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A "no fly zone" that is not really a no fly zone! Instead is a call to launch attacks! Read on, read on. What will be called "no fly" will actually be the launch of an air campaign against the
Syrian people...
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Broken of Britain - 32 minutes ago
Scene from Joe Bailey Jr. and Steve Mims's Incendiary: The Willingham Case. Image from Truly Indie.Rick Perry and the Texasdeath penalty smokescreenIncendiary: The Willingham Case, a documentary film. It is ...
Two hundred years ago, men in England began to organise to protest against the destructive influence of technology. These men became known as the Luddites; a name which has passed into common usage as a ...
Every last one of them - Tory, Liberal or ND
Protesters march past millionaires' NYC homes Protesters descend on Senate office building I don't think S_ Hannity was having as much fun as I was when he was a part of the following video: And I'm still ...
[image: Link]The Big Fix~Disenfranchised Citizen The LAI contract(s)~American Zombie Contractor Aaron Bennett doesn't grasp his right to silence:
James Gill When it comes to corrupt, sack of shit politici...
[image: This dolphin was found on the Mobile Bay side of the Fort Morgan peninsula Saturday morning, 8 October 2011, one of four found since Friday. The death brings the total number of dead dolphins fou...
Domestic violence is now legal in Kansas's capital after the city changed the law - to save police time. In a shocking move yesterday, Topeka's mayor and council repealed the ruling banning domestic viole...
Mount Shinmoedake in the central part of the volcanic Kirishima mountain range in southern Kyushu could resume its volcanic activities within several months as magma continues to be piled up deep undergrou...
Radioactive strontium exceeding normal quantities has been detected in sediment from atop an apartment building in Yokohama, some 250 kilometers from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, city...
The government has unveiled plans to sharply expand a government-funded decontamination project to areas with annual radiation emissions of 1 millisievert or more, prompting mixed reactions from local gove...
Fukushima Prefecture, home of the crippled Fukushima No.1 Nuclear power plant, began long-term health check-ups of children for thyroid abnormalities on Oct. 9, but many problems are yet to be solved, sour...
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wmtc - 2 hours ago
Last night we attended a meeting of the Toronto International Socialists, because I wanted to hear a report-back from a member who has just returned from New York, where he spent a day at Occupy Wall Stree...
*Does this look like a mob to you, Leader Cantor?* *-by Noah* *“If they don’t see us in the streets, where are they going to see us?”* -Eunice Cruz, Occupation Wall Street participant, New York, 10/8/2011 ...
Conservationists want to introduce them back to California waters, but fishermen say their livelihoods could be ruined.
Hurricane Jova slammed into Mexico's Pacific coast as a Category 2 storm early Wednesday, swamping beach towns and causing floods in the mountains above. The extent of damage was still unclear before da...
*HUNDREDS of workers were forced to evacuated Mobil's Altona refinery after a foul-smelling chemical spill. * Fire crews raced to the scene soon after 4.30pm as residents as far away as Sunshine reported...
With many sanctions already in place, the U.S. government is poised to take an even stronger stance Wednesday against Iran amid allegations that Tehran was behind a plot to assassinate a Saudi envoy on U...
U.S. allegations that Iran plotted to assassinate Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Washington are a "mischievous" attempt to fuel tension between Tehran and Riyadh, a senior Iranian official said on Wednesday....
The State Department late on Tuesday issued a worldwide travel alert for U.S. citizens, warning of the potential for anti-U.S. action after the United States accused Iran of backing a plot to kill Saudi ...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Jalisco, Mexico at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 10:54:34 UTC Wednesday 12th October 2011. The epicenter was 252 km ( 156 miles) WS...
People should only be counted as elderly once they reach the age of 75, a charity report said yesterday. It said that the number of people who live by themselves or who say they are lonely leaps up amon...
- Study comes as Asda plans to phase out its range of landline handsets, and concentrate on mobiles It could be the end of the line for the landline, as a leading supermarket hangs up on the t...
[image: On your bike: Exercise provides an effective drug-free way to prevent migraines] On your bike: Exercise provides an effective drug-free way to prevent migraines Going for a regular workout work...
