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Released October 28, 2011:
An Arabic inscription that bears the name of the Roman
Emperor Frederick II was recently discovered.
The bright colors of the 50-million-year-old moth may have served to warn off predators.
"Hundreds of thousands of utility customers headed into a *third day without power* as crews scrambled to repair damage from the *bizarre winter storm* that left more than 2 feet of snow in parts of the st...
*Same old Globe*: "Polish party wants cross out of Parliament" November 10, 2011|
Associated Press WARSAW - A *new left-wing party* in Poland yesterday demanded the removal of a crucifix that hangs in Par...
German territorial ambitions that led to World War I and
World War II didn't work out that well for Germany-- at least not in the short run. But now Germany is back in full force-- and again demanding dom...
posted by PC at
Not PC - 29 minutes ago
Enough hyperbole! Here’s
Gene Callahan on the eviction from Wall Street’s Zuccotti Park last night of the #OccupyWallStreet mob: Should the protesters have been evicted? I don't know. Did the police som...
*Same old Globe*: "
FBI reveals workings of spy ring; Russian agents had edged closer to policymakers" November 01, 2011|By Douglas Birch and Pete Yost, Associated Press WASHINGTON - Unaware the *FBI has ...
*Long pulses were not the problem: mystery continues* When OPERA announced that their neutrinos were faster than the speed of light, a very aggressive school of thought – which became influential among ...
Check to see if your city has what it takes to survive a 50 megaton Tsar Bomba.
A remarkable photo shows what appears to be a whale and dolphin playing.
Diogenes asked me to remind everyone that next Monday morning, November 21 there will be a rally in Trenton, New Jersey to demand the Delaware River watershed be free of fracking, which, it goes without sa...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Caspian Sea, offshore Azerbaijan at a depth of 55 km (34.1 miles), the quake hit at 19:33:52 UTC Tuesday 15th November 2011. The epicenter was 48 km ( 29.8 miles) ...
Tues. Nov. 15: NOW: New York City Hall Councilmen marching. Councilmen Sanders, Jumaane Williams, Eugene and Cabrera marching on 1 Police Plaza demanding release of Councilman Rodriguez, arrested bleedin...
A police officer beats an Occupy Wall Street protester with his fist after the clear-out of Zuccotti Park. Photograph: John Minchillo/AP Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot....
posted by laura k at
wmtc - 2 hours ago
This is a message from Sid Ryan, President of the Ontario Federation of Labour. Dear Sisters and Brothers, We have just learned that the Toronto Police have served eviction notices to Occupy Toronto prot...
*"Three Passions" * "Three passions have governed my life: The longings for love, the search for knowledge, And unbearable pity for the suffering of humankind. Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness...
*"22 Signs That The Thin Veneer Of Civilization That * *We All Take For Granted Is Starting To Disappear"* By The Economic Collapse Blog “In order for a society to function, there has to be a certain leve...
posted by laura k at
wmtc - 2 hours ago
If you can make it to any Occupy site today, please try. Your physical show of support and solidarity is needed. From the Occupy Wall Street Library: Tonight at 6:00 writers and readers from across New Y...
The 65-foot tall Capitol Christmas tree is passing over the river and through the woods, to Washington D.C. it goes.
Scientists used a computer to direct biological functions inside a yeast cell.
The stand follows its remote marker to keep you, or whatever you're recording, in sight.
Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
*"Goldman to the Rescue!"* by Bill Bonner "More pieces are coming together. Day by day, the puzzle takes shape. Not a pretty picture. An epic battle is taking place. Between the forces of inflation and d...
Protect PC and TV peripherals from surges, as you protect yourself from higher electric bills.
November 14, 2011 at 05:34:12 *Promoted to Headline (H3) on 11/14/11*: Permalink *This Beat Down is for Your Health - the Money Party Must Stop Occupy Movements* By Michael Collins (about the author)...
The looting of a large collection of priceless coins, statues and jewelry from a bank vault during Libya's recent civil war has highlighted the risk of looting during times of conflict. Interpol is huntin...
