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A couple weeks ago we mentioned the trouble brewing between Justin Bieber-- on behalf of internet freedom-- and Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar
(MN)-- on behalf of censorship and corporate dominance. Al...
Christmas seems to come earlier and earlier every year. But rarely have the tinsel, baubles and lights springing up in the high streets seemed quite so incongruous. For while we may be two weeks into wint...
A boy of ten suspected to have been kidnapped by a paedophile was rescued after he was seen banging on a flat window shouting ‘please help, I’ve been kidnapped’. He had been snatched off the street 300 ya...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck South of Panama at a depth of 29.2 km (18.1 miles), the quake hit at 01:49:03
UTC Tuesday 15th November 2011. The epicenter was 317 km ( 196 miles) South of David, Pana...
A magnitude 3.4 earthquake has struck
Central California at a depth of 3.8 km (2.4 miles), the quake hit at 00:40:18 UTC Tuesday 15th November 2011. The epicenter was 28 km ( 18 miles) WSW of Cartago, Calif...
A magnitude 3.2 earthquake has struck Central California at a depth of 4.8 km (3 miles), the quake hit at 22:33:33 UTC Monday 14th November 2011. The epicenter was 16 km ( 10 miles) WSW of
Toms Place, Calif...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 22:08:15 UTC Monday 14th November 2011. The epicenter was 30 km ( 18 miles) Northwest of
Van, Turkey No...
Penn State fans. Image from The Big Lead.Fan culture, rape culture,and the world Joe Paterno madeThe pain might run deeply in Happy Valley but the cancer runs deeper.By Dave Zirin / The Rag Blog / November 1...
Hours after the eviction deadline of 12:01 a.m., November 13th, Portland Police interact with protesters, attempting to push the crowd out of the streets. A police officer was injured shortly before 2 a....
"A man must comport himself as a man. He must fight always preferably and soundly with the odds in his favor but on necessity against any sort of odds and with no thought of the outcome. He should follow ...
I haven't picked a horse in the race for LPC President, but Sheila Copps is certainly the candidate I'm most familiar with - I was, after all, one of a *very very* small number of Copps delegates at the 20...
"The longer you look at this image, the more you see. Perhaps your eye is first drawn to the picturesque waterfall called Skogarfoss visible on the image right. Just as prevalent, however, in this Icelandi...
Political cartoon by Steve Bell / About.com.Can we transform labor's Buckeye victoryinto a new era of election protection?By Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / November 14, 2011The crushing d...
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"Fed up? Can't see the point in voting? Sick of supporting peddlers of big lies and empty promises?" asked Helen Hughes, activist, sculptress, grandmother and Libertarianz candidate for Whangarei. “Then...
Another "Obama policy" long-ago decided by corporate-fascist think-tanks. by Tony Cartalucci November 15, 2011 - After months of assuring a skeptical and disgruntled Australian public that the US military...
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Not PC - 2 hours ago
Despite the fears and, (let’s be honest, in some circles there are *hopes*) that extreme weather events worldwide in recent years have been due to man-made climate change, the UN/IPPCC’s latest report sa...
The 12 lawmakers on this congressional super committee — six Republicans and six Democrats — are trying to trim $1.2 trillion off federal red ink over the next ten years. On their chopping block: Medicare,...
Richard Silverstein reported on his blog on Saturday that an explosion at an Iranian military and intelligence facility west of Tehran was caused by the Mossad and the Islamic terrorist group Mujahideen e-...
Americas Navy, a global force for good. That is the slogan on the official navy recruiting site. Believe it or not, I couldn't btw. Watch this: http://www.navy.com/navy.html (vid only about a minute)
*America needs more morons!* *The modern-day conservative philosophy might be summed up: "An uneducated voter is our best customer."* *"This is a long way from the conservatism I used to respect. Although ...
Plano, Texas, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
Bill Gates, Rockefeller and the GMO giants know something we don’t. F. William Engdahl Global Research December 4, 2007 One thing Microsoft founder Bill Gates can’t be accused of is sloth. He was already ...
This rendezvous comes only 12 days after the Shenzhou VIII spacecraft first mated with the Tiangong-1 space station module.
Cesium-137 measurements across Japan coupled with meteorological data reveals that the areas of highest concern are northern and eastern Japan.
And please, no inappropriate captions about sexual harassment. Trust me, I've thought of them all.
*"Goodbye, Mr. Zip"* by Chet Raymo “A year or two ago I mentioned that every other student I passed on campus had a phone to their ear. Well, that's no longer true. Now it's EVERY student. If not to the ...
Tomorrow Elizabeth Warren's Senate campaign will start running it's first TV spot (above). It doesn't mention that Scott Brown is Wall Street's favorite senator and it doesn't mention the vicious smear c...
Read: "The real Iranian hostage story from the files of Fara Mansoor" By Harry V. Martin (1995).
"It is perfectly perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison, and yet not free. To be under no physical constraint and yet to be psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the repres...
