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*Erdogan with his Jewish classmate Rafael Sadi. They studied economics together.* Why has Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, helped the USA and Israel in their attacks on Syria and North Afr...
* "Police Officers: * *Wake Up! Your Pensions Are Fooked!"* by
Karl Denninger "I told you so!
U.S. Bancorp was sued by an Oklahoma police pension fund over allegations investors in mortgage bonds were hu...
A couple of days ago he was getting his panties in a bunch about those evil Koch Brothers, today it's the Anglo-Saxon world in general: To those who despair of the success of sceptical lobbying, the messag...
*"Educated Guessing Game"* by Bill Bonner "Yesterday,
Silvio Berlusconi said he will leave government…once the legislature has agreed on an austerity program. Too bad. We’ll miss “The Cavalier.” Once, i...
Nasa engineers have come up with a material that absorbs more than 99 per cent of all light that strikes it. Absorbent material usually pulls in ultraviolet and visible light - but this new material also ...
Strolling along in scruffy jeans and sneakers, this is the young boy who police claim raped a girl of five in a McDonald's Playland. The youth, who could be as young as 13, is said to have touched the girl...
The fosslised remains of a massive colony of prehistoric birds - with claws and saw-like beaks - are giving scientists a new glimpse of life at the time of the dinosaurs. The new fossil find, which includ...
*"It's Time for All Americans to Occupy Washington, DC"* By
John W. Whitehead "We need to put pressure on Congress to get things done. We will do this with First Amendment activity. If Congress is unrespo...
Carl Oglesby. Photo by Jennifer Fels / AP / The Guardian.Occupy Heaven:The Memorial for Carl OglesbyBy Bruce Goldberg / The Rag Blog / November 10, 2011Born of a working class family in Akron, Ohio, Carl Ogl...
An extreme surfer is set to earn a place in the record books after riding a 90 foot wave. Garrett McNamara caught the monster wave during the ZON North Canyon Project in Praia do Norte, Nazaré, Portugal....
Former European Central Bank vice-president Lucas Papademos has been named as Greece's new prime minister, following days of negotiations. Mr Papademos, 64, said he was taking over at a "critical point" f...
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Question Time tonight comes from Newcastle upon Tyne. On the panel we have Nadine Dorries, the Sec of State for Scotland and LibDem Michael Moore, the Shadow Chief Sec to the Treasury Rachel Reeves, ne...
Railway workers are being made to take German lessons so they can understand safety instructions, it was revealed today. But forcing engineers to work in a language they are not familiar with presents 'bl...
David Cameron today warned that the eurozone debt crisis has placed Britain in 'clear and present danger'. The Prime Minister admitted that the government is preparing for 'every eventuality' as Italy str...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Greece at a depth of 6.9 km (4.3 miles), the quake hit at 17:25:40 UTC Thursday 10th November 2011. The epicenter was 27 km ( 16 miles) Northeast of Patras, Greece No R...
We've taken down the snow since it seems to have been causing trouble for some users, sadly. We were really excited about it! We'd also like to remind readers to turn off "Adblocker" or similar features o...
[image: Link] Medicine and Capitalism in America Introduction The crisis in today's health care system is deeply rooted in the interwoven history of modern medicine and corporate capitalism. The major grou...
Squid and octopus can dramatically change color to hide from predators, offering insights into the secrets of invisibility.
The DoD is pursuing plans to build a vehicle can drive off-road, survive small-arms fire and rapidly reconfigure into an aircraft.
A recent test shows aerial drones can monitor fires from the sky and keep firefighters safe.
Ooma's wireless adapter frees the base that enables free land line service over broadband.
These earphones let you can crank up the tunes all the way without damaging your hearing.
Squid and octopus can dramatically change color to hide from predators, offering insights into the secrets of invisibility.
The DoD is pursuing plans to build a vehicle can drive off-road, survive small-arms fire and rapidly reconfigure into an aircraft.
A recent test shows aerial drones can monitor fires from the sky and keep firefighters safe.
We're one year out from Election Day but the 1% has one big thing going for them: virtually all the country's wealth, almost entirely stolen or illegitimately created. And they give it to slick purveyors...
