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*Hope you enjoyed your one term**. * "Key backing for Obama slips in N.C." by Tracy Jan Globe Staff / October 17, 2011 DURHAM, N.C. - When Lucille Richmond cast her ballot for Barack Obama three years ...
At least seven people are dead and 18 buildings, including two hotels, have collapsed in eastern Turkey after a 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck near the Iranian border. Over 20 buildings collapsed in the ...
Israel will launch military action to prevent Iran developing a nuclear weapon as soon as Christmas, intelligence chiefs have warned. A report by a UN watchdog into Iran’s nuclear ambitions ‘completely di...
The economic contagion claimed Italy as its biggest victim last night, leaving Europe facing a ‘lost decade’ of financial chaos. Experts said Britain would be dragged into a second recession unless eurozo...
Researchers have warned that nearly 200,000 babies in Britain are at high risk of suffering abuse because they are born into families with domestic violence, mental health or addiction problems. *The NSP...
*by Noah* Who says the world’s corporate leaders are charter members of what I call "the endless parade of chimps, assholes, and morons"? Well, I do, for one. Here’s a prime example that you may have mis...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck
Utah at a depth of 0.1 km (0 miles Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 04:27:45 UTC Thursday 10th November 2011. The epicenter was 9 km ( 6 miles) Northwest of Orang...
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck near the North Coast of Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 20 km (12.4 miles), the quake hit at 02:34:52 UTC Thursday 10th November 2011. The epicenter was 277 km ( 172 mi...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 22:38:18 UTC Wednesday 9th November 2011. The epicenter was 5 km ( 3.1 miles) Northwest of Edremit, Turk...
- Reduced salt intake can trigger rise in cholesterol and increase risk of blood clots - Supports previous findings showing 'no strong evidence' cutting back salt lowers risk of premature ...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Kamchatka, Russia at a depth of 51.3 km (31.9 miles), the quake hit at 22:01:04 UTC Wednesday 9th November 2011. The epicenter was 99 km ( 61 miles) S...
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck South of the Mariana Islands at a depth of 9.9 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:52:20 UTC Wednesday 9th November 2011. The epicenter was 355 km ( 220 miles) SSE of...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands at a depth of 56.1 km (34.9 miles), the quake hit at 21:07:35 UTC Wednesday 9th November 2011. The epicenter was 266 km ( 165 miles) NNE of Raoul ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 20:45:40 UTC Wednesday 9th November 2011. The epicenter was 9 km ( 5.9 miles) Southeast of Van, Turkey N...
*It's not just his, it's his party's. * "Patrick takes combative tone as he stumps for Obama in N.H.; Says Congress, not president, needs to be voted out" November 06, 2011|By Martine Powers, Globe Staff ...
[image: Home workers struggle to escape the strains of family life] Home workers struggle to escape the strains of family life With no commute, unlimited tea breaks and no need to look smart, it sounds ...
Women aren't prioritising or enjoying sex as much as much as they should be, says the organisation behind a new sexual health survey. The annual WomenTALK study, commissioned by HealthyWomen, looked at t...
*And he has. It has precluded reporting on any other issue on the TV news.* "Penn State trustees oust football coach Joe Paterno, president Graham Spanier" Associated Press / November 9, 2011 STATE COLLEG...
[image: Knock the years off... by just smiling] Knock the years off... by just smiling Forget the face lift and push aside the anti-ageing creams - all you need to do is smile. A study found that the s...
At least five people died and more than 100 others were buried under rubble from a magnitude-5.7 earthquake that struck eastern Turkey Wednesday night, officials said. The death toll came from Deputy Pr...
"Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; the...
Telegraph : Thousands of U.S. warplanes, ships and missiles contain fake electronic components from China, leaving them open to malfunction, according to a US Senate committee. In total, the committee sai...
*Police beat students at Occupy Cal at Berkeley* Occupy Cal reports on Twitter that police beat Joshua Anderson, graduate student. Josh is reported in urgent care after being beaten by University of Cali...
The lecture below by author Manly P. Hall about the story of Armageddon and the final battle between good and evil was uploaded onto YouTube by 1Freshtymer1. Visit the Philosophical Research Society to le...
The headline of the article below says it all. The people who head the Pentagon are animals who don't have any morality, integrity or honour. They disrespect the dead and the living. Dumping the body part...
About two dozen Occupy Wall Street protesters have started a two-week walk from New York to Washington. We hope to pick up other participants along their 240-mile march and have likened the effort to long...
*If there was ever really a truth-telling Dr. Jekyll component of the supposedly Jekyll-and-Hyde-like Wall Street Journal holed up in the newsroom, it seems to have passed safely into oblivion.* *by Ken* ...
When NASA's New Horizons mission flies past Pluto in 2015, will the dwarf planet have a nasty surprise in store?
*But you will love it, America.* "Obama’s long-term care plan in doubt" October 18, 2011|By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press WASHINGTON - The *White House sent mixed messages* yesterday on the* f...
Italy’s bond yields passed 7% Wednesday morning, breaching a psychological point at which markets consider countries at risk of being unable to fund themselves. The dramatic rise in 10-year bond yields co...
NASA has painstakingly constructed a movie of radar observations of Asteroid 2005 YU55 as it passed Earth on Tuesday revealing some "puzzling structures" on its surface.
Teasing apart the effects of noise on birds shows humans are driving their feathered friends away.
“Cosmic clouds of gas and dust drift across this magnificent panorama, spanning some 17 degrees near the southern boundary of the heroic constellation Perseus. The collaborative skyscape begins with bluish...
*“Salt And Nerves”* by Chet Raymo “I like to think that every day offers at least one unique revelation, some one thing seen or experienced that has not been seen or experienced before, at least not in t...
*“Spirulina: 5 Grams Daily of This REVERSED Severe * *Radiation Poisoning in Chernobyl Children”* by Dr. Joseph Mercola “Due to the many requests I received from concerned readers asking for guidance abou...
The Liberal White Paper on party reform has been leaking out over the past few days, and will reportedly be released in full tonight. I'm sure there will be a lot of worthwhile ideas within it, but the one...
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Not PC - 6 hours ago
*[image: _richardmcgrath]**Your weekly prescription of good sense from Libertarianz leader Dr Richard McGrath.* *This week, around the hustings.* I’ve attended so many meetings and shaken so many hands ...
Mid- week and this is overdue! Over to you, gentle reader... Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
"Everyone rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self." - Michel de Montaigne
*“Vitamin D Defeats Depression Naturally,* * Without Nasty Side Effects”* by Patrick Gallagher “Studied across a wide variety (81000 count) of women of various paths and lifestyles, Vitamin D when found i...
*“Fibonacci: The Man Who Figured Out Flowers”* by Keith Devlin “Try to imagine a day without numbers. Try to imagine getting through the first hour of that day. No alarm clock, no time, no date, no televi...