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Not PC - 6 hours ago
[image: _Quote]What good do these economists expect to come out of European Central Bank debt monetization? Do they really believe that once the ECB has committed itself to buying hundreds of billions...
*"First People's Prayer"* "Oh our Mother the earth, Oh our Father the sky, Your children are we, and with tired backs We bring you the gifts you love. Then weave for us a garment of brightness; May the Wa...
Photo CBS Denver Nov. 12, 2011 Denver Police Dept. Denies Medics Access to Unconscious, Unresponsive Patient Press Release For Immediate Release November 13, 2011 Contact: Colorado Street Medics, color...
*"Like No One Is Watching: Shake Your Tail Feathers"* by The DailyOm "Over time, we have learned to suppress some of the most fun aspects of our individuality. Most of us express our distinctiveness in ma...
Images of white lines in the Chinese desert have appeared on Google Maps. What could they be?
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Not PC - 7 hours ago
*As Silvio Berlusconi leaves office, brought down in the end not by his own petard but by his government’s penchant for spending money they don’t have, guest writer* *Kris Sayce** from Money Morning Aust...
*Well, just another 3-sigma hint that may go away* Mat Charles of Oxford gave a talk at HCP 2011 in Paris in which he reported a surprising result by LHCb at CERN based on 0.58/fb of their 2011 data. ...
[image: An official from the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), wearing a protective suit and mask, uses a plastic covered megaphone to speak to fellow TEPCO workers and journalists as they drive towards ...
*A prescription for the end of American social cohesion?* I travel a lot; I even have a travel blog, separate from this one. I started when I was 13 by hitchhiking to Florida from Brooklyn. That led me to...
Yeah, all *that* money...
*"Ponzi Scheme! (For Dummies)"* by Jack M "Remember, not only did you contribute to Social Security but your employer did too. It totaled 15% of your income before taxes. If you averaged only $30k over y...
[This review first appeared at http://consortiumnews.com/2011/11/14/the-lost-history-of-j-edgar/]The more you know about history, the less you will enjoy J. Edgar.I understand the problems with dramatizing h...
I'm usually too busy reading about air pollution and writing about dying trees to pay much attention to what seem, in comparison to the existential threat of a collapsing ecosystem, like sensationalist and...
*"Austerity Then And Now"* by Paul Krugman "Alan Cowell has an interesting piece contrasting public attitudes toward austerity now with attitudes toward the austerity that was the norm in postwar Britain...
* * *“Democracy Means You Must Fight the Police State”* by Tony Benn “The brutality and intimidation that has been directed against the #OccupyWallStreet movement demonstrates that democracy and personal ...
Riot-clad law enforcement officers cleared out Oakland's weeks-old anti-Wall Street encampment just before dawn today, arresting Occupy demonstrators and removing tents from a downtown plaza after issuing ...
*"Evidence of a Downtrend in the US Stock Market"* by Bill Bonner "What happened on Friday? A “moment of truth” arrived for Europe. But what is the truth? We’ll have to wait to find out. The Dow rose 259 ...
Filmmakers solve the spectator problem in surfing. For once, we can see every detail in a big ride and a big wipeout from both below and above the water.
The lab is reportedly run "as mysteriously as the C.I.A."
The probe is not yet considered lost, say officials, but it could reenter Earth's atmosphere in a couple months.
A Google Maps satellite has spotted a series of bizarre structures during a sweep of the Gobi desert in China. The internet is buzzing with theories about what their purpose is, with suggestions ranging f...
Barack Obama is turning up the heat on Iran by not ruling out a military option to prevent the country from making nuclear weapons. The U.S. President also warned he will consult with China and Russia on h...
France risks becoming the next victim of the sovereign-debt crisis “in the coming weeks”, Gordon Brown, the former prime minister, has warned. Mr Brown’s prediction came as the difference between French b...
They may no longer ride on horseback with long black capes and a pistol in their belts, but highway robbers are far from a thing of thing of the past. Cargo crime -- where consumer goods are stolen in tran...
"Occupy Wall Street, go home!" The New York Post has launched what can best be described, metaphorically, as an "all-out-war" on the protesters camping downtown in Zuccotti Park, making a naked effort to a...
I'm always grateful when great material just falls into my lap, although there is no dearth American horror stories to post on. The Raw Story's Jack Abramoff: ‘The whole system’ is corrupt' is case in po...
Yesterday I had a close encounter with BBC Radio 4. On receiving an email yesterday afternoon asking whether I might be able to ‘help’ with a programme going out today, I called them back. A friendly woma...
The OWS protests continue across the US and as the police continue to crackdown on protesters after violent clashes and arrests over the weekend, some activists believe that police have gone too far in t...
Before you know it, we’ll be building circuit boards with 3-D printers. In other words, 3-D printers will help us manufacture PCs. Or even, other 3-D printers. “Printing actual circuit boards is very clos...
France risks becoming the next victim of the sovereign-debt crisis “in the coming weeks”, Gordon Brown, the former prime minister, has warned. Mr Brown’s prediction came as the difference between French b...
