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Thomas Mulcair officially announced his candidacy for NDP leader Thursday, bringing the number of declared candidates to six and a new dynamic to the race."* CBC
Sony's new Home Energy Server is designed to power TVs, smart phones and other electronics in an emergency.
British health officials say the country needs to slash 5 billion calories from its collective daily diet to slow the obesity epidemic. In a report issued Thursday, the department of health said most adult...
Eight leading European economic institutes have forecast a steep slowdown for Germany's economy. The eight think-tanks make a twice-yearly aggregate forecast of German growth. Six months ago they predict...
Elevated levels of radiation found in a residential area of Tokyo are almost certainly not connected to the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, say officials. The reading, taken on a small area of pavement ...
German police say they have found another firebomb set to go off next to train tracks in southwest Berlin. Federal police spokesman Meik Gauer said Thursday that experts were on hand to defuse the device....
China and the United States are the world's two largest economies and arguably each other's most important trading partners. And now, it seems the two countries find themselves on the brink of a trade war...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Northern Peru at a depth of 22.8 km (14.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:06:17 UTC Thursday 13th October 2011. The epicenter was 179 km ( 111 miles) ESE of Moyobamba, Peru...
Nanhao Group is, in many ways, an ordinary technology company. Its staff make online scoring systems, exam-mark scanners and other educational hardware and software. But many of its 500 employees in Hengs...
The beloved king of the tiny Himalayan nation of Bhutan married his commoner bride Thursday in an ancient Buddhist ceremony at the country's most sacred monastery fortress. King Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangc...
Security forces raided a northern Syrian city amid explosions and gunfire early Thursday and casualties have been reported, activists said. The forces clashed with gunmen believed to be dissidents in the c...
For the second consecutive day after a U.S. Senate vote aimed at penalizing China for undervaluing its currency, Beijing lowered the range at which the yuan could trade against the dollar. The People's Ba...
Walking along the tree-lined gravel track towards one of the Roman Empire's greatest architectural legacies, little can prepare you for what you are about to experience. As you emerge from the shade of th...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Aegean Sea, Greece at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 14:44:41 UTC Thursday 13th October 2011. The epicenter was 28 km ( 17.3 miles) Southwest of Kam...
An extraordinarily high level of radiation was detected in one spot in a central Tokyo residential district Thursday, prompting the local government to cordon off the small area, local officials said. Rad...
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*While reading Murray Mandryk's little piece on Brad Wall the other day, I realized that the writer's goal was to ensure that I got all misty eyed over the fact that Premier Brad Wall is a really swell guy...
A Michigan woman says she feeds a bigfoot family blueberry bagels; others say a "snowman" roams Siberia.
Modern DNA testing could give names to eight unidentified victims of John Wayne Gacy.
Flying cars may be on the horizon, but piloting the slog of red tape can clip even the most well-designed wings.
Criminals are using sneaky new viruses that imitate internet banking pages to trick customers into leaking sensitive details, security experts warn. A dangerous hacker scam busted in Spain is one of a nast...
Corps More Scary Than Halloween… ~Jan Ramsey, offBEAT Probe of Corps actions sought in Missouri River flooding New Orleans Saints are coming through when it matters the most ~Mike Triplett Buddy’s last be...
*"Sailing Into Dark and Dangerous Waters, or Tonkin Gulf Redux"* by Joseph W. Martin, Jr. "If ever there was any question that the super elites of Wall Street and their wholly owned subsidiary know as Con...
*"Shifting Targets in a Declining Empire"* by Bill Bonner "This empire thing…it’s going to be fun. In the Roman collosseum, for example, the emperor got to decide who lived and who died. He put his thumb ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Minahasa, Sulawesi, Indonesia at a depth of 11 km (6.8 miles), the quake hit at 11:25:08 UTC Thursday 13th October 2011. The epicenter was 38 km ( 23.5 miles) North of...
* "When?"* By Greg Hunter "When? That’s the question that is on the minds of people following the economy. When will the “you know what” hit the fan and we start another global meltdown. I am not going...
Via Bishop Hill "Remember *Paul Hudson*, the rogue weather man at the BBC who doesn't do 'consensus' and who upset the 'gang' when he noted that there had been no warming since 1998... from hacked CRU em...
Mayor Bloomberg has announced that tomorrow, Friday, Zuccotti Park will be "cleaned". As the letter from Brookfield Properties to Police Commissioner Kelly makes clear, there really is no path for the occ...
It has long been viewed as disorganized with no rhyme and reason to its method but the nose knows more than we thought.
*"Vive La Revolution!"* by Bill Bonner "The Occupy Wall Street movement is getting a fair amount of press. The movement, as you know, dear reader, is a loose assembly of the jobless, the homeless and the...
Biased BBC reader Clifford provides his first contribution... "The news reports on Radio 4 (the only BBC source I've used about this) since yesterday (11 October 2011) evening have carried the story of th...
*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* The Obama admin should re-read Keynes! The GOP has practiced a policy that is 180 degrees out of phase with Keynes and, as a result, an increasingly tiny elite of ...
Single-celled amoeba called dictyostelium gather together and turn themselves collectively into a new creature: slime mold. Image from National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).Finding democracy i...
I noticed that when OccupyWallStreet participants started articulating some of their grievances they sounded a lot like what many of us in the blogosphere have been talking about, a lot like what percepti...
The North Block entrance to Condemned Row at San Quentin. Image from Strong as an Ox.'Chief' Stankewitz:Born on death rowJust as you can’t discuss federal Indian policy without recourse to history, it’s hard...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck South of Sumba, Indonesia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:16:33 UTC Thursday 13th October 2011. The epicenter was 263 km ( 163 miles) South of Wai...
The anticipation in the air is palpable. The fall colors are in full bloom, and I am harvesting the last straggly tomatoes and sweet potatoes from the garden. This past spring, a pair of Cooper’s hawks ra...
Al Qaeda leader urges Libya to adopt Islamic law, beware of the West. In his latest video, al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri congratulated the Libyan people on their victory against dictator Moammar Gadhaf...
AP: Vietnam says nine more deaths have brought the toll from the Mekong Delta’s worst flooding in more than a decade to 43 people, mostly children. The government said Thursday that the seasonal floods ha...
Venus rotates clockwise which is the opposite direction from the other nine planets in the solar system. Jupiter is the fastest rotating planet. It can make one complete revolution in less than 10 hours....
Coastline near Alonissos, Greece. Photo courtesy: Anca Pandrea / Creative Commons As mega-resorts continue to sprout along much of the Aegean and Mediterranean coastlines, one North Aegean island in Greec...
A mysterious and potentially widespread disease is thought to have contributed to the deaths of dozens of ringed seals along Alaska's Arctic coast. Scores more are sickened, some so ill that skin lesions b...
Scores of dead juvenile Coho, Chum and Cutthroat Trout were spotted this past weekend along a stretch of Cougar Creek. Passersby noticed the dead fish on the banks of the creek on Saturday afternoon and c...
