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Tens of thousands of protesters poured into central Cairo yesterday, calling for a ‘second revolution’ and the immediate removal of Egypt’s military rulers. The increasingly confident crowd stepped up the...
------------------------------ http://youtu.be/_p_pj00Wyhs *Retired Philly Police Captain Ray Lewis After The Eviction of OWS From Zuccotti Park 11/15/11* * * http://youtu.be/wRyoHeyXNsU *Occupy Wall St...
A woman died after setting herself on fire at a petrol pump. The 55-year-old from Bath, Somerset, was seen at the Sainsbury's filling station strolling across the forecourt and dousing herself with fuel an...
The FBI and the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are investigating what could be the first known foreign cyber attack to damage an American industrial system. Federal investigators confirmed to Sky ...
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck Antofagasta, Chile at a depth of 141.2 km (87.7 miles), the quake hit at 01:43:47 UTC Wednesday 23rd November 2011. The epicenter was 103 km ( 64 miles) ESE of
Calama,...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 4.9 km (3 miles), the quake hit at 23:48:14 UTC Tuesday 22nd November 2011. The epicenter was 37 km ( 22 miles) Northeast of Van, Turkey No...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the West Chile Rise at a depth of 10.3 km (6.4 miles), the quake hit at 23:09:47 UTC Tuesday 22nd November 2011. The epicenter was 786 km ( 488 miles) West of Castro, ...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Central Peru at a depth of 72.5 km (45.1 miles), the quake hit at 23:02:11 UTC Tuesday 22nd November 2011. The epicenter was 88 km ( 54 miles) Southwest of Cusco (Cuzco...
"When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic." - Dresden James
"Man suspected of firing at White House arrested" November 17, 2011|By Brett Zongker and Jessica Gresko, Associated Press WASHINGTON - Law enforcement authorities arrested a 21-year-old Idaho man yesterda...
Arsenic levels far exceeding national safety levels have been found in the soil underneath a suburb in Thames on the Coromandel Peninsula. Moanataiari, which is built on land reclaimed using mining tailing...
*You don't really want to watch this, do you? If so, you won't forget to shower after, will you?* *by Ken* I suppose you could say that what matters is that the New Hampshire Ballot Law commission liste...
*All of these quotes from Willard Inc. are, Think Progress insists (via asterisk), "accurate. according to the Romney standard of accuracy." Greg Sargent notes: "This was meant as a joke. But now a Romney...
*Study hard, readers!* "Ga. sanctions educators in cheating scandal" October 14, 2011|Associated Press ATLANTA - A state commission decided yesterday to revoke the teaching licenses of eight teachers and...
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The Greens are said to be looking “moderate.” Really? Here’s some uncomfortable unbreaking news about the Greens. Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish...
*I hope you can understand why I get so sick of reading the paper.* "New York officials describe bomb plot" November 21, 2011|By Joseph Goldstein, New York Times NEW YORK - Authorities have arrested a man...
Former Williamson County prosecutor Ken Anderson, now a county judge, shown before testifying about his role in the murder trial of Michael Morton. Photo by the Texas Tribune / KUT News.Judge Ken Anderson st...
"Are the nearest galaxies distributed randomly? A plot of over one million of the brightest "extended sources" detected by the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) shows that they are not. The vast majority o...
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*"Paiute Medicine Song"* "Now all my singing Dreams are gone, But none knows where they have fled Nor by what trails they have left me. Return, O Dreams of my heart, And sing in the Summer twilight, By the...
*"Click!"* by Chet Raymo "The first ten summers we spent in our Irish cottage we had no electricity. It would have taken five poles to bring the wires to our house, and the electric company charged $1000...
*"Dreams"* "Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow." - Langston Hughes
Even as the Thanksgiving holiday, a celebration of plenty, hovers heart-warmingly close on the horizon, it's impossible for me to ignore the unsettling notion that we are all, at best, dodging bullets now....
Occupy Seattle, Oakland, Denver, UC-Davis and Wall Street New York, included in news broadcast. The use of LRAD sound cannon at Occupy Wall Street New York is examined. Retired Police Captain Ray Lewis ...
The following proposal was passed by a massive general assembly today at UC Davis (emphasis added): The UC Board of Regents, who not only represent but actually are this state’s richest one percent, has...
Anonymous said this video, which shows police abusing peaceful protesters at Occupy University of California- Berkeley, UC-Davis and Occupy Wall Street New York, was deleted and uploaded five times. Wat...
"Must we always teach our children with books? Let them look at the stars and the mountains above. Let them look at the waters and the trees and flowers on Earth. Then they will begin to think, and to think...
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*Guest post by Vedran Vuk of **Casey Research** * Communism screwed up the world. No, I'm not referring to the politics of the 20th century, but rather the reverberations still felt today - particularly...
*Not surprising and nothing new. CIA has been **infiltrating police departments** for decades. * "Bloomberg defends CIA role with NYC police" October 18, 2011|By Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo, Associated P...
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It's finally happened: I've been placed as a page! I begin my training this Thursday at the Central Library in Mississauga. This is a huge, beautiful library, a five-minute drive from our house, and right ...
