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A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck North of
Svalbard at a depth of 15.3 km (9.5 miles), the quake hit at 23:59:54
UTC Saturday 26th November 2011. The epicenter was 195 km ( 131 miles)
ENE of Nord, Green...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the
Sumba Region,
Indonesia at a depth of 50.9 km (31.6 miles), the quake hit at 22:35:36 UTC Saturday 26th November 2011. The epicenter was 26 km ( 16 miles) Northwes...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Tonga Region at a depth of 22.4 km (13.9 miles), the quake hit at 22:34:33 UTC Saturday 26th November 2011. The epicenter was 216 km ( 134 miles) South of Nuku'Alof...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Antofagasta, Chile at a depth of 107.6 km (66.9 miles), the quake hit at 21:24:50 UTC Saturday 26th November 2011. The epicenter was 94 km ( 58 miles)
SSE of
Calama, A...
Many caves and rock shelters, such as Jerimalai shelter where the oldest fish hooks were found, are located in the uplifted Pleistocene reef terraces at the east end of the
island of Timor. Photo courtesy:...
- Youngest in academic year are less likely to get good
GCSEs, study found Children born in August do significantly worse in exams than classmates born 11 months earlier at the beginning of ...
A cure for high blood pressure that could save millions of lives every yearappears to be just around the corner. Researchers believe they may be able to control production of an enzyme that can trigger t...
[image: Pro probiotics? Live bacteria in the yoghurts has been found to break down carbohydrates] Pro probiotics? Live bacteria in the yoghurts has been found to break down carbohydrates After wolfing...
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Buckdog - 1 hour ago
*"At a CFL Alumni Association luncheon on Friday, Kapp and Mosca, both 73, went Ali-Frazier in front of startled onlookers. The feud dates back to the 1963 Cup when Mosca’s sideline hit on Willie Fleming p...
- Dramatic results for women who have undergone lumpectomy - Ten-year study is one of most in-depth of its kind [image: According to researchers from Oxford University a course of radiation ...
Earlier today we ran a post about the Montana congressional race. Perhaps looking for an excuse to not spend her entire day doing call time, the progressive candidate in the race, Franke Wilmer, was moved...
Found this posted on DU and had to share, too good not to share with more - The people fighting the good fight in Wisconsin are the best!!!!! The Wisconsin members of the American Legislative Exchange Counc...
"Truck Bomb Kills Dozens in Somalia’s Capital" by MOHAMED IBRAHIM and JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, Published: October 4, 2011 MOGADISHU, Somalia — This particular area of Mogadishu was supposed to be safe, a highly...
A little bit of trivia and history before I get this piece going. *Did you know ALEC had a TV Show?* National Empowerment Television (NET), also known as America's Voice, was a cable TV network designed ...
*Jeez, you couldn't make this stuff up. Does it ever occur to the brain-obliteratin savages of Crap Christianity that God is keeping tabs on them? No, probably not -- if they were capable of processing th...
"Somali children win weapons in contest" September 21, 2011|New York Times NAIROBI - A *typical prize for a children’s contest* might be a backpack, a lunchbox, or some toys. Not in Somalia. Over the wee...
“To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.” - Kofi Annan
*And they are slow-stepping it.* "Somali pirates appeal US conviction; Attorneys argue 5 didn’t board ship" September 21, 2011|By Steve Szkotak, Associated Press RICHMOND - Attorneys seeking to overturn t...
"It’s not a scientific report, it’s a political document," saidinvestigative journalist Seymour Hersh on Democracy Now on November 21, referring to the latest IAEA report about Iran's nuclear program. The...
*LITERATURE:* *SO THEY NEVER DID LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER:* I have recently finished 'The Collected Fairy Tales Of Hans Christian Anderson, and am about 80% through 'The Collected Fairy Tales Of The Br...
*Not that I'm tired of the whole phony drug war.* "Marijuana, opium flourish as Mexico fights cartels" October 25, 2011|By Nick Miroff, Washington Post EL BARRIL, Mexico - The Mexican government is allowi...
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Biased BBC - 7 hours ago
Obviously the BBC has not made much of this story.....I wonder why? * Britain's Guardian newspaper was forced to apologise to Rupert Murdoch's The Sun today for falsely alleging that the tabloid's report...
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Not PC - 7 hours ago
It's beautiful this morning. But that's everything to do with the weather, and nothing to do with politics. Or the election. Yesterday' election finished up as a ringing endorsement of no-one. Labour got ...
Seymour Hersh: Iran and the I.A.E.A. (November 18, 2011).
