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Newt Gingrich? Delaware sociopath Christine "I'm not a witch" O'Donnell endorsed Romney yesterday but, no, it isn't any more...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck offshore
Bio-Bio, Chile at a depth of 34.8 km (21.6 miles), the quake hit at 23:20:00
UTC Wednesday 14th December 2011. The epicenter was 82 km (50 miles) West of Cauq...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Taiwan at a depth of 30.3 km (18.8 miles), the quake hit at 00:35:40 UTC Thursday 15th December 2011. The epicenter was 38 km (23 miles) Southeast of
Hualien, Taiwan No...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Andreanof Islands,
Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 34 km (21.1 miles), the quake hit at 00:44:56 UTC Thursday 15th December 2011. The epicenter was 181 km (...
[image: Painful: One in 1,000 people in Britain each year is affected by blood clots, which often form in the legs during air travel or long periods of being immobile] Painful: One in 1,000 people in Br...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Northern Columbia at a depth of 160.6 km (99.8 miles), the quake hit at 01:53:03 UTC Thursday 15th December 2011. The epicenter was 46 km (28 miles) SSE of Bucaramanga,...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Southern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 61 km (37.9 miles), the quake hit at 02:25:11 UTC Thursday 15th December 2011. The epicenter was 149 km (92 miles) SSE of Ben...
Alcohol tastes sweeter when loud music is playing and the noise could make it difficult for drinkers to judge how much they are consuming, new research has claimed. Dr Lorenzo Stafford, a psychologist f...
“Our Moon turned red last week. The reason was that during December 10, a total lunar eclipse occurred. The above digitally superimposed image mosaic captured the Moon many times during the eclipse, from b...
Husbands and wives who ‘emotionally abuse’ their partners could be guilty of domestic violence under Government plans. This may include cutting up clothes or banning them from seeing friends. It could m...
*“The Seeker And The Sought” * by Chet Raymo “Ovid's great work, The Metamorphoses, like Lucretius's poem, begins by addressing the gods: ․ "My soul would sing of metamorphoses. But since, o gods,...
"If the earth were only a few feet in diameter, floating a few feet above a field somewhere, people would come from everywhere to marvel at it. People would walk around it marveling at its big pools of w...
*"As Good as Your Word: Promises"* by The DailyOm" "We forget how powerful our words are and when make promises it is up to us to make sure we keep our words sacred. Ever since human beings could speak t...
POLITICS - What are economists saying about 2012? Lets find out. IHS Global Insight expects global GDP to rise 2.7% in 2012, but they have other predictions as well. In 2010 eight out of 10 of IHS’s predic...
So, just to update, I think we have decided against putting a bid in on the property. What's weird is, on paper, the place sounds perfect for us, and really, in person it was as well. But something is tell...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 02:59:14 UTC Thursday 15th December 2011. The epicenter was 168 km (104 miles) NNW...
Found this on the front page of Daily Kos And Yes - it is REAL not faux. Figure it out - evidently FAUX NEWS did not - or maybe it's "intentional".
"One day at a time - this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beauti...
*"Escape"* "When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego, and when we escape like squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things ...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 30.6 km (19 miles), the quake hit at 02:49:23 UTC Thursday 15th December 2011. The epicenter was 220 km (136 miles) E...
Hinderaker (PowerLine Blog) is up to his normal level of disinformation again - trying to wipe the crap off of ALEC's face – he tried to defend ALEC on December 2nd in his blog and he tried it again toda...
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*The 1946 Chon Day cartoon nominated by *New Yorker* cartoon editor Bob Mankoff as "the perfect cartoon"* *by Ken* And that simpler answer, Bob, is: *One can only hope.* You may recall that we tagged alon...
Moon of Alabama - UN's Navi Pillay Makes Up Syrian Casualties Numbers. (December 13). Pepe Escobar - NATO dreams of civil war in Syria. (December 14). Boiling Frogs Post - BFP Exclusive- Developing Story:...
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FOTOfrontera - 3 hours ago
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*TIME magazine names you who've joined Occupy Wall Street, the Arab Spring, etc. – "The Protester" – as PERSON OF THE YEAR! Each one of you who've gone to an #OWS demonstration, camped out illegally, spo...
*They are really, really sick.* "TSA accused of another intrusive search" December 06, 2011|By Associated Press NEW YORK - A second *senior citizen* is alleging that the Transportation Security Administr...
