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The blackout affecting large swaths of San Diego County led to a shutdown of two reactors at the San Onofre nuclear power plant. Gil Alexander, a spokesman for Southern California Edison, said the power ...
It's been awhile since we partook of a "Moment of Clarity" from the great Lee Camp -- this one dispatched last week from Edinburgh. Lately Lee has been posting a number of interviews on his website, leec...
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The United States feared, and fought, passage of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ Photo by Michelle Cook, Navajo/Co...
[image: Obama] Attacking a deepening jobs crisis, President Barack Obama challenged a reluctant Congress Thursday night to immediately pass a larger-than-expected $450 billion plan to "jolt an economy tha...
"Was Devils Tower once an explosive volcano? Famous for its appearance in films such as Close Encounters, the origin of Devil's Tower in Wyoming, USA is still debated, with a leading hypothesis holding tha...
*"The Coffee Illusion: * *What the Magic Brew Really Does to Your Brain"* by David McRaney "*The Misconception:* Coffee stimulates you. *The Truth:* You become addicted to caffeine quickly, and soon you a...
*"What Is Hope?"* by Rubin Alves "What is hope? It is the pre-sentiment that imagination is more real and reality is less real than it looks. It is the hunch that the overwhelming brutality of facts tha...
Bonnie Faulkner interviewed Webster G. Tarpley about the significance of government drills and exercises on September 11, 2001. Guns and Butter, September 7, 2011: "The 46 Exercises and Drills of 9/11" wi...
thwap's schoolyard: "Islamicism": Every now and then I'll make an observation about Harper and his continuing stupidification of Canada, but really, when the thwapster brings his A game, no one does this ...
*Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl:* *If he quits the supercommittee, that would be a good thing, wouldn't it?* *by Ken* Jon Kyl: I'd quit supercommittee over defense cuts By CHARLES HOSKINSON | 9/8/11 1:42 PM EDT Up...
The column of military vehicles rolled into the village of Ibleen shortly after dawn on Thursday. Residents said artillery fire and machine gun fire followed soon after. The troops left a path of destruct...
The financial crisis in Europe has become so severe that it has put the future of the euro, and indeed the future of the EU itself, in doubt. If the financial system in Europe collapses, it is going to plu...
Nearly one in three Americans who grew up middle-class has slipped down the income ladder as an adult, according to a new report by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Downward mobility is most common among middle...
They are among the most sought-after musical instruments in the world. Everyone from Chet Atkins to Les Paul to Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin to Slash of Guns n’ Roses played them. A vintage 1959 Les Paul gui...
The collapse of Libya's old regime has left a power vacuum, as ordinary citizens, including lawyers, accountants and footballers, take up arms to protect their neighbourhoods. His eyes hidden behind dark ...
Driven by fears that its soaring yen may thwart its economic recovery following a destructive earthquake and tsunami in March, the Japanese government has played a hand in the currency market on August 4. ...
When you shine light on a substance, part of the light is reflected, part is transmitted and part is absorbed. If you choose the color of light and the substance sensibly, you can arrange things so that al...
The Dutch government Tuesday sought to contain a hacking scandal officials believe originated in Iran that has forced segments of the country to return to the fax and paper age. Prosecutors said they woul...
Cartoons are now resorting to a life of crime. San Diego police say a suspect, dressed up as Gumby, tried to rob a 7-Eleven on Labor Day. The botched robbery happened just after midnight Monday in Ranch...
When Mary Coleman died in May 2009, two days after she fell to the floor at her sister's house, her sister and nephew decided there was nothing they could do about it and went out for pizza. Then, accordi...
A Mayo Clinic study finds that “burnout” and financial debt are widespread among doctors-in-training. The survey involved more than 16,000 internal medicine residents and provides a disturbing diagnosis. ...
The U.S. has tumbled further down a global ranking of the world's most competitive economies, landing at fifth place because of its huge deficits and declining public faith in government, a global economic...
Family doctors have been ordered to ration the number of patients they send for life-saving cancer scans to save money. They are being told to slash the number they refer to hospital for tests including u...
Hundreds of Longshoremen stormed the Port of Longview early Thursday, overpowered and held security guards, damaged railroad cars, and dumped grain that is the center of a labor dispute, said Longview Poli...
Heads up! That's the word from NASA today (Sept. 7) given the impending re-entry of a 6.5-ton satellite through Earth's atmosphere. The huge Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) is expected to re-ent...
An effort to allow only reusable bags at Los Angeles grocery stores may sound like a political long-shot, but one city councilman thinks the public will eventually warm up to the initiative. KNX 1070′s Pe...
Dogs in the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office will be getting four new bulletproof vests, thanks to a grant from the Ben Roethlisberger Foundation, founded by the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback. The dog...
The wildfire relief effort and national media presence at the Bastrop Convention and Exhibit Center look very much like those I've seen at other natural disasters. Volunteers directing cars and people, tr...
he U.S. and rich nations in Europe need to take action to shore up confidence in their economies as their recoveries are set to stagnate or go into reverse, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and De...
Millions of people in Pakistan have been forced from their homes by a tide of floodwater after five days of heavy monsoon rains. The authorities said the country is once again on the brink of a national "...
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When hunting for terrorists, seeing them before they see you is a must. Regular night-vision goggles are good, but not good enough. Sure, they let a soldier see at night as well as he would by day -- but t...
Gene Roddenberry's son tells Discovery News about how his father's vision inspires society, and to Richard Obousy about how Star Trek inspired him to formulate the science behind the warp drive.
