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A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Rat Islands,
Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 50 km ( 31 miles), the quake hit at 17:11:25 UTC Friday 28th October 2011. The epicenter was 299 km ( 186 miles...
There are more tigers in captivity in the US than in the wild in the whole of Asia, according to some estimates. But the trade in exotic pets has dangerous consequences for man and beast alike, writes Loui...
As the world population reaches seven billion people, the BBC's
Mike Gallagher asks whether efforts to control population have been, as some critics claim, a form of authoritarian control over the world's ...
[image: The Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s
Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite acquired these natural-color image of Ayutthaya, Thailand, on 23 October 2011. The
Chao Phraya River has overflowed ont...
Stupid Senate Pet Tricks
posted by Alison at
Creekside - 20 minutes ago
Harper-appointed Senator
Nicole Eaton is calling for a private members bill to replace the beaver with the more "stately" polar bear as the national symbol of Canada. In her remarks to the Senate, the f...
It's already happening. Our world is being divided into countries from which people are fleeing and countries to which they're fleeing. These people doing the fleeing are climate migrants, people force...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 48 km ( 29.8 miles), the quake hit at 16:55:54 UTC Friday 28th October 2011. The epicenter was 96 km ( 59 miles...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck New Guinea, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:50:34 UTC Friday 28th October 2011. The epicenter was 107 km ( 66 miles) SSW of Moun...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 5 km ( 3.1 miles), the quake hit at 16:34:11 UTC Friday 28th October 2011. The epicenter was 43 km ( 26 miles) Northeast of Van, Turkey 57...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Lake Baykal Region, Russia at a depth of 15 km ( 9.3 miles), the quake hit at 15:33:21 UTC Friday 28th October 2011. The epicenter was 24 km ( 14.8 miles) South of...
A further five people have died from the cantaloupe listeria outbreak in the US, bringing the total dead to 28. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday (26 October) provided an upda...
I've said for a very long time (since the stolen election in 2000 at least) that something big and societally dislocating must be in store for us as none of the events that were taking place made any sense...
Health officials are struggling to find the cause of an E. coli food poisoning outbreak that has sickened at least 23 people in the St. Louis metropolitan area. Investigators from the U.S. Centers for Di...
Earlier today, in researching a post about corporate shill Artur Davis, I recalled how, when growing up, I first grappled with the idea that poor and middle class people-- and it was Southerners I was thi...
Today we are heading back to Syria. Not literally, of course. Interesting piece in the NYT's "Turkey Shelters Anti-Assad Group" "Turkey is hosting an armed opposition group waging an insurgency against the...
Friday is here and so is this new Open Thread. Ready, aim....fire. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Commonwealth nations agree to scrap centuries-old laws blocking daughters from the throne.
The boy survived 108 hours in rubble since a powerful earthquake struck Turkey.
*Spiegel Online* has come right out and asked whether America has been transformed into a true oligarchy? It's an perfectly legitimate question and the answer is plainly "yes." *"Inequality in America is ...
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[image: Link]Corps of Engineers wants $1 billion to repair flood damage, yet almost no money to investigate how it happened Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro presents case for removing cri...
* Ennahda (THE CIA PLAN FOR THE MOSLEM WORLD)* In the Tunisian elections of October 2011: *40% of those eligible to vote did not bother to vote. * The turnout was 60%. *75% of those who voted did not vote...
Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
[image: Distribution of total atmospheric deposition of cesium-137 on 23 March 2011 into the Pacific Ocean, estimated by the IRSN by modelling of atmospheric dispersion of releases from the Fukushima Dai...
People are fleeing from Bangkok, following fears that the entire city could be flooded by the worst deluge Thailand has seen in 50 years. In less than a week, the death toll has topped 360, with hundreds...
In Pakistan it is very common for government departments and also private offices to employ people against rules and regulations. When a candidate has recommendation from a person in a high position, he us...
Well, Duh! A new report entitled "Breaking the Silence" says that the current criminalization of marijuana only supports organized crime. In other words, Steve Harper supports organized crime. *Stop t...
Users interact with this concept phone by twisting and bending its display.
*Lehman L. Brightman's Dinner Benefit for Recovery* By Quanah Parker Brightman Censored News *.* *Mills College, Graduate School of Business Gathering Hall * *5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA 94619* *Nov. 1...
No more creepy high-frequency transformers sitting next to parks or schools.
Ron Paul would not pledge to rule out a third-party run for president if he did not get the Republican nod. Paul said he is running for the Republican nomination and to make such an announcement now would ...
Paris police have arrested around 20 Christian fundamentalists who burst into a theatre and threw stink bombs to protest against a play featuring the face of Christ drizzled with fake excrement. Police ma...
Two employees of a Philadelphia abortion clinic where live, viable babies were allegedly killed and a patient died after being given on overdose of painkillers pleaded guilty on Thursday to murder. Guilty...
A Northern California animal rescue group may need some rescuing of its own after helping save dozens of horses in what some are describing as the worst cases of animal cruelty they’ve witnessed. Volunt...
NASA satellites were interfered with four separate times in 2007 and 2008, possibly by the Chinese military, according to a draft of an upcoming report for the US Congress. The latest draft of the report ...
Reality tends to have the nasty habit of puncturing the BBC's fantasy "Arab Spring" narrative so this report from them on the current situation in Tunisia is a tad tortuous. Islam is good, Islam is modera...
