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mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it. -
Ayn Rand, from “The Mo...
OK, it's understandable why Trump is all negative on Romney these days. It wouldn't matter if Bachmann and a couple of the other clowns didn't show up for the Trump freak show, but there can't be a credib...
It's that most wonderful time of the year. Mistletoe, eggnog and holiday parties in the office make employment lawyers rub their hands together with glee. That's because we get very busy in January after a...
"The Wounded by Love Agreement, General Provisions" by Paulo Coelho A] Considering that it’s absolutely correct the saying that states that “all is fair in love and war”; B] Considering that in war we hav...
*Blown to you by the
Boston Globe*: "200,000 in Southern California are without power after violent windstorm" December 03, 2011|By Associated Press PASADENA, Calif. - *Violent winds* that wreaked havoc i...
*"Constructive Connections: Sharing with Your Neighbors"* by The DailyOm "If you are craving community look to your own neighbors to forge new relationships and build something new together. Many of our r...
The Liberal Party's Million Conversations campaign to raise a million dollars has featured almost daily e-mails from current Liberal MPs, past Liberal greats, and
Paul Martin. These letters have taken on a...
*Also known as the pay wall. * "Dusty West raises air quality question; New, complicated chapter unfolding as problem grows" by Kirk Johnson New York Times / December 11, 2011 The question of how clean t...
*"On Physics: Religion, Science & Extra Dimensions"* by Robert Irion Posted by VioletPlanet "In her new book, "Knocking on Heaven's Door," Harvard University theorist Lisa Randall explores how physics may...
"2-year-old still missing; tips no help" Associated Press / November 15, 2011 Police in Bellevue said Monday that they have received 900 tips about a toddler who has been missing nine days, but Maj. Mike ...
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen announces plans to build a massive space plane.
"Ex-sheriff is accused of swapping drugs for sex" December 01, 2011|By Dan Frosch, New York Times DENVER - Patrick Sullivan was the kind of lawman Coloradoans loved: a straight-shooting *Republican* sheri...
*Your first lesson in fascism, kids*: "Gov. says staff overreacted to tweet" November 29, 2011|Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. - Kansas Governor Sam Brownback apologized yesterday for his office’s response ...
*There are extremists in every religion*. "Renegade Amish arrested by FBI over hate crimes; Charged with cutting others’ hair, beards" November 24, 2011|By Erik Eckholm, New York Times Federal agents arre...
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* “The Law and Civil Obedience”* by Howard Zinn “As soon as you say the topic is civil disobedience, you are saying our problem is civil disobedience. That is not our problem... Our problem is civil obed...
Black Flags and Windmills:Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collectivescott crow's book tells of the abandonment of a great American city by the powerful, the refusal of its poorest and most vulnerable ci...
*"Suspend Habeas Corpus And Enact Martial Law?"* By Mort Amsel "Americans seem ready to forfeit their most basic civil liberty - actually, all their civil liberties - without a whimper. By a vote of 93-7 ...
That's fast enough to produce a slow-motion video of light traveling through objects.
A new assessment of Kilauea's past activity suggests that this gentle giant’s current mood is a calm lull between century-long aggressive tendencies.
These eyeglasses emit a unique fragrance and play a song as soon as you encounter a friend.
[image: The retreat of Arctic ice has released the deadly greenhouse gas methane. Dramatic and unprecedented plumes of methane - a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide - have been seen...
*"The Naked Emperor At The Mad Hatter's Tea Party"* By Les Visible "Dog Poet Transmitting... May your noses always be cold and wet. People question my optimism and no doubt my observations and association...
There are liars, damned liars, and the whore-journalists of the Establishment media. ABC's Barbara Walters is typical of the vermin who propagandise for the internationalist mafia. In the following vide...
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Cartoonist John Cox explores design and the Occupiers’ feeble efforts at “change.” Who is John Cox? Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ...
*"They Don’t Care About Deficits"* by Paul Krugman “Ezra Klein: "There are two very different tax-policy conversations playing out in the Republican Party right now. In Washington, House Republicans are ...
On Monday at the campus of Beijing Film Academy, a student parked his Audi in the wrong lane, blocking a school janitor's garbage cart. They quarreled, then fell to blows, resulting in the janitor's death ...
* Operation Gladio involved acts of terrorism carried out by the CIA-NATO * On 13 December 2011, several gunmen opened fire in the centre of the Belgian city of Liege. Several people were killed and man...
*“The Real Reason Why U.S. Unemployment Will Remain High”* By Mike Stathis “It took quite a long time for Washington to finally concede something that was apparent; the nation’s excessively high unemploym...
When I was doing research today I ran into this ALEC article title: This was sent to ALEC legislators and ALEC Alumni in the ALEC Public Forum magazine BUT It made me think - I didn't vote for ALEC leg...
A new study reveals that trees are dying in Africa, and of course blames less precipitation from climate change. Following are some pictures taken in the past week of trees in Africa which were posted to ...
Middle East expert Professor Eyal Zisser warned on Monday against a possible Syrian attack on Israel, if President Bashar Assad feels threatened by the anti-regime protesters. In an interview with Arutz S...
I used to long to find contact lenses that suited my sensitive eyes, so I could see the world clearly without thick glasses. For a period of time, I asked everyone around me who was wearing contact lenses ...
Canada officially renounced the expiring Kyoto Protocol on Monday, a day after international negotiators agreed to extend the treaty's limits on carbon emissions blamed for a warming climate. Environment ...
As explosions and gunfire continued to ripple in Syria, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights on Monday raised the death toll from the Damascus government's crackdown on anti-regime activis...
Researchers have discovered how to stop drivers using their phones when they are behind the wheel without affecting use for passengers. A team at Stevens Institute of Technology and Rutgers in New Jersey h...
Once on the endangered species list, the American crocodile has flourished in a most unlikely place. In the shadow of a nuclear power plant. The plant, FPL’s Turkey Point Nuclear Power Plant uses over 1...
Police are trying to track down some slick thieves who are stealing cooking oil from several North Shore restaurants. Essex Police Chief Peter Silva says the crooks are stealing the cooking oil from conta...
As Spain struggles with its economic problems, business owners such as Manuel Rodriguez are hoping the country's new conservative government will push through pre-election promises for corporate tax brea...
Here in the Persian Gulf states, they call it three digit oil. Simply put, that is a number above $100. Due to advancements in healthcare and people generally living longer, they say 60 years old is the...
A couple of years back, I suggested in these pages that higher education was facing a bubble much like the housing bubble: An overpriced good, propped up by cheap government-subsidized credit, luring borro...
About 1000 asteroids big enough to cause catastrophic damage if they hit Earth are orbiting relatively nearby, a NASA survey shows. In a project known as Spaceguard, the US space agency was ordered by Con...
The Occupy Wall Street movement is a big tent of concerns and deliberately so. Keeping the flaps open draws in as many people in as possible, even if it does prevent the movement from issuing a list of dem...
Financial stress caused by the credit crisis could be the reason more marriages are failing and divorce numbers increased by 5pc last year, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). One third...
UK retailers set to offer 2,500 voucher codes this December in a bid to win customers. The number of discount vouchers and online codes issued by retailers has risen, with a year-on-year increase of 66pc...
While we are waiting for Mario and Merkozy plus, just a quick thought on one of the EMU break-up reports hitting my desk daily, and sometimes in twos and threes. (Ah, how I look back to those halcyon days...
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Bankers don't have much to smile about but Lloyds Banking Group has managed to have a giggle - the taxpayer-owned bank is running staff training at the Comedy School. To share the joke, here are the top te...
Firefox's market share is falling and the funding of Mozilla, the organisation that develops it, has been questioned. What next for the open source browser, asks Christopher Williams. A small but signifi...
China's security chief has warned that the government needs better methods to deal with social unrest due to a slowing economy. Zhou Yongkang, a member of the politburo, asked provincial officials for imp...
