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A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the
Ryukyu Islands, Japan at a depth of 108.8 km (67.6 miles), the quake hit at 17:09:46
UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 217 km ( 135 miles) SSW of Ka...
Prime Minister George A. Papandreou went on national television on Wednesday evening to announce that a new interim government had been formed. But he did not name his successor, and in the hours that foll...
Thousands of students marched through London on Wednesday in the latest display of anger against the Conservative-led government’s austerity measures. Four similar protests by students late last year led ...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck
Western Montana at a depth of 6 km (3.7 miles), the quake hit at 17:51:54 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 8 km ( 4.9 miles) Southeast of Clinton, Monta...
The woman in the screenshot above has just jumped off a bridge onto a busy Chinese highway. In the video from which this screeshot was taken, it is clear the woman is still alive as she lies sprawled in ...
Russian scientists are struggling to get the country's first interplanetary mission in 15 years back on track. Should they fail, the probe that was due to head to the Martian moon Phobos may well turn in...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 26.3 km (16.3 miles), the quake hit at 17:57:23 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 45 km ( 28 miles) ENE of Van, Turkey No Re...
*"Completely and Utterly Fail in an Earthquake"* *The Fukushima story you didn't hear on CNN* *by Greg Palast* ** for FreePress.org Friday, November 11, 2011 I've seen a lot of sick stuff in my career, bu...
Traffic pollution's imprint may begin before birth as newborns with higher exposure show permanent genetic differences.
The exoskeleton helps lighten the load of a 132-pound anti-radiation vest.
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 37.9 km (23.6 miles), the quake hit at 16:06:18 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 177 km ( 110 miles) ...
The Liberal Roadmap to Renewal has been released and can be read here. There are several longer drafts floating around I've put on my weekend reading list, but at 80-100 pages, I may just wait for the movi...
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck the Tonga Region at a depth of 9.8 km (6.1 miles), the quake hit at 15:02:20 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 151 km ( 93 miles) Northeast of Neiafu, To...
One of the buzz stories of the week is in the new *Rolling Stone*, How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich. Where I grew up, they were always the Part of the Rich and, alas, in recent decades the Democra...
On this day I sometimes thumb through my dog-eared copy of Barry Broadfoot's "*Six War Years, Memories of Cahadians at Home and Abroad (1974)." *Broadfoot used the same technique as he did for his earl...
Russia launched an unmanned probe to one of Mars’ moons – Phobos – in the early hours of Wednesday, but it has hit technical trouble. Federal Space Agency officials say they have three days to sort the p...
Economists across the Continent have been warning about it for months. Now, the European Union too has said that a recession in the euro zone has become a distinct possibility. "Growth has stalled in Europ...
I confess the fact that a scientist in Texas made recently made the first strands of an invisibility cloak makes me really happy. Really nerdy, but really happy. I confess that as evil as they can be, I...
BBC, Reuters, AFP, and many other sources didn't overlook a message conveyed by the top Czech nuclear safety watchdog to IAEA: since October, the Czech stations (in Prague, Ústí, and elsewhere: not in Pi...
The U.N. nuclear agency is reporting "very low" — but higher than usual — levels of radiation in the Czech Republic and elsewhere in Europe. The International Atomic Energy Agency says the "very low levels...
The Pentagon crowd-sources parachute problems in humanitarian food drops.
A 4-year-old boy is in the fight of his young life after he was shot in the chest during a botched robbery in the Bronx. Police said the gunman, identified as 17-year-old Mauricio Acosta, pulled the trigg...
An armed elderly-looking man who robbed a bank inside a grocery a store in La Jolla was the so-called “Geezer Bandit,” according to the FBI. The bandit entered a Wells Fargo Bank located inside a Vons at 7...
An elderly Amish man has been attacked by his own son, who a sheriff says cut the man's hair and beard in the latest incident in a breakaway Amish community. The victim told the sheriff he was scared and u...
The home base for Occupy Atlanta has tested positive for tuberculosis. The Fulton County Health Department confirmed Wednesday that residents at the homeless shelter where protesters have been occupying ha...
A young man was fatally shot Thursday evening just yards from the Occupy Oakland encampment outside City Hall. And before the ambulance had even pulled away, people were debating whether the killing was so...
France is drawing up plans to create a breakaway organisation of eurozone countries with its own treaty, parliament and headquarters – a move that could significantly undermine the existing European Union....
Army Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs has been sentenced to life in military prison with eligibility for parole in 10 years. A military court-martial Thursday found Gibbs guilty of murdering three Afghan civilians...
Rep. Phil Gingrey has had three professions. He is a success in two of them. Gingrey was an obstetrician and proudly reports on his website that he has delivered 5,200 babies. He is a politician, represent...
That's right, high level rivers of moisture crossing the globe. Some are thought to carry more water than the Amazon. A report in *New Scientist* claims it was an Atmospheric River (AR) that caused the ...
Photo: Alameda Sheriff Deputies beating protesters, including young women, at UC-Berkeley on Wednesday. *Union City Police Officer blogs about Oakland and Alameda Sheriff's officers doing the 'dirty work' ...
From corrupt and incompetent local officials to Wall Street's credit crisis and toxic bonds, there was plenty of blame to go around on Thursday, a day after Alabama's Jefferson County declared the biggest ...
Vice President Joseph R. Biden, the landlord, can count on at least 12 more months of rental income from the agency that protects his life. Federal spending records show the U.S. Secret Service approved a ...
Oakmont Police are investigating after a 64-year-old man was hit in the head by a pumpkin. Police Chief David DiSanti says Rose and Daniel Wagner were walking along the 900-block of Pennsylvania Avenue ...
A group of armed men have stoned and shot dead a woman and her daughter in Afghanistan's Ghazni province, security officials have told the BBC. The officials blamed the Taliban, who they said had accused t...
