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China bought less U.S. Treasury debt in October and total foreign holdings dipped for the first time since July. Total foreign holdings of Treasury debt edged down 0.1 percent to $4.66 trillion, the Trea...
Westford school officials are getting tough on classroom holiday parties. They’re banning sugary snacks and sweetened beverages from the celebrations this year. Students are being told to leave the Chris...
Ex-Con Finds, Returns Cash-Filled Wallet: MyFoxDETROIT.com Alexis Ortiz found a wallet at the Mobil gas station at Walton and Sashabaw in Waterford yesterday. Inside the wallet was enough cash to tempt...
After a Good Samaritan helped her pay off the layaway bill she'd accumulated to buy Christmas gifts for her grandchildren, Lori Stearnes planned to collect her paycheck today and head to Kmart anyway. Her...
Apparently, a TSA officer getting fired for leaving a personalized note in a passenger’s bag has not deterred other employees at the Transportation Security Administration from editorializing on the conten...
Van Dyke Public Schools in Warren are closed Friday because of bus vandalism. A recording from the Superintendent’s office says: “Today is Friday, December 16 and due to a transportation problem, the dis...
California launches a campaign against the widespread notion that oil changes are needed every 3,000 miles. Officials say the practice wastes millions of gallons of oil a year. Many automobile owners are ...
Some residents of the west coast of Vanouver island believe they are starting to see debris from the devastating Japanese tsunami in March. Plastic water bottles with Japanese labels and pieces of wood ha...
Scientists say acid rain probably will cause a decline in the Great Lakes region's sugar maple trees. Sugar maple abundance already has dropped in parts of the northeastern U.S. and southeastern Canada o...
The influential bond rating agency Moody's Investors Service has warned that it could downgrade the Province of Ontario's debt rating. Late Thursday afternoon, the New York-based agency downgraded Ontario...
A New Zealand plane has dropped supplies of equipment and fuel to a Russian fishing boat stranded in icy Antarctic waters. A water pump and containers of diesel were dropped onto the ice next to the vess...
The death of Libya's former leader Muammar Gaddafi "creates suspicions" of war crimes, says the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. Luis Moreno-Ocampo said the ICC was raising the concer...
Authorities in Beijing have issued new rules requiring users of microblog sites to register personal details. New users of Weibo - Chinese equivalents of Twitter - will now have to submit their real name...
Penicillin dosing guidelines for children need to be reviewed to avoid serious health issues and antibiotic resistance, British scientists say. In an article published in the Thursday issue of the British...
Fewer people were on employment insurance in October compared to the previous month, continuing a multi-year downward trend, but more people submitted benefit claims, Statistics Canada said Friday. The f...
Russian politics have become interesting again. It didn't happen until right after the questionable parliamentary elections on Dec. 4, when Muscovites took to the streets in numbers not seen since Vladim...
Russia's space agency (Roscosmos) says its unsuccessful Mars probe will fall back to Earth next month. The unmanned Phobos-Grunt spacecraft became stranded in orbit in November. The agency says it expec...
Thousands and thousands of children suffered from sexual abuse in the Dutch Roman Catholic Church over more than six decades, and about 800 "possible perpetrators" have been identified, an independent Comm...
Police have arrested 10 suspects in the sale of toxic, illegally brewed liquor that has left at least 168 people dead in the Indian state of West Bengal, an official said Friday. Hundreds were sickened f...
Russian authorities on Friday seized radioactive material from the luggage of a passenger on a flight from Moscow to Tehran, Iran. The luggage, belonging to an Iranian citizen, contained 18 metal object...
The Syrian vice president arrived Friday in Moscow to talk with Russia's foreign minister about the unrest that has roiled Syria for months, a Russian state news agency reported. Vice President Farouk al...
Japan's Prime Minister said Friday that a "cold shutdown" has been achieved at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, a symbolic milestone that means the plant's crippled reactors have stayed at temp...
The Arab Spring has turned to bloody winter in Homs, the city that has suffered the most from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's deadly nationwide crackdown on anti-government protesters. Known as the ca...
We had tried for weeks to get access to Kenya's incursion into lawless Somalia. The go finally came from the Kenyan military in a text message late one Saturday night. We're told to be at the Nairobi's mil...
The ratings firm Fitch downgraded a cluster of the world's largest banks Thursday, pointing to trading challenges facing international markets. The banks included Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and Goldm...
The managing director of the International Monetary Fund has warned that the global economy faces the prospect of "economic retraction, rising protectionism, isolation and . . . what happened in the 30s [D...
The Sentinel drone that crashed in Iran last week was on a surveillance mission of suspected nuclear sites in the country, U.S. military officials tell CNN. Previously, U.S. and NATO officials had said t...
The South Korean government announced expanded sanctions against Iran Friday, blacklisting more than 100 firms and individuals. "Ninety-nine companies and 6 individuals have been added to the list, all r...
Baton Rouge: The Crime Cameras Sequel? ~American Zombie Titan Up Your Buttcheeks ~moosedenied Louisiana colleges take brunt of budget cuts Oysters, fresh from the Gulf, are at their most delicious right n...
Six people were killed and at least 300 were injured when pro-democracy activists clashed Friday with Egyptian security forces in central Cairo, a government official said. Two of the dead were teenagers...
At least 436 people are dead after Tropical Storm Washi pummeled the Philippines, Red Cross Secretary General Gwen Pang said Saturday. The vast majority of the bodies were found in the cities of Iligan an...
