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*I've got my own, sorry. * "An angry detour for Sox owner John Henry" by Peter Abraham Globe Staff /October 15, 2011 Red Sox owner
John W. Henry was cruising through town in his
Volvo SUV yesterday listen...
*One could say that of the whole damn paper. * "Truth, justice, and plenty of violence" by Bella English Globe Staff /October 15, 2011
Lois Lane shacking up? Superman graphically tortured in an electric ch...
Parents can improve family life by switching off TVs and computers to communicate better, experts said today. Technological advances combined with hectic schedules have led to parents and children spend...
Men stressed by their job security and finances during the recession are more likely to cheat on their partners, new research reveals. When men feel threatened, such as during economic turmoil, they go i...
*The more things "change" in Massachusetts....* "Liquor lobby gives $45,000 to treasurer; Grossman aide says gifts won't affect actions" September 30, 2011|By
Frank Phillips, Globe Staff In his *biggest o...
Confident, charismatic, successful – he seems like the perfect catch. But once he’s ‘snared’ you, the charm is switched off and your life changes for ever. Anna Moore asks what it’s like to be in a relat...
Doomsday preacher
Harold Camping was left a laughing stock when his prediction that the world would end on May 21 failed to materialise. But the 90-year-old Californian may well have the last laugh after...
From our neighbour blog at Wit's End: After the exhaustion of staying up all night Thursday to deter the threatened eviction of Occupy Wall Street early Friday, which to much teary jubilation, was thwarte...
"Fla. lawmaker says dwarf tossing could help jobless" October 08, 2011|By Bloomberg News MIAMI - Jobless dwarfs should have the option of being flung around a barroom for cash rather than standing in the ...
"Man denies leaving boy at NFL game" Associated Press / October 15, 2011 CLEVELAND - A man accused along with his wife of abandoning their 9-year-old foster son at a Cleveland Browns game denied leaving th...
What a day! We've been working with a coalition of online groups for 2 weeks and finally launched OccupyTheBoardRoom early this morning, after tweaking final details all last night. And then we did our l...
*Sorry I haven't been paying attention to it, readers. Globe has had articles nearly every day and all I've been doing is giving them the big, black X with the pen. * "Jackson investigator admits mistake...
"Eight people were killed and one wounded yesterday in a shooting at a hair salon in a normally sedate Southern California beach community, authorities said..... --more**--" "The former wife of the man s...
"Calif. city faulted in failing to stop suicide" October 1, 2011 ALAMEDA, Calif. - Authorities’ response to a suicidal man who waded into the ocean and died while rescuers watched was marked by miscommunic...
"A teenager was killed and his brother was critically injured when they were overcome by fumes in a tunnel at the recycling plant where they worked, Kern County officials said yesterday.... --more--"
*While the forces of fascism were looking for phantom terrorists and molesting your wives*: "After 9/11, US lax on foreign insect invasion" October 11, 2011|Associated Press FRESNO, Calif. - Dozens of fo...
*Haven't you paid enough for those lies, America?* "Police say driver hid plate to avoid toll" October 14, 2011|Associated Press NEW YORK - A Virginia truck driver used a low-tech device to try to get out...
"A helicopter with five people aboard crashed into the East River yesterday afternoon after taking off from a launch pad on the riverbank, killing one passenger and injuring the others. All the passengers ...
"A Pennsylvania man attacked by a bear inside his home after the animal followed his dog inside has a newfound appreciation for the power of nature after he needed 70 staples and stitches to close the gapi...
"A CIA contractor caused a vertebrae fracture and other injuries to a man during a fight over a parking space in Colorado months after the contractor was involved in a fatal shootout in Pakistan, according...
"The grand champion goat from this year’s Colorado State Fair and another goat raised by the same family were disqualified after testing positive for an unapproved feed additive, state officials said yeste...
After the exhaustion of staying up all night Thursday to deter the threatened eviction of Occupy Wall Street early Friday, which to much teary jubilation, was thwarted, I came home for a nap and then retur...
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"Grandmother guilty in child’s death" October 07, 2011|Associated Press FAIRFAX, Va. - A Virginia grandmother was convicted yesterday of first-degree murder and sentenced to 35 years in prison for tossing ...
"Suspect sought pregnant woman for baby" October 12, 2011|Associated Press MILWAUKEE - Desperate to give her boyfriend a son but *unable to conceive*, Annette Morales-Rodriguez *faked a pregnancy* for mont...
