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Why Penrose is one of many crackpots when it comes to inflation
*When talking about cosmic inflation,
Roger Penrose and many others display a complete lack of understanding of the principles of rational reasoning* Sean Carroll discusses cosmic inflation, especially the...
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Libya is turning a new page in its history following the killing of its former leader
Muammar Gaddafi. But the footage of Gaddafi's dead and broken body was so graphic; some are wondering why it was broa...
Nick Clegg faced the air rage of a passenger angry at his party’s opposition to the scrapping of the Human Rights Act. The Lib Dem leader was verbally abused by a woman on his flight from London to Cairo,...
Still active, still no information available about what is going on in the area.
On his first trip to Asia as defense secretary,
Leon Panetta intends to stress a U.S. commitment to strengthening ties with key allies and partner countries while keeping a wary eye on China's military bui...
Afghanistan-based
Taliban leader Maulvi Fazlullah, a leading figure in the insurgency, has vowed to return to Pakistan to wage war as the country came under renewed American pressure to tackle militancy. ...
Hello everyone, this is Matt writing to all your wonderful readers: As we all know, religion for many can play a large part in their interpretation of disaster news and world change. Lynsey and I fully res...
Bar Shot Up With AK-47, Suspect Still At-Large: MyFoxPHILLY.com Philadelphia police are looking for a man who they say shot up a Southwest Philadelphia bar with an AK-47 assault rifle. Police say Richa...
The Bird Man told us that there would be a terrible dearth of birds in Florida this winter owing to the catastrophe in September when hundreds of thousands of birds hurled themselves against the Empire Sta...
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has warned of another financial crisis brewing, as global liquidity becomes a concern amidst central banks pegging their lending rates at near zero levels, leaving scope for ano...
A class war once seemed impossible in a country where being wealthy is part of the national dream. But as thousands march on Wall Street and in other parts of America, digging in with anti-corporate prot...
*Japan: Fukushima Update with Arnie Gunderson - October 20, 2011* Vidéo mirrorthis2010 sélectionnée dans Actualité
he missile brigade of the Western Military District has become the first unit of the Russian Armed Forces to make the switch to Iskander tactical missile systems, military spokesman Col. Andrey Bobrun told...
This week alone has seen a ratings downgrade for Spain as well as a threat by agencies to review France's AAA status -- and the markets have taken notice. Once again, it would seem, ratings agencies are ma...
Following the news that Berlin and Paris remain divided on how to make the euro-zone bailout fund more effective, European efforts to stem the debt crisis have taken another blow thanks to a split between ...
A QUARTER of young men in Scotland are out of work, prompting fears of a growing “youth unemployment crisis”. More than 80,000 men and women aged between 18 and 24 are looking for a job, according to figu...
ALEX Salmond has claimed there is “a deep undercurrent of support” for Scottish independence across the UK and a demand for a “new relationship” between the nations of the British Isles. It came as a UK-w...
The US based company General Electric (NYSE:GE) has announced that they plan to build a $200 million multi-product plant in Pune, India, part of the company’s strategy to localize production while expandin...
A Guerra que voce nao ve - The War You Dont See (2010) Legendado PT from MDDVTM TV11 on Vimeo. Editor's Note: Up until now we have only been able to publish the trailer for this movie. John Pilger's fi...
Talks between U.S. states and top banks over mortgage abuses are nearing agreement on a major sticking point that has bogged down settlement negotiations for more than a year. A deal could be reached by t...
They increasingly dot the planet. There’s a facility outside Las Vegas where “pilots” work in climate-controlled trailers, another at a dusty camp in Africa formerly used by the French Foreign Legion, a th...
The Nebraska Farm Bureau has confirmed what Nebraska farmers have known for months: This year's flood was economically devastating. With farmland in 14 Nebraska counties under Missouri River floodwater, th...