*"Cave Art"* by Artchive.com “Cave or rock art consists of engraved or painted works on open air rocks or on the floors, walls and ceilings of caves, some of them in deep and almost inaccessible crannies....
posted by PC at
Not PC - 4 hours ago
I’ve just been to a wonderful show by two hugely talented artists at the start of their careers, artists the like of which you thought you’d never see again. The “show was a presentation for Angela Mack...
*"Fox News Names Pepper Spray Person of the Year"* First Food Product to Snag Top Honors by Andy Borowitz NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) – "The Fox News Channel made history to today my naming “pepper spr...
*For piloting the car drunk.* "FAA chief on leave after OUI charge" December 06, 2011|Associated Press WASHINGTON - FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt was placed on a leave of absence yesterday and US offici...
ENVIRONMENT - 13 of the hottest year in recorded history were in the last 15 years. This past year was no different, tying for the number 10 spot. The global warming phenomenon and its cause due to greenho...
POLITICS - From the protests and revolution in Egypt, the Arab Spring (protests and governments toppling across North Africa and the Middle East) to the economic frustration felt in Europe to the Occupy Wa...
The Ten Commandments scroll will be added to New York's Discovery Times Square Exposition.
*THANK YOU!* *Without funds, Censored News can not continue* After five years of publishing, Censored News can not continue unless there are donations to cover the costs. The greatest need is for a laptop,...
Most excellent post here on Autonomous Mind questioning the BBCs print wing - The Guardian. You won’t find this update, about the Guardian’s allegations about Milly Dowler’s voicemails being deleted by pe...
Blue America has been insisting for years that Paul Ryan is vulnerable to a serious electoral challenge. This week Democratic political strategists inside the Beltway are getting the same message from one...
Facebook and the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline collaborated to offer live chat sessions with crisis counselors on the site.
Two long-term forecasters are finally abandoning their failed hurricane prediction efforts.
Moosejaw's new augmented reality app doesn't try to sell clothes so much as it tries to remove them.
Sorry to be a little late in commenting on this article, but it's not going away and won't actually become old news for a very long time. It is very important, however, that Americans, who live under the f...
Less than three weeks into its nearly nine-month journey to Mars, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) is already on the job, assessing radiation levels en route to the Red Planet.
A new government report says phones should not be used in cars, even with speakers or headsets.
Earlier this week, the presidential campaign of former Republican Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney hit a snag when it was discovered that his catchphrase, "Keep America American", was also used by the ...
*Dr. Julian Kunnie: Anarchy and Democracy in America* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com TUCSON -- Author John Zerzan and Professor Dr. Julian Kunnie joined O’odham at the...
A surfer has been pictured riding one of the biggest recorded waves ever to hit Irish shores. *Jayce Robinson* was photographed catching the major Atlantic swell at Mullaghmore Head, which produced waves...
Pressure is growing for world leaders to respond to Syria's brutal crackdown on anti-regime protests. Earlier this week, the United Nations' Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, said more than 5...
Anthrax has broken out in Luangwa district with the lower Zambezi national park being the hardest hit. Many animals especially Hippos have already died. Luangwa acting district commissioner Musole Siachis...
*Fontgate: The boss of ATLAS shouldn't be attacked for her Comic Sans MS* When we watched the public talks at CERN yesterday, I opened a TRF Higgs chat box where up to 40 people were chatting on their fres...
A heavy downpour accompanied by strong storm that hit Nkhata Bay district on Tuesday morning has left 11 people seriously injured and hundreds of others dispossessed in the area of T/A Mankhambira. The i...
A young black bear rode into downtown Vancouver, Canada, in a garbage truck on Monday.
Efficiently and without melodrama, Roald Amundsen became the first person to reach the South Pole.
Efficiently and without melodrama, Roald Amundsen became the first person to reach the South Pole.
South Korea shut down a nuclear reactor Wednesday for what appeared to be problems in an electric generator connected to the reactor, plant operators said. The Unit-3 reactor at Kori Nuclear Power Plant ...
A magnitude 3.5 earthquake has struck Western Montana at a depth of 12.2 km (7.6 miles), the quake hit at 16:56:22 UTC Wednesday 14th December 2011. The epicenter was 22 km (14 miles) Southeast of Clinton, ...
