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Looking on the bright side of life may have a downside, scientists say. While your glass might always be half full, it could be because you're suffering from a brain malfunction. According to research p...
It's not likely to win you any popularity contests, but it seems being selfish at work can be good for your career. New research has found that those with more selfless, kind personalities were the most...
[image: More harm than good? Scientists say that taking vitamin pills can cause premature death] More harm than good? Scientists say that taking vitamin pills can cause premature death Vitamins and oth...
[image: Baby bust? On average, young professionals will have accumulated £400,000 less in wealth than their parents by the time they turn 65] Baby bust? On average, young professionals will have accumula...
So while
Karl Rove and the plutocrats who back him-- and Romney-- fight it out with teabag moneybags David and
Charles Koch, who seem to favor Perry, Bachmann or their wind-up minstrel show, the far right...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of
Honshu, Japan at a depth of 27.4 km (17 miles), the quake hit at 02:48:49
UTC Tuesday 11th October 2011. The epicenter was 338 km ( 210 miles) Ea...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck
Tajikistan at a depth of 41.2 km (25.6 miles), the quake hit at 01:17:22 UTC Tuesday 11th October 2011. The epicenter was 141 km ( 87 miles) Northeast of Kulob (
Kulyab)...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 30.9 km (19.2 miles), the quake hit at 00:50:54 UTC Tuesday 11th October 2011. The epicenter was 266 km ( 165 miles) NNE of R...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Guatemala at a depth of 10.6 km (6.6 miles), the quake hit at 00:20:11 UTC Tuesday 11th October 2011. The epicenter was 23 km ( 14 miles) Southwest of Coban, Guatemala ...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 187.4 km (116.5 miles), the quake hit at 22:54:18 UTC Monday 10th October 2011. The epicenter was 76 km ( 47 miles) So...
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Abraham says - 40 minutes ago
*Some 250 million years ago there existed a huge and very intelligent creature. Evidence of just how intelligent this creature was is on the remains of its lair the place where it took its victims and w...
There is a very dangerous and disturbing trend emerging across Occupy Wall Street protests of people speaking with one mind and refusing to tolerate different perspectives about the sources of the economi...
Very important, please read (especially for those in New Zealand): The Coming Crisis has acquired inside, verified information regarding the New Zealand Bay of Plenty oil spill. Contrary to media reports, ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Izu Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 48.6 km (30.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:29:12 UTC Monday 10th October 2011. The epicenter was 308 km ( 191 miles) North o...
*The Invisible 99%: Sunday Morning Talk Shows Ignore Occupy Wall Street* PoliticsUSA October 2, 2011 By Jason Easley The five Sunday morning talk shows on CBS, Fox, CNN, NBC, and ABC devoted zero segme...
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Not PC - 1 hour ago
[image: 276464_137539366339987_1226509_n] Our friends at the UoA Economics Group just sent me through their update on tonight’s meeting: Hello all, “Progress is movement in the direction of a higher, b...
*The Invisible 99%: Sunday Morning Talk Shows Ignore Occupy Wall Street* PoliticsUSA October 2, 2011 By Jason Easley The five Sunday morning talk shows on CBS, Fox, CNN, NBC, and ABC devoted zero segme...
At least 12 Chinese sailors have been killed after their cargo ships were attacked on the Mekong River in the northern Thai province of Chiang Rai, the Chinese Foreign Ministry in Yunnan Province has said....
"While most spiral galaxies, including our own Milky Way, have two or more spiral arms, NGC 4725 seems to have only one. In this sharp color image, the solo spira mirabilis is tightly wound, traced by blui...
*The Invisible 99%: Sunday Morning Talk Shows Ignore Occupy Wall Street* PoliticsUSA October 2, 2011 By Jason Easley The five Sunday morning talk shows on CBS, Fox, CNN, NBC, and ABC devoted zero segme...
*"Cloud Meditation: Head in the Clouds"* by The DailyOm "Following a cloud with our eye and drifting through the sky with it can be an easy and relaxing meditation. When people use the phrase “head in the...
Occupy Austin, Friday, Oct. 6, 2011. Photo from Occupy Austin.Occupy Austin:This is just the beginningBy Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / October 10, 2011See photo gallery below.[West Coast writer, activist, an...
"Sometimes the hard way is really the easy way, and the slow way is really the quick way. Yet such sublime surprises may remain forever unknown when one waits... and waits... for the quick and easy way to...
Maryland "Fatti maschil, Parole femine" (loosely translated as Manly deeds, Womanly words." From wiki: A femme fatale is a mysterious and seductive woman [sic]whose charms ensnare her lovers in bonds of...
