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Best Buy accidentally posted the Android-based receiver on their site last month; Sirius finally confirmed it this week.
The city of Denver is bringing in thousands of dollars in fines every year by ticketing people who stop at red lights. They are ticketed because their tire goes over the white line that marks where the v...
Edward Zivica, a 70-year-old who served in the Navy in the 1960s, faces a hard choice come
Veterans Day next week: He can obey the rules and remain in his apartment complex, or he can follow his tradition ...
It's only a test, but nerves are somewhat frayed over the first nationwide exercise of the system designed to alert Americans of national emergencies. The test occurs at 1900 GMT Wednesday, November 9, and...
People who catch the bus in Detroit may be waiting a while Friday morning. About 100
Detroit Department of Transportation bus drivers are at work, but are refusing to drive their buses.
WWJ’s Scott Ryan s...
As the sun dips below the rooftops each evening, parts of this Detroit enclave turn to pitch black, the only illumination coming from a few streetlights at the end of the block or from glowing yellow yard ...
Even Santa's gotten the pink slip. Officials on Long Island say there is no money in the budget to pay a man $660 for playing Santa at a general store run by
Suffolk County. David McKell, 83, has played S...
Too much time spent sitting increases the risk of developing cancer, even for those who exercise regularly. That’s according to research presented Thursday morning at the American Institute for Cancer Rese...
U.S. plans to station troops across the Mideast after withdrawing from Iraq amount to occupying other Islamic countries, Iraq's most outspoken anti-American cleric said in an interview broadcast Thursday. ...
United Steelworkers international president Leo Gerard has a message to the flea party whiny-whiners still camping out instead of sleeping in their parents' basements -- playtime is over. Just in case the...
A Russian man who speaks 13 languages and lectured at museums haad the corpses of 26 women in his small apartment. Anatoly Moskvina, 45, had dug up many of the mummified bodies from graves and some were d...
reece's 340 billion euro debt has led to huge austerity cuts which have dramatically impacted the standard of living in the country. Ilia Iatrou, a housewife and mother-of-two in Athens, said she could not...
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Biased BBC - 26 minutes ago
The BBC's US President editor ("North America editor" is not an appropriate title, as he reports exclusively on the President and the US politics surrounding Him) has noticed that the President's populari...
Kenya's military spokesman has said large groups of donkeys in Somalia will be considered "al-Shabab activity" following reports the militants are using the animals to transport weapons. Maj Emmanuel Chir...
A suicide bomber has attacked the main military base in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, military sources have told the BBC. The attacker died and one soldier was injured in the explosion at the h...
he annual pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, is the world's largest gathering of Muslims - the biggest annual gathering of humanity, period. So it's no surprise that Middle East experts expect this year's ...
Generations of Britons have grown up pledging to "Remember remember the fifth of November: Gunpowder, treason and plot" -- the figure of Guy Fawkes linked forever with fireworks, bonfires and childhood fun...
The Greek government is facing enormous pressure to resolve the country's debt crisis. On Wednesday the finance minister of Greece came out against Prime Minister George Papandreou's plan for a referendum ...
Israeli sailors boarded two aid ships headed to the Palestinian territory of Gaza, the military said Friday, and no resistance was reported. The Israel Defense Forces earlier said that the activists on boa...
These satellite photos taken before and after recent floods in Thailand show how the landscape has been transformed. The first slide contrasts two identical areas of Southeast Asia taken on November 12 20...
The 340-year-old coin may have ended up in Canada through a flurry of trading.
Food Finish coloring spray lets you coat your meal in a varnish of vibrant color. What's it made of anyway?
This shopping aide uses augmented reality to recognize shelf products in real-time and give you info from Amazon.
An intriguing new twist is found in the relationship between weather and climate.
Small, hovering robots equipped with cameras could help farmers get the job done.
*Boats to Gaza Stopped by Israeli Warships* URGENT: ACTION NEEDED NOW! Censored News The Israeli navy boarded two boats on Friday, traveling to Gaza in solidarity with medicine and supplies. The military s...
Action, not words. That might be the long overdue message our leaders need to hear on climate change. The US Energy Department reports that recent greenhouse gas emissions have increased by a record amo...
*Grrrr*! Greenman posted a link to the Duke tree study I wrote about yesterday, reporting that trees are not migrating north and up elevations according to climate model predictions. Of course they aren'...
Magnify a variety of household specimens and view them on your television set with this easy-to-use handheld device.
Testing whiskey used to require a good nose, palate and eye. Now all you need is a laser.
Roku's latest web-media receivers make it cheap to bring Internet video to your TV, as long as you don't want YouTube.
Image from humanbannersf.com.CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE.Occupy demands:Let’s radicalize our analysis ofempire, economics, ecologyRallying around a common concern about economic injustice is a beginning; under...
[image: Oil refinery pump, 16 April 2010. Kurt Ernst / ridelust.com] November 3 (MENAFN / Khaleej Times) – There could be a severe global oil crunch by 2015 due to drastic changes in the oil market funda...
I cry for my country:The state of health care in America"Laissez-faire, supply-and-demand, -- one begins to be weary of all of that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applau...
Heads-up! The second part of the Bob Marley: A Soul lost for the cause of freedom, is ready to read Hope you enjoy it? [image: Link]Find it here
[image: The smoke stacks of a coal power plant in New Haven, West Virginia, on 30 October 2009. Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Images] By Seth Borenstein 5 November 2011 WASHINGTON (AP) – The global output of ...
Eurekalert discusses three essays written by Kevin Trenberth, Judith Curry, and Myles Allen. Trenberth says that the null hypothesis should be reversed: "the man-made climate apocalypse is coming" hypo...
The Israeli military says it advised two aid ships headed to the Palestinian territory of Gaza to turn back, but asserted that the activists on board the "Freedom Waves" mini-flotilla were refusing to coop...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 22 km ( 11.6 miles), the quake hit at 12:56:29 UTC Friday 4th November 2011. The epicenter was 31 km ( 19.2 miles) North of Van, turkey No ...