*I'm no predator.* "Candy shaped like marijuana that's showing up on store shelves around the country won't get kids high, but aghast city leaders and anti-drug activists say the product and grocers carry...
*Day 1 Occupy London Stock Exchange; Julian Assange pays homage to the work of Anonymous. Thanks you Mr. Assange for acknowledging our effort.*
What a day it was. Thousands of people marched from Government Plaza past the International Civil Rights Museum and immediately started to network, pitch tents, cook food and distribute hundreds of cold wa...
*I always lose my appetite reading a Globe. * "Muslim inmates sue over halal meals" by Andrew Welsh-Huggins Associated Press / October 4, 2011 COLUMBUS, Ohio - A Muslim death row inmate says the Ohio pris...
Unelected corporate-funded policy makers constitute the greatest threat to US national security. by Tony Cartalucci October 16, 2011 - While US politicians grapple over the credibility of using the US DE...
"Mo. repeals teacher-Facebook law" September 24, 2011|Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri lawmakers voted overwhelmingly yesterday to repeal part of a contentious new law that had prohibited te...
"Baby’s family ‘scraping for anything’" October 07, 2011|Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The parents of a missing 10-month-old girl have given police more than a dozen names as they try to think of pot...
*Neo Nazis show up armed to counter protest Occupy Phoenix* By Phoenix Class War Council http://firesneverextinguished.blogspot.com/2011/10/national-socialist-movement-scum-show.html Today at the first m...
"Mom who tried to sell baby to be freed" by ASSOCIATED PRESS October 1, 2011 VANCOUVER, Wash. - A woman who *tried to sell her baby* boy at a Taco Bell restaurant in southwest Washington will be freed from...
"A Texas *grocery store employee* who was *wrongly convicted* and spent nearly 25 years in prison in his wife’s beating death walked free yesterday after DNA tests showed another man was responsible. His a...
"A *fire* sparked as workers mixed *chemicals at a plant* south of Dallas shot massive flames and plumes of black smoke into the sky yesterday, forcing schoolchildren and residents to flee or take cover in...
*Good for them!* "There’s a legal battle brewing in Georgia over whether licensed gun owners should be allowed to carry firearms to churches, synagogues, mosques, and other places of worship after state l...
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Buckdog - 4 hours ago
*"Asked what was has been the most regrettable mistake of his first term, Wall quickly responded “that we didn’t build more caution in ’09 budget” that overestimated potash revenues by a massive $2 billi...
"US asks court to halt Alabama’s immigration law" October 08, 2011|By Greg Bluestein, Associated Press ATLANTA - The federal government asked an appeals court yesterday to stop Alabama officials from enfo...
Penang, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia. Thanks for stopping by.
*Smile, Rupert, your show's a hit!* Hmm, sounds like they're gearing up for trouble there in MurdochWorld. Now let's see, why do you suppose the News Corpies might be unusually agitated this year? Grounds...
"A man who does not think for himself does not think at all." - Oscar Wilde
*"Study Claims Modern Language Evolved * *From Yoda-Like Speech"* by redOrbit "The original "proto-human language" that many linguists believe all modern languages evolved from might have closely resem...
"R.I. slashes restrictions on illegal immigrants" October 08, 2011|By Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff PROVIDENCE - As Alabama and Arizona embrace harsh new immigration laws, the state of Rhode Island is goin...
In China the birth defect rate has jumped from 8.77 per 1,000 in 1996, to 15 per 1,000 in 2010, according to Report on Women and Children’s Health Development published on Sept. 21. Experts attributed the ...
It's near midnight, and I'm holed up in a rickety hotel in Proserpine, a whistle-stop town on the northeast coast of Australia. Yasi, a Category 5 hurricane with 200-mile-per-hour winds that's already been...
Gucci stores in Shenzhen, China are facing allegations from former employees of operating as high-end “sweatshops,” according to reports earlier this week in China’s English-language newspapers, China Dail...
How outsourcing affects the U.S. economy really has been a subject of great debate. A study was conducted by Enterprise Systems in 2006; the main cause of domestic companies to outsource is to control cost...
If you thought living on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches could get you through the recession, think again. The sandwich spread is seeing a major price hike. Thanks to a failing peanut crop due to last ...
The northern Italian city of Milan banned all traffic from its streets for 10 hours on Sunday in an attempt to reduce smog. The measure, first imposed on a trial basis in 2007, is triggered whenever pollu...
Acting on a tip, state environmental inspectors in February paid a surprise visit to a dairy farm in Eatonton. They found the owner pumping gallon upon gallon of liquefied cow manure into a freshwater pond...