*The famous Elizabeth Warren video that has "Lying George" Will apoplectic with lies. (Hey, it's what he does.) If E. J. Dionne Jr.'s column today were to cause Lying George's brain to explode, well, it c...
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Buckdog - 3 hours ago
*Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall, timed his official election call for 6:00 pm today, just moments after the Saskatchewan Roughriders finished their match against the Edmonton Eskimos. The problem for Wal...
The euro, which created the world's largest trading power, was designed to link together the European nations for trade and political purposes. It was born amidst political and economic upheaval as Germany...
The Occupy Wall Street protest may be the answer to a favorite question of social scientists ever since the bank bailouts of 2008 -- where is the social movement? Americans are famously willing to tolerate...
As the latest assault on Sirte, the hometown of Muammar Gaddafi, is underway and there are no signs that NATO is going to leave Libya anytime soon, the conflict in North Africa seems to be far from its e...
As America marks the 10th year of war in Afghanistan, the world is calling it the longest and the most expensive US war ever. And as Michael Shank from George Mason University told RT, the war is a failu...
Echoes from the 'Occupy Wall Street' protests have reached the US capital as crowds march through downtown Washington DC. Activist Yotam Marom was arrested in downtown Manhattan and shared his views with...
Sukhraj Beasla's parents boast that their successful daughter works at a bank. The problem is that it's all a lie -- she was laid off more than two years ago. The tentacles of this lie taunt her, adding t...
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Amanda Knox will be rich when her story is finally told, but her troubles may be far from over. What a difference a week makes. Seven days ago, Amanda Knox was languishing in an Italian jail cell, impris...
Workers nearing retirement face a "double whammy" from turmoil in financial markets that will leave them with pensions almost a third lower than those who finished work three years ago. Research publishe...
Ray Mears, the survival expert, has joined a growing chorus of voices concerned about unrestrained development, warning that a shortage of green spaces can lead to the sort of social disruption witnessed d...
The evidence of this can be found almost everywhere, as most of Somalia’s mentally ill are either simply chained to beds or left to roam the streets, leaving them with permanent trauma and physical injurie...
A war launched in Afghanistan by the US and its allies to topple the Taliban regime and hunt down al-Qaeda members has dragged on for ten years. The military intervention promised a new beginning for Afgha...
New Zealand is bracing for an environmental disaster amid fears that a container ship stranded off the North Island could break up and spill oil into the pristine Bay of Plenty, the environment minister ha...
When the Economic Cycle Research Institute's (ECRI) Lakshman Achuthan makes a recession call, you can be sure the economy is in deep trouble. ECRI is so afraid of making a premature call, of crying wolf, t...
Some new census data released last week reveals just how bad off young Americans are. Follow that link if you want the grim details. In a Scripps Howard editorial, Dale McFeatters called young Americans Th...
First of all, I must admit that I am one of those "Conspiracy Nuts" who loves to read meaning into the back of the US $1 bill like I'm trying to solve a centuries old puzzle. The "All Seeing Eye", the py...
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*"A Port In Air"* by Chet Raymo "My musing on The Tempest last Friday reminds me of a story by D. H. Lawrence about a man who buys an island in order to escape the pandemonium of city life. The island ha...
"Light your candle before Night, or it takes you." - Greek saying.
The Icelandic pop star's new album is interactive, full of science and theory and nothing you have seen or heard or interacted with before.
"I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but sw...
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Not PC - 6 hours ago
Two years ago, if you believed the Key Government, the biggest problem facing Bill’s First Budget was whether or not he could somehow forestall a credit downgrade. Government cheerleaders cheered when ou...
How are you liking that appointed committee of 13 Fascists? Has it occurred to you yet that they are in charge of and are setting up the guillotine for US taxpayers? It seems almost too clear to me now tha...
. This evening I caught the following on the BBC News Channel. A Conservative supporter (missed his name) of Liam Fox was holding forth strongly in defense of his beleaguered minister. ".......Mr. Fox ...
*"The Eight Marks of Fascist Policy"* by Lew Rockwell "John T. Flynn, like other members of the Old Right, was disgusted by the irony that what he saw, almost everyone else chose to ignore. In the fight ...
Earlier this summer someone I was very close with died of cancer. Although I tried several times, I was in such shock and so grief-stricken that I found it impossible to write about my feelings. My old fr...