Perhaps the *New York Times* will pull the strands of widespread and generalized OccupyWallStreet discontent with the career of Mitt Romney once we get a little closer to the election. Or maybe not. For n...
*No boiling occurs in the "reactor"; numbers match* In June, Swedish server Cornucopia looked at the following 13-minute June 2011 presentation by Andrea Rossi a little bit critically and with some upda...
*"The Great Swindle (From Both Right and Left)"* by Karl Denninger “Comes now this morning into my email notification that The Daily Bell has not only ripped off my commentary and opined upon it (legitima...
IMDb: "A documentary about the most important modern Iranian poet and intellectual icon."
Image from Dallas News.There oughta be a law:Stop Congressional 'insider trading'By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / November 26, 2001Last week it was revealed that members of Congress regularly do something ...
Panic is spreading says Steen Jakobsen, chief economist at Saxo Bank. Steen eyes the perfect storm including a potential "Chapter 11" call for European banks. Via Email: This morning there is too much bad ...
An elderly widow has died after muggers stole her handbag containing her husband's ashes - which she had carried for 17 years. Nellie Geraghty, 79, suffered fatal head injuries as she desperately tried to...
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CENSORED NEWS - 10 hours ago
By Brenda Norrell Censored News President Obama's meeting with a select group of Native American leaders at the White House in 2010, prior to the full conference held in the Interior building, was not made ...
------------------------------ The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy The violent police assaults across the US are no coincidence. Occupy has touched the third rail of our political class's...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 19:22:32 UTC Saturday 26th November 2011. The epicenter was 10 km ( 6.2 miles) Southwest of Van, Turkey ...
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wmtc - 11 hours ago
The recent BC Supreme Court decision upholding Canadian laws criminalizing polygamy is disappointing and dangerous. The much-quoted summary paragraph of Chief Justice Robert Bauman's decision contained a s...
*I'm surprised it was even mentioned.* "Haitian president knocks UN errors" September 24, 2011|Associated Press UNITED NATIONS - Haiti’s new president said yesterday that *United Nations peacekeepers* hav...
*First one was just a photo you wouldn't see on the website*: "CONFLICT IN BRAZIL -- *Demonstrators* clashed with riot police in Sao Paolo (sic) during an occupation of part of the University of Sao Paulo ...
*Just a case of the jitters.* "Severe stutter mars Jamaican’s asylum bid" October 17, 2011|By Maryclaire Dale, Associated Press PHILADELPHIA - Derrick Cotterel was a farm worker who came to the United St...
*WTF, America?* Giving thanks for bargains For many, Black Friday is a tradition - almost a sport to find bargains - [but] it can also lead to stressful behavior. In Los Angeles, a woman used pepper spra...
[image: Relative composition of the periphytic diatom assemblages along the CO2 gradient. Between September 2009 and October 2010, mean surface seawater pH decreased with increasing proximity to CO2 vent...
[image: SPORC in training. The Indonesian Ministry of Forestry's SPORC [Satuan Polisi Kehutanan Reaksi Cepat or Forest Police Rapid Response Force] and Polisi Hutan are heavily armed and engage in violen...
"Discounter to shutter four stores in Mass." October 18, 2011|By Jenn Abelson, Globe Staff Struggling discounter Filene’s Basement is closing four Massachusetts stores - about 15 percent of the chain’s lo...
Here at the lowest place on earth, in 75 degree sunshine, Olga Alexarkin is sitting on a deckchair in bathing suit and gazing eastwards across the radiantly blue, imponderably deep, Dead Sea towards the Jo...
In a finding of significance in the search for life beyond Earth, scientists have discovered what appears to be a body of liquid water the volume of the North American Great Lakes locked inside the icy she...
Those of you who watched our recent education special saw the exhausting study habits of South Korean students. The culmination of that pressure was last week when almost 700,000 South Korean high school...
Fans of China's outspoken artist Ai Weiwei are not shy when it comes to posing nude. The nude photos are part of an effort by Ai fans to show their support for the controversial artist who says he's being...
China's ruling Communist Party is looking within for threats to its control over the country, spending more money on securing its population of over one billion than it did on its military last year, accor...
The victory of the opposition Popular Party in Spain's general election means that seven leaders or governments around the Mediterranean have been thrown out within the last year, amid an explosion of popu...
As the economist Mario Monti’s new government takes office in Italy, much is at stake – for the country, for Europe and for the global economy. If reforms falter, public finances collapse and anemic growth...