The Central African Republic (CAR) is in the grips of a chronic medical emergency, according to a report released today by the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médeci...
posted by PC at
Not PC - 10 hours ago
Q: Is it appropriate for an atheist to celebrate Christmas? A: “Yes, of course… The secular meaning of the Christmas holiday is wider than the tenets of any particular religion: it is good will toward m...
A fracture and leak in the city’s 1 million-gallon water tank led officials who feared it would collapse to evacuate homes, a nearby pediatrics practice and a small airport on Tuesday. The leak was at th...
Many of you don't realize that at the same time Wisconsin was voting ALEC Alumni Scott Walker into office - Minnesota was voting between ALEC Alumni ( I think - he could still be a full fledged member) Tom...
Radioactive heavy water spilled Tuesday evening at the Point Lepreau nuclear power plant in New Brunswick. Kathleen Duguay, a spokeswoman for NB Power, said the spill occurred in the reactor building. ...
a 3.2 earthquake occurred at the little-known submarine volcano Kolumbos ca. 8 km NE of Santorini, Island, Greece. This marks one of the largest events in recent months. The submarine volcano whose peak r...
Blue Dog and corporate shill Dennis Cardoza is retiring-- but not before taking a vicious swipe at President Obama, something as bad as you'd expect from any Republican. And-- let's be real-- what is a Bl...
A magnitude 3.1 earthquake has struck Wyoming at a depth of 0.6 km (0 miles - Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 17:38:32 UTC Wednesday 14th December 2011. The epicenter was 7 km (4 miles) East of Sween...
*The man who said this:* "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell *told National Journal's Major ...
The sun and planets have been on an interstellar journey for billions of years and the moon may have recorded galactic events along the way.
A mother-of-three who killed a kitten in a microwave in revenge for its owner reporting her abusive partner to police has been jailed for 168 days. *Gina Robins, 31, put the 10-week-old pet in the microwa...
At least 33 people died and more than 100 people fell ill after consuming hooch at Sangrampur in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal last night. South 24 Parganas District Magistrate N S Nigam told...
*CDC: 2.5M more young people covered under Dems’ healthcare law* By Julian Pecquet - 12/14/11 10:31 AM ET About 2.5 million young adults have taken advantage of the healthcare reform law’s requirement tha...
posted by leftdog at
Buckdog - 12 hours ago
* Taxpayers around the British Commonwealth will soon be forking out millions and millions of dollars to host the English Queen and her brood as part of her 60th anniversary activities. Fortunately for ...
[image: In 2008, in Antarctic waters, the Japanese whaling ship, Nisshin Maru, hauled two dead minke whales on board for processing. Japan hunts the calves of mother whales, knowing the mothers won't aba...
posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at
- 12 hours ago
CLICK TO SEE Url movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=GxY-uIgv4vs&vq=medium *Thanks, Jumakhan* for the hint! The best balancing act I've ever seen... John
The star or angel debate in my family is alive and well. We had an angel on the top of our tree for the longest time until my baby brother came along and threw a fit. Ever since then we have argued back ...
It may be one of the world's riches countries, but the richness of their pastries is at risk.
The above ad was from the NDP's positive hope-filled election campaign. In it, the NDP pointed to Ignatieff's attendance record and accused him of "not showing up for work". Funny thing though. As point...
Days after Britain used its veto at the European summit, cracks have started to emerge as work begins on drafting the new European pact to save the euro. 26 countries have indicated they would, in princip...
posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at
CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours ago
*What was the most censored in 2011?* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com What was the most censored issue concerning Indigenous Peoples and human rights in 2011. As the year...
[image: Curtis Miller, president and owner of Miller Seafood Company, dumps empty oyster shells. Fueled by Texas’ ongoing drought, the algae bloom — known as Karenia brevis — thrives in warm, salty water...
Luke Skywalker's Holy Father. I got nothing else today. What have you got?
The lithium-ion battery gives a wheelchair a range of 19 miles and revs it up to speeds of 12 mph.
New-and-improved GPS satellites will be more accurate and reach indoors.
Be sure to catch my previous post and leave me a thought or two! That said, this latest news story, only a few hours old and not getting widespread coverage, just begs to be posted. [image: Link] pic borr...
More than 4,000 pages of the pioneering scientist and are mathematician can now be seen online.
To survive, rattlesnakes will need to migrate as much as 1,000 times more quickly than they have before.
6 Reasons Why the New Orleans Saints Should Be Super Bowl XLVI Favorites ~Bleacher Report ~Hat Tweet @LeveesOrg ~Departing for DC to attend major colloquium as guest of the Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton...
