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ITV was this evening forced to apologise after faking footage on a brand-new flagship show – using clips from a violent video game. Network chiefs were left embarrassed after admitting that new prime-time ...
One of two miners trapped in a roof collapse at
Kellingley Colliery, North Yorkshire, has died, while the other miner has been rescued,
UK Coal said. Gareth Williams, managing director for coal mining for ...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck
Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 11 km (6.4 miles), the quake hit at 00:57
UTC Wednesday 28th September 2011. The epicenter was 20 km ( 12.4 miles) West of Chri...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 55.6 km (34.5 miles), the quake hit at 02:17:06 UTC Wednesday 28th September 2011. The epicenter was 77 km ( 47 mile...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the Fox Islands,
Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 40.3 km (25 miles), the quake hit at 00:31:24 UTC Wednesday 28th September 2011. The epicenter was 66 km ( 41 m...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 15.5 km (9.6 miles), the quake hit at 00:26:37 UTC Wednesday 28th September 2011. The epicenter was 75 km ( 46 miles) Northeast of Hihifo, Tonga No ...
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*NO! to tarsands and the
Keystone XL pipeline* Clayton Thomas-Muller of the Indigenous Environmental Network, said the Ottawa Tar Sands Action, September 26, 2011, was the largest civil disobedience in ...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Southeast of the Loyalty Islands at a depth of 23.4 km (14.5 miles), the quake hit at 21:13:45 UTC Tuesday 27th September 2011. The epicenter was 48 km ( 29 miles) Sou...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Virgin Islands Region at a depth of 19 km (11.8 miles), the quake hit at 19:27:09 UTC Tuesday 27th September 2011. The epicenter was 22 km ( 13 miles) North of Set...
"Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't." - Richard Bach
*"A Life of Learning: Earth School"* by The DailyOm "Earth school provides us with an education of the heart and the soul. Life is the province of learning, and the wisdom we acquire throughout our lives ...
"We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself." ~ Lloyd Alexander
“From Sagittarius to Carina, the Milky Way Galaxy shines in this dark night sky above planet Earth's lush island paradise of Mangaia. Familiar to denizens of the southern hemisphere, the gorgeous skyscape ...
by Kurt Haskell I spent much of this evening reading court documents from the underwear bomber (Umar) case. For those that are interested, you can read them at: http://www.mied.uscourts.gov/hpc/ There ar...
*Then why are American companies moving there (I'll give you one gue$$)? * "Companies face persistent spy threat; Governments back espionage gambits as stakes go higher" by Hiawatha Bray Globe Staff / Sept...
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Don Brash may not have found anyone in his own party willing to back his call for hard sense on cannabis without the moral panic—and instead of backing the call the hipsters from Grey Lynn who should hav...
Levees.org's Petition to the President of the United States is Now Number One
*I'd vote for him; word is he's the one **who ran the Jewish Mafia** out of Russia.* "Putin will seek another term as president in 2012 election; Medvedev agrees to move into role of prime minister" by El...
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Holy Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVE MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ link AVE MARIA by Mirusia Louwerse - video ~ link Lord Stirling's news blog ...
*"They do it because they know they will get away with it."* *-- Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., last night on The Last Word* *by Ken* Howie passed this clip on to me, and I agree that this is something remarkab...
A 30-year old rocket designed to fire nuclear warheads has been re-purposed to launch a communications satellite.
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You think rugby referees are bad? You should see some of the soccer busybodies: they do even better Hollywoods than the players! [Hat tip Twenty Two Words] Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please ...
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul rallied a sold- out crowd of more than 1800 of his most ardent under-thirty-year-old supporters in New York City Monday night. Tickets to the event cost $20-25. ...
Pop star Rihanna got her marching orders after a farmer objected to her peeling off her clothes while filming a new video on his land. Alan Graham, 61, pulled up in his tractor and told the sexy singer to ...
The incident happened at the House of Blues on Monday night as President Obama was giving a speech. The heckler had positioned himself at the front of the stage, directly in front of the president and b...
Germany's top judge has issued a blunt warning that no further fiscal powers may be surrendered to Europe without a new constitution and a popular referendum, vastly complicating plans to boost the EU's re...
A 13-year-old girl suffocated after she was strapped down and doused with water by her father and a monk who were trying to expel an "evil spirit", Japanese police said Tuesday. Fifty-six-year-old monk Ka...
More than 10 years ago, before 9/11, Goldman Sachs was predicting that the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China) would make the world economy's top 10 - but not until 2040. Skip a decade and the Ch...
Egypt's bourse slumped to a 30-month low on Sunday, leading a regional decline, with pressured world stocks dampening sentiment and a sharp decline in oil prices threatening local fundamentals. Egypt's ma...
rish house prices continued to fall last month, and at a faster pace than the previous month. House prices dropped 1.6 per cent in August, compared to a 0.8 per cent fall in July. On an annual basis, hous...