At least 19 people were killed when torrential rains slammed large swaths of Central America, officials said Wednesday, with more than 40,000 people hit by flooding and landslides. Guatemala was worst hit...
An American missile strike killed a ranking member of the militant Haqqani network on Thursday in northwestern Pakistan, striking at a group that Washington claims is the No. 1 threat in Afghanistan and is...
Rice grown in Fukushima Prefecture, host to the disaster-stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, is officially safe to eat. All samples provided for testing registered radioactive cesium contamination belo...
I have avoided saying much of anything until now, because I wanted a little of the dust to settle first. Emotions have been running high, from fear and dread to sadness and mourning to elation and exciteme...
give me patience when I see others fall short when I say they need to change show me I need change much more Lord, I seem to point the finger it's everyone but me if I find in them some fault it makes mine ...
I'm tired of the back and forth the countless ways we change as our feet shuffle out the door I'm tired of the status quo the million ways we keep ourselves from ever letting go we need a change we need it ...
we park our fancy car inside garages made for three we check our watch at church and think of what we'd like to eat we buy our fancy clothes while there's a closet full at home and for most of us it seems t...
I see the love in your smile feel the warmth when we hug I hear sincerity speak through the words that you say but I also see walls I see mask and facade I see the "you" you project for appearance's sake l...
the word frustration doesn't seem to quite convey the type of agony I feel the times I watch you fall apart it's not as if you're ill-prepared or somehow struggling for some truth it's just no matter what y...
I am present still I'm absent I am speaking yet unheard though I'm telling who I am it seems you've never caught a word one-way conversations leave me hollow, unfulfilled all the "life" that we've been shar...
I hardly know you yet I know you well enough your story and your struggles I can't let myself forget in a world of superficial you are scraping ocean floor but I fear in all your searching you have opened de...
I look around with jealousy at all the things I wish I had cynical ungrateful for the blessings that I have I used to daydream thinking of all the possibilities of a life lived some way else now I'm bitter ...
He looked at her she looked at Him awakened by His voice that reaches deep inside her heart "I'm after you I long for you" He whispers in her ear "well, take me as You find me though I've nothing much to gi...
we study to show ourselves approved but not to You no, not to You it's more about the accolades handshakes and book sales make my ears go deaf to every voice I hear but Yours keep me from the pride that tur...
how can I spend my time with thoughts that center only on myself and yet You bless me anyway? how can I fade away inside a world of selfishness and yet You love me anyway? I would've given up on me I would'...
Let's face it--sometimes bad things happen to us all. We can't escape it; we can't fight it; we can't avoid it. We get hit with something bigger than ourselves, and we have only one choice: succumb. Can I...
I know you think that no one hears your prayers sees your tears knows your cares I know you think you're all alone without a friend or shoulder to cry on just hold on 'cause Hope is calling don't let go and...
I've asked You time and time again to take this thorn from me and time and time again I've felt as though You never heard a word You tell me that it's for my good shining Your glory through my pain ignoring...
my heart has grown quite cold and hard if You'd ask me how, I'd not recall but with the little left within I pray You'd spark the fire again I know I, too, am "prone to wander" prone to leave You for ones le...
with the wind of Your breath You have given us life just the touch of Your hand starts a fire inside we will answer the call we will take up our cross we will kindle the flame we will fight for the lost at...
we spend so much energy fighting each other we spend so much time in judging our brothers and sisters alike when will we ever stop killing our own? when will we give the love we've been shown? your doctrine...
I wonder what it is that makes us wander from our God makes us look to other lovers leaves us feeling so distraught I wonder what it is that makes us think we're self-sufficient makes us wise in our own eye...
unhappy though I know I shouldn't be I'm bored here many things I've yet to see unchallenged much potential goes unused in waiting for that which I will do a treasure on the inside covered by these layers o...
how do we process death? how do we learn to accept the end when we don't think it was time? how do we hold on to our faith when we feel alone, forgotten? how do we make amends for the times we took our loved...
Do you ever catch yourself looking for things you can do for God? I mean--do you think (though probably not in these words) that if you do something really big for God--like speaking in front of a few thou...
like a siren sweetly calling me to crash into the rocks I see the lure of temptation as it dances into view once she stalked me in the shadows now so bold she looks my way seduction in her words her lips pai...
do you ever think there might be something more than what you've known? do you ever think there's more than just the image you've been shown? I do. do you ever hear a voice inside that says there's more to ...
lying lips and wandering eyes the things we do we should despise half-told truths are our disguise they keep our sins well out of sight crying to God clinging to sin laying it down just to take it again i...
imagine how our God must feel we talk the talk, but we're not real ignoring Him for the here and now not seeking Him while He is found "He's here right now," you'd probably say "He's always by my side" the t...
you hold me captive but not against my will cause there's something in you calling me I never can refuse you're the drug I'm looking for I cannot get enough I'll cling to you with all I have I'll never let ...
I went to war expecting to win it in one battle when the fighting continued I took off my armor and sat down cast down and discouraged but the war did not end when I stopped fighting so now I take up my weap...
*Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. She had a female Egyptian servant whose name was Hagar. And Sarai said to Abram, "Behold now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Go in to ...
Teach me to do Your will for You are my God may Your gracious Spirit lead me forward on a firm footing (Psalm 143:10) stopped here in the road I'm looking one way then the next back down to the map I just d...
I preach but my own standard I can't reach I speak of love and acceptance for those in the margins for those who leave the Church in pursuit of what was missing there but when such a person, flawed, I find ...
you hold me captive but not against my will cause there's something in you calling me I never can refuse you're the drug I'm looking for I cannot get enough I'll cling to you with all I have I'll never let ...
These days it seems that salvation has become a game of numbers. "We had 20 people get saved at this year's Easter program!" "We had 50 kids pray 'the sinner's prayer' at vacation Bible school last summer!...
Recently I was talking about seeking God, and I touched a little on how I had been limiting God in my own life. I had been in a place at one point, spiritually, where I felt God's presence so powerfully th...
I went to war expecting to win it in one battle when the fighting continued I took off my armor and sat down cast down and discouraged but the war did not end when I stopped fighting so now I take up my weap...
Why should I fear death when You have power over it? Why should I fear the loss of health when You are the Great Physician? Why should I fear rejection when You have accepted me once and for all, trading ot...
they say change is inevitable but it sure can kill a nice routine they say change is the only constant still it has a way of coming unannounced but despite the inconvenience change can be just what we need ...
I am not an expert just a student of the Truth and the more that I am shown the more I see there is to know we cannot hold it all and to think we ever could shows the blindness of our hearts shows the pride ...