Paul McCartney and Wings, “Mull of Kintyre” • Kintyre, Scotland. Thanks for stopping by.
posted by PC at
Not PC - 7 hours ago
Jim Tucker’s journalism school is running a poll on which politician people would like to screw. Which is kind of appropriate, since we spend so much being screwed by them. Content is copyright PC.BlogSp...
posted by laura k at
wmtc - 7 hours ago
Three pieces worth reading: Frank Rich: The Class War Has Begun. Bill Moyers: How Wall Street Occupied America. Chris Hedges: A Master Class in Occupation.
posted by PC at
Not PC - 7 hours ago
Eric Crampton asks, for the third time in three years, “is any country other than New Zealand both facing a binding Kyoto cap, by which I mean one that can only be met by costly efforts, and planning on ...
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wmtc - 7 hours ago
In case you haven't seen these yet: Through Avaaz, a letter to the premiers of all provinces to oppose the wrong-headed Conservative crime bill: here. Through the David Suzuki Foundation, a letter to Prim...
As we watch Italy's 10-year bond yields near 7.5pc and threaten to detonate the explosive charge on €1.9 trillion of debt, it is time for the world to reimpose order. You cannot allow the biggest bankrupt...
Police have launched an appeal to catch the man seen swinging the animal round outside the Camden Arms pub in Ramsgate, Kent. The two-year-old cat called Mowgli eventually managed to run away and return...
Developers should take the hint and convert phone and tablet sites to rely on HTML5.
Physical evidence for intelligent extraterrestrial life might be right in our backyard.
The Gates Foundation has awarded $100,000 to a Duke environmental engineer to develop a simple waste disposal system.
I'm not a huge Bill Maher fan, although I liked Religulous a lot. I wasn't a huge Anthony Weiner fan, although I liked his partisan fighting spirit, even if I distrusted the underlying ideological commit...
Particle physicists have developed useful simulation tools to help them predict the behavior of subatomic particles, with valuable applications in medical and space science to boot.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed Wednesday that Iran won't retreat “one iota” from its nuclear program, denying claims that it seeks atomic weapons. Key ally Russia gave the Islamic Republic a major boo...
China will launch armed patrols with Southeast Asian neighbours to protect ships along the Mekong River after 13 Chinese sailors were murdered on its upper reaches last month, media reported on Tuesday. T...
"The monster rises out of the water", screamed the Spanish newspaper La Provincia. Scientists, meanwhile, are being a bit more level-headed about the undersea volcano south of El Hierro in the Canary Islan...
The amorous connection between two inseparable male penguins will soon come to an end when the Toronto Zoo pairs them with females. “The males will be put in with a specific female so they have the chance ...
In the wake of the Herman Cain sexual harassment scandal, some conservatives are making outrageous and insulting statements about women who are sexual harassment victims. They ask, "Is there anyone who thi...
عاملون في صناعة تأجير تؤكد أنها عملية عسكرية قدامى المحاربين النفسية ، واستخدام إجراءات سحب مباشرة من دليل الجيش لمكافحة التمرد. الشرعية هي الهدف الرئيسي : أدخل الحكومة في الاختيار "إن الهدف الأساسي لأي ...
posted by PC at
Not PC - 9 hours ago
A simple way to understand the anger of the #OccupyWallStreet crowd is not to look at what you think they might be saying, it’s to look at what they were taught. It explains virtually everything—their fo...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 4 km ( 2.4 miles), the quake hit at 19:30:11 UTC Wednesday 9th November 2011. The epicenter was 3 km ( 1.8 miles) East of Edremit, Turkey N...
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 4.8 km ( 3 miles), the quake hit at 19:23:35 UTC Wednesday 9th November 2011. The epicenter was 17 km ( 10 miles) South of Van, Turkey Unc...
Industry insiders confirm they hire military psychological operation veterans, and use procedures pulled straight from the Army’s counterinsurgency manual. *Legitimacy is the Main Objective: Insert t...
A headline at Think Progress front page *Politics* *Rep. Joe Walsh Explains His ‘Don’t Blame Banks’ Rant: I ‘Was Working On An Empty Stomach’* Yesterday, ThinkProgress reported on a testy exchange between...
By "guys" I'm referring to the 'day late, dollar short' Liberals who seem intent on taking a well-deserved dirt nap. It's a warning. From the International Energy Agency. It couldn't be clearer. "*T...
"A Gathering of the Tribe" by Charles Eisenstein "Once upon a time a great tribe of people lived in a world far away from ours. Whether far away in space, or in time, or even outside of time, we do not k...
How very nice, indeed... better enjoy it while it lasts. - CP
A Hawaiian big wave rider surfed what is considered the biggest wave ever. The video shows the surfer's impressive skill.
Cooked meat delivers more energy than raw and the way it's prepared (to pound or not to pound) also makes a difference in how it's digested.
Joe Frazier, who died on Tuesday, will be forever known for his fights with Muhammad Ali.
The TLC star Michelle Duggar is upping the ante and is pregnant with her 20th child.
The new Emergency Alert System updates the old technologies to tell citizens what to do during a national emergency.
"The rulers want the ruled to shut up and obey. The ruled want self-governance. The clash between the two is about which side's vision of itself and of the other is right and which is wrong. Because each ...
*“America's Ruling Class”* by Joshuapundit “The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, payi...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Northern Peru at a depth of 60 km (37.2 miles), the quake hit at 18:23:02 UTC Wednesday 9th November 2011. The epicenter was 96 km ( 59.5 miles) West of Barranca, Peru ...
Rioters have burned down the homes of thousands of people in an ethnic clash in Papua New Guinea’s second-largest city, killing at least six people, leaving thousands homeless and turning the city of Lae e...
Parliament is under pressure to hold a controversial debate on immigration, after more than 100,000 people signed a petition calling for curbs on people entering Britain. An online petition launched by M...
Imagine this won't be around long - they had to know that the bloggers would pick up on it. Herman Cain PAC page at 12:35pm on November 9, 2011 Check out the link - it's the real deal. You can f...
Source: www.analuisacid.com.mx Date: 08 November 2011 Mexico: An Interview with Captain Raul Romero By Ana Luisa Cid Good afternoon, Captain Romero, thanks for your kindness. To kick things off, h...
*"Our Warning, And Why We Will Probably Ignore It"* by Karl Denninger “If you haven't noticed this morning is downright ugly in the stock market, with the futures indicating a more than 200 point down ope...
Japan's nuclear agency has confirmed that sustained nuclear fission did not take place at the Fukushima nuclear power plant last week. The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency disclosed the results of expe...
Bank branches and ATMs across the country saw a surge in traffic during the last month, which pinnacled over the weekend as Americans from coast-to-coast accessed their accounts, withdrew their money and w...