Robert King - a former jailed Black Panther murdering terrorist, a bigot, a race hustler, and an honoured guest on the BBC's "Hard Talks." Give this a whirl if you have a strong stomach. Hat-tip to the Bia...
Police in riot gear cleared Occupy San Diego protesters out of Civic Center Plaza early Friday, making some arrests in the process, a police officer said. The operation began about 2 a.m. after officials ...
From Hurricane Irene, which soaked the entire East Coast in August, to the Midwest tornadoes, which wrought havoc from Wisconsin to Texas, 2011 has seen more billion-dollar natural disasters than any year ...
Preliminary testing confirms that the thousands of dead birds that washed ashore along a stretch of Ontario’s Georgian Bay appear to have died of botulism. The first bird to be tested, at the University o...
The US military has begun flying drone aircraft from a base in Ethiopia, as part of its fight against Islamist militants in neighbouring Somalia. US officials have confirmed to the BBC that the base, in th...
Seven people have died and seven others are missing after rains triggered severe flooding in northern Italy, civil protection officials said Friday. Especially hard hit was the tourist-popular Cinque Terre...
Tunisian troops have fired in the air to disperse hundreds of protesters in the town of Sidi Bouzid, reports say. Violent protests erupted in the central town on Thursday after the results of the country'...
A suspected suicide bomber has killed two policemen and injured seven others in northwest Pakistan, police said. The attack took place in the Nowshera area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Police said one ...
At least 36 people are now known to have died in the twin bomb blasts which hit Baghdad on Thursday. The first blast occurred in Ur, a mainly Shia district of northern Baghdad. The second went off as resc...
Kenyan troops have clashed with Islamist militants inside Somalia for the first time since crossing the border nearly two weeks ago. Kenya army spokesman Maj Emmanuel Chirchir told the BBC a convoy came un...
A Cleveland couple faces child endangerment charges after giving away their neglected 2-year-old girl, authorities said. The parents were arrested Thursday after authorities learned that they gave away th...
Three children were among 25 people reported killed Thursday in Syria, an opposition group reported, in the apparent latest round of violence to rattle the turbulent Middle Eastern nation. The Syrian go...
posted by leftdog at
Buckdog - 3 hours ago
*PotashCorp embarrassed Sask Party Leader Brad Wall yesterday by releasing Third Quarter figures which prove that the province is being robbed blind. The last phase of the provincial election seems to b...
I don't intend to write much about the Saskatchewan provincial election because, truth be told, there's not much to write. When the incumbent is literally more popular than God, you can usually call the ca...
Biased BBC contributor Alan observes... "Interesting to hear Nicky Campbell on 5Live this morning keep telling us that Capitalism is in crisis. Is it? Capitalism is thriving.....China, India, Brazil, Pola...
7-billion but who's counting? Apparently a lot of people are counting including the environmental desk of *The Guardian* a.k.a. *Monbiot & Co.* They've taken the occasion of humanity passing the 7-bill...
Wonder what you make of this article by Peter Oborne in the Telegraph? I agree with some of his points but think he fails to grasp the overwhelming bias of the Corporation. "There are very few institution...
posted by laura k at
wmtc - 3 hours ago
This would be so much funnier if people's lives and a great city weren't being damaged in the bargain.
Authorities in London agreed to take court action Friday to remove anti-capitalist protesters who have spent two weeks camped outside St. Paul's Cathedral. The City of London Corporation, which runs the c...
Thailand is facing its worst flooding since 1942, with 373 people dead, more than nine million affected and 28 -- or more than a third -- of the nation's provinces at least partially flooded after a seri...
Insurgents launched attacks Thursday on a Provincial Reconstruction Team base and a military outpost in Afghanistan, Afghan and NATO officials said. Three insurgents took positions in a home near a PRT bas...
AquaBounty Technologies, an American company with operations in Prince Edward Island, is awaiting approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for commercial sale of its genetically modified salmon....
CBC News has learned the Harper government is considering buying nuclear submarines to replace its problem-plagued fleet of diesel-powered subs, all of which are currently awash in red ink and out of servi...
"An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment." -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black, New York Times Co. ...
Occupy Wall Street demonstrators are scheduled to march on the offices of five major banks and financial-services firms in Manhattan on Friday, a day after a California mayor apologized for a police crackd...
Cell phones cut off the high-frequency sounds in our voices -- and those sounds carry a surprising amount of information.
posted by laura k at
wmtc - 4 hours ago
If you missed the story: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/26/occupy-oakland-veteran-critical-condition .
With their toddler son and newborn daughter, surfers Aamion and Daize Goodwin have embarked on a 13-month trip around the world.
A new device utilizes standard ink-jet printer technology and special "inks" to create small, ammonia-sensing detector.
Location tracking, two-way cellular communication and single-button operation make this personal safety device a great call.
Wirelessly stream audio to iHome's new iW1 AirPlay speaker system and bring it with you anywhere in the house.
Seventeen girls of a primary school in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region have become sick after eating castor beans Thursday, local police said on Friday. The girls of Laopeng primary school in Tian'e cou...
*DLC, GOP... same corporate crap* I once met a woman on a plane flying out of Atlanta who told me how then-Congressman Artur Davis was one of the great hopes for African-Americans in Alabama. A Harvard gr...
Steve Jobs may be gone, but history suggests that his vision and legacy will be long-lasting.
This is a very funny parody that succinctly reveals the invariably stupid and self-destructive behavior - say for example, polluting, over-extraction of resources, causing climate change, and atrocious ove...
