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Buckdog - 17 minutes ago
*"A growing number of Conservative
MPs are questioning their government's position on the export of asbestos, with a group of them independently summoning industry experts to a meeting on Parliament Hill...
*Dorli Rainey—who grew up in Nazi Germany—on getting pepper-sprayed in Seattle, and on how our corporate press reminds her of Herr Goebbels’* Go here for original. Related Posts: - TSA abu...
Form Innacuracies Found In City Water Tests ~WDSU Owen Courreges: May I see your bicyclers’ license?~Uptown Messenger Mary Matalin is named a lecturer at Loyola University International WorkBoat Show Cou...
The United States has been wrestling with racial segregation for decades and, while considerable progress has been made in some areas, plenty remains to be fixed. But a new form of segregation is on the ...
CT scans suggest the Iceman may have shattered his eye in a fall after he was wounded by an arrow.
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MN-06 Michele Bachmann (R) MN-08 Chip Cravaack (R) *MINNESOTA (as of 2010)* *12 Senators of 67* Dave Brown (S-16) Roger C. Chamberlain (S-53) Paul Gaz...
http://youtu.be/WmJmmnMkuEM Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi Posted on November 19, 2011 by crank 18 November 2011 Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi Linda P.B. Katehi, ...
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wmtc - 1 hour ago
I meant to include this in my recent library-related post, but I misplaced the link. So now this lovely little library has a post of its own. Please go here to see a beautiful old UK "phone box" recycled i...
North Carolina When it comes to the North Carolina state Motto and ALEC member the following definitely is true. "The Numbers of the really virtuous are not so great, as they appear to be." Each person on...
by: Duane Craig University of California, Davis Campus Superfund Cleanup at UC DavisA Superfund site with shared responsibility between the U.S. Department of Energy and the University of California Davis ...
Last week Florida psychopath Cliff Stearns' off the rails National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 2011 (H.R. 822) passed the House 272-154. It's one of the most extreme gun bills ever passed by Congre...
Back to Syria I made the statement on Friday that this looks to be coming to a head. I stand by it. Let's take a look at what is being reported today. Of course, not all of it. There was news of Russian war...
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wmtc - 2 hours ago
London, Ontario, that's who! Team president and general manager David Martin says the name "The London Rippers", this logo, and cute marketing phrases like "Lurking in Labatt Park..." have nothing to do ...
Thirty-five people have reportedly been killed in clashes between police and protesters in Egypt as calls intensify for military rulers to quickly transfer power to a civilian government. AP news agency ...
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wmtc - 2 hours ago
This and many others courtesy of BoingBoing, via the OWS Library blog.
A 10 second tri-cat-thalon or playtime and a nap? Think your kitty could compete?
New technologies and maps of the Earth's crust are making geothermal a renewable energy competitor to fossil fuels.
The Treasury Department plans to designate Iran as an area of "primary money laundering concern" on Monday, a U.S. official said, a move allowing it to take steps to further isolate the Iranian financial s...
*An even more ambitious, more stringy type of supersymmetry could actually be more compatible with the LHC data* A year ago or so, we have entered the serious LHC era in which many eyes of high-energy p...
The U.S. baseball player Gregory Halman has been stabbed to death in Rotterdam. The Seattle Mariners outfield, 24, was killed today according to Dutch channel NOS-TV, which said the player's family had c...
Startling claims that the speed of light has been broken for a second time have been rejected by a group of scientists. Physicists from Cern, the Swiss home of the Large Hadron Collider, announced last we...
Britain's youth courts are just jailing one in four teenage muggers, it has emerged. It is a further embarrassment for the Government, which has been accused of employing a 'light touch' when it comes to ...
It's my birthday this coming week (and it's going to be on the day I was born), so this would be a terrific present. For both me and my country. If only. Stop the Austerity Train Wreck!Robert Reich Friday,...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Western Honshu, Japan at a depth of 11.8 km (7.3 miles), the quake hit at 10:16:30 UTC Monday 21st November 2011. The epicenter was 62 km ( 38 miles) NNE of Hiroshima,...
The number of people wounded in two days of clashes in Egypt has reached 1,700, a health ministry spokesman said Monday. In addition, 20 people have died, including 10 on Sunday in confrontations between...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 43.8 km (27.2 miles), the quake hit at 09:48:27 UTC Monday 21st November 2011. The epicenter was 125 km ( 78 miles) E...
European stock indices fell for the sixth day in a row, as France's credit rating came under threat and political deadlock in the US weighed on markets. The credit ratings agency Moody's said continued e...
A magnitude 3.7 earthquake has struck Central California at a depth of 0.1 km (0 miles - Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 09:39:03 UTC Monday 21st November 2011. The epicenter was 30 km ( 18.6 miles) ...
