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Donna Laframboise of *Men's New Daily* (see also *No Frakking Consensus*) has found a fascinating proof that whatever matters in the IPCC has nothing whatsoever to do with science: 78 names (MND) She ...
Let's start with New Jersey resident-- and arch-bigot-- Lou Dobbs and sit back and watch his jihad against Chris Christie: Then there's former Tea Party fave Rick Perry, now abandoned by the hate-spewin...
http://www.getmoneyout.com "So now, our goal is to transform all that mad as hell anger from this summer, mines, yours, everybody else's, into positive change that begins this fall." - Dylan Ratigan.
*FUCK ISRAHELL! FREE THE PEOPLE OF PALESTINE - IT'S THEIR FUCKING LAND!* *Send the dirty yiddish khazars back to Poland and Russia and all the other European countries they fucked up and sucked dry!*...
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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 ...
*I'm sorry, readers. I've spent all day logging items in the belief that I would then whip them out to you, and now it is late and I'm wondering why I wasted my whole day on such shit.I'm sorry I'm not get...
"Coach suspended for graveyard pep talk" by Associated Press October 1, 2011 MARCELLUS, N.Y. - A junior varsity football coach suspended for making his players lie down in a central New York cemetery as a ...
"To live is to war with trolls." - Henrik Ibsen
“Linking spiral arms, two large colliding galaxies are featured in this remarkable cosmic portrait constructed using image data from the Hubble Legacy Archive. Recorded in astronomer Halton Arp's Atlas of ...
"Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming. You stand before them bareheaded, shriven. What is expected of you is attention." - Salman ...
“Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.” - William Sh...
*Did you hear the poot?* "Report says Mass. will warm up" September 28, 2011|Globe Staff Imagine a Massachusetts where it is 90 degrees or more for 30 to 60 days in the summer. Where the temperature climb...
*Did you hear the poot?* "Report says Mass. will warm up" September 28, 2011|Globe Staff Imagine a Massachusetts where it is 90 degrees or more for 30 to 60 days in the summer. Where the temperature climb...
*"I looked at the number of murders depicted [in New Yorker cartoons], decade by decade, starting with the nineteen-thirties. To qualify as a murder, either there needed to be a dead body in the drawing ....
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"[With] yesterday's stunning victory by Geelong over Collingwood ... the club's ninth premiership and its third in five years ... [the Geelong Cats] can now rightfully claim to be the greatest of the moder...
[image: A general view of Lake Travis as water recedes during a drought in Austin, Texas, 10 September 2011. Joshua Lott / Reuters] By Jim Forsyth; Edited by Karen Brooks and Cynthia Johnston 30 Septembe...
*Rather than hang it on the wall you can toss it in the trash. It's an advertisement posing as a news story. * "Church men bare more than souls" September 30, 2011|By Amanda Cedrone, Globe Correspondent= ...
"How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy. In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age, we are looking backwards to things that are gone past; in manhood, alth...
Democratic Dictatorship is a term I came up with to describe Milosevic's Serbia. It applies when the ruling power in a state allows elections, opposition parties, and a 'free' media, whilst simultaneously ...
Angela Merkel told German industry today that we are not facing "a euro crisis, but a debt crisis." She is wrong. Total levels of private and sovereign debt in the eurozone are lower than in the UK, the U...
Pentagon officials woke up Tuesday morning to the news Australia has now decided its military women can work in any combat job, including commando units, in the Australian armed forces. It's news that put...
As we teeter toward what could be the third U.S. recession in a decade, experts can’t help but sift through economic history to look for precedents. The eye is immediately drawn to the last decade of the r...
The stewards of Canada's economy are meeting in Ottawa this afternoon to take the temperature of the recovery after G20 meetings in Washington over the weekend. The meeting between Prime Minister Stephen ...
Two thousand years after they were written and decades after they were found in desert caves, some of the world-famous Dead Sea Scrolls went online for the first time on Monday in a project launched by Isr...
In January of this year, researchers at the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation tried an experiment. The online privacy advocacy group set up a Web page, and collected and stored the browser...
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On August 31, I met up with a trusted acquaintance called Abu Omar (not his real name). I had been waiting for this meeting with anticipation, as the people involved were extremely hard to reach. They we...
These are not your average petting zoos. As Mexican authorities crackdown on drug king-pins, they are having a hard time figuring out what to do with the exotic lions, tigers, monkeys and parrots confisca...
Orphaned, abandoned or trafficked? That is the question facing foreigners who wish to adopt Nepali children. International adoption services have provided a lucrative business to poverty-stricken Nepal....
As Greece struggles to pay its debts, across the Atlantic, there is one country that has already been through a similar economic crisis. Nine years ago, Argentina became the biggest economy ever to go bu...