Pirates? Ravers? At first glance, the portraits are startling and confusing. Hidden behind sunglasses and hats, their faces shrouded in brightly colored scarves and t-shirts, these striking, enigmatic figu...
Iran’s unanimous desire to have the security of nuclear weapons puts it on a collision course with the West. For a country riven by violent political, religious and social divisions, the one issue that i...
The world's last surviving Sikh warrior master who has devoted his life to learning an ancient martial art is - from Wolverhampton, it has emerged. Former factory worker Nidar Singh Nihang, 44, was traine...
A fear that inflation leads to nationalist extremism lingers in Berlin – but European unity will not die if the Germans allow the euro to fail, argues Daniel Johnson. A spectre is haunting Europe – the s...
Ian Swanson was 5 when his family moved from the United States to Umeå, a small university town in northern Sweden. It was the place where he made his first friends, where he learned to read and where, l...
Svay Pak has a disturbing reputation. The village outside Cambodia's capital of Phnom Penh is known as a place where little girls are openly sold to foreign predators looking for sex. One of the girls w...
*"Our Brave New World Of Snitches And Surveillance"* by Zen Gardner "The tech industry giants continue to dutifully "lead the way" into a suffocating surveillance state in collusion with the nasty likes o...
Silvio Berlusconi's party agreed that former EU commissioner Mario Monti should try to form a short-term government. This, however, will not help Italy emerge from the crisis while it is part of the euro...
Today, Keivan Mohammad Hassan lives a peaceful life with his family as a civil engineer in Sacramento, California. But things could easily be very different. Hassan believes that had he not fled his homel...
House prices are set to drop 11pc in "real" terms in the next five years, leaving them back at 2002 levels when the impact of inflation is stripped out, according to property broker Savills. Weak economi...
At this moment, a whole lot of people, most of them 15 to 20 years younger than me, are protesting in every major city. What are they angry about? A lot of things, some of which are partially my fault. Se...
The Muslim Brotherhood is the latest organization named as a target for the hacker group Anonymous via a YouTube video. The string of (mostly false) hack alarms raises questions as to whether the movement ...
Nearly five years into its war against drug cartels, Mexico on Wednesday was rebuked by a human rights organization that found a pattern of abuses by security forces. Human Rights Watch released a report ...
Al-Qaeda's North Africa franchise acknowledged it had acquired part of slain Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi's arsenal, in comments by one of its leaders quoted Wednesday. Mokhtar Belmokhtar, believed to b...
Pipe-in-pipe systems are now commonly used to distribute water in many Norwegian homes. The inner pipe for drinking water is made of a plastic called cross-linked polyethylene (PEX). Are these pipes harmfu...
The UN atomic watchdog's hardest-hitting report to date on Iran's suspected nuclear weapons drive is probably too weak to convince Russia and China of the need for more sanctions, analysts said Wednesday. ...
Experts and political figures on Wednesday expressed growing doubts of Israel launching a military strike aimed at stopping Iran's nuclear drive, although such an attack hasn't been ruled out. Talk of a p...
Detroit is in "extremely serious financial condition," as it is projected to run out of cash next year and must take action to avoid a state takeover, Mayor Dave Bing said on Thursday. Michigan's largest ...
As Brazil's economy keeps growing, a record number of Brazilians are heading to the country's tropical beaches on package holidays. But not everyone welcomes the invasion of tourists or what that change sy...
Nigeria's Makoko slum is a shantytown on the edge of the port city of Lagos. The chaotic maze of wooden houses built on water is considered one of the city's liveliest neighborhoods. Much of Makoko rests ...
Army defectors gunned down scores of their former comrades in southern Syria during a deadly ambush as President Bashar Assad comes under increasing international pressure to quit. The fighting in the sou...
posted by PC at
Not PC - 3 hours ago
The *Dilbert* cartoon series is at the bottom end of mediocre. But, very occasionally, it strikes gold: [image: image] [HT Julian D] It inspired me to repost my popular piece on the practice of so call...
