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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...
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Biased BBC - 10 minutes ago
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...
Steve gets his long gun wedge on
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Creekside - 21 minutes ago
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 ...
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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...
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 - 3 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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[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 - 6 hours ago
Katha Pollitt on "The Mainstreming 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 accomp...
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...
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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, includin...
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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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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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...
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CENSORED NEWS - 16 hours ago
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 - 17 hours 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 - 18 hours 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...
posted by PC at
Not PC - 18 hours 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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Buckdog - 20 hours ago
*Stephen Harper sure knows how to pick great friends for Canada ... 'eh?? "We found 53 decomposing bodies, apparently Gaddafi supporters, at an abandoned hotel in Sirte," said Peter Bouckaert of Human Righ...
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wmtc - 21 hours ago
I just received this from the ACLU. I will run it here verbatim, except for a few extraneous bits. This is racial and ethnic profiling at its most extreme. If the top law "enforcement" agency in the US d...
According to legend, humans can "shapeshift" into wolves. These days, wolves and coyotes are creating "coywolves."
Frank Klees, the runner up to Tim Hudak in the 2009 Ontario PC leadership race, has announced he will be running for speaker when the Ontario legislature resumes sitting. If you're wondering why we should...
[image: Estimated rate of cesium-137 emission from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, 10-24 March 2011. Modeling the first week of the Fukushima disaster reveals that huge bursts of radioisotopes poure...
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Not PC - 22 hours ago
Peter Schiff visits the #OccupyWallStreet crowd to debate capitalism with them, saying capitalism does not need to be fixed it needs to be restored. But there is at least one point of agreement…. (At le...
Maine seems like such a "moderate" place, doesn't it-- even with that aberration of a bizarre teabagger governor Paul LePage? Even when the two Republican senators vote as far to the right as extremist c...
Meet Walston's tube-nosed bat, named after real batman Joe Walston, who works to save bats in Southeast Asia.
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wmtc - 22 hours ago
This post - like its subject - is old but still relevant. Over the summer I read *Life*, Keith Richards' memoirs. When I blogged about it here, I was loving it, but the book didn't turn out to be as fascin...
Judge: Employment didn't muzzle LSU scientist Ivor van Heerden ~U.S. District Judge James J. Brady rejected LSU's argument that van Heerden was speaking as a faculty member when he criticized work by the Ar...
If you haven't read the following essay by Paul Craig Roberts yet, please do, and then go stand with the OccupyEveryStreet group nearest you. They need our support as the police move in to sweep them out l...
[image: Polar bear cub. wallpaper.1000webgames.com] Contact: Senior Scientist Christian Sonne, csh@dmu.dk, Department of Bioscience and National Centre for Environment and Energy, Aarhus University Tel...
[image: Great White Shark. Source: ONE News]October 25 (Newstalk ZB/ONE News) – The Western Australian government has ordered any great white sharks spotted off the south west coast to be killed. The o...
"The real intent of my writing is not to say, you must think in this way. The real intent is: here are some of the many important facets of this extraordinary Kosmos; have you thought about including them...
Computer scientists have cracked a manuscript detailing rituals of an 18th-century German secret society.
The ABC News show Nightline is investigating Fisker Automotive, but is there anything new to report?
New NASA observations answer a 2,000 year old mystery regarding the first supernova ever recorded.
*"Say Anything"* by Paul Krugman "Over the last couple of days, I’ve been getting mail accusing me of consorting with Nazis. My immediate reaction was, what the heck? Then it clicked: the right wing is m...
Thousands of 'Occupy' protesters took to the streets again this weekend in Germany. Some are permanently camped out in Frankfurt's banking district, despite the onset of winter. Shortly after nine a.m. th...
The sudden death of an American diver in the jaws of a great white shark off Australia's southwest coast has raised the specter of a rogue man-eater preying on a renowned aquatic playground and killing thr...
Suspected Muslim insurgents have killed at least seven people in back-to-back shooting and bomb attacks in Thailand`s troubled south, police said Monday. On Sunday evening an unknown number of gunmen dres...
*"The Republicans Bear Present UNITARY Responsibility"* by Karl Denninger “You're not going to like this. I don't care. Let me make this clear in case the title wasn't: The Republican Party bears UNITARY ...
In case you're wondering, yes, the man on the right is, in fact, smiling. A 5-year-old boy killed in a traffic accident in Sichuan province was buried on Sunday, ending a three-day uproar over the cause of...
Authorities say an overnight storm tore part of the roof off Faro airport in Portugal’s southern Algarve region, injuring five people and disrupting flights. Roof panels over the departure terminal’s chec...
"You see, the thing about the truth is that it's consistent. It doesn't have to be altered and manipulated in the face of every new piece of information because all the new information simply adds to the c...
Compare this photo from last year, October 29, 2010. I was so thrilled with this pond scene, because it was proving difficult to find vestiges of the sorts of glorious autumn foliage we used to expect. ...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Eastern Honshu, Japan at a depth of 16 km ( 9.9 miles), the quake hit at 17:08:52 UTC Tuesday 25th October 2011. The epicenter was 8 km ( 4 miles) East of Iwaki, Honshu...
In Sonoma County, a California driver's license is accepted as valid identification -- but so is a card issued by the Mexican consulate. Mexican nationals will be able to give their country's state-issued ...