Why do we compare ourselves to each other? *What lifts one up must put one down.* Why do we hide our flaws from view? *Saving face can cost a soul.* Why do we hide our pain? *Ignoring symptoms won't lead to ...
bent beneath the weight of expectations placed on me limping from this burden, I keep hoping you will see this is not the sort of cumbrence I was ever meant to bear I know I should walk away, but I can't mak...
my heart sings a song no one else seems to know I want simple life others want to stay busy discontent in the sitting there's the need for entertainment (entertainment means busyness) too busy to love too bu...
crying out for change while you only offer cheapened consolation saying this is just the way it goes and my dreams are only fantasies they can never be reality they're just a grown-up's make-believe you can...
SEEKING GOD "You will seek Me and find Me, when you seek Me with all your heart." (Jeremiah 29:13) As a lot of people who know me could testify, music is one of my passions. I could go all day without a T...
Teach me to do Your will for You are my God may Your gracious Spirit lead me forward on a firm footing (Psalm 143:10) stopped here in the road I'm looking one way then the next back down to the map I just d...
imagine how our God must feel we talk the talk, but we're not real ignoring Him for the here and now not seeking Him while He is found "He's here right now," you'd probably say "He's always by my side" the t...
I preach but my own standard I can't reach I speak of love and acceptance for those in the margins for those who leave the Church in pursuit of what was missing there but when such a person, flawed, I find ...
I work in a Christian bookstore. Also, I'm a people-watcher. When I'm in a mall or an airport or a church or a grocery store, I'm watching people. It's interesting to see who pays attention to their appear...
you hold me captive but not against my will cause there's something in you calling me I never can refuse you're the drug I'm looking for I cannot get enough I'll cling to you with all I have I'll never let ...
a moment of confession soon gives way to stark regret and when the words are off my tongue I wish the damage wasn't done 'cause now I'll only be as strong as any weakness that you see in me we all could sta...
in the times I say it isn't fair in the times I ask if You are there beneath the weight of worldly cares beneath the weight of dark despair depression gets the best of me it blinds me so I cannot see Your lo...
I went to war expecting to win it in one battle when the fighting continued I took off my armor and sat down cast down and discouraged but the war did not end when I stopped fighting so now I take up my weap...
Lord, I'm amazed You have transformed a wretch into something beautiful (if You say I am then who am I to disagree?) a heart that sought to sing the praise of earthly things and selfish gain now sings inste...
the enemy approaches but we've turned against ourselves we're so busy pointing fingers that we never saw him coming Earlier tonight I spent about ten minutes reading a (less than riveting) comparison betwe...
everything is for a reason or at least it's what I'm told but impatiently I'm waiting for the answers to unfold answers to the question that's been nagging in my mind answers to the question oh, that painful...
Why should I fear death when You have power over it? Why should I fear the loss of health when You are the Great Physician? Why should I fear rejection when You have accepted me once and for all, trading ot...
they say change is inevitable but it sure can kill a nice routine they say change is the only constant still it has a way of coming unannounced but despite the inconvenience change can be just what we need ...
dining on the salad while you're eyeing the buffet steal a second glance as miss attractive walks away you're the picture of restraint but still temptation calls your name you put your best foot forward but ...
I am not an expert just a student of the Truth and the more that I am shown the more I see there is to know we cannot hold it all and to think we ever could shows the blindness of our hearts shows the pride ...
Why do we compare ourselves to each other? *What lifts one up must put one down.* Why do we hide our flaws from view? *Saving face can cost a soul.* Why do we hide our pain? *Ignoring symptoms won't lead to ...
bent beneath the weight of expectations placed on me limping from this burden, I keep hoping you will see this is not the sort of cumbrence I was ever meant to bear I know I should walk away, but I can't mak...
my heart sings a song no one else seems to know I want simple life others want to stay busy discontent in the sitting there's the need for entertainment (entertainment means busyness) too busy to love too bu...
crying out for change while you only offer cheapened consolation saying this is just the way it goes and my dreams are only fantasies they can never be reality they're just a grown-up's make-believe you can...
SEEKING GOD "You will seek Me and find Me, when you seek Me with all your heart." (Jeremiah 29:13) As a lot of people who know me could testify, music is one of my passions. I could go all day without a T...
Before God changed his name to Abraham, Abram lived in a place called Ur. Abram, his wife, his nephew, and his dad. And one day they just up and moved. They took everything they had and set out for a place...
*Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. She had a female Egyptian servant whose name was Hagar. And Sarai said to Abram, "Behold now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Go in to ...
I arrive a little later than the rest nervously glancing at my watch to make myself feel--and look--important like everybody else the Speaker takes His place and silence gives Him a moment to prepare His ad...
Father, I come to You now asking You to forgive us of our misunderstanding of the relationship we have with You. God, I'm so guilty of thinking that my belief in Jesus and my agreement with His teachings an...
Many of us have been to a country club before for some reason or another. Others of us may even be members of one. Without trying to lay a guilt trip on anyone (because that is far from my intention), let ...
to the broken I say, "come" to the hurting I say, "come" to the hopeless I say, "come" to the weary I say, "come" don't give up and don't back down I promise hope can still be found to the homeless I say, ...
dark companions tell me lies depression serves to dull the mind keeping me from noticing their hands around my throat haunting words ringing ears I've failed to shake this constant fear lack of truth it run...
I arrive a little later than the rest nervously glancing at my watch to make myself feel--and look--important like everybody else the Speaker takes His place and silence gives Him a moment to prepare His ad...
cold and bitter, broken deep regret for words you've spoken in anger you're so hard, for that you're proud but in your heart no love is found unable just to bend the pressure's bound to make you break only ...
Success. It's the sort of thing that, even when you're only thinking about it, almost makes you sigh relaxingly, as if you should be sitting on a throne with your feet on a stool and servants feeding you g...
When I look around, I see a lot of people running frantically from one place to the next, only resting to sleep before starting the whole thing over again. Whether they're going to work or a friend's house...
Father, I come to You now asking You to forgive us of our misunderstanding of the relationship we have with You. God, I'm so guilty of thinking that my belief in Jesus and my agreement with His teachings an...
I see you with my eyes and yet sometimes it's still unreal to see the way you've blessed my life and all the ways you've helped me heal I wish I had a way to show you or to tell you all you mean to me I co...
all the little pieces lying shattered on the floor dead remains of good intentions never growing into more once upon a time the blood, it coursed inside my veins and now these broken pieces are the fractured...
it wasn't just a moment of passion that I never saw coming it was years of lust and planning fantasies becoming real but all the pleasure in this world can't wash away the shame I feel now that it's said an...
Genesis 16:1-16; Genesis 21:1-20 We don't know a whole lot about Hagar, really, except that she was a slave of Abraham and Sarah. And she was an Egyptian. Here's the background: God promises Abraham that ...
a wave of nervousness breaks over me as I push away from the dock of the familiar I adjust my sails to catch the Wind and I give my life to the One whose ways are higher than my own I know not the destinatio...
piano-driven worship teams 100dB strong some comfy chairs and fancy lights and maybe even fog machines we hurry getting ready we hurry to our seats we give up sixty minutes then we hurry off to eat God spea...