Everyone this morning is talking about how Ben Nelson didn't vote for the jobs bill. Wake up people - the corporations own him! Get over your pissing and moaning - he's a Democrat in name only - philosop...
Heavy oil spill and strong winds hit the vessel for a second day on Wednesday, sending empty containers dropping off the ship, which is leaning at around 18 degrees, into the heaving seas. About 50 seabi...
*PHOTOS FROM OCCUPY BOSTON* Occupy Boston protesters before being evicted by police; Veterans formed a line to block police from them, police roughed up the veterans and tore down an American flag. This i...
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*How could this happen?! See for yourself...* ...
[image: STI awareness: Gonorrhoea can make it painful for men and women to urinate] STI awareness: Gonorrhoea can make it painful for men and women to urinate Health experts are warning of the 'very rea...
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration plans to force charges that Iran plotted to kill Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States into a new global campaign to isolate the Islamic republic. [image: ...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Kepulauan Mentawai Region, Indonesia at a depth of 32 km (19.9 miles), the quake hit at 08:59:56 UTC Wednesday 12th October 2011. The epicenter was 190 km ( 118 mi...
Montgomery County Fire Assisant Chief Scott Graham says at 7:50 p.m. Tuesday fire department and hazmat unit were called to the Bethesda Naval Medical Center. The unit found that a contract crew of 11 ...
Fairview RCMP have released information about vandalism at a CNRL facility near the B.C. border that has resulted in over 30,000 litres of oil leaking into the area. Sometime between Sunday October 2 ...
A total of 2,356 birds have died as a result of an avian botulism outbreak at the Six Man Club south of Naval Air Station Fallon, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The botulism, which does ...
As scientists counter the claim that neutrinos can travel faster than the speed of light, the discussion is becoming less about the physics and more about how physics is presented to the public.
Tommaso Dorigo invited Fabrizio Tamburini, a theorist behind questionable but eye-catching explanations, to write a guest blog: Tamburini: Neutrinos Are Majorana Particles, Relativity Is OK (Science 2.0)...
Another case of meningococcal disease has been confirmed at Rotorua Hospital. Medical officer of health for Bay of Plenty and Lakes Dr Phil Shoemack said an adult from the Taupo district was admitted to ...
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Broken of Britain - 6 hours ago
An emergency evacuation of Edgewood Middle School Tuesday morning caused more than a few tense moments for school officials, emergency responders and nearly 50 sickened students. Students were evacuated o...
El Hierro, La Restinga looked like something out of the end of the world last night after the evacuation took place of the town, which was on the order of the government of Gran Canaria, the only people le...
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Biased BBC - 6 hours ago
I came across this while looking for some Mardell quotes for a recent post, and saved it until after I'd had a long look at it and taken time to absorb it all. It's an hour-long discussion with Mark Mardel...
The crew of an Italian ship seized by pirates on Monday was freed Tuesday thanks to an operation by U.S. and British troops working with the Italian military, the Italian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday. E...
The captain of a container ship that ran aground on a reef off the coast of New Zealand causing it to leak oil into the sea has been arrested and charged, officials say. The captain will appear in court ...
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Broken of Britain - 7 hours ago
All images courtesy: SkyNews video screengrab I thought it was only in cartoons that a place would have a shark-infested lake in a random place like a golf course; but, apparently it is a reality in Aust...
A thank you to one of our readers for keeping us updated with the event surrounding El Hierro The authorities have raised the Alert Level to Red due to a risk of a 2nd Eruption occurring closer to the coa...
Photo courtesy: Bill Lehane via flickr My least favourite company has made yet another slight blunder. Personally, I refuse to buy from them. I'd rather go without than go to WalMart. Walmart stores in so...
Middle of the week and so time for a new Open Thread. So, off you go.... Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
The BBC has instantly knee-jerked into the natural default mode of disbelieving anything the US government says. Sarah Montague was quite visceral in raising her skepticism about US allegations that Iran ...
All Antarctica photos: Subglacial Lake Ellsworth Consortium, Neil Ross/University of Edinburgh There are hundreds of liquid lakes that lie miles beneath Antarctica. Unfrozen; but, still-cold-as-hell, lak...
