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Pacific Rim country just not, perhaps, to our corporate news media. There's a lot happening in the South-Asia/East Asia arc involving China, India, the United States and, most recently, Au...
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Words; they are the ammunition the
BBC uses to disguise profound and systemic bias. The BBC on numerous occasions via website & television, describes
Ennahda, the Islamist party that won the recent Tunisia...
Ready for war on Syria? Sure, those brown people who don't take our orders easily are scary, but do we have the right to replace their governments just because we'd like to be the ones who determine their ...
Eurozone bond markets suffered from a mass sell-off yesterday - with previously healthy economies finding themselves sucked into the debt crisis. The yield on French government bonds climbed to 3.63 per ce...
So yesterday I attempted a post..... Then hit publish and got a 404 error! Good bye post. Time constraints and a total lack of patience got the better of me. It just wasn't meant to be. Today, I will give i...
There is a banner with a giant flashing arrow above, but very, very few of you seem to be following its request. You need to make it a daily habit to assist, just once a day, in order for us at the Coming ...
A man appeared in court today charged with kidnap and sexual assault after a 10-year-old boy vanished on a trip to local shops. Michael Jackson, 49, from
Oldbury, West Midlands is accused of the kidnap an...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Central Peru at a depth of 52 km (32.3 miles), the quake hit at 14:02:14 UTC Wednesday 16th November 2011. The epicenter was 27 km ( 16 miles) SSW of...
There's a warrant out for Oscar Romero Ortega, suspected of firing a couple of shots at the White House Friday evening. According to *BBC News* there is evidence one round hit a White House window and two...
A convicted sex offender attacked a 10-year-old boy minutes after being allowed out of a secure mental health unit on unsupervised leave, a court heard. Shaun Tudor, 43, who has spent his entire adult lif...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Region, Alaska at a depth of 28.4 km (17.6 miles), the quake hit at 11:15:19 UTC Wednesday 16th November 2011. The epicenter was 21 km ( 13 miles) NNE of Larsen Bay, Al...
At least 15 suspected insurgents were killed by drones Wednesday in western Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan, according to news reports. The salvo of missiles struck an insurgent compound in the i...
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Occupy Wall Street New York occupiers' belongings thrown in pile by New York police during Tuesday's raid *State of Seized Library: Books and laptops destroyed by New York police in raid* *By Occupy Wall St...
*Look, It's a Turkey - Sitting in Front of a Turkey* The way things are going, the F-35 may save Canada from getting F-35'd. Every couple of weeks I Google F-35 to harvest the latest litany of gaffes, se...
Thai authorities are considering the construction of a super-express waterway through Bangkok to prevent future floods similar to the one that has crippled the Thai capital and brought manufacturing in o...
The capitol of Mongolia seeks to keep cool next summer by forming a giant block of ice on a river running through the city.
Air bags aren't just for autos; soon back-country skiers and snowboarders could be wearing them.
A heavily overloaded nursery school bus has collided with a truck, killing 18 passengers and injuring 44 in northwest China. The nursery school bus was a nine-seat minivan, but was packed with 64 passeng...
Heated words are being exchanged between world governments as further signs emerge that the euro might not survive its debt crisis. David Cameron has called for the EU's rule book to be rewritten - and ha...
*Oh, I'm sooooo happy!* "The *Boston Globe was a media sponsor of the event*. The Globe’s publisher, Christopher M. Mayer, said the *newspaper’s hope* is to *create dialogue* about *issues of importance*....
The company's new line uses integrated printers to print 3x4 color photos instantly.
Music-based therapy helped the congresswoman relearn how to walk and talk, but science is still awaiting data to support the technique.
[image: Sir David Attenborough on Arctic snow, with a tranquilized polar bear. Attenborough presents and authors the 'On Thin Ice' episode of 'Frozen Planet'. It looks at how the planet's ice is changing...