I noticed a strange item in the news this week. An estimated 200 North Koreans are stranded in Libya right now, among them doctors and nurses whose services are much needed back home. Why are they there?...
Some eight months after the ouster of its long-serving strongman, Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s revolution remains the most prominent byproduct of the so-called “Arab Spring.” But where, exactly, is Cairo heade...
Great Plains river basins are threatened by pumping of groundwater from aquifers, risking a bleak future for native fish in many streams, U.S. researchers say. Unlike alluvial aquifers, which can be reple...
The simple answer is no - and the complicated answer is also no. Consumers in almost any motorized car loving country, now including China and India whose car industries have until recently shown straight-...
Johnson & Johnson, responding to complaints about a potentially carcinogenic chemical in its baby shampoos, said it plans within two years to eliminate formaldehyde-releasing preservatives from hundreds of...
Frogs, salamanders and other amphibians may eventually have no haven left on the globe because of a triple threat of worsening scourges, a new study predicts. Scientists have long known that amphibians ar...
UN scientists are warning that a virus attacking the cassava plant is nearing an epidemic in parts of Africa. Cassava is one of the world's most important crops providing up to a third of the calorie inta...
An international study has linked an industrial solvent to Parkinson's disease. Researchers found a six-fold increase in the risk of developing Parkinson's in individuals exposed in the workplace to trich...
Global warming gases have hit record levels in the world's atmosphere, with concentrations of carbon dioxide up 39 percent since the start of the industrial era in 1750, the U.N. weather agency said Monday...
Researchers suggest there may be a link between estrogen from oral contraceptives that has found its way into the environment and rising rates of prostate cancer among men around the world. In a study in ...
Two years ago, at a meeting in Copenhagen, world leaders agreed on the goal of limiting global warming to two degrees Celsius, or roughly three and a half degrees Fahrenheit. The so-called Copenhagen Accor...
The “change of seasons” used to mean something different. Winter in Massachusetts is undergoing a redefinition due to a warming climate. Already, the mean temperature in Amherst in winter - for December, ...
Even clouds can suffer from inhaling air pollution, a new study finds, resulting in extreme rainfall patterns that appear to be altering climate across the globe. Farmers, municipal water authorities and ...
Far out on the Pacific Ocean, the world's industrial fishing fleets pursue one of the last huge wild hunts — for the tuna eaten by millions of people around the world. Yet tuna still aren't fished sustain...
Every fall, millions of monarch butterflies travel south to Mexico and take refuge in twelve mountain sanctuaries of oyamel fir forests. Now, declining numbers of the overwintering butterflies expose the m...
If you have half an hour, read this paper (pdf) by Philip Whyte and Simon Tilford for the Centre for European Reform. It is a forensic look into the deeper causes of Europe’s crisis and why the reactionar...
Syria's president has reached "a point of no return" and faces the same fate as former despots in Libya and Iraq, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Saturday. "I think that he went beyond the point ...
Those of you who watched our recent education special saw the exhausting study habits of South Korean students. The culmination of that pressure was last week when almost 700,000 South Korean high school...
Fans of China's outspoken artist Ai Weiwei are not shy when it comes to posing nude. The nude photos are part of an effort by Ai fans to show their support for the controversial artist who says he's being...
China's ruling Communist Party is looking within for threats to its control over the country, spending more money on securing its population of over one billion than it did on its military last year, accor...
The victory of the opposition Popular Party in Spain's general election means that seven leaders or governments around the Mediterranean have been thrown out within the last year, amid an explosion of popu...
As the economist Mario Monti’s new government takes office in Italy, much is at stake – for the country, for Europe and for the global economy. If reforms falter, public finances collapse and anemic growth...
I noticed a strange item in the news this week. An estimated 200 North Koreans are stranded in Libya right now, among them doctors and nurses whose services are much needed back home. Why are they there?...
Some eight months after the ouster of its long-serving strongman, Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s revolution remains the most prominent byproduct of the so-called “Arab Spring.” But where, exactly, is Cairo heade...
Great Plains river basins are threatened by pumping of groundwater from aquifers, risking a bleak future for native fish in many streams, U.S. researchers say. Unlike alluvial aquifers, which can be reple...
The simple answer is no - and the complicated answer is also no. Consumers in almost any motorized car loving country, now including China and India whose car industries have until recently shown straight-...
Johnson & Johnson, responding to complaints about a potentially carcinogenic chemical in its baby shampoos, said it plans within two years to eliminate formaldehyde-releasing preservatives from hundreds of...