The US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has said a military strike against Iran could have "unintended consequences". He said it would only delay Iran's nuclear efforts by three years at most. Correspondent...
Meet Oakland police officer Fred Shavies who infiltrated the Occupy Oakland movement. He says the police violence against the Occupy protesters could be their "Birmingham moment." It's a rambling comment...
Conservationists in New Zealand have blamed a technical glitch after 800 endangered giant land snails were accidentally frozen to death. The rare snails, rescued from an area earmarked for coal mining, wer...
The Syrian government's "systematic" crackdown on civilians amounts to crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said in a report issued Friday. The watchdog group has already urged the Arab League to pr...
Government forces shelled southwestern Yemen on Friday, killing 10 people and injuring 32 others, medics said. Fighting was ongoing in six areas in Taiz province, witnesses said. Clashes have intensified ...
The commercial heart of Thailand's capital is still at risk of flooding, with the next 10 days likely to be crucial in the battle to keep dry. So far the Central Business District, or CBD, has been shielde...
At least two bombs were dropped near the Yida refugee camp in South Sudan, resulting in an undetermined number of casualties, the spokesperson for U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday. "We are...
China's censors are trying to keep online criticism and rumours from reaching a broader audience, issuing new orders prohibiting news media from reporting internet postings before they are verified. The r...
Bette Grande, a North Dakota Republican running for Congress, says she'll "padlock the doors" of America's Environmental Protection Agency. Watch her bizarre campaign video:
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wmtc - 2 hours ago
It's 11.11.11 !!! And I'm posting this at 11:11, of course. 10.10.10 was cool, and 12.12.12 will be cool, too. And I love palindromes, so 12.22.21, if I'm around for it, will be totally kickass. But 11.11....
The Italian senate has adopted a package of austerity measures designed to avoid a bailout of the eurozone's third largest economy. The package is expected to get final approval in a vote by the lower hous...
If you want to know which way the political winds are blowing, watch John McCain. He was noticeably moderate, even a tad progressive, when he first ran against George w. Bush for the Republican nomination...
Saw a post on Huffington this morning that was of interest More than 60 state legislators are gathering for the invite-only leadership retreat hosted by the Progressive States Network, a group providing ...
It's been going on since January - record winds, an earthquake, floods, drought, tornadoes. Call it "global weirding" Oklahoma style. "*Even for Oklahoma, this is crazy," said Rick Smith, a National Weat...
In the last six weeks, Herman Cain has raised a whopping $9,000,000 in cash, $2.25 million coming since the sexual harassment scandal broke on * Politico* late last month. At the rate the money is flowing ...
Men in prehistoric Europe manipulated their privates with body art and piercings in ritual and to just fit in.
A solar-powered structure could transform desert air into ice and water.
Turn your existing coaxial cables into a network that maximizes wired, wireless and wide-band multimedia.
[image: The tanker Awanuia moves into position astern of the stricken container ship Rena to take a line which will transport oil between the two ships, about 12 nautical miles (22 km) from Tauranga, on ...
According to *Salon's* David Sirota, America is coming to its senses. He attributes it to a recent awareness of just two things - his country's burgeoning wealth gap and its collapsing social mobility. ...
[image: Pages from 'The Notebook', which investigative journalist Greg Palast uses to reveal that two senior nuclear plant engineers inspected the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and found that the plant...
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wmtc - 3 hours ago
There's only one thing wrong with this cartoon: it shows an actual sticker, rather than a magnet. These folks usually don't "support the troops" enough to glue a piece of plastic to their vehicles.
Musicians roundtable discussion on New Orleans noise ordinance is Saturday ~Allison Fensterstock Happy Veterans' Day Y'all! ~I believe that all Veterans of our Armed Forces should recieve: 1- All the benefi...
It's called the "Air-Sea Battle" concept and the US military has established a separate agency to put it into operation. Reading the Marine Corps concept summary the unmentioned name "Iran" leaps out at t...
Iodine 131 - also called radioiodine (though many other radioactive isotopes of this element are known), is an important radioisotope of iodine. It has a radioactive decay half-life of about eight days. I...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 94 km (58.2 miles), the quake hit at 14:00:08 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 23 km ( 14.2 miles) Northeast of Nabire, P...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 17 km (10.6 miles), the quake hit at 13:45:10 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 24 km ( 15.2 miles) North of Van, Turkey No ...
We have no defensible choice but to end the development of the Athabasca Tar Sands. The 'best case scenario' International Energy Agency analysis released a few days ago warns we're on course to exhaust...
A 20-year-old man suspected of carrying out a sick attack on a cat today walked into a police station and gave himself up after the RSPCA was inundated with calls identifying him. The suspect has been nam...
*Miss McConnell was booted out of the Army after one week for groping a private's privates. He's been getting revenge ever since* Maybe last week you saw the vicious attack by self-entitled 1%-er Steve Wo...
The extremely rare meteorite was found by a farmer in a tiny Missouri town called Conception Junction (population 202).
No law requires your employer to carry health insurance coverage for employees. However, once they do have coverage, there are some requirements they must comply with. If your employment has ended, read th...
*Greece's new coalition cabinet and Prime Minister-designate Lucas Papademos are due to be officially sworn in, after a week of political chaos. The new government's most pressing task is to approve Gree...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 33.6 km (20.9 miles), the quake hit at 12:44:12 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 176 km ( 110 miles) ...
Fat snowflakes began to fall onto dozens of rescue workers laboring with jackhammers and hack-saws through the rubble of a five story hotel, which collapsed in Wednesday night's 5.6 magnitude earthquake....
W*ith Europe slowed down in crisis, President Barack Obama is launching a charm offensive this week to hitch the U.S. economy to growth opportunities in Asia that he hopes can help power the recovery he ...