"... as about 220 protesters camped in their tightly packed tents, most of them asleep, powerful klieg lights on the trucks snapped on with a* '*Whoosh!' Now, it was as bright as day, even though it was 1 ...
People's Library at Occupy Wall Street. Photo by David Shankbone / Flickr.NYPD apparently destroys 'American cultural history'More than 5,000 books in the Occupy Wall Street library were reportedly thrown a...
You made me write this I didn't want to do it, I didn't want to do it You made me do this and all the time you knew it I guess you always knew it. I know. I’m no Judy Garland. But I really wish I didn’t h...
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A while back, wmtc had a discussion about the supposed controversy of the authorship of Shakespeare's plays, after I read the book *Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare*, by James Shapiro. Now a movie i...
"Privately owned public spaces" ~Library Chronicles ~Hat Tweet @brianpmoore666~WATCH YOUR ASS SMELLY HIPSTER RT @*Satchfield*: Businesses bringing security cameras to Frenchmen Street wwltv.com/news/More-...
J.J. Benítez: UFO Buzzed Chile’s Pinochet Before Coup Attempt Mexico’s NOTIMEX news agency published an interesting news item yesterday: a statement by Spanish UFO researcher / novelist J.J. Be...
Waning crescent moon. Photo by Ed Euthman / Flickr.Moon Musings:Waning Crescent Moon(November 19 - 22, 2011)By Kate Braun / The Rag Blog / November 16, 2011The waning crescent moon is a good moon phase to us...
Ooo la la, the new project will boast four, 850-ton turbines capable of providing energy for 4,000 homes.
In a few hours Raúl Grijalva and Keith Ellison, co-chairs of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, are convening an ad-hoc hearing with prominent economists that the SuperCommittee routinely and pointedly...
Just because we "can do something" - doesn't mean we "should do it". And that is my stance on "fracking". Just because the technology exists - doesn't mean we should be using it - if it is unsafe. But ...
France's nuclear watchdog yesterday reported finding traces of radioactive iodine in the air last week after similarly low contamination was found across several eastern European countries.
World's oceans in peril - Features - Al Jazeera English
A 70-million-year-old nest filled with the remains of baby Protoceratops gives clues to the dinos' early behavior.
She later wrote about the incident:“Something funny happened on my way to a transportation meeting in Northgate. As I got off the bus at 3rd and Pine I heard helicopters above. Knowing that the problems o...
The shorts and swimsuits have been put away, mince pies are on the shelves and all thoughts of dieting have been forgotten until January. We are all ready to pile on a few pounds. We gain an average 2lb...
- It had been thought that lazy eye could not be corrected once a child had reached 11-years-old Playing video games could help to correct 'lazy eye' syndrome in teenagers. Amblyopia or 'lazy e...
- It had been thought that lazy eye could not be corrected once a child had reached 11-years-old Playing video games could help to correct 'lazy eye' syndrome in teenagers. Amblyopia or 'lazy e...
- Rotating shift patterns leave female hospital workers at a higher risk of obesity and high blood pressure Women hospital staff working night shifts may be compromising their own he...
- More than 70million mobile phones used in UK - Danish researchers investigated data on more than 358,000 mobile users over 18 years Using a mobile phone does not increase the risk of bra...
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Some of the most beautiful sights in the universe are ones that we could never see with our eyes. One such example is this lovely composite of the Carina Nebula made with visible and radio light.
*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* The* International Cultic Studies Association* lists the defining characteristics of a 'cult'. I fully agree with the 'list' and also the assertion that the GOP me...
Source: Diario de Cuyo (San Juan, Argentina) Date: 15 Nov 2011 Another UFO in Gualcamayo? Favio Cabrera - Diario de Cuyo 11.15.11 - JACHAL - "I always go around with a camera because I enjoy tak...
From Laura Trevelyan's "At the scene" report: Daniel Klein shows me his bruised face and his broken ribs - a casualty, he said, of last night's eviction of Zuccotti Park by the NYPD. Daniel is back, and i...
