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[image: Toshiyuki Hattori, who runs a sewage plant in Tokyo, surrounded by sacks of radioactive sludge. Kazuhiro Yokozeki for
The New York Times] By HIROKO TABUCHI 14 October 2011 TOKYO – Takeo Hayashi...
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Federal Reserve Tries to Censor Infowars Video Prison Planet October 16, 2011
Alex Jones addresses the latest intimidation tactic from the private Federal Reserve bank, whose San Antonio branch has...
I can't believe we're still talking about The Hermanator. I guess it's a testament to how unenthusiastic Republican base voters are with the wishy-washy
Mormon bishop the party establishment is forcing d...
"Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased- thus do we refute entropy." - Spider Robinson
*About $8 million** in campaign cash. That's an awful lot to ignore, Globe. * "Financial reports show disparity among
GOP WASHINGTON - With just more than a year left in the race for the White House, cam...
"Single-issue political parties on the fringe seem to be gaining popularity these days. But Switzerland, which may be the world’s most direct democracy, takes fringiness to a new level.... * * *How do you...
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Rush Limbaugh... what can I say? I don't dare say what I really think of this creature, what with this blogs self-imposed
PG rating, you know? This slug talks about parasit...
♫*This land is your land, this land is my land.... and the government is going to buy it for a buck*♫ "US budget cuts threaten aid for open-space preservation" by Juliet Eilperin Washington Post / October...
*"Bank Transfer Day Nov. 5th"* by LeakSourceArchive "Together we can ensure that these banking institutions will always remember the 5th of November!! If the 99% removes our funds from the major banking ...
*“Across The World, The Indignant Rise Up * *Against Corporate Greed And Cuts”* by David Randall and Matt Thomas “Protests against corporate greed, executive excess and public austerity began to gel into ...
As health freedom advocates have been saying for years, cancer "research" is money-based and therefore flawed... monstrously flawed..... and results in the unnecessary deaths of countless individuals ann...
Saw this piece of info that had ALEC ALUMNI Rubio in the first line – so I had to take a look – becausican. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., recently announced that he is cosponsoring a bill that would drastica...
Elizabeth Rosenthal has complained about the evaporation of the Climate Cataclysm Hysteria in the United States: Where Did Global Warming Go? (NYT) She argues that the United States have become an "exce...
[image: Peak Employment: U.S. Civilian Participation Rate, 1948-2011. Jobs are scarce, so many adults have given up looking for them. Thus, a sharp decline in the 'participation ratio'. St. Louis Fed via...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia at a depth of 90.6 km (56.3 miles), the quake hit at 17:54:04 UTC Sunday 16th October 2011. The epicenter was 317 km ( 197 miles) North fro...
To D-fox: if you're reading this, please contact us at thecomingcrisis@gmail.com. It's important -- we believe.
A United Nations report has found "compelling evidence" that Afghan intelligence officials at five detention centres "systematically tortured detainees for the purpose of obtaining confessions and inform...
Russian traders are alarmed at the sudden disappearance of aviation fuel from the market. They say a hike in prices is imminent, with a fuel deficit likely before the end of October. The main factor be...
Two Americans were awarded the Nobel prize for economics on Monday for work that was lauded as laying for foundation for modern macroeconomic analysis, but the two winners said they had no easy answers for...
Officials in the city of Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture are closing the last remaining shelters for survivors of the March 11th earthquake and tsunami. Residents and volunteers have renewed their vow to r...
A father taking pictures of his daughter at a shopping center near Glasgow, Scotland, says he was banned from the mall and threatened with having his camera phone confiscated in the interest of preventing ...
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy As the protest on Wall Street enters its fourth week, police officers are keeping their posts around the perimeter of the park a...
A once-sleepy village in the countryside of eastern China celebrated its 50th anniversary Saturday by unveiling an incongruous addition to its skyline: a skyscraper taller than the Chrysler Building. The ...
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
The largest virus yet discovered has been isolated from ocean water pulled up off the coast of Chile. Called Megavirus chilensis, it is 10 to 20 times wider than the average virus. It just beats the prev...
The official US kilogram — the physical prototype against which all weights in the United States are calibrated — cannot be touched by human hands except in rare circumstances. Sealed beneath a bell jar an...
The Israeli government's current mantra is that the Palestinians must recognise a "Jewish State". Of course, the Palestinians have clearly and repeatedly recognised the State of Israel as such in the 1993 ...