Absurd claim despite ElBaradei sitting in same Wall Street-London think-tank as current Israeli president, Bank of Israel governor, and a former Israeli foreign minister. by Tony Cartalucci November 10, ...
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CENSORED NEWS - 10 hours ago
http://deepgreenresistance.org/dgroccupybayarea/ Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
Tim Cook is OK but Apple has finally found a good Steve Jobs successor. His name is Thomas Suarez: Well, it's probably not too shocking for a sixth-grader to create somewhat simple iPhone apps and sta...
Orica has confirmed another chemical spill at its plant near Newcastle as the news came that the firm would be prosecuted over a leak in August. Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) was called to the company's amm...
The Liberals seem to be scraping the barrel trying to build their membership numbers. There's a sense of desperation to it. E-mails from the national, provincial and riding offices in a steady stream ov...
About 30 Army, Navy, Air force and Police personnel were admitted to Gampola Hospital after a meal provided at the Army Language Training Institute in Kotmale was suspected to have caused food poisoning. ...
A 50-year-old mystery about etchings of a magnetic field on lunar rocks gets a couple new theories.
The nanoscale vehicle is a step in creating advanced machines that could do such things as travel through our veins to kill cancer cells.
A massive die-off of oysters in the Chesapeake is placing livelihoods on the brink. Alex DeMetrick reports some watermen are already calling it quits. Every oyster season will turn up empty shells and d...
When heading north on Highway 101, the first house you come to in Humptulips is the Aldrich's place. The manicured yard is a trademark of the family that's been here for decades. "Just nice, older people...
As the Supreme Court gets ready to hear oral arguments in a case Tuesday that could determine if authorities can track U.S. citizens with GPS vehicle trackers without a warrant, a young man in California h...
A Supreme Court justice on Tuesday expressed major concerns that the government would engage in round-the-clock surveillance reminiscent of the totalitarian world of the George Orwell novel 1984 if the cou...
crude-oil leak sent heavy-diesel and sulfur fumes over a Concord neighborhood, and authorities say the smell could linger through the day. The leak from a 7-mile-long ConocoPhillips pipeline that runs und...
posted by allan at
wmtc - 11 hours ago
Three days ago, I posted that David Heap, a Canadian professor and activist who was on the *Tahrir*, which was attempting to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza, was being held in an Israeli prison. Stepha...
Fannie Mae, the biggest source of money for U.S. home loans, on Tuesday said it needed a further $7.8 billion in federal aid to stay afloat as a shaky housing market widened its third-quarter loss to $5.1 ...
Four gunmen robbed Barona Casino early Wednesday, firing off at least one shot in the process, but no one was hurt and the loot was recovered after being abandoned by the robbers, authorities said. The me...
Senator John McCain predicted on Tuesday a third political party will emerge in response to Americans' economic frustrations and said it might as well be called "the Fed-Up Party." The Republican Party's ...
High winds and surging waves pummeled Alaska's western coast Wednesday, churning the Bering Sea and forcing residents of Nome and isolated native villages to seek higher ground inland. "We do have some r...
Socorro police and the FBI are looking for four men who police say attacked and raped an elderly man who was out on his early-morning walk. Investigators said the 70-year-old was walking Thursday around 6 ...
Iran continued working on nuclear weapons at least until last year, including efforts to shrink a Pakistani warhead design to fit atop its ballistic missiles, a report from United Nations inspectors said. ...
The head of the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission said on Tuesday that Iran would start a 'street war' in Tel Aviv if its nuclear program was attacked. "Israel is not bi...
Gunmen crossed the Rio Grande into the United States near a shootout between where the Mexican military and a group of gunmen was taking place. Several area SWAT teams responded about 1:30 p.m. Tuesday to ...
Oil production in South Sudan has fallen by a quarter since independence four months ago, Unity State's environment minister has told the BBC. Since the split from the north there has been a shortage of sk...
The police are out in force as thousands of students march through central London. Some 4,000 officers are on duty, as demonstrators march peacefully in a protest against higher tuition fees and "privatis...
President Obama’s Agriculture Department today announced that it will impose a new 15-cent charge on all fresh Christmas trees—the Christmas Tree Tax—to support a new Federal program to improve the image a...
As the eurozone debt crisis deepened Wednesday, with growing concerns surrounding Italy, the head of the International Monetary Fund painted a stark picture of the challenges facing the world's economic ...
Europe's financial crisis claimed its second scalp in three days when Italy's Silvio Berlusconi announced he will step down after parliament approves new austerity measures in an effort to stave off econ...
A uniformed officer of the U.S. Secret Service accidentally discharged his firearm early Wednesday while sitting in a patrol car near the Russian consulate in Washington, an agency spokesman said. No one...
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CENSORED NEWS - 12 hours ago
*Skennentaia'kwa: Hawi* Akwesasne Mohawks journey to Pine Ridge and Rosebud lands in South Dakota. Mohawk families sharing with Lakota families. They have delivered a semi-truck load of supplies in time ...
A lot of people are searching for the results of the Minnesota School tax referendum / levy votes from last night November 8th. HERE"S THE BEST LINK AND REPORT Unfortunately - IMHO The lines listed as "...
As Thailand continues to battle its worst floods for 50 years, Bangkok residents are dealing with massive piles of garbage stacking up around the flood-stricken city, prompting worries over tainted water...
...to change your passwords! Daylight Savings Time ended on Sunday, for those of us who live in DST-observing areas, so that means that once again, it's time to change your passwords and the batteries in ...
Wall Street bull survives attack by matador; clowns arrested BY ANDY BICHLBAUM ON NOV 9 2011 - 8:21AM *CLOWNS ARRESTED IN NEAR-SUCCESSFUL ATTACK ON WALL STREET BULL * Matador, bull both survive to fight ano...
"This is a test. This is only a test." When millions of Americans hear that warning at 2 p.m. ET Wednesday, the words will sound familiar, but the occasion will be historic. It will mark the first-ever na...
Fishing in the World Heritage-listed waters off the coast of Gladstone is a business for many and a popular pastime for locals, but ever since the outbreak of disease in marine life, the industry there has...
[image: Carcasses of drought-stricken cattle lie outside the Kenya Meat Commission (KMC) factory near Athi River, 50km (31 miles) east of the capital Nairobi, Friday, 18 September 2009. AP] By Joe Romm ...
Thanks first off to NYSC aka Ali/the naked facts for leaving a couple of interesting link here! Both worth reading. Secondly, were going long- though I will try to keep this post as short as possible. Let'...
[image: Algae-rich water from the Mississippi River feeds into the Gulf of Mexico. The green color of the river water on the right indicates a plume of phytoplankton, which grows in excess as fertilizer ...
The Penn State scandal is a 2011 child sex abuse scandal. This involves allegations against former Pennsylvania State University football assistant coach *Jerry Sandusky.* It also involves allegations of...