I'm a man with a vision not a man with a plan every part of this dream is so out of my hands the movement is growing the fire is burning it can never go out we can't let it go out hearts will awaken things...
when You reached into the darkness when You found me in my need You saw more than just a sinner You saw all that I could be in You Lord, I'm giving You my life help me live out what I say help me die so You...
You introduced me to Your prophets told me I would speak the Truth I saw they had not many friends You told me I'd be that way too but sometimes here at night my wife and daughter both asleep I feel lonelin...
I sit beneath the weight of burdens I don't even own and if I didn't tell you maybe you would never know I'm not chasing sympathy I just think of what could be if things were all as they should be if only y...
oh, God where have You been? I've been lonely I've been hurting I've been hungry I've been faint tell me, Lord why did You leave me in the midst of so much pain? oh, child where have you been? I've been wai...
Imagine. Imagine being crippled for 38 years. Imagine trying all you knew to be healed but always missing out. Imagine always being second place in a first come, first served world. Imagine. Jesus' discip...
You're not in the catchy rhythm You're not in the best of songs You're not in the forms we cling to You don't fit inside our box You are God alone You are bigger than we know We see in the mirror dimly You ...
the pounding of the waves the tossing of this ship the wind in my face the salt in the air the depths below the heavens above a lone sailor alone at sea waiting for land to come into view
dressed up for success and all your make-up masks the blemish show everyone your best the spotlight isn't for the squeamish in the dark it's hard to see the way it's all supposed to be but the Light comes s...
life without limits the freedom to fly I know neither one tied down like a captive in a cage like a bird with a sheet draped over me here, this knife in my hand cutting ropes one by one they now fall to the...
we're here for You at least that's what we say it's nothing without You that's why we celebrate today but we get busy with our business we get lost in conversation we get wrapped up in the moment we don't k...
I woke up and discovered I am not the man I was yesterday another chapter's closed another season's changed and I am in the closet tossing clothing into piles wondering which things I will keep or if I'll g...
walking in the darkness cautious, careful little steps arms outstretched with my hands shaking as I search for what comes next looking back to yesterday when my eyes could see for miles looking back to yest...
*As I [Paul] urged you [Timothy] when I went into Macedonia, stay there in Ephesus so that you may command certain persons not to teach false doctrines any longer or to devote themselves to myths and endle...
I'd say I want something to live for but I'd be blind if I ignored the fact that I already do instead it seems I need to find the courage that it takes to lose myself for Something greater than my self if n...
*Let's keep a firm grip on the promises that keep us going. [God] always keeps His word. Let's see how inventive we can be in encouraging love and helping out, not avoiding worshiping together as some do b...
Sample conversation: Man A: "Do you know Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior?" Man B: "What do you mean?" Man A: "You know, have you asked Jesus into your heart?" Man B: "I'm sorry?" Man A: "Have ...
this is where You've brought me but I still can't make myself enjoy my quaint surroundings oh, my God, I need Your help alone here in my boat tidal waves wash over me smile so the world won't notice as I si...
it's a scary thing indeed to bare your heart for all to see and it's scarier to think that you might give away the key so you don't you let them come inside where they are free to look around but you wake u...
Back in September, I quit going to church, and it was a decision that had been a long time coming. I had spent nearly a year looking at institutional, traditional church and drafting a list of things I saw...
*Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any afflicti...
*Did you receive the Spirit by observing the law, or by believing what you heard? Are you so foolish? After beginning with the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by human effort? [...] All who rely on ob...
I don't want to be Elijah I don't want to here in the desert anymore I don't want to be so lonely I forget I'm not alone I don't want to be Isaiah with my nakedness exposed for all to see as they pass by I...
Click here for Part One. So why DO we go to church? We go to church to encourage one another. Not to be encouraged (note the passive voice), but to be an encouragement to our Christian brothers and siste...
the path is beginning to curve though I can't see what awaits I can see the Light getting brighter and I know it's only up from here this is not the way I would have chosen this is not the path I thought I'...
the chill in the air has loosened its hold and the sun is shining on me again the bare-naked branches now bear vivid colors from the palette of Heaven like unto nature there's life in my heart these dry bon...
*David said to Solomon, "My son, I had it in my heart to build a house to the name of the LORD, my God. But the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 'You have shed much blood and have waged great wars. You...
I've recently had the pleasure of becoming a part of a men's Bible study. I want to say, first of all, how thankful I am that God has brought me to this group; it's truly an answer to prayer. That said, t...
back and forth and back again following another trend spinning till I'm dizzy wondering when it all will end I've turned my ear to the "experts" I've hung on their every word but their endless contradiction...
heavy brushstrokes flood the canvas with the colors of deception I'm painting my own portrait based on my tainted perspective I don't ask for Your direction I don't listen for correction I simply paint the l...
high upon the hilltop spires reaching, touching heaven walls of finest brick and stone with watchful guards outside your doors disconnected from the outside you have all you need within heaven reaching down ...
I know enough to know I really don't know much my careful search for words to meaningfully touch your heart has left me empty-handed I wish good intention was enough for a man who talks too much being speec...
eyes that burn like fire do we even have a clue? not the gentle, white guy we've imagined from our pews eyes that burn like fire seeing straight through our facade our hearts are opened wide before the Holy...
we're here for You at least that's what we say it's nothing without You that's why we celebrate today but we get busy with our business we get lost in conversation we get wrapped up in the moment we don't k...
I've heard of people like this even known a few myself who look for signs and wonders who long for miracles believing they are proof of something Heavenly, divine I worry for these people all that glitters ...
I woke up and discovered I am not the man I was yesterday another chapter's closed another season's changed and I am in the closet tossing clothing into piles wondering which things I will keep or if I'll g...
walking in the darkness cautious, careful little steps arms outstretched with my hands shaking as I search for what comes next looking back to yesterday when my eyes could see for miles looking back to yest...
The phone rang, and, as fate would have it, I was standing right beside it. (I should mention I don't believe in fate.) Out of 6,000+ square feet of sales floor, I just happened to be standing literally tw...
Are you dating God? Or is it something more, something deeper? Consider this... When you date somebody, you put on your best clothes. You wear make-up. You go to fancy restaurants. You do whatever you thi...
Listen, in Christian circles, and you will hear a story. A story of redemption. A story of salvation. A story of a curse being broken and of people being freed from that curse through their faith in Christ...
I was getting ready for work just last week, listening to music and making a sandwich before I walked out the door, when Hillsong United's song "Hosanna" came on. In the three years since it's been release...
*Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness." *[...]* * ** *So God created man in His own image,* *in the image of God He created him;* *male and female He created them.* (Genesis 1:2...
*And let our people learn to devote themselves to good works, so as to help cases of urgent need, and not be unfruitful.* (Titus 3:14, ESV) The Protestant Reformation was championed by men who understood t...
a man an island a cast-off forgotten at least that's how it seems a woman so lonely friends by word but not by deed at least that's how it seems is this the way it's meant to be? is this the sort of life w...
