsin. Blue Am...
A lost Da Vinci fresco may lie inside a 14th-century wall, and only a special camera, yet to be built, can see it.
*AFTER 11 hours, police storm the Parramatta building and release the 12-year-old girl held by a man at the centre of the Parramatta bomb hostage drama. * Police stormed into the building shortly after 8...
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck South of the Kermadec Islands at a depth of 9.8 km (6.1 miles), the quake hit at 10:51:33 UTC Tuesday 6th September 2011. The epicenter was 525 km (326 miles) Northeas...
California Fire officials said that an approximately 18-foot-long shark was sighted in the waters off Cambria on Sunday afternoon. Officials after the shark sighting have issued warning signs to beachgoers...
About 600 dead fish have been pulled from a lake in Arlington Heights, officials said. Dead gizzards had first started turning up along the shores of Lake Arlington two weeks ago. The Arlington Heights...
For the most part, every day, the part of the Bill Press show I listen to is the biggest damn waste of my time every day - but my only other choice is right wing radio. This morning - he was at one of the...
If you want to see how any object in the Solar System looks like from the viewpoint of any probe NASA sent, is sending, or will send in the space, see this 3-minute introduction to a new NASA app. Attra...
. The Independent's parliamentary commentator Simon Carr, reporting on David Cameron's demeanor in the House of Commons yesterday, said that; ".....No wonder David Cameron was so cheerful, his first wa...
Twenty-seven students of a primary school in Hebei Province were receiving medical treatment Tuesday after a suspected food poisoning incident, local authorities said. Fifteen children were being treated ...
Fire crews have managed to safely secure a radioactive load at the site of a truck crash, north-east of Perth. A truck carrying the load collided with another truck at the intersection of the Brand and Gr...
Two people are dead in Mexico City after at least two property boundary walls collapsed following days of heavy rains. Mexico City's civil defense secretary says both walls were improperly built. Elias Mo...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Mariana Islands Region at a depth of 42.8 km (26.6 miles), the quake hit at 10:31:49 UTC Tuesday 6th September 2011. The epicenter was 124 km (77 miles) ENE of Far...
A powerful earthquake jolted western Indonesia early Tuesday, killing a boy and sending panicked residents fleeing from homes, hotels and even a hospital. The magnitude-6.6 quake hit about 1 a.m. (1800 G...
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You all know how I feel about advertising. Usually it's not the ads themselves that drive me nuts, but their massive proliferation: that everything in our field of vision and seemingly every moment of our ...
Jailed Amanda Knox's father pledged he was 'here to take her home' as her appeal against her murder conviction entered the final stages. Curt Knox jetted in from the United States for the hearing which res...
The number of people shot over Labor Day weekend in New York has risen to 43, after violence married the annual West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn. The latest shooting, just a few blocks off the route wher...
Parents of children at an elementary school in Colorado are furious after the American flag was lowered at the multi-cultural school and replaced with a Saudi Arabian flag. As the tenth anniversary of 9/1...
Hundreds of families have been left homeless after a wind-fueled wildfire swept through Central Texas. Almost 500 homes were destroyed, and 5,000 residents evacuated, as the flames spread yesterday to cov...
A notable child psychologist is being held without bail amid accusations he tried to rape a 10-year-old boy. Dr David Scratchley, Clinical Director of the Matt Talbot Center in Belltown, Washington, was ...
Large armoured trucks with soldiers loyal to Colonel Gaddafi have crossed the Libyan border with Niger in a convoy which could have been carrying the toppled leader. The line of more than a dozen pick-up ...
The death toll from Talas, which swept across western Japan, has risen to 38, local authorities said Tuesday morning. Another 54 people are missing, according to a tally of casualties compiled from vario...
Two Russian pilots aboard a MiG-31 fighter jet were killed when it crashed Tuesday, state media said. The plane crashed minutes after take off from a military airport in the Perm region, the state-owned ...
Some families of 9/11 victims say they are confused, anxious and surprised as the 10th anniversary approaches because they have not received invitations to the Sunday ceremony opening the ground zero memor...
At least 31 people were killed and more than 23 injured when a government airstrike hit a mosque in downtown Jaar on Monday, a security official said. A senior security official in Jaar confirmed the air ...
The consensus scientists and Greenpeace members who believe that the judgement day is approaching were not pleased by the publication of a paper by Spencer and Braswell. In fact, they forced the editor of ...
It weighs one ton and is believed responsible for eating at least one fisherman, but this monster crocodile has finally been caught by 100 very cautious men. Measuring 21ft, the massive creature is the la...
Scientists have long been puzzled by the difference in topography between different sides of the moon, with the near side being flat and the far side much more mountainous. Now astronomers believe that th...
A leading pathologist has questioned an autopsy report that concluded that Rebecca Zahau, the woman found hanging at billionaire Jonah Shacknai’s mansion, had committed suicide. Dr Cyril Wecht, who has co...
For most gun loving Americans, the election of President Obama brought fears of a clamp down on their hobby. But shockingly, new statistics show the President may just be the best thing to happen to the U...
Incredible video footage shows the moment a tornado struck the New York State Thruway last night. A woman who had stopped in her car during a storm, films the raging winds gathering pace until, about six ...
A mother who starved her one-year-old son to death on the orders of a cult leader after he did not say 'amen' before a meal has said she was paralysed by fear and was 'crazy'. Speaking for the first time,...
A pilot was communicating by radio with her boyfriend before their planes collided in mid air over Alaska last week, killing him, a federal investigator said. The two pilots took off from different wester...
A 17-year-old college student's legs were severed at the knees after she fell while attempting to jump on a moving train on Monday. Authorities said the Colorado State University student was 'train hopping...