OUR OPINION: Corps of Engineers should read writing on flood wall ~The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers knows better than to mess with Mother Nature. But the Corps is inviting thunderbolts of a different sort b...
Greg Palast has been in Central Africa this week working on a film for the BBC about "vulture" capitalists, but he still found time to appear on Russia Today's The Big Picture presented by left-wing talk s...
In this great big middle class country of ours-- where even someone like Mitt Romney, who inherited tens of millions and managed to turn that into many more at his vulture capital firm, laying off workers...
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Buckdog - 3 hours ago
*"The provinces are right: It is unfair for the federal government to follow its own unsupported whims on crime and then make the provincial governments pay the bill" Generally speaking, the level of gove...
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wmtc - 3 hours ago
I was very happy to spend time at Occupy Wall Street this week. A while back I reported on a comrade's observations; here are mine to add to the picture. I purposely didn't bring a camera, so as not to be ...
When we discuss things such as the content of the Universe and the different "substances" it is composed of (e.g. in this question at a forum), an important concept needed to quantify these issues is the s...
2004: Aransas County Court-At-Law Judge William Adams took a belt to his own teenage daughter as punishment for using the internet to acquiremusic and games that were unavailable for legal purchase at th...
Boating, canoeing and kayaking on polluted waters can raise your risk of getting sick.
posted by laura k at
wmtc - 4 hours ago
We had a terrific little trip to New York. It was a real treat for us to be there together without the crush of holiday crowds, to see family without the big Thanksgiving gatherings, and just enjoy the Cit...
An Antarctic glacier is calving a giant iceberg. More importantly, it is thinning.
The first direct evidence is in: human-made nitrogen pollution is accumulating in tropical forests just as it does in ecosystems at higher latitudes.
The weekend beckons and time for a new one of these to see us off ...the floor is yours! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
The BBC has *a curious relationship* with advertising. A B-BBC reader shares this with us (names redacted as requested). Comments? "Hi XXX Good to speak to you earlier, To summarise 4Media own a news bod...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy at a depth of 322 km ( 199.6 miles), the quake hit at 11:22:06 UTC Friday 4th November 2011. The epicenter was 52 km ( 32.2 miles) South of A...
The floods this year in Thailand have been unprecedented. Floods have now entered parts of Bangkok, the country’s capital city, and the fate of the rest of the city hangs in the balance. An extraordinary...
A freight train carrying hazardous industrial chemical derailed in a fiery wreck knocking out the commuter service near Chicago. 22 cars derailed near the Chicago suburb of Elgin early on Thursday. Crews ...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 11 km ( 6.5 miles), the quake hit at 10:55:37 UTC Friday 4th November 2011. The epicenter was 26 km ( 16.1 miles) South of Ercis, turkey No...
An asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier is set to pass closer to Earth than the moon - the nearest anything this big has come to our planet in 35 years. The space rock has been classed as a 'potential...
A U.S. Army sergeant who allegedly murdered three unarmed Afghan civilians casually shot one victim ‘with a smile on his face’, a court heard. Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs then pulled a tooth from the dead ...
The death toll from the listeria outbreak that's been traced back to Colorado cantaloupes has now climbed to 29, making it the deadliest food-bourne illness outbreak ever recorded in the United States. Th...
A teenager could be jailed after he posted a photo on his Facebook profile page showing 64 ducks that had been shot. Brandon Lowry, 19, of Norco, Louisiana, has been cited by the state's Department of Wil...
I know this has been posted elsewhere on an Open Thread but thought it is worthy of a prime spot. James Delingpole speaks for many of us when he ask; "Why does the BBC hate Britain?" "It's long since time...
posted by noreply@blogger.com (BenefitScroungingScum) at
Broken of Britain - 5 hours ago
An Occupy Wall Street protester who served food at the New York camp has been arrested on charges of sexually abusing a woman and is a suspect in a rape at Zuccotti Park. Tonye Iketubosin, 26, was charge...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Hokkaido, Japan Region at a depth of 190.1 km ( 118 miles), the quake hit at 10:29:27 UTC Friday 4th November 2011. The epicenter was 78 km ( 48 miles) WNW of Hakodate...
Two months after a government ban on beef was lifted, cattle farmers here are growing increasingly desperate as nearby vegetable farmers have halted production due to the ongoing nuclear disaster, leaving ...
A Russian grave-robber lived with 26 female bodies that he dressed up as dolls and teddy bears, police have discovered. Anatoly Moskvina dug up the corpses from hundreds of cemeteries and took them to his...
It should not be assumed that Government e-petitions will prompt a debate in Parliament even if they attract 100,000 signatures, MPs were told yesterday. Commons debates on the 1989 Hillsborough stadium di...
Reader Contribution; A hospital in south China has suspended four medical workers for mistakenly diagnosing a stillbirth and disposing of a baby that was alive, state press said Friday. Health authoritie...
An Algerian granted refugee status in the UK has reportedly been banned from flying back into the country amid fears he could be planning a terrorist attack. Security officials have apparently ordered ai...
A B-BBC reader notes.. "BBC News of the firebombing of the French satirical magazine ommited photographs of the offending article even though Le Monde covered them on its front page. BBC's HYS moderated o...
On 3 November 2011, Saman Mohammadi, at The Excavator, points out that: *The British and U.S. governments put Khomeini into power in Iran in 1979** *From this we learn: *1.* The CIA and its friends toppl...
Three interviews on Today this morning to contrast. First, EC President Barroso is allowed to waffle by John Humphyrs here with little interruption and a clear element of sympathy. The UK Chancellor Osborn...
Reader Contribution; The court case of a 14-year-old Australian accused of buying marijuana in Indonesia has been adjourned until next Friday when a verdict is expected. The boy's lawyer, Mohammed Rifan, ...
A Buddhist nun in southwest China has died after setting herself on fire, the 11th Tibetan -- and second nun -- to self-immolate since March. The death of the nun, identified as Qiu Xiang, was reported by...