Even if your harasser is the same race, you can still complain about discrimination if they’re biased due to your color. Basically, color means the shade of your skin. If someone of your same race favors l...
Tunisia imposed a night curfew Friday in the central city where the nation's uprisings started following post election violence a day earlier, state media reported. Violence broke out Thursday night in t...
*Today Lu is stepping out from behind her usual Wednesdays on the Web, to share her delightful pumpkin accessories with us. Be sure to stop by Just Luand check out her amazing Dahlia Top because trust me, ...
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck the North Pacific Ocean at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 11:14:25 UTC Friday 28th October 2011. The epicenter was 1604 km ( 994.4 miles) East of Kushi...
The International Criminal Court is having "informal conversations" about the surrender of Moammar Gadhafi's son, Saif al-Islam, who is wanted for crimes against humanity, the court's chief prosecutor said...
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 35.5 km ( 22.1 miles), the quake hit at 11:06:58 UTC Friday 28th October 2011. The epicenter was 204 km ( 127 miles) ENE of R...
A small aeroplane 'broke in half' after it crashed on a busy Canadian city street close to an airport. Miraculously, no-one was killed in the smash close to Vancouver International Airport yesterday after...
For the 14th time in just over 18 months Europe’s leaders emerged from a grandiose summit yesterday, and proclaimed a great victory in the battle to save the euro. Unfortunately – as on so many previous o...
*A total of 373 people have been killed in Thailand's recent flooding that has left swathes of the Southeast Asian country under water, and made tens of thousands of people displaced. * Thailand's Dis...
The deadly floodwaters currently ravaging Asia are shining a light on the "silent epidemic" of child drownings in the region. Children account for almost a quarter of the estimated 800 deaths reported sin...
ScottOlsen, An Iraq war veteran was listed in critical condition on Wednesday from injuries he sustained at economic protests on the streets of Oakland, triggering calls for renewed Occupy Wall Street dem...
*The Hudson volcano erupts in the Aysén region of Chile. Residents of the sparsely populated area continue to be evacuated as a precaution. The recent activity comes in the wake of a string of eruptions ...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 18 km ( 11.1 miles), the quake hit at 09:47:56 UTC Friday 28th October 2011. The epicenter was 31 km ( 18.9 miles) Southeast of Van, Turkey...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck South of Australia at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 09:08:37 UTC Friday 28th October 2011. The epicenter was 1242 km ( 772 miles) Southwest of Adelaid...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 9.9 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:48:09 UTC Friday 28th October 2011. The epicenter was 30 km ( 18 miles) East of Van, Turkey 550 D...
Since the day of the Gulf oil rig explosion I've witnessed residents suffer and struggle to make sense of the tragedy. The explosion killed 11 workers, dolphin and their calves, sea turtles, pelicans and h...
04 November at 08:00 - 08 November at 18:00 Location The White House, Washington D.C. Created by: Cherri Foytlin, Art Rocker, Karen Savage, Andre Gaines Jr. More info Please make plans to join us as we t...
posted by noreply@blogger.com (BenefitScroungingScum) at
Broken of Britain - 8 hours ago
The Marshall Islands government has declared a state of emergency in an attempt to combat the spiralling number of dengue fever cases in Majuro. Within two days, the confirmed cases of the flu-like illnes...
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 50 km ( 31 miles), the quake hit at 08:14:28 UTC Friday 28th October 2011. The epicenter was 140 km ( 86 miles) WSW of Banda ...
An outbreak of diseases, one of these being described as a mystery illness, has taken a heavy toll on children in Andhra Pradesh’s Rayalaseema region. At least 500 children, aged between two and five, have...
The Fukushima nuclear disaster released twice as much of a radioactive substance into the atmosphere as Japanese authorities estimated, reaching 40 percent of the total from Chernobyl, a preliminary report...
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday the United States would be willing to negotiate with the leader of Afghanistan's Taliban if he met conditions that have been laid out. Testifying at a hea...
Two suspected U.S. drone strikes killed nine people Thursday in Pakistan's tribal region, officials said, less than a week after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited the nation. In one strike,...
At least six people have died and several others are missing after rains triggered severe flooding in northern Italy, state-run news agency ANSA reported. Heavy rains continued to fall Thursday night in ...
Two roadside bomb blasts targeting a police patrol in eastern Baghdad Thursday killed at least 10 people and wounded more than 30 others, witnesses said. Police did not immediately respond to requests fo...
Three children were among 25 people reported killed Thursday in Syria, an opposition group reported, in the apparent latest round of violence to rattle the turbulent Middle Eastern nation. The Syrian g...
The family of deceased Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi will file a war crimes complaint against NATO with the International Criminal Court, a lawyer representing the family said Thursday. Members of the...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Solomon Islands at a depth of 54.1 km ( 33.6 miles), the quake hit at 05:57:13 UTC Friday 28th October 2011. The epicenter was 57 km ( 35 miles) WSW of Kira Kira, S...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck offshore Atacama, Chile at a depth of 42.2 km ( 26 miles), the quake hit at 04:27:19 UTC Friday 28th October 2011. The epicenter was 107 km ( 66 miles) SSW of Taltal, A...
Prime Minister David Cameron has said London's financial sector is under constant assault from European Union rules and regulations. In his first comments since Wednesday's eurozone crisis summit, Mr Came...
*Robert Black * Are the child kidnappers protected by powerful people? Robert Black was born born to a single mother in Falkirk, near Edinburgh, in 1947. (Serial killer Robert Black guilty of FOURTH c...
