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CENSORED NEWS - 15 minutes ago
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Little Ethan' by Occupy Wall Street New York *Yoko Ono's meesage to you all:* I love #*OccupyWallStreet* As John said, “One hero cannot do it. Each one of us have to be heroes.” And you are. Th...
Al Gore thinks that unpleasant weather events are caused by humans, namely by evil witches who are telepathically connected to the evil
Big Oil and who should be burned at stake in a carbon-neutral way w...
The
BBC's contrasting coverage of the party conferences seems to have been at its sharpest with 'Today'. Here's why I think that's the case, concentrating on the
Labour Party conference in Liverpool and th...
15 Years of Giving Voice to Women and Transgender Prisoners in California --An interview with Diana Block, Pam Faden, and Dierdre Wilson of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners By Angola 3 News ...
In Washington during the final hearing on Keystone pipeline. Photo Tar Sands Action Sleeping in the State Department to make sure big oil didn't hijack the final hearing on
the Keystone Pipeline. Photo Josh...
Texans Target The Dallas FED! Occupy The FED! The People Strike Back Chant: "They got bailed out, we got sold out"
Seven months after the nuclear crisis began at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant, the U.S. government again warned its citizens Friday to avoid areas near the stricken reactors. The
U.S. State Department pu...
*by Ken* Yes, we're sneaking up on Wagner's *Tannhäuser*, which we're going to be looking at, or rather listening to, from what I think is a fairly unusual perspective: that of the baritone, Wolfram von ...
*Protesters converged on Freedom Plaza in the United States' capital to establish another "occupy" camp and rally under the banner "Get money out of politics!"* * * *The "Occupy" protests started on Sept...
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wmtc - 4 hours ago
Last year I mentioned I had never seen a single Pixar movie, including any Toy Story movie. Many wmtc readers recommended I watch *all three* Toy Story movies, which seemed excessive to me, but I thought i...
[image: Age of Arctic Sea Ice, 1983-2011. Data on ice age show that coverage of the oldest, thickest ice types (ice four years or older) has declined over the past 28 years. National Snow and Ice Data Ce...
*Tell me again how this shit isn't Biblical! * *TRUTH IS NOT TALMUDIC | FACTS ARE NOT MAINSTREAM*
"How and why are all these stars forming? Found among the Small Magellanic Cloud's (SMC's) clusters and nebulae NGC 346 is a star forming region about 200 light-years across, pictured above by the Hubble S...
------------------------------ * the**REALnews Permalink* October 7, 2011 * * *Occupy Wall St. to a Bank in the Public Interes...
*Typically, the administration has let discussion of the Solydra "scandal" be carried on by scum-encrusted right-wing liars and ignoramuses.* *"Solyndra was a big bet that happened to go bad. But we probab...
In a pediatric hospital in North Korea's most productive farming province, children lay two to a bed. All showed signs of severe malnutrition: skin infections, patchy hair, listless apathy. "Their mothers...
The European Central Bank will provide shaky banks with $53 billion to prop them up against potential Greek fallout, ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet has announced. But the move will topple the whole EU...
In audio recording released to Syrian television station, deposed Libyan leader warns against supporting Lybia's ruling transitional council. BEIRUT - Deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi said leaders of the de...
U.S. President Barack Obama has accused Islamabad of having connections to what he called "unsavory characters" and said if it doesn't become more attuned to Washington's concerns, it could risk damaging t...
As ranks of protesters grew in New York in the "Occupy Wall Street" demonstration, protesters are also converging in U.S. capital Washington D.C. for a planned " Occupy D.C." rally on Thursday, which is to...
Protests on Wall Street turned violent Wednesday when police clashed with demonstrators marching through Lower Manhattan in the largest show of strength yet for the Occupy Wall Street movement. Police sai...
Protests on Wall Street turned violent Wednesday when police clashed with demonstrators marching through Lower Manhattan in the largest show of strength yet for the Occupy Wall Street movement. Police sa...
The image above was made from observations collected by the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer and shows the extent of sea ice melt. The yellow outline shows the median minimum ice extent for 1979/2000...
On Monday, the fashion student Min Joo Lee, 24, became the 13th cyclist to be killed in London this year. She was hit by an HGV while navigating the Kings Cross one-way system near York Way. The blogger O...
In six years of studying economics, not once did I hear the word "ecology". So if it hadn't have been for the chance purchase of a video called Gandhi in the final term of my degree, I'd probably have ende...
View entire photo essay here.