From the Occupy Wall Street and Tea Party movements of the US to the rise of populist politics in Europe, the globalisation backlash is everywhere. A number of years ago, a story went around that sprouts ...
The Bank of France faces surging debts to Germany's Bundesbank and fellow central banks in the EMU system as foreign investors pull large sums out of French accounts. French lenders lost €100bn (£86bn) i...
Britain's manufacturing sector fared worse-than-expected in October, shrinking 0.7pc and reinforcing fears that the wider economy will contract in the fourth quarter. Economists had forecast a smaller de...
It is my belief that the recent finding of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RToP) that the state of Israel is guilty of the crime of apartheid in relation to the Palestine people should be taken with the...
I am often asked if the recent global financial crisis marks the beginning of the end of modern capitalism. It is a curious question, because it seems to presume that there is a viable replacement waiting ...
On Sunday, Iran claimed to have taken down a US drone in Iranian airspace - not by shooting it out the sky, but with its cyber warfare team. Reports confirm that the US believes Iran is now in possession o...
[image: Japanese engineer and whistleblower at JNES (Japan Nuclear Energy Safety Organization) Setsuo Fujiwara says there were two explosions at Fukushima Daiichi Reactor 3: a hydrogen explosion, and a n...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Kyushu, Japan at a depth of 32.9 km (20.4 miles), the quake hit at 17:51:07 UTC Tuesday 13th December 2011. The epicenter was 168 km (105 miles) SSE of Kagoshima, Kyush...
Just thought you might like to catch up on the latest news about where your money disappeared to at this busy time of the year - you know - the time when you realize how desperately poor you really are as ...
Scientists believe that many new species haven't been found. Where is all this life hiding?
Nonviolent Activist Val Liveoak of Peacekeeping en Las Americason Rag Radio with Thorne Dreyer. Listen to it here: Also listen to New York Times Columnist Robert H. Frank,Author of The Darwin Economy, on Ra...
Yesterday, the so-called "moderate" or quasi-"mainstream" candidate from the Republican Clown Car, Willard, told a crowd in Manchester, New Hampshire, he favored repealing that state's marriage equality l...
Andrew Sullivan has a post up that compiles several voices from within the conservative establishment that are virtually crying out in agony at the thought (inevitability?) of Newt Gingrich winning the Rep...
This small stand is made from anodized aluminum and sticks to any smooth surface.
Expend energy to get fit, without spending for energy to power the machine.
A glimpse of the mysterious particle may have been uncovered by the LHC, but physicists are careful not to call it a "discovery."
Canada's withdrawal deals a symbolic blow to the already troubled global treaty.
What better, more Christian and humane way is there to celebrate the birth of Christ, a man who renounced all possessions and preached unconditional love and charity, than to glut the hyperconsumerized re...
Theodore Roosevelt's "New Diplomacy." Political cartoon courtesy of Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog.Before we start feeling all warmand fuzzy about Teddy Roosevelt...By Mike Klonsky / The Rag Blog / December 1...
At least four people have died and dozens are injured after a man fired shots and threw hand grenades in the Belgian city of Liege, police have said. The victims were two male teenagers, aged 15 and 17, ...
Now Apple tablet users can key in on reviews and specs, plus high-resolution photos and videos on 'the big screen.'
A water sport gives you some adrenaline with your agua.
Real trees provide wildlife habitat and sequester carbon, while providing employment.
This clip is from a 2002 documentary called "The Age Of Terror."
Massacre of Wounded Knee, Pine Ridge, South Dakota*The American Indian Genocide Museum: There's no glory in the Confederate flag and a reminder of the Buffalo Soliders as part of the massacre at Wounded K...
[image: The Japanese whaling fleet's factory ship Nissin Maru returns to its home at Oi Pier on 12 April 2010 in Tokyo, Japan. Sankei / Getty Images] By Krista Mahr 12 December 2011 They’re baaaaaaaccck...
*FAKE STORY:* Before any election, there's stories of mysterious blocks of "voters" who appear from nowhere. Remember "Reagan Democrats"? That's where it started. There's some you may have forgotten (tha...
[image: An aerial view of submerged cars at the Honda car factory in Ayutthaya province, Thailand, 18 October 2011. NARONG SANGNAK / EPA] Bangkok, December 11 (DPA) - Thailand's flood disaster has been m...
Try not to kick anybody in the face ~Library Chronicles ~This isn't the first time we've seen the Saints' burgeoning reputation become an issue. The author of that post quoted above sort of wonders whether...
*Indigenous Peoples Condemn Climate Talks Fiasco and Demand Moratorium on REDD+* *By Indigenous Environmental Network* *Photos by Ben Powless, Mohawk* http://www.ienearth.org Posted at Censored News *Cont...
Long Island Republican Peter King hasn't endorsed anyone for president yet. Earlier this month he explained, vividly, why he's not endorsing the man who was Speaker of the House when he was climbing the ...
*Occupy the Game* *Occupy Wall Street, It's time to fix this broken machine.* *Senator Levin reveals: It was Obama who required the Indefinite Detainment Bill (NDAA) to INCLUDE ‘U.S. Citizens being ...
We are going to take a look at the Syrian situation from a number of different angles today. Let me first open with a report from DEBKA- I am aware this is a source that is replete with spin, and disinfo....
Show your love for your ALEC legislator this Holiday Season. It is a time of giving and I think that you or you & a group of your best friends should send your ALEC legislator (don't forget your ALEC Alumn...
[image: Belgium grenade attack kills two] An attacker threw several explosives in the city centre of the Belgian city of Liege, wounding at least a dozen people and killing himself and one other person...
Iran-backed militant group Hizbollah has revealed what it says are the names of 10 CIA agents working undercover in Lebanon. The revelations are being seen as a blow to US agency operations in the region...
Two people have died and 10 are injured after a hand grenade exploded in the Belgian city of Liege, according to reports. Witnesses said at least one man threw up to four grenades at a bus station in the...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Kyrgyzstan at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 11:08:03 UTC Tuesday 13th December 2011. The epicenter was 26 km (16.1 miles) Southwest of Kyzyl-suu, Kyrgy...
[image: Women who stuck to fruit, vegetables and lean meat lost nearly twice as much weight than those constantly dieting] Women who stuck to fruit, vegetables and lean meat lost nearly twice as much we...
Feeling proud to be British makes you feel good about life in general, according to scientists. They found that the kind of pride that makes people happiest is when they feel they ‘belong’ to a country,...
[image: Arresting research: Scientists believe that the age of criminal responsibility may be too low] Arresting research: Scientists believe that the age of criminal responsibility may be too low The ...
Traditional advice that suggested getting wet and cold made you more likely to get the sniffles are just old wives' tales, an infectious diseases expert has said. Professor Peter Collignon, director of ...
India's poor are being priced out of slum areas in Mumbai with some shacks being sold for more than £50,000. The Dharavi slum, which is home to more than one million people, used to be on the edge of Ind...
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Taking a short break from endlessly repeating that the UK "is isolated" and that Nick Clegg "is unhappy", the BBC was flogging that old favourite"child poverty"chestnut this morning. It brought on former La...
Tensions are high on the streets of Port Moresby as Papua New Guinea's governor-general refuses to take sides in the country's political deadlock. The Supreme Court yesterday ruled Sir Michael Somare's rem...
Norway's butter shortage has reached ridiculous proportions, with one Lillehammer man claming he was offered 3,000 kroner ($509) for half a kilo of 'almost unused' butter. The shortfall has been blamed on...
Japanese industry minister Yukio Edano on Tuesday called into question the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant operator's plan to release low-level radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean, saying doing ...
Residents near the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant may have been exposed to up to 19 millisieverts of radiation in the four months after the plant was crippled by the March 11 earthquake a...