It's a tricky one. The Slovakian Parliament has dared reject the will of the Eurocrats and so the whole Bail-Out is thrown into even further chaos. What approach will the BBC take? Cue interview with two E...
It's all about editorial decisions. Confronted with the breaking news that the entire Eurozone Bail-Out has been thrown into chaos thanks to Slovakia rejecting the deal even as the US accuses Iran of plann...
*Liam Fox takes a strong interest in Sri Lanka. (**Liam Fox's role in the politics of Sri Lanka**)* In 2010, there was a burglary at the London flat of UK Defence Secretary Liam Fox. Conservative party ...
I watched about 10 hours of proceedings in the Slovak Parliament yesterday – a TV marathon I haven't tried for quite some time. The lawmakers were deciding about a vote – the expansion of the EFSF, a huge ...
*Robin Hoods Storm Mortgage Bankster's Conference* 10/10/11 Go to original Cherchez la Verite
The United States said it will hold Iran to account after it foiled a planned 'significant terrorist act' by agents of the Iranian government to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. in Washington D...
Cast iron frying pan. Photo courtesy: Shine My daughters have one, I have one, my mother had one, her mother had one and so on. The benefits of a well-seasoned cast-iron frying pan are passed through the ...
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CENSORED NEWS - 10 hours ago
By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com There is a place where I go to eat green corn tamales, it reminds me of the Mexico of long ago, the Mexico before there was so much violen...
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/10/11/vitamins-supplements-death-rates.html Vitamin use not recommended for older women CBC News Posted: Oct 11, 2011 2:55 PM ET Last Updated: Oct 11, 2011 5:...
A bogus student who lied that he could speak English and admitted buying a fake language proficiency certificate can stay in Britain, immigration judges have ruled. Even though Abbas Khaliq was ‘untruthfu...
The recent decision by the Bank of England to pump another £75 billion into the economy shows that Britain, far from recovering, remains on the edge of another dip. But what happens to the British and wo...
They pride themselves on taking care of the children while running the family home. Just don’t insult them by calling them housewives. Two-thirds of mothers who have given up work detest the term ‘house...
Perhaps it was because I've been standing up for drum circles and being rude to schmucks who wear uniforms like suits and ties and then look down their snouts at people who don't, but a fellow named Hendr...
What you need to know: * A large crack has been spotted in the side of the stricken container ship * PM says ship could break up * Soldiers called out to clean up beaches * Ship's captain granted name su...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 56.7 km (35.2miles), the quake hit at 03:00:47 UTC Wednesday 12th October 2011. The epicenter was 281 km ( 174 miles) North of ...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Bulgaria at a depth of 20 km (12.4 miles), the quake hit at 19:49:08 UTC Tuesday 11th October 2011. The epicenter was 6 km ( 3.7 miles) Northwest of Abla, Bulgaria No r...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck near the North Coast of Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 8 km (4.9 miles), the quake hit at 18:36:38 UTC Tuesday 11th October 2011. The epicenter was 178 km ( 110 miles)...
High doses of vitamin E can significantly increase the risk of men developing prostate cancer, says a major study. The chances of developing the disease rose by 17 per cent, even years after men stopped...
[image: Nutritious: Children do not respond well when nagged to eat greens, researchers claim] Nutritious: Children do not respond well when nagged to eat greens, researchers claim Nagging children to ...
Ever wonder why the man in your life is a little too sensible? Why he loves cosy cardigans, comfy slippers and wouldn’t dream of a wild night on the town – let alone in the bedroom? It could be down to...
"Peace and happiness are available in every moment. Peace is every step. We shall walk hand in hand. There are no political solutions to spiritual problems. Remember: If the Creator put it there, it is i...
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CENSORED NEWS - 12 hours ago
*Congratulations to he Hopi High radio team!* *By Stan Bindell* Posted at Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com *Listen online to Hopi Radio* http://www.kuyi.net/listen-online POLACCA, ARIZ.---Ho...
