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It looks as if they End Of Days has come to northern China. But in fact the real cause of this river turning such a gruesome red was dye being dumped into the
storm drain network of the city it runs thro...
Yesterday the *L.A. Times* ran an interesting year in review editorial: Congress' 10 Biggest Enemies of the
Earth. For a Republican-owned and slanted newspaper it was shockingly on the money. The 10 bigge...
The chill winter wind is whistling through the streets, but in the
protest camp that surrounds St Paul’s, the hot air continues to rise. In a marquee outside the cathedral, three activists hold an imprompt...
A newlywed who went on an arson spree dodged a prison sentence after he told a court the 'culture shock' of getting married had driven him to it. Graham Dearing, 56, set
wheelie bins ablaze outside three p...
Comet Lovejoy -- a "sungrazer" -- defied all the odds, diving deep into the solar corona, only to reemerge from behind the sun apparently intact.
A heroin addict who subjected her toddler son to a shocking catalogue of neglect before leaving his corpse in his cot for months is facing life in prison after being convicted of his murder. Kimberley Hai...
An asylum seeker who raped a woman and dumped her on a rubbish tip when he was 'finished' has been freed despite
Home Office attempts to deport him. Alphonse Semo, 54, was jailed for eight years for the ra...
[image: Preparing for the winter storms, a bulldozer piles up a protective bank on the north shore. The coastline has become increasingly vulnerable to erosion as the sea ice retreats. More open water al...
The world is heading for a new Great
Depression, the head of the International Monetary Fund warned yesterday. In an apocalyptic assessment of the debt crisis, Christine La;garde said the disaster in the ...
[image: A dead ironwood tree (Prosopis africana) in Senegal, West Africa, is one of many trees that have died due to climate change. Patrick Gonzalez]By Sarah Yang, Media Relations 12 December 2011 B...
Nick Clegg and Lib Dem Cabinet ministers are today accused of plotting to persuade business leaders to undermine David Cameron’s historic stand against a new EU treaty. In an email leaked to the Mail, the...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Kyrgyzstan at a depth of just 1 km (0.6 miles - Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 03:14:41 UTC Friday 16th December 2011. The epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) West o...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck offshore Bio-Bio, Chile at a depth of 21.5 km (13.4 miles), the quake hit at 00:58:49 UTC Friday 16th December 2011. The epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) West of Concepc...
"Most people quickly forget car types, brand names, and whether or not you could throw a Frisbee, but forever remember the broadly smiling, animal talking, tree hugging eccentrics they befriended. Go for ...
*“The Christmas Truce of 1914”* by Simon Rees “You are standing up to your knees in the slime of a waterlogged trench. It is the evening of 24 December 1914 and you are on the dreaded Western Front. Sto...
"We work in the dark. We do what we can to battle with the evil that would otherwise destroy us. But, a man's fate is defined as not a choice but a calling. Yet sometimes the weight of this burden causes ...
“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...
"I Wish You Enough" by Bob Perks "I never really thought that I'd spend as much time in airports as I do. I don't know why. I always wanted to be famous and that would mean lots of travel. But I'm not fa...
[image: Americans can be arrested on home soil and taken to Guantánamo Bay under a provision inserted into the bill that funds the US military. John Moore / Getty] By Chris McGreal in Washington, www.gu...
"Cahokia: Human Sacrifice on the Mississippi" by George Pawlaczyk "Human sacrifice! Victims buried alive! Read all about it in "Cahokia- Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi." According to this ...
"Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness." - Chinese Proverb
[image: Juan Morena sits on a Los Angeles, Calif., sidewalk as he waits for the St. Francis Center soup kitchen to open on 13 Sept 2011. Kevork Djansezian / Getty Images, file] WASHINGTON, December 15 (...
*Former French President Jacques Chirac has been meted out a stern judicial finger-wagging for his role in two counts of corruption dating back to 1995 and before, when he was still mayor of Paris and mere...
Thankfully, today the occupation of Iraq has officially ended. Over the course of nearly eight years, 4,485 Americans were killed as well as hundreds of thousands of Iraqis in the wake of one of the worst ...
The Face of A Crazy Demon: John McCain belongs in a mental hospital, not the Senate. Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Russian television that former Republican presidential candidate John McCain ...
"They want to touch you, feel you, and sniff on ya." - Rick Perry "I will hug him and pet him and squeeze him." - Hugo the Abominable Snowman.