Harold Camping calculated May 21st, 2011 as the date of the rapture (by the way, it should have another phase in this very month). Arthur Eddington"has" related all important parameters of the Universe to...
This is an extraordinary piece ofwork that is going to find its way out of the manufacture of solar cells into awide range of new layered materials capable of providing the skins for magneticfield exclu...
Read this one carefully. Unless I am way off nearly perfect energyconversion devices can exist. This isanother raw beginning from a completely unexpected behavior. We have alreadybeen putting graphene...
This is the story of thedeliberate extinction of the Imperial Woodpecker during the late fifties. That the environment is still hostile tothese birds is pretty clear. That anymay still exist seems un...
Prosthetics are been improved ata fast clip and the benefits are been applied globally. Here we have another improvement in which thedevice is no longer passive but is rigged to anticipate movements. ...
[image: Samsung overtakes Apple as No. 1 Smart phone Seller] *Samsung Electronics Co. overtook Apple Inc. (AAPL)* in the last quarter to become the *world’s largest smart phone vendor* along with a widenin...
*U.S. economic growth picked up speed to 2.5 percent in the third quarter of this year, reduction of recession, but experts held that the economy was confronted with a slew of domestic and international ...
*Operation Darknet* Tuesday, after hacking into Lolita City, a darknet website used by pedophiles to trade in child pornography, Anonymous released usernames and other information of 1,589 pedophiles tradi...
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CENSORED NEWS - 12 hours ago
Veterans for Peace member Scott Olsen stands between police and crowd at Occupy Oakland to protect the people. Minutes later he was shot with a police projectile.*Occupy Oakland: Moving vigil for wounded Ma...
------------------------------ *Libya Destroyed: Syria Next In The Crosshairs 2011 * *StephenHannardADGUK * Cherchez la Verite
CodePink at Viva la Vida. Photo by Susan Van Haitsma / The Rag Blog.Viva la Vida...and remember the deadBy Susan Van Haitsma / The Rag Blog / October 28, 2011See gallery of photos by Susan Van Haitsma, Below...
"This colorful cosmic skyscape features a peculiar system of galaxies cataloged as Arp 227 some 100 million light-years distant. Swimming within the boundaries of the constellation Pisces, Arp 227 consists...
*"Let Go and Let Flow: Taking a Leap of Faith"* by The DailyOm When you make a leap of faith you can accomplish almost anything you set out to do. Many people, in heeding the guidance of their souls, find...
The future of the Occupy Wall Street movement hangs in the balance, as snow storms threaten cities across the US. A blanket of cold air, that brought the first flurries of the season to Colorado on Wedne...
Colonel Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam has crossed the Libyan border into Niger, a senior official in the National Transitional Council said last night (Thur). The official, who declined to be named for safe...
The siege of St Paul’s claimed its first martyr yesterday as a senior cleric resigned rather than join efforts to evict the protesters camped outside the cathedral. Canon Giles Fraser, the cathedral chanc...
Europe’s leaders never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. The Brussels summit on Wednesday night was their 14th combined attempt to ‘save the euro’ in just 20 months. But instead of firing a ‘big...
Britain's top company directors have enjoyed a pay rise of almost 50% in the past year, taking their average earnings to almost £2.7m. A study of FTSE 100 companies by Incomes Data Services (IDS) showed t...
Police officers with "non-lethal ordnance" after an early morning raid on Occupy Oakland's tent city, Oakland, CA, Oct.25, 2011. Photo by Stephen Lam / Reuters.Military zone in Oakland:Riot cops use 'non-le...
Hundreds of business owners have clashed with riot police in an eastern Chinese city after a row over taxation, reports on official media say. The unrest was sparked when the owner of a children's clothin...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of just 1 km ( 0.6 miles), the quake hit at 03:23:30 UTC Friday 28th October 2011. The epicenter was 24 km ( 14.8 miles) Southeast of Ercis, T...
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck the Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 53.3 km ( 33.1 miles), the quake hit at 01:35:30 UTC Friday 28th October 2011. The epicenter was 53 km ( 32 mil...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 00:25:35 UTC Friday 28th October 2011. The epicenter was 9 km ( 5 miles) WSW of Van, Turkey 550 Dead ...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 621 km ( 385.9 miles), the quake hit at 21:25:57 UTC Thursday 27th October 2011. The epicenter was 36 km ( 22 miles) West of Ndoi Island, ...
Bernie Sanders delivered this speech on the floor of the Senate almost one year ago. Bernie is neither a Democrat nor a Republican. He's the only actual Independent in the Senate-- and one of the only ac...
*As was written before it would not be a surprise if Drug and alcohol addiction could be cured by changing the intestinal flora*. Ben Judea Read more below... The human intestine is a paradise for micro...
Santee, California, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
*Under the rule of The Guardians, government secrecy has been raised to the point where it's illegal for us even to know that there are secrets.* *by Ken* Maybe the way to think of it is like we're living...
Although it has not been officially declared, America, Israel and the Middle East have been in a state of total war since the 9/11 attacks. The shadow terrorist states in Israel and the United States ini...
Just what we need - 30 more MPs! Ontario will get 15 new seats, British Columbia and Alberta six each and Quebec three in the latest and probably final attempt by the Harper government to rejig the House...
Minnesota Land of 10,000 ALEC members! Anyway it feels like that most every day! Although Mary Kiffmeyer says there are only 30 - but that's probably a lie - based on what we are seeing in our legilsatur...
