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Biased BBC - 38 minutes ago
Quick warning/heads up that I may well be on Sunday Morning Live tomorrow discussing whether poppy protests should be banned. If you have any thoughts on this, post them here. Click through to read and co...
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Technologies (IT) is actually a matter of prevalent fascination in Bangladesh. You will discover close to a hundred software homes, 35 knowledge entry centres, 1000's of fo...
Taking photos is going to get yourself a much more fun in the event that computer manufacture Jonas Pfeil and his co-workers possess everything to say regarding it. A current graduate from your Specialized...
Despite the fact that Virgin Galactic is normally referred to as a
space vacation company, that sees research experiments being a upcoming objective section and significant home based business. As a result...
While the* *most recent* *3d tv* *emerging trend* *has had* *a sluggish* *start off*, *the application of* *3D* *engineering* *pertaining to* *game titles* *offers* *established* *widely used* *with more ...
Tonight in England, the skies are filled with smoke as we celebrate Bonfire Night. In spite of the constant Establishment talk of man-made Global Warming, and the need to cut down on all CO2 emissions, t...
Police said early Saturday that a driver will not be charged for striking three people taking part in an Occupy DC protest in downtown Washington. Lieutenant Christopher Micciche of the D.C. police said th...
A Texas man who is a self-proclaimed supporter of Anonymous says he's joining the hacking ring's purported fight against one of Mexico's most violent drug cartels. Barrett Brown, 30, told CNN that in th...
A gravely ill woman being held at a pre-trial detention center in Moscow has been told she must pay a record sum of $3 million bail before she can be released. The news comes after the inmate, 52-year-o...
The plausibility of a bankruptcy scenario for Greece didn't disappear for very long at all. This time around, European leaders only managed to quiet things down in the debt crisis for four days before all ...
Parliament has approved a law making it legal to sack officials for losing the trust of their bosses. The term “loss of trust” is being introduced into Russian legislation for the first time. Back in Se...
How did America keep the terrorists from winning? Three words: Very. Expensive. Tanks. A new report reveals that in the decade since the September 11 attacks, the Department of Defense spent around $1 tri...
Seeking to broaden its appeal to China’s better-educated and perhaps more hip youth, the People’s Liberation Army has dropped a longtime bar to enlisting in the service: now, recruits can sport tattoos on ...
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi on Thursday responded to reports claiming Israel is planning a military attack against his country, stating Tehran is "ready for war" with Israel. “We have been ...
The US and its allies, such as the UK and Israel, may launch a missile attack on Iranian uranium enrichment facilities in the next 12 months, media speculate. The possible bombing campaign may start aft...
Tehran has stepped up its attacks on the United States, amid speculation that Washington may accelerate plans for missile strikes against Iran’s nuclear programme. The Iranian Foreign Minister, Ali Akbar ...
On October 15, the day OWS solidarity protests broke out as far away as Australia and Japan, and thousands of people poured into Times Square, a line of NYPD TARU (Technical Assistance Response Unit) offic...
China and Russia are using cyber espionage to steal U.S. trade and technology secrets to bolster their own economic development, which poses a threat to U.S. prosperity and security, a U.S. intelligence re...
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak have been trying to muster a majority in the cabinet in favor of military action against Iran, a senior Israeli official was quote...
American troops may be pulling out of Iraq, but they're staying in the Gulf region. Kuwait is top of the list of countries likely to take US troops in. News editor Jason Ditz says that the US is after co...
Truck driver Rahman Anwar, 33, was on National Highway 39 in September when his vehicle was surrounded by protesters angry because he was breaking their economic blockade. They smashed his head with a boul...
The hunt for ET could be made all the more easier by searching for artificial light which creates a signature that could point to other-worldly civilisations, astronomers have claimed. The suggestion come...
The frigid waters of the Arctic are home to near-mythical creatures, sometimes called the "unicorns of the sea" for the long, ivory tusk that spirals several feet out of the top of their heads. Worldwide ...
The upcoming G20 summit on November 3-4, 2011 is unlikely to reverse the negative trends in the world economy. Russian political scientist Igor Panarin believes that another wave of the global crisis is qu...
Nearly half of Chinese millionaires are thinking about leaving the country, while 14% have or are in the process of applying for emigration, according to a Hurun Research Institute and the Bank of China re...
