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*"Buckle Up, America, Dark Days Are Coming" * By The Economic Collapse Blog “Occupy Wall Street protests and the rise of the
Tea Party movement have both changed America, but you haven't seen anything ye...
NATO claims of 'victory" in
Libya up in smoke as fighting erupts in Tripoli and rebel "final assault" of Sirte drags on past one week. by Tony Cartalucci October 15, 2011 - Pro-Qaddafi protesters took to ...
Just about everyone stayed up all night last night, sitting in torrential downpours, waiting for the police to move in. The crowd was cheerful but determined, and tense - being arrested is Not Fun. Then ...
For the first time in like forever, Democrats are ahead of Republicans in the generic congressional polling. The question was "What is your preference for the outcome of next year’s congressional election...
It's difficult to imagine what the world of computing would be like if Steve Jobs hadn't come along.
Researchers have built a self-replicating molecule out of artificial
DNA.
Photographers and videographers lug heavy equipment and then put aside their own fears to take breathtaking images.
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 21.7 km (13.5 miles), the quake hit at 18:00:46 UTC Friday 14th October 2011. The epicenter was 170 km ( 105 miles) East of R...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Banda Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 400.6 km (248.9 miles), the quake hit at 17:24:29 UTC Friday 14th October 2011. The epicenter was 308 km ( 191 miles) Northeast from...
Trial for the Underwear Bomber started this week, on Tuesday. Since neither Kurt or I had been contacted about being witnesses or being sequestered from the courtroom, we decided to head down to the trial ...
Sascha Vongehr discusses the contrast between the scientific community's attitude to OPERA's superluminal neutrinos and climate change. Very shaky observational results in the latter case are being sold ...
An eastern diamond rattlesnake gives birth five years after mating. How does she swing it?
*"Weekly News Wrap-Up 10.14.11"* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com “The alleged Iranian plot to kill the Saudi Ambassador in Washington D.C. has put everyone on edge even though it was foiled. Secretary o...
Ray McGovern says, "Obama is playing with fire here and I don't think he realizes it. He is not in control here, Israel is. And everything, as I've said before, depends on how much of a wimp, how political...
* "Housing Idiocy Continues In The US"* by Karl Denninger "Dumb and dumber... "A year ago, her business was evenly split between home- purchase loans and refinancings that reduce interest rates on existin...
*"Twisted: The Curious Shape Into Which the * *Financial World Has Gotten Itself"* by Bill Bonner "In both Europe and America the financial sector has been on the edge of disaster for the last three years...
These latest images from the Hubble Telescope are among the clearest evidence yet of the mysterious effect of 'dark matter' on the galaxy - showing distortions akin to seeing an image reflected in a curved...
Violence erupted on Wall Street this morning with hundreds of protesters clashing with police as they marched in Manhattan - jumping over barriers, pushing over police scooters and blocking traffic. Fifte...
Stephen Harper speaks out in favour of "modernizing" the rules for succession when it comes to selecting Britain's, *and Canada's*, head of state. ...just so long as this modernization doesn't including ...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck offshore Iceland at a depth of 8 km (4.9 miles), the quake hit at 16:25:56 UTC Friday 14th October 2011. The epicenter was 201 km ( 124.6 miles) Northwest of Raufarhofn...
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Biased BBC - 4 hours ago
I know others have mentioned the BBC's biased coverage of the Occupiers, but I think it's important to look at them all together, so we can see the big picture, the larger context of the BBC's reporting. W...
A new class of flame-retardants were designed to be more sustainable. But they, too, may be getting into wild animals.
Sad and unexpected news, as former MP Reg Alcock died this morning at the age of 63. I'm sure most will remember his time in Cabinet, but what will stick in my mind was a mild controversy I helped stir u...
Imagine that you couldn't drive on major highways without agreeing to put a camera in your car -- one that could film either the occupants or the vehicle’s surroundings and transmit the images back to a ce...
UBS AG (UBSN), Lloyds Banking Group Plc (LLOY) and Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc (RBS) had long-term issuer default grades cut by Fitch Ratings, which put more than a dozen other lenders on watch negati...
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Some of the thousands of surface-to-air missiles that have gone missing since the collapse of the Gadhafi regime in Libya have now turned up just ...
Drug smugglers are endlessly creative when it comes to inventing ways to move marijuana, cocaine and other contraband from Mexico into the United States. In the latest innovation uncovered by law enforcem...
Top of France’s agenda when it took the presidency of the G20 last November was the arcane subject, “reducing imbalances”. Judged against its own goals one year on, then, it is fair to say the French presi...