Government forces shelled southwestern Yemen on Friday, killing 10 people and injuring 32 others, medics said. Fighting was ongoing in six areas in Taiz province, witnesses said. Clashes have intensified...
Another blogger has been beheaded by a drug cartel as a warning for those who use social media to report illegal activities and tip off police. The moderator of a social network was left under a blood-sta...
Isn’t Kevin Connolly like Mark Mardell? They’ve both got alliterative sounding names, their voices sound similarly sneery, and they even wear the same shirt. Kevin has been busy in the West Bank recordin...
Strolling along in scruffy jeans and sneakers, this is the young boy who police claim raped a girl of five in a McDonald's Playland. After seeing these photos the boy's parents brought him to the police. ...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Ryukyu Islands, Japan at a depth of 38.5 km (23.9 miles), the quake hit at 11:34:45 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 236 km ( 147 miles) SSW of Kag...
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have received a letter from a person claiming to be responsible for the Halloween night death of a teenager from British Columbia. Taylor Van Diest, 18, was dresse...
The man allegedly caught on CCTV swinging a cat around by its tail has handed himself in to police, the RSPCA says. A statement released by the charity says a 20-year-old man from Ramsgate voluntarily ha...
Two offshore racers have been killed after their powerful speedboat flipped up into the air before crashing at high speed at a world championship event. Spectators and organisers watched as Big Thunder M...
Eating brown bread or wholegrain cereals three times a day cuts the risk of bowel cancer by a fifth, a major study has shown. But surprisingly, researchers found no 'significant evidence' that eating mo...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Izu Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 41.4 km (25.7 miles), the quake hit at 10:10:23 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 185 km ( 115 miles) ESE of...
*Yes, of course: this blog entry was accidentally posted in an 11-dimensional Universe on 11/11/11 at 11:11:11* *Go elsewhere to learn everything about 11* Last night, I went to Aussig (Czech: *Ústí nad L...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 10:02:46 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 286 km ( 177 miles) E...
With the eurozone in disarray, it's hardly the time for the EU to be flag waving. But proposals passed by the European Parliament yesterday say our sporting heroes should wear the EU flag on their nationa...
A senior manager of Transport for London fell six storeys to his death in front of shocked colleagues at the company's headquarters after allegedly hearing he was being made redundant. Jack Shemtob, 53, ...
A solicitor worried about paying his children’s private school fees jumped in front of a train and killed himself, an inquest heard. Vincent Buffoni, 49, was spending up to £30,000 a year to send Matthew, ...
[image: Limmy apologises for controversial tweets as Tory MP Louise Mensch gets involved] Is Brian "Limmy" Limond worthy of a BBC license payer funded pay cheque? "Scottish comedian Brian ‘Limmy’ Limond h...
[image: Mark Mardell] Mark Mardell is a busy chap these days. One moment is his salivating at Rick Perry's 53 seconds of forgetfulness during the latest GOP debate (It's finished Perry, reckons Mardell, a...
Africa's western black rhino is now officially extinct according the latest review of animals and plants by the world's largest conservation network. The subspecies of the black rhino -- which is classifi...
I wonder why some people get the idea that the BBC is pro-Palestinian and resolutely anti-Israel. Give this a listen. and weep. The bias is effortless. Click through to read and contribute comments on thi...
Venezuelan federal authorities on Thursday dispatched their "best investigators" to track the kidnappers of Major League Baseball catcher Wilson Ramos, the country's justice minister said. Ramos, a risin...
Facing international worries about the potential global impact of the country's financial crisis, Italy gave indications Thursday that there may be growing support for former EU commissioner Mario Monti to...
When the euro became official tender 12 years ago, it was hailed as an economic and social savior, "the beginning of a strong European Union," according to the EU's top official at the time. But now, in ...
The commercial heart of Thailand's capital is still at risk of flooding, with the next 10 days likely to be crucial in the battle to keep dry. So far the Central Business District, or CBD, has been shield...
Europe has been warned it could be *heading for a new recession next year*because of a "vicious circle" of government debt, vulnerable banks and a lack of consumer spending. US treasury secretary Timothy ...
The Syrian regime has committed crimes against humanity during its ongoing crackdown in Homs, according to a report by Human Rights Watch. The organisation says there is evidence of "systematic abuse" of ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia at a depth of 64 km (39.8 miles), the quake hit at 08:52:32 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 206 km ( 128 miles) SSE of Gen...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Araucania, Chile at a depth of 33.8 km (21 miles), the quake hit at 08:08:48 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 69 km ( 42 miles) SSW of Los Angeles, Bio-...
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*If Russian space scientists and engineers* don't succeed in restarting the engines of their "Phobos-Grunt" Mars mission it will return to Earth in an uncontrolled way about December 18th. Its cargo? Toxic...
Besides vapor, ice and liquid, a fourth form of water may exist at minus 54 degrees Fahrenheit.
*U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Thursday for a diplomatic resolution to the nuclear standoff with Tehran in a clear reaction to media speculation that Israel might attack Iran's atomic faci...
The real interesting thought hereis that a pig out diet of raw meat appears to specifically boost heart tissuegrowth. I put it that way to show justhow contrary this is to our traditional thinking. I...
I never miss a chance to be acheerleader for chocolate and research continues to support its role in allcirculatory diseases. Because it hasbeen used pretty exclusively in sugar based products in our o...
Read this item slowly. We can now construct a three dimensionalmatrix in silicon and establish a photonic switching system interlinked withelectronic control. Early days but it isall there to seriou...
One would think that with thehuge advances in imaging technology, that we would have a superior grasp of therelative positions of our stellar neighbors. Most folks do not know we are part of a supergro...
* Sir Keith Murdoch* Sir Keith Murdoch was the father of Rupert Murdoch. Sir Keith Murdoch made his name reporting on British bungling at Gallipoli in 1915. According to Piers Brendon, Sir Keith's report...