A magnitude 3.2 earthquake has struck Western Texas at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 14:46:58 UTC Saturday 17th December 2011. The epicenter was 9 km (5 miles) NNE of Snyder, Texas No Report...
It is not often a news story makes me laugh but here's one that did. Elsewhere Mr Cameron was quoted as saying the following: *"Whether you look at the riots last summer, the financial crash and the expe...
* * *What: Block Party and Re-Occupation * *Where: Sixth Avenue and Canal St. * *When: Saturday Dec. 17, 12 pm—on * On-site we’ll be introducing the People’s Amp: a guerilla sound system that gives voice ...
REPOSTING AS AN FYI!! One frightening morning in 1991, Dr. Wright's Tahoma Clinic was violently raided. Two dozen heavily armed thugs blew past the patient peacefully waiting in her wheelchair and kicke...
*US taxpayer dollars support open Russian political destabilization* Nile Bowie nilebowie.blogspot.com December 4, 2011 In a sane world, any unnecessary pressure that could contribute to a potentially de...
*RTAmerica * Dec 16, 2011 End the "Warfare State." Congress passed a more than $662 billion dollar defense authorization bill for 2012. It’s headed for the President’s desk. In it, is a provision that ...
Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, and others realized that physics isn't a framework to describe how the world is; physics is human activity studying the true statements we may say about our observations. ...
Strained supplies and high prices for natural and synthetic rubber have led tire companies to sweeter alternatives.
Here are some things you should be aware of, like the CONTINUAL LIES by our government and their mainstream media PRESSTITUTES. There is NO DIFFERENCE between the government and the mainstream media. I h...
*YES, IT'S TIME FOR NOAH'S 2011 IN REVIEW!* *One good thing about the arrival of the holiday season is that it means not just that another year is about to disappear down the crapper but that Noah will ...
In an impromptu public space service announcement on Friday, NASA has gone on the record to debunk more nonsensical doomsday ramblings about a nearby exploding star.
An Iranian official rejected released report on arrest of an individual in a Russian airport who was carrying radioactive Sodium-22 and was heading to Iran. The official of Iranian embassy in Russia told...
An Arab League ministerial panel met on Saturday to address Syria's stance on a plan for ending its violent crackdown on protesters, with diplomats voicing optimism that new Russian pressure on Damascus co...
US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta was in Libya on Saturday to confer on the security needs of the new government, saying he envisioned a close security partnership with it. During the visit, which was to ...
Campaign Research client and House Speaker Andrew Scheer ruled it "reprehensible" while Campaign Research client and Con House Leader Peter Van Loan defended it as "vital free speech", but Campaign Researc...
Southern Philippines storm kills more than 250 and leaves 400 missing after bodies swept out to sea in flash floods. A tropical storm has triggered flash floods and mudslides in southern parts of the Phil...
A daily dose of vitamin B can dramatically combat memory loss in old age and even protect against Alzheimer's, a study has found. People taking the pill had lower levels of a brain protein known to lead ...
Five bodies, including those of three high school students, have been unearthed at the headquarters of a university student group in Guadalajara, Mexico. The massacre is the latest bout of violence target...
America’s cocaine habit may be funding Iranian-backed terror and wars waged against Israel as well as drug violence in the West, prosecutors charge. Federal authorities blamed Lebanese financial institutio...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck South of the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand at a depth of 15.8 km (9.8 miles), the quake hit at 10:18:18 UTC Saturday 17th December 2011. The epicenter was 130 km (80 m...
A teenager accused in a deadly robbery scheme that lured victims with a phony Craigslist job ad can be tried as an adult, a judge ruled Thursday. Both sides agreed that there was enough evidence for the ca...
Planned legislation to attack internet piracy will give the government too much power to close websites, a group of internet founders have warned. A collective of more than 80 of the internet’s creators ha...
Five people, including a baby and two children, were found shot dead on Friday at a home in a small eastern Illinois farming town. It is thought the shooter was among the dead. Livingston County Sheriff M...
A food factory worker died Friday after his arm became caught in a grinder. Daniel Callazo, 28, was working at hummus manufacturer Tribe Mediterranean in Massachusetts when police were called in just after...
A couple who romanticized trains and lived a modern-day adventure by riding railroad cars across the U.S. were killed when a train dumped its load of coal on them at a Florida power plant. Workers discove...
Two people wounded in a Southern California office park shooting spree are listed in critical condition at local hospitals. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Lt. Holly Francisco says one woman and one man are ...
*William Stanesby* 12 year William Stanesby was found dead at his retired naval officer parents' home in June 2011. An inquest in September recorded an open verdict. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...
A nine-year-old boy died after choking on a meatball in his school lunch as staff members unable to save the child. Jonathan Jewth, a New York Bronx student, died on Wednesday, nine days after falling to ...
He relied heavily on social media to get him elected in 2008. But Barack Obama has admitted he has banned his daughters from using Facebook – because he doesn’t want ‘strangers knowing our business’. The ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 162.4 km (100.9 miles), the quake hit at 08:48:19 UTC Saturday 17th December 2011. The epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) Northwest of Kuril...
The family of a 12 year old boy who died playing a ‘choking game’ have called for greater public warnings about the deadly craze. William Stanesby, a talented pupil at one of the country’s top grammar sch...