On September 22, 2011, H.R. 3011 was introduced in the House. It is entitled the “Transportation Security Administration Authorization Act of 2011” and it contains some curious language. Two thirds of the...
Coast Guard member spit on near Occupy Boston tents: MyFoxBOSTON.com The Coast Guard in Boston confirmed that a woman in uniform was harassed and spat upon near Occupy Boston protesters. The woman was ...
A Somerville principal has opened fire on cherished American holidays, blasting legendary explorer Christopher Columbus for “atrocities” and saying “we need to be careful” about celebrating Thanksgiving in...
Meet the Roberts electric car. Built in 1896, it gets a solid 40 miles to the charge — exactly the mileage Chevrolet advertises for the Volt — the much-touted $31,645 electric car General Motors CEO Dan Ak...
Hemlines were soaked and raindrops spattered tuxedos, but not even a thunderous downpour could dampen the excitement of guests flocking to perhaps the most exclusive social event on Washington’s fall calen...
With Greece on the precipice of default and Portugal and Italy approaching the ledge, the European monetary union appears in peril. Should it collapse, the European Union itself could be in danger, for ec...
It’s a question many of us ask when we go out to a restaurant. “How much should I tip?” Whether your service is good or bad, San Francisco Restaurant workers want to implement a 25% standard tip onto your ...
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta chided congressional dysfunction and warned that cutting $450 billion in defense spending would take the Pentagon "to the edge" at a hearing on Thursday punctuated by anti-wa...
President Barack Obama said Thursday that officials at the "highest levels" of the Iranian government must be held accountable for a brazen and bizarre plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the Unite...
"As the faith that gave birth to the West is dying in the West, peoples of European descent from the steppes of Russia to the coast of California have begun to die out, as the Third World treks north to cl...
An apparently depressed maths teacher in southern France has died after setting herself on fire in the playground of her secondary school. Students and teachers rushed to help the woman, 44, after she dous...
A gun battle has broken out in the Libyan capital Tripoli between forces loyal to the transitional government and gunmen they say support fugitive ex-leader Col Muammar Gaddafi. The fighting started after...
The popular protests this year in North Africa and the Middle East - known as the Arab Spring - have cost the region more than $50bn, a new report says. The report, by consultancy group Geopolicity, says ...
Police in Tunisia have fired tear gas at hundreds of Islamists demonstrating in the capital, Tunis, reports say. One of the protests took place outside a private TV station which has angered Islamists by ...
In the Democratic Republic of Congo town of Kamako, seven kilometres (four miles) from the Angolan border, 10 women sit on sofas arranged in a circle by a local non-governmental organisation which helps di...
here are reports of swarms of the multicoloured Asian ladybug, an insect known to bite, in Ottawa's southern limits and making their way into more urban areas. Carleton University entomologist Jeff Dawson...
Fifteen puppies crammed into a plastic container and dumped by the side of the road in Sherbrooke are now in the care of the animal protection. The puppies, Labrador and boxer crosses, were found piled one...
Sudanese billionaire and communications mogul Mo Ibrahim has issued a warning to African leaders clinging to power, saying people are no longer prepared to put up with bad governance on the continent. Ibr...
Angel Gurria, Mexico's minister of finance between 1998 - 2000, is credited with helping steer his country's economy away from relative volatility toward a period of stability. Now, as Secretary-General...
Standard & Poor's downgraded Spain's credit rating Friday, blaming economic malaise and dim prospects. S&P lowered Spain's long-term rating to AA- with a negative outlook, citing risks to economic growth ...
I'm sure you've heard about how the Republicans, spurred on by Koch and other avatars of domestic fascism-- we'll leave the Iranian cash out of this equation for now-- are undermining the infrastructure ...
* One of the famous Dead Sea Squirrels? * *by Ken* Sure, squirrels look adorable, but as comics immemorial have pointed out, they're rats with better tails, or better fashion sense. You wouldn't go around...
Artificial muscles ten times smaller than a human hair have a thousand times more twist than previous ones.
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck offshore Maule, Chile at a depth of 25.1 km (15.6 miles), the quake hit at 15:31:58 UTC Friday 14th October 2011. The epicenter was 92 km ( 57 miles) WNW from Talca, C...
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Friday that at midnight Thursday Brookfield Office Properties -- the real-estate firm that owns Zuccotti Park -- made the decision not to clear out Wall Street prote...
In China, it is sometimes the doctors who call for medical help. In Beijing last month, an angry patient left a female doctor with 17 stab wounds. Wang Baoming, a cancer patient, allegedly attacked Dr. Xu...
Liam Fox has resigned as Defence Secretary, his office has confirmed, amid allegations he broke the ministerial code. He had come under intense pressure after mounting claims his friendship with lobbyist...