"Sculpted by stellar winds and radiation, a magnificent interstellar dust cloud by chance has assumed this recognizable shape. Fittingly named the Horsehead Nebula, it is some 1,500 light-years distant, em...
"One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, 'What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?'" - Rachel Carson
*I'm not laughing anymore. * *"**Haqqani.... has allied himself over the years with the Central Intelligence Agency, Saudi Arabia’s spy service, and Osama bin Laden"* * **Another CIA asset!*** "Pakistan ...
"Now I become myself. It's taken Time, many years and places, I have been dissolved and shaken, Worn other people's faces, Run madly, as if Time were there, Terribly old, crying a warning, "Hurry, you will ...
*"The Thing With Feathers”* by Chet Raymo "This week's “Nature” has three essays marking the 50th anniversary of C. P. Snow's influential lecture on “The Two Cultures.” Snow argued that the sciences and ...
*"Ancient Kraken Lair Found In Nevada" * by SciNewsBlog "Long before whales, the oceans of Earth were roamed by a very different kind of air-breathing leviathan. Snaggle-toothed ichthyosaurs larger than ...
*by Ken* I've refrained from commenting on the passing of Steve Jobs, since my feelings are complicated, and probably not important to anyone but me. (My perspective, I might explain, is that of a longti...
'For those who doubt the problems with vaccines, there is nothing more that can be said by any investigator, reporter, journalist, or parent than the information revealed in this PrimeTime expose “When ...
The antelope comes out of nowhere to take down the mountain biker as seen in an almost too painful to watch video.
In the video below Afghan villagers and farmers are shown images of the Twin Towers burning which they have never seen before. They haven't even heard about the 9/11 attacks. This is funny and sad at the ...
*Not one word of the devastating floods of this year in my pos paper.* "Pakistan Army, Taliban clash over drone debris" by Ishtiaq Mahsud Associated Press / September 19, 2011 DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan ...
*Better get off at the next stop if the Globe is your travel agent.* "25 killed in attack on Shi’ites in Pakistan" September 21, 2011|New York Times ISLAMABAD - *Gunmen* in the southwestern Pakistani prov...
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CENSORED NEWS - 16 hours ago
*Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission and Farmington Mayor’s New Initiative * By Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission Posted at Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com ST. MICHAELS, Ariz.—Navajo...
The accomplishment led many people to ask: Is that safe?
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Not PC - 16 hours ago
Last night the #OccupyWallStreet movement #OccupiedBoston, much to the consternation of the Boston police. Yaron Brook from the Ayn Rand Institute joins the crew at PJTV to discuss the good and bad abou...
Kennesaw, Georgia, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
"The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery - not over nature but of ourselves." - Rachel Carson
*"7 Population Milestones for 7 Billion People"* Stephanie Pappas “This year marks the seventh "billion-person" milestone in the planet's history. On or around Oct. 31, 2011, the world's 7 billionth perso...
*“How The US Government Secretly Reads Your Email”* Heather Brooke "Somewhere, a US government official is reading through a list of those who sent or received an email from Jacob Appelbaum, a 28-year-old...
One of the biggest challenges in space comes when trying to "grab" spacecraft and other objects. Now, a company thinks they have an answer -- and it might help solve our growing space junk problem.
The multitudes: "Cry of the Masses" by Josef Vachal. Image from Express Tribune blogs.Sound bites:Drones, banks, and multitudesBy Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / October 11, 2011In this age of tweets, sound bite...
[image: Cargo ship The Rena aground on the Astrolabe Reef, off the port of Tauranga, 11 October 2011. BBC] An oil spill from a stranded cargo ship off New Zealand is the country's worst environmental di...
This past year, Flavorwire published three highly successful and hilarious lists of the greatest insults from the worlds of rock music, literature and cinema. Incredibly, they omitted a list of some of th...
[image: East Rongbuk Glacier, 1921 (above) and 2011 (below). Geographical Society and GlacierWorks] Stunning images from high in the Himalayas - showing the extent by which many glaciers have shrunk in ...