Undercover officers who made arrests London*Occupy Movement: Police infiltrators, provocateurs and self-appointed spies* *Cens**ored News* *Click here for article* Today, Censored News shares news of the un...
The UN atomic watchdog's hardest-hitting report to date on Iran's suspected nuclear weapons drive is probably too weak to convince Russia and China of the need for more sanctions, analysts said Wednesday. ...
Israel's military and intelligence services Web sites crashed for several hours last weekend in what appeared to be a cyberattack, an event that carried the potential of crippling the computer systems of t...
[image: Joe Minter, Harry Turner, and Mabel Nunn demonstrate outside the Jefferson County courthouse as the county commissioners meet about the Jefferson County bankruptcy on 12 August 2011 in Brimingham...
Italy's debt woes signal "a new, even more dangerous phase in Europe's debt crisis," Mohamed El-Erian, co-chief investment officer at PIMCO, said Wednesday. El-Erian, who helps oversee more than $1.2 tril...
Two young Milwaukee women were arrested this week after an 18-year-old Arizona man--who traveled to Wisconsin by bus after meeting one of the suspects online--told cops that he was held captive in the duo’...
This crime was once considered rare: New York City bus drivers assaulted by people who spit on them. But it’s so commonplace today, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is considering a plan to colle...
Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) says President Obama's continued use of the executive order "brings the modern presidency dangerously close to an elective dictatorship...
[image: Map of All Recorded Deaths During U.S. Invasion and Occupation of Iraq. guardian.co.uk, data from Wikileaks via Datablog] The Wikileaks Iraq war logs provide us with a unique picture of every dea...
Alabama's Jefferson County filed for bankruptcy court protection on Wednesday in the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. Commissioners for the county, which is home to Birmingham, the state's bi...
A Costa Mesa woman is accused of hitting her daughter and locking her in a closet because the child earned bad grades, according to court records. The 32-year-old woman is charged with one misdemeanor coun...
Italian borrowing costs reached breaking point on Wednesday after Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's insistence on elections instead of an interim government opened the way to prolonged instability and del...
Not since the Dean Scream has a Presidential campaign imploded in a matter of seconds. This clip may go down as one of the worst debate performances in US history:
[image: A woman uses a plastic tub to transport her children through floodwaters in Bangkok, 9 November 2011. Sukree Sukplang / REUTERS] From David Challenger, with CNN's Liz Neisloss and Kocha Olarn con...
A Marine found dead in his barracks room at Camp Pendleton early Sunday was beaten to death, a spokesman for the investigating agency said Tuesday. Ed Buice of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service said...
A suburban Kansas City woman was left sitting in a vinyl recliner for so long that her skin had fused to the chair and she had to be pried out to be taken to a hospital after suffering an apparent stroke, ...
China's export growth slowed further in October as the eurozone debt crisis and fears of a slowdown in the US dented demand for its goods, figures show. Shipments from China rose 15.9% from a year earlier,...
No wild black rhinos remain in West Africa, according to the latest global assessment of threatened species. The Red List, drawn up by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), has declar...
Three Chinese soldiers who fled their barracks armed with a rifle and hundreds of bullets are reported to have been killed. A fourth soldier who also fled from the Jilin city base was captured by police, ...
The European Union has drastically cut its growth forecast for the eurozone in 2012, from 1.8% down to just 0.5%. "Growth has stalled in Europe and there is a risk of a new recession," said European Commi...
A gunman has shot dead two people before killing himself at an aircraft plant in the south-east of the Czech Republic, police say. The shooting took place inside the Aircraft Industries plant, which produ...
n parks around the world, protesters continue to rally against the so-called one per cent of corporations and individuals who control the world's wealth. The charts below break down income distribution by ...
Tracks left in a B.C. sea floor half a billion years ago have been linked to a bizarre ancient predator with 66 legs. It is very rare for fossil tracks to be preserved on the sea floor, and it's even rare...
The massive coal black asteroid 2005 YU55 zoomed by Earth this week in harmless fashion, but interest groups say the relatively close encounter is a reminder the world is "a sitting duck in a cosmic shooti...