New study reports FDA underestimated cancer risk from Gulf seafood… ~Disenfranchised Citizen BP oil documentary 'The Big Fix' helps get N.O. Film Festival off to an explosive start Unvanished: Alaska edit...
ALERT AREA AND DURATION: Pacific region specifically, and world until October 20, 2011, midnight EST. EVENT: Marked increased in earthquakes in the past few days and highly active world monitors are indi...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck La Rioja, Argentina at a depth of 90.4 km (56.2 miles), the quake hit at 14:01:45 UTC Friday 14th October 2011. The epicenter was 192 km ( 120 miles) Southeast of Copia...
Sirte today The NTC is in chaos. *Malcolm Rifkind, who was born to a Jewish family from Lithuania; his cousin is Leon Brittan. *Liam Fox has resigned as UK Defence Minister. He MAY be replaced by Malc...
Mark Mardell has awoken. I assume he has been slumbering in recent days such has been his apparent lack of interest in the *OccupyWallStreet *movement. Initially, I thought that perhaps even HE would be em...
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Buckdog - 7 hours ago
*During his first term in power, Brad Wall had NO problem implementing the concept of 'revenue sharing' with Saskatchewan's municipal governments. However, when it comes to working with First Nations he re...
Friday arrives and so does THIS new Open Thread. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
The feature, Artist Experience, displays album art and other images broadcast from HD Radio stations.
3M plans to sell solar film that can stick to a window to both cool your house and generate power.
A surfer has the ride of his life when he ends up standing on top of a thrashing great white instead of his surf board.
JVC's comfy and affordable new Marshmallow sound-isolating earphones sound amazing.
Gonna finish up this week with a round up of news post and a reminder- The Iranian plot as a cover up for the Fast and Furious/Iran Contra scandal Interesting read here. It may not be the whole story but it ...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck the Gulf of Alaska at a depth of 0.1 km (0 miles), the quake hit at 13:03:03 UTC Friday 14th October 2011. The epicenter was 147 km ( 92 miles) South from Cordova, Alas...
Three more cases of Legionnaire’s Disease connected to a historic Boardwalk hotel were confirmed this week, including an elderly out-of-state victim who has died from the disease, while state and local hea...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 40.7 km (25.3 miles), the quake hit at 11:01:45 UTC Friday 14th October 2011. The epicenter was 68 km ( 42 miles) ESE of Neiafu, Tonga No Tsunami Wa...
How did you like that crackpot anti-Choice bill Boehner and Cantor-- who claim they're too busy to even allow a vote on the president's proposed jobs legislation-- passed yesterday? They're calling it th...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Halmahera, Indonesia at a depth of 111.3 km (69.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:01:09 UTC Friday 14th October 2011. The epicenter was 227 km ( 141 miles) NNE of Ternate,...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 66.6 km (41.4 miles), the quake hit at 09:26:53 UTC Friday 14th October 2011. The epicenter was 61 km ( 37 miles) Ea...
[image: Link]The United Nations says the death toll in Syria's unrest now exceeds 3,000 and has warned of the danger of a "full-blown civil war" in the troubled country. The UN Commissioner for Human Rig...
The Gulf States have called for an emergency Arab foreign ministers' meeting on the rising bloodshed in Syria as Damascus shows no let-up in its deadly crackdown on protests. The United Nations has said...
So your employer called you incompetent. Or you disagree with your write-up. You're hopping mad. It's a lie! You're ready to sue. Slander. Libel. It has to be something you can sue for, right? Meh. Probabl...
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wmtc - 9 hours ago
I posted this in comments on the protest Dick Cheney thread, but it may have gotten buried. From the Department of If Only, cross-referenced under After The Revolution. Amnesty International is calling o...
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wmtc - 9 hours ago
The flood of calls and emails, and a steady stream of supporters joining the protesters in Zuccotti Park early this morning, caused New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to re-think his plan to "clean" Zuc...
The Indian Air Force will hold the sixth placement fair here on Saturday to provide resettlement opportunities to its air warriors in PSUs and corporate sector."More than 800 companies and 16,000 air warri...
Several thousand Indian Army soldiers posted in rugged mountain terrain of Jammu and Kashmir along the borders with Pakistan and China will now be able to stay comfortably with the military commanders conf...
Indian INSAS Rifle (5.56 mm) with Fixed and Foldable ButtINSAS Excalibur Mark-I rifle (5.56 mm). Read More
India and Russia are working on a new version of the Brahmos which will be able to achieve hypersonic speeds (fly at Mach 7 ). Hypersonic Brahmos will require a completely new engine to power it and new ma...