Three Swiss engineers - a father and his two sons - have been charged with breaking arms export laws by aiding a Pakistani-led nuclear smuggling ring that supplied Libya's atomic weapons program, prosecuto...
Dr. Lee Rogers is the Simi Valley surgeon running for the L.A.-area House seat which GOP fossil Buck McKeon is still clinging to. Although his campaign has focused like a laser beam on the economy, jobs a...
Coincidence or something else? You might have caught this news from the last week or so? The news about the man made pandemic flu virus. Very deadly. Completely lab created. Done in September of this year. ...
The government is expected to consider designating areas that are exposed to more than 50 millisieverts per year of radiation from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant as zones that are difficu...
*Occupy Announcement Dec. 14 at National Press Club* WI Web Staff Report Tuesday, 13 December 2011 A group African -American clergy and civil rights leaders will unite with representatives of ...
At least a 100 white dolphins are stuck in the ice in the Bering Sea. The Regional Governor Roman Kopin has requested icebreakers to go to the location to try and free the Dolphins. Roman Kopin is concer...
posted by laura k at
wmtc - 15 hours ago
Last week I learned citizenship ceremonies now include militarism. This week I learn they also include Islamophobia. I'm grateful I became a citizen before this hateful bullshit started. Face veils banne...
A powerful bomb exploded Tuesday at a military post in the restive, northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, followed by a hail of gunfire, witnesses said. The witnesses said they saw bodies, but CNN cou...
"Analysts say Panetta overplays budget cuts" November 30, 2011|By David Lerman, Bloomberg News WASHINGTON - To hear Defense Secretary Leon Panetta tell it, the *US military is headed for a doomsday scenar...
The daughter of ousted Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi is pressing U.N. war-crimes prosecutors to investigate the October deaths of her father and one of her brothers during Libya's civil war. In a lett...
A man who went on a grenade and gun attack in the Belgian city of Liege left no explanation about why he did it, authorities said Wednesday. There were at least 124 people in hospitals Wednesday, and at l...
Businesses in several Syrian cities remained shuttered Wednesday amid ongoing violence and bloodshed as pressure mounted for an international response to the government crackdown on protesters. Five civi...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 12:35:30 UTC Wednesday 14th December 2011. The epicenter was 158 km (98 mil...
Some days I'm not the brightest bulb on the Hanukkah bush / Christmas tree and it has taken me days to find this link. Sen. Bernie Sanders has proposed a constitutional amendment that would overturn the S...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Palau Region at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:30:26 UTC Wednesday 14th December 2011. The epicenter was 258 km (159.9 miles) West of Ngaramash N...
"Police remove Occupy Baltimore protesters" December 13, 2011|Sarah Brumfield, Associated Press Occupy Baltimore demonstrators who spent 10 weeks protesting economic disparity were removed peacefully from...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Tajikistan at a depth of 170 km (105.4 miles), the quake hit at 10:00:28 UTC Wednesday 14th December 2011. The epicenter was 59 km (36.5 miles) South of Murgob, Tajikis...
"Man with grenades kills 4 in Belgium; Many wounded before gunman takes own life" by James Kanter New York Times / December 14, 2011 A man with a history of run-ins with the law lobbed three hand grenades ...
On Saturday, December 17th – the 3 month anniversary of the birth of this movement, we will gather to celebrate Occupy Wall Street and to occupy space together. Join artists, musicians, and local communit...
*Made my printed paper*: "Business is booming at luxury retailers; Sales rebound from recession" by Jenn Abelson | Globe Staff, December 14, 2011 Even as unemployment remains high and job growth is anem...
*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* The United States presumes to prosecute an Iraqi citizen for 'terrorism' when, in fact, all the young man had said pertained to the defense of his country by a for...
posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at
- 17 hours ago
Url movie: http://youtu.be/6F8DzjFG55I *Nigel Farage has several times proven to be correct* in his opinion during the last 5 years. I have hardly anything to add. The situation on the streets of most Eur...
*It's a small, dear readers.* "In weak economy, buying coffee is a small reward; Coffee drinkers unwilling to starve the habit that gets them going" by Lisa Zwirn | Globe Correspondent, December 14, 201...
*“A Dangerous Woman: Indefinite Detention at Carswell”* By Susan Lindauer “Some things are unforgivable in a democracy. A bill moving through Congress, authorizing the military to imprison American citize...