Frogs, salamanders and other amphibians may eventually have no haven left on the globe because of a triple threat of worsening scourges, a new study predicts. Scientists have long known that amphibians ar...
UN scientists are warning that a virus attacking the cassava plant is nearing an epidemic in parts of Africa. Cassava is one of the world's most important crops providing up to a third of the calorie inta...
The first climate study to focus on variations in daily weather conditions has found that day-to-day weather has grown increasingly erratic and extreme, with significant fluctuations in sunshine and rainfa...
An international study has linked an industrial solvent to Parkinson's disease. Researchers found a six-fold increase in the risk of developing Parkinson's in individuals exposed in the workplace to trich...
Global warming gases have hit record levels in the world's atmosphere, with concentrations of carbon dioxide up 39 percent since the start of the industrial era in 1750, the U.N. weather agency said Monday...
Researchers suggest there may be a link between estrogen from oral contraceptives that has found its way into the environment and rising rates of prostate cancer among men around the world. In a study in ...
Two years ago, at a meeting in Copenhagen, world leaders agreed on the goal of limiting global warming to two degrees Celsius, or roughly three and a half degrees Fahrenheit. The so-called Copenhagen Accor...
The “change of seasons” used to mean something different. Winter in Massachusetts is undergoing a redefinition due to a warming climate. Already, the mean temperature in Amherst in winter - for December, ...
Even clouds can suffer from inhaling air pollution, a new study finds, resulting in extreme rainfall patterns that appear to be altering climate across the globe. Farmers, municipal water authorities and ...
Far out on the Pacific Ocean, the world's industrial fishing fleets pursue one of the last huge wild hunts — for the tuna eaten by millions of people around the world. Yet tuna still aren't fished sustain...
Every fall, millions of monarch butterflies travel south to Mexico and take refuge in twelve mountain sanctuaries of oyamel fir forests. Now, declining numbers of the overwintering butterflies expose the m...
If you have half an hour, read this paper (pdf) by Philip Whyte and Simon Tilford for the Centre for European Reform. It is a forensic look into the deeper causes of Europe’s crisis and why the reactionar...
Syria's president has reached "a point of no return" and faces the same fate as former despots in Libya and Iraq, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Saturday. "I think that he went beyond the point ...
Pakistan to review ALL diplomatic, military & Intelligence Activities with U.S. and NATO
By Noe Torres, with additional reporting by Adriana Barrera; Editing by Marguerita Choy 25 November 2011 MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico is being battered its worst drought in seven decades, which ha...
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, a great young actor and Luke Rudkowski, a great young journalist, have a conversation about political power and big finance near the site of Occupy Wall Street in New York. With peopl...
Back in summer, Tokyo Police club covered the first decade of the 21st century, by covering one song per day for ten days. This is their take on Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone." Since U Been Gone by...
[image: Cover of 'Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation'. IPCC] Kampala, November 18 (IPCC) – The Summary for Policymakers of the Speci...
Report says 100 people taken to hospital; bus, cars and motorcycles went into water. A busy bridge collapsed Saturday in central Indonesia, killing at least three people and injuring many more as a bus, c...
More than 700 slight to moderate earthquakes hit an area in eastern El Salvador in a 24-hour period, damaging dozens of homes but hurting no one. The brief quakes, which started Thursday and ranged from 1...
A LUXURY five-star hotel is at the centre of a major food poisoning probe after 80 guests fell ill after a fundraising dinner. Diners at Salford's Lowry Hotel reported fever, dizziness and vomiting after ...
A snow avalanche killed three people in Kyrgyzstan, two of them were Chinese citizens, the Kyrgyz Ministry of Emergency Situations told Xinhua Friday. The avalanche, carrying a snow volume of 105,000 cub...
We haven't been shy about our support for Democratic state Rep. Franke Wilmer, who's running for Congress as she finishes up her third term representing the people of Bozeman in Helena. We opened an ActB...
A trawler carrying Bangladeshi workers to Malaysia has capsized in the Bay of Bengal and 163 passengers are missing, a survivor says. The boat sank in the early hours of Friday near Myanmar's Naikkhangdiy...
Just think for a minute what you can do with $1.415 trillion a year. That would be enough money to provide every single American citizen with quality, affordable health care for a decade, with over $400 b...
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CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours ago
Ezra Kaplan (928) 351-7999 Diane D’Angelo (602) 405-5134 media@occupyphx.org www.occupyphx.org *Occupy Phoenix to Protest at ALEC Summit on November 30 **We will no longer remain passive while our coun...