This is the first picture of newlyweds Ensar Gol and his British bride Michala who he is accused of murdering at their home in Oxfordshire. Gol is also charged with killing his 50-year-old mother-in-law J...
The thug who became the first winner on Simon Cowell’s high-profile new ITV game show could lose his £1million prize money after it emerged he lied about his criminal past. Nathan Hageman, who won the fir...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Alaska Peninsula at a depth of 34.2 km (21.3 miles), the quake hit at 07:50:38 UTC Tuesday 6th September 2011. The epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) Southeast of Fals...
Britain's leading companies shed nearly £50billion of their value yesterday as financial markets were hit by fresh turmoil. The FTSE 100 index fell 189.45 points to 5102.58 in London, a drop of 3.6 per c...
Mortgages that cover the entire cost of a home return this week. Three years after being scrapped in the credit crunch, a bank is bringing back the super-size loans that allow first-time buyers to get on ...
Image: Julia High fell victim to squatters when she went on holiday, returning to find a family of gypsies in her home in Leytonstone, east London, who invited her in for a glass of her own win. Squatters...
Anti-Gaddafi fighters plan to enter the desert town of Bani Walid without fighting after reaching a deal with its delegates, reports say. Al Jazeera television reports that the forces are to enter the pro...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the North Atlantic Ocean at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 04:07:35 UTC Tuesday 6th September 2011. The epicenter was 496 km (308 miles) Northeast of ...
*UPDATE:4:41PM: POLICE are trying to establish the identity and motives of a man who has barricaded himself in an office in Parramatta with a device in a bag. * Assistant Commissioner Dennis Clifford sai...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Banda Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 97 km (60.3 miles), the quake hit at 22:45:36 UTC Monday 5th September 2011. The epicenter was 154 km (95 miles) Northwest of Saumlak...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 526.1 km (326.9 miles), the quake hit at 2233:18 UTC Monday 5th September 2011. The epicenter was 434 km (269 miles) SSW of Ndo...
*Lucio Mascarenhas, from Goa, was quoted by Breivik. David Headley has many connections to Goa. Goa has many Israelis. * Goa may link Anders Breivik and David Headley. Anders Breivik reportedly wrote that ...
In May 2011, TRF readers were reminded about the ongoing full-fledged war of existence of the dark matter: CoGeNT sees seasons (and maybe dark matter) Recall that there are two opposing camps of experim...
*The New York Times* think that the eurozone is moving towards a counterpart of the U.S.: Reluctantly, Europe Inches Closer to a Fiscal Union No doubt, the current "neither fish nor fowl" arrangement of t...
[image: US first, create jobs] President Barack Obama used a boisterous Labor Day gathering to put congressional Republicans on the spot, challenging them to place the country's interests higher than all ...
The Libyan rebel leader tortured after Britain and America turned him over to Gaddafi’s henchmen could win £1million compensation from UK taxpayers. Abdel Hakim Belhadj – now working with Nato to hunt down...
<p><a href="http://video.dailytelegraph.com.au/2118529193/RAW-VISION-Sydney-bomb-scare">VIDEO: RAW VISION: Sydney...
RELIGION - Have you seen this guy? It's Pope Benedict XVI. Formerly known as Cardinal Ratzinger, the same guy who allowed sexually abused deaf children to continue being abused and even made efforts to c...
*#MMFlintOccupyWallStreet* *Ask @MMFlint (Michael Moore) to join us #Sep17 and #OccupyWallStreet with us.*
*Phil Silvers (Hubie) and Nancy Walker (Kay)* *Do Re Mi: Act I, "Take a job"* Lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green Music by Jule Styne *Phil Silvers (vocal), Hubie; Nancy Walker (vocal), Kay; orchestra ...
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Nearly one decade on from that day when an organised gang of barbarians hijacked civilian airliners and flew themselves and scores of innocents into two of the world’s most famous symbols of capitalism, ...
A fire caused by a plane crash threatened 800 homes or structures in Tehachapi, California, on Monday, with nearly 5,000 acres ablaze in rugged terrain, according to state and local officials. The fire st...
"A familiar sight to sky enthusiasts with even a small telescope, the Ring Nebula (M57) is some 2,000 light-years away in the musical constellation Lyra. The central ring is about one light-year across, bu...
“If we do not expect the unexpected we will not discover it, since it is not to be searched out and is difficult to apprehend.” - Heraclitus
*"The WOW Signal"* by CBC ․ “On August 15, 1977, a radio telescope at Ohio State University pointed skyward picked up an unusual signal. The telescope was searching the radio wave spectrum as part of the...
*“Natural Religion”* by Chet Raymo “It was his shattering experiences in the First World War that led Henry Beston to seek the solitary repose of a tiny cabin on the outermost beach of Cape Cod. His off-...
Tropical Storm Lee stirs frustration with Corps levee plans in Plaquemines and Jean Lafitte~Mark Schleifstein ~"When it was authorized by Congress to be taken into the federal system (of levees), it was su...
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This afternoon, the chairs of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, the Congressional Black Caucus, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and the Congressional Asian and Pacific American Caucus-- who seem to ...
Blackened fish may sound like some sleazeball is trying to con you into eating a burnt dish, but it's truly quite delicious and packed with flavor. What's great about blackened fish is you get more than...
*"I liked the way he bit off that guy’s hand, and the way he did his business in the middle of the stage. We need more of that in Washington."* *-- Jefferson City (MO) Tea Party supporter Gwendolene Thomaso...
Stimulus was supposed to reduce unemployment. But all it did was produce whopping deficits and a once-in-a-lifetime expansion of debt. As bad as America’s situation is post-stimulus, Europe’s is worse....
I have never been a big fan of the paranoia that runs through the UFO field. I don’t believe Men in Black are stalking UFO witnesses or investigators. I don’t believe that black helicopters routinely inspe...
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