Unofficial sources have announced that Iran, Russia, and China are currently holding talks on a proposal to establish a joint missile defense shield as a counterweight to a NATO defense shield, Mehr news a...
This arithmetic of investing, saving and spending, and profit and loss, in a fixed supply "sound money" system is very clear and simple when "marbles" are used as money. But put a $ sign in front of the sa...
Living in the Chinese capital, there are days – like today – when you can quite literally taste the air. Not in that pleasant, catch-a-snowflake-on-your tongue way that Canadians know. It’s a sensation cl...
Defying harsh critiques from Stephen Colbert and slews of bloggers who scoffed last week at the "leaderless", "directionless", Frisbee-throwing hipsters camping out on cardboard at a random New York City p...
In strong remarks against Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's recent criticism of Israel during an interview with CNN International, Israeli Foreign Minister Avidgor Lieberman accused Erdoğan's g...
For years, economists have told Americans worried that cheap Chinese imports will kill jobs that the benefits of trade with China far outweigh its costs. New research suggests the damage to the U.S. has be...
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, during her meeting with the Lebanese prime minister, Najib Mikati, in New York, warned that Lebanon should not get involved in the situation in Syria, a Lebanese da...
Thousands of protesters took out to the streets in several cities across Morocco on Sunday evening to demand political reform, unappeased by a recently-agreed package limiting the powers of King Mohammed V...
A state higher education board on Monday approved a measure that would allow students who immigrated to the United States illegally to pay in-state tuition rates at Rhode Island's public colleges and uni...
ABOUT 11 P.M. on Sept. 9, dozens of youths with bats and pipes descended on a tidy residential area of Port Richmond looking for white teens who allegedly had attacked an African-American kid at Stokely Pl...
Cities in Iran, India, Pakistan and the capital of Mongolia rank among the worst on the planet for air pollution, while those in the US and Canada are among the best, according to the first global survey, ...
Police say a western Pennsylvania couple cut down copper wire from 18 utility poles because they needed money to pay for their wedding. Online court records don't list defense attorneys for 24-year-old Apr...
Two young Tibetan monks set themselves on fire in western China on Monday in protest over government religious controls, according to Tibetan exiles and activist groups outside the country. The 18-year-ol...
A Wisconsin cemetery worker allegedly removed a valuable Fender guitar from the casket of a 67-year-old Army veteran who died last week and had told family members that he wanted to be buried with the inst...
Over the years, Stone has dropped tens of thousands of dollars on his other hobby: automobiles. In his early days, he drove a Jaguar XKE he painted purple. There were Hummers, a London taxi and a beloved S...
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In Portugal they decriminalised personal possession of all drugs in 2001. It now has the lowest adult rate of lifetime marijuana use in the European Union, and more people seeking help for problems relat...
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*"Life"* by Chet Raymo "ACCTCCTCTAATGTCA ACCTCCCCTAATGTCA The first string of letters above represents an actual sequence of amino acids on human chromosome 10. The second string is the corresponding se...
. There is no surer sign that we live in the age of Judeo-Masonic Luciferianism than the dropping of BC (before Christ)and AD (Anno Domini, i.e. Year of the Lord) for BCE(Before Common Era) and CE(Common...
*“Explained: What Are GMOs?”* by Priya Advani "I spent the past month speaking to random people everywhere that I went. I asked all of them the same question, "Do you know what GMO stands for and what it ...
*He only needs your votes anyway.* "Obama’s small donors from 2008 hold off on contributions; He aims to revive grass-roots fervor for reelection bid" by Nicholas Confessore New York Times / September 25,...
Many beetle fossils have color, but they are a far cry from the hotrod shades these insects once flashed.
Totalmente en exclusiva, les tengo el día de hoy una excelente colección de *24 imágenes de mesquitas* en el mundo. Una muestra extraordinaria de la arquitectura, belleza y poderío religioso. La matoría de...
*Didn't we just go through this? * "Impasse leaves Congress with a week to avoid a shutdown; House goes home; Senate rejects bill" September 24, 2011|By Jennifer Steinhauer and Robert Pear, New York Times...
"Romney wins Michigan straw poll" September 26, 2011 Michigan native Mitt Romney rolled over Governor Rick Perry of Texas and the rest of his Republican presidential rivals in a Michigan straw poll yester...
6:35 pm: Quite the tie Tim Hudak is sporting. 6:46 pm: For those keeping track of mentions of random "hard working Ontarian" anecdotes, we've heard about the problems facing Ryan, Kevin (the Wallmart work...
“For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile of the world once more. Think. Act. Feel. Add our little consequence to the tides of good and evil th...
Loyalty. For me--and I wonder if I'm not alone in this--the word "loyalty" seems to describe a person who stays in one place far after common sense would tell him to leave. It seems to describe a person wh...