This year’s white shrimp season off the coast of Louisiana looks like a bust, despite the fact that state fishery experts had predicted a bumper crop. But that was before the BP oil spill hit last April – ...
In the Gulf, new information is confirming fears that fish and wildlife -- and millions of people on the Coast -- are being seriously impacted by the 4.9 million barrels of BP oil spewed from the ocean dee...
In recent decades, Arctic sea ice has suffered a dramatic decline that exceeds climate model predictions. The unexpected rate of ice shrinkage has now been explained by researchers at CNRS, Université Jose...
Great Lakes shorelines are becoming clogged by algae blooms fed by agricultural run-off, while invasive mussels decimate the food chain in deeper waters, an environmental group said on Tuesday. The five l...
Large, persistent populations of genetically engineered canola 1 have been found outside of cultivation in North Dakota. As genetically engineered crops become increasingly prevalent in the United States, ...
I sometimes wonder what historians of the far future will think as they pore over what’s left of the records of our own time. It’s unlikely that they’ll have a great deal more to go on than, say, Renaissan...
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Slovakia’s "Nie" last night will not stop the approval of Europe’s revamped bail-out fund (EFSF). The ultimate outcome has never been in doubt. As in Germany, the opposition backs the bill. In any case, S...
"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic disease of the 20th century and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press. In-depth analysis of a problem is anathema to the press. It s...
Most normal Americans have either never heard of Darrell Issa-- an obscure former auto-thief and career criminal who managed to amass hundreds of millions of dollars and buy himself a congressional seat ...
Original graphic by Alex Noble, courtesy of http://alexnoble.typepad.com/occupy/
*"Who Are The 1%?"* by Stone Street Advisors “It seems a significant pillar of the Occupy Wall Street (and offshoot) movements seems to be based on the fact, er "fact" that the "top 1%" (of earners) are r...
* Java * *Fighting in Tripoli* *Libya - 1 Apache and 1 Chinook Shot Down*) *Where did all the jobs go?* *Derivatives: The $600 Trillion Time Bomb That's Set to Explode* * France * *The Christians of ...
*"Bald LIES From The Right (This Is IMPORTANT)"* by Karl Denninger "There's a particularly odious and sickening piece of crap flying around today from "PajamasMedia", one of the water-carriers for the "ri...
*"Violence on Wall Street?"* by Joel Bowman Here’s a shocker for you, Fellow Reckoner. The Wall Street protests turned “predictably violent” this week, according The New York Post. One video we saw depi...
Many are the pundits and bankers who have writen off this protest as inept misguided and doomed to fail because the bankers and politicianus are not directly affected and will just wait out the protest. ...
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CENSORED NEWS - 10 hours ago
Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
"We're forced to discover Discover cards before we discover God" - Vakill
A leading US lawmaker who fears budget cuts could delay modernizing the US nuclear arsenal voiced concern Friday about an extensive tunnel complex designed to house Chinese nuclear missiles. "This network...
State police have arrested two men accused of stealing a privately owned steel bridge from a secluded area in Lawrence County. Police said that Benjamin Arthur Jones, 24, and Alexander William Jones, 25, ...
A Marine and a Navy medic killed by a U.S. drone airstrike were targeted when Marine commanders in Afghanistan mistook them for Taliban fighters, even though analysts watching the Predator's video feed wer...
The city of Detroit has high unemployment, and no one has a tougher time finding work than an ex-con. So Detroit recently held a job fair strictly for ex-cons. More than 200 jobs were available, and no on...
Yup. This just happened. Right after receiving the victorious news from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg that Occupy Wall Street doesn't have to move out of Zuccotti Park after all, protest organizers lear...
Yemeni security forces unleashed a deadly assault on anti-government protesters in the nation's capital on Saturday and deadly fighting raged between government forces and tribal fighters, witnesses said...
After emerging from the rubble of Moammar Gadhafi's Baba az' Azia palace late in August, Abdul Hakim Belhaj seized control as the military commander of Tripoli. An Islamist who had taken little public ...
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Biased BBC - 11 hours ago
I'm bored with writing about the BBC's bias about climate change. Nothing changes. But I could not let the latest Richard Black homily pass. Here it is - an unbridled, no-praise-too-small homage to the nic...
US “corporate media” are trying to drive a wedge” between the American people by portraying the Occupy Wall Street protests as a left-wing movement, says Wide Awake News founder Charlie McGrath. “When ...