A magnitude 3.4 earthquake has struck Central California at a depth of 4.7 km (2.9 miles), the quake hit at 09:38:11 UTC Monday 21st November 2011. The epicenter was 30 km ( 18.6 miles) Southeast of Marklee...
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Biased BBC - 6 hours ago
It turns out that the Television Trust for the Environment - the BBC greenie programmes supplier whose problems I noted here - derives half its income, more than £500k, from the EU, and effectively gives i...
Black rain containing radioactive materials from the World War II atomic bombing of Nagasaki may have fallen not only in the city's Nishiyama district, but over a much wider area, documents obtained by the...
With Malaysia already bracing for what it expects will be its worst floods in decades, authorities have now put the country on "full alert" for landslides. With the Northeast Monsoon having already set in...
The Monticello nuclear power plant was automatically shut down over the weekend as a result of safety concerns, Xcel Energy officials said Sunday. The plant, owned and operated by Xcel, shut down at 11:12...
Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano has spewed a burst of ash 3 miles (5 kilometers) into the air after breaking through a dome of lava. Mexico’s National Disaster Prevention Center says Sunday’s explosion c...
At least 13 people at a transgender gathering in New Delhi were killed Sunday in a massive fire, officials said. The city's fire chief, A.K. Sharma, told CNN that more than 40 people were also injured as...
An oil refinery in Yemen has stopped operation due to lack of raw materials, according to officials at the refinery. Senior officials at the Aden Oil refinery in Aden told CNN on Sunday that the last day...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Southern Xinjiang, China at a depth of just 1 km (0.62 miles - Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 06:56:25 UTC Monday 21st November 2011. The epicenter was 18 km ( ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 65.2 km (40.5 miles), the quake hit at 05:32:18 UTC Monday 21st November 2011. The epicenter was 82 km ( 50 miles) WSW of Tapach...
*Tunis, not Wall St.* OCCUPY! It did not start on Wall Street. Some months ago, the CIA organised the OCCUPATION of down town Tunis. Tunisia now has an Islamist government. Tunisia now has more poverty...
700 exoplanets have been confirmed, but we are only just glimpsing the tip of the proverbial exoplanetary iceberg.
Read this bill of economic rightsand weep. Then recall that Governmentfirst prints money in order to spend it. It then taxes us in order to recover that money in whole or in part. *It is never the ot...
* * * * *Self Help* * by Samuel Smiles* * Hypertext Meanings and Commentaries from the Encyclopediaof the Self* * by Mark Zimmerman* *Self Help; WithIllustrations of Conduct and Perseverance* *By Samuel S...
The breakthrough in theunderstanding of ALS is noted. This is agood list and plenty more is out there been all simultaneously advanced asquickly as possible. What is most noteworthy isunderlying all ...
I have already posted at lengthon the physical reality underlying the story of Noah which appears to be areport on the establishment of Bronze Age agriculture in the Middle East. I surmised a much e...
I think this device will be inthe market right quick. It is a fix for an unsatisfactory system that has beenburdensome for decades. Just cutting thewaste management problem justifies switching. The f...
Hours after Michelle Parker aired her violent, tumultuous relationship with her ex-fiance on a dramatic episode of 'The People's Court,' she captured national attention again. This time, it's because the 3...
Two campus police officers caught in shocking video footage using pepper spray on student protesters have been suspended, UC Davis announced today. In a statement, school Chancellor Linda Katehi announced...
NASA's launch of a new nuclear-powered car-sized Mars rover is being delayed one day to allow time for engineers to replace a suspect battery in the probe's Atlas 5 launch vehicle.
Pressure on the Syrian regime has increased after a 15-year-old schoolboy was murdered by government thugs. Mohammed Mulla Eissa's only crime was refusing to join a pro-regime march when ordered to do so ...
Violent clashes between protesters and Egypt’s military police flared again yesterday, leaving at least ten dead and hundreds injured. By last night thousands of demonstrators had returned to Tahrir Square...
Today's *NY Times* poses an obvious question by Euripidean scholar Daniel Mendelsohn: "What if it had been a 10-year-old girl in the Penn State locker room that Friday night in 2002?" Before reading it, k...
Hundreds of passengers had their journeys disrupted last night as fog grounded flights at London airports. At Heathrow, 132 flights, most of them short-haul, were cancelled and many others delayed. Offic...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the New Ireland Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 37.2 km (23.1 miles), the quake hit at 03:48:40 UTC Monday 21st November 2011. The epicenter was 105 km ( 65 mil...