Historic drought conditions are fueling the largest algae bloom in more than a decade along the Texas Gulf Coast, killing fish, sparking warnings about beach conditions and making throats scratchy, researc...
Far from being "alarmist," predictions from climate scientists in many cases are proving to be more conservative than observed climate-induced impacts. The warnings were dire: 188 predictions showing that ...
The idea to form the Eurasian Economic Union has taken a specific shape, as prime ministers of the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan coordinated a relevant draft declaration. The declaration ...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Southern Alaska at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 14:32:20 UTC Saturday 22nd October 2011. The epicenter was 56 km ( 35 miles) Southwest of Skwentna, Al...
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*"A sports-related curse or jinx is a superstitious belief in the effective action of some power or evil, that is used to explain the failures or misfortunes of specific sports teams, players, or even ci...
*Republican Chris Myers* Medford, NJ Mayor Chris Myers, the failed 2008 Republican congressional candidate, denies everything (of course)-- although he's widely expected to make a plea for privacy for his...
Forty-two children have been sickened in a food poisoning incident at a kindergarten in north China's Hebei Province, local authorities said Friday. On the afternoon of Oct. 15, 42 children began showing s...
As some European leaders demonstrate a celebratory mood over the violent death of Colonel Gaddafi, they are no less terrorists themselves, claims international consultant and author Adrian Salbuchi. Sa...
A defunct German satellite is expected to fall to Earth this weekend, with experts predicting that up to 30 big pieces of the junked spacecraft could hit the planet. But exactly when and where the satellit...
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wmtc - 2 hours ago
Top Ten OWS signs, courtesy of International Business Times.
A gunman perched on a Brooklyn rooftop opened fire Friday, grazing an 11-year-old girl and killing a pregnant woman who was shielding several of her kids. A second woman was wounded when the the gunman un...
Motorists driving on expressways around Flint are getting surprised by a stunning tactic that the Genesee County sheriff has been using to fight the flow of illegal drugs -- one that legal experts said wil...
As politicians in Western capitals were taking quiet pleasure in the capture and killing of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi yesterday, opinions elsewhere were divided. In Moscow, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov sa...
*The Excavator* A mass grave site in La Macarena, Colombia, that was unearthed in 2010 outside a Colombian military base overseen by the U.S. military. Human rights lawyer Dan Kovalik said that, "The dis...
I watched Fact or Faked: The Paranormal Files today and had some questions. First, I enjoy the show and am all in favor of anything that brings a note of skepticism and research into these tales. But I som...
Facebook has until November 7 to bring its facial recognition software into conformity with privacy laws in Germany and the European Union or face legal action, a government lawyer told AFP Friday. "We ha...
A Great White shark has killed a US diver in what is thought to be the second fatal shark attack in Western Australia in 12 days. The diver, 32, who has not been named, was diving alone off Rottnest Island...
Turkey and Iran have vowed to co-operate to defeat separatist Kurdish militants, on the third day of a Turkish offensive on its Iraq border. The Kurdish militants posed a "common problem" for Turkey and Ir...
Private holders of Greek debt may need to accept losses of up to 60 percent on their investments if Greece's debt mountain is to be made more sustainable in the long-term, a downbeat analysis by the EU and...
The Queen is coming perilously close to joining millions of her subjects in “fuel poverty” as energy bills for four palaces and a draughty castle absorb a rising share of her income. About 4m households i...
A meteorite falling into the sea sparked a search and rescue mission last night after two people reported they saw a plane crash into the water off the coast of Whitstable. Kent Fire and Rescue Service w...
Folk music and 1960s protest legend Pete Seeger has joined in the Occupy Wall Street protest, replacing his instruments with two canes as he marches with throngs of people to Columbus Circle. The 92-year-...
Detectives investigating the grisly find of 12 severed feet which have washed ashore in Canada could be a step closer to solving the mystery. Two of the 12 feet - all found in British Columbia (B.C.) since...