There have been rumblings in the corners of the Tea party movement for some time, but the minute president Obama announced that he was going to ask wealthy Americans to kick in a small bit more in taxes to...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 54.6 km (33.9 miles), the quake hit at 17:33:12 UTC Sunday 16th October 2011. The epicenter was 165 km ( 102 mi...
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck Simeulue, Indonesia at a depth of 45.8 km (28.5 miles), the quake hit at 17:16:21 UTC Sunday 16th October 2011. The epicenter was 192 km ( 119 miles) South of Meulaboh,...
"Microbes’ effect on health explored" by Rob Stein Washington Post / October 16, 2011 WASHINGTON - This isn’t the latest Hollywood horror flick, or some secret genetic engineering experiment run amok. The...
"Funds are scarce for Texas’ water conservation plans" by Ramit Plushnick-Masti Associated Press / October 16, 2011 SANFORD, Texas - On paper, at least, Texas is amply prepared to meet the water needs of ...
"Some breast cancer advocates seeing red" by Kevin Begos Associated Press /October 16, 2011 PITTSBURGH - The country is awash in pink for breast cancer awareness month - and some women are sick of it. Whi...
*You can't win if you don't play -- and I never do. * "A game of chance became anything but; High-rollers manipulating Cash WinFall got help — active and inadvertent — from lottery officials" by Andrea Es...
Kenyan troops have crossed the border into war-torn Somalia in pursuit of Islamist rebels suspected of a spate of kidnappings, according to reports. The al Shabaab group is accused of being behind several...
"More states make right to hunt bulletproof" by Grant Schulte Associated Press / September 23, 2011 *That's odd because the printed article appeared in my October 9, 2011 Boston Sunday Globe.* LINCOLN, N...
"High-speed stock trading fuels market swings, worry" by Graham Bowley New York Times / October 9, 2011 NEW YORK - Regulators in the United States and internationally are cracking down on *computerized hi...
President of the Canary Islands, Paulino Rivero, announced this morning that the residents of La Restinga could return to their homes in the next 24 hours. During this time the tunnels Roquille in the town...
"Three drivers in Massachusetts, on average, get ticketed for texting each day - a drop in the bucket in a state with 4.7 million licensed drivers and more than 75,000 miles of road.... --more--" * * *Re...
*The Scherzo from Dvořák's New World Symphony played by the Kamuela Philharmonic under music director Madeline Schatz at the Kahilu Theatre in Waimea (on the Big Island of Hawaii), Jan. 6, 2008* *by Ken*...
[image: Ghana's cocoa farmers have enjoyed higher incomes for the current cropping season and interventions are underway to improve soil fertility. howwemadeitinafrica.com]By Masahudu Ankiilu Kunateh, Gh...
Saints vs. Tampa Bay and…uh, my grandparents? ~Disenfranchised Citizen Insistent Appeals to Evacuate Did Not Warn That the Levees Could Break ~Sandy Rosenthal, Huff Post Outdoors notebook: Estuaries taking...
I have been abhorrently negligent by not posting anything about Occupy Wall Street, which is probably the single-most significant political movement since the Vietnam protests. I apologize. The demands of...
posted by David Preiser (USA) at
Biased BBC - 7 hours ago
Katty Kay thinks these people are nice, filled with a sense of civic duty and lawfulness. Her colleagues want you to believe this is all about lax banking regulations and corporate welfare. Last time I c...
Scientists have developed a "signs of life" detector that senses chemicals exhaled by trapped people.
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Northern Xinjiang, China at a depth of 45.3 km (28.1 miles), the quake hit at 13:44:50 UTC Sunday 16th October 2011. The epicenter was 122 km ( 75 miles) ENE of Yining...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck North of the Ascension Island at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:39:10 UTC Sunday 16th October 2011. The epicenter was 644 km ( 400 miles) NNE of As...
*Group of Citi Bank customers attempt to close accounts as a form of protest- 2 dozen are locked inside bank until police arrive, 5 cops take down woman. * *Close your bank accounts and support your local...
*Violence broke out during the day in Rome as tens of thousands nicknamed "the indignant" marched in several European cities in protest against capitalism and austerity measures.*
*One block from Times Square. Man arrested after following NYPD orders.*
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wmtc - 8 hours ago
I have been steadfastly avoiding the so-called 53%, the US right-wing reaction to the Occupy movement, but two responses to their claims caught my eye. Suzy Khimm in the *Washington Post* takes on the hyp...