Russia has completed the sea trails of fourth-generation Severodvinsk nuclear powered attack submarine and Russian Navy is scheduled to receive its first Severodvinsk submarine in late 2011. Read More
Chinese JH-7 Flying Leopard Fighter-Bomber With KD-88 (KongDi-88) air to surface missile. Read More
CM-32 "Clouded Leopard" is also known as Taiwan Infantry Fighting Vehicle (TIFV) is equipped with Browning .50 Caliber Machine Gun. Clouded Leopard an 8-wheeled armoured vehicle Read More
People's Liberation Army Air Force officials has denied the rumor that a J-10B Vigorous Dragon fighter jet has crashed in Xi'an by saying that it is a complete fiction Read More
Chinese HQ-16 is a medium-range surface-to-air missile (SAM) system which can be launched vertically. Read MOre
Admiral (R) Saeed Muhammad Khan has said that controversial purchase of the Agosta 90 B SSK was made by the PPP government when Pakistan Navy was asking the federal government to buy the 6 Upholder class ...
Pakistani soldiers during the Joint Saudi-Pak Exercise AL-SAMSAAM-IV-2011near Jhelum.Troops from the Pakistan Army and Royal Saudi Land Forces took part in the exercise.Exercise covered the Anti-terrorist...
*Coffee, chocolate destroyed by AGW* The lower chamber of the Australian Parliament approved the AUD $22.90 per ton of CO2 carbon tax. Given the current distribution of forces, the looming approval in the...
All Down The Line: Trains to High Strangeness By Scott Corrales “Everybody hears the sound of a train in the distance; everybody knows its true.” – Paul Simon The lonely whistle of a train plowing its ...
*STATEMENT OF DEPUTY MAYOR CAS HOLLOWAY ON BROOKFIELD PROPERTIES POSTPONING THEIR CLEANING OF ZUCCOTTI PARK* “Late last night, we received notice from the owners of Zuccotti Park – Brookfield Properties...
*The case for bold action to put Americans back to work is overwhelming, a top White House adviser said on Thursday, and opponents are turning their backs on the millions of the country's long-term unemp...
Tyrannosaurs teens packed on the weight and slowed down during adulthood.
As you can see in the right sidebar, each of the major LHC detectors, LHC and ATLAS, has delivered 5 inverse femtobarns of collisions (which includes 0.04/fb from 2010: not too important at this point). ...
Riot van rolling, pepper spray and ties fully stocked! #OccupyDenver
A crane lifts a large piece of rubble from the debris of the World Trade Center. (Doug Kanter/AFP/Getty Images) Photo courtesy: theepochtimes.com Nearly 3,000 people died in the terrorist attack on the Wor...
The key to cracking the trigger on a super-volcano is in the dome.
Photo courtesy: Rev7 Throwing out gum isn't much better for the environment than swallowing it is for your stomach. That's because conventional gum doesn't biodegrade. Ever. And Americans chew around 100 ...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Banda Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 86.7 km (53.9 miles), the quake hit at 06:09:28 UTC Friday 14th October 2011. The epicenter was 255 km ( 158 miles) NNW of Saumlaki,...
''There is a gap of several kilometers of ejected magma from one side to the other'' The Technical Centre for Scientific Research (CSIC) Ramon Ortiz said Valverde on Thursday released an update of what is...
Police are surrounding Westlake right now, they are using bicycles as barricades around the structure. There have been five arrests as of 10:39pm, there are quite a few people inside a structure and the po...
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Broken of Britain - 13 hours ago
*Protesters are preparing to set up camp outside the London Stock Exchange, expanding Occupy Wall Street demonstrations that began in New York.* About 6,000 people have signaled their intent to attend a p...
* * *From their own OFFICIAL PARTY website: http://greens.org.au/policies/human-rights-democracy/global-governance.* * * * * *Dumbing down our children and creating zombie droids that focus entirely on d...
A high radiation dose detected in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on Thursday is probably due to radium and unrelated to the nuclear crisis at the crippled, radioactive cesium-leaking Fukushima Daiichi power plant, ...
*Valley High School leaders talked with parents about their reaction to a viral meningitis outbreak. * Parents and students met at Valley High School Thursday night to voice concerns over the Fayette Co...
FirstEnergy Corp. and Nuclear Regulatory Commission engineers Thursday were studying a hairline crack in the concrete shield building outside the reactor containment structure at the Davis-Besse nuclear pl...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Poland at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 04:15:45 UTC Friday 14th October 2011. The epicenter was 8 km ( 4.9 miles) Southeast of Glogow, Poland No r...
Scuba divers and beachgoers beware: Perhaps as many as a million jellyfish have moved into Sattahip Bay making a day at the beach a potentially painful experience. Royal Thai Navy officials said the inv...