Someone will doubtless correct me, but I think it was Mark Twain who said that he wanted to die in Manchester, as the transition from life to death in that city would be scarcely perceptible. But the Tory ...
A Discovery News reader may have eulogized Steve Jobs perfectly in one sentence.
John David Ebert is the author of four books : 'Twilight of the Clockwork God: Conversations on Science & Spirituality at the End of an Age,' - 'Celluloid Heroes & Mechanical Dragons: Film as the Mythology...
Saint-sauveur-des-monts, Quebec, Canada. Thanks for stopping by.
* * "On this earth as beyond this earth you never are alone, But are in constant company of things and beings That take a share in your life as you take a share in theirs. As you seek them, so they seek you...
*"Homer's Iliad: Ancient Greek City Digitally Recreated"* by David Keys "A submerged ancient Greek city, from the heroic era portrayed in Homer's Iliad, is being 'raised' from the bottom of the Aegean. Usi...
"A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, and fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion...
International Monetary Fund advisor Robert Shapiro (no, not *that *Robert Shapiro) warns that time has almost run out for European leaders to avert what could rapidly become a global economic meltdown much...
*Serious infraction by the globalists - Cops attacking FOX NEWS* How's Rupert going to explain away this one? Won't this cause their Tea Party stooges to side with the 99% protesters? *Occupy Wall Street ...
*Wow...Just when you thought nicotine....was only good for killing bug and people along comes this news that a nocotine compound could be a cure for Diabetes.* *Of course this news comes to you late Frid...
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wmtc - 9 hours ago
A fellow student recently complained to me about the "knee-jerk lefty-liberal" worldview of one of her teachers. I don't know why she assumed the professor's worldview was reflexive rather than well consid...
*Scott Gessler, passionate enemy of democracy* Earlier today we took a look at the Republican Party's attempt at systematic campaign of voter disenfranchisement. It's a campaign that is especially targeti...
Welcome to the #OWS 99% Movement “We Will NOT Be Co-Opted” Working Group This is not an official statement from the #OWS 99% Movement. As a decentralized leaderless movement, in our opinion, there is no on...
This weekend, a spectacular meteor shower may dazzle, but as astronomer Mark Thompson reports, never bet on the Draconids.
A Tale Of Two Presidents By George Bailey Oswald's Mother Published: September 15, 2011 “But many other more telling facts indicate that Obama is but a figurehead of an unelected government in the US. ...
“Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders, and millions have been killed because of this obe...
GE slices up everyday objects to produce an "analog representation" of medical tomography.
“How many times do you have to be hit over the head until you figure out who's hitting you?” - Harry Truman
"The challenge remains. On the other side are formidable forces: money, political power, the major media. On our side are the people of the world and a power greater than money or weapons: the truth. Trut...
*"The Left/Right Paradigm Is Over! It's You Vs. The Corporations"* By Barry Ritholtz "Every generation or so, a major secular shift takes place that shakes up the existing paradigm. It happens in indus...
2 Arabs arrested for the double murder of the Palmers. Israel arrests Palestinian suspects in settler deaths. Compare these two headlines for a minute. Did you learn English grammar? If so, draw on the cl...
*"The Day America Died"* by Paul Craig Roberts "September 30, 2011 was the day America was assassinated. Many expected President Obama to re-establish the accountability of government to law. Instead, he...
Thousands of Americans have non-violently occupied Wall St -- an epicentre of global financial power and corruption. They are the latest ray of light in a new movement for social justice that is spreadin...
*"The US Empire: A Tragic Comedy in Three Acts"* by Bill Bonner "What a delight it is to have an empire! Do the Swiss get to send out drones to kill people they don’t know in countries they’ve never been? ...
Lord Stirling's News Blog Europe
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...
If I told you a few months ago there would be a picture of Dalton McGuinty waving on newspaper front pages October 7th, you'd have assumed it would be on the Sun, directly below a "GOODBYE! GOOD RIDDANCE!...
Doomers Realists everywhere will miss Catastrophe Map, which has permanently closed shop - although you are encouraged to browse their 2020 Foresight Prophesy Service, the second of which is (*ta da*!): *...
Larry Fink, one of the most powerful people on Wall Street, says that he understands what's prompting demonstrations against the country's financial system and that protesters are "not lazy people sitting ...
A giant papier mache piggy bank will take a hammering outside the Bank of England on Thursday as angry savers show the brutal effects of record low interest rates on their cash. Campaigners warned that sa...
A landmine blast by suspected Maoist rebels in India's Chhattisgarh state has killed four paramilitary troops and injured several others, police said. Forces from Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), one of India's ...