Terrace, British Columbia, Canada. Thanks for stopping by.
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.” - Mary Anne Radmacher
*“Being Human”* by Chet Raymo “I've been thinking a lot about hands lately. Or, rather, a hand. Specifically my right hand, which has developed an annoying tremor. I never paid much attention to my hands ...
"Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence...
Your next device could be powered by the paper you throw away.
Scientists developed a neurofeedback method of learning eerily similar to the famous movie franchise.
*“Grand Delusion: * *Resisting the Siren Song of Specialness”* by Chris Floyd "The U.S. presidential campaign is now in full swing. (In truth, it never actually ends; the savage grasping and grappling ...
So you want to fly to another planet? Well, you'd better prepare for a roller-coaster ride.
On Tuesday, a dear little bird landed in my email inbox and told me that the author Christopher Hedges would be speaking at Occupy Princeton last night. I deserted the annual Oldwickian ladies' Christmas ...
This isn't another post about the plethora of Republican closet queens-- from semi-"out" freaks like Lindsey Graham, Aaron Schock and David Dreier to the hysterical sociopaths who do everything anti-gay ...
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 14, 2011 #OccupyCleveland Media Coordinator: Katie Steinmuller P: 440-799-5560 Email: ktksteinmuller@gmail.com #OccupyCleveland Media Coordinator: Renee Douglas P...
*Censored News Person of the Year: The Indigenous Woman* *By Brenda Norrell* *Censored News* http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Who made a difference this year? Indigenous women, including Debra White Plum...
posted by PC at
Not PC - 7 hours ago
[image: 2010-12-17[5]] Those cunning secularists, perverting the “reason for the season”! We hear the same complaints every year, from Fox News to the Vatican, that "Christ is being taken out of Christ...
Hi Folks. Let's take on Paxo and the Newsnight gang - live here at 10.30pm. Fancy a bit of lively debate? Come along and join in the fun as we stuff Newsnight in time for Christmas! If you survive that,...
Chimpanzees should hardly ever be used for medical research, a panel of influential medical experts said.
A hoard of Viking jewelry found by a stonemason with a metal detector includes a coin that may refer to a previously unknown ruler.
------------------------------ * the**REALnews Permalink* * * *Bradley Manning Heads for Trial; No One Charged for Murdered Ci...
* * *"In Less than 24 Hours Congress Could Vote * *To Change The Internet Forever"* By Madison Ruppert "Tomorrow the House Judiciary Committee is going to vote on H.R.3261, the Stop Online Privacy Act, or ...
*"Our Decade From Hell Will Get Worse In 2012"* by Paul B. Farrell "Fasten your seat belts: 2011 was far worse than expected. Our earlier predictions for America’s Worst Decade just got worse. As financia...
A section of a major Los Angeles freeway could be closed for days after a tanker erupted into flames and burned to the pavement. The force of the explosion caused structural damage to the underpass above,...
President Barack Obama faced a civil liberties backlash today after he signed a law that will allow terror suspects to be held indefinitely- even raising the prospects of U.S. citizens being sent to Guanta...
(let me be clear, too: rightwing media is NOT "CONSERVATIVE", they are "CORPORATE" and ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICAN, Rush Limbaugh is a BA-JILLIONAIRE who HATES YOU as he says "ADVANCED CONSERVATIVE STUDIES") ...
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has given an incendiary TV interview accusing protest organisers of working to weaken Russia on orders from the West. Putin, whose authority has been rocked by recent...
A 500-pound bear found a cozy spot for the night in New Jersey basement.
WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT Note: These are people fighting our wars, supposed to protect innocents..... does this not include helpless animals? People that kill animals in such a evil way are classed as so...
Employees at the Dimona nuclear reactor told an Israeli court that they were sickened with cancer and other illnesses due to radioactive leaks. During a hearing Wednesday in Petach Tikvah District Court, ...
In a worrying development, hundreds of crows have died in Jharkhand due to bird flu, a government official said Thursday. The crows first started dying mysteriously last month in Jamshedpur district. Thi...
[image: Oceanographer Jim Ingraham answers questions about the islands of debris from the March 11 Japan tsunami that are slowly floating toward the Pacific Northwest, 13 December 2011. Behind him is a f...
Police arrest 71-year old Czech man heading ‘pensioners club’ that sought to sell radioactive material here and in Slovakia. A gang of “pensioners” who sought to sell highly radioactive materials in the C...