Austrians are shocked by a new survey which shows that one in ten young people think Adolf Hitler was not all bad and that he did some 'good things'. Many are also anti-immigrant and anti-foreigner despi...
Relaxing on the train after a 12-hour day at the office, all Alan Pollock wanted — along with his fellow commuters — was for the journey to pass peacefully and painlessly. While his young children would b...
Undercover filming has revealed the truth of millions of piglets on British farms having their teeth clipped and tails docked without anaesthetic. The footage has been captured by researchers with the camp...
France was told by Nick Clegg today to end 'simply unacceptable' attacks on the UK economy amid mounting cross-Channel tensions over the eurozone crisis. French prime minister Francois Fillon telephoned t...
A week ago it was Britain that looked isolated from Europe following David Cameron’s veto of a eurozone treaty. But yesterday it was France and its president Nicolas Sarkozy who seemed to have no friends ...
*Michael Gazzaniga* studies brains. He's a neuroscientist at the University of California. He has written a book entitled *Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain *Gazzaniga reports...
This item provides a quick surveyof state of the art in stem cell research which has obviously become prettyexciting. The bottom line is that we areand will be witnessing an onslaught of successful th...
This certainly is an effectivebackdoor method to ending the problem. It outright eliminates the market itself, while retaining the illegalityof the secondary market itself. Obviously,a home grower can ...
Science Fiction strikesagain. We may never memorize Wikipedia,but then that is probably a mistake. Skills on the other hand once learned are readily honed by simpleapplication. That is never a mistak...
This is a sober reminder that theBakken is a classic resource boom and it will peak and slide into decline. It and other US shale oil projects are now beendrilled out to establish production. The...
*CANADIAN POLITICS:* *CONSERVATIVES ATTACK UNIONS ONCE MORE:* Well, this probably counts as non-*news *as nobody should be suprised that a Conservative Party wants to gut the power of organized worker...
Seven protesters have been killed by gunfire in clashes between Egyptian soldiers and anti-military demonstrators in Cairo, a witness has said. Sahar Abdel-Mohsen, a youth activist, says she saw the bodie...
A serial burglar dubbed the "barefoot bandit" has been jailed in the US for more than seven years for his two-year crime spree. School drop-out and self-taught pilot Colton Harris-Moore broke into dozens ...
A man has died and another has been left with serious injuries after apparently being crushed by a floating pontoon at docks in Suffolk. Emergency services were called to Ipswich docks just before 6pm aft...
The death toll from tropical storm Washi surged to 180 on Saturday with nearly 400 people missing in flash floods that ravaged the southern Philippines, officials said. A regional military spokesperson ...
A helicopter has been dispatched to evacuate a pregnant Australian woman from an isolated bay on New Zealand's South Island as heavy rain causes flooding and slips in the region. The woman, who is six mo...
A Japanese toddler has survived after his father attempted to strangle him and then threw him from the 10th floor of a Tokyo apartment. Police say the one-year-old's father admitted trying to kill the boy,...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Mona Passage, Puerto Rico at a depth of 17 km (10.6 miles), the quake hit at 06:09:09 UTC Saturday 17th December 2011. The epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) Southwest of ...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 17 km (10.54 miles), the quake hit at 05:28:58 UTC Saturday 17th December 2011. The epicenter was 43 km (26.6 miles) Northeast of Van, Turk...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Mona Passage, Puerto Rico at a depth of 14 km (8.7 miles), the quake hit at 06:06:12 UTC Saturday 17th December 2011. The epicenter was 20 km (12 miles) Southwest of S...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Celebes Sea, Philippines at a depth of 588.2 km (365.5 miles), the quake hit at 06:04:56 UTC Saturday 17th December 2011. The epicenter was 290 km (180 miles) Sout...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck South of Africa at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 00:12:18 UTC Saturday 17th December 2011. The epicenter was 1016 km (631 miles) Southwest of Marion Is...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Southwest of Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 13.3 km (8.3 miles), the quake hit at 23:18:04 UTC Friday 16th December 2011. The epicenter was 382 km (237 miles) West o...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Panama-Colombia Border Region at a depth of 19.1 km (11.9 miles), the quake hit at 23:16:43 UTC Friday 16th December 2011. The epicenter was 131 km (81 miles) SSE ...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:49:37 UTC Friday 16th December 2011. The epicenter was 2155 km (1339 miles) Northwest ...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 25.7 km (16 miles), the quake hit at 19:30:17 UTC Friday 16th December 2011. The epicenter was 267 km (165 miles...
You can be distracted by a hands-free cellphone chat while driving, a new study has shown. Researchers at the Governors Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that even when using a Bluetooth or ot...
“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either, but right through every human heart, and through all human hearts. This line shift...
There is a hardline Zionist wall in America that is suffocating the American mind and soul. It is invisible, it is mental, but it is everywhere. It exists in the White House; in the newsrooms of major medi...
"We either make ourselves happy or make ourselves miserable. The amount of work is the same." - Carlos Castaneda
*"Part Of The Plan"* "I have these moments, all steady and strong I'm feeling so holy and humble, The next thing I know, I'm all worried and weak And I feel myself starting to crumble. The meanings get l...
"Keep these concepts in mind: You’ve failed many times, although you don’t remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim. Don’t worry about ...
Repost, because I love it so much... - CP
- Jyoti Amge crowned world shortest woman at just 62cm tall - She weighs only 12lbs - just 9lbs more than she did at birth Celebrating your 18th birthday is a momentous occasion for anyone, but...