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Biased BBC - 11 hours ago
This is beginning to look like let's get Richard Black, but he (and the BBC idiots who employ him) deserve it. There is a delicious irony in this story. Mr Black has come out all guns blaring in support of...
Most galaxies are tiny little things, and two new dwarf galaxies have been spotted near the huge Andromeda Galaxy.
*Stocks around the globe returned to positive territory Thursday, a day after European fear sparked steep losses. Europe's woes, however, remain a clear and present danger to the fragile U.S. economic re...
Permalink *Abandoned Youth - No More Future * ------------------------------ Written by Michael Collins Wednesday, 09 November 2011 Where is the future when there are no more jobs? The Money Party ...
Riot police fired tear gas and used batons to disperse protesters angry at the state's relief efforts after the second earthquake in eastern Turkey in three weeks killed at least 12 people in the city of V...
"The minute we fell for 9/11 we signed our doom," said Paul Craig Roberts on the Alex Jones Show on November 9, 2011. Alex responded, "9/11 is America's death warrant." In the ten years since 9/11, Ameri...
MPs from all parties agreed to draw up plans to repatriate powers from Brussels yesterday amid warnings that France and Germany are hell-bent on creating a 'two-speed' Europe. In an escalation of politica...
Europe made £3.7billion of dodgy payments last year, incorrectly blowing taxpayers' cash on agriculture, energy and transport. The wasted money was revealed as the European Court of Auditors refused to si...
It's childish to say that there's no difference between the two parties. There are very real, very significant differences, differences that make thoughtful people hold their noses while they pull the lev...
Breaking News: Did Police Go Too Far With Clashes at Berkeley? Video shows police attacking protesters with batons, bluntly striking them in their abdomens and elsewhere. - Police are clearly seen striking...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near El Hierro, Canary Islands at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 00:20:14 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 52 km ( 32.2 miles) South of...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck South of the Mariana Islands at a depth of 26.9 km (16.7 miles), the quake hit at 22:17:34 UTC Thursday 10th November 2011. The epicenter was 230 km ( 142 miles) South...
The Conservatives admit to overspending by $420,000 and are found guilty of breaking election laws. The punishment? A $50,000 fine...or about the amount they'll raise from their next anti-CBC e-mail. Wh...
“What powers the Heart Nebula? The large emission nebula dubbed IC 1805 looks, in whole, like a human heart. The nebula glows brightly in red light emitted by its most prominent element: hydrogen. The red ...
*"Celebrating The Commonplace"* by Chet Raymo "Sometimes it's fun to think about things that no one has thought about before. Some things are thought about for the first time because to do so requires ge...
“It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living. Because we are alone with the unfamiliar presence...
John Amato has been flooring me with all the research he's been gathering on Romney, especially the stuff from France and Mexico. I can't wait for Romney to get the nomination so Amato stops dropping that...
*"The American people have to decide what’s worse, forgetting which agencies you plan to get rid of or forgetting which ladies you tried to nail when you were running the National Restaurant Association. ...
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CENSORED NEWS - 17 hours ago
*Breaking news today on the Keystone XL Pipeline fight!* *By Indigenous Environmental Network* *November 10, 2011* *Mother Earth Achieves a Victory Today with Obama Administration Decision to Delay the Ke...
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wmtc - 17 hours ago
It's that time of year again, the week when no one dares show their face on Canadian television, or indeed in any public place in Canada, without a red poppy symbol dutifully stuck on his or her lapel. Wha...
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CENSORED NEWS - 17 hours ago
*San Juan College Speaker’s Series about Civil Rights and Navajo Human Rights w**ith Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission* *Native American Week at San Juan College in Farmington, New Mexico **November 1...
Most conservationists would agree that you should not interfere with mother nature. But there are exceptions to every rule. Staff and tourists at Kapani Safari Lodge in Zambia were caught by surprise when...
Check out Flynt Leverett's interview on Antiwar Radio with Scott Horton on November 8, 2011.
Nicosia, Cyprus. Thanks for stopping by.
"We do not rest satisfied with the present. We anticipate the future as too slow in coming, as if in order to hasten its course; or we recall the past, to stop its too rapid flight. So imprudent are we th...
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Buckdog - 19 hours ago
*"The Conservative Party was fined $52,000 for breaking election rules in a deal that saw charges dropped against four senior officials, but guilty pleas by the organizations for which they made the deci...
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Not PC - 19 hours ago
*In a lacklustre, blancmange campaign based on little more than partial promises, partial truths, partial privatisations, and will-he-won’t-he wetness about cups of tea or a lie (or two), it’s a struggle...
Archaeologists digging in Rome's Palatine Hill have found the remains of a house they believe is the birthplace of Rome's first emperor.
A new social networking site pays users a cut of the ad revenue in what could be a new business model for others.
*"Social Psychosis and Collective Sanity"* by Winslow Myers "We know from the sad experience of Nazi Germany or Khmer Rouge Cambodia that it is possible for whole nations to become mentally ill, with hor...
"If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names." - Elbert Hubbard
*"Who Am I: The Heart Of Unknowing"* by The DailyOm "The question of who we are is a seed that can bear much fruit if given the chance to unfold. At some point in our lives, or perhaps at many points in ...
Federal lawyers seek to overturn ruling on Corps of Engineers’ liability ~Sandy Rosenthal, Levees.org
Wall Street made it clear to the political class they would pay-- and pay big-- to get out from under the restrictions of Glass-Steagall. They tried all during the Reagan and the Bush I years but it wasn'...
Russian flight controllers are working to salvage the 15-ton Phobos-Grunt Mars spacecraft that is stranded in a very low orbit around Earth after a botched launch Tuesday.