(By American Zen's Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari Goldstein.) *“Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truth All death will he annul, all tears assuage? Or fill these void veins full again with youth And wa...
A Chinese actor who played a detective in a television drama has been arrested after spending 13 years on the run from the police. Ji Siguang is accused of attacking a policeman in the city of Qiqihar in ...
Scores of people have been rescued after a fire ripped through two 482ft-high buildings in Vietnam. Thick black smoke from the blaze at the 33-storey EVN Centre For Telecommunications Information Manage...
Moscow has been asked to send an icebreaker to free 100 beluga whales trapped by ice in far eastern Russia.
The Czech Republic and Hungary have said they will not sign the new European Union pact unless tax harmonisation plans are dropped. The announcement comes less than one week after the EU summit hailed as ...
Eight years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, Iraq is veering towards a "Lebanonisation" of its political system, with power permanently distributed along strict ethnic and sectarian lines, experts say. F...
Two South African banks are the biggest "climate killers" among African banks, environmental activists said on Wednesday. Standard Bank was the biggest culprit, while Nedbank, which claimed to be a carbo...
Millions of Chinese went online on Tuesday to vent their anger over the thick smog that has blanketed Beijing in recent days, raising health fears and causing hundreds of flights to be cancelled. Sales of...
Researchers in Chile released a series of time-lapse photos Wednesday showing the dramatic retreat of a glacier in Patagonia. The Jorge Montt Glacier is shrinking faster than any other in Chile, with its ...
Bedbugs aren't just sleeping with you. They're sleeping with each other. Researchers now say that the creepy bugs have a special genetic gift: withstanding incest. It turns out that unlike most creatures,...
Lately, there's no end to Boehner and his House cronies inveighing against the regulatory system. A constant thread is that regulations kill jobs and that particular lie predates Boehner by many decades. ...
To ensure a safe descent, Lonnie Dupre will carry 250 bamboo wands to mark the route he takes.
Soon after the ill-fated Phobos-Grunt spacecraft stalled in Earth orbit, a former Russian official implicated "powerful American radars" in Alaska. Is there a basis to the claim, or is it just scapegoating...
The latest research shows that climate talks must lead to more aggressive action to avoid the catastrophic effects of global warming. By 2020, human activity could produce some 55 billion metric tons of g...
Tests have found signs of Asian carp in the Mississippi River north of a key physical barrier keeping the invasive species of fish from spreading into many of the state's most popular lakes, officials said...
Getting a deal was a success, but a pitiful one. The world's climate debt is soaring and postponing action threatens an environmental austerity far greater than today's economic woes. After the feast of w...
Ocean acidification — caused by climate change — looks likely to damage crucial fish stocks. Two studies published today in *Nature Climate Change*reveal that high carbon dioxide concentrations can cause de...
Dramatic and unprecedented plumes of methane – a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide – have been seen bubbling to the surface of the Arctic Ocean by scientists undertaking an extensive ...
A U.N. conference on climate change ended Sunday without a major deal to cut toxic emissions. No country emits more carbon dioxide than China -- a byproduct of its booming economy. And, as CBS News corresp...
It's the most urgent call for geoengineering yet: begin cooling the Arctic by 2013 or face runaway global warming. But the warning – from a voice on the scientific fringe – may be premature, according to e...
A South Carolina man has been charged with murder in the death of his wife, who was fatally stabbed inside a Greenville County Walmart this weekend. But as shoppers looked on in horror, store management r...
Some residents of a South Jersey town are calling a Knights of Columbus banner that hangs over Broadway in Pitman, a sign of the season. It reads “Keep Christ in Christmas.” “I think it’s wonderful, Ch...
A couple of people went on a crazy ride in Steamboat Springs over the weekend. The three people took their horses to several bars, a Starbucks and a grocery store. All three galloped into a Safeway groce...
Anyone who thinks that "loss prevention specialists" (a.k.a. security guards) at grocery stores have easy jobs should talk to David Morrison, the head of security at Fred Meyer in Longview. But just wait t...
Port Authority toll collectors not only grab your money at New York-New Jersey crossings, they’re now pulling down stunning six-figure salaries funded by the levies you pay at bridges and tunnels. Twenty-...
View more videos at: http://nbcphiladelphia.com. An edited surveillance video of a police officer firing a Taser at a 14-year-old girl was released as part of evidence for a federal lawsuit filed again...
A search that began on Craigslist.org has led Selina Hodge to a Miami operating room. Hodge, 28, posted a plea online in July, looking for someone -- anyone -- to donate a kidney. "That's when I turn...
