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"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof." -
Richard Bach, “Illusions”
*"Oscar, The Donkey, and The Churchgoers"* by CP In the 1940's my grandfather Oscar lived in a small town named Colfax in central Louisiana. To call it "rural" would be kind, but it provided him all the...
“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.” - William Shedd
"A Prayer" "Let me do my work each day; and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me, may I not forget the strength that comforted me in the desolation of other times. May I still remember the bright ...
"Hangover Cures: Myth, Legend, and Fact" By Jason Fitzpatrick "Hangovers rank right up there with drunk dialing your angry ex as one of the least pleasant drinking-related side effects. Stave off a hangov...
“Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better...
Is the Bear Grylles inside you getting itchy feet? Set him loose with these nifty outdoors gift ideas from Discovery.com.
I don't know what to say. This is just an amazing display of courage.
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Same news, different day: socialists want to eat the rich. Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)
By Brenda Norrell Censored News Retired Capt. Police Chief Ray Lewis supporting Occupy Wall Street in New York, the most controversial photo from my Facebook posts, based on the responses. (OWS photo)http:...
Coastguards in Cornwall have had to issue warnings to sailors to inform them that a new island has appeared in the Canary Islands. The island has been formed by molten lava pushing up from the seabed. Fal...
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A few commenters here were asking how Ian Hayes, Libertarianz’ Kaikoura candidate, is getting on. So here’s an update at Stuff on one of Ian’s recent campaign meetings: The unsympathetic crowd got thei...
A healthy 32-week-old fetus has been terminated in a tragic mix-up at Melbourne's Royal Women's Hospital. The Herald Sun says doctors had advised a woman who was having twin boys that one of them had a co...
Have a very happy Thanksgiving, folks!
“From an altitude of over 5,000 meters, the night sky view from Chajnantor Plateau in the Chilean Andes is breathtaking in more ways than one. The dark site's rarefied atmosphere, at about 50 percent sea l...
Up to 20 homes near Margaret River have been damaged - and a dozen of them destroyed - after a prescribed burn blew out of control yesterday. On a day one experienced firefighter called "as bad as they com...
"Recipe for greatness- To bear up under loss, to fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief, to be victor over anger, to smile when tears are close, to resist evil men and base instincts, to...
Naturally enough, gay people are always more than happy to welcome some admired historical figure into the fellowship. Last Saturday Alan Grayson introduced me to Alan Turing (video above) and I rushed h...
Camberley, Surrey, United Kingdom. Thanks for stopping by.
*"The Impossible Dream: Right in Front of You"* by The DailyOm "Maybe you are using a desire you can't fulfill to distract you from truly engaging the blessings you already have. When it comes to the thin...
"The truth is painful. Deep down, nobody wants to hear it, especially when it hits close to home. Sometimes we tell the truth because the truth is all we have to give. Sometimes we tell the truth because ...
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Hone Harawira proposes a transactions tax. He calls it his ‘Hone Heke tax’—presumably because it’s intended to chop down tall poppies. That’s certainly how it worked when it was first introduced. It w...
When the BBC are putting excess pay under the microscope will they consider all such examples of excess....or just politically convenient one? Only joking... *Via Guido Fawkes:* Some easy money for Gordo...
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People want more benefits? Independent welfare commentator Lindsay Mitchell expects more from those *on* benefits. Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republis...
Biased BBC reader Alan picks up on this post by Steve Barclay as to whether a BBC manager could be paid *£1 million pounds! *Recession? What recession? *John Smith, Chief Executive of BBC Worldwide.* Mr...
"There's a truth deeper than experience. It's beyond what we see, or even what we feel. It's an order of truth that separates the profound from the merely clever, and the reality from the perception. We'r...
The following is a re-run and minor edit of a post by the same name that I wrote last year. Happy Thanksgiving to all, including the black, red and white humans and non-humans that must endure the legacy ...
By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Al Jazeera will host Russell Means tomorrow, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011. On Twitter today, Al Jazeera Stream said, "Send us your questions for...
An apocalyptic video from Egypt as young protesters clash with military rulers. (Source: Wired.com).
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Have a very happy Thanksgiving folks. Make this a special, very happy one.