A defunct NASA science satellite will be plunging back to Earth soon, sparking concerns that some debris might shower down on populated areas.
*If Israel Has Its Way, The Arab Spring Will Have To Wait* *Saman Mohammadi* *The Excavator* *September 8, 2011* The Arab Spring was a mirage. The dream of a new Middle Eastern Spring will remain a dream ...
*If Israel Has Its Way, The Arab Spring Will Have To Wait* *Saman Mohammadi* *The Excavator* *September 8, 2011* The Arab Spring was a mirage. The dream of a new Middle Eastern Spring will remain a dream ...
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For all the excitement at something finally coming out of the ground at Ground Zero—however bland it might be—a few more, um, interesting things were proposed in the early days of 2002 and since. [image...
*Has the Balance Tipped?* FRONTLINE September 7, 2011, 3:30 pm ET by Philip Bennett On a rainy day in October 2005, Dana Priest was escorted across the immaculate marble lobby of CIA headquarters in La...
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"They are longing for a war with Iran. Iran is no more a harm to us than was Iraq or Afghanistan. They invented an enemy, they tell lies, lies, lies. The New York Times goes along with their lies, lies, l...
* "Evidence Refutes the Official 9/11 Investigation:* * The Scientific Forensic Facts" * by Richard Gage and Gregg Roberts Ed. – This is the actual 10-minute statement read by Richard Gage, AIA, to the me...
* "Flight 77, the Pentagon and 9/11: a Second Look"* by Citizen Investigation Team "In 2006 Citizen Investigation Team launched an independent investigation into the act of terrorism which took place at t...
By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- UN Special Rapporteur James Anaya submitted a report to the UN Human Rights Council stating alleged human rights v...
In the context of a big ideological battle between those who think government can be a force for societal good (New Deal Democrats, progressives) and those who believe in the Law of the Jungle (fascists,...
Yep, they'd love to give him the corporate Vanger treatment but they'll settle for boycotting Obama's speech on jobs before a joint session of Congress tonight so Vitter can watch his football game wearin...
Edna Cintron stood waving for rescue in the North Tower plane shaped hole for at least an hour. Help never came. Her picture is in the NIST reports, waving to tell us that their tales of thousand degree he...
Magnitude*4.2* Date-Time - *Thursday, September 08, 2011 at 19:02:47 UTC* - Thursday, September 08, 2011 at 09:02:47 PM at epicenter - Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location51.779°N, ...
In its heyday (230 million years ago), the nursery was home to two types of sharks who spawned in freshwater.
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Biased BBC - 9 hours ago
Question Time tonight is a 9/11 Special. On the panel tonight in London we have Secretary or State for Defence Liam Fox, failed Labour leadership contender David Miliband and US Assistant Sec of Defense...
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BBC Question Time is back tonight with a 9/11 special. You are all cordially invited along if you can bear it. The panel consists of Liam Fox, David Miliband, Richard Pearle, Tariq Ali, Bonnie Greer and C...
USB batteries charge straight from any USB port and can power devices.
That's the question that Jon Butterworth asked on his Guardian blog four days ago: The laws of physics. Or are they more like guidelines? Make no doubts about it. I think that there is too little theory...
A teenager has been stabbed in the same spot where a man was killed after remonstrating with conker-throwing youths, police have said. The 15-year-old boy was attacked near Silver Street railway station in...
Officials in northeastern Pennsylvania called for a mandatory evacuation of more than 100,000 residents living along the Susquehanna River on Thursday due to expected flooding. The area was inundated in th...
A Milwaukee child is hospitalized with a confirmed case of highly contagious measles, the Milwaukee Health Department reported Wednesday afternoon. The child is a refugee whose family moved to the city at...
George Harrison, "Isn't It A Pity?"
Supercomputers might soon predict political events such as the fall of Mubarak.
Athletes who participate in endurance sports have a higher risk of heart rhythm problems.
Apple's OS X Lion update may look great in a demo and at first, but three things need fixing.
Hybrid Air Vehicles inks two major deal that could spell a resurgence in airships.
"If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe. The forces thus released in the people can never be held in check, but run t...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Mindoro, Philippines at a depth of 93.4 km (58 miles), the quake hit at 15:19:47 UTC Thursday 8th September 2011. The epicenter was 32 km (19 miles) WNW of Calapan, Mi...
Officials in northeastern Pennsylvania called for a mandatory evacuation of more than 100,000 residents living along the Susquehanna River on Thursday due to expected flooding. Luzerne County Management A...
Most Canadians are living paycheque to paycheque and would be in financial difficulty if their pay was even one week late, a new survey suggests. A poll commissioned by the Canadian Payroll Association rel...
A pair of two-million-year-old fossils with a mish-mash of human and ape characteristics have changed the way scientists think human-like features evolved. A detailed analysis of an adult female and a you...
CBC's Adrienne Arsenault visits the southern islands of the Philippines for an inside look at the lush, remote jungles that have become the forgotten front in the global fight against terrorism. The islan...
With Chinese yuan and Indian rupees increasingly finding their way into Africa's economies, Western powers are worried that they are losing influence in the resource-rich continent, according to analysts. ...
The summer bloodletting from multinational banks isn’t over. HSBC, a huge employer in Hong Kong and an anchor in a city known as Asia’s financial hub, announced that 3,000 people – roughly 10% of its workf...
A potent stash of Russian-made surface-to-air missiles is missing from a huge Tripoli weapons warehouse amid reports of weapons looting across war-torn Libya. They are Grinch SA-24 shoulder-launched mis...