In Egypt, some Islamist candidates and religious scholars want to: *1.* Destroy ancient monuments - seen as a form of idol worship *2.* Ban mixed sex beaches *3.* Ban bikinis *4.* Ban alcohol *5.* Ban ...
Syria's ambassador to the United Nations rejected the world body's estimate that 5,000 people have died in an uprising against the government, calling the allegation "incredible." Ambassador Bashar Jaa...
A fire at a 16-storey tower block has been brought under control, the fire brigade said tonight. Around 60 firefighters battled the blaze on the 13th floor of Fred Wigg House in Leytonstone, east London,...
The UK's unsettled weather is set to continue, with stormy conditions expected across England and Wales at the end of the week. The Met Office said it was keeping a close eye on the situation. They said w...
A crisis in relations looked set to deepen after a US House-Senate negotiating panel agreed to freeze $700 million in US aid to Pakistan until it gives assurances it is helping fight the spread of improvis...
Along the road to one of China’s most famous tourist landmarks – the Great Wall of China – sits what could potentially have been another such tourist destination, but now stands as an example of modern-da...
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory may be able to answer that question definitively in the coming year.
Using one of the world's most powerful computers, South Korean scientists have recreated some of the large-scale structure of our observable Universe.
Four Army aviators were killed in an accident involving two Army helicopters at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state Monday night, military officials said. The crash, which involved two OH-58 Kio...
A school bus accident in eastern China left 15 elementary students dead and eight others hurt, the latest in a series of deadly crashes involving children, local government officials said Tuesday. The bu...
Police in Pakistan raided an Islamic religious school Monday and found 50 students chained to one another and being held in an underground room. Video footage from the madrassa showed young men and boys -...
Occupy protesters succeeded in shutting down overnight operations at California's port of Oakland on Monday night after a day of similar protests in several other U.S. cities. The protests in Oakland h...
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday his country can "control" the U.S. drone aircraft that Iran claims it recently brought down, Venezuelan state TV reported. "There are people here who ca...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 07:28:57 UTC Tuesday 13th December 2011. The epicenter was 1779 km (1102.9 miles) Sou...
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck South of Panama at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 07:28:11 UTC Tuesday 13th December 2011. The epicenter was 407 km (252 miles) South of David, Panama...
A magnitude 6.1 earthquake has struck Sulawesi, Indonesia at a depth of 160.9 km (100 miles), the quake hit at 07:52:12 UTC Tuesday 13th December 2011. The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) South of Gorontalo...
The claim that the cognitive improvement is at 28% seems abit of a stretch, yet ordinary differences could easily explain a spread ofthat much. Who knows? It may simply wakeup the subject properly in ...
As I have posted in the past, the bestcharacterization of the Chupacabra phenomena is to postulate a nocturnalgargoyle or giant vampire bat. Actualscavenging of soft tissue may actually be caused by sc...
Like many I also bought into thenegative spin on avocados from several years ago and always felt guilty when I indulged. It is nonsense and it is clear that theavocado deserves its place of honor at ou...
This does confirm that relyingsolely of planetary out gassing may not be overly sound and that bombardmentmay actually work better. Since it is a reasonableconjecture that rocky planets such as Earth an...
[image: Excess hair was rated just behind weight gain for body dissatisfaction] Excess hair was rated just behind weight gain for body dissatisfaction More than half of all women are concerned about exc...
If you are sitting comfortably, you may want to stand up before you read on. Sitting down for too long may give you a big bottom, scientists say. And it is not just couch potatoes at risk – sitting all d...
"All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there. Who...
The brains of children are affected by family violence in the same way as combat affects soldiers, according to a study. In both cases the brain becomes increasingly wary of potential threats. For child...
On 12 December 2011, the BBC reported on the *'Cleansed' Libyan town spilling its terrible secrets* *1.* The 30,000 people living in Tawergha, a town in Libya, have been driven from their homes. *2.* Ga...
*According to an early study in the UK and the US Just one inoculation could be enough to mean people with hemophilia B no longer need medication. In the opinion of doctors the gene therapy was potential...
*"Paul [is] credited for inspiring a dedicated following that has some predicting he could stage an upset in the caucuses**"* * * *That's about as close to a guarantee as you will get from them.* "Debate ...
"Rivals focus on Romney’s wealth after off-the-cuff bet; GOP, Democrats pounce, calling him ‘out of touch’" by Matt Viser and Glen Johnson | Globe Staff, December 12, 2011 HUDSON, N.H. - Mitt *Romney*’s...
“It is of the nobility of man's soul that he is insatiable: for he hath a benefactor so prone to give, that he delighteth in us for asking. Do not your inclinations tell you that the WORLD is yours? Do yo...
*The diversion of the Year title was voted for by elder writers at 25 news organizations with Wired and IGN.The decision has been criticized on some internet forums because of bugs which appeared to be p...
"New Orleans officer convicted of lying; Charges centered on fatal shooting after Katrina" by Michael Kunzelman Associated Press / December 10, 2011 A New Orleans *police officer* was convicted yesterday ...
*The large birds like ostriches were previously thought to have blood-based erection mechanisms similar to humans. The Yale University, US, scientists confirmed that the birds really expand their penises...
"Carry Nation’s hometown loosens up on liquor sales" December 04, 2011|By Maria Sudekum Fisher, Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Turn-of-the-century teetotaler Carry A. Nation began her campaign agains...
*I usually sleep through them, sorry. * "Church moves to reverse racial ban; Black-white pairs are barred from Ky. congregation" December 03, 2011|By Dylan Lovan, Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. - When S...
"Suspect’s fiance not father of slain twins" October 26, 2011|Associated Press GALLATIN, Tenn. - Preliminary *DNA tests prove *that the fiance of a Tennessee woman *did not father *the newborn twin boys s...
"Death row inmate gets new trial because of tweet" by By Jeannie Nuss, Associated Press / December 8, 2011 LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday tossed out a death row inmate's murder c...
*“Desert Places”* by Robert Frost “Snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast In a field I looked into going past, And the ground almost covered smooth in snow, But a few weeds and stubble showi...
"Texas man shoots wife, kills 4 children" December 02, 2011|By Associated Press BAY CITY, Texas - A man who shot his wife and killed his four children was accused of assaulting his wife last week, but she...
"Ala. postal worker allegedly fires shots" December 03, 2011|By ASSOCIATED PRESS MONTGOMERY, Ala. - A 29-year-old postal employee was charged with two counts of attempted murder yesterday after authoritie...
"Body found in search for Georgia girl" December 06, 2011|Associated Press CANTON, Ga. - A *body found* in a *trash container* is believed to be that of a 7-year-old girl who went missing last week from an...
"$209m settlement agreed in W.Va. mine disaster; $46m for kin of 29 killed in blast last year" December 07, 2011|By Clifford Krauss and Sabrina Tavernise, New York Times WASHINGTON - In what officials say...
Meet the Brossarts, a North Dakota family deemed so dangerous that the local sheriff needed unleashed an unmanned Predator drone to help bring them in. The Brossart's alleged crime? They wouldn't give ba...
In a perfect real-life example of *geili*, passersby on Hangbiao Road (航标路) in the Zhejiang city of Wenzhou helped to rescue a child caught underneath a black Honda CR-V. The incident occurred at 7:25am ...
*"Toads"* by Paulo Coelho “Various biological studies have shown that if a toad is placed in a container along with water from his own pond, he will remain there, utterly still, while the water is heate...
"Police officer, gunman dead in Va. Tech shootings" Associated Press, December 08, 2011 BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — A *gunman killed a police officer* in a Virginia Tech parking lot Thursday and was found dead...
"Shaya's Home Run" by Rabbi Paysach Krohn "In Brooklyn, New York, Chush is a school that caters to learning-disabled children. Some children remain in Chush for their entire school careers, while others ...
Do you rub your hands in glee if an acquaintance fails to land their dream job? Or chuckle when someone spills their coffee down their white shirt? If so, then it could be because you’ve got low self-est...