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck Myanmar at a depth of 121 km (75.2 miles), the quake hit at 03:15:43 UTC Monday 21st November 2011. The epicenter was 130 km ( 80 miles) East of Imphal, Manipur, India ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Mindanao, Philippines at a depth of 204.8 km (127.3 miles), the quake hit at 02:46:58 UTC Monday 21st November 2011. The epicenter was 51 km ( 31 miles) ESE of General...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Eastern Iran at a depth of 28 km (17.4 miles), the quake hit at 01:56:46 UTC Monday 21st November 2011. The epicenter was 96 km ( 59 miles) Southeast of Birjand, Iran N...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 404.8 km (251.5 miles), the quake hit at 01:39:06 UTC Monday 21st November 2011. The epicenter was 259 km ( 160 miles) South of...
We're adding to / enhancing an area of the website which we think will make things more... conversational, shall we say. It should be set up and ready to use in a few days. Stay tuned, everyone! (New posts...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Reykjanes Ridge at a depth of 60 km (37.2 miles), the quake hit at 22:04:30 UTC Sunday 20th November 2011. The epicenter was 703 km ( 435.8 miles) Southwest of Reyk...
Ask an elderly couple what the key to a happy marriage is, and they’ll probably tell you it’s down to mutual respect and not going to bed without resolving an argument. But, according to researchers, th...
Should cities carry a health warning? A growing body of research shows that babies born in cities, and children who grow up in them, face a battery of health problems that afflict both their physical an...
More than a third of bosses believe some of their female colleagues wear too much make-up to work, according to a poll. Having bright red lips, over made-up eyes and too much blusher were seen as the b...
There is growing disquiet in the medical community. The NHS breast-cancer screening programme, which invites all women to have three-yearly X-rays (mammograms) from the age of 50, has been said by some d...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Philippine Islands Region at a depth of 81.3 km (50.5 miles), the quake hit at 21:25:40 UTC Sunday 20th November 2011. The epicenter was 234 km ( 145 miles) ESE of...
Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia. Scientists hope the 'ice shield' will reduce demands on energy and regulate water during summer. Photo courtesy: Doug Kanter/Getty Images via guardian.co.uk Mongolia i...
Agricultural farmland in Ukraine being prepared for planting wheat. Photo courtesy: Vincent Mundy/Bloomberg /Getty Images via guardian.co.uk Billions more investment is needed in agriculture and food distr...
ALL photos courtesy: Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture Let's hope this active attempt to co-exist with nature spreads worldwide. As more people begin moving from rural areas and into swelling urban centers...
Time to revive a dormant feature. Here's the tough guy, pepper-spraying unarmed students. Can't help but notice the contrast: students sitting peacefully and silently get pepper-sprayed in the face. Stude...
Photo courtesy: josie lynn richards/CC BY 2.0 If you were one of the millions who chose leather because it was a natural material and free from chemical contamination, read on. The truth will probably hav...
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Not PC - 12 hours ago
I have a few minor quibbles with some of his choices—and many of his choices will surely surprise you as much as they did me—but if you want to know who to vote for and who to ignore in your electorate t...
*Ah-choo. * "Pepper-spray use called ‘chilling’; College head says police action to be investigated" by Associated Press, November 20, 2011 SAN FRANCISCO - The chancellor of the University of California a...
The memo indicates that CLGC would research who has contributed financial backing to OWS, noting that, “Media reports have speculated about associations with George Soros and others.” "It will be vital,”...
A man has been arrested over a plot to detonate a bomb in New York City. The city's Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, said a 27-year-old man was facing three terror charges following his arrest. Mr Bloomberg said...
A man has been arrested over a plot to detonate a bomb in New York City. The city's Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, said a 27-year-old man was facing three terror charges following his arrest. Mr Bloomberg said...
*Rumor has it that one of these men is the solution to the problem of the dumbing down of the Republican Party. Can you guess which?* *"It takes courage to swim against the tide of know-nothingness that ha...
“How do stars form? A study of star forming region W5 by the sun-orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope provides clear clues by recording that massive stars near the center of empty cavities are older than stars...
“No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities. It’s a shame to waste those by doing what someone else has done.” - Joseph Campbell
The source of America's political, economic and foreign policy crises is its print and television media. This is not news to anyone, but it is a truth that needs to be repeated again and again. America h...
*“In Praise of Books”* by Chet Raymo “The greatest library of the ancient world was founded by the Ptolemaic dynasty at Alexandria in the 3rd century B.C.E. It is said that the library possessed hundreds...
*"Remember"* "Remember the sky that you were born under, know each of the star's stories. Remember the moon, know who she is. I met her in a bar once in Iowa City. Remember the sun's birth at dawn, that is...
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Not PC - 15 hours ago
[image: Debate] As you’ve possibly already heard, if you’re planning on giving yourself nausea tonight by watching TweedleDum and TweedleDummer pretend to slug it tonight out over their minute differenc...
Chart from brillig.com.(With forgetful elephants...)Playing the debt blame gameBy Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / November 20, 2011The Treasury Department admitted this week that the national debt of this co...
IISS: Syria's Opposition Is Armed 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 e...