Austin, Texas 'keeps weird' and attempts to connect an entire neighborhood with solar panels, electric vehicles, utility smart meters and household batteries.
Official response, as discovered by a reader: Vatican spokesman rejects claim German bishops disrespected Pope Rome, Italy, Oct 12, 2011 / 03:13 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lo...
The secret mud used to rub down new baseballs is almost certainly laced with PCBs, DDTs and other contaminants well known to pollute the Delaware River watershed.
The greatest liars of every age are the propagandists who follow the Talmud. They have been thrown out of every European nation for crimes against Christians, yet they use their control of the media to c...
Strange microorganisms that feed off ammonia or hydrogen sulfides produce fuels to run vehicles.
Feel free to share this image with others: Help spread the word about the Coming Crisis!
Who wouldn't find a touch of irony in that fact that Obama's UN Ambassador, Susan Rice, crowed that "We will stand up for people who seek to assert their basic human rights" as the Obama Administration st...
posted by PC at
Not PC - 21 hours ago
Who would have thought this Labour Party would have the courage to open the can of worms that is the debate about Government Super’s sustainability—and to open it with a flourish. What they’ve done is t...
A three-ton stone from Jerusalem's Western Wall is part of an exhibit of the Dead Sea Scrolls which includes pieces never before available for public viewing.
*Click image for larger size. * Alex Noble, "Hope for a New America" http://www.alexnoble.typepad.com/occupy
A senior figure at London's landmark St. Paul's Cathedral stepped down Thursday, apparently over concerns that it planned to evict anti-capitalist protesters camped outside. Canon Chancellor Giles Fraser ...
*"A Special Offer from America’s Corporations* *Inviting You to Share in the American Dream"* by Andy Borowitz "Dear American: American corporations have taken a beaten recently. We’ve been accused of e...
posted by David Preiser (USA) at
Biased BBC - 22 hours ago
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Not PC - 22 hours ago
There are two film featurettes highlighting this year’s disaster in Christchurch. Here’s the trailer for the first, *When A City Falls:The People’s Story*, a feature documentary about the people in Chris...
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” - Harriet Tubman
*"GENERAL STRIKE NOVEMBER 2nd*" by Karl Denninger "Now we're talking. I'm getting word (via Twitter) that the Oakland branch of "Occupy Wall Street" has finally done what I recommended as the only course...
Is this the world you want to live in (and have your families grow up in)? It exactly mirrors pre-WW2 Germany in the propaganda that we see daily about the "need" to bomb/subdue criminal sovereign entities...
*"Banks Have Put Americans On The Hook For Trillions*, *And FDIC's Insured It All!"* By Tom Dennen, the paranoid historian "If you have been procrastinating, stop whatever you are doing, buy Robert Precht...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu at a depth of 42.6 km ( 26.5 miles), the quake hit at 18:06:25 UTC Thursday 27th October 2011. The epicenter was 329 km ( 204 miles) ESE ...
*"Why the US Economy is No Place for Small Business Growth"* by Bill Bonner "The Dow fell 200 points yesterday. Up, down…up, down…when will it stop? Never. That’s what prices do. They go up and they go do...
A planet where a year lasts just 18 hours is a waterworld with a radius around twice the size of Earth, a team of astronomers have discovered. 55 Cancri E is the innermost planet in orbit around a sun-like...
It was the discovery of Eris in 2005 that led to Pluto’s loss of planethood – and now astronomers have calculated that the two are doppelgangers. Eris, which lies three times further from the Sun than Plut...
A Hindu festival that celebrates light has been shrouded in darkness following the sacrificial slaughter of up to 100,000 turtles. Shown in these horrifying images, critically endangered species including...
Life on earth began in a mud volcano in the sea near Greenland 3.8 billion years ago, scientists believe. Researchers say they have discovered the chemical elements crucial to the formation of life in mud...
Britain could become one of Europe's 'second-tier countries' following a decision by those signed up to the single currency to form a tight inner circle, George Osborne said this afternoon. The Chancellor...
Just thought ya'll would be interested in hearing a podcast of a telephone interview I just did with Anastassia Smorodinskaya of The Daily Nationalthat's been immortalized as a podcast. Why TDN wanted my o...
Our Brother Marine Corps Veteran Scott Olsen Remains In The Hospital Under Critical Condition From Sustaining A Blow To The Head From An Oakland Police Department Riot Officer Projectile Early Wednesday Mo...
[image: Maplecroft Climate Change Vulnerability Index 2012] The Climate Change Vulnerability Index features subnational maps and analysis of climate change vulnerability and the adaptive capacity to comb...
A little asteroid turns out to be a planetary building block that stopped growing.
[image: Massive oil spill at Amukpe, near Sapele, in Nigeria's Niger delta, pouring crude oil into the neighbouring river for more than one month. PPMC's ruptured pipeline emptying P.M.S. (Premium Motor ...
[image: Tasmania's giant underwater kelp forests (Macrocystus pyrifera) have been nominated as a 'Threatened Ecological Community' under the federal Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation A...
Move over, Wilson the Volleyball: This is the castaway's new best friend -- a wearable antenna that can pinpoint your location.
The two-foot tall imperial woodpecker went extinct in the late 20th century, but a recently re-discovered video shows what the planet has lost.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), the operator of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, has given up a plan to install a land-side retaining wall aimed at preventing radioactive water from pe...
