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[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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wmtc - 1 hour ago
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World Catastrophe Map banner: Let The End Times Roll] One of the brightest luminaries on the doomer landscape has withdrawn from the field, presumably to focus on building a doomstead.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 The hurt from Hurricane Katrina bridge blockade remains incalculable ~Jarvis DeBerry Comment Bump: Bill "Wimpy, Jr." Loiry prices his new snake oil...
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 - 7 hours ago
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...
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.
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 ...
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...
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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Europe - 11 hours ago
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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Not PC - 17 hours ago
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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Not PC - 17 hours ago
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.
Smyrna, Tennessee, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
“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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wmtc - 22 hours ago
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...
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CENSORED NEWS - 22 hours ago
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...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji, Islands at a depth of 553.1 km (343.7 miles), the quake hit at 15:24:00 UTC Monday 3rd October 2011. The epicenter was 644 km ( 400 miles) South fro...
Meredith Kercher's family have said she has been "forgotten" - as an Italian court decides whether or not to quash the convictions of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito for her murder. "I think Meredith ...
OCCUPYPORTLAND.ORG Occupy Portland is a nonviolent movement for accountability in the United States government. At 12PM on October 6th, 2011 we will assemble at Tom McCall Waterfront Park, 1020 Southwes...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Luzon, Philippines at a depth of 83.1 km (51.6 miles), the quake hit at 15:30:51 UTC Monday 3rd October 2011. The epicenter was 57 km ( 36 miles) Southeast from Laoag, ...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Santa Cruz Islands Region at a depth of 64.3 km (40 miles), the quake hit at 14:18:58 UTC Monday 3rd October 2011. The epicenter was 95 km ( 59 miles) West of Lata...
The much anticipated Atacama Large Millimeter/submilimeter Array (ALMA) is finally online. And, oh, the wonders it can see...
*Took 'em long enough to notice*: "Economic protest gains steam in Hub; Aims to highlight plight of struggling Americans" by Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff / October 3, 2011 Protesters have* descended* on B...
Last night, when even politicians started wondering if they should take a stand on the OccupyWallStreet movement-- maybe they had read Van Jones' powerful Which Side Are You On framing-- Debbie Wasserman...
*$ome thing$ are more important.* "Hospitals push hike in age for Medicare; Seek to avoid cuts in federal payments" September 30, 2011|By Tracy Jan, Globe Staff WASHINGTON - As the deficit reduction super...
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Biased BBC - 1 day ago
As everyone saw over the last few days, there was a reasonable-sized far-Left protest in New York City against "Wall Street". The BBC's coverage of these people was as different from the way they reported ...
*Then why do I feel so s***ty?* "Vaccine registry finds backing; Bay State lags most of US in tracking of shots" by Kay Lazar Globe Staff / October 3, 2011 Massachusetts, birthplace of public vaccination ...
*Do they literally create these guys with script and all or.... ????* "Ashland man faces terrorism charges; FBI alleges plan to fly explosives into Capitol, Pentagon" September 29, 2011|By Milton J. Valenc...
It’s Official: Whitehouse.gov is Tedious but Worth the Effort --just 3 more weeks left to sign the Petition!~Levees.org New Orleans Saints tight end Jimmy Graham is a star~Jeff Duncan ~New Orleans Saints t...
So it seems Bill Blair isn't getting with Team Ford's austerity program. Instead of being a good boy and implementing the 10-per-cent reduction the mayor's team is demanding of city managers, he's looking ...
To the besotted beetles, certain brown beer bottles have all the characteristics of a super female.
Libraries decide to work with, not against, e-readers.
*The list of casualties of climate fearmongering is expanding* The story of 20,000 people in Uganda who were made homeless and whose several children were burned at stake was unfortunately not the last rep...
A mosque in northern Israel has been set on fire by suspected Jewish extremists in the latest of a series of incidents known as "price tag" attacks. The interior of the mosque in the Upper Galilee was de...
Police and fire crews have been called to an industrial park in Surrey after reports of an explosion. Surrey Police received reports of a fire at Hobbs Industrial Estate off Eastbourne Road in Newchapel ...
The 14th-century Archbishop of Canterbury who was beheaded by peasants had a surprisingly large head.
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A few views of the mass arrests in New York City this weekend. Even the official versions are great. In the US, the Occupy Wall Street movement - now Occupy Together - has sprouted in more than 10...