This is the empty camp in New York City at the centre of the global Occupy Wall Street movement - once home to hundreds of protesters, but cleared early this morning as 1,000 riot police moved in. More th...
Travellers threatened to move back onto Dale Farm today, just hours after work to clear the site was officially completed. Basildon Council has announced that all 51 plots on the infamous former scrapyard...
Watch live streaming video from globalrevolution at livestream.com WATCH LIVE OCCUPY WALL STREET On Tuesday, Nov. 15, occupiers marched in the streets of New York, as lawyers went to court for Occupy Wal...
Placard-Waving Protesters are actually Machine Gun-Wielding Terrorists. by Tony Cartalucci November 15, 2011 - The "Free Syria Army" is literally an army of militant extremists, many drawn not from Syria's...
"*NYPD IS RAIDING OCCUPY WALL STREET*" Posted 9 hours ago on Nov. 15, 2011, 1:20 a.m. EST by OccupyWallSt: "Liberty Square (Zuccotti Park), home of Occupy Wall Street for the past two months and birthplac...
Turkey threatened to cut off supplies of electricity to its neighbor Syria Tuesday, as the Damascus regime found itself under growing pressure from Arab, Turkish, European and North American governments fo...
This video composed out of cleaned, denoised, unflickered pictures taken in Summer and Fall 2011 from the International Space Station has been hailed as the best video of the Earth ever. *Earth | Time ...
Republican Tom Coburn of Oklahoma is, at best, a crackpot. Usually his reactionary core is more powerful than his crackpot nature. But not always; sometimes the crackpot in him wins out and, on rare occas...
Best Film: 'Shouting Secrets'36th ANNUAL AMERICAN INDIAN FILM FESTIVAL CLOSES NOVEMBER 12 WITH AMERICAN INDIAN MOTION PICTURE AWARDS SHOW By American Indian Film Festival Censored News SAN FRANCISCO -- Th...
posted by David Preiser (USA) at
Biased BBC - 4 hours ago
The BBC will never report this, because their thought-leaders in the US media and Left-wing blogosphere won't. 3 men claiming to be Occupy Portland protesters arrested in Marion County for possession of e...
A new ultra-thin coating for the brain could generate hi-res images of neural activity needed to treat epilepsy.
The launch of balloons is meant to raise awareness of Iraqi orphans.
New York police have dismantled the Occupy Wall Street camp in Zuccotti Park and arrested about 200 people following a raid in the early hours. Protesters were ordered to leave at about 01:00 (06:00 GMT), ...
On November 15th 2011, the NYPD, on orders from NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg's office, evicted the Occupy Wall Street protesters under the questionable motive of "safety and public health." The same night ...
*"Not only had they been on my personal Facebook page, but they had a government employee go to their home at night and log in as an individual, not as the government of Canada … and go onto my Facebook ...
A leading Syrian opposition group called for the introduction of U.N. peacekeepers in Syria Tuesday after talks with Russian government officials, according to the Russian news agency Interfax. Syrian N...
Kenyan forces are planning to carry out air strikes on Islamist rebel camps in southern and central Somalia and destroy weapons, according Kenyan military officials this week. Military spokesperson Major ...
Iranian officials admitted Sunday that they had uncovered evidence of the Duqu computer virus -- labeled "Son of Stuxnet" by cyber experts -- at the Islamic Republic's nuclear sites, state-controlled IRNA ...
A YouTube video shot during the November 9 student rally in London allegedly shows plainclothes police acting as agents provocateurs among the protesting crowds. The video uploaded by the user “noshockd...
Ellen Brown is an an attorney and president of the Public Banking Institute. The Fed’s own figures show that the money supply has shrunk by $3 trillion since 2008. That sum could be spent into the economy...
Maybe it's the mainstream media's fault that there's hardly an iconic image that sums up the ongoing Occupy Wall Street movement. Or perhaps the fault lies within ourselves since we ultimately choose what...