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Not PC - 16 hours ago
I’m pinching this idea from Craig Ranapia, who pinched it from the “Shelf Life” feature from *The Spectator*’s Book Blog. *1) What are you reading at the moment?* Umberto Eco’s new one *The Prague Ceme...
As I pointed out in the comments yesterday, the BBC's Matt Danzico has been touting for book donations for a new Occupy Wall Street library organised by his sister Liz (aka "bobulate"): (Liz sounds like ...
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*"A Global Consciousness Project: * *The Machine That Could Tell The Future"* Posted by VioletPlanet "The past is but the past of a beginning." - H. G. Wells "Deep in the basement of a dusty university l...
"Cops Gone Wild" - POSTER#130 - Alex Noble (Based on a photo by Louise Macabitas) "University of California, Davis, student Mike Fetterman, receives a treatment for pepper spray by UC Davis firefighter ...
*"Oligarchy, American Style"* Paul Krugman “Inequality is back in the news, largely thanks to Occupy Wall Street, but with an assist from the Congressional Budget Office. And you know what that means: It’...
A large, wealthy, virulently anti-gay family, which owns a chain of health food stores north of L.A., Lassen's, recently bought out the lease of Nature Mart, in my neighborhood. Nature Mart had been part...
Earlier this month, Austrian physicist Anton Zeilinger who is arguably the world's most prominent experimenter working on the foundations of quantum mechanics (if I avoid the term "recreational quantum e...
The "Iraqization" of America's Iran Debate: Mohammad Javad Larijani and The Mainstream Media By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett The Race For Iran November 20, 2011 Mohammad Javad Larijani’s vis...
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Not PC - 19 hours ago
[image: _Quote]When I say cut income taxes I don't mean fiddle with the tax code, I mean abolish the income tax and the IRS and replace them with nothing. - Ron Paul Content is ...
It seems that the BBC will be ‘Starting the Week’ tomorrow morning with a particularly objectionable duo on the guest list. Not only Peter Kosminsky of ‘The Promise’ notoriety, but also a singer / songwrit...
*"When All You Have Is A Hammer (Oil - Again)"* by Karl Denninger "Here we go again... "The price of a barrel of oil this past week hit $100 for the first time since July. After steadily falling from its ...
To D-fox: if you're reading this, please contact us at thecomingcrisis@gmail.com. It's important -- we believe.
Maps may not sound sexy. But Saab's real-time 3D maps will nonetheless make your eyes pop. Remember those magic maps from the Harry Potter books that tracked the location of every wizard at Hogwarts -- do...
Tough, strong and noble; these are the sorts of qualities one would expect from a national symbol. The fabled Karabakh horse is a rare and beautiful animal that is of great importance to Azerbaijanis. Bu...
Jack Blood, after a brief hiatus, is back with a new audio podcast found on deadlinelive.info along with US & global news and commentary. The first episode features Richard Gage, Founder of Architects and...
A group calling itself the National Socialist Underground appears to have committed a series of murders and racially-motivated attacks. DW's Editor-in-Chief Ute Schaeffer calls for broad public discourse o...
As the bets that European banks made on United States mortgage investments went bust a few years ago, bankers piled into what they saw as a safe refuge: bonds issued by countries in Europe’s seemingly iron...
WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy believes that Russia’s admission to the WTO will benefit the global economy, as well as the country itself. It will give Russia an impetus for modernization, make it at...
It seems bankers are taking over politics in Europe, financial analyst Max Keiser told RT, adding that this trend could lead to global banking domination. “We cannot get rid of these zombie bankers, we...
Ron Paul has distanced himself from the other GOP hopefuls on practically every platform. While it’s to be expected that each candidate campaigns with their own agendas, he's been the only to say something...
Libya has big plans for its post-war future, hoping to be reborn as the next Dubai and having all the necessary sun and beaches, with oil reserves aplenty. British companies are likely to come out on top...
None of the world's major economies will escape a slowdown, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said on Monday, highlighting increasing signs that growth momentum is dwindling across...
A massive $750m (£473m) Chinese-built oil rig, the Scarabeo 9, is due to arrive in Cuba before the end of the year, to begin drilling a series of exploratory wells. A whole range of international oil comp...
Until six months ago, Julie Hall loved her job. She had been with the firm for three years, got on with her colleagues and thrived on the challenges of working in a busy HR department. Then a new manager a...
The Euro crisis is not just a Greek crisis, or an Italian crisis, or now even a French crisis. It is an American crisis, too, a crisis that may thrust the U.S. economy back into recession in 2012. If the...
When Joel Mwale was hospitalized with dysentery, his doctors advised him to focus his energies on making a full recovery. The Kenyan student had caught the illness after consuming contaminated water distr...
