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A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the
Andaman Islands, India Region at a depth of 91.5 km (56.9 miles), the quake hit at 13:40:41 UTC Tuesday 11th October 2011. The epicenter was 331 km ( 205 miles) WN...
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*Well this explains the arrogance on the part of Germany and
the US.* *The largest white hat hacker club, has caught the German government in the act of infecting computers using the cell phones. By all ...
Under the Gaze of The Watchers By Scott Corrales I saw Watchers in my vision, a dream vision, and behold two of them argued about me [...] and they were engaged in a great quarrel con- cernin...
Opium production in Afghanistan rose by 61% this year compared with 2010, according to a UN report. The increase has been attributed to rising opium prices that have driven farmers to expand cultivation o...
America feels a gloomier place today than when I arrived two years ago. It is not hard to work out why. Most, including the president and the White House, expected people would be feeling the effects of th...
Falling incomes will mean the biggest drop for middle-income families since the 1970s, says a report from the
Institute for Fiscal Studies. The IFS forecasts two years "dominated by a large decline" in inc...
[image: Skier in the Australian Alps. A new report warns that Australian ski slopes could be bare of natural snow by 2050. Tony Harrington / smh.com.au]By David Wroe 10 October 2011 AUSTRALIA'S ski slo...
*Website for this image* The CIA and Israel and Iran and Hezbollah have all been supporting the anti-Gaddafi forces in Libya. Iran and Hezbollah hail rebels - Hurriyet Daily News / Libyan rebels will reco...
When it comes to vitamins, it appears you could have too much of a good thing, say researchers who report a link between their use and higher death rates among older women. Experts have suspected for some...
The national Occupy Wall Street movement has been heating up again, resulting in about 50 arrests in Boston early Tuesday and plans for a Manhattan "Millionaires March" to the homes of some of New York Cit...
Three United Nations peacekeepers were killed in an ambush in a camp for displaced people in Sudan's Darfur region, the global body said Tuesday. Two of the dead were soldiers; the third was a police advis...
A group of Wall Street demonstrators is expected to leave the confines of Lower Manhattan on Tuesday and head uptown, organizers said, as the loosely defined movement approaches a fourth consecutive week...
Thailand's capital was braced for unprecedented flooding Tuesday, amid the monsoon rains that have overwhelmed much of the country and neighboring Cambodia in recent weeks. So far 269 people have been kil...
A bill that will penalize China for allegedly manipulating its currency to gain a trade advantage is headed for a vote in the U.S. Senate Tuesday, adding pressure on China to appreciate the yuan. China op...
Days after a prominent Yemeni human rights activist became the first Arab woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, dozens of women were injured after gangs attacked during a march in her honor, witnesses in t...
International monitors in Greece completed a review of the nation's finances, and said the latest installment of the nation's €10 billion bailout could be disbursed in early November. The European Commiss...
Here's another little nugget from Twitter just to keep the blog ticking over on a quiet day. This tweet comes from Mark Sandell, editor of the BBC's World Have Your Say discussion show (and also Mr Victori...
[image: Climate scientist James Hansen. REX] By Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor 11 October 2011 Climate sceptics are winning the argument with the public over global warming, the world's most celeb...
The intestinal bacteria are relatively well tolerated today -- but not when it was placed in the capsule.
Roasted pumpkin seeds have been my favorite part about Halloween night since I was a kid. We would carve pumpkins in the afternoon and then my mom would put the seeds in to roast while we were out trick...
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 20.3 km (12.6 miles), the quake hit at 13:05:48 UTC Tuesday 11th October 2011. The epicenter was 209 km ( 129 miles) West of Jayapura, Pa...
[image: FAO Food Price Index, adjusted for inflation, 1961–2010, calculated using international prices for cereals, oilseeds, meats, and dairy and sugar products. Apart from a peak in the early 1970s, th...
The Big Fix~American Zombie BP and VoO: Working for free to protect the environment – it’s a start… ~Disenfranchised Citizen RES' Bayou Terrebonne Mitigation Bank Now Supplying Ecological Offsets in Louis...
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In case you missed any of these, here's some great stuff on the Occupy Wall Street movement. Naomi Klein: Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now: If there is one thing I know, it i...
*“0 Bankers Were Arrested * *After Purposely Crashing Our Economy. * *Over a 1,000 Nationwide * *Have Been Arrested for Speaking Up About it.”* I have been hearing on the radio and reading on other webpage...
On December 2nd last year Bob McNair, owner of the Houston Texans, a notorious moneybags for extreme right-wing causes and candidates, wrote a check for $5,000 to the Hermanator PAC. So did his wife Jani...
