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This is a guest post by Biased BBC contributor Graeme Thompson aka Hippiepooter. "B-BBC regulars may be aware that I think
BBC Radio Five Live is excellent. Comments and digs here made against 5Live ...
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Cary Grant,
Dyan Cannon and their child.* *Cary Grant force-fed his wife LSD. * Cary Grant's ex-wife *Dyan Cannon* reveals this in her book *'Cary Grant'*, published by Robson Press. (My husband Cary...
Police have defused a roadside bomb equivalent to 3 kg of TNT in the
Republic of Dagestan in Russia’s volatile
North Caucasus region, the republican interior ministry said on Sunday. During a search oper...
An explosive device has been found in a polling station in Western Poland as the country is holding parliamentary elections, announced Poland’s Central Electoral Commission, cited by *ITAR-TASS*. A pollin...
Twin explosions Sunday afternoon hurt 11 people, including three boxers and a referee, in this city, the police reported. The nearly simultaneous blasts ripped through a room inside the hotel and at the ...
Lax rules for sperm donors have resulted in some extremely large -- and anonymous -- families in the U.S. and Canada.
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck East of
Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 12 km (7.4 miles), the quake hit at 07:34:38 UTC Sunday 9th October 2011. The epicenter was 20 km ( 12.4 miles) East of...
Anak Krakatau volcano monitoring post reported Saturday increasing volcanic tremors at the famous volcanic island, located in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra. Head of the volcano...
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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...
Jova, the newest hurricane to form in the Pacific Ocean, inched toward western Mexico early Sunday and is expected to intensify over the next two days. As of 8 p.m. PT Saturday (11 p.m. ET), Jova was abo...
The National Air and Space Museum in Washington was closed Saturday after anti-war demonstrators swarmed the building to protest a drone exhibit and security guards used pepper spray to repel them. Smiths...
New research suggests the continuation of life on Earth depends on massive explosions on the other side of the galaxy. The explosions, gamma-ray bursts thought to occur when two stars collide, can release...
Photo courtesy: lukemcreynolds Trees are the largest and longest-living organism on earth. Trees renew our air supply by absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen. Trees clean the air by collecting du...
Photos courtesy: Rebecca Jackrel Did you have any idea there are wolves in Africa? Jackals, sure. Painted dogs, yep. But wolves? Turns out the Ethiopian wolf is the only wolf species on the continent, an...
[image: Link]Members of a golf club in Australia have something more to worry about than just their swing - playing on what's thought to be the world's first shark-infested course. Water hazards are a ch...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck offshore New Zealand at a depth of 50 km (31 miles), the quake hit at 07:07: NZDT Sunday 9th October 2011. The epicenter was 10 km ( 6.2 miles) Southwest of Te Kaha, Ne...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Mariana Islands Region at a depth of 20.9 km (13 miles), the quake hit at 05:13:39 UTC Sunday 9th October 2011. The epicenter was 245 km ( 152 miles) Southeast of ...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck offshore Antofagasta, Chile at a depth of 42..3 km (26.3 miles), the quake hit at 00:50:43 UTC Sunday 9th October 2011. The epicenter was 98 km ( 60 miles) SSW of Iqui...
American pelicans. Photo courtesy: dave and rose / cc When some people get angry they clench their teeth, shake their fists, and raise their voice. Craig Staloch, a farmer from Minnesota, slaughters an en...
It's likely that by the end of 2012, and maybe even before Christmas 2011, the LHC will announce the discovery of the Higgs boson (or "a" Higgs boson). In this poll, you are asked about the central val...
This is some of the speeches at the open mic earlier as #occupydamestreet began outside the Irish Central Bank in Dublin's city center. Lets start bringing it. We look back across history to those who ab...
*Congratulations to the NAMMY Winners from Censored News* Artist of the Year Gabriel Ayala Hall of Fame Keith SecolaGroup of the Year Pipestone As the Rez Turns Best Spoken Word My Life is My Sundance Harve...