Tropical Storm Nate has formed less than 150 miles from Mexico's coast in the southern Gulf of Mexico, and it could become a hurricane by Friday, the National Hurricane Center said on Wednesday afternoon. ...
Away from Tripoli, away from the fighting and largely away from any aid, hundreds of immigrants are living in an abandoned harbor. They are living on scraps, in poor sanitary conditions, and fearful of b...
More Americans filed for their first week of unemployment benefits last week, reflecting continued weakness in the job market. The number of first-time filers for unemployment benefits rose to 414,000 in ...
Forces loyal to Col Muammar Gaddafi have fired rockets from Bani Walid, one of the last strongholds of the fugitive Libyan leader. Rockets landed near those surrounding the town ahead of a Saturday deadlin...
There's a sizzling piece by Mark Steyn in the current issue of National Review, which reveals quite how far democracies have gone in restricting free speech. Citing, among many, the example of a musician ...
Doomsday clocks. Don't you just love them? It's hard to remember life without them because they've become so ubiquitous since the financial crisis. You can't fault their versatility: they can count both up...
On-board computers in cars could be targeted by hackers aiming to steal vehicles, track their movements or disrupt safety systems, security researchers have warned. New vehicles are increasingly reliant ...
The London property bubble could be about to burst, with the number of "distressed" sellers in the capital rising for the first time, according to one property company. PPR Estates said it had seen risin...
In September 2008, 11 decapitated bodies were discovered in Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula. When police arrested the killers, they found an altar in their home dedicated to Santa Muerte – the patron saint of d...
Home to some 70 million Muslims, Nigeria is stepping up efforts to capitalize on the growing popularity of the one of the world's fastest-growing financial sectors: Islamic banking. Earlier this year th...
This summer, I met a principal who was recently named as the administrator of the year in her state. She was loved and adored by all, but she told me she was leaving the profession. I screamed, "You can't...
The U.S. Postal Service appears to be the latest casualty in digital technology's slow but steady replacement of working humans. Unless an external source of funding comes in, the post office will have to ...
While the US continues to struggle with its economic issues Congress is on vacation. Many are upset at the news reports that 81 members of Congress have chosen to spend a week relaxing in Israel. These v...
It remains underground, but archaeologists in Austria believe they know what lies below. Some 40 kilometers (28 miles) east of Vienna they have mapped out the ruins of a Roman gladiator school using a spec...
Allow me a tiny I Told You So. In February, I wrote a story for SELF Magazine about the rising incidence of diseases other than Lyme that are caused by tick bites. (And told you about it here, of course.) ...
University and college students who abuse stimulants like Ritalin are often unaware of the risks, a medical journal editorial says. Campus administrators need to do more to protect young adults and educate...
*A video story of a peaceful protest test on Wall Street last Thursday Sept.1st, showing that we are living in a police state. Each of us who were detained will return there again, brining friends over. W...
[image: Increases in the heaviest 1 percent of all daily precipitation events in the U.S. from 1958 to 2007. Alaska has already seen a 23 percent increase in these events. New England has seen the greate...
*“Beware the Ides of... September?”* by Joseph W Martin Jr. There is a dirty little secret in the financial world. A secret that might be whispered about behind closed doors but is seldom if ever discusse...
*"Republican Debate: Fireworks Accident?"* by Karl Denninger "That was an interesting "debate" last night. I put the word "debate" in quotes because we haven't had an actual debate in my sentient lifetime...
*"Counting the Zeros in the US Economy" by Bill Bonner* "Poor Mr. Obama. They’re calling him “President Zero.” Why? Because August produced zero new jobs. But we Daily Reckoners were way ahead of the story...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck South of Mariana Islands at a depth of 40 km (24.9 miles), the quake hit at 16:00:52 UTC Thursday 8th September 2011. The epicenter was 249 km (154 miles) SSW of Hagat...
One just has to take a good hard look at the cruel, twisted world leaders to realize that! Not coincidentally, there seems to be a group consciousness revolving around this topic. Since I'm not a coinciden...
Fact or Fiction? Wonder what Paul Craig Roberts thinks of this sham? Don't! Just watch the video below, and don't let his somewhat lackadaisical responses during the interview worry you about his political...
An ammonia spill at an Atlanta warehouse shortly after midnight Thursday forced 40 employees to evacuate. Fulton County fire crews and a hazmat team from Atlanta worked to contain the spill at the Americ...
Even though rain fury in the state subsided, as many as 227 boats, 150 of them from Porbandar alone, have gone missing due to the heavy storm in coastal areas. Sources said that around 1,600 fishermen are ...
A former soldier who targeted teenage girls during a six-month campaign of rapes has been given an indefinite jail sentence. Jonathan Haynes, of Northampton, was described by Judge Neil Ford QC, the Recor...
Photo of the balcony over which Rebecca allegedly killed herself. The San Diego Sheriff's Department is willing to reopen the Rebecca Zahau case if they get a new lead. The department ruled the death of t...
The American Tradition Institute (including people like Chris Horner) is so far successfully trying to publicize Michael Mann's documents from the era when he was an employee of University of Virginia beca...
Oooh look! Israel’s up to no good again! It’s been trying to buy secrets from an American government scientist! Mossad’s been trying to make him spy for Israel! Stewart Nozette admits spy-for-Israe...
The domain was approved earlier this year by the California-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
Texas Governor Rick Perry doubles down on his disbelief in climate change science.