Despite the distracting political drama over the UK’s outlier rejection at last week’s European Union agreement on fiscal and budgetary coordination, it’s now become clear that main objective of the collec...
*Literally*: "Utah mayor used alias to write good-news stories" by Associated Press, November 12, 2011 SALT LAKE CITY - Disguising himself with an *alias*, the * mayor of Utah*’s second-largest city has ...
The UK jobless total reached a 17-year high in the three months to October, hitting 2.64 million. The number of people out of work rose 128,000 in the period while youth unemployment, which covers 16-24 ...
posted by David Vance at
Biased BBC - 19 hours ago
Doesn't BBC DG Mark Thompson sound a tad defensive? Mark Thompson, the BBC director-general, has suggested criticism of its faked wildlife programme scenes had been fuelled by newspapers’ bitterness over ...
Japanese researchers have enlisted wild monkeys to test radiation levels in forests near the devastated Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Plant. The primates will be fitted with radiation metres and GPS transmitt...
Less than two weeks after the U.S. let a top secret spy drone slip through its fingers in Iran, Washington appears to have lost another. Officials say an unmanned military drone crashed this morning at an ...
A young child has become only the second person in the U.S. to develop a rare form of flu that is usually found in pigs rather than humans. The Minnesota child has developed the H1N2 virus, which does not ...
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has threatened a 'strike' where the entire English-language site would be turned off as a protest against an anti-piracy bill currently under discussion in the U.S. The si...
*"On the Uses of Government"* by Bill Bonner “The Divine Right of Kings” was a theory of government that held water. But you had to put the water in the right container. You had to believe in God. You ha...
posted by David Vance at
Biased BBC - 19 hours ago
[image: Euro-megaphone] Wednesday dawns and time for a new one of these since the Monday one is bursting at the seams. Looks like you have been able to discern plenty of bias from the State Broadcaster so ...
A teenager who stabbed a radio journalist more than 50 times must serve 25 years to life in prison, a judge said today. John Katehis, 18, murdered 47-year-old George Weber after they met on Craigslist an...
Iran is threatening to close off the world's most important oil shipping lane as tensions between it and the West mount following the capture of an unmanned American spy plane. Parviz Sarvari, a member of...
A group of Turkish policemen have sparked national outrage after they were caught on camera repeatedly slapping a woman in the face, throwing her to the ground and pulling her hair. CCTV footage shows Fev...
posted by David Vance at
Biased BBC - 19 hours ago
Given BBC antipathy towards the current UK Government, one can almost understand it's enthusiasm to move the debate on from yesterday's* better than forecast inflation figures* and back onto the negative n...
posted by David Vance at
Biased BBC - 19 hours ago
Anyone catch this interview with SNP Leader Alex Salmond on the BBC this morning? Although I missed the beginning of it I knew it had to Salmond speaking such was the lack of interruptions and deep respec...
"I didn't say it would be easy. I just said it would be the truth." - "Morpheus"
* “First Principles And Politics”* by Karl Denninger “Let's have a simple conversation folks. It's going to be focused on just one thing: First Principles. Just one of them, in fact. It's this: Who owns...
*“This is How the 1% Steal and Plunder From the 99%”* by Michael Hudson “This is how the 1% steal and plunder from the 99% in a nutshell! Watch this brilliant, lucid explanation by Prof. Michael Hudson to ...
*Website for this image** * Sometimes banks gamble, and lose. On 12 December 2011, Global Research had an article suggesting that banks, and others, still hold a vast amount of worthless assets. *The sugg...
*"When a Great Correction Doesn’t Stick to the Script"* by Bill Bonner "Darkness without a dawn… The Dow down 167 yesterday. Gold down $48. Nothing to get excited about. The excitement is still ahead. Wh...
In a short space of time, Australia has managed to become one of the most expensive countries in the world. Buying a house or going shopping in our cities is now much less affordable than in such interna...
A piglet from Changtai County in southern China's Fujian Province has been born with three eyes and two mouths. Xiao Jintu, owner of a local pig farm, said the piglet is one from a 12-strong litter. 'It ...
The Russian research vessel Academician Lavrentiev conducted a survey of 10,000 square miles of sea off the coast of eastern Siberia. They made a terrifying discovery - huge plumes of methane bubbles risin...
'You want us to fly to the Arctic and do it again for real? Have you any idea how cold it is up there?'