Coca-Cola now sees the US becoming a less friendly business environment than China, its chief executive has revealed, citing political gridlock and an antiquated tax structure as reasons its home market ha...
It is a sad statistic and a sign of the times: half of the Philadelphia area 20-somethings are unemployed. Kristen Kane, Director of Social Media and Recruiting for Kane Partners, a Lansdale staffing agen...
As Mayor Rahm Emanuel prepares to present his first budget next month, Chicago Inspector General Joseph Ferguson is tossing out dozens of ways to raise more money and cut the size of city government. Many...
OccupyWallStreet - 'The Marines are Coming to PROTECT the Protestors' by Gregg Prescott, M.S. October 1, 2011 - TAMPA, FL - The Occupy Wall Street movement may have just received an unexpected surprise – ...
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Europe - 7 hours ago
Holy Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVE MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ link AVE MARIA by Katherine Jenkins - video ~ link AVE MARIA by Mirusia Louwer...
*"The Best Among Us"* Chris Hedges "There are no excuses left. Either you join the revolt taking place on Wall Street and in the financial districts of other cities across the country or you stand on the...
http://anonops.blogspot.com/ Watch live streaming video from globalrevolution at livestream.com *LIVESTREAM* *NOW: 700 people arrested at Brooklyn Bridge Occupation.* *VIDEO (Below): Occupy Brooklyn Bridg...
The late Karl Pflock and I used to talk about why there were no more really good UFO sightings. We weren’t getting the kind of reports that had been so prevalent at the beginning of the modern era. Nothing...
How many e-mails did you get last week reminding you that midnight (last night) was the end of the (manufactured, Inside-the-Beltway) quarter? I probably get more than most people. But I stopped counting...
“We've been told there's a certain way to live... that this is living... and we... we never really questioned it. We just sort of went along. But what if it's not the best way? What if there's another way...
“Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.” - Horace Mann, “A Few Thoughts for a Young Man”
"A civil rights group launched a scathing attack against Los Angeles County’s longtime sheriff yesterday, demanding his resignation and claiming his sprawling jail system fosters a culture of fear, deputy ...
"Colo. boy pleads guilty to killing parents" September 29, 2011|By Associated Press BURLINGTON, Colo. - A 13-year-old boy who prosecutors say was playing with toy trucks and planes right before he shot an...
Ron Paul on Larry McDonald "When I made that decision to run in 1974 the person I called was Larry McDonald, a great American." - Ron Paul, another great American.
*Are they helping Petraeus?* All people power is ultimately run by the CIA. What about the Wall Street protests? "The demonstrations may appear spontaneous... "But it is easy to see gatekeepers and count...
*"The Ugly Side Of Exponents"* by Karl Denninger "Here's something to think about this weekend as you go about your business. The 2008 Federal Fiscal Budget (running from October 07 to October 08) expend...
*“Lower Lows in the Cat-Like Real Estate Market”* by Bill Bonner “Cash is still king. Cash is king because non-cash is a commoner and a loser…it’s losing its value. An article in yesterday’s Financial Tim...
“The just man is not the product of a day, but of a long brooding and a painful birth. To become a power for peace, a man must first pass through experiences which lead him to see things in their differen...
In late 2009, the Obama administration transferred 55 so-called bunker-buster bombs to Israel. The 5,000-pound bombs conceivably put Israel in the position to attack Iran's buried nuclear facilities--or to...
As the economic crisis worsens, the very fabric of society in Athens is being ripped apart as the Greeks lose their good humour and generosity. Greek grannies are as ubiquitous and iconic as Greek cats. D...
A pair of Alabama conservation enforcement officers think they've come up with the perfect way for avid hunters to honor their loved ones for eternity. Officers Thad Holmes and Clem Parnell have launched ...
Hamas leader Khaled Meshal told an international conference in Iran on Saturday that "resistance" was the only option left for the Palestinians. Meshal was addressing the "5th International Conference in S...
A Belgian couple on holiday in Spain spotted the armed criminals who had carjacked them at gunpoint a month previously in Liege, 1,200 miles away. The unnamed pair saw Luc Jadoul, 47, and his girlfriend Ga...
The autumn heatwave is expected to reach its peak this weekend after Friday saw temperatures of 84F (29.2C) Forecasters are predicting that the current record high for October of 84.9F (29.4C) will be sha...
The world was gripped by the Nasa UARS satellite that fell back to Earth last Saturday – and now there’s another that’s plummeting back from orbit. In late October or early November a Germany astronomy sat...
Flooding from Tropical Storm Irene appears to have spawned a new wave of particularly aggressive mosquitoes in Vermont, keeping the threat of a potentially fatal disease alive well into the fall, according...
