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New Zealand salvage crews have passed the halfway mark in pumping oil from the stranded ship Rena. bigpondnews.com]October 26 (Big Pond) – New Zealand salvage crews have passed the halfway mark i...
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Manhattan is insane right now. People are getting out of cabs to join the march. Protesters have taken
Broadway for #OccupyOakland*
Bob Zavoda at Occupy Tucson. Also shown are peace keepers in front of kitchen and information center at Armory Park downtown Tents form a circle at Occupy Tucson Armory Park downtown Occupy Tucson satellite...
Around 2am word spread that riot police were massing in around the area where Occupy Oakland has been for more than two weeks. Hundreds of people gathered and began to make non-violent barricades at all th...
ASX Ltd, operator of the
Australian Securities Exchange, halted all trading on the market today pending the resolution of a technical difficulty with the trading system. The company is investigating the p...
- This event has been reviewed by a seismologist. Magnitude*6.0* Date-Time - *Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 00:15:25
UTC* - Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 12:15:25 PM at epicenter - Time o...
*A Tom Toles-style Halloween* [click to enlarge] *(See washingtonpost.com's October 2011 Tom Toles gallery.)* *"I looked around and realized that a lot of our neighbors were gone. We had hotdogs but no bun...
The sun battered the Earth's magnetosphere with an "epic" geomagnetic storm over the last couple of days, generating beautiful auroral displays at low latitudes. Now it's Mars' turn.
Photo by Toby Ord / Book Jacket Blog.Celebrating Samhain:Let the spirits danceBy Kate Braun / The Rag Blog / October 26, 2011Under the Full Moonlight We Dance/Spirits dance we dance/Joining hands we dance/J...
Photo courtesy: Wikimedia/CC BY 1.0 Local Kenyans and environmentalists are celebrating British firm G4 Industries Limited's recent pullout from a 28,000-hectare biofuel project in Kenya that they say wou...
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Buckdog - 4 hours ago
An interesting observation in the matter of Sask Party candidate,Greg Ottenbriet's use of racist comments at a Yorkton 'All candidates' debate. The question that prompted the comments almost appears to be ...
"Sometimes, you can put some night sky in your art. Captured above Japan, a picturesque night sky was photographed behind a picturesque frosted leaf. The reflecting ice crystals on the leaf coolly mimic th...
*"A Walk In The Woods"* by Chet Raymo "This past weekend I went for a walk in the deep woods west of Boston with sons Tom and Dan and spouses. The highlight of the day was coming across this beaver dam. ...
*"Making Life Yours: Perception"* by The DailyOm "A simple shift in attitude can help us recognize the hidden potential for fulfillment in every event. There is no secret recipe for happiness and content...
"I mean, if life's so hard already, why do we bring more trouble down on ourselves? What's up with the need to hit the self-destruct button?" - "Grey's Anatomy"
*"What Was the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest?"* By David Crossland "In September 9 AD, Germanic tribesmen slaughtered three Roman legions in a battle that marked the "big bang" of the German nation and c...
The United States may have geothermal resources under its feet capable of producing 10 times the capacity of all coal plants now installed.
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Not PC - 4 hours ago
*[image: _DavidGalland]Guest post by David Galland of Casey Research * In New York City for our “Singularity Summit,” Alex Daley of our Casey Extraordinary Technology service and I decided to see what al...
Marietta, Georgia, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
*"Greece Offers to Repay Bailout with Giant Horse"* Steed Wheeled Into Brussels at Night by Andy Borowitz BRUSSELS (The Borowitz Report) – "In what many are hailing as a breakthrough solution to Greece’s...
Since becoming Premier, Allison Redford has faced a barrage of attacks, the latest over a "backroom deal" between her Finance Minister and a pair of energy companies: EDMONTON - Two energy companies learn...
Between 12,000 and 15,000 Texas lost their lives in the Civil War. Painting from the Texas Civil War Museum.The hidden history of TexasPart VI: The Confederate State of Texas, 1846-1860By Bob Feldman / The R...
Chile said on Wednesday it was evacuating residents from around a volcano in the country's far south after it spewed a jet of steam a kilometer into the air and seismic activity triggered an avalanche. Ho...
"Walter Lippmann, was the Dean of American journalists, a major foreign and domestic policy critic and a major theorist of liberal democracy. Lippmann was involved in propaganda commissions and recognized...
