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There is a tendency to think that what we see in the present moment will continue. We forget how often we have been astonished by the sudden crumbling of institutions, by extraordinary changes in people'...
Scientists predict spotty results from almanac forecasts so why do we love them so much?
The car company says it wants to be the world's largest player in zero-emission vehicles.
A group of students danced their way to explaining complex scientific concepts. And we have the video.
One sunny summer morning, a stray mongrel the neighbors called Naida swallowed a piece of sausage she found on the ground. Soon after, she collapsed. For the next two hours the dog convulsed in agony, bar...
Not satisfied with fumbling through Americans’ private possessions, one TSA screener saw fit to make a humiliating joke about the contents, writing a personal message on a TSA inspection note after finding...
NATO says a formal decision will be taken "in the next few days" about ending the military alliance's air campaign that helped to oust
Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi. A preliminary decision was announced...
The Vatican called on Monday for the establishment of a “global public authority” and a “central world bank” to rule over financial institutions that have become outdated and often ineffective in dealing f...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Eastern
New Guinea Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of just 187.8 km ( 116.7 miles), the quake hit at 16:26:37 UTC Monday 24th October 2011. The epicenter was 120 k...
The bedroom is brightly decorated with ocean blue walls, family pictures and photo-imprinted pillows and blankets of the mother-to-be. An inflatable birthing pool and air mattress for the midwife and doula...
US Senator John McCain raised the prospect Sunday of possible armed intervention to protect civilians in Syria where a crackdown on pro-democracy protests has killed more than 3,000 people. "Now that mili...
The United States is in for another credit downgrade by year’s end if Congress fails to agree on a long-term plan to tame the nation’s $14.8 trillion debt, Merrill Lynch warned. In a research note, the Ba...
Worst-case scenario’s closing fast: Occupy Wall Street growing. But no political power or allies yet. Feared yes, attacked by GOP proxy tea party. Soon the Occupation will explode into a new American Revol...
Bullets are flying over Broadway -- and everywhere else in the city. The number of people shot surged 154 percent two weeks ago -- to 56 from 22 over the same week last year -- and spiked 28 percent in the...
Details about the new sex education curriculum in New York City public schools are out -- and some are concerned the lessons are too racy. The New York Post obtained workbooks that will be used for the new...
At least 12 people have been killed in clashes between government troops and a renegade army unit in the Yemeni capital Sanaa. Dozens of people were also injured in Saturday's violence. The fighting broke...
Tropical Storm Rina churned over the western Caribbean Sea Monday morning, leaving heavy rain in northeastern Honduras. As of 5 a.m. ET, Rina was about 130 miles (210 kilometers) northeast of the eastern ...
In December 2001, Argentina defaulted on $100 billion in debt -- the largest default in history. The move ushered in an era of utter chaos: five presidents in two weeks, cash and food shortages, deadly rio...
A hunt is under way off the coast of Western Australia for a Great White shark which killed a US diver. George Thomas Wainwright, 32, from Texas, was diving off Rottnest Island near Perth when he was kill...
Researchers in Norway believe Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), also known as ME, may be caused by a wayward immune system attacking the body. The illness, the cause of which is uncertain and has no known cu...
Conservatives never give up-- even if they have to go to extremist and radical means to achieve their ends-- and Monday is always a good day to mull over a bit of Corey Robin's book, The Reactionary Mind....
Source: Criptozoologia en España Date: 10.22.11 Spain: New Encounters with the “Gorliz Panther” By Javier Resines On a day like today, October 22, 2005, a resident of Erandio who had gone to th...
Twelve people were injured when someone either placed or threw a grenade into a Nairobi night club early Monday morning, Kenyan police said. Police have not linked the attack to any particular group, but i...
Floodwaters in Bangkok have reached Don Muang Airport, one of the Thai capital's two main airports and home to the flood relief operation command, which may have to move to another location, according to...
WikiLeaks announced that it was temporarily stopping publication Monday to "aggressively fundraise" in order to stay afloat. A financial blockade by Bank of America, VISA, MasterCard, PayPal and Western ...
[image: A unique Holocene record from an overgrown lake, 2nd Pond, on Nightingale Island in the South Atlantic (37° S, 12°W), situated in the Tristan da Cunha island group between Cape Town and Montevide...