"I just wish I knew God's will for my life..." Maybe you've said that yourself. Maybe you, like me, have been taught somewhere--explicitly or implicitly--that there is one right path for you. That if you ...
Maybe you know what it's like to wake up one day and find yourself way off course. You started out, some time ago, with good intentions, only to wake up one day and realize that you got lost somewhere alon...
I've always held you close to me in the hopes you'd never leave around you my wings wrap around but now I see I've held you bound I've held you close, but now I've found to fly, a bird must leave the ground ...
pulling the shackles away from your feet ripping the blindfold, at last you can see the chains have been broken, your heart has been freed but in your rejoicing lies dark irony you may jump for joy even pra...
What's the point of technology? If you had asked the question twenty years ago, perhaps you would've been told that technology was meant to make life easier. Whether it's indoor plumbing, electricity, or m...
the spark becomes a flame and this fire may consume me I don't know where this may take me but I know I'm being led there's a passion in my heart and there's a dream inside my head planted like a seed now bu...
Are you dating God? Or is it something more, something deeper? Consider this... When you date somebody, you put on your best clothes. You wear make-up. You go to fancy restaurants. You do whatever you thi...
I've tried my hand at magic looked for spells to kill my pain but after all my efforts I've found I still feel just the same what can be said about my focus if my pain is all I see? could it be said about m...
Truth is relative these days. At least that's what I believe. Therefore, it must be true. Wait--I forgot. The truth is there is no absolute truth. Ahh, crap.. Okay, so it's a bit silly when we spell it o...
Listen, in Christian circles, and you will hear a story. A story of redemption. A story of salvation. A story of a curse being broken and of people being freed from that curse through their faith in Christ...
"You shall have no other gods before Me" (Exodus 20:3). It's taught to toddlers in Sunday school. It's preached from pulpits. It's been hung in courtrooms. The message is clear: there is one God, and anyth...
I was getting ready for work just last week, listening to music and making a sandwich before I walked out the door, when Hillsong United's song "Hosanna" came on. In the three years since it's been release...
*Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness." *[...]* * ** *So God created man in His own image,* *in the image of God He created him;* *male and female He created them.* (Genesis 1:2...
*And let our people learn to devote themselves to good works, so as to help cases of urgent need, and not be unfruitful.* (Titus 3:14, ESV) The Protestant Reformation was championed by men who understood t...
a man an island a cast-off forgotten at least that's how it seems a woman so lonely friends by word but not by deed at least that's how it seems is this the way it's meant to be? is this the sort of life w...
"I just wish I knew God's will for my life..." Maybe you've said that yourself. Maybe you, like me, have been taught somewhere--explicitly or implicitly--that there is one right path for you. That if you ...
Maybe you know what it's like to wake up one day and find yourself way off course. You started out, some time ago, with good intentions, only to wake up one day and realize that you got lost somewhere alon...
I've always held you close to me in the hopes you'd never leave around you my wings wrap around but now I see I've held you bound I've held you close, but now I've found to fly, a bird must leave the ground ...
pulling the shackles away from your feet ripping the blindfold, at last you can see the chains have been broken, your heart has been freed but in your rejoicing lies dark irony you may jump for joy even pra...
What's the point of technology? If you had asked the question twenty years ago, perhaps you would've been told that technology was meant to make life easier. Whether it's indoor plumbing, electricity, or m...
the spark becomes a flame and this fire may consume me I don't know where this may take me but I know I'm being led there's a passion in my heart and there's a dream inside my head planted like a seed now bu...
And we are what democracy looks like. We do not fear your power and we will continue to fight for a better world. We will never stop growing and each day we'll continue to expand, block by block and city ...
High radiation doses were reported Thursday in spots in Tokyo and neighboring Chiba Prefecture, both over 200 kilometers away from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, with their readings found to...
There is now a visible spot off the coast of La Restinga where the 2nd Eruption took place yesterday and it is growing rapidly, Since this morning the spot has doubled in size in a space of 3 hours. The ...
A Chinese activist who was imprisoned earlier this year has been named the most powerful person in the art world. Ai Weiwei's ranking comes after the artist, who has been an outspoken critic of China's ...
Eating fresh fruit and raw vegetables can weaken genetic effects that are strongly linked to heart disease, a study has shown. The healthy foods appear to modify genetic code variants on a chromosome kn...
- Dave and Angie Dawes have drawn up a list of 15 close friends to give cash - They share £70 per week one-bedroom flat but will buy a property in Chelsea - Seething ex-husband says 'wh...
[image: Observational study: Chocolate consumption was linked with fewer strokes] Observational study: Chocolate consumption was linked with improved heart health and fewer strokes A sweet tooth isn't ...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Eastern Uzbekistan at a depth of 11 km (6.8 miles), the quake hit at 10:16:11 UTC Thursday 13th October 2011. The epicenter was 52 km ( 32 miles) ENE from Angren, Uzbek...
Some people have been commenting on the Bali Earthquake, I have re-checked some of the stations between the times of 03:16:52 and 03:30:02 hundreds of stations picked up this earthquake of the coast of Bal...
A major clean-up operation is underway along the north coast of New Zealand 's North Island as debris and oil leaking from a cargo ship that ran aground on a reef wash ashore, officials say. The Rena, a ...
An earthquake struck off the Indonesian island of Bali early Thursday, rattling buildings and sending dozens to hospitals with minor injuries. The 6.0-magnitude quake hit 100 km (62 miles) southwest of Ba...
Workers in Thailand are racing against time Thursday to shore-up protective floodwalls in Bangkok with sandbags and mud to stop the country's devastating floods from engulfing parts of the capital. So fa...
Did an elite branch of Iran's military handpick a divorced, 56-year-old Iranian-American used-car salesman from Texas to hire a hitman from a Mexican drug cartel to assassinate the ambassador to Saudi Arab...
What does it take to comprehend the vast distances between the planets of the solar system?
"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." - Crowfoo...
Reseachers have finally discovered the causes for 'super-eruptions' of volcanoes which are considered one of the most catastrophic natural events on Earth, The violent explosions which occur about every 1...
A bomb detonated outside the City of Culture office in Londonderry, police said tonight. There were no reports of injuries and police have yet to reveal details on the extent of the damage caused. It is ...
Residents of Dale Farm, the UK's largest illegal travellers' site, lost their High Court battle against eviction today. The travellers, who have vowed to lodge another appeal, said that they will stand th...
Note; How can we distract the people from the mess we made of our own countries...oh yeah another war... problem is will Iran take it lying down like Libya did? I doubt it very much. Lawmakers across the ...
One of the largest carnivores ever was even fiercer than we imagined. Using cutting edge technology to 'weigh' models of the Tyrannosaurus rex experts discovered the beast could get to a weight of nine ton...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck South of Bali, Indonesia at a depth of 67 km (41.5 miles), the quake hit at 07:52:48 UTC Thursday 13th October 2011. The epicenter was 135 km ( 83.7 miles) Southwest o...
