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I had an incredible opportunity this past week, one which I am profoundly grateful for, and will continue to be, although it did not pan out. A fairly substantial publishing company contacted me regarding...
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Fireworks Night yet - but a spectacular explosion HAS lit up the night sky after a giant comet smashed into the Sun. Our star was hit by an unusually large sungrazer caught on camera careering to...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Southeast of the
Loyalty Islands at a depth of 67.9 km (42.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:00:28
UTC Tuesday 4th October 2011. The epicenter was 219 km ( 136 miles) East...
*They cut the print short.* "Anti-Wall Street protests spread nationwide" by Chris Hawley
Associated Press / October 3, 2011
NEW YORK—*Protests against Wall Street spread across the country Monday as dem...
Targets have already included a female walker, a young girl and a swan. Now a man in his 50s has become the latest victim of rutting stags running rampant round a London park. The unidentified man was kno...
An English woman has died and four other people were rescued after the helicopter they were flying in crashed seconds after take-off. A
Foreign Office spokesman confirmed that the woman who died was Sonia ...
tA magnitude 3.9 earthquake has struck Katla Volcano, Iceland at a depth of just 1 km (0 miles), the quake hit at 02:50:38 UTC Wednesday 5th October 2011. The epicenter was 63 km ( 39 miles) East of Vestma...
*As does the AmeriKan media attention given to the case. * "Prosecutors ask court to affirm Knox verdict" September 24, 2011|Associated Press PERUGIA, Italy - Italian prosecutors urged an appeals court ye...
...except in 2011 in Canada. Add the Manitoba NDP to the growing list of parties re-elected with a strong, stable majority government. The Newfoundland PCs and Saskatchewan Saskies will join then shortly....
"Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse "Siddhartha" is a novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of a boy known as Siddhartha from the Indian Subcontinent during the time of the Buddha. The ...
"Drifting through the one-horned constellation Monoceros, these dusty streamers and new born stars are part of the active Monoceros R2 star-forming region, embedded in a giant molecular cloud. The cosmic s...
*Good. The guy should be in a jail cell as a co-conspirator for war crimes in Iraq.* "Pressure is mounting on Berlusconi after Standard & Poor’s cut Italy’s credit rating one level this week, citing his ...
“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.” - Buddha
*As a priest!?* "A convicted killer who escaped a New Jersey prison in 1970 and hijacked a US airliner two years later while dressed as a priest has been captured in Portugal after more than 40 years as a...
Genghis Khan (R-Mongolia). How much progress have we made? Image from the genghis kahn.An assault on the Constitution:The killing of Anwar al-AwlakiIt is hard to see that we have made much progress beyond th...
Those are the words of Ipsos' John Wright. If Tim Hudak is worried about a Liberal-NDP coalition, there's only one way to prevent it at this point - and it's *not* by voting PC. *Ipsos* (*Sep 30 to Oct 3;...
Step 1. Audit The Fed Step 2. Abolish The Fed
*I don't know what exactly you'll see in this clip; unless I'm imagining things, it seems to play differently every time I start it up. But it's all from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's press conference ...
"Those on the streets around Wall Street are the physical embodiment of hope. They know that hope has a cost, that it is not easy or comfortable, that it requires self-sacrifice and discomfort and finall...
Relief groups on Monday made a new plea to the United States to offer food assistance to North Korea, warning that hunger was worsening and could develop into a major crisis next year. The United States e...
South Korea's military has seen more than 2,700 attempts to hack into its websites over the past year, a lawmaker said Wednesday, amid growing concern over North Korea's cyber warfare capability. Kim Ok-L...
Nest-building is not just instinctive but is a skill that birds learn from experience, research suggests. Scientists filmed male Southern Masked Weaver birds in Botswana as they built multiple nests out of...
The disclosure that U.S. President Barack Obama approved the sale of 5,000-pound bunker-buster bombs to Israel, which wants them for a possible attack on Iran's nuclear installations, has sent ripples of a...
In life, people inexorably move from infancy to adulthood and on to old age in a series of significant chronological milestones. Countries are obviously not people but states also pass through stages that ...
In the debate about the possible bankruptcy of the Greek state, one largely dormant argument has resurfaced with increasing frequency: the widespread damage inflicted by the Nazi regime during World War II...
Some 1,000 years ago, the Chinese named this city "Shanghai" based on its location. It literally means "above the sea." Those pioneers probably never imagined the situation that confronts this city today: ...
On a wet Wednesday evening in Seoul, six government employees gather at the office to prepare for a late-night patrol. The mission is as simple as it is counterintuitive: to find children who are studying ...
The watchword for the week at the Clinton Global Initiative's (CGI) annual summit in Manhattan this week has been "efficiency." (It narrowly beats out "traffic," which is what you'll be caught in trying to...
There have been numerous reports, including on our program, Dan Rather Reports, about the decline of the honeybee. They've been dying off in huge numbers. The cause has been lumped under a tit...
You've decided to help your health and the environment by riding your bike to work. Good for you! Sorry to have to deliver the bad news: you may be inhaling more soot. The amount might be more than twice ...
To most humans, so far, climate change is still more of an idea than an experience. For other species, it is an immediate reality. Many will be left behind as the climate alters, unable to move quickly eno...
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria were less common on chicken farms that had recently switched to organic farming practices when compared to those that continued to use conventional farming practices, finds a ...
*"Explained: Why Men and Women React Differently to Kindness" * by Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph.D. "For reasons that until very recently I'd never really understood, my husband is rarely made happy by my spo...
*Column of the Americas* *A letter to Birmingham: From the anti-Mexican State of Arizona* *A special-length column* *By Roberto Cintli Rodriguez* *Posted at Censored News* Dear Birmingham… I write this to...
Plumes of liquid water erupt through the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus to create soft powdery snow.
*Except for the demands of banks:** * *"Excluding serving Greece’s debt, the 2012 budget is projected to have a primary surplus of $4.3 billion"* "Europe urges Greece to hasten pace of reforms" by Howard ...
*I expected better** from Britain's third party.* "UK’s deputy PM pledges help for troubled youths after riots" September 22, 2011|By David Stringer, Associated Press LONDON - Young people who looted stor...