America’s newest terrorist: the fruit fly. With officials preoccupied with keeping America free of terrorists, authorities neglected to notice an influx of insects and diseases that were brought into the S...
Eastern Europe is beset by an HIV epidemic, but there is hope the situation can soon change for the better, according to the executive director of the UN's AIDS program, Michel Sidibé. In Russia and in ...
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said that cooperation between Russia and China has reached an unprecedented level and become a major factor in international politics. Speaking at an interview with the Chi...
A Spanish MP has threatened the FBI with legal action after they used a picture of him to create a most wanted mock-up of Osama Bin Laden. Gaspar Llamazares was furious when he spotted a photograph of hims...
The next wave of the financial crisis could be more dangerous for Russian banks than the 2008 market collapse, Moody’s said on Tuesday. The ratings agency also warned about a possible downgrading of the ra...
A coalition of major U.K. Internet providers said Tuesday that it would begin forcing customers to choose whether to have access to pornography and other potentially unsavory websites, rather than simply o...
The world’s two most powerful autocrats – Vladimir Putin and Hu Jintao – will meet in Beijing on Wednesday in what both sides are hailing as something approaching a superpower summit. Mr. Putin arrived in...
Officials at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada knew for two weeks about a virus infecting the drone “cockpits” there. But they kept the information about the infection to themselves — leaving the unit that’s...
Two separate hacker groups whose activities are already known to authorities were behind the serious breach of RSA Security earlier this year and were likely working at the behest of a government, accordin...
The U.S. Navy reached a new milestone for a futuristic new stealth drone when it successfully retracted its landing gear and flew in cruise configuration for the first time, engineers announced Tuesday. D...
A huge solar eruption that occurred right after a comet plunged into the sun was likely a coincidence, experts say. The so-called "sungrazing" comet streaked toward the sun Saturday (Oct. 1) and disintegr...
President Barack Obama will meet today with members of a dream team of supposed employment experts to help tackle the nation’s jobs problem dubbed the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. Thos...
New York tycoons had to grasp themselves as hundreds of Occupy Wall Streets protesters paid them a personal visit on Tuesday. Between 400 and 800 demonstrators from the weeks-long Occupy Wall Street cam...
Violence has flared in Rome as protests against corporate greed and austerity measures spread to cities around the world. The *Occupy Wall Street* movement, which started in New York, has sparked similar...
[image: Aerial view of mountain pine beetle infestation, Prince George, BC, Canada, 21 June 2007 in Otway, British Columbia, CA. D. J. Huber via flickr.com] Here’s a lovely essay on doom from killing Mo...
It's really inconsequential that the now-iconic champagne swillers at 55 Wall Street a week ago weren't wealthy bankers but guests at a wedding party at the Ciprion Club Residences. It doesn't even matter...
Anyone felt, heard or know anything about this earthquake this afternoon in Northern California please feel free to contact us, as you can see it is strong enough to be picked up by the other stations (on...
An American drone strike in southern Yemen has killed seven al-Qaida-linked militants, including the media chief for the group's Yemeni branch and the son of a prominent U.S.-born cleric slain in a similar...
*And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.*- Jesus Christ from *Matthew 19;24* Watch that video above o...
[image: Al Gore spoke before about 550 people at Wayne State University, 13 October 2011. The former Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize winner was unbowed and unrepentant in blaming recent storms, drou...
[image: Azalea Mall Directory Without a Mall, 12 August 2010. This is a sad place. The Azalea Mall in north Richmond opened in 1963 and closed in 1995. All that is left is the empty space and the sign. M...
[image: Arctic sea ice, viewed from Wahlenbergfjorden in Nordaustlandet, Svalbard. Photo: Harald Faste Aas / Norwegian Polar Institute] October 15 (NRK/Press release) – The melting of the Arctic sea ice ...
With each passing day the Occupy Wall Street movement, in New York and elsewhere, grows more resilient. It shows itself to be more than a mere protest, the standard venting over one egregious malady or ...
A McDonald's restaurant was reduced to chaos after a cashier used a metal rod to viciously beat two women during a horrifying attack. Terrified customers look on as the cashier, believed to be Rayon McInto...
Protesters inspired by the growing 'Occupy Wall Street' movement in the U.S have today taken over the City of London. Thousands have descended on the area known as the Square Mile - under the banner 'Occu...