The mainstream US media has reacted to Muammar Gaddafi's brutal lynching with a tidal wave of cheers and approval, trumpeting the Colonel’s death as the start of a new era for Libya. US Secretary of St...
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Biased BBC - 1 day ago
Question Time tonight comes from Winchester. David Dimbleby is joined by Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith - who after the EU referendum rebellion declared yesterday that he will...
.... last Friday, “Never again will Gadhafi be in a position to support terrorism or to turn guns on his own citizens." No, because as you can see from the pictuure above, that was our job. .
*Nikolaj Kunst asked:* As I understand it from the threads I read, D-branes are viewed as somewhat secondary to strings: If I know what all the open strings do, then I know what the D-branes do as well. B...
China, as the country with the world’s biggest financial reserves, has thrown its weight behind the EU’s efforts to contain its financial crisis, offering European countries its broad financial shoulder to...
Police used tear gas on at least three separate occasions to disperse more than 1,000 demonstrators who took to the streets of Oakland, California Tuesday evening as running street battles engulfed the c...
Agricultural and medical groups in Japan have held rallies to oppose the country's participation in the talks for a free trade agreement in the Asia-Pacific region. About 3,000 demonstrators from across t...
The cyber security of Japan has fallen into serious doubt after revelations that viruses carried in targeted e-mails have stolen sensitive data from a Japanese defense contractor, the Foreign Ministry and ...
Japan is expected to take more than 30 years to fully decommission crippled nuclear reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, according to a draft report compiled by the Nuclear Safety Commission of J...
Global electronics firms expect supply disruption caused by flooding in Thailand to continue for several quarters and the Thai operations of Japan's Toshiba Corporation are expected to resume in January at...
Halloween is just around the corner and with it comes lots of pumpkin treats! Here are some of my favorites I have found on the web this year. Can't wait for Halloween! Pumpkin Pie Truffles by Shugary S...
Humpback whale numbers in the North Pacific are increasing by 8 percent a year.
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 4.2 earthquake has struck the Aegean Sea, Greece at a depth of 13.6 km ( 8.5 miles), the quake hit at 15:15:39 UTC Thursday 27th October 2011. The epicenter was 93 km ( 58 miles) South of Kaval...
John actually wrote this post this summer. In light of all the ALEC-inspired disenfranchisement schemes and fake voter fraud legislation passing Republican legislatures in Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Flor...
Boosting self-esteem with undeserved praise can cause depression, if the message is untruthful.
Google is out with the biggest rewrite to Android since its debut in 2008.
* The real Gaddafi* The man seen in the recent 'Gaddafi capture videos' is not Gaddafi. *The man in the videos is Ali Majid Al Andalus. *The person you were shown was not Muammar Al-Gaddafi Originally p...
[image: Areas of food shortages in East Africa, October 2011. OCHA, Fews Net] By Will Ross BBC East Africa correspondent 26 October 2011 A combination of a military build-up in Somalia and heavy rains...
Source: Gaceta OVNI (Argentina) Date: N.A. Argentina: An Absurd Morphology By Daniel Lopez Being able to attest to the wide variety of behaviors and shapes that manifest in active UFO zones,...
Rumors have been flying for a week that the Occupy protesters will be launching a nationwide general strike. We have been biting our tongue waiting for a formal decision. Mother Jones tweets: From our re...
A U.S. Border Patrol agent has been sentenced to two years in prison for improperly lifting the arms of a 15-year-old drug smuggling suspect while handcuffed — in what the Justice Department called a depri...
On Thursday, the season's first minor but appreciable snowfall is expected over parts of the Northeast. When everything is said and done, the highest snow totals will likely be found over the higher eleva...
Georgia police are hunting for the aggrieved Taco Bell customer who threw a Molotov cocktail at the restaurant’s drive-thru window after phoning in a complaint that there was not enough meat in the chalupa...
Atlanta, Georgia, has widest income gap between rich and poor of all the major U.S. cities, the U.S. Census reported on Wednesday. New Orleans ranks second, followed by the U.S. capital, Washington, D.C. ...
The Occupy Wall Street volunteer kitchen staff launched a “counter” revolution yesterday -- because they’re angry about working 18-hour days to provide food for “professional homeless” people and ex-cons m...
Hundreds of "Occupy Oakland" protesters remained peaceful Wednesday night at Frank Ogawa Plaza. By Thursday morning, two tents were placed on the plaza grass with overnight campers inside. Police allowed ...
US lawmakers introduced a bill on Wednesday that would give US authorities more tools to crack down on websites accused of piracy of movies, television shows and music and the sale of counterfeit goods. T...
The family of deceased Libyan dictator Moammar Kadafi reportedly plans to file a war-crimes complaint against NATO for the role they believe the international military alliance played in the former leader’...
A US drone strike in north-west Pakistan has killed two top commanders of one of Pakistan's most influential Taliban groups, officials say. They say that among the four people killed is the brother of top ...
US efforts to reach out to Iran have been hurt by confusion over who is running the country, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has told BBC Persian. "We're not quite sure who makes decisions anymore insi...
Gunmen have ambushed a vehicle in Kenya near the border with Somalia, killing four people, reports say. A school teacher and a government official were among the dead as the attackers fired a rocket-prope...
Arthritis has been called the invisible disease, but there's nothing imperceptible about its painful impact on patients' lives or the economic fallout for Canadian society. A new report by the Arthritis A...
By Tom Poor Bear, Oglala Lakota Vice President Posted at Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com From Tar Sands Action Today I was removed from Obama’s speech at the University of Colorado in Denv...