Oh happy day. T'is So Much Joy ’T is so much joy! ’T is so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so This side the victo...
------------------------------ Permalink ** *Europe Bans X-Ray Body Scanners Used at U.S. Airports* Photo by Michael Nagle/Getty Images file photo ----------------------------...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Central Alaska at a depth of 12.4 km (7.7 miles), the quake hit at 19:37:41 UTC Wednesday 23rd November 2011. The epicenter was 15 km ( 9 miles) South of Talkeetna, Ala...
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 37.7 km (23.4 miles), the quake hit at 19:34:32 UTC Wednesday 23rd November 2011. The epicenter was 64 km ( 40 miles...
Police have launched an internal investigation after a 19-year-old woman claims she suffered a miscarriage after being pepper-sprayed at an Occupy Seattle protest. Jennifer M. Fox says police kicked her a...
Russia will aim new missiles at U.S. defence sites in Europe if Washington goes ahead with a planned shield, Dmitry Medvedev warned today. The Russian president said he will order missiles to be stationed ...
*"Gerald Celente: "Run, Entire System is Collapsing”* Posted by Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul "Many have long predicted a time to run for cover would come, but the notion that the reason for selling ...
This gift guide has a half-dozen gifts for your favorite couch potato that are worth sitting down over.
*"They Know Social Unrest is a Foregone Conclusion"* by Mac Slavo "One simply cannot ignore the progressively deteriorating economic and political conditions in just about every industrialized nation (as ...
Ham radio first took the nation by storm nearly a hundred years ago, but now admist the smartphone revolution, the FCC is licensing as many as 25,000 new hams a year.
Chemists have discovered just how cold water can get before it must freeze.
Dinosaurs used to eat birds. This suspicion has been alive for years. And a new finding furthers confirmation but it's a complicated story.
Chemicals that have lingered in the environment for decades may be eating away at the bones of turtles and, maybe, us.
*"Shock: 100 Million Americans In Poverty Or Right On The Edge"* by Mac Slavo "We can play these “recovery” games in the media all we want, but the truth is starkly different from what our benevolent lead...
Three people have been killed after flash floods triggered a landslide that swept mud and water through an Italian village. The victims included a ten-year-old boy, a father and his grown-up son, who all ...
*"Here You Go: It's Over"* by Karl Denninger "It's pretty-much over at this point... This morning Germany had a failed Bund auction. That's not particularly noteworthy; it happens from time to time. Bu...
Firms should allow parents to bring their children to work during next week's strike, Prime Minister David Cameron said today. Millions of parents are expected to struggle with childcare as teachers strik...
In a dramatic turn of events, the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft is communicating with Earth.
I don't generally bother to post anything about politics, because ever since Obama reversed himself on virtually every campaign promise he made, I've come to the regretful conclusion that politicians have ...
Monday Rachel started her show with the video above, about how Newt Gingrich and other Republican reactionaries want to abolish child labor laws. (I didn't make that up; please watch the video.) At the s...
A 'disastrous' German bond sale has triggered fears Europe's debt crisis is starting to threaten Berlin, with the leaders of the eurozone's biggest economies still at odds over a longer-term solution. Inv...
Bill Zajc wrote something about Roy Glauber and I randomly wanted to check some data about the Harvard optics Nobel prize winners and happened to visit the Wikipedia page about Norman Ramsey. Unfortuna...
What am I grateful for this Thanksgiving? One of those things is that I live in a country of people who are both culturally informed and have a robust sense of humor. What follows are some of the Photoshop...
An armed robber burst into a Northeast Washington market, scuffled with the cashier, and then shot him and the clerk’s father, who also owned the store. The killer sped off in a silver Pontiac, but a witne...
Cedar Grove Road in rural eastern Delaware has become an unlikely First Amendment battleground after state officials approved a neo-Nazi splinter group’s application to “adopt” a 2-mile stretch of the road...
Russian space agency Roscosmos all but gave up on regaining contact with its lost Mars probe, and it has no idea where exactly it will crash back down to Earth when it finally falls out of orbit. "There i...
At least five people have been arrested during anti-nuclear protests in France. The arrests followed clashes with police over a convoy of German nuclear waste. The protests are over the latest - and last...