* "The World's Deadliest Table,* * And Why It Must Be Destroyed"* by Scott Oliver "Is the world's deadliest table made of glass? Of wood, metal, plastic, bamboo or some high-tech composite material? Does ...
Oh, Mr. Elite, I disagree emphatically. There's everything you've stolen to take... Better update that passport and check your frequent flyer miles. - CP
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and l...
Some people think that the BBC is a tad biased against the Great Satan. I wonder WHY? Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
"Why might the BBC be reluctant to criticise the EU? Could one reason, apart from ideology, be that it has received over £15 million in grants from the EU since 2007. http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/2...
I wouldn't normally comment on random products such as this mobile phone but the name of it makes it marginally justified. ;-) The embattled Finnish phone maker loosely connected with Microsoft has in...
*"Well, We Know Who The Felons Are- They Wear Badges"* by Karl Denninger "After four years of reporting on the various immoral, unethical and in many cases criminal acts perpetrated by people in our financ...
Now it's Carl Johan Calleman's turn to claim that the end of the world is nigh. All things going to plan, tomorrow will be the end of the world. As the “plan” was set out by some looney tune who lives in...
Libyan men and children queue up to view the corpse of Muammar Qaddafi. Photo from Getty Images.U.S. foreign policy and the respect for human lifeBy Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / October 26, 2011"The Oriental...
Microbes in our bellies may be telling us to eat more, determining how much we move, and making us anxious.
I'm guessing most people who know who Andrei Cherny is know him as an author (The Next Deal: The Future of Public Life in the Information Age), or as the youngest ever White House speech writer or, more r...
*Finaly what every county should be doing suing MRES for lost monies....* *In TEXAS....Yes!!!* Two Texas counties are contemplating a lawsuit against *Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems* for an a...
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Not PC - 7 hours ago
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Members of Granny Peace Brigade at Lincoln Center. Photo from the New York Observer.As Iraq troops come home:Peace granny is 'cautiously optimistic'By Joan Wile / The Rag Blog / October 26, 2011The news hit ...
Last week I told you about two of my favorite online services -- Delicious and Pinterest -- and promised that this week we'd talk more about the whole social bookmarking thing. Up today: the 5 Ws and H. ...
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Not PC - 7 hours ago
Ever wondered about the mystery of currency creation? Given that the way currency is created is behind so many of the world’s problems in the four decades since the world went permanently off gold—you kn...
New technology enables smart devices to have both personal and secure business uses.
*"Saving Money in a Debt-Soaked Economy"* by Bill Bonner "Last time we looked, yesterday, stocks were falling. We’re on a plane bound for Madrid this morning. So, we’re just going to forget the markets a...
A solar-powered faux module called "Lunar" is currently stationed atop the Art Institute of Chicago. What the heck is it?
The SSDs are equipped with Indilinx Everest, which allows for low read/write access times.
With the population expected to hit seven billion, will "bachelor nations" face catastrophic violence?
The musician died in July from alcohol poisoning, new announcements reveal. Learn how the condition can be lethal.
Sixty-five feet below the Atlantic, astronauts are simulating maneuvers around an asteroid.
[image: Jeremy Bowen] This should give you all a chuckle! "BBC foreign correspondents warn cuts compromise impartiality. Locally recruited reporters will be vulnerable to bullying Middle East governments, ...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck the Revilla Gigedo Islands Region at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:53:14 UTC Wednesday 26th October 2011. The epicenter was 234 km ( 145 miles) EN...
Half the story, all the time. B-BBC contributor Alan writes; "The Unions, the IFS and the BBC have come together to put the boot into the government cuts. The BBC has been giving much air time to Union co...
Never mind that rifles and shotguns are the weapon of choice for spousal homicides (71% in the last decade, of which the majority of victims are women), or that 14 of the last 18 officer shooting deaths ...
Incomes for the wealthiest one per cent of Americans nearly tripled from 1979 to 2007, far outpacing income growth for all other groups. The incredible growth in the wealth of the richest one per cent reve...
A prosecutor says the Utah neighbours of a dead teenage girl who mysteriously vanished six weeks ago while babysitting are now 'persons of interest' in the case. North Ogden police say 16-year-old Alexis ...
[image: Link]Muammar Gaddafi's fugitive son Saif al-Islam and former intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi are proposing to hand themselves into the International Criminal Court in The Hague, a senior Lib...