Yonkers, NY, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
*"JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters"* by Edward Curtin "Despite a treasure-trove of new information having emerged over the last forty-eight years, there are many people who still th...
Photos from Occupy Austin Reading Group / Facebook.The ideas behind the actions:Occupy Austin Reading GroupBy Nicole Berland / Fringe Magazine / November 22, 2011[The Occupy Wall Street movement is often jud...
"16 dogs die in fire at breeder’s N.Y. kennel" November 03, 2011|By Jim Fitzgerald, Associated Press WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - A fire killed 16 dogs yesterday in a suburban breeder’s backyard kennel, a facilit...
"JFK's Executive Order 11100 Abolishing the Federal Reserve" by John P. Curran “Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution specifically says that Congress is the only body that can "coin money and regula...
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As we already know, while the weather forecasters have trouble predicting the weather next Tuesday they pretend to all kinds of certainty about the weather a century from now. For most warmists, the hol...
Beehive fences have become an effective barrier on Kenyan farms -- keeping roaming elephants out and providing a sweet source of income.
My dream for the Senate is that it be more widely recognized as an inherently anti-democratic institution and that it either be abolished or turned into an advisory body or, better yet, a strictly ceremon...
"Laffer said he committed the robbery because he had lost his job and his wife required not only painkillers but also blood pressure medicine, antinausea pills, and muscle relaxants.... --**more--" * * *...
*It's the anger that keeps me warm.* "The blanket, an all-purpose plaything and a comfort for generations of thumb-suckers like Charlie Brown’s best friend in the “Peanuts’’ comic strip, landed in the Nat...
*“November 22, 1963: The Day America Died”* by Laura Knight-Jadczyk “I've already written - more than once - that most of what we know as history is a pack of lies, and the dedicated historian has to read...
...a proposal from Michael Moore Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011 Friends, This past weekend I participated in a four-hour meeting of Occupy Wall Street activists whose job it is to come up with the visio...
*Those damn unions!* "FBI: Hundreds of NY rail workers part of $1B fraud" by Larry Neumeister, Associated Press / October 27, 2011 NEW YORK—Hundreds of *Long Island Rail Road employees* may have *cheated ...
"Woman at Harvard-Yale game killed by truck" by John M. Guilfoil and Miriam Valverde, Globe Staff | Globe Correspondent NEW HAVEN - A *30-year-old Massachusetts woman* was *killed* and two other women inj...
*“What Drugs Was Your Thanksgiving Turkey On?”* by Martha Rosenberg “So far, 2011 has not been a great year for turkey producers. In May, an article in Clinical Infectious Diseases reported that half of U...
Amazon's Kindle Fire isn't quite as good as the iPad, but at $199 it doesn't have to be.
The deputy head of the Russian space agency has admitted that the Phobos-Grunt mission is likely lost.
Drawings by Johnny Rotten found in a flat in London should be treated as an archeological site, say researchers.
"People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster."...
"Officers’ use of pepper spray spurs discipline; 2 placed on leave; inquiry accelerated" November 21, 2011|By Jason Dearen, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO - A California university placed two of its police...
Posted at 10:54 Occupy Wall Street Marchers Arriving in D.C.: Live Updates By Katie Rogers Members of the Occupy Wall Street movement leave Zuccotti Park and begin a highway hike to Washington, D.C., o...
Many thanks to Katabasis for pointing out his analysis of churnalism and the Environment Agency. I urge you to read it all, but here are some highlights: The BBC is by far and away the worst offender for ...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck New Zealand at a depth of 40 km (24.8 miles), the quake hit at 08:24 UTC Tuesday 22nd November 2011. The epicenter was 20 km ( 12.4 miles) North of Raupunga, New Zealan...
*"False Narratives"* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "If you listen to the narrative coming from the right, you would think the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protesters were social deviants. Sean Hannity sa...
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck Mato Grosso, Brazil at a depth of 33 km (20.4 miles), the quake hit at 18:57:40 UTC Tuesday 22nd November 2011. The epicenter was 128 km ( 79.3 miles) Southeast of Arip...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck France at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 18:58:54 UTC Tuesday 22nd November 2011. The epicenter was 1 km ( 0.6 miles) North of Saint-cyr-du-doret, Franc...
WE’LL LET YOUR PEOPLE GO Mohawk Nation News http://www.mohawknationnews.com/ MNN Nov. 20, 2011. Foreign occupiers [of Great Turtle Island]! Looking for solutions? Everything based on a lie is a lie. Li...
A magnitude 6.9 earthquake has struck Beni, Bolivia at a depth of 553 km (343.6 miles), the quake hit at 18:48:16 UTC Tuesday 22nd November 2011. The epicenter was 195 km ( 121 miles) SSE from Santa Ana, Bo...
Meanwhile, over at BBC News online - another report about the MF Global scandal which fails to mention that Jon Corzine is a former Democrat governor and major fundraiser for Obama. And imagine how many ...