Amidst a torrent of grey, toxic water, these are the men who call themselves ‘miners’ as they risk their lives in search for gold and jewellery in a garbage-filled gorge. The water spews from a drainage t...
You can't have missed the merciless attack on working families that has been underway in every single state where the Republican Party has managed to grab power. The gloves are off and the fangs of no-hol...
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg lashed out at anti-greed Occupy Wall Street activists on Thursday after reports of self-policing, his patience seeming to wear thin with the seven-week old movement. ...
...teargas and reason and plot. I see no reason why teargas, reason Should ever be forgot... There's something ironic about a faction, 99% or no, that, while espousing nonviolent resistance at all costs, ...
It looks like the aftermath of a tropical storm, but this scene of destruction took place on a farm in Worcestershire yesterday. A tornado uprooted trees and tore the roof of a stable as it swept past the ...
Suicide bombers attacked a military base, a car bomb exploded outside a barracks and explosives detonated Friday around northeast Nigeria, a region under siege from a radical Muslim sect, officials said. W...
At least seven people were killed and 51 injured in a horrific crash on the M5 motorway described by the emergency services today as one of the worst they have ever seen. There are fears the death toll co...
It took less than a week for confidence in the euro zone to evaporate. Again. Last Wednesday, European Union leaders agreed to sweeping measures aimed at saving the common currency. But the shocking announ...
*Anonymous begins 12 hours of releases now* Hactivists at Anonymous began releasing data this morning, promising 12 hours of releases on Saturday, Nov. 5. It is also bank transfer day, for transferring mo...
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Biased BBC - 4 hours ago
Here's one for you: Internal Survey Confirms #Occupywallstreet Is Overwhelmingly White, Janeane Garofalo Unavailable For Comment *Fast Company conducted an internal survey of the #OWS crowd and found it...
If you haven’t made it a point to remember the fifth of November before, hacktivists belonging to the group Anonymous are looking to change all of that this weekend. According to various tweets, blog post...
A magnitude 3.6 earthquake has struck Oklahoma at a depth of 4.9 km ( 3 miles), the quake hit at 14:36:30 UTC Saturday 5th November 2011. The epicenter was 4 km ( 2.4 miles) Southeast of Sparks, Oklahoma No...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 43.8 km ( 27.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:09:44 UTC Saturday 5th November 2011. The epicenter was 209 km ( 129 miles) Northwest of Tanah...
Kneecapped or Indigestion or Things Saints Fans Are Feeling At Midseason ~Library Chronicles Louisiana Won’t Face Penalties, Dismissal of BP Spill Claims Mirliton Madness
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Engineering students in Uganda build the country's first plug-in electric vehicle.
When it comes to carbon emissions the emerging economic powers - Brazil, South Africa, India and China - have pretty bold expectations of the industrialized West. They're not interested in major cuts in o...
Talk about groupthink. I tuned in to the repeat of The News Quiz on BBC Radio 4 this lunchtime. Presided over by Sandi Toksvig - who herself is quite leftist albeit with a lesbian twist - *Jeremy Hardy *a...
*The reportedly gay Michael Rockefeller who died mysteriously during an expedition to New Guinea. * The people who 'rule the planet' are not always united. Reportedly, 'extreme-right authors', such as Eust...
The video's from Wednesday's *Morning Joe*. That "stalwart conservatives" and "conservative leaders" would "rather lose than elect Mitt Romney" is from Scarborough's imagination. Unless he's talking abou...
*Is Karl Rove orchestrating the 3 Stooges (Romney/Cain/Perry) simultaneous meltdown so the SAVIOR from the family of royalty (the Bush's) can step in after the MEDIA CIRCUS?* *AND NOW FOR THE 3 STOOGES: ...
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- 8 hours ago
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The whole spin on this article is this monitoring is being done to accounts overseas. I have no doubt this is the case. What goes unmentioned completely? If the Vengeful Librarians are monitoring overseas T...
posted by David Vance at
Biased BBC - 10 hours ago
Well it looks to me that the BBC is dismayed that Greek PM George Papandreou is still in office. For the last week or so they have been claiming that he would resign/lose the vote of confidence/walk away/...
posted by David Vance at
Biased BBC - 10 hours ago
I'm sure many readers will share my sense of outrage at the antics of the UK Border Agency and the strange decisions of Brodie Clark. But I have to say that I find the BBC'S repeated recourse to Keith Vaz...