Confirmation came last night of the two eruptions of the Coast of El Hierro, one located 1.5 Miles (3 km) the other 2 Miles (5 km) of the coast of La Restinga, El Hierro. The initial eruption started Sunda...
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Four squirrels have been captured at Busch Stadium and released into the wild. Though others are still playing ball.
* Guy Gibson * Guy Gibson was a British war hero. He won a Victoria Cross for leading the 'Dam Buster' raid on dams on the Ruhr Valley in Germany in 1943. Two dams were breached. *An estimated 1,650 men,...
Tectonic rifting between continents may have provided liquid shelters for life during otherwise frozen times.
Virgin Galactic, the startup of the world's first commercial spaceliner SpaceShipTwo, has caught the eye of NASA's shuttle operations chief, Mike Moses.
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Oregon at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 04:13:59 UTC Thursday 13th October 2011. The epicenter was 233 km ( 144 miles) West of Coos Ba...
A 55-year-old Canadian man died after a violent struggle with a male deer that attacked and killed him with its antlers and hooves, police said. Donald Dube was killed on Sunday evening as he tried to feed...
The Occupy Wall Street movement got nasty again today in New York as dramatic photos showed the arrests of protesters angry at America’s richest people not paying their fair share of taxes. Amazing pictur...
Surveillance video of the mother of missing Lisa Irwin buying baby wipes and wine with a mystery man five hours before her daughter was last seen has been released. The footage shows Deborah Bradley and t...
Warren Buffett is trying to lead by example, holding up his own payslip as a reason why the country's ultra rich should pay more in taxes. Mr Buffett, 81, revealed today that he made $62,855,038 in 2010, p...
One in five hospitals is neglecting the elderly to such an extent they are breaking the law, according to a damning report by the Government watchdog The Care Quality Commission warns that staff in some...
Too little protein in your diet makes you feel hungry and reach for fattening snacks, an international study shows. Eating more than the average amount of foods such as meat, fish, eggs and nuts can sto...
Eric Holder, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Robert Mueller must have a very low opinion of the intelligence of the American people to think they can get away with dumping a pile of bullshit on the pres...
[image: Breakthrough: Oestrogen could help in the fight against prostate cancer] Breakthrough: Oestrogen could help in the fight against prostate cancer Oestrogen could treat advanced prostate cancer i...
A teenager who murdered his ex-girlfriend for a free breakfast has used Facebook to boast he will be freed ‘just like Amanda Knox’. Joshua Davies, 17, posted the sick message from a secure unit, where he i...
Pouring through the gates, these men are part of a mob of religious zealots who went on the rampage in protest at the sale of meat and alcohol in a Sikh community centre. The CCTV image has been released...
DNA experts have sequenced the entire genome of the bubonic plague in a bid to help understand the spread of infectious diseases. It is first time scientists have been able to reconstruct an ancient patho...
Mars once had earthlike conditions for at least a few hours a day, according to new research. The findings make it more plausible that the planet could have supported life, though if the warm temperatures...
Millions of workers could be the victims of a Government-sponsored pensions rip-off which could halve the value of their investment, a leading fund manager warned yesterday. David Pitt-Watson said plans t...
A magnitude 6.1 earthquake has struck South of Bali, Indonesia at a depth of 35.1 km (21.8 miles), the quake hit at 03:16:32 UTC Thursday 13th October 2011. The epicenter was 100 km ( 62 miles) Southwest o...
House Speaker John Boehner today called on Obama to 'hold Iran's feet to the fire' in the wake of the thwarting of a 'significant terrorist act' by agents working for the Iranian government to assassinate ...
British courts are using Human Rights legislation to knock down laws rightly made by Parliament, a Supreme Court judge said yesterday. Lord Brown launched a furious attack on other judges for making ‘high...
[image: Cleaning up: Gels first appeared in British bathrooms in the Seventies] Cleaning up: Gels first appeared in British bathrooms in the Seventies Whoever invented shower gel must lie awake at night...
Occupy Los Angeles - The Beginning Is Near from Marta Evry on Vimeo. My friend Marta made this inspiring video at the OccupyLA encampment at City Hall here in Los Angeles. I like! Everybody was talking...
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Military intelligence unit spies on native groups *The memos devote a lot of space to future protests and lobbying on Parliament Hill by native groups, including the activities of the Assembly of First Nat...
Hundreds of anti-Wall Street protesters marched on the Chase Bank headquarters in New York yesterday waving placards and chanting slogans attacking corporate greed and social inequality. The march came a ...
Eight people have been killed and one is critically injured after a gunman opened fire in a packed hair salon in California. The shooter reportedly had several weapons and was wearing body armour, althoug...
Jonah Raskin, photographed at a Rag Blog Happy Hour at Maria's Taco Xpress in Austin, Texas, Friday, Oct. 7, 2011, after appearing on Rag Radio with Thorne Dreyer. Photos (above and below) by James Retherfor...
"Large galaxies and faint nebulae highlight this deep image of the M81 Group of galaxies. First and foremost in the wide-angle 12-hour exposure is the grand design spiral galaxy M81, the largest galaxy vis...
"You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?" - Rumi
*"The Restless Heart"* by Chet Raymo "In 'Letters to a Young Poet,' Rainer Maria Rilke writes: "We should try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very...
“Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But...
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*A guest post from our correspondent Jonathan Livingston, a common-sense kind of gull who perches in an eyrie overlooking Papamoa Beach.* I see signs are going up down at the Mount, and volunteer beach o...
1. A group of corrupt financial oligarchs, traitors and state terrorists hijacked the United States government and ripped apart the social contract between the American government and the American people....
*Probably I was the only viewer of this cartoon who didn't who didn't pick up on what's wrong with it, right?* *"It may be hard to remember how transformative the Macintosh was when it débuted in 1984, bu...
Federal entrapment snares another dupe and brings hundreds of millions to the brink of war. by Tony Cartalucci "...it would be far more preferable if the United States could cite an Iranian provocation a...
Permalink Tuesday, October 11, 2011 *THE SEVEN BIGGEST ECONOMIC LIES* The President’s Jobs Bill doesn’t have a chance in Congress — and the Occupiers on Wall Street and elsewhere can’t become a nation...
The UK and the British Commonwealth share the misfortune of being ruled by the Windsor Mafia. In the UK, we are told by our controlled media that the 'royal' family are beloved of the nation. This claim...
Let’s face it everything a politicianus* touches with a pen is bound to cost the people something. A good example of this, is the inscrutable Tax code and structure, with its gargantuan maze of deducti...
An architect's energy-efficient design is ideal for desert landscapes and lovers of gateway sushi.
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*Amnesty International urges Canada to arrest George Bush for torture when Bush in October, 2011* By Amnesty International Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Overview http://www.amnesty.ca/me...
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
"A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today. This is the man who discovered electrici...