Police are searching for teenage thugs targeting subway riders. There have been at least three armed attacks recently. CBS 2′s Dave Carlin has seen pictures of the suspects and knows what they’re after. A...
The IDF is taking no chances on the eve of Yom Kippur. In an unusual and rare step, The IDF's General Staff alerted two reserve divisions as part of an emergency drill in army bases in central and northern...
Scaling the heights of hypocrisy once again, Barack Obama – whose 2008 campaign was funded by Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Citigroup, and Morgan Stanley – sympathized with the OWS protesters yesterday while...
NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly had some strong words for “Occupy Wall Street” protesters Thursday, blaming participants for starting skirmishes which led to more than 20 arrests on Wednesday. “What they did ...
In a pediatric hospital in North Korea's most productive farming province, children lay two to a bed. All showed signs of severe malnutrition: skin infections, patchy hair, listless apathy. "Their mothers...
A hit-and-run crash led to bridge-jumping drama on the City Avenue Bridge in Philadelphia, according to police and witnesses at the scene. Paramedics were called to the area late Thursday morning after wit...
The world is facing the worst financial crisis since at least the 1930s “if not ever”, the Governor of the Bank of England said last night. Sir Mervyn King was speaking after the decision by the Bank’s Mo...
Ten years ago, in the wake of 9/11, the U.S. led the invasion of Afghanistan to capture Osama Bin Laden and defeat the Taliban. Bush, enthusiastically supported by UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, sought and ...
Security forces in Syria fired on protesters Friday, killing at least eight people and wounding many more as demonstrators took to the streets of suburban Damascus and other sites after weekly Muslim praye...
Response teams battled Friday to contain a spill of oil from a large cargo ship stranded off the New Zealand coast. The MV Rena, a Liberian-flagged vessel, started leaking oil early Wednesday off Tauranga...
The Occupy Wall Street protests are scheduled to go on Friday as the grassroots movement continues to grow, spread to other cities and grab the attention of the president. President Barack Obama said Th...
Thirty-two bodies were discovered Thursday inside three houses in Veracruz, Mexico, the Mexican navy said in a news release. The discovery of the bodies came during a military operation, dubbed Safe Verac...
The dogs' brains may have been used for ritualistic purposes by humans.
Why do big investment houses have the right to speculate in ways that can lead to death? Speculation in food, in water. While there are fortunes to be had in creating bottlenecks that restrict access to...
El Paso County health officials are investigating reports of an intestinal illness that appears to have sickened a large number of students of Falcon Middle School. Falcon School District 49 officials rep...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Colombia at a depth of 171.5 km (106.6 miles), the quake hit at 16:42:14 UTC Friday 7th October 2011. The epicenter was 39 km ( 24 miles) SSE from Tulua, Colombia No re...
[image: Temporary water storage tanks at the Storage Area (North Side) of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. These tanks are used for storing low-level radioactive materials in Unit 5 and 6, 27...
The most noticeable breakthrough will improve mobile functionality.
Thirty-two bodies were discovered Thursday inside three houses in Veracruz, Mexico, the Mexican navy said in a news release. The discovery of the bodies came during a military operation, dubbed Safe Vera...
Security forces in Syria fired on protesters Friday, killing at least eight people and wounding many more as demonstrators took to the streets of suburban Damascus and other sites after weekly Muslim pray...
It started as a student protest, led by the disgruntled and disenfranchised youth. But as the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations have gained momentum, it has quickly become clear that fury against bankers ...
A grandmother has been convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to 35 years in prison for tossing her two-year-old granddaughter to her death from a pedestrian bridge at a shopping mall. Last Novemb...
*TARP mastermind John Boehner recently sat for a portrait by Matt Hedlund* Last year David Korten laid out the entire *raison d'etre* for #OccupyWallStreet in a book he'd been working on about the financia...
A Hong Kong student tweaked the Apple logo as a tribute to Steve Jobs.
*Scotland.* *THE WORLD OF MIND CONTROL THROUGH THE EYES OF AN ARTIST WITH 13 ALTER PERSONAS* *England* *McCanns Speak Out in Australia** * ** *FORGIVENESS** * *London, Trafalgar Square* *Putin enters t...
Life on Earth probably started with leaps and bounds, with terrestrial jumping by fully aquatic fish.
Astronomers from the VERITAS collaboration have detected an extremely energetic and unexpected blast from the Crab pulsar.