In the tradition of sharing amazing views of our planet from our orbiting "place in space" here's yet another incredible video from the International Space Station (ISS).
(By American Zen's Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari.) “Even if an alcoholic is powerless over alcohol once it enters his body, he still makes a choice to drink. And, even if someone is attracted to a per...
“We’re about to see a new arms race between consumer protection versus those companies that want to lure people into something” Lure people into something? How creepy does that sound? A few minutes late...
Arun Majumdar, head of the DOE's Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy, talks to Discovery News.
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the West Chile Rise at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:37:11 UTC Wednesday 26th October 2011. The epicenter was 1034 km ( 642 miles) West of Osorno, ...
Occupy Wall Street image from eleven degrees north.Merge and win:Occupy Wall Street andthe 'No Nukes' movementBy Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / October 25, 2011The global upheaval that is the Occupy Movem...
This is a little long - but it ends with what could in retrospect be the shot heard 'round the world: The corporatocracy is getting peeved, they are starting to lash back. Chris Hedges wrote another fasci...
I know I've been giving a lot of credit for the intellectual underpinning of the 99% movement to authors David Korten and Corey Robin-- and even to pop-culture figures like filmmaker Jamie Johnson and rap...
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CENSORED NEWS - 10 hours ago
US Border Patrol on Tohono O'odham Nation with spy cameras pointed at traditional O'odham homes. Photo by Ofelia Rivas.By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com TUCSON -- Before supp...
'Hacktivist' group Anonymous has fired the first shot in what it claims will be a war against Internet child pornography. The renegade hacking collective - which has been criticised by law enforcement age...
Sometime in the future, these so called experts and scientists will find the remains of what was life on Mars. Where is the best place to start looking. Not that wide area of an ancient sea, or this huge...
Rina strengthened to a Category 1 hurricane off the coast of Central America on Monday, as officials in Nicaragua searched for more than two dozen missing storm evacuees. A navy boat ferrying people betwe...
A Utah woman accused of trying to sell her 13-year-old daughter's virginity has pleaded guilty to forcing the girl to model for men in her underwear. The 33-year-old woman made the plea Monday in Salt Lak...
Jean Keller earned $269,810 last year working as a nurse at a men’s prison on California’s central coast by tripling her regular pay with overtime hours. Keller got more overtime in 2010 than any other st...
If you’re somebody who likes medicine to be perfect, you are not going to be happy by a report in the journal The Lancet. The report looked at flu vaccine and finds it’s only about 59-percent effective in ...
View more videos at: http://nbcphiladelphia.com. Heath and Deborah Campbell, who named two of their children Adolf Hitler and JoyceLynn Aryan Nation, are claiming that a court vindicated them of all a...
Cars that were contaminated by radiation during the March nuclear meltdown in Japan are finding their way into the reeling nation's used car market. Vehicles from the area around the Fukushima Daiichi nucl...
New street lights that include “Homeland Security” applications including speaker systems, motion sensors and video surveillance are now being rolled out with the aid of government funding. The Intellis...
Two children were made to live in a kennel. A total of four children lived in filth. The four North Platte children were rescued from a trailer home Monday evening. Two boys were locked in a 42 by 30 i...
Argentina ordered oil, gas and mining exporters to repatriate all export revenue as the government struggles to stem accelerating capital flight from South America’s second-biggest economy. President Cris...
A tree-bending, travel-disrupting snowstorm continues in Denver with conditions set to worsen southward along the I-25 corridor into northeastern New Mexico through tonight. Less than 36 hours after Monda...
China plans to limit reality TV shows and other light entertainment fare shown on satellite television stations as part of a drive to wrest back Communist Party control over cultural industries that are fu...
The head of Libya's transitional authorities has called for Nato to extend its mission in Libya until the end of the year. National Transitional Council (NTC) Chairman Mustafa Abdul Jalil said the extensi...
[image: Commuters wade through waist-deep floodwaters following heavy rains brought about by tropical storm Ketsana (locally known as Ondoy) Saturday, 26 September 2009 in Manila, Philippines. At least f...
CIA Will Continue To Run Secret Programs with Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in Iraq For Years [This blog is hoping for an angel to descend and help to defray expenses. Calling all angels!] As the...