With the flood of woeful financial news coming out of Greece and Italy, it’s easy to forget something Goldman Sach’s Jim O’Neill is quick to point out – the world doesn’t depend on Greece and Italy. “Th...
The ashes of cremated body parts from some of the nation's war dead were dumped in landfills until 2008, unbeknownst to their survivors, an Air Force general acknowledged Wednesday. The practice was sto...
For thousands of Iraqi women and girls, the conflict that began in 2003 was only the start of their ordeals. In the chaos of war and the confusion, lawlessness and poverty that followed, an untold number ...
Duty-free shopping onboard may no longer be limited to watches and perfume. Ryanair is considering offering in-flight pornography to its passengers, according to a report on Tuesday in The Sun. The racy c...
A gas leak triggered an underground explosion that killed 19 miners Thursday in southwest China, state media reported, the latest fatalities in the nation's dangerous coal industry. Twenty-four people are...
The eurozone crisis has truly engulfed Italy -- but is it because the country is insolvent or simply unable to access funds easily in the financial markets? If Italy is solvent, a distinction can perhaps ...
All of this Joe Paterno/Jerry Sandusky/Penn St hoopla is about the 2002 incident. What about the 1998 incident no one's talking about? While Jerry Sandusky was STILL coaching with Joe Paterno on the sideli...
[image: Blizzard conditions in Western Alaska, 9 November 2011. A storm forecast to be one of the worst on record in Alaska lashed the state's western coastline Wednesday, tearing roofs off buildings and...
Even Job, the Rodney Dangerfield of the Bible, eventually got a break. So it's only natural for one in my ongoing predicament to wonder, When will this Mr. Bill shit finally end? I've been in the work fo...
* * *MNN EDITORIAL: Deadly shell game is over!* Mohawk Nation News http://www.mohawknationnews.com MNN Nov. 6, 2011. Western society is a closed society. Families are mostly immediate members. Victimizat...
That seems to be the attitude of the world's political leaders today in the face of warnings that our civilization's last best opportunity to avert devastating climate change is slipping through their fing...
The "News Shark" ate my comment ~Library Chronicles Cecile Tebo: The birth of violence ~Uptown Messenger Is Jefferson Parish School Board Member Michael R. Delesdernier a complete asshole? Lee Zurik repor...
Conservationists are fighting a rush to mine for gold with an unlikely weapon -- a miniscule organism.
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope peer back in time to study 69 galaxies when they were just babies.
Needless to say, the crooks in Congress have done nothing to substantively change the Beltway business model described by Abramoff on *60 Minutes*Sunday night. Watch it above. Now that he's out of prison,...
To all the Penn State students who think Joe Pa is a saint and amazing person and did nothing wrong, legally or morally, read the following. It is disturbing and disgusting. Because of Joe Pa and others no...
[image: Malaria vaccine - blood entry route discovered] The route all routes of the most deadly malaria parasite use to go through red blood cells has been identified by researchers at the Sanger Institute...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck offshore Guatemala at a depth of 58.1 km (36.1 miles), the quake hit at 12:49:57 UTC Thursday 10th November 2011. The epicenter was 69 km ( 43 miles) South of Escuintla...
An extreme surfer is set to earn a place in the record books after riding a 90 foot wave. Garrett McNamara caught the monster wave during the ZON North Canyon Project in Praia do Norte, Nazaré, Portuga...
Clashes continued in Syria Thursday leading to at least eight deaths, an opposition group said. In Idlib, five people were killed in clashes with security forces, the Syrian Observatory for Human Right...
According to Credit Union National Association (CUNA), headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, “Credit unions brought in 40,000 in new members, and added $80 million in new savings account funds, on last Sat...
A gas leak triggered an underground explosion that killed 19 miners Thursday in southwest China, state media reported, the latest fatalities in the nation's dangerous coal industry. Twenty-four people ar...
Moptop has pointed out the following fascinating press release: China Threatens Massive Venting of Super Greenhouse Gases in Attempt to Extort Billions as UNFCCC Meeting Approaches Both Al Gore and Jame...