A 61-year-old Halifax County man died Tuesday, a day after police shocked him with a stun gun while he was riding his bike, family members said. Scotland Neck Police Chief Joe Williams said they received a...
The IMF on Tuesday beefed up its lending instruments and launched a six-month liquidity line, throwing help to countries with solid policies that may be at risk from the euro zone debt crisis. By updating...
Some demonstrators are planning to occupy retailers on Black Friday to protest "the business that are in the pockets of Wall Street." Organizers are encouraging consumers to either occupy or boycott retail...
Russia will deploy new missiles aimed at U.S. missile defence sites in Europe if Washington goes ahead with the planned shield despite Russia's concerns, President Dmitry Medvedev said Wednesday. Russia w...
The stress of daily life has sparked a new phenomenon - sleep texting. People with the rare condition send incoherent text messages while asleep to their friends and family - completely unaware that they a...
When Santa Claus visits crisis-hit Europe this Christmas, his sack may not be quite so bulging with presents. Rising prices, muted wages growth and swingeing austerity measures have squeezed disposable in...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Crete, Greece at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:50:03 UTC Wednesday 23rd November 2011. The epicenter was 123 km ( 76 miles) South of Iraklion, Crete...
From Haaretz This is presented as being beneficial to the Palestinian cause. Is it really? Isn't it in fact more beneficial that Palestinians get their own nation, and their lands back and their right of ...
We haven’t even passed Thanksgiving and the grinches are already out! The Rudd family was shocked to find that thieves had ransacked their outdoor Christmas decorations Monday night, stealing most of the...
Beautifully patterned kimonos may be enduring cultural symbols of Japan, but the industry that produces the garments is in steep decline - and it is feared that soon there could be no craftsmen left with t...
GOP candidates Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul debate the merits of extending the Patriot Act to secure our country. "The Patriot Act is unpatriotic because it undermines our liberty," Ron Paul said at the G...
The British university whose leaked emails caused a global climate science controversy in 2009 says it has discovered a potentially much larger data breach. University of East Anglia spokesman Simon Dunfo...
Gifts for the person on your list who loves gadgets and has an obsession with James Bond movies.
Police moved into St. James Park in Toronto early Wednesday morning to uphold the city's eviction of Occupy protestors there. In Ottawa, police arrested eight people as they removed protestors from Confede...
Adults who ate canned soup daily showed a jump in levels of the plasticizer BPA in their urine, according to a small study. The study of 75 people in Tuesday's issue of the Journal of the American Medical...
The Bahraini authorities used "excessive force" during a crackdown on protests earlier this year, an independent commission has said. Presenting a much-awaited report into the events in February and March,...
More countries deployed anti-personnel mines last year than in any year since 2004, an international survey of landmines has found. The Landmine Monitor report says use of the weapons increased despite re...
Contact has finally been made with Russia's troubled Mars mission, says the European Space Agency (Esa). The agency reports that its tracking station in Perth, Australia, picked up a signal from the Phobo...
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a stern warning to Syria's president Tuesday, saying that he risks facing the same fate as Libya's slain Moammar Gadhafi if he does not step down. Erdo...
Police arrived at the Occupy Toronto camp early Wednesday to enforce a judge's ruling upholding a city eviction and remove what's left of the about 200 tents that had filled downtown St. James Park for abo...
It has been more than 20 years since the House of Commons unanimously resolved to end child poverty by 2000, but a national advocacy group says it's shocked by how little progress has been made. While the...
Agreeing on a plan to cut U.S. government borrowing would be the adult thing to do — responsible, sensible and a demonstration of real leadership. So why would anyone have thought there was any chance that...
At first glance, it might seem that Yemen -- like Somalia -- is a place we should best forget about. It has few proven natural resources, its hinterland is largely barren and inaccessible, and it has a lon...
Richard Branson loves it, says Wubbo Ockels, former astronaut and creator of the super-fast, super-long Superbus. And he's not the only one. "We've had interest from Las Vegas. We also had interest from...
The app searches for apps based on what they do, not just their name.
Long duration missions to Mars means food that can last for five years. Creating that has not been an easy mission for NASA.