Demonstrators rallied on Saturday across the world to accuse bankers and politicians of wrecking economies, but only in Rome did the global "day of rage" erupt into violence. Galvanized by the Occupy Wall...
h/t Boris But that's just the US, right? No reason for us to protest up here in Canada, origin of the Occupy movement. NOW Mag : *The Arsenal of Corporatocracy : Why We Should Occupy Bay Street* - ...
[image: Fossil fuel emissions and the 'stabilization wedges' that could reduce human CO2 emissions during the 21st century. The lack of implementation of these strategies has been accompanied by an accel...
Doomsday preacher Harold Camping was left a laughing stock when his prediction that the world would end on May 21 failed to materialise. But the 90-year-old Californian may well have the last laugh after r...
[image: Hundreds of acres of corn were destroyed by the drought on this Texas farm in Round Rock on Tuesday, July 12, 2011. statesman.com] By David Mildenberg and Whitney McFerron 13 October 2011 Alla...
*The latest attempt to sell elite selections based on rigged polls.* "In N.H. poll, Cain pushes past Paul, Perry Mitt Romney continues to hold a wide lead over his Republican presidential rivals in New H...
This morning Blue America sent out the following letter to all our members. (If you're not already a member, all you have to do is to contribute anything-- even $1-- to any Blue America candidate. Then yo...
[image: New England cottontail rabbit. Rhode Island’s native rabbit is on the verge of being extirpated from the state after a survey of appropriate habitat and historical breeding sites. uri.edu]Media C...
*Not again!* *“Feel like God called them.... truly feel like we are here for that purpose .’’* *Was this also God's will?* "Perry gamble on subprime lenders cost Texas $35m" by Jack Gillum Associated Pre...
One in six mobile phones in Britain is contaminated with fecal matter, according to research made public Friday that cited poor hygiene as the cause. "This study provides more evidence that people still d...
...Justin Trudeau won't run, but Thomas Mulcair will. So this sets us up for a Mulcair-Topp battle for Stornoway. All early indications are that Topp and Mulcair will play nice with each other, while thei...
Security forces in Syria's capital opened fire on mourners at a funeral for a 9-year-old boy on Saturday, killing one person and wounding five others, an activist group said. Around 15,000 people were a...
Stephan Anderson, a former New York police detective, has testified saying planting drugs on innocent citizens was a common occurrence for NYPD officers to meet their quota for arrests. Anderson’s testimo...
Protests swelled in cities nationwide Friday as police forces struggled to either corral or remove demonstrators from downtown parks and plazas in the latest development of the monthlong Occupy Wall Stre...
President Obama has promised tougher sanctions against Iran after fingering Tehran in a plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington. But the more pressure the US imposes, the more Tehran will ...
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 Rights, Navi Pil...
An unspecified number of protesters will gather around the Taipei 101 Financial Tower at 10 a.m. today to rally against the widening wealth gap, as part of the Taiwanese counterpart of the Occupy Wall Stre...
Put aside political leanings and patience for eclectic protesters clogging city streets and blowing into vuvuzelas— if just for a moment. There is something happening. And Saturday morning, it’s coming her...
*It's like he never left given the policies of the current occupant. * "Romney vows vast military growth" by Theo Emery, The Boston Globe, October 7, 2011 WASHINGTON - A *champion* of a *muscular militar...
*Despite his groveling at the feet of the masters who control U.S. foreign policy.* *“I cannot live with a nuclear-armed Iran. If you want an example of when I would use American force, it would be that.’...
Gavin Esler's Dateline continues to regularly serve up panels where all four guests come from the Left. Today's cast list was: *- Abdel Bari Atwan*, 'al-Quds al-Arabi' (the programme's most regular guest)...
*Just wondering when he is going to start fighting all that **rob or plunder ******.* "Obama says Americans not better off 4 years later *Then your administration has failed, sir.* WASHINGTON - President ...
*They cost you a bundle, American taxpayers! * "Backers urged Obama not to visit, talk up solar start-up" by Carol D. Leonnig and Joe Stephens Washington Post / October 4, 2011 WASHINGTON - A Silicon Vall...
We march today at 3:00 PM from Government Plaza, downtown Greensboro, NC, at Greene Street and February 1 Street, past the International Civil Rights Museum where we will pause for a moment's reflection at...
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Biased BBC - 16 hours ago
Yes, I know, Katty was talking about the Occupiers in New York, but her report was meant to give you the idea that they're all mostly nice, civic-minded, and righteous. Mark Mardell is still convinced that...
It's like a visual version of taking deep breaths and counting to ten.
Nanometer-thin sheets of an ordinary absorbent could make separating liquids more energy-efficient.