Founder Elon Musk may be using the rocket as a testbed to chase the elusive holy grail of rocket scientists -- reusable launchers.
A dog surfing competition in California was won by Buddy, a hall of fame dog, who has won the past five contests.
Seventy years after the dramatic sinking, treasure hunters have announced the discovery of the Gairsoppa's intact wreck about 300 miles off the coast of Ireland.
*"The Fed Wants To Know What I Think"* by Karl Denninger "This tidbit is good for a chuckle today. A new RFP is out for a "tracking system" that The Fed wishes to bid to...... track the opinions expresse...
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*You could probably build a small home with all the botox in this photo* The point is being made-- loudly and clearly-- that while Republicans have been trying to politicize the Solyndra bankruptcy they th...
Rush Limbaugh says that Herman Cain won the Florida straw poll because he's "pedal to the metal conservative all the time." Rush went on to say Cain would be the first black president and that he wanted t...
THE MACHINEBy Marc Estrin / The Rag Blog / September 27, 2011The government murder of Troy Davis this week -- under odd evidential circumstances -- has once again thrust capital punishment up for public disc...
*"There's No Way In Hell We're Making It To Nov 2012"* by Ann Barnhardt "The five largest banks in the U.S. (JP Morgan Chase, Citibank, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and HSBC) are carrying $238 TRILLION...
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The cures for the economic crisis are being proffered by the folks that delivered it, using the theories that caused it. Does anyone *truly *buy any of the solutions? Not this trader, Alessio Rastani, sp...
The "fifth planet" is a hypothesized giant world that was flung out of our solar system 4 billion years ago.
No one knows who will win the Ontario election, two of the three leaders remain virtual unknowns, and the campaign still lacks a ballot question. Yet somehow, without warning, Ontario finds itself just 9 s...
Astronomer Mark Thompson investigates why the "ice giant" Uranus is at a very special point in its orbit.
*An Excerpt from a September 15th article - * *(an article that is well worth it to read.)* *Hiding the sausage* *How ALEC, a well-funded right-wing organization, is grinding out state laws * *Among the or...
*"Give Collapse a Chance"* by Bill Bonner "A big sell-off yesterday. The Dow down. The 10-year T-note yields only 1.87%. And the price of gold barely budged. In our opinion all three should be going down...
The documents are in an ultra-high resolution format and reveal details previously invisible to the naked eye.
Next year, some people may be bending and twisting remotes instead of pushing buttons.
Bacteria genetically modified with fluorescent proteins are capable of delivering color-coded messages.
A bizarre heckler labelled President Obama 'the antichrist' before he was dragged out of a California fundraiser by Secret Service agents. The man had positioned himself at the front of the stage at the Ho...
A sunspot, 62,000 miles across - so big it would dwarf the Earth - is releasing gigantic solar flares that could in theory wreak havoc with electrical communications ranging from handheld electronics such ...
Argentina: VISION OVNI Reports to the Scene of the Alleged Meteor Strike A Day For Learning – The Monte Grande Explosion – Buenos Aires By Andrea Perez Simondini At 6:00 a.m. on the 26th of Septem...
Common Dreams Tuesday, September 27, 2011 A photographer has identified the cruel and cowardly NYPD supervisor who point blank maced a penned in group of young women and then slinks away Saturday at th...
Blue Marble, an environmentalist blog at Mother Jones, has finally admitted that the debate is over: Chart: How the Climate Change Deniers Won Josh Harkinson has complained that global warming has falle...
Just a quick one for you. There is a plan afoot to reduce the Drink-Drive alcohol limit here in Northern Ireland from the current UK figure of 80mls/100mls blood to 50mls/100mls. In one of those happy co...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Southeast of the Loyalty Islands at a depth of 34.9 km (24.5 miles), the quake hit at 17:42:31 UTC Tuesday 27th September 2011. The epicenter was 55 km ( 34 miles) SSW...
Protests to draw attention to the power of Wall Street firms in the United States and world economies will continue for an 11th straight day in lower Manhattan Tuesday. "Our main concern is the way that...
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player The message sent out begins as follows: What really happened this past May 21st ? What really happened is that God accomplished exactly what He wa...
Beyond the police roadblocks that mark the no-go zone around Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, six-foot tall weeds invade rice paddies and vines gone wild strangle road signs along empty streets. T...
A sunspot, 62,000 miles across - so big it would dwarf the Earth - is releasing gigantic solar flares that could in theory wreak havoc with electrical communications ranging from handheld electronics such ...
Greece and its lenders are locked in discussion. The "Troika" of lenders - the European Union, International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank - say Greece must take more painful steps to cut its bor...
Health Canada extended the use of caffeine to non-cola soft drinks last year, even as it was being warned that children are already consuming too much of the stimulant, CBC News has learned. Canada's bloc...