"Weary am I of the tumult, sick of the staring crowd, Pining for wild sea places where the soul may think aloud. Fled is the glamour of cities, dead as the ghost of a dream, While I pine anew for the tint of...
"What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained ...
President Barack Obama heralded the end of the divisive Iraq war Monday, and warned Iraq's neighbors that the U.S. would remain a major player in the region even as it brings its troops home. Obama said: ...
They once bustled to the soundtrack of thousands of soldiers working towards establishing security in a war zone. But U.S. military bases in Iraq are fast becoming ghost towns as America continues to with...
Image: Suspected paedophile Andrew Goodman has been accused of filming sex acts with young boys on a webcam at his home in Brooklyn, New York. An Orthodox Jewish community has had to face up to claims of c...
*This must explain the hundreds of hits a day*: "Goofing off is common Internet activity" December 03, 2011|By ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK - For anyone who needed official word, a new study confirms that m...
*The Higgs boson - has been glimpsed Scientists are anticipated on Tuesday to present opening support that the most coveted prize in constituent part physics. Teams will present a growth report in their t...
Verizon Wireless was forced to apologise on Monday for sending out a mass text message warning to thousands of people warning of a 'civil emergency' and an 'extreme threat to life.' The text urging people...
A father who slit his son and daughter’s throats to spite his estranged wife was today told he will die behind bars as he was jailed for at least 30 years. Jean Say, 62, murdered Regina, eight, and her br...
*Europe moves right... again* I've had friends who have been saying we've been in a Depression since the last year of Bush's disastrous term. But they don't have Nobel Prizes in economics. *NY Times* colu...
Nearly one out of every 100 households in the UK faces the threat of eviction by a landlord or mortgage lender. The figure forms part of new research by the homeless charity Shelter which found the 12 lo...
Plans to cut the dole for people who refuse to look for work could be contrary to their human rights, MPs warned last night. Ministers want to impose a condition that those who are able to look for or pre...
*“That Sweet Artificer, The Earth”* by Chet Raymo "Back in September I took note here of Stephen Greenblatt's new book, “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern,” which recounts how Renaissance Europe be...
The Luftwaffe never managed it during the Second World War thanks to the heroism of The Few. Now, seven decades on, Germany is once again plotting to take control of the skies over Britain… by the altoget...
The Commons was at its worst: raucous, cheap, devoid of dignity. Yesterday’s statement by the Prime Minister about Friday’s European Council meeting, followed by a strident, finger-wagging speech by Ed Mil...
More than 5,000 people have died in the nine-month uprising in Syria, the United Nations has said. UN human rights chief Navi Pillay said at least 300 children are among the victims, while thousands rema...
A music executive who has worked on albums with the Spice Girls and Jessica Simpson has died after being shot in a random attack in Hollywood. John Atterberry died in hospital on Monday after being injure...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck off the West Chile Rise at a depth of 8.9 km (5.5 miles), the quake hit at 03:21:25 UTC Tuesday 13th December 2011. The epicenter was 1471 km (914 miles) WSW of San Ju...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Halmahera, Indonesia at a depth of 110.2 km (68.5 miles), the quake hit at 01:20:45 UTC Tuesday 13th December 2011. The epicenter was 261 km (162 miles) NNE of Ternate...
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Russell Means, Lakota, speaks about beating cancer. He remembers his brother Ted Means who is now with the ancestors. He also speaks of his wife Pearl Means, Navajo, who was with him throughout his treat...
I admire this man. But he's wrong about 9/11 and the 9/11 truth and justice movement.
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 35.3 km (21.9 miles), the quake hit at 00:57:12 UTC Tuesday 13th December 2011. The epicenter was 242 km (150 miles) ...
Brazilian soccer legend before a World Cup match in Guadalajara, Mexic, June 16, 1986. Photo by Wolfgang Ratta / Reuters.The death of Socrates:Celebrating the Brazilian soccer legendSocrates was one of those...
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Not PC - 18 hours ago
Who knew that when the Turks fled Vienna in the sixteenth century, the bags of strange dark beans they left behind would take over western Europe, and eventually fuel the Age of Enlightenment! Steve Joh...
*Today we have Megan from Sisters-in-Long here to share with us her favorite Christmas traditions, as well as some fabulous old family photos. * * * Hi! I’m Megan from Sisters-in-Long, and I’m excited to s...
*INTERNATIONAL POLITICS:* *2011: A YEAR OF REVOLUTION:* 2011 was a remarkable year. As revolutions sparked throughout the Arab world the "lower" classes of many other countries also rose up as evide...
“Far beyond the local group of galaxies lies NGC 3621, some 22 million light-years away. Found in the multi-headed southern constellation Hydra, the winding spiral arms of this gorgeous island universe are...
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* the**REALnews Permalink* *The G20 and Global Policy Paralysis* Ilene Grabel: There's neither the political will nor the cou...
* Newt or Paul -- pick your poison. * *"Truly, it is amazing how our political landscape continues to be dominated by people who have been wrong about everything for years."* *-- Paul Krugman, beating up on...
Ann T. Harper Post via D. Nicholson http://catch22campaign.ca/ 100-Plus Reasons to Stop Harper Conservatives Damaging Our Democracy Harper once promised to “change the face of Canada” so drastically we...
The economic crash of 2008:An 'Inside Job'By Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog / November 8, 2011A fair summary of the award-winning documentary Inside Job is this: The economic crisis that culminated in bail...
Robert Reich's Blog ------------------------------ *The Remarkable Political Stupidity of the Street* Friday, December 9, 2011 Wall Street is its own worst enemy. It should have welcomed new financia...
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Watch video, above, by Pan Left Productions in Tucson Photos by Brenda Norrell By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com TUCSON -- After a morning ceremony, walkers marched to Im...
*I'll be back with more posts tonight after the game, dear readers.* "Stonehill cuts camp ties after hazing report; Andover High, police investigate" November 29, 2011|By Peter Schworm, Globe Staff Stoneh...
"Cat’s 8 extra toes help shelter raise funds [image: Unlike other cats, Daniel has two extra toes on each of his feet, due to a genetic mutation called polydactylism.] Unlike other cats, Daniel has two e...
"Nelson's famous signal before the Battle of Trafalgar was not: "England expects that every man will be a hero." It said: "England expects that every man will do his duty." In 1805 that was enough. It s...
The recent Iranian downing of America's latest, high-tech stealth drone, the RQ-170, raises a load of questions that nobody is asking. Begin by asking just how Iran managed to down the thing in the first ...
A new report found that many seafood products sold as environmentally-friendly aren't much better than from conventional fish farms.
After the apocalypse:We're baaack!By Editors / The Rag Blog / December 12, 2011You may have noticed that there hasn’t been much activity on The Rag Blog for the last week or so. And, if you are a subscriber,...
Children of OWS Post Paper Hearts, Cops Rip Them Down An anti-bullying march by parents and children directed against the New York Police Department’s arrests of peaceful protesters encountered a first-han...
Monday, December 12, 2011The Pretext for a North American Homeland Security Perimeter -Re-Posting for Your Knowledge!! Be Your Own Leader After months of negotiations, the U.S. and Canada have unveiled...
Ah, the Now Show, such a gem. A Biased BBC reader notes... "Some of your hat-tippers may have already picked this up, but last Friday's edition of The Now Show featured a comedian called Paul Sinha. Am...
Looks like our pals at the BBC have been very busy boys today! A Biased BBC reader notes... "There was an interesting article on the BBC website this morning about a report from the Adam Smith institute ...
ฝันร้ายของนายทุนข้ามชาติ เศรษฐกิจพอเพียงคือคำตอบปัญหาการเมืองทั่วโลก Globalists' Worst Nightmare: Self-Sufficiency: a universal solution to the globalist problem. (English Version) บทนำ ส่วนมากแล้วเมื่อม...