Several species of rhino have been poached into extinction or to the point of no return, according to an update of the Red List of Threatened Species, the gold standard for animal and plant conservation.
"Blick auf den Planeten Erde" by Heikenwaelder Hugo, Austria / Wikimedia Commons.When too big to failis too big not toWhere bailout theory comes a cropper, no matter who’s doing or who’s receiving the bailou...
Graphics from the Center for Media and Democracy.ALEC Naked:More news from the 'vastright wing conspiracy'By Paul Beckett / The Rag Blog / November 10, 2011MADISON, Wisconsin -- It’s all we needed! Another ...
It's been rough month for Iran hawks. After the Justice Department's recent sensationalized announcement of an outlandish Iranian plot to enlist a bumbling former used-car salesman in Texas to hire a not...
*I guess I should have watched the debate, although a person I know that did (God bless 'em) told me Perry's faulty memory was the most memorable moment of the debate. * *Printed Globe did tell me that, b...
Great article from The Hill today, and another great article on The Hilltoday. Several other House Republicans listed as signers also indicated they did not currently feel bound by the pledge. Several Re...
*So does the **AmeriKan War Media*: "King monument takes its place on National Mall" October 17, 2011|By Helene Cooper, New York Times WASHINGTON - Promising that “change can come if you don’t give up,’’ ...
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Not PC - 22 hours ago
*[image: _richardmcgrath]**You can’t keep a good doctor down. Here’s Doc McGrath’s update from the campaign trail in the Wairarapa electorate, where he received 453 votes at the last election, Libertaria...
"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brushfires in people's minds." - Samuel Adams
*“Americans Are Now Living In A Society That Rivals Orwells 1984”* by Paul Joseph Watson and Alex Jones “Americans are now living in a society that in some cases is more draconian, more invasive and more ...
Want fresh air? Better just open a window. Some air fresheners are shown to cause eye and throat irritation, headaches and dizziness.
Two newly found pockets of gas contain only original elements created minutes after the universe's birth.
The Women and Fair Trade festival. Image from the group's website.Sustaining indigenous traditions:The Women and Fair Trade FestivalThe people want fair markets, not 'free trade.'By Josefina Castillo and Jud...
*Erdogan with his Jewish classmate Rafael Sadi. They studied economics together.* Why has Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, helped the USA and Israel in their attacks on Syria and North Afr...
* "Police Officers: * *Wake Up! Your Pensions Are Fooked!"* by Karl Denninger "I told you so! U.S. Bancorp was sued by an Oklahoma police pension fund over allegations investors in mortgage bonds were hu...
A couple of days ago he was getting his panties in a bunch about those evil Koch Brothers, today it's the Anglo-Saxon world in general: To those who despair of the success of sceptical lobbying, the messag...
*"Educated Guessing Game"* by Bill Bonner "Yesterday, Silvio Berlusconi said he will leave government…once the legislature has agreed on an austerity program. Too bad. We’ll miss “The Cavalier.” Once, i...
Nasa engineers have come up with a material that absorbs more than 99 per cent of all light that strikes it. Absorbent material usually pulls in ultraviolet and visible light - but this new material also ...
Strolling along in scruffy jeans and sneakers, this is the young boy who police claim raped a girl of five in a McDonald's Playland. The youth, who could be as young as 13, is said to have touched the girl...
The fosslised remains of a massive colony of prehistoric birds - with claws and saw-like beaks - are giving scientists a new glimpse of life at the time of the dinosaurs. The new fossil find, which includ...
*"It's Time for All Americans to Occupy Washington, DC"* By John W. Whitehead "We need to put pressure on Congress to get things done. We will do this with First Amendment activity. If Congress is unrespo...
Carl Oglesby. Photo by Jennifer Fels / AP / The Guardian.Occupy Heaven:The Memorial for Carl OglesbyBy Bruce Goldberg / The Rag Blog / November 10, 2011Born of a working class family in Akron, Ohio, Carl Ogl...
An extreme surfer is set to earn a place in the record books after riding a 90 foot wave. Garrett McNamara caught the monster wave during the ZON North Canyon Project in Praia do Norte, Nazaré, Portugal....
Former European Central Bank vice-president Lucas Papademos has been named as Greece's new prime minister, following days of negotiations. Mr Papademos, 64, said he was taking over at a "critical point" f...
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Biased BBC - 1 day ago
Question Time tonight comes from Newcastle upon Tyne. On the panel we have Nadine Dorries, the Sec of State for Scotland and LibDem Michael Moore, the Shadow Chief Sec to the Treasury Rachel Reeves, ne...
Railway workers are being made to take German lessons so they can understand safety instructions, it was revealed today. But forcing engineers to work in a language they are not familiar with presents 'bl...
David Cameron today warned that the eurozone debt crisis has placed Britain in 'clear and present danger'. The Prime Minister admitted that the government is preparing for 'every eventuality' as Italy str...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Greece at a depth of 6.9 km (4.3 miles), the quake hit at 17:25:40 UTC Thursday 10th November 2011. The epicenter was 27 km ( 16 miles) Northeast of Patras, Greece No R...
We've taken down the snow since it seems to have been causing trouble for some users, sadly. We were really excited about it! We'd also like to remind readers to turn off "Adblocker" or similar features o...
[image: Link] Medicine and Capitalism in America Introduction The crisis in today's health care system is deeply rooted in the interwoven history of modern medicine and corporate capitalism. The major grou...
Squid and octopus can dramatically change color to hide from predators, offering insights into the secrets of invisibility.
The DoD is pursuing plans to build a vehicle that can drive off-road, survive small-arms fire and rapidly reconfigure into an aircraft.
A recent test shows aerial drones can monitor fires from the sky and keep firefighters safe.
Ooma's wireless adapter frees the base that enables free land line service over broadband.
