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Photo courtesy: grammyssweetnothings.blogspot.com Have you ever wondered why geese fly in a "V" formation or how fast they can fly? Well, you're about to find out. During migration, it is common for Canad...
The U.S. nuclear regulator on Friday approved the restart of the Virginia plant rocked by summer's historic
East Coast earthquake. The
Nuclear Regulatory Commission said that after careful analysis it had ...
"Big, bright, and beautiful, spiral galaxy M83 lies a mere twelve million light-years away, near the southeastern tip of the very long constellation Hydra. This cosmic close-up, a mosaic based on data from...
[image: A Pakistani man pushes his bicycle while children run away as they get caught in a sandstorm on the outskirts of
Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, 8 November 2011. Muhammed Muheisen /
AP Photo] ISLA...
By Denis G. RancourtIn the steady state of a society, in the absence of large direct consequences of war at home, including civil war and class war, in the absence of believable threats of violence against t...
By Michelle Esteban 11 November 2011 SEATTLE – Debris the size of California is headed for the U.S. coast. The materials were swept out to sea after a massive earthquake and a tsunami hit Japan last ...
*"There are good people and institutions at the university and in State College who still need our support and involvement. Don’t walk away. Give your time, money and talents to those who are making a posi...
*Going to be waiting a long time.* *Last related*:* Sunday Globe Special: Wall Streets Protests Go Worldwide* *I'll pick up where I left off: * "Occupy movement, arrests continue to spread across US" Octo...
Virginia SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS" (Latin for "thus always to tyrants"). Depicting the state's motto on the flag is the goddess Virtue (who is holding a sword and a spear), who has defeated a tyrant, who is lyin...
It's a big man who can start a national column with an admission that he got it wrong. This little corner's been relatively silent on the whole Occupy thing, but now that it's gotten the Masters of the Un...
A star has been discovered with a record-breaking spin, but it will suffer one of the most violent explosions in the known universe.
Today is the 11th November 2011. On this day in 1918, the Great War finally ended with the signing of the Armistice at 11am. The War had been won by Germany in 1917, but the Zionist Establishment in Lon...
"As a result of this unrelenting propaganda against Iran, the talk now is not; ‘has Iran really got a nuclear weapons program’, or even; ‘if it has, how can this be a threat to any one of the nuclear arm...
A Canadian man claims to have captured video evidence of the legendary lake monster Ogopogo.
John Amato has been flooring me with all the research he's been gathering on Romney, especially the stuff from France and Mexico. I can't wait for Romney to get the nomination so Amato starts dropping tha...
John "Patriotic Truther" has long been a source of great news and information for the Coming Crisis on Youtube, as well as a friend of the website. We've decided to partner together and let John lead our...
An Embarrasment of Humanoid Riches by José Manuel Duran We sometimes complain that the subjects of our interest seldom receive the attention they deserve, and we're even forced to acknowledge at some point...
Humanoids in Galicia by Grupo FENIX The UFO wave remains in full force throughout the northern par to the country and some very well documented cases are becoming known. ENIGMAS magazine has visited the l...
Emiliano Zapata Municipality: The Mystery of the Forgotten Stones by Dr. Rafael A. Lara Palmeros, CEFP (Mexico) Since the end of December 1998, a series of insistent rumors had come to our attention: a bro...
*A bit hypocritically I might add*:"Penn State shows danger of putting sports beyond reproach November 10, 2011 TO MANY AT Pennsylvania State University, the beloved football program there long seemed be...
One Day on Earth is set to film today, will you be participating?
A growing number of smart phone apps are helping to make a tough transition from war zone to home a little smoother.
The response to the announcement of the creation of a “Dream Team” has been met with nearly unanimous approval. There have been the detractors, but there will always be detractors... Nothing can be done ab...
An ex-soldier shot himself at the Occupy Vermont encampment in Burlington yesterday, fellow protesters said. The 35-year-old was rushed to hospital in a critical condition but died shortly after arrival. ...
Australia is set to become home to hundreds of U.S. Marines - as America moves its servicemen to a military base on the northern tip of the country. In a bid to combat China's increase in global military a...
I am so so bogged down trying to write the next post about something that actually matters - our collapsing ecosystem. So briefly, here's all anybody needs to know about my regard for the gravity of the f...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Guatemala at a depth of 10.3 km (6.4 miles), the quake hit at 18:09:42 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 11 km ( 7 miles) Southeast Cuilapa, Santa Rosa, ...