This community-developed power strip has jointed sections to allow all plugs be used.
A report warns that warned that security is lagging as vehicles are enhanced with embedded chips and sensors.
*Worth clicking on for careful examination* You heard the clowns last night. Anything you didn't expect? Anything even worth talking about at all? Public Policy Polling, the country's most accurate firm, ...
Oooh look! Israel’s up to no good again! It’s been trying to buy secrets from an American government scientist. Mossad’s been making him spy for Israel. Stewart Nozette admits spy-for-Israel charge See? S...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Puerto Rico Region at a depth of 28.5 km (17.7 miles), the quake hit at 15:30:36 UTC Thursday 8th September 2011. The epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) NNW of Charlot...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 60.3 km (37.5 miles), the quake hit at 15:27:14 UTC Thursday 8th September 2011. The epicenter was 403 km (250 miles) ENE of Kuril'sk, K...
There is a plan afoot to plant a million trees in Pennsylvania. I'm all for trees, obviously, that's why I write this blog. However I don't think there's much point in planting trees if we don't decide t...
[image: Workers walk outside a desalination plant, south of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 4 May 2011. Fahad Shadeed / Reuters]By Reem Shamseddine and Barbara Lewis; Editing by Daniel Fineren and Sonya Hepinstall...
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CENSORED NEWS - 12 hours ago
By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com A new report to the UN Human Rights Council from Special Rapporteur James Anaya states that imprisoned Indian activist Leonard Peltier is ...
[image: Aerial view of Texas wildfires, 8 September 2011. Reuters] By Ashley Powers and Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times 7 September 2011 Reporting from Bastrop, Texas, and Los Angeles – Beleague...
How do authorities stop real-time chatter between suspected web insurgents? With great difficulty it seems. Four young men who stand accused of taking part in cyber attacks with the hacktivist collective...
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Broken of Britain - 13 hours ago
[image: Annual lobbying money spent by the oil & gas industry, 1998-2011. opensecrets.org] By Evan Mackinder 23 August 2010 It was supposed to be their time. With significant majorities in Congress, ...
. Tony Farrell, 'Principal Intelligence Analyst' For South Yorkshire Police (the UK's 18th largest force), was sacked in July 2010 for submitting in his annual review that the major threat of terrorism a...
A shark activists group purchased 60 baby blacktip and bamboo sharks and set them free.
The giant biting and stinging wasp is about five times bigger than most other wasps.
If you haven't watched it, I recommend you to give a try: YouTube: 8 parts, 15 minutes each (in Reagan's Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California) It seems to me that Rick Perry has defended his fr...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 29 km (18 miles), the quake hit at 13:38:12 UTC Thursday 8th September 2011. The epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) ENE ...
Embers. Image from Wikimedia Commons.The Embers of SeptemberBy Mike Davis / The Rag Blog / September 8, 2011Ten years ago, Lower Manhattan became the Sarajevo of the War on Terrorism. Although conscience rec...
Canadian tar sands crude oil. Image from The Alaska Gas Pipeline.Keystone XL:A pipeline to big oil profitsFormer NASA scientist Jim Hansen has argued that if tar sands development continues and the pipeline ...
A suspected serial buttock slasher who has been preying on women out shopping for clothes has been unmasked by police. Johnny D. Guillen Pimentel has been revealed as the prime suspect in a string of att...
A former high school friend of a missing Northern California nursing student has been arrested on suspicion of murder, more than three months after the victim vanished from a San Francisco-area hospital wh...
The firefighters who worked at Ground Zero show a 10 percent higher cancer rates than similar men.
A new terrorist threat of radicalisation via the Internet has developed over the decade since the September 11 attacks, according to a new survey. Immediately after 9/11, experts believed people would only...
The chief executive of Santander was photographed in Downing Street yesterday with papers suggesting she had been tipped off that banking reforms would be delayed. Spaniard Ana Botin had been for private ...
Image: Mr Mousa was working in a hotel in Basra when he was arrested. A public inquiry has found that an innocent Iraqi civilian died after suffering an "appalling episode of serious, gratuitous violence" ...
Thousands of tilapia, which were reared in cages in Sungai Arau, near here, under a programme to help the hardcore poor, were found dead, this morning. The fish, which had almost reached maturity and could...
WASHINGTON - U.S. forecasters say a new solar flare should provide only a glancing blow on Earth on Friday and is unlikely to cause any problems. The National Weather Service's Space Weather Prediction Cen...
A native New Yorker recounts her experience evacuating 2 WTC on 9/11 -- and how that day changed her life.
The former Vice President is leading an international 24-hour climate change reality check on Sept. 14.
Dogs are helping engineers build better robots and carrying robotic devices into war zones.
Saints 2011 Burning Questions: Because, you see, there was actually fire this time. Get it? It's funny!~Library Chronicles Chicks in the Huddle~Mother Hen When I grow up, I’m going to Bovine University ~M...
***Robin Cook, who died rather suddenly. * Al Qaeda are mercenaries, linked to the drugs trade. Robin Cook was the UK government minister in charge of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, MI6. Robin Coo...
British fashion designer John Galliano has been found guilty by a Paris court of being racist and using anti-Semitic behaviour. He faced charges of "casting public insults based on origin, religious affil...
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Broken of Britain - 15 hours ago
There are no definite signs of an imminent eruption in the sub-glacial volcano Katla in south Iceland although regular series of minor earthquakes and increased geothermal heat indicate that the volcano is...