IF you spend hours deliberating over something as trivial as a new jumper, then beware. Scientists say that makes you a ‘maximiser’ – and it could lead to a lifetime of misery. A study has revealed two...
*The Nutcracker Suite segment of Walt Disney's Fantasia -- with, of course, Leopold Stokowski conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra* *by Ken* It didn't really occur to me when I devoted a recent post, "T...
Better pick up the pace before you’re pushing up daisies. A new study out of Australia sought to prove the speed it takes to outpace the Grim Reaper - the personification of Death - and found it’s about ...
Elderly people whose eyesight is failing can improve their balance and avoid dangerous falls by practising tai chi, according to a study. Experts say the gentle martial art builds strength and also impr...
From AFSC 60% is the percentage of the president’s *proposed 2012 discretionary budget * targeted for military spending. This does not include all the budgeted spending, just the programs that get approv...
"This complex of beautiful, dusty reflection nebulae lies in the constellation Scorpius along the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy. Its overall outline suggests a horsehead in profile, though it covers a much...
Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil. Thanks for stopping by.
"Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide...
"Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. Initially our loyalties were to ourselves and our immediate family, next, to bands of wandering hunter-gat...
*"The Bank Of Time" * "Imagine there is a bank account that credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening the bank deletes whatever part of the...
"We have looked first at man with his vanities and greed and his problems of a day or a year; and then only, and from this biased point of view, we have looked outward at the earth he has inhabited so bri...
*"The Limits of Growth: Nothing Grows Forever"* by Clive Thompson "Peter Victor is an economist who has been asking a heretical question: Can the Earth support endless growth? Traditionally, economists ha...
Notorious Texas closet queen Rick Perry hasn't been officially outed yet. His day will come though. Meanwhile he's using the childish tactics of covering up his self-loathing by screaming the loudest-- w...
Six minutes of sanity in a world ruled by insane murderers:
[image: The global debt clock, screen capture on 14 December 2011. Economist Intelligence Unit / www.economist.com] (The Economist) – The clock is ticking. Every second, it seems, someone in the world t...
*Has been for a while.* "Professor derides Iowans’ fitness to caucus and stirs a storm " December 16, 2011 Political notebook --*NOMORE*--" "US journalism professor derides Iowa, faces fury University ...
Africa is a troubled continent. From the time of the recent European Empires, it has been economically ravaged. Much has been written of the African Slave Trade, with blame for the human suffering being...
*Never made my printed paper:* "Ron Paul argues for small government in New Hampshire PETERBOROUGH, N.H. - Texas Representative Ron Paul said tonight that he was not worried that government bureaucrats wo...
Interactivity comes to plain sheets of paper.
Neanderthals had bigger noses than we do, but tracking a scent was never one of their specialties.
This rotary phone just got turned into one huge Bluetooth headset.
"Judge" George B. Daniels, "a United States federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York." (Wikipedia). He holds the record "for the most delayed decisions," of...
*I said it **once**, I said it twice**.... * "*Democrats may back off* demand for *taxing rich* *Strike three, your out! * *So ignore all that campaign rhetoric you are going to hear for the next year....
This Week in Discovery News it's all about Norway's butter and Egypt's pyramids!
*If you like divisive distortions, war promotion, obfuscations, and outright lies.* "State’s jobless rate dips to 7%; Jobless rate at its lowest in years Level is lowest since late 2008 More employers pla...
Nine years after a boat mangled a coral reef near Key West, Florida, the reef is back and thriving.
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor...
*“System Abuse”* by Ulysse "There is a dream in which everyone lies. A world of wonderful secret realms of fantastic fiat money and wealth. From this dream every night you wake up. You then explore the r...
Christopher Hitchens died yesterday and, in a special, rarified irony seemingly peculiar to or reserved by a (gasp) malicious Higher Intelligence for the high and mighty, he also died the same exact day w...
*"NDAA: The Terror Is Nearer Than Ever"* RIP American Democracy: 1776-2011. By David Seaman "It turns out that destroying the American democratic republic was easy to accomplish, historians will write som...
HAPPY/PEACEFUL HOLIDAYS, Dear Friends!
*Mike Malloy talks about the demise of San Francisco's Green 960, and a parallel development in Sacramento -- and the late stages of the right-wing corporate capture of American radio.* *by Noah* The Pl...
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[image: image] "My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pic...
After six-year journey, probes would have a week to assess conditions for life on Jupiter's ocean-bearing moon.
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CENSORED NEWS - 21 hours ago
*PIE IN THE SKY* *By Mohawk Nation News* http://www.mohawknationnews.com MNN Dec. 16, 2011. Can civilization based on the violent hierarchical system and the natural world exist side by side? No! ...
* “$29 TRILLION?* *More Upside for Gold as Government* * Spending Continues Unabated”* by Bill Bonner “Have yourself a merry little depression. Dow up 45 points. Gold down $9. We’re still waiting for a ma...
Today is the day that Bill Hicks would have turned 50. Here's the time he went for the righteous indignation dollar. That's a big dollar.
*“50 Economic Numbers From 2011 That Are * *Almost Too Crazy To Believe”* by Michael Synder “Even though most Americans have become very frustrated with this economy, the reality is that the vast majority...
Writing on Iran war plans back in 2005, Philip Giraldi disclosed in The American Conservative magazine, "The plan includes a large-scale air assault on Iran employing both conventional and tactical nuclear...