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"News Corp. subsidiary under investigation; US looks into possible racketeering violations" September 28, 2011|By David Glovin, Greg Farrell, and Tom Schoenberg, Bloomberg News NEW YORK - A *News Corp. un...
"UK lawmaker’s wife convicted of cat theft" by Associated Press October 1, 2011 LONDON - The estranged wife of a British lawmaker was convicted yesterday of *stealing a kitten* from the house of her *husb...
“Very few things really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds - just...
*How dare they criticize Syria or anyone else?* "Britain to pay Bloody Sunday victims; 13 were killed, 14 hurt in 1972" September 23, 2011|By Shawn Pogatchnik, Associated Press DUBLIN - Britain said yeste...
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Holy Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVE MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ link AVE MARIA by Katherine Jenkins - video ~ link AVE MARIA by Mirusia Louwerse...
*Because of "terrorists." * "UK police arrest 7 in antiterror raids" Associated Press / September 20, 2011 LONDON - Although the *plot was in its early stages* and *targets weren’t immediately known*, Br...
"Left’s Senate win a blow for Sarkozy" September 27, 2011|By Jamey Keaten, Associated Press PARIS - President Nicolas Sarkozy’s *reelection prospects* are looking*tough *: A swirling corruption scandal has...
Bad collection techniques and handling became the real culprits in the Italian trial.
*It's about a young altar boy in the backroom clos.... oh, different memory. * "Pope warns Germans about evils of power; Tries to stem tide of people fleeing Catholic Church" September 23, 2011|By Victor L...
"UBS chief executive resigns on rogue trading loss; He says move lets bank start again" by Frank Jordans Associated Press / September 25, 2011 GENEVA - UBS chief executive Oswald Gruebel has resigned becau...
*A brief history of systemic ES&S voting system failure* During a detailed series of reports on the virtually-inexplicable numbers produced by the ES&S iVotronics used in the 2010 South Carolina Democrati...
Somehow I got sucked into some classic Inside-the-Beltway political committee that wastes a lot of time and gets nothing done. I wanted to quit after the first meeting but I let Digby talk me into stickin...
There's still no iPhone 5, but in the meantime, there's an iPhone 4S.
*"Owning Your Tendencies, Understanding All Sides"* by The DailyOm "Looking at only one side of our life can make us blind to the many other ways of looking at our situation. Whenever we examine our lives...
Travelling eastwards from Liverpool, one cannot fail to appreciate the clear cultural difference between the counties of Lancashire and Yorkshire. The two powerhouses of the Industrial Revolution have b...
I missed this one from April 2011. So maybe a few other people did also. AND Zeller said this BEFORE we knew he was affiliated with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) AND knowing that he is a...
“The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without...
Last week, the mischievous eggheads of Improbable Research awarded the "Ig Nobel Mathematics Prize" to several doomsday theories... that didn't happen.
“Only after the last tree has been cut down, only after the last river has been poisoned, only after the last fish has been caught, only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.” - Cree Indian Pro...
*"The Developed World Shifts from “More” to “Better”* by Bill Bonner "Have we told you where we think the US and other developed countries are headed? No? Well, things won’t necessarily be so bad. In a fe...
A trio of relatively young astronomers won the prestigious Nobel Prize for Physics today, not for solving a problem, but for making an observation: our universe is expanding faster now than it did in the p...
Federal wildlife officials are looking for whoever shot a whale at sea, leaving the animal to wander the ocean in agony for a month or more before it beached itself in New Jersey and died. The culprit coul...
Thousands of fish have died after a canal in Wolverhampton became polluted following a huge fire that destroyed two warehouses. Up to 5,000 dead fish have been pulled out of the Birmingham Canal Main Line...
The attack happened Sunday afternoon while the man and his children were in the water at Anna Maria Island. That's when officials say a shark suddenly attacked the man, biting him in the back of the leg....
WHILE the Queensland Government yesterday said it had no plans to extend the Gladstone fishing ban, dead marine life continued to wash up on Capricorn Coast beaches. Adding to local concerns, Yeppoon's D...
The US Coast Guard said Tuesday it was investigating a Florida tourism company that left behind two tourists while they were scuba diving. The tourists -- Paul Kline and Fernando Garcia Puerta -- were resc...
Somalia's al Qaeda-linked rebels struck at the heart of the capital on Tuesday, killing scores of people with a truck bomb in the group's most deadly attack in the country since launching an insurgency in ...
Getting the larger picture. Wildfire in Bastrop, Texas, Sept. 5, 2011. Photo by Phil Ostroff / Truthout.Another view:Austerity and the Bastrop wildfiresBy Dallas Darling / Truthout / October 4, 2011I knew th...
* "Why Government Spending Won’t Inspire Consumer Confidence"* by Bill Bonner "Blood ran in the streets again yesterday. The Dow fell another 258 points. A few more days like that and the index will be be...
By On The Level Productions 18 April 2010 This is a trailer for the climate change documentary, *There Once was an Island: Te Henua e Nnoho*. Four years in the making, this film is the story of a Pacif...
*“Bad Financial News Keeps Pouring In: 14 Facts That Just* * Might Scare The Living Daylights Out Of You”* By The Economic Collapse Blog “Will the bad financial news ever stop? A lot of people in the fin...
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*"6 Reasons The 'Occupy' Revolution Will Be * *Difficult To Co-Opt Or Defeat"* by Eric Blair "It started off as a small band of committed campers determined to occupy Wall Street. The protest began by opp...
Apparently the little joey had been rejected by her mother but she now gets four feedings a day from a zookeeper.
Eight months after he killed two allegedly armed men in Pakistan, CIA operative Raymond Davis is facing legal troubles again. This time for being very, very hungry. Davis made headlines earlier this year ...
A massive fire is burning at Magnablend Inc, a chemical manufacturing plant in Waxahachie. The fire broke out around 11 a.m Monday, sending huge plumes of black smoke and explosions into the air. The comp...
Drowning in red ink, Greece has nowhere to turn to revive the economic growth that might put its debt on a sustainable trajectory, reassure angry foreign creditors and offer hope to its recession-weary cit...