*"New Evidence That Chocolate Lowers Stroke Risk"* by redOrbit “Chocolate lovers may have a new reason to celebrate: A Swedish study suggests that women who have a couple of small chocolate bars every wee...
- *Robert Louis Stevenson* I have been thinking about how consequences, when delayed, eventually become quite a banquet - as will be articulated all the way at the end of this post (after several detours...
"The judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy." - Carl Jung
*“What Is The ‘Oakland Effect’?”* by Scott Johnson “Why is it that when we hear a rumble, the sound of an earthquake, say, we don't try to locate the sound, but we immediately try to get away? Or, if we ...
The deadly pathogen that spawned waves of epidemics has barely changed.
The ESA's Space Situational Awareness (SSA) program has scored it's first near-Earth hit: an asteroid called 2011 SF108.
This is just a heads up-- I'm allowed to give a heads-up-- about some important action for American patriots this weekend targeting, peacefully, of course, banksters-- related to the march on the homes of...
I highly recommend this 2 hour mashup of various LFTR- and nuclear-related video clips, most of it taken from lectures and interviews with Kirk Sorensen. It begins with the "LFTR in 5 minutes" sequence but ...
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*[image: _richardmcgrath]**Your weekly prescription of headline dissection from Libertarianz leader Dr Richard McGrath.* *This week, Exiting the Parliamentary Trough* [image: image] Parliament has fina...
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Buckdog - 20 hours ago
*(Image courtesy Saskatchewan Party Website - Click on image to enlarge)* * Everyone in Saskatchewan knows that Premier Brad Wall honed his political skills when he worked for the disastrous Grant Devine a...
Hello everyone, 1. Important events: The El Hierro situation, New Zealand oil spill and a possible upcoming quake in the pacific region are keeping us busy here at the Coming Crisis. We may be issuing an ...
typography canvas by tenderbeasts on etsy *See my previous favorite things... dafont | firegestures | babycenter | allrecipes | w3schools | pandora and grooveshark | color scheme designer | swagbucks* L...
The preadolescents appear to have a natural talent for understanding dog barks.
"I didn't say it would be easy. I just said it would be the truth." - Morpheus • *A comment:* In response to several emails regarding blog content, I feel compelled to respond so that we all know why it is...
One study links vitamin-taking among older women and an increased chance of death.
*“OWS: The Risks Facing America Today”* by Karl Denninger “I was skeptical that the protests were serious. I suspected they were yet another "demonstration" - the sort where people come, they wave signs,...
The most detailed image of the Milky Way has been captured by Nasa scientists. A new image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope reveals swirls of super-hot gas and previously undiscovered stars at the cen...
*"Permanently High Unemployment"* by Bill Bonner "Little by little, one step at a time, the mainstream press is beginning to understand. There was no ordinary recession. There will be no ordinary recover...
*"Could a Tea Party Occupy Wall Street?"* by Addison Wiggin "What a difference nearly three years makes. On Inauguration Day 2009, 2 million people converged on Washington, D.C. “Two million people don’t ...
A new map of the moon has uncovered a trove of areas rich in titanium, which could one day be mined.
Tehran has admitted the failure of its Kavoshgar-5 rocket, a setback for the nation's plans to send a man into space by 2020.
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 ...
A chemical leak in Dammam, in Saudi Arabia's oil-rich Eastern Province, has forced some schools to shut down and sent 13 people to hospital with breathing problems, sources and civil defense authorities sa...
Climate sceptics are winning the argument with the public over global warming, the world's most celebrated climate scientist, James Hansen of NASA, said in London yesterday. It is happening even though cl...
On the same day President Barack Obama will visit Orlando, the city unveiled the first part of a roadway project named after him. Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony that showcased ...
Is America ready to make history by electing the first black president to replace a black president? That is the question latest polls increasingly raise these days that show Herman Cain jetting to the fr...
Despite a drop in sexual satisfaction, women who meet their partner on the pill have longer relationships.
DETECTIVES investigating a spate of kidnappings and sex attacks on male hitchhikers by female rapists have made three arrests. Police seized 31 used condoms with semen after a chance breakthrough when a s...
Santa Cruz County sheriff’s deputies arrested a Santa Cruz man on Sunday on suspicion of throwing a 17-year-old parrot onto the ground and stomping it to death. David Miles, 32, was arrested after deputie...
Steve Jobs left a four-year plan in Apple so the company should kind of flourish at least until 2015. A month ago, media trusted Al Gore, one of the least trustworthy people on this blue planet, who sai...
Photographs of a face are taken from different positions and printed in three dimensions on vinyl resin.
Can "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" reach a whole new generation of cooks?
A new form of highly-compressed carbon may be even stronger than diamonds, since it may be able to withstand extreme pressure from all directions.
A video shot in south Sacramento has gone viral and, in a word, it’s brutal. It shows a mentally disabled woman being mocked, spit on, then punched in the face at a Sacramento strip mall on Mack Road. R...
Citizen journalist Ringo captured this speaker at the Occupy Los Angeles camp a few days ago letting the cat out of the bag: After dismissing nonviolence as a dead end, he admits that for the Occupiers t...
A Transportation Security Administration security officer is out on bail after he was arrested and charged with child pornography. Michael Scott Wilson, 41, has been suspended from his job following the a...
The occupy Wall Street movement may finally have a poster boy or two to point the finger at. Three San Francisco bank executives became the first senior executives to receive federal bailout money to be c...
A Transportation Safety Administration employee was taken into custody Tuesday after he unlawfully tried to bring a handgun into the secured area of Miami International Airport, police said. Just before n...
Pennsylvania's capital city voted to file for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection on Tuesday as it faced a state takeover, according to media reports. The City Council voted 4-3 to seek bankruptcy protection ...
Leaked cables show Japan nixed a presidential apology to Hiroshima and Nagasaki for using nukes to end the overseas contingency operation known as World War II. Will the next president apologize for the cu...
UK unemployment rose by 114,000 between June and August to 2.57 million, a 17-year high, according to official figures. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the unemployment rate also increased t...
Working in the city and living on one's own land far out in the countryside has always been a goal for many Americans. The recession has turned hours of commuting to and from work into a reality that's har...
Many people think heavy drinking causes promiscuity, violence and anti-social behaviour. That's not necessarily true, argues Kate Fox. I am a social anthropologist, but what I do is not the traditional int...
Earlier this year, South African townships were rocked by incidents of necklacing - mob-justice punishment in which tyres are forced over victims' shoulders and set alight. Is this notorious form of killin...
More than 400 people, mainly children, have died in an outbreak of viral encephalitis in northern India, health officials say. So far 2,300 patients have been admitted to a hospital in the affected Gorakh...
The president of the Canary Islands Paulino Rivero said there is no accurate data on the reorientation of the Magma which has resulted in the evacuation of La Restinga. He has asked for the people of El H...
The villages and farming communities that surround Uganda's capital, Kampala, are gripped by fear. Schoolchildren are closely watched by teachers and parents as they make their way home from school. In pl...