*Pennsylvania by Lewis Hine * PENNSYLVANIA is the home of: *Hershey Childrens' Home sexual abuse* "The Milton Hershey School, the wealthy and nationally acclaimed free boarding school for disadvantaged c...
Pet owners in Albuquerque are on their guard after a spate of attacks on dogs by giant owls. Officials are uncertain if there is one owl on the prowl for small animals to eat, or whether there are several...
The consensus among astronomers is that the solar system has always had four giant planets – Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus. But now it’s claimed that it’s much more likely to have been home to a myst...
A man, whose teenage son was tragically killed in a car crash, died after crashing his own car after driving the wrong-way on the same highway hours later. Heartbroken father Sunil Sambhi's death on Thur...
* "Happy Belated Birthday, United State Marine Corps"* "The USMC birthday, November 10, comes on the eve of Veterans' Day, which was established to commemorate the signing of the armistice that ended Wor...
One of the world's greatest historical sites was closed today over fears Jewish Masons would try to claim it as their own on Magic Friday. Egypt's antiquities authority shut the biggest of the Giza pyramid...
Egyptian authorities took the step to avoid possible damage to the wonder from a rumored, bizarre ceremony.
Armed men stoned and shot dead a widow and her daughter in Aghanistan after the Taliban accused the women of 'moral deviation and adultery', according to reports. The killing happened on Thursday in the K...
*"As I've Aged"* Author Unknown “You ask me how it feels to grow older. I’ve learned a few things along the way, which I’ll share with you... As I've aged, I've become kinder to myself, and less critical...
The gadgets we marvel at can be used on us, not just by us.
*“Conversations: * *Samuel Johnson: Dying Easy & Supernatural Interposition...”* by VioletPlanet ”A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.” - Samuel Johnson *"A Conversation:* ...
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wmtc - 8 hours ago
Press conference with David Heap and Ehab Lotayef, on their abduction, kidnapping and detention by Israeli forces: here. And a message from the Irish boat:
Mexican Interior Minister Francisco Blake was killed in a helicopter crash on Friday, a blow to the government as it fights powerful drug cartels. Television images showed the scattered wreckage of the he...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck New Caledonia at a depth of 130.7 km (81.2 miles), the quake hit at 19:00:47 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 143 km ( 89 miles) SSE of Tadine, Loyalty ...
Protesters camped out at St Paul's Cathedral have rejected proposals by the London Corporation to help resolve the ongoing occupation. Around 200 protesters have been outside the historic building for the...
I want to grind a personal axe today- While this has to do with the news coverage of the occupy movement in Canada to some degree. What this is largely about the censorship media outlets practice in the ...
Today's date holds special significance for many around the world. Is there reason behind the superstition?
Last-ditch attempts are being made to rescue the Russian Mars mission, but the reality is that uncontrolled reentry scenarios are now being discussed.
Police in London have arrested 173 people - including many believed to be English Defence League supporters - in order to "prevent a breach of the peace". A group was held outside the Red Lion pub in Wes...
I’m always writing about the tenacity of the America Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). ALEC is like a nasty blood-sucking mosquito – you can’t just brush them away – ‘cause they will just keep coming b...
Tranquility Park - Houston 27 Houston cops arrest six protesters for having tarp in parkIn all, a total of 27 police officers responded to the scene in 19 squad cars, according to the protesters. Police h...
* "The Fallen" * "They went with songs to the battle, they were young, Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow. They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted; They fell with their faces to t...
I just did something unusual. I listened to Feedback on BBC radio 4, whereupon I heard a strange item. Roger Bolton summoned Alison Hastings,chair of the Trust’s Editorial Standards Committee, to talk abo...
From Chris Hedges' "War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning" * * *"When Ernie Pyle, the American war correspondent in World War II, was killed on the Pacific island of Ie Shima in 1945, a rough draft of a colu...
Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
For months, Serbs in Northern Kosovo have been putting up barricades against the hated Kosovo authorities as well as NATO peacekeepers. Little by little, they are growing accustomed to living in a cage o...
French energy firm Areva on Tuesday showed to the media a new nuclear power plant that it says can withstand serious accidents. The European Pressurized Reactor is located in Olkiluoto, southwestern Finla...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Ryukyu Islands, Japan at a depth of 108.8 km (67.6 miles), the quake hit at 17:09:46 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 217 km ( 135 miles) SSW of Ka...