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Biased BBC - 6 hours ago
I was tied up yesterday when this story about the BBC trustees investigation of dodgy environment programmes broke. This morning, I've been digging further, and I suspect we only know a fraction of what's ...
Bias? What bias? "Clark "surprise" at May ignorance" They just can't help it, can they? Brodie Clark is the hero de jour of the BBC, a battering ram they are using to try and claim May's scalp. I don't rec...
"Iran far from posing existential threat." - Former Mossad Chief Ephraim Halevy. Israel Attack on Iran "Stupidest Thing I’ve Ever Heard." - Former Mossad Chief Meir Dagan. An Attack on Iran "Will Not H...
Of course it was found in the onelocation that maximizes the controversy. We now know that a chunk of bronze found its way somehow into the SewardPeninsula which is close by Anchorage. It certainly ...
They have located the correcttool and must now learn how to safely use it in every patient. The good news is that it is plausible thatfolks with a damaged heart can look forward to outright internal r...
It had to be said. There are no non military solutions forNazism. This is what radical Islam hasmorphed into over the past half century. As stated, a full press destruction of Hamas is a good start a...
*Breivik, or his double, 2009.* *The Norway attacks were carried out by a group with links to fascism, zionism, the arms trade and drugs. * Emilie Bersaas, 19, said: "The shooting came from all different d...
Being too thin is worse than being too fat when trying for a baby, women have been warned. A study found that skinny women are less likely to become pregnant than those who are overweight – including th...
- More than 16,000 people die from liver disease every year in the UK - Young regular drinkers and middle-class women particularly at risk - Royal College of Physicians say current guidelines ...
Most women experience hot flushes and night sweats during the menopause but now scientists say the intense symptoms can go on for years afterwards. The average age to reach the menopause in British and A...
*Give the lever another pull!** * *"Casino operators may overstate economic benefits of their projects to get lawmakers’ backing.... An advertising campaign said the measure could bring $500 million a yea...
On the outer edges of the Milky Way are stars that astronomers study like galactic fossils - ancient stars formed in the youngest years of our galaxy. The puzzle for scientists is why these stars are so ri...
[image: Leaving a newborn's umbilical cord intact for three minutes can cut anaemia risks (library image)] Leaving a newborn's umbilical cord intact for three minutes can cut anaemia risks (library imag...
Occupy Wall Street demonstrators were allowed back into Zuccotti Park tonight but will not be allowed to set up camp again following a court order. At around 5.30pm police began letting small groups of p...
Secret talks are being held about watering down voters’ newly-granted power to trigger debates in Parliament, following a series of embarrassments for the Government. Ministers and senior MPs have discuss...
*The odd$ were $tacked again$t you, citizen$ -- if you get my meaning.* "The Massachusetts Senate's decision to approve a *casino gambling bill*Thursday is a *coup* for supporters who say the industry woul...
Berlin declared last night that Europe is speaking German and Britain must be less selfish toward the EU. The UK has a duty to help the eurozone despite being outside the single currency, according to one...
"The thought of the disaster which almost certainly lay in wait for the Other Men threw me into a horror of doubt about the universe in which such a thing could happen. That a whole world of intelligent b...
When billionaire NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg bowed to Wall Street pressure to remove the OccupyWallStreet protesters from Zuccotti Park last night, he claimed, without a shred of evidence, that protesters we...
A compromise spending plan for NASA averts cancellation of the James Webb Space Telescope, but caps development of the Hubble successor observatory at $8 billion.
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 61.9 km (38.5 miles), the quake hit at 01:43:48 UTC Wednesday 16th November 2011. The epicenter was 128 km ( 79 miles) NNE of Neiafu, Tonga No Tsuna...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 37.7 km (23.4 miles), the quake hit at 00:43:58 UTC Wednesday 16th November 2011. The epicenter was 197 km ( 122 mile...