Ron Paul said Monday that President Barack Obama’s targeted killing of Anwar al-Awlaki might be an impeachable offense. Asked at a Manchester, N.H. town hall meeting about last week’s killing of the Ameri...
An angry China warned Washington on Tuesday that passage of a bill aimed at forcing Beijing to let its currency rise could lead to a trade war between the world's top two economies. China's central bank a...
Blake Wimberly lives in the dark, gripped by paranoia. The 28-year-old hides inside his small Dallas apartment because of fear that police will arrest him wherever he goes. “I see a cop right there, so ...
London's tube drivers are set to see their wages rise 5% this year, more than double the national average, to hit £55,000pa over the next four years. year The latest pay offer by London Underground (LU)...
Optimism over Europe’s "grand plan" to shore up EMU was widely said to be the cause of yesterday’s torrid rally on global markets, lifting the CAC, DAX, Dow, crude and copper altogether. This is interest...
Green Bay Packers fans should arrive early and expect some delays for Sunday's game against the Denver Broncos as the team implements heightened security measures for the games at Lambeau Field this season...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is permitted to include people on the government’s terrorist watch list even if they have been acquitted of terrorism-related offenses or the charges are dropped, accord...
Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) chief executive Brian Moynihan recently would not rule out the idea of putting Countrywide Financial into bankruptcy to cap its mortgage-related losses, but on Friday Bloo...
The economy’s prolonged malaise, now stretching into its fourth year, is having a lopsided effect on the ultra high-end home owner. Since 2008, payment delinquencies and foreclosure activity for $1 millio...
Iran plans to send ships near the Atlantic coast of the United States, state-run Islamic Republic News Agency reported Tuesday, quoting a commander. "The Navy of the Iranian Army will have a powerful pres...
A massive part of a glacier the size of 12 football fields in the Swiss Alps could break off, local authorities warned.
Teens that go to bed late and sleep in are more likely to be overweight than teens that don't.
This book travels through New York city with the help of a few local smells.
A raging fire at a chemical plant south of Dallas sent black smoke billowing into the sky and prompted area schools to evacuate students. Officials at the scene told WFAA-TV there are contaminates in the a...
Standing up to 245 feet tall and with diameters of 18 feet, the sequoia is one of the hugest trees on the planet. And when they come down, it's best that nothing gets in their way. Happily, no visitors we...
Venture capitalist Alan Walton has trekked to the North Pole, climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and skydived over Mount Everest. A hop into space to enjoy a few minutes of weightlessness would have been the ultima...
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin today raised the spectre of a second USSR after he proposed forming a 'Eurasian Union' of former Soviet states. The former president said the proposed alliance could c...
Police across the country are frantically looking for a 10-month-old infant snatched from her crib by an intruder who came in her bedroom window. Little Lisa Irwin, who weighs just 26 pounds, was last see...
*"Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72"* *- Mark Twain* * * It's interesting living in the human equivalent of the fabled "elephant graveyard." My town is a place where the climate is, by any Can...
[image: People in Green Park, England enjoy the unseasonably warm weather, 2 October 2011. The mini-heatwave is set to continue into the week. The south of England enjoyed the hottest October 2nd for mor...
If there's another tremor down south, don't worry. It's not another earthquake but Hank Williams Sr. aerating his grave at 30,000 RPM. ESPN decided to pull Hank Williams' Jr. segment just before Monday Ni...
By Duane Craig Although it was left asunfinished business in the House of Representatives on July 28, H.R. 2584is no doubt far from dead, and its implications are that people across thecountry will begin ...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 19.6 km (12.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:00:04 UTC Tuesday 4th October 2011. The epicenter was 46 km ( 28 miles) No...
A massive part of a glacier the size of 12 football fields in the Swiss Alps could break off, local authorities warned, after the discovery of an enormous crevasse in the glacier. Swiss authorities have ...
In a fresh blow to public confidence, a reactor in southern Japan went into automatic shutdown on Tuesday because of problems with its cooling system, clouding the outlook for an imminent restart of the co...
[image: A media member paddles his boat at a flooded temple at Wat Chaiwatthanaram, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in Ayutthaya province, nearly 80 km (50 miles) north of Bangkok October 4, 2011. Chaiwat ...
David Korten's book, *Agenda For A New Economy* sounds like it laid the groundwork for #OccupyWallStreet. "Leadership for transformational change must come, as it always has, from outside the institution...
I very seldom watch our local right wing CBS TV station. In the mornings I briefly listen to their radio station for traffic and weather. I normally change the channel before I get out of my car when I g...
[image: This file photo shows Tepuka Islet on Funafuti Atoll. The tiny Pacific nation of Tuvalu has declared a state of emergency due to severe water shortages, prompting New Zealand to airlift in fresh ...
Microsoft overhauls the world's most popular e-mail service.
Getting the basic ingredients of biofuel out of wood can be done with water.
Tim Geithner's mission to Europe is now accomplished. In order for Greece to pay back the money to the bankers, Greek Parliament has now passed a law that forces all home owners to pay a property tax. Th...
*Battle field report #1* *First rights lost...* Elena Kagan has now seen quite a few first impression cases come before her court. With 48 years on the SCOTUS bench the longest serving member of the su...
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Old way of getting to the truth Sometimes you read about things that makes you go 'Hmnn'. I've ran across two such items. They alone they don't say much, however put them together. These two items ca...
-- Question: Which classic science fiction movie do you think the following dialog comes from? *"It's coming this way, it's definitely coming this way!" "Pieces are shooting off!" "There's no doubt ab...
*Goldman*, *Litton*, *Ocwen* sign *New York robo*-*signing deal.* What the above headline means is that* *those homeoewner who were foreclosed and had their homes sold at auction, can now sue. Because thi...
While some might claim that the above headline is an exageration. The link to the story below is only proof that property taxes makes americans a nation of renters, Because even after you've paid off your...
America has *secret trials* and secret *prisons.* British police routinely frame citizens and others with the blessing of parlament. According to British law it's common practice for police and agents to ...
*Hire a Mortgage forencic expert today, Tell you why later unless you understand that any RESPA violation means money in your pocket.* The allegations, since referred to the Department of Justice, stem f...