Archeologists could be on the brink of discovering Mexico's first Aztec royal tomb after they unearthed a ceremonial carved stone platform beneath an existing ruin. The platform, carved with snake heads, ...
There was a time we expected Turkey to grovel for a place at the table with the Big Boys. We were willing to consider allowing our only Muslim NATO ally into the European Union but only once it showed it...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 35.2 km (21.9 miles), the quake hit at 12:44:07 UTC Friday 7th October 2011. The epicenter was 213 km ( 132 miles) East of Kushiro, Hokk...
The sky could be lit up by a stunning stellar spectacle this weekend as the Draconid meteor shower intensifies into a full-blown space storm. The Draconids streak through our atmosphere once every seven y...
Europeans are awash in economic disaster yet they see the greatest threats their world faces as poverty and climate change. *The Eurobarometer poll (pdf) found that the majority of the public in the Europe...
[image: The ship Arctic Sunrise is moored to an ice floe to assist scientists in making an ice station in the Fram Strait September 3, 2011. NASA scientists say climate change is destroying the oldest, t...
At least two Earth-sized objects may have smashed into the planet, toppling it on a tilt.
[image: A wave crashes ashore in Tuvalu. peacepalacelibrary-weekly.blogspot.com] SYDNEY, October 6 (The Economist) – ONE canary in the climate-change coalmine may have just quietly fallen from her perch...
It's a solemn 10th anniversary for Western gunplay in Afghanistan. I'll call it gunplay instead of "war" because wars are normally fought to win and we've never been fighting to win in Afghanistan, inste...
[image: PORTRAIT OF A CLIMATE DENIER, Sen. Inhofe: Sociologists have found that conservative white males are more likely to question the validity of climate change science. Image: U.S. Senate Committee o...
Interesting commentary- Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu took his office with a self-styled peace offensive to give a human face to his country’s battered foreign policy. His goal was double-pron...
"Occupy New Orleans" finds a Metaphor! ~Yep... there it is hahaha --The Little Engine That Could! We couldn't resist :):):) Sproles In Your Holes -or- One In The Pink ~moosedenied Sheriff’s deputies not g...
[image: Eddie Ray Roberts, superintendent of the water and waste department in Robert Lee, Texas, walks the dry bed of Lake E.V. Spence on his way to check a water pump, 3 October 2011. Each day he check...
Woonasquatucket River Residents in Providence, Rhode Islandrecently were informed of the latest contamination issues and potential cleanupcosts along the WoonasquatucketRiver watershed, according to this ...
In honor of Jobs Week on AOL Jobs, I want to speak up in praise of an entity that has taken a beating this year – the labor union. Anti-union sentiment has spread from state to state, and union busting has...
The disease that Steve Jobs was diagnosed with in 2004 has been associated with chemicals used in the production of computers.
An operating system turns a building into a smart phone, complete with apps to run systems.
Japanese toilet maker, TOTO, launches Toilet Bike Neo, a talking motorcycle that runs of the biogas of human waste.
Supporters say thorium reactors would be safe, cheap and a game-changing energy source.
App helps drivers figure out what to do after an accident...and which lawyer to call.
Anti-democratic forces and fascist elements in states where the GOP won decisive majorities last year-- from Maine and New Hampshire down through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and down to Tennes...
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wmtc - 17 hours ago
Please visit Brian McFadden and his Big Fat Whale. The war on Afghanistan is having a birthday party, and you're invited.
Though the government last month lifted the "emergency evacuation preparation zone" designation of some areas greatly affected by the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant, radiation de...
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck South of the Kermadec Islands at a depth of 49.3 km (30.6 miles), the quake hit at 12:14:36 UTC Friday 7th October 2011. The epicenter was 390 km ( 242 miles) South fo...
Officials at Exeter High School are investigating how a container of sulfuric acid ended up in a trash compactor, resulting in a chemical leak and school evacuation Tuesday, Oct. 4. Principal Vic Sokul sa...
Authorities are evacuating the entire town of Tiskilwa following a major train derailment overnight that left multiple tanker cars exploding, according to fire officials and area residents. Tiskilwa is a ...
A nitric acid leak in a factory on Friday led to evacuation of workers in Melbourne, Australia, Country Fire Authority (CFA) said. CFA said 14 crews were working to contain the leak at the Cadbury Schwe...
On Wednesday I drove into the city (NYC) to participate in #occupywallstreet. Disparate groups have joined the occupation since it began some weeks ago: librarians, students, Ethical Culture Society, U...