**Countdown with Keith ...: Rep. Jerrold Nadler decries Obama for not vetoing National Defense Bill* http://youtu.be/GnsDenUhU6A Published on Dec 15, 2011 by Current Keith and Rep. Jerrold Nadler (...
(By American Zen's Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari.) It's extremely important to distinguish the difference between a mere culture war, which suggests some parity, from an actual War on Culture. If what...
By now you probably heard about the Pew Research poll showing how angry voters are with Congress-- and mostly blaming the Republicans for a body that isn't working for the people at all. They actually con...
A cargo ship on the French Atlantic coast became trapped in high winds, causing some of its 220 tons of fuel to leak towards a local beach. The TK Bremen ran aground 100 meters from Erdeven beach in southe...
After an extended off-season due to a four-month lockout, professional football players tore their Achilles tendons at unprecedented rates.
Removing sulfur from jet fuel doesn't just improve air quality around airports, it can help cool the climate too.
Large black floats are the first remnants of Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami to begin washing up on the American coastline. The debris traveled 4,500 miles on Pacific Ocean currents, pushed by ...
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Biased BBC - 23 hours ago
As everyone here knows by now - but people who rely on the BBC for their information will not - the US Justice Department has collaborated with the Norfolk Constabulary and Metropolitan Police to seize com...
This dancing Tube passenger was unceremoniously pushed through the doors and onto the platform as the train prepares to pull away from Leytonstone, East London. A video of the hilarious incident which ha...
[image: The unfinished replica of the tower at the entrance to Disneyland rises from empty fields in China’s abandoned fake Disneyland, 14 December 2011. David Gray / Reuters] [Longtime readers will rec...
Image: 2008 Rio Grande do Sul Hail Storm A hailstorm last night affected several farms in southern Brazil. In the major grapevine region of Brazil, about 80% of the crop was lost in 20 minutes of hail. F...
US forces held a formal ceremony to lower the flag in Iraq ahead of their withdrawal from the country nearly nine years after the controversial 2003 invasion.
A robot exhibit engages people with robots, raising the related social implications.
Two men who murdered British honeymoon couple Ben and Catherine Mullany in Antigua have each been given three consecutive life sentences. Kaniel Martin and Avie Howell were found guilty of shooting the co...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Nicobar Islands, India Region at a depth of 60 km (37.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:47:28 UTC Friday 16th December 2011. The epicenter was 85 km (52 miles) ESE of ...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Nicobar Islands, India Region at a depth of 46.5 km (28.9 miles), the quake hit at 15:12:45 UTC Friday 16th December 2011. The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) ESE o...
Expanded Russian military and diplomatic support for the Assad regime was underscored by the deployment Friday, Dec. 16, of advanced Moscow-supplied Yakhont (SSN-26) shore-to-sea missiles along Syria's Med...
[image: Leakage of highly radioactive water from the sampling line of the Evaporative Concentration System 3C, at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, 12 December 2011. TEPCO] By arevamirpal::laprimav...
A "hit prediction equation" assesses the likelihood of a song making it into the U.K.'s Top 5.
I will be interviewed on BBC5 Live tonight at around 10.05pm concerning this story. London bus drivers were today accused of holding passengers to ransom as they threatened to strike during next summer's ...
OK, another week goes by and I offer you this to take us all off into the weekend! Enjoy. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
If Stephen Harper is going to be constrained by his opposition, they're going to have to "take it outside" Parliament and fight Harper in the streets.
An astute B-BBC reader asks; "Have you watched the 4 programme series called "Thats Britain". The 'Wall' records the "hates" of people in the UK. It is noticeable that, for Progs 1,2,3 and 4, 'wind tu...
A Biased BBC readers advises; On Tuesday's 6 o'clock news on R4 there was a report about a religious school in Pakistan which had been brutalising its young pupils. Orla Guerin solemnly intoned a list of ...
[image: A dead grove of trembling aspen in Colorado’s Grand Mesa National Forest. William R.L. Anderegg] By JUSTIN GILLIS 12 December 2011 Scientists trying to understand the future of forests on a warm...
The way the western main stream media represents the news. I shake my head. Your perception carefully managed, everyday, your entire life. Think about it! The western media is reporting that Russia is aban...
The EV hatchback will have an onboard charger that can be used in homes with 240-volt outlets.
An insole infused with a sugar substitute can make your feet feel cooler during a workout.
Vote for your favorite space story of 2011!
George Whitman at Shakespeare & Company. Image from Oh, by the way...The timeless joy of GeorgeWhitman’s Shakespeare & CompanyEyeing me suspiciously, George asked if I was a writer. I said I’d been a college...
[image: The cover of the 2011 Conference of Mayors report, 'Hunger and Homelessness Survey'. usmayors.org] WASHINGTON, December 15 (Reuters) – A growing number of families in the United States are strug...
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By now you've probably heard about the "All-American Muslim" TV show vs. Lowe's Home Improvement vs. Florida Family Association craziness. I know "The Daily Show" has been tracking the story (of course the...
Eleanor Roosevelt viewed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as her greatest achievement. Image from Creative Commons.The State of Indiana vs. theUniversal Declaration of Human RightsBy Harry Targ / Th...
Today is arraignment day for Aaron Broussard and company! ~Slabbed ~Aaron Broussard to be arraigned in federal court West bank levee-raising won't take toll on east bank, corps officials say ~Mark Schleifst...