Disease specialists are carefully monitoring the case of a Minnesota infant who developed a unique type of H1N1. It’s called the H1N2 virus and it’s only the second case ever detected anywhere. The Minn...
Data on sales of previously owned U.S. homes from 2007 through October this year will be revised down next week because of double counting, indicating a much weaker housing market than previously thought. ...
ST. GEORGE, Utah - Thousands of migratory birds were killed or injured after apparently mistaking a Wal-Mart parking lot, football fields and other snow-covered areas of southern Utah for bodies of water ...
ST. GEORGE, Utah - Thousands of migratory birds were killed or injured after apparently mistaking a Wal-Mart parking lot, football fields and other snow-covered areas of southern Utah for bodies of water ...
By overestimating how much women want them, men may increase their chances of scoring.
You might want to delete those old text messages before you replace your phone with a new one.
Hundreds of Iraqis set alight U.S. and Israeli flags on Wednesday as they celebrated the impending pullout of American forces from the country in the former insurgent bastion of Fallujah. Shouting slogan...
U.S. officials are investigating reports that Iranian and Venezuelan diplomats in Mexico were involved in planned cyberattacks against U.S. targets, including nuclear power plants. Allegations about the c...
Pakistan's decision to shut down Nato supply routes going through its territory means that for the coalition the only remaining overland route to Afghanistan is through Central Asia. The US military is n...
China's economic policymakers have pledged to guarantee growth in 2012, despite an "extremely grim" global outlook for the year ahead. After their annual closed-door economic meeting in Beijing, the count...
If our civilization is to have a future we're all going to have to change the way we think. We'll need a new way of seeing things, new values and principles - call it Future Thinking, thinking about what...
A stand-off between villagers and the authorities is continuing in southern China's Guangdong province. Police have blocked roads leading to the village of Wukan. Local people are trying to keep them out...
posted by Robin Horbury at
Biased BBC - 12 hours ago
Electricity bills to rocket by 25% because of 'green' targets, says Government Low-carbon technology 'will not mean big bill rises' Spot the difference. The fatcat quango the Committee on Climate Cha...
At least 27 soldiers and security forces have been killed by Syrian army defectors in the southern province of the country, according to rights activists. The UK-based Syrian Observatory For Human Rights...
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck the Izu Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 15.4 km (9.6 miles), the quake hit at 15:12:47 UTC Thursday 15th December 2011. The epicenter was 222 km (137 miles) Southe...
It's hard to believe anyone was surprised that the Harper regime reneged on Canada's Kyoto Accord commitments. But even though they knew it was coming, at home and abroad people find Harper's actions rep...
. How Congress is Signing It's own Arrest Warrants in...
Jarrar is an Iraqi-American blogger and political analyst based in Washington, D.C. He said today: “Millions of Iraqis are celebrating the U.S. withdrawal this month, in what is widely viewed as a condemn...
A tech company is developing an alternative to fracking that uses sunlight to produce natural gas.
Vote for your favorite Earth story from 2011!
The United States military mission in Iraq is over, eight years, eight months and 26-days after American tanks first poured in from Kuwait. Some 4,500 US soldiers have died. No one can be sure how many I...
Yesterday, I took my last final exam and turned in my last paper, so I am free again to share some of the information I gleaned this semester from the amazing faculty at Harvard and my fellow classmates, ...
Will we soon be able to hold meaningful conversations with dolphins, dogs and other animals?
A new report says we could build smaller nuclear plants more efficiently and cheaply than large ones.
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Barat Daya, Indonesia at a depth of 308.9 km (192 miles), the quake hit at 13:57:03 UTC Thursday 15th December 2011. The epicenter was 241 km (150 miles) Nor...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Neuquen, Argentina at a depth of 141.7 km (88.1 miles), the quake hit at 13:34:04 UTC Thursday 15th December 2011. The epicenter was 177 km (110 miles) SSE from Talca,...
NB Power officials say a radiation alert at the Point Lepreau nuclear generating station Tuesday was caused by a small spill in the reactor building. The station has been shut down for nearly four years ...
Toronto police say it was an investigation into a street robbery and shooting in the city's northwest in May that led to the dozens of raids and scores of arrests carried out across the country early Tuesd...
A priest appeared in a western Newfoundland courtroom Wednesday on more than three dozen counts connected to complaints of sexual abuse that date back more than four decades. George Ansel Smith appeared ...