The biggest Moslem country in the world is Indonesia. Indonesia has become more friendly with China. Indonesia is being got at. *Indonesia Could Face Economic Crash, IMF Warns* On 14 October 2011, the I...
This at least sounds like it might have practical application. The efficiency is low, but so too is the efficiency of almost all solar cell technologies. Most of those started with 2 to 5 perce...
This is welcome news. Even more welcome is that the process conserves water. It appears to barely waste any at all. Thus a growing operation can be placed directly near or even in a large urban...
Folks are starting to become braver in their pronouncements on the existence of large bipedal primates in the wilds of temperate North America and Asia. Here again we have more reports of hair an...
The unintended consequence of too much law is that too many failed lawyers are available to become judges and even the bottom of the barrel can be picked clean. We already understand that the...
Suspected tornadoes touched down Thursday in New Kent County and Louisa County, the rural community at the epicenter of an Aug. 23 5.8-magnitude earthquake, the National Weather Service said. About a doze...
Protesters will resist any efforts to remove them from the Lower Manhattan park where they have been camped for nearly a month, despite Mayor Michael Bloomberg's order that they vacate the park at 7 a.m. F...
A magnitude 6.1 earthquake has struck Amurskaya Oblast, Russia at a depth of 15.3 km (9.5 miles), the quake hit at 06:10:15 UTC Friday 14th October 2011. The epicenter was 130 km ( 80 miles) SSW from Tynda,...
A fighter jet plunged to the ground and exploded as it took part in an air display at a show in northern China Friday, organisers and state media said. China's state-run television CCTV showed images of th...
[updated below] A New York subsidiary of the Toronto-based Canadian asset management company that owns Zuccotti Park has written to the...
The Higher Security Council, in charge of "organizing and securing Tripoli," announced Thursday that courts in the city will start operating next week. "People must realize that the country's system has...
Chinese orphanages may still be buying babies and offering them for foreign adoption despite a series of recent scandals, Sky News has discovered. The revelations come after China's foreign adoption progra...
"Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur," a Latin phrase, means "The world wants to be deceived, so let it be deceived." The saying is ascribed to Petronius, a Roman satirist from the first century, CE. "The...
Google has announced the third quarter results; the report says Google has made a large rise in profits in the three months to September. The search engine said net income in the third quarter surged 26%...
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CENSORED NEWS - 16 hours ago
Update: Click link for Denver Post photos, including protester sitting on street blocking dump truck: http://photos.denverpost.com/mediacenter/2011/10/photos-occupy-showdown-in-denver/#8 Police at Occupy...
Amateur astronomers have for the first time spotted an asteroid that comes close enough to earth to pose a threat of impact. Volunteers picked out the cosmic rock - named asteroid 2011 SF108 - last month ...
uAn ex-NYPD officer admitted last week that the force regularly busts innocent people on bogus drug charges to meet arrest requirements. Eight police officers have been arrested in total in the landmark dr...
"One day at a time - this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beauti...
USGS had this earthquake listed as a 6.7 Magnitude, I have checked several stations and Jakarta picked up tremors of 7.5 Magnitude. Here is a list of different stations which picked up this Earthquake: (l...
*"Occupy Wall Street To Be Evicted?"* By Wit's End "Mayor Bloomberg has announced that tomorrow, Friday, Zuccotti Park will be "cleaned". As the letter from Brookfield Properties to Police Commissioner ...
Permalink *My Advice to the Occupy Wall Street Protesters* Hit bankers where it hurts ------------------------------ Protesters at the 'Occupy Wall Street' movement demonstrate in New York.By MATT TAIB...
In typical Mars fashion, it appears Hesperia Planum, an otherwise "unremarkable" region on the Martian surface, has been hiding some secrets.
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 283.9 km (176.4 miles), the quake hit at 03:48:22 UTC Friday 14th October 2011. The epicenter was 77 km ( 48 miles) NNE from Isangel, Vanuatu No T...
President Obama today declared Iran will be isolated from the rest of the world and ‘pay a price’ for its alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the U.S. in Washington D.C. His commen...
David Lutrin is a school teacher and progressive union activist in South Florida. You may remember him as one of Blue America's favorite candidates back in 2006 when he was taking on sex-obsessed Republi...
A magnitude 6.7 earthquake has struck the Eastern New Guinea Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 45.4 km (28.2 miles), the quake hit at 03:35:17 UTC Friday 14th October 2011. The epicenter was 104 km ( ...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck South Atlantic Ocean at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 23:27:31 UTC Thursday 13th October 2011. The epicenter was 708 km ( 439 miles) West of Grytviken,...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 28.1 km (17.5 miles), the quake hit at 21:05:15 UTC Thursday 13th October 2011. The epicenter was 166 km ( 103 miles)...