[image: Somalis displaced from their home villages by drought and famine lined up at a feeding center in Mogadishu financed by the World Food Program. Millions of people are expected to become trapped in...
The creatures, called xenophyophores, were photographed 6.6 miles below the ocean's surface.
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 12.4 km ( 7.7 miles), the quake hit at 15:28:06 UTC Monday 24th October 2011. The epicenter was 23 km ( 14 miles) Northwest of Van, Turkey ...
Serious cataclysms are necessary to change the Earth's climate in a short time and humans seem to be one of them.
How would you re-energize a dying pseudoscientific fad that almost no one wants to consider seriously anymore? Maybe you would want to present it as a "banned fruit" that people will be encouraged to s...
[image: A cow skull in a dry lake bed, a victim of the 2011 drought. Texas A&M University] By Bryan Walsh 18 October 2011 Earlier this month, officials in the South Pacific island nation of Tuvalu had...
[image: Wheat is partially submerged in floodwaters in Holly Grove, Arkansas, 10 May 2011. 'I've never seen anything like this and I've been farming for 31 years. This is a once in a lifetime flood,' sai...
America has the worst record of child abuse and homicide in the industrialized world. Why?
Shoes! My trip home to heal a racially charged disaster ~Condoleezza Rice ~Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice loads supplies onto a truck in Bayou La Batre, Al. in September 2005, spies a Must-Have pair of...
To avoid an unpleasant bill, focus on text messaging and international use.
This simplistic speaker system is AirPlay-enabled and heavy with sound.
The original LCD writing tablet was a hit with the tech community, it just needed a save feature.
A woman's smaller size and lesser muscle strength make her less likely to generate the force necessary to trigger the false-start alarm.
A vocal global warming skeptic UC Berkeley professor Richard Muller is surprised to learn he was wrong.
*Gaddafi with David Berg whose name has been linked to pedophilia and the CIA's MK ULTRA brainwashing. (RELIGIOUS MIND-CONTROL CULTS) * *Muammar al-Gaddafi - Lunch with the FT* Colonel Muammer Gaddafi was...
By Duane Craig Did you know the Kennedy Space Center is contaminated? Even rocket scientists haven't been veryastute about the handling of toxic substances, according to this reportin USA Today. At the Ken...
*Hey guys! Today we have the fabulous Janny from Que Linda, where she has all sorts of amazing projects going on. You have to check out her bedroom makeover and her fall wreath. Make sure to stop by Que...
Note: Just to make it clear to anyone outside of the UK , we the taxpayer paid for all these failed court attempts to get this asylum seeker out. We continue to pay his medical his rent and his living cost...
Libya's transitional leader Mustafa Abdul Jalil on Monday said an investigation will begin into the death of slain leader Moamer Gaddafi, whose body has remained unburied since he was killed on Thursday. ...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 36.2 km ( 22.5 miles), the quake hit at 11:49:58 UTC Monday 24th October 2011. The epicenter was 166 km ( 103 miles) ESE of R...
Synthetic fabrics in washing machines shed thousands of tiny bits of plastic that can end up in the oceans.
While the latest round of elections suggest Canadians are craving stability, the situation is starkly different in Quebec. Consider the latest poll from Leger: Legault 36% Lib 22% PQ 18% ADQ 9% QS 7% Gree...
*Occupy The DCCC* On Wednesday the DCCC invited dozens of candidates from across the country to a big powwow in DC. As we saw last week, the DCCC is pimping the anti-Choice, anti-gay, anti-progressive Blu...
In a time: when Americans can’t find a job In a time when Americans are struggling to hold onto what little we have left In a time when 99% of the citizens of the United States are feeling financial pain....
*India has "never been closer" to wiping out polio, India's health minister has stated as he marked World Polio Day. * There have been no new cases for more than nine months, making it the *longest poli...
TURKISH seismologists fear that the earthquakes that hit the province of Van on Sunday can cause eruption of Nemrut *volcano* located northwards of Lake Van, PanArmenian reported. Mt Nemrut is near Tatvan...
The Big Fix - New Orleans Premiere - Hugh Kaufman from Jason Berry on Vimeo.