These earphones let you can crank up the tunes all the way without damaging your hearing.
Squid and octopus can dramatically change color to hide from predators, offering insights into the secrets of invisibility.
The DoD is pursuing plans to build a vehicle that can drive off-road, survive small-arms fire and rapidly reconfigure into an aircraft.
A recent test shows aerial drones can monitor fires from the sky and keep firefighters safe.
We're one year out from Election Day but the 1% has one big thing going for them: virtually all the country's wealth, almost entirely stolen or illegitimately created. And they give it to slick purveyors...
Undercover officers who made arrests London*Occupy Movement: Police infiltrators, provocateurs and self-appointed spies* *Cens**ored News* Today, Censored News shares news of the undercover police officers,...
The UN atomic watchdog's hardest-hitting report to date on Iran's suspected nuclear weapons drive is probably too weak to convince Russia and China of the need for more sanctions, analysts said Wednesday. ...
Israel's military and intelligence services Web sites crashed for several hours last weekend in what appeared to be a cyberattack, an event that carried the potential of crippling the computer systems of t...
[image: Joe Minter, Harry Turner, and Mabel Nunn demonstrate outside the Jefferson County courthouse as the county commissioners meet about the Jefferson County bankruptcy on 12 August 2011 in Brimingham...
Italy's debt woes signal "a new, even more dangerous phase in Europe's debt crisis," Mohamed El-Erian, co-chief investment officer at PIMCO, said Wednesday. El-Erian, who helps oversee more than $1.2 tril...
Two young Milwaukee women were arrested this week after an 18-year-old Arizona man--who traveled to Wisconsin by bus after meeting one of the suspects online--told cops that he was held captive in the duo’...
This crime was once considered rare: New York City bus drivers assaulted by people who spit on them. But it’s so commonplace today, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is considering a plan to colle...
Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) says President Obama's continued use of the executive order "brings the modern presidency dangerously close to an elective dictatorship...
[image: Map of All Recorded Deaths During U.S. Invasion and Occupation of Iraq. guardian.co.uk, data from Wikileaks via Datablog] The Wikileaks Iraq war logs provide us with a unique picture of every dea...
Alabama's Jefferson County filed for bankruptcy court protection on Wednesday in the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. Commissioners for the county, which is home to Birmingham, the state's bi...
A Costa Mesa woman is accused of hitting her daughter and locking her in a closet because the child earned bad grades, according to court records. The 32-year-old woman is charged with one misdemeanor coun...
Italian borrowing costs reached breaking point on Wednesday after Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's insistence on elections instead of an interim government opened the way to prolonged instability and del...
Not since the Dean Scream has a Presidential campaign imploded in a matter of seconds. This clip may go down as one of the worst debate performances in US history:
[image: A woman uses a plastic tub to transport her children through floodwaters in Bangkok, 9 November 2011. Sukree Sukplang / REUTERS] From David Challenger, with CNN's Liz Neisloss and Kocha Olarn con...
A Marine found dead in his barracks room at Camp Pendleton early Sunday was beaten to death, a spokesman for the investigating agency said Tuesday. Ed Buice of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service said...
A suburban Kansas City woman was left sitting in a vinyl recliner for so long that her skin had fused to the chair and she had to be pried out to be taken to a hospital after suffering an apparent stroke, ...
China's export growth slowed further in October as the eurozone debt crisis and fears of a slowdown in the US dented demand for its goods, figures show. Shipments from China rose 15.9% from a year earlier,...
No wild black rhinos remain in West Africa, according to the latest global assessment of threatened species. The Red List, drawn up by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), has declar...
Three Chinese soldiers who fled their barracks armed with a rifle and hundreds of bullets are reported to have been killed. A fourth soldier who also fled from the Jilin city base was captured by police, ...
The European Union has drastically cut its growth forecast for the eurozone in 2012, from 1.8% down to just 0.5%. "Growth has stalled in Europe and there is a risk of a new recession," said European Commi...
A gunman has shot dead two people before killing himself at an aircraft plant in the south-east of the Czech Republic, police say. The shooting took place inside the Aircraft Industries plant, which produ...
n parks around the world, protesters continue to rally against the so-called one per cent of corporations and individuals who control the world's wealth. The charts below break down income distribution by ...
Tracks left in a B.C. sea floor half a billion years ago have been linked to a bizarre ancient predator with 66 legs. It is very rare for fossil tracks to be preserved on the sea floor, and it's even rare...
The massive coal black asteroid 2005 YU55 zoomed by Earth this week in harmless fashion, but interest groups say the relatively close encounter is a reminder the world is "a sitting duck in a cosmic shooti...
With the flood of woeful financial news coming out of Greece and Italy, it’s easy to forget something Goldman Sach’s Jim O’Neill is quick to point out – the world doesn’t depend on Greece and Italy. “Th...
The ashes of cremated body parts from some of the nation's war dead were dumped in landfills until 2008, unbeknownst to their survivors, an Air Force general acknowledged Wednesday. The practice was sto...
For thousands of Iraqi women and girls, the conflict that began in 2003 was only the start of their ordeals. In the chaos of war and the confusion, lawlessness and poverty that followed, an untold number ...
Duty-free shopping onboard may no longer be limited to watches and perfume. Ryanair is considering offering in-flight pornography to its passengers, according to a report on Tuesday in The Sun. The racy c...
A gas leak triggered an underground explosion that killed 19 miners Thursday in southwest China, state media reported, the latest fatalities in the nation's dangerous coal industry. Twenty-four people are...
The eurozone crisis has truly engulfed Italy -- but is it because the country is insolvent or simply unable to access funds easily in the financial markets? If Italy is solvent, a distinction can perhaps ...
*Didn't follow up for a decade as to why nothing happened to Jerry Sandusky after it was reported to him in 2002 that Sandusky raped an 11 year old boy in the Penn St showers:* .......had other more impor...