They may no longer ride on horseback with long black capes and a pistol in their belts, but highway robbers are far from a thing of thing of the past. Cargo crime -- where consumer goods are stolen in tran...
"Occupy Wall Street, go home!" The New York Post has launched what can best be described, metaphorically, as an "all-out-war" on the protesters camping downtown in Zuccotti Park, making a naked effort to a...
I'm always grateful when great material just falls into my lap, although there is no dearth American horror stories to post on. The Raw Story's Jack Abramoff: ‘The whole system’ is corrupt' is case in po...
Yesterday I had a close encounter with BBC Radio 4. On receiving an email yesterday afternoon asking whether I might be able to ‘help’ with a programme going out today, I called them back. A friendly woma...
The OWS protests continue across the US and as the police continue to crackdown on protesters after violent clashes and arrests over the weekend, some activists believe that police have gone too far in t...
The Indian government has announced a drop in the number of poor people in the country by massaging the criteria used to measure poverty. By its reckoning, less than a dollar a day is enough to get by – ...
The British media say Israel may launch an aerial strike on Iranian nuclear facilities as early as next month. The offensive will receive support from the US, the speculation goes. The attack is meant t...
Twinkies. Nutty bars. Powdered donuts. For 10 weeks, Mark Haub, a professor of human nutrition at Kansas State University, ate one of these sugary cakelets every three hours, instead of meals. To add vari...
It's been the stuff of movies, science fiction and alarmist political rhetoric, but new scientific research shows an invasive species incompatible with a specific ecosystem could be deployed as unique bio...
The world has just five years to avoid being trapped in a scenario of perilous climate change and extreme weather events, the International Energy Agency (IEA) warned on Wednesday. On current trends, "ris...
America has always been a strange place. We are famous for our sense of entitlement, of believing we are special, even blessed. In fact, Americans feel they are so deserving of a life of ease and wealth th...
The elites who run this country exercise power in two ways, one private, one public. Politicians and policy are manipulated through registered lobbyists on Capitol Hill, and in private meetings at lavish f...
The Conservatives did something remarkable last week. They chose as their leader in Scotland a young lesbian who has held elected office for barely six months. This was a brave choice in a nation whose soc...
The vast majority of teens have witnessed online bullying, but say that two-thirds of their peers are mostly kind, according to new research. Teens identified themselves as victims of bullying in 15 per c...
Pushed for space, a Spanish cemetery has begun placing stickers on thousands of burial sites whose leases are up as a warning to relatives or caretakers to pay up or face possible eviction. Jose Abadia, d...
A new super-intelligent speed camera recently tested in St. Petersburg is terrifying American petrol heads. The new high-tech "Cordon" camera can process the speed and number-plate details of several ca...
A new video posted to the Web over the weekend reveals plans from the hacking collective Anonymous to target the 2012 US presidential election, and it seems their first attack will be during next year’s Io...
The new global financial regulatory policeman, Mark Carney, warned on Tuesday the world was "on the cusp of another retrenchment" in liquidity and urged careful management of European bank recapitalization...
More than half a million Haitians have contracted cholera, and an advocacy group has filed a complaint with the United Nations blaming the fast-moving epidemic on UN peacekeepers who allegedly allowed raw ...
New evidence of a lost civilization in an area of the Sahara in Libya has emerged from images taken by satellites. Using satellites and air photographs to identify the remains in one of the most inhospita...
Italian physicist and inventor Andrea Rossi has conducted a public demonstration of his "cold fusion" machine, the E-Cat, at the University of Bologna, showing that a small amount of input energy drives an...
Going boldly where no Angry Bird has gone before, the "plain old projectile" red bird blasted-off inside a Soyuz capsule bound for the space station.
For every solar powered inflatable light sold, one is sent to a person in a disaster-stricken area.
Police in riot gear moved into the Occupy Oakland encampment early Monday, tearing down tents and arresting some protesters, the latest effort by city officials across the country to gain control over a ...
Dead: Brigadier General Hassan Moghaddam was fatally injured in the blast. A senior commander of Iran's missile development programme has been killed in an explosion at a military base - prompting speculat...
A 22-year-old social networking pioneer and Internet privacy advocate who dared to challenge Facebook and Google has died. Ilya Zhitomirskiy, one of the founders Diaspora*, a new social networking site me...
*And fascism returns to Italy*: *"The power of financial markets has upended traditional democratic processes [and caused] concerns across the political spectrum about the growing influence of financial m...
*Dictatorships are nothing new to Greece, right?* "Economist selected to lead Greek unity government; Papademos vows to abide by terms of EU bailout plan" November 11, 2011|By Suzanne Daley, New York Time...
"Watching France, investors cross their fingers" by Liz Alderman and Nelson D. Schwartz | New York Times, November 14, 2011* * *I've got a couple of fingers for them.* NEW YORK - First it was Athens. Th...
posted by Robin Horbury at
Biased BBC - 10 hours ago
If Richard Black is to be believed, he has a real world scoop; he's got his eco zealot little mitts on a draft of the latest IPCC report several days before publication. Now in my journalist manual, that's...
A magnitude 3.8 earthquake has struck the Katla Volcano Region, Iceland at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles - Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 17:55:13 UTC Monday 14th November 2011. The epicenter was ...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of just 1 km (0.6.2 miles - Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 16:54:00 UTC Monday 14th November 2011. The epicenter was 32 km ( 19.2 mile...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 8.3 km (5.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:47:16 UTC Monday 14th November 2011. The epicenter was 24 km ( 15 miles) West of Van, Turkey No Rep...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of just 1.5 km (0.9 miles - Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 16:31:30 UTC Monday 14th November 2011. The epicenter was 26 km ( 15.8 mile...
*The employer of Einstein, Witten, Maldacena, and others at Princeton has a new boss since July 2012* And it is a well-known one. See IAS Princeton press release. He is a great physicist and a very goo...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel today said Europe could be living through its 'toughest hour since World War Two' - as new leaders in Italy and Greece rushed to form governments to limit the damage from th...
In a raid this morning, the city of Oakland used riot gear-clad police to evict the Occupy Oakland tent city. “It feels pretty sad because we built a community here, and now they can just come and destroy ...
I know that the Rethug debates make many in our country think that the issues aren't really serious - after all, clowns are good enough to inspire bigtime MSM coverage every day. But there are immensely se...
Over 80 percent of the sources, opinions and editorials skeptical of climate change were found in the US or UK press.
The coast of Tasmania is notorious as a whale trap, and dozens of whales beached themselves over the weekend.
Benjamin Wallace-Wells, and other apologists for Mitt Romney's Mormon version of Ayn Rand's glorification of undiluted selfishness and greed, may try painting Romney's life at Bain Capital as some kind of...
If it wasn't for the fact that this is posted on the front page of The Hill- I wouldn't have believed it - would have thought it was a snarky entry on the web. READ FOR YOURSELF - It's worth 3 minutes of ...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 16:31:32 UTC Monday 14th November 2011. The epicenter was 31 km ( 18.9 miles) Northwest of Edremit, Turk...
There's a new right winger in town and his name is Frank Miller. Usually, we can comfortably ignore overrated comic book artists who appeal primarily to 14-30 year-old zit-popping basement dwellers who ne...
Being able to track people in a crowd, in a sports arena or even on the job just got easier.
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Southern Peru at a depth of 217.8 km (135.3 miles), the quake hit at 15:40:11 UTC Monday 14th November 2011. The epicenter was 114 km ( 71 miles) West of La Paz, Bolivi...
After 65, people produce less carbon emissions with age. But the most carbon emissions occur just before retirement.
Police and other state organs are on alert against illegal trafficking of nuclear materials into the country, the director of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Robert Manumba has affirmed. He confir...
This concept project attracts bees to an artificial honeycomb, leaving users to reap the sweet benefits.
At least 17 people were killed in heavy clashes in the Yemeni city of Taiz Friday, a day after a U.N. envoy began a new mission to push President Ali Abdullah Saleh to quit under a Gulf peace plan. Witnes...
The Syrian government has described the Arab League's decision to suspend the country as an "extremely dangerous step". Foreign minister Walid al Moualem made the comments as the regime demanded an emerg...
[image: Poles Apart: The International Reporting of Climate Scepticism. The new study shows that climate sceptics feature much more prominently in the UK and US media than in other countries. James Paint...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Timor Region, Indonesia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:20:14 UTC Monday 14th November 2011. The epicenter was 138 km ( 85 miles) ENE of Kupan...
*Permalink* Congress: Still Working Hard at Being Ineffective, Useless Seat-Warmers November 8, 2011 By Tina Dupuy I asked an Occupier in DC named Rob Wohl, why the movement he’s a part of is re...
[image: Third Prophecy: Cultural Crisis. 'The third curve (on the left) is simply the mathematical curve for exponential growth. No physical quantity can follow this curve for more than a brief period of...
*New IPCC report is going to say that science doesn't know whether CO2 has an effect on most climatic observables* Roger Pielke Jr, Richard Black of BBC, The GWPF, Tom Nelson, Marc Morano, and others cele...
Long-term aerosol pollution affects cloud formation and rainfall, exacerbating extreme weather conditions.
[image: Researchers measuring a Wilson’s warbler. Researchers have found that wing length of U.S. West Coast bird has been steadily increasing, and body mass has expanded as the climate has changed. P.R....
------------------------------ * the**REALnews Permalink* November 13, 2011 *IAEA Iran Report Spins Intelligence* Gareth Porte...
Bless dem Boys! Go Saints! ~Hat Tweet @Official_Saints~Front page of today's Times-Picayune. Study: Lead Levels Skyrocket During Post-Federal Flood Rebuilding ~NOLA DEFENDER St. Tammany Parish gets $3.2 mi...
*Maybe you could rent a room?* "Push to build housing in UK challenges idyllic country image" November 13, 2011|By Anthony Faiola, Washington Post GREAT CORNARD, England - Uproar in this sleepy town of 8,...
*The call is for you, dear readers*: "UK police knew of hacking in ’02, chief says" October 21, 2011|Associated Press LONDON - *Authorities knew* that Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World tabloid had hacke...
So how is it that millions and millions of people go out to support their government, their nation and their right to chose. This isn't the first time either. I have lost count of how many Pro -Assad mass ...
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*A Russian spacecraft taking an American and two Russians blasted off Monday from the snow-covered Kazakh steppes in a faultless launch that eased anxiety about the future of U.S. and Russian space progr...
posted by David Vance at
Biased BBC - 15 hours ago
Monday morning and a new thread for you to detail the bias from the State Broadcaster. The floor is yours... Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
posted by David Vance at
Biased BBC - 15 hours ago
Do you remember the story about the Pyramids being closed on 11.11.11? Must admit I just glanced at it but turns out that even when the BBC reports seemingly innocuous stuff, it ain't necessarily so. So...
"Protest moves historic cathedral to close" October 22, 2011|Associated Press LONDON - *Protesters who have camped outside* St. Paul’s Cathedral in central London for *six days *have forced the venerable ...
- Women are twice as likely as men to develop depression [image: Low mood: Experiencing bouts of depression can double the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease] Low mood: Experiencing bouts of...
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wmtc - 15 hours ago
Dear Mozilla, First you tell me I need an upgrade. You nag and nag. Upgrade this, upgrade that. Finally, I can't stand your pleading, and I give in. I upgrade. As soon as I do, you tell me the upgrade is...
- Women infected with the 2009 strain of the virus five times more likely to have babies with birth defects [image: Expectant mothers are at greater risk of having a stillbirth after contracti...
- Women who regularly consume sugary soft drinks more likely to develop cardiovascular disease, diabetes and larger waistlines - Pattern does not apply for men Women who drink just two fizzy ...
[image: Superstition: People who try to sell a house with the number 13 can expect to sell it for £6,500 less than neighbouring homes] Superstition: People who try to sell a house with the number 13 can ...
President Obama, or someone at the White House, seems to have liked Makana's music well enough to invite him to perform for the president again, this time at a dinner for the APEC leaders meeting in Hono...
Mass murder suspect Anders Behring Breivik appeared in an Oslo court Monday in connection with the killing of 77 people in attacks in July, Norway's TV2 reported. He was not allowed to deliver a speech h...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Haiti Region at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 11:53:35 UTC Monday 14th November 2011. The epicenter was 60 km ( 37 miles) West of Port-Au-Prince, H...
*Chinese President Hu Jintao and leaders of other Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) members assembled in Honolulu, Hawaii on Sunday to discover the ways to speed up regional economic integration, ...
posted by David Vance at
Biased BBC - 16 hours ago
I suggest you might give this interview concerning the Leveson Inquiry on Today a whirl if you get a moment. Contrast the treatment of Roy Greenslade with that of Trevor Kavanagh. I was pleased when Kavana...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Azores Islands, Portugal at a depth of 8 km (4.9 miles), the quake hit at 11:34:57 UTC Monday 14th November 2011. The epicenter was 148 km ( 91.7 miles) Northwest ...
posted by David Vance at
Biased BBC - 16 hours ago
I was reading this item by Nick Robinson. In essence, he argues that the Coalition is using the Eurozone crisis to cloak a failure in its own policies for conjuring up "economic growth". Robinson parrots t...
For almost 1,000 years, Britain has been able to defend itself against any wannabe-conqueror who fancied seizing the kingdom. But after successfully seeing off the likes of Napoleon and Hitler, our shores...
Two explosions ripped through a vinyl chloride monomer plant at Tosoh Corp's Nanyo complex in Shunan, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Nov. 13, killing at least one person, police and firefighters said. At aroun...
The tremors from Europe's financial upheaval have reached U.S. shores, rattling consumers and companies. The consequences have been limited so far. Yet the United States and Europe are so closely linked ...
A South African farmer has been killed by the pet hippopotamus he raised from the age of five months, and which he once described as being 'like a son' to him. Humphrey the Hippo gouged owner Marius Els, ...
Vince Cable vowed to bring in new legislation to slash huge salaries for failed executives yesterday as 'Occupy' protesters appeared outside second UK cathedral. As the Business Secretary said he shares t...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Western Turkey at a depth of 26 km (16.1 miles), the quake hit at 09:46:48 UTC Monday 14th November 2011. The epicenter was 53 km ( 32.8 miles) South of Fethiye, Turkey...
After a two month delay, and a string of unmanned launch mishaps, two cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut head to the space station.
*The Illusion of Time* A few weeks ago, I discussed the first episode of *The Fabric of the Cosmos*on PBS (see the full episode here), one about space. This is the second episode: *The last six minut...
*1.* Who controls the people-power demonstrations? Who controls the 'anti-war' groups? *Who is sending annoying comments to your blog? * http://*twelfthbough*.blogspot.com/ (facilitate this) reveals ...
- 1 in 15 doctors develop an addiction at some point - 24% of lawyers will battle alcohol during their careers Rising numbers of doctors, dentists, vets and lawyers are becoming ‘functioning alc...
George Osborne warned last night that France is being drawn into the same economic chaos as Italy. As the curtain fell on Silvio Berlusconi’s premiership, the Chancellor said his EU counterparts were ‘ter...
Bahraini authorities on Sunday explicitly tied the recent arrests of alleged "terrorist cell" members with Iran, claiming the suspects got funding from that Middle Eastern nation and had ties to Iran's Re...
Shortly after the "Dark Ages" of the Cosmos the first stars popped into existence -- but they weren't the galactic Goliaths we thought they were.
U.S. President Barack Obama ended his trip to this weekend's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit stressing job creation -- calling the Pacific region vital to such economic growth, even as he needle...
Authorities in Norway have tightened security as the man accused of killing 77 people in a shooting rampage and a bomb attack makes his first court appearance in person Monday. Until now, the proceedings...
One in three Australians is going without meals to ensure their children are fed, a new survey shows. One-third of people surveyed went without meals in the past year to ensure their family was fed as ris...
Posting the most flattering picture possible alongside one’s profile may seem a legitimate part of the internet dating game. But if new research is to be believed, those who try to level the playing fi...
The Federal Government is set to announce billions of dollars in spending cuts before Christmas. The announcement will coincide with the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) report due out before...
A magnitude 3.7 earthquake has struck South Dakota at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 06:51:39 UTC Monday 14th November 2011. The epicenter was 42 km ( 26 miles) South of Hot Springs, South Da...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck near the coast of Northern Peru at a depth of 42.3 km (26.3 miles), the quake hit at 06:24:33 UTC Monday 14th November 2011. The epicenter was 128 km ( 80 miles) WSW o...
Effectively heat transferincreases at -54 degrees F. I presume theyavoided actual freezing in this experiment and this is a condition never to beseen in nature anyway. Recall though deep ice used tot...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Sula, Indonesia at a depth of 29.7 km (18.5 miles), the quake hit at 06:20:04 UTC Monday 14th November 2011. The epicenter was 228 km ( 141 miles) SSW of Ter...
The bad news of course is that this bird may not be goinganywhere. Unfortunately it is the one I wantto succeed since it appears that we need to know a lot more about Phobos. Phobos is probably hollow...
As this review makes clear, it isearly days for working therapies that can be used on humans. However, we now know that removal of senescentcells works to restore prime condition while halting and eve...
The upshot is that the funnylooking horses did exist at the time that they were painted by Paleolithic man. So much for theories of an early abstractsensibility. Perhaps we can breed themback. It is...
Khomeini's "Revolution" was staged by the shadow CIA-MI6 network in 1979. The 9/11 "Islamic terrorist" attacks were staged by the shadow CIA-Mossad network in 2001. A few weeks ago, after a period of inne...
[image: Exhausted: The survey found that 93 per cent of adults lacked energy as a result of poor sleep] Exhausted: The survey found that 93 per cent of adults lacked energy as a result of poor sleep Mo...
It was the *49ers' “King Lear,” that 27-20 victory over the challenging New York* Giants. Or perhaps it was their “Hamlet.” *It was their masterpiece game of this season which already has become a master...
Anglo-Dutch energy major Shell said on Sunday it was containing a new oil spill in Nigeria's onshore delta, the latest in a string of leaks from the company's pipelines, which it has blamed on sabotage att...
Super Mario To Quickly Form New Italian Gov't When will the true repair to our wounded nation begin? When will the shysters and quacks be finally exposed and tried? Have you wondered seriously about how l...
*Related: Turkish Triple Cross** * *I've lost track, readers.* "At UN, Turkey takes Israel to task; Blames ex-ally for fueling strife in Middle East" September 23, 2011|By Neil Macfarquhar, New York Times...
The son of a former Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander was found dead in a Dubai hotel room -- with his father's website calling the death "suspicious," though police insisted it was not. Numerous Ira...
A huge explosion rocked a commercial building Monday morning in central China, killing at least seven people and injuring 31, state media said. The incident occurred around 7:30 a.m. at Jiatian Internatio...
A magnitude 3.3 earthquake has struck Oklahoma at a depth of 5.4 km (3.4 miles), the quake hit at 05:31:42 UTC Monday 14th November 2011. The epicenter was 5 km ( 3.1 miles) SSE of Sparks, Oklahoma No Repor...
Barack Obama was met with a wall of silence from his counterparts in China and Russia when he brought up the increasing problem of Iran's nuclear programme at a global summit. The President had sought sup...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 54.8 km (34.1 miles), the quake hit at 04:47:37 UTC Monday 14th November 2011. The epicenter was 57 km ( 36 mil...
*The head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, warned on Wednesday that Europe's debt crisis risked dipping, the global economy into a ''lost decade'' and said it was up to rich nations...
Visiting a dental hygienist isn’t just good for your teeth – it could also protect your heart, researchers claim. They found that those who have their teeth professionally cleaned and polished at least ...
Police are hunting a man after gunshots were fired near the White House. An AK-47 assault rifle was recovered and several streets were shut down after the incident in Washington on Friday night. U.S. Park...
A magnitude 3.1 earthquake has struck the Greater Los Angeles Area, California at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 04:59:18 UTC Monday 14th November 2011. The epicenter was 5 km ( 3.1 miles...
Four neo-Nazi murderers hell-bent on building a 'Fourth Reich' in Germany were the biggest extremist threat seen in the country since the demise of Hitler, according to police. Interior minister Hans-Pete...
The new issue of the Texas Observer digs around in the fetid sewer that is the Koch family background. Yasha Levine's sleuthing helps put in perspective exactly why the Koch's have made themselves the big...
*Police brutalized peaceful protesters in the Occupy movment on Saturday and Sunday, from North Carolina to Denver* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Photo Charlotte Observer...
Fraud is costing the NHS £3billion a year, with millions being paid to doctors and dentists who ‘invent’ shifts and treatment. Managers are also using surgery funds to pay their mortgages or buy iPods, di...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Banda Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 120 km (74.6 miles), the quake hit at 23:14:58 UTC Sunday 13th November 2011. The epicenter was 242 km ( 150 miles) NNW of Sauml...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 65.4 km (40.6 miles), the quake hit at 19:40:36 UTC Sunday 13th November 2011. The epicenter was 62 km ( 38 miles) S...
A magnitude 6.6 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Sula, Indonesia at a depth of 19.4 km (12.1 miles), the quake hit at 04:05:15 UTC Monday 14th November 2011. The epicenter was 200 km ( 124 miles) SSW of Ter...
Missiles fired from Israeli warplanes overnight Sunday struck a Hamas naval building in northern Gaza, killing 1 person and injuring at least three others, according to Hamas security and medical officials...
*Wait until you see who they want to draft*: "Web primary aims to find third option for president; Millions raised to secure ballot access" by Brian C. Mooney Globe Staff / November 13, 2011 Frustrated b...
Life has been pretty chaotic. When I do get downtime, I truthfully have not really felt like coming on here and blogging. It takes enough keeping up with everything else with email, facebook, reading frien...
Dramatic video posted to YouTube purports to show the initial moments of an attack against Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Maria Corina Machado and her supporters. The video begins with the...
*"Wild Geese"* "You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tel...
“Few butterflies have a wingspan this big. The bright clusters and nebulae of planet Earth's night sky are often named for flowers or insects, and NGC 6302 is no exception. With an estimated surface temper...
"When you begin a great work you can't expect to finish it all at once; therefore do you and your brothers press on, and let nothing discourage you till you have entirely finished what you have begun. Now...
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*I've already learned I'm sick of tyranny based on propaganda and lies.* "Northeastern develops high-tech homeland security devices" October 09, 2011 |By Akilah Johnson, Globe Staff This is Northeastern Un...
*Contrary to the impression given by the presentation of this report on the "60 Minutes Overtime" webpage,* *tonight's report actually targeted a bunch of crooked Republicans before giving Nancy Pelosi at...
So, close enough to a trillion dollars later (with so much more to come in, among other things, bills for the care of the American war-wounded and traumatized), don’t let anyone say that the United States ...
Humanitarian issues merely rhetorical cover for regional gambit to dismantle Iranian influence. by Tony Cartalucci November 14, 2011 - As stated in February 2011's "The Middle East & then the World," the...
Last week George Papandreou resigned as Prime Minister-- fired by the Germans-- and yesterday Silvio Berlusconi suffered the same fate. The German's put Lucas Papademos in to replace Papandreou and they'...
This hit the news earlier this week and I kind of brushed right by it - but on hindsight it holds valuable information not found anywhere else. A group of conservative South Dakota legislators came to Fort...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 19:57:29 UTC Sunday 13th November 2011. The epicenter was 24 km ( 14.9 miles) Southeast of Ercis, Turkey...
*Berkeley City Council will vote to honor Geronimo* * * By Berkeley City Council Censored News BERKELEY, Calif. -- (Nov 9, 2011) The Berkeley City Council will vote on a revised resolution from the City’...
"People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage." -J. K. Galbraith • And so they are...
Investors will be reassured by the appointment of so-called technocrats to run Italy and Greece, but no one is pretending the countries' problems have become any less severe. Both have too much debt and ...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Tonga Region at a depth of 24.3 km (15.1 miles), the quake hit at 19:21:38 UTC Sunday 13th November 2011. The epicenter was 177 km ( 110 miles) Northeast of Neiafu,...
*“Welcome To Serfdom”* Top 1 Percent Control 42 Percent of Financial Wealth in the U.S. by mybudget360 “Many Americans are not buying the recent stock market rally. This is being reflected in multiple pol...
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Am I the only one who couldn't care less what the Prime Minister and the Minister of Rhyming Slang said to each other over their well orchestrated and very public cup of tea last Friday? It seems so. C...
The belief in man-made global warming resembles religious systems by many of its features and sometimes one has to smile how childishly naive the belief of many people has to be. *Waxman and Markey. The...
Numerous arrests took place in several Western cities as police moved in to clear Occupy encampments over the weekend, authorities said. In Portland, Oregon, unrest continued into Sunday morning as protes...
Several thousand demonstrators took to the streets of the Spanish capital Sunday, protesting unemployment a week before voters elect a new government. The march past the world-famous Prado museum and Madr...
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Journalists got their first ground-level glance Saturday around Japan's stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility -- eying shells of reactor buildings, tons of contaminated water and workers scurrying st...
From the cotton field in rural India to the local rag bin, a typical pair of blue jeans consumes 919 gallons of water during its life cycle, Levi Strauss & Company says, or enough to fill about 15 spa-size...
Sandblasting new blue jeans to make them look “distressed” killed a number of young Turkish textile workers before the practice was outlawed, a new study has found. The study, published in Chest, a medica...
For a world already weary of weather catastrophes, the latest warning from top climate scientists paints a grim future: More floods, more heat waves, more droughts and greater costs to deal with them. A d...
The world population has hit a whopping 7 billion, and researchers suggest it could reach 10 billion within the next century. On the one hand, this means we're a great success — after all, the goal of any ...
You've heard of life imitating art, but now a fish found in Argentina resembles something you'd see on "The Simpsons" -- and it's not making environmentalists laugh. Back in 1990, the long-running series ...
Significant increases in annual temperatures are having a devastating affect on glaciers in the mountainous regions of south-western China, potentially affecting natural habitats, tourism and wider economi...
Off historic Route 66 in the heart of the California desert the barren landscape of dry scrub and rock abruptly gives way to an oasis of tall green trees heavy with lemons and grape vines awaiting next mon...
The media has been fixated on the alleged Herman Cain sexual harassment scandal, though his accusers have yet to come forward and tell the public what exactly happened. Despite the media frenzy over th...
DEBATE over the safety of ''fracking'' in Australia has reignited after a gas project in Britain was named as the likely cause of 50 tremors this year. A panel of seismic experts has found it ''highly pr...
Han Ying had just dropped off her 9-year-old son at school and was almost home when she found an unfamiliar guard at the gate to her neighborhood, barking at her, "You can't come in." The Beijing land-rig...
Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul says "offering friendship" to Iran, not sanctions, would be a more fruitful way to deal with Iran's alleged nuclear ambitions. The libertarian-leaning Texas congre...
Researchers used advertisements on Facebook pages to persuade over 10,000 followers of 14 far-Right parties in 11 European countries to fill in detailed questionnaires about their beliefs. The study found...
Sermons delivered by Catholic priests are often painfully "grey and dull" and need to be livened up with the "scandal" contained within the Bible, the Vatican's most senior cultural official said. Cardin...
The realities of 21st-century politics are finally catching up with the guardians of the single currency. It is extraordinary to recall that, until June last year, HM Treasury still had a “euro preparatio...
Something seems to have gone seriously awry with our child-rearing culture. Anne Marie Carrie, the chief executive of Barnardo’s, unveiled a survey last week that seemed to indicate that Britons, as a who...
Alleged arms dealer Viktor Bout has been found guilty by a jury court in New York. RT reports on some of the skeletons hidden in the closet of this case. The US spent years and reported tens of million...
Japan's sovereign debt is set to surpass 1,000 trillion yen ($12.81 trillion) at the end of this fiscal year. According to a Finance Ministry estimate, the country's borrowings through the issuance of s...
"The Tide is Turning" - POSTER#111 - Alex Noble Much more here: http://www.alexnoble.typepad.com/occupy
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Saturday night's Republican candidates' debate was on the topic of foreign affairs. In that spirit, the BBC asked PJ Crowley, a former State Dept. flack, to come up with a list of what the media likes to ...
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A couple weeks ago we mentioned the trouble brewing between Justin Bieber-- on behalf of internet freedom-- and Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar (MN)-- on behalf of censorship and corporate dominance. Al...
Christmas seems to come earlier and earlier every year. But rarely have the tinsel, baubles and lights springing up in the high streets seemed quite so incongruous. For while we may be two weeks into wint...
A boy of ten suspected to have been kidnapped by a paedophile was rescued after he was seen banging on a flat window shouting ‘please help, I’ve been kidnapped’. He had been snatched off the street 300 ya...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck South of Panama at a depth of 29.2 km (18.1 miles), the quake hit at 01:49:03 UTC Tuesday 15th November 2011. The epicenter was 317 km ( 196 miles) South of David, Pana...
A magnitude 3.4 earthquake has struck Central California at a depth of 3.8 km (2.4 miles), the quake hit at 00:40:18 UTC Tuesday 15th November 2011. The epicenter was 28 km ( 18 miles) WSW of Cartago, Calif...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 22:08:15 UTC Monday 14th November 2011. The epicenter was 30 km ( 18 miles) Northwest of Van, Turkey No...
*America needs more morons!* *The modern-day conservative philosophy might be summed up: "An uneducated voter is our best customer."* *"This is a long way from the conservatism I used to respect. Although ...
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