A Syrian peace plan brokered by the Arab League has unraveled as security forces killed 15 people, opening fire on thousands of protesters who denounced President Bashar Assad and said he never intended to...
Forty-five grimy, exhausted Chinese coal miners trapped by a cave-in were rescued Saturday, ending a 36-hour ordeal in the world's most dangerous country for the industry. Eight other miners were killed in...
Floodwaters lapped Bangkok's largest outdoor market Saturday as officials warned that no major barriers now stood in the way to prevent the water from reaching the heart of the Thai capital. Hoping to di...
Employees of a construction company remove asphalt on the road where higher than normal levels of radiation were detected in the Wolgye neighborhood of Seoul’s Nowon District, Nov. 4. The Nowon District g...
The head of Colombia's main rebel group, the Farc, has been killed in a military bombing, the defence ministry has said. Alfonso Cano, leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc), had bee...
A magnitude 3.9 earthquake has struck El Hierro, Canary Islands at a depth of 20 km ( 12.4 miles), the quake hit at 09:44:44 UTC Saturday 5th November 2011. The epicenter was 80 km ( 49.6 miles) Southwest ...
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Earlier in the week the U.S. Coast Guard warned of a pod of whales approaching the California coast and the dangers they faced to beach-goers, but...
These incredible pictures show how a pair of 1,500-year-old giant sequoias - whose branches are the size of normal trees - dramatically fell to the ground. A German tourist watched the two 250ft trees fal...
Mystery surrounds the destruction of an entire row of cars, that were crushed overnight on a Washington DC Street. It was a rude awakening on Friday morning for residents of the North West neighbourhood,...
posted by David Vance at
Biased BBC - 10 hours ago
Great example of having a debate with only one side of the argument being given a say. The BBC had Sir Malcolm Rifkind (dripping wet "Conservative) and Lord Hannay (dripping wet technocrat) on for a little...
A teenager who died after being beaten unconscious on Halloween was dressed as a zombie and covered in fake blood the night of her killing. Taylor Van Diest, 18, of Armstrong, British Columbia in Canada, d...
A former Army Ranger and Occupy Oakland protester was in intensive care today after a veterans group said he was beaten by police in brutal clashes with demonstrators. The veteran, identified as Kayvan Sa...
A magnitude 3.3 earthquake has struck Oklahoma at a depth of 4.9 km ( 3 miles), the quake hit at 09:12:11 UTC Saturday 5th November 2011. The epicenter was 4 km ( 2.4 miles) Southeast of Sparks, Oklahoma No...
A magnitude 3.5 earthquake has struck El Hierro, Canary Islands at a depth of 20 km ( 12.4 miles), the quake hit at 09:05:00 UTC Saturday 5th November 2011. The epicenter was 76 km ( 47.2 miles) South of F...
Image: Jacob Dunne, 19 is Jailed for just 30 Months for Killing James Hodgkinson in an unprovoked attack. A teenage thug who killed a paramedic with a single punch after grabbing his fancy dress pirate ha...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russia at a depth of 27.3 km ( 17 miles), the quake hit at 08:58:45 UTC Saturday 5th November 2011. The epicenter was 263 km ( 164 miles) ESE fro...
There is a ‘compelling case’ that Iran is secretly building an arsenal of nuclear warheads, warns the United Nations. As speculation mounts that Israel or the U.S. could lead a military strike against Ira...
Vital border checks for criminals and terrorists were secretly abandoned over the summer. In a major new immigration fiasco, three senior officials – including the £135,000-a-year head of the UK Border Fo...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 41.1 km ( 25.5 miles), the quake hit at 07:56:54 UTC Saturday 5th November 2011. The epicenter was 169 km ( 105 miles...
The accretion disk surrounding a black hole has been measured for the first time, but all is not as it seems.
- Research reveals that consuming fewer calories can slow the ageing process and onset of diseases [image: Easier solution: Botox is used by many people to help make them look younger but new ...
*Reacting to the October jobs report, President Obama said this morning to reporters at the G-20 summit that the U.S. economy was growing “way too slowly” and that he expected the latest job figures woul...