Syrian troops firing machine guns mounted on tanks stormed a rebellious town in central Syria before dawn Tuesday as part of military operations aimed at crushing the six-month-old uprising against Preside...
Gunmen have attacked Egypt's main natural gas pipeline to Israel and Jordan for the sixth time since the uprising that ousted former president Hosni Mubarak in February, security officials say. The gunmen...
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has delivered an impassioned plea to German business leaders to help his country out of its current debt crisis. Mr Papandreou said German funding would not be an inv...
A Shanghai subway train has hit the rear end of another train, injuring at least 200 passengers, the train company says. Most of the injuries were slight, Shanghai Shentong Metro Group Company said after ...
Women who drink two or more cups of coffee a day are less likely to get depressed, research suggests. It is not clear why it might have this effect, but the authors believe caffeine in coffee may alter th...
he Russian army says it is halting orders of the famous Kalashnikov assault rifle until a newer model is developed by its manufacturer. Chief of the General Staff Nikolai Makarov told Russian media that th...
For decades, the economic wisdom has been that lower trade barriers create better wealth for both parties. Outsourcing low-skilled, low-wage jobs to an India or Mexico helps those developing economies, wh...
They say a crisis can bring out the best or worst in people, a society or on a continent. Seeing the situation unfold first hand and talking to politicians, business people and those on the streets, one ca...
The window for resolving the eurozone's sovereign debt crisis is closing more quickly than policymakers anticipated. Choices on Greece and the future of the euro that were once considered a long way off n...
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef seems indestructible from afar: its 2,600-kilometer-long clusters of corals are even visible from outer space. But on closer examination, the story loses some of its beauty. ...
In a move that will further complicate international efforts to get Middle East peace negotiations restarted, the Israeli government Tuesday approved the construction of 1,100 new homes in a southern Jerus...
At least seven people died, including a baby boy, as Typhoon Nesat slammed into the Philippines Tuesday. Four people were reported killed in Metro Manila, two in Central Luzon, and one in Catanduanes, t...
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou "can guarantee that Greece will live up to all its commitments," he said Tuesday as he seeks to keep his debt-ridden country afloat. "I promise you we Greeks will so...
Australian women will be able to serve alongside their male counterparts in front line combat roles, the government said Tuesday. The new plan will be phased in over a five-year period. The decision means...
A suicide attacker detonated explosives packed in his car outside a police station in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday. At least two people were killed, including a child, in the attack in Lashkar Gah in H...
Two jetliners carrying more than 600 passengers and crew came within seconds of a collision near Hong Kong last week, according to a report in The Standard newspaper. The Cathay Pacific Boeing 777 and Dra...
The sound of heavy weapons and machine gun fire echoed through the night in the restive city of Al-Rastan after a large number of tanks moved in to block key roads and areas of town, an opposition activist...
The biggest fireworks so far in the sleepy Ontario election campaign have not come between the candidates, but between the pollsters. And there's a new pollster on the block - Dean Del Mastro: Prime Mini...
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck the Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 70.3 km (43.7 miles), the quake hit at 15:06:06 UTC Tuesday 27th September 2011. The epicenter was 48 km ...
*The expression on the faces of these guests was illuminating. Varying from smug smiles, to fearful stares at the ground to unbridled anger mixed with fear. Mostly smug. Some amused. These are very rich p...
Mississippi The Hospitality State I hope the citizens of Mississippi choose to be inhospitable to the members of ALEC. Below you will find a list of people who have an association with to have been linke...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Crete, Greece at a depth of 33.8 km (21 miles), the quake hit at 13:06:35 UTC Tuesday 27th September 2011. The epicenter was 143 km (88 miles) SSW of Chania, Crete, Gre...
The new issue of *New York* magazine features a powerful call to action by former Senator Russ Feingold, one of the two most tragic losses of the 2010 teabagger tsunami-- the other we'll get to in a mome...
In Canada, white people are no healthier than our black people. When I read that my reaction was, "well, duh." Why would a Canadian achieve different health outcomes based on race? Well apparently wh...
While the farce is ongoing at the UN... Israeli Panel approves new illegal settlement building in illegally occupied territory An Israeli Interior Ministry committee has approved the construction of 1,10...
BBC Speechless As Trader Alessio Rastani Tells Truth, Collapse Coming, Goldman Rules World ------------------------------ UPDATE: Trader's Goldman Sachs comments spark BBC hoax claims By John Plun...
We're all familiar with the accounts of America's healthcare "have nots," the tens of millions who get by with no health insurance and the hundreds of millions who are vulnerable to partial health insuranc...
Last weekend at least 100 people were treated for piranha bites from beaches in Brazil's northeast.
The rhythm of speech patterns can help brain-damaged patients learn to speak again.