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul is condemning the Obama administration for killing an American born al-Qaida operative without a trial. Paul, a Texas congressman known for libertarian views, sa...
Campaigning for the 2012 presidential race has already begun, but what the candidates don't know is that come election day, hackers could be the ones whose votes have the biggest impact. Researchers from ...
If I wrote a piece arguing that Barack Obama is our first Affirmative Action President, would I be put down as a racist? Or a realist? Most people under fifty who went to academically competitive universit...
This week Gallup is unveiling a series of in-depth analyses of “Americans’ views on the role and performance of government” based on its annual Governance Survey. The first overview, released on Monday, is...
A group of Maoists commemorating the 35th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s death in the northern Chinese city of Taiyuan was violently broken up by police. Chinese authorities have no patience for these Mao-lov...
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...
Postal company FedEx saw its shares tumble on Wall Street as the world's second-largest package delivery business warned that demand is sliding across the globe. FedEx, whose vast operations make it a bel...
Remember when Wichita Falls, Texas experienced 100 days of heat over 100 degrees? Unfortunately this rare heat wave is expected to return in full next year. Forecasts from the National Oceanic and Atmosph...
n spite of the fact that the global stock sell off (Crash) is dragging gold down up to hundreds of dollars (from its peaks near 1900 US) gold should hold better than any commodities, even oil. Silver is s...
The growing trade deficit with China has eliminated or displaced nearly 2.8 million U.S. jobs since 2001 -– or about 2% of all domestic employment during that period, according to a briefing paper from the...
"Grandmother cites jealousy in killing child" September 28, 2011|Associated Press FAIRFAX, Va. - A grandmother who threw her 2-year-old granddaughter to her death from a sixth-floor walkway at Virginia’s ...
*“Sorry To Disturb You...”* by Layla Anwar “Am so sorry to disturb you...am awake and you are asleep... Am so sorry to disturb your snores and your slumber...I happen to be wide awake. Sorry to nudge you...
"UAW workers get bonuses in GM deal DETROIT - The United Auto Workers union won $5,000 signing bonuses and the possibility of sweeter profit-sharing checks as part of a new four-year contract with Genera...
Professor Wangari Maathai (Nobel laureate and environmentalist) was born in the central highlands of Kenya in 1940. Back in the 1940s, her small village had clean water, rich soils, rich forests and ple...
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CENSORED NEWS - 12 hours ago
*US State Department's fidgety, persistent need to control Al Jazeera* By ©Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com The US State Department’s obsession with Al Jazeera, as exposed by W...
[image: Global CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use and cement production per region, 1990-2010. After a decline in CO2 emissions in 2009 of 1% (including a correction for the leap year 2008), global emiss...
I can't help thinking that this Daniel Hannan blogpost, which includes specific reference to the lobbying activities of Christian Aid, may in part be a response to the twittering of BBC Home Affairs corre...
There weren't many progressives who got dragged under in the Tea Party tsunami-- or more appropriately, in the stay-at-home malaise from the Democratic base that practically wiped the GOP-leaning Blue Dog...
[image: The Press-Register's Ben Raines scoops oil where it bubbled to the surface of the Gulf of Mexico on 23 August 2011 within one mile northeast of BP's Macondo well site. Jeff Dute / Press-Register]...
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CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours ago
*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* September 29, 2011 11:23 AM *CONTACT: Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)* press@ccrjustice.org Human Rights Groups Urge Bush Torture Prosecution Canada urged to prosecute Bush, w...
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CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours ago
*Center for Constitutional Rights Condemns Targeted Assassination of U.S. Citizen Anwar Al-Awlaki* *CCR Cites a Lack of Adherence to Constitutional and International Laws that Afford Due Process* *By Cent...
*The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.* * * *A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.* * * *A little learning ...
*And no trust in Blogger given how the month has opened up.* "*Seventy-four cents out of every $1 in the state’s Transportation Trust Fund - where the state gas tax, Registry of Motor Vehicles fees, and a ...
Liberalism is a cancer eating away at society and destroying all that is wholesome. The once-valid term 'liberal' has become perverted by the social engineers into a byword for decadent. Liberals are no...
*I'm a bit hyper myself given what has happened this morning, and I actually find it offensive that the agenda-pushing paper promotes, approves, and endorses something that is a dangerous safety hazard.* ...
*I'm a bit hyper myself given what has happened this morning, and I actually find it offensive that the agenda-pushing paper promotes, approves, and endorses something that is a dangerous safety hazard.* ...
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- 15 hours ago
Url movie: http://youtu.be/u2z6tU_kLIw Enjoy a good weekend, John
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Andaman Islands, India Region at a depth of 29.4 km (18.3 miles), the quake hit at 12:48:59 UTC Saturday 1st October 2011. The epicenter was 305 km ( 189 miles) WN...