Thank you to Cushcatan Pipil Nonualcos for sharing these photos from today's Occupy Grand Rapids, Michigan. Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
[image: Christine "The Duchess" Walton] Christine "The Duchess" Walton showing off her fingernails (Picture: Reuters) The 2012 record book released today will see the Las Vegas resident take the top spot...
Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
[image: Illustration: Cathy Wilcox] EMPLOYEES who walk 10,000 steps a day and work out in the gym three times a week can give their employer an extra $2500 worth of productivity a year, an Austra...
2 New Studies Find That Lighting Up Early May Boost Risk of Cancer of the Lung, Head, or Neck [image: http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2011-08/151424880-08150403.jpg] According to two new studies, smoke...
Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
Eating apples can be up to four times more damaging to teeth than carbonated drinks, according to new research. Wine and lager also increase the risk of dental damage but pickled onions and grapefruit, ...
No guest on *Bill Maher* has ever gotten a standing ovation-- until Friday night when clownish Republican Party chatterer P.J. O'Rourke accused Alan Grayson of being a hippie drum circle symp... and Alan...
Have not posted in forever--been busy, and I always feel weird posting when so many people I don't know personally are visiting the blog to read Kurt's posts about the trial. But, whatevs. This was initia...
*"Potential Race Between Black Guy and Mormon Poses Dilemma for Bigots"* "Doomsday Scenario, Haters Say" by Andy Borowitz MINNEAPOLIS (The Borowitz Report) – "A looming presidential race between a black g...
*Everything DRONE continues...* *Back in MAY the Pentagon warned, "Attack us again and we'll bomb you."* *The cyber attackers have responded with, "We dare you to find find us first."* *Looks like the fun...
"What will become of these galaxies? Spiral galaxies NGC 5426 and NGC 5427 are passing dangerously close to each other, but each is likely to survive this collision. Most frequently when galaxies collide, ...
*"This Island's Mine"* by Chet Raymo "No man is an island, wrote John Donne, famously in a meditation. Oh, I don't know. I rather like thinking of myself as an island. Part of an archipelago, to be sure,...
"This planet is haunted by us; the other occupants just evade boredom by filling our skies and our seas with monsters." - John A. Keel
*“The Litcham Cryptogram - A Medieval Mystery”* Past Horizons "Whilst examining a rural Norfolk church, members of the Norfolk Medieval Graffiti Survey (NMGS) came across an intriguing inscription etched ...
(Pat Bagley) *"The Occupy Wall Street protests have cost the city a whopping $2 million in police overtime since the demonstrations began nearly three weeks ago, according to NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kel...
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Crops are wilting, schools have shut their bathrooms and government officials are bathing in lagoons because of a severe shortage of fresh water in a swath of the South Pacific. The island groups of Tuval...
Floridians have grown accustomed to invasions of exotic creatures, like the Burmese pythons slithering throughout the Everglades. But residents here are especially grossed out by the latest arrivals: giant...
THE US government has decided to uphold the sale of nearly 500 leases to drill for oil in Arctic waters near Alaska, in response to a successful lawsuit by environmentalists and native Alaskan organisation...
Weeds, which are widely deemed as a nuisance plant, are vital to the existence of many farmland species according to a new University of Hull study published in the journal Biological Conservation. Since ...
As reliably as masses of sea bass gather off the Southern California coast each summer, boatloads of anglers arrive to reel them in. But their bountiful catches are an illusion, scientists say. The popula...
Shell has never denied that its oil operations have polluted large areas of the Niger Delta – land and air. But it had resisted charges of complicity in human rights abuses. Court documents now reveal tha...
Earth may be overdosing on acid - not the "turn on, tune in, drop out" kind, but the "kill fish, kill coral, kill crops" kind. And it's shaping up to be a very bad trip. The problem isn't just acid rain o...
The trees spanning many of the mountainsides of western Montana glow an earthy red, like a broadleaf forest at the beginning of autumn. But these trees are not supposed to turn red. They are evergreens, fa...