Border officials have lost track of 124,000 asylum seekers and migrants - a population the size of Cambridge, according to report by MPs. *UK Border Agency** *figures show* *the number of cases "lost" has...
While looking for a safe place to weather the cold Martian winter, the rover Opportunity spied something protruding from the Mars regolith -- something it's never seen before.
[image: Scientists say nuts can keep hunger at bay and beat belly fat] Scientists say nuts can keep hunger at bay and beat belly fat A handful of nuts a day can keep hunger at bay and beat belly fat, ac...
Children who are low in zinc may be at higher risk of autism. A study found that large numbers of children with autism and related conditions such as Asperger’s syndrome were deficient in the mineral, wh...
If you sometimes wonder whether you’ll ever feel rich, don’t worry – you may just not have hit your financial peak yet. We are worth the most when we reach 48, a study has found. At that age, the averag...
posted by noreply@blogger.com (BenefitScroungingScum) at
Broken of Britain - 8 hours ago
- Ear 'amplifies' sound at that frequency - Sound still disgusts people even when they think it's 'experimental music' - Sound ranked above squeaking polystyrene and scraping a plate with a...
“Be there. Go there now and never leave. Imagine that your dreams have already come true. Live your life from that mindset. Predicate your behavior on that reality, not the illusions that now surround you...
[image: G20 leaders seek solution to eurozone debt crisis] *The G20 leaders are set to prolong their talks on Friday as they seek to find a sustainable solution to the euro zone debt crisis.* They are exp...
"We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand... and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late." - Marie Beyon Ray
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- 9 hours ago
If you like nature, adventure, warmth, kind people, good food: go see the Canary Island of El Hierro. Url movie: http://youtu.be/wtpRpyrxiHQ
This is all about pure researchbut one can admire the ingenuity applied in order to provide an extremely heatedlayer of metal to study. It also showsus how we inch along in research to keep pushing obv...
* * * * This part speaks to the creation of humanity. It is represented that we were step by step accelerated into the present form over several hundred thousands of years. Again there are unanswered qu...
There is an article in the August– September issue of Nexus Magazine that is important and I cannot provide acopy here for you to read. The title isMike Marcum’s Time Machine Experiments. Mark was a y...
What is missing in this report isany mention of the possible transfer of Iraqi assets to Syria just before Iraq came under attack when it wasno longer avoidable. We also forget thatthe Iraqi air force...
[image: MARS SIMULATION PROJECT] Six men locked away in steel tubes for a year-and-a-half to imitate a mission to Mars are set to end the research. *The Mars500 project, undertaken at a Moscow institute, ...
The Kazakhstani Ministry for Emergency Situations warned that cyanide levels in the Sekisovka River exceed acceptable levels by 516-fold after an industrial accident, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/R...
A chemical leak at a plant in Tuscarawas County sent at least three people to the hospital Thursday night. The leak happened at about 6:38 p.m. at Dover Chemical on Davis Road NW in Dover. According to ...
A rare strain of a disease never seen in the southern hemisphere before has been discovered in Tasmania. Two women contracted tularaemia earlier this year after being bitten and scratched by sick possums ...
This is the shocking moment a trio are caught on camera viciously attacking a restaurant customer, while one of them swings wildly at the man with a machete. The group brutally attacked the lone victim in...
Minimal input: Four major industries paid less than 10 per cent tax in 2010 Thirty large and profitable U.S. corporations paid no income taxes from 2008 through to 2010, despite making combined pre-tax pro...
"Sharp telescopic views of magnificent edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 3628 show a puffy galactic disk divided by dark dust lanes. The tantalizing scene puts many astronomers in mind of its popular moniker, The ...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 2 km ( 1.2 miles), the quake hit at 05:04:48 UTC Friday 4th November 2011. The epicenter was 37 km ( 22.9 miles) Northeast of Van, turkey N...
This amazing picture of a heavenly spiral may look like our own Milky Way, with its distinctive swirl. But in fact it's not a galaxy, but a single star - 400 light years away from Earth, in the constellat...
Greece was threatened with expulsion from the European Union for at least a decade if it dared to press ahead with a referendum on the single currency rescue deal, it emerged last night. On a day of drama...
Syrian troops killed at least 20 civilians and rounded up more suspected anti-government protesters Thursday, a day after the government pledged to end the months-long clampdown, opposition groups said. ...
Some 2,000 protesters have clashed with police outside Ukraine's parliament, amid widespread discontent against planned cuts in state social benefits. The protest was the second in as many days. The pro...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 35 km ( 21.7 miles), the quake hit at 02:59:18 UTC Friday 4th November 2011. The epicenter was 70 km ( 43 miles) ESE...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck the Revilla Gigedo Islands Region, Mexico at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:39:41 UTC Friday 4th November 2011. The epicenter was 188 km ( 116 mile...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 26 km ( 16.2 miles), the quake hit at 20:23:51 UTC Thursday 3rd November 2011. The epicenter was 99 km ( 62 m...
Rescuers were working Friday to try to save 57 miners who were trapped in a coal mine in central China after a rock explosion that followed a small earthquake, state media reported. Four miners were killed...
posted by David Preiser (USA) at
Biased BBC - 12 hours ago
On David Vance's "That General Assembly" post from yesterday, DB posted a comment (his reply to mine at the top of the thread) about how a well-known clothing company, Men's Wearhouse (an off-the-rack suit...
posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at
CENSORED NEWS - 12 hours ago
*Naomi Whitecrow, 2, was murdered by her foster mother, who received only a fine* By Razn Cain Censored News OKLAHOMA CITY -- About 100 people gathered at the Oklahoma state capitol to pay tribute to an...
Huge, enthusiastic, crowds swarmed through downtown Oakland with half a dozen major marches on banks and corporations that shut down Wells Fargo, Chase, Citibank, Bank of America and many others. Police s...