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of the South Island, New Zealand at a depth of 34.9 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 10:54:34 UTC Saturday 1st October 2011. The epicenter was 200 ...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 204.1 km (126.8 miles), the quake hit at 10:16:41 UTC Saturday 1st October 2011. The epicenter was 185 km ( 114 miles) Southwest of Hihifo, Tonga No...
In 1840, New Orleans was America’s third-largest city. Today, it’s 52nd ~The Economist ~NEW ORLEANS has been taxing demographers since the day six years ago when Hurricane Katrina burst the city’s levees, k...
Apparently Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird did not much care for the wordmark "Canada" being larger than his name on his business card so he had it deleted altogether and some goldleaf embossing ad...
*I'm not *surprised* at all. * *Would you like a Globe cup of coffee first?* "Friendly’s may file for bankruptcy" by Erin Ailworth, Globe Staff Friendly’s, the *restaurant chain* known for its ice cream, ...
Yesterday AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka asked if the Obama Administration would be so relentlessly pushing a "free" trade agreement with Colombia if death squads had murdered 51 CEOs instead of 51 unio...
*I'm not *surprised* at all. * *Would you like a Globe cup of coffee first?* "Friendly’s may file for bankruptcy" by Erin Ailworth, Globe Staff Friendly’s, the *restaurant chain* known for its ice cream, ...
SCUBA divers have explored the bottom of the Dead Sea and found microbial life and freshwater springs.
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck near Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 5.8 km (3.6 miles), the quake hit at 09:23:48 UTC Saturday 1st October 2011. The epicenter was 139 km ( 86 miles) ...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck near Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 30 km (18.6 miles), the quake hit at 09:18:53 UTC Saturday 1st October 2011. The epicenter was 134 km ( 83 miles) ...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Ceram Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 50.4 km (31.3 miles), the quake hit at 08:27:06 UTC Saturday 1st October 2011. The epicenter was 175 km ( 108 miles) WNW of Ambo...
*Headley from Chicago.* The government of India would appear *not* to want to get its hands on David Headley. David Headley is the American 'CIA agent' who has admitted to planning the 2008 Mumbai attac...
Good physics will continue to be done, but America has largely ceded its leadership role in particle physics.
The second typhoon in a week has made landfall in the northern Philippines which is still reeling from floods alongside several Asian countries. Typhoon Nalgae slammed ashore midmorning Saturday south of n...
As wildfires burn statewide in unstable, windy conditions, Texans learn that the historic drought will last at least through winter and possibly until 2020. With wildfires raging across 2500 acres of drou...
A tropical storm whacked into Vietnam on Friday, forcing 20,000 people to be evacuated, as the Philippines braced for a new typhoon and several Asian countries reeled under floods after some of the wildest...
The government has detected plutonium apparently from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant outside the compound of the plant for the first time, science ministry officials said Friday. The plutoniu...
The Japanese government on Friday lifted its advisory for residents living in areas between 20 and 30 kilometers from the Fukushima Daiichi power plant to evacuate due to the nuclear crisis at the plant, s...
California-based True Leaf Farms is recalling 90 cartons of chopped romaine lettuce as it may be contaminated with listeria, though no related illnesses have been reported. Listeria is a frequent cause of...
[image: Link]The U.S. Navy's latest stealth drone has completed a series of rigorous summer flight tests - taking it one step closer to its first automated carrier landing. Reaching speeds of 180 knots, t...
It is one of the nation's most iconic structures. But during last month's earthquake, the Washington Monument was severely shaken, causing large chunks to fall and cracks to appear in the 130-year-old bui...
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Biased BBC - 21 hours ago
Meant to cover this yesterday, I refer to BBC coverage of the latest European diktat bestowing additional rights and benefits on Agency workers. This has been presented by the BBC as a further instance of ...
[image: Killing Americans] President Barack Obama steered the nation's war machine into unexplored territory Friday when a U.S. drone attack a convoy in Yemen and killed two American citizens who had dev...
New York City police are bracing for a weekend of mayhem in lower Manhattan with thousands expected to risk arrest as the Occupy Wall Street protest moves into its third straight week. The movement, whos...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 07:07:22 UTC Saturday 1st October 2011. The epicenter was 17 km ( 10.5 miles) Northwest of Arhavi, Turke...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Spain at a depth of 15 km (9.3 miles), the quake hit at 07:14:37 UTC Saturday 1st October 2011. The epicenter was 7 km ( 4.1 miles) Northeast of Quiroga, Spain No repor...