Using shovels, heavy machinery and their bare hands, rescue workers scrambled through piles of rubble to find survivors Monday after a deadly 7.2-magnitude earthquake devastated parts of eastern Turkey. ...
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*Gnome 3 Shell in Mint 11 Katya?* Yes, I tested and was *amazed*. Nothing of the sort anymore we see on YouTube (!), or find discussed elsewhere from weeks ago. It's remarkable how *Gnome 3 Shell* has evo...
Aren't we repeatedly informed that there is no mercury in vaccines? If that is truly the case, and you know it isn't, what to make of this? WHO worries mercury treaty could affect costs, availability of vac...
The BBC has been very happy to promote the comments of William Hague as being those of a "leading Eurosceptic". Why? What has he ever achieved to merit such a reputation? He is quite clearly part of the C...
Greenpeace at Fort McMurray by deploying (Photo by Jeremy Williams Greenpeace Denmark ) *Delegation of Oglala Sioux to join protests in Denver* *Tues., Oct 25, and Wed.* *Oct. 26* By Glenn Morris Censored ...
The US has lugged out its ambassador to Syria, *Robert Ford*, diplomatic officials say. Mr Ford angered Syrian authorities by cultivating links with activists involved in rising against *President Bashar...
Just another manic Monday. Tell us how the BBC are doing here please! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the Dodecanese Islands, Greece at a depth of 12 km ( 7.4 miles), the quake hit at 10:14:41 UTC Monday 24th October 2011. The epicenter was 35 km ( 21.7 miles) South o...
Had to laugh at the punchline from this! "BBC's coverage of the OWS protests is now 24 hour....and very friendly and amenable it all sounds: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b01609dk 'Up All Night went...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck offshore Guerrero, Mexico at a depth of just 14.1 km ( 8.8 miles), the quake hit at 10:17:01 UTC Monday 24th October 2011. The epicenter was 96 km ( 59 miles) Southeas...
It's all in the angle taken. Biased BBC contributor Alan observes: "When Gaddafi's convoy was hit by NATO aircraft all news reports took similar line.....it was a military convoy trying to escape the NTC ...
Source: El Tribuno (www.eltribuno.info/salta/87887) Date: October 23, 2011 Once again, the skies and fields of Chicoana were in the news for the third year in a row due to the manifestati...
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Broken of Britain - 6 hours ago
Nice to see that austerity has not quite reached the shores of the BBC; "BBC fatcats have splashed out thousands of pounds of licence-payers’ cash on* nearly 100 leaving parties at exclusive restaurants an...
A red-tailed hawk that rescuers said was shot in the head with a nail gun was recovering Sunday at a Northern California wildlife centre. The hawk, captured in a San Francisco park by rescuers yesterday, w...
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Broken of Britain - 7 hours ago
French President Nicolas Sarkozy told David Cameron he was ‘sick’ of his advice over the eurozone crisis last night as the EU summit ended in acrimony and indecision. The pair clashed because Britain was ...
Experimental physicists are collecting new information all the time. However, for physics not to degenerate into botany, physicists must do something beyond the mindless memorization of a constantly increa...
Dozens of people have been evacuated from the State Aquatic Centre at Marion in Adelaide's southern suburbs. Chlorine from a tank leaked into the ventilation system. Paramedics have checked people affecte...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 6.3 km ( 3.9 miles), the quake hit at 08:28:27 UTC Monday 24th October 2011. The epicenter was 18 km ( 11 miles) Northeast of Van, Turkey ...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck New Zealand at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 04:30 UTC Monday 24th October 2011. The epicenter was 20 km ( 12.4 miles) East of Karamea, New Zealand No r...
A bridge collapse in India's tea-producing region of Darjeeling has left at least 34 people dead, officials said. Another 102 people were injured, said Debabrata Pal of West Bengal state disaster managem...
Floodwaters in Bangkok have reached Don Muang Airport, one of the Thai capital's two main airports and home to the flood relief operation command, which may have to move to another location, according to...
The bodies of 53 people, believed to be supporters of ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, has been found in a hotel that was under the control of anti-Gadhafi fighters, Human Rights Watch said Monday. ...
David Cameron has been involved in a furious row with French president Nicolas Sarkozy who said he was sick of the UK offering advice on the euro. The Prime Minister clashed with Mr Sarkozy during a six-h...