Two ice shelves that existed before Canada was settled by Europeans diminished significantly this summer, one nearly disappearing altogether, Canadian scientists say in new research. The loss is important...
Half of the world’s cocoa supply comes from the West African countries of Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. But in the coming decades, climate change could severely limit production in the region — disrupting local...
Already cursed by floods and suicide bombings, Pakistan now faces a new menace from an unprecedented outbreak of the deadly tropical disease dengue fever. In less than a month, 126 people have died and mo...
Imprelis Imperils? Since 1999, gardeners have experienced serious problems with herbicides that do not readily break down in compost. Residential lawn trimmings, hay and straw, municipal green waste, and ...
The world's most high-profile climate change sceptic is set to have his funding scrapped. Bjorn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist and bête noire of climate change activists around the worl...
A State Department official provided Fourth of July party invitations, subtle coaching and cheerleading, and inside information about Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton’s meetings to a Washington lobbyist fo...
Complex and conflicting evidence was presented at Amanda Knox’s year-long trial in 2009 and at her appeal over the last 10 months. FIVE REASONS KNOX IS GUILTY 1) The confession. Knox confessed that sh...
A public health warning has been issued for Bay of Plenty residents not to eat seafood from waters around the stricken cargo ship that's been leaking oil off the Tauranga coast. Medical Officer of Health ...
If you were foolish enough to think this is a one day event yesterday - you were wrong. MN is an embarassment to the nation - shame on you!
San Antonio, Texas, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
"In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upwardly mobile- and the rest of us are f****d until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. We owe that ...
*"Speech to Occupy Wall Street"* by Naomi Klein “I love you. And I didn't just say that so that hundreds of you would shout "I love you" back, though that is obviously a bonus feature of the human microp...
"We have broken from reality--a psychotic Nation." - Dr. Ron Paul, from his speech in Congress on May 19, 2009 called "Current Conditions or Just a Bad Dream." "Anyone in the United States today who isn...
*Who doesn't remember Mean?* Warren County's in southwest Ohio, a safely Republican enclave in the suburbs of Cincinnati. I'll tell you why we're talking about it today after I introduce it a little more....
We are many, they are few...
*"Study: Wealthy Stockbrokers More * *Dangerous Than Psychopaths"* by David Sirota "Like most people living through this jarring age of economic turbulence and political dysfunction, you can probably reca...
*"No Return on Government Investments"* by Bill Bonner "The news was good yesterday. Investors heard that Europe had its problems under control. Then, Obama told them that he was going to give the economy...
For sale. Infantry helmet. Only four previous owners, one surviving. Fair condition. Some wear & tear. Original paint. Custom ventilation.
*"The Worst of States"* by Joel Bowman "Empires…their monies…their militaries and their promises. All these things eventually, invariably, die. It’s what they were born to do. Their death, in other words...
Fury over corporate power in the US is spreading from New York across the country. Thousands have joined the 'Occupy Wall Street' movement, angered by the economic slump that may lead to a revolution in ...
Children are being taught in “ghettos” as inner-city schools are increasingly divided along racial lines, a leading headmaster has warned. David Levin said parts of London were starting to resemble aparthe...
The town prides itself on the 52 flagpoles which grace its seafront, all flying European or other national flags. Town councillors have now provoked a row by agreeing to include the Romany Gypsy flag. Su...
Although ignored by most of America’s liberal-dominated media, several online US news sites are reporting that Michelle Obama’s grand tour of southern Africa earlier this year cost American taxpayers nearl...
*SPIEGEL:* Many US economists now say that Europe's currency crisis could destroy the US economy. Do you agree? *Goolsbee:* It is a very serious threat. Though since US banks underwent extensive stress ...
For months, financial experts have been warning that Europe needs to act quickly to shore up banks on the Continent due to their heavy exposure to Greek debt. This week, there are increasing signs that the...
German Economics Minister Philipp Rösler is to push for a plan for the orderly bankruptcy of highly leveraged eurozone countries, according to a letter obtained by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) ...