“The Milky Way arches across this rare 360-degree panorama of the night sky above the Paranal observing platform in Chile, home of ESO's Very Large Telescope. The image was made from 37 individual frames w...
*"Living Potential: Sharing Your Gift with Others"* by The DailyOm "Your earthly existence provides you with ample opportunity to explore your purpose and use your gifts. The gifts we are born with and th...
As many readers of this blog probably know, the Integral Fast Reactor project was killed by a very narrow Senate vote in 1994, with the connivance of the Clinton administration. This was all done very much ...
*And they are less credible.* "Iranians Accused of a Plot to Kill Saudis’ U.S. Envoy" by Charlie Savage and Scott Shane, October 11, 2011 WASHINGTON — The United States on Tuesday accused Iranian official...
Self-styled superhero Phoenix Jones unmasked himself before cameras Thursday and vowed to keep fighting crime after prosecutors delayed a decision on whether to press assault charges against him. Jones --...
*This photo appeared with a post yesterday, "Remembering Frank Kameny, civil rights pioneer," on the blog of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, showing (l-r): former museum director Bre...
"This case illustrates that we live in a world where borders and boundaries are increasingly irrelevant. A world where individuals from one country sought to conspire with a drug trafficking cartel in an...
Bush is a turd. Cheney is a turd. Clinton is a turd. Gore is a turd. Biden is a turd. And Obama is a turd. Watch all the bullshit come out of Obama's mouth.
Back in the 90's, I put together a satirical dictionary that was modeled closely on Ambrose Bierce's *The Devil's Dictionary*, only with a more liberal bias. In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the...
[image: Global Mercury Emissions from Human Activities, 1990-2007. Global mercury emissions inventories suggest that during the time period of 1990-2007, global anthropogenic emissions increased 17 perce...
Voters might be more likely to vote for a politician if they show a green mind-set.
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*"The Avid Pursuer"* by Chet Raymo "In his autobiography, "Speak Memory," the novelist and lepidopterist Vladimir Nabokov writes of the joys of butterfly collecting: "The highest enjoyment of timelessnes...
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CENSORED NEWS - 22 hours ago
Border Patrol Mexicali, Calif. Indymedia*Romanticizing the Border Patrol: Why Big Media Flops* *By Brenda Norrell* Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ The big media CNN, New York Times and th...
This is what an American hero looks like.
"Boston area college students join Wall St. protest" October 10, 2011|Steve LeBlanc, Associated Press *Well, my October 11 printed edition carried a story that I can't find on the web.* * * *In it I was ...
* * * * *Despite of the corporate media's effort to silence the protests, the occupation is growing in numbers and spreading to other cities in the US and abroad. **Join us! * *October 15th Global Day Of ...
The 100,000-year-old workshop is the earliest example of an art studio.
From a provincial population of 7.5 million, up to 30,000 children were seized from families by youth authorities in 2006, processed in secret trials, and placed in group homes, institutions or forced ad...
[image: True Survivor - Cynodonts. The only land survivors of 6C global warming. motivatedphotos.com] Media Contact: Todd McLeish, 401-874-7892 11 October 2011 KINGSTON, R.I. – While the cause of the ...
The marble portrait is believed to be made after the sculptor's David masterpiece.
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wmtc - 1 day ago
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced plans to evict the Occupy Wall Street protesters at 7:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. Please pick up the phone! Call the Mayor's office, call Brookfield Prop...
Tuesday night Harry Reid failed to break the obstructionist Republican filibuster of even *debating* a jobs bill. The cloture motion needed 60 and only got 50, every single Republican plus two conservativ...
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Not PC - 1 day ago
*Jonathan Livingston reports from his eyrie above Papamoa Beach.* *UPDATE, 9:19am, 14 October*: A report on Newstalk ZB just moments ago appeared to claim that the beaches at Papamoa are now clean due...
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Buckdog - 1 day ago
The One Ronnie - BBC
1/2 2/2 Read Will Israel bomb Iran without notifying the US? By Patrick Seale.
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Not PC - 1 day ago
I’m certainly not the only one to be, um, disappointed about the $2m of taxpayers’ money spent on the Tupperwaka to “showcase” Ngati Whatua culture to Rugby World Cup visitors. At least, that was how it...
A new issue of Physics Today (which is affiliated with the American Physical Society) offers some texts about black hole mergers, lab safety standards for students, and all kinds of things such as nanosc...