*"When Counterfeiting is Legal"* by Eric Fry "If I told you that I had $1.6 trillion on deposit at a local bank, you’d think I was not merely a member of the “1%,” but a member of the “1%” of the “1%.” (...
A magnitude 3.0 earthquake has struck Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming at a depth of 0.8 km (0 miles - Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 18:09:41 UTC Tuesday 22nd November 2011. The epicenter was 25 ...
*"Cutting Federal Spending…One Way or Another"* by Bill Bonner "The Dow fell 248 points. Oil dropped to $96. And gold down a whopping $46. Why? “Deficit Effort Nears Collapse.” Thus did yesterday’s Wall S...
(also check out the REAL TRANSCRIPT at the end of this post, of me and my daughter trying to close her Bank of America account and they won't let us, and the unearthing of the secret *"EXTENDED NEGATIVE BA...
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Debra White Plume, Lakota, on Tour of Resistance Photo Kent Lebsock*Landowners Criticize Nebraska’s Governor and Senators for Drinking TransCanada’s Tar Sands Kool-Aid* *Citizens Call for Keystone XL to Be...
The phrase 'E.T phone home' became synonymous with alien life in popular culture. And now it has emerged an alien 'home' could be further away from the Earth-like planet criteria than was previously thoug...
Like the Taiwanese and even the Italians, South Korean politicians are famous for resolving disputes with the occasional parliamentary punch-up. But opposition MP Kim Sun-Dong took things to a whole new le...
Bobby Bridger performs live on Rag Radio, Friday, November 18, 2011, at the KOOP studios in Austin. Photos by Carlos Lowry / The Rag Blog.Singer/Songwriter, Author, Actor, and Artist Bobby Bridgeron Rag Radi...
Syria's ambassador to the UN accused Britain of declaring political and diplomatic war against his country by sponsoring a resolution that condemns its human rights abuses. Bashar Ja'afari said Britain, F...
Two babies have died of an E.coli infection in south Wales - one in hospital and one in the community, health officials have confirmed. The cases of ESBL E.coli are under investigation at Singleton Hospit...
*Made by Koch Industries-- like Angel Soft toilet paper* Something over 100,000 signatures have been counted on the recall petitionsfor Wisconsin Koched-up fascist Scott Walker... in just 4 days. No doubt ...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Kepulauan Mentawai Region, Indonesia at a depth of 30.7 km (19.1 miles), the quake hit at 16:54:06 UTC Tuesday 22nd November 2011. The epicenter was 179 km ( 111 m...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Kepulauan Mentawai Region, Indonesia at a depth of 27.5 km (17.1 miles), the quake hit at 16:45:19 UTC Tuesday 22nd November 2011. The epicenter was 171 km ( 106 m...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 545.9 km (339.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:30:22 UTC Tuesday 22nd November 2011. The epicenter was 149 km ( 92 miles) ESE of Lambasa, Van...
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*"OTTAWA—New Democrats want to know why Ottawa’s sanctions against Syria allow Canadian energy giant Suncor to continue operating a $1.2 billion production facility in that country in partnership with a ...
One of the ways I make my Thanksgiving dinner prep a little less stressful is to bake my pies the day before. I always make a couple of pies for our small family and one of them needs a pre-baked crust. ...
Coda's zero emission sedan will sell along side GE's at-home charger.
If you want to try something new for Thanksgiving, add some insects to the meal.
Coming to a robotics lab near you: a swarm of Kilobots.
The starch-based diet in agricultural societies is leading to short jawbones and maybe even overcrowded teeth.
It's a chilling story, one that, if true, has existential implications for life on Earth. *The Guardian* reports that rich nations have "given up" on reaching a new climate treaty until 2020. *Ahead of ...
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What would objective economics look like? Economist and author of the blog and new book *Objective Economics *Northrop Buechner explains: Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for...
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Buckdog - 12 hours ago
*Joe Kuchta , a great Saskatchewan Political blogger passed away at age 50 on November 16th. He will be sorely missed by his many friends and colleagues .... Thanks Joe!* * Joe blogged relentlessly at **...
If you couldn't figure out at the beginning of the European bad news cycle about how Goldman Sachs could also be deeply involved in their very bad international financial decisions, we learn now that Italy...
A 101-year-old Georgia man has been robbed of his wallet for the second time in three months, and police are seeking the public's help in their investigation. The latest incident occurred during a burglar...
Los Angeles officials have offered Occupy L.A. protesters a package of incentives that includes downtown office space and farmland in an attempt to persuade them to abandon their camp outside of City Hall,...
Dismissed as a “nobody” by Japan’s nuclear industry, seismologist Katsuhiko Ishibashi spent two decades watching his predictions of disaster come true: First in the 1995 Kobe earthquake and then at Fukushi...
It took just 31 minutes for Donald Ellingson's family to end an agrarian tradition that had survived more than a half-century, by auctioning off 153 acres of rich Iowa farmland. Five years after their fat...
Egypt’s infamous state security apparatus, notorious for spying on political activists and torturing dissidents, has renamed itself “homeland security,” presumably in homage to its American namesake, which...
1. We've known Rob Anders has been asleep on the job for years...though this may be the first literal instance: Still, I'm sure most who have heard John Duncan speak will have some sympathy for Anders. ...