A magnitude 2.7 earthquake has struck Oklahoma at a depth of 5 km ( 3.1 miles), the quake hit at 07:44:34 UTC Saturday 5th November 2011. The epicenter was 6 km ( 4 miles) West of Prague, Oklahoma No Report...
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An unconfirmed number of people have been killed and as many as 35 injured in a collision involving 27 vehicles on the M5 motorway in Somerset. Some 20 light vehicles and seven articulated lorries were ...
In a surprising turn of events, Cuadrilla Resources, a British energy company, recently admitted that its hydraulic fracturing operations “likely” caused an earthquake in England. Predictably, this news qu...
The South Korean coast guard said Saturday it found 21 North Korean defectors adrift on the Yellow Sea this week. The coast guard found the group Tuesday near the port city of Incheon, South Korea's Yonh...
A magnitude 3.4 earthquake has struck Oklahoma at a depth of 5 km ( 3.1 miles), the quake hit at 07:27:20 UTC Saturday 5th November 2011. The epicenter was 9 km ( 6 miles) North of Prague, Oklahoma No Repor...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Tajikistan at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 03:22:28 UTC Saturday 5th November 2011. The epicenter was 129 km ( 80 miles) South of Farghona (Fergana) ...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 7.4 km ( 4.6 miles), the quake hit at 02:01:38 UTC Saturday 5th November 2011. The epicenter was 33 km ( 22 miles) Northeast of Van, Turkey...
Parents have long suspected letting their children get a bit dirty won’t do them any harm – even if the modern health and safety police say otherwise. And according to scientists, that parental instinct ...
Babies' stress levels double if they are put in a cot straight after being born, a study has revealed. Separating infants from their mothers at night makes them far less likely to sleep, claim scientist...
*Greece's PM George Papandreou has won a vital confidence vote after promising to hold power-sharing talks.* In an address to parliament before the vote he ruled out snap elections, saying they would be...
- 2,000 meetings between dogs was watched by researchers - Dogs still love nothing more than sniffing each other, especially the opposite sex, the study found Dogs being walked by men are fo...
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake has struck Antofagasta, Chile at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 07:13:54 UTC Saturday 5th November 2011. The epicenter was 8 km ( 5 miles) Northeast of Antofagast...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Oklahoma at a depth of 4.9 km ( 3 miles), the quake hit at 07:12:45 UTC Saturday 5th November 2011. The epicenter was 9 km ( 6 miles) North of Prague, Oklahoma No Repor...
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 38 km ( 23.5 miles), the quake hit at 01:49:19 UTC Saturday 5th November 2011. The epicenter was 59 km ( 36.5 miles) South of Vila, Vanuatu No Tsu...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Southern Alaska at a depth of 110.4 km ( 68.6 miles), the quake hit at 00:57:21 UTC Saturday 5th November 2011. The epicenter was 51 km ( 32 miles) Southeast of Pedro B...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck offshore Bio-Bio, Chile at a depth of 7.5 km ( 4.7 miles), the quake hit at 23:12:24 UTC Friday 4th November 2011. The epicenter was 83 km ( 52 miles) WSW of Concepcion...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 41 km ( 25.5 miles), the quake hit at 22:54:18 UTC Friday 4th November 2011. The epicenter was 288 km ( 178 miles) Ea...
In this part, an effort is made to discuss concepts of physics and the language gap blurs the content. Real time teleportation is demonstrated likely through what we now describe as the phase state of m...
In the past speed was a notavailable and the internet was noticibly limited. This ended several years ago and since theninternet speeds have been good enough for the consumer. Now amusingly it turns ...
We get the usual story of howthis will take years. Try next year iffolks work out the many available pathways and jump on the protocol as they arewont to do. The huge discovery here isthat age relate...
Indiais launching a thorium reactor and at the same time China has announced plans to buildout a series of reactors using a liquid thorium salt system which sounds evenmore attractive. Whatever the ou...
*Ruth Davidson *. Several decades ago the UK's Conservative Party won around half of all the Scottish seats in the UK parliament. Today the UK's Conservative Party has only one Scottish seat in the UK ...
"You can't be having a driving dream when you are in the midst of a nightmare." - President Richard Nixon. "In the past, politicians promised to create a better world. They had different ways of achievi...