From A-Z, the Arab Spring is Fake. by Tony Cartalucci December 13, 2011 - The BBC hails Tunisia's assembly and their election of a new president in their article, "Tunisian activist, Moncef Marzouki, nam...
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[image: image]*Guest post by Libertarian Sus* So British PM David Cameron is getting it in the neck for saying F.U. to the E.U. But what’s new? I bring you a few excerpts from *Yes Minister* 30 years a...
Nick Ruiz, may have run into some unexpected good luck, when Florida Republican legislators-- embarrassed by Congresswoman Sandy's Adam's mindless extremism-- just gerrymandered her district (and Ruiz's)...
Corps says it's not to blame for Katrina flooding BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Whew!
*"Does the Indefinite Detention Bill Foretell Future?"* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "The recent passage of the National Defense Authorization Act (Senate Bill 1867), otherwise known as the “Indefini...
*"Wheeee! We Go Down The Bowl Last!"* by Karl Denninger “This is amusing to wake up to on a Monday morning... "*The strengthening U.S. economy is proving no deterrent to the biggest rally in Treasuries s...
The GOP presidential candidate is concerned about an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) caused by a nuclear warhead detonated in space. Is this a viable weapon? Yes... and no.
A technology inspired by how Mother Nature deals with bacteria could revolutionize the way hospitals clean surfaces.
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[image: image] After two weeks of conferencing and a couple of late nights over the weekend, delegates to the Durban Climate Conference emerged yesterday bearing … something. Actually, nothing. Nothing...
*New York Times* columnist and Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman is now calling the developed world's meltdown a depression. And he's warningthat we'd better wake up to the threat that poses to our d...
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Amongst all the commentary about yesterday’s cabinet reshuffle littering cyberspace, there is one worth reading. At Imperator Fish. It begins thus: The King of the Gods, Zeus, yesterday announced a reshu...
Syria on Monday denied involvement in last week's bombing that wounded French U.N. troops in Lebanon. The Syrian Foreign Ministry accused France of adopting conspiracy theories about the attack. The rem...
Scientists have identified more than 200 new species in the Greater Mekong region of south-east Asia, a report by conservation group WWF says. They say that throughout 2010 more than 100 plants, 28 reptil...
Image: A digital reconstruction of the Burmese snub-nosed monkey by Dr Thomas Geissmann A new species of monkey with unusual upturned nostrils has been discovered in north eastern Myanmar. Scientists sur...
The following is a part of a discussion, started by Helmsdale, as to 'What Constitutes Mental Illness'. The response I reprint here is the work of Cunctator. To join in this discussion, or indeed to disc...
*Update after the talks* The talks – get PDF or PowerPoint from both of them – showed that the rumors were almost entirely accurate. The most striking excess was one by ATLAS in the di-photon channel: ...
The European Monetary Unionwas born of countries pegging theirexchange rate to Germany's so all countries would have the same inflation rate of2 %. The EMU gave those countries a formal voice. The plan ...
A babysitter has been accused of slitting the throat of a four-year-old boy and sending a photo of his mutilated body to his mother to prove that he had killed the boy. Terry Joe ‘TJ’ Volner took a series...
The Indian government has threatened action against Facebook, Twitter and other internet companies if they do not remove "offensive" and "derogatory" material from their sites. India's Telecom and Informa...
For the first time in its history, the Middle East is hosting the World Petroleum Congress. The 5,000 participants gathered in the Qatari capital, Doha, will be talking about the most pressing issues fac...
The worst drought in 60 years has thrown more than 13 million people across the Horn of Africa into crisis. In Kenya, those already living in the greatest precarity have been pushed even closer to the e...
Three million Britons are using payday loans that charge sky-high interest rates, it is estimated. R3, a body that represents "professionals working with financially troubled individuals and businesses",...
If there is any lesson for modern-day America to learn from the 70th anniversary of Japan's devastating attack on Pearl Harbour, it is that it ignores the potential threat of the emerging powers of the Pac...
Wonga is one of many payday loan providers to argue that unauthorised bank overdrafts are more expensive. Wonga, the short-term loan business, has long argued that it is more transparent than the banks. ...
Taiwan's intelligence agency on Tuesday flatly rejected allegations that it had launched "electromagnetic wave" attacks against the running mate of an opposition presidential candidate. "The National Secu...
Watching the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Hawaii last week, I had a feeling we were entering a new phase of Asian geopolitics. For decades now, those summits have been occasions for...
As world leaders struggle to prevent the global economy tipping into further economic crisis, negotiators from 195 nations are in Durban, South Africa at the U.N. Climate Change Conference. They are workin...
To get a glimpse of the future, look to East Africa today. The Horn of Africa is in the midst of its worst drought in 60 years: Crop failures have left up to 10 million at risk of famine; social order has ...
In a heroic story beyond reason, a yellow lab named Reagan made a discovery on an Iowa roadside that saved two precious lives. Two kittens had been sealed into a bag of Meow Mix, left on a roadside and ...
Overfishing is taking a heavy toll on marine predators such as sharks, tuna and swordfish, says a new study by scientists at the University of British Columbia. The study, published online Monday in the j...
An international team of scientists has found the fastest-rotating massive star ever recorded. The star spins around its axis at the speed of 600 kilometers per second at the equator, a rotational velocity...
Saudi Arabia may consider acquiring nuclear weapons to match regional rivals Israel and Iran, its former intelligence chief Prince Turki al-Faisal said on Monday. "Our efforts and those of the world have ...
Some of the nastiest smelling creatures on Earth have skin that produces the greatest known variety of anti-bacterial substances that hold promise for becoming new weapons in the battle against antibiotic-...
Reinsurance giant Swiss Re on Tuesday said that Thailand's worst flooding in decades would cost it around $600 million, but warned that the estimate could be revised. "Water levels remain high in certain ...
Findings from the most comprehensive assessment to date on climate change, snow and glacier melt in Asia's mountainous Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region - site of Mount Everest and many of the world's tall...
Britain’s 12 million pensioners contribute £2,000 each to the economy every year though unpaid childcare, voluntary and charity work, a report found yesterday. A report by MGM Advantage, a pensions compan...
An ultra-conservative 'Tea Party' group has defended its depiction of President Barack Obama as a skunk as satirical - after it was accused of being racist. The Kansas-based Patriot Freedom Alliance came ...
The parents of a schoolboy who was struck down with narcolepsy after receiving a flu vaccine, said the Government should have carried out more tests before issuing the drug. Josh Hadfield, 6, lost muscle ...
A woman convicted of practising magic and sorcery has been executed by Saudi authorities. The Saudi Interior Ministry says in a statement that the woman was beheaded today, but gave no details of her crim...
*I believe some investors are using the term** **in regard to Corzine these days.* "Wall St.’s first big euro casualty; MF Global files bankruptcy case" November 01, 2011|By Daniel Wagner, Associated Pres...
*I am thrilled to have Lorene here today to tell us about her favorite Christmas Traditions!* Hello there! I'm Lu, or Lorene (rhymes with chlorine). You may or may not recognize me as the crazy one behind...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Montenegro at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 17:04:45 UTC Monday 12th December 2011. The epicenter was 6 km (3.7 miles) South of Pljevlja, Montenegro No...
In all the hullabaloo over Britain's use of the veto, and whether the UK has once more cut itself adrift from the rest of Europe, it seems to have been forgotten what was actually being voted on here – an ...
Earlier today we looked at a kind of political inspiration I was lucky enough to experience at a People For the American Way anniversary celebration last week. It was the opening "act." The evening close...
A shoulder-mounted laser that emits a blinding wall of light capable of repelling rioters is to be trialled by police under preparations to prevent a repeat of this summer's looting and arson. The techno...
Iran claimed that it had begun exploiting a US drone equipped with the latest radar evading technology on Monday as officials warned that the downed machine could be shared with America's rivals. Parviz ...