JINAN - Eighty-six primary school students have been affected by a suspected food poisoning incident in East China's Shandong province, said local authorities Thursday. As of Thursday morning, 10 childre...
Broome County and City of Binghamton are working on mandatory evacuations along parts of South Side, East Side and Downtown around river areas. Broome Emergency Services expects water to rise 1 foot higher...
A recent explosion of plankton off the Sonoma Coast has turned lethal for abalone and other shell fish. White meat from the prized sea snails has been washing up on area beaches for more than a week, se...
A 15,000-acre wildfire in forested peaks in Idaho has forced the evacuation of 100 people and halted construction work on a planned strategic metal mine, officials said on Wednesday. Nearly 600 firefight...
*Local school management has hundreds of primary school students to a mosque after the school building collapsed.* According to the Government Primary School Ticharta Rokana Markaz Daalowali administrati...
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wmtc - 16 hours ago
Things you can to do save public services in Toronto: 1. Watch this amazing video!* 2. Share the video with everyone you know. 3. If you live in the GTA, come to City Hall on *Monday, September 26, 201...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Fiji at a depth of 21.3 km (13.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:58:47 UTC Thursday 8th September 2011. The epicenter was 133 km (82 miles) NNE of Lautoka, Viti Levu, Fiji ...
John Humphrys has noticed Luton. Find your extremes, place them next to each other, light the blue touch paper, stand back and wait for sparks to fly. That’s what the BBC normally does these days, to satis...
There is beauty all around us, even in something as simple as food coloring and water.When I first saw these type of pictures a few weeks back, I knew I had to recreate them. They are wonderful simple ...
I hired the Doors to play at my college and the bonus was that I met Danny Fields the night of the show. I had never met anyone in the music industry before but after becoming friends with Danny, I intuit...
A 500-ton crane doing repair work collapsed Wednesday at the Washington National Cathedral amid thunderstorms and driving rain, damaging at least one nearby building and several vehicles but sparing the ch...
A third day of heavy rains brought flash flooding, rescue efforts and dozens of road closures in Baltimore County on Wednesday, Sept. 7. The list of road closures grew substantially Wednesday night as cond...
Image: Tributes Flow For Jet Crash Hockey Stars. A doctor has said the condition of the two survivors of the Russian air crash that almost wiped out an entire international ice hockey team is "very grave"...
German police arrested two men in Berlin on suspicion of plotting a bomb attack, police said Thursday. A 24-year-old- German of Lebanese descent and a 28-year-old man from Gaza had tried to get chemicals...
Tropical Storm Nate has formed less than 150 miles from Mexico's coast in the southern Gulf of Mexico, and it could become a hurricane by Friday, the National Hurricane Center said on Wednesday afternoon. ...
A potent stash of Russian-made surface-to-air missiles is missing from a huge Tripoli weapons warehouse amid reports of weapons looting across war-torn Libya. They are Grinch SA-24 shoulder-launched mi...
Hurricane Katia, a Category 2 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale, is expected to pass between Bermuda and the east coast of the United States over the next day or two, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NH...
Sick: The judging panel seem to enjoy the three-year-old's depiction of an LA prostitute. The mother of a three-year-old Toddlers and Tiaras contestant has defended dressing her child as a prostitute for ...
The U.S. could once again be hit by a similar terrorist attack to 9/11, according to the country's Defense Secretary. Pentagon chief Leon Panetta said citizens must remain 'vigilant' and that the threat o...
An elite search team has set out to search for people who may be trapped in a huge Texas wildfire that has destroyed hundreds of homes. The 600-member Texas Task Force 1 will assist local officials and fir...
Three people have been arrested in connection with a bomb that exploded outside India's high court, killing 12 people and injuring dozens. The suspects were detained after an email was sent to authorities...
A British man has been sentenced to 12 years in a Cambodian prison after being found guilty of sexually abusing three girls. Police say 51-year-old Michael Julian Leach was arrested last September at a gu...
A bus driver is under investigation after he was filmed physically throwing a passenger off his bus and onto the ground in Washington, D.C. The shocking footage shows the unidentified driver grab the man b...
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Biased BBC - 19 hours ago
Another classic attack piece on the GOP by the BBC. First, look at the masthead quote from the BBC's Alistair Leithead.*"The biggest applause was when the number of people executed in Texas was read about"...
with a CBC interview targeting "Islamicism" as the "major threat to Canada". Islamicism? "So what are we then?" respond the Unabomberanians, Norwegochristofarians, and McVeighlians. "Choppity liverers?" ...
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Biased BBC - 19 hours ago
BBC bias was on wonderful display this morning in this CRINGING interview with Ed Balls. Listen to Stephanie "Two Eds" Flanders set up Naughtie's sycophantic interview with her former boyfriend by suggest...
Imprisoned polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs has filed a handwritten motion seeking a new trial in Texas after he was convicted there and sentenced to life in prison on child sex assault charges. Jeffs,...
NOTE: Seems to me they are trying everything not investigate this case, Why? Medical examiners have revealed that Rebecca Zahau, the woman found hanging at billionaire Jonah Shacknai's mansion, had blood o...
A Navy medic who went AWOL and left a note saying he had planted bombs at a San Clemente high school has turned himself in. 22-year-old Daniel Morgan surrendered Wednesday afternoon at the military base, ...
It may be part of his job to predict when a storm is on its way, but he never saw this one coming. Police in Arkansas said Tuesday that they are investigating the death of a man found in an unfilled hot t...