The temperature of the surface is like a hot summer's day in Arizona or Seville - and would be quite pleasant for humans. It's the coldest object ever photographed outside our solar system. But WD 0806-66...
The Herschel Space Observatory has captured for the first time a huge 'disc' of icy vapour clustered round a young star as it develops into a solar system. The water round the star stretches far out into ...
Ivor van Heerden allowed to proceed to trial in case against LSU ~Sandy Rosenthal ~Ivor van Heerden, Feb 10, 2010 ~"My own University (U.C. Berkeley) was also approached in an inappropriate manner during t...
Internet pornography is creating a generation of young men who are hopeless in the bedroom, according to research. Exposure to lurid images and films in the new media is de-sensitising so many young peo...
Old people read faster than normal on an iPad, even though most claim to prefer 'real books', a study shows. German researchers discovered that people of different ages could read just as well from iPa...
After his capture, Colonel Gaddafi’s son Mutassim was photographed swigging water and smoking a cigarette. Sitting against a wall, Gaddafi’s fifth son wore heavily blood-stained clothes but did not appear...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Potosi, Bolivia at a depth of 94 km (58.2 miles), the quake hit at 11:02:54 UTC Saturday 22nd October 2011. The epicenter was 166 km ( 102.9 miles) East of Iquique, Chi...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Tarapaca, Chile at a depth of 121 km (75.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:07:42 UTC Saturday 22nd October 2011. The epicenter was 83 km ( 51 miles) East of Tacna, Peru No ...
I'll admit I have very little sympathy for those prelates at St.Paul's who chose to welcome the anarcho-communist rabble whilst sending the police away but who NOW think Swampy and co need to clear off. Ho...
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wmtc - 6 hours ago
From ReWORKit: In light of Occupy Wall Street and the spinoffs that are growing in many other cities, there have been a large number of excellent articles and studies going around looking at the t...
From the beginning of time, most immigrants to the United States-- obviously the slaves who were brought here by force excepted-- came looking for better economic opportunities for themselves and their fa...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 09:38:41 UTC Saturday 22nd October 2011. The epicenter was 254 km ( 157 miles) East of R...
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wmtc - 6 hours ago
The BBC has managed to squeeze two items out of a Washington Post story on Marco Rubio's family history, with a news report and an accompanying bit of pointless padding from Daniel "let's defend Obama" Nas...
As already noted by Pogge, Campbell Clark at the Globe and Mail is just awesome proud of Steve winning his first ever war of his very own : With Libyan liberation, a political victory for Harper "Ste...
RT have very bravely reported the truth about the criminal war against Libya. Doubtless they will now share PressTV's fate and be taken off-air in the despotic United Kingdom. The hypocrites in London w...
"On Happiness" by Eckhart Tolle "If there is unhappiness in you, first you need to acknowledge that it is there. But don't say, “I'm unhappy.” Unhappiness has nothing to do with who you are. Say: “There ...
“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wai...
Surrounded by smoke and flames from Luftwaffe bombs, the image of St Paul’s rising above the scarred London skyline became a symbol of the nation’s Blitz Spirit. But on Friday a rag-tag group of anti-capi...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Southwest of Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 16.4 km (10.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:34:19 UTC Saturday 22nd October 2011. The epicenter was 188 km ( 117 miles) WSW...
This summer the United States met with the Haqqani terrorist network at the request of Pakistan’s intelligence service, the ISI, according to a senior State Department official. That official traveling w...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Minahasa, Sulawesi, Indonesia at a depth of 187 km (116.2 miles), the quake hit at 07:36:03 UTC Saturday 22nd October 2011. The epicenter was 89 km ( 55 miles) Southea...
An American diver is believed to be the latest victim of a fatal shark attack in Western Australia, police said Saturday, just days after a man vanished while swimming in waters off the state capital Perth...