A couple were caught on camera repeatedly throwing their pet dog into the sea, a court heard. John Nesbitt, 62, and Linda Jones, 51, hurled their four year old terrier dog called Jess into the sea from a ...
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*James Randi isn't just another magician*, he is a phenomenon. In 1978 I had the honour to meet him in Washington DC. While we walked from the National Press Club to the National Air Space Museum I had an...
Filmed Conjoined twin Tortoise with 2 shells,2 tails, 8 legs. 1 head, 3 eyes, 2 mouths,2 noses
A Soviet scientist has denied being the brains behind Iran's nuclear program, despite U.S. media reports that he helped put Tehran on the threshold of making an atomic bomb, a Russian newspaper said Thursd...
Iran's Supreme Leader warned the United States and Israel on Thursday not to launch any military action against its nuclear sites, saying it would be met with "iron fists," state television reported. "O...
Filleted fish were found dumped in Cedar along with carcasses of elk and deer Someone has dumped thousands of dead chum salmon in the Nanaimo River at the end of Raines Road in Cedar. Many of the fish ha...
With the deaths of nearly 500 birds at the Laurel Mountain wind facility recently, three of the four wind farms operating in West Virginia have now experienced large bird fatality events, according to Amer...
A Colfax-resident reported five dead deer near her home since mid-September, and suspects they may have died from a common virus. Fish and Game officials have yet to inspect the deer carcasses. One veter...
Reader Contribution; A Russian spacecraft designed to bring back soil samples from one of the moons of Mars veered off course Wednesday after its launch, clouding hopes Russia could pull off its first int...
Reader Contribution; An Egyptian pipeline delivering gas to Israel and Jordan was hit by two explosions Thursday, Egypt's security services and state media said, the seventh time it has been attacked by m...
The White House this week issued a statement saying there was no existing evidence that aliens had attempted to contact earth - or in fact that they even existed. But how can the Obama administration be s...
It is a relic from the Cold War, designed to get information from the White House to the people, should the worst happen. And there was something distinctly 20th century about the first test of the nation...
A riot involving thousands of Penn State football fans erupted last night at the announcement their long-term head coach Joe Paterno would be sacked with 'immediate effect' for his role in the sex scandal ...
The mystery of the feet washing ashore in Canada has widened with the discovery of yet another limb that has washed ashore of a lake in the region. The latest severed foot was found by young campers in a ...
A magnitude 3.2 earthquake has struck Oklahoma at a depth of 4.9 km (3 miles), the quake hit at 08:36:38 UTC Thursday 10th November 2011. The epicenter was 22 km ( 13 miles) NNE of Shawnee, Oklahoma No Repo...
Trouble on two fronts in Europe's debt crisis dragged the Dow Jones industrial average down 389 points Wednesday. The S&P 500 lost 3.7 per cent, its biggest one-day drop since August, after Italy's borro...
Magma off the Canary Island of El Hierro has been spewing 20 metres high as the sea boils with a smell of sulphur. As it grows and gets closer to the surface, more and more debris such as stones start to...
Trouble on two fronts in Europe's debt crisis dragged the Dow Jones industrial average down 389 points Wednesday. The S&P 500 lost 3.7 per cent, its biggest one-day drop since August, after Italy's borro...
Magma off the Canary Island of El Hierro has been spewing 20 metres high as the sea boils with a smell of sulphur. As it grows and gets closer to the surface, more and more debris such as stones start to...
Arriving in central Bangkok from the sparkling international airport, a visitor might not know at first glance that much of the city is under water. Shops and restaurants are open as usual, while the futu...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Southeast of the Loyalty Islands at a depth of 99.2 km (61.6 miles), the quake hit at 07:51:26 UTC Thursday 10th November 2011. The epicenter was 204 km ( 126 miles) S...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 05:43:20 UTC Thursday 10th November 2011. The epicenter was 6 km ( 3.4 miles) North of Edremit, Turkey ...