Former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, the subject of Clint Eastwood's new biopic, is shown here in a still from a 1936 documentary, You Can't Get Away With It.Kinky Hoover:Clint Eastwood’s biopic of the FBI d...
The online "hacktivist" group Anonymous published the personal contact details on Monday of a California university policeman who used pepper spray on protesters, and it urged supporters to flood him with ...
In a significant failure for the United States in the Mideast, more than a dozen spies working for the CIA in Iran and Lebanon have been caught and the U.S. government fears they will be or have been execu...
The lines will still be long and the screening still invasive at airport checkpoints this Thanksgiving. While the government has made some changes to security procedures, many passengers and travel execut...
A Transportation Security Administration employee is accused of sexually assaulting a woman in Manassas. The suspect, Harold Glen Rodman, 52, allegedly was wearing his uniform and displayed a badge to t...
t's one of the biggest US holidays, but some Americans are wondering if Thanksgiving, and the shop-until-you-drop Black Friday that follows it, might be getting a bit out of control. Some 38.2 million Ame...
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*By Calvin Spotted Eagle* *Censored News* It isn't often any of us have an opportunity to steer history back on course once it has been driven in circles. Since we began this journey two years ago, metic...
About 50 people simultaneously shoplifted from a Silver Spring, Md., 7-Eleven Saturday night. Officers arriving at the store in the 12200 block of Tech Road after 11:20 p.m. saw several people gathere...
Tiny carbon tubes can be used to hide three-dimensional objects from view, according to a team of researchers. The nanotubes are one-atom thick sheets of graphene wrapped into cylindrical tubes. Engineer...
South African MPs have overwhelmingly approved a controversial media bill despite widespread criticism of it. Nobel Peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu called it "insulting" and warned it could be used...
A dog in China who was the only companion to a single resident has refused to leave him even after his death. Lao Pan, 68, died earlier this month in the village of Panjiatun. His dog was found later at h...
The Americans are invading Iran in search of missing nuclear warheads in 2014 - that is the scenario for a new video game which has sold millions of copies. But amid international concern over Iran's nucl...
It's a race against the clock in Detroit. The home to America's Big Three automakers has until spring to straighten out its budget problems or the city could face bankruptcy or, worse, potential default o...
On Friday in London's Trafalgar Square, 5,000 members of the public were served a free hot curry, free apple juice and an array of fresh groceries. The lunchtime feast, dished up by volunteers -- including...
It is another wet and windy fall day on the West Coast, with a storm knocking down trees and power lines, dumping snow on mountain highways and forcing BC Ferries to cancel some sailings. The storm has kn...
Occupy Toronto protesters awoke Tuesday morning in St. James Park, their presence largely unchanged despite a judge’s ruling a day earlier that deemed the camp illegal. On Monday, Justice David Brown issu...
In its effort to curb game addiction among adolescents, South Korea pulled the plug this weekend on young gamers after midnight by blocking access to game websites, putting a hotly debated law into practic...
Fresh violence broke out near Cairo's Tahrir Square Tuesday, a day after Egypt's Cabinet offered to resign. For several hours, protesters hurled stones at police and chanted, calling for the downfall of t...
No doubt, it is difficult to design operating systems for computers that simultaneously run numerous applications, while managing interactions between multiple types of hardware and responding to a multitu...
Russia called new sanctions against Iran "unacceptable," saying the new punishments would hurt efforts to talk with Tehran. The Russian Foreign Ministry posted a statement Tuesday, a day after the United ...
Seven crew members from a South Korean cargo ship remained missing Tuesday after the boat sank Monday in the South China Sea, the South Korean Foreign Ministry said. Fourteen people have been rescued, acc...
It may lack the grace of an airship, or the class of Concorde, but the "Multicopter" has a style all of its own. This somewhat awkward looking vehicle is the work of German company e-volo and a prototype ...
New lithium-ion technology could allow you to charge your phone for a week after plugging it in for only 15 minutes.
Corps of engineers puts together "tiger team" to investigate their own new bad levees! ~Editilla fuck'n'hellas~ When you can't even Lie about it, caught with shopping carts and tires in yo red hands... com...
Two discredited ConservaDems, Patrick Caddell and Doug Schoen-- professionally best described as "Fox News Democrats"-- were back over the weekend, on the editorial page of the *Wall Street Journal*, sell...
The common supermarket turkey's diet is now carefully calculated to offer the most bang for the buck.
Just like exactly two years and two days ago, when Climategate erupted, Jeff Id received an URL pointing to a Russian server, containing a FOIA2011.zip file (173 MB), a verified copy of the original file v...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 200 km (124 miles), the quake hit at 13:19:04 UTC Tuesday 22nd November 2011. The epicenter was 47 km ( 29.1 miles) North of Sentyabrski...
Plan for Syrian airspace closure completed Reports claim that the purpose of the closure is to paralyze Syrian military movement and follow the Presidential Palace, military command and intelligence activ...