*4 Things you might not have known about your Cell Phone* For all the folks with cell phones. (This should be printed and kept in your car, purse, and wallet. Good information to have with you.) There ar...
This composite is proof of what again? Atlas carthograpers recently found themselves in hot water so to speak because on the new maps of Greenland they presented Greenland with 15% less Ice cap.... Thes...
Η αποστολή Tim Geithner προς την Ευρώπη είναι πλέον ολοκληρωθεί. Προκειμένου για την Ελλάδα να επιστρέψει τα χρήματα στους τραπεζίτες, Βουλή των Ελλήνων έχει περάσει τώρα έναν νόμο που αναγκάζει όλους το...
*The headline should read, "New Robotic skin is also the battery.* *In keeping with the bad habit of putting foot in mouth and trying to see into the future. The article below is interesting because the i...
En las noticias que se nos pasan de vista La cifra arriva es un estimado, pues pueden ser much mas. lo importante de el reporte a los de habla latina es que debido a que los bancos al la misma vez que es...
Esta manera de sacar la verdad ha pasado. Maquina de leer mentes ya inventada, y no es ninguna broma... A veces, uno leer cosas que te hace ir "Hmnn. He corrió a través de dos de dichos artículos. Ello...
*They purposely realeased this list long after the market closed.* *These mortgage backed securities are the cause of this problem. * *The main reason these so called MBS exist at all, blame MERS. But just...
Waiting for the big attack... Let's hope the good guys such as the Israelites did it. But then again even if the good guys have these weapons they could be used to plant a "false flags' event. A CNN ...
Sólo un mano a mano para todas las personas en relación con lo último en fraude de Visa. Royal Bank recibido esta comunicación sobre la nueva estafa. Esto está sucediendo en el Medio Oeste ...
Created in 1980 but reinvented in recent years, JSOC has grown from *1,800 troops prior to 9/11 to as many as 25,000,* a number that fluctuates according to its mission. It has its own intelligence divi...
*Massive Automated Tor Bridge Requests: Why?* ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 04:39:53 -0400 From: Roger Dingledine To: tor-talk[at]lists.torproject.org Subject: [t...
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Foreclosed y vendieron su casa? ! Buenas noticias! *Goldman, Litton, Ocwen de Nueva York robo de firman acuerdo*. *Lo que el anteriortitular significa es que los dueños que fueron de casas ejecutadas...
Recently the laptop used for working on this blog went on the fritz. One day it appeared dead the next day it would start but no screen. So on the first day the *Toshiba laptop* acted bad we took it to ...
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Photo by Vi Waln*US Department of State hosts Public comment meeting in South Dakota*Copyright 2011 Vi Waln Lakota County Times Editor vi@lakotacountrytimes.com Photos copyright Vi Waln *Published with pe...
[image: Tents erected next to floodwaters in a Pakistan refugee camp, September 2011. globalmedic.ca] October 4 (Pakistan News Service) – ISLAMABAD: The United Nations warned on Monday that the internat...
[image: Spraying pesticides on a crop field. Organophosphate pesticides are approved for use in agriculture. Increasing evidence suggests that prenatal exposure to pesticides may have health impacts in l...
The mayor hopes the all-electric fleet will complement public transportation and taxis.
GM's new tubular air bag to help protect drivers and passengers in the event of "t-bone" collisions.
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Time to collect some of the scraps of paper scribbled all over my desk... Amira Hass will be speaking at the University of Toronto tomorrow night. Hass is an Israeli journalist based in Ramallah, and *the ...
Wow – I thought CD6 in Minnesota had the nut job of all times – Michele Bachmann – but I found one one on the east coast that could take her title away from her in no time. This morning Baldasaro was brou...
[image: World Catastrophe Map banner: Let The End Times Roll] One of the brightest luminaries on the doomer landscape has withdrawn from the field, presumably to focus on building a doomstead. Here’s the...
[image: The Forest for the Trees: In Arizona, trees are cut down to save forests from massive fires and to combat climate change. The New York Times] By JUSTIN GILLIS 1 October 2011 WISE RIVER, Mont. —...
Alison Redford is seen to have won the Alberta PC leadership on a policy-heavy campaign. She promised change, so one would imagine she's eager to get going and introduce herself to voters through a bold ag...
Interesting interview- I listened and had some real "aha" moment's "Aha" moments, in my world, are when something clicks or jibes. (To be in accord; agree) Like when puzzle pieces come together, It fits. ...
Acting embarrassed can offer a form of social glue that shows a person values the views of others.
The analysis of the first 136 days of results from NASA's Kepler telescope - launched with the aim to 'search for habitable planets' - has ignited furious debate over the idea of intelligent life in space....
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Savu Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 55.5 km (34.5 miles), the quake hit at 12:27:59 UTC Tuesday 4th October 2011. The epicenter was 71 km ( 44 miles) West of Kupang,...
Raccoon dogs re abeing skinned alive to make cheap imitation Ugg boots bought by thousands of Britons. The original footwear is made from high-quality Australian sheepskin, taken from animals slaughtered ...
*We are pretty sure this exchange at today’s briefing with Jay Carney represents the first time the White House has been asked to weigh in on the Occupy Wall Street protests — yet another sign of the mov...
Nalco…not just following orders… ~Disenfranchised Citizen Four arrested in Corps of Engineers bribery and contracting scam~Hat Tip~ Sandy Rosenthal Corps of Engineers: an Equal Opportunity Shell-Game Rack...
Ever hear of a police officer treating a teabagger disrespectfully at one of their hateful rallies? Even when they showed up at them with guns? Any teabaggers ever get pepper-sprayed in the face? Yesterd...
I have to confess, I have never been a big fan of pumpkin pie, or pie in general, until my husband introduced me to this recipe. This is a lighter, delicious cousin of a pumpkin pie and one that is a mus...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Kamchatka, Russia at a depth of 32.9 km (20.4 miles), the quake hit at 12:21:52 UTC Tuesday 4th October 2011. The epicenter was 235 km ( 146 mile...
AP: Authorities are warning tourists and fishermen to stay more than a mile (two kilometers) from a smoking Indonesian volcano known as “Child of Krakatoa.” The volcano in the Sunda Strait, 80 miles (1...
