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Hammerhead Sharks. Copyright 1998 Mark Conlin]By David A Gabel, ENN 20 October 20
Colombian government officials have reported that as many as 2,000 sharks have been killed in a single incident ...
LkCa 15 b is 450 light years away from Earth and is 'building itself' out of dust and gas. This impression by University of Hawaii artists shows how the planet sits near the star, while a disc of dust lies...
Advocates are criticizing laws in the United States that allow exotic animal ownership.
[image: Evacuees who fled from Namie town near the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant listen to government officials' explanations about how to apply for compensation at their tempora...
*"We Need Citizens Arrests And Trials"* by Karl Denninger "This sort of thing has gone well beyond "policy" and in my opinion borders on criminal incitement: "The truth is, right now the U.S. economy need...
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And hey, you could win a CBSA cash reward! *
George W. Bush in Surrey * *Thursday Oct. 20* * * *Thursday, October 20, 11:00 am* *Gather at the parking lot outside the Bay,
Guildford Mall, SW corner of 152...
Greek protesters have taken to the streets of Athens for a second successive day over the country's rescue package which might not be enough to save Greece from bankruptcy. Angry protesters swelled into a...
It has survived two world wars, but anti-capitalist activists who have set up camp outside St Paul's Cathedral could force it to shuts its doors to the public for the first time in living memory. On the 3...
[image: Rescuers in Thailand carry a woman through floodwaters to safety. thaitravelnews.net] Associated Press writers Vee Intarakratug, Thanyarat Doksone, and Grant Peck contributed to this report 20 O...
These Republican presidential debates are really idiotic and demeaning-- to the candidates (who deserve to be demeaned) and to the viewers (who don't, at least not the ones watching on TV; the ones in th...
The Philippines said Wednesday it had seized 25 small Chinese boats after its navy confronted a larger fishing vessel in disputed South China Sea waters. Tuesday's encounter followed a series of incidents...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck West of Macquarie Islands at a depth of 15.2 km (9.4 miles), the quake hit at 16:07:24 UTC Thursday 20th October 2011. The epicenter was 1191 km ( 740 miles) SSW from ...
A delegation from the Lebanese Hezbollah movement arrived in Moscow for a three day visit on Wednesday at the invitation of the State Duma, Lebanese website Al Manar reports. The delegation will be headed...
Hezbollah is well prepared to engage in war with Israel, as the Jewish state plans for a possible third war against Lebanon amid regional unrest, Al-Joumhouria newspaper reported Wednesday. “Hezbollah is ...
China on Thursday demanded the Philippines return small Chinese boats promptly and unconditionally after a Philippine military vessel confronted a Chinese fishing vessel. "China has presented its stance t...
[image: In this April 27, 2011 file photo, Atlantic bluefin tuna are surrounded by fishing nets during the opening of the season for tuna fishing off the coast of Barbate, Cadiz province, southern Spain....
Brushfires, heat, exploding car batteries and kangaroos are among the challenges drivers faced in the 1,864-mile-long course.
Researchers have built a robot that self-assembles and can do a variety of tasks.
The robot uses artificial muscles to mimic the way the real plant snaps closed around insects.
*En unos de los articulos presentado antes se le advirtio y se les dio razones para no comprar propiedades reposeidas todavia...La razon que se le dio es que debido a MERS y la claridad del titulo que ya...
I want to get this story up ASAP. It is not getting much coverage. As of right now there are only 4 stories pertaining to this topic. "An unusual observation from a large outbreak in Quebec may raise some ...
[image: TAURANGA, NEW ZEALAND - OCTOBER 9: An oil slick is seen coming from the grounded vessel Rena, on October 9, 2011 in Tauranga, New Zealand. The 47,000 tonne Rena, a Liberan container vessel, struc...
Note: to the Human Rights Lawyers freeing criminals or preventing Criminals from being kicked out of our Country, read this or better still look at the cases where criminals have hurt or KILLED children..I...
[image: The Taiwanese shark fishery is not limited to longlining fleets fishing in international waters, local boats are also landing sharks in Taiwan. Pictured here is a fisher’s catch of sharks along w...
Divisions between Germany and France over the role of the European Central Bank in shoring up the eurozone and the size of a haircut on Greek debt are threatening the outcome of a three-day EU crisis summi...
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The cost of living is rising so quickly that people need to spend an extra £736 just to maintain the same living standards as one year ago, new research shows. Household incomes are being decimated by sp...
A ski area in the US state of Arizona hopes to become the latest in a small number of resorts using "recycled" sewer water to make snow. But the Hopi Indian tribe aims to stop what they describe as the des...
About 2,000 sharks appear to have been slaughtered for their fins in a Pacific Ocean marine sanctuary off Colombia, the Guardian reports. Hammerhead, Galápagos and whale sharks were among the carcasses res...
Copper thieves are getting bolder, but the metal that can be sold for cash at scrapyards may be making its first stop on the streets and traded for crack cocaine. In recent months, thieves have stolen cop...
Mayor Michael Nutter was reacting cautiously on Wednesday to word that national organizers of “Occupy Wall Street” and similar protests across the country plan to gather in Philadelphia next summer. The p...