The good news is that Greece will remain solvent until mid-November, despite the decision reached on Monday evening by euro-zone finance ministers meeting in Luxembourg to delay payment of the next tranche...
Their names are Rabee, Shevan, Naima, Georgette and Salem. All are Syrian dissidents who chose to leave their native country in order to live freely. Seeking safety, they’ve arrived in Paris, London, Toron...
The Russian parliament has approved a law on pedophilia in a first reading. From now on people found guilty of sex crimes against children under the age of 14 will face chemical castration, while repeat ...
Bus drivers in New York City have been telling the NYPD that they don’t have to give free rides to jail for Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, despite what the Police Department seems to think. Now they are...
US defence secretary Leon Panetta said on Tuesday that NATO air raids in Libya will continue as long as there is heavy ground combat between rebels and diehard supporters of ousted strongman Muammar Gaddaf...
Penang, Malaysia - We traveled to Cambodia planning to tell the story of an escape from modern-day slave labor but what we found were tales of more women trapped in debt-bondage in Malaysia. In Cambodia...
Europe has a debt crisis. America has a jobs crisis. Corporate profits could be in trouble. World financial markets are in turmoil. And no one seems prepared to ride to the rescue. Federal Reserve Chairma...
Police in Poland have arrested two men in connection with explosions at Ikea stores in several European countries, they said Saturday. The two men, both age 39, are accused of trying to force Ikea to pay ...
A prominent Kurdish opposition leader was shot dead Friday in a brazen assault that came as protesters across the country demonstrated for his fledgling anti-regime movement, activists said. Mashaal Tamm...
The slogans on the street are about storming the barricades, but when you talk to Greeks about the financial crisis that has brought their country to its knees, their anger quickly gives way to resignation...
A nationwide face recognition service is to be activated in some U.S. states by the FBI which will allow local police to identify suspects. The program, part of a $1 billion overhaul of the FBI's existing ...
A Colorado state senator who caused a fatal car crash that killed a pregnant woman escaped with only some minor traffic citations and a $268 fine. Suzanne Williams, 65, caused the accident when she starte...
*Yuji asked:* In high energy physics, the use of the classical Lie groups are common place, and in the Grand Unification the use of \(E_{6,7,8}\) is also common place. In string theory \(G_2\) is sometim...
[image: On a moonlit night on Wednesday, August 10, 2011, a boat is beached in the Cypress Creek arm of Lake Travis. Waterfront properties in this area of Lake Travis barely have a view of water, and the...
From our own correspondent’s Nick Danziger tells us that the Afghani people are the most wonderful people he knows. It’s women who continue to suffer the worst of the conflict. Outsiders make the same mist...
There’s a fascinating thread on Harry’s Place about the left wing’s ever increasing association with Israel-bashing and Jew hatred. Mentioning it here, on what is supposedly a right-wing blog - though some ...
A Spanish matador has been blinded in his left eye and paralysed down that side of his face after he was horrifically gored during a bullfight. The bull's horn pierced Juan Jose Padilla's jaw and emerged t...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 69.3 km (43.1 miles), the quake hit at 16:08:47 UTC Saturday 8th October 2011. The epicenter was 49 km ( 30 miles) E...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 591.4 km (367.5 miles), the quake hit at 15:08:33 UTC Saturday 8th October 2011. The epicenter was 262 km ( 162 miles) Southeast of Lambas...
DANISH POLICE HAVE evacuated hundreds of people after a warehouse went on fire following a number of explosions in a village near Kolding. According to police spokesman, Klaus Arboe, the cause of the explo...
We had been planning to spend our Blue America session today talking with an old friend, Alan Grayson, but Alan suggested we move his date back and talk with another old friend, North Carolina Congressma...
*Ronan Parke and his friend Julia.* 13-year old Ronan Parke is Britain's Justin Bieber. Ronan was brought up in a village in Norfolk, in the UK. His Dad is a builder and his Mum's a nurse. *Britain's Ju...