[image: Widespread logging of core koala habitat in the Coffs Harbour area has raised the ire of the North Coast Environment Council. coffscoastadvocate.com.au]October 27 (AAP) – The NSW government is fa...
[image: Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse]By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch 25 October 2011 SAN LUIS OBISPO, California (MarketWatch) – The theme: Repent. Haunting images of fanatical serial killers warnin...
Activists taking part in the the Occupy Oakland protests have called for a general strike in the city next week. The call to strike on 2 November emerged as protesters gathered late on Wednesday, one day ...
Higher gas and oil prices have pushed up profits at ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell during the three months to the end of September. Current cost of supply net income at Shell doubled to $7.2bn (£4.5bn), ...
China is intensifying restrictions on internet use after official reports revealed that three people have been "punished for spreading false rumours" online. Authorities say they are carrying out inquirie...
A snippet of film shot by an amateur ornithologist in 1956 is providing researchers and bird enthusiasts with a rare opportunity to observe the behaviour of the imperial woodpecker, a giant resident of M...
More Occupy Wall Street protests were scheduled in New York on Thursday, a day after demonstrators marched to support an Iraq war veteran who was hurt in California. Hundreds packed the streets near Manha...
Saudi Arabia, one of the world's largest oil producers, may soon cut oil production. The move, which some analysts believe may have already begun, comes in response to additional supplies coming online fr...
Mexican officials found four dismembered bodies scattered in two neighborhoods in Ciudad Juarez on Tuesday, with a message by a "new" drug cartel at one of the scenes. In the first scene, an ice cooler wi...
Can killer whales sue SeaWorld for enslavement? A lawsuit filed Wednesday by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and other "next friends" of five SeaWorld killer whales takes that novel legal appr...
European leaders have thrashed out a deal they hope will resolve the problems that threaten the stability of world markets and the very existence of the euro currency. Marathon negotiations at EU headqu...
Environmentalists are alarmed that a U.S.-based company with a plant in P.E.I. plans to sell its genetically modified salmon eggs to any approved fish farmer if the company gets U.S. Food and Drug Administ...
[image: Marco Tedesco standing on the edge of one of four moulins (drainage holes) he and his team found at the bottom of a supraglacial lake during the expedition to Greenland in the summer of 2011. P. ...
Salt cedars in the Israel's Aravah Desert are thriving on sewage water.
Auto navigation systems could have touchscreens unaffected by driving gloves.
Cameras hidden in the Alaskan Arctic captured images of predatory animals raiding the nests of birds.
The interactive technology could impact gaming, education, rehabilitation and design.
California is building an early warning system for quakes that could give precious seconds of warning -- now all they have to do is fund it.
Union workers march in solidarity with Occupy Austin, Oct. 23, 2011. Image from YNN.Injury to one is injury to all:Austin labor demonstrates solidarity with Occupy movementBy William Rogers / The Rag Blog / ...
[image: Thais wade through a flooded street in Bangkok on Thursday, 27 October 2011. Sukree Sukplang / Reuters] By Anuchit Nguyen and Supunnabul Suwannakij 27 October 2011 Thailand’s government said it...
*RED LINE = Crude Oil Prices* *BLUE LINE = Gas Prices in Minnesota* *PURPLE LINE - added by me to show trend * (focus your attention to where the blue line trends above the purple line) *Wall Str...
Photo copyright by Justin Warren/Oakland Oct. 26, 2011 By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com OAKLAND, Calif. -- When this photo by Justin Warren was posted of Occupy Oakland on ...
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Solidarity with Oakland: The Oscar Grant Plaza Gazette brought to you by the People's Library at Occupy Wall Street. The whole world is watching. Scott Olson, 24-year-old Iraq War veteran, is in critica...
Check out the BBC's profile of Giles Fraser. I was just wondering what the odds are of him getting his own BBC series within a year when I saw that Toby Young had had a similar thought: "...no opportunity...
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*PotashCorp earns US $826 million in Q3 (Jul-Aug-Sept/2011) 27/10/2011 The Canadian Press SASKATOON - Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. (TSX:POT) more than doubled its profits in the latest quarter on h...
Feds make slow progress on flood levee national inventory~Please check out our new Levees.org National Levee Map! We've made it interactive. Please have patience as it's just getting started and we have lo...
Expediente OVNI No. 2 – An Editorial by José M. Echeverría [Contributing editor José M. Echeverría has posted the latest issue of his new publication Expediente OVNI. This second issue (Vol 1. No.2) ...
Source: NOUFA (Noticiero Ufologico Autonomo) Date: 10.26.11 Chile: UFO Photographed Over La Serena On October 22, 2011 at approximately 15:00 hours, this photo was taken by Magdalena Montserrat Rivera Tar...
Is the UK's NUJ developing its own more radical version of the now-disbanded left-leaning JournoList group from the US? Thanks to BBC London journalist Jane Bradley (first seen on Biased BBC a couple of w...
Academic/activist Bernardine Dohrn, former leader of WeatherUnderground, on Rag Radio with Thorne Dreyer. Listen to it here: Thorne Dreyer's guest on Rag Radio this Friday, October 28, 2011, 2-3 p.m. (Centra...
*Australia has exposed the world's largest gold coin, weighing in at a huge 1,000kg.The Perth Mint produced it in time for Queen Elizabeth's visit to the city in Western Australia for the Commonwealth he...