Cold rainy days make me crave soup. Any kind of soup, but particularly this one. I didn't grow up eating tomato soup, but my husband did and so I kept working on a recipe for it until I stumbled upon the...
Some killer whales eat salmon to survive, but their prey are in trouble, too.
The local foods movement is harvesting success for farmers and growing jobs for American workers.
The cost of borrowing for Italy's government has reached a new eurozone record of 6.29% in its latest bond auction. The news came as the yield on traded Spanish government bonds rose above 6% for the firs...
How much more are you going to take? by Cherri Foytlin on Tuesday, 15 November 2011 I came home from D.C. less than a week ago. In that time: I have seen photos of a 7-year-old with a rash all over her b...
Many thanks to Clarence in the comments for steering us towards this fascinating article from Ian Burrell, media editor of the 'Independent': *BBC 'cheap programming' scandal exposed* *"The BBC has owned ...
[image: The mountain pine beetle life cycle and range expansion in Pacific Northwest. In the Northwest, rising temperatures at higher elevations have brought hundreds of thousands of whitebark pines in c...
It's a straightforward question: what are people talking about? What's capturing their attention and imaginations? Public conversation. Nothing gives you a better sense of a community or a society than gau...
Astronomers home in on places ripe for formation of complex organic molecules.
Though the products still consist of honey, differences in how they're processed can affect quality and safety.
The death of a great white shark that was released after captivity highlights the unknowns about ocean animal needs.
The idea of using tears to gauge blood sugar isn't new, but a new sensor has improved the tests.
Winning bidder for canal pump stations sues Corps over new bid plans after own corruption scandal involving hiring Corps' bid specialist to do their bidding Dear Corps of Engineers: Save the Fancy Talk an...
*Brad Miller is a measurably better representative for the 99% than David Price* There are several tools I use every single day in my work at *DWT* and Blue America and Progressive Punch is a major one. S...
In his Macleans.ca debut, my friend Jeff Jedras takes aim at the proposalLiberals will be voting on in January to move to a US-style primary system to choose the party's next leader and nominate candidates....
Three years after the killing of Mexican journalist Armando Rodriguez, his colleagues said they are more determined than ever to write about the nation's drug cartels despite the risks. "Those who ordere...
I invite you to listen to this debate on the BBC this morning on the issue of the UK Border Agency. Consider the way Alan Johnson gets to open the debate without *any interruption* from Naughtie. Then, Con...
The BBC are upset that Mayor Bloomberg has finally been forced to take out the trash from Zuccotti Park. Give this a listen. Note the respectful silence afforded Big Sloth, no interruptions. Click throug...
posted by laura k at
wmtc - 9 hours ago
As I'm sure you know, city governments and police forces around the continent have been moving against Occupy camps, along with the accompanying unnecessary and expected police violence used against pea...
Violent arrests pepper spray *EXPECT US #Nov17* *JOIN US* We are a global movement that is reclaiming our humanity and our future. We have stepped into a revitalizing civic process, realizing that we ca...
The outbreak of a mysterious disease has created panic among residents of Shekhpura village in Surat district. More than 80 people have been stricken by it and one woman has lost her life. The district h...
posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at
- 9 hours ago
Url movie: http://youtu.be/DEluA6LFw6k -- it's all about our ideas. Click link to see ⇓ large.Now go make it with your digital camera and computer! Marian, gracias por su consejo! John
[image: Due date? A new study suggests pregnant women CAN influence when they give birth] Due date? A new study suggests pregnant women CAN influence when they give birth Halloween is a time for dressi...
*"Okay, Libya. President Obama supported the uprising, correct? President Obama called for the removal of Gaddafi. Just wanted to make sure we're talking about the same thing before I say, 'Yes, I agreed....
Small wonder Darth Vader was able to dominate the galactic empire - men with deep voices are seen as better leaders, research shows. Voters are more likely to back candidates with lower voices suggesting...