"There's something happening here... What it is ain't exactly clear. There's a man with a gun over there, Telling me I got to beware. I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look...
posted by PC at
Not PC - 7 hours ago
An image doing the rounds which hardly needs any further comment. [image: image] It is truly the Gimme Generation. [HT Jeffrey Tucker] *UPDATE 1*: Pictures here from the Philadephia “Occupy Wall Stree...
posted by PC at
Not PC - 7 hours ago
There’s more than one way to build a staircase—not that our local regulators would know about that. (Their motto: “One way and one way only. And do as you’re told.) Anyway, the Curbly blog has what it c...
*Deputy Wendell:* “It's a mess, ain't it, Sheriff?” *Sherrif Bell:* “If it ain't, it'll do till the mess gets here.” -* *“No Country For Old Men”
posted by David Preiser (USA) at
Biased BBC - 7 hours ago
A couple of days ago, I commented on a previous open thread about Mardell's latest journey amongst the great unwashed in search of more hope for the President's chances of re-election. It was basic human i...
Netflix's Qwikster is dead, but the company seems as determined to ditch the DVD as ever.
Aromatically enhance your video games and movies on your home entertainment system.
*"The Shifting Focus of US Consumer Spending"* by Bill Bonner "The feds released a jobs report on Friday. It said that things weren’t as bad as everyone thought. The US economy actually added 103,000 new ...
posted by PC at
Not PC - 8 hours ago
The Governor of the Bank of England says the world is facing the worst financial crisis since at least the 1930s “if not ever.” A crisis, he says, calling for more printing of more paper money to buy mor...
*"Confronting the Malefactors"* By Paul Krugman "There’s something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear, but we may, at long last, be seeing the rise of a popular movement that, unlike the Tea ...
- http://alexnoble.typepad.com/occupy/ Click image for larger size. Print. Use. We are many, they are few... CP
*"Occupy Wall Street Has Some Bad News For The * *Rich Residents Of The Upper East Side"* by Linette Lopez "Tomorrow, Occupy Wall Street protesters will leave Zuccotti Park at 11 AM and head to the Upper...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Southern Greece at a depth of 15.3 km (9.5 miles), the quake hit at 19:07:03 UTC Monday 10th October 2011. The epicenter was 25 km ( 16 miles) North from Kalamata, Gree...
[image: Link]Passengers on a Norwegian ferry had to sit for hours on a Norwegian ferry after large numbers of jellyfish blocked its filters. The problem was discovered when the MF ‘Malangen’ got stranded o...
*"Panic of the Plutocrats"* By Paul Krugman "It remains to be seen whether the Occupy Wall Street protests will change America’s direction. Yet the protests have already elicited a remarkably hysterical ...
One hundred and forty-one primary school students fell ill after eating at their school on Monday in north China's Shanxi Province, local authorities said. The sickened students study at the Xinxiao Bili...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 50.3 km (31.3 miles), the quake hit at 18:14:24 UTC Monday 10th October 2011. The epicenter was 162 km ( 101 miles) East of R...
An English-speaking teenager appeared in Germany claiming he doesn't know who he is, and lived in the forest with his father for years.
(Wikipedia) Abdolkarim Soroush is "is an Iranian thinker, reformer, Rumi scholar and a former professor at the University of Tehran. He is arguably the most influential figure in religious intellectual mov...
Like the spokesmen for Arab dictators feigning bewilderment over protesters' demands, mainstream television news reporters finally training their attention on the growing Occupy Wall Street protest movemen...
I want to make it clear that those occupying Wall Street have my full support, sympathy and admiration. Glenn Greenwald describes the ridicule these protesters have received in What's behind the scorn for ...
The bad news just keeps rolling in. Keeping up with it is almost a full-time job. Here's a recent sample featuring wage slaves, vanishing pensions and soaring health care costs. 1. It's Not Too Late To Re...
In the 10 years since being toppled from power by invading US troops, the Taliban have transformed from media-shy mullahs into a technology-savvy guerilla force who could still end up back in government. ...
Fraud in online commerce and theft of confidential data, known as phishing, at banks in Latin America together top 93 billion dollars in yearly losses, an IT conference heard Wednesday. The hardest-hit co...
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday branded Israel as a "threat" to its region, accusing it of owning nuclear weapons, in a defence of Palestinians. "I right now see Israel as a thre...
High levels of radioactive contamination have been found in soil in the capital of Japan's Fukushima prefecture, a study showed Wednesday, prompting calls to make the area a voluntary evacuation zone. Som...
Britain suffered a deeper recession than previously thought and is recovering even more slowly than had been believed, official figures show. The revelation came as the Office for National Statistics (ONS)...