European markets were under heavy pressure Tuesday amid ongoing concerns that the eurozone debt crisis could spillover into the banking system. The DAX (DAX) in Frankfurt slumped 2.9%, the CAC 40 (CAC40) i...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 29 km (18 miles), the quake hit at 11:58:37 UTC Tuesday 4th October 2011. The epicenter was 113 km ( 70 miles) ESE o...
*A.* "Gold could drop to $700 an ounce." Gold is currently around $1,671 per ounce. (Gold bugs beware - the bubble is finally bursting) According to Mark Williams, of Boston University’s School of Manage...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Tajikistan at a depth of 13.4 km (8.3 miles), the quake hit at 10:26:26 UTC Tuesday 4th October 2011. The epicenter was 100 km ( 62 miles) NNE of Kulob (Kulyab), Tajiki...
Amanda Knox headed home to the United States a free woman Tuesday, the morning after an Italian appeals court radically overturned the American student's certainty of sexually assaulting and brutally sla...
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Holy Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVE MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ link AVE MARIA by Mirusia Louwerse - video ~ link Lord Stirling's news blog ...
Source: www.ampliaremos.com Date: 03 October 2011 Argentina: “ I Feel Like a Patsy for the Police and NASA” The Monte Grande disaster – where a house exploded causing deaths and several injurie...
When the first settlers arrived in this land, they built their homesteads where ever they chose to. Why was that? There it was, and there was no one to answer to, in terms of Government, Crown, Propert...
Protests against Wall Street spread beyond America on Monday as demonstrators marched on Federal Reserve banks and camped out in parks from Los Angeles to Portland, Maine and planned protests around the wo...
President Obama used a secret memorandum to authorise the killing of U.S.-born Al Qaeda terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki - but the White House is refusing to make the document public. The legal writ, issued by t...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Central Iran at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 09:44:23 UTC Tuesday 4th October 2011. The epicenter was 24 km ( 14.8 miles) Northwest of Ravar, Iran...
The Police reported this morning that a Second body has been recovered following the collision of a speedboat with a Cargo Ship on the West bank van de Maas, 15 Km South of Nijmwegen. Two more people rem...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the New Ireland Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 409.4 km (254.4 miles), the quake hit at 09:26:54 UTC Tuesday 4th October 2011. The epicenter was 198 km ( 123 m...
The 2011 physics Nobel prize goes to Saul Perlmutter (50%), Brian Schmidt (25%), and Adam Riess (25%) for their observations of distant supernovae. These 1998 (Perlmutter) and 1998 (Schmidt+Riess) obse...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Greece at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 09:26:29 UTC Tuesday 4th October 2011. The epicenter was 13 km ( 8.2 miles) Southwest of Neokhorion, Greece No r...
Japan has been given the Fossil of the Day "award" at a U.N. climate change conference in Panama for pushing a scheme to promote its exports of nuclear power generation technologies to developing countries...
Science Minister Masaharu Nakagawa said Oct. 4 that the government would inspect wider areas for radioactive substances following the recent discovery of highly toxic plutonium over a wide swath of Fukush...
A truck carrying fuel for NATO forces was set ablaze Tuesday by suspected militants in Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan, police said. The truck was on its way to NATO forces in Afghanistan ...
Thirteen people were killed when gunmen ambushed a passenger bus outside of Quetta, the capital of the southwestern Pakistani province of Balochistan, local police said. All of the fatalities were Shia M...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Southern Greece at a depth of 98 km (61.3 miles), the quake hit at 06:12:13 UTC Tuesday 4th October 2011. The epicenter was 8 km ( 5 miles) Southeast of Ermioni, Greece...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 24.7 km (15.3 miles), the quake hit at 05:51:53 UTC Tuesday 4th October 2011. The epicenter was 78 km ( 48 miles) SSE ...
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Broken of Britain - 20 hours ago
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A B-BBC reader writes; "Lyse Doucet, Here is a recent article by Patrick Seale, whom you chose to interview recently on the BBC as a supposed impartial expert on the Middle East. Seale is a notorious a...
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Biased BBC - 21 hours ago
Time for a new Open Thread to detail your opinions of BBC bias. Off you go! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
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I guess it is predictable that the usual vested self interests in the NHS would use today, the day when Health Minister Andrew Lansley addresses the Conservative Party conference, to try and undermine him...
The second American revolution, or the Great Restoration, is entering a new and unpredictable phase. The historic American political awakening is transforming before our eyes into the American political ea...
On 3 September 2011 we are told that Megrahi has spoken to Reuters about Lockerbie. The media has translated 'Megrahi's words' into English. The media claims that Megrahi said:* "The west exaggerated my ...
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Biased BBC - 21 hours ago
How do you think the BBC is doing in its coverage of the Conservative Party conference? We've had a few days of their "unique analysis" so thought I would put a specific thread to capture your feedback. Fr...
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Is it just me or has the BBC been indecently enthusiastic in its coverage of the news that Amanda "Foxy" Knox has been cleared of killing Meredith Kercher? I listened to John Humphrys on Today this morning...
------------------------------ October 3, 2011 at 00:47:26 *Promoted to Headline (H3) on 10/3/11:* Permalink The Day America Died *By paul craig roberts (about the author)* opednews.com Septe...
*Higgs boson, standard model, SUSY and neutrinos* A new 18-minute funny CERN video tries to explain some of these things at the LHC. Physicists-comedians with French accent are accelerated to 0.00003% of...
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Holy Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVE MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ link AVE MARIA by Katherine Jenkins - video ~ link AVE MARIA by Mirusia Louwer...
The ozone loss over the Arctic was so severe this year that for the first time a 'hole' in the ozone layer, similar to the one over the Antarctic, appeared. At a level of around 13 miles above the ground,...
Its legend has long haunted the icy wastes of the Himalayas and Siberia. Yet for all the mysterious sightings and strange footprints in the snow, the yeti has proved remarkably elusive to those seeking sol...
This is the remarkable first picture taken by the new $1.3 billion radio telescope sitting high in the Chilean Andes. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, shortened to the 'ALMA radio telesco...