"Young suns still lie within dusty NGC 7129, some 3,000 light-years away toward the royal constellation Cepheus. While these stars are at a relatively tender age, only a few million years old, it is likely...
*YouTube poster Pamilearner plays an abridged version of Charles de Janon's guitar transcription of "*O du mein holder Abendstern*."* [UPDATE: Much as I love Bill Moyers, I don't know how he slipped in he...
Several people have been killed and as many as 35 injured in a collision involving 27 vehicles on the M5 motorway in Somerset. An Avon and Somerset Police spokesman confirmed that "some" people have "trag...
I first interviewed blind activist Chen Guangcheng for CNN in 2002. We drove five hours from Beijing to visit him in Dashigu, a rural hamlet in Shandong province. During our visit, he counseled a blind fa...
* * *Greetings from anonymous,* The 5th of November will have a new meaning tomorrow. The meaning of Solidarity. Tomorrow, We will be releasing information; starting at 9 am eastern and ending at 9 pm e...
Cumberland, Rhode Island, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
"Listen to me. We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise why even be here?" - Steve Jobs
*"Finding Freedom in No: Yes People"* by The DailyOm "Saying No to somebody when we are used to saying Yes can be challenging as we fear we will be rejected. Many of us, from childhood on, are taught that...
- This event has been reviewed by a seismologist. Magnitude*5.8* Date-Time - *Saturday, November 05, 2011 at 01:49:19 UTC* - Saturday, November 05, 2011 at 12:49:19 PM at epicenter - Time...
"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the only one who'll decide where y...
* "The Neuroscience of Why Gratitude Makes Us Healthier"* by Ocean Robbins "Our world is pretty messed up. With all the violence, pollution and crazy things people do, it would be easy to turn into a grou...
"Let me get this straight... We're going to be "gifted" with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't, which purportedly covers at least ten million more people without adding a ...
No explanation is needed. His actions speak louder than words. Ventura Decries "Fascist" America After Judge Tosses TSA Case
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CENSORED NEWS - 19 hours ago
*Photos by Navajo photographer Arlene Bowman* Censored News VANCOUVER, B.C. -- Navajo filmmaker and photographer Arlene Bowman shares her photos of Occupy Vancouver. "I saw this yesterday, I was impressed...
*No, Satan, please don't make me gay! No, Satan . . . no! Well, now you've gone and done it, haven't you, Satan? Doggone you, Satan!* *by Ken* When it comes to hate-based, ignorance-filled authoritarian b...
[image: Thai residents depart a bus on a flooded street in Bangkok on Friday, 4 November 2011. Aaron Favila / Associated Press] By Ann M. Simmons in Los Angeles 4 November 2011 Floodwaters in Thailand...
"Absolut Tribe", Poster #88, by Alex Noble http://alexnoble.typepad.com/occupy/ The Call, “Let The Day Begin”
Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo. Here is an excerpt from an article well worth reading in full: While public awareness of the depth of the ecological crisis is growing, our knowledge of t...
Reader Contribution; Japan's government Friday approved spending $11.6 billion Cdn of public money to help the operator of the tsunami-hit nuclear power plant decontaminate the site and dismantle the reac...
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou Survives Confidence Vote Nation's Parliament 153 YES 145 NO
At least 30 people have been hurt, some seriously, in a multi-vehicle collision on the M5 in Somerset with reports of possible fatalities. Some 20 light vehicles and six articulated lorries were involved ...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 302.6 km ( 188 miles), the quake hit at 22:01:12 UTC Friday 4th November 2011. The epicenter was 151 km ( 93 miles) West of Hihifo, Tonga No Tsunami...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 568.9 km ( 353.5 miles), the quake hit at 21:44:22 UTC Friday 4th November 2011. The epicenter was 235 km ( 146 miles) Southeast of Lambas...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Southwest of Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 35 km ( 21.7 miles), the quake hit at 21:31:35 UTC Friday 4th November 2011. The epicenter was 252 km ( 156 miles) Southw...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Jujuy, Argentina at a depth of 244.8 km ( 152.1 miles), the quake hit at 21:20:36 UTC Friday 4th November 2011. The epicenter was 41 km ( 25 miles) West of Abra Pampa, ...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Barat Daya, Indonesia at a depth of 305.6 km ( 189.9 miles), the quake hit at 21:05:14 UTC Friday 4th November 2011. The epicenter was 263 km ( 163 miles) No...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck off the Coast of El Hierro, Canary Islands at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 20:36:26 UTC Friday 4th November 2011. The epicenter was 50 km ( 31 miles)...