On the basis that inflation is better than depression, I suppose it is just about possible to go along with the Monetary Policy Committee's decision to increase "quantitative easing" by a further £75bn. B...
It’s day 20 for some of those who have made Manhattan’s Zuccotti Square home. The smallish site near the southern tip of the island has become the centre of Occupy Wall Street, a protest group that has iss...
David Cameron this afternoon said households were paying off their personal debts to help Britain recover from what is "no normal recession", but for those who opt for the minimum repayment, it could be 20...
Drunken driving incidents have fallen 30 percent in the last five years, and last year were at their lowest mark in nearly two decades, according to a new federal report. The decline may be due to the dow...
We are in the middle of a great cultural arms race between advertisers with tons of money and state of the art technology and the common man's ability to ignore the ads those advertisers create. You've see...
New Orleans Food Co-op Opens Today! ~NOLA DEFENDER ~We did! How to Operate With a Blown Mind ~moosedenied~Say, somebody wanna tell me who the fuck Drew Brees needs to blow to get that kind of bullshit pro...
We all know a cubed Planet Earth is physically impossible, but it sure makes for an interesting thought experiment.
For your next vacation, how about taking the kids to play at an abandoned nuclear power plant?
Creepy looking spiders strike fear in the hearts of many, but the real power may belong to a parasitic wasp that can manipulate spiders.
Earlier today, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announced on the company blog that Qwikster, their new separate DVD mail order business, was being scrappedbefore its debut. This decision, and the second price hik...
*Reblog from U.S. LHC blogs (Flip Tanedo)* While one of the priorities of the LHC is to find the Higgs boson (also see Aidan’s rebuttal), it should also be pointed out that we have *already* discovered ...
An all-electric jet ski means quiet and smoke-less days on the lake, for a price.
Soon, law enforcement officers will be able to search by photo without having a name.
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck near Michoacan, Mexico at a depth of 91.5 km (56.9 miles), the quake hit at 16:06:23 UTC Monday 10th October 2011. The epicenter was 91 km ( 56 miles) South of Morelia...
Fifteen people -- many of them teenagers getting ready for homecoming -- were taken to the hospital after suffering carbon monoxide poisoning at a hair salon in Frisco, Texas, about 30 miles north of Dalla...
*A meteorite chose the roof of a house belonging to a Mrs Comette in the southern suburbs of Paris to make its acquaintance with the planet Earth.* The astral surprise hit the roof of the home in Draveil w...
I don't watch football. I don't care about football. I can barely stand it when my friends want to talk to at me about football. I bet the only times I've even mentioned football this year at *DWT* was in...
Space pioneers could focus on answering, arguably, the most profound question ever asked by humans: are we alone in the universe?
Remember that word - bioremediation - because it will be encountered towards the end of this post. It refers to the preposterous notion that Nature can be further exploited to clean itself of the filth th...
A strong storm system that spawned a small tornado early Sunday near Lackland Air Force Base knocked out power for thousands of residents and dumped more than 2 inches of rain on San Antonio, San Antonio E...
Home Secretary Theresa May today named Warwickshire Police Chief Constable Keith Bristow as the head of the new National Crime Agency. Mrs May said Mr Bristow will 'develop an agency of powerful operationa...
Even the hardiest maglev enthusiasts are a bit glum now as the future of the trains appears to have derailed.
Dr Liam Fox today admitted his friend Adam Werritty was present during 18 overseas trips including a number while he was on ministerial duty. The admission came when the Defence Secretary made a statement ...
*Squeeze 27 km of tunnels filled with superconducting magnets into your pocket* If you own a mobile phone with Google Android and if you are a TRF reader – and you just apparently satisfied the latter con...
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CENSORED NEWS - 12 hours ago
Arrests of Occupy Iowa demonstrators in Des Moines on Sunday night. Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
[image: Texas precipitation at 21:27 UTC on 9 October 2011. wunderground.com] By Jeff Masters 10 October 2011 A slow-moving low pressure system brought the heaviest rains of the year to large portions ...
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CENSORED NEWS - 12 hours ago
*Tucson gunseller exposes Operation Wide Receiver during Bush years* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com TUCSON -- The United States was funneling guns to the drug cartels du...
It's possible that the disease can be transferred from person to person similar to prion diseases like mad cow disease.
Save space and electricity with a charging station for all devices.
[image: Elizabeth Thompson, a researcher for Friends of Casco Bay, tests the pH levels of the mud in Mill Cove in South Portland, across the harbor from downtown Portland. bangordailynews.com] By Seth K...