Prime Minister George A. Papandreou went on national television on Wednesday evening to announce that a new interim government had been formed. But he did not name his successor, and in the hours that foll...
Thousands of students marched through London on Wednesday in the latest display of anger against the Conservative-led government’s austerity measures. Four similar protests by students late last year led ...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Western Montana at a depth of 6 km (3.7 miles), the quake hit at 17:51:54 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 8 km ( 4.9 miles) Southeast of Clinton, Monta...
The woman in the screenshot above has just jumped off a bridge onto a busy Chinese highway. In the video from which this screeshot was taken, it is clear the woman is still alive as she lies sprawled in ...
Russian scientists are struggling to get the country's first interplanetary mission in 15 years back on track. Should they fail, the probe that was due to head to the Martian moon Phobos may well turn in...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 26.3 km (16.3 miles), the quake hit at 17:57:23 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 45 km ( 28 miles) ENE of Van, Turkey No Re...
*"Completely and Utterly Fail in an Earthquake"* *The Fukushima story you didn't hear on CNN* *by Greg Palast* ** for FreePress.org Friday, November 11, 2011 I've seen a lot of sick stuff in my career, bu...
Traffic pollution's imprint may begin before birth as newborns with higher exposure show permanent genetic differences.
The exoskeleton helps lighten the load of a 132-pound anti-radiation vest.
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 37.9 km (23.6 miles), the quake hit at 16:06:18 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 177 km ( 110 miles) ...
The Liberal Roadmap to Renewal has been released and can be read here. There are several longer drafts floating around I've put on my weekend reading list, but at 80-100 pages, I may just wait for the movi...
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck the Tonga Region at a depth of 9.8 km (6.1 miles), the quake hit at 15:02:20 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 151 km ( 93 miles) Northeast of Neiafu, To...
One of the buzz stories of the week is in the new *Rolling Stone*, How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich. Where I grew up, they were always the Party of the Rich. Alas, in recent decades the Democrats ...
On this day I sometimes thumb through my dog-eared copy of Barry Broadfoot's "*Six War Years, Memories of Cahadians at Home and Abroad (1974)." *Broadfoot used the same technique as he did for his earl...
Russia launched an unmanned probe to one of Mars’ moons – Phobos – in the early hours of Wednesday, but it has hit technical trouble. Federal Space Agency officials say they have three days to sort the p...
Economists across the Continent have been warning about it for months. Now, the European Union too has said that a recession in the euro zone has become a distinct possibility. "Growth has stalled in Europ...
I confess the fact that a scientist in Texas made recently made the first strands of an invisibility cloak makes me really happy. Really nerdy, but really happy. I confess that as evil as they can be, I...
BBC, Reuters, AFP, and many other sources didn't overlook a message conveyed by the top Czech nuclear safety watchdog to IAEA: since October, the Czech stations (in Prague, ÚstÃ, and elsewhere: not in Pi...
The U.N. nuclear agency is reporting "very low" — but higher than usual — levels of radiation in the Czech Republic and elsewhere in Europe. The International Atomic Energy Agency says the "very low levels...
The Pentagon crowd-sources parachute problems in humanitarian food drops.
A 4-year-old boy is in the fight of his young life after he was shot in the chest during a botched robbery in the Bronx. Police said the gunman, identified as 17-year-old Mauricio Acosta, pulled the trigg...
An armed elderly-looking man who robbed a bank inside a grocery a store in La Jolla was the so-called “Geezer Bandit,” according to the FBI. The bandit entered a Wells Fargo Bank located inside a Vons at 7...
An elderly Amish man has been attacked by his own son, who a sheriff says cut the man's hair and beard in the latest incident in a breakaway Amish community. The victim told the sheriff he was scared and u...
The home base for Occupy Atlanta has tested positive for tuberculosis. The Fulton County Health Department confirmed Wednesday that residents at the homeless shelter where protesters have been occupying ha...
A young man was fatally shot Thursday evening just yards from the Occupy Oakland encampment outside City Hall. And before the ambulance had even pulled away, people were debating whether the killing was so...
France is drawing up plans to create a breakaway organisation of eurozone countries with its own treaty, parliament and headquarters – a move that could significantly undermine the existing European Union....
Army Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs has been sentenced to life in military prison with eligibility for parole in 10 years. A military court-martial Thursday found Gibbs guilty of murdering three Afghan civilians...
Rep. Phil Gingrey has had three professions. He is a success in two of them. Gingrey was an obstetrician and proudly reports on his website that he has delivered 5,200 babies. He is a politician, represent...
That's right, high level rivers of moisture crossing the globe. Some are thought to carry more water than the Amazon. A report in *New Scientist* claims it was an Atmospheric River (AR) that caused the ...
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CENSORED NEWS - 11 hours ago
Photo: Alameda Sheriff Deputies beating protesters, including young women, at UC-Berkeley on Wednesday. *Union City Police Officer blogs about Oakland and Alameda Sheriff's officers doing the 'dirty work' ...
From corrupt and incompetent local officials to Wall Street's credit crisis and toxic bonds, there was plenty of blame to go around on Thursday, a day after Alabama's Jefferson County declared the biggest ...
Vice President Joseph R. Biden, the landlord, can count on at least 12 more months of rental income from the agency that protects his life. Federal spending records show the U.S. Secret Service approved a ...
Oakmont Police are investigating after a 64-year-old man was hit in the head by a pumpkin. Police Chief David DiSanti says Rose and Daniel Wagner were walking along the 900-block of Pennsylvania Avenue ...
A group of armed men have stoned and shot dead a woman and her daughter in Afghanistan's Ghazni province, security officials have told the BBC. The officials blamed the Taliban, who they said had accused t...
The US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has said a military strike against Iran could have "unintended consequences". He said it would only delay Iran's nuclear efforts by three years at most. Correspondent...
Meet Oakland police officer Fred Shavies who infiltrated the Occupy Oakland movement. He says the police violence against the Occupy protesters could be their "Birmingham moment." It's a rambling comment...
Conservationists in New Zealand have blamed a technical glitch after 800 endangered giant land snails were accidentally frozen to death. The rare snails, rescued from an area earmarked for coal mining, wer...
The Syrian government's "systematic" crackdown on civilians amounts to crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said in a report issued Friday. The watchdog group has already urged the Arab League to pr...
Government forces shelled southwestern Yemen on Friday, killing 10 people and injuring 32 others, medics said. Fighting was ongoing in six areas in Taiz province, witnesses said. Clashes have intensified ...
The commercial heart of Thailand's capital is still at risk of flooding, with the next 10 days likely to be crucial in the battle to keep dry. So far the Central Business District, or CBD, has been shielde...
At least two bombs were dropped near the Yida refugee camp in South Sudan, resulting in an undetermined number of casualties, the spokesperson for U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday. "We are...
China's censors are trying to keep online criticism and rumours from reaching a broader audience, issuing new orders prohibiting news media from reporting internet postings before they are verified. The r...
At least two bombs were dropped near the Yida refugee camp in South Sudan, resulting in an undetermined number of casualties, the spokesperson for U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday. "We are...
Bette Grande, a North Dakota Republican running for Congress, says she'll "padlock the doors" of America's Environmental Protection Agency. Watch her bizarre campaign video:
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wmtc - 12 hours ago
It's 11.11.11 !!! And I'm posting this at 11:11, of course. 10.10.10 was cool, and 12.12.12 will be cool, too. And I love palindromes, so 12.22.21, if I'm around for it, will be totally kickass. But 11.11....
The Italian senate has adopted a package of austerity measures designed to avoid a bailout of the eurozone's third largest economy. The package is expected to get final approval in a vote by the lower hous...
If you want to know which way the political winds are blowing, watch John McCain. He was noticeably moderate, even a tad progressive, when he first ran against George w. Bush for the Republican nomination...
Saw a post on Huffington this morning that was of interest More than 60 state legislators are gathering for the invite-only leadership retreat hosted by the Progressive States Network, a group providing ...
It's been going on since January - record winds, an earthquake, floods, drought, tornadoes. Call it "global weirding" Oklahoma style. "*Even for Oklahoma, this is crazy," said Rick Smith, a National Weat...
In the last six weeks, Herman Cain has raised a whopping $9,000,000 in cash, $2.25 million coming since the sexual harassment scandal broke on * Politico* late last month. At the rate the money is flowing ...
Men in prehistoric Europe manipulated their privates with body art and piercings in ritual and to just fit in.
A solar-powered structure could transform desert air into ice and water.
Turn your existing coaxial cables into a network that maximizes wired, wireless and wide-band multimedia.
[image: The tanker Awanuia moves into position astern of the stricken container ship Rena to take a line which will transport oil between the two ships, about 12 nautical miles (22 km) from Tauranga, on ...
According to *Salon's* David Sirota, America is coming to its senses. He attributes it to a recent awareness of just two things - his country's burgeoning wealth gap and its collapsing social mobility. ...
[image: Pages from 'The Notebook', which investigative journalist Greg Palast uses to reveal that two senior nuclear plant engineers inspected the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and found that the plant...
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wmtc - 13 hours ago
There's only one thing wrong with this cartoon: it shows an actual sticker, rather than a magnet. These folks usually don't "support the troops" enough to glue a piece of plastic to their vehicles.
Musicians roundtable discussion on New Orleans noise ordinance is Saturday ~Allison Fensterstock Happy Veterans' Day Y'all! ~I believe that all Veterans of our Armed Forces should recieve: 1- All the benefi...
It's called the "Air-Sea Battle" concept and the US military has established a separate agency to put it into operation. Reading the Marine Corps concept summary the unmentioned name "Iran" leaps out at t...
Iodine 131 - also called radioiodine (though many other radioactive isotopes of this element are known), is an important radioisotope of iodine. It has a radioactive decay half-life of about eight days. I...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 94 km (58.2 miles), the quake hit at 14:00:08 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 23 km ( 14.2 miles) Northeast of Nabire, P...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 17 km (10.6 miles), the quake hit at 13:45:10 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 24 km ( 15.2 miles) North of Van, Turkey No ...
We have no defensible choice but to end the development of the Athabasca Tar Sands. The 'best case scenario' International Energy Agency analysis released a few days ago warns we're on course to exhaust...
A 20-year-old man suspected of carrying out a sick attack on a cat today walked into a police station and gave himself up after the RSPCA was inundated with calls identifying him. The suspect has been nam...
*Miss McConnell was booted out of the Army after one week for groping a private's privates. He's been getting revenge ever since* Maybe last week you saw the vicious attack by self-entitled 1%-er Steve Wo...
The extremely rare meteorite was found by a farmer in a tiny Missouri town called Conception Junction (population 202).
No Federal law requires your employer to carry health insurance coverage for employees (a few states, like Massachusetts and Hawaii, are different). However, once they do have coverage, there are some Fede...
*Greece's new coalition cabinet and Prime Minister-designate Lucas Papademos are due to be officially sworn in, after a week of political chaos. The new government's most pressing task is to approve Gree...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 33.6 km (20.9 miles), the quake hit at 12:44:12 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 176 km ( 110 miles) ...
Fat snowflakes began to fall onto dozens of rescue workers laboring with jackhammers and hack-saws through the rubble of a five story hotel, which collapsed in Wednesday night's 5.6 magnitude earthquake....
W*ith Europe slowed down in crisis, President Barack Obama is launching a charm offensive this week to hitch the U.S. economy to growth opportunities in Asia that he hopes can help power the recovery he ...
Government forces shelled southwestern Yemen on Friday, killing 10 people and injuring 32 others, medics said. Fighting was ongoing in six areas in Taiz province, witnesses said. Clashes have intensified...
Another blogger has been beheaded by a drug cartel as a warning for those who use social media to report illegal activities and tip off police. The moderator of a social network was left under a blood-sta...
Isn’t Kevin Connolly like Mark Mardell? They’ve both got alliterative sounding names, their voices sound similarly sneery, and they even wear the same shirt. Kevin has been busy in the West Bank recordin...
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. After seeing these photos the boy's parents brought him to the police. ...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Ryukyu Islands, Japan at a depth of 38.5 km (23.9 miles), the quake hit at 11:34:45 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 236 km ( 147 miles) SSW of Kag...
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have received a letter from a person claiming to be responsible for the Halloween night death of a teenager from British Columbia. Taylor Van Diest, 18, was dresse...
The man allegedly caught on CCTV swinging a cat around by its tail has handed himself in to police, the RSPCA says. A statement released by the charity says a 20-year-old man from Ramsgate voluntarily ha...
Two offshore racers have been killed after their powerful speedboat flipped up into the air before crashing at high speed at a world championship event. Spectators and organisers watched as Big Thunder M...
Eating brown bread or wholegrain cereals three times a day cuts the risk of bowel cancer by a fifth, a major study has shown. But surprisingly, researchers found no 'significant evidence' that eating mo...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Izu Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 41.4 km (25.7 miles), the quake hit at 10:10:23 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 185 km ( 115 miles) ESE of...
*Yes, of course: this blog entry was accidentally posted in an 11-dimensional Universe on 11/11/11 at 11:11:11* *Go elsewhere to learn everything about 11* Last night, I went to Aussig (Czech: *Ústà nad L...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 10:02:46 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 286 km ( 177 miles) E...
With the eurozone in disarray, it's hardly the time for the EU to be flag waving. But proposals passed by the European Parliament yesterday say our sporting heroes should wear the EU flag on their nationa...
A senior manager of Transport for London fell six storeys to his death in front of shocked colleagues at the company's headquarters after allegedly hearing he was being made redundant. Jack Shemtob, 53, ...
A solicitor worried about paying his children’s private school fees jumped in front of a train and killed himself, an inquest heard. Vincent Buffoni, 49, was spending up to £30,000 a year to send Matthew, ...
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Biased BBC - 18 hours ago
[image: Limmy apologises for controversial tweets as Tory MP Louise Mensch gets involved] Is Brian "Limmy" Limond worthy of a BBC license payer funded pay cheque? "Scottish comedian Brian ‘Limmy’ Limond h...
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Biased BBC - 18 hours ago
[image: Mark Mardell] Mark Mardell is a busy chap these days. One moment is his salivating at Rick Perry's 53 seconds of forgetfulness during the latest GOP debate (It's finished Perry, reckons Mardell, a...
Africa's western black rhino is now officially extinct according the latest review of animals and plants by the world's largest conservation network. The subspecies of the black rhino -- which is classifi...
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Biased BBC - 18 hours ago
I wonder why some people get the idea that the BBC is pro-Palestinian and resolutely anti-Israel. Give this a listen. and weep. The bias is effortless. Click through to read and contribute comments on thi...
Venezuelan federal authorities on Thursday dispatched their "best investigators" to track the kidnappers of Major League Baseball catcher Wilson Ramos, the country's justice minister said. Ramos, a risin...
Facing international worries about the potential global impact of the country's financial crisis, Italy gave indications Thursday that there may be growing support for former EU commissioner Mario Monti to...
When the euro became official tender 12 years ago, it was hailed as an economic and social savior, "the beginning of a strong European Union," according to the EU's top official at the time. But now, in ...
The commercial heart of Thailand's capital is still at risk of flooding, with the next 10 days likely to be crucial in the battle to keep dry. So far the Central Business District, or CBD, has been shield...
Europe has been warned it could be *heading for a new recession next year*because of a "vicious circle" of government debt, vulnerable banks and a lack of consumer spending. US treasury secretary Timothy ...
The Syrian regime has committed crimes against humanity during its ongoing crackdown in Homs, according to a report by Human Rights Watch. The organisation says there is evidence of "systematic abuse" of ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia at a depth of 64 km (39.8 miles), the quake hit at 08:52:32 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 206 km ( 128 miles) SSE of Gen...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Araucania, Chile at a depth of 33.8 km (21 miles), the quake hit at 08:08:48 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 69 km ( 42 miles) SSW of Los Angeles, Bio-...
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*If Russian space scientists and engineers* don't succeed in restarting the engines of their "Phobos-Grunt" Mars mission it will return to Earth in an uncontrolled way about December 18th. Its cargo? Toxic...
Besides vapor, ice and liquid, a fourth form of water may exist at minus 54 degrees Fahrenheit.
*U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Thursday for a diplomatic resolution to the nuclear standoff with Tehran in a clear reaction to media speculation that Israel might attack Iran's atomic faci...
The real interesting thought hereis that a pig out diet of raw meat appears to specifically boost heart tissuegrowth. I put it that way to show justhow contrary this is to our traditional thinking. I...
I never miss a chance to be acheerleader for chocolate and research continues to support its role in allcirculatory diseases. Because it hasbeen used pretty exclusively in sugar based products in our o...
Read this item slowly. We can now construct a three dimensionalmatrix in silicon and establish a photonic switching system interlinked withelectronic control. Early days but it isall there to seriou...
One would think that with thehuge advances in imaging technology, that we would have a superior grasp of therelative positions of our stellar neighbors. Most folks do not know we are part of a supergro...
* Sir Keith Murdoch* Sir Keith Murdoch was the father of Rupert Murdoch. Sir Keith Murdoch made his name reporting on British bungling at Gallipoli in 1915. According to Piers Brendon, Sir Keith's report...
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Biased BBC - 21 hours ago
This is beginning to look like let's get Richard Black, but he (and the BBC idiots who employ him) deserve it. There is a delicious irony in this story. Mr Black has come out all guns blaring in support of...
Most galaxies are tiny little things, and two new dwarf galaxies have been spotted near the huge Andromeda Galaxy.
*Stocks around the globe returned to positive territory Thursday, a day after European fear sparked steep losses. Europe's woes, however, remain a clear and present danger to the fragile U.S. economic re...
Permalink *Abandoned Youth - No More Future * ------------------------------ Written by Michael Collins Wednesday, 09 November 2011 Where is the future when there are no more jobs? The Money Party ...
Riot police fired tear gas and used batons to disperse protesters angry at the state's relief efforts after the second earthquake in eastern Turkey in three weeks killed at least 12 people in the city of V...
"The minute we fell for 9/11 we signed our doom," said Paul Craig Roberts on the Alex Jones Show on November 9, 2011. Alex responded, "9/11 is America's death warrant." In the ten years since 9/11, Ameri...
MPs from all parties agreed to draw up plans to repatriate powers from Brussels yesterday amid warnings that France and Germany are hell-bent on creating a 'two-speed' Europe. In an escalation of politica...
Europe made £3.7billion of dodgy payments last year, incorrectly blowing taxpayers' cash on agriculture, energy and transport. The wasted money was revealed as the European Court of Auditors refused to si...
It's childish to say that there's no difference between the two parties. There are very real, very significant differences, differences that make thoughtful people hold their noses while they pull the lev...
Breaking News: Did Police Go Too Far With Clashes at Berkeley? Video shows police attacking protesters with batons, bluntly striking them in their abdomens and elsewhere. - Police are clearly seen striking...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near El Hierro, Canary Islands at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 00:20:14 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 52 km ( 32.2 miles) South of...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck South of the Mariana Islands at a depth of 26.9 km (16.7 miles), the quake hit at 22:17:34 UTC Thursday 10th November 2011. The epicenter was 230 km ( 142 miles) South...
The Conservatives admit to overspending by $420,000 and are found guilty of breaking election laws. The punishment? A $50,000 fine...or about the amount they'll raise from their next anti-CBC e-mail. Wh...
“What powers the Heart Nebula? The large emission nebula dubbed IC 1805 looks, in whole, like a human heart. The nebula glows brightly in red light emitted by its most prominent element: hydrogen. The red ...
*"Celebrating The Commonplace"* by Chet Raymo "Sometimes it's fun to think about things that no one has thought about before. Some things are thought about for the first time because to do so requires ge...
“It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living. Because we are alone with the unfamiliar presence...
John Amato has been flooring me with all the research he's been gathering on Romney, especially the stuff from France and Mexico. I can't wait for Romney to get the nomination so Amato stops dropping that...
*"The American people have to decide what’s worse, forgetting which agencies you plan to get rid of or forgetting which ladies you tried to nail when you were running the National Restaurant Association. ...
*Breaking news today on the Keystone XL Pipeline fight!* *By Indigenous Environmental Network* *November 10, 2011* *Mother Earth Achieves a Victory Today with Obama Administration Decision to Delay the Ke...
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It's that time of year again, the week when no one dares show their face on Canadian television, or indeed in any public place in Canada, without a red poppy symbol dutifully stuck on his or her lapel. Wha...
*San Juan College Speaker’s Series about Civil Rights and Navajo Human Rights w**ith Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission* *Native American Week at San Juan College in Farmington, New Mexico **November 1...
Most conservationists would agree that you should not interfere with mother nature. But there are exceptions to every rule. Staff and tourists at Kapani Safari Lodge in Zambia were caught by surprise when...
Check out Flynt Leverett's interview on Antiwar Radio with Scott Horton on November 8, 2011.
Nicosia, Cyprus. Thanks for stopping by.
"We do not rest satisfied with the present. We anticipate the future as too slow in coming, as if in order to hasten its course; or we recall the past, to stop its too rapid flight. So imprudent are we th...
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*"The Conservative Party was fined $52,000 for breaking election rules in a deal that saw charges dropped against four senior officials, but guilty pleas by the organizations for which they made the deci...
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Not PC - 1 day ago
*In a lacklustre, blancmange campaign based on little more than partial promises, partial truths, partial privatisations, and will-he-won’t-he wetness about cups of tea or a lie (or two), it’s a struggle...
Archaeologists digging in Rome's Palatine Hill have found the remains of a house they believe is the birthplace of Rome's first emperor.
A new social networking site pays users a cut of the ad revenue in what could be a new business model for others.
*"Social Psychosis and Collective Sanity"* by Winslow Myers "We know from the sad experience of Nazi Germany or Khmer Rouge Cambodia that it is possible for whole nations to become mentally ill, with hor...
"If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names." - Elbert Hubbard
*"Who Am I: The Heart Of Unknowing"* by The DailyOm "The question of who we are is a seed that can bear much fruit if given the chance to unfold. At some point in our lives, or perhaps at many points in ...
Federal lawyers seek to overturn ruling on Corps of Engineers’ liability ~Sandy Rosenthal, Levees.org
Wall Street made it clear to the political class they would pay-- and pay big-- to get out from under the restrictions of Glass-Steagall. They tried all during the Reagan and the Bush I years but it wasn'...
Russian flight controllers are working to salvage the 15-ton Phobos-Grunt Mars spacecraft that is stranded in a very low orbit around Earth after a botched launch Tuesday.
Several species of rhino have been poached into extinction or to the point of no return, according to an update of the Red List of Threatened Species, the gold standard for animal and plant conservation.
"Blick auf den Planeten Erde" by Heikenwaelder Hugo, Austria / Wikimedia Commons.When too big to failis too big not toWhere bailout theory comes a cropper, no matter who’s doing or who’s receiving the bailou...
Graphics from the Center for Media and Democracy.ALEC Naked:More news from the 'vastright wing conspiracy'By Paul Beckett / The Rag Blog / November 10, 2011MADISON, Wisconsin -- It’s all we needed! Another ...
It's been rough month for Iran hawks. After the Justice Department's recent sensationalized announcement of an outlandish Iranian plot to enlist a bumbling former used-car salesman in Texas to hire a not...
*I guess I should have watched the debate, although a person I know that did (God bless 'em) told me Perry's faulty memory was the most memorable moment of the debate. * *Printed Globe did tell me that, b...
Great article from The Hill today, and another great article on The Hilltoday. Several other House Republicans listed as signers also indicated they did not currently feel bound by the pledge. Several Re...
*So does the **AmeriKan War Media*: "King monument takes its place on National Mall" October 17, 2011|By Helene Cooper, New York Times WASHINGTON - Promising that “change can come if you don’t give up,’’ ...
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Not PC - 1 day ago
*[image: _richardmcgrath]**You can’t keep a good doctor down. Here’s Doc McGrath’s update from the campaign trail in the Wairarapa electorate, where he received 453 votes at the last election, Libertaria...
"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brushfires in people's minds." - Samuel Adams
*“Americans Are Now Living In A Society That Rivals Orwells 1984”* by Paul Joseph Watson and Alex Jones “Americans are now living in a society that in some cases is more draconian, more invasive and more ...
Want fresh air? Better just open a window. Some air fresheners are shown to cause eye and throat irritation, headaches and dizziness.
Two newly found pockets of gas contain only original elements created minutes after the universe's birth.
The Women and Fair Trade festival. Image from the group's website.Sustaining indigenous traditions:The Women and Fair Trade FestivalThe people want fair markets, not 'free trade.'By Josefina Castillo and Jud...
*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 Afri...
* "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...
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Photo courtesy: grammyssweetnothings.blogspot.com Have you ever wondered why geese fly in a "V" formation or how fast they can fly? Well, you're about to find out. During migration, it is common for Canad...
The U.S. nuclear regulator on Friday approved the restart of the Virginia plant rocked by summer's historic East Coast earthquake. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said that after careful analysis it had ...
*"There are good people and institutions at the university and in State College who still need our support and involvement. Don’t walk away. Give your time, money and talents to those who are making a posi...
Today is the 11th November 2011. On this day in 1918, the Great War finally ended with the signing of the Armistice at 11am. The War had been won by Germany in 1917, but the Zionist Establishment in Lon...
John Amato has been flooring me with all the research he's been gathering on Romney, especially the stuff from France and Mexico. I can't wait for Romney to get the nomination so Amato starts dropping tha...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have received a letter from a person claiming to be responsible for the Halloween night death of a teenager from British Columbia. Taylor Van Diest, 18, was dresse...
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