What seems like a million years ago - I posted the following entry (it was one of four entries I did) regarding Kasich's campaign funding. Today something I read made me think back to this posting and all ...
How the "Bank" of Rome Creates "Federal" Reserve Dollars out of Nothing!! Albert Einstein said: "Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world" Thomas Jefferson said: "I believe that banking insti...
I love fall, it makes me want to curl up with a good book and a cup of cider and if that book turns out to be not so good, you have a easy craft on your hands. Book Page Pumpkins are an easy, thrifty and...
[image: Amanda Knox] Amanda Knox made an emotional plea for her freedom today, telling an Italian court that she did not kill her British roommate Meredith Kercher and she was "betrayed" by Italian police...
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Although the big 9/11 anniversary was weeks ago, Chris Hedges' observations are relevant every day. This is a truly excellent piece. This excerpt is not the lede. The beginning of this essay may be trigg...
Don't ask me why Christiane Amanpour decided to waste so much of ABC's valuable time yacking with Herman Cain yesterday. (Maybe she was taking her cues from Sarah Palin in the video above.) He has as muc...
Man-made global warming is supposed to be increasing temperatures globally, right? Or so were told. This seems a bit contradictory? Scientists say an unprecedented ozone "hole" opened up above the Arctic l...
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OpenMedia.ca has launched an important new video at The Mark: please watch and share. Wmtc: mandatory, warrantless internet spying coming to canada, unless we stop it. Petition: here. Email your MP: here.
The Arctic Ozone hole formed for the first time this spring due to the duration of the stratosphere's cold season.
Two policemen were killed by a suicide car bomber in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, the Dagestani Interior Ministry said on its website Monday. The ministry said the officers were patrolli...
The death toll from twin typhoons that pounded the Philippines has reached 59, authorities said. Typhoon Nesat -- known locally as Pedring -- has claimed 55 lives, and the death toll from Nalgae -- kno...
Following the discovery of 17 dead dolphins in Ujung Kulon, residents of Parangtritis and Depok Beach, Yogyakarta witness the same phenomenon. A number of dolphins were found dead and stranded. "The offic...
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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 ...
Twenty-three people from Karadikkal village in the district have been admitted in hospital with suspected symptoms of food poisoning after they ate fish caught in a local tank, police said. They said th...
Occupy Everything from socially_awkwrd on Vimeo.
At least 16 people have died and a further 19 were injured after a bus crashed off a road and into a ravine in central China. There were 35 passengers on board the coach when it skidded off a rainy mount...
Source: Diario Santiago (Chile) Date: October 2, 2011 http://www.radiosantiago.cl/news.php?idnews=11464 Chile: Alleged UFO Plunges Into Sea by San Antonio A large number of residents of San An...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 57.4 km (35.7 miles), the quake hit at 08:57:51 UTC Monday 3rd October 2011. The epicenter was 116 km ( 72 miles...
Amanda Knox made a desperate and emotional last appeal for freedom in court today. Speaking in Italian, she pleaded her innocence and revealed how she was suffering too after the death of her friend Mered...
Fears are growing that Greece will miss its deficit targets despite plans to axe 30,000 civil service jobs by the end of the year. The Greek cabinet will meet today to finalise details of drastic cuts aime...
A paedophile died after being disembowelled in an attack in his prison cell when he boasted about his sick crimes, it was claimed last night. Mitchell Harrison, 23, was killed at high-security Frankland Pr...
There is no need to panic over the spike in turtle deaths along Queensland's coast, an ecologist says. In the past nine months, 1000 turtles, mostly green turtles, have died, compared with 555 in 2010, 62...
AP: The tiny Pacific island nation of Tuvalu has declared a state of emergency due to a severe shortage of fresh water, with officials saying Monday that some parts of the country may only have a two-day s...
We often hear about hypothetical catastrophes that may influence countries, regions, continents, the climate of our blue planet, or the planet as a whole. But physics has seriously studied more severe hy...
*UK Prime Minister David Cameron, who supports the idea of the Big Society. **Website for this image* On 1 October 2011, various top UK Conservatives provide their ideas for the UK's Conservative prime mi...
Thousands of people are rallying across Bulgaria to protest against what they see as the inability of the government to tackle economic, social and ethnic problems in the country. The Balkan country has ...
The high atmosphere over the Arctic lost an unprecedented amount of its protective ozone earlier this year, so much that conditions echoed the infamous ozone hole that forms annually over the opposite side...