With American and Iranian relations on the brink of war due to news or a nuclear program being developed out of Tehran, Obama administration insiders say the US is about to cut an arms deal with a powerful...
If you wondered how strict the Federal Trade Commission is with tackling corporations over assaults on customer privacy, you’ll be relieved to know that the FTC is ending its investigation with Facebook. ...
Though it has been decades since the Cold War came to a close, the United States government spends more money on nuclear warheads now than it did during its stand-off with the Soviet Union. As the US vows...
The sovereign debt crisis tightening its grip on Europe has claimed the scalps of two prime ministers – those of Greece and Italy. Looking at the men poised to replace them, one cannot but ask – is this an...
Last week, the International Atomic Energy Agency issued its most serious warning about Iran's nuclear program. It argued that Iran seems to have experimented with various technologies that suggest that ...
A new study shows that attending religious services regularly can mean a more optimistic, less depressed, and less cynical outlook on life. In a follow-up to its 2008 report that found that attending servi...
“My thoughts, they roam freely. Who can ever guess them?” So goes an old German folk song. But imagine living in a world where someone can guess your thoughts, or even know them for certain. A world where...
Despite the global financial crisis, China's rich are getting richer. "As of April this year, China has 960,000 millionaires with personal assets of 10 million yuan (US$1.5 million)," says Rupert Hoogewerf...
Are Native Hawaiians getting a fair shake in our legal system? New numbers show that 40% of all prisoners in Hawaii are Native Hawaiians, and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) says that's no coinciden...
While media sources warn that Israel’s attack on Iran’s nuclear sites is imminent, US officials says sanctions would be just as effective as bombs in stopping Iran from building nuclear arms. Other say s...
With the events of 2011 in mind, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko praises military-technical cooperation with Russia after reviewing the results of a joint military exercise held with Russian forc...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck near the North Coast of New Guinea, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 18:00:13 UTC Sunday 20th November 2011. The epicenter was 120 km...
*Image**:* A near-dead turtle washed up at Gladstone Harbour on Curtis Island. Pic: David Kapernick * The sickness plaguing a central Queensland fishery has spread to prawns and other species. * There i...
British broadcaster caught once again at the center of a global campaign of deception. by Tony Cartalucci November 20, 2011 - Having been a British colony for 124 years and the perpetual target of attemp...
When I volunteered to be a legal observer at the OccupyGreensboro march, I felt just as Robert Hass and his wife, poet Brenda Hillman, did. I wanted to be a part of those who contributed to the peacefulnes...
*Even in this brief clip, I think you can hear that a (the?) distinguishing quality of Anne-Marie McDemott's piano-playing is the bracing physicality.* *by Ken* Last week I laid the groundwork for some t...
Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Saturday said that 150 Parliamentarians have recently received anonymous threatening messages, asking them to resign from their seats, otherwise they would be killed. He...
*Saif 'girlfriend' Orly Weinerman* Saif al Islam Gaddafi has long had a relationship with MI6 and various odd people from Jorg Haider to Nat Rothschild. * Saif and his close pal Jorg Haider, the gay Au...
A Georgia factory worker claims in a federal lawsuit that he was fired after he refused to wear a 666 sticker he feared would doom him to eternal damnation. Billy E. Hyatt claims he was fired from Pliant ...
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck near the North Coast of New Guinea, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 28.6 km (17.8 miles), the quake hit at 16:31:41 UTC Sunday 20th November 2011. The epicenter was 99 ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Banda Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 386.2 km (240 miles), the quake hit at 15:04:31 UTC Sunday 20th November 2011. The epicenter was 313 km ( 195 miles) South of Am...
More than 400 troops defected from the Yemeni military Saturday evening, saying they would no longer attack unarmed protesters. The troops announced their defection after standing for hours in front of te...
Hundreds of Egyptian army and police forces pushed into Cairo's Tahrir Square Sunday, making thousands of demonstrators flee in the face of tear gas and what sounded like live fire. Clashes had broken ou...
We all remember the huge press announcements that came with the second launch of the Falcon Project in August 2011, with the first test flight only lasting 9 minutes before being deliberately crashed as ...
More than 400 troops defected from the Yemeni military Saturday evening, saying they would no longer attack unarmed protesters. The troops announced their defection after standing for hours in front of te...
Hundreds of Egyptian army and police forces pushed into Cairo's Tahrir Square Sunday, making thousands of demonstrators flee in the face of tear gas and what sounded like live fire. Clashes had broken ou...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Tonga Region at a depth of 5.3 km (3.3 miles Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 14:09:28 UTC Sunday 20th November 2011. The epicenter was 216 km ( 134 miles) So...
------------------------------ Original on YouTube *Jesse Ventura on Freedom Watch 11/09/11* RonPaulFriends The following is the audio of the press conference that Jesse Ventura called following t...