It’s radioactive, it’s carrying toxic fuel, it’s out of control – and it’s heading straight back to Earth at break-neck speed. The stricken Russian probe Phobos-Ground was supposed to travel to Phobos, on...
*NeoCons are nervous for some reason* The war is kind of coming to a grinding halt. A million Americans fought there. Early Thursday morning Progressive Caucus co-chair Keith Ellison was tweeting about ho...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 18.7 km (11.6 miles), the quake hit at 13:02:24 UTC Friday 16th December 2011. The epicenter was 177 km (109 miles) SSW of Huajuapan de Leo...
Astronomers fully expected Comet Lovejoy to meet a fiery death – and with good reason. After all, it was about to fly through the Sun’s atmosphere where temperatures reach a staggering 1.1millionC. But th...
Radioactive material was found in the luggage of a passenger bound for Iran - at Moscow's Sheremetvevo international airport. Russia's Federal Customs Service made the discovery, recently but on an unspec...
london's pleasure gardens/promo image London's 2012 Olympics are taking part in the east end of the city. One of the goals, and benefits, of the Games is the regeneration of this dingy, post-industrial, ...
Touching wine glasses dates back to a custom when medieval hosts were worried their drinks might have been poisoned. They not only touched glasses; but, a small amount of wine was exchanged and everyone t...
*A cargo ship ran aground and spilled oil into the sea off the coast of France's northwestern region of Brittany early on Friday as a storm battered the region, officials said.* An oil slick was reported...
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Aisen, Chile at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:54:25 UTC Friday 16th December 2011. The epicenter was 327 km (203 miles) West of Co...
Philippine disaster officials say at least three people have been killed in a flash flood as a late season tropical storm blew through the southern Mindanao region. Zamboanga del Norte provincial disaster...
A new artificial intestine developed in the lab could help people missing a piece of their gut.
The world's biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented rate. As a result, more extinctions than usual are predicted for the coming year.
*1.* Is it selfish to leave this world and go to 'heaven'? What about the suffering people left behind? For the Buddhist, there is Samsara, this world of suffering. And there is Nirvana, which is fre...
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Today begins the "Article 32" hearing for accused whistleblower Bradley Manning, the first time in 18 months of incarceration that Manning will face a judge. Tonight there's a vigil outside Ft. Meade, Mary...
Crew on board a Russian-flagged fishing boat which hit an iceberg in Antarctica's Ross Sea, are frantically trying to remove water from the vessel and repair a hole in its hull. It could take several day...
A total of 1,074 inmates received treatment after falling ill from food poisoning at Osaka Prison in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, from Tuesday night through Wednesday, prison and local health officials said Th...
I was planning to avoid mention of the staggering destruction to trees from the Santa Ana winds in Southern California...never mind suggest it could be even partially due to damage from air pollution - bec...
Police specialists raided large clandestine methamphetamine labs in Vancouver and Surrey Thursday believed to be linked to the Hells Angels biker gang. And Sgt. Bill Whalen, of the Combined Forces Special...
Nearly 7,800 BC Hydro customers were left in the dark because of a power outage in several areas throughout East Vancouver and Burnaby Thursday evening, according to reports. Power in certain areas faile...
A heavy blizzard hit Maytas fetch, in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, on Thursday night, trapping 27 vehicles and stranding 135 passengers, the local road bureau said. The blizzard blo...
*Atlanta (CNN)* -- More than one in three women have experienced sexual assault, physical violence or stalking by an intimate partner during their lifetime, according to a Centers for Disease Control and P...
*VIETNAM says an outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease has killed 156 people, mostly children, and sickened more than 96,000. * An official at the Ministry of Health says the average number of weekly ...
*THOUSANDS of Victorian nurses are poised to resign in an escalation of their industrial dispute with the state government. * A mass meeting of 1500 Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) members today unan...
Methane bubbles trapped in Arctic ice. Photo courtesy: Yahoo!News Russian scientists have discovered hundreds of plumes of methane gas, some 1,000 meters in diameter, bubbling to the surface of the Arctic ...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Aisen, Chile at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:02:57 UTC Friday 16th December 2011. The epicenter was 314 km (195 miles) West of C...
The death toll from a mass poisoning in eastern India caused by toxic home-brewed alcohol climbed to 170 Friday, as police made more arrests and destroyed dozens of illegal distilleries. "We now have 170 ...
Syrian security forces opened fire on anti-government protests after Friday prayers at several locations around the country while the army sent reinforcements into the tense south where military defectors ...
Hundreds of demonstrators in Baghdad are urging the government to abide by an end-of-year deadline to expel Iranian exiles from Iraq and close their camp here. The Iranian group won refuge in Iraq decade...
Banks are unlikely to come to the aid of debt-ridden eurozone countries, with many planning to ignore political pressure to use cheap money from the European Central Bank to fund purchases of sovereign bon...
A man and a woman have been found dead in a car on farmland, police have confirmed. The bodies were discovered in Martlesham, Suffolk, by a member of the public this morning. Officers were called at just...
Ireland's economy shrank 1.9% in the third quarter, almost four times more than was expected. New figures from the Irish Central Statistics Office show that after growing in the first two quarters of 201...
Two Sunderland footballers - Lee Cattermole and Nicklas Bendtner - have reportedly been arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage to cars. The Premier League duo were held by Northumbria Police on ...