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Biased BBC - 1 day ago
Question Time tonight comes from London and features a panel so dreadful it will make your eyes bleed. On the panel we have Andrew Lansley, Red Ken Livingstone, former chief press spokesman for the Liber...
A radiation hotspot reaching levels of 3.35 microsieverts per hour is reported for a street in Tokyo, 136 miles from Fukushima.
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Buckdog - 1 day ago
*The following post was originally published in Next Year Country: "Can someone explain why Premier Brad Wall, now standing for re-election in Saskatchewan, was passionate about his support for single de...
*Not the physically impossible fall of those World Trade Center towers due to jet fuel, but something else:* "Inside the collapse; Dedication waned, unity unraveled, and manager lost influence as a once-i...
OccupyGreensboro continues to plan for the Saturday, October 15, 2011, march. We trained the legal observers and worked out more of the logistics last evening at Elon Law School. Consult the website Occupy...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 40 km (24.8 miles), the quake hit at 18:09:05 UTC Thursday 13th October 2011. The epicenter was 171 km ( 106 miles) E...
“The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs; the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, ’Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; f...
"Investors to relaunch NorthPoint project" by Casey Ross Globe Staff /October 6, 2011 A new team of investors is set to resume construction of the massive NorthPoint development, a $2 billion mini-city bet...
*"What Happens Next?"* by James Quinn “I felt like I could see everything that happened, and everything that is going to happen. It was like a perfect pattern, laid out in front of me. And I realized we'...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Mariana Islands Region at a depth of 34.9 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 17:53:22 UTC Thursday 13th October 2011. The epicenter was 153 km ( 95 miles) ESE of Sa...
Millions of BlackBerry users remained without service on Wednesday as a three-day network outage spread to North America, causing massive frustrations for people who rely on these smartphones for busines...
No one ever lost money betting on the dull predictability of the US government. Just as Occupy Wall Street is firing imaginations all across the spectrum - piercing the noxious revolving door between gover...
Nakhon Sawan municipality's last defence collapsed. The city is now totally submerged. The province governor has declared the disaster area so that emergency fund can be immediately used to repair the dam...
When walking through my local Dollar Tree the other day I walked past this orange bubble frame and since my mind was already on pumpkins, I immediately wanted to make pumpkins out of them. I knew it wou...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck the Cyprus Region at a depth of 60 km (37.2 miles), the quake hit at 17:14:14 UTC Thursday 13th October 2011. The epicenter was 74 km ( 45.8 miles) Southwest of Gazipas...
A passenger plane carrying 32 people crashed near the Papua New Guinea coast, officials said Thursday, with witness reports saying only four people on board had survived. The Airlines PNG Dash-8 was flyin...
By Ned Potter Oct 12, 2011 2:32pm Sony PlayStation Network Hacked Again, Closes 93,000 Accounts Email 3 Smaller Font Text Larger Text | Print Sony Corp. says its PlayStation online gaming network has been h...
An algorithm that analyzes words and their distribution offers hints about the Bible's authors.
Device evenly stretches guitar strings without the raw fingers.
*EMERGENCY CALL TO ACTION: Prevent the forcible closure of Occupy Wall Street!* *Tell Bloomberg: Don't Foreclose the Occupation.* *Join us at 6AM FRIDAY for non-violent eviction defense.* Please take a ...
*Calvert & Cantor-- backing job growth, but not in America* Although Ken Calvert is probably best known in his Orange County, California district for when he was arrested in a public park with a young drug...
The Obama administration on Wednesday sought to reconcile what it said was solid evidence of an Iranian plot to murder Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States with a wave of puzzlement and skepticis...
Wall Street may not be occupied for much longer. Two days after Mayor Michael Bloomberg said protesters could stay in Zuccotti Park "indefinitely" if they followed the law, the mayor visited them tonight ...
Slovakian lawmakers on Thursday approved expanding the size and powers of the EU bailout fund, overcoming an earlier rejection and removing the last hurdle to the fund's use as the continent's main weapon ...
[image: A team of aquatic biologists use a net to collect endangered fish from the Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos River in a rural area just west of Sagerton, Texas, Friday, Sept. 16, 2011. The team ...
Clint Richardson- this is the first time I have heard him interviewed. I enjoyed it immensely! Be prepared to spend almost two hours listening, to this wide ranging interview. For myself, some information ...
The Air Force says the computer virus that hit the unmanned drone program last month was not directed at the military systems, but was common malware used to steal log-ins and passwords used in online gami...
An Oregon man surfed on more than just his board Monday - he actually stood atop a thrashing Great White shark for several terrifying seconds. Doug Niblack was surfing off the coast of Seaside, Ore., when ...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Baja California, Mexico at a depth of 6.8 km (4.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:57:13 UTC Thursday 13th October 2011. The epicenter was 47 km ( 30 miles) East from Manea...