I'm Back....... I have had Syria on my mind. So let's take a look at the assassination of Kurdish opposition figure Meshaal Tamo. I spent some time on a background search on Meshaal Tamo and come up prett...
An oil spill from a stranded cargo ship off New Zealand is the country's worst environmental disaster in decades, the government says. Officials say 350 tonnes of oil may have leaked from the 775ft (236m)...
"Just when you think our justice system couldn't get any worse" A child abuser who was jailed in January for four years for her role in a national paedophile ring was released yesterday, it has been claime...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Central Peru at a depth of 38.7 km (24 miles), the quake hit at 11:36:50 UTC Tuesday 11th October 2011. The epicenter was 195 km ( 121 miles) Northeast of Huancayo, Per...
* Dorothy, in the Wizard of Oz.* Many top politicians have been Friends of Dorothy. Many top politicians who have been Friends of Dorothy have been married. There would appear to be some sort of 'Mafia' c...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 11:16:24 UTC Tuesday 11th October 2011. The epicenter was 468 km ( 291 miles) East from R...
Fancy finding love over an egg sandwich and a packet of cheese and onion crisps? Or a starting a fling over a steaming jacket potato in your local cafe? Believe it or not, a lot of people do. Forget ro...
[image: Young Enterprise chairman: Ian Smith said that bosses were disappointed] Young Enterprise chairman: Ian Smith said that bosses were disappointed Three out of four bosses say school leavers and ...
Has the lair of a kraken really been found?
[image: Sugar-free gum does not automatically mean 'tooth friendly' scientists say] Sugar-free gum does not automatically mean 'tooth friendly' scientists say Dentists who recommend that patients chew s...
- Research suggests a vulnerability to the stimulating effects of cocaine or amphetamines [image: Dangers: A study has found those who responded favourably to caffeine also enjoyed the effects...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Southwest of Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 5.6 km (3.5 miles), the quake hit at 10:25:12 UTC Tuesday 11th October 2011. The epicenter was 277 km ( 172 miles) Southw...
An attack at Berlin's main train station was thwarted on Monday when workers found a hidden device before it could explode, police said. Earlier Monday, a similar device exploded near a high-speed train l...
Hurricane Jova prompted Mexico’s government to issue storm warnings as the Category 3 weather system moved toward the nation’s southwestern Pacific coast. Jova, with maximum sustained winds of 115 miles ...
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad "must step aside," European Union foreign ministers said in a blistering statement Monday, adding the Syrian government's crackdown on anti-government protesters may amoun...
**Residents of a Clay County subdivision are cleaning up after what the National Weather Service confirmed as a small tornado passed through early Monday morning. The NWS appeared to be a twister that beg...
Brookhaven National Laboratory had a minor radioactive contamination incident at the lab on Sept. 28, BNL officials have reported. The incident occurred during routine testing of monitoring equipment on t...
[image: Obama's jobs plan] President Barack Obama's jobs bill, facing a serious test in the Senate, appears likely to fail because Republicans oppose its spending components and its tax supplement on mill...
When small amounts of radioactive cesium were detected in the hay needed for this city's annual fire festival, event organizers decided to break tradition and use materials from other prefectures for the f...
Rebel fighters in Libya have reached the centre of Muammar Gaddafi's hometown, Sirte, but there is still no sign of the North African country's ousted leader. Anti-regime forces have managed to usurp a co...
Instead of the bad guys, it was Seattle's most prolific self-styled superhero that ended up in handcuffs. Police officers arrested the 23-year-old man who calls himself Phoenix Jones early on Sunday after...
Kanye West today became the most famous visitor yet to the Occupy Wall Street protests as he lent his support to a demonstration that started with a few people and has turned into a global movement. He is...
Japan will offer 10,000 foreigners free airfares to visit the country next year in an attempt to boost its ailing tourism industry. The Japan Tourism Agency plans to ask would-be travellers to submit onlin...
Fresh clashes erupted in Cairo yesterday when security forces crushed Christian protests which have so far claimed up to 26 lives. Egypt’s prime minister appealed for calm after the worst violence in the ...
This morning the biggest mass arrest in Massachusetts since a huge 1968 Vietnam protest. The protesters had moved from Dewey Square to a second site across the street. A local conservancy group recently pl...
*A walk through Occupy Boston, filmed on 10/8*
Scientist went on to deny that the eruption occurred about 4 miles of the Coast of El Hierro. but Authorities claim they found evidence of dead fish captured and gases in the atmosphere. Recent data indi...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Solomon Islands at a depth of 43.2 km (26.8 miles), the quake hit at 05:05:02 UTC Tuesday 11th October 2011. The epicenter was 56 km ( 34 miles) ESE of Gizo, New Ge...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck New Zealand at a depth of 100 km (62 miles), the quake hit at 23:17 UTC Monday 10th October 2011 - (12:17 NZDT Tuesday 11th October 2011) The epicenter was 50 km ( 31 ...