(By American Zen's Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari Goldstein.) *Voters turned a skeptical eye toward conservative-backed measures across the country Tuesday, rejecting an anti-labor law in Ohio, an anti-...
[image: Radar image shows the massive storm moving into Alaska early Wednesday, 9 November 2011. CNN] November 9 (CNN) – A winter storm of hurricane strength was slamming Alaska early Wednesday with win...
Ole Jørgen Hammeken (above) at an Oct. 27, 2011, taping of Rag Radio at the KOOP studios in Austin. (The show was aired Nov. 4, 2011.) Inset below is filmmaker Marc Buriot. Photos by Michelle Manteris / The ...
There was a lot going on the past couple of weeks and one of the items that went before voters last night may have been overlooked by the general public – but we all need to be aware of it. *Mississippi In...
posted by David Preiser (USA) at
Biased BBC - 13 hours ago
One of the battalion of Beeboids covering the US these days, Jonny Dymond, has just done an extremely one-sided collection of sob stories for Todayabout the struggles of the middle class. He went to a coup...
Students descended on London today to demonstrate against tuition fees and spending cuts. Hundreds of police officers lined the route as around 2,500 demonstrators started a march to voice their anger ove...
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*Download posters at:* http://occuprint.org/pmwiki/**Posters/Posters Nearly four dozen posters available for free download and print. About OccuPrint: OccuPrint emerged when The Occupied Wall Street Jo...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:49:21 UTC Wednesday 9th November 2011. The epicenter was 58 km ( 36 miles) SSW of Neiafu, Tonga No Tsunami W...
Birds of prey may have a macho image, but some male raptors look and act feminine, fooling everyone.
Okay...I guess I can't resist anymore. Here are the links! Truthout The Pressure Is On: Thousands Encircle White House, Tell Obama to Reject Keystone Pipeline Plus, a cameo on the HuffPo! Keystone XL ...
*News, you missed.* * Question would you want to live 500 years married to the same person? We are getting the first looks at the possibility of being able to live longer and healthier lives, Who will be...
*It's the only time money doesn't affect AmeriKan politics for some strange reason. * "After Romney, the *next most prolific New Hampshire fund-raiser* was *Representative Ron Paul *of Texas, who took in ...
Upcoming Android-based watches, some made of gold, will connect to smart phones via Bluetooth.
The Microsoft Kinect helps create a robo-pooch with a female voice and wheels instead of paws.
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wmtc - 14 hours ago
While in New York last week, I finally made it to The High Line. The High Line is a unique city park that opened in 2009. I've been meaning to go there ever since, but now I'm glad I waited: the second sta...
The professional camera is capable of high-resolution digital motion picture production.
Recently a Democratic strategist told some colleagues in the battle against the 1% that he felt badly about this but that times are tough and he has a family to support and that he might have to take a j...
Iran is getting closer to creating a nuclear bomb, a new report finds. What's involved and how close are they?
"He is *not a strong debater*, and he contends that his *up-close charisma*and ability to take a more *personalized message* directly to voters is the *key to his success*.... --**more--" * * *Related: Go...
Reader Contribution; Iran has started moving nuclear material to an underground facility for the pursuit of sensitive atomic activities, a U.N. nuclear agency report showed, a development likely to add to...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Banda Sea at a depth of 440.2 km 273.5( miles), the quake hit at 11:23:26 UTC Wednesday 9th November 2011. The epicenter was 238 km ( 147 miles) Northeast of Dili, ...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 53 km ( 32.8 miles), the quake hit at 10:43:27 UTC Wednesday 9th November 2011. The epicenter was 134 km ( 83 miles) East of Nemuro, Jap...
*At this point even pandering to Israel will not save her.* "Bachmann would keep troops in Iraq past 2012 Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann said yesterday that the *United States should keep troop...
A magnitude 3.0 earthquake has struck Oklahoma at a depth of 4.9 km (3 miles), the quake hit at 12:08:36 UTC Wednesday 9th November 2011. The epicenter was 26 km ( 16 miles) NNE of Shawnee, Oklahoma No Repo...
Feds hope to overturn Duval ruling that blamed Army Corps for massive flooding by its own engineers 8.29.05~Update ~Flood Control Act of 1928 ~Hat Tip~ Levees.org Streetcar plans for North Rampart Street a...
Yesterday was something like a mini-dress rehearsal for the momentous elections coming up in 364 days, the first Tuesday of November, 2012, in which voters will pick between a mainstream conservative and ...
Most women can't resist a good gossip. But it seems discussing other people over a bottle of wine is more than just a enjoyable passtime among girlfriends. Women have a basic evolutionary need to voice ...
- One theory suggests smoking might impact oestrogen production - Some researchers believe certain components found in cigarettes might kill eggs [image: Risk: According to experts female sm...
- Winner says 'it's the happiest day of my life' after collecting huge sum of money A German poker professional who was thinking of quitting the game to return to college has won an incredib...
Do you sit next to a whingeing workmate who constantly moans about fellow colleagues, workload or politics? Do you listen patiently while she worries about bosses, boyfriends or boring bank issues? If...
Boiling it down to a single number: Will an Ocean Health Index provide the next GDP for EEZs?
The Fermi 2 plant in Monroe County is among 35 U.S. nuclear reactors being advised to test their ability to shut down automatically after an earthquake. DTE Energy officials say the Fermi 2 reactor is ro...
Reader Contribution; A series of wild storms sweeping across Victoria has damaged homes, brought down trees and caused flash flooding. The storms have lashed Melbourne after earlier wreaking havoc in nort...
No other international protests in recent memory (with perhaps the exception of the global justice movement) have enjoyed the worldwide solidarity of the Occupy movements. Around 1,500 Occupy chapters hav...
More than 5,000 Haitian cholera victims have filed a petition with the United Nations, demanding millions of dollars in compensation for their suffering in an epidemic widely blamed on Nepalese peacekeeper...
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Biased BBC - 19 hours ago
Well. it looks like Berlusconi is following Papandreou out through the exit door, as demanded by Merkozy. This morning, the BBC pondered the future for Italy. Naturally, they push the "tighter fiscal and p...
*Editor's Note: **Laicie Olson is Senior Policy Analyst at The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, where her work focuses on weapons proliferation, military spending and global security issues.*...
Twin sisters have been arrested for murder after their three young children were left alone to die in a fire in their home. Akeevia Lajoseia Abner and Tekeevia Lajoseialan Abner, 18, from Atmore, Alabama ...
MOVE ALONG.... You're holding up the line. The Home Secretary is expected to face MPs for the third time in as many days later after being accused of misleading Parliament over border checks. Last night ...
Child killer Jon Venables is being kept in prison for his own safety – because he cannot be trusted with keeping a new identity secret. Venables and his friend Robert Thompson were ten when they were jaile...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Bismarck Sea, Papua New Guinea Region at a depth of 34.7 km ( 21.6 miles), the quake hit at 09:07:35 UTC Wednesday 9th November 2011. The epicenter was 173 km ( 10...