[image: Thai men use makeshift boats to leave a flooded area in Bangkok, 26 October 2011. AP Photo] BANGKOK (AP) – Bangkok residents jammed bus stations and highways on Wednesday to flee the flood-threa...
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Not PC - 12 hours ago
[image: 001d74cc_medium] Richard Schmid’s portraiture is bold and energetic, seeming to come out of the raw canvas like a thunderbolt. [image: art_press_schmid] Thanks to Jasmine and Jesper for puttin...
Russian prosecutors have confirmed two Chechens shot dead in Turkey last month were being linked to the bombing of Moscow's busiest airport in January. They said they were investigating the deaths of Zaur...
Tangier Island lies in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay and is 92 miles (148km) southeast of Washington, DC. This small piece of land is barely above sea level and its 500 residents are fightin...
Canadians are working later in life than they used to and delaying their retirement, Statistics Canada says. The data agency issued a report Wednesday that shows Canadians are working longer, a trend that...
Up to 18 million tonnes of tsunami debris floating from Japan could arrive on British Columbia's shores by 2014, according to estimates by University of Hawaii scientists. A Russian training ship spotted ...
Police and neighbours in some U.S. cities are starting to lose patience with the Occupy movement's protesters, who are preparing to settle in for the winter months. Without running water or working toilet...
Authorities made a series of arrests at Occupy Wall Street protests in California and Georgia on Tuesday with clashes in one city that involved tear gas being used on demonstrators. Police said they fir...
Rina was on the verge of strengthening into a major Category 3 hurricane Wednesday as it inched closer to the popular Mexican resort town of Cancun, forecasters said. As of Wednesday morning, Rina's max...
The current mission deploying approximately 100, mainly U.S. special forces to Africa will be "short term" and not open-ended in nature, Obama administration officials told members of the House Foreign A...
Yemeni women defiantly burned their traditional veils Wednesday in protest of President Ali Abdullah Saleh's brutal crackdown on anti-government demonstrations. Thousands of women gathered in the capital,...
Five people have been confirmed dead after torrential rain yet again exposed the poor drainage system in Ghana's capital, Accra. One was said to have been electrocuted whilst attempting to rescue his frid...
Flood insurance rates in N.O. will fluctuate with new rate maps ~New Orleans City Business~"The good news is the main basin of the city now has a substantially larger area classified as 'X', which is modera...
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CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours ago
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[image: Fewer jobs, less pay: The first official U.S. data on 2010 jobs and pay shows continuing deterioration. Reuters / Medicare Tax Database] By David Cay Johnston 19 October 2011 Anyone who wants to...
[image: Boarded up suburban home in Ohio, 2011. The recession and the foreclosure crisis hit the suburbs of Cleveland, like Warrensville Heights, particularly hard. The poor population in America’s subur...
Note: The West is raising eyebrows and are shocked at this news, maybe they have realized that Libya won't be controlled as easily as first planned or have they just helped rid of a dictator just to replac...
The lightweight Sideline Cinq is an affordable, small yet functional extra screen on-the-go.
A comfy exercycle with a built-in padded desktop takes care of your cardio while you work.
A project at Vanderbilt University is building a “smart” prosthesis that allows amputees a more natural gait.
Tony Fadell, former Apple SVP, has designed simple, intuitive thermostat, making energy-saving sexy.
Chicago-based architects' proposal for a Taiwan Tower competition literally does circles around the rest.
A landmark lawsuit over oil spills and inhuman labor treatment in Nigeria could set a new standard for making companies liable for their work overseas.
An Abductee Goes to Court: The Godoy Case (1998) By Luis Alberto Reinoso Courtesy of El Dragón Invisible (Carlos Iurchuk) Note from Luis Alberto Reinoso (lar769@hotmail.com): The following is the verbatim...
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wmtc - 14 hours ago
Katha Pollitt on "The Mainstreaming of OWS": Maybe OWS will vanish with the lovely fall weather, or drift off into the anarchist subculture, or break down in fights and factions. But already it has accom...
On a Thursday night when I showed up at Occupy Wall Street from a community meeting with some South Asian friends, we were handed a sheet of paper with a working draft of the Declaration of the Occupation...
Reader Contribution; A volcano in central Indonesia has erupted, spewing hot smoke and ash thousands of feet into the air. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. Mount Lokon, located on n...