[image: Covers of TIME magazine's 5 December 2011 edition for different world markets. The Europe, Asia, and South Pacific editions have a cover story about the new Egyptian uprising against the military...
Global temperatures could be less sensitive to changing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels than previously thought, a study suggests. The researchers said people should still expect to see "drastic c...
Syrian forces killed four people in Homs city on Saturday, activists said, shortly before Arab ministers were due to draw up sanctions against Damascus over its crackdown on protests and failure to let obs...
It is "highly likely" that Nato aircraft were behind a deadly overnight raid on a Pakistani border checkpoint, a Nato spokesman has told the BBC. Brigadier-General Carsten Jacobson said Nato was investigat...
This is an excellent documentary. So many great guests are interviewed, and so many important topics are covered.
[image: In this 5 October 2011 photo, a child's grave site, normally at least 20 to 30 feet underwater, has joined other remnants of old Bluffton, Texas, resurfacing on the now dry, sandy lake near Bluff...
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CENSORED NEWS - 14 hours ago
*Senators Demand the Military Lock Up American Citizens in a “Battlefield” They Define as Being Right Outside Your Window * By ACLU Posted at Censored News While nearly all Americans head to family and frie...
[image: A Thai employee cleans up outside a grocery store as floods recede in Bangkok, Thailand, 24 November 2011. Floodwaters have started to recede in Bangkok's northern suburbs but not in the western ...
An unmanned Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Saturday.
Subject: Britain suddenly replaces the less virulent Cervarix (GSK) with the T-Rex of toxic vaccines currently on the global market, Gardasil (Merck). VRM I haven't posted anything in a few weeks b...
*Can't ignore him any longer*: "Bachmann and Paul campaigns accuse debate sponsors of bias" by Shira Schoenberg, Globe Correspondent Paul’s campaign chairman, Jesse Benton, accused CBS of being “arrogant”...
Grandpa Arrested After Black Friday Brawl: MyFoxPHOENIX.com Police swarmed a Buckeye Walmart Thursday night after a man inside was tackled to the ground during a rush to grab video games -- and there ar...
Stocks closed in negative territory in thin, shortened trading Friday as investors were reluctant to go long ahead of the weekend and amid ongoing worries over the euro zone. The Dow and S&P posted their ...
Thailand is the latest target of Wall Street and London's fake-human rights crusade. by Tony Cartalucci November 26, 2011 - Ampon Tangnoppakul was sentenced to 20 years in prison for computer crimes an...
In many ways, the answer to that question is obviously yes. Money-market funds [cnbc explains] in the United States have quite dramatically slammed shut their lending windows to European banks. According ...
------------------------------ *November 25, 2011 at 20:29:43* *Promoted to Headline (H3) on 11/25/11:* Permalink Goldman Sachs Has Taken Over *By paul craig roberts (about the author)* opednews.c...
Things are looking up for the little ginger-coloured seal pup whose fate touched the world after being rejected by the rest of its sleek black family. Left as an outcast, the vulnerable creature was fou...
A paedophile with HIV who arranged online to have sex with three young children has been jailed after not realising he was talking to an undercover policeman. Steven King, who worked in the accounts depar...
*More than just an 18-and-a-half minute gap.* *Is this the kind of cover-up capability we can expect from a Romney administration?* "Romney staffers wiped out records in ’06; Ex-governor’s aides say they ...
OP Day 52: The Federal War Against Occupy Philadelphia Mayor Nutter has joined ths list of U.S. mayors who have evicted peaceful occupiers fronm their encampments under the direct supervision of the feder...
Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's downgraded Belgium Friday as the sovereign debt crisis continues to spread across the continent. The rating change put Belgium's rating down one notch to AA. That's t...
A protester was killed in Cairo after a police truck trying to retreat from chaos in the city struck him, Egypt's Interior Ministry said Saturday. "We issued a statement of apology for the death and exp...
"Frank hits Gingrich on Freddie Mac" November 17, 2011 WASHINGTON - Newt Gingrich *earned at least $1.5 million* in *consulting fees* from mortgage giant Freddie Mac.... At the GOP debate last week in Mic...
We first met Moroccan author Abdellah Taïa here at *DWT* about a year and a half ago in a discussion of marriage equality. I found his work in *Out*back then, and the new issue of the same magazine has an...
Preparations for launch of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory aboard an unmanned Atlas 5 rocket are on schedule for 10:02 a.m. EST this morning.
*As expected. * "Cain sticks to his own playbook during visit to Granite State" November 18, 2011|By Shira Schoenberg WASHINGTON POST Associated Press NASHUA - In many senses, Herman Cain's *unconventiona...