It might look like a giant tennis ball, but in the land of the rising sun this quirky contraption is being marketed as the answer to surviving an earthquake and tsunami. Dubbed Noah - after the ark which ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Nevada at a depth of 9.2 km (5.7 miles), the quake hit at 07:07:00 UTC Saturday 1st October 2011. The epicenter was 9 km ( 6 miles) Southeast of Schurz, Nevada No repor...
Police searching for a child who went missing during a massive fire at a farm have confirmed the discovery of a body. The youngster had not been accounted for following the blaze at the Hessle Farm, in Wr...
A banned extremist who made a mockery of Britain’s border controls is now likely to pocket £5,000 in compensation because immigration officials could not speak his language. The High Court ruled yesterday...
An alliance of European countries is rebelling against EU plans to make Britain open its doors to thousands of ‘benefit tourists’. Ministers have joined forces with 12 other nations – including France, Ge...
Biologists are working to find out why the corpses of young harbor seals have been washing up on New Hampshire beaches this week. “We’re now up to a dozen different dead seals from beaches in Seabrook to ...
Mysterious deaths of bees in hives in Florida's Brevard Country have beekeepers and officials mystified as to how it happened, they say. Beekeeper Charles Smith of Fellsmere said he found mounds of dead b...
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Biased BBC - 22 hours ago
Wearying but predictable to see that the lead story on the BBC NEWS Portal this morning is one undermining the Conservatives. "Conservative Andrew Tyrie questions economic strategy". *That's the single mos...
A wildlife laboratory in Athens has confirmed an outbreak of what is commonly known as "rabbit fever" in Kansas. The disease tularemia is a serious infectious condition caused by bacteria transmitted thr...
The food borne illness that sickened dozens of players on the Elyria High School football team earlier this month remains a mystery. The Elyria City Health District and the Ohio Department of Health announ...
An ultralight plane crashed into a ferris wheel at a small town fair in Australia, narrowly missing two children, and dangled from the structure for hours before its occupants could be rescued. Locals wer...
More than 12,000 have been infected and 125 people have died over the past two months in Pakistan after coming down with dengue fever, a health department spokesman said Friday. The World Health Organiza...
The death toll continues to rise from devastating flooding in southeastern Pakistan, with authorities saying Friday that 107 children are among the 434 people killed. Roughly 660,000 people are living in...
The killings Friday of alleged terrorists cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and computer expert Samir Khan could spark retaliatory attacks against the United States, according to the FBI and the Department of Homelan...
The U.S. drone killing of American-born and -raised Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a major figure in al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, has re-energized a national debate over the legal and moral quandar...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Alamagan Region, Northern Mariana Islands at a depth of 251.4 km (156.2 miles), the quake hit at 05:12:09 UTC Saturday 1st October 2011. The epicenter was 42 km ( ...
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck the Andaman Islands, India Region at a depth of 41.1km (25.5 miles), the quake hit at 04:22:19 UTC Saturday 1st October 2011. The epicenter was 310 km ( 192 miles) Wes...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Mindanao, Philippines at a depth of 610.5 km (379.4 miles), the quake hit at 04:21:51 UTC Saturday 1st October 2011. The epicenter was 56 km ( 34 miles) WNW of Cotabat...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Central Turkey at a depth of 11 km (6.8 miles), the quake hit at 20:40:31 UTC Friday 30th September 2011. The epicenter was 38 km ( 23 miles) NNW of Aksaray, Turkey No ...
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CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours ago
Watch videos below Add caption*CENSORED 'Border Patrol in the Bushes'* *ACLU says Bisbee activist has the right to video tape, and post the video online, when Border Patrol agents come trampling through he...
------------------------------ September 30, 2011 at 00:20:21 *Promoted to Headline (H3) on 9/26/11:* Permalink Is The War On Terror A Hoax? *By paul craig roberts (about the author)* opednews...
* Klaus Tennstedt (1926-1998) * *DVOŘÁK: Symphony No. 8 in G, Op. 88: i. Allegro con brio* *London Philharmonic Orchestra, Klaus Tennstedt, cond. BBC Legends, recorded live in the Royal Festival Hall, Apr. ...
And now a word from Harry Shearer…
*"On Friendship"* * *by Kahlil Gibran "Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him w...
"A bright spiral galaxy of the northern sky, Messier 63 is about 25 million light-years distant in the loyal constellation Canes Venatici. Also cataloged as NGC 5055, the majestic island universe is nearly...
"We would rather be ruined than changed; We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions die." ~ W.H. Auden
*“Elegy”* by Chet Raymo “I am seventy-five years old. I have never watched another human die. On only a few occasions have I seen animals other than insects die. It's not that death hasn't been happening ...