We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.They had begun to consider the Government...
[image: A field once covered by the forest is readied for soybean cultivation in Brazil. green.blogs.nytimes.com] By JUSTIN GILLIS 7 October 2011 In an article last weekend about rising stress in the wo...
[image: A man sits in a flooded restaurant in Bangkok, Thailand, during the historic monsoon flooding of October 2011. abc.net.au] By Zoe Daniel 8 October 2011 EMILY BOURKE: Record flooding in Thailand ...
[image: Historic drought has emptied the water from this dam in China. caixin.cn] By Wang Xiaocong 30 September 2011 (Beijing) – Acute power shortages will continue in parts of China in the upcoming wi...
As the Occupy Wall Street movement continues to spread across the country, the protesters in the place where it all started, New York City, are being blamed for the recent clashes with police, NYPD Commiss...
A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots’ every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other warzones. The virus, first dete...
Bank tellers, restaurant workers and other service employees in New York lifted credit card data from residents and foreign tourists as part of an identity theft ring that stretched to China, Europe and th...
All of German-speaking Europe has decided to leave nuclear energy. The physics textbooks in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland are going to replace their chapters on the nuclei. The new books will say that ...
We have to be careful about possible complacency in thinking that others know about the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). We must make sure that we are continually reaching out to others to ed...
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*To the Protesters at Zucotti Park * Kent Lebsock at White House Tar Sands Action Photo Shadia Fayne Wood. *from Owe Aku International Justice Project* Again, greetings and thank you for inviting Owe Aku In...
Win at trip to New Orleans with Harry Shearer~The Cajun Boy~Well, our friends at FilmBuff were inspired enough by Harry Shearer’s powerful and entertaining documentary, The Big Uneasy (which you should tot...
Of course it will and, as surely as Afghanistan will see another rising and setting sun, so too will it see the resumption of its long-running and unresolved civil war when Western babysitters head home in...
The malware sends every keystroke a user makes to someone else.
Solar cells the size of grains of sand could work much better at producing power than conventional panels.
Hundreds of activists gathered on Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC, on Thursday to fight for economic and social justice. The event is called Occupy DC, one of the dozens of similarly-named rallies occurri...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Southern Peru at a depth of 205.6 km (127.8 miles), the quake hit at 12:29:30 UTC Saturday 8th October 2011. The epicenter was 44 km ( 27 miles) West from Juliaca, Peru...
There's no way the Republican Establishment will allow their party's grassroots to stop their anointed nominee. Anyone imagining the Republican Party will have someone other than Bishop Willard "Mitt" Ro...
From the Dukan Diet to the Caveman Plan, weight-loss regimes instructing us what to eat and what to avoid are big business. But a number of recent studies have revealed how making several small lifestyl...
The web address gay.xxx has been sold to a porn production company for half a million dollars. The domain name is the most expensive to be sold with the controversial new porn-only .xxx extension. Alth...
- Security around the animal is so tight his trainer sleeps next to a video screen which streams live footage of Frankel in his box A British racehorse has become the first in history to be valu...
[image: Risk: Pregnant mothers now have something new to worry about during pregnancy - the level of pollution in the area they live] Risk: Pregnant mothers now have something new to worry about during ...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 56.7 km (35.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:44:36 UTC Saturday 8th October 2011. The epicenter was 70 km ( 43 mil...
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 (at somewhat exhausting length!), concentrating on the Labour Par...
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 19.6 km (12.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:53:14 UTC Saturday 8th October 2011. The epicenter was 216 km ( 134 miles) ENE of Nuku'Alofa, Tonga No Tsu...
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Federal health authorities say a nationwide outbreak of listeria in Colorado cantaloupes is now responsible for 21 deaths and the number may continue to grow. The Centers for Disease Control and Preventio...
Radioactive material has leaked at the site of the former Dounreay nuclear power station in Caithness, it has been confirmed. Radioactive liquid effluent is understood to have leaked inside a treatment f...