A magnitude 3.9 earthquake has struck San Francisco Bay, California at a depth of 9.7 km ( 6 miles), the quake hit at 12:36:44 UTC Thursday 27th October 2011. The epicenter was 2 km (1.2 miles) East of Ber...
Muammar Gaddafi's fugitive son Saif al-Islam wants an aircraft to take him out of Libya's southern desert so he can turn himself in to The Hague war crimes court, a source with Libya's National Transitiona...
More Occupy Wall Street protests were scheduled in New York on Thursday, a day after demonstrators marched to support an Iraq war veteran who was hurt in California. Hundreds packed the streets near Manh...
A few weeks ago when former Republican Congressman Ray LaHood, first elected to the Illinois House in 1982 and to the U.S. Congress in 1994, announced he would be retiring as Secretary of Transportation, ...
Tech firms are trying out new designs to harness the powerful energy of winds in the clouds.
A liquid-repelling wireless keyboard has a 50-million keystroke life cycle.
*EU leaders agreed to trade the acute problems for bigger chronic ones* Around 3 a.m. in the morning, the European politicians have agreed to boost the "eurowall" EFSF fund to something like €1 trillion ...
image borrowed from here Really? Or do you just "think" that you are, due to the inundation of messages you have received since you were born and possibly before? Are you "Brand washed"? Note the play on br...
The iconic fiery fall foliage of the Yankee forest is showing up later as falls get warmer and winters milder.
*The Barack Obama of 2011 and the Barack Obama of 2008 don't constantly see eye to eye. In general the presidential vision has overruled the candidate's. But in the case of the complete withdrawal of Ame...
A 64-year-old van driver, already convicted of killing three schoolgirls, has been found guilty of a fourth child murder. Robert Black now ranks among Britain's most prolific serial killers. Scotland-bor...
*Dani with William, her new brother* (Dani's Story) *Dani* was born in 1998, in Las Vegas, to Michelle Crockett. Michelle has military connections. Michelle's husband was a veteran of the Vietnam war and ...
Chile said on Wednesday that it was evacuating residents from around a volcano in the country's far south after it spewed a jet of steam a kilometre into the air and seismic activity triggered an avalanche...
Image; A school teacher is rescued after nearly three days trapped under rubble. A 19-year-old has been pulled alive from the rubble of a collapsed building four days after an earthquake struck eastern Tu...
Authorities have found a second leaking container on a ship docked at the Port of Brisbane, prompting a chemical spill scare this morning. Crew from aboard the ship were evacuated this morning when a cont...
A half dozen people were treated for inhaling "noxious fumes" in Indio Wednesday, which turned out to be bug spray. Jody Hagemann of the Riverside County Fire Department says around 5 p.m., six people rep...
A tornado hit two central Negros towns Tuesday afternoon, destroying houses and toppling power lines and trees, although there was no casualty or injury, according to the Provincial Social Welfare and Deve...
Water containing radioactive substances has leaked from a reactor pressure vessel at the Tokai No. 2 nuclear power plant in Ibaraki Prefecture, but there was no release of toxic substances into the outside...
*Multilepton SUSY search leads to upper limits 1-1.5 sigma weaker than expected* The new paper by the CMS collaboration on Multileptonic SUSY searches (PDF) has been made available to the inhabitants of ...
The super-yacht Eos Impressive - the largest private sailing yacht in the world - has been spotted docked off the coast off the south coast of England. Impressive Eos, which is owned by billionaire mov...
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Wednesday called North Korea a "serious threat" and told U.S. troops that the Pentagon will strengthen its presence in this region to guard against North Korean provo...
Mexican officials found four dismembered bodies scattered in two neighborhoods in Ciudad Juarez on Tuesday, with a message by a "new" drug cartel at one of the scenes. In the first scene, an ice cooler w..
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A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 50 km ( 31 miles), the quake hit at 17:11:25 UTC Friday 28th October 2011. The epicenter was 299 km ( 186 miles...
There are more tigers in captivity in the US than in the wild in the whole of Asia, according to some estimates. But the trade in exotic pets has dangerous consequences for man and beast alike, writes Loui...
As the world population reaches seven billion people, the BBC's Mike Gallagher asks whether efforts to control population have been, as some critics claim, a form of authoritarian control over the world's ...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck New Guinea, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:50:34 UTC Friday 28th October 2011. The epicenter was 107 km ( 66 miles) SSW of Moun...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 5 km ( 3.1 miles), the quake hit at 16:34:11 UTC Friday 28th October 2011. The epicenter was 43 km ( 26 miles) Northeast of Van, Turkey 57...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Lake Baykal Region, Russia at a depth of 15 km ( 9.3 miles), the quake hit at 15:33:21 UTC Friday 28th October 2011. The epicenter was 24 km ( 14.8 miles) South of...
A further five people have died from the cantaloupe listeria outbreak in the US, bringing the total dead to 28. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday (26 October) provided an upda...
Health officials are struggling to find the cause of an E. coli food poisoning outbreak that has sickened at least 23 people in the St. Louis metropolitan area. Investigators from the U.S. Centers for Di...
Earlier today, in researching a post about corporate shill Artur Davis, I recalled how, when growing up, I first grappled with the idea that poor and middle class people-- and it was Southerners I was thi...
Today we are heading back to Syria. Not literally, of course. Interesting piece in the NYT's "Turkey Shelters Anti-Assad Group" "Turkey is hosting an armed opposition group waging an insurgency against the...
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