[image: Blizzard conditions in Western Alaska, 9 November 2011. A storm forecast to be one of the worst on record in Alaska lashed the state's western coastline Wednesday, tearing roofs off buildings and...
Even Job, the Rodney Dangerfield of the Bible, eventually got a break. So it's only natural for one in my ongoing predicament to wonder, When will this Mr. Bill shit finally end? I've been in the work fo...
* * *MNN EDITORIAL: Deadly shell game is over!* Mohawk Nation News http://www.mohawknationnews.com MNN Nov. 6, 2011. Western society is a closed society. Families are mostly immediate members. Victimizat...
That seems to be the attitude of the world's political leaders today in the face of warnings that our civilization's last best opportunity to avert devastating climate change is slipping through their fing...
The "News Shark" ate my comment ~Library Chronicles Cecile Tebo: The birth of violence ~Uptown Messenger Is Jefferson Parish School Board Member Michael R. Delesdernier a complete asshole? Lee Zurik repo...
Conservationists are fighting a rush to mine for gold with an unlikely weapon -- a miniscule organism.
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope peer back in time to study 69 galaxies when they were just babies.
Needless to say, the crooks in Congress have done nothing to substantively change the Beltway business model described by Abramoff on *60 Minutes*Sunday night. Watch it above. Now that he's out of prison,...
To all the Penn State students who think Joe Pa is a saint and amazing person and did nothing wrong, legally or morally, read the following. It is disturbing and disgusting. Because of Joe Pa and others no...
[image: Malaria vaccine - blood entry route discovered] The route all routes of the most deadly malaria parasite use to go through red blood cells has been identified by researchers at the Sanger Institute...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck offshore Guatemala at a depth of 58.1 km (36.1 miles), the quake hit at 12:49:57 UTC Thursday 10th November 2011. The epicenter was 69 km ( 43 miles) South of Escuintla...
An extreme surfer is set to earn a place in the record books after riding a 90 foot wave. Garrett McNamara caught the monster wave during the ZON North Canyon Project in Praia do Norte, Nazaré, Portuga...
Clashes continued in Syria Thursday leading to at least eight deaths, an opposition group said. In Idlib, five people were killed in clashes with security forces, the Syrian Observatory for Human Right...
According to Credit Union National Association (CUNA), headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, “Credit unions brought in 40,000 in new members, and added $80 million in new savings account funds, on last Sat...
A gas leak triggered an underground explosion that killed 19 miners Thursday in southwest China, state media reported, the latest fatalities in the nation's dangerous coal industry. Twenty-four people ar...
Moptop has pointed out the following fascinating press release: China Threatens Massive Venting of Super Greenhouse Gases in Attempt to Extort Billions as UNFCCC Meeting Approaches Both Al Gore and James ...
A couple were caught on camera repeatedly throwing their pet dog into the sea, a court heard. John Nesbitt, 62, and Linda Jones, 51, hurled their four year old terrier dog called Jess into the sea from a ...
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*James Randi isn't just another magician*, he is a phenomenon. In 1978 I had the honour to meet him in Washington DC. While we walked from the National Press Club to the National Air Space Museum I had an...
Filmed Conjoined twin Tortoise with 2 shells,2 tails, 8 legs. 1 head, 3 eyes, 2 mouths,2 noses
A Soviet scientist has denied being the brains behind Iran's nuclear program, despite U.S. media reports that he helped put Tehran on the threshold of making an atomic bomb, a Russian newspaper said Thursd...
Iran's Supreme Leader warned the United States and Israel on Thursday not to launch any military action against its nuclear sites, saying it would be met with "iron fists," state television reported. "O...
Filleted fish were found dumped in Cedar along with carcasses of elk and deer Someone has dumped thousands of dead chum salmon in the Nanaimo River at the end of Raines Road in Cedar. Many of the fish ha...
With the deaths of nearly 500 birds at the Laurel Mountain wind facility recently, three of the four wind farms operating in West Virginia have now experienced large bird fatality events, according to Amer...
A Colfax-resident reported five dead deer near her home since mid-September, and suspects they may have died from a common virus. Fish and Game officials have yet to inspect the deer carcasses. One veter...
Reader Contribution; A Russian spacecraft designed to bring back soil samples from one of the moons of Mars veered off course Wednesday after its launch, clouding hopes Russia could pull off its first int...
Reader Contribution; An Egyptian pipeline delivering gas to Israel and Jordan was hit by two explosions Thursday, Egypt's security services and state media said, the seventh time it has been attacked by m...
The White House this week issued a statement saying there was no existing evidence that aliens had attempted to contact earth - or in fact that they even existed. But how can the Obama administration be s...
It is a relic from the Cold War, designed to get information from the White House to the people, should the worst happen. And there was something distinctly 20th century about the first test of the nation...
A riot involving thousands of Penn State football fans erupted last night at the announcement their long-term head coach Joe Paterno would be sacked with 'immediate effect' for his role in the sex scandal ...
The mystery of the feet washing ashore in Canada has widened with the discovery of yet another limb that has washed ashore of a lake in the region. The latest severed foot was found by young campers in a ...
A magnitude 3.2 earthquake has struck Oklahoma at a depth of 4.9 km (3 miles), the quake hit at 08:36:38 UTC Thursday 10th November 2011. The epicenter was 22 km ( 13 miles) NNE of Shawnee, Oklahoma No Repo...
Trouble on two fronts in Europe's debt crisis dragged the Dow Jones industrial average down 389 points Wednesday. The S&P 500 lost 3.7 per cent, its biggest one-day drop since August, after Italy's borro...
Magma off the Canary Island of El Hierro has been spewing 20 metres high as the sea boils with a smell of sulphur. As it grows and gets closer to the surface, more and more debris such as stones start to...