[image: Area around Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in need of de-contamination. Japan government / The Economist]IITATE, October 8 (The Economist) – CREST the hill into the village of Iitate, and the re...
*“We live our lives as characters in the grand narrative into which we have been socialized as children and conform as adults. That narrative is the story told to itself by the dominant society of which ...
*Yeah, this A2 insult, I mean, brief should make up for the last three days : * "Wall Street protests capture attention of veterans of past social movements" by Associated Press October 10, 2011 NEW YORK ...
The desperate pioneers resorted to eating pets, bones, twigs, glue, strings and finally each other.
For a small group of patients with diabetes, a round of maggots is just what the doctor ordered.
Occupy Wall Street has its first corporate backing after Ben & Jerry’s today announced it is getting behind the protesters. The Vermont-based ice-cream company, known for standing up for liberal issues, s...
A plague of black widow spiders in Oklahoma has resulted in almost double the number of bites reported this year than last. So far 49 bites from the venomous spiders have been reported to the Oklahoma Poi...
These worrying images of globules of thick, black oil show that it's now a race against time in order to save New Zealand's stunning coastline after a leak from a stricken ship has begun to wash ashore. S...
It's been a lovely Indian summer - but it could come back to bite us. That's what scientists predict after working out the first ever pattern of activity for the sun. According to research, the sun runs o...
It's Air Canada again. This time it's the 6,800 flight attendants who have voted down an offer from the airline and will be in a legal strike position on Thursday. It wasn't long after the flight attenda...
Over the weekend Blue America endorsed Brad Miller (D-NC), the first incumbent House member we've recommended for reelection in this cycle. Miller, who was in Raleigh for an OccupyRaleigh planning session...
Scientists have warned that another satellite is set to crash land into Earth in the next few weeks. The two-and-a-half ton German research satellite ROSAT has left its orbit and heading back towards Ea...
SEVEN children have died and one is in a critical condition in the Kavango Region due to poisoning by an unknown substance. A 10-month-old baby is in stable condition at the Andara Catholic hospital, 200 k...
*Happy Monday! Today, as a part of Month O' Pumpkins, we have the fabulous Beth from NashvillePug here showing us how to make her creative pumpkin topiaries. These topiaries are the perfect decor for you...
posted by laura k at
wmtc - 15 hours ago
We all know that *agent provocateurs* are a reality, but whenever we are offered hard evidence, we should spread it far and wide. A right-wing "journalist" has admitted to infiltrating a protest group and ...
At the Zhuhai air show in southeastern China last November, Chinese companies startled some Americans by unveiling 25 different models of remotely controlled aircraft and showing video animation of a missi...
[image: Obama] In President Barack Obama's sales pitch for his jobs bill, there are two version of actuality the one in his speeches and the one really unfolding in Washington when Obama accuse Republican...
China's faster-than-expected military buildup has alarmed the United States and its Asian allies and could help the Pentagon gird against deeper defence cuts threatened in some corners of Congress. But eve...
Pakistan Air Force has ordered Advanced Integrated Defensive Electronic Warfare System (AIDEWS) for the Pakistani Air Force F-16 C/D Block 52M and F-16 AM/BM. Read More
By the end of 2011, the toy titan Mattel plans to use recycled material or sustainable fiber for 70 percent of its paper packaging. They hope to boost that number to 85 percent by the end of 2015.
Reader Alerted us to this news breaking: Seismic Observation Services have witnessed a undersea eruption at 1200 meters deep, 7 miles from El Hierro. The eruption is ongoing and occurred at 10:43 Local ti...
The expansion of EFSF, a European fund introducing an even larger dose of the financial communism into the eurozone, has been okayed by all eurozone countries except for Malta and Slovakia. *Horehronie...
Long-standing allies India and Russia have expressed their readiness to expand the scope of cooperation on a ‘mutually beneficial basis’ between the two nations. This has happened even as India expressed i...
Defence preparedness will now be enhanced on the Himalayan heights along the operating boundaries with China and Pakistan following reports of repeated incursions of troops and the military cooperation bet...
Egyptian Air Force (EAF) has confirmed the purchase of Lockheed Martin’s Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod (ATP) to equip its F-16 aircraft purchased under the Peace Vector program. Sniper Advanced Targeting P...
An other MiG-21 fighter jet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) has crashed in Rajasthan province this Friday. Fighter polit of the Indian Air Force was safley able to eject from the old MiG-21 fighter jet befor...
Bangladesh and Indian military forces has started the joint military exercises at Zalalabad Cantonment in the country’s Sylhet division. Read More
Yuan Class SSKs are the new generation Submarines of the People's Liberation Army Navy. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen recently inspected a Yuan class diesel submarine durin...