*The incomparable James Spader dazzled last season as the visionary genius, or perhaps megalomaniacal crackpot, Robert, interviewing for the old job of Michael Scott (Steve Carell) as manager of the Scrant...
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Not PC - 1 day ago
If you missed them this week, these are the posts that got folk excited: 1. *Three Logicians Walk Into a Bar* The humour of logic. And beer. 2. *Don, John and the right to take a toke* Eve...
*You certainly can't say they don't care about you.* "Pa. legislative corruption trial begins for 3 GOP defendants; Defense lawyers blame former House speaker" September 27, 2011|By Peter Jackson, Associa...
Ophelia strengthened Friday into a Category 3 hurricane, with winds of 115 mph as it barreled northward across the Atlantic at nearly 12 mph, the National Hurricane Center said. The system had appeared to...
The U.S. economy is staring down another recession, according to a forecast from the Economic Cycle Research Institute. "It's either just begun, or it's right in front of us," said Lakshman Achuthan, the ...
Judging by the commentary, there has been a colossal misunderstanding around the world of what has just has happened in Germany. The significance of yesterday’s vote by the Bundestag to make the EU’s €440b...
There is a growing risk that the global economy will move from the 'Great Recession' into the 'Great Stagnation', according to economists at Goldman Sachs. Stagnations typically mean long periods of slugg...
When it comes to supporting UK manufacturing, the Coalition government's record has so far proved almost as disappointing as the last one's. First there was the decision to favour Siemens over the all Bri...
The X Factor is 'playing fast and loose with people's minds', according to the distinguished mental health campaigner Marjorie Wallace. It is Britain’s most popular television programme, but The X Factor ...
Passengers donated bottles of drinking water to get their train working again after it broke down because of the heatwave. The National Express East Anglia train ground to a halt under the baking midday ...
One of the Royal Navy's most senior officers has expressed serious concerns over the loss of skilled aircraft carrier crew following redundancies. The officer, who plays a key role in maintaining the Flee...
The Obama administration told the United Nations that too few of its 10,307 workers are being cut and average salaries, currently $119,000 a year, have risen “dramatically.” The U.S. ambassador for UN man...
A leaked document from the Justice Department intended for law enforcement officials describes the length of time major cellphone companies retain sensitive customer data, including text message details an...
As the dust settles after six months of fighting in Libya, U.S. officials are stepping up efforts to identify Islamic militants who might pose a threat in a post-Gaddafi power vacuum. U.S. counterterroris...
In the year-plus since he was released from jail, scientist Hu Zhicheng has been free, free to drive from his Shanghai apartment to his office two hours away, free to get acupuncture treatment for chronic ...
Cyber-criminals stole the payment card details of almost 2.3m Betfair customers only months before the betting exchange's controversial £1.39bn float. The company was forced to inform the UK Serious Orga...
The US company SpaceX is working on the first-ever reusable rocket to launch to space and back, with the goal of one day helping humans colonize Mars, founder Elon Musk said Thursday. The vehicle would be...
*“Stone-Age Toddlers Had Art Lessons”* by Guardian.co.uk "Stone age toddlers may have attended a form of prehistoric nursery where they were encouraged to develop their creative skills in cave art, say ar...
"Gas explosion rattles north Seattle neighborhood; 2 people seriously hurt" September 27, 2011|By Associated Press SEATTLE - A natural gas leak inside a home caused an explosion and fire that destroyed a ...
"There's a great black wave in the middle of the sea For me For you" - Arcade Fire, "Black Wave/Bad Vibrations" On September 27, 2011, Politico reported on the Obama administration's decision to not relea...
"Aide allegedly stole $1m from N.Y. mayor" September 27, 2011|By Associated Press NEW YORK - A *political consultant* accused of *stealing more than $1 million* from Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been turne...
*Tastes like s***!* "Postal Service to put living people on stamps**" September 27, 2011|By Associated Press WASHINGTON - Hoping to boost sagging revenue, the US Postal Service abandoned its longstanding...
"A rural Indiana community was on edge yesterday as police searched for answers in the deaths of five people found at two properties.... --**more--"
"GOP sees Ohio as key to capturing Senate; Aids bid to unseat liberal incumbent" September 27, 2011|By Alex Katz, Globe Correspondent DAYTON, Ohio - Liberal Democratic incumbent Sherrod Brown’s approval ra...
*The Globe would rather be out there than covering the Wall Street protests, and I'm sick of it.* *Enjoy, readers*: "Man survives 4 days in Utah desert" September 26, 2011|Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY...
Man in the street: "Who's going to fight? What are you going to do? This is revolution time, but who's going to do it?" Report by Survive And Thrive TV:
Cancer has finally erased Clifford Olson from the ranks of mankind. The serial child killer died this afternoon in a Quebec hospital.