*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* The NY occupation is driven and inspired by a single over-arching fact: just ONE percent of the nation owns more than the rest of us combined and, secondly, that t...
I had a feeling that when Nancy Pelosi appointed "ex"-Blue Dog Steve Israel to head the DCCC, we would be heading for trouble. And, sure enough, Israel has been a giant step backwards from the mediocre Ch...
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For the past two weeks the Seismic Station in Megler, Washington has picked up a severe Increased in activity. We know that many earthquakes go unreported or get downgraded upgraded or disappear after the...
- Celebrities help boost sales [image: Bronzed: Coleen Rooney is credited with helping boost sales of fake tan] Bronzed: Coleen Rooney is credited with helping boost sales of fake tan Fake tan ...
In light of the Occupy Wall Street demonstration taking place in downtown New York- and those of similar persuasions across the U.S.- the country's richest one per cent are a very unpopular group right a...
It is the vitamin that is actually a hormone, made naturally by the body from fat under the skin in response to sunlight. And, astonishingly, more than half the British population don’t get enough, wit...
Liam Fox was UK Defence Minister, until he was pushed out on 14 October 2011. Liam Fox's very close friend is Adam Werritty. Officially, Werritty does not work for the UK government. *Liam Fox quit the ...
posted by David Vance at
Biased BBC - 10 hours ago
So, who would have figured that* two days after his resignation*, the BBC still considers Liam Fox and his associate Adam Werritty to be the lead story for their news portal. Why it's almost as if the BBC ...
Family life is being devastated by the financial squeeze and job insecurity, a survey reveals. More than half of parents believe their home is in ‘crisis’ while three out of four feel that stress is und...
posted by David Vance at
Biased BBC - 10 hours ago
As the anarcho-communist anti-Semitic street rabble infest our financial centres, you can rely on the BBC to cheer-lead for them. Here's Paul Masongiving them a shout-out.. "Occupy Everywhere, then, is the...
As the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Plant drags on, worries are growing particularly among Fukushima Prefecture residents over drawn-out and in some cases apparently futile nuclear decontamination...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck offshore Valparaiso, Chile at a depth of 37.6 km (23.3 miles), the quake hit at 10:39:47 UTC Sunday 16th October 2011. The epicenter was 66 km ( 41 miles) North from V...
*Salvage workers are pumping oil off the stricken container ship Rena and will continue working overnight on Sunday.* The ship has been wedged on Astrolabe Reef since 5 October and about 350 tonnes of fu...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 229.2 km (142.4 miles), the quake hit at 10:22:18 UTC Sunday 16th October 2011. The epicenter was 447 km ( 278 miles) Southwest...
A total of 94 harbor seals have washed up along the New England coast from Maine to just north of Boston since Sept. 1, and officials have no idea why, according to a spokesperson from the New England Aqua...
. Oliver Letwin, who has been dumping government documents in a bin in St. James Park, states in the video interview shown below: " .....and constituents may feel that I shouldn't have allowed their pape...
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands, Russia at a depth of 119 km (73.9 miles), the quake hit at 09:47:13 UTC Sunday 16th October 2011. The epicenter was 380 km ( 236 miles) Southwest of...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 12.3 km (7.6 miles), the quake hit at 09:46:01 UTC Sunday 16th October 2011. The epicenter was 156 km ( 96 miles) Eas...
Detectives are to consider whether to investigate Adam Werritty - the friend of former defence secretary Liam Fox - over allegations of fraud. Labour MP John Mann said he had written to police to look at ...
Scientists at the National Geographic Institute (IGN) and National Research Center have confirmed, in the afternoon today, the leadership of the Civil Protection Plan for Volcanic Risk, a fissure eruption ...
Swiss police said Saturday that a pilot and a passenger died after their Piper aircraft crashed in a forested area in the country's northwest. Canton Police said a 29-year-old British resident and a 40-ye...
The death toll from the worst floods in half a century to hit Thailand continues to rise. By early Sunday morning, the number stood at 297 from two months of lashing rain, with more than 8.5 million in 6...
A handyman is being questioned in connection with the disappearance of baby Lisa. Johnny Tanko was seen in the neighbourhood the night 10-month-old Lisa Irwin was reported missing from her crib at her par...