It's a reflection of how little most of us know about nuclear power generation that we fell apoplectic at the Fukushima reactor disaster. The tragedy of Fukushima is if we allow an accident caused by a t...
*Basic scenarios of string theory* Gordon has assured me that (almost) no non-expert has understood advanced basics of string phenomenology, despite dozens if not hundreds of blog entries about these topi...
BC jobs go to Alberta; the profits go to Texas ... The public utility BC Hydro is spending $1-billion to upgrade its transmission lines. The *Northwest Transmission Line* contract - $364-525 million with ...
*“I have spent over 20 years fighting Wall Street, General Motors, health insurance companies, the whole lot of them. A lot of that has been alone or with just a very few people. It warms my heart to see...
I've always understood "anarchy" by its dictionary definition as a state of political or social disorder resulting from absence of government control. My layman's grasp of the concept was of some wresting...
*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* The GOP gets away with a big lie! The GOP has convinced millions that the GOP is the party of smaller government coupled with smaller debts and deficits. The fact ...
(This post is opinion-commentary, as should be obvious.)Have you ever noticed that every time a lawyer makes an argument for some crazy thing he always starts by saying that he doesn't want the crazy thing?I...
If there was life on Mars, scientists may have found one of its final resting spots.
Congress restores Disaster Aid --after coming dangerously close to extorting the American Taxpayer through Fear ala Shock Doctrine How's Your House by Ian Hunter (Song at NOMRF.org) [image: Link] ~Never For...
"Teachers report to me that a growing number of children cannot form letters or even hold a pencil. "Many cannot sit and listen. "Many can scarcely communicate orally, let alone frame a question. "Many ...
[image: Number of natural disasters declared by FEMA, 1953-2011. 2011 set the record for most Federal Emergency Management Agency declared disasters. Joe Romm, with data from FEMA] By Joe Romm 26 Sept...
Demonstrators carry pictures of Troy Davis, who was executed Sept. 21, 2011, in Jackson, GA. Image from Politics and Fashion.When government decides to kill:The death penalty and thequestion of actual innoce...
[image: Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and tsunami wreckage. japanfocus.org] By arevamirpal::laprimavera 26 September 2011 The Japanese government says it will abolish the "evacuation-ready" zone in ...
Devices are charged under a canopy of photovoltaic cells.
Just like an Aston Martin car, this phone is nice to look at, but not so nice to bank accounts.
Bluetooth speakerphone lets you use voice commands to do way more than just talk on the phone.
Yemen's defense minister escaped an assassination attempt Tuesday when a suicide bomber attacked his convoy, the Yemeni government said. The attack took place in Tawahi, Aden, along Yemen's southern coast...
Sixteen people, including 11 children, killed when their bus ran over a landmine in Herat, Afghanistan More to follow
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Crete, Greece at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:25:12 UTC Tuesday 27th September 2011. The epicenter was 146 km (91 miles) South of Chania, Crete, Gr...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck South of Tonga at a depth of 39.2 km (24.4 miles), the quake hit at 12:34:33 UTC Tuesday 27th September 2011. The epicenter was 391 km (242 miles) South of Nuku'Alofa, ...
Nothing to celebrate, actually. Today is estimated to be the day on which mankind has consumed the entire stocks of renewable resources our planet will generate this year. Today is Earth Overshoot Day....
Despite dipping into Earth's ecological savings for the year - water should remain a plentiful resource on the planet, if it is tapped efficiently and fairly.
Until recently, this device was only available to utility companies, but GE will be selling it to consumers soon.
For the rest of the year humans are dipping into Earth's ecological savings account.
Last week, on my travel blog, in covering the devastating earthquake in India and Nepal, I looked over the insurance industry's ratings of American states' relative risks for natural disasters. The Top 1...
At least 37 school children, two teachers and the deputy head have [image: Link]been killed in a bus crash in Pakistan. The children, all between the ages of 12 and 14, died when the bus overturned on a m...
An outspoken City trader left interviewers open-mouthed as he admitted that traders 'don't really care that much' about the prospect of an economic collapse. Alessio Rastani astonished BBC viewers yesterd...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Crete, Greece at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:08:18 UTC Tuesday 27th September 2011. The epicenter was 118 km (73.2 miles) South of Palaiokhora, Cr...
At least seven people died, including a baby boy, as Typhoon Nesat slammed into the Philippines Tuesday. Four people were reported killed in Metro Manila, two in Central Luzon, and one in Catanduanes, th...
Neither one of us can remember where it comes from, but "I love you like fried chicken," has been something my husband and I have said to each other the entire time we have been married. Problem is, neit...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Kashmir-Xinjiang Border Region at a depth of 93.8 km (58.3 miles), the quake hit at 11:03:00 UTC Tuesday 27th September 2011. The epicenter was 227 km (141 miles) ...