Having caught two suspects over thefts from allotments, police decided to hold an identity parade. Except that in this case, the ‘usual suspects’ being lined up for inspection were the stolen fruit and ve...
*Tomb of Tutankhamun * *Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass* moved two child mummies from Egypt's Bahariya Oasis to a museum. Hawass was haunted by the children in his dreams. The haunting continued until...
First there was fog, then the target was unreachable... but finally, Keck astronomers snapped the image everyone had been waiting for: the first infrared observation of Asteroid 2005 YU55.
“Don't get me wrong, I'm an absolute zillionaire many times over, and I thoroughly enjoy the freedom it gives me. Yet I can't help but notice that for many, if they spent less time gainfully seeking oppor...
*New paper pretty much excludes values above the IPCC mean value of 3 °C* As I learned from The World Climate Report, *the Science Magazine* is just printing an article that significantly reduces the IPCC ...
Police are hunting a vandal who covered his face with the mask made famous by the Scream films as he caused £100,000 worth of damage to parked cars. CCTV footage caught the offender striking at a dealershi...
A shamed Olympics ambassador turned over to police by her mother after taking part in the London riots has been jailed for two years. Talented athlete Chelsea Ives was seen throwing bricks and missiles dur...
Students will take to the streets of London again later - almost a year after a mass protest over university tuition fees erupted into violence. Organisers predict as many as 10,000 people will take part ...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Nevada at a depth of 0 km ( Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 06:40:23 UTC Wednesday 9th November 2011. The epicenter was 30 km ( 19 miles) Southeast of Eureka, Nev...
Mother Nature seems to acceptjust about any sort of protocol to ensure species survival and including cannibalism as part of the tool kit makes total sense in these obscureexamples. Our preoccupation...
The good news is that we are nowlearning how to inject useful cells into the brain itself allowing the originalpromise of stem cell therapy to be met. The early going suggests that it works enough to pl...
This is another promisingdiscovery in the field of cancer research. It will be asking way too much to actually block metastasis with asimple drug or we might have long since stumbled over it. Yet we n...
The leaking of the newest IAEA report on the Iranian nuclear program has predictably sent the media into a fear-mongering frenzy. *The Jerusalem Post* giddily reports that the IAEA says "the Islamic Repu...
*Al-Harati was given money by American spooks.* The Sunday World Front Page News concerns a gang of Irish gypsies who reportedly stole €200,000 in cash from the Dublin home of a top anti-Gaddafi leader. ...
We have long been obsessed with how women’s bodies and health are altered by motherhood — what it does to their hormones, brain power, relationships and even their risk of cancer and other diseases. But...
Bachelors are twice as likely to die of cancer compared with married men, a study has found. Researchers who looked at cancer death rates over 40 years found that men and women who had never married wer...
Men fall for scams on social networking sites more easily than women, according to the results of a survey of more than 1,500 internet users in the UK and U.S. And it's not just because women are natura...
Angus Wright. Screen grab from Vimeo.The fire next time is now:Environmental historian Angus Wright’scall for a planetary patriotismBy Robert Jensen / The Rag Blog / November 9, 2011Angus Wright has a way of...
[image: Danger? There are 70m mobiles in the UK] Danger? There are 70m mobiles in the UK Mobile phones could be a 'health time bomb', say experts who are urging ministers to warn the public. More than...
* the**REALnews Permalink* *Report from Oakland Occupation* T.M. Scruggs: Significant development in the Occupy Movement as Oakla...
*Russia has launched a risky bid to scoop up rock and dust samples from the Martian moon Phobos and bring them back to Earth for study.* The dusty debris should provide fresh insights into the origin of ...
A second horse in as many weeks fell in the middle of a Manhattan street Friday night, reigniting tensions over the horse-drawn-carriage industry. The debate raged two weeks ago when a horse died, and w...
November 3, 2011 at 14:35:49 *Promoted to Headline (H3) on 11/3/11:* Permalink Western Democracy: A Farce And A Sham *By paul craig roberts (about the author)* opednews.com Every day that pas...
For those capable of grasping astronomical distances, this is what they would probably describe as a near miss. An asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier yesterday whistled past Earth at a distance of 2...
The accident at the Idaho National Laboratory occurred inside a deactivated reactor housed in a facility used for remotely handling, processing and examining spent nuclear fuel, radioactive waste and other...
[image: Risk of a recession in European Economies] *Asian markets placed the modest gains after Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said he would step down, boosting optimism that problems in the eur...
Jon Stewart calls Corzine a ‘motherf*cker’ for supporting Wall St. fraud The contrasting political and financial versions of former New Jersey governor and Goldman Sachs CEO Jon Corzine (D) was on Jon Stew...
The Mars hex that has cost Russia its past three probes may be at work again: Phobos-Grunt appears to be in trouble only hours after launch.
*-by Nick Ruiz* 1. Adams elected John ‘Republican Obstructionist’ Boehnor (OH-8) as the Speaker of the House, by which Adams ushered in the most ineffective House and leadership Congress has ever seen in...
The mysterious deaths gripped the nation back in the 1920s and 30s. More than 20 people linked to the opening of Tutankhamun's burial chamber in Luxor in 1923 died in bizarre circumstances, six of them in ...
The hijacked U.S. and Israel (Usrael) are targeting their next victim: Persia. A full-scale attack is on the agenda. Expect total war, the destruction of the world economy, tens of millions killed and ...
Outraged community groups have attacked a Sydney escort agency for offering the virginity of a 19-year-old woman for $15,000. MyOutCall Australia is offering the Chinese student for four days in exchange ...
Nicolas Sarkozy was last night embroiled in a diplomatic row after being overheard calling Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu a liar. Unaware that journalists were listening to their private conversation, ...
Ken Clarke last night admitted the Government had not completed a single prisoner transfer agreement to get rid of foreign criminals since coming to power 18 months ago. Jails are crowded with overseas in...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck New Zealand at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 09:22 NZDT Wednesday 9th November 2011. The epicenter was 10 km ( 6.2 miles) Northeast of Springfield, New...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck off the Coast of New Zealand at a depth of 50 km (31 miles), the quake hit at 06:14 NZDT Wednesday 9th November 2011. The epicenter was 30 km ( 18.6 miles) Northeast o...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Salta, Argentina at a depth of 200.2 km (124.4 miles), the quake hit at 02:35:33 UTC Wednesday 9th November 2011. The epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) WNW San Antonio de ...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Northern Iran at a depth of 30 km (18.6 miles), the quake hit at 01:20:44 UTC Wednesday 9th November 2011. The epicenter was 126 km ( 78 miles) SSW of Gyzylarbat, Turkm...