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Occupy Wall Street: New York Police Department WATCH: "Retired police captain comes down from upstate New York to join us" Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 8.9 km (5.5 miles), the quake hit at 23:42:28 UTC Tuesday 15th November 2011. The epicenter was 86 km ( 53 miles) North of Tanahnerah, Pa...
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Seattle activist Dorli Rainey, 84, reacts after being hit with pepper spray during an Occupy Seattle protest on Tuesday. Police pepper sprayed a pregnant woman who was taken to a hospital. Photo: JOSHUA T...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 58.3 km (36.2 miles), the quake hit at 20:28:50 UTC Tuesday 15th November 2011. The epicenter was 270 km ( 167 miles) SSW of Severo-Kuri...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Molucca Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 51.8 km (32.2 miles), the quake hit at 18:27:08 UTC Tuesday 15th November 2011. The epicenter was 197 km ( 122 miles) SSW of T...
*I can't imagine why.* "Kraft lawyer drafted casino zoning changes; Foxborough asked for plan, tabled it" October 18, 2011|By Noah Bierman, Globe Staff A lawyer for the Kraft Group drafted zoning changes ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 510.7 km (317.3 miles), the quake hit at 17:41:44 UTC Tuesday 15th November 2011. The epicenter was 453 km ( 281 miles) SSW of ...
Crackdowns Reach Epicenter of Wall Street Protests If you don't read Karen Garcia's Sardonicky, you really should. In self defense, at least. (She's a gifted writer and commenter on the current scene.) The...
“Barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365 is truly a majestic island universe some 200,000 light-years across. Located a mere 60 million light-years away toward the chemical constellation Fornax, NGC 1365 is a domina...
*"Quiet Desperation"* by Chet Raymo “As I type this, I am sipping a cup of Green Mountain Vermont Country Blend Decaf and nibbling an Entenmann's Ultimate Cinnamon Pastry Twister. Just thought you'd want...
Representatives of IVAW and Under the Hood Cafe marched in the Killeen Veterans Day Parade. Photo by Susan Van Haitsma / The Rag Blog.The burdens of war:Anti-war GI's on Veterans DayBy Susan Van Haitsma / Th...
Secret no more, US moves openly to block the rise of China. by Tony Cartalucci November 16, 2011 - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently published in Foreign Policy magazine, "America's Pacific Cent...
I bought this cookbook that is AWESOME. Rebecca forwarded me a coupon to use when we stopped in a bookstore after lunch the other weekend, for 50% off one book. I ended up buying a cookbook, which is not a...
*"Declaration of Principles"* by Paulo Coelho *1]* All human beings are different. And should do everything possible to continue to be so. *2]* Each human being has been granted two courses of action: th...
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*It won't be because of my vote.* "Outside groups fuel Brown-Warren ad war; Negative messages get heavy TV play" November 11, 2011|By Noah Bierman, Globe Staff If you believe the *barrage of ads*, the 201...
*Plus a quick note on the Zuccotti Park blitzkrieg --* *DNAinfo.com caption:* *Sara Sitshul, 61, of Brooklyn said her son Chris O'Donnell, 23, was arrested last night. He was working in the kitchen at Occ...
------------------------------ November 15, 2011 *Occupy Wall Street Evicted in Late Night Raid; Lawyers Secure Injunction to Reopen Zuccotti Park* Nearly two months into Occupy Wall Street, New Yor...
You've heard of snakes on a plane, now here come bugs on a plane. A North Carolina couple is suing AirTran Airways, alleging that cockroaches crawled out of air vents and overhead carry-on bins during a ...
Around 1:00am on Tuesday, Nov 15th, the NYPD moved in to clear Zuccotti Park of all protestors and equipment. Over the next 12 hours, both independent and mainstream journalists were prevented from coverin...
*"Startled Deer Becomes New Republican Frontrunner"* Inability to Speak Considered a Plus by Andy Borowitz CONCORD, NH (The Borowitz Report) – "The race for the Republican presidential nomination took an ...
Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
*I'll pick up the check*: "Servers at Harvard Club file suit over tips; Say they get no share of 17% surcharge" November 11, 2011|By Katie Johnston, Globe Staff The exclusive Harvard Club of Boston, which...
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[image: _Quote4]The inverse relationship between quantity demanded and price is the core proposition in economic science, which embodies the presupposition that human choice behavior is sufficiently ra...
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*STUFF*: Prime Minister John Key has refused to answer reporter’s questions about the ‘tea tapes’ and stormed out of a press conference in Wellington… A shame he didn’t do that five days ago when this no...
CANADA/HEALTH - Assisted suicide and euthanasia should be legal in Canada, concludes an expert panel in a report released today in Ottawa, adding fuel to the growing demands to legalize suicide in Canada. ...
*First down on the front page*: "Penn State scandal prompts anger, reflection; After shocker at school, should sports ever be king?" November 13, 2011|By Peter Schworm, Globe Staff The *sexual abuse scand...
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* "Your Comfort Zone: Create a Soft Place to Land"* by The DailyOm "Create a soft place to land in your home a refuge from the stress of the day. Our day-to-day demands can quickly take their toll on our ...
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...
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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) ...
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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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CENSORED NEWS - 20 hours ago
A police officer beats an Occupy Wall Street protester with his fist after the clear-out of Zuccotti Park. Photograph: John Minchillo/AP http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/occupy111511/o26_32885664....
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wmtc - 20 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...
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wmtc - 20 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.
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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. ...
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Biased BBC - 22 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 ...
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CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours ago
*"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...
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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 canno...
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...
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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...
*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...
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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...
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Eurozone bond markets suffered from a mass sell-off yesterday - with previously healthy economies finding themselves sucked into the debt crisis. The yield on French government bonds climbed to 3.63 per ce...
So yesterday I attempted a post..... Then hit publish and got a 404 error! Good bye post. Time constraints and a total lack of patience got the better of me. It just wasn't meant to be. Today, I will give i...
A man appeared in court today charged with kidnap and sexual assault after a 10-year-old boy vanished on a trip to local shops. Michael Jackson, 49, from Oldbury, West Midlands is accused of the kidnap an...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Central Peru at a depth of 52 km (32.3 miles), the quake hit at 14:02:14 UTC Wednesday 16th November 2011. The epicenter was 27 km ( 16 miles) SSW of...
A convicted sex offender attacked a 10-year-old boy minutes after being allowed out of a secure mental health unit on unsupervised leave, a court heard. Shaun Tudor, 43, who has spent his entire adult lif...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Region, Alaska at a depth of 28.4 km (17.6 miles), the quake hit at 11:15:19 UTC Wednesday 16th November 2011. The epicenter was 21 km ( 13 miles) NNE of Larsen Bay, Al...
At least 15 suspected insurgents were killed by drones Wednesday in western Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan, according to news reports. The salvo of missiles struck an insurgent compound in the i...
Occupy Wall Street New York occupiers' belongings thrown in pile by New York police during Tuesday's raid *State of Seized Library: Books and laptops destroyed by New York police in raid* *By Occupy Wall St...
*Look, It's a Turkey - Sitting in Front of a Turkey* The way things are going, the F-35 may save Canada from getting F-35'd. Every couple of weeks I Google F-35 to harvest the latest litany of gaffes, se...
A heavily overloaded nursery school bus has collided with a truck, killing 18 passengers and injuring 44 in northwest China. The nursery school bus was a nine-seat minivan, but was packed with 64 passeng...
Heated words are being exchanged between world governments as further signs emerge that the euro might not survive its debt crisis. David Cameron has called for the EU's rule book to be rewritten - and ha...
*Oh, I'm sooooo happy!* "The *Boston Globe was a media sponsor of the event*. The Globe’s publisher, Christopher M. Mayer, said the *newspaper’s hope* is to *create dialogue* about *issues of importance*....
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