*Gaddafi's friend * Gaddafi has links to the CIA. "CIA agent Edwin P. Wilson recruited Gadaffi in 1977, and the CIA shipped Libya over 2000 pounds of explosives," says former CIA agent Lester Coleman. (D...
Robert Reich Speaks at Occupy SF 19 Oct 2011 from Peter Menchini on Vimeo.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday slammed NATO's role in Libya and said the United States -- and all other countries -- should stay out of the conflict in Syria. "We think it is the wil...
San Francisco Bay Area has been hit by two earthquakes in the past 40 minutes, originating from the same area of the 4.0 and 3.8 from yesterday The first one struck at 07:06:37 UTC 22nd October 2011 and me...
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Biased BBC - 11 hours ago
*"Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages".* Why Baldwin could have been talking about the State Broadcaster. Or the SNP. Post World War Two the remnants of burnt...
A British couple were killed today in flash floods following torrential rain in Spain. The married holidaymakers, aged 72 and 70, were seen clinging desperately to parts of a market street cafe in the qui...
Whatever contortions the Conservative Party has performed in the past 50 years, at least it has been magnificently consistent in one respect: it has never been straight with the public about Europe. This ...
A few days after the fall of Tripoli to anti-Gaddafi forces, I visited the newly reopened Libyan foreign ministry and took tea with the head of its ‘British desk’. Like a surprising number of senior civil...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Reykjanes Ridge, Iceland at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:39:17 UTC Saturday 22nd October 2011. The epicenter was 421 km ( 261 miles) Southwest...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 46.9 km (29.1 miles), the quake hit at 05:24:37 UTC Saturday 22nd October 2011. The epicenter was 161 km ( 100 miles) Northeast of Nuku'Alofa, Tonga...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Southwest of Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 00:18:01 UTC Saturday 22nd October 2011. The epicenter was 294 km ( 182 miles) SSW of...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Gulf of Aden, Yemen at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 23:19:14 UTC Friday 21st October 2011. The epicenter was 117 km ( 72 miles) East of Djibouti, ...
Well maybe. The real question is whether selective breeding took place here and if that is sufficient to explain the evidence. It sounds like it did and that makes sense. When women unders...
Enough already! Flowing water existed on Mars long enough to hugely modified the landscape. That provided a media allowing for life to arise and it most certainly did. Once the temperature drop...
This is extremely exciting. We now have a system able to provide artificial muscles that are hugely superior to anything else produced to date. It is now easy to imagine the manufacture of suc...
I also think that we have barely harnessed our capacity to manage complexity in any event. DNA is a pretty good example of extremely complex information been steadily treaded together. That natu...
[image: Saudi Crown Prince Sultan Dies] *Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz al Saud has died. The crown prince was King Abdullah's half brother and first in line to the Saudi throne. He was a...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Offshore Valparaiso, Chile at a depth of 59 km (36 miles), the quake hit at 20:46:16 UTC Friday 21st October 2011. The epicenter was 59 km ( 36 miles) WSW of San Antoni...
[image: Barack Obama: All U.S. troops will be pulled out of Iraq] *U.S. President Barack Obama ordered a complete withdrawal from the country, almost after nine years the invasion under President George W ...
------------------------------ October 21, 2011 at 00:50:48 *Promoted to Headline (H3) on 10/21/11:* Permalink The End of History *By paul craig roberts (about the author)* opednews.com Now that t...
On Thursday, I mentioned a general excess of trilepton events observed by the CMS Collaboration. It may be fair to mention that I realized once again that besides three leptons, the CMS also sees some e...
There are reports of the death of Sarkozy? *This does look like Sarkozy.* It is difficult to know the truth about Gaddafi. Reportedly, CIA agent Edwin P. Wilson recruited Gadaffi in 1977 (LIES ABOUT LI...
Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has died, a State Department official told CNN on Friday. There were no more immediate details about his death. Crown Prince Sultan, thought to be in his 80...