Senior Tories accused David Cameron yesterday of using ‘weasel words’ to duck a referendum on Europe. The Prime Minister has infuriated many at the Conservative conference by apparently ruling out a refer...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Santiago Del Estero, Argentina at a depth of 577.9 km (359.1 miles), the quake hit at 03:44:34 UTC Tuesday 4th October 2011. The epicenter was 138 km ( 86 miles) South...
There are many problems to solve before we can send a spaceship to another star system, so DARPA is spearheading an initiative to find new ideas that will bridge the interstellar gap.
Amanda Knox is today on her way back to the U.S. after an appeal court sensationally cleared her of murdering Meredith Kercher. Staring ahead towards a lucrative future of million-dollar TV and book deals...
Workers have identified an underground pipe leaking radioactive water beneath a nuclear power plant in Georgia. Southern Co. spokeswoman Amoi Geter said Monday that workers were seeking to determine if th...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Romania at a depth of 128.4 km (79.8 miles), the quake hit at 02:40:48 UTC Tuesday 4th October 2011. The epicenter was 57 km ( 35 miles) NNW of Buzau, Romania No report...
*Working together, thru the Kochs, to undermine American democracy* Last night, as the big Koch bribery and treason scandal broke, I tweeted up a storm as I read it and learned how the Koch brothers have b...
A pineapple plantation. Photo courtesy: portaloha.com Pineapples: Luxury fruit at what price? Pineapple is the latest bargain offer in supermarkets, but the true cost is paid in the countries where it is ...
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck the Bonin Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 437.5 km (271.9 miles), the quake hit at 01:37:27 UTC Tuesday 4th October 2011. The epicenter was 177 km ( 109 miles) Wes...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the West Chile Rise at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 23:22:12 UTC Monday 3rd October 2011. The epicenter was 670 km ( 416 miles) WSW of Castro, Los Lag...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Bermuda Region at a depth of 14.9 km (9.3 miles), the quake hit at 22:36:30 UTC Monday 3rd October 2011 The epicenter was 131 km ( 81 miles)South of Hamilton, Bermu...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Bermuda Region at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 22:18:04 UTC Monday 3rd October 2011. The epicenter was 131 km ( 81 miles) SSW of Hamilton, Bermuda...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Sumba Region, Indonesia at a depth of 69.9 km (43.4 miles), the quake hit at 22:08:05 UTC Monday 3rd October 2011. The epicenter was 41 km ( 25 miles) North of Wai...
Ndrieim Sadushi, Wojciech Glowacki and Dariusz Glowacki Murderers, rapists and robbers are among more than a dozen "dangerous" men wanted abroad and thought to be hiding in the UK. One suspect is wanted ...
The Body Shop. Photo courtesy: Linda Nylind via guardian.co.uk The Body Shop, the cosmetics giant that claims to source ingredients from companies that protect local farmers' rights, buys palm oil from an ...
This chart shows the levels of ozone above the Arctic on 19 March 2010 (left) and 2011 (right), the latter showing about a 50% drop. Photo courtesy: OMI/Aura/NASA via guardian.co.uk A huge hole that appea...
*THE US Department of Homeland Security has warned financial companies to be vigilant about a cyber security threat from Anonymous.* * * Wanted for shutting down websites as high profile as that of the CIA...
“What surrounds the florid Rosette nebula? To better picture this area of the sky, the famous flowery emission nebula on the far right has been captured recently in a deep and dramatic wide field image tha...
*"Shining Hope"* by Chet Raymo "No one is surprised when a person makes an unselfish sacrifice on behalf of close family or kin. Evolutionary psychologists offer compelling reasons why natural selection ...
Thomas Jefferson would be proud.
Special thanks to MoodyJill, who "gets it..."
Bonus March on Washington, DC: 1932
*Tom Toles* *by Ken* It's a shame John Edwards was such a dreadful spokesperson for the notion of "The Two Americas," because back when he raised it would have been an excellent time -- arguably just in ...
White House, Congress officials clarify that financial crisis won't affect aid; "Obama authorized sale of bunker bombs to Israel," 'Newsweek' reports. Senior US officials clarified during a series of meeti...
An international forum, devoted to exploring the Arctic, in now under way in the city of Archangelsk in Russia’s north. The forum is named “The Arctic – a Territory of a Dialogue”. Among the participants,...
US senators unveiled legislation to punish China over its alleged currency manipulation, promising angry American voters to put an end to Beijing's "economic murder" of US jobs. The measure aims to make i...
The United States has agreed in principle to deploy U.S. Predator drones on Turkish soil to aid in the fight against Kurdish separatist rebels, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said. The U.S. military flies ...
With North Korea suffering from a famine, a Foreign Ministry delegation from that country has asked Ankara for humanitarian aid during a secret visit. Turkish organizations, however, are refraining from pr...
*The swift policy response to the recent financial crisis helped the world economy avoid a replay of the Great Depression of 1929-32. But can we avoid a replay of 1937-38? With the world economy weakening ...
US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has accused China of “systematically stealing” American companies’ intellectual property in an unusually blunt attack. “They have made possible systematic stealing of in...
The North Korean authorities have stepped up attempts to stop soldiers in and around Hyesan from going AWOL and stealing from local people to supplement their increasingly inadequate rations, according to ...
History’s first sovereign default came in the 4th century BC, committed by 10 Greek municipalities. There was one creditor: the temple of Delos, Apollo’s mythical birthplace. Twenty-four centuries later, ...
The latest quarterly report from the Office Of the Currency Comptroller is out and as usual it presents in a crisp, clear and very much glaring format the fact that the top 4 banks in the US now account fo...
Down to third-party status federally. Teetering in Ontario, Quebec, and British Columbia. In opposition everywhere else. Except in PEI. The province that makes up 9% of the federal Liberal caucus decides ...
"I'm a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are the first casualty in life- people seem to give them up quicker than anything for a 'reality.'" - Kevin Costner
*"An Instant Vacation: Relaxing at Home"* by The DailyOm "If you can't get away on a vacation, turn your home into an instant vacation place. Throughout our lives, most of us are led to believe that rela...
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Fran Tarkenton (Former NY Giants and Minnesota Vikings quaRterback) makes an observation in today's *Wall Street Journal *that I’ve translated into New Zealandese for you: [image: carter]Imagine NZ Rugb...