President Obama's much-vaunted jobs and growth package sparked outrage after it was revealed that it could cost more than $400 billion. Mr Obama is set to unveil a massive new government spending bonanza j...
Japan's former prime minister has revealed how he feared a nuclear holocaust worse than Chernobyl in the wake of the tsunami which devastated his country Naoto Kan described a nightmare vision of 'deserted...
All the world's gold and platinum ore came from outer space after a mammoth meteorite shower battered the Earth more than four billion years ago, scientists revealed today. Researchers also discovered the...
There will be something special in the night sky tonight – as a star explodes millions of light years away from us. Astronomers predict we will be able to glimpse the brightest supernova since 1954. The ...
NOTE: Do you honestly think other countries give criminals the benefit of the human rights act as much as the UK does? We have a European Parliament Dictate to our governments and Courts, how we should run...
Downing Street’s e-petition plan to give the public the right to force Parliamentary debates on burning issues of the day was fast descending into a shambles last night. When the scheme was launched earli...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Crete, Greece at a depth of 37 km (22.3 miles), the quake hit at 04:58:41 UTC Thursday 8th September 2011. The epicenter was 36 km (21.9 miles) Northwest of Mouzouras, ...
Nato will not prevent Colonel Gaddafi fleeing Libya, a senior Western diplomat said last night. The diplomat said the West had no remit to bomb any vehicles the ousted tyrant may be using. Rebels also se...
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Broken of Britain - 20 hours ago
[image: Link]Deposed Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has phoned a TV station vowing to defeat opposition forces and Nato - as a home video emerges of him playing with his family. Col Gaddafi said he was not givi...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 02:16:13 UTC Thursday 8th September 2011. The epicenter was 207 km (128 miles) E...
On 7 September 2011, bellacaledonia reported on *Policing Lockerbie - A Bella Caledonia Special Investigation* "A police officer - known only by the codename GOLFER - made a signed statement to the *Scot...
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What did we do to deserve the Cameron government? Autonomous Mind explains the supine sell-out over the EU here. And now the so-called culture minister tells us that the BBC is the "best broadcaster in the...
[*Click on either cartoon to enlarge.*] *by Ken* *THIS JUST IN, ON THE "TEABAGGERS' DELIGHT" PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE* From Andy Borowitz's report, "Obama: 'Best Debate Ever'" ("‘First Good News I’ve Had Sin...
Actress Reese Witherspoon is recovering after being hit by a car while out jogging. The 35-year-old Oscar winner was rushed to hospital after being struck in the upmarket Santa Monica area of Los Angeles...
[image: Obama's best jobs] First, do no harm Economists say the mainly important part of the jobs plan President Barack Obama will unveil Thursday night is the renewal of two measures previously in place ...
"Do you think that if someone finally realized that their thoughts became the things and events of their life; began believing that they were truly unlimited; and started to grasp that divine intervention...
"An eerie blue glow and ominous columns of dark dust highlight M78 and other bright reflection nebula in the constellation of Orion. The dark filamentary dust not only absorbs light, but also reflects the ...
*Nobel Peace Laureates Dalai Lama, Rigoberta Menchu and Desmund Tutu among nine urging: Halt tar sands* Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and Nobel Peace Lau...
*"Emerging Courageous: Walking through Your Fear"* by The DailyOm "Frequently, in walking through our fear, we discover that the strength of our fright was out of sync with reality. The situations, activi...
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will ...
*“Knowledge And Understanding”* by Chet Raymo "Allow me to quote a paragraph from philosopher Peter Hacker's review of Galen Strawson's “Selves: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics.” Hacker outlines the...
The Defining Moment for the Environmental Movement: The two week Tar Sands Action at the White House, including Gitz Crazyboy, Dene/Blood from Canada and Kandi Mossett, Hidatsa, Mandan and Arikara from ...
[image: A plane dumps fire retardant on a 30-acre grass fire in Leander on Monday, August 15, 2011. The blaze destroyed 15 homes. Jay Janner / statesman.com] By Patrick Michels 7 September 2011 As fire...
*The Matrix of Macro-Memory Masks The Machiavellian Murderers on 9/11: How Manufactured Memories Make Masses of Men Into Mud For The Masters of Myth* *Saman Mohammadi The Excavator September 7, 2011* "Til...
[image: A nearly drained stock tank in West Texas, summer 2011. Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times] By Julie Cart 7 September 2011 The litany of misery playing out in Texas is tough to watch but less di...
*Plus: What to watch for in the Teabaggers' Delight presidential debate (see below)* *Former Deputy Steve (the urban wonderman) and Mayor Mike in happier times -- which is to say with no snow falling and ...
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Not PC - 1 day ago
The state forces children to leave their homes every weekday morning and be placed in institutions of the state’s choosing, amongst people with whom the children have no choice about associating. And th...
The astronauts aboard the International Space Station said Monday that ground controllers are figuring out how best to leave the vast complex running -- what lights to leave on, which vents to keep open --...
Working-age America is the new face of poverty. Counting adults 18-64 who were laid off in the recent recession as well as single twenty-somethings still looking for jobs, the new working-age poor represe...
Attacking the TSA for its privacy-invasive screening procedures has become a favorite activity for many journalists, especially Matt Drudge. TSA horror stories are often featured prominently on The Drudge ...
n 1994, abortion-lobby champion Ted Kennedy passed the Free Access to Clinics Act (FACE), which imposes stricter limitations on peaceful protests of abortion clinics than any other peaceful protest. This ...