Hey buddy, lose the man-purse.
Festivals Acadiens et Creoles ~October 14, 15, & 16, 2011~Also~Kilted Chef Explores Cajun Country Corps of Engineers sued for denying FOIR from LEAN in difference to landfill applicant ~Also~New Orleans Di...
*#WorldRevolution* *#OccupyToronto* Protesters worldwide have joined the "Occupy Wall Street" movement in a cry of rage against bankers, financiers and politicians they accuse of ruining global economies...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Central California at a depth of 9.8 km (6.1 miles), the quake hit at 11:42:29 UTC Saturday 15th October 2011. The epicenter was 40 km ( 25 miles) NNE from Toms Place, ...
The deeper I get into Agenda For A New Economy the more convinced I am that the author, David Korten, is the man behind OccupyWallStreet... or *a* man behind OccupyWallStreet anyway. He asks "Why is our e...
There have been 5 earthquakes so far today in Iceland measuring 3 Magnitude or higher this is in addition to the 2 earthquakes measuring 3 or higher yesterday. The first one hit early this morning with ...
A quarter of women now earn more than their husbands. But, as a new book warns, it can place huge pressure on a marriage After a week of racking up airmiles across Europe as an HR director for one of the ...
[image: Speak up: Politeness could result in disastrous consequences, like a doctor giving the wrong medicine if a nurse has not flagged up an error] Speak up: Politeness could result in disastrous conse...
[image: Lasting impact: Research shows how symptoms of PTSD often persist among cancer survivors] Lasting impact: Research shows how symptoms of PTSD often persist among cancer survivors Cancer survivo...
[image: More toddlers struggled to string together sentences of mothers who hadn't taken folic acid] More toddlers struggled to string together sentences of mothers who hadn't taken folic acid Women wh...
Dead fish, disoriented birds, and discolored water are signaling the Texas coast's largest red tide bloom in a decade, with concentrations of the Karenia brevis organism appearing in patches from Galveston...
The Montana Department of Environmental Quality has confirmed an underground pipeline leak of 750 gallons of diesel at the Montana Refining Company in Great Falls. According to DEQ officials, the refinin...
York Regional Police are warning the public of a potential health hazard after X-ray equipment was stolen from an industrial business in Markham. Police said a laboratory on Esna Park Dr. was broken into ...
NATO has confirmed that at least 206 troops working with the US-led military alliance have been poisoned near Mazar Sharif, capital of the northern Afghan province of Balkh, Press TV reports. The NATO- l...
A magnitude 3.8 earthquake has struck Iceland at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 09:03:08 UTC Saturday 15th October 2011. The epicenter was 11 km ( 6.3 miles) Nortwest of Hverageroi - Ice...
The disappearance of a soil-testing device containing a small amount of radioactive material in Oxnard led to an intense law enforcement search Friday and a hazardous materials response when it was later f...
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Biased BBC - 20 hours ago
I note that a court in Tajikistan has convicted a local BBC reporter of spreading banned Islamic propaganda despite international pressure to acquit him. Tajikistan has been clamping down on the press this...
Red tide and thousands of dead fish are now officially on the beaches of Southwest Florida. We snapped captured pictures of dead fish on the shorelines of Cayo Costa, Cabbage Key, and Ussepa Island. Of...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Hokkaido, Japan Region at a depth of 72.7 km (45.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:23:46 UTC Saturday 15th October 2011. The epicenter was 77 km ( 47 miles) Southeast of T...
Three more cases of Legionnaires' disease have been confirmed in UK residents who have visited Corfu, bringing the total number of cases to 12, the Health Protection Agency (HPA) has said. The HPA said th...
The Cayuga County Health Department has issued a warning about the presence of Blue-Green Algae in Owasco Lake. The algae has been found on the northern end of the lake and can be dangerous to both humans...
A mysterious disease, which has infected approximately 3,000 people in Afar Regional State in the past three months, has medical professionals puzzled. Blood samples were sent to Senegal after an investig...
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Url movie: http://youtu.be/dq4Oj5quskI *Ubuntu 11.10 has appeared now* and you can download it here. But should you? Do read the comments here to discover several 'hidden features' that still are open for...
AP: The Coast Guard said Friday evening that a "very small part" of a diesel fuel and oil spill from a 73-foot workboat that sank earlier in the day has reached a Seattle beach. Two miles of affected shor...
Billionaire investor George Soros is not a financial backer of the Wall Street protests despite speculation that he has helped fuel the anti-capitalist movement, it has been claimed. Radio host Rush Limba...