A mother has been charged with manslaughter after the death of her daughter, who police allege was left alone in a hot car in Sydney's west. Police say they were called by staff at Toongabbie Medical Centr...
At least nine people have been killed and five others are missing after flash floods hit the Italian Riviera turning roads into rivers and washing cars out to sea. The huge downpour also triggered off la...
Reader Contribution; *Rapid Eye has some amazing true color, high-resolution satellite images featuring a gigantic stain visible on the surface of Las Calmas Sea. This was the result of a submarine erupt...
Watch live streaming video from occupyoakland at livestream.com
The new issue of *New York* isn't something Bishop Romney's campaign will be xeroxing and handing out to the press corps. The flashy cover story examines ole Willard's business ethics and finds them-- and...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of just 2 km ( 1.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:05:16 UTC Wednesday 26th October 2011. The epicenter was 31 km ( 19.22 miles) Northeast of Van,...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Batan Islands Region, Philippines at a depth of 60.3 km ( 37.5 miles), the quake hit at 10:44:33 UTC Wednesday 26th October 2011. The epicenter was 51 km ( 31 mile...
Researchers at Stanford have found a way to make a skin-like sensor that stretches and returns to its former shape.
Wall Street in NYC, NY 2011 "occupywallstreet" Kent State riots Kent, Ohio 1970's "May 4 massacre or, frequently, the Kent State massacre[2][3][4]—occurred at Kent State University in the city of Kent...
Some TRF readers are surely investors so they have noticed some motion in prices in recent months, mostly due to the Greek hysteria. Some stocks went down by 20% in a few months although others, including ...
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Biased BBC - 17 hours ago
An outraged B-BBC reader brought this to my attention. It's on the BBC Children's TV site and it seems to take* quite a positive spin *on young girls pandering to the sexual needs of dirty old men. What sa...
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Biased BBC - 17 hours ago
Here is a new Open thread, I have some posts to follow. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Wall Street protesters camped in downtown Denver are piling blankets and sleeping bags near bags of charcoal for a small grill. They're preparing for the first snowstorm of the season expected to hit the c...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 4 km ( 2.5 miles), the quake hit at 08:49:20 UTC Wednesday 26th October 2011. The epicenter was 22 km ( 13.6 miles) Northwest of Van, Turke...
The riddle of the first documented star explosion has been solved - 2,000 years after the ancient supernova was spotted. Chinese astronomers in 185 AD were the first to observe the mysterious 'guest star...
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- 19 hours ago
Url: http://youtu.be/1PmYItnlY5M - Our world in true perspective... James May shows us. John
Running battles between police and protesters were taking place in the streets of Oakland last night after police fired tear gas into a crowd trying to reclaim an encampment. Officers had cleared the site...
An ex-Goldman Sachs executive is facing charges of insider trading, sources have claimed. Multimillionaire Rajat Gupta, 62, is expected to shortly surrender to the FBI on criminal charges of leaking insi...
It's one of the world's most famous and spectacular solar phenomena, but those hoping to experience the Northern Lights usually have to travel to remotest Norway to witness their beauty. But freak solar a...
Reader Contribution; China's one-child policy has prevented almost half a billion births but has turned into a demographic time bomb as the population ages, storing up huge economic and social problems fo...
European human rights judges should meddle less often in cases which have already been through Britain’s courts, Ken Clarke said last night. Issuing a call for major reforms of the Strasbourg court, the J...
* The Berg Family 1961.* *In the 1970s, Muammar Gaddafi funded and supported the American religious cult The Children of God. * The Children of God, founded by DAVID BERG, claims that sex is a good recrui...
Japan's Foreign Ministry and its diplomatic offices abroad came under cyberattacks from June, with computers at some overseas offices having been infected with viruses, Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimu...
AP: A large part of southern Wyoming is seeing snow from a storm system that forecasters say could drop nearly 2 feet of snow in some areas. The National Weather Service posted a winter storm warning and ...
Five infants at the Cambridge School at Baldwin in Bryn Mawr have been diagnosed with chicken pox, the Montgomery County Health Department announced Tuesday afternoon. Harriet Morton, the department's spo...
"We are in power. Nobody will deny it. By virtue of that power we shall remain in power...We have no words to waste on you. When you reach out your vaunted strong hands for our palaces and purpled ease, ...