*Ideas that this signal will go away are not far from science-fiction* People talk about prudence, disappointment, inconclusiveness, and so on, but let me admit that I, for one, consider the existence of...
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A Labour MP's researcher has been accused of hypocrisy after a picture emerged of her giving a Hitler salute hours after she slammed a Tory MP for attending a party where guests chanted Nazi slogans. Char...
A British student training to be a safari guide in South Africa died less than an hour after being bitten by a black mamba snake. Nathan Layton, 28, did not realise he had been bitten while helping to cap...
A daredevil photographer went to extraordinary lengths to photograph these rarely seen sharks, which look like they have been etched from stone. These incredible Greenland sharks can survive for more than ...
The 'fare-dodging' student who was manhandled off a train by a fellow passenger has defended his actions and claimed he was the victim in a video which has become a YouTube hit. Footage of the teenage tro...
"terrorism itself is only a gigantic special effect." - Jean Baudrillard, as quoted in 'Waging terror: The geopolitics of the real' by Stephen H. Jones and David B. Clarke. (1). "This terrorist violence...
A lorry driver was killed tonight in a motorway pile-up involving two cars and three lorries, police said. The accident happened on the M5 in Gloucestershire on the northbound carriageway, between junctio...
Six people have been killed after a fire broke out in an old people's home in the southern French city of Marseille. All six victims were believed to be women. They died of smoke inhalation after the fir...
The body of a woman has been found by police at the home of a gunman who opened fire on a square in the Belgian city of Liege. Officers discovered the body while searching the home of 33-year-old Nordine...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Eastern Sea of Japan at a depth of 238.8 km (148.4 miles), the quake hit at 07:48:44 UTC Wednesday 14th December 2011. The epicenter was 237 km (147 miles) WNW of ...
It is a bit disconcerting to realizethat one out of a hundred is a psychopath. The good news is that few actually rise to serious positions in society mostlybecause that ultimately entails establishing...
What this book makes clear, and Ihave just finished it, is that we have utterly missed the shift in Arabsentiment throughout the Middle East and theIslamic world after 9/11. It hashappened from the gr...
A modest statistical link isshown between decreasing visceral fat and an increase in soluble fiber. More practically, an apple a day does thetrick and suggests the scientific underpinning for that old...
What this tells us is thatwithout the arrival of the new LENR Heat Engine thanks to the work of Rossi andFocardi, the power industry was finally running ahead of the globally availableuranium supplies. ...
Asimov, Krugman and America deserve better. Teresa Nielsen Hayden makes an authoritative case that "Krugman is from Trantor; Gingrich ain't: Far be it from me to discourage mainstream political commentary ...
*According to a study Advances in neuroscience recommend the age of criminal blame - 10 in Wales, Northern Ireland might be too low. According to Professor Nicholas Mackintosh there's now incontrovertibl...
*The 58-year-old plans to build up a giant aircraft that would put spaceships into range, rather than elating them off from a launch pad. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has announced devices to start un...
*A team of scientists in the US unveiled a camera capable of visualizing the movement of light. The method has been dubbed femto photograph and has been meticulous on the Massachusetts Organization of Tec...
Image of The Gourds from thegourds.com.Old Mad Joy:No Last Waltz for the Gourds'Most bands grow out of rock and roll when they get to be our age,' Russell told me with a laugh. 'We've done everything kind of...
Sean Stewart's On the Ground is a livelyanecdotal history of the underground pressAmply illustrated with art, cartoons, drawings, and covers from the colorful, eye-catching papers of the Sixties, it comes cl...
*A set of jewels owned by late artiste Dame Elizabeth Taylor is being auctioned at Christie's in New York. It has been expected the four-day auction will bring more than $30m*. Once t he pearl, known as L...
- Mothers employed part time reported better overall health and fewer symptoms of depression - Even full time workers think that their jobs make them better at parenting Stay-at-home ...
- New research dismantles previous findings Talking on your mobile phone while driving does not increase the risk you will crash, a study has found. Assuming the motorist is using a hands-free...
They are fiercely competitive and willing to take on any opponent who dares to cross their path. Think that’s a description of the ambitious younger generation? Think again. Instead of marking a more m...
Is your boyfriend starring a bit too hard into your eyes when you ask him about a lipstick stain on his shirt? Or does your typically-fidgety co-worker sit still as the night when you ask what happened t...