* Morocco is very tense.* Time for the King of Morocco to pack his bags? Is the CIA planning a coup in Morocco along with its friends in the Moroccan military? "The militaries of Morocco and the United S...
This work actually resolvesseveral issues. 1 Pre Pleistocene Nonconformity human hunting of large herbivoresis spectacularly confirmed. 2 Pre Clovis humanity also co...
At least researcher are seriouslytackling the problem and attempting to plausibly get it right. The bottom line is that they feel that the globe’sland temperature has increased a whole degree. This su...
This is a nifty way to make up a zeolitesheet consistently so it can be used in process engineering. This is going to be very useful. It is a combination of two mechanicalhandling methods that has don...
So begins another death watch. Whenever it happens, it will be soon if notvery soon. The body can handle only somuch and none of this is realistically a cure. Chavez is a consummate populist whokept...
[image: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez] *Cristina Fernandez celebrates for wining landslide election victory.*Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has won a landslide election victor...
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CENSORED NEWS - 11 hours ago
Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
[image: Turkey hit by 7.2 magnitude earthquake] *On Sunday Turkey's eastern Van region was hit by 7.2 magnitude quake. Rescue teams are desperately searching for people trapped beneath rubble after a stro...
*"Letters From the Earth"* by Mark Twain "This is a strange place, an extraordinary place, and interesting. There is nothing resembling it at home. The people are all insane, the other animals are all in...
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CENSORED NEWS - 12 hours ago
Occupy MelbourneBy Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com *Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011: Watch for updates* Melbourne police have violently attacked peaceful Occupy protesters, resulting i...
ALERT AREA AND DURATION: Turkey and the Eastern Mediterranean, until October 28, 2011, midnight EST. EVENT: Turkey, after experiencing an initial 6.6 magnitude quake (which was in all likelihood mistaken...
- Diet high in trans-fats could damage sperm [image: Hold the fries: According to doctors nutrition has a direct impact on sperm quality] Hold the fries: According to doctors nutrition has a direc...
[image: Make mine a large one: But coffee lovers who order large drinks aren't necessarily being greedy according to researchers] Make mine a large one: But coffee lovers who order bigger drinks aren't ...
Americans with a sweet tooth are more likely to be friendly, scientists have claimed. Volunteers who chose a piece of chocolate over a non-sweet food item were found to have sweet dispositions while als...
The U.S. will continue to support Iraq as it moves toward democracy, Hillary Clinton said as she wraps up a weeklong overseas trip. The secretary of state warned Iraq's neighbours - namely Iran - against ...
A grenade attack on a bar in the centre of Nairobi early this morning wounded 14 people. Capital news radio quoted a witness who said a man had asked to be let in to the bar shortly after 3 am when he hur...
This photograph might look like a picture of damage caused by nature in distant lands but it in fact depicts a landscape closer to home. The Holderness coast located in East Riding of Yorkshire suffers the...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of just 11.2 km ( 7 miles), the quake hit at 00:50:48 UTC Monday 24th October 2011. The epicenter was 13 km ( 8 miles) ESE of Van, Turkey At ...
By chance, I was reminded one day of a man with whom I had worked on a project 20 years previously. We had been together only briefly, but his unusual surname stuck in my memory. I decided to Google hi...
*Done in by a satellite phone* I admit that I felt a tinge of embarrassment Saturday comparing the weak teapassing as coverage of the end of Qaddafi in *our* newspaper of record and what the Brits found in...
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CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours ago
*Occupy Maine hit with homemade chemical bomb* Photo by Occupy MainePress statement by Occupy Maine Censored News PORTLAND, Maine -- Lincoln Park campers were attacked early Sunday morning, around 4am, wh...
Libyan revolutionary fighters are surrounding an area where a fugitive son of Muammar Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam, is believed to have taken refuge. Rebel fighters said they were deploying south of the town of ...
At least 217 people have been killed and hundreds more remain trapped under rubble after a powerful earthquake struck southeast Turkey. Dozens of buildings were destroyed by the 7.2 magnitude quake near th...