John Glaser, an editor at Antiwar.com, said everything that needs to be said about the latest propaganda assault on Iran by Israel and the hijacked United States. - The latest IAEA report about Iran's nuc...
In one of my postings earlierthis year, I covered a couple of reports on the Mothman phenomenon in the Eastern USA. Onthe observations and a comparable out of EnglandI suggested we were looking at a g...
Everyone fails to recognize an absolutetruth about Islamicism. A true believeraccepts that it is his sole mission to forcibly convert all non Muslims to thetrue way of Islam and all acts of leadership ...
This is another dose of whatpasses for politics as usual in the Middle East. The assertions of influence between thevarious parties are smoke blowing in the wind and the idea of a real commandand cont...
This week brings us news that theoutright removal of senescence cells may be a practical and successful protocolto end age related degeneration problems. In this article we identify two other sectors r...
*Haim Weizman (left) and Prince Feisal, 1918 * *Reportedly, the Saudi monarchs and their Wahhabi religion have Jewish origins. * *Wayne Madsen* has written about the Jewish connections to Saudi Arabia. (I...
[image: Asian stocks falls down-Europe debt crisis] *On Thursday the Asian shares fell after Italy's record-high cost of borrowing renewed fears over the euro zone debt crisis.* Analysts said some actions...
*US authorities have charged seven people with increasing software to hijack millions of computers worldwide. Six of them are Estonians, who have been arrested, while the seventh, a Russian, is still at ...
Australian shares fell about 3 per cent within minutes of opening, wiping $40 billion from the value of Australian companies. Investors are concerned the euro zone and international lenders would struggle...
After you read about this total miscarriage of good government, tell me again why Lee Hamilton was obviously the perfect "Democrat" to put in charge of the 9/11 investigation. Really. Try to tell me withou...
Rows of tents have become an unlikely symbol of protest since anti-capitalists pitched up outside St Paul’s Cathedral. But during yesterday’s attempt to start a new ‘Tent City’, activists were barely give...
This shocking CCTV footage shows the moment a thug dances down the street while swinging a cat by its tail. An unarmed man is seen bizarrely spinning while swinging the black cat at arms length - nearly s...
*Hope you enjoyed your one term**. * "Key backing for Obama slips in N.C." by Tracy Jan Globe Staff / October 17, 2011 DURHAM, N.C. - When Lucille Richmond cast her ballot for Barack Obama three years ...
At least seven people are dead and 18 buildings, including two hotels, have collapsed in eastern Turkey after a 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck near the Iranian border. Over 20 buildings collapsed in the ...
Israel will launch military action to prevent Iran developing a nuclear weapon as soon as Christmas, intelligence chiefs have warned. A report by a UN watchdog into Iran’s nuclear ambitions ‘completely di...
The economic contagion claimed Italy as its biggest victim last night, leaving Europe facing a ‘lost decade’ of financial chaos. Experts said Britain would be dragged into a second recession unless eurozo...
Researchers have warned that nearly 200,000 babies in Britain are at high risk of suffering abuse because they are born into families with domestic violence, mental health or addiction problems. *The NSP...
*by Noah* Who says the world’s corporate leaders are charter members of what I call "the endless parade of chimps, assholes, and morons"? Well, I do, for one. Here’s a prime example that you may have mis...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Utah at a depth of 0.1 km (0 miles Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 04:27:45 UTC Thursday 10th November 2011. The epicenter was 9 km ( 6 miles) Northwest of Orang...
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck near the North Coast of Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 20 km (12.4 miles), the quake hit at 02:34:52 UTC Thursday 10th November 2011. The epicenter was 277 km ( 172 mi...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 22:38:18 UTC Wednesday 9th November 2011. The epicenter was 5 km ( 3.1 miles) Northwest of Edremit, Turk...
- Reduced salt intake can trigger rise in cholesterol and increase risk of blood clots - Supports previous findings showing 'no strong evidence' cutting back salt lowers risk of premature ...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Kamchatka, Russia at a depth of 51.3 km (31.9 miles), the quake hit at 22:01:04 UTC Wednesday 9th November 2011. The epicenter was 99 km ( 61 miles) S...