The study of a tiny fossil at the Natural History Museum in London has lead scientists to believe the pterosaurs was far bigger than first thought. The fossil, which is a segment of tooth, has been at the ...
The volcano rumbles under the skirts of the island of El Hierro decided yesterday to throw a "nap" in the words of a scientist, what the official translation means "the eruptive process remains stable" ...
President Barack Obama said Friday he's dispatching roughly 100 U.S. troops to central Africa to help battle the Lord's Resistance Army, which the administration accuses of a campaign of murder, rape and k...
The police has been accused of shocking brutality after videos emerged showing officers in New York punching Occupy Wall Street protesters and mowing them down on motorbikes. As demonstrations turned bitt...
Kansas City's Roman Catholic bishop has been charged with failing to promptly report child pornography on a priest's computer. This case is against the highest-ranking U.S. church official charged with th...
Gap Inc. has announced plans to close up to a fifth of all Gap stores - delivering a massive blow to the all-American brand. The struggling retailer, which runs the Gap, Old Navy and Banana Republic chain...
A private intelligence outfit which helps defence firms and paid for Adam Werritty’s jet-set lifestyle has doubled its profits since Liam Fox became a minister. G3 Good Governance Group gave £15,000 to Pa...
Liam Fox resigned last night amid allegations that he asked a wealthy Tory donor to fund his best man and former flatmate Adam Werritty. Dr Fox quit when he learnt he was to face a torrent of new claims ab...
Proposals to double the size of the IMF as part of a broader international response to Europe's debt crisis ran into resistance from the United States and others, burying the idea for now and putting the o...
The Securities and Exchange Commission is warning staffers that their personal brokerage account information may have been compromised, after it uncovered security flaws with an ethics compliance program. ...
While President Barack Obama and top aides have been united this week in grave warnings over an alleged Iranian assassination plot, some U.S. government officials are privately expressing disquiet that the...
What we are looking for is a pill that allows you to switch on the equivalent of a sled dog’s metabolism which we must surely be able to do. Recall our hunting ancestors actually ran for hours ...
Here we go again. Once again, it is put out that our population will be unsustainable at 10 billion for all sorts of Malthusian reasons. Some time ago I went through a number of scenarios and...
Essentially the lesson is simple. We need to identify all volcanoes and particularly the mature one in order to determine if the natural geometry presents a directed collapse risk of significan...
In the end it is not how much they knew so much how thoroughly each and everyone was first intimidated and was then often succumbing to the prevailing received mythology of the NAZIs. It is why...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Potosi, Bolivia at a depth of 139.8 km (86.9 miles), the quake hit at 01:59:08 UTC Saturday 15th October 2011. The epicenter was 175 km ( 108 miles) WSW of Uyuni, Boliv...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Northern Peru at a depth of 118.8 km (73.8 miles), the quake hit at 21:09:10 UTC Friday 14th October 2011. The epicenter was 188 km ( 116 miles) North of Moyobamba, Per...
Just a short comment: The National Public Radio informs that Jeffrey Gleason, a collaborator of Charles Monnett, will be interviewed in the continuing investigation of scientific misconduct possibly surr...
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Many of us watched the Question Time Special immediately following the 9/11 atrocity in utter disbelief as it took a rabid and disgusting anti-American line. The former US ambassador to Britain, Philip L...
*Stephen Ward with Christine Keeler (top right). Stephen ward was an osteopath with links to the US President, royalty, Hollywood stars and the security services. * *Stephen Ward* "worked on a secret progr...
*Is this any way to start a symphony? For a lot of composers it would be hunky-dory, but Dvořák had a better idea.* *by Ken* Let's say you had a vivid musical imagination, and had come up with what seeme...
Ten years ago, no one used the phrase ‘soulmate’ in my marital therapy office. It was a word that belonged in Hollywood films and romantic novels. If I’d asked a couple whether they were soulmates, or a...
The eyes may be the window to the soul, but if you really want to know how someone ticks, look to their feet. Foot reading has been practised in China and India for more than 5,000 years. It stems from...
------------------------------ *I AM NOT MOVING - Short Film - Occupy Wall Street* *CoreyOgilvie * YouTube Link BrassCheck TV is thanked for sending me this video Cherchez la Verite
Cheryl Cole recently put her worries behind her by dyeing her hair blonde, and Katy Perry has also returned to light-coloured locks. So expect a burst in confidence from the two young ladies, their new c...