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CENSORED NEWS - 14 hours ago
Photo by Abel Mebratu Oct. 22, 2011 *Nurses Condemn Chicago Mayor Emmanuel for Arrest of Nurses, Medical Aid * * * *Volunteers at Occupy Chicago, RNs to Picket Mayor’s Office Monday Morning, 10 a.m., nur...
*Which really makes it part of WWIII when you think about it (before the thing becomes official with the attack on Iran). * "Troops in Syria storm defiant town" September 28, 2011|By Zeina Karam, Associat...
***Post-Race picture. Recognize the hoodie, Mom?* :). Ran a 5K race in Woodhaven this morning called "The Monster Mash". A lot of people dressed up for it, so it was a fun race. Smaller turnout, which was ...
Fox News Executive Branch - POLITICS Published October 23, 2011 Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday she supports calls for a U.N. probe into the death of Libyan leader Moammar al-Qadd...
"In a shift, Iraq urges Syrian president to step down" September 21, 2011|By Michael S. Schmidt and Yasir Ghazi, New York Times BAGHDAD - After *months of striking a far friendlier tone* toward the govern...
"NGC 6188 is an interstellar carnival of young blue stars, hot red gas, and cool dark dust. Located 4,000 light years away in the disk of our Galaxy, NGC 6188 is home to the Ara OB1 association, a group of...
*"You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't....
*The new "transparency" appears to be indistinguishable from the old Cheney-style "total secrecy."* *by Ken* We have a development to catch up on in the matter of NPR's plausibly denied crusade to get tha...
"Whenever, in the course of a daily hunt, the hunter comes upon a scene that is strikingly beautiful, or sublime; a black thundercloud with the rainbow's glowing arch above the mountain, a white waterfall...
*“In The Morning Of The World” * by Chet Raymo “We knew the morning was special when we saw the blue meadow. Oh, yes, we knew - Bailey, Greg and I - that the grass in the meadow beyond the trees was gree...
Málaga, Andalucia, Spain. Thanks for stopping by.
"There is a word meaning "All My Relations." We will live by this word. We are related to everything. We are still here! We shall live! Mitakuye Oyasin!" - Black Elk, a Lakota holy man.
*"A Letter from Herman Cain: About My All-New 9-9-9 Plan"* by Andy Borowitz "My fellow American, This is Herman Cain! As you may already know, I am on the verge of becoming the leader of the #1 country i...
"Grandfather, Look at our brokenness, We know that in all creation Only the human family Has strayed from the sacred way. We know that we are the ones Who divided, And we are the ones Who must come ...
Yay me, I (sort of) figured out how to add text and sound to a video! It's a bit over a half hour, so don't say I didn't warn you...a mash of my very first (and hopefully not last) ride on a hot air ball...
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of just 9.8 km ( 6.1 miles), the quake hit at 20:45:37 UTC Sunday 23rd October 2011. The epicenter was 20 km ( 13 miles) WNW of Van, Turkey 8...
On Thursday, April 29, 2009, the Senate defeated, 45-51, Brad Miller's Cramdown legislation, which had already passed the House (234-191), dooming the country to the financial and economic catastrophe we'...
I've said it before: People don't just like Paul Krugman or dislike him. They love the guy or hate him. His writing evokes strong responses, because his writing is so effective. I try to write that well, ...
Barack Obama is a clever liar, more clever than George W. Bush. On Saturday, Obama said: "The drawdown in Iraq allowed us to refocus on Afghanistan and achieve major victories against al Qaeda and Osama b...
Arkansas State Motto: Regnat Populus “The People Rule” Well – if that’s your motto – you better get rid of all the ALEC members in your state – because to ALEC members – The Corporations Rule!!!!!! Eac...
The German Aerospace Center and NASA have confirmed the defunct Roentgen Satellite, or ROSAT, has met its doom, most likely somewhere at the bottom of the Bay of Bengal.
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of just 64.2 km (39.9 miles), the quake hit at 18:58:33 UTC Sunday 23rd October 2011. The epicenter was 127 km ( 79 mil...
AHA!! Finally, a population that deserves to fill all the new SUPERJAILS....WALL STREET AND CONGRESS!! A comprehensive synopsis of the greatest financial crime in U. S. history (after the Federal Reserv...