Britain's unemployment rate is at its highest level for 17 years with women and young people worst hit by job cuts. Data from the Office for National Statistics published Wednesday says 2.64 million peop...
Solyendra was a major example of a government-subsidized American solar energy company that went to default. *Solon SE headquarters: I must say it looks pretty remarkable* Financial Times, Financial ...
Louisiana enforcement of federal air pollution laws is inadequate, petitioners say ~Mark Schleifstein Can the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry Prevent Another Disaster?~John McQuaid Deputies working private,...
A letter bomb sent to a Rome tax collection office was intercepted on Thursday, a week after a first bomb exploded, nearly blinding the director who opened it, Italian media reported, cited by *AFP*. "Bom...
French police have neutralised a letter bomb sent to the Greek embassy in Paris from Italy in what appeared to be the latest in a string of explosive parcel attacks, officials said. The Greek foreign min...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck offshore El Salvador at a depth of 60.9 km (37.8 miles), the quake hit at 13:28:04 UTC Thursday 15th December 2011. The epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) Southwest of Usu...
Mitt can't say *DWT* hasn't warned him over and over. That whole Bain thing-- on which he's basically trying to base his whole appeal as the "non-politician" Mr.-Fixit-Businessman-- is just plain TOXIC. I...
One of my favorite things about Christmas is the lights. On houses, trees and of course in your pictures. Who doesn't love a kid all wrapped up in lights? These pictures are easy and perfect for Chr...
After hearing from Alexandra Mendes and Sheila Copps last week, my tour of LPC Presidential candidates lands on Ron Hartling today. *Who is Ron Hartling?* Ron is the former riding president in Kingston ...
The cost of the Manitoba flood of 2011 has soared to $815 million, about $100 million more than the province's last estimate. The last time the government updated the cost of this year's flood, in mid-Oc...
Treasures worth more than £65m will all leave the UK because funds could not be raised to save them from export, a government report has revealed. Among them are significant works by Turner and Poussin, a...
An American surveillance drone has been captured and filmed in Iran, where experts are apparently examining it. But how much valuable information are they likely to glean? Pictures broadcast by Iranian t...
Army defectors have opened fire on a military convoy in central Syria, in retaliation for a deadly attack on a car carrying civilians, activists say. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least ...
It has been said (and admittedly with some justification) that I can be a little obsessed with the Jewish role in the destruction of freedom. However, that obsession is not without good reason. There ex...
Obesity has risen slightly in children aged 10 and 11 in England, according to new data. NHS figures for the past year show 19% of children in their final year of primary school were classed as obese, co...
A follow up to yesterday's post! You may wonder why I quote-end quote the word "extremist" regarding the followers of Judaism that perpetuate these kinds of attacks? So I will explain, the attacks are not r...
Rabble : Compare and contrast: Those Attawapiskat numbers vs. Toronto numbers .
Badger culling will be tried out in two areas of England in the new year in an attempt to tackle bovine TB in cattle, the government has said. Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman said a decision would ...
UK unemployment rose by 128,000 in the three months to October to 2.64 million, the highest level since 1994. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the jobless rate was 8.3%, up from 7.9% in the ...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Izu Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 11.1 km (6.9 miles), the quake hit at 13:05:55 UTC Thursday 15th December 2011. The epicenter was 239 km (148 miles) Southe...
posted by leftdog at
Buckdog - 15 hours ago
*"OTTAWA — The research firm at the centre of the controversy over calls made to Liberal MP Irwin Cotler’s constituents did extensive work in the last election for Conservative candidates — including Hous...
*Editor's note: Mohammed Ayoob is University Distinguished Professor of International Relations at Michigan State University and Adjunct Scholar at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding. *Some...
Once upon a time, when major news events were chronicled strictly by professionals and printed on paper or transmitted through the air by the few for the masses, protesters were prime makers of history. Ba...
Oh boy ................this one was just too good to leave sitting out there without any "tongue in cheek" commentary – here we have the “ALEC old guard [coots, old farts] ” (Gingrich) and the “Kid” (Ryan...
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...
Extracted from the animal with a long needle inserted into the gall bladder on illegal bear farms in Vietnam and China, the endangered Asiatic black bear -- also known as Moon Bears because of the crescent...
Television commercials that are a lot louder than the program will be prohibited under rules adopted Tuesday by the Federal Communications Commission. "Under our new rules, TV providers must ensure that ...