As Gene and Sidney Coleman have pointed out, the term "interpretation of quantum mechanics" is a misnomer encouraging its users to generate logical fallacies. Why? It's because we should always use a the...
Seven crew members from a South Korean cargo ship remained missing Tuesday after the boat sank Monday in the South China Sea, the South Korean Foreign Ministry said. Fourteen people have been rescued, ac...
Russia called new sanctions against Iran "unacceptable," saying the new punishments would hurt efforts to talk with Tehran. The Russian Foreign Ministry posted a statement Tuesday, a day after the United...
Three Americans were arrested Monday outside the Interior Ministry in Cairo's Tahrir Square and are accused of throwing Molotov cocktails during the protests in Egypt, a local prosecutor said. "The three...
With passengers able to walk along its roof while floating serenely in the sky, this futuristic plane looks too good to be true. But the Portuuese designer of the world's first cloud plane is confident th...
The U.S. baseball player Gregory Halman has been stabbed to death in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The Seattle Mariners outfielder, 24, died in the early hours of this morning, police and the player's famil...
Criminals are raking in thousands of pounds by tricking online gamers into revealing vital information, it was reported today. Thousands of players are believed to have been hit by the scam which gets con...
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A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 09:55:57 UTC Tuesday 22nd November 2011. The epicenter was 57 km ( 35 miles) SSE of...
Thomas Cook is running low on cash and has begun talks with its banks, in an effort to increase its borrowings to tide it over the slow Christmas season. Shares in the tour operator fell by more than thre...
The government has confirmed an outbreak of dysentery and cholera in parts of Turkana where 40 people have died in the last one month. Turkana Central medical officer Joseph Epem said they had dispatched a...
At least 10 teachers at the troubled Hunking Middle School have contracted a poison ivy-like rash, according to the head of a parents group who is calling for the building to be vacated and closed. Paren...
The United States has the will but not the economic capability to contain China, a commentary in China's state-run media said Monday in the wake of Washington's high-profile reassertion of its influence in...
Mexico's largest active volcano Popocatepetl continued to spew smoke and ashes on Monday near the capital, the National Disaster Prevention Center (Cenapred) said. Popocatepetl, located some 60 km south...
When it comes to love, the world is now our oyster - we can choose who to date, live with, marry or divorce. But it seems having endless options hasn't stopped couples from straying. A staggering 47 per...
A relatively quiet stretch for the sun in recent years does not necessarily herald an impending solar activity low of historic proportions, a new study reports. The sun was quiescent from 2005 to 2010, s...
* ايلي حبيقة افتدى لبنان واللبنانيين * ** ** ** ** ** *إن الإنسان المؤمن بربه وبكتبه المقدسة وبتعاليمه وبموت وقيامة السيد المسيح لا يموت، بل يرقد على رجاء القيامة بانتظار يوم الحساب الأخير، والرب...
***Robert Gates with Egypt's military boss Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, no friend of Israel. The 'powers that be' are plotting to topple Tantawi.* *Tantawi didn't respond to Netanyahu, Barak during crisis.* *...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the Azores Islands Region, Portugal at a depth of 100 km (62 miles), the quake hit at 08:45:00 UTC Tuesday 22nd November 2011. The epicenter was 266 km ( 164.9 miles) ...
Three astronauts have returned from the space station after an extended five-month stay in orbit.
*People are urged to avoid Python Pool in Millstream Chichester National Park for the next few days after about 150 fish were found dead in the pool, possibly due to illegal fishing involving nets.* The ...
Engineers, scientists and computer programmers who meet their partners at work may be fuelling an increase in cases of autism. Researchers at Cambridge University are working on the first ‘clear test’ ...
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Biased BBC - 19 hours ago
Time for a new one of these! Got any thoughts on the bias from our Broadcasting Big Brother? Detail them here! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
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Biased BBC - 19 hours ago
Well then,Stateside the "Super Committee" tasked with reducing the massive US deficit has, predictably, failed to agree on a plan. Naturally the BBC rows in behind Obama's view that this is entirely the fa...
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Biased BBC - 20 hours ago
The politics of envy feature large on the BBC radar. Give this debate a listen of you get a chance, it's on the subject of whether *"excessive deals for the UK's top bosses is having a corrosive effect on ...
Dozens of people attending a church function in Edmonton needed medical treatment after they were exposed to carbon monoxide. Forty-four people were sent to hospital Sunday night after they showed sympto...
Tehran says moves by U.S., other nations make Iranians more united; Russia also dismisses new U.S. sanctions targeting Iran's financial and energy sectors announced Monday. Iran dismissed on Tuesday the n...
In its effort to curb game addiction among adolescents, South Korea pulled the plug this weekend on young gamers after midnight by blocking access to game websites, putting a hotly debated law into practic...
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Biased BBC - 20 hours ago
Wonder if you share my..ahem..surprise...that Allegra Stratton, the former political correspondent at the Guardian, has been appointed political editor of the BBC’s Newsnight programme. BBC..Guardian..BBC...
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Broken of Britain - 20 hours ago
Fifteen Pakistani paramilitary troops were killed when militants ambushed their camp in southwestern Pakistan Monday, a military spokesman said. Attackers fired rockets at the camp and opened fire on a pa...