Nearly 2,000 ducks and other birds are dead from avian botulism in one of Nevada’s more significant outbreaks of the disease. Mallards, green-wing teals, redhead ducks and other birds including American a...
Hamilton public health is investigating whether four cases of legionellosis in the city’s east end came from a common source. The cases were reported to public health over the past several weeks. The fir...
Authorities evacuated a home in a posh community of West Palm Beach Friday as they investigate possible hazardous substances inside, FBI officials said. The incident happened at a home in the 10000 block...
Despite being considered the most destructive force in space and absolutely uninhabitable, the conditions for life exist inside supermassive black holes, a Russian cosmologist has theorised. Going out on...
The investigation into the disappearance of baby Lisa took a grim turn this afternoon as the FBI revealed it has begun searching a landfill in Kansas as part of its search for the 10-month-old who disappea...
Illegal immigrants in Alabama have been threatened with losing their water supply under the strict new law the Obama administration today tried to block. Under Section 30 of the regulation, those who lack...
A modern day treasure map has been created showing a trove of precious metals found on the moon. Scientists have revealed Nasa's robotic spacecraft currently orbiting the moon has made a chart showing are...
How do you 'see inside' an asteroid? Answer: two radio telescopes, decades' worth of visible-light scans, and a lot of computing time. The study of Minerva - an asteroid in the solar system with not one b...
The U.S. drones used to kill Anwar al-Awlaki and other Al Qaeda chiefs have been infected by a computer virus that logs their every move, it has been claimed. The unmanned Predator, which killed the Ameri...
First there was the Sunshine Squad … now meet the Snorkelling Squad. After a Scotland Yard team faced an outcry over their antics on a Caribbean island two years ago, colleagues in another force might have...
The CIA-backed scum who have taken over Libya are falling apart, like warring Mafia gangs. It looks very possible that NATO troops will soon be sent into Libya to take over the running of the country. ...
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Broken of Britain - 1 day ago
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 p...
A tropical storm strengthened into a hurricane Friday southwest of Mexico's Baja California, not far from another that could rise to hurricane status soon, the National Hurricane Center reported. The eye...
The United States called for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to "step down now" following the assassination of a prominent Kurdish opposition figure amid continuing violence in the nation. Assad should ...
Much of Southeast Asia continued its recovery from heavy rains and extensive flooding Friday, including scores of deaths and extensive damage in Thailand. The wet weather is not entirely abnormal in the ...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Southeast of Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 8 km (4.9 miles), the quake hit at 03:48 UTC Saturday 8th October 2011. The epicenter was 20 km ( 12.4 miles) Sout...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Southeast of Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 8 km (4.9 miles), the quake hit at 03:17 UTC Saturday 8th October 2011. The epicenter was 20 km ( 12.4 miles) Sout...
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck near the South Coast of Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 18.3 km (11.4 miles), the quake hit at 05:38:56 UTC Saturday 8th October 2011. The epicenter was 124 km ( 77 mil...
Image courtesy: BC Crime Prevention Program Elevator Safety: - check the elevator before you enter. If a person inside the elevator makes you uncomfortable, don't get it. Feign forgetting an article if yo...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Central California at a depth of just 0.1 km (0 miles), the quake hit at 22:10:10 UTC Friday 7th October 2011. The epicenter was 20 km ( 12.4 miles) Southwest of Scotty...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Izu Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 382 km (237.4 miles), the quake hit at 21:17:38 UTC Friday 7th October 2011. The epicenter was 352 km ( 218 miles) South of Hac...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Aisen, Chile at a depth of 15.3 km (9.5 miles), the quake hit at 19:54:01 UTC Friday 7th October 2011. The epicenter was 254 km ( 157 miles) WSW of C...
Yesterday CBC continued its ongoing snide, dismissive, and condescending coverage of the third week of Occupy Wall Street with an interview with author/activist/Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges on its ...
'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...
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...
Texting or emailing while driving is far more dangerous than previously thought and more than doubles a person's reaction times a new study has found. Researchers from Texas A&M University's Transportat...