Scientists in Japan are taking a novel approach to measuring the impact of radiation in a forest affected by the Fukushima nuclear crisis: enlisting the help of local wild monkeys. Takayuki Takahashi, a ...
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. At least 130 people were injured in the attack near a Christm...
The euro fell to its lowest level since mid-January, easing below the key $1.30 mark Wednesday, as any enthusiasm over Europe's most recent "solution" has cooled. "This has been a difficult trading year,"...
For Canada, the cost of either meeting its commitments under the Kyoto Protocol, or failing to do so, was too much to bear. On Monday, the country became the first signatory of the landmark climate treat...
- X Factor, Fifa 12, Royal Wedding and Ryan Dunn among top searches - Las Vagas and New York most Googled holiday destinations - Alternative Vote topped list for 'What is...?' searches (scampi ...
An illegal batch of alcohol that had been laced with toxic methanol has killed at least 126 people in the east Indian state of West Bengal - but the number of dead is expected to rise. More than 100 peop...
The death of 7 peacocks and over 100 birds in Payal block in the past few days has put the forest officials on toes. The birds had reportedly died after consuming poisonous grains in the Payal forest are...
BLOOMFIELD Even Edgar Allan Poe may have gasped at the morbidity along Bloomfield Highway on Thursday. At lunchtime on Thursday, 40 to 50 dead European starlings were scattered in a 50-foot circle across...
*21 gold miners from the Phuoc Minh gold mine in the central province of Quang Nam were rushed to Da Nang Hospital on Wednesday after their health began to deteriorate with many suffering from swollen bodi...
All 20 miners working at the Lucky Friday mine in Mullan, Idaho, on Wednesday night have been rescued after a collapse triggered fears that staff had been buried underground. The Shoshone County Sheriff'...
With an obvious death wish, Comet Lovejoy is on a rather unfortunate voyage; it's falling toward the sun.
Northland was hit hard this morning with heavy rain causing road closures, slips and surface flooding. The front that extreme weather has now shifted to the Bay of Plenty where residents can expect torre...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Southern Xinjiang, China at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 11:44:45 UTC Thursday 15th December 2011. The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) SSW from Kashi,...
Something in Arvada produced a frequency signal strong enough to knock out power to 40 garage doors in a tiny community. The problem started two days ago in the 7000 block of Torrey Court. It encompass...
The mystery fever continues to elude civic authorities and experts. A Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) team which visited three blocks in New Alipore, from where it had been reported, failed to confirm ...
It has been proved that there is no bird flu after tests of the dead broiler chickens were made a few days ago in Ghurmi Bazaar of Lekhani VDC of Udayapur district. Although bird flu was not found, the re...
At least 20 people were killed in a shipwreck in southern Nigeria in the Niger Delta. An overloaded passenger boat capsized; rescuers managed to save only 3 survivors out of the water. There were over 40 ...
The Japanese government admitted Thursday that nuclear substances have been found in the waste of domestic facilities subject to International Atomic Energy Agency inspection, but left unreported to the U....
*Cardinal Sin is a bust with its visage sawn off and replaced by vacant tiles, intended as a rejoinder to the child abuse scandal in the Catholic Church. The restroom tiles have been lay in rest of the p...
Thousands of residents of a Chinese village under police blockade rallied on Thursday to demand the government take action over illegal land grabs and the death in custody of a local leader. The people of...
Syrian army defectors killed 27 members of President Bashar al-Assad’s security forces in an attack at dawn today, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The attack in the southern governorate of ...
The current shrinking of glaciers may not be irreversible, as research shows that they can expand in a ‘geologic instant’. Scientists from the University at Buffalo discovered that a fast-moving glacier o...
*NASA is developing a harpoon capable of taking model from comets. NASA said that the samples could divulge the genesis of the planets and how life was shaped on Earth. Comets are made up of frozen chunk...
Thousands of migratory birds died on impact after apparently mistaking a Wal-Mart car park and other areas for bodies of water and plummeting to the ground. Crews went to work cleaning up the dead birds a...
Collecting samples from a rotating rock in space that’s travelling at 150,000mph while spewing chunks of ice, rock and dust is a tall order, but Nasa think they have a neat solution – a harpoon. Scientist...
"Everyone I know who has a Virgin email account has had spam sent from their account." "I just logged into Webmail - I had over 3000 messages." *Virgin Media - admit your security has been compromised.* ...
The supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way - our galaxy - is normally a 'sleeping giant'. But it's set to get a rude awakening. A gas cloud several times the size of Earth is hurtling into ...
*From its Android Market Google has detached 22 applications after they were exposed to contain fake software. After notifying Google of the 22 affected apps, Lookout said it then recognized five more ap...
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake has struck South of the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand at a depth of 34.1 km (21.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:10:08 UTC Thursday 15th December 2011. The epicenter was 130 km (80 ...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Southwest of New Zealand at a depth of 12 km (7.4 miles), the quake hit at 09:34 NZ daylight time Thursday 15th December 2011. The epicenter was 130 km (80.6 miles) We...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Fiordland Region, New Zealand at a depth of 90 km (55.8 miles), the quake hit at 03:47 NZ daylight time Thursday 15th December 2011. The epicenter was 50 km (31 mi...
The U.S. Air Force has launched an internal investigation after a disturbing photo of 15 airmen posing with a live soldier chained up in an open casket with a noose around his neck surfaced online. The ph...
posted by David Vance at
Biased BBC - 18 hours ago
Let us be clear. The BBC opposed the *liberation of Iraq* long before US troops went in and ever since it has done everything possible to undermine and de-legitimise the war. Aligned with the "Internation...
*Researchers have dappled a giant gas cloud spiraling into the super massive black hole at our galaxy's centre. Since it is torn apart, the unstable area around the black hole will turn into curiously vi...
A woman was crushed to death today in a freak elevator accident when it began rising as she stepped into it. Suzanne Hart, 41, from California, who worked at advertising giants Young and Rubicam who have ...
Iran is ramping up its nuclear programme in an underground bunker deep inside a mountain, diplomatic sources revealed today. Iranian experts have carried out the necessary preparations at Fordow near the ...
posted by David Vance at
Biased BBC - 18 hours ago
Great propaganda job here on the BBC this morning. First up, we had David Kennedy, chief executive of the Committee on Climate Change to explain why claims that the costs of green energy and other low carb...
A group of 'occupy' protesters in Brighton have cleared a site in the city after their came was ravaged by bad weather and a fire. Their camp, in Victoria Gardens, was first hit by gale force winds that b...
Supernovae are bright, so bright they can sometimes be seen with the naked eye, despite being hundreds of thousands of light years away. Now astronomers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in C...
*"By Government Design"* by Joel Bowman "Yesterday was not pretty. Dow down 150. Gold whacked for $40. Oil off 3%. And would you look at that, Fellow Reckoner. Optimism in the euro-zone is disappearing f...
The results of the 2011 Higgs search at the LHC have been announced and phenomenologists began to write papers about the implications of the findings for their models. In the case of the Standard Model ...
For the first time, astronomers have spotted a black hole's lunch before it gets eaten.
A satellite photo captured China's first ever aircraft carrier on the Chinese coast's Yellow Sea Thursday by a commercial U.S. satellite company. The aircraft carrier has generated intense international in...
A surveillance video showing a police officer tasering a 14-year-old girl in the groin has been released as part of a lawsuit she has filed against the officer and the city. Keshana Wilson, from Allentown...
*“The Diabolical Genius that is Modern Government”* by Bill Bonner “More on our new theory of government. You’ll recall that this series began by pointing out how worthless most “theories of government” r...
A teenage girl whose false rape allegation led to an innocent man being beaten up and another man sent to jail was let off by police with just an £80 fixed penalty notice. Jess Cooper was handed the pena...
* Amrani* *Nordine Amrani*, aged 33, was born in Belgium. At an early age, Amrani was orphaned. Amrani was brought up in foster homes. Amrani was not a Moslem. Amrani was about to get married. ( http:/...
Casually propped against a wall, the two rocket launchers and hunting rifle below are just some of a cache of guns inside the home of 'weapons mad' Belgian killer Nordine Amrani. The arsenal was uncovered...
*"You Reading This, Be Ready"* "Starting here, what do you want to remember? How sunlight creeps along a shining floor? What scent of old wood hovers, what softened sound from outside fills the air? Will ...
A gang of nine yobs who beat an autistic teenager, punching her about 20 times in the face and forcing her to take 10 months off school to recover, have escaped punishment. Sophie Russell, 16, was attacke...
Angry people descend on Diamond Harbour distillery blamed for toxic batch of *desi daroo*, a commonplace bootleg spirit. More than 100 people have been killed by contaminated homemade alcoholic spirits in...