My hill isn't zoned for stores but I can hike down to Hillhurst in Los Feliz Village to do some shopping at the local healthfood store if I want to. I've been shopping at Nature Mart since I moved to L.A....
posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at
CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours ago
*Charges dropped against traditional Paiute gatherer Wesley Dick (Kwassuh)* Censored News RENO, Nevada -- On Wednesday, November 2, 2011, the trespassing charges against Wesley Dick (Kwassuh) were dropped...
Los Angeles, CA playingforchange.com Playing For Change is a movement to connect the world through music. Occupy protests around the world: full list visualised the guardian "951 cities in 82 countrie...
"They said that he was sick ’cause he didn’t play by the rules He just showed the wise men of his day to be nothing more than fools They stamped him and they labeled him like they do with pants and shirts"...
"There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true." Winston Churchill: *Monday – UPI.com* WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- Republican U.S. president...
[image: Model of the debris from the Japanese tsunami reaching the Northwest U.S. coastline. University of Hawaii] By Jake Ellison 3 November 2011 Calling it an “emerging threat,” Sen. Maria Cantwell t...
*"I will always carry with me the memory of your dreams, for it was what I also loved in the U.S. military -- Americans striving for their own achievement, but always with a sense of being part of a great...
Judy Gumbo Albert: Past seeds the present.General Strike in Oakland:The past seeds the presentBy Judy Gumbo Albert / The Rag Blog / November 3, 2011OAKLAND, California -- I felt very much at home at Occupy O...
Rick Perry's crazy, wacky and absurd speech at an event in New Hampshire is revealing on so many levels. People are saying he was drunk or on drugs. But I think it's deeper than that. Perry is obviously...
The mighty berry might be all you need to avoid the damage alcohol can cause.
*"Earth Prayer"* by Black Elk “Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice. You lived first, and you are older than all need, older than all prayer. All thing...
“While you might, from time to time, envy others, it's precisely during those moments when you might ask yourself whether or not you'd actually like to be them. Personally, I think you and I have it made....
------------------------------ Washington Post Discards All Journalistic Standards In Attack on Social Security News outlets generally like to claim a separation between their editorial pages and th...
Benicia, California, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
*"The Time of Your Life: Learning to Slow Down"* by The DailyOm "Throughout our lives, we are taught to value speed and getting things done quickly. We learn that doing is more valuable than merely being...
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege...
*"Take Time To Know Your Enemy" * A Reminder From the VietNam War From General Giap “We no longer take the time to know our enemy; however, for a long time our enemies have taken the time to know us! This...
Bones, eggs and eggshells are all that's left of a Transylvania Dinosaur-Era bird colony.
Until 2009, Adam and his wife Karen slept through the night like any other couple, but then his wife started to hear a voice, and it was hilarious.
posted by PC at
Not PC - 18 hours ago
The chaos in Europe over Greece is the chaos of Keynesian economics in microcosm: the complete and utter explosion of the notion that over-spending and borrowing is the key to growth, progress, recovery ...
Hello everyone -- we've added a "chat page" that functions just like a regular post page with comments, only now it's a centralized place that we can all discuss various issues together. We thought that it...
It hasn't gone far enough, has it? Hang on, kiddos. It's picking up speed. Occupy the European Central Bank!Occupy the Koch Brothers!Bill Black, Dylan Ratigan & David DeGraw: Prosecute the Banksters, Get M...
Dentist in a Box is first aid for your teeth! Research shows that taking initial steps can increase the likelihood of saving an injured tooth.
A group of philanthropic and animal welfare organizations have partnered to eventually set up a string of high-definition webcams to capture the migration of more than 1,000 polar bears.
*Boehner, who signed his pledge, referred to him as a "random person" today* This week, Beltway scold-- and former Wyoming senator-- Alan Simpson (R) was scolding the Republicans on the SuperCommittee. “J...
Oakland is taking the lead. This is a sign of hope. The hijacked U.S. government can't justify an attack on Iran when there are massive protests going on across the country. Public opinion is not on the...
Maybe I should call this a prelude, instead! The number of trees and branches falling *continues* to grow, incredibly, six days after the storm hit and almost as many since the snow melted. This afterno...
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Biased BBC - 20 hours ago
Question Time tonight comes from Westminster Hall. On the panel tonight we have Home Secretary Theresa May, Ed "Blinky" Balls, sanctimonious old bat Shirley Williams, Peter Hitchens and vegan, 'poet', G...
*"A Letter from Bank of America: An Apology to Our Customers"* by Andy Borowitz NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) – "The following letter was sent today by Bank of America to all of its debit card customers:...
The Mars Science Laboratory "Curiosity" was moved to its Cape Canaveral launch pad on Thursday and hoisted atop an Atlas 5 rocket in preparation for liftoff Thanksgiving weekend.
Occupy Oakland protesters claimed victory after they shut down one of the nation's busiest shipping ports - escalating a movement whose tactics had largely been limited to marches, rallies and camps. In a...
'Hacktivist' group Anonymous has outed 190 alleged paedophiles by revealing their IP addresses - a unique internet address which can be used to trace their physical address. The information was supposedly...
It is the last word on climate change and global warming. The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change Report sets the world's agenda and guides trillions of dollars of government funding. But a ne...
A woman who killed her co-worker in a Lululemon yoga clothing shop has been convicted of first-degree murder and now faces the prospect of spending the rest of her life behind bars. Brittany Norwood, 29, ...
Human rights groups say the number of revenge killings by revolutionary forces in Libya is escalating sharply. HRW suggests NTC fighters are terrorizing displaced residents of the coastal town of Tawergh...
A nine-year-old Florida girl was facing multiple felony charges Tuesday after allegedly spitting on a school bus driver and threatening to kill a police officer. According to a Lee County Sheriff's Office...
Austin singer/songwriter Charlie Faye with Rag Radio host Thorne Dreyer at the KOOP studios in Austin, Texas, Friday, Oct. 28, 2011. Photo by Tracey Schulz / Rag Radio.Singer/songwriter and community activis...