Police have issued a warning to homeowners after finding a note written by a burglar as a blueprint of which houses he should rob in Oldham. The raider penned *his ''to do'' list* of when, how, where and ...
I have relatively few political heroes, but one is Elizabeth Filkin, who briefly served as parliamentary commissioner for standards a decade ago. She was appointed to her post in the wake of a wave of noto...
Stunned motorists were forced to brake sharply to avoid the falling fruit, believed to be swept up by a vortex caused by freak weather conditions in Coventry. An avalanche of more than 100 apples rained ...
First lady Michelle Obama’s separate voyage to Hawaii promises to cost taxpayers tens of thousand in extra dollars, as her separate entourage and hefty flying costs pile on the costs. The military jet fli...
In an exclusive interview, an engineer working to unlock the secrets of the captured RQ-170 Sentinel says they exploited a known vulnerability and tricked the US drone into landing in Iran. Iran guided th...
Facebook has changed the way many people communicate with family and friends — but some believe it’s not always for the better. The social networking site’s recent changes — spotlighting what you’re hear...
If you’ve pulled the trigger on a new firearm this holiday season, join the club. As in your neighborhood shooting club, because faster than a speeding bullet, guns are going out the door. Well, not rig...
The White House is signing off on a controversial new law that would authorize the U.S. military to arrest and indefinitely detain alleged al Qaeda members or other terrorist operatives captured on Ameri...
Italy risks a "social explosion" over the government's austerity measures and unions plan more protests against them, the head of the country's largest labor federation CGIL said on Wednesday. CGIL leade...
Defence chiefs are drawing up plans to cope with the potential military fallout from the eurozone crisis, according to General Sir David Richards. It is understood that Armed Forces planners are looking a...
The proportion of adults who are married has plunged to record lows as more people decide to live together now and wed later, reflecting decades of evolving attitudes about the role of marriage in society...
Los Angeles-based Scott Sternberg Productions is behind the proposed interview show, which multiple networks have passed on pursuing. A Los Angeles-based TV producer is shopping the first interview with *...
U.S. trade officials are “very disappointed” in China’s decision to impose new import tariffs on several U.S. auto manufacturers, including Ford, GM and Chrysler, a spokesperson for the U.S. Trade represen...
A stand-off between thousands of villagers and authorities in southern China continued Thursday, amid protests over illegal land seizures. One resident told CNN that local officials were driven out of W...
An Anglican church in Auckland, New Zealand, is courting controversy again with a Christmas billboard depicting a shocked Virgin Mary looking at a positive pregnancy test. The vicar of St. Matthew-in-the...
RCMP in southern Alberta were expected to release more details Friday on how four people were killed, and another badly injured, in an apparent murder-suicide along a busy Alberta highway. Two Prince Edw...
Canadians in Syria are being told to get out now by Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird, who announced a voluntary evacuation on Thursday. Baird's warning came as the UN Security Council held an emergency...
Fitch Ratings on Wednesday downgraded the debt ratings for five major European commercial banks and co-operative banking groups, citing the eurozone crisis and stronger headwinds facing the banking sector....
Canada's independent prisons ombudsman has launched an inquiry into a 50 per cent spike in the proportion of black offenders filling federal jails over the last 10 years. Howard Sapers, the federal corre...
IMF head Christine Lagarde has said the world economic outlook is "gloomy" and no country is immune from rising risks. She said all nations, starting with Europe, needed to head off a crisis with risks o...
At least 143 people are now known to have died after consuming toxic alcohol in India's West Bengal state. Residents of 12 villages in the South 24 Parganas district fell ill after drinking the alcohol. ...
Nearly 20% of women in the US are raped or suffer attempted rape at some point in their lives, a US study says. Even more women, estimated at 25%, have been attacked by a partner or husband, the Centers ...
A tense stand-off between villagers and local authorities is continuing in southern China's Guangdong province. A BBC reporter in Wukan says villagers held a fresh rally there on Thursday and that both p...
Syrian soldiers said their commanders told them to stop anti-government protests "by all means necessary", Human Rights Watch has said. The group spoke to dozens of defectors who said they had understood...
Democrats and Republicans in the US Congress have agreed a compromise spending bill to avoid a government shutdown. The deal averts the possibility of US federal agencies shutting down because of a lack ...
A Tennessee couple helplessly watched their home burn to the ground, along with all of their possessions, because they did not pay a $75 annual fee to the local fire department. Vicky Bell told the NBC a...
*Blackberry phones has announced a delay to the launch of its new Blackberry 10 by explore in movement.*RIM has also taken a charge of $356m for unsold Playbook tables, which were launched with much hype...
Greater numbers of students in England are turning to prostitution to fund their education, the National Union of Students (NUS) claims. The NUS also says students are turning to gambling and taking part ...
Banks stand to lose millions of dollars in debt repayments if the biggest municipal bankruptcy in American history is allowed to proceed. But the real victims of the financial collapse in the US state of ...
As more details emerge of the shooting spree and grenade attack in Belgium in which five people died, the BBC News website takes a look at other recent incidents in Europe - and the effect they have had on...
Conditions at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant are far worse than its operator or the government has admitted, according to freelance journalist Tomohiko Suzuki, who spent more than a month working underc...
Lawmakers on Thursday reached a tentative deal to fund an array of government agencies through September 30 and avert shutting down many of Washington's operations starting this weekend. Democratic Senat...