[image: Filipino villagers make their way in a flooded street in Calumpit, north of Manila, Philippines, on 03 October 2011. President Benigno Aquino III said that his cabinet is meeting to create rehabi...
"Take away the right to say "fuck" and you take away the right to say "fuck the government." - Lenny Bruce. Occupy the Federal Reserve Movement Launched Infowars Press Release Infowars.com October 3, 20...
On Saturday, the Cassini Solstice mission flew past the Saturnian moon Enceladus at a breakneck speed of 17,000 mph and an altitude of only 62 miles!
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Think the European government debt crisis is over because of the latest fancy “rescue plan”? Think again. The Eurozone is already in depression, the PIIGS’ governments continue not to pay their way, ban...
In a surprising twist, al-Qaeda issued a statement ridiculing 9/11 conspiracy theories claiming U.S. involvement in the attacks.
Change will not come until we understand and rewrite the entire balance of power in America. by Tony Cartalucci October 4, 2011 - This is a work in progress and will get updates as time goes on. Much of t...
Members of the Occupy Wall Street media organization produced bails of newspapers chronicling the past three weeks of protests. Photo by John Minchillo / AP / Christian Science Monitor.Occupy Wall Street:The...
*Protests are sweeping the planet!!! * "Japanese protest nuclear power" by Malcolm Foster Associated Press /September 20, 2011 TOKYO - Chanting “Sayonara nuclear power’’ and waving banners, *tens of thou...
Scientists find unknown viruses in samplings of raw sewage.
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“Picture if you will the disciplinarian who micromanages every step in their very careful dance with life and then picture the hooligan whose only disciplines are daydreaming and showing up. Now, whom do ...
Waxing gibbous moon. Photo by Dan Bush.Moon Musings: Waxing Gibbous Moon(October 6 – 9, 2011)By Kate Braun / The Rag Blog / October 3, 2011All phases of the waxing moon are times of growth and increase, time...
"The important thing is to not stop questioning. Never lose a holy curiosity." - Albert Einstein
Isn't it time you took back control of your social media world?
Is there a "sweet spot" in the galaxy where SETI astronomers should aim their telescopes?
"Myanmar drops controversial dam project" by Thomas Fuller, New York Times /October 1, 2011 BANGKOK - In a rare concession to public pressure, Myanmar’s government yesterday ordered the suspension of a cont...
You wouldn't know it if you get your news from the Sunday talking heads shows-- or even from mainstream media in general-- but there's something profound happening in America right now, something each on...
"Typhoon leaves 16 dead in Philippines" September 28, 2011|Associated Press MANILA - City residents waded through waist-deep flood waters and dodged flying debris yesterday as a powerful *typhoon* struck t...
"Shanghai subway train crash injures 271" September 28, 2011|By David Barboza, New York Times SHANGHAI - Hundreds of people were injured yesterday when a subway train slammed into the rear of another trai...
"Australia military to level gender field" September 28, 2011|Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia - Australia will remove all gender barriers in its military over the next five years, opening up position...
*"George Harrison: Living in the Material World"* By John W. Whitehead "Sometimes I feel like I'm actually on the wrong planet, and it's great when I'm in my garden, but the minute I go out the gate I...
"Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers (admins...
Anthem For Doomed Youth By Wilfred Owen: What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. ...
AlphaDog can do something few robots can: regain its balance after getting pushed.
During the Little Ice Age climate changes led to war and stunted Europeans.
With a remotely operated underwater vehicle, you can explore the depths without getting wet.
This evening Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito walk free as the judgement is overturned for the murder of Meredith Kercher. Amanda Knox was found guilty of Slander against the police for which she receiv...
Authorities found two decapitated heads along a highway in Mexico City on Monday morning, the city prosecutor's office said. The heads were near the border dividing the city from neighboring Mexico state...
*"More Validation for Tickerguy: Consumer Debt"* by Karl Denninger “Now this is funny... “Federal policy makers, they suggest, should broker what amounts to an out-of-court settlement between institutiona...
[image: Arctic ozone loss, 2011. At left, colors represent ozone levels in March 2011. At right, colors representing chlorine monoxide are shown. Manney, et al., 2011] Loss of the Earth’s ozone layer ab...
Although 40 years of one-party rule and pre-ordained election results can make for dull politics, I will give Alberta's PC dynasty credit for tossing the occasional surprise towards us political junkies. ...
"The effects of censorship on a culture renders it impotent to deal with its own problems and its own issues and troubles. So, again, censorship is a real serious problem. And I think the biggest problem o...
"Listen to the anguish of a world in which the bad things are coming out of the dark places. Listen to a world in pain. Listen. You can hear it." - Neil Gaiman, “The Sandman” ● You *could* hear it, if you...
Qatar and Al-Jazeera would appear to be controlled by the CIA and its friends in MI6 and Mossad. *A.* Remember that lots of Moslems work for the CIA and its friends. (Foreign Arabs clamor to join Mossad,...
“How many times do you have to be hit over the head until you figure out who's hitting you?” - Harry Truman
There is a lot of common ground between the tea party protesters and occupy wall street protesters. Both should unite and go after the criminal banks, the illegal Federal Reserve System, and the two morall...
*"Four Biggest Banks In America Have Huge Leverage"* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "I keep hammering away at the fact the Fed doled out *$16 trillion* in the wake of the credit crisis of 2008. This i...
At a barbecue this summer at Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's house, Steve lays out his hopes for a federal provincial GTA TeaCon sweep : Flaherty endorses Hudak for premier; the National Post endorses Hudak for...
*"#OccupyWallStreet Protestors: Police Led Crowd Onto* * Brooklyn Bridge, Then Maced And Assaulted Us"* By Alexander Higgins "Protestors at the front line of yesterday’s Occupy Wall street protest, which ...
Rob Anders, back in 2003: Anders, speaking of his Calgary West nomination opponent, Alison Redford, says he is confident he'll have little trouble rounding up enough party votes to defeat Redford, "*unles...
Actress, comedienne and now author Roseanne Barr shares her solution for dealing with the rich and how the banks could repay the money the U.S. government bailed them out with in 2008. "Part of my platfor...