Could the quantum vacuum of space act a bit like a metamaterial, creating a cosmic "superlens"? One physicist thinks so.
An illegal immigrant who killed his ex-girlfriend when he shoved her off a footbridge into a busy road 30ft below had been deported from the UK three times, a court heard. Yonas Beraki, 33, had been sent ...
posted by PC at
Not PC - 21 hours ago
Here's your question to consider this morning: If Labour were to take office, they plan to spend $15.6 billion more than they take in; meanwhile National plan to continue spending more than $13 billion mo...
*"Revisionist History and the Great Depression" * by Andy Sutton "Over the past several years, the term ‘Great Depression’ has made a grand re-entry into the American mainstream and has as a consequence ...
Watch the 27 hour money bomb broadcast here.
posted by Robin Horbury at
Biased BBC - 21 hours ago
The UK economy continues to teeter on the edge of recession, with all the misery that this entails. But Richard Black and his assorted greenie fascist chums want to push us even further down into the mire....
Pulsars are bizarre and unintuitive, and only seem to get weirder every time we look at them.
Earthquakes from a natural gas extraction in England have protesters wanting to put a stop to fracking.
posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at
CENSORED NEWS - 22 hours ago
*School of Americas Watch: Occupy Fort Benning, Georgia* *Nov. 18 -- 20, 2011* *'NO' to US torture and militarization* Join thousands of solidarity activists, torture survivors, union workers, people of f...
*"America's 'Oh Sh*t!' Moment"* by Niall Ferguson "Don’t call me a “declinist.” I really don’t believe the United States—or Western civilization, more generally—is in some kind of gradual, inexorable dec...
This painting by Ivan Kliun, "Ozone Fan", dates from 1914. Ozone, an invisible, unstable gas, was once considered a cleanser and purifier. At current (and rising) ambient levels in the tropospheric atmo...
A TOP secret new SAS base is under construction — at the Olympics. It means the elite troops can combat any terrorists at next year's London Games in an instant, The Sun can reveal. A source said last nig...
A Tibetan nun died after setting herself on fire in southwest China on Thursday, the official Xinhua news agency said, in the 11th such incident involving Buddhist monks and nuns in the restive region. Th...
*UAH October data, Mann as Galileo, Richard Muller said he was never a skeptic* *Roy Spencer's new data* The October temperatures as measured by UAH AMSU are out. The global anomaly dropped from 0.289 °C...
*“Zombie Wars”* by Bill Bonner “Man may fight for his country or his family or his religion, but for the cause of honest capitalism he will take a dive every time. That is as true of the fighters as it i...
According to a lawsuit filed in Palm Beach County court, kitchen workers at the Morton's of Chicago steakhouse in Boca Raton stuck raw vegetables in their underwear before serving them to unsuspecting dine...
More people woke up on Thursday morning with lights and heat for the first time in five days, but almost 431,000 still remained in the dark. Crews restored power to about 124,000 Connecticut Light & Power ...
The Department of Homeland Security is recruiting hotel guests to join the fight against terrorism. Starting today, the welcome screens on 1.2 million hotel television sets in Marriott, Hilton, Sheraton...
The federal government’s debt increased by $203,368,715,583.63 in the month of October, according to the U.S. Treasury. That equals about $650 per person for each of the 312,542,760 people the Census Bure...
Nearly 15% of the U.S. population relied on food stamps in August, as the number of recipients hit 45.8 million. Food stamp rolls have risen 8.1% in the past year, the Department of Agriculture reported, ...
Iran today warned the West that it was ready for war after claims emerged that the UK and U.S. were planning an attack. The country’s foreign minister Ali Akbar Salehi said that Tehran was prepared to pun...
China is continuing to provide advanced missiles and other conventional arms to Iran and may be doing so in violation of U.N. sanctions against the Tehran regime, according to a draft report by the congres...
High tides and heavy monsoon rains have left several districts in Bangkok swamped by water for more than a week. But postman Somyod Somsamai is braving waist-deep, leech-infested water to continue mail de...
Syrian tanks mounted with machine-guns fired Thursday on a city at the heart of the country's uprising, killing at least four people one day after Damascus agreed to an Arab League plan calling on the gove...
Police clashed with protesters in Oakland, Cali., after thousands of demonstrators shut down one of the nation's busiest shipping ports, escalating a movement whose tactics had largely been limited to marc...
A Dartmouth, N.S., foster mother pleaded guilty Thursday to aggravated assault and failing to provide the necessities of life by denying food to her two-year-old foster daughter. Susan Elizabeth MacDonnel...
Given the scale and complexity of the Greek crisis, it might reasonably have been expected that the euro would have plunged in value against the US dollar, the traditional safe-haven currency in times of u...
Simone de Beauvoir. Image from Cultural and Critical Theory Library.Simone de Beauvoir:A philosophy of liberationExercising our own freedom requires that others be free.By Bill Meacham / The Rag Blog / Novem...
At first sight, Longquan Temple, which sits at the foot of a mountain just outside Beijing, seems like an odd place to look for the modern world. Buddhist monks have been performing complicated rituals in ...
Tanks mounted with machine-guns have opened fire in the Syrian city of Homs, activists have reported. It comes a day after authorities in Damascus agreed to an Arab League plan calling on the government t...
Militants have carried out a suicide gun and bomb attack on a private construction company in the western Afghan city of Herat, officials say. Two guards were killed and four other people wounded, the offi...
A country is suffering from a deep recession, unemployment is increasing, and the government deficit looms larger by the day. Part of the problem comes from an overvalued, fixed exchange rate. Anti-governm...
Grotesque Hobbesian characters Sean Duffy (R-WI) and John Fleming (R-LA) have whined publicly about not being able to get by, respectively, on a paltry $174,000 salary and a mere $400,000 annual income. ...