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck South of the Mariana Islands at a depth of 9.9 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:52:20 UTC Wednesday 9th November 2011. The epicenter was 355 km ( 220 miles) SSE of...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands at a depth of 56.1 km (34.9 miles), the quake hit at 21:07:35 UTC Wednesday 9th November 2011. The epicenter was 266 km ( 165 miles) NNE of Raoul ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 20:45:40 UTC Wednesday 9th November 2011. The epicenter was 9 km ( 5.9 miles) Southeast of Van, Turkey N...
*It's not just his, it's his party's. * "Patrick takes combative tone as he stumps for Obama in N.H.; Says Congress, not president, needs to be voted out" November 06, 2011|By Martine Powers, Globe Staff ...
[image: Home workers struggle to escape the strains of family life] Home workers struggle to escape the strains of family life With no commute, unlimited tea breaks and no need to look smart, it sounds ...
Women aren't prioritising or enjoying sex as much as much as they should be, says the organisation behind a new sexual health survey. The annual WomenTALK study, commissioned by HealthyWomen, looked at t...
*And he has. It has precluded reporting on any other issue on the TV news.* "Penn State trustees oust football coach Joe Paterno, president Graham Spanier" Associated Press / November 9, 2011 STATE COLLEG...
[image: Knock the years off... by just smiling] Knock the years off... by just smiling Forget the face lift and push aside the anti-ageing creams - all you need to do is smile. A study found that the s...
At least five people died and more than 100 others were buried under rubble from a magnitude-5.7 earthquake that struck eastern Turkey Wednesday night, officials said. The death toll came from Deputy Pr...
"Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; the...
Telegraph : Thousands of U.S. warplanes, ships and missiles contain fake electronic components from China, leaving them open to malfunction, according to a US Senate committee. In total, the committee sai...
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*Police beat students at Occupy Berkeley, Wed., Nov. 9, 2011: Updated with three videos, identification of officers* Occupy Berkeley reports that police beat Joshua Anderson, graduate student, iin urgent...
The lecture below by author Manly P. Hall about the story of Armageddon and the final battle between good and evil was uploaded onto YouTube by 1Freshtymer1. Visit the Philosophical Research Society to le...
The headline of the article below says it all. The people who head the Pentagon are animals who don't have any morality, integrity or honour. They disrespect the dead and the living. Dumping the body part...
About two dozen Occupy Wall Street protesters have started a two-week walk from New York to Washington. We hope to pick up other participants along their 240-mile march and have likened the effort to long...
*If there was ever really a truth-telling Dr. Jekyll component of the supposedly Jekyll-and-Hyde-like Wall Street Journal holed up in the newsroom, it seems to have passed safely into oblivion.* *by Ken* ...
When NASA's New Horizons mission flies past Pluto in 2015, will the dwarf planet have a nasty surprise in store?
*But you will love it, America.* "Obama’s long-term care plan in doubt" October 18, 2011|By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press WASHINGTON - The *White House sent mixed messages* yesterday on the* f...
Italy’s bond yields passed 7% Wednesday morning, breaching a psychological point at which markets consider countries at risk of being unable to fund themselves. The dramatic rise in 10-year bond yields co...
NASA has painstakingly constructed a movie of radar observations of Asteroid 2005 YU55 as it passed Earth on Tuesday revealing some "puzzling structures" on its surface.
Teasing apart the effects of noise on birds shows humans are driving their feathered friends away.
“Cosmic clouds of gas and dust drift across this magnificent panorama, spanning some 17 degrees near the southern boundary of the heroic constellation Perseus. The collaborative skyscape begins with bluish...
*“Salt And Nerves”* by Chet Raymo “I like to think that every day offers at least one unique revelation, some one thing seen or experienced that has not been seen or experienced before, at least not in t...
*“Spirulina: 5 Grams Daily of This REVERSED Severe * *Radiation Poisoning in Chernobyl Children”* by Dr. Joseph Mercola “Due to the many requests I received from concerned readers asking for guidance abou...
The Liberal White Paper on party reform has been leaking out over the past few days, and will reportedly be released in full tonight. I'm sure there will be a lot of worthwhile ideas within it, but the one...