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wmtc - 18 hours ago
More great photos here. Day 19: Most compelling moment of the night: Watching NYPD taking a girl away, crowd asked her name, she replied, "Troy Davis, Medgar Evers, Emmett Till, Martin Luther King."...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Ryukyu Islands, Japan at a depth of 37.3 km (23.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:48:34 UTC Friday 7th October 2011. The epicenter was 268 km ( 166 miles) South of Kag...
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- 19 hours ago
*Not only for Windows, but also for Linux* the hour of truth comes near. October-November are months with new releases and upgrades. Let's forget about Windows 8 for now; it's still an early Beta. However...
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Biased BBC - 20 hours ago
I know, a plethora of posts and the old Open Thread vanishes! So, here is a NEW fresh one for you to populate... Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Three people have been awarded the 2011 Nobel peace prize. Liberia's Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman were jointly awarded the honour. Ms Johnson-Sirleaf, who is *Liberia's* presid...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 37.4 km (23.4 miles), the quake hit at 09:25:52 UTC Friday 7th October 2011. The epicenter was 226 km ( 140 miles) ES...
A dozen inmates at the Utah State Prison are being treated for potentially deadly botulism after drinking alcohol made in a jail cell, state health officials say. Eight of the 12 prisoners, including thre...
The Seabrook Station nuclear power plant automatically shut down Wednesday due to a low level of water in the steam generator, say officials of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The Seabrook, N.H., plant...
[image: US employers] The U.S. economy will likely show its fifth straight month of slight or no job making when the Government Issue its September employment report Friday another weak month would unders...
It has been reported that a female sixth-grade student at West Geauga Middle School is being treated for viral meningitis. West Geauga Schools Superintendent Tom Diringer said that he could not confirm th...
The devastated owner of the horses, Steve Hogno, and the large Beaudesert equine community were anxiously awaiting word from Biosecurity Queensland about the possible cause of the mass death. An emotiona...
Shaken by an explosion that some described as a massive fireball, workers huddled in groups in the fields surrounding the Consumers' Co-operative Refineries Ltd. (CCRL) in north Regina on Thursday afternoo...
The cooling effect of the moon's shadow can cause atmospheric waves that travel about 100 meters (328 feet) per second.
A magnitude 6.5 earthquake has struck South of the Kermadec Islands at a depth of 34.6 km (21.5 miles), the quake hit at 08:58:29 UTC Friday 7th October 2011. The epicenter was 106 km ( 65 miles) South of ...
In recent years, we have seen some unfortunate yet eye-catching choices for the Nobel Peace Prize, including Al Gore, Yasser Arafat, and Barack Obama. The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize only continues in 50% of th...
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Biased BBC - 21 hours ago
I know this one has been running for a while now but I just wanted to mark it out here on B-BBC. It concerns the BBC’s suggestion that religiously “neutral” terms should be used instead of “BC” and “AD” du...
posted by David Vance at
Biased BBC - 21 hours ago
I was shocked. The BBC were actually running a sympathetic story about Jews being attacked. But, hang on, turns out the attackers were...other Jews. Kevin Connolly treated us to the story of how groups of ...
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CENSORED NEWS - 21 hours ago
Native Delegation opposes Tarsands in Copenhagen.*US Tribes and Canadian First Nations Unified in Opposition to Keystone XL Pipeline* By Indigenous Environmental Network Posted at Censored News http://www...
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Biased BBC - 21 hours ago
This is worth a little thought; "Asher Palmer, and his one year old son...you may have heard of them but not from the BBC. They were killed over a week ago by Palestinians and like the slaughtered Fogel f...
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Biased BBC - 22 hours ago
A few days back, the US Congress froze cash to Hamastan. B-BBC reader Edna notes; Consider how the BBC reports the story. The article only gives the view that the freeze is terrible. There is not one exp...
With its launch window opening in less than two months, the Mars Science Laboratory has been matched-up with its heat shield at Kennedy Space Center.
Philippe strengthened into a hurricane in the Atlantic on Thursday, the same day two systems in the eastern Pacific emerged as tropical storms, the National Hurricane Center reported. None of the systems...
Wall Street is more than 10,000 miles away from Melbourne, but 24-year-old Australian Alex Gard felt a kinship to the outrage expressed on the streets of Manhattan. "It's great that people are finally st...
The Greeks and Romans looked at the skies and saw animals and gods - but the first picture of the gas 'between the stars' in our own galaxy looks more like a pit of writhing snakes. To most people, the i...
A thousand years ago, a brilliant beacon of light blazed in the sky, shining brightly enough to be seen even in daytime for almost a month. Native American and Chinese observers recorded the eye-catching e...