Iran issued a warning to Israel on Wednesday, with a top military figure saying Iran will "punish" any threat. "The United States is fully aware that a military attack by the Zionist regime on Iran will n...
A woman who launched a firestorm by posting a 2004 video of her father, a Texas judge, beating her on the Internet said Thursday that violence was a regular occurrence in her family home. "It did happen...
Authorities used tear gas early Thursday on anti-Wall Street protesters who defied orders to disperse after earlier shutting down the Port of Oakland, California, police said. A crowd of several hundred...
Yes, you heard right: Britain is preparing to bomb Iran. Well, that's if the latest reported leaks from the British government are to be believed. The Guardian -- not known, like some of its British rivals...
Throwing normal life out of gear, heavy rain lashed several parts of the Sultanate, claiming three lives, even as international cyclone study centres and local weatherman yesterday predicted the possibilit...
(By *American Zen*'s Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari Goldstein) I have never before pretended to speak for all liberals, but living the life of a liberal for more than a half century, I believe, empowers...
Does this remind you of 'Ice Age's' "Scrat?" Sometimes real life is stranger than fiction.
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Komadorskiye Ostrova, Russia Region at a depth of 1.1 km ( 0 miles poorly constrained), the quake hit at 15:47:31 UTC Thursday 3rd November 2011. The epicenter was 133...
Want to win a darling mini book bracelet from Sophie's Beads? Go here to enter! I have loved mozzarella sticks for as long as I can remember. My dad loves them too and it use to be our special treat to...
Elegant, thoughtful simplicity meld with bespoke handmade luxury in this mobile phone.
In 2010, Verizon reported an annual profit of nearly $12 billion. The statutory federal corporate income tax rate is 35 percent, so theoretically, Verizon should have owed the IRS around $4.2 billlion. In...
Greece's Prime Minister has told Sky News the referendum on the the eurozone bailout plan will no longer go ahead - and it was never his intention for it to happen. The announcement came after an emergen...
The answer lies in the mass of a single electron. Watch and be marveled. Credit: Still Images/Getty Images
This is what trash day looks like from the International Space Station.
The commission that manages fishing policies in Atlantic coastal waters will meet in Boston beginning Nov. 7 and will vote on Nov. 9, based on public feedback, on what to do about the threat to menhaden.
Steven Hughes designs another luxury device encrusted with T-Rex bone and Ammolite.
A solar-powered e-reader that's flexible as paper makes its debut in Japan.
In Microsoft's vision of the future, you'll never have to recharge your devices again.
* * *Follow Occupy movement on Al Jazeera Live Blog* *Roundup from around the country:* *http://blogs.aljazeera.net/liveblog/Occupy-Protests* *Oakland police fired tear gas and concussion grenades at Occup...
The NDP leadership race appears to have solidified, with nine candidates vying for the keys to Stornoway. While I doubt any of the contenders are causing Stephen Harper sleepless nights, it's a diverse fi...
The given-up-for-dead Uturuncu volcano in Bolivia is slurping magma like a kid that just discovered milkshakes. What's next? Brain freeze or eruption?
If people chose to take half of their trips on two wheels instead of four, health care costs could drop by billions.
And all that you love will be carried away… ~moosedenied Unregulated NOPD details feed corruption: A letter to the editor by I.G. Ed Quatrevaux Be back Monday…the trouble with the (personal) economy~Disen...
[image: Danger: Five to 9.9 grams of alcohol a day is associated with a 15 per cent increase in risk of getting breast cancer, say scientists] Danger: Five to 9.9 grams of alcohol a day is associated wit...
I'm savoring every paragraph of Corey Robin's new book, The Reactionary Mindso I limit myself to no more than 5 pages a day. (Yesterday I had no electric power from noon 'til 9pm, so I cheated and read 2 w...
It's curious how the BBC treats some stories. Take the one which suggests that lives in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland could be saved IF people adopted a more "English diet". Cue disgruntled Scottis...
Forgotten to return a phone call or send a birthday card? Don’t bother dwelling on it – because you’ll probably forget three more things before the day is out. Our busy lifestyles mean five important t...
Wondering about a fish pedicure? Or a quick bikini wax? You'd better read this first...HEPATITIS C FROM FISH TANK TREATMENTS Last month the government’s Health Protection Agency warned that fashionable fi...
- 'Intellectual disability is not intrinsic to autism,' say researchers Autistic people should not be stigmatised for their condition but have their abilities recognised, scientists have said Auti...
Did you listen to this FAWNING interview with one of the Swampy's gathered outside St.Paul's this morning? Ms Colvin could not have been treated with softer kid gloves by Evan Davies and I noted that he w...
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck Antofagasta, Chile at a depth of 84 km ( 52 miles), the quake hit at 11:40:07 UTC Thursday 3rd November 2011. The epicenter was 144 km ( 89.2 miles) East of Antofagasta...
Another day and another concerted attack on Greek PM Papandreou by "the international community" and its mouthpieces such as the BBC. Did you catch this? David Buik was incredibly angry and outraged about ...
Tweak a story to suit the presumed intelligence level of your audience, and you risk exposing the agenda. Omit a detail here, embellish another there, ignore chronology, obfuscate and gloss over, simplify ...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 80 km ( 49.6 miles), the quake hit at 11:34:20 UTC Thursday 3rd November 2011. The epicenter was 19 km ( 12.1 miles) S...
Radioactive cesium far in excess of a provisional legal limit was found in drainage water that a cement company discharged into Tokyo Bay, the Chiba Prefectural Government has announced. According to the...
The mystery of where the radioactive material discovered by a supermarket in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward came from may have been cracked with the Nov. 2 discovery of a buried chemical reagent bottle. Abnormall...
Residents wary about radiation in the wake of the ongoing the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant have been uncovering abandoned radioactive substances, with repeated discoveries of radium-26...
*The sovereign debt crisis continues to disclose in Europe, with every country appearing to get sucked in.* In October European leaders has arrive at another deal to try to stop the contagion. But which ...