A first-hand look at the newest Nook, which offers movies, TV, radio, games, email, browsing and millions of comics, books and magazines.
A familiar digital chime rang on the computer. Someone was calling via Skype from Syria. It was a law student and opposition activist from the city of Homs who uses the pseudonym Musaab al Hussaini to p...
Get the point? Image of Will Rogers from the Will Rogers Museum.Will Rogers on Occupy Wall StreetBy Steve Russell / The Rag Blog / November 23, 2011"It’s all right to let Wall Street bet each other millions ...
Two Indonesian plantation workers have been arrested for allegedly killing at least 20 endangered orangutans. Photo courtesy: Reuters Finally, steps are being taken to protect the endangered orangutans of ...
Getting computers to read emotional states may one day make talking to an automated system less stressful.
The Rev. Jim Jones.Sex, Corruption,and the Kool-Aid MassacreBy Paul Krassner / The Rag Blog / November 23, 2011November 18th marked the 33rd anniversary of the Jonestown massacre.Jim Jones, founder of the 8,...
Don't let the Corps of Engineers get away with building us "jelly doughnut" levees! ~Editilla Rotellas~ We all remember --at right-- when the Corps tried to put newspaper in our own floodwalls over here on...
ALL photos courtesy: Sara Novak The need for the self-contained family farming community is all the more evident after seeing places where it still persists. Besides, the obvious food and financial benef...
Image from the Schumin Web.Chevy to the levee:Protest in the driver's seatThis is the ultimate American way: protesting in a car (or on a bike) while obeying the law. The possibilities for serene family ...
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*New spy towers pitched for sovereign Tohono O'odham Nation, after billion dollar boondoggle * Copyright by Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com TOHONO O'ODHAM NATION -- (Nov. ...
At Occupy Ottawa only those most intent on defending the occupied space and willing to risk police arrest and police violence remained and setup their tents in the large empty fountain in the park. Last nigh...
Women who take a certain type of anti-depressant during pregnancy could be contributing to a dramatic rise in the number of children with autism, say scientists. They found in a study of rats, that newb...
Go into another room and forget what you meant to do? Your brain may just be in the act of refreshing.
A baby boom among women aged over 40 is fuelling a crisis on maternity wards, midwives are warning. Nearly 28,000 women from this age group gave birth last year, a rise of more than 70 per cent since 20...
*Casually Pepper Spray Everything Cop Images* *You can click to enlarge this portion of the webpage. Onsite, each of the images can be enlarged. (See below.)* *by Noah* Just 11 kids. Just 11 students at U...
[image: A cuppa a day: Women who drank four or more cups of coffee a day were 25 per cent less likely to develop the disease] A cuppa a day: Women who drank four or more cups of coffee a day were 25 per...
- New treatments give dramatic improvements in survival for breast cancer, colon cancer and Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma - But almost no progress for diseases like lung, brain and pancreatic can...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Russia-Kazakhstan Border Region at a depth of 6 km (3.4 miles), the quake hit at 12:37:01 UTC Wednesday 23rd November 2011. The epicenter was 82 km ( 50.8 miles) N...
Worried about ants making an uninvited visit to your Thanksgiving table? You might want to invite some Golden Orb Web spiders over.
The following article is a must read - it was brought to my attention by the MN Uncut newspaper. The interesting thing about this article is that it stresses just how immoral the 1% and banksters are, BUT...
Shocking new data has revealed that a whole street of New South Wales families lose their home every month. A report by the Australians for Affordable Housing revealed areas where renters and home purcha...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the West Chile Rise at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:42:33 UTC Wednesday 23rd November 2011. The epicenter was 867 km ( 538 miles) West of Castro, L...
Jennifer Fox was three months pregnant last Tuesday evening when she joined an Occupy Seattle march that stopped at the intersection of 5th Avenue and Pine Street.*"I was standing in the middle of the cr...
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck Crete, Greece at a depth of 9.7 km (6.0 miles), the quake hit at 12:17:51 UTC Wednesday 23rd November 2011. The epicenter was 111 km ( 68 miles) South of Iraklion, Cret...