A man fishing from a kayak was towed half a mile out to sea after he hooked a 6ft (1.8m) shark. Devon vet Rupert Kirkwood, 51, was fishing off Ilfracombe in north Devon when the tope took his mackerel ba...
AP: Investigators following up on a nuclear sting in eastern Europe suspect that a crime syndicate was trying to sell weapons-grade uranium to buyers in North Africa. Officials in Moldova, a former Soviet...
Two subway trains collided in central Shanghai on Tuesday injuring more than 200 passengers, though none critically, prompting public anger just two months after a deadly crash between two high-speed train...
[image: Congress dodges] A bitterly divided and poll-battered Congress has almost worked its way out of a nasty fight over disaster aid, but only by abruptly abandoning efforts to immediately refill appro...
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Holy Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVE MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ link AVE MARIA by Mirusia Louwerse - video ~ link Lord Stirling's news blog ...
El Hierro has seen a spate of stronger eartquakes in the past 7 days prompting the alert level to be raised to YELLOW. Yesterday 38 earthquakes were registered due to magma bags nearing the surface of the ...
A passenger ship was burned after collision with a tugboat in a river at South Kalimantan of Indonesia on Monday, killing four people as evacuation of hundreds of passengers is underway, rescuers said. M...
Bani Walid residents reject NATO-proxy rule, defeats rebels at their gates. by Tony Cartalucci The Associated Press reluctantly reported that Libya's rebels began withdrawing from their front at Bani Wali...
I am checking lots of new papers that appear on the CERN website. Session III of the LHC-HCG working meeting is underway right now, on Tuesday morning (September 27th). I believe that this graph is the mos...
Dozens of firefighters and a HazMat crew responded to a chemical leak near Bush Intercontinental Airport Monday. It happened at around 11:15am at Dyna Drill Technology in the 4600 block of World Houston ...
AP: Two students at the University of Maryland have been injured in a chemistry accident that caused the evacuation of a campus building. Mark Brady, a spokesman for the Prince George’s County fire depart...
Entergy Palisades nuclear plant near South Haven is venting radioactive steam into the environment as part of an unplanned shutdown triggered by an electrical accident. This shutdown, which began Sunday ...
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) had more than 50 retired bureaucrats working for the utility firm as of the end of August -- a widespread practice in Japan called "amakudari," or "descent from heaven" -- ...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Georgia (Sak'art'velo) at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:58:54 UTC Tuesday 27th September 2011. The epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) East from Akhalka...
Libyan authorities have said they will co-operate with Scottish prosecutors and police investigating the Lockerbie bombing, the Foreign Office said last night. The National Transitional Council (NTC) has ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Babar, Indonesia at a depth of 130.4 km (81 miles), the quake hit at 08:30:08 UTC Tuesday 27th September 2011. The epicenter was 259 km (161 miles) WNW of Sa...
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao today called for North Korea to resume talks about its nuclear programme in the latest attempt to cajole the reclusive country back to the table. He said it was important that a...
The U.S. government used taxpayers' money to buy semi-automatic weapons, then sold them to criminals and allowed the guns to disappear, a leaked document reveals. The bombshell disclosure undermines the D...
Anthony Bologna, NYPD officer named in pepper-spray incident, is accused of civil rights violations at the time of the 2004 Republican national convention protests A senior New York police officer accused...
A shocking video allegedly showing Joran van der Sloot confessing to the killing of Stephany Flores has been released. Van der Sloot wears a black hooded top and smokes a cigarette as he calmly answers ...
Days after the UN general assembly where the hot topic was a potentially free Palestinian state, President Obama is touring the country giving speeches about the 'Buffett tax' intended to increase tax ra...
They were once a common sight along the Cornish coast, where their acrobatic feats have delighted visitors for decades. But the county’s bottlenose dolphins could soon be no more than a memory, experts ha...
This was the petrifying moment a woman was chased by a rutting stag before being knocked to the ground in a London park. She was left uninjured but ‘badly shaken’ from the attack, which occurred while she...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 07:56:54 UTC Tuesday 27th September 2011. Time (JST) Lat. Long. Depth Mag. Reg...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 40 km (24.8 miles), the quake hit at 07:04:17 UTC Tuesday 27th September 2011. Time (JST) Lat. Long. Depth Mag. Reg...
A worker has been killed at a Jaguar Land Rover factory. Merseyside Police launched a joint investigation with the Health and Safety Executive last night following the fatal incident at a plant in Halewoo...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 34.8 km (21.6 miles), the quake hit at 06:46:17 UTC Tuesday 27th September 2011. The epicenter was 196 km (121 ...
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Url movie: http://youtu.be/YuE2cW8NMx8 *Would he do that* in his car as well on a traffic light...? John
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The strange quality about BBC coverage of the Labour Party conference is the way in which 6th May 2010 has become Year Zero. The 13 years of Labour mismanagement of the economy are now being deliberately e...