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Thursday the detection of radioactive xenon at its stricken Fukushima Daiichi power plant, indicating recent nuclear fission, was not the result of a sustained nuclear chain r...
A dog's age, sex and size, as well as the owner's sex and use or not of a leash all affect canine behavior.
*Hundreds of passengers have been evacuated from a ferry that caught fire in between Jordan and Egypt.* They said the fire had been mostly brought under control. *The ferry, carrying at least 1,200 peop...
Thousands of protesters campaigning against corporate greed have closed one of the busiest ports in the US. Officials at the Oakland port in California said operations had been "effectively shut down" be...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Tokyo, Japan at a depth of 70.4 km ( 43.7 miles), the quake hit at 10:34:29 UTC Thursday 3rd November 2011. The epicenter was 25 km ( 15 miles) ENE from Tokyo, Japan No...
Anti-Wall Street protesters in two West Coast cities were subdued with tear gas and pepper spray after they shut down a California port and disrupted rush-hour traffic in Seattle, authorities said. Oak...
Iran issued a warning to Israel on Wednesday, with a top military figure saying Iran will "punish" any threat. "The United States is fully aware that a military attack by the Zionist regime on Iran will ...
After a deal was hammered out by European Union leaders last week on a joint plan to help bailout Greece and bolster European banks, the world looked to China to help pick up the check. In a historical...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Offshore Coquimbo, Chile at a depth of 21.6 km ( 13.4 miles), the quake hit at 09:57:24 UTC Thursday 3rd November 2011. The epicenter was 170 km ( 106 miles) SSW from ...
Reader Contribution; A huge, emerging crack has been discovered in one of Antarctica's glaciers, with a NASA plane mission providing the first-ever detailed airborne measurements of a major iceberg breaku...
Local officials said hundreds of people had to be evacuated from their homes in Nashua because of a gas leak at a construction site Wednesday night.Fire crews said they were called to Harbor Avenue because...
Occupy Wall Street protesters declared victory after thousands of demonstrators shut down evening operations at one of the nation's busiest shipping ports late Wednesday, escalating a movement whose tacti...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck offshore Libertador O'Higgins, Chile at a depth of 13 km ( 8.1 miles), the quake hit at 07:55:00 UTC Thursday 3rd November 2011. The epicenter was 97 km ( 60 miles) So...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands at a depth of 46.2 km ( 28.7 miles), the quake hit at 06:37:49 UTC Thursday 3rd November 2011. The epicenter was 141 km ( 87 miles) NNW of V...
*Norway's king and the Nazis* There is a new book about Norway's monarchy by Tor Bormann-Larsen. It reveals that, in the 1930s, Norway's Crown Prince, Olav, wanted Britain and Norway to cooperate with Hi...
"It is easier to mislead many men than one." - Herodotus. (As quoted in F.E. Adcock's 1963 book, 'Thucydides And His History,' on pg. 51. Cambridge University Press: London). "Reality is created by lang...
In October, 2011, NASA's Operation IceBridge discovered a major rift in the Pine Island Glacier in western Antarctica. Credit: NASA A huge, emerging crack has been discovered in one of Antarctica's glacier...
Occupy Oakland protesters vandalised businesses and smashed bank windows, as they tried to shut down the city with a series of marches today. Demonstrators blocked operations at the city's port and blocked...
Doctors at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont., have spotted what looks like the face of a screaming man in an ultrasound of a testicular tumour. The picture went viral after it was published in the journ...
I do not think we can do it yet,but a true tractor beam certainly needs to first neutralize the fieldssurrounding the object and then to somehow induce a directional field thatmoves it. Our present the...
I have broken up this report intofour sections. There is no accreditationand it may well be a piece of well crafted fiction. However certain aspects conform to evidenceand the array of known UFO repor...
Take a look at the new powerplant that GM is making for the oncoming electric car revolution. It should be blindingly obvious that the daysof the automobile mechanic are seriously numbered. There wi...
In the end there is nothingsurprising in what he has to say. Isuppose what is surprising is that so many of us pretend that it is still okayto eat substandard food placed in front of us. After all eat...
A family law judge faced a police investigation today after his disabled daughter posted on YouTube a secretly-filmed video of her father beating her with a leather belt. Hillary Adams took revenge on he...
Terrified and with nowhere to go but the small areas of dry land that remain, these are the animal victims of the flooding that has devastated Thailand. In Ayutthaya, a distressed group of elephants is fa...
Microsoft Corp said hackers exploited a previously unknown bug in its Windows operating system to infect computers with the Duqu virus, which some security experts say could be the next big cyber threat. ...
St Paul's protesters were handed a two-month reprieve yesterday after the authorities offered to allow them to stay until the New Year. In a humiliating climbdown, the City of London Corporation said it w...
*Misuse of prescription painkiller has reached "epidemic" levels in the US, a government report says. Overdoses of pain relievers cause more deaths than heroin and cocaine combined, the report has found....
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Flores Region, Indonesia at a depth of 177 km ( 109.7 miles), the quake hit at 05:42:25 UTC Thursday 3rd November 2011. The epicenter was 86 km ( 53.3 miles) West ...
The UK and U.S. are drawing up plans to attack Iran amid growing tensions in the Middle East, it was claimed last night. Barack Obama and David Cameron are preparing for war after reports that Iran now ha...
Greece was last night threatened with enforced bankruptcy and ejection from the euro as David Cameron warned of a 'global storm' threatening to drag down Britain's economy. As the eurozone reeled from Gre...
Seven schoolgirls have been killed after a freight train crashed into a bus dragging the vehicle 300 metres. The accident happened in Argentina's western province of San Luis near the settlement of Zanji...
*President Obama’s highly-touted green jobs program born out of his 2009 incentive package has spend more than $111 million to train 18,000 people who still haven't landed a job*. Elliot P. Lewis, the a...
I've re-posted this from RoadtoRoota for your awareness and in depth look on Global Apocalypse. Gold and Silver Market. They can't keep fixing it to Stay Down! So as we sit here pondering the myriad of...