[image: Lord McColl said politicians refused to admit that the cause of obesity was over-eating] Lord McColl said politicians refused to admit that the cause of obesity was over-eating Britain is facin...
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 Fadem, and Deirdre Wilson of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners By Angola 3 News ...
It is often thought of as one of the qualities which distinguishes humans from animals. And a new study has shown that the ability to tell the difference between right and wrong is a skill which even ba...
Debra White Plume, Lakota from Pine Ridge, tells the 'Great White Father' Obama that the Lakota Nation has not given "free, prior and informed consent" for this pipeline to poison Mother Earth. Photo by R...
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...
[image: Vexing texting: Hunching over a small screen can cause headaches over time] Vexing texting: Hunching over a small screen can cause headaches over time First it was ‘texter’s thumb’. Now gadget a...
*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 - 1 day 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...
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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...
*Read this heavily researched link for CONSERVATIVES who support the Wall St Protesters!* *Serious infraction by the globalists - Cops attacking FOX NEWS* How's Rupert going to explain away this one? Won'...
*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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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? ...
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Holy Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLg2YauMuiYhttp://
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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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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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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*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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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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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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...
- http://www.alexnoble.typepad.com/occupy/ Original graphic composition by Alex Noble.
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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*Cary Grant, Dyan Cannon and their child.* *Cary Grant force-fed his wife LSD. * Cary Grant's ex-wife *Dyan Cannon* reveals this in her book *'Cary Grant'*, published by Robson Press. (My husband Cary...
An explosive device has been found in a polling station in Western Poland as the country is holding parliamentary elections, announced Poland’s Central Electoral Commission, cited by *ITAR-TASS*. A pollin...
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck East of Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 12 km (7.4 miles), the quake hit at 07:34:38 UTC Sunday 9th October 2011. The epicenter was 20 km ( 12.4 miles) East of...
Anak Krakatau volcano monitoring post reported Saturday increasing volcanic tremors at the famous volcanic island, located in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra. Head of the volcano...
Jova, the newest hurricane to form in the Pacific Ocean, inched toward western Mexico early Sunday and is expected to intensify over the next two days. As of 8 p.m. PT Saturday (11 p.m. ET), Jova was abo...
The National Air and Space Museum in Washington was closed Saturday after anti-war demonstrators swarmed the building to protest a drone exhibit and security guards used pepper spray to repel them. Smiths...
New research suggests the continuation of life on Earth depends on massive explosions on the other side of the galaxy. The explosions, gamma-ray bursts thought to occur when two stars collide, can release...
Photo courtesy: lukemcreynolds Trees are the largest and longest-living organism on earth. Trees renew our air supply by absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen. Trees clean the air by collecting du...
Photos courtesy: Rebecca Jackrel Did you have any idea there are wolves in Africa? Jackals, sure. Painted dogs, yep. But wolves? Turns out the Ethiopian wolf is the only wolf species on the continent, an...
[image: Link]Members of a golf club in Australia have something more to worry about than just their swing - playing on what's thought to be the world's first shark-infested course. Water hazards are a ch...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck offshore New Zealand at a depth of 50 km (31 miles), the quake hit at 07:07: NZDT Sunday 9th October 2011. The epicenter was 10 km ( 6.2 miles) Southwest of Te Kaha, Ne...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Mariana Islands Region at a depth of 20.9 km (13 miles), the quake hit at 05:13:39 UTC Sunday 9th October 2011. The epicenter was 245 km ( 152 miles) Southeast of ...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck offshore Antofagasta, Chile at a depth of 42..3 km (26.3 miles), the quake hit at 00:50:43 UTC Sunday 9th October 2011. The epicenter was 98 km ( 60 miles) SSW of Iqui...
American pelicans. Photo courtesy: dave and rose / cc When some people get angry they clench their teeth, shake their fists, and raise their voice. Craig Staloch, a farmer from Minnesota, slaughters an en...
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