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 22:45:08 UTC Tuesday 8th November 2011. The epicenter was 57 km ( 35 miles) Eas...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Salta, Argentina at a depth of 142.6 km (88 miles), the quake hit at 22:06:11 UTC Tuesday 8th November 2011. The epicenter was 77 km (47 miles) WSW San Antonio de los C...
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 9.4 km (5.8 miles), the quake hit at 22:05:51 UTC Tuesday 8th November 2011. The epicenter was 32 km ( 19 miles) Northwest of Van, Turkey N...
Paul Goodman. Image from Zeitgeist Films / Sam Falk for The New York Times.Moving the vision forward:Building a new societyAlthough the times are so different from the 1960s, perhaps the vision of community ...
“These bright rims and flowing shapes suggest to some melting ice cream on a cosmic scale. Looking toward the constellation Cassiopeia, the colorful (zoomable) skyscape features the swept back, comet-shape...
"The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. He is not actually happy when free; he is uncomfortable, a bit alarmed, an...
*Probably it won't be these exact cue cards that'll be used in Catholic churches, but it's nice to see clergyfolk adapting to the times.* *"Priests have been discussing the changes in homilies, in notices...
*The consummate corporate creation.* "Female voters drawn to Romney this time; Economic focus, image resonating" by Matt Viser | Globe Staff, November 07, 2011 EXETER, N.H. - Over the course of Mitt ...
For a number of reasons, thereputation of Pope Pius XII was clouded by a series of calumnies after the WWII. Foremost is the propensity of the uninformedto want to believe the worst in people when that...
About 49 million years ago, a mite decided to hitch a ride on a spider's head; then a blop of tree resin fell on them.
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Despite writing what some have called the ultimate dystopian novel describing America’s future —a future that many see coming to pass with virtually every new headline coming out of Washington—Ayn Rand w...
Australian troops are hunting for a rogue Afghan soldier who shot and wounded three diggers, just 10 days after three Australians were killed in a similar attack. The Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier op...
*Being a misogynist womanizer is what it takes to be president?!** * *"Cain clarified his position on abortion [saying] he opposes abortion even in a case of rape, incest, or when the life of the mother is...
*“Hope”* by Chet Raymo “Here is one of the most beautiful artifacts from pre-Columbian America, the life-sized Hopewell hand, cut from a thin sheet of natural mica by a craftsman who lived a thousand year...
"The color of skin makes no difference. What is good and just for one is good and just for the other, and the Great Spirit made all men brothers. I have a red skin, but my grandfather was a white man. Wha...
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*"One of the deeply foolish subtexts of the Parliamentary debate on the Wheat Board is the assumption that without our Wheat Board the US market will open its arms to Canadian grain, and we can send grai...
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[image: image] For centuries philosophers and anthropologists have been arguing about what the hypothetico-historical “State of Nature” might have looked like way back before the advent of civilisation:...
*Today at Censored News * http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Mohawks from Akwesasne arrived on Rosebud and Pine Ridge in South Dakota with a truck load of supplies as winter approaches. They are families ...
[image: A swell buffets the hull of the cargo ship Rena that was grounded on a reef off Tauranga, New Zealand. AP] November 07 (AAP) – New Zealand salvage experts are pumping seawater into the *Rena's* ...
"High-pay housing director resigns; Chelsea official agrees to Patrick's demand; $360,000 salary drew wide criticism" by Andrea Estes and Sean P. Murphy Globe Staff / November 3, 2011 The *head of the Che...
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So we’ve had the debate about Labour’s spreadsheets and how many times Phil Goff features on their billboards, and about John Key’s cats and who once hit him back in Primary School. So the question for ...
"The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instin...
*The old Fred* Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI) has had a very cushy life and a very cushy political career, both based on being born into the 1%. He's the son of one of Michigan's wealthiest families, self-styled ...
A Zenit rocket blasted off from Kazakhstan on Tuesday with a Russian spacecraft to return samples from the Martian moon Phobos and a Chinese probe designed to spend a year studying Mars.
6th woman steps forward to accuse Herman Cain of sexual harassment, says, "That muthafuckah fuck anything that moves!"
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*Guest post: Allan reports on "An Evening with S. Brian Willson", a benefit for the War Resisters Support Campaign, Monday, November 7, 2011.* *(Willson speaking at a church in San Francisco, July 2011)* ...
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Australia’s PM Julia Gillard has just passed a carbon tax tax on its producers after promising pre-election she wouldn’t. New Zealand’s PM John Key introduced an Emissions Trading Scam after promising pr...
A report expected this week from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has Israel abuzz with talk of the potential for a pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. Western diplomats have to...
The head of the UK Border Force has quit and declared he will sue the Government for constructive dismissal over claims he relaxed controls without permission. Brodie Clark has also launched a scathing a...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Bonin Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 34.4 km (21.4 miles), the quake hit at 20:07:48 UTC Tuesday 8th November 2011. The epicenter was 132 km ( 82 miles) NNE f...
A new study claims that half of school students are sexually harassed. But a close look at the research yields some surprising results.
A look at how DNA testing works, and what it will take to determine whether Justin Bieber is a father.
"As the state moves closer to enacting a redistricting plan that eliminates one of its 10 congressional seats, the two most likely scenarios pit the eastern part of the state against the western.... * * *...
According to *Reuters,* Silvio Berlusconi has announced he'll step down, resigning as Italy's prime minister as soon as a budget reform bill is passed. "*After the approval of this finance law, which ha...
[image: An endangered black rhino is airlifted to safety from poachers. The seventh black rhino population established by the WWF Black Rhino Range Expansion Project, was recently released after an epic ...
A defense convoy has left its base in the northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido to join drills in southern Japan aimed at beefing up security for remote Japanese islands near China. The Ground Self-Defense ...
It has been part of Mormon scripture that blacks embodied the "curse of Cain." Early LDS leader, Brigham Young warned against "mingling" with blacks. "*The moment we consent to mingle with the seed of Ca...
A military strike against Iran over its nuclear program would be a serious mistake with unpredictable consequences, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. Lavrov pointed out that there is no ...
A facility in Syria, which the UN’s nuclear watchdog suspected to be a uranium-enrichment site masked to look as a yarn-spinning factory, is and has always been a yarn spinning factory, a journalistic inve...
A cameraman from a local TV station has been killed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during an operation by security forces against drug traffickers. Brazilian police say the 46-year-old cameraman was shot in th...
"Wisconsin Catholic bishops are asking parishioners to avoid carrying guns into church, now that a new law permitting residents of the state to carry concealed weapons has gone into effect." I myself hav...
These speed bumps harvest kinetic energy from passing vehicles to light up cities.
Massive floodwater from the outskirts of Bangkok continues to spread towards the inner part of the city with potentially serious impact. Although floodwater slowed on Monday, it had already spread into a s...