I confess that I have worn my dystopian bracelet from Sophie's Beads every single day this week. I absolutely love it. Want to win a bracelet with seven of your favorite books on it? Go here to enter. I...
I got to thinking some more about the *Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files*video of a UFO crash at the White Sands Missile Range and found it strange that they had not spoken to anyone who worked there. I know ...
*"On the Continuing Zombification of the US Economy"* by Bill Bonner "We have been exploring the zombification of the US economy. Major industries — finance, health, education and defense — have been tak...
A collection of starlings in a mesmerizing flight was captured by two canoers.
There is only one wonder, and that is why aren’t these people behind bars? Still suffering from the MSM-prattled delusion of higher education being the main cause of wealth disparity in the US? This gentle...
Elation is breaking out all over Willardland. Not only did his man Rovemanage to destroy Cain's viability with the sex maniac/rapist leak, but he managed to make it look like it came from Niggerhead. And o...
The Burmese python, native to Southeast Asia and popular pets in the U.S., was found by contractors with the entire deer in its body.
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wmtc - 1 day ago
My own government labeled me a terrorist and attempted to murder me. My story is strongly relevant for activists today in this climate of an unending 'war on terror.' S. Brian Willson, Vietnam War veter...
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Not PC - 1 day ago
The Occupy Wall Street movement has quickly spread across the world. While their goals are still vague, some general trends have begun to appear. So just where do you fall? Are you more aligned with #OWS...
Mysterious lights were reported in the skies near Phoenix just before Halloween. UFOs, or something less mysterious?
NASA is working to make the tractor beam, "Death Star" not included, a reality.
Barack Obama today read the riot act to European leaders as he vetoed their bid to squeeze more money out of the International Monetary Fund - sending them begging back to China instead. The U.S. Presiden...
This was the horrific scene in New Delhi as another young Tibetan exile sets himself on fire as a show of solidarity with other anti-China protesters. Indian police managed to overpower the man and put out...
Tourists are stranded in the Mt. Everest region due to heavy fog. The hotels are running out of food and many are living in tents do to overcrowding.
By Cyril Blubberpuss, on sabbatical from the boardroom. Liberal blogs like this are too biased and need a desperate dose of some fairness and balance. So libtard Jurassicpork allowed me to provide my own ...
Thousands of far-right Nazi-saluting nationalists marched in Moscow today in a 'Take Back Russia' protest at Muslim migrants. Resentment is growing over the migrants from Russia's Caucasus and the money t...
A dog walker was shocked to discover a five-foot killer shark washed up on a Sussex beach. The rare Blue Shark had a giant bite mark in its side, meaning it could have been killed by an even bigger predat...
An illegal immigrant who arrived in the UK as a stowaway and then committed around 20 offences has thanked a judge after being awarded more than £17,000 compensation for being falsely imprisoned by Home Of...
Conservative MPs were teetering on the edge of revolt today after David Cameron confirmed the UK was ready to increase its contribution to the International Monetary Fund. The Prime Minister said the IMF ...
posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at
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url: http://youtu.be/QB26Uk1xQwM *What happened at the Azores* in 1957-58 seems to repeat itself on El Hierro. The eruption changed the history of America... *Lessons to be learned!* A view of the future of...
As I have written ad nauseam, the BBC has become by degrees nakedly political in its reporting of climate change. The trustees, having commissioned a report on the subject from a scientist who was totally ...
The same kind of proteins your eyes use to sense light are in your skin to trigger tanning.
YOU have nothing better to do than to *#Occupy* - tomorrow Saturday November 5th. Really - you don't - there is *nothing in your life* that will take the ENTIRE day on Saturday that leaves you no time t...
China's Foreign Ministry weighed in on the widespread anxiety over Iran's nuclear program on Friday, urging Iran to be flexible with the U.N. nuclear agency but staunchly deploring force amid talk of strik...
Europe's leaders are battling to keep the eurozone and the wider European Union together in the face of a financial crisis that threatens to split partnerships forged over more than half a century. So wh...