The city of Kashiwa in Chiba Prefecture decided Sept. 30 to suspend operations at one of its two incineration plants due to high levels of radioactive substances following the crisis at the crippled Fukush...
Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s in-house report showed Sunday the utility has found its own emergency manual was useless for handling the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant and also repudiated th...
For the second time in eight days a man fishing in the Gulf of Mexico off Anna Maria Island has been bitten by a shark. Javier Perez was transported to Blake Memorial Hospital in Bradenton just after 1 p...
Motorists nationwide are being advised to take care as bad weather grips the country MetService has advised that a strong moist northerly flow will affect northern and central New Zealand through to Tues...
AP: Authorities in Algeria say torrential downpours have killed at least 10 people and ruined hundreds of homes. A mother and her infant daughter are also missing. The country's meteorological service ha...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Banda Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 62.6 km (38.9 miles), the quake hit at 06:36:23 UTC Monday 3rd October 2011. The epicenter was 242 km ( 150 miles) ESE of Ambon, ...
Hundreds of people were left homeless when a tornado tore through the Duduza township near Nigel, east of Johannesburg, on Sunday, paramedics said. “A hundred and five individuals were injured,” said ER24...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck offshore Tarapaca, Chile at a depth of 27.1 km (16.8 miles), the quake hit at 05:17:08 UTC Monday 3rd October 2011. The epicenter was 88 km ( 54 miles) Northwest of Iqu...
Four people were killed in Brazil when a small plane they were travelling by crashed into a farm in the Sao Paulo state, Xinhua reported on Sunday. The accident occurred late Saturday evening. According t...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 39.4 km (24.5 miles), the quake hit at 055:10:32 UTC Monday 3rd October 2011. The epicenter was 96 km ( 59 miles) ESE of Nuku'Alofa, Tonga No Tsunam...
Housed in a dome almost the size of Big Ben and containing a mirror nearly half the length of a football pitch, it wasn’t exactly rocket science for astronomers to find a name for this telescope. And, sur...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Andaman Islands, India Region a depth of 27.6 km (17.2 miles), the quake hit at 04:35:02 UTC Monday 3rd October 2011. The epicenter was 316 km ( 196 miles) WNW of ...
Tens of thousands of union activists laid siege to the Conservative conference yesterday in protest at Government cuts. Some 35,000 public sector workers staged a vocal, but peaceful protest as the confer...
Despite setbacks, Wikileaks still trying to foist US agenda on distant lands. by Tony Cartalucci October 3, 2011 - After nearly a full year at Reuters covering globalist lawyer Robert Amsterdam's every pu...
* The western media will not report the truth - that Gaddafi is popular and that NATO has wrecked Libya.* The following is from: http://www.liberation.fr/monde/01022362909-front-decousu-a-syrte 30 septem...
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[image: 276464_137539366339987_1226509_n] Here’s the update on tomorrow’s session with the UoA Economics Group: Good evening all, Ask yourself: - Why do people in shanty towns build their furniture...
One of the many Indonesian families who live on the Jakarta waste 'mountain' in a home built from rubbish. Photograph: Javad Tizmaghz for the Guardian They call it "the mountain": a sprawling, 110-hectare ...
As a coffee lover myself, I was delighted to find this nugget of coffee lore. There was a time when coffee was an important part of a Turkish marriage. The Turkish bridegroom had to promise his new wife ...
Slices of pureed pork similar to those contaminated. Photo courtesy: avlxyz If this year's storm of salmonella didn't make a plant-based diet ever the more appealing, than maybe metal in your meat will. Th...
The Block Watch logo. Photo courtesy: blockwatch New Westminster police I have just gone to a block watch meeting as a volunteer co-captain. For those who aren't aware, block watch is a volunteer program f...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Northern Algeria at a depth of 37 km (22.9 miles), the quake hit at 03:46:14 UTC Monday 3rd October 2011. The epicenter was 12 km ( 7.4 miles) South of Bani saf, Algeri...
Jonathon Bullick is making this film and he wants your help if you knew David F. Noble.First trailer:Documentary callout:
The recent listeria outbreak from cantaloupe melons has sickened more than 72 people across the U.S., with large-scale occurrences of serious illnesses linked to the tainted food growing more common. Expe...
It is a view of the sun like no other. These stunning images show the boiling inner workings of our star in a way no human eye could possibly hope to detect. The mesmerising pictures, taken by NASA's Sola...
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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...
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...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours 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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