Four men were indicted for stealing over $20million from the Army Corps of Engineers in what prosecutors say may be one of the largest procurement frauds in U.S. history. Two of the men were executives in...
Hundreds of Afghans took to the streets of the nation's capital Kabul today to demand the withdrawal of military forces ahead of the tenth anniversary of the U.S. invasion. The demonstration in the centre...
American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior government aides, Reuters revealed today. Once the panel adds a terror suspect to its list it the...
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Biased BBC - 22 hours ago
Biased BBC contributor Alan observes; "The BBC and their ilk are quick to denounce anyone who suggests one race or another may be better at somethings than other races. And yet here we are looking at a wh...
posted by David Vance at
Biased BBC - 22 hours ago
I'm catching up on a number of issues sent my way in recent days. This one covers the determination by the BBC-approved European Court of Justice which has stated: "National legislation which prohibits t...
posted by David Vance at
Biased BBC - 22 hours ago
It's been fascinating watching the BBC get itself worked up into a state ofmoral outrageover the relationship between Liam Fox and Adam Werritty. To listen to the breathless coverage afforded this tale of b...
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Biased BBC - 22 hours ago
It's that unique BBC mindset at play; The BBC pledged to become “significantly smaller” by sacking 2,000 staff yesterday, but immediately struck a deal with unions to allow departing employees to return a...
Norway's *Island of Utoya, mourning roses.* *Reportedly, the CIA uses sex and terror to control the top people in Europe.* (CIA CONTROLS NATO AND BILDERBERG?) *1.* The terror attacks in Norway have affect...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Southern Greece at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 04:29:38 UTC Friday 7th October 2011. The epicenter was 10 km ( 6.2 miles) East of Meligalas, Greece No...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the New Ireland Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 47.6 km (29.6 miles), the quake hit at 06:58:23 UTC Friday 7th October 2011. The epicenter was 142 km ( 88 miles...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Gulf of California at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:35:20 UTC Friday 7th October 2011. The epicenter was 70 km ( 43 miles) WSW of Guaymas, Sonor...
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck Southeast of the Loyalty Islands at a depth of 103.2 km (64.1 miles), the quake hit at 06:30:18 UTC Friday 7th October 2011. The epicenter was 351 km ( 218 miles) ESE ...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Mentawai, Indonesia at a depth of 43.5 km (27 miles), the quake hit at 06:19:47 UTC Friday 7th October 2011. The epicenter was 179 km ( 111 miles) WNW of Ben...
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Broken of Britain - 22 hours ago
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CENSORED NEWS - 22 hours ago
Actor Danny Glover, with Earthcycles' Govinda, doing the 'secret handshake,' at the end of the Longest Walk 2 in DC. Nope, there's no handshake probe -- yet -- in Wikileaks. Photo Brenda Norrell*US Spying o...
Twelve UK banks have downgraded by credit ratings agency Moody's, with Lloyds and RBS put down two notches. Shares in the banks slumped as markets opened this morning, with any initial gains expected in...
Matt Strassler popularizes the short preprint by Andrew Cohen and Sheldon Glashow who argued that superluminal neutrinos would emit a Čerenkov-like Bremsstrahlung radiation composed of charged lepton pairs...
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Europe - 1 day 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 Louwerse...
------------------------------ Permalink *Flat-Lining the Middle Class * *Economic Numbers to Die For * By Andy Kroll Food pantries picked over. Incomes drying up. Shelters bursting with the homele...
With nearly all the votes counted, here's how it looks: Lib 53 PC 37 NDP 17 Which, as you will hear about fifty billion times this weekend, leaves the Liberals one seat shy of a majority government. Howev...
Corporate-financier dominated Western media attempts in vain to wish-away "Occupy the Fed" protests. by Tony Cartalucci October 7, 2011 - Even before its scheduled start this weekend, mention of the "Occ...
A senior Libyan official has denied abuse of captured Colonel Gaddafi loyalists is widespread after allegations of torture were made to Sky News by imprisoned soldiers. Thousands of alleged loyalists are ...
Like I said in my red velvet rope post a couple days ago, it's probably best for anyone who's angry-- in a nonviolent sort of way-- about Wall Street and the inequities imposed against the 99% of us by t...