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*[image: _richardmcgrath]**Your weekly prescription of good sense from Libertarianz leader Dr Richard McGrath.* *This week, around the hustings.* I’ve attended so many meetings and shaken so many hands ...
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Mid- week and this is overdue! Over to you, gentle reader... Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
"Everyone rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self." - Michel de Montaigne
*“Vitamin D Defeats Depression Naturally,* * Without Nasty Side Effects”* by Patrick Gallagher “Studied across a wide variety (81000 count) of women of various paths and lifestyles, Vitamin D when found i...
*“Fibonacci: The Man Who Figured Out Flowers”* by Keith Devlin “Try to imagine a day without numbers. Try to imagine getting through the first hour of that day. No alarm clock, no time, no date, no televi...
Paul McCartney and Wings, “Mull of Kintyre” • Kintyre, Scotland. Thanks for stopping by.
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Not PC - 21 hours ago
Jim Tucker’s journalism school is running a poll on which politician people would like to screw. Which is kind of appropriate, since we spend so much being screwed by them. Content is copyright PC.BlogSp...
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Three pieces worth reading: Frank Rich: The Class War Has Begun. Bill Moyers: How Wall Street Occupied America. Chris Hedges: A Master Class in Occupation.
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Not PC - 22 hours ago
Eric Crampton asks, for the third time in three years, “is any country other than New Zealand both facing a binding Kyoto cap, by which I mean one that can only be met by costly efforts, and planning on ...
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wmtc - 22 hours ago
In case you haven't seen these yet: Through Avaaz, a letter to the premiers of all provinces to oppose the wrong-headed Conservative crime bill: here. Through the David Suzuki Foundation, a letter to Prim...
As we watch Italy's 10-year bond yields near 7.5pc and threaten to detonate the explosive charge on €1.9 trillion of debt, it is time for the world to reimpose order. You cannot allow the biggest bankrupt...
Police have launched an appeal to catch the man seen swinging the animal round outside the Camden Arms pub in Ramsgate, Kent. The two-year-old cat called Mowgli eventually managed to run away and return...
Developers should take the hint and convert phone and tablet sites to rely on HTML5.
Physical evidence for intelligent extraterrestrial life might be right in our backyard.
The Gates Foundation has awarded $100,000 to a Duke environmental engineer to develop a simple waste disposal system.
I'm not a huge Bill Maher fan, although I liked Religulous a lot. I wasn't a huge Anthony Weiner fan, although I liked his partisan fighting spirit, even if I distrusted the underlying ideological commit...
Particle physicists have developed useful simulation tools to help them predict the behavior of subatomic particles, with valuable applications in medical and space science to boot.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed Wednesday that Iran won't retreat “one iota” from its nuclear program, denying claims that it seeks atomic weapons. Key ally Russia gave the Islamic Republic a major boo...
China will launch armed patrols with Southeast Asian neighbours to protect ships along the Mekong River after 13 Chinese sailors were murdered on its upper reaches last month, media reported on Tuesday. T...
"The monster rises out of the water", screamed the Spanish newspaper La Provincia. Scientists, meanwhile, are being a bit more level-headed about the undersea volcano south of El Hierro in the Canary Islan...
The amorous connection between two inseparable male penguins will soon come to an end when the Toronto Zoo pairs them with females. “The males will be put in with a specific female so they have the chance ...
In the wake of the Herman Cain sexual harassment scandal, some conservatives are making outrageous and insulting statements about women who are sexual harassment victims. They ask, "Is there anyone who thi...
عاملون في صناعة تأجير تؤكد أنها عملية عسكرية قدامى المحاربين النفسية ، واستخدام إجراءات سحب مباشرة من دليل الجيش لمكافحة التمرد. الشرعية هي الهدف الرئيسي : أدخل الحكومة في الاختيار "إن الهدف الأساسي لأي ...