A video has revealed the dramatic moment when police used pepper spray to break up a group of Polynesian men and boys performing a traditional dance after a high school football game. Police in Roosevel...
Anti-Wall Street demonstrators of the Occupy Chicago movement stood their ground in a downtown park in noisy but peaceful defiance of police orders to clear out, prompting at least 100 arrests early Sunday...
"We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved." - Author Unknown
“All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewli...
"Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy i...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of just 9.6 km ( 6 miles), the quake hit at 18:10:46 UTC Sunday 23rd October 2011. The epicenter was 20 km ( 12 miles) WNW of Van, Turkey
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Java, Indonesia at a depth of just 46.9 km (29.1 miles), the quake hit at 17:45:24 UTC Sunday 23rd October 2011. The epicenter was 114 km ( 71 miles) Southwest of Tasi...
To D-fox: if you're reading this, please contact us at thecomingcrisis@gmail.com. It's important -- we believe.
BP is making contingency plans to fight the largest oil spill in history, as it prepares to drill more than 4,000 feet down in the Atlantic in wildlife-rich British waters off the Shetland Islands. Inte...
I stumbled out into the autumn sunshine, figures ricocheting around my head, still trying to absorb what I had heard. I felt as if I had just attended a funeral: a funeral at which all of us got buried. I...
In a move to overcome the Russia-US deadlock over the missile defense, Moscow has reportedly come up with a new initiative: a global system to guard against missiles – as well as asteroids and other threat...
The Obama administration awarded a coveted research grant to a financially strapped company working to put genetically modified (GM) salmon on American dinner tables, overlooking disclosures that the firm ...
History seems to be repeating itself as the hawks who called for the 2003 overthrow of Saddam Hussein are now rattling their sabers for war against Iran. But why are those who once called for a new America...
US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton says Washington wants to see the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi captured or killed. Professor Paul Sheldon Foote says that the Obama administration believes thi...
The rate of Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation in the UK matched its record high in September, rising to 5.2% from 4.5% the month before. An increase in energy costs was behind a large proportion of the...
The moon is made of far more valuable stuff than green cheese. And one man wants to capitalize on that fact. NASA, which ended America's space shuttle program in June, says it wants to privatize spaceflig...
When the White House promised to answer citizen petitions on the most pressing problems of the day, it may not have had extraterrestrial life in mind. More than 10,000 petitions have poured in since the n...
Britain is prepared to strike first to defend itself against a cyber attack from an enemy state, Foreign Secretary William Hague said Tuesday. His warning was the first clear signal that the UK has develo...
From dusk until dawn, 12-year-old Fayaz toils at his uncle's blacksmith shop in Kabul. While other kids his age are in school, he's swinging a heavy sledgehammer and doing physically exhausting work tha...
Rising sea levels in the coming centuries is perhaps one of the most catastrophic consequences of rising temperatures. Massive economic costs, social consequences and forced migrations could result from gl...
High concentrations of radioactive cesium have been found in plankton from the sea near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Researchers from Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology collect...
An endangered Old World monkey species found in only two sites in Tanzania is in danger of being poached and eaten into extinction, researchers from the Tanzania Forest Conservation Group (TFCG) and Udzung...
Paving slabs that convert energy from people's footsteps into electricity are set to help power Europe's largest urban mall, at the 2012 London Olympics site. The recycled rubber "PaveGen" paving slabs ha...
GREECE is going to default, one way or another, that much is clear. The bigger question is whether it will also leave the euro and what that would mean. What is so far underappreciated is that a Greek exit...
America must stop promoting the production of biofuels if there is to be any real progress in addressing spiking global food prices and famine, such as seen in the Horn of Africa, an authoritative thinktan...
It is not just relations between families that have been disrupted by prosperity. I was one of the luckier ones. My BlackBerry never actually collapsed in The Great Global Catastrophe last week – it just...
Just 12 years after the arrival of the 6 billionth individual on the planet in 1999, humanity will greet the 7 billionth arrival this month. The world population continues its rapid ascent, with roughly 75...
Mexico ships televisions, cars, sugar and medical equipment to the United States. Soon, it may be sending water north. Western states are looking south of the border for water to fill drinking glasses, fl...