*And it is not even Thanksgiving yet (sigh).* * * *Almost kept me from going to get a Globe.* "Global warming gases rise by record amount, US says; Energy Dept. calls efforts to curb pollution feeble" No...
Israel bought - yes bought - the Golan Heights from the father and uncle of Bashar Assad for $100 million before the Six Day war started..... http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/149730#.Ts...
The JIG is up. An RCMP 'joint intelligence group' - comprised of federal, provincial and municipal police - infiltrated activist groups prior to the G20 and Vancouver Olympics in what they call "one of th...
*Government can't even get the kids to school on time?* "One year after the Boston public schools began using *new software to manage school bus routes*, some parents and teachers say that *problems are w...
Understandably there's a great deal of discussion about Climategate 2 in the comments. I'm sure Robin will be along to give us his take but in the meantime here's a thread dedicated to the subject. There's...
The REAL Biography of new Zioconned STL president, David Baragwanath.... David Baragwaneth is a CIA Asset for DECADES and STL-TSL is a Quasi DEN of Western Zioconned spies and cronies of the Zioconned ...
كدنا نلتقي في دنيا الشهادة سنوات على استشهاد الوزير الراحل ايلي حبيقة، وكأنّها خمسة أيّام. Elias CIA MURR the little Skunk....January 24th 2002 in Hazmieh لم ننسَ ولن ننسى يا الغضب على الجريمة لم...
Like Ireland's potato in the 19th century, African cassava is under attack from a disease that may put poor farmers at risk to famine.
* 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 ا...
An Australian woman who survived a deadly fire on board a train in India says she believes the blaze was started deliberately. Seven passengers died when the train caught fire while travelling through a...
A frog species believed to be extinct has hopped back into sight in northern Israel. Omri Gal of Israel's Nature and Parks Authority said Thursday the Hula Painted Frog was seen for the first time in 50 ...
Plans to funnel British taxpayers’ cash to Italy’s stricken economy were unveiled yesterday as the Euro continued to teeter on the edge of disaster. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) set up a new ‘cred...
*Open post to Occupy Encampments;* This copy / paste of an e-mail below gives a link to this *video that shows how the control of the Bankster * *has been defeated before from a historical perspective.* *I...
The CDF Collaboration has presented many extraordinary claims during the recent year which seem probably incorrect today, not only because of the refutations by D0 (Z'-boson-like bump near 150 GeV, a huge ...
A US tourist died aboard a cruise liner that docked in the port of Rio de Janeiro Tuesday after 79 people aboard became sickened by a mystery illness. The woman died aboard the MS Veendam, a luxury vessel ...
The Met service has issued severe weather warnings for Taranaki and other parts of the country over the next 18 hours. Heavy rain is expected to set in about Mt Taranaki and Tongariro National Park later...
The Russian Mars mission Phobos-Grunt has made a surprise announcement: she's alive
*The number of jellyfish found in the waters off British coast has risen dramatically. Experts are attributing the cause to three main factors: pollution, over fishing and climate change. *A nuclear power...
For the third time in two months a massive jellyfish has washed ashore on Oahu. The latest incident happened Sunday off Maili Beach. Minda Cortado snapped a few photos of the rhizostome before it was gen...
Flights were cancelled for several hours in Uruguay and Argentina Tuesday due to volcanic ash from the four-month-long eruption of the Puyehue volcano in Chile, airport authorities said. Laura Vanoli, Uru...
The former Prime Minister said the MoD must "recognise its responsibility" to tackle the problem at Dalgety Bay in Fife, amid concerns that winter storms could unearth more potentially hazardous material. ...
Chinese factories battled with their weakest activity in 32 months in November, a preliminary purchasing managers' survey showed, reviving worries that China may be skidding toward an economic hard landing...
"Make no mistake: American elites are gearing up for military confrontation with the Islamic Republic—and, in the process, displaying all of the cultural, intellectual, and political pathologies that pro...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Tonga Region at a depth of 32.7 km (20.3 miles), the quake hit at 07:14:45 UTC Wednesday 23rd November 2011. The epicenter was 222 km ( 137 miles) South of Nulu'Alo...
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Over the past half century,seismic history knowledge has steadily improved and serious risks have beenidentified. What this means is that thegiant tsunami experienced at Fukushima and the Honshu coast...
