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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 ...
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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...
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 su...
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Biased BBC - 7 hours ago
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 - 11 hours 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 ...
*I suppose they have to since the whole world is watching.* "Unions turn out to support Occupy Boston protesters" by John M. Guilfoil Globe Staff / October 14, 2011 Several days after more than 100 of its...
Nobel Peace Prize-President quietly opens 8th US battlefront. Tony Cartalucci While America occupies Iraq and Afghanistan, wages covert war on Pakistan, conducts drone attacks on Yemen and Somalia, bombard...
*"Wrong People Arrested on Wall Street,* *Goldman Boss: ‘Thought They Were Finally Coming for Us’"* by Andy Borowitz NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) - "Millions of Americans cheered the news on Friday that...
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CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours ago
No More Deaths photo*Pinal County Jail violates international treaties on human rights and torture* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com TUCSON -- The inhumane conditions for ...
Three of Alberta's political parties have now held leadership races this year, with the Wildrose Alliance having picked their leader two years ago. Below are the number of Albertans who voted in each conte...
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*"The Song Of Amergin, A Samhain Story"* by CelestialElf "An ancient Celtic poem which speaks of the origin of the Universe, the nature of the Gods and the path to Wisdom. In my film version, King Arthur ...
Scientists in Singapore proved they are worth their salt by sextupling hard drive space with no epuipment upgrades.
"If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up some place else." - Yogi Berra
P.S. If only all of us could take our challenges in life with the kind of spirit that this kitten does with his. A lesson for us all.
*"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 as...
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 - 19 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...
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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...
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...
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...
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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