*At this hour? * *It's for you, American*: "Obama plan would aid debt collectors" October 05, 2011|By David Espo, Associated Press WASHINGTON - To the dismay of consumer groups and the discomfort of Dem...
- Scientists cite case of woman who had sex then lost recollection of the past 24 hours Sex can be mind-blowing – but not always in a good way, as scientists have found it can wipe your memory....
"Representative Ron Paul of Texas reported yesterday that he raised more than $8 million in the quarter from more than 100,000 donors - more than *five times the number of donors* who gave to the Perry cam...
*She was never getting my vote anyway. * "Bachmann senior adviser, pollster leaving campaign ST. PAUL - Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is losing her senior adviser and pollster in a* s...
President Barack Obama is sending about 100 U.S. troops to Africa to help hunt down the leaders of the notoriously violent Lord's Resistance Army in and around Uganda. "I have authorized a small number ...
Policy Wonk Plays Dumb Over Role in Iranian Escalation. by Tony Cartalucci Editor's Note: For those not familiar with the "Which Path to Persia?" report, more information can be found here, and part II her...
*What started it all*: "Warren stands firm in debate; Senate hopefuls do no sparring" October 05, 2011|By Noah Bierman and Frank Phillips, Globe Staff On war, taxes, regulation, and stimulus spending, the...
"It's the bubble versus the cloud. NGC 7635, the Bubble Nebula, is being pushed out by the stellar wind of massive central star BD+602522. Next door, though, lives a giant molecular cloud, visible to the r...
"Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does of us in our absence. Human society is founded on mutual deceit; few frien...
"State Senate approves casino bill" by Noah Bierman Globe Staff / October 14, 2011 The Massachusetts Senate approved casino gambling yesterday, setting the stage for Governor Deval Patrick to sign the mea...
*No, it's not another sports article*: "Bobby Orr’s relative faces OUI charge" October 06, 2011|By John R. Ellement, Globe Staff QUINCY - The daughter-in-law of Bruins hockey legend Bobby Orr pleaded not...
*“Six Memos”* by Chet Raymo “Italo Calvino, the famed Italian storyteller, died in 1985, just before he was to deliver the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard. He had writen five of the six lectures...
*"Honoring Life Changes: The Wisdom of Fear"* by The DailyOm "Anything really worth doing in our lives will always have some fear attached to it. Anything worth doing will always have some fear attached t...
There are bloggers who want to be able to prepare their posts including text and photos in their computer and upload it direct to Blogger. Some have tried using copy-paste from Microsoft WORD which obviou...
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*The town landmark is now **closed so we will have to go somewhere else.* "Loyal fans recall sweeter times" by Erin Ailworth Globe Staff / October 6, 2011 BRIDGEWATER - For more then 75 years, Friendly’s...
I'm off to the OccupyGreensboro March! After a week of intense preparation, meetings, trainings and personal workouts to build stamina (ha!), I'm off to join the mob. Just kidding! Would I be a part of a m...
The Onion ran a bracing spoof, "Nation Waiting for Protestesters to Clearly Articulate Demands Before Ignoring Them" which affords readers some chuckles...although, having said that, the debate within OWS ...
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wmtc - 1 day ago
Finally, the horrific, endemic and institutional protection of child sexual abusers by the Catholic Church is being challenged by the judicial system. Thanks to the courageous and continuous speaking out o...
The White House has a pattern of manufacturing political propaganda, inventing terrorist plots, and creating fake political narratives. All this is done to direct American public attention towards fantasy ...
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Parents can improve family life by switching off TVs and computers to communicate better, experts said today. Technological advances combined with hectic schedules have led to parents and children spend...
Men stressed by their job security and finances during the recession are more likely to cheat on their partners, new research reveals. When men feel threatened, such as during economic turmoil, they go i...
Confident, charismatic, successful – he seems like the perfect catch. But once he’s ‘snared’ you, the charm is switched off and your life changes for ever. Anna Moore asks what it’s like to be in a relat...
Doomsday preacher Harold Camping was left a laughing stock when his prediction that the world would end on May 21 failed to materialise. But the 90-year-old Californian may well have the last laugh after...
From our neighbour blog at Wit's End: After the exhaustion of staying up all night Thursday to deter the threatened eviction of Occupy Wall Street early Friday, which to much teary jubilation, was thwarte...
What a day! We've been working with a coalition of online groups for 2 weeks and finally launched OccupyTheBoardRoom early this morning, after tweaking final details all last night. And then we did our l...
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