Between family commitments and the pressures of work, few of us feel we get enough 'me' time. But according to researchers, there is one thing that matches the stress of not having enough free time: hav...
Narcissists over-confident and boastful behaviour is a mere front to cover up deep-seated feelings of inferiority and low self esteem, a new study has found. A team of researchers at the University of S...
[image: The essential oils used in aromatherapy treatments can release chemicals that react in the air to produce a 'mist' of pollutants that damage your airways] The essential oils used in aromatherapy...
[image: Yoga is a popular exercise among pregnant women (posed by a model)] Yoga is a popular exercise among pregnant women (posed by a model) Pregnant women are fitter and take more regular exercise tha...
*With the Wartburg, setting for the Song Contest of Act II of Wagner's Tannhäuser and the Song Contest at the Wartburg, seen on the mountaintop in the distance, this is something like the setting for Scene...
Occupy Melbourne protesters have peacefully resumed their rally with a march through the city a day after they were forcefully ejected from their campsite in Melbourne's CBD. About 200 people protesting...
"Sculpted by stellar winds and radiation, a magnificent interstellar dust cloud by chance has assumed this recognizable shape. Fittingly named the Horsehead Nebula, it is some 1,500 light-years distant, em...
*"The Silence"* by Chet Raymo "The hiding places of my power Seem open; I approach, and then they close; I see by glimpses now; when age comes on, May scarcely see at all, and I would give,...
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*"A Saskatchewan Party candidate is apologizing after suggesting First Nations people who get "handouts" sometimes spend it on drugs and alcohol. Greg Ottenbreit, who is the party's Yorkton candidate, is...
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Wednesday, November 2 · 11:00am - 3:00pm ------------------------------ Oklahoma State Capitol - South Plaza 2300 N. Lincoln Blvd. Oklahoma City, OK Naomi's foster mother was found guilty in her death a...
WTF is Joe Roman? He's the antihero in a trilogy I've been working on since last year and I decided to launch a project on Kickstarter, which is essentially a patronage site. Here's how it works in a nuts...
*Once upon a time, young uns, there were men (yes, they were almost all men) who dipped into their meat cases to select and then package shoppers' orders, finally weighing each item to determine the price....
David Sirota knows about this first hand: When the same elites who fund federal elections start pouring unfathomable sums of money into our community’s school board races, it robs us of the last promise of...
*And shows that Israel controls US foreign policy: ** * *"the United States is in the unenviable position of leading the oppositiontosomething it actually supports" ** * *Of course, to say such a thing me...
A mass grave site in La Macarena, Colombia, that was unearthed in 2010 outside a Colombian military base overseen by the U.S. military. Human rights lawyer Dan Kovalik said that, "The discovery of this mas...
Gainesville, Florida, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
“If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.” - Blaise Pascal
*"Cosmic Support: The Universe’s Plan for You"* by The DailyOm "Nothing happens in our lives and in the world without purpose. The path that speeds us toward our dreams can be a challenging and complex o...
Ivor van Heerden allowed to proceed to trial in case against LSU~Sandy Rosenthal ~Also~Wonderful 3-part comment to Sandy Rosenthal's latest Huff Post
[image: Las imágenes más hermosas del mundo 2011 (Parte 4)] Hace unos días empezamos en el Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas la serie titulada '*Las imágenes más hermosas del mundo*'. El día de hoy, presentamos...
“If I am what I have, and I lose what I have, who then am I?” - Erich Fromm “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their s...
A Russian space official thinks the future of manned lunar settlement will begin inside moon caves.
Drunkorexics restrict food intake to reserve those calories for alcohol and binge drinking.
Think-tank designs for Iran leave only Israeli attack & coaxed provocation for total war on table. analysis by Tony Cartalucci October 22, 2011 - For ten months the Obama administration has presided over...
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*Occupy Tucson enjoys pizza today, compliments of Crooks and Liars, * http://www.crooksandliars.com The occupiers at the well-organized and growing Occupy Tucson at Armory Park downtown have been served u...