Tumor glucose dependence has beenwell know from early days but not so obviously exploited. That may now be overcome and this couldbecome good clinical therapy. Simply starving the tumor allowsother m...
This is a solid study that doesreassure us that cell phone use is not a causation agent for cancers. It was conducted over a long enough periodto give us the optimum demonstration of its overall long...
The surprise here is that we areengineered to be lighter boned and this results in more failure as we age ascompared to our animal cousins. Theproblem is not the result of simple diet choices and moder...
In the end it is all about thepotential energy been developed. In thiscase, the magma is building up and it is showing this by lifting at least onethousand times as much rock as Mt St Helens at a rate o...
Scotland has its own parliament, with very limited powers. "Voters in every region of the UK now back Scottish independence." (Westminster has no answer to the Alex Salmond effect.) Professor Andrew H...
Prisoners set fire to a jail in Turkey's earthquake-hit city of Van Tuesday and gunshots were heard as inmates fought their guards following a big aftershock. A soldier said the prisoners, who feared they...
High Street banks face an imminent crackdown from the City watchdog over concerns that expensive fee-based current accounts costing up to £300 a year are being mis-sold to millions of customers. Packaged ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Eastern New Guinea Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 120.3 km ( 74.8 miles), the quake hit at 03:18:51 UTC Wednesday 26th October 2011. The epicenter was 107 ...
How's this for a starkly unequivocal promise? ‘The European Union has evolved significantly since the last public vote on membership over 30 years ago. Liberal Democrats, therefore, remain committed to an ...
Britain was facing a new multi-billion-pound bill to prop up the euro last night as the single currency teetered on the brink of collapse. Efforts by France and Germany to thrash out a rescue deal descende...
Pills for insomnia, pills for pain, pills for stress: They're all two-to-a-penny. But a new capsule promises to deliver perfume directly into the body, turning the skin into an 'atomiser.' Swallowable ...
Residents and worried travelers in Cancun stocked up on supplies Tuesday as forecasters warned that Hurricane Rina could hit the popular Mexican resort city. Carla Bautista bought bread, water and canned...
The current mission deploying approximately 100, mainly U.S. special forces to Africa will be "short term" and not open-ended in nature, Obama administration officials told members of the House Foreign A...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Kepulauan Mentawai Region, Indonesia at a depth of 20.3 km ( 12.6 miles), the quake hit at 03:38:50 UTC Wednesday 26th October 2011. The epicenter was 173 km ( 107...
Residents of Thailand's Muang Ake village are being urged to evacuate the area early Tuesday morning, according to Thailand's Flood Relief Operations Center. The center's director said parts of a dike ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 03:16:19 UTC Wednesday 26th October 2011. The epicenter was 19 km ( 11 miles) Northwest of Van, Turkey...
- Strongest evidence yet, claim scientists - Rats used in experiments Smoking just one cannabis joint can bring on symptoms of schizophrenia, a study has found. Researchers at the University...
My friend Cynthia is a very fit great-grandmother. Yesterday she told me she has more sympathy for John Kasich's dead Bengal tigers than for Qadaffi, whose corpse was then on display for tourists in a me...
[image: Health benefits: Both the contraceptive pill and being pregnant strongly influence the levels of hormones thought to trigger tumours] Health benefits: Both the contraceptive pill and being pregna...
A low-fat diet with fish oil supplements can slow down the growth of prostate cancer, research has shown. Scientists in the U.S. made the discovery after testing prostate tissue samples taken from men w...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 10.1 km ( 6.3 miles), the quake hit at 02:59:08 UTC Wednesday 26th October 2011. The epicenter was 19 km ( 11 miles) NNE of Van, Turkey 45...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 36 km ( 22.4 miles), the quake hit at 00:13:22 UTC Wednesday 26th October 2011. The epicenter was 300 km ( 186 miles) NNE of Ra...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 4.5 km ( 2.8 miles), the quake hit at 23:39:15 UTC Tuesday 25th October 2011. The epicenter was 25 km ( 15 miles) ENE of Van, Turkey 459 D...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Greece at a depth of 33.4 km ( 20.8 miles), the quake hit at 22:33:08 UTC Tuesday 25th October 2011. The epicenter was 32 km ( 19 miles) North of Zakynthos, Greece No T...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Aisen, Chile at a depth of 13.4 km ( 8.3 miles), the quake hit at 22:08:43 UTC Tuesday 25th October 2011. The epicenter was 53 km ( 32 miles) WSW of Coihaique, Aisen, C...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 150 km ( 93.6 miles), the quake hit at 19:34:20 UTC Tuesday 25th October 2011. The epicenter was 58 km ( 36 miles) NNE of Santo (Luganville), Vanu...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck The Izu Islands, Japan at a depth of 10.2 km ( 6.3 miles), the quake hit at 19:34:12 UTC Tuesday 25th October 2011. The epicenter was 180 km ( 111 miles) Southwest of ...