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Biased BBC - 17 hours ago
First the good news. Slovakia's parliament has voted against measures to bolster the powers of the eurozone bailout fund, seen as vital in combating the bloc's debt crisis. The governing coalition ha...
posted by David Vance at
Biased BBC - 17 hours ago
Did you realise that *"questions remain"* over the causes of the thuggery and feral maligance that infested the streets of some of our major cities a few months ago? Oh yes.* Professor Tim Newburn*, of the...
Occupied Boston Live is currently offline, but there is a message at the bottom. The following is a link from Twitter by Keith Olberman *B*oston police move in on protesters on Greenway, scores a...
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Not PC - 18 hours ago
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As we've pointed out many times in the past, California Congressman Buck McKeon is the ultimate Washington whore, sucking up immense, legalistic bribes from whichever industry whichever committee he's sit...
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Not PC - 18 hours ago
There’s no way around it: the ship breaking up and spewing fuel oil off Papamoa is a disaster. A disaster for the beach, the wildlife, the home-owners and beach regulars (of which I’ve been one), for Ta...
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Biased BBC - 19 hours ago
*"Institutionalising Altruism" *- an interesting phrase used by Lord Hennessy in this interview on the BBC this morning. His Lordship holds the view that any changes to how the NHS operates that would mea...
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*El Hierro is the west-most island* of the Spanish Canary Islands off the coast from Morocco in the Atlantic Ocean. Since end of June its inhabitants are frequently visited by light earthquakes with a magn...
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CENSORED NEWS - 19 hours ago
* Hopi Tribal Council does not support Navajo's proposal to use groundwater for snowmaking on Nuvatukyaovi* *By Hopi Tribe* *Posted at Censored News* *http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com* *Oct. 11, 2011* *...
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Biased BBC - 19 hours ago
It's all about WHO you know, don't you know? Julia Middleton; founded 'Common Purpose', a member of the Media Standards Trust and founder of the left wing Demos think tank. A good friend of the BBC's Ro...
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Biased BBC - 19 hours ago
The BBC are great advocates of the Minimum Wage and this piece of analysis provided in this FOI request provided by B-BBC reader Alan may explain why; "BBC researchers or admin staff are clearly well rewar...
[image: Shrimp from the Gulf of Mexico, November 2010. LIFE magazine via gulfofmexicooilspillblog.com] By Faimon A. Roberts, Advocate Florida Parishes bureau 11 OCtober 2011 This year’s white shrimp har...
Instead of performing tasks based on a computer program, this robot problem solves on the fly.
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CENSORED NEWS - 19 hours ago
As the nation marked Columbus Day on Monday, indigenous groups led a rally at Occupy Wall Street exposing the history behind Christopher Columbus and the impact his "discovery" had on the Americas. "We’re...
*"Proving Up The Fraud Using 3rd Grade Math"* by Karl Denninger "I hear all the time that it's "difficult" for people to grasp the fraud run on them in the financial system, because it requires "tough" m...
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CENSORED NEWS - 20 hours ago
United Native Americans From Quanah Parker United Native Americans Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com *Native American, Student, Labor and Civil Rights Groups Call for Indigenous Day of Resis...
These people have declared themselves enemy of America. Grover Norquist, one of the darlings of the extreme rightwing, Gingrich/Bush/McCain branch of the Republican party, once said, "I don't want to ab...
Insistent Appeals to Evacuate Did Not Warn That the Levees Could Break ~Sandy Rosenthal, Huff Post Like national group, Occupy Nola could learn from Tea Party~Mark Mosely, The Lens
The headline says Iranians, but, one is clearly an American- Curious timing for the "news" release, since the alleged arrests took place late September Iranians charged in U.S. over assassination plot U.S...
It's a comfortable carry-all that provides respectable portable power.
The iPhone app no longer looks sad and tiny on the iPad screen.
A built-in speaker transmits audio from three different sources in one of five zones.
Women who have a couple of small chocolate bars every week may be 20 percent less prone to strokes than those who eat none.
This Japan-only device turns iPhones/iPods into Geiger counters.
*"If Banks Are Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Have Banks"* by Paul Krugman "Yglesias tells us that some Occupy Wall Street protesters have picked up Ron Paulish monetary ideas — although some know better. I ...