The bell at St. Mary's Cathedral rang through the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. It survived when an arsonist torched the old cathedral in 1962. And although it was replaced with an electronic chi...
The Obama administration is considering whether scientists should inject healthy children with the anthrax vaccine to see if it would protect them from a bioterrorism attack. A working group of federal ad...
Police are hunting a serial rapist who has targeted alumnae of a college sorority. At least four women from the Delta Sigma Theta sorority have been attacked in their Dallas-area homes. The women told po...
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The San Jose Police Department stormed into a Stockton home searching for an accused killer, but they left without him, and left behind a complete mess. “I feel like a war was taken on here, and we lost,...
*Hi friends, today we have Megan from Sisters-in-Long and The Readiness is All here to show us how to make a perfect pumpkin roll. Check out Sister-in-long for some delicious recipes including her fabulo...
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Biased BBC - 1 day ago
At last, a slideshow of my photos from Zuccotti Park. I went down there on Sunday, and spent a couple hours among the Occupiers. I spoke to a lot of people, asking questions, debating a bit, and trying t...
[image: Link]Supermassive black holes sit at the hearts of most of the galaxies we can observe from earth - and astronomers believe there is one at the centre of our own galaxy, the Milky Way. The huge i...
Researchers in the United States said on Tuesday they had found a "shocking" association -- if only a statistical one -- between violence by teenagers and the amount of soda they drank. High-school studen...
Thailand’s worst floods in half a century have reached the capital Bangkok, as officials struggle to control a torrent of water that is threatening to engulf the nation’s political and economic heart. Cit...
It’s hard to believe after our sunny and record setting Monday that one-two punch of winter weather is on its way into Colorado! Winter Storm Warning For Denver Metro And Beyond An unidentified man enjo...
Two motorists were accosted by groups of teenagers within a few days of each other in an area near the site of a similar incident over the summer that drew national attention. A group of about 50 young pe...
A civil servant who downloaded more than 28,000 indecent images of children from the internet said his sordid habit was no different to 'stamp collecting'. Steven Hawkins, of Hilperton, near Trowbridge, W...
A dead body was found in a Walt Disney World parking lot early Tuesday morning. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office says the body was found around 1:00 a.m. by a securty guard in a Disney cast member emplo...
Occupy Maine protesters camped out in Portland's Lincoln Park were attacked early Sunday morning when someone lobbed a chemical bomb at them. No one was seriously injured when the small, homemade bomb ex...
European leaders insist they are making progress on a comprehensive plan to tackle the eurozone's debt and banking crisis. But the details are foggy and last-minute delays suggest that significant disagre...
The death toll from the powerful earthquake that hit eastern Turkey over the weekend has risen to 432, officials say. The prime minister's office said Tuesday that 1,352 people were injured in Sunday's 7....
Patients in government-run hospitals in Syria are being tortured in an attempt to suppress dissent, an Amnesty International report alleges. The 39-page report claims patients in at least four state hospit...
*Your iGadget may show you "The Fabric of the Cosmos" acausally, 1 week before it is released* I have some great news for the owners of iPads, iPhones, and iPod Touches. As soon as now, you may watch the ...
*Liz Mathis-- all that's standing between Iowa and a total right-wing takeover* Our friends in Iowa need help-- and they need it badly. Progressive Kick is stepping up to the plate on this one. Michigan,...
The time children spend outdoors could be linked to a reduced risk of being short-sighted, research suggests. An analysis of eight previous studies by University of Cambridge researchers found that for ea...
A highway in the US state of Utah was temporarily closed after a lorry carrying at least 20 million bees overturned, freeing the insects. The bees were being transported to California, ready to pollinate a...
Dozens of people are dead after a blast tore through a fuel depot in the Libyan city of Sirte, local officials say. The exact number of people killed in Monday's blast is not yet clear. A local resident t...
Despite the death of former leader Moammar Gadhafi and the new government's declaration of liberation, NATO may not end its mission in Libya as quickly as expected, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said...
A Long Island couple wants to trademark the slogan "Occupy Wall St." with the intent to sell sweatshirts, T-shirts, bumper stickers and hobo bags, among other merchandise. "I'm no marketing genius, but wh...
Worried travelers and those living on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula were waiting and watching Hurricane Rina on Tuesday after the storm intensified to a Category 2 and appeared poised to make a near-direct hi...
Vietnam's rare Javan rhinoceros was declared extinct in that area after poachers killed the last remaining animal in the country for its horns, the World Wildlife Fund said. “Vietnam must see this loss as...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Southwest Indian Ridge at a depth of 9.8 km ( 6.1 miles), the quake hit at 11:01:10 UTC Tuesday 25th October 2011. The epicenter was 1073 km ( 666 miles) SSE of Po...
In November 1917, Aurora ignited the October revolution in Russia. Its namesake seen yesterday in most of Michigan has been more spectacular but it didn't lead to any catastrophe. It's actually pre...
With a time of 64 days, 11 hours and 19 minutes, a 39-year old tree climber set a new speed record on the 2,627-mile path.
One Day on Earth is set to film on Nov. 11, 2011, will you be participating?
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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...
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...
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, ...
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...
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...
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