"In the time of your life, live - so that in good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of i...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Hokkaido, Japan Region at a depth of 74.3 km (46.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:51:21 UTC Friday 7th October 2011. The epicenter was 103 km ( 64 miles) East of Hakodate,...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Reykjanes Ridge, Iceland at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 23:53:00 UTC Thursday 6th October 2011. The epicenter was 872 km ( 541 miles) Southwest ...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Mindanao, Philippines at a depth of 38 km (23.6 miles), the quake hit at 23:47:04 UTC Thursday 6th October 2011. The epicenter was 36 km ( 22 miles) Northwest of Hinat...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Babar, Indonesia at a depth of 99 km (61.5 miles), the quake hit at 21:52:37 UTC Thursday 6th October 2011. The epicenter was 209 km ( 129 miles) West of Sau...
"Treason is a strong word, but not too strong to characterize the situation in which the Senate is the eager, resourceful, and indefatigable agent of interests as hostile to the American people as any in...
“Also known as the Cigar Galaxy for its elongated visual appearance, M82 is a starburst galaxy with a superwind. In fact, through ensuing supernova explosions and powerful winds from massive stars, the bur...
*“The Case for Using Predator Drone Strikes* * Against Wall Street Executives”* by The Rude Pundit "From a secret Justice Department memorandum obtained by the Rude Pundit: Mr. President, Since it is now...
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Analyzing archived Hubble images from 1998, astronomers have uncovered three worlds previously hidden by starlight.
We Was Robbed! In solidarity with OccupyWallStreet, between 300 to 400 people have joined together in the Greensboro, North Carolina, area and formed OccupyGreensboro. Having met to discuss strategy four t...
"Dr. Tom Wagner of NASA is remarkably cheerful as he explains how the historic melting of sea ice in the Arctic threatens to exacerbate climate change across the globe." - http://www.truthdig.com/
“A wise man once said you can have anything in life, if you sacrifice everything else for it. What he meant is, nothing comes without a price. So before you go into battle you better decide how much you'r...
------------------------------ * the**REALnews Permalink* October 6, 2011 *1000 Protesters Storm Wall St Barricade* Occupy...
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by Kurt Haskell Today was the day for final jury selection in the Underwear Bomber case. I watched some of it on Tuesday and I was interested to see which jurors were picked. The final jury was set to be ...
*Let's see if I got this right: They may have done lots of stuff that was immoral but apparently nothing illegal, because of loopholes that we fixed with Dodd-Frank (yeah, right!), and we know they didn't ...
The Obama administration passed another fiscal milestone this week, according to new data released by the Treasury Department. As of the close of business on Oct. 3, the total national debt was $14,837,099...
A worker at Japan's disaster-stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant has died, its operator said, adding that the death was not necessarily related to radioactive leaks. The male worker, in his 50s, was t...
Vladimir Putin's seemingly remarkable discovery of two ancient Greek amphorae beneath the waters of the Black Sea this summer was a staged set-up, his spokesman has admitted. In an uncharacteristically...
The British PM has called for a 'can-do' optimism during an 'anxious time' for the UK economy. And though the speech sounded optimistic, Gavin Hayes of Compass pressure group told RT Britain is not in a ...
Mortgage lender Halifax said the property market continued to lack direction after it reported a second successive month of lower prices. A decline of 0.5pc in September followed a fall of 1.1pc in August...
Before Germany's Horst Reichenbach had even stepped off the plane in Athens, the Greeks knew who was coming. He had already been given various unflattering nicknames in the Greek media, including "Third Re...
Russia's security service has revealed that it arrested a suspected Chinese spy who posed as a translator while seeking sensitive information on an anti-aircraft system. The man, identified as Tun Sheniyu...
Scientists have for the first time used a cloning technique to get tailor-made embryonic stem cells to grow in human egg cells. The development in New York marks a landmark in stem cell research, accordin...
The “Occupy Wall Street” rally gained thousands of new supporters as New York City became protest city on Wednesday when the group marched to City Hall. The protests, however, were not without incident. T...
Yesterday, CBS News investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson told radio show host Laura Ingraham that the White House yelled and swore at her over her reporting on the Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal ti...
Members of the Amish community in Ohio are being investigated by the sheriff's department after several homes were broken into and the beards and hair of Amish victims were chopped off. Four different she...
France is to impose a 'fat tax' on sugary soft drinks in a bid to combat soaring child obesity. The new tax will add just over 1p to a can of fizzy drink like Coca-Cola or Fanta but zero-calorie 'diet' dr...
With the release of Anonymous, two academics give their views and you can vote and join the debate on whether Shakespeare was the Bard. Did he or didn’t he? That is the question. The debate over whether Wi...