Attorney General Eric Holder, when asked how Iran would be held "accountable" in an alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States, said he expected action from the White House, the ...
Pricier nuts is a consequence of loving cotton.
*"Scenes from a Hostile Occupation"* by Joel Bowman “What do we want?” “Whatever they have!” “And when do we want it?” “NOW!” Occupy Wall Street. Now here’s a movement anyone feeling jilted can get behin...
A huge crackdown on Occupy Boston’s second campsite by hundreds of police officers saw around 100 protesters arrested and their tents and personal belongings reportedly thrown into bins. They were arreste...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Easter Island Region at a depth of 13.6 km (8.5 miles), the quake hit at 17:13:43 UTC Tuesday 11th October 2011. The epicenter was 21 km ( 13 miles) Northeast of H...
A 42-year-old man plunged to his death in an eight-storey fall from a car park near where Occupy San Diego demonstrators were gathered. He was trying to hang flyers from the outside of a multi-storey car p...
On this day 100 years ago, troops in the city of Wuchang, in China's Hubei province, launched a coup against local authorities. The coup ignited a civil war that ended in the collapse of China's 2,200-year...
Instead of the traditional bad guys, it was the costumed, self-styled superhero that ended up behind bars after an altercation Sunday in Seattle. Phoenix Jones, the moniker used by a man who dons a skintig...
Police are searching a well behind a vacant house a few blocks away from missing 10-month-old Lisa Irwin's home, one week after the baby disappeared from her bed. Police squad cars have surrounded the hou...
There is just one hurdle left in the process of gaining approval for new powers to rescue the euro. After Malta gave its approval on Monday evening, only Slovakia has yet to approve the scheme. The Maltes...
The Occupy demonstrations we are seeing in cities throughout the US have encouraged diverse groups to march in the streets. In Los Angeles, homeowners facing foreclosure loudly expressed their shared g...
A tree house is causing controversy in one Falls Church neighborhood after a father built it for his two young boys. Fairfax County officials are considering tearing it down because the tree house violat...
The US Department of Homeland Security has begun testing crime predicting technology that is drawing comparisons to the science fiction film Minority Report. Using cameras and sensors the "pre-crime" sys...
California Gov. Jerry Brown is vetoing legislation requiring police to obtain a court warrant to search the mobile phones of suspects at the time of any arrest. The Sunday veto means that when police arre...
Google and a smaller Internet provider are being forced by the federal government to turn over information from email accounts associated with a WikiLeaks volunteer. A secret court order will require the ...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Pakistan at a depth of 34.8 km (21.6 miles), the quake hit at 16:46:13 UTC Tuesday 11th October 2011. The epicenter was 201 km ( 125 miles) WNW from Nawabshah, Pakistan...
NATO says the continuing resistance by pro-Gadhafi forces in Sirte and other locations in Libya is "surprising" because they are fighting a losing battle. NATO spokesman Col. Roland Lavoie said on Tuesd...
British TV chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall claimed that eating puppy meat is no more morally objectionable than consuming pork. The celebrity chef previously shocked viewers by eating placenta pate, curr...
Officials in southeast Georgia are considering a money-saving program that would put inmates in fire stations. The program would put two inmates in each of three existing firehouses in Camden County. Off...
Thousands of people including teachers, religious leaders and union workers marched in downtown Chicago on Monday to voice mounting anger over joblessness and income inequality in protests that snarled rus...
A reclining stone Buddha smiles serenely as a boat drifts past with smiling occupants paddling happily in the Thailand sunshine. In a second image, a golden statue wearing a traditional robe stands parti...
A group of teenage girls caught fare-beating got into an all-out brawl with police who pulled them off the subway Friday night, and one bystander captured the frenetic fight on video. The newly released...
Two weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, a Japanese submarine shot a torpedo at an American oil tanker just off the California coast, sinking the ship and sending three million gallons (11.36 million li...
Rough weather has jostled a cargo ship stuck off New Zealand's coast and worsened its oil leak fivefold to make it the country's worst-ever maritime environmental disaster, the government said Tuesday. Cl...