Syrian activists claim at least 50 people have been killed in intense clashes between army defectors and government forces. The southern province of Deraa was the scene of some of the worst violence, wit...
Ever since Patrick Muttart left the PMO war room under a cloud back in April for sending a photo of an Iggy look-alike posing in full combat gear in Kuwait to SunNews *during a Canadian election* *while wo...
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck Sulawesi, Indonesia at a depth of 262.3 km (163 miles), the quake hit at 10:43:50 UTC Tuesday 15th November 2011. The epicenter was 151 km ( 94 miles) WSW of Gorontalo...
- Inactivity can cause emotional and physical symptoms associated with condition - Findings consistent with previous research [image: A study has revealed that too much time spent watchin...
For generations, unhappy boyfriends and girlfriends have looked for a pain-free way to dump their not-so-significant other. And now they finally have one: Facebook. A survey has found that a third of pe...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Salta, Argentina at a depth of 43.1 km (26.8 miles), the quake hit at 10:20:16 UTC Tuesday 15th November 2011. The epicenter was 158 km ( 98 miles) ENE of Salta, Argent...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Andaman Islands, India Region at a depth of 129 km (80.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:18:40 UTC Tuesday 15th November 2011. The epicenter was 108 km ( 67 miles) Sou...
*TEN people died and another 12 were injured when a house collapsed during a funeral gathering in central China, the state Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday. * Eight people were killed immediately in th...
Seven quakes have rocked Caribbean islands as of Saturday and another tremor occurred in Haiti this Monday, arising concern among experts about a likely seismic reactivation in the area. "For some days we...
A magnitude 3.3 earthquake has struck South Dakota at a depth of 4.9 km (3 miles), the quake hit at 09:31:46 UTC Tuesday 15th November 2011. The epicenter was 30 km ( 18.6 miles) WSW of Oelrichs, South Dako...
The Tarantula Nebula is growing, but astronomers can't agree why.
Protesters re-entered the Occupy Oakland camp this evening after authorities had moved in and evicted them earlier today. Around 1,000 protesters marched back to the Frank Ogawa Plaza after the Monday mor...
Facebook users have had their accounts hijacked in an attack which posts hardcore pornography and sickening scenes of violence their timelines. There is growing anger towards the social network who seem t...
Hundreds of riot police have descended on New York's Occupy Wall Street camp to evict protesters. All activists have been ordered to leave Zuccotti Park, their longtime encampment in Lower Manhattan, but...
It is likely that radioactive cesium from the disaster at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant spread across much of northern and eastern Japanand could damage agriculture in several provinces, acc...
[image: Link]A suspected U.S. drone strike in Pakistan's tribal region killed six suspected militants on Tuesday, intelligence officials told CNN. Two Pakistani intelligence officials said the suspected dr...
posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at
CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours ago
*Occupiers in New York marching back to Zuccotti, with temporary restraining order on Tuesday morning:* http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/national_world&id=8432441#&cmp=twi-kgo-article-8432441 ...
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Barat Daya, Indonesia at a depth of 165.1 km (102.6 miles), the quake hit at 07:56:02 UTC Tuesday 15th November 2011. The epicenter was 275 km ( 170 miles) E...
Click on image and use magnifier. Image courtesy: ecomom It should come as no surprise that a glance around the shelves and showers of a typical bathroom will reveal a crazy array of products, each with t...
I hate to be picky, but this isan announcement that we are searching for a path to organize cells around. A breakthrough or several are needed. It is a little like flying a new flag to seeif anyone sa...
It is always good to listen toinsightful, hands on operators on any agricultural protocol. Here we get the skinny on theclear advantages of raising bison. Iwould like to see the original grasslands p...
This must be called dynamic feed management. The key is having a working amino acid inputmodel to manage the availability of feed choices. This also surely opens the door to a widervariety of feed sto...
Considering that I posted on thisfive years ago and wrote to the subject long before, it is gratifying to seeprogress today in a range of small private initiatives. Combine that with the rapidexpansi...