This week the U.S. Justice Department accused an Iranian-American, who allegedly has ties to Iran's elite Quds Force, of attempting to hire a man he thought was a Mexican cartel hitman to assassinate the S...
*"March To The Sea, And Make Salt"* by Dan W "Satya is the Sanskrit word for “truth”; agraha means "great enthusiasm and interest". The two words combined may be rendered as "the firmness of truth.” The...
The more we study the Saturnian moon, the more similarities we see in the early history of Earth.
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CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours ago
NY Post: G.N. Miller NEST IN PEACE: Protester Dylan Spoelstra (above and right) smirks yesterday from his high perch amid the workings of the sculpture “Joie de Vivre” in Zuccotti Park. By Brenda Norr...
The newest scientific research of the consensus scientists has determined that global warming will wash away climate deniers in Florida, before the septic tanks will fail: Sea levels will rise, washing aw...
That's exactly what other world leaders have been acting like since Qaddafi was essentially lynched by his own people. Those who had no problem whatsoever in being photographed with him just in the last c...
t's not clear exactly how many people are encamped next to St Paul's Cathedral. Most estimates put the number at between 200 and 400, depending on precisely what time of day you do the headcount. What is ...
"US to slow diplomatic efforts in Iraq" by Michael S. Schmidt and Tim Arango New York Times / October 23, 2011 Beyond the final withdrawal of troops that President Obama announced Friday, U.S. fiscal trou...
*The real-life Wolfram von Eschenbach -- yes, there was a real-life Wolfram von Eschenbach, pictured here in the Codex Manesse -- would play an even larger role in Wagner's life, as author of an epic Parzi...
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"On the menu, but not on your plate" by Jenn Abelson and Beth Daley Globe Staff / October 23, 2011 A *five-month Globe investigation* into the *mislabeling of fish* showed that Massachusetts consumers rou...
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday responded to a broad array of questions by listeners of the Voice of Russia, Radio Russia and Ekho Moskvy radio stations. Opening the Q&A session, Lavrov respond...
[image: The UN has warned world population could reach 15 billion by 2100, adding pressure to crowded cities such as New Delhi. Manish Swarup / AP] By Paul Harris in New York, www.guardian.co.uk 22 Octo...
More than 30 protesters, including Princeton professor and veteran civil rights activist Cornel West, and a clergyman of the Riverside Church have been arrested during a demonstration by the Occupy Wall ...
Israel is another country which has recently witnessed weeks of protests and calls for social justice. But while the tent camps are gone, the change demanded by activists is nowhere to be seen. The str...
Russia on Friday demanded that the UN Security Council immediately end the no-fly zone over Libya which was patrolled by NATO when it attacked targets of Colonel Moamer Kadhafi`s regime. Russia presented ...
Regulators closed four banks in the United States on Friday, including one in Colorado with over $1 billion in assets, bringing the total number of closures this year to 84. The largest of the failed bank...
Hundreds of Kosovo Serbs prevented NATO troops in Kosovo (KFOR) from removing roadblocks on roads to two contested border crossings between the country's volatile north and Serbia early Saturday, witnesses...
The “Occupy Wall Street” protesters — also known as the “99 percent” — have struck a chord with at least a few members of an unexpected audience: America’s rich and privileged. United under the banner “We...
A day before a nationwide referendum is discussed in parliament, a group of campaigners call for Britain to leave the EU. Douglas Carswell from the People's Pledge told RT the EU has changed in the past ...
An earthquake of 7.2 magnitude rocked eastern Turkey Sunday, the strongest to hit the country in years.
Military personnel and police officers are piling up sandbags in central Bangkok in a desperate attempt to prevent water from the Chao Phraya River from spreading further. The flooding caused by record ra...
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*Economist, Erin Weir lays out the fiscal impact of platforms put forward by the two main parties contesting the current Saskatchewan Election:* *"Saskatchewan’s two major parties have unveiled their ele...
Reports are starting to come in that at least a 1000 people have lost their lives in the earthquake which hit Eastern Turkey today 23rd October 2011. Reports are coming in from many areas requesting assist...
Saints vs. Indianapolis, Curtis Painter, Sobriety and Zzzzzz… ~Disenfranchised Citizen Why New Orleans Saint Jimmy Graham Is the NFL's Best Tight End~Bleacher Report Engineer makes New Orleans streets saf...