Dennis Gaydos, a homeless man from Palm Springs, was making his home outside of a church in the sunny Florida community without incident until a police intervention changed his life. Gaydos says he was ke...
Are these Astronauts or firemen? The Air Force’s mysterious X-37B “space plane” is only on its second, eight-month-plus orbital mission, ostensibly conducting science experiments. But manufacturer ...
*Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach undeterred by particulars, the ...
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 145.8 km ( 90.6 miles), the quake hit at 15:43:45 UTC Friday 4th November 2011. The epicenter was 44 km ( 27 miles) NNE of Luganville, Espiritu Sa...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Bali Region at a depth of 98.3 km ( 61.1 miles), the quake hit at 14:59:53 UTC Friday 4th November 2011. The epicenter was 53 km ( 32 miles) Southwest of Mataram, L...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 54.2 km ( 33.7 miles), the quake hit at 14:56:35 UTC Friday 4th November 2011. The epicenter was 81 km ( 50 miles) S...
Are Mars' brains showing? Or is that "hummocky" landscape a result of ancient glacial-like flows? (Hint: It's probably the latter.)
A U.S. Army sergeant accused of murdering three unarmed Afghan civilians casually shot one victim "with a smile on his face," then pulled a tooth from the dead man's mouth, a fellow soldier testified on We...
Two unmanned Chinese spacecraft have docked successfully and are orbiting the Earth together in a step towards China having its own manned space station. The Shenzhou-8 craft that was launched on Tuesday ...
Suspected suicide attackers launched an assault near a base used by NATO-led forces in the western Afghan province of Herat on Thursday, authorities said, and gunfire was still being heard although there w...
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour came out in support Friday of an amendment to the state constitution that would define life as beginning at the moment of conception, saying that he cast his absentee ballot ...
I wonder if, when he was still in knickers, young Paul Ryan was rooting for the Sheriff of Nottingham and hoping he'd catch Robin Hood. Or did his epiphany about which side he was on come *after* he'd re...
The owner of a radio station in western Venezuela says dozens of National Guard soldiers have seized broadcasting equipment as part of an investigation launched by the country's state telecommunications co...
A 65-year-old grandmother who organised a protest in Shanghai demanding better benefits for retirees has been sentenced to three and a half years in jail, a relative and court official said Thursday. Zhan...
If you do the time in Riverside County, you better have the dime to pay for it. KNX 1070′s Mike Landa reports that’s the driving sentiment behind one Riverside County supervisor’s efforts to charge jail i...
Gleeks you MUST tune in for next week’s episode of Glee, called “The First Time.” It’s without a doubt one of Glee‘s best installments ever and features two popular couples on the show having sex for the f...
An insect invasion is terrorizing New York City homeowners, making life miserable, even dangerous, for many families. Parents have been forced to take extreme measures to protect their children and their h...
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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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.
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Tonight in England, the skies are filled with smoke as we celebrate Bonfire Night. In spite of the constant Establishment talk of man-made Global Warming, and the need to cut down on all CO2 emissions, t...
Police said early Saturday that a driver will not be charged for striking three people taking part in an Occupy DC protest in downtown Washington. Lieutenant Christopher Micciche of the D.C. police said th...
The plausibility of a bankruptcy scenario for Greece didn't disappear for very long at all. This time around, European leaders only managed to quiet things down in the debt crisis for four days before all ...
How did America keep the terrorists from winning? Three words: Very. Expensive. Tanks. A new report reveals that in the decade since the September 11 attacks, the Department of Defense spent around $1 tri...
Seeking to broaden its appeal to China’s better-educated and perhaps more hip youth, the People’s Liberation Army has dropped a longtime bar to enlisting in the service: now, recruits can sport tattoos on ...
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi on Thursday responded to reports claiming Israel is planning a military attack against his country, stating Tehran is "ready for war" with Israel. “We have been ...
Tehran has stepped up its attacks on the United States, amid speculation that Washington may accelerate plans for missile strikes against Iran’s nuclear programme. The Iranian Foreign Minister, Ali Akbar ...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThere is a ‘compelling case’ that Iran is secretly building an arsenal of nuclear warheads, warns the United Nations. As speculation mounts that Israel or the U.S. could lead a military strike against Ira...
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