Trouble on two fronts in Europe's debt crisis dragged the Dow Jones industrial average down 389 points Wednesday. The S&P 500 lost 3.7 per cent, its biggest one-day drop since August, after Italy's borro...
Magma off the Canary Island of El Hierro has been spewing 20 metres high as the sea boils with a smell of sulphur. As it grows and gets closer to the surface, more and more debris such as stones start to...
Arriving in central Bangkok from the sparkling international airport, a visitor might not know at first glance that much of the city is under water. Shops and restaurants are open as usual, while the futu...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Southeast of the Loyalty Islands at a depth of 99.2 km (61.6 miles), the quake hit at 07:51:26 UTC Thursday 10th November 2011. The epicenter was 204 km ( 126 miles) S...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 05:43:20 UTC Thursday 10th November 2011. The epicenter was 6 km ( 3.4 miles) North of Edremit, Turkey ...
John Glaser, an editor at Antiwar.com, said everything that needs to be said about the latest propaganda assault on Iran by Israel and the hijacked United States. - The latest IAEA report about Iran's nuc...
In one of my postings earlierthis year, I covered a couple of reports on the Mothman phenomenon in the Eastern USA. Onthe observations and a comparable out of EnglandI suggested we were looking at a g...
Everyone fails to recognize an absolutetruth about Islamicism. A true believeraccepts that it is his sole mission to forcibly convert all non Muslims to thetrue way of Islam and all acts of leadership ...
This is another dose of whatpasses for politics as usual in the Middle East. The assertions of influence between thevarious parties are smoke blowing in the wind and the idea of a real commandand cont...
This week brings us news that theoutright removal of senescence cells may be a practical and successful protocolto end age related degeneration problems. In this article we identify two other sectors r...
*Haim Weizman (left) and Prince Feisal, 1918 * *Reportedly, the Saudi monarchs and their Wahhabi religion have Jewish origins. * *Wayne Madsen* has written about the Jewish connections to Saudi Arabia. (I...
[image: Asian stocks falls down-Europe debt crisis] *On Thursday the Asian shares fell after Italy's record-high cost of borrowing renewed fears over the euro zone debt crisis.* Analysts said some actions...
*US authorities have charged seven people with increasing software to hijack millions of computers worldwide. Six of them are Estonians, who have been arrested, while the seventh, a Russian, is still at ...
Australian shares fell about 3 per cent within minutes of opening, wiping $40 billion from the value of Australian companies. Investors are concerned the euro zone and international lenders would struggle...
After you read about this total miscarriage of good government, tell me again why Lee Hamilton was obviously the perfect "Democrat" to put in charge of the 9/11 investigation. Really. Try to tell me withou...
Rows of tents have become an unlikely symbol of protest since anti-capitalists pitched up outside St Paul’s Cathedral. But during yesterday’s attempt to start a new ‘Tent City’, activists were barely give...
This shocking CCTV footage shows the moment a thug dances down the street while swinging a cat by its tail. An unarmed man is seen bizarrely spinning while swinging the black cat at arms length - nearly s...
*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 Berkeley, Wed., Nov. 9, 2011: Updated with three videos, identification of officers* Watch video of police beating Berkeley students, jabbing women with their batons. Alam...
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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*[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 ...
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"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...
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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...
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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.
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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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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...
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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.
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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...
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French energy firm Areva on Tuesday showed to the media a new nuclear power plant that it says can withstand serious accidents. The European Pressurized Reactor is located in Olkiluoto, southwestern Finla...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Ryukyu Islands, Japan at a depth of 108.8 km (67.6 miles), the quake hit at 17:09:46 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 217 km ( 135 miles) SSW of Ka...
Prime Minister George A. Papandreou went on national television on Wednesday evening to announce that a new interim government had been formed. But he did not name his successor, and in the hours that foll...
Thousands of students marched through London on Wednesday in the latest display of anger against the Conservative-led government’s austerity measures. Four similar protests by students late last year led ...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Western Montana at a depth of 6 km (3.7 miles), the quake hit at 17:51:54 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 8 km ( 4.9 miles) Southeast of Clinton, Monta...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 26.3 km (16.3 miles), the quake hit at 17:57:23 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 45 km ( 28 miles) ENE of Van, Turkey No Re...
*"Completely and Utterly Fail in an Earthquake"* *The Fukushima story you didn't hear on CNN* *by Greg Palast* ** for FreePress.org Friday, November 11, 2011 I've seen a lot of sick stuff in my career, bu...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 37.9 km (23.6 miles), the quake hit at 16:06:18 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 177 km ( 110 miles) ...
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck the Tonga Region at a depth of 9.8 km (6.1 miles), the quake hit at 15:02:20 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 151 km ( 93 miles) Northeast of Neiafu, To...
One of the buzz stories of the week is in the new *Rolling Stone*, How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich. Where I grew up, they were always the Part of the Rich and, alas, in recent decades the Democra...
On this day I sometimes thumb through my dog-eared copy of Barry Broadfoot's "*Six War Years, Memories of Cahadians at Home and Abroad (1974)." *Broadfoot used the same technique as he did for his earl...
Economists across the Continent have been warning about it for months. Now, the European Union too has said that a recession in the euro zone has become a distinct possibility. "Growth has stalled in Europ...
I confess the fact that a scientist in Texas made recently made the first strands of an invisibility cloak makes me really happy. Really nerdy, but really happy. I confess that as evil as they can be, I...
BBC, Reuters, AFP, and many other sources didn't overlook a message conveyed by the top Czech nuclear safety watchdog to IAEA: since October, the Czech stations (in Prague, Ústí, and elsewhere: not in Pi...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have received a letter from a person claiming to be responsible for the Halloween night death of a teenager from British Columbia. Taylor Van Diest, 18, was dresse...
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