Photo courtesy: Kevin Dooley/CC BY 2.0 As many people know Kopi Luwak is the most expensive coffee in the world; and, for very good reason. It is made from coffee beans eaten, partly digested and then ex...
*Joe Paterno and friend. * Officials at the New York-based *Fresh Air Fund*, a charity that sends poor New York City kids to camps and host families in the summer, are now looking into Sandusky. (Fresh Ai...
Photo courtesy: Andreas Froese/ECOTEC Thousands of pieces of trash that would otherwise be clogging waterways and landfills in Nigeria have been turned into sturdy, and surprisingly attractive, construct...
posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at
FOTOfrontera - 16 hours ago
[image: Paisajes del Edén perdido - Paradise landscapes]
If you want to know whether the man in your life is the caring type, pour out your problems to him – but don’t worry about what advice he gives. Instead, focus very carefully on how he looks when he’s li...
posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at
FOTOfrontera - 16 hours ago
[image: Manzanas y uvas - Grapes and apples]
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[image: Ciudad de Yorba Linda, California, USA.]
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FOTOfrontera - 16 hours ago
[image: Alcatraces color rosa - Pink exotic flowers]
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[image: Los colores de la India - India United colors - Niñas y niños]
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[image: Chicas hermosas - Beautiful girls]
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[image: Frutas sobre la mesa - Fruits on the table]
posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at
CENSORED NEWS - 16 hours ago
By Brenda Norrell Censored News Oakland Police at Occupy Oakland/Reuters photoOAKLAND, Calif. -- After a dawn raid by police that cleared Occupy Oakland on Monday, Nov. 14, people once again flooded Oscar...
Cancer is on the rise and nearly 40 per cent of Britons will develop the disease at some point in their lives, according to Macmillan Cancer Support. Just ten years ago this figure was one in three. So w...
"How can I describe in a few pages the distinctive character of a whole teeming and storied world, so different from my own, yet so similar? Here, as on my own planet, infants were being born every hour. ...
Children who come from broken homes are three times as likely to run away as those who have a stable background, a major study said yesterday. The report, for the Children’s Society, found one in five y...
- They are more open to new experiences - Intelligent women 'don't believe they are at risk trying drugs once or twice' Women with high IQs are far more likely to take cannabis, cocaine and ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck offshore Valparaiso, Chile at a depth of 22.6 km (14 miles), the quake hit at 05:10:06 UTC Tuesday 15th November 2011. The epicenter was 46 km ( 29 miles) North of Val...
David Cameron has attacked "pointless" EU rules and regulations which he claims are stifling growth as it battles with the eurozone crisis. The Prime Minister called for "fundamental reform" in Europe as ...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Sicily, Italy at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 04:59:00 UTC Tuesday 15th November 2011. The epicenter was 10 km ( 6.2 miles) Northwest of Capo D'Orland...
A mysterious ammonia tank found washed up on a Port Susan beach is not believed to pose a hazard to humans, but officials are keeping a close watch over it. Ammonia is a corrosive gas that's toxic if inha...
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...
posted by PC at
Not PC - 19 hours ago
"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 - 20 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 - 23 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 - 1 day 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. S...
[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...
"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...
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...
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 g...
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 ...
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German territorial ambitions that led to World War I and World War II didn't work out that well for Germany-- at least not in the short run. But now Germany is back in full force-- and again demanding dom...
Diogenes asked me to remind everyone that next Monday morning, November 21 there will be a rally in Trenton, New Jersey to demand the Delaware River watershed be free of fracking, which, it goes without sa...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Caspian Sea, offshore Azerbaijan at a depth of 55 km (34.1 miles), the quake hit at 19:33:52 UTC Tuesday 15th November 2011. The epicenter was 48 km ( 29.8 miles) ...
Tues. Nov. 15: NOW: New York City Hall Councilmen marching. Councilmen Sanders, Jumaane Williams, Eugene and Cabrera marching on 1 Police Plaza demanding release of Councilman Rodriguez, arrested bleedin...
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