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is auditing how Google Inc. (GOOG) avoided federal income taxes by shifting profit into offshore subsidiaries, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. The age...
Egypt's air force chief said on Thursday that Egyptian warplanes are patrolling Sinai without Israel's consent, despite a 1979 peace treaty limiting Egypt's military presence in the peninsula. "Sinai is o...
Anti-Wall Street protesters say the rich are getting richer while average Americans suffer, but the group that started it all may have benefited indirectly from the largesse of one of the world's richest m...
A recently released video shows a former Polk County bus attendant hitting, pushing, biting and pulling the hair of a 14-year-old on the bus. The incident happened at the end of last school year. Today t...
It might have been the first piece of mail you got after your recent move. And if you’re still unpacking, look for it. You can’t miss it. It’s the “welcome kit” from the U.S. Postal Service — stuffed into ...
France's education minister says a high school math teacher in southern France sprayed herself with a flammable product and set herself alight in the school yard during recreation. Luc Chatel said the mot...
View more videos at: http://nbcchicago.com. A pair of female Chicago Public High School students violently assaulted a fellow female student during class last week while at least four other students s...
A 15-year-old Hoboken girl was assaulted in a Downtown Jersey City park Friday night by a group of roughly 30 girls who stole her cellphone, police reports said. Police were called to the park on Wayne St...
[image: Aerial view of the Colorado River at Lake Powell. The 'bathtub ring' shows how much water has been depleted by years of drought and depletion by human usage. Peter McBride / Yale Environment 360]...
Nominee is establishment stooge, steeped in organizations renowned for extraterritorial meddling and subversion. by Tony Cartalucci ** *am-bas-sa-dor (n.) A diplomatic official of the highest rank appoint...
[image: Josefina Lema Aguilar, a Kichwa elder at Conversations with the Earth 2011. nationalgeographic.com] By Brian Clark Howard, National Geographic News 11 October 2011 The air in the auditorium sme...
Human waste has become a problem as litter and detritus piles up on the top of the mountain.
On the same day Blackberry outages swept over the country, Apple launched iOS 5.
Halloween is still weeks away, but already a popular Haunted House in Fremont is being forced to close its doors after the city called it a public safety hazard. For the past seven years, Chris Stelle has...
Large caches of weapons from Libya are making their way across the Egyptian border and flooding black markets in Egypt’s already unstable Sinai Peninsula, according to current and former Egyptian military ...
More U.S. homes are entering the foreclosure process, but they're taking ever longer to get sold or repossessed by lenders. The number of U.S. homes that received a first-time default notice during the Ju...
The number of people applying for unemployment benefits fell slightly last week, a sign the job market isn't getting much better. Applications ticked down by 1,000 to a seasonally adjusted 404,000, the La...
Google Analytics support in Blogger
Having a solid understanding of the traffic and visitor engagement statistics of your blog is one of the best ways to help it grow, and that’s why today we’re excited to announce that you can now easily connect your
Google Analytics account with your blog.
Adding Google Analytics to your blog will give you more insight into where your visitors are coming from and help you determine which content they engage with the most. It's an easy to use, powerful, free product that is used internationally by businesses large & small.
If you already have a Google Analytics account, simply navigate to your blog’s Settings > Other tab and enter your blog's Google Analytics
Web Property ID. Blogger will then insert Google Analytics code into your blog automatically, regardless of which template you're using, including mobile.
For more details and troubleshooting tips, check out this post on the
Blogger Developers Network blog.
A few notes:
- Google Analytics is supported on blogs using Dynamic Views, Layouts templates, and mobile templates, but not Classic templates.
- Because of the technical differences in how Blogger’s stats and Google Analytics collect data, you are likely to see some minor discrepancies between the two.
Posted by Muthu Kannan, Software Engineer
— A Googler
Lightbox update
When we enabled a brand new photo viewing experience, called
Lightbox, by default a few weeks ago, we heard from a number of Bloggers who preferred to use their own, previously installed Lightbox solution, or who simply wanted to continue blogging without the new feature.
Thanks to your feedback, we turned Lightbox off temporarily, and we’re re-launching it today with the option to disable it, along with a handful of fixes to bugs that you reported.
To learn more about Lightbox and how it works, check out the
original blog post.
If you’d like to disable Lightbox on your blog, log in to Blogger and select “No” next to Lightbox in the
Settings | Posts and Comments section (new interface) or the
Settings | Formatting section (old interface).
Thanks again for your detailed suggestions, and please continue to share your feedback in our
help forum.
Posted by Marcos Almeida, Software Engineer
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