Click on a country name to see summaries of individual cases. - Azerbaijan: 1 - Bahrain: 1 - Burma: 12 - Burundi: 1 - China: 27 - Egypt: 2 - Eritrea: 28 - Ethiopia: 7 - Gambia:...
From the people of Syria to the people of Peace-loving European We did not want to hack your site, but we no longer have the means to bringing the truth forward to you but through hacking your sites, becaus...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Minahasa, Sulawesi, Indonesia at a depth of 147.2 km (91.5 miles), the quake hit at 15:43:38 UTC Monday 12th December 2011. The epicenter was 69 km (42 miles) SSE of G...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck near the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 137.6 km (85.5 miles), the quake hit at 15:02:20 UTC Monday 12th December 2011. The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles...
"Dekotora" trucks in Japan are too bright for the roadways.
German physicists showed that the same laws that govern the biggest steam engines work at small scales, too.
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck near the Santa Cruz Islands at a depth of 230 km (142.9 miles), the quake hit at 15:02:05 UTC Monday 12th December 2011. The epicenter was 199 km (123 miles) Southeast...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the Kuril Islands, Russia at a depth of 132 km ( 81.8 miles), the quake hit at 12:43:23 UTC Monday 12th December 2011. The epicenter was 293 km (181.6 miles) East...
While the 'ice bears' will face some difficulties, the year 2112 may mark the final days for the animals. But, there is some reason to hope.
Argentina: Humanoids at San Antonio de Areco (1975) A Report by PROYECTO CATENT (catent2002@arnet.com.ar) Location: San Antonio de Areco, Province of Buenos Aires Date: Winter 1975 Wit...
*You thirsty?* "EPA theorizes fracking-pollution link" by Mead Gruver, Associated Press /December 8, 2011 CHEYENNE, Wyo.—The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday for the first time that...
[image: Workers replace soil as part of a decontamination effort at Soma agricultural high school in Fukushima. Ko Sasaki for The New York Times] By MARTIN FACKLER 6 December 2011 FUTABA, Japan – Futaba...
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*"In her first report, released Thursday, Lysyk fairly, but firmly lambasted the Sask. Party government for the accounting methodology it's using to hide the fact the province is actually running a $304-...
It's been described as one of the greatest Victorian gothic horror stories of all time. Two ships with 129 men on board and fitted with the latest technology, vanish with barely a trace left behind. One hu...
Armed militants on motorcycles in southwest Pakistan ambushed and set ablaze a convoy of tankers contracted to NATO forces in Afghanistan on Sunday night, police said. The gunmen opened fire after forcing...
Protesters chanting, "Whose port? Our port!" marched on ports in Oakland and Long Beach in California on Monday, part of a planned effort to shut down shipping facilities along the West Coast. Police in L...
A South Korean coast guard commando was stabbed to death and another injured Monday after they boarded a Chinese fishing vessel they suspected of fishing illegally in the Yellow Sea, the coast guard and a ...
New satellite images posted on Google Maps reveal a secret air base in Nevada, where drones are being tested.
*Newt Gingrich* ALEC Alumni Was one of the people who worked on the ALEC's 1983-84 Source Book of American State Legislation Keynote Speaker ALEC's 1994 National Orientation Conference. Keynote s...
Oakland March Monday morn, Dec. 12 (Screen capture Censored ) Goldman Sachs makes an appearance at the Portland, Ore., Port Shutdown (Twitter photo) Port of Oakland police 9:30 am Monday (Twitter photo)*Por...
[image: Clownfish (pictured) like the one in Finding Nemo, all species of marine turtles including the green turtle, as well as many species of seahorse, are at risk of extinction, as are the scalloped h...
[image: European Union (EU) Commissioner Connie Hedegaard, left, and Polish Environment Minster and rotating President of the EU Marcin Korolec gesture at each other during the closing press conference o...
So there I was a few nights ago, turning the key and getting a brief reluctant whine like my cat after a nudge that woke him up, followed by a loud clacking. My battery that I'd gotten at Wally World just...
With its saw-like teeth and sleek body, this voracious predator was equipped to rip flesh from prey.
*Just getting rid of them, readers.* "Abortion clinic workers guilty in deaths" October 28, 2011|Associated Press PHILADELPHIA - Two abortion clinic workers pleaded guilty yesterday to third-degree murder...
By: Duane Craig A necessity of a consumer-driven economic system is dumps, or as they are now called, landfills. In more environmentally-unenlightened times stuff was just taken out to a rural area and dr...
By: Duane Craig There are few better examples of how ignorance enables widespread contamination than a tale about Monsanto, National Cash Register Company, the paper industry and polychlorinated biphenyl...
*The courts are with the creditors.* "Judge gets Pa. capital’s bankruptcy petition" October 17, 2011|By Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa.- A *federal judge* will hear arguments today over whether Pennsylv...
By: Duane Craig In September soils testing begins in Black Eagle, Montana, at the new Superfund site called ACM Smelter and Refinery. The site was just added to the Superfund program in March 2011. Heavy...
This aftermarket stereo doesn't have that familiar slot for CDs.
Japan this morning launched a new spy satellite to add to a network it says will enable its military to keep a watch on any given spot on the planet, night and day, no matter the weather. Officials refuse...
By: Duane Craig What happens to all the salt that's spread on roadways in northern climes to melt ice? Well, one place it appears to be ending up is in drinking water wells. Not only that, but the places ...
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Lists are back! I was a little disappointed in the turnout for our last list, awesome art. Statcounter and Google Reader tell me that a few hundred people read this blog; I wish more of them would jump in ...
I like will.i.am and admire the work he's done as a musician and as an activist. But the title of this post doesn't derive from him or any of the galaxy of celebrities who were at the People For the Amer...
Extreme weather events may set off quakes and recognizing those patterns may help us better forecast tremors.
A case against the Army Corps over Katrina flooding to be heard in court ~Hat Tweet @Editilla the Pun~Whoa & Gawd Dayum! I love the fine print the Corps likes to stick in a city's ass! How will Dallas repa...
By: Duane Craig A very deep trench is proposed to subvert the movement of contamination from a former landfill in Bennington, Vermont, according to this article in the VTDigger.org. The landfill is also a...
*A fire erupted in a boating yard in Gothenburg on Monday morning, causing black smoke to billow forth, buildings to be evacuated and traffic in the nearby area redirected by police. *”The whole building'...
Four workers have been confirmed dead and three remain missing following a landslide triggered by quarrying on Saturday in Southwest China's Guizhou province. Of the nine workers buried in the accident, a...
Australian scientists who modelled conditions on Mars to examine how much of the red planet was habitable said Monday that "large regions" could sustain terrestrial life. Charley Lineweaver's team, from t...
The bodies of Richard Smith, 37, and wife Clair, 36, together with their sons Ben, nine, and Aaron, one, were discovered at a house in Pudsey, near Leeds. Emergency services found the bodies in an upstai...
This year must go down in history as one of the weirdest in terms of weather. There were killer tornadoes ripping through cities, flooding in the north east and mid west, plus high heat, drought and wild...
The same unmanned drones that the CIA and the American military uses to kill terrorists in Pakistan and gather intelligence on militants in Afghanistan are being deployed by local cops to spy on US citizen...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 7 km (4.3 miles), the quake hit at 11:56:56 UTC Monday 12th December 2011. The epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) Northwest of Van, Turkey No R...
Remember Frank telling off the assholes on national TV? I do and he was a scandal (to the scoundrels of censorship). HAPPY ZAPPADAN! So, you think what they spent on the bank bailout and the later bonuses ...
Atheist North Korea has threatened to shoot out the lights of a giant Christmas tree-shaped tower that South Korea plans to illuminate near the tense border. The Communist North warned its southern enemy...
Middle Eastern terrorists have infiltrated Latin American countries—especially Mexico—to plan an attack against the United States, according to an alarming exposé broadcast this week by the world’s large...