Applications for unemployment benefits have fallen to a six-month low, according to a four-week averaged calculated by the government. Some economists said the steady decline signals fewer layoffs and pos...
While the number of unemployed workers has held steady at around 14 million in recent months, another telling measure of frustration in the labor market—the number of underemployed individuals—rose for a t...
An unofficial gauge of human misery in the United States rose last month to a 28-year high as Americans struggled with rising inflation and high unemployment. The misery index — which is simply the sum of...
Think life is not as good as it used to be, at least in terms of your wallet? You'd be right about that. The standard of living for Americans has fallen longer and more steeply over the past three years th...
Use of antidepressant drugs has soared nearly 400% since 1988, making the medication the most frequently used by people ages 18-44, a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows. Elev...
People are all wondering about “Corporate Greed” and why there is an Occupy movement going on. Well, - ya know – us ignorant citizens can take about as much as we can take before we rise up – NOT ONLY ag...
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Buckdog - 2 hours ago
*So in a nutshell, here's how Brad Wall rolls: 1) He accuses the NDP leader of being hypocritical for wanting to keep head office jos in Saskatchewan - in their TV ad they claim that Lingenfelter was res...
Former, as in "dead", Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi is no more. Libyan authorities report the man who ruled their country for 42-years was shot and killed today. How he died isn't clear. Some report...
Governments and aid agencies should help the world's poorest to move away from areas likely to be hit by flooding and drought, a UK report says. The government-commissioned report warns of potential humani...
A major Turkish military offensive is continuing in northern Iraq, following a deadly attack by Kurdish rebels inside Turkey. Ankara said 22 battalions, or about 10,000 soldiers, were taking part in the o...
Exotic animals should live in the wild, not be exploited in profit-motivated zoos -- or worse — as "pets" or backyard oddities by people who have a deeply misguided sense of dominion or ownership. What ha...
Nearly 800 dogs were rescued by a Chinese animal protection group last Saturday night in the city of Zigong, in southwest Sichuan province. The Qiming Center, an animal-rights protection group in Sichuan, ...
Rioters have fought other protesters in Athens where thousands of people are rallying outside parliament to condemn a new round of cuts. Stones and petrol bombs were hurled and fire extinguishers set off a...
The Thai government says it will be impossible to protect all of the capital from flooding because of a build-up of water to the north. Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said sluice gates would be opened ...
Ford cars read your text messages out loud -- and keep drivers' eyes on the road.
The weakest part of these phones are the software and mediocre applications.
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has been killed and his body is being taken to the city of Misratah, National Transitional Council spokesman Abdullah Berrassali has told Sky News. "Gaddafi is dead, absolutely de...
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*For those interested to follow the global 'revolution'* that is taking place, an independent news channel has appeared on air: http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution *For the people interested in Gr...
Aaron Bennett, convicted of bribery, keeps Army Corps of Engineers work 24 Reasons Why New Orleans Is the Best City on Earth & L.A. Is Bullshit ~god-eat-god worlds ~Hat Tweet @The_Gambit #24. *We are immune...
An empty Palestinian agricultural reservoir Jiftlik, Jordan Valley, West Bank, Palestine *© Amnesty International* An Israeli settlement swimming pool Maaleh Adumim, West Bank, Palestine *© Angela Godfrey-G...
Nada's magic glasses. Kurt Russell in John Carpenter's They Live.No more bubblegum:Occupy Wall Street's magic glassesAs [John] Carpenter foresaw, force enough Americans out of their homes and/or careers... a...
If, unlike me, you missed the first half-hour of this morning's Today programme on Radio 4 here's a summary of the main points. You may detect a theme. BBC R4 TODAY CLIMATE CHANGE OBSESSION (mp3) That wa...
Bill Cotulla's hand rests on the handle of his great-grandfather's cane, his gravelly voice recounting the changes in the small town his ancestor founded and named for himself some 130 years ago. Almost ov...
Let's leave Chile to Herman Cain's warped, destructive little mind for a moment, keeping in mind their general strike-- although very much Austerity-related-- is ostensibly about education. The general s...
Bernardine Dohrn. Photo by Thomas Good / Next Left Notes.Never the 'good girl,' not then, not now:A Rag Blog interview with Bernardine DohrnBy Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / October 20, 2011Bernardine Dohrn w...
By Denis G. RancourtRecently, there has been some discussion on the Canadian law web site SLAW about an Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruling that is argued to have set legal precedent regarding attendanc...
NJ Transit is the first public transportation system to use an automatic smartphone payment system.
The Stuxnet worm has a cousin, and it could be preparing new attacks on industrial systems.
*Hey guys! We have the incredible Megan here with us today from Kitschy Suburbia to share with us how to make pumpkin pie french toast. I absolutely love Megan's blog, you HAVE to check out her incredible ...
There was a lot of ink spilled about Liberal rebuilding in the wake of the May 2nd shellacking - both among pundits and party members. Although much of that talk has cooled, with January's biennial convent...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Southern Texas at a depth of just 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 12:24:40 UTC Thursday 20th October 2011. The epicenter was 22 km ( 14 miles) Northwest of Pawnee, T...
Brought to our attention by one of our readers: Note: The Great California Shake out has conducted these drill for years and this year has received record registered participants with 8.5 Million compared...
Resurrected Reincarnated Or thrown off the ship for an at sea burial. The news is speculating today based on reports from the "Transitional government" of Libya. Of course the news has speculated based on...
Desperate and flailing, Rick Perry's collapsing campaign is now *all* about tearing down Romney. Behind the scenes, they're concentrating on persuading bigoted Southern evangelicals that it's dangerous t...
*Photo of the capture of an actor.* *Several Green Resistance sites deny that Gaddafi has been captured or killed.** * Original Picture of unknown man at the so called Bin Laden compound FAKE picture of ...
One hundred years ago today, Roald Amundsen set out from camp toward the South Pole.
Glow-in-the-dark sand buried in seaside dunes are time keepers of past storm surges and tsunamis.
While we're patiently waiting for the official announcement of the discovery of the Higgs boson(s) by the LHC, and your humble correspondent is determined not to leak the information about the boson(s) a...
posted by Robin Horbury at
Biased BBC - 6 hours ago
What these 200 companies actually mean when they say they demand "more action on climate change" is that they are after more subsidies from the money that government is taking off us in taxes, and they wan...
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Not PC - 6 hours ago
England’s architect of the Enlightenment era would have been 379 this week. To celebrate, the *Telegraph* has a small gallery of his works, including evidence he did build more than just the tourist’s fa...
*U.S and North Korean* officials are to assemble next week in *Geneva* to try to revive stalled international talks on *ending Pyongyang's nuclear program*. A state department spokesman in Washington sai...
[image: Astronomer captures picture of forming planet] *Astronomers have captured the first direct snap shot of a planet being born. **Adam Kraus, of the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy*, s...
The BBC does not seem to enjoy having complaints about it being made public. Yesterday, I blogged the genuine concerns of a B-BBC reader and license payer; here is what he received back this morning from t...
Indonesian security forces arrested about 300 protesters who gathered Wednesday in the eastern province of West Papua to declare independence. Soldiers swarmed in soon after members of the Papuan Peoples'...
Thais waded through flooded streets Thursday, their belongings and children perched on their shoulders, as relentless floodwaters inched toward Bangkok. In some residential areas, scattered rooftops pee...
At least three activists chained to each other inside Dale Farm have been cut free by police and arrested, as evictions continue at the site. Two women and one man were taken today from barricades within t...
The secretariat of the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan proposed on Thursday expanding the zone where intensive disaster countermeasures are to be taken to a 30-kilometer radius of a nuclear power plant ...
A Pakistani nuclear power plant imposed a seven-hour emergency after heavy water leaked from a feeder pipe to the reactor, but no radiation or damage has been reported, an official said on Thursday. The ...
Three sailors have died and five others are missing after their Turkish merchant ship collided with a passenger ferry and sank in the Adriatic, Albanian port authorities said Thursday. The 3,300-ton Rein...
The measles outbreak which has infected more than 200 Aucklanders has now spread to Waiheke Island. A 17-year-old resident on the island recently tested positive for the disease, Dawn Rigby, Manager of t...
Should anyone ever decide to make a show called "CSI: Geology," a group of scientists studying a mysterious and rapidly inflating South American volcano have got the perfect storyline. Researchers from se...
This is an informal continuation of the text Why is there energy and what it isn't? One month ago, I discussed the notion of energy and the Hamiltonian. There is a concept similar to the Hamiltonian in me...
*The New Tunisia.* In Tunisia, the CIA's Islamists are set for big election gains After the 23 October 2011 elections in Tunisia, the Islamist *Ennahda Party*is expected to be the biggest party in the ass...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Southern Iran at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:57:25 UTC Thursday 20th October 2011. The epicenter was 40 km ( 25 miles) North of Banda-e Abbas, Ira...
The fundamental problem withpolitical Islam is that it has been built around a convenient anti Semitismthat is indoctrinated from early childhood such that it becomes a matter ofunquestioned and unques...
What should be obvious is thatconventional banking managed carefully produces steady but modest profits. The pressure on management from privateinvestors to actually gamble is immense. There are two ...
I have finished a book titled The Aztecs by Michael E. Smith which is well worth the effort. It is informed by recent archeological work, which has filled in the blanks of their daily lives and...
First we had dark mass, now we have gamma ray emitters without sources. Surely these are not black holes? Away we go again. Cosmology is wonderful in producing masses of untestable hypothesis...
*"The Predator of Man"* by Carlos Castaneda “’Predators Mind.’ This is the Castaneda term for that which aligns man with the thought center of service to self. In “Active Side of Infinity,” Don Juan tel...
*Iran and Saudi Arabia.* The CIA sees Iran as having become too influential in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and perhaps even Libya. The CIA likes to stir up wars. Getting Sunnis to fight Shias is part of the po...
After another prediction that the world is about to end from a radio evangelist, one small business has demonstrated just how to make the best out of a bad situation. Reverend Harold Camping, from Califor...
Sheriff's deputies shot nearly 50 wild animals - including 18 rare Bengal tigers and 17 lions - in a big-game hunt across the state's countryside on Wednesday after the owner of an exotic-animal park threw...
A wealthy attorney who was found dead at his suburban home shot his two young children while they slept before bludgeoning his wife to death and then turning the gun on himself, police say. Sam Friedlande...
A University of Zurich study 'proves' that a small group of companies - mainly banks - wields huge power over the global economy. The study is the first to look at all 43,060 transnational corporations and...
------------------------------ *Gardasil: chemical weapon of the elite* The Dangers of Gardasil with Dr. Russell Blaylock Original in YouTube Cherchez la Verite
*One of the most powerful satellites (Viasat-1) ever built has been put in orbit by a Russian Proton rocket.* The *Viasat-1 spacecraft* will carry *broadband services to customers in the US and Canada*....
*"What If You Slept"* "What if you slept And what if In your sleep You dreamed And what if In your dream You went to heaven And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower And what if When you awoke You ...
With tears in her eyes and a quivering voice, the mother of a critically injured Chinese toddler left to die in the street after she was run over twice has pleaded with her little girl to get better. Qu F...
Sometimes when you buy a pair of shoes, one of them can feel snug while the other one does not quite fit. Tom Boddingham certainly knows the feeling. When the 27-year-old ordered a special monster-design...
[image: Clinton in Afghanistan to Encourage President Hamid Karzai] *US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in Afghanistan to cheer President Hamid Karzai to continue hard work to reconcile with the Tali...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands at a depth of 34.7 km (21.6 miles), the quake hit at 03:38:58 UTC Thursday 20th October 2011. The epicenter was 172 km ( 107 miles) ESE of Raoul I...
Millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money could be lost to corrupt regimes as a result of the Government’s ballooning aid budget, a hard-hitting report by MPs has warned. The Public Accounts Committee added ...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Island of Hawaii, Hawaii at a depth of 18.8 km (11.7 miles), the quake hit at 00:10:04 UTC Thursday 20th October 2011. The epicenter was 21 km ( 13 miles) Southeas...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Guatemala at a depth of 79.9 km (49.6 miles), the quake hit at 00:05:08 UTC Thursday 20th October 2011. The epicenter was 9 km ( 5 miles) SSW of Escuintla, Guatemala No...
David Cameron is to rush forward a landmark Commons vote on Britain's relationship with Europe. The move comes amid 'complete panic' in Tory high command about growing support in the party for a referendu...
Xenophobia and racism are never far from the surface in America, and Tuesday's GOP Las Vegas debate showed them breaking out of their cages-- again. At one point it looked like the candidates all might t...
[image: 51 per cent of 18 to 24 year olds look at their reflection 10 times a day] 51 per cent of 18 to 24 year olds look at their reflection 10 times a day While many young people love to check their a...
Most of us don't feel at out most bushy-tailed first thing in the morning. But a slightly depressing new report says that that is when we look our very best. It makes sense, as the morning make-up routi...
Katie Price has revealed that she is unhappy with the results of her £100,000 worth of plastic surgery... and she is far from alone in being disappointed by the odd nip and tuck. The ugly face of cosmet...
After a first date on a Saturday night, if it gets past 11.48am on Monday without a text or call then there's not much chance of a second outing, a survey has found. Modern communications mean sticking ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Eastern Honshu, Japan at a depth of 14 km (8.7 miles), the quake hit at 21:21:40 UTC Wednesday 19th October 2011. The epicenter was 40 km ( 24.8 miles) South of Koriyam...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Aisen, Chile at a depth of 15.3 km (9.5 miles), the quake hit at 20:45:11 UTC Wednesday 19th October 2011. The epicenter was 411 km ( 255 miles) West ...
Protesters have vowed to bring Greece to a standstill on day two of a general strike as the government prepares to give the green light to a controversial austerity plan. Yesterday hundreds of youths sma...
Photo by Emily Laermer / Crain's.We shall not be moved!A report from occupied Wall Street:A new popular front against finance capital, encompassing a progressive majority of the country, is beginning to take...
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CENSORED NEWS - 14 hours ago
*Torture Victims to Initiate Private Prosecution against George W. Bush on his Arrival in Canada* *by Center for Constitutional Rights* *Global Research* *Canadian Government Has Legal Obligation under UN C...
"A fantastic jumble of young blue star clusters, gigantic glowing gas clouds, and imposing dark dust lanes surrounds the central region of the active galaxy Centaurus A. This mosaic of Hubble Space Telesco...
“Dreams are the answers to questions that we haven't yet figured out how to ask.” - "Fox Mulder"
"We consider this as part of our duty to defend humanity against the scourge of intolerance, violence and fanaticism." - Ahmad Shah Massoud, from "Massoud's Letter To The People Of America," (1998). Two...
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CENSORED NEWS - 16 hours ago
*Just released: 'Occupy Wall Street: The Movie'* 27 minutes Watch on YouTube: http://youtu.be/gt4j1nT9yJY Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
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Not PC - 16 hours ago
[image: _Quote4] The fundamental evil of government grants is the fact that men are forced to pay for the support of ideas diametrically opposed to their own.” - Ayn Ra...
At least 745 people have died in flooding in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and the Philippines since July, the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific said. Thailand has been hit the hardest, with ...
*"Cancer Feeds on Fructose,* * America's Number One Source of Calories"* by Anthony Gucciardi “High-fructose corn syrup is the primary source of calories in the United States. In addition to containing me...
*Governor Kasich struck his blow against gov't regulation.* *by Ken* My goodness, the things right-wingers say. It would be beyond belief except for the evident fact that there are Americans who nod and d...
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Buckdog - 17 hours ago
*This campaign, the Saskatchewan Party is putting forth a lot of 'attack ads' against New Democrat Leader, Dwain Lingenfelter. In their ususal enthusiasm to slander and slur, they have been caught with ye...
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CENSORED NEWS - 17 hours ago
Dolores River*Federal Judge Halts 42-Square-Mile Uranium Leasing Program in Colorado* *Sweeping Ruling Suspends All Drilling, Mining, Exploration, Existing and Future Leasing* *.* *Press statement* *Post...
A Must-See Photo: #OccupyWallStreet From The End Of The Earth
Casablanca, Morocco. Thanks for stopping by.
*And yet they need **$5 more dollars** a month from you? * "Bank of America Corp. swung to a third-quarter profit on higher revenue, better credit quality, and one-time gains. Net income [was] $6.23 billi...
I had believed (and written about for years) before that infamous (September 2008) Not-So-Dumbya/Goldman-Sachs' John Paulson angst-ridden TV broadcast about the "absolutely necessary or we'll shoot ourselv...
Don't mess with Texas. Photo by Jon McLaughlin / National Resources Defense Council.'Regulatory capture':Cronyism and corruption in the Keystone XL Pipeline approval processBy Alyssa Burgin / The Rag Blog / ...
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Not PC - 18 hours ago
The left view ideas not as as the arbitrary products of warring mobs. With the OccupyEverything Mob, we are now getting ever closer to the warring mobs : I thought of the Joker's nihilistic ramblings [sa...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy: "City Upon a Hill" Speech (January 9, 1961). [image: Link]
*"Pat Robertson: God Let Zoo Animals Escape to Bite Gay People"* Televangelist Stirs Controversy With Latest Remarks by Andy Borowitz ZANESVILLE, OH (The Borowitz Report) – "As dozens of escaped exotic ani...
Canadian access to vital nutrients threatened by trade deals A commentary from the National Health Federation of Canada Canadians who prefer health care the natural way need to take a stand, and fast, ...
The unique find, which could be the earliest representation of childbirth in western art, show the head and shoulders of a baby emerging from a mother.
Through its infrared eye, Spitzer has detected the dusty remains of comet impacts around the star Eta Corvi -- reminding us what it must have been like during the early evolution of our own solar system.
A magnitude 2.7 earthquake has struck Washington at a depth of 11.5 km (7.1 miles), the quake hit at 19:51:08 UTC Wednesday 19th October 2011. The epicenter was 4 km ( 3 miles) Northeast of Amboy, Washingto...
Primary voters in Oregon start filling in their ballots this Friday in the special election to fill David Wu's seat in the northwest corner of Oregon. The first congressional district is dependably Democ...
*"Study: Many College Students Not * *Learning to Think Critically"* by Sara Rimer NEW YORK — "An unprecedented study that followed several thousand undergraduates through four years of college found that...
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*Current politics have something in common with the weather.* Both are unpredictable and completely chaotic. Even a 10-days forecast may fail while too many complexities are at play. See *Europe* struggli...
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Not PC - 21 hours ago
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“In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.” - Hunter S. Thompson, “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”
Kayaker and photographer Rick Coleman captured incredible footage of a blue whale swimming alongside him.
*"United States Marine Corps. Sgt. Faces Off With the NYPD" * by SHTFblog "United States Marine Corps. Sgt. Shamar Thomas from Roosevelt, NY went toe to toe with the New York Police Department. An activi...
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The death of a glacier is opening up new opportunities for salmon and other species.
*"Who Will Bail Out the Rescuers?"* by Bill Bonner "Yesterday, rumors circulated that the Europeans had their problems in hand. The Dow rose 180 points. The euro went up too, and now trades at $1.37. For ...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 85.1 km (52.9 miles), the quake hit at 19:03:18 UTC Wednesday 19th October 2011. The epicenter was 75 km ( 46 miles) WNW of Tapa...
Internet scammers were today trying to trick taxpayers into giving away their bank details after it was revealed that millions are in line for a rebate. Six million people are set to receive a windfall of...
*19 October 2011. * "*Gaddafi forces have captured 17 foreign mercenaries in Bani Walid , including several British and French... * "The anti-Gaddafi NTC were forced to withdraw from Bani Walid today... "...
As you can see from today's Seismogram activity is still increasing today - Anyone have any insight on this yet?
At least 745 people have died in flooding in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and the Philippines since July, the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific said. Thailand has been hit the hardest, with...
What is a blue straggler star anyway, and how is it being "left behind?"
Some 125,000 people have been forced out of their homes and 500 kilometers (300 miles) of roadways have been washed away in flooding in southeast Mexico, Tabasco state Governor Andres Granier said Wednesda...
Kenyan military forces moved into southern Somalia on Sunday, an official and residents said, a day after top Kenyan defense officials said the country has the right to defend itself after a rash of milita...
As the deadline for Serbs in northern Kosovo to dismantle their border barricades nears, they remain firm in their protest. The barricades are meant to stop attempts by Kosovan police, and NATO and EU fo...
Somali militants threatened to bring down Nairobi skyscrapers after Kenya sent hundreds of troops into Somalia. The threat emanated from the same lawless country in which the al-Qaida masterminds behind 19...
New York police officers are being investigated over allegations they have used excessive force against Occupy Wall Street protesters. A video, taped last Friday, has given grounds for one of the inquir...
What began as a man’s attempt to discipline his child turned into a sordid case of abuse when police say a Washington man forced his 16-year-old daughter to don Renaissance armor and engage in a wooden swo...
France warned on Tuesday that European unity would be at risk if eurozone leaders failed to take bold action to tackle its sovereign debt crisis at a crucial summit this weekend. In sharp contrast to sig...
The California man who lives part of his life as an “adult baby” and collects Social Security disability payments says the federal agency has cleared him of wrongdoing and will continue sending checks. St...
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Biased BBC - 23 hours ago
Spot what's missing from this piece of so-called reporting by the BBC. Predictably, this most disturbing report about the agonising impact of fuel poverty has been processed by BBC business "reporter" Dam...
General Assembly at Occupy Austin. Photo from Occupy Austin.Even the weather turns spiritual:Onward through the storms at Occupy AustinAs Occupy Austin entered its second week, organizers were looking more r...
Future cars could sense terrain and location and use it to adjust driving systems.
This wall plate transforms standard dual AC power outlets into a single outlet and dual USB ports for charging devices.
Cinematics meets kinematics with a rising column that unfurls to form a 201-inch LED TV screen.
KFOR delivered an ultimatum to ethnic Serbs in Kosovo manning barricades at a border crossing in the breakaway region's north: remove the obstacles by Monday, or else the international peacekeepers will ...
A tornado left a 2-mile long trail of damage, peeling off roofs and tossing cars in a suburban South Florida neighborhood, officials said Wednesday. Minor injuries were reported. The tornado that struck B...
Syrian tank forces killed at least 25 people in a thrust into the opposition hotbed of Homs aimed at stemming growing armed resistance to President Bashar al-Assad's crackdown on a seven-month-old popular ...
Fukushima City has launched a massive campaign to clean up radioactive materials, with the ultimate goal of decontaminating all homes and public facilities. The city is located about 60 kilometers from th...
One more person has died in Saptari district due to an unidentified disease on Wednesday, death toll reaching to six in total. Budhani Devi Yadav (45) of Pakari VDC-9 in the district died due to the uniden...
Residents and troops are piling up sandbags along canals in northern Bangkok to try to stop floodwater from reaching central parts of the Thai capital. Floods caused by the record rainfall have so far kill...
Botulism is the likely killer of hundreds of birds and fish found washed up on the shores of Georgian Bay from Collingwood all the way to Parry Sound, says the Ministry of Natural Resources. “The cause of...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday threatened to kill the Palestinian prisoners released today under the swap agreement with Hamas, if they returned to the work of the resistance and carr...
John Bercow is fighting off attempts to slash his lucrative taxpayer-funded pension, it has emerged. David Cameron has announced he will change the law to end the special pension arrangements for the Prim...
Even as the citizens are yet to come out of trauma of eight-year-old Kush Kataria's brutal murder and demanding death for Ayush Pugalia, the Nagpur bench of Bombay high court on Tuesday seemed to have list...
A malfunction during the most recent test flight of the private spacecraft SpaceShipTwo sent the vehicle hurtling out of control until its crew could stabilize the craft for a safe landing. The issue prov...
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I'm writing this from the IS encampment at Occupy Toronto, in St. James Park. It's chilly and wet out today, but people here are warm and energized. There are at least 75 tents set up, and I've heard that ...
Last week Rachel Maddow did a typically engaging and brilliant analysis of how the Republican Party is making a concerted effort to pervert democracy by disenfranchising likely Democratic voters and by c...
The high-powered New York lawyer hired by an anonymous donor to represent the parents of missing baby Lisa Irwin gave an interview this morning, alongside the family's private investigator, to tout the cou...
A listeria outbreak from cantaloupe melons has now been linked to 25 deaths across 12 U.S. states. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said this week that 123 people have now been sickened in t...
This mobile scanner has an internal memory that can store up to 600 pages.
Clever ad for Qualcomm's Snapdragon micro-processor is a real three ring circus...with bugs!
Billionaire Naveen Jain thinks that the moon's precious minerals as well as its mystique are worth exploration.
Touch screens don't have to be limited to a device's screen -- now they can be anywhere.
A new kind of radar may offer real X-ray vision to soldiers in urban combat zones.
Ten young people feared to be dead were last night sensationally found by authorities investigating the horrific ‘house of horrors’ basement where four disabled victims were kept chained to a boiler. The ...
Police are investigating the possibility that the owner of the Ohio reserve where almost 50 wild animals escaped from may have opened their cages and then committed suicide. Terry Thompson was found dead ...
From Friday this week a three-tonne satellite is set to fall to Earth, the German Aerospace Agency DLR warned today. The ROSAT satellite will re-enter between October 21st and 24th, scientists predict, an...
Feminist writer and activist Naomi Wolf was arrested Tuesday night among a group of Occupy Wall Street protesters outside an event honouring the governor of New York. Refusing to stay off the street under...
Fat-cat Greeks have secretly shifted more than €228billion euros out of their country's crisis-hit banks and into accounts in Switzerland, according to a report. The big money is fleeing the country as ri...
[image: Life goes on: young people play a game of volleyball in ankle-deep sea water in Funafuti, an atoll that is Tuvalu’s capital. Amelia Holowaty Krales] By AMELIA HOLOWATY KRALES 18 October 2011 Tu...
Local police in Zanesville, Ohio, have orders are to shoot on sight any of the escaped animals that remain on the lam.
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*"The Supreme Court of Canada has erected a shield to protect those who post defamatory internet links to other sites. The Court was unanimous in ruling that anyone whose site supplies hyperlinks that lea...
Future microchips may have only one type of component, capable of rewiring itself to do different jobs. Researchers from Northwestern University in the US have developed a material that can radically chan...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 38.7 km (24 miles), the quake hit at 13:31:49 UTC Wednesday 19th October 2011. The epicenter was 42 km ( 26 miles) Eas...
Researchers have found evidence that the Stuxnet worm, which alarmed governments around the world, could be about to regenerate. Stuxnet was a highly complex piece of malware created to spy on and disrupt ...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Easter Island Region at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:26:03 UTC Wednesday 19th October 2011. The epicenter was 639 km ( 397 miles) Northwest of...
Social network sites may be changing people's brains as well as their social life, research suggests. Brain scans show a direct link between the number of Facebook friends a person has and the size of cer...
I was honored to contribute to the printing of the first issue of the Occupied Wall Street Journal, and even more thrilled to see the quality of the contributions and layout. Below is a youtube about the ...
Here is a tale of how the BBC treats those who raise genuine concerns. I am sharing the email exchange for your interest with the permission of the person concerned. Have to say I was stunned by the decisi...
Turkish troops backed by fighter jets and helicopter gunships have pursued Kurdish rebels into Iraq. It follows overnight attacks on military installations in Hakkari province, near the Iraqi border, whic...
Why is the problem of violence against children so much more acute in the US than anywhere else in the industrialised world, asks Michael Petit, President of Every Child Matters. Over the past 10 years, m...
Some outside observers have been quick to draw apocalyptic lessons from America's recent economic woes. But here in the Black Rock Desert, in remote north-western Nevada, it truly is the end of Empire. Th...
The 42,000 plane trees lining France's historic Canal du Midi are being felled because of a fungus brought to Europe by US soldiers in World War II. Will the planes that decorate the streets of cities such...
Pakistan's army chief Ashfaq Kayani has warned the US that it will have to think "10 times" before taking any unilateral action in North Waziristan. He said that the US should focus on stabilising Afghanis...
Students and police have clashed in the Chilean capital, Santiago, during the latest protest over education reform. Police used tear gas and water cannon against masked protesters who set up barricades an...
Since Mexico's president launched his war on drugs five years ago, 45,000 people are estimated to have been killed. The appalling violence is now spreading from the border areas deeper into the country, t...
Dozens of exotic animals have escaped from a private zoo in Zanesville, Ohio, and are roaming the area, say police. Police have been receiving sightings of cheetahs, grizzly bears, black bears, wolves, ti...
A review is underway at a Niagara Falls hospital after an elderly patient fell at the facility and was told to call an ambulance for help. Doreen Wallace, 82, fell inside the double doors of the Greater Ni...
Demonstrators in Athens threw stones and gasoline bombs at police on Wednesday outside parliament during a two-day general strike that unions described as the largest in years. The protest, which has grou...
Twenty-four soldiers were killed and 18 injured during an attack early Wednesday morning in southeastern Turkey, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. Rockets were launched at security forces and mi...
Will Greece default? Greece is widely expected to default on its debt. The question is how messy a default will be, what kind it could be and when it will happen. The country is waiting for an €8 billion ...
The Occupy Wall Street movement may hate corporate greed, but they're not averse to raising seed money like any good start-up. In addition to the $300,000 the group has raised through its website and depos...
Those spooky lenses may complement your ghastly attire, but they can come at a price -- your eyes.
Forge a nice, functional path with lightweight brick look-alikes containing solar-powered lights.
As a bit of a veteran of BBC radio debates, I can tell you that one of the biggest challenges is the way in which the host can limit your ability to react and respond to whoever you are debating with. This...
Getting back to Syria- while we have the news of Turkey killing Kurds, Kurds killing Turks along the border with Iraq. "In hot pursuit" I wonder if this heating up of disputes between the co-opted Kurds of...
I blogged on this over on A Tangled Web but I have to admit I was HORRIFIED by the way the the BBC ran it earlier today. In true totalitarian style, the idea that the old should be "encouraged" to swap the...
"Plantonistas" protest Mexican election results at Mexico City's Zócalo plaza, Nov. 11, 2011. Photo by Régis Lachaume / Wikimedia Commons. Borrowing From Mexico:The Wall Street PlantónBy Dick J. Reavis / The...
The Big Uneasy at The Green Project ~Press Street~Film Screening: 6:30pm Thursday, October 20, 2011 Location: The Green Project - 2831 Marais Street, New Orleans, LA 70117 ~Hat Tweet @LeveesOrg~WWL TV Chann...
[image: Aerial view of flooding in Thailand, north of Bangkok, 17 October 2011. BBC] BANGKOK, October 19 (AP) – Thailand's new premier acknowledged Wednesday that the country's flood crisis has overwhel...
*The 2009 H1N1 flu virus appears to have created a much greater threat to unborn babies than other types of seasonal flu.* Babies born to mothers who contracted the swine flu virus faced a much greater ...
Nathan Cullen shakes up the Mulcair-Topp cage match with an interesting idea : His plan would be to let grassroots members of the three parties [Liberals, NDP, Greens] decide in each riding currently held...
Great white sharks are protected in South Africa, but photos show how fishermen are still brazenly catching them.
*John M. Mason believes that the United States economy is recovering and will continue to recover. He also said that “financial crises are protracted affairs.”* *John M. Mason writes on current monetary...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Izu Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 24.8 km (15.4 miles), the quake hit at 12:03:06 UTC Wednesday 19th October 2011. The epicenter was 346 km ( 214 miles) Nort...
President of the Canary Islands, Paulino Rivero, assures that the latest data point out that the tremor signal has fallen and that the bubble is gone . Experts expect to know within 48 hours the evolution ...
The 1% are: Congress & the president (Democrats & Republicans), Banksters, the FED, war profiteers, families like the Rockefellers & Rothschilds. They speka through the TV News Liars. They carry out false ...
"Congratulations LkCa 15! You've given birth to a proto-exoplanet!"
Yes, R.E.M. may have broken up as a band but they just lent their support to the OccupyWallStreet Movement with their 1987 classic, "Welcome to the Occupation" (from *Document*). But on Ed Schultz's show...
*when Texas executes one.* *A sign at multiple Occupy sites.*
For those of you who are not familiar with the phrase “gutless wonder” – my mother used to use that phrase for a person who was such a coward that she had to wonder how they managed to crawl out of bed eac...
[image: Using Internet May be Changing Brains] *Researchers* have put forward a report that using internet may change people’s brain. *Social network sites* may be changing people's brains as well as thei...
Two environmental associations in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward met the ward's mayor, Katsunori Aoki, on Oct. 18, seeking radiation tests and decontamination measures after they detected radiation of up to 5.47 ...
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LkCa 15 b is 450 light years away from Earth and is 'building itself' out of dust and gas. This impression by University of Hawaii artists shows how the planet sits near the star, while a disc of dust lies...
And hey, you could win a CBSA cash reward! *George W. Bush in Surrey * *Thursday Oct. 20* * * *Thursday, October 20, 11:00 am* *Gather at the parking lot outside the Bay, Guildford Mall, SW corner of 152...
Greek protesters have taken to the streets of Athens for a second successive day over the country's rescue package which might not be enough to save Greece from bankruptcy. Angry protesters swelled into a...
It has survived two world wars, but anti-capitalist activists who have set up camp outside St Paul's Cathedral could force it to shuts its doors to the public for the first time in living memory. On the 3...
These Republican presidential debates are really idiotic and demeaning-- to the candidates (who deserve to be demeaned) and to the viewers (who don't, at least not the ones watching on TV; the ones in th...
The Philippines said Wednesday it had seized 25 small Chinese boats after its navy confronted a larger fishing vessel in disputed South China Sea waters. Tuesday's encounter followed a series of incidents...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck West of Macquarie Islands at a depth of 15.2 km (9.4 miles), the quake hit at 16:07:24 UTC Thursday 20th October 2011. The epicenter was 1191 km ( 740 miles) SSW from ...
A delegation from the Lebanese Hezbollah movement arrived in Moscow for a three day visit on Wednesday at the invitation of the State Duma, Lebanese website Al Manar reports. The delegation will be headed...
Hezbollah is well prepared to engage in war with Israel, as the Jewish state plans for a possible third war against Lebanon amid regional unrest, Al-Joumhouria newspaper reported Wednesday. “Hezbollah is ...
China on Thursday demanded the Philippines return small Chinese boats promptly and unconditionally after a Philippine military vessel confronted a Chinese fishing vessel. "China has presented its stance t...
posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 15 hours ago"We consider this as part of our duty to defend humanity against the scourge of intolerance, violence and fanaticism." - Ahmad Shah Massoud, from "Massoud's Letter To The People Of America," (1998). Two...
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