A "significant" amount of oil is leaking from a container ship that ran aground on a reef off the pristine east coast of New Zealand's north island, officials said Tuesday. New Zealand's oil spill respons...
Revenues flowed into state coffers at a lower rate than projected in September, short about $302 million, putting California a total of $705.5 million below expectations for the first three months of the f...
Most of the city's street lights have been repossessed because officials failed to pay a multimillion-dollar utility bill, giving rise to concerns about safety and crime in darkened neighborhoods. DTE Ene...
Cash-strapped Topeka, Kansas, has decided to stop prosecuting domestic violence casses in order to save money. The City Council announced the proposal Oct. 4, after the Shawnee County District Attorney's ...
Germany is pushing behind the scenes for a "hard" default in Greece with losses of up to 60pc for banks and pension funds, risking a chain-reaction across southern Europe unless credible defences are estab...
Occupy Wall Street is on the move ... uptown. Why uptown? Because that's where the rich folks live! Community groups and progressive organizations that have been working with the broader Occupy Wall Stree...
It doesn't get more common sense than this. Ron Paul 2012
يمكن لهذه الصورة أو أسوأ للمرء أن يجد نفسه في هاتفك حسنا هذا ما يفسر غطرسة من جانب ألمانيا والولايات المتحدة. أكبر القراصنة قبعة بيضاء النادي ، وقد اشتعلت الحكومة الألمانية في هذا القانون من إصابة أجهزة...
Bueno, esto explica la arrogancia por parte de Alemania y los EE.UU.. *El mayor hacker de sombrero blanco del club, ha alcanzado el gobierno alemán en el acto de infectar a los ordenadores que utilizan l...
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Buckdog - 22 hours ago
*You can follow highlights of the Saskatchewan Provincial Election at Buckdog's Sask Election Blog.*
Co-opted protests promoting government-centric solutions to government created problems, no more represent the people than the Wall Street elite and their puppet politicians in Washington.
Did you catch Romney's foreign policy speech at the South Carolina Citadel last week? Perfect yahoo audience for the very Military-Industrial Complex claptrap Dwight Eisenhower warned the country against...
[image: A Buddhist monk wades through waist-deep flood water near a temple in Thailand, 8 October 2011. abc.net.au] October 11 (VOA News) – United Nations officials say the capitals of Thailand and Camb...
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...
*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 e...
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)...
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A "no fly zone" that is not really a no fly zone! Instead is a call to launch attacks! Read on, read on. What will be called "no fly" will actually be the launch of an air campaign against the Syrian people...
Two hundred years ago, men in England began to organise to protest against the destructive influence of technology. These men became known as the Luddites; a name which has passed into common usage as a ...
Mount Shinmoedake in the central part of the volcanic Kirishima mountain range in southern Kyushu could resume its volcanic activities within several months as magma continues to be piled up deep undergrou...
Radioactive strontium exceeding normal quantities has been detected in sediment from atop an apartment building in Yokohama, some 250 kilometers from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, city...
The government has unveiled plans to sharply expand a government-funded decontamination project to areas with annual radiation emissions of 1 millisievert or more, prompting mixed reactions from local gove...
Fukushima Prefecture, home of the crippled Fukushima No.1 Nuclear power plant, began long-term health check-ups of children for thyroid abnormalities on Oct. 9, but many problems are yet to be solved, sour...
*Does this look like a mob to you, Leader Cantor?* *-by Noah* *“If they don’t see us in the streets, where are they going to see us?”* -Eunice Cruz, Occupation Wall Street participant, New York, 10/8/2011 ...
Hurricane Jova slammed into Mexico's Pacific coast as a Category 2 storm early Wednesday, swamping beach towns and causing floods in the mountains above. The extent of damage was still unclear before da...
*HUNDREDS of workers were forced to evacuated Mobil's Altona refinery after a foul-smelling chemical spill. * Fire crews raced to the scene soon after 4.30pm as residents as far away as Sunshine reported...
posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 3 hours ago- Study comes as Asda plans to phase out its range of landline handsets, and concentrate on mobiles It could be the end of the line for the landline, as a leading supermarket hangs up on the t...
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