A team of US researchers has devised a way for people with impaired vision to use the touchscreen of an iPad as a Braille keyboard. It turns some previously fundamental thinking about how to make technolog...
RCMP in Newfoundland and Labrador Police say they are receiving many complaints about dangerous hunters who aren’t bothering to get out of their vehicles or leave roads before taking a shot at a moose. Sg...
Car and roadside bombs in Baghdad have killed at least 28 people, including police officers, officials say. Two suicide bombers detonated explosives-laden vehicles minutes apart in north-western Hurriya d...
Republicans in the US Senate have blocked President Barack Obama's jobs bill in a procedural vote. Forty-six Republican senators joined with two Democrats to filibuster the $447bn (£287bn) package. React...
Canadian cities are expected to get their first taste of the "Occupy Wall Street" movement this weekend amid questions about what reception the north-of-the-border version of demonstrations against corpora...
A deer farmer in New Brunswick has apparently been killed by an animal in his herd, police say. The 55-year-old man was found with multiple antler wounds Sunday evening inside his enclosed field in Saint-...
Sign from Occupy Wall Street. Image from We Know Memes.Five reasons the Occupy Wall Streetmovement really frightens the rightBy Robert Creamer / Progressive America Rising / October 12, 2011The Occupy Wall S...
*- by Rep. Franke Wilmer, candidate for Congress, Montana* Two hours after the attacks on the World Trade Center on Tuesday, September 11, 2001, the *Great Falls Tribune* called and asked me to write a gu...
It's been on and off the back burner for a year and a half, but the European debt crisis is finally nearing a boiling point. In fact, more than 80% of the experts surveyed by CNNMoney agree that the money...
August and September's see-sawing stock market may have induced nausea among investors, but for Wall Street's major investment banks, this volatility has most likely taken a huge toll on profits. As banks...
In almost 19 years as an independent nation, Slovakia has never attracted world attention as it does now. But the Slovakian Parliament's vote late Tuesday to reject plans for the euro zone's bailout fund g...
Thailand's capital was braced for unprecedented flooding Wednesday, amid the monsoon rains that have overwhelmed much of the country as well as Laos, Cambodia and the Philippines in recent weeks. "It's ...
Iranian outbursts towards the United States and Israel are nothing new, but the Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington surprised many people. Iran's animosity toward Saudi Arabia, h...
Millions of BlackBerry users remained without service on Wednesday as a three-day outage spread to North America. "BlackBerry subscribers in the Americas may be experiencing intermittent service delays ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Molucca Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 32 km (19.9 miles), the quake hit at 14:51:15 UTC Wednesday 12th October 2011. The epicenter was 155 km ( 96 miles) Southeast ...
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*Canadians have spend $18 BILLION on the War in Afghanistan. I still have a hard time trying to equate ANY value for this gross waste of tax dollars and human life. But leaving that aside, you really hav...
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SASKATOON -- New primary healthcare clinics, significant investments in doctor recruitment and Community Access Hospitals for rural areas are part of the NDP’s ambitious and innovative plan for health ca...
* Prince William's wife Kate Middleton (left) and Kate Middleton's friend Emma Sayle (right)* ** Emma Sayle has helped organise 'sex orgies' for top people. (Kate Middleton's chum Emma Sayle and the sex .....
As the new chairman of Apple's board of directors, Jobs will have plenty of oversight. Don't expect major changes.
[image: Animatrix, The Second Renaissance Part II. The destruction of the sky.] [The usual Desdemona disclaimer: So the leaders of men conceived of their most desperate strategy yet.] 12 October 2011 ...
Protect Rattlesnake Island Sacred Grounds of the Elem Pomo Nation – Clear Lake, Calif. *Nady Systems closes for Indigenous Peoples day – Elem Pomo assert aboriginal title to Rattlesnake Island* Monique So...
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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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 ...
[image: Slash-and-burn forest clearing along the Rio Xingu (Xingu River) in the state of Matto Grasso, Brazil. The photo was taken from the International Space Station on 17 September 2011. NASA/JSC] Ca...
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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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* (the Occupy Boston story picks up after the lesson on FAKE TERROR and NEWS DISTRACTIONS by the 1%) Occupy Boston protesters before being evicted by police; Veterans formed a l...
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[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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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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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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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...
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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 ...
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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"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
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*"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 ...
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*"Thomas Mulcair officially announced his candidacy for NDP leader Thursday, bringing the number of declared candidates to six and a new dynamic to the race."* CBC
British health officials say the country needs to slash 5 billion calories from its collective daily diet to slow the obesity epidemic. In a report issued Thursday, the department of health said most adult...
Eight leading European economic institutes have forecast a steep slowdown for Germany's economy. The eight think-tanks make a twice-yearly aggregate forecast of German growth. Six months ago they predict...
Elevated levels of radiation found in a residential area of Tokyo are almost certainly not connected to the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, say officials. The reading, taken on a small area of pavement ...
German police say they have found another firebomb set to go off next to train tracks in southwest Berlin. Federal police spokesman Meik Gauer said Thursday that experts were on hand to defuse the device....
China and the United States are the world's two largest economies and arguably each other's most important trading partners. And now, it seems the two countries find themselves on the brink of a trade war...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Northern Peru at a depth of 22.8 km (14.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:06:17 UTC Thursday 13th October 2011. The epicenter was 179 km ( 111 miles) ESE of Moyobamba, Peru...
Nanhao Group is, in many ways, an ordinary technology company. Its staff make online scoring systems, exam-mark scanners and other educational hardware and software. But many of its 500 employees in Hengs...
The beloved king of the tiny Himalayan nation of Bhutan married his commoner bride Thursday in an ancient Buddhist ceremony at the country's most sacred monastery fortress. King Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangc...
Security forces raided a northern Syrian city amid explosions and gunfire early Thursday and casualties have been reported, activists said. The forces clashed with gunmen believed to be dissidents in the c...
For the second consecutive day after a U.S. Senate vote aimed at penalizing China for undervaluing its currency, Beijing lowered the range at which the yuan could trade against the dollar. The People's Ba...
Walking along the tree-lined gravel track towards one of the Roman Empire's greatest architectural legacies, little can prepare you for what you are about to experience. As you emerge from the shade of th...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Aegean Sea, Greece at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 14:44:41 UTC Thursday 13th October 2011. The epicenter was 28 km ( 17.3 miles) Southwest of Kam...
An extraordinarily high level of radiation was detected in one spot in a central Tokyo residential district Thursday, prompting the local government to cordon off the small area, local officials said. Rad...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoRice grown in Fukushima Prefecture, host to the disaster-stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, is officially safe to eat. All samples provided for testing registered radioactive cesium contamination belo...
posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 12 hours ago[image: Breakthrough: Oestrogen could help in the fight against prostate cancer] Breakthrough: Oestrogen could help in the fight against prostate cancer Oestrogen could treat advanced prostate cancer i...
posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 1 day 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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