Jian Hong-7 is a tactical fighter bomber aircraft which has been developed by the Xian Aircraft Industry Corporation, China. Read More
Images of New Type 052C (Luyang-II Class) Missile Destroyers Under Construction. Read More
[image: Jog on ... and you'll find mental benefits] Jog on ... and you'll find mental benefits COFFEE is famed for its caffeine kick and there's nothing like going for a run or a brisk walk to give you a s...
- The brain goes through 'massive remodelling' through the teenage years Teenagers who stay up late most nights before struggling in to school the next day may have more to worry about than being d...
Sealing a business deal with a handshake could be a thing of the past after a leading scientist claims we should keep our hands to ourselves to prevent the the spread of infectious diseases like flu. Na...
- According to new research only we can choose the perfect perfume - We are drawn to the smell of people who have a different immune system, say scientists [image: On the right scent: Scie...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the Guam Region at a depth of 93.8 km (58.3 miles), the quake hit at 10:47:08 UTC Monday 10th October 2011. The epicenter was 60 km ( 37 miles) SSW of Hagatna, Gu...
A woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after another woman was fatally stabbed in Bexleyheath, south London. Police were called to a location near an Asda store at around 8.30am on Monday. The...
Mark Easton's report for the Today programme (reproduced on his blog) about a study into civility by "social science think-tank" The Young Foundation is a classic of the Easton genre. He opens the piece wi...
Bali officials are on alert again after two children at Denpasar’s Sanglah General Hospital were diagnosed with the H5N1 strain of avian influenza. The siblings, 5-year-old Nengah Rika and 10-year-old Way...
Scores of homes, commercial venues and hotels were flooded yesterday in Bodrum in the southwestern province of Muğla following torrential rains and furious storms that raged through much of western Turkey....
A tanker truck and a minivan collided on State Route 85 at Baseline Sunday night, sparking a hazmat situation. The tank, which contained 8,800 gallons of unleaded fuel, was not breached, according to the ...
Salt Lake firefighters evacuated a downtown hotel shortly after 5 p.m. Sunday after a housekeeper inadvertently discharged a canister of bear repellent spray in a hallway. According to a Salt Lake City F...
The young and sick female whale that stranded off the coast of Candelaria Island here has died. Caretakers of Potipot Island first saw the whale around 1 pm Saturday. They tried to drive the animal away ...
Police in Perth say their hopes are fading of finding alive a man who disappeared while swimming at Cottesloe beach, after his bathers were found. The 64 year-old Mosman Park man set out from the shore nea...
A man is hospitalized with injuries after a bear attacks him near Superior Minnesota Saturday night. The man was hunting deer and set up over bait. The bear wandered near that bait, so the victim tried to ...
Why “crazy hairy” you ask? They’re called “crazy” because each ant in a colony seems to scramble randomly, moving very fast. They’re called “hairy” because of dense hair that, to the naked eye, make them l...
A little update to yesterday's post. Here's BBC Newcastle reporter Sarah Walton's reply to BBC London News producer Jane Bradley on Saturday: The love of lefty protest is no great shock, but I am a littl...
Police investigated a bear attack on a llama early Sunday morning, according to a press release. At 12:44 a.m., state police at Hope barracks were dispatched to 60 Gaisler Road in Blairstown. Upon arriva...
Despite increasing activity at six volcanoes across the country, the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) says there is no need to evacuate residents for now. BNPB spokesperson Sutopo Purwo Nugroho...
Seems that the journalist and news channels prefer to copy news (true or false) from a blog rather than check the facts with headlines to Match. On Saturday a 4.3 Magnitude hit just of the coast of the Isl...
posted by David Vance at
Biased BBC - 19 hours ago
Monday morning, start of a new week for BBC bias, and here's your opportunity to detail it! The floor is yours...! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Various media such as BBC, Reuters, Australia's ABC, The Daily Mail, The Independent, and others admit that the solar activity has an impact on the weather. In particular, cold British winters in rece...
posted by David Vance at
Biased BBC - 19 hours ago
Here's a quite astonishing instance of BBC advocacy for that well known oppressed minority group - Somali pirates. Yes, only the BBC would spend our cash worrying about these brigands will be treated in U...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Northwest of the Kuril Islands at a depth of 170.1 km (105.7 miles), the quake hit at 08:03:31 UTC Monday 10th October 2011. The epicenter was 262 km ( 1662 miles) WSW...