The probability of a major earthquake occurring and triggering a massive tsunami in the Pacific Ocean off eastern and northeastern Japan within the next 30 years has been revised up to 30 percent from 20 p...
Egypt's general prosecutor on Friday ordered a police officer to submit to questioning regarding his suspected role in shooting protesters in the eyes during recent clashes in Cairo's Tahrir Square. "The...
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CENSORED NEWS - 20 hours ago
Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
The much-anticipated Mars Science Laboratory "Curiosity" sits on the Cape Canaveral launchpad, ready for Saturday's blast-off.
*Quantum Leap* Just one link. If you have 53 spare minutes, you may watch the third episodeof The Fabric of the Cosmos with Brian Greene on PBS. *The outline of the program below isn't supposed to be prett...
*William Hitler * William Hitler was born in Liverpool, in the UK. He was the son of Hitler's brother, Alois Hitler Jr., and his Irish-born wife Bridget Dowling. * Alois Hitler * William's parents met in...
Egypt's "revolutionaries" prove again the unfathomable fraud that is the "Arab Spring." by Tony Cartalucci November 26, 2011 - Once again after yet another disingenuous campaign by the corporate media, t...
Nasa describes its Mars Rover vehicle as 'locked and loaded' in preparation for its Saturday lift-off, when a 500-tonne Atlas rocket will carry the car-sized, plutonium-powered vehicle towards Mars. Curi...
Scientists have discovered a planet which could have the most Earth-like environment ever found - raising a 'very compelling case' for life there. Gliese 581g, located around 123trillion miles away, orbit...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 180.2 km (112 miles), the quake hit at 09:16:25 UTC Saturday 26th November 2011. The epicenter was 89 km ( 55 miles) North of Luganville, Espiritu...
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CENSORED NEWS - 20 hours ago
*By Alex Maldonado* *Censored News* http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com TUCSON (Sat., Nov. 26, 2011) Tonight, at approximately 1 a.m., two more from Occupy Tucson were taken into custody, after seven Tucso...
This year Scandinavia is not its frozen self, with unusually warm weather delaying the onset of winter in northern areas normally decked in white. The lack of snow has been bad news for winter sports — Wo...
China's vast military machine grows by the day. America's sending troops to Australia in response. As tension between the two superpowers escalates, Max Hastings warns of a terrifying threat to world peace...
Britain was last night planning for the collapse of the eurozone as Spain weighed up a bailout that could cost UK taxpayers £5billion. The Government is preparing for the biggest mass default in history an...
A third baby at a hospital where two babies died in an E.coli outbreak is also suspected of having contracted the deadly infection. The maternity unit at Singleton Hospital, in Swansea, South Wales, cont...
Pakistan has blocked the vital supply route for Nato troops fighting in Afghanistan after Pakistani troops were killed in an attack allegedly by alliance aircraft. Up to 25 soldiers died and 14 others we...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Spain at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:11:56 UTC Saturday 26th November 2011. The epicenter was 5 km ( 3.1 miles) Northwest of Fornelos de Montes, ...
Couples with fertility problems are twice as likely to get pregnant using traditional Chinese medicine as western drugs, say researchers. They found a two-fold improvement in pregnancy rates over just fo...
Mary Poppins's handbag famously revealed some unlikely contents. But a survey of UK women has revealed that we carry around things at least as unlikely as the original super-nanny's hat stand and pot pla...
German police spray water at anti-nuclear protesters near a storage depot overnight where 150 tonnes of reprocessed nuclear waste is expected to arrive later this weekend.
NATO helicopters from Afghanistan intruded into northwest Pakistan and attacked a military check post near the border Saturday, killing up to 14 troops and wounding seven, Pakistani intelligence officials ...
[image: Benefit? Dutch researchers are not convinced that a daily aspirin is a good idea for healthy middle-aged women] Benefit? Dutch researchers are not convinced that a daily aspirin is a good idea f...
Couples with fertility problems are twice as likely to get pregnant using traditional Chinese medicine as western drugs, say researchers. They found a two-fold improvement in pregnancy rates over just fo...
Somehow I think we are headed foran occasional shot to lower bad cholesterol or at least beginning a cholesterollowering regimen with at least one such shot. Everything else we use is controversialto ...
This is an extraordinary piece ofgeological detective work that is important. It is noteworthy that this rift compares to the African rift. There are a number of extinct rift about butthis one appear...
Since we are coming up on 2012and the end of the Mayan long cycle, we are bound to be subjected to end of theworld profiteers, if not prophets and other story tellers. Of course, no such tradition act...