[image: Changing roles: One in five husbands are already playing house husband to their wealthier partners] Changing roles: One in five husbands are already playing house husband to their wealthier part...
Nestled in the rolling hills about two hours south of Wenzhou in China's eastern province of Zhejiang lies scenic Taishun county, known for its green forests and natural hot springs. For nearly a decad...
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck Libertador O'Higgins, Chile at a depth of 38.3 km (23.8 miles), the quake hit at 07:41:32 UTC Tuesday 22nd November 2011. The epicenter was 67 km ( 42 miles) North of ...
What we learn is that forestedges matter. Of course we knew that butthe impact is way more significant than at first glance. I have already spoken to the value of anengineered approach to the forest’...
The good newsis that heritage turkey breeds are been promoted back from the brink ofextinction. Even better news would be tosee wild turkey culture understood and managed to provide an even betterprodu...
So it appears that past climatemodels had such low resolution in the data that variability in the data was notmeasurable. That is usually a greatreason to produce large plus and minus signs and little ...
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CENSORED NEWS - 22 hours ago
Clyde Bellecourt AIM West Conference Mary Jean Whitehorse Clyde Bellecourt, Chief Terrance Nelson and Mary Jean Whitehorse AIM West Coast Conference, San Francisco, Monday, Nov. 21, 2011. Photos copyright...
Waste food feeds 5,000 hungry participants a tasty curry lunch in Trafalgar Square in London. Photo courtesy: Adrian Brooks/ImageWise via guardian.co.uk Elona Grondona, a school nurse, came to Trafalgar Sq...
A large rainstorm in San Pedro caused an enormous stretch of coastal road to collapse into the Pacific Ocean Sunday, and left a gaping hole where the road once was. The thoroughfare, located along an 800-...
The breakdown in talks designed to cut America's spiralling debts today descended into farce as the President and politicians from all sides took pot shots at each other and refused to share the blame. Ca...
This is the dramatic moment Palestinians tried to extinguish a huge fire which ripped through a smuggling tunnel in the Gaza Strip today. The blaze, which happened in the town of Rafah on the border with E...
Barack Obama should make way for Hillary Clinton to run for president next year, two top Democratic pollsters claimed today. Despite the Secretary of State's insistence that she has no plans to try again,...
This is the horrifying moment a nun stood ablaze in a Chinese street having set herself alight in protest at the country's treatment of Tibet. It is a still image taken from a video released by protest gr...
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Buckdog - 1 day ago
*We pay this guy far too much ...*
Obama never mentions it-- and seems to try peaceful coexistence with it-- but earlier presidents recognized what a tremendous danger plutocracy is to democracy. We should think about that at a time...
*Police loving violence against the students and citizens* Occupy Cuny and allied protestors who gathered Monday at Baruch College to express opposition to CUNY tuition hikes, unfair labor practices, and...
*"Using Our Outside Voice: * *Freeing Our Inner Desires"* by The DailyOm "Our best chance of getting what we need is to communicate by converting our inner voice to our outside voice. Each of us has devel...
“Grand spiral galaxies often seem to get all the glory. Their young, blue star clusters and pink star forming regions along sweeping spiral arms are guaranteed to attract attention. But small irregular gal...
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[image: _Quote4]Qua businessman, a man does not need to know economics. If he does know it, his knowledge does not affect his strictly business decisions, such as whether or not to raise his price when...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Romania at a depth of 150 km (93 miles), the quake hit at 04:17:35 UTC Tuesday 22nd November 2011. The epicenter was 7 km ( 4.3 miles) East of Siriu, Romania No Reports...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 8 km (5 miles), the quake hit at 03:30:36 UTC Tuesday 22nd November 2011. The epicenter was 20 km ( 12 miles) WSW of Van, Turkey No Reports...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Southern Peru at a depth of 113.4 km (70.5 miles), the quake hit at 02:18:06 UTC Tuesday 22nd November 2011. The epicenter was 67 km ( 41 miles) Southwest of Arequipa, ...
*“Love In The Afternoon”* by Chet Raymo “Oh, if only it were that simple. We human males must woo and coo and wash dishes and vacuum and buy roses and provide candlelight and wine and whisper "God, you l...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Nias Region, Indonesia at a depth of 30 km (18.6 miles), the quake hit at 23:32:12 UTC Monday 21st November 2011. The epicenter was 86 km ( 53.3 miles) Northwest o...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Flores Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 552.2 km (343.1 miles), the quake hit at 21:20:28 UTC Monday 21st November 2011. The epicenter was 157 km ( 97 miles) NNE of En...
- Sperm concentration and motility, can be negatively influenced by body weight and diet - Specialists encouraging diet high in fruit and grains to increase the chance of successful IVF tr...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles - Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 21:00:35 UTC Monday 21st November 2011. The epicenter was 24 km ( 14 miles) NNW of...
Canada, the US and the UK announced sanctions against Iran today : "in an effort to pressure Tehran to halt its suspected nuclear weapons program. The British announced the first measures, declaring they...