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A professor from UC Davis, Bob Ostertag, has published a brilliant essay on HuffPo called the "Militarization of Campus Police", which of course isn't restricted to universities, as we have seen. He makes...
Accused molesters, they'd never hurt[image: Link] a child ~Jarvis DeBerry Election results: Shake up in St. Bernard Parish; no other shockers~WVUE ~Hat Tweet @karlschott~It only costs about 300K to pass th...
When I heard Chris Hayes breaking the news about former Boehner aides/sleazy DC lobbyists Clark Lytle Geduldig & Cranford are trying to undermine OccupyWallStreet on behalf of their bankster clients, the...
The Arab League has rejected a request by Damascus to amend plans to send a monitoring mission to Syria to stop the bloodshed in the eight-month uprising. The 22-member body had given President Bashar al...
The National Transitional Council has voted for Saif al Islam Gaddafi to be tried in Libya, according to Sky sources. Libyan information minister Mahmoud Shammam says the decision will be discussed with ...
Woody Allen is honored this week on American Masters on PBS. I wondered when they'd get around to acknowledging our American Bergman - originally thought of as doing Bergman schtick at the beginning of his...
Tests are being done after an odor was detected during drilling at Fort Detrick. It's concerning because the odor is coming from an area that's been contaminated with toxins. Contaminants were buried a...
A major alert has been issued after the seizure of 150 bottles of counterfeit vodka laced with chemicals that can put people in a coma. Teams of trading standards officers worked late into the night yester...
*On Saturday morning, passengers were evacuated from a subway train forced to stop in a tunnel near Fridhemsplan in central Stockholm. *Fire fighters who have been down in the tunnel have confirmed smoke i...
Exposed: Astounding corporate ties of "humanitarian" USAID with Monsanto in Nepal. by Tony Cartalucci November 20, 2011 - After a decade of fighting, ending in 2006, Nepal's Maoist insurgents had finally...
Cases of typhoid are quickly spreading in Harare and many people have been admitted at the Beatrice Infectious Diseases Hospital in the capital. The bacterial disease, which spreads most easily through di...
Such incidents are unfortunately common. Brutal repression has long been a daily reality for people of color, trans and queer people, criminalized drug users, sex workers, and other marginalized communit...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 24.2 km (15 miles), the quake hit at 11:20:35 UTC Sunday 20th November 2011. The epicenter was 26 km ( 16 miles) ENE of Van, Turkey No Repo...
Proposal for a Coordinated West Coast Port Shutdown, Passed With Unanimous Consensus by vote of the Occupy Oakland General Assembly 11/18/2012: In response to coordinated attacks on the occupations and ...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Reykjanes Ridge at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:23:45 UTC Sunday 20th November 2011. The epicenter was 707 km ( 438 miles) Southwest of Reykjav...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Reykjanes Ridge at a depth of 9.9 km (6.1 miles), the quake hit at 09:28:37 UTC Sunday 20th November 2011. The epicenter was 705 km ( 438 miles) Southwest of Reykja...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Reykjanes Ridge at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 09:19:21 UTC Sunday 20th November 2011. The epicenter was 682 km ( 423 miles) Southwest of Reykjav...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Alaska Peninsula at a depth of 40 km (24.8 miles), the quake hit at 09:06:27 UTC Sunday 20th November 2011. The epicenter was 138 km ( 85.5 miles) Southeast of Chig...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the Alaska Peninsula at a depth of 34.1 km (21.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:38:41 UTC Sunday 20th November 2011. The epicenter was 110 km ( 68 miles) Southeast of Chi...
At least two rocket-propelled grenades have reportedly hit a Syrian government building as President Bashar al Assad vowed to defend and die in his country if necessary. It is the first rebel attack repo...
BBC keen to push the socialist wing of the Anglican Church here with NO counter voice being given. Any chance to portray the Coalition as being unreasonable is given the full treatment with any idea of bal...
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*Mucho scientific debate* about what will happen with the enormous magma-cell sitting just below El Hierro, Canary Islands. Today Spain has different concerns, it seems. Who will win national elections? H...
Thanks to B-BBC contributor Graeme Thompson aka Hippiepooter for this item; My jaw dropped listening to Danny Shaw on 5Live Breakfast this morning. He was reporting on a Guardian story concerning the I...
...that Michael Bloomberg's thugs are forcing the #OWS protesters to wheel around their library and pet supplies in shopping carts like homeless people? It's not coincidence and it's not even ironic: It's...
As *deegee *has been pointing out, if Barack Obama got it wrong by saying that Hawaii is in Asia, then the BBC News website has gone one better than the president on the 'gaffe' front. It now seems to thin...
There's an important investigation here by the Mail on Sunday of a grant to BBC environment "analyst" and greenie poster boy Roger Harrabin of £15,000 from the University of East Anglia's climate centre, t...