This article asks an amazingquestion. Just what in hell were thenames of four scandalous women doing in the lead genealogy of Matthew? I have only leapt over thatparticular grind forever. Suddenly we...
I think the idea is great exceptthat it is surely better to lock out a lagoon that is mostly drained in the fallduring low water. What is left is thenallowed to freeze solid and water is then allowed i...
Itappears we will get a clear working hypothesis to explain the emergent LENRheat engine. This should mean a rapidimprovement in efficiencies in the reactor as the implied geometries areexploited. Th...
Sprites often accompany lightning storms, flashing high in the atmosphere -- but could we detect these electrical discharges on other worlds? Might they lead us to alien life?
Anonymous said... Just a technical note... Many if not most of the links in your blog are via Google. That is, http://www.google.co.uk/...url=... Apart from being unwieldy and ugly, they're also *allowin...
- Expert says true figure of those affected is 'staggering' - Secret killer in artery walls can lead to stroke and premature death, says new study A high proportion of 'apparently healthy'...
- Women drivers have more excuses about accidents - Men confess to taking more risks on the road Women will more often than not profess to be 'in the right' when it comes to arguing with their p...
"Success is waking up in the morning, whoever you are, wherever you are, however old or young, and bounding out of bed because there's something out there you love to do, that you believe in, that you're ...
[image: Medical mystery: The causes of Autism have baffled doctors and scientists for years] Medical mystery: The causes of Autism have baffled doctors and scientists for years The autism epidemic see...
- Risk of dying from liver failure higher from accidental overdose than deliberate suicide attempts - Paracetamol is a safe and effective painkiller when the correct amount is taken [imag...
Antiwar Radio (November 22, 2011): Seymour Hersh, award winning investigative reporter for *The New Yorker*magazine, discusses his article “Iran and the I.A.E.A.;” how extensive CIA/JSOC espionage (and per...
The head of Egypt's ruling military has promised to speed up the return of power to civilian hands as he tries to quell protests that have left 37 people dead. Demonstrations continued despite the announ...
The rape and murder of a 13-year-old schoolgirl has led to uproar in France after it was revealed that the alleged teenage killer was admitted to an up-scale boarding school despite a previous rape charge....
Fire broke out in two cars of an express train in India as it traveled through northern Jharkhand state, killing seven passengers, the Railway Ministry said. The Doon Express train from Calcutta was trav...
Ski resorts in Austria are set to lose a fortune as a baffling rise in temperatures has left resorts in the Tirol and Salzburg without any snow. Temperatures are so high that even high-powered snow cannons...
"You Can Crush the Flowers, But You Can't Stop the Spring" OCCUPY POSTER #138 - Alex Noble http://alexnoble.typepad.com/occupy/
A babysitter has been jailed for nine years after inflicting a catalogue of horrific injuries on a three-year-old in her care. Karen Victory - who pinched, bit, strangled and scalded the boy - was only ca...
Colonel Gaddafi’s captured son Saif predicted Libya would slide back into conflict within weeks. The 39-year-old former playboy spoke out as the country unveiled its new government last night. The key jo...
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 ...
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*"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 archaeological 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...
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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*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...
*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 ...
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By Brenda Norrell Censored News Retired Capt. Police Chief Ray Lewis supporting Occupy Wall Street in New York, the most controversial photo from my Facebook posts, based on the responses. (OWS photo)http:...
Coastguards in Cornwall have had to issue warnings to sailors to inform them that a new island has appeared in the Canary Islands. The island has been formed by molten lava pushing up from the seabed. Fal...
A healthy 32-week-old fetus has been terminated in a tragic mix-up at Melbourne's Royal Women's Hospital. The Herald Sun says doctors had advised a woman who was having twin boys that one of them had a co...
Up to 20 homes near Margaret River have been damaged - and a dozen of them destroyed - after a prescribed burn blew out of control yesterday. On a day one experienced firefighter called "as bad as they com...
Naturally enough, gay people are always more than happy to welcome some admired historical figure into the fellowship. Last Saturday Alan Grayson introduced me to Alan Turing (video above) and I rushed h...
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