A magnitude 7.3 earthquake has struck the Eastern Papua New Guinea Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 115.1 km (71.5 miles), the quake hit at 05:04:56 UTC Wednesday 14th December 2011. The epicenter wa...
Elizabeth Warren's video speaks for itself-- elegantly and effectively. Syracuse congressional candidate Brianne Murphy is less well-known and doesn't have the resources yet for web ads like the one abov...
The euro rescue deal appeared to be in serious trouble last night as the single currency crashed on international money markets. As doubts emerged in several countries over whether an agreement struck lat...
US Ambassador Tells Pakistan to ‘Get Beyond’ Complaints About Attack By Jason Ditz Antiwar.com Speaking today in an interview on Pakistan’s Geo News channel, US Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter chide...
Lawyers acting for a British man accused of murdering his wife while on honeymoon in South Africa have claimed it would be "inhumane" to extradite him from the UK. Clare Montgomery QC said the extraditio...
Police believe they have found the remains of a missing woman - after the search for her uncovered 10 suspected serial killings in New York. Officers think Shannan Gilbert died accidentally after getting ...
A 18-month-old baby has become the fourth victim to die after a gunman opened fire on a square in Belgium. Two teenage boys, aged 15 and 17, and a 75-year-old woman were also killed. Nordine Amrani, who ...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Eastern Honshu, Japan at a depth of 50.6 km (31.4 miles), the quake hit at 04:01:07 UTC Wednesday 14th December 2011. The epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) ENE of Nagoya,...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 00:48:10 UTC Wednesday 14th December 2011. The epicenter was 120 km (74 miles) WNW of Hihifo, Tonga No Tsunami ...
‘One of the most disturbing days I have ever experienced’: An eyewitness account of the Israeli attack on Mustafa Tamimi’s funeral By Holly Rigby Mondoweiss.net December 13, 2011 Israeli soliders attacki...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Virgin Islands Region at a depth of 16 km (9.9 miles), the quake hit at 22:04:33 UTC Tuesday 13th December 2011. The epicenter was 108 km (67 miles) North of Settl...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands at a depth of 184.6 km (114.7 miles), the quake hit at 21:09:34 UTC Tuesday 13th December 2011. The epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) West of Raoul I...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck South of Alaska at a depth of 41.5 km (25.8 miles), the quake hit at 20:36:20 UTC Tuesday 13th December 2011. The epicenter was 162 km (101 miles) Southeast of Perrvvil...
Something extraordinary has happened in the Chinese village of Wukan.For the first time on record, the Chinese Communist party has lost all control, with the population of 20,000 in this southern fishing ...
Russia Supports Internal Dialogue in Syria, Rejects Ultimatums Language MOSCOW/ NEW YORK, Dec 14, 2011 (SANA) - Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, renewed on Tuesday his country’s rejection of using...
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My favourite Christmas song, performed by my favourite…oh, shite, why don’t I just let you hear it. This is great. Shane McGowan’s great *Fairytale Of New York*, sung by Christy Moore with all the poig...
“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral...
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate o...
"But love of the wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only home we shall ever know, the only...
“Strange shapes and textures can be found in neighborhood of the Cone Nebula. The unusual shapes originate from fine interstellar dust reacting in complex ways with the energetic light and hot gas being ex...
By Charles Moffat. ENVIRONMENT - Dr Semiletov of Russia released his findings for the first time last week at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco. His findings show an unprecedented re...
By Charles Moffat. HEALTH/RELIGION - Veganism is more than a diet to many Vegans. Its a way of life. Its a set of moral values. Why should a religion need anything more than that? There are other non-dei...
*And I'm about ready to sound off on them!* "Sound blaster protests, sales rise" by David Dishneau Associated Press /December 13, 2011 Rather than batons or rubber bullets, some *police departments have st...
*I'm not surprised if you read the Boston Globe.* "NY, California hitting up millionaires, again" by Michael Gormley Associated Press / December 10, 2011 ALBANY, N.Y.— In New York, an Occupy Albany moveme...
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[image: image]*Perigo!: 8.00pm on Stratos, Freeview 21 & Sky 89* I’ve just been told that over the Xmas break Stratos will be screening the *Best of Perigo!*, 6 favourite episodes of the *Perigo!* show r...
*"Gingrich's sudden rise and special appeal to the emotions of "the base," one suspects, stem less from his vaunted 'big ideas' than from his long-cultivated, unparalleled talent for contempt."* *-- Hendr...