While taking steps to prevent students' exposure to radiation from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, schools here held athletic festivals on Oct. 9, the day before Japan's Health and Sports Day. At Ozas...
We are well into autumn. And despite the growing sense in the Tokyo metropolitan area that things are now all right -- with train services back to pre-disaster schedules and the regret we once felt over ou...
When China announced a nearly $600 billion package to ward off the 2008 global financial crisis, city planners across the country happily embarked on a frenzy of infrastructure projects, some of them of ...
posted by David Vance at
Biased BBC - 19 hours ago
It's a question of priority, isn't it? On the same day that dozens are killed in Egypt; that the huge Belgium bank Dexia becomes the latest multi billion casualty of the Euro-zone crisis; that Obama's sto...
posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at
- 19 hours ago
Url movie: http://youtu.be/vIJINiK9azc -- Manual: http://youtu.be/5CGL_JWZAlc A fantastic product for young and old. It's problem: no packed 'helium'-solution. If that can be solved it could be the hype f...
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- 19 hours ago
*Fortunes aren't everybody's piece of cake* it seems. That's possibly why a look at *Google* reveals the numerous entries about how to remove it from *Linux Mint*. The funny *Fortune* program I mean, that ...
posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at
- 19 hours ago
*Daniele Gottardo* gives the example, nextly *YOU* could try this on your guitar: Url movie: http://youtu.be/IGAgoyHMUbo *Now YOU... Here is the backing from top-guitarist Guthrie Govan.* Url movie: http:/...
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Biased BBC - 19 hours ago
Biased BBC reader Alan asks the question; "Why is Robert Peston so successful?" "It's because he is so supremely interesting and stupendously intelligent. Or so so he tells us. In the Sunday Times P...
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Biased BBC - 19 hours ago
Had to laugh at this item (7.17am) on Today this morning. It suggest the RADICAL news that the big orange thing in the sky - the Sun - might*actually affect weather on the Earth. * I know, I know, who wou...
*Ed Balls.* *On 7 October 2011, the UK Labour Party leader Ed Miliband, who has Polish Jewish origins, got a new shadow cabinet. * *The shadow chancellor of the exchequer* is *Ed Balls* ** In 2008, T...
Hurricane Jova gathered strength early Monday as it churned toward western Mexico, sending emergency officials scrambling to open shelter and coordinate with local governments. The storm grew to a Catego...
Bangkok is bracing for the worst flooding it’s seen in decades as waters from the flooded central plains continue to rush in. Rising water levels on the Chao Phraya river and city canals have left some r...
Salvage crews in New Zealand are fighting to prevent oil from a stranded container ship leaking into the sea and causing a major environmental disaster. Gale-force winds are forecast for several days, wh...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near Seram, Indonesia at a depth of 52.5 km (32.6 miles), the quake hit at 06:15:59 UTC Monday 10th October 2011. The epicenter was 199 km ( 123 miles) ENE of Ambon, M...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Vancouver Island, Canada Region at a depth of 30.8 km (19.1 miles), the quake hit at 05:39:32 UTC Monday 10th October 2011. The epicenter was 158 km ( 98 miles) West o...
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck the Southern East Pacific Rise at a depth of 9.8 km (6.1 miles), the quake hit at 05:18:11 UTC Monday 10th October 2011. The epicenter was 701 km ( 435 miles) WNW of H...
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Biased BBC - 20 hours ago
[image: A protester stands near a line of fire during clashes in Cairo] It's come as a shock to the BBC that things are not working out the way they assumed they would in Egypt. The Arab Spring looks more a...
“We were walking in paradise, Never did notice. Blind in the Buddha land, Looking for solace. We had been told of a place, Far beyond this vale of tears. We could never have guessed, We were already blessed...
The "airglow" phenomenon -- visible from space, but not from Earth -- regularly appears in astronauts' photographs. What is it?
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 138 km (85.8 miles), the quake hit at 04:43:15 UTC Monday 10th October 2011. The epicenter was 103 km ( 64 miles...
Dead coral, Elbow Reef, Key Largo, Florida. Photo courtesy: HalBrindley.com Now, here's a shocker! Human waste is damaging fragile coral beds. Anyone who has been a parent knows exactly how corrosive human...
Photo courtesy: Stephen Messenger Last year, the Amazon rainforest experienced the worst drought on record, reducing normally flowing rivers to sun-baked stretches of dried mud and pushing the fragile eco...
A Taylor's Checkerspot butterfly. Photo courtesy: Wikimedia Commons I just love a story in which everyone comes together for the good of one; and, everyone ends up benefitting -- most especially the enviro...