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*It was a week that started with the Geelong Cats winning their Premiership and ended with news of Steve Jobs losing his battle for his health. And it’s not finished yet: here’s still some other importa...
I won't be providing many updates tonight, but will offer some thoughts before heading off to bed, with the mandatory post-mortems coming tomorrow. By all means, share your thoughts in the comments section...
Four important developments from Iraq: This week, in a surprising development, Iraqi political leaders declined the US request to grant full immunity to US military trainers left after the end of 2011. ...
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[image: DSC_0061] I spent a day in Christchurch yesterday that was both marvellous (thank you to friends and Maestro Domingo for making it so) and depressing. The former commercial heart of New Zealand’...
*"Ingenuity"* by Chet Raymo "It was my father's lifelong mantra: With a little ingenuity, anything is possible. The mantra of a professional mechanical engineer. And of the domestic handyman. A broken to...
*"A Blind Man..."* by Paulo Coelho “A blind man was begging on the road to Mecca, when a pious Muslim came over and asked whether the people were giving generously – as the Koran commands. The man showe...
*"Statistical Numbing:* * Why Millions Can Die and We Don’t Care"* by David Ropeik "Four year-old Khafra was near death three days ago when he was brought to the refugee camp hospital. He was emaciated, h...
“We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.” - Rainer Maria Rilke
With Republican primary voters fleeing from Rick Perry's candidacy in droves-- not because of Niggerhead, of course, but because he granted equality for Texas Hispanic high school graduates wanting to go...
*But they are still not listening (sigh). * "Occupy Boston shows economic anger isn’t owned by the right" October 05, 2011 JUST AS the emergence of the Tea Party has remade conservative politics in the l...
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On the Question Time panel from where the Conservative conference was held - Salford - tonight we have the inclusivity box-ticking Baroness Warsi, Shadow Junior Minister for Drains Andy Burnham, Charles *...
Reprinted from the Onion 'Let's Just See How We're Doing In A Few Years' Humanity Decides PLANET EARTH—Facing what it called "a lot of uncertainty" on all six inhabited continents, the global civilizat...
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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...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Kyrgyzstan at a depth of 12.9 km (8 miles), the quake hit at 16:47:16 UTC Thursday 6th October 2011. The epicenter was 45 km ( 27 miles) Southwest of Sary-Tash, Kyrgyzs...
"Revolution is in the air. The spirit of 1776 is being reborn in our republic." - Alex Jones. The Revolution Against the Federal Reserve Starts Now Infowars Press Release Infowars.com October 6, 2011 Pu...
The finding of the 17-year-old girl's grave adds more evidence that henges were linked to death rituals.
[It seems that we will never able to achieve closure of any kind with the Monte Grande /Esteban Echeverria incident that has dominated the Argentinean chronicles of the unusual for the past few weeks. Alej...
*"Palin Decides Not to Run: * *‘I Want to Go Straight to the Quitting Part’"* Decision Leaves Moron Vote Up for Grabs by Andy Borowitz ANCHORAGE (The Borowitz Report) – "Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin ...
*"Even Sesame Street Muppets Are * *Poverty-StrickenAnd Hungry"* By The Economic Collapse Blog * * "Big Bird, Elmo, Cookie Monster, Bert and Ernie are about to get a new friend. This new character co...
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'Keep it up Little Ethan' by Occupy Wall Street New York *Yoko Ono's meesage to you all:* I love #*OccupyWallStreet* As John said, “One hero cannot do it. Each one of us have to be heroes.” And you are. Th...
15 Years of Giving Voice to Women and Transgender Prisoners in California --An interview with Diana Block, Pam Faden, and Dierdre Wilson of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners By Angola 3 News ...
In Washington during the final hearing on Keystone pipeline. Photo Tar Sands Action Sleeping in the State Department to make sure big oil didn't hijack the final hearing on the Keystone Pipeline. Photo Josh...
Seven months after the nuclear crisis began at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant, the U.S. government again warned its citizens Friday to avoid areas near the stricken reactors. The U.S. State Department pu...
*by Ken* Yes, we're sneaking up on Wagner's *Tannhäuser*, which we're going to be looking at, or rather listening to, from what I think is a fairly unusual perspective: that of the baritone, Wolfram von ...
*Tell me again how this shit isn't Biblical! * *TRUTH IS NOT TALMUDIC | FACTS ARE NOT MAINSTREAM*
*Typically, the administration has let discussion of the Solydra "scandal" be carried on by scum-encrusted right-wing liars and ignoramuses.* *"Solyndra was a big bet that happened to go bad. But we probab...
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