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*"The Genesis of Evil"* by Andrew Lobaczewski, Ph.D. "Ever since ancient times, philosophers and religious thinkers representing various attitudes in different cultures have been searching for the trut...
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Beware of pretenders supplied by the establishment to "save us" from collapsing system. by Tony Cartalucci September 30, 2011 - The US intelligence community, in conjunction with Wall Street corporate-f...
Like girls, boys are pressured to look fit, thin and attractive, but because of other pressures, they don't want to look like they care too much.
*"The Cult of the Plausible Lie"* by Laura Knight-Jadczyk "Never ascribe to malice those things which may be explained by stupidity." That is an important phrase, and a necessary one; it keeps people from...
"How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives ar...
*"Apple Causes 'Religious' Reaction In Brains Of Fans"* by Digital Trends "People have often talked about "the cult of Apple", and if a recent BBC TV documentary is to be believed, there could be somethin...
Everytime I tell myself that after years and years of holding my nose and voting for crappy Democrats who don't represent me politically-- primarily because they're better than the far more odious Republi...
*“How Your Brain Reacts to Mistakes * *Depends on Your Mindset”* by MedicalXpress "Whether you think you can or think you can't - you're right," said Henry Ford. A new study, to be published in an upcomin...
*"We Don’t Need to Suffer: Learn and Let Flow"* by The DailyOm "We do not need to suffer or live in poverty to be a spiritual person. The idea that we have to suffer or live in poverty in order to be spir...
Android malware is in the news, but it doesn't have to be on your phone.
SpaceX has frozen the production of the Falcon 1 rocket due to a softening in the small satellite launch market. But it's larger sibling, the Falcon 9, is seeing a boom in popularity.
Boiling Frogs Post: The EyeOpener - CIA in the News Media: A Brief History of Media Manipulation by U.S. Intelligence (By James Corbett). This is a must see video. It is so well done. The information is so...
Utilities such as water supplies and the power grid face a rising number of cyber break-ins by attackers using sophisticated attacks. Acting DHS Deputy Undersecretary Greg Schaffer said that industries ar...
The U.S. government is auctioning off land in a bid to raise much-needed capital, with the nation's economy in a critical state with an entire island that once housed an Animal research centre for sale. W...
While his nation starves, North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-Il has been spending £120,000 a year on his dogs, it has been revealed. The allegations were made in a report presented to the country's parliament...
A judge today blasted EU laws which will allow a Romanian con man who came to Britain solely to carry out a cash machine scam to stay in the country after being released from jail. Judge Graham Cottle was...
London's stock market suffered its worst quarter of trading for nearly a decade as more than £212 billion was wiped off its value since July 1. Fresh fears of another worldwide recession saw the FTSE 100 f...
*Guest blog by Prof Nir Shaviv (HUJI), astrophysicist* *Reprinted from sciencebits.com with author's permission* Three weeks ago I visited the underground laboratory of Gran Sasso near l'Aquila. Little...
Germans shocked by brazen bullying of lawmakers during bankster bailout vote By Jane Burgermeister Published: September 30, 2011 The brazen mobbing of German lawmakers during yesterday’s vote on establish...
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*Is it by overlooking the Greek history*, is it its geography or something else that caused the hair-raising crisis that its population must suffer. There is no discussion about: Greece is bankrupt and wi...
How we live, love, reproduce, and marry is more complicated than just a change of tone.
*"US States To Financially Break Away From Federal Government?"* by Ron Hera “Earlier this week I attended the Utah Monetary Summit in Salt Lake City, Utah. As you may know, the state of Utah passed a Le...
Coffee Car drives into Guinness World Records for fastest vehicle powered by organic waste.
"You know the law - every son of Israel must have some occupation." - Lew Wallace, *Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ*, Chapter IV On September 26, *The Los Angeles Times* ran a short Calendar section itemo...
"We deny that we're tired, we deny that we're scared, we deny how badly we want to succeed. And most importantly, we deny that we're in denial. We only see what we want to see and believe what we want to ...
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NASA's MESSENGER mission is turning up more questions than answers as it photographs strange recently-formed features on Mercury's surface.
The Friday News Feedbag is taped before a live studio audience .... (not really) On this week's show, James visits the school cafeteria, where new and tricky ways to get people to eat better are being impl...
JUST AFTER typhoon Pedring battered Luzon this week, another typhoon, Quiel (international name: Nalgae) entered Philippine territories Friday afternoon, the state weather bureau said. The Philippine At...
*"Bernanke’s Plot to Overthrow the US Dollar"* by Bill Bonner "Where’s the Bastille? The Dow got a boost yesterday — up 143 points. Gold remained where it was — about $1,617. Dear Readers know what we thi...