Monday, Nov. 21, 2011: Crowd now at UC Davis. Photo by Joe Jaszewski via Twitter. UC DAVIS NOW ABOVE: Gathering to oppose pepper spraying attack. The photo was taken w...
Bumper sticker on a car in Texas. Photo by Zereshk / Wikimedia Commons.Our future depends on stopping an attack on IranBy Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / November 21, 2011The global Occupy Movement has com...
Yes, there are plenty of people who defend our "progressive" President as doing the best that can be expected and getting the best deals he can in the face of the rightwingnutters' unabated opposition (er,...
One of the hottest items on the sports marketing scene is the Tebow number 15 jersey with "Jesus" on the back.Tebow redeemed?Tim Tebow is awful,but he finds a way to winHe’s not awful in the turgid unwatchab...
*Oh look, children! It's the Confidence Fairy, come out to play now that the Supercommittee has, as forecast, officially whiffed on deficit reduction -- with the president reproving, "Ba-a-ad Congress!"* ...
Major thanks to David Talbot and the staff at Salon.com who had the guts to let the truth be heard in their publication. I'm very grateful and impressed that I was allowed to write what I wrote there. See fo...
The kit uses a patient's skin cells to develop new ones in under an hour.
Virtual Penn State Nittany Lion by Avatar Sculptor Cheen Pitney / Cheen Pitney's Peacefools.The 'Paterno effect':Thinking about capitalism,higher education, and moral repugnanceBy Harry Targ / The Rag Blog /...
The same compounds that give habaneros their bite is the same thing that sprays out of the cans used by police.
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Shortly after the Occupy Movement began to make headlines, my friend and comrade Dr. J wrote this on his blog your heart's on the left: Is occupation a tactic or a principle? Should the focus be on the int...
A computerized lens could offer personal streaming as well as a sneaky way to capture information.
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*[image: _McGrath001]**Libz leader Dr Richard McGrath has a message to anyone with liberty in their brain, hope in their heart and any fire at all in their belly.* In late 2008 Helen Clark passed on the...
*“Freedom: The New and Future Experiment… Part II”* by Joel Bowman “What if the “best of the States” is always on its way to becoming “the worst of States”? It is true, of course, that certain forms of St...
I used to be a Civil Servant. I worked in various departments, and had connections with many more; the Civil Service may be split into different departments, but it really is quite monolithic. All Civil...
Depending on how the world uses available crops, there are two possible futures.
*“The Economy Has Changed: * *Expect Hopes, Dreams and Lifestyles to Follow”* by Bill Bonner “Not much action in the markets on Friday. It was a helluva week, though. At the beginning it looked like Europ...
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"It's a bad paper." - Gore Vidal, referring to the New York Times. "Mr. Chapman, 21, said he had not heard Mr. Ortega talk of taking violent action. But more than a year ago, he recalled, Mr. Ortega and ...
*#OpPigRoast* *TARGET: POLICE EXECUTIVE RESEARCH FORUM (PERF)* *Posted online by Anonymous* *REASON:* Do we really need to explain ourselves much here? PERF assisted in organizing and coordinating the rec...
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*Sometimes It Pays To Rethink What we Know* I didn't grow up in a house where books or authors were discussed over dinner. But my friend Danny did. And his parents often invited me over. His father was a ...
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This Saturday you have three votes. You can vote for the pack of bastards you prefer, which bugger you want in your electorate, and which system should be used to decide which buggers are finally elect...
The app tests its users hearing by playing varying frequencies and then adjusts the device's volume accordingly.
A Belgian priest and cosmologist named Georges Lemaitre published a paper reaching very similar conclusions two years before Edwin Hubble's historic discovery. Was Lemaitre's work covered up?
Researchers have found a way to pick up trace amounts of explosives on shoes that are still on passengers' feet.
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If you like men, and you like libraries, you're sure to love Men of the Stacks. Proceeds from calendar sales support It Gets Better. Here's a good story on Men of the Stacks in *The Guardian*. Plus I'm pre...
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Message from Occupy Toronto: OCCUPY TORONTO IS BEING EVICTED. Mayor Rob Ford has angrily taken to television, even gritting his teeth, to say he wants protesters "gone NOW". City Manager says by midnight ...
(Editor's note: If you could help Mrs. JP and I weather another month so we could make the rent after the holidays, we'd surely appreciate it. Doing so in any amount would certainly help keep online ...
AP: Air Force officials say an airman armed with a pistol has barricaded himself in a building at an Air Force base in Colorado that controls dozens of military satellites, but no one has been injured and ...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck off the Coast of the North Island, New Zealand at a depth of 2.5 km (1.6 miles - Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 19:38:29 UTC Monday 21st November 2011. The epic...
Two people were injured Monday when Syrian soldiers attacked a convoy of Turkish citizens who were passing through Syria on their way home from a hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, Turkey's state news agency...
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Thanksgiving is hardly the only autumn festival celebrating family and the Earth's bounty.
by G: Nov. 21, 2011 Here's the latest news on terrorism in NY. It's sharing the headlines with the recent demonstrations in Egypt, where, according to the NY Times at least 23 people had been killed a...