Iranian news agencies reported Monday that an explosion in a factory in the central province of Yazd claimed seven lives and injured 12 others Sunday evening. It appears the factory was privately-owned. ...
Iran has sent a senior official to Moscow to meet Russian officials over the recent U.S. drone disputes as well as the nuclear issue, local Tehran Times daily reported Monday. Saeed Jalili, secretary of ...
The European Union "definitely" will not impose sanctions on OPEC member Iran's oil exports because such a measure would harm the global crude market, Iranian Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi said on Sunday. E...
Fifteen suspected members of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula escaped from a south Yemen prison Monday morning, security officials said. The escapees dug a 6-meter tunnel in the western section of the Ce...
Armed militants on motorcycles in southwest Pakistan ambushed and set ablaze a convoy of tankers contracted to NATO forces in Afghanistan on Sunday night, police said. The gunmen opened fire after forcin...
A murder investigation has been launched after two adults and two young boys were found dead in a house in Leeds, police have said. Detectives are thought to be working on the theory that the deaths were ...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 10:28:28 UTC Monday 12th December 2011. The epicenter was 23 km (14.2 miles) Northwest of Van, Turkey No...
Scenes from the BBC’s landmark Frozen Planet series, which viewers believed were filmed in the Arctic, were shot in a zoo, it emerged last night. In the latest fakery row to hit the Corporation, footage o...
Courtesy of Переводика perevodika.ru Кто и за что платит лидерам либеральной оппозиции в России (English Version: US Clumsily Covers Tracks in Russian Sedition) США пойманы при вмешательстве в российские в...
Lib Dem cabinet minister Danny Alexander defends the coalition partners' right to disagree over David Cameron's move. The chief secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, has said the EU veto does not th...
A radiation reading at Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Genkai nuclear power plant in Saga Prefecture rose slightly above the usual range after coolant water leaked there Friday, the prefectural government said...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Sakhalin, Russia at a depth of 24.9 km (15.5 miles), the quake hit at 09:28:43UTC Monday 12th December 2011. The epicenter was 163 km (101 miles) North of Poronaysk, Ru...
Monday morning and time to tell me what you think of Big Broadcasting Brother.... Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
On the 4th Dec 2011 we posted an CNN report that One of the rarest turtles was taken back home to the Gulf of Mexico after arriving on a beach in the Netherlands. Report here >>>> This weekend Kemp's Ridl...
Babies start learning grammar from the moment they're born, a study has revealed. Researchers found that in their first year of life, infants are listening intently to language and deconstructing word p...
*The discovery of the Higgs Boson would undoubtedly be the biggest scientific breakthrough of the century so far. * Arguably, it would be the most important discovery since Crick and Watson worked out th...
Russia's contested parliamentary polls will stand despite massive street protests and a pending investigation by the election authorities, a spokesman for Vladimir Putin has said. Dmitry Peskov told the ...
George Parks has been out of work for 21 months and his unemployment benefits will run out at the end of the month. At 60, he fears his prospects of getting a job are very slim, even though he has a degr...
With higher pressures and warmer temperatures beneath the Martian surface, Earth-like microorganisms could thrive.
The BBC is determined to present the outcome of the *Climate Change debacle in Durban* as some sort of triumph and this was all too evident with this interview with *Lord Stern* this morning. What struck m...
The euro and European stocks fell Monday as a landmark move toward deeper economic integration at last week's EU summit failed to convince investors its sovereign debt crisis would not continue to deepen. ...
Question to start the week. How often can you get the term* "Bad for Britain"* and the word* "isolated"* into a news programme? The answer is, lots, based on this morning's Today programme. Did you catch i...
Last week's EU summit went a long way towards forging the closer economic ties needed to prevent future debt crises but markets are likely to judge it as too little and too late to solve the current one. ...
A member of the South Korean coast guard was killed and another injured Monday after an attack by Chinese fishermen suspected of illegally fishing in the Yellow Sea, the South Korean coast guard said. Th...
*Carol Myers, also known as Carol Felstead * Carol Myers claimed that a government minister raped her with a claw hammer in Conservative Central Office. (The mystery of Carole Myers) Carol Myers, "a me...
President Barack Obama will meet with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Monday as the United States prepares to withdraw virtually all of its troops from Iraq by December 31. The two leaders are exp...
Tensions flared Sunday at Syria's embassy in Jordan -- an incident an embassy official described as an attack on Syrian employees, while an activist deemed it a peaceful demonstration before the protesters...
A Syrian doctor who became one of the country's most wanted men has been killed trying to flee to Turkey, opposition sources said. Dr. Ibrahim Othman, 26, was a founder of the Damascus Doctors, a network ...
Syrian residents in the city of Homs face a looming deadline to stop anti-government protests, hand in weapons and surrender defecting military members by Monday night -- or face attack by the government f...
The Yucca Lake airstrip sits deep inside the heavily restricted Tonopah Test Range, but is now easily seen on Google Maps. Google has come under fire for compromising the national security of the United S...
Premier Anna Bligh has announced that she will abolish Queensland Health and "start again" in the wake of a major fraud scandal. Ms Bligh says the arrest this morning of Queensland Health employee Joel Ba...
*Unemployment is the world's fastest-rising fret, a survey wrapping 11,000 people in 23 countries suggests. Issues associated with price rises, such as higher food and energy prices, were on level peggin...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Myanmar at a depth of 40 km (24.8 miles), the quake hit at 04:45:32 UTC Monday 12th December 2011. The epicenter was 94 km (58.2 miles) West of Katha, Myanmar No Report...
* * * * *Self Help* * by Samuel Smiles* * Hypertext Meanings and Commentaries from the Encyclopediaof the Self* * by Mark Zimmerman* *Self Help; WithIllustrations of Conduct and Perseverance* *By Samuel S...
Once again, I suspect that rockyplanets such as Earth and Mars are produced as ejects from Jupiter which doesthe heavy lifting in terms of accumulating the mass and clearing out the SolarSystem. Jupi...
It is not just Saudi Arabia ofcourse. The youthful population in everyIslamic state has learned that they can confront corruption with an instant mobbraying for justice and if the authorities resist th...
In the end, it all sounds goodand the problem is sent forward in time in the hopes that someone else willproduce a better arrangement or more properly perhaps that Nature weighs in andmakes it all moot...
This is a sharp reminder that Arabwomen are prepared to grab their opportunities and make a real difference. I never had any doubt, but the unrelentingpropaganda out there has a subtext quite the oppo...
*"WalMart Heirs Have Same Net Worth As the * *Bottom 30 Percent Of Americans"* by Pat Garofalo "Income inequality in the U.S. is currently the highest its been since the 1920s, with the 400 richest Americ...
*The European Union will place its current emission-cutting pledges within the official Kyoto procedure, a key command of developing countries. *UN typical weather meeting have stopped up with a concurre...
“It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. Its appeal is to the material part, and if allowed its way, it will in time disturb one's spiritual balance. Therefore, childr...
“To the last moment of his breath On hope the wretch relies; And e'en the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise. Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker ...
“The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite, revive from ashes and rise.” - Miguel De Cervantes, “Don Quixote”
- Infants being forced on to sugary drips after birth to counter withdrawal symptoms - Women who develop diabetes while pregnant 'put their children's health at risk' Babies are being...
*The German court has lined in Motorola Mobility's help in a patents divergence with Apple. Motorola could now try to strength Apple to eliminate the characteristic from its policy or halt sales in Germa...
A young mother was stabbed to death after she complained about thumping music from a party, it was claimed yesterday. Emma Jones, 30, walked to a block of flats opposite her home at around 2am to ask part...
Dr. Kunnie (R) on Tohono O'odham land, on the so-called US/Mexico border with Mohawk and Navajo. Photo Brenda NorrellBy Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Listen to Dr. Julian Ku...