As appalling as the first few seconds of this video are - UC Davis Police Lt. John Pike casually walking along a line of seated students and pepper-spraying them point blank in the face - it's worth watc...
Fourteen people died Saturday after a chemical plant explosion in the eastern Chinese city of Xintai, state media reported. The state-run news Xinhua news agency reported the explosion occurred Saturday ...
Under pressure to resign, the chancellor of the University of California, Davis, established a task force Saturday to look into an incident where a police officer sprayed seated protesters with pepper sp...
More than 400 troops defected from the Yemeni military Saturday evening, saying they would no longer attack unarmed protesters. The troops announced their defection after standing for hours in front of t...
Clashes broke out across Bahrain on Saturday between security forces and opposition demonstrators after the funeral for a teenage boy who was struck and killed by a police car earlier in the day, eyewitnes...
*Streets of Monaco Yacht.** * *1. Warren Buffett.* Economist John Kay* *calculates what would happen if Warren Buffett had a fund manager. The fund manager would deduct charges from the profits on Buffett...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad warned that any potential military intervention against his country would lead to "very dire" repercussions and said he is willing to die for his country. In an intervi...
Surrounded by burning ash and debris, a devastated mother and daughter tenderly hug amidst the blackened rubble which was once their home. But Karen Reuter and her daughter Madeleine Perry are not the only...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Southern Iran at a depth of 10.2 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 07:20:10 UTC Sunday 20th November 2011. The epicenter was 126 km ( 78 miles) WSW of Bandar-e Abbas, Ir...
David Cameron was accused of ‘petty and vindictive behaviour’ last night after millionaire Tory MP Zac Goldsmith was banned from a key Government job for defying him over the EU. The Prime Minister had ap...
Ed Miliband stands accused of hypocrisy by Chancellor George Osborne after it was revealed the last Labour Government agreed a secret deal with Brussels over the timing of the Northern Rock sell-off. Trea...
The Government has offered International Criminal Court prosecutors "every assistance" as they prepare to travel to the Libya capital Tripoli for talks with leaders over the trial of Saif al Islam Gaddafi....
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck North of Halmahera, Indonesia at a depth of 175.3 km (108.9 miles), the quake hit at 05:55:43 UTC Sunday 20th November 2011. The epicenter was 313 km ( 194 miles) Nort...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 503.7 km (313 miles), the quake hit at 02:39:58 UTC Sunday 20th November 2011. The epicenter was 213 km ( 132 miles) North of Ndoi Island,...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Crete, Greece at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:15:47 UTC Sunday 20th November 2011. The epicenter was 69 km ( 42.7 miles) Southeast of Palaíkastron, ...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 40 km (24.8 miles), the quake hit at 02:13:22 UTC Sunday 20th November 2011. The epicenter was 40 km ( 24.8 miles) N...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 37.9 km (23.6 miles), the quake hit at 01:26:04 UTC Sunday 20th November 2011. The epicenter was 48 km ( 29 miles) N...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 24.7 km (15.3 miles), the quake hit at 01:23:43 UTC Sunday 20th November 2011. The epicenter was 44 km ( 27 miles) N...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Southern Iran at a depth of 10.2 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 00:40:53 UTC Sunday 20th November 2011. The epicenter was 92 km ( 57 miles) ENE of Bandar 'Abbas, Iran...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Poland at a depth of juts 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 23:13:20 UTC Saturday 19th November 2011. The epicenter was 1 km ( 0.62 miles) Northeast of Polkowice, Pola...
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 89.6 km (55.7 miles), the quake hit at 22:05:59 UTC Saturday 19th November 2011. The epicenter was 318 km ( 197 miles) ENE of Kuril'sk, ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck North of Svalbard at a depth of 9.4 km (5.8 miles), the quake hit at 21:04:20 UTC Saturday 19th November 2011. The epicenter was 259 km ( 160 miles) East of Nord, Green...
[image: Link]At least two people have been killed and more than 600 others were injured in clashes in Cairo after riot police stormed Tahrir Square to clear a protest camp, officials said. Officers fired...
*Motorola sponsors group responsible for coordinating attacks on Occupy Wall Street* * * *By Anonymous Corporate Watchers* NOVEMBER 20, 2011 Posted at Censored News It has come to our attention that the c...
[image: Snack attack: Girls who slept for seven hours or less had a BMI almost five per cent higher than those who slumbered for longer] Snack attack: Girls who slept for seven hours or less had a BMI al...
A major review is underway into the NHS breast cancer screening programme, amid fears that it may do more harm than good. An independent team is to look at research evidence and, at the very least, a mu...
"I've heard that it's possible to grow up - I've just never met anyone who's actually done it. Without parents to defy, we break the rules we make for ourselves. We throw tantrums when things don't go our...