One man was arrested over the weekend for threatening another man with a bow and arrow during an apparent road rage incident in Montcalm County. Sheriff's deputies say that the incident began Saturday even...
The government mental hospital where John Hinckley Jr. has spent most of the last 30 years since he shot and tried to kill President Ronald Reagan is asking a federal court to allow Hinckley's eventual rel...
Police across the metro area are investigating a string of hotel robberies. There have been 11 robberies in the past month. The latest, like the others, was captured on surveillance video. It happened Th...
Police have arrested two dozen protesters for trespassing during a demonstration against Bank of America’s foreclosure practices at the banking giant’s offices in downtown Boston. The Boston Herald report...
Hispanic students have started vanishing from Alabama public schools in the wake of a court ruling that upheld the state's tough new law cracking down on illegal immigration. Education officials say score...
South Korea’s sovereign default risks went up last week as the Korean won and the main stock index confronted a selling spree amid growing concerns over the country’s wobbly financial market battered by th...
China's People's Liberation Army is on a major charm offensive to attract a booming student population as the world's biggest fighting force targets the skills its needs to modernise. The 2.3 million-stro...
Dozens of demonstrators rallied in Tokyo on Sunday, challenging Japanese authorities to build an atomic power plant in the capital to demonstrate their sincerity about nuclear safety. About 50 anti-nuclea...
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday called on NATO naval forces to withdraw from the Gulf, calling them a threat to security. Ahmadinejad was asked about the potential for conflict in the Gulf a...
Flammable gas has been detected inside a pipe linked to a nuclear reactor at Japan's crippled Fukushima atomic power plant, its operator said Saturday. Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) was unable to identif...
President Barack Obama secretly authorized the sale of 55 powerful bunker-busting bombs to Israel, Newsweek magazine reported Friday. Israel first asked to buy deep-penetrating GBU-28 bombs in 2005, but we...
A rise in Russia's military operations in the Baltic Sea region is cause for concern among Baltic states Finland, Sweden and Poland, Estonia's military chief said. "Russia has significantly increased its ...
With the goal of designing an insect-inspired flying microrobot capable of sustained autonomous flight, researchers have demonstrated for the first time a microrobot that achieves vertical flight using clo...
Russia believes Israel and the United States were responsible for unleashing the malicious Stuxnet computer worm on Iran's nuclear programme last year, a top official said Friday. "We are seeing attempts ...
Some of the most dramatic impacts of climate change will be felt by the millions of people who will be forced to leave their homes: Climate refugees will flee island nations rendered inhospitable by rising...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Tarapaca, Chile at a depth of 90.5 km (56.2 miles), the quake hit at 17:35:52 UTC Monday 3rd October 2011. The epicenter was 123 km ( 76 miles) East of Iquique, Chile N...
Honeybee carcasses coated the ground around hundreds of Florida beehives after a mysterious massacre claimed millions of bees and mutilated a way of life for local bee keepers. Experts have ruled out 'co...
A renowned TV pitchman who allegedly defrauded at least 220,000 people of nearly $52million is believed to have committed suicide in jail. Don Lapre, 47, of Phoenix, Arizona, was charged with running a nat...
Passengers from two flights were taken to hospital with head, back and neck injuries and burns last night after the aircraft they were on suffered extreme turbulence. The two commercial aircraft landed i...
Dylan Ratigan is a voice of reason and a voice of conscience. His speech was impassioned and to the point. Watch: Dylan Ratigan Speaks With We Are Change:
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This is one of the most beautiful animal videos I've ever seen. Enjoy! Lion and human, friends and family
The anammox bacterium can create rocket fuel from ammonia -- a chemical found in urine. Sadly, it won't get us to Mars.
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Offshore Bio-Bio Chile at a depth of 31 km (18.9 miles), the quake hit at 16:03:18 UTC Monday 3rd October 2011. The epicenter was 31 km ( 18.9 miles) West of Talcahuano...
New York police are today facing fresh accusations they entrapped and intimidated demonstrators during the Brooklyn Bridge storm at the weekend. Protesters allege police allowed them onto a road reserved f...
A bear attacked a couple inside their central Pennsylvania home, sending both people to a hospital. According to Pennsylvania Game Commission spokesman Jerry Feaser the couple's dog was chased inside the ...
A teenager is lucky to be alive after becoming trapped waist-deep in sand as he went to rescue two children from the rising tide. The 16-year-old boy had waded out to reach two younger members of his famil...
The badly decomposed body of a baby girl wrapped in a Union Jack bath towel and abandoned in a stream may have been there for up to a month, police said. Tests showed the infant had probably been in the w...
The collusion between publishers and literary agencies goes back at least a generation and continues. As the hoary old story goes, and I've told this one myself countless times, about 25-30 years ago, pub...
President Obama: Say No to Keystone XL Corruption *Evidence of a real corruption scandal is mounting at the State Department* *By Tar Sands Action* *http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/2133/p/dia/action/public/?...
The majority of caravans can now be taken away from the illegal travellers' site at Dale Farm, a High Court judge has ruled. Basildon Council was told it could remove 49 of 54 plots along with the majorit...
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It's not Fireworks Night yet - but a spectacular explosion HAS lit up the night sky after a giant comet smashed into the Sun. Our star was hit by an unusually large sungrazer caught on camera careering to...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Southeast of the Loyalty Islands at a depth of 67.9 km (42.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:00:28 UTC Tuesday 4th October 2011. The epicenter was 219 km ( 136 miles) East...
Targets have already included a female walker, a young girl and a swan. Now a man in his 50s has become the latest victim of rutting stags running rampant round a London park. The unidentified man was kno...
An English woman has died and four other people were rescued after the helicopter they were flying in crashed seconds after take-off. A Foreign Office spokesman confirmed that the woman who died was Sonia ...
tA magnitude 3.9 earthquake has struck Katla Volcano, Iceland at a depth of just 1 km (0 miles), the quake hit at 02:50:38 UTC Wednesday 5th October 2011. The epicenter was 63 km ( 39 miles) East of Vestma...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA bear attacked a couple inside their central Pennsylvania home, sending both people to a hospital. According to Pennsylvania Game Commission spokesman Jerry Feaser the couple's dog was chased inside the ...
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