At least one person has died after shots were reportedly fired during an opposition protest in Monrovia ahead of Liberia's presidential run-off. A BBC reporter saw the body of a young man who had been shot...
It has been a wet and deadly November in Italy so far. And on Monday, it would appear that the floods which crippled parts of the country late last week could continue into this week. Italian authorities ...
Italian President Giorgio Napolitano has announced the country’s long-ruling Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will step down from his position after austerity measures are implemented. Earlier in the day,...
Alaska is facing a life threatening winter storm with near hurricane force winds, more than a foot of snow and severe coastal flooding, the National Weather Service says. "This is an extremely dangerous a...
Self-professed conservatives now outnumber self-professed liberals in the United States, 42 percent to 21 percent, according to a Gallup poll published Monday. Another 37 percent described themselves as mo...
I'm sure you will have been following the BBC coverage of the "Open Borders" issue. Now like everyone else, I expect that UK borders are securely guarded and I have grave doubts regarding Theresa May's ab...
Spotted horses actually existed tens of thousands of years ago, a study shows, proving cavemen painted them realistically.
BBC astronomy presenter Mark Thompson shares his opinion about how best to communicate space science.
Australia's upper house passed a controversial pollution tax on Tuesday in what the government called an "historic day" after years of bitter debate which felled a sitting prime minister. Cheers and appla...
A pair of Southland street cart vendors who were forced to shut down their businesses after “Occupy” protesters vandalized their carts are hoping to get some help from local residents. KNX 1070′s Tom Reop...
Federal investigators said Tuesday they uncovered “gross mismanagement” at the Dover Air Force Base mortuary that cares for America’s war dead after whistleblowers reported horror stories of lost body part...
Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier said Monday that her department is adjusting its tactics in response to Occupy D.C.’s “increasingly confrontational and violent” demonstrations, following the acti...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 19:34:26 UTC Tuesday 8th November 2011. The epicenter was 16 km ( 9.4 miles) South of Ercis, Turkey No R...
As the global financial crisis continues to hit the eurozone, Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, and other European leaders have been banking on China to step in and wave its magic wand. But is China...
A magnitude 3.6 earthquake has struck Oklahoma at a depth of 5.1 km (3.2 miles), the quake hit at 19:05:17 UTC Tuesday 8th November 2011. The epicenter was 26 km ( 16 miles) NNE of Shawnee, Oklahoma No Repo...
SEVEN men are being treated by paramedics after a chemical accident at an industrial unit in Brimsdown. The incident, at an estate in Jeffreys Road, is thought to be a carbon monoxide leak and three indus...
We had a deal of sorts from the eurozone leaders - but it was a terrible deal for Greece. Now it seems the Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has flown back to Athens, and in the cold light of the day,...
*"Foxes and Reptiles: * *Psychopathy and the Financial Meltdown"* by Jonathan Zap "The present financial meltdown may only be the latest example of the incalculable harm done to civilization, and countles...
The overdue, overbudget F-35 will, yawn, be another two years late. A USAF general informed a congressional panel today that the long-delayed aircraft, most recently promised for 2016, won't be availabl...
Ethan Nadelman of Drug Policy Alliance calls a spade a 'f' - ing Shovel. salem-news.com Nov-08-2011 Dr. Phil Leveque (MOLALLA, Ore.) - I am completely flummoxed by the complete u-turn made by our presi...
A 12-year old girl died and 10 more persons, including a family of four, are presently confined at a public hospital here due to separate cases of food poisoning. A report from the city district hospital...
A giant Pacific storm headed toward Alaska's western coast has the potential to cause major coastal flooding, serious beach erosion, heavy snowfall and widespread damage, according to the National Weather ...
Dead fish found floating in waterbodies in Salt Lake and Sector V has alarmed city environmentalists. Recently, Peoples' Green Society, a green NGO, noticed several fish dying on the small waterbodies off ...
A tornado was confirmed in southwestern Oklahoma on Monday afternoon, and there were reports of several more with the storm. The tornado appears to have touched down near the Texas state line and moved no...
At least 50 people are under observation and 21 have been hospitalised following the confirmation of typhoid in two cases. The bacterial disease causes fever and diarrhea and the public are being urged to ...
A 49-year-old man died after he fell while he tried to kill swarming bees in his family's longtime home. Officials say the cause of death won't be known until an autopsy is completed. But Donald Mason's b...
*"Coffee: Good or Bad for Us? The Verdict is IN"* By Aging and Parkinson's and Me "For most of us, the potential benefits of coffee far outweigh the risks. Over the last few years, a surprising number of...
On 13 January 2011, Lewis McGlynn was found hanged in his room at the family home in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire. (Lewis McGlynn, 8, hanged himself.) Each of the following cases is different, and t...
*"Denial, Delusion and MSM Disinformation"* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "What is going on in the world today is both frightening and historic. It is frightening because the amount of debt accumulat...
Emergency crews responded to a home Saturday to help save a couple being stung by a swarm of bees. The incident happened Saturday in the Sun 'n Lake community of Highlands County. According to reports, C...
While the international community is fixated on events taking place across the Middle East, they are turning a blind eye to desperate cries for help by the Papuan people. Seeing Indonesian rule of their la...
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved." - Helen Keller
Young protesters marched through the streets of Washington, DC, carrying an inflatable "pipeline" as long as a city block. Photo by Mike Ludwig / Truthout.The pressure is on:Thousands encircle White House,te...
*"To Read Others' Emotions, It Helps to be Poor"* by Stephanie Pappas "Money can't buy you happiness - or social skills, apparently. A new study finds those who are poor are better at empathy than the wea...
At the G20 America is perhaps inevitably on the sidelines. Exhorting. Not laying down the law. But some worry that has become almost doctrine. President Obama's actions abroad can exacerbate existing worri...
Families would have no legal right to stop dead relatives' organs being used for transplant if the person has not opted out in advance, under a proposed Welsh law. However, Health Minister Lesley Griffi...
When an infertile man wants to have children with his wife, or a lesbian couple wants to start a family, or a single woman want to raise a baby on her own -- they all have to rely on a male outsider. Typi...
The night Marine Scott Olsen was shot in Oakland (Photos from videos by Censored News) *ACLU Blog of Rights* Posted by Linda Lye, ACLU of Northern California The Oakland Police Department oversaw the use o...
*AmericanIndian Movement of Colorado Stands in Solidarity Action against the Tar Sands* *By TessaMcLean, Anishinaabe, American Indian Movement Colorado leader* *Censored News* DENVER -- On November 5th, 2...
*A message from Ben Nuvamsa* We are at a Cross Roads! Critical issues face the Hopi Tribe and the Navajo Nation concerning our tribal water, coal, environment, our culture and our economy. We must becom...