This video is from August 2007 in Montebello, Ottawa, revealing how police act as provocateurs and also how they are exposed. Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
Washington's Blog: Police Force Peaceful UC Davis Students to Open Their Mouths … and Then Shoot Pepper Spray DOWN THEIR THROATS
*-by Noah* We all know that when Congress actually does do some work in their hectic 3 day a week work schedule, they spend a lot of time sitting on their increasingly fatter butts nihilistically thinki...
***Pic above from the website of the Couples Sans Souci.* Our holiday trip is booked for Christmas! I know I blogged about this before, but we decided to shorten our trip this year since we have new staf...
I realised I had to do something about my unhealthy lifestyle the night a blind date left both of us breathless. It was September last year and the lifts at London’s Covent Garden Tube station were broke...
[image: Best medicine: Health chiefs insist there are no short-term effects of giving a child slightly too much paracetamol (Posed by models)] Best medicine: Health chiefs insist there are no short-term ...
*"Sun Tracks*" "The Track of the sun across the Sky leaves its shining message, Illuminating, Strengthening, Warming, us who are here, showing us we are not alone, we are yet ALIVE! And this fire... Our f...
“The mysterious blue reflection nebula found in catalogs as VdB 152 or Ced 201 really is very faint. It lies at the tip of the long dark nebula Barnard 175 in a dusty complex that has also been called Wolf...
Technology does not come from geniusesBy Denis G. RancourtHigh technology is evidence of a high collective intelligence in technologically advanced societies. Instant communication, accessible mass communica...
"I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again." - Ulysses S. Grant
*Greece's Papandreou had to go for resisting the enforcement of the plutocrats' kleptocratic "austerity" buying spree and for clinging to the vestiges of democracy. Italy's clown-crook Berlusconi . . . wel...
Jews offering a child to molech! *The first known case occurred in 1144; after that, cases cropped up from time to time until the Jews were expelled from the realm by Edward I. The most famous of these inc...
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*November 19, 2011* *NDP Selects Acting Leader* *The Saskatchewan NDP has elected John Nilson to serve as Acting Leader of the NDP until such time as a new Leader is chosen in a leadership race. In a me...
*More than 2 million years ago, scores of whales congregating off the Pacific Coast of South America mysteriously met their end. * Maybe they became disoriented and beached themselves. Maybe they were tra...
Stephen Graham's 2010 Book - Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism.
I never thought the OccupyWallStreet/99% Movement could actually lead to revolution... until this morning when I watched the sickening video above. Those are our kids, the best of our kids, being pepper ...
At least 24 people were killed in cities across Syria during a government crackdown Saturday against those in opposition to President Bashar al-Assad, according to a U.K.-based human rights group. Gunfir...
Sean Carroll has realized that by allowing Tom Banks to talk about quantum mechanics, he has given too much space on their *Cosmic Variance* blog to science, relatively to what the website is primarily ded...
According to Harper's greasy EnviroShill, Peter Kent, two NDP MPs who went to Washington to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline were "treacherous." "One of the opposition parties has taken the treacherous cou...
"With great power, comes great immunity." That's the message we've been hearing from Wall Street, many Republicans on Capitol Hill and self-styled right wing pundits like Andrew Breitbart, Bill O'Reilly ...
A shocking videotape of police forcefully pepper spraying a group of students staging a sit down protest has emerged. Footage of the tense standoff between police and Occupy demonstrators at the Universi...
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*"A growing number of Conservative MPs are questioning their government's position on the export of asbestos, with a group of them independently summoning industry experts to a meeting on Parliament Hill...
*Dorli Rainey—who grew up in Nazi Germany—on getting pepper-sprayed in Seattle, and on how our corporate press reminds her of Herr Goebbels’* Go here for original. Related Posts: - TSA abu...
http://youtu.be/WmJmmnMkuEM Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi Posted on November 19, 2011 by crank 18 November 2011 Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi Linda P.B. Katehi, ...
by: Duane Craig University of California, Davis Campus Superfund Cleanup at UC DavisA Superfund site with shared responsibility between the U.S. Department of Energy and the University of California Davis ...
Last week Florida psychopath Cliff Stearns' off the rails National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 2011 (H.R. 822) passed the House 272-154. It's one of the most extreme gun bills ever passed by Congre...
Back to Syria I made the statement on Friday that this looks to be coming to a head. I stand by it. Let's take a look at what is being reported today. Of course, not all of it. There was news of Russian war...
Thirty-five people have reportedly been killed in clashes between police and protesters in Egypt as calls intensify for military rulers to quickly transfer power to a civilian government. AP news agency ...
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The U.S. baseball player Gregory Halman has been stabbed to death in Rotterdam. The Seattle Mariners outfield, 24, was killed today according to Dutch channel NOS-TV, which said the player's family had c...
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