Parts of a defunct German research satellite have returned to Earth and likely fallen into the Bay of Bengal, east of India, the chair of the German Aerospace Centre says. Johann Dietrich-Woerner told CB...
The nuclear reactor at Oskarshamn was closed down late on Saturday night after a fire broke out at the plant. Although the fire, which broke out in the turbine hall of Unit 2, was quickly put out by the ...
The Prime Minister of Greece has said the very "existence of Europe" is at risk from the debt crisis. After meeting the European Commission President *Jose Barroso* at the EU summit in Brussels, *George...
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In my post here, recapping a report-back from Occupy Wall Street, I mentioned The People's Library - but I neglected to see if the people's librarians have a blog. Silly me, of course they do! Please vis...
A powerful earthquake struck eastern Turkey Sunday, collapsing at least two buildings in the center of eastern city of Van, the mayor said. Television footage showed damaged buildings and vehicles, crushe...
There have been many aftershocks already following the earlier earthquake in Eastern Turkey. They are nearly all located in the same area near the Province of Van, so I will be listed any further aftersho...
Even if President Obama wasted a million dollars on a flight jacket, a codpiece, props and elaborate staging-- like, say, an aircraft carrier-- I doubt any Republicans would have celebrated the real Miss...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 7 km ( 4.3 miles), the quake hit at 12:03:10 UTC Sunday 23rd October 2011. The epicenter was 32 km ( 19.8 miles) Northwest of Van, Turkey U...
A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hit near Van in southeastern Turkey on Sunday, Turkey's Kandilli Observatory and Research Institute said, and state-run media reported some buildings had collapsed and 50 people ...
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One sunny summer morning, a stray mongrel the neighbors called Naida swallowed a piece of sausage she found on the ground. Soon after, she collapsed. For the next two hours the dog convulsed in agony, bar...
Not satisfied with fumbling through Americans’ private possessions, one TSA screener saw fit to make a humiliating joke about the contents, writing a personal message on a TSA inspection note after finding...
NATO says a formal decision will be taken "in the next few days" about ending the military alliance's air campaign that helped to oust Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi. A preliminary decision was announced...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Eastern New Guinea Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of just 187.8 km ( 116.7 miles), the quake hit at 16:26:37 UTC Monday 24th October 2011. The epicenter was 120 k...
The bedroom is brightly decorated with ocean blue walls, family pictures and photo-imprinted pillows and blankets of the mother-to-be. An inflatable birthing pool and air mattress for the midwife and doula...
US Senator John McCain raised the prospect Sunday of possible armed intervention to protect civilians in Syria where a crackdown on pro-democracy protests has killed more than 3,000 people. "Now that mili...
The United States is in for another credit downgrade by year’s end if Congress fails to agree on a long-term plan to tame the nation’s $14.8 trillion debt, Merrill Lynch warned. In a research note, the Ba...
Worst-case scenario’s closing fast: Occupy Wall Street growing. But no political power or allies yet. Feared yes, attacked by GOP proxy tea party. Soon the Occupation will explode into a new American Revol...
Bullets are flying over Broadway -- and everywhere else in the city. The number of people shot surged 154 percent two weeks ago -- to 56 from 22 over the same week last year -- and spiked 28 percent in the...
Details about the new sex education curriculum in New York City public schools are out -- and some are concerned the lessons are too racy. The New York Post obtained workbooks that will be used for the new...
At least 12 people have been killed in clashes between government troops and a renegade army unit in the Yemeni capital Sanaa. Dozens of people were also injured in Saturday's violence. The fighting broke...
Tropical Storm Rina churned over the western Caribbean Sea Monday morning, leaving heavy rain in northeastern Honduras. As of 5 a.m. ET, Rina was about 130 miles (210 kilometers) northeast of the eastern ...
In December 2001, Argentina defaulted on $100 billion in debt -- the largest default in history. The move ushered in an era of utter chaos: five presidents in two weeks, cash and food shortages, deadly rio...
A hunt is under way off the coast of Western Australia for a Great White shark which killed a US diver. George Thomas Wainwright, 32, from Texas, was diving off Rottnest Island near Perth when he was kill...
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