"This helmet-shaped cosmic cloud with wing-like appendages is popularly called Thor's Helmet. Heroically sized even for a Norse god, Thor's Helmet is about 30 light-years across. In fact, the helmet is act...
Jay Finneburgh: This poor guy was right behind me when he was hit in the head with a police projectile. he went down hard and did not get up. the bright light in the second shot is from a flash-bang grenad...
*“Loving Each Other”* by Leo Buscaglia “Emotional detachment, maintaining our distance from others, is being prescribed as a solution for avoiding pain. Neglect and abuse of children and the aged is a gr...
*"Influencing the Tone of Your Life: Color"* by The DailyOm "Color has the ability to trigger our emotions, affect the way we think and act, and influence our attitudes. When we enter a room or see an obj...
*“Lemony Snicket's 13 Observations About Occupy Wall Street”* by Lemony Snicket "1. If you work hard, and become successful, it does not necessarily mean you are successful because you worked hard, just a...
Mannford, Oklahoma, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
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wmtc - 1 day ago
I don't watch this show, but if I did, this would piss off the hell out of me. CBC and McCain, the frozen food company, are "partnering" for a contest. Viewers are invited to submit audition videos. The ...
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Buckdog - 1 day ago
*Sask NDP Leader Dwain Lingenfelter delivered a strong, strong performance in the Leader's Debate tonight. Wall sounded like an opposition leader, having the challenge of defending the minimalist 'status...
*Washingtonpost.com has a wonderful slide show up of 14 Tom Toles cartoons"about the environment and global warming." * *"'Global warming is real,' [Berkeley physicist Richard] Muller wrote last week in T...
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Not PC - 1 day ago
Poor old Banksie. There are complaints about the traps that Labour have stooped to “dirty tricks” in their attempt to smear ACT’s Epsom candidate John Banks. Amusingly the so-called “dirty tricks” invol...
Land-dwelling species were decimated during Earth’s most massive extinction event -- offering a cautionary tale.
After a drive across the country, SpaceX's Dragon spaceship arrived in Florida for a mission to prove the private sector has the right stuff to take over a traditional government role of flying in orbit.
"The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest fri...
*"Mysterious 'Copiale Cipher' Cracked"* by redOrbit "The manuscript seems straight out of fiction: a strange handwritten message in abstract symbols and Roman letters meticulously covering 105 yellowing ...
Spiders are among the most vibration-sensitive organisms in the world, second only to cockroaches.
British politics reek of corruption and hypocrisy. Within the space of a week we have seen the dramatic evidence that the UK is not a democracy and will fight against all who do not submit to the Establi...
*"Ten Years After Passage of USA Patriot Act, * *Further Erosions of Civil Liberties"* by John W. Whitehead “On October 26, 2001, President George W. Bush signed into law the USA Patriot Act, which in eff...
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Bob Zavoda at Occupy Tucson. Also shown are peace keepers in front of kitchen and information center at Armory Park downtown Tents form a circle at Occupy Tucson Armory Park downtown Occupy Tucson satellite...
Around 2am word spread that riot police were massing in around the area where Occupy Oakland has been for more than two weeks. Hundreds of people gathered and began to make non-violent barricades at all th...
- This event has been reviewed by a seismologist. Magnitude*6.0* Date-Time - *Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 00:15:25 UTC* - Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 12:15:25 PM at epicenter - Time o...
*A Tom Toles-style Halloween* [click to enlarge] *(See washingtonpost.com's October 2011 Tom Toles gallery.)* *"I looked around and realized that a lot of our neighbors were gone. We had hotdogs but no bun...
Photo courtesy: Wikimedia/CC BY 1.0 Local Kenyans and environmentalists are celebrating British firm G4 Industries Limited's recent pullout from a 28,000-hectare biofuel project in Kenya that they say wou...
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