A 14-year-old girl is wanted by New Orleans police for allegedly using an electroshock weapon to rob a high-school student. Lenika Vanburen threatened the student by turning a stun gun on and off, police s...
Dolphins "talk" to each other, using the same process to make their high-pitched sounds as humans, according to a new analysis of results from a 1970s experiment. The findings mean dolphins don't actually...
Fairfax County Police named a suspect in a series of slashing assaults across northern Virginia. Authorities are looking for Johnny D. Guillen Pimentel, age 40. Since February of this year, at least nine ...
As Europe struggles to contain its government debt crisis, the greatest fear is that one of the Continent’s major banks may fail, setting off a financial panic like the one sparked by Lehman’s bankruptcy i...
Any time a major bank releases a report saying a given course of action is too costly, too prohibitive, too blonde, or simply too impossible, it is nearly guaranteed that that is precisely the course of ac...
A spacecraft circling the moon has snapped the sharpest photos ever of the tracks and trash left behind by Apollo astronauts in their visits from 1969 to 1972. Images taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance ...
State police are searching for a group of young Amish men who they say indecently assaulted three girls recently in Lawrence County. The incident happened Sept. 2 at a horse auction that the girls attended...
An Arkansas weatherman didn't predict he would wake up in a hot tub with a naked dead man, but that's exactly what police say happened. Now authorities are trying to determine what killed Dexter Williams, ...
Twenty high-profile economists have urged the government to drop the top 50p tax rate, which they say is doing "lasting damage" to the UK economy. In a letter to the Financial Times, they say it should be ...
Extra police and troops have been sent to a Rio slum after soldiers patrolling as part of a security operation came under fire, Brazilian officials say. A 15-year-old girl was reported to have been killed...
Niger's foreign minister says his country is unable to close its border with Libya to prevent fugitive Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi fleeing south. Foreign Minister Mohamed Bazoum told the BBC that Col Gad...
A former weapons plant manager has topped an annual list of China's richest people. Liang Wengen, 55, chairman of construction firm Sany was at the summit of the Hurun Rich List, with a doubling of the co...
King crabs have been found on the edge of Antarctica, probably as a result of warming in the region, scientists say. Writing in the journal Proceedings B, scientists report a large, reproductive populatio...
In an exclusive interview with CBC News, Prime Minister Stephen Harper says the biggest security threat to Canada a decade after 9/11 is Islamic terrorism. In a wide-ranging interview with CBC chief corre...
I've spent the past weeks working on the famine response with Mercy Corps, an international aid organization, in Mogadishu. As a humanitarian aid worker, I've responded to crisis around the world for almos...
A weekend of religious-themed observances at Washington National Cathedral marking the tenth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks will include a Buddhist nun and an Imam, but not an evangelica...
You probably won't find a copy of the King James Bible on the "business" or "personal finance" shelf of your local bookstore or library. But while the ancient nature of the text may not offer much insight ...
Author and activist Naomi Klein debunks 'Ethical Oil' at the Tar Sands Action. Klein was arrested at the White House with a delegation from the Indigenous Environmental Network on Friday, Sept. 2, 2011,...
*Just as we were about to hit the door!* *Then WhyTF are Brennan and Panetta running around saying they are on the run, blah, blah, blah?* *But they could attack anywhere, at anytime, the US government wa...
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Ahead of the tenth anniversary of the outrage of September 11, 2o01, the BBC has put up a neat mini-site about the Twin Towers—their construction, their design, their stories, and what’s happening now. ...
The mystery of one of the most convincing pieces of UFO evidence has now been solved.
Anyone who's been following my travel blog has probably noticed that I'm a big fan of Thailand. I gave up counting how many times I've been there after a dozen. Whenever we go to Asia, we always try to sp...
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How often have we seen quick asides on Twitter reveal the implicit assumptions on which certain commentators base their pronouncements. Take this exchange on Twitter yesterday about the partial privatisa...
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"Heaven and Hell" by Paulo Coelho "A man, his horse and his dog were traveling down a road. When they were passing by a gigantic tree, a bolt of lightning struck and they all fell dead on the spot. But t...
"Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?" - Will Rogers • As the beloved Mogambo Guru would say, "We are so freakin' doomed!"
*"Perry Outlines Bold Proposal to Repeal Twentieth Century* *Cost-cutting Plan Involves Time-travel, God"* by Andy Borowitz AUSTIN (The Borowitz Report) – "In a sneak preview of Wednesday night’s Republic...
A British Ph.D. student and colleagues want to wake up an old satellite, one that was launched in 1971 and hasn't transmitted since 1996.
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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 *Robert Gates Says Israel Is An ...
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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...
typography canvas by tenderbeasts on etsy Up this week as my favorite thing... *AllRecipes!* (see my other favorite things here: #1, #2, #3) I don't mind cooking dinner most nights. But I *hate* planning ...
How the foot strikes the ground during walking leaves a distinct print that can be matched with an individual.
The technology makes vehicles immune to night vision.
*The file offered below may be specifically useful for Czech readers – only 7% of the TRF visitors – but also for others.* Did you ever find your keyboard layout incredibly limited? Haven't you ever bee...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Haryana-Delhi-Uttar Pradesh Region, India at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 17:58:21 UTC Wednesday 7th September 2011. The epicenter was 36 km (22 ...
Endgame For Euro: German Lawmakers Revolt As Public Opinion Hardens Against More Bank Bailouts ** *By Jane Burgermeister Published: September 6, 2011 * *GERMAN LAWMAKERS FAIL TO SUPPORT NEW EUROZONE BAILOU...