A member of the Iranian parliament'sNational Security Committee said on Monday that the military was set to practice its ability to close the Gulf to shipping at the narrowStrait of Hormuz, the most impo...
Right at the spot where giant volcanoes are sliding to their doom, the Tonga Trench is surprisingly, seismically quiet.
Nearly 15 years ago, scholar George Thomas Kurian published a massive 1800+ page-long work called The Encyclopedia of the Republican Party, a companion volume to a history of the Democratic Party. And tha...
[image: Global phytoplankton decline over the past century. Observed phytoplankton declines have occurred in eight out of ten ocean regions. The global rate of decline is estimated to be ~1% of the globa...
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“Prepare For a European Default.” That’s the stark message from both GMO Investments and Kyle Bass on the inevitability of Europe's demise. Why inevitable? Because the huge need for capital and the dire ...
The short, fine hair on our bodies turns out to be quite useful when it comes to fooling bugs and parasites.
*Anger usually does it. * "Leading British scientist defends findings on climate; Leaked e-mails seem to uncover panel dissension" November 24, 2011|By Raphael G. Satter, Associated Press LONDON - The Br...
#Occupy denied: Judge refuses preliminary injunction, protesters must leave Duncan Plaza tonight ~Gambit
Ron Paul says he would fire Attorney General Eric Holder.
As the US prepares to pull out the last of its troops from Iraq, Aljazeera asks what is its legacy after nine years of war? Inside Story discusses with Hillary Mann Leverett, former White House official; ...
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you ar...
"Global threat to amphibians; Frogs most at risk from spreading trio of dangers" November 17, 2011|By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press WASHINGTON - Frogs, salamanders, and other amphibians may eventually ...
After detecting "tentative hints" for its existence, physicists are confident that a definitive answer for whether or not the Higgs boson exists will come in 2012.
"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being." - Carl Jung
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*[image: _BernardDarnton]"All I want for Christmas," says guest columnist Bernard Darnton, "is Christmas"* **I wasn't one of those who bought a house near the top of the market with a hundred-percent m...
Link to the interview. Donna Laframboise's website is nofrakkingconsensus.com.
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[image: _Quote]Paper [money] is a 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 ...
* Liege shootings - "From the same crowd that produced the Brabant Supermarket massacre and the Marc Dutroux scandal"* The official story is that there was only one shooter in Liege. ** However, "*The N...
*“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 ...
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...if the Confederate yahoos they've thrown their lot in with actually nominate Newt Gingrich? Delaware sociopath Christine "I'm not a witch" O'Donnell endorsed Romney yesterday but, no, it isn't any more...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Taiwan at a depth of 30.3 km (18.8 miles), the quake hit at 00:35:40 UTC Thursday 15th December 2011. The epicenter was 38 km (23 miles) Southeast of Hualien, Taiwan No...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 34 km (21.1 miles), the quake hit at 00:44:56 UTC Thursday 15th December 2011. The epicenter was 181 km (...
[image: Painful: One in 1,000 people in Britain each year is affected by blood clots, which often form in the legs during air travel or long periods of being immobile] Painful: One in 1,000 people in Br...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Northern Columbia at a depth of 160.6 km (99.8 miles), the quake hit at 01:53:03 UTC Thursday 15th December 2011. The epicenter was 46 km (28 miles) SSE of Bucaramanga,...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Southern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 61 km (37.9 miles), the quake hit at 02:25:11 UTC Thursday 15th December 2011. The epicenter was 149 km (92 miles) SSE of Ben...
Alcohol tastes sweeter when loud music is playing and the noise could make it difficult for drinkers to judge how much they are consuming, new research has claimed. Dr Lorenzo Stafford, a psychologist f...
Husbands and wives who ‘emotionally abuse’ their partners could be guilty of domestic violence under Government plans. This may include cutting up clothes or banning them from seeing friends. It could m...
So, just to update, I think we have decided against putting a bid in on the property. What's weird is, on paper, the place sounds perfect for us, and really, in person it was as well. But something is tell...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 02:59:14 UTC Thursday 15th December 2011. The epicenter was 168 km (104 miles) NNW...
Found this on the front page of Daily Kos And Yes - it is REAL not faux. Figure it out - evidently FAUX NEWS did not - or maybe it's "intentional".
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA British student training to be a safari guide in South Africa died less than an hour after being bitten by a black mamba snake. Nathan Layton, 28, did not realise he had been bitten while helping to cap...
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