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[image: Asher and Yonatan Palmer] A 25 year old Palestinian Dad is driving home with his baby son in the car when both are cruelly murdered by Jews throwing a large rock into their car. Can you imagine the...
Corporate media admits Libya operation is brutal genocide - keeps cheering for NATO & rebels. by Tony Cartalucci As reported earlier, weeks ago, rebel forces led by US State Department [1] and UK Home Off...
Filming the Inspiring Life of Eddy Zheng, a Bay Area Community Leader Facing Deportation --An interview with Ben Wang By Angola 3 News (First published at Alternet) Ben Wang is the Director/Producer ...
------------------------------ September 26, 2011 at 00:22:05 Promoted to Headline (H3) on 9/26/11: Permalink *Saving the Rich and Losing the Economy* *By paul craig roberts (about the author)*...
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Photo Ben Powless, Mohawk Photo Ben Powless Photo Ben Powless Photo Ben Powless Photo Ben Powless Photo Ben Powless *OTTAWA TARSANDS ACTION* Sept. 26, 2011 Photos by Ben Powless, MohawkSee all today's heroe...
Zainab Alhusni was a simple seamstress in Syria, well-loved by all her neighbors and friends. Now, in a tragic turn of events, she has become a symbol of the cruelty gripping that conflict-wracked nation...
Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Yemen's capital on Monday, rejecting claims President Ali Abdullah Saleh made in a televised address. "We are escalating, and soon we will march dir...
Prisoners have threatened to sue the Government for breaching their human rights because they get only one Sky Sports TV channel, it has been revealed. Inmates at Parc prison in South Wales claim the fai...
The cost of Britain’s military mission in Libya could hit £1.75billion – seven times what the Government predicted it would spend. The sum, calculated by one of the UK’s leading defence specialists, is an ...
A trio of foreign terrorists convicted of plotting mayhem in Britain are poised to use human rights laws to dodge deportation. The three fanatics will claim they could face ill-treatment if they return to...
Britain could be asked to find £115billion to rescue debt-stricken countries – nearly £5,000 per household. Fears were growing last night that the International Monetary Fund might not have enough cash fo...
*Christina Hendricks as Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce office manager Joan Harris with Jared Harris as agency partner Lane Pryce in Episode 2 of Season 4 of Mad Men* *by Ken* I don't know how much good it ...
Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity may be the only currently operating manmade object on the surface of Mars, but it has friends in high places -- very high places.
A powerful typhoon has struck the Philippines, triggering floods, cutting power and halting work in the capital Manila. Typhoon Nesat also forced the closure of the Philippine Stock Exchange and the US e...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 198.6 km (123.4 miles), the quake hit at 01:36:16 UTC Tuesday 27th September 2011. The epicenter was 264 km (164 miles) North of Luganville, Espir...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 65 km (40.4 miles), the quake hit at 00:46:17 UTC Tuesday 27th September 2011. The epicenter was 47 km (29 miles...
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 528.3 km (328.3 miles), the quake hit at 00:37:34 UTC Tuesday 27th September 2011. The epicenter was 295 km (183 miles) ESE of Lambasa, Va...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands Alaska at a depth of 203.5 km (126.5 miles), the quake hit at 20:08:46 UTC Monday 26th September 2011. The epicenter was 56 km ...
*Keep pushing for Sandra's release* No More Deaths TUCSON -- A few weeks ago we told you about Sandra Lopez, a 20-year-old Tucsonan who needs our help. Despite being a DREAMer, Sandra has been detained at ...
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Cannabis is supposed to be a “gateway” drug? The drug that leads people on to harder drugs? Bullshit. What makes harder drugs so prevalent is Prohibition. If you don’t believe me, then just ask thousa...
Olbermann calls out media hypocrisy on ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protest RawStory posted 09.21.11 By Eric W. Dolan Keith Olbermann pointed out Wednesday night on Countdown that the major newspapers had been...
[image: Kelp bass represent one of the two most important recreational fisheries off Southern California. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego]ScienceDaily (Sep. 26, 2011) – The two most imp...
*Sorry, the Big C clip seems to be iffy from the Showtime website. (Heavy pre-show use tonight, perhaps? I'm getting it OK in Firefox, but not in Safari.) But then, I wasn't going to watch it anyway! -- Ke...
[image: A typical scenario in the Brazil's Atlantic Forest at the Northeastern Biodiversity Corridor, where forest remants are surrounded by sugarcane plantations. Most of the remaining forest fragments ...
Alleged members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, attacked a Turkish army outpost on Saturday, killing six soldiers and wounding 11 in the southeastern province of Siirt. Three PKK militan...