More than 70 people were arrested in New York's Times Square as protesters jostled with police on Saturday after thousands marched from the city's Financial District to midtown Manhattan. The protesters s...
Up to 300,000 Spanish babies were stolen from their parents and sold for adoption over a period of five decades, a new investigation reveals. The children were trafficked by a secret network of doctors, n...
It's strangely calming to watch the Imja glacier lake grow, as chunks of ice part from black cliffs and fall into the grey-green lake below. But the lake is a high-altitude disaster in the making ...
Anti-capitalist protesters in London continued their demonstrations through the night as the movement that began in New York spread worldwide. Thousands had flocked to the area around the London Stock Exc...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Bonin Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 546.7 km (339.7 miles), the quake hit at 06:47:16 UTC Sunday 16th October 2011. The epicenter was 273 km ( 169 miles) Wes...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 75.8 km (47.1 miles), the quake hit at 04:24:44 UTC Sunday 16th October 2011. The epicenter was 55 km ( 34 miles) SSW of Isangel, Tanna, Vanuatu N...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 211.9 km (131.7 miles), the quake hit at 01:21:41 UTC Sunday 16th October 2011. The epicenter was 84 km ( 52 miles) West of L...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 510.6 km (317.3 miles), the quake hit at 00:31:34 UTC Sunday 16th October 2011. The epicenter was 499 km ( 310 miles) SSW of Nd...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Northwestern Kashmir at a depth of 100.3 km (62.3 miles), the quake hit at 00:31:14 UTC Sunday 16th October 2011. The epicenter was 163 km ( 101 miles) East of Gilgit,...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Mariana Islands Region at a depth of 294.5 km (183 miles), the quake hit at 23:29:28 UTC Saturday 15th October 2011. The epicenter was 225 km ( 139 miles) Northwes...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Pagan Region, Northern Mariana Islands at a depth of 567.1 km (352.4 miles), the quake hit at 23:22:45 UTC Saturday 15th October 2011. The epicenter was 62 km ( 38...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck offshore New Zealand at a depth of 40 km (24.8 miles), the quake hit at 20:39 UTC Saterday 15th October 2011. The epicenter was 40 km ( 24.8 miles) Southeast of Huhaka,...
Photo courtesy: Honeydrop Business giving, and even campaigning, is nothing new. But it has been heartening to see how many food industry brands have rallied around the plight of the honeybees to develop ...
"Magnificent spiral galaxy NGC 4565 is viewed edge-on from planet Earth. Also known as the Needle Galaxy for its narrow profile, bright NGC 4565 is a stop on many telescopic tours of the northern sky, in t...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 153.2 km (95.2 miles), the quake hit at 22:24:50 UTC Saturday 15th October 2011. The epicenter was 402 km ( 149 miles) North Of...
[image: PR06-49] Sergio Pessolano [image: Arhuaco boy / Niño Arhuaco] jjrestrepoa [image: laughing girls - Kawkaban] Maciej Dakowicz [image: Local boy in Uganda] J9Fabre [image: Tibet *] saskiaroun...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck offshore Coquimbo, Chile at a depth of 49.8 km (30.9 miles), the quake hit at 22:14:10 UTC Saturday 15th October 2011. The epicenter was 19 km ( 11 miles) West of Coqu...
*Maybe this will turn you against them*: "Protesters dismiss city costs" by Travis Andersen and John R. EllementGlobe Staff / October 15, 2011 The Menino administration has spent $146,189.55 on Boston *p...
*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...
This video will remain on top for the next 24 hours due to the importance of its message and the need to spread it far and wide. Share it. Send it. Repost it. Link it. The rebellion is steadily spreadin...
"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.*
[Contributions to the maintenance of this blog are joyfully accepted. Long Live OccupyGreensboro!] What a day it was. Thousands of people marched from Government Plaza past the International Civil Rights ...
*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...
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CENSORED NEWS - 21 hours ago
*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 - 22 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. ...
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 ...
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)...
I can't believe we're still talking about The Hermanator. I guess it's a testament to how unenthusiastic Republican base voters are with the wishy-washy Mormon bishop the party establishment is forcing d...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia at a depth of 90.6 km (56.3 miles), the quake hit at 17:54:04 UTC Sunday 16th October 2011. The epicenter was 317 km ( 197 miles) North fro...
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