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A simple way to understand the anger of the #OccupyWallStreet crowd is not to look at what you think they might be saying, it’s to look at what they were taught. It explains virtually everything—their fo...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 4 km ( 2.4 miles), the quake hit at 19:30:11 UTC Wednesday 9th November 2011. The epicenter was 3 km ( 1.8 miles) East of Edremit, Turkey N...
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 4.8 km ( 3 miles), the quake hit at 19:23:35 UTC Wednesday 9th November 2011. The epicenter was 17 km ( 10 miles) South of Van, Turkey Unc...
Industry insiders confirm they hire military psychological operation veterans, and use procedures pulled straight from the Army’s counterinsurgency manual. *Legitimacy is the Main Objective: Insert t...
A headline at Think Progress front page *Politics* *Rep. Joe Walsh Explains His ‘Don’t Blame Banks’ Rant: I ‘Was Working On An Empty Stomach’* Yesterday, ThinkProgress reported on a testy exchange between...
By "guys" I'm referring to the 'day late, dollar short' Liberals who seem intent on taking a well-deserved dirt nap. It's a warning. From the International Energy Agency. It couldn't be clearer. "*T...
"A Gathering of the Tribe" by Charles Eisenstein "Once upon a time a great tribe of people lived in a world far away from ours. Whether far away in space, or in time, or even outside of time, we do not k...
How very nice, indeed... better enjoy it while it lasts. - CP
A Hawaiian big wave rider surfed what is considered the biggest wave ever. The video shows the surfer's impressive skill.
Cooked meat delivers more energy than raw and the way it's prepared (to pound or not to pound) also makes a difference in how it's digested.
Joe Frazier, who died on Tuesday, will be forever known for his fights with Muhammad Ali.
The TLC star Michelle Duggar is upping the ante and is pregnant with her 20th child.
The new Emergency Alert System updates the old technologies to tell citizens what to do during a national emergency.
"The rulers want the ruled to shut up and obey. The ruled want self-governance. The clash between the two is about which side's vision of itself and of the other is right and which is wrong. Because each ...
Cover of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
*Erdogan with his Jewish classmate Rafael Sadi. They studied economics together.* Why has Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, helped the USA and Israel in their attacks on Syria and North Afr...
A couple of days ago he was getting his panties in a bunch about those evil Koch Brothers, today it's the Anglo-Saxon world in general: To those who despair of the success of sceptical lobbying, the messag...
Nasa engineers have come up with a material that absorbs more than 99 per cent of all light that strikes it. Absorbent material usually pulls in ultraviolet and visible light - but this new material also ...
Strolling along in scruffy jeans and sneakers, this is the young boy who police claim raped a girl of five in a McDonald's Playland. The youth, who could be as young as 13, is said to have touched the girl...
The fosslised remains of a massive colony of prehistoric birds - with claws and saw-like beaks - are giving scientists a new glimpse of life at the time of the dinosaurs. The new fossil find, which includ...
An extreme surfer is set to earn a place in the record books after riding a 90 foot wave. Garrett McNamara caught the monster wave during the ZON North Canyon Project in Praia do Norte, Nazaré, Portugal....
Former European Central Bank vice-president Lucas Papademos has been named as Greece's new prime minister, following days of negotiations. Mr Papademos, 64, said he was taking over at a "critical point" f...
Question Time tonight comes from Newcastle upon Tyne. On the panel we have Nadine Dorries, the Sec of State for Scotland and LibDem Michael Moore, the Shadow Chief Sec to the Treasury Rachel Reeves, ne...
Railway workers are being made to take German lessons so they can understand safety instructions, it was revealed today. But forcing engineers to work in a language they are not familiar with presents 'bl...
David Cameron today warned that the eurozone debt crisis has placed Britain in 'clear and present danger'. The Prime Minister admitted that the government is preparing for 'every eventuality' as Italy str...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Greece at a depth of 6.9 km (4.3 miles), the quake hit at 17:25:40 UTC Thursday 10th November 2011. The epicenter was 27 km ( 16 miles) Northeast of Patras, Greece No R...
[image: Link] Medicine and Capitalism in America Introduction The crisis in today's health care system is deeply rooted in the interwoven history of modern medicine and corporate capitalism. The major grou...
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