The company that owns Victoria's Secret vowed a full investigation Thursday after a report said cotton used in some of its products is grown using child labor. "We are very concerned," parent company Lim...
Bahraini pro-democracy activist Zainab Alkhawaja has been arrested, her sister told CNN. Maryam Alkhawaja said from London early Friday that her sister is at the public prosecutor's office and expects to...
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused U.S. drones and special forces of involvement in the death of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in comments Thursday. He also attacked U.S. Sen. John McCain over...
*Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda over and done with the notice at a nuclear task-force meeting. Other than the management says it will get decades to take to pieces it totally*. Engineers have brought the ...
Thousands of residents gathered in Wukan village in southern China on Friday morning to mourn the loss of a fellow villager who died under police custody amid protest over land seizures. Residents and fa...
... Well we did sort of figure that one out for ourselves. Question: If any country sent drones in over America, England or any European Country, would this be seen as a ACT OF WAR? Does that mean we Do n...
Violence between pro-democracy activists and Egyptian security forces escalated in central Cairo Friday as they threw Molotov cocktails, rocks and glass at each other. Bricks and cement blocks rained dow...
Russia's new draft for a Security Council resolution on the Syrian crisis is "insufficient" but could be improved, Germany's U.N. ambassador said Thursday. Russia's ambassador insisted that the resolut...
As I suggested in the article about the solution of the Hydrogen atom using the \(SO(4)\) symmetry, one of the reasons why almost no people properly learn the "foundations of quantum mechanics" is the text...
*A US rights for self-driving cars has been awarded to Google. The logical human rights tell to a technique to button a vehicle from a human-controlled manner into the state anywhere it takes indict of t...
As Christian Bale approached an impromptu checkpoint leading to this tiny village in eastern China, four men blocking the narrow path started marching toward him in menacing unison. "I am here to see C...
A female Mexican gray wolf that was released into the wild earlier this year in hopes that she would become a mate for another lone wolf has been shot by federal wildlife managers, marking the latest blow ...
Scientists studying Kilauea believe the Big Island volcano is surging toward a violent future. Volcanologist Don Swanson collected samples of ash and rock dating back 2,500 years. They show a pattern. ...
Cold lava flow risk from Mount Gamalama in Indonesia's North Maluku province rises following heavy rainfall on the top of the volcano, according to China's Xinhua news agency. The volcano that erupted on ...
Ruling out any possibility of volcanic eruptions in the vicinity of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) site in Tamil Nadu as well as dangers of a tsunami, a central government appointed expert pan...
*A playing field trial of LED light fixtures in social accommodation says the new knowledge can send huge energy savings; decrease costs and makes inhabitants feel safer. The EST supposed it accepted ou...
The National Institutes of Health on Thursday suspended all new grants for biomedical and behavioral research on chimpanzees and accepted the first uniform criteria for assessing the necessity of such rese...
Engineers have brought the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to a "cold shutdown condition", nine months after the earthquake and tsunami, Japan has confirmed. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda made the annou...
British officials are to take part in discussions on plans for a new European Union fiscal pact - despite David Cameron refusing to sign up to the agreement. The Prime Minister agreed the move in a phone...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 71.2 km (44.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:12:02 UTC Friday 16th December 2011. The epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) ES...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 34.2 km (21.3 miles), the quake hit at 05:27:30 UTC Friday 16th December 2011. The epicenter was 109 km (67 miles) E...
This work has the advantage ofbeen utterly unambiguous in that it is a region that has no direct human impactat all that would ever be measurable. Thus a strengthening of the vegetative cover indicates...
This likely does not mean a lot except that it provides NATOboots on the ground close by the developing situation in Syria whichstill appears to be Assad’s fight to lose. It is not as if he is Gadhafi w...
Perhaps this helps us grasp thecomputing power available to us now and what we have been waiting for. My own needs are for one billionconverging equations in each cycle in order to properly simulate th...
This is at least a nice sourcefor the related statistics. Somehow I do not see this as a practical objectiveanyway although I do believe that it can be a practical possibility withoutrelying of brute ...
image source I confess that we have a stuffed Grinch at our house. My daughter keeps calling him a dinosaur. I am sure he would be very grinchy about that. I confess I am feeling very grinchy about listen...
*"The Optimism of Uncertainty" * by Howard Zinn "In this awful world where the efforts of caring people often pale in comparison to what is done by those who have power, how do I manage to stay involved...
*South of France* You can't live properly on $16 an hour. "The Center for Automotive Research ... said it expected the Detroit automakers to hire 14,750 hourly employees in the next four years. "They...
"I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America," warned Senator Frank Church in 1975. His warning was not heard. A country either survives or dies based on one condition: if the man ...
"As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be aware o...
Many people find it easier to empathise with animals and even cars than they do with homeless people and drug addicts, a new study has claimed. And the findings by Duke University in North Carolina and ...
This speech is from the film "Judgement at Nuremberg," made in 1961. Consider the principles discussed here, and how far from them we've strayed... "Judge's Delivery of Janning's Sentencing by the Court"...
[image: Research: New findings reveal that widowers who remain single for years after their partners¿ death are more likely to succumb to mental illness] New findings reveal that widowers who remain sing...
If you struggle to lose weight or to say no to an extra helping of pud, don’t blame your willpower - blame your parents. A person’s attitude towards food and exercise is largely set by the tender age o...
*"Indefinite Military Detention Measure Passes On Bill Of Rights