Pilates? It's old news. The latest fitness craze is balancing on a plank as you exercise [image: Balancing act: Sophie Morris tries a 'beaming' exercise class] Balancing act: Sophie Morris tries a 'beami...
It has been banished from classrooms for decades. But now it seems schools should be encouraging their students to chew gum, after a study found it boosted their performance in tests. Researchers at St ...
The lack of enthusiasm expressed by Nick Clegg after David Cameron’s historic exercise of the British veto made it clear that it was only a matter of time before an ideological chasm opened up between the ...
Storms will batter England and Wales from tonight, with forecasters warning that we are about to endure the windiest week of the year. The Met Office has issued a 30-hour weather warning beginning at 6pm ...
Nick Clegg plunged the Coalition into warfare over Europe yesterday as he warned that Tory policy risked making Britain a ‘pygmy’ on the world stage. The Deputy Prime Minister – who initially backed David ...
*You can read this while you wait.* "Experts urge cholesterol tests for 9- to 11-year-olds" by Deborah Kotz Globe Staff / November 12, 2011 In a sweeping set of new guidelines designed to protect children...
Police are checking a property for harmful chemicals or gases after the discovery of four bodies. Emergency services were called to the property in the Pudsey area of Leeds at 5.30pm on Sunday and found ...
*The amazing vision, astrophysical eclipse have been enjoying by Sky watchers, the last entire astrophysical eclipse until 2014. On some points, circuitous daylight still illuminated the Moon, revolving it...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 117.5 km (73 miles), the quake hit at 02:34:22 UTC Monday 12th December 2011. The epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) ESE...
ABC excluded Jon Huntsman from last night's Iowa debate because he isn't polling 5% in the state or nationally. Instead, he was in New Hampshire-- throwing stones: "They're engaging in another evening o...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Bougainville Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 85.2 km (52.9 miles), the quake hit at 21:56:02 UTC Sunday 11th December 2011. The epicenter was 78 km (48 mile...
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*"WalMart Heirs Have Same Net Worth As the * *Bottom 30 Percent Of Americans"* by Pat Garofalo "Income inequality in the U.S. is currently the highest its been since the 1920s, with the 400 richest Americ...
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Once upon a time there was a boy called John Banks. When he was a very, very young boy he was in a gang with ‘Piggy’ Muldoon. He was one of Piggy’s favourites. Sometimes when Piggy would smile at him ...
“I apologize because of the terrible mess the planet is in. But it has always been a mess. There have never been any ‘Good Old Days,’ there have just been days. And as I say to my grandchildren, ‘Don’t lo...
“Sooner or later, fate puts us together with all the people, one by one, who show us what we could, and shouldn’t, let ourselves become. Sooner or later we meet the drunkard, the waster, the betrayer, the...
Daniel Paillé, the man Stephen Harper trusted to investigate the Liberal Party, is the new leader of the Bloc Quebecois. However, the media attention has not been on Paillé, but on the anemic total of 14,0...
*Hactivists become heroes of the voiceless* Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com The hacktivists at AntiSec are becoming the heroes for the voiceless, the only place to turn for those who are b...
Early American stealth technology, the F-117 kind, relied heavily on angled plates and special paint to prevent radar waves from being returned to enemy receivers. The current stealth technology relies ...
*On Tuesday NYS Gov. Andrew Cuomo (who may or may not be some relation to a person identified as "Popular Reformer Cuomo") stalked the halls of the Capitol after he, the Republican-controlled Senate, and t...
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The left: Your life belongs to society. The right: Your life belongs to god. Ayn Rand: Your life belongs to you. - Yaron Brook, from his talk “Ayn Rand and the Tea Party: A Recipe for Cultural Change” ...
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After several weeks of their primary contest, the Labour Party caucus is about to choose a new leader. The choice for their next Prime Minister appears to be between a blunt pencil* and a vicious bragga...
"In January 2007, a headstone was erected in The Grange, Edinburgh Cemetery, where Cook is buried, bearing the epitaph: "I may not have succeeded in halting the war, but I did secure the right of parliamen...
“Why were the statues on Easter Island built? No one is sure. What is sure is that over 800 large stone statues exist there. The Easter Island statues, stand, on the average, over twice as tall as a person...
"I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale ...
Personal responsibility is a cornerstone of conservative thinking, right? Well, yes-- for anyone not in the club. If you're part of the 1% the laws and mores of society dictate that you will almost never ...
"What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instincts of beasts.” - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ● But, by God, for all...
*"Away Above The Chimney Pots"* by Chet Raymo "So Oz finally became home; the imagined world became the actual world, as it does for us all, because the truth is that once we have left our childhood plac...
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The Law Commission has been dreaming up ways to “regulate” bloggers, and new ways to regulate mainstream news. Their proposal includes a new “code,” and an “independent regulator.” “Independent” in th...
"We meet ourselves time and time again in a thousand disguises on the path of life." ~ Carl Jung
* "Man's Search For Meaning" * Viktor Frankl “In attempting this psychological presentation and a psychopathological explanation of the typical characteristics of a concentration camp inmate, I may give...
*"The Hound In The Kennel"* by John James "In my experience most of us take whatever frightens us or makes us uncomfortable and push it out of sight. This puts it into the unconscious. It does not disa...
*“Synchronicity and Magical Thinking”* By Synchrosecrets.com “Synchronicity and magical thinking are close friends. They may even be Siamese twins who share a common heart. But what is magical thinking? E...
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"This is the nineties, Bubba, and there is no such thing as paranoia. It's all true." - Hunter S. Thompson ● And that was then... lol. - CP
Beech Grove, Indiana Folks, decide for yourself, as always, what makes sense in all this. Just don't be so closed minded that you chant endlessly, "That could never happen here, that could never happen h...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Banda Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 145.2 km (90.2 miles), the quake hit at 20:18:17 UTC Sunday 11th December 2011. The epicenter was 235 km (146 miles) NNW of Saum...
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What’s going on in Europe economically is impossible to understand without getting your head around what’s happening in Europe politically. And it’s virtually impossible to understand what’s happening in...
*“FEMA Camps On 72 Hour Notice AND Military Authorized To Arrest- VERIFIED” * by dutchsinse "For the record, I said months ago that I did NOT believe that there was a REAL plan to round up American/US ci...
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The government is spending more than it takes in. It’s spending a *lot *more than it takes in, at a time when it has a lot less. It is spending a lot more at a time when it has a lot less because some ...
A vigilante mob burned down a gipsy camp after an Italian teenager allegedly claimed she had been raped by two Romany men – only to confess later that she had invented the entire story. The 16-year-old r...
French foreign minister says he believes roadside bomb which injured 5 French UNIFIL peacekeepers in southern Lebanon carried out by Hezbollah at Syria's urging. France's Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 31.8 km (19.8 miles), the quake hit at 19:51:11 UTC Sunday 11th December 2011. The epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) ES...
Army defectors in southern Syria battled loyalist forces backed by tanks in a major armed confrontation Sunday near the Jordanian border, as up to 18 people were killed in nationwide violence. Residents a...
At least 18 people are reported to have died in clashes in Syria as opposition activists called a general strike. 11 of the deaths were in the cities of Homs and Hama, the opposition Local Co-ordination ...
*"A Letter from Mitt Romney: Your Chance to Win $10,000"* by Andy Borowitz DES MOINES (The Borowitz Report) – “Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney today issued the following open letter to America: ...
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OK, it's understandable why Trump is all negative on Romney these days. It wouldn't matter if Bachmann and a couple of the other clowns didn't show up for the Trump freak show, but there can't be a credib...
The Liberal Party's Million Conversations campaign to raise a million dollars has featured almost daily e-mails from current Liberal MPs, past Liberal greats, and Paul Martin. These letters have taken on a...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAustralian scientists who modelled conditions on Mars to examine how much of the red planet was habitable said Monday that "large regions" could sustain terrestrial life. Charley Lineweaver's team, from t...
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