As essential as the Pill is, it may be dampening the sex lives of many couples. Women using hormonal contraception have less sex and are less likely to reach orgasm than those who use other methods of b...
The use of antibiotics over the past 70 years has transformed medicine. But now medical experts have suggested that overuse of the prescription medication is contributing to the obesity crisis. Research...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Offshore Coquimbo, Chile at a depth of 22.4 km ( 13.9 miles), the quake hit at 01:51:41 UTC Thursday 3rd November 2011. The epicenter was 76 km ( 47 miles) WNW of Illa...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Solomon Islands at a depth of 54.4 km ( 33.8 miles), the quake hit at 00:19:00 UTC Thursday 3rd November 2011. The epicenter was 98 km ( 60 miles) WNW of Kira Kira,...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 64.7 km ( 40.2 miles), the quake hit at 22:05:47 UTC Wednesday 2nd November 2011. The epicenter was 144 km ( 89 ...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 5 km ( 3.1 miles), the quake hit at 21:44:15 UTC Wednesday 2nd November 2011. The epicenter was 51 km ( 31 miles) NNE of Van, Turkey No Rep...
We all know junk food is bad for us. But could eating too much be making us crave it more? Scientists in the U.S. have drawn attention to a growing volume of research indicating that products sweetened ...
[image: Another victim: Apple boss Steve Jobs recently succumbed to cancer, which continues to claim more lives than any other cause of premature adult death] Another victim: Apple boss Steve Jobs recen...
Disclaimer: When I was at Warner Bros. I was a strong industry supporter of Apple and the development of iTunes. So please bear with me if I tell you the great guitar hero is so beyond the pale on this t...
SUPPORTERS of Julian Assange have rallied around the WikiLeaks boss after he suffered a potentially lethal blow in his legal battle to avoid extradition to Sweden. The Australian-born driving force behind...
Drummer at Occupy Wall Street in Philadelphia. Image from PhillyNow.Don't diss the drum circles:Why hippie culture is stillimportant to our protestsBy Danny Goldberg / AlterNet / November 2, 2011Progressives...
*36TH ANNUAL AMERICAN INDIAN FILM FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS* On the Ice Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com SAN FRANCISCO -- The American Indian Film Institute announces the 36th annual American Ind...
We are all Guy Fawkes. Occupiers in Zuccotti Park in New York turn protest into theater. Photo by Andrew Burton / AP.Gandhi meets Monty Python:The comedic turn in nonviolent tacticsBy Wayne Grytting / Waging...
*by Ken* "Most presidents," writes our *Washington Post* "In the Loop" pal Al Kamen, "have one memorable statement that -- rightly or wrongly -- seems to encapsulate their tenure." Now it doesn't exactly...
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*"PRINCE ALBERT — Returning to the city where he made a recent campaign promise to crack down on violent offenders, Saskatchewan Party Leader Brad Wall expressed support for Ottawa’s tough on crime bill ...
Kayakers plunge down waterfalls and navigate through churning rapids. In this video, they almost make it look easy.
Those pesky physicists are at it again; they want to build a laser so powerful that it will literally rip spacetime apart.
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Edward Zivica, a 70-year-old who served in the Navy in the 1960s, faces a hard choice come Veterans Day next week: He can obey the rules and remain in his apartment complex, or he can follow his tradition ...
It's only a test, but nerves are somewhat frayed over the first nationwide exercise of the system designed to alert Americans of national emergencies. The test occurs at 1900 GMT Wednesday, November 9, and...
People who catch the bus in Detroit may be waiting a while Friday morning. About 100 Detroit Department of Transportation bus drivers are at work, but are refusing to drive their buses. WWJ’s Scott Ryan s...
As the sun dips below the rooftops each evening, parts of this Detroit enclave turn to pitch black, the only illumination coming from a few streetlights at the end of the block or from glowing yellow yard ...
Even Santa's gotten the pink slip. Officials on Long Island say there is no money in the budget to pay a man $660 for playing Santa at a general store run by Suffolk County. David McKell, 83, has played S...
Too much time spent sitting increases the risk of developing cancer, even for those who exercise regularly. That’s according to research presented Thursday morning at the American Institute for Cancer Rese...
U.S. plans to station troops across the Mideast after withdrawing from Iraq amount to occupying other Islamic countries, Iraq's most outspoken anti-American cleric said in an interview broadcast Thursday. ...
United Steelworkers international president Leo Gerard has a message to the flea party whiny-whiners still camping out instead of sleeping in their parents' basements -- playtime is over. Just in case the...
A Russian man who speaks 13 languages and lectured at museums haad the corpses of 26 women in his small apartment. Anatoly Moskvina, 45, had dug up many of the mummified bodies from graves and some were d...
reece's 340 billion euro debt has led to huge austerity cuts which have dramatically impacted the standard of living in the country. Ilia Iatrou, a housewife and mother-of-two in Athens, said she could not...
Kenya's military spokesman has said large groups of donkeys in Somalia will be considered "al-Shabab activity" following reports the militants are using the animals to transport weapons. Maj Emmanuel Chir...
A suicide bomber has attacked the main military base in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, military sources have told the BBC. The attacker died and one soldier was injured in the explosion at the h...
he annual pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, is the world's largest gathering of Muslims - the biggest annual gathering of humanity, period. So it's no surprise that Middle East experts expect this year's ...
Generations of Britons have grown up pledging to "Remember remember the fifth of November: Gunpowder, treason and plot" -- the figure of Guy Fawkes linked forever with fireworks, bonfires and childhood fun...
The Greek government is facing enormous pressure to resolve the country's debt crisis. On Wednesday the finance minister of Greece came out against Prime Minister George Papandreou's plan for a referendum ...
posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 1 day agoAs essential as the Pill is, it may be dampening the sex lives of many couples. Women using hormonal contraception have less sex and are less likely to reach orgasm than those who use other methods of b...
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