Oil from stricken cargo ship the Rena has begun washing up on the beach at Mount Manguanui in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. Photo courtesy: guardian.co.uk Oil has begun washing up on a popular beach on...
*I am waiting for the day when an International force goes house to house in every rat-nest illegal settlement and drags the filthy thieving child-molesting (it's in the ...
*** Cairo, October 2011.* On 10 October 2011, we learn that at least 24 people have been killed in Cairo. At least three of the dead are said to be soldiers. Christians, protesting about an attack on a c...
Not the whole enchilada - but it's a great video on four of the reasons. I first viewed in in a diary on Daily Kos. Worth the Watch and Worth Passing On. YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK1MOMKZ8BI
It is hardly surprising to find that women do not mind overweight men as long as they wallets are bulging as well as their waistlines. But now a study has found a formula for how much more money a man ne...
- It’s no longer as rare as it looks... and could spell the end of many debilitating hereditary diseases Kaydon and Layton Wood are just five yet already they are local celebrities. Dressed i...
A busy London bridge was forced to close today as thousands of protesters joined a demonstration against the Government's controversial health reforms. Westminster Bridge was shut to traffic as around 2,5...
Protesters inspired by the growing 'Occupy Wall Street' movement in the U.S are planning to establish a tent city in London's financial district next weekend A Facebook page titled 'Occupy London's Stock ...
Liam Fox’s close friend tried to cover up a controversial Dubai meeting which led to the Defence Secretary becoming embroiled in a ‘blackmail’ scandal, it was claimed last night. Adam Werritty, the beleag...
Liam Fox issued a humiliating apology last night over his working relationship with a close friend. In a desperate attempt to save his job, the embattled Defence Secretary admitted he had ‘blurred the lin...
*"The only thing I can say for certain is that once I owned who I am, a great burden was lifted from me."* *-- Mark Nelson, from a recent Mark Nelson Newsletter, as quoted in my Wednesday post* *by Ken* ...
[image: Feeling good? Half of us are wildly optimistic, expecting the best even when faced with prediction after prediction of doom and gloom according to the study] Feeling good? Half of us are wildly ...
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Looking on the bright side of life may have a downside, scientists say. While your glass might always be half full, it could be because you're suffering from a brain malfunction. According to research p...
It's not likely to win you any popularity contests, but it seems being selfish at work can be good for your career. New research has found that those with more selfless, kind personalities were the most...
[image: More harm than good? Scientists say that taking vitamin pills can cause premature death] More harm than good? Scientists say that taking vitamin pills can cause premature death Vitamins and oth...
[image: Baby bust? On average, young professionals will have accumulated £400,000 less in wealth than their parents by the time they turn 65] Baby bust? On average, young professionals will have accumula...
So while Karl Rove and the plutocrats who back him-- and Romney-- fight it out with teabag moneybags David and Charles Koch, who seem to favor Perry, Bachmann or their wind-up minstrel show, the far right...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 27.4 km (17 miles), the quake hit at 02:48:49 UTC Tuesday 11th October 2011. The epicenter was 338 km ( 210 miles) Ea...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Tajikistan at a depth of 41.2 km (25.6 miles), the quake hit at 01:17:22 UTC Tuesday 11th October 2011. The epicenter was 141 km ( 87 miles) Northeast of Kulob (Kulyab)...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 30.9 km (19.2 miles), the quake hit at 00:50:54 UTC Tuesday 11th October 2011. The epicenter was 266 km ( 165 miles) NNE of R...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Guatemala at a depth of 10.6 km (6.6 miles), the quake hit at 00:20:11 UTC Tuesday 11th October 2011. The epicenter was 23 km ( 14 miles) Southwest of Coban, Guatemala ...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 187.4 km (116.5 miles), the quake hit at 22:54:18 UTC Monday 10th October 2011. The epicenter was 76 km ( 47 miles) So...
There is a very dangerous and disturbing trend emerging across Occupy Wall Street protests of people speaking with one mind and refusing to tolerate different perspectives about the sources of the economi...
Very important, please read (especially for those in New Zealand): The Coming Crisis has acquired inside, verified information regarding the New Zealand Bay of Plenty oil spill. Contrary to media reports, ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Izu Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 48.6 km (30.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:29:12 UTC Monday 10th October 2011. The epicenter was 308 km ( 191 miles) North o...
At least 12 Chinese sailors have been killed after their cargo ships were attacked on the Mekong River in the northern Thai province of Chiang Rai, the Chinese Foreign Ministry in Yunnan Province has said....
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