Police and protesters have clashed after officers dragged Occupy Melbourne demonstrators from their CBD camp, with the scuffles spilling into nearby streets. Riot and mounted police broke up hundreds of...
Red tide at night is a sailor's delight - thanks to dinoflagellates' voltage-sensitive proton channels.
*"In Explanation Of The Last Paragraph"* by Karl Denninger "It seems there's some confusion over the last paragraph of this ticker: The truth is much simpler: The taxpayer was just plain robbed by the gov...
The Tea Party started out protesting the big banks and wound up, Fox-washed, Kochified and celebrating racism, xenophobia and right-wing extremism... and as pathetic zombies for the Republican Party. But...
*"The New American Standard of Living"* by Bill Bonner "In 2005, few people on the planet could afford Americans’ standard of living. Not even Americans. But now the wheel has turned. The US is facing fi...
Pavegen tiles convert foot-traffic into energy and also allow pedestrians to replicate the music video for Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean".
These bathrooms have everything you need to answer the call of nature in style and comfort.
*"8 Warnings for Washington and Occupiers"* EU Bank Failures Will Crash Wall Street — Again By Paul B. Farrell "Worst-case scenario’s closing fast: Occupy Wall Street growing. But no political power or al...
I hope that Lord Christopher Monckton will ultimately forgive me but the prank above was so simple and so stupid that I simply had to laugh. ;-) The idea is simple: Lord Monckton is, after Borat and othe...
"Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. Yo...
Wonderful 3-part comment to Sandy Rosenthal's latest Huff Post
A large earthquake has struck near Raoul Island this morning, with a tsunami warning provisionally issued for New Zealand. New Zealand's National Crisis Management Centre has been activated after the 7.3...
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wmtc - 23 hours ago
The dogs of Occupy Wall Street
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 191.6 km (119.1 miles), the quake hit at 14:56:05 UTC Friday 21st October 2011. The epicenter was 41 km ( 25 miles) West of Nuku'Alofa, Tonga No Tsu...
A magnitude 7.6 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands at a depth of 39.8 km (24.7 miles), the quake hit at 17:57:17 UTC Friday 21st October 2011. The epicenter was 180 km ( 112 miles) East of Raoul Is...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck offshore Baja California Sur, Mexico at a depth of 15.4 km (9.6 miles), the quake hit at 13:17:23 UTC Friday 21st October 2011. The epicenter was 197 km ( 122 miles) S...
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wmtc - 1 day ago
While the leaders of nations cheer at the death of dictator Moammar Gadhafi, the real face of the air war on Libya goes unreported. This unsparing article fails to mention Canada, but our country is once ...
Waaaah! I have so much to write about dying trees but things are happening too fast at Occupy Wall Street to keep up. Mayor Bloomberg has renewed bleating about restrictions including a preposterous requ...
*We need to primary them. They have both been bought out by the corproations and 1% and we need to get rid of them.* *I don't care how popular they are - they are too conservative and that is not what we...
Rapper MC Hammer announced plans to launch a search engine that could rival Google. But time will tell if Google will be the one singing "U Can't Touch This."
A moratorium on cutting the Brazilian Amazon to plant soy may have reduced soy's direct impact on the forest for the past five years, but a proposed amendment to the Brazilian forest code could re-open the...
Ghost hunters have a track record of complete failure. Are they just doing something wrong?
China has been found to have sharply reduced its holdings of US government bonds after a major credit rating agency downgraded US debt for the first time in August. Data released by the US Treasury Depart...
Despite the prisoner exchange deal between Israel and Hamas, thousands of other Palestinians remain in jail. RT talks to the wife of a high-profile prisoner, considered a terrorist by Israel, but a hero ...
Wales's children's commissioner has joined calls for a change in the law to stop parents smacking their children, as assembly members debate the issue. Keith Towler said physically punishing children does ...