. Photo by Clayton Conn Tar Sands Action Click on video below: Tar Sands: Ring Around the White House from Jay Mallin on Vimeo. Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
Feelings of financial insecurity could overwhelm the Christmas giving spirit, making Canadians less likely to splurge on holiday shopping this season, according to a survey released Tuesday by Deloitte Can...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck offshore Antofagasta, Chile at a depth of 50 km (31 miles), the quake hit at 17:31:28 UTC Tuesday 8th November 2011. The epicenter was 50 km ( 31 miles) Northwest of T...
*"Bombs, Bridges and Jobs"* by Paul Krugman "A few years back Representative Barney Frank coined an apt phrase for many of his colleagues: weaponized Keynesians, defined as those who believe “that the go...
The White House says it has no evidence that extraterrestrial creatures exist. The Obama administration made the unusual declaration Monday in response to a feature on its website that allows people to su...
Iran has acquired the knowledge and technology to create a nuclear bomb within months according to information leaked from a report by the United Nation’s atomic watchdog. A report by the Washington Post ...
More than 3,500 Syrians have been killed since the government crackdown on protesters started in the country in mid-March, a spokeswoman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said Tuesday. "We...
Fish in schools manage to go with the flow and not crash into each other by following simple rules.
South Korean officials said Tuesday the country has approved $6.94 million in aid to be sent to its neighbor through the World Health Organization. The announcement follows a meeting last week between U.N....
State law enforcement officers arrested 22 people Monday night after they refused to leave Iolani Palace grounds. Members of the Hawaiian Kingdom Government, who claim the state of Hawaii is a "puppet gov...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 7 km (4.3 miles), the quake hit at 17:24:52 UTC Tuesday 8th November 2011. The epicenter was 28 km ( 17.3 miles) Northwest of Van, Turkey N...
The UN's nuclear watchdog says it has information indicating Iran has carried out tests "relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device". In its latest report on Iran, the IAEA says the researc...
General Assembly at Occupy Wall Street in New York. Photos by Caroline Schiff / Flickr.A 'granny-report' from Occupy Wall Street:Discouraged about today's youth?Fuggeddaboudit!!!I left the meeting with a sin...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck offshore Libertador O'Higgins, Chile at a depth of 11 km (6.8 miles), the quake hit at 17:18:11 UTC Tuesday 8th November 2011. The epicenter was 72 km ( 44 miles) SSW ...
One of the most worrisome aspects (there are several) of the Harper government's F-35 fetish is the paltry number of them we'll be able to afford. This deal is already stretched so tight, and getting t...
A Red Arrows pilot has been seriously injured in an incident at the team's world-famous aerobatics base. Paramedics were called to RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire today after the incident - on the ground, no...
Your local news stations and the Mainstream Media (MSM) may not be covering this, but we are. From The Big Picture: Occupy Wall Street Global Protests Global protests against economic injustice gripped cit...
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[image: Clients of the weekly food pantry at Vineyard Community Church in Wickliffe, Ohio, wait for their turn, October 2011. Dustin Franz for The New York Times] By HOPE YEN, Associated Press 7 Novem...
As a delegate to the Democratic Convention, Norman Solomon had high hopes for Barack Obama. Now he wonders if the emperor isn't kind of scantily clad. "We have to fight for our progressive principles," h...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 6 km (3.7 miles), the quake hit at 14:35:37 UTC Tuesday 8th November 2011. The epicenter was 25 km ( 15 miles) Northeast of Van, Turkey No ...
Writ in stone. Image from Addicting Info.'Substantive and meaningful':Congressional Republicans attend tothe urgent business of promoting religionBy Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog / November 8, 2011Republic...
A California doctor says he has perfected a surgery that would irreversibly turn brown eyes blue. But is it safe?
Pacific Islanders are on tour working to protect and share their culture before it gets washed away.
Mohawks from Akwesasne share with Lakotas on Rosebud and Pine Ridge in South DakotaFrom Neddie Katsisiaiohne, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011"We arrivedSKENNENTAIA'KWA: HAWI still have to get the donations to r...
22-year-old Molly Katchpole and 300,000 other petition signer’s victory over Bank of America may be part of a much larger trend — a consumer backlash against corporate America. “Every company is now sitti...
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The open mic blunder has been reported variously as: "I cannot stand him. He's a liar," Sarkozy told Obama. The US president responded by saying: "You're fed up with him? I have to deal with him every day...
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An unguarded moment. They didn't think anyone could hear. That was when French president Nicholas Sarkozy turned to Barack Obama and said exactly what he thinks of Benjamin Netanyahu, "*I can't stand him...
The year of the incumbent continues in Canada, with Brad Wall taking 49 of 58 seats and 64% of the vote.
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*by Noah* Who says the world’s corporate leaders are charter members of what I call "the endless parade of chimps, assholes, and morons"? Well, I do, for one. Here’s a prime example that you may have mis...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Utah at a depth of 0.1 km (0 miles Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 04:27:45 UTC Thursday 10th November 2011. The epicenter was 9 km ( 6 miles) Northwest of Orang...
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck near the North Coast of Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 20 km (12.4 miles), the quake hit at 02:34:52 UTC Thursday 10th November 2011. The epicenter was 277 km ( 172 mi...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 22:38:18 UTC Wednesday 9th November 2011. The epicenter was 5 km ( 3.1 miles) Northwest of Edremit, Turk...
- Reduced salt intake can trigger rise in cholesterol and increase risk of blood clots - Supports previous findings showing 'no strong evidence' cutting back salt lowers risk of premature ...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Kamchatka, Russia at a depth of 51.3 km (31.9 miles), the quake hit at 22:01:04 UTC Wednesday 9th November 2011. The epicenter was 99 km ( 61 miles) S...
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck South of the Mariana Islands at a depth of 9.9 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:52:20 UTC Wednesday 9th November 2011. The epicenter was 355 km ( 220 miles) SSE of...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands at a depth of 56.1 km (34.9 miles), the quake hit at 21:07:35 UTC Wednesday 9th November 2011. The epicenter was 266 km ( 165 miles) NNE of Raoul ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 20:45:40 UTC Wednesday 9th November 2011. The epicenter was 9 km ( 5.9 miles) Southeast of Van, Turkey N...
[image: Home workers struggle to escape the strains of family life] Home workers struggle to escape the strains of family life With no commute, unlimited tea breaks and no need to look smart, it sounds ...
Women aren't prioritising or enjoying sex as much as much as they should be, says the organisation behind a new sexual health survey. The annual WomenTALK study, commissioned by HealthyWomen, looked at t...
[image: Knock the years off... by just smiling] Knock the years off... by just smiling Forget the face lift and push aside the anti-ageing creams - all you need to do is smile. A study found that the s...
posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoParliament is under pressure to hold a controversial debate on immigration, after more than 100,000 people signed a petition calling for curbs on people entering Britain. An online petition launched by M...
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