* "Strontium-90 Discovered in Yokohama City, * *245 km from Fukushima Nuke Plant"* by Ex-SKF "Details in the mail magazine by the independent journalist Yasumi Iwakami (paid subscription). I'm asking if I...
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CENSORED NEWS - 10 hours ago
http://www.livestream.com/occupyboston LIVESTREAM Watch live streaming video from occupyboston at livestream.com Twitter reports 2 am EST time on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2011: Veterans for Peace members beaten;...
A giant mountain, three times taller than Earth's highest peak, graces the southern polar region of Vesta, and NASA's Dawn probe is taking a close look.
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CENSORED NEWS - 11 hours ago
By Klee Benally Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Translation in French: http://www.chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=465 Greetings, The Navajo Nation has previously taken very serious stands to pr...
A Wisconsin woman who already had three children and was desperate to have one with her new boyfriend was today charged with killing a pregnant mother, cutting out her baby and passing off the child as her...
They have long been thought to be merely the stuff of legend. But Russian officials say they have found ‘indisputable evidence’ that yetis exist – and are living in Siberia. The bold claim follows an inte...
The vast majority of City bankers believe they deserve a year-end bonus despite the economic crisis, research reveals. Nine out of ten London-based financiers are looking forward to a lavish pay-out for 2...
A grandmother was yesterday stabbed to death by a woman with a stolen butcher's cleaver in a seemingly random attack. Sally Hodkin, 59, was killed less than five minutes from her home while walking to wor...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 33.8 km (21 miles), the quake hit at 03:26:12 UTC Tuesday 11th October 2011. The epicenter was 234 km ( 145 miles) ES...
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...
*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 wh...
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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[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 - 16 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 - 18 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...
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Not PC - 19 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...
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Not PC - 20 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”
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Biased BBC - 20 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 ...
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Not PC - 20 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 smokeless days on the lake -- but 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...
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 ...
*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.
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[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...
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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...
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A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Andaman Islands, India Region at a depth of 91.5 km (56.9 miles), the quake hit at 13:40:41 UTC Tuesday 11th October 2011. The epicenter was 331 km ( 205 miles) WN...
Under the Gaze of The Watchers By Scott Corrales I saw Watchers in my vision, a dream vision, and behold two of them argued about me [...] and they were engaged in a great quarrel con- cernin...
Opium production in Afghanistan rose by 61% this year compared with 2010, according to a UN report. The increase has been attributed to rising opium prices that have driven farmers to expand cultivation o...
America feels a gloomier place today than when I arrived two years ago. It is not hard to work out why. Most, including the president and the White House, expected people would be feeling the effects of th...
Falling incomes will mean the biggest drop for middle-income families since the 1970s, says a report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies. The IFS forecasts two years "dominated by a large decline" in inc...
*Website for this image* The CIA and Israel and Iran and Hezbollah have all been supporting the anti-Gaddafi forces in Libya. Iran and Hezbollah hail rebels - Hurriyet Daily News / Libyan rebels will reco...
When it comes to vitamins, it appears you could have too much of a good thing, say researchers who report a link between their use and higher death rates among older women. Experts have suspected for some...
The national Occupy Wall Street movement has been heating up again, resulting in about 50 arrests in Boston early Tuesday and plans for a Manhattan "Millionaires March" to the homes of some of New York Cit...
Three United Nations peacekeepers were killed in an ambush in a camp for displaced people in Sudan's Darfur region, the global body said Tuesday. Two of the dead were soldiers; the third was a police advis...
Thailand's capital was braced for unprecedented flooding Tuesday, amid the monsoon rains that have overwhelmed much of the country and neighboring Cambodia in recent weeks. So far 269 people have been kil...
A bill that will penalize China for allegedly manipulating its currency to gain a trade advantage is headed for a vote in the U.S. Senate Tuesday, adding pressure on China to appreciate the yuan. China op...
International monitors in Greece completed a review of the nation's finances, and said the latest installment of the nation's €10 billion bailout could be disbursed in early November. The European Commiss...
Here's another little nugget from Twitter just to keep the blog ticking over on a quiet day. This tweet comes from Mark Sandell, editor of the BBC's World Have Your Say discussion show (and also Mr Victori...
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posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago"Just when you think our justice system couldn't get any worse" A child abuser who was jailed in January for four years for her role in a national paedophile ring was released yesterday, it has been claime...
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