X-men’s Magneto isn’t the only who can shield magnetic fields. Spanish researchers have designed what they call the world's first "anti-magnet," a magnetic cloak that can act as a shield they envision hel...
The federal program that insures homes against flood damage expires next Friday and is at risk of not being renewed, even as an early fall storm threatens to inundate much of the northeastern United States...
he chief of the New York Police Department says city police could take down a plane if necessary. Commissioner Ray Kelly tells CBS' "60 Minutes" that after the Sept. 11 attacks, he decided the city couldn...
There is a massive media shift taking place in America and other Western countries as more and more young people reject mainstream media institutions. They are turning to blogs, Internet news anchors, soci...
[image: Flow of the already over-allocated Colorado River, showing a general decreasing trend over the period of 1905-2010. NRDC / Data from U.S. Bureau of Reclamation] Flow of the already over-allocate...
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[image: 276464_137539366339987_1226509_n] Here’s this week’s update from our friends at the UoA Economics Group: Hi all, What is money? What are these bits of paper we carry in our pockets, or these da...
Two weeks ago, the media's heart went aflutter when it learned that the president had borrowed a page right out of ole' Joe McCarthy's communist witch hunt book with the launch of Attack Watch. The respons...
Government officials on Saturday ordered more tests after detecting elevated levels of radiation in rice crops near the crippled nuclear power plant at Fukushima. Radioactive substances have already been ...
A witness says kids ran for cover under bleachers as a guman fired shots near Issaquah High School. Police shot and killed the lone gunman. No one else was hurt. The man, said to be in his 50s and from Ma...
In one of the bloodiest days of Yemen's uprising, government troops backed by snipers and shelling attacked a square full of Yemeni protesters and battled with pro-opposition forces in the capital, killing...
Drones: every military wants ‘em. But if you’re a country like Iran, sanctions can put a bit of a crimp in your efforts to build an unmanned aerial vehicle fleet. To get around the problem, Iran is turning...
European Union governments will spend the next six weeks building a financial firewall to protect their fragile banking systems against what is now seen as an inevitable Greek default. G20 sources said th...
The U.S. economy is sick right now because there is over $5 trillion of dead money. Five trillion dollars is a big amount. It dwarfs the size of the 2009 U.S. economic stimulus package and the Federal Res...
Pope Benedict, visiting the German monastery where Martin Luther lived before launching the Reformation, warned his Lutheran hosts on Friday that what he called "a new form of Christianity" posed a challen...
The Israel Defense Forces has significantly boosted its presence along Israel's border with Egypt due to urgent warnings that Hamas was planning on carrying out a terror attack in Israel, through the Sinai...
After being robbed of $1,000, U.S. District Attorney Jenny Durkan--the chair of the Justice Departments Cybercrime Committee--is taking the hard line on ATM skimming. In a video with Western Seattle news ...
In the midst of a ballooning deficit, an unbalanced federal budget and the upcoming presidential election, Congress doesn’t need to be worried about poverty in America, right? Wrong. Poverty is an all-to...
As a Muslim, I’m sick of people asking me how I feel about 9/11. What do you want me to say, seriously? Do you want me to say, “It was a great plan, mwahahaha!” before I fly off on a magic carpet? I was ...
Young people across the globe are having more unprotected sex and know less about effective contraception options, a multinational survey revealed on Monday. The "Clueless or Clued Up: Your Right to be in...
Even the dead are scamming the city. A shocking new audit from city Controller John Liu discovered that city bureaucrats paid out $11.8 million in rent subsidies in recent years to nearly 4,000 people too...
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One of two miners trapped in a roof collapse at Kellingley Colliery, North Yorkshire, has died, while the other miner has been rescued, UK Coal said. Gareth Williams, managing director for coal mining for ...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 11 km (6.4 miles), the quake hit at 00:57 UTC Wednesday 28th September 2011. The epicenter was 20 km ( 12.4 miles) West of Chri...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 55.6 km (34.5 miles), the quake hit at 02:17:06 UTC Wednesday 28th September 2011. The epicenter was 77 km ( 47 mile...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 40.3 km (25 miles), the quake hit at 00:31:24 UTC Wednesday 28th September 2011. The epicenter was 66 km ( 41 m...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 15.5 km (9.6 miles), the quake hit at 00:26:37 UTC Wednesday 28th September 2011. The epicenter was 75 km ( 46 miles) Northeast of Hihifo, Tonga No ...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Southeast of the Loyalty Islands at a depth of 23.4 km (14.5 miles), the quake hit at 21:13:45 UTC Tuesday 27th September 2011. The epicenter was 48 km ( 29 miles) Sou...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Virgin Islands Region at a depth of 19 km (11.8 miles), the quake hit at 19:27:09 UTC Tuesday 27th September 2011. The epicenter was 22 km ( 13 miles) North of Set...
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