It’s not a new virus, but doctors need to keep an eye out for one that’s not usually on the radar screen, federal health officials said on Thursday. It’s called human enterovirus 68, or HEV68, and it can c...
New Zealand's credit rating has been downgraded by two of the three major ratings agencies amid increased global concern over high debt burdens in developed nations. Fitch and Standard & Poor's on Friday ...
A teenager holding her 11-month-old son was injured when she came under fire from a shotgun as she chatted to two friends in west London. Jessica Chrichlow, 18, was taken to hospital with the two others, a...
Cities could soon be looking after their citizens all by themselves thanks to an operating system designed for the metropolis. The Urban OS works just like a PC operating system but keeps buildings, traff...
One of the world's most powerful "atom smashers", at the leading edge of scientific discovery for a quarter of a century, is about to shut down. The Tevatron facility near Chicago will fire its last partic...
Prehistoric etchings found in a cave in France are the work of children as young as three, according to research. The so-called finger flutings were discovered at the Cave of a Hundred Mammoths in Rouffig...
An anonymous donor in Japan has left 10m yen ($131,000; £83,000) to charity by dumping it in a public toilet. The money was found with a letter saying it should be donated to victims of the earthquake and...
A miniature magic carpet made of plastic has taken flight in a laboratory at Princeton University. The 10cm (4in) sheet of smart transparency is driven by "ripple power"; waves of electrical current drivi...
U.S. consumers spent slightly more last month but earned less for the first time in nearly two years. The new data on spending and incomes suggest Americans tapped their savings to cope with steep gas pric...
A small Japanese company has developed a modern, miniature version of Noah's Ark in case Japan is hit by another massive earthquake and tsunami: a floating capsule that looks like a huge tennis ball. Japa...
The United States is looking at building fences along the border with Canada to help keep out terrorists and other criminals, according to a draft report by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency T...
Japan lifted some evacuation advisories around the tsunami-devastated Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant Friday to reassure tens of thousands of residents, who fled the worst atomic crisis since Chornobyl, ...
At least 49 people have been killed across several cities in western Syria during the past two days of fighting between pro- and anti-government forces, an opposition group said Thursday. Most of the deat...
A man stranded after his car plunged down a steep embankment in the Angeles National Forest survived for six days by eating leaves and drinking water from a creek, authorities said Friday. David J. Lavau,...
Protests to draw attention to the power of Wall Street firms in the United States and world economies will continue for a 14th straight day Friday in New York City. Demonstrations are addressing various...
For the first time in U.S. history, the largest single group of poor children in any racial or ethnic category is Hispanic, according to a new survey. Calling it "a negative milestone" in Hispanics' explo...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Hinshu, Japan at a depth of 49.5 km (30.8 miles), the quake hit at 17:20:04 UTC Friday 30th September 2011. The epicenter was 103 km ( 64 miles)...
*"Banks Raise Fees on Same People Who Bailed Out Their Asses:* *Introduce New ‘Thank You’ Fee on Debit Cards"* by Andy Borowitz NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) – "The largest banks in the US made history t...
The space debris issue won't affect me, will it? Actually, as astronomer Mark Thompson explains, it will.
*Awlaki.* * *On 30 September 2011, the Yemen government announced the 'death' of Anwar Al-Awlaki, believed to be an agent of the CIA. *"It is not clear yet whether the airstrike was by Yemeni air force or...
The poem is read by British actor Sir Lewis Thomas Casson (26 October 1875 – 16 May 1969). Text: It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged w...
And then, sometimes they just write themselves.
Sponges already clean up kitchen spills and soap scum, now they may start cleaning up the atmosphere.
That's a relief - there are many fewer 'mid-sized' Asteroids near Earth than was previously thought. There are roughly 19,500 -- not 35,000. But while the risk of impact is smaller, according to NASA, the...
Barrack Obama claims the U.S. had 'gotten a little soft' in the last couple decades and needs to 'get back on track'. The president was talking about the state of the economy during an interview with a ...
The U.S. economy is staring down another recession, according to a forecast from the Economic Cycle Research Institute. "It's either just begun, or it's right in front of us," said Lakshman Achuthan, the ...
Baseball, moreso than any other sport, is predicated on, and ruled by, superstition. One of the stubbornest and most hallowed of all traditions is the firing of managers and coaches for the failed executi...
Just got the word from Ralph Goodale. The LPC Deputy Leader suggests if the party can just get another $50-grand by midnight, they'll be able to send an even stronger message to the Cons and NDP that the...
In the midst of the right-wing jihad to do away with the social safety net and turn America into an-only-the-strong-survive kind of Jungle, you may have heard the presumptive GOP presidential nominee whin...
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