I have good reason to expectchunks of continental crust to be sitting in the Indian Oceanand fairly large ones at that. The regionwas a submergence zone on the rotational arc that I am most interested ...
A gene that controls how long we sleep has been discovered by scientists explaining why some people have their own internal alarm clock. Scientists identified a gene called ABCC9 that can reduce the len...
*Americans paraded on Egyptian TV after arrests** * Three American 'students' have been paraded on Egyptian TV. The trio studying Arabic at the American University in Cairo were accused of throwing firebom...
[image: Depressing: More than one in five still get spots after turning 25] Depressing: More than one in five still get spots after turning 25 (file picture) Teenagers plagued by acne are often consoled...
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CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours ago
Lakota activist Russell Means speaks with Al Jazeera on 'Thanks Taking' Day. Means, battling throat and tongue cancer, said he is winning the battle due to prayers from around the world. Read about the br...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Central Peru at a depth of 54.5 km (33.9 miles), the quake hit at 06:59:59 UTC Saturday 26th November 2011. The epicenter was 74 km ( 46 miles) ...
A three-year-old boy has drowned as rising floodwaters across northern NSW leave residents stranded and force others to prepare for evacuation. Tragedy struck shortly after midday (AEDT) on Saturday when t...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 30.6 km (19 miles), the quake hit at 06:16:06 UTC Saturday 26th November 2011. The epicenter was 155 km ( 96 miles) Southwest of Lautoka, ...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 56.7 km (35.2 miles), the quake hit at 01:43:22 UTC Saturday 26th November 2011. The epicenter was 118 km ( 73 miles...
"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice." - Cherokee Expression
“Hell, Madame, is to love no longer.” - Georges Bernanos, “The Diary of a Country Priest”
*Maybe a better opening would have been My Michelle**. * "Bachmann rips NBC over song" November 24, 2011 ST. PAUL - Michele Bachmann lashed out yesterday at NBC for not apologizing or taking disciplinary...
"Republican debate heats up on limits of US security; Gingrich takes immigration stance" by Matt Viser and Tracy Jan | Globe Staff, November 22, 2011 WASHINGTON - The Republican presidential candidates ...
"Republican debate heats up on limits of US security; Gingrich takes immigration stance" by Matt Viser and Tracy Jan | Globe Staff, November 22, 2011 WASHINGTON - The Republican presidential candidates ...
*Related: Obama Off to Asia* *To expand the empire*: "Obama links US recovery to Asia-Pacific trade; Calls new bloc key to boosting commerce ties" November 14, 2011|By Ben Feller, Associated Press KAPOLE...
Part I: 9 Ways The Hijacked Federal Government Is Waging War Against The American People. Part II: 9 More Ways The U.S. Government Is Waging War Against America. 1. Ideology. There is a dictatorship of t...
*You know how kids are.* "Young voters’ ardor for Obama has wilted; Economy has hit under-30s hard" November 14, 2011|By Alex Katz, Globe Correspondent WASHINGTON - President Obama, who hitched his ride t...
*Bryn Terfel sings Jago's "*Credo*" with Claudio Abbado conducting the Berlin Philharmonic, on "Italian Night" at Berlin's Waldbühne, 1996.* *JAGO* [*gazing after* CASSIO]: Go then; I see your end already...
------------------------------ * the**REALnews Permalink* November 24, 2011 *Global Recession Looms as Euro Crisis Deepens* C...
*Like some of the ideas, but.... * "Jill Stein launches bid for Green Party presidential nomination" by Michael Levenson, Globe Staff Lexington doctor Jill Stein launched a bid to become the Green Party’s...
*November 23, 2011 at 19:12:06* *Promoted to Headline (H3) on 11/23/11:* Permalink The Roads To War And Economic Collapse *By paul craig roberts (about the author)* opednews.com Comments on ...
Coco Robicheaux Passes ~Hoodoo bluesman Coco Robicheaux collapsed Friday evening at the Apple Barrel on Frenchmen Street and was taken away by ambulance. He was reportedly pronounced dead after arriving at...
The Doomsday Project and Deep Events: JFK, Watergate, Iran-Contra, and 9/11 By Prof. Peter Dale Scott GlobalResearch.ca Published: November 22, 2011 "I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total...
*"The casual gait, the easygoing manner, the down-home drawl set a tone for audiences, but masked a fiery temperament, a ferocious work ethic, a tigerish competitiveness and a stubborn idealism, qualities ...