This is my new favourite song. Jay-Z & Kanye West - Murder to Excellence
"How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all our Navigations, and all our Wars are transacted, is when compared to them. A very fit c...
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Japan's former prime minister says he feared early in the March nuclear crisis that it might become many times worse than the Chornobyl disaster and threaten the country's survival. Naoto Kan says now he ...
Close on six months after the March 11 disasters hit northeast Japan, the official numbers for overseas tourists visiting the country look even bleaker than expected. According to the Japan Tourism Agency...
Six months ago, I stood on a corner in Kamaishi, in northeastern Japan and believed this small city would never recover from the devastation caused by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. I wasn't being...
A potent stash of Russian-made surface-to-air missiles is missing from a huge Tripoli weapons warehouse amid reports of weapons looting across war-torn Libya. They are Grinch SA-24 shoulder-launched mis...
Heavy gunfire killed at least 10 people in the Syrian city of Homs early Wednesday as security forces stormed through with tanks during an overnight attack, activists said. Dozens of others were injured, ...
President Barack Obama is preparing to roll out a roughly $300 billion plan to strengthen the shaky economy and stimulate new job growth, according to multiple Democratic sources. The president is expec...
Two suicide bombers targeted the home of a senior officer with Pakistan's paramilitary force Wednesday, killing at least 23 people and wounding 52. The attacks took place in the southwestern Pakistani ci...
In a further escalation of tensions between Israel and Turkey, at least three Israeli diplomats are being expelled from the Israeli Embassy in Ankara, Israeli officials said Wednesday. The Israeli consu...
The death toll from the storm known as Talas has risen to 49 in Japan, emergency officials said Wednesday. Another 58 people are missing after the storm hit western Japan, unleashing record rainfall and t...
Scientists at BAE Systems have developed a technology that could make tanks invisible or appear as cows to enemies. The "invisibility cloak", called Adaptiv, uses on-board cameras to pick up background sc...
One of Scotland's most prestigious universities has been accused of "cashing in" on English students after announcing they would be charged £36,000 for a degree. NUS Scotland said the University of Edinbu...
This devastating fall in pension payments is the result of a triple whammy hitting income drawdown: declines in the stock market, falling returns on gilts, which are used to calculate maximum incomes from ...
Surcharges can add £12 a flight to a bargain £50 flight, says Which? Airlines are still charging travellers excessive fees for booking flights with their debit cards, despite a ruling by the OFT that they ...
German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble has vowed to halt rescue payments to Greece unless the country complies totally with the EU-IMF demands, brushing aside warnings that a Greek collapse would set of...
The era of global "currency wars" has taken a dramatic turn after Switzerland abandoned its floating exchange rate, setting a floor against the euro to counter safe-haven flight from eurozone debtors. The...
I enjoy political hardball as much as the next reporter. It’s barely concealed truth that campaign journalists, like the operatives we cover, love negative campaigning and revel in OTT insults and martial ...
An image taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) of a large plume of smoke, steam and ash erupting from the Sarychev volcano on the Kuril Islands, Russia. It is thought that the er...
On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, the Boeing 757–222 aircraft from New Jersey to San Francisco was hijacked by four al-Qaeda terrorists 46 minutes after takeoff as part of the September 11 attacks. Flight...
Turkey's fiery prime minister ratcheted up rapidly-escalating tensions with Israel on Tuesday, comparing Ankara's once-close ally in the Middle East to a "spoiled boy" and announcing additional sanctions w...
Kyoko Ogawa wore the brave face the world associated with Japan's tsunami survivors. The March 11 catastrophe washed away all her earthly possessions. She watched as her hotel burned to the ground in a ...
The blackout affecting large swaths of San Diego County led to a shutdown of two reactors at the San Onofre nuclear power plant. Gil Alexander, a spokesman for Southern California Edison, said the power ...
The United States feared, and fought, passage of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ Photo by Michelle Cook, Navajo/Co...
[image: Obama] Attacking a deepening jobs crisis, President Barack Obama challenged a reluctant Congress Thursday night to immediately pass a larger-than-expected $450 billion plan to "jolt an economy tha...
*Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl:* *If he quits the supercommittee, that would be a good thing, wouldn't it?* *by Ken* Jon Kyl: I'd quit supercommittee over defense cuts By CHARLES HOSKINSON | 9/8/11 1:42 PM EDT Up...
The column of military vehicles rolled into the village of Ibleen shortly after dawn on Thursday. Residents said artillery fire and machine gun fire followed soon after. The troops left a path of destruct...
The financial crisis in Europe has become so severe that it has put the future of the euro, and indeed the future of the EU itself, in doubt. If the financial system in Europe collapses, it is going to plu...
Nearly one in three Americans who grew up middle-class has slipped down the income ladder as an adult, according to a new report by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Downward mobility is most common among middle...
They are among the most sought-after musical instruments in the world. Everyone from Chet Atkins to Les Paul to Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin to Slash of Guns n’ Roses played them. A vintage 1959 Les Paul gui...
The collapse of Libya's old regime has left a power vacuum, as ordinary citizens, including lawyers, accountants and footballers, take up arms to protect their neighbourhoods. His eyes hidden behind dark ...
Driven by fears that its soaring yen may thwart its economic recovery following a destructive earthquake and tsunami in March, the Japanese government has played a hand in the currency market on August 4. ...
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