The eurozone is likely to slip back into recession next year, according to a report by audit firm Ernst & Young. It says it expects the economies of the 17 member countries to shrink in the first two qua...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Potosi, Bolivia at a depth of 179.8 km (111.7 miles), the quake hit at 07:33:54 UTC Thursday 15th December 2011. The epicenter was 222 km (138 miles) SSW of Potosi, Bol...
A ten-year-old boy in Sweden has confessed to killing a boy of four by strangling him with a skipping rope after an argument. Officers said the youngster had confessed after a 59-day investigation into t...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 59.8 km (37.2 miles), the quake hit at 07:23:34 UTC Thursday 15th December 2011. The epicenter was 119 km (73 miles) ESE of Kuril'sk, Ku...
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 43.5 km (27 miles), the quake hit at 07:12:09 UTC Thursday 15th December 2011. The epicenter was 148 km (91 miles) East of Ra...
“I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.” - Blaise Pascal
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Southern Iran at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 05:29:45 UTC Thursday 15th December 2011. The epicenter was 15 km (9 miles) ESE of Behbahan, Iran No Re...
This item attempts to generatesome sense in the present EU financial crisis and makes some quite good points. My own thinking has evolved onthis subject and I am now a proponent of the devolution of c...
It is difficult to grasp that aseries such as Star Trek has been working successfully for over forty fiveyears. It will make a great sixty fifthbirthday present for me and perhaps a fitting one. I am ...
I have been tracking Sasquatchreports for a decade at least and I am always on the lookout for reports thatdeliver additional information. Thisreport is no different than most in that it properly desc...
*"A Dog's Purpose"* Author Unknown "Being a veterinarian, I had been called to examine a ten-year-old Irish wolfhound named Belker. The dog’s owners, Ron, his wife Lisa, and their little boy Shane, we ar...
Millions of genetically modified insects designed to destroy food crop pests could be released into the countryside. The Government is considering plans by a British company for the ‘open release’ of a GM...
Police have tuned to the internet photo-sharing website Flickr as they hunt down more than 200 people still wanted in connection with the London riots. Scotland Yard is putting 213 images taken from hours ...
Widespread snow and near sub-zero wintry conditions swept across Britain today, with forecasters warning that there will be more severe weather conditions later this week. Snowfalls coated the ground as f...
Eurozone leaders have launched a bid to get Britain to pay another £30billion to prop up the single currency. The cash would be part of a new bail-out of the euro nations by the International Monetary Fun...
[image: Bad habits] Mr Right? Men leaving nail clippings out is one of the top turn-offs Ladies searching for Mr Right, look away now. The ‘perfect man’, it seems, does not exist. While many chaps have...
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has done in almost five years what the American Right and the John Birch Society failed to do for decades: delegitimize the United Nations. Back in February, ...
...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 4.8 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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*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....
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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...
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It looks as if they End Of Days has come to northern China. But in fact the real cause of this river turning such a gruesome red was dye being dumped into the storm drain network of the city it runs thro...
Yesterday the *L.A. Times* ran an interesting year in review editorial: Congress' 10 Biggest Enemies of the Earth. For a Republican-owned and slanted newspaper it was shockingly on the money. The 10 bigge...
The chill winter wind is whistling through the streets, but in the protest camp that surrounds St Paul’s, the hot air continues to rise. In a marquee outside the cathedral, three activists hold an imprompt...
A newlywed who went on an arson spree dodged a prison sentence after he told a court the 'culture shock' of getting married had driven him to it. Graham Dearing, 56, set wheelie bins ablaze outside three p...
A heroin addict who subjected her toddler son to a shocking catalogue of neglect before leaving his corpse in his cot for months is facing life in prison after being convicted of his murder. Kimberley Hai...
An asylum seeker who raped a woman and dumped her on a rubbish tip when he was 'finished' has been freed despite Home Office attempts to deport him. Alphonse Semo, 54, was jailed for eight years for the ra...
Nick Clegg and Lib Dem Cabinet ministers are today accused of plotting to persuade business leaders to undermine David Cameron’s historic stand against a new EU treaty. In an email leaked to the Mail, the...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Kyrgyzstan at a depth of just 1 km (0.6 miles - Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 03:14:41 UTC Friday 16th December 2011. The epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) West o...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck offshore Bio-Bio, Chile at a depth of 21.5 km (13.4 miles), the quake hit at 00:58:49 UTC Friday 16th December 2011. The epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) West of Concepc...
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