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Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's downgraded Belgium Friday as the sovereign debt crisis continues to spread across the continent. The rating change put Belgium's rating down one notch to AA. That's t...
Documentary Whitewashes Wall Street's Global Blitzkrieg by Tony Cartalucci November 26, 2011 - Gene Sharp of the Albert Einstein Institution penned the book "From Dictatorship to Democracy," originally d...
"Cradled in cosmic dust and glowing hydrogen, stellar nurseries in Orion the Hunter lie at the edge of a giant molecular cloud some 1,500 light-years away. Spanning nearly 25 degrees, this breath-taking vi...
*"Awww…"* by Chet Raymo “In one of his always delightful essays, Stephen Jay Gould traced the "evolution" of Mickey Mouse from the time of his creation by Disney, in 1928, to the mouse we know today. The ...
*"How to Gain Control of Your Negative Emotions"* by Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D. “Whether it's sadness, fear, shame, guilt or anger, sometimes when these are here, all we want to do is be somewhere else and i...
*"We Should Really Be Focused on the 0.1%"* By David Atkins "Paul Krugman has a great op-ed today with a reminder that it's not just the 1% that is the problem, but the upper one tenth of one percent of ...
[Breaking News: Egypt's Military Won't Take "NO!" For Answer?] Remember how quickly they got rid of this guy? Sheesh! Mike Gravel was intelligent, well-educated (a dream candidate for the progressives), no...
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We cannot live without trade. A society can neither advance nor improve without excess of disposable income. This excess can only be amassed through the production of goods and services necessary or attr...
Major General Qasem Suleimani, who is compared to "Keyser Söze" from the 1995 film 'The Usual Suspects' by U.S. officials according to this Guardian article, said that the uprisings in Egypt and throughout...
*It's just like the rest of AmeriKa.* "Poverty’s grip tightens in Boston, study says; 42% of children poor in hardest-hit areas; economy, high costs widen the income gap" by Meghan E. Irons | Globe Staf...
*It's just like the rest of AmeriKa.* "Poverty’s grip tightens in Boston, study says; 42% of children poor in hardest-hit areas; economy, high costs widen the income gap" by Meghan E. Irons | Globe Staf...
"Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simplify many things which are involved in haunting and harassi...
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"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they are okay, then it's you." - Rita Mae Brown
*Thanks Peacemaker Alex for sending the video to Censored News!* Former City of Tucson Mayoral Candidate Mary DeCamp was arrested on Thanksgiving, Thursday night, while sleeping in her tent, signalling a...
*"In Positive Economic Sign, * *Walmart Customers Killing Each Other to Buy Crap"* Pepper Spraying, Homicide Bullish Indicators, Economists Say by Andy Borowitz MINNEAPOLIS (The Borowitz Report) – "In what...
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A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Tonga Region at a depth of 22.4 km (13.9 miles), the quake hit at 22:34:33 UTC Saturday 26th November 2011. The epicenter was 216 km ( 134 miles) South of Nuku'Alof...
Many caves and rock shelters, such as Jerimalai shelter where the oldest fish hooks were found, are located in the uplifted Pleistocene reef terraces at the east end of the island of Timor. Photo courtesy:...
- Youngest in academic year are less likely to get good GCSEs, study found Children born in August do significantly worse in exams than classmates born 11 months earlier at the beginning of ...
A cure for high blood pressure that could save millions of lives every yearappears to be just around the corner. Researchers believe they may be able to control production of an enzyme that can trigger t...
[image: Pro probiotics? Live bacteria in the yoghurts has been found to break down carbohydrates] Pro probiotics? Live bacteria in the yoghurts has been found to break down carbohydrates After wolfing...
- Dramatic results for women who have undergone lumpectomy - Ten-year study is one of most in-depth of its kind [image: According to researchers from Oxford University a course of radiation ...
Earlier today we ran a post about the Montana congressional race. Perhaps looking for an excuse to not spend her entire day doing call time, the progressive candidate in the race, Franke Wilmer, was moved...
*Jeez, you couldn't make this stuff up. Does it ever occur to the brain-obliteratin savages of Crap Christianity that God is keeping tabs on them? No, probably not -- if they were capable of processing th...
"It’s not a scientific report, it’s a political document," saidinvestigative journalist Seymour Hersh on Democracy Now on November 21, referring to the latest IAEA report about Iran's nuclear program. The...
*LITERATURE:* *SO THEY NEVER DID LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER:* I have recently finished 'The Collected Fairy Tales Of Hans Christian Anderson, and am about 80% through 'The Collected Fairy Tales Of The Br...
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