Egypt's ruling military council is considering whether to accept the resignation of the cabinet amid a third day of violence between police and pro-democracy protesters. The entire cabinet reportedly sub...
Do you ever have trouble figuring out just what makes an authoritarian git like Stephen Harper tick? An article from *In These Times* entitled "*New Confederacy Rising" *offers some helpful insights into ...
Nine pigs heads complete with teeth and eyes have been found, dumped in a street, after being skinned. They were found on a pavement in King Edwards Road, Middlesbrough, by builder Mark Waters as he arriv...
By Denis G. RancourtAbstract -- Establishment medicine is sustained by a triad of core deceptions: (1) An apical lie by omission which does not admit that the predominant causal determinant of an individual’...
This is the moment a taxi driver deliberately ploughed into a passenger after a row about an £8 fare. Muhammed Javed, 45, drove straight into Huw Lloyd, who was left clinging to the bonnet for 80ft, befor...
A US Marine Corps general is the latest stuffed tunic to warn of dire consequences to America if the Pentagon's budget is cut. Corps Commandant General James Amos says he's sure that something sort of aw...
Stocks Plunge As Debt Talks Near Collapse Which is a good thing. Heck, a great thing! Maybe as the stock market goes to hell for an extended period, the rest of the "vanished" middle class will awaken from...
Although the idea of working from home may conjure up images of sitting in your pajamas with coffee in hand, research suggests it's a difficult balancing act.
New York City's melting pot just got a little bigger with the discovery of several new species of bees within the city and its suburbs.
Slitscan camera helps Texas artist record the passage of time with his photo sculptures.
“We don’t take sides!” is a cry repeatedly heard from certain biased organisations that operate under banners of impartiality. On the other hand, the foreign secretary isn’t constrained by such a banner. N...
Belgians deported to Nazi Germany in World War II to work as slaves for the Third Reich have now received tax demands from Berlin. Belgium's finance minister Didier Reynders has vowed to confront Germany ...
Anyone who follows American politics will have heard the Right's endless demands for "entitlement reform." They argue that Social Security is on the verge of insolvency and therefore payouts need to be t...
*"This Is What America Looks Like"* by William Rivers Pitt "They say it's hard to speak They feel so strong to say we are weak But through the eyes the love of our people They've got to repay. We come fro...
Britain cut all financial ties Monday with Iran over concerns about Iran's nuclear program, the first time it has ever cut an entire country's banking sector off from British finance, the British Treasury ...
The operative word is "*accelerating*." The World Meteorological Organization reported today that, "*the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere hit a new record in 2010 and that the growth of the b...
I almost forgot...I always wanted to be in a band! I had just enough time before the occupy concert was to start to locate a toyshop on the fancy Upper East Side. I told the salesman I wanted some musical...
*"How To Respond To The Awful Truth"* by Zen Gardner "It's a volatile, challenging time to be alive, no doubt. The world is a landscape thoroughly scattered with catastrophic nightmares like flaming lava...
Military reneges on Wall Street mandates, gets second wave of protests aimed at them. by Tony Cartalucci November 21, 2011 - After playing a role Wall Street and London meddlers had hoped would translate ...
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Tens of thousands of protesters poured into central Cairo yesterday, calling for a ‘second revolution’ and the immediate removal of Egypt’s military rulers. The increasingly confident crowd stepped up the...
A woman died after setting herself on fire at a petrol pump. The 55-year-old from Bath, Somerset, was seen at the Sainsbury's filling station strolling across the forecourt and dousing herself with fuel an...
The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are investigating what could be the first known foreign cyber attack to damage an American industrial system. Federal investigators confirmed to Sky ...
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck Antofagasta, Chile at a depth of 141.2 km (87.7 miles), the quake hit at 01:43:47 UTC Wednesday 23rd November 2011. The epicenter was 103 km ( 64 miles) ESE of Calama,...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 4.9 km (3 miles), the quake hit at 23:48:14 UTC Tuesday 22nd November 2011. The epicenter was 37 km ( 22 miles) Northeast of Van, Turkey No...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the West Chile Rise at a depth of 10.3 km (6.4 miles), the quake hit at 23:09:47 UTC Tuesday 22nd November 2011. The epicenter was 786 km ( 488 miles) West of Castro, ...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Central Peru at a depth of 72.5 km (45.1 miles), the quake hit at 23:02:11 UTC Tuesday 22nd November 2011. The epicenter was 88 km ( 54 miles) Southwest of Cusco (Cuzco...
Arsenic levels far exceeding national safety levels have been found in the soil underneath a suburb in Thames on the Coromandel Peninsula. Moanataiari, which is built on land reclaimed using mining tailing...
*All of these quotes from Willard Inc. are, Think Progress insists (via asterisk), "accurate. according to the Romney standard of accuracy." Greg Sargent notes: "This was meant as a joke. But now a Romney...
*I hope you can understand why I get so sick of reading the paper.* "New York officials describe bomb plot" November 21, 2011|By Joseph Goldstein, New York Times NEW YORK - Authorities have arrested a man...
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