A second light aircraft crashed on takeoff Wednesday in Botswana’s Okavango Delta but all six people onboard survived unscathed, the air charter company said. Another failed takeoff in the same area five ...
The US denies an interest in Uganda’s oil, but there are many other reasons for its presence in the region. None of them altruistic, claims war correspondent Eric Margolis. American “aid” to Uganda is b...
The US has offered a written promise not to use its anti-missile shield in Europe against Russia. Moscow still wants a legally-binding document rather than any non-binding declaration – written or not. ...
With just days to go before European Union leaders gather in Brussels for a summit aimed at finding a way out of the euro zone's ongoing debt crisis, an agreement appears to be taking shape. But renewed co...
Following a set of outrageous incidents, parliament has decided to criminalize attacking people with laser pens. The law passed in the first reading will punish the attackers with a prison sentence of u...
NATO peacekeepers have used tear gas against Serb protesters in northern Kosovo. They dispersed the crowd in order to start dismantling barricades erected in a protest against deployment of customs check...
The unpopular austerity bill has finally been passed following a vote in the Greek Parliament, while outside police were using tear-gas to disperse the thousands of demonstrators that had gathered around...
An official at a nuclear power plant in Pakistan says it declared a seven-hour emergency after heavy water leaked out of a reactor during maintenance work. Tariq Rasheed says Tuesday night’s leak did not ...
*Rob Zerban, taking on Paul Ryan and the 1%* Mitt Romney has thrown his lot in with Paul Ryan's Big Business-conceived plan to end Medicare and turn back the clock on a progressive society. His own health...
The dusty debris from the tail of Halley's Comet will rain down on the Earth's atmosphere, producing around 30 meteors per hour.
Seems like Americans just want it to be Halloween all year. The holiday just keeps getting more popular. Seven in 10 expect to celebrate it in some way this Oct. 31, up from about six in 10 last year, acco...
It has happened again. There are reports of students engaged in inappropriate sexual acts, and this time, it happened in a school during class. Mike Schuh has the details. Baltimore County Police showe...
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Nick Clegg faced the air rage of a passenger angry at his party’s opposition to the scrapping of the Human Rights Act. The Lib Dem leader was verbally abused by a woman on his flight from London to Cairo,...
Still active, still no information available about what is going on in the area.
On his first trip to Asia as defense secretary, Leon Panetta intends to stress a U.S. commitment to strengthening ties with key allies and partner countries while keeping a wary eye on China's military bui...
Afghanistan-based Taliban leader Maulvi Fazlullah, a leading figure in the insurgency, has vowed to return to Pakistan to wage war as the country came under renewed American pressure to tackle militancy. ...
The Bird Man told us that there would be a terrible dearth of birds in Florida this winter owing to the catastrophe in September when hundreds of thousands of birds hurled themselves against the Empire Sta...
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has warned of another financial crisis brewing, as global liquidity becomes a concern amidst central banks pegging their lending rates at near zero levels, leaving scope for ano...
he missile brigade of the Western Military District has become the first unit of the Russian Armed Forces to make the switch to Iskander tactical missile systems, military spokesman Col. Andrey Bobrun told...
This week alone has seen a ratings downgrade for Spain as well as a threat by agencies to review France's AAA status -- and the markets have taken notice. Once again, it would seem, ratings agencies are ma...
Following the news that Berlin and Paris remain divided on how to make the euro-zone bailout fund more effective, European efforts to stem the debt crisis have taken another blow thanks to a split between ...
A QUARTER of young men in Scotland are out of work, prompting fears of a growing “youth unemployment crisis”. More than 80,000 men and women aged between 18 and 24 are looking for a job, according to figu...
ALEX Salmond has claimed there is “a deep undercurrent of support” for Scottish independence across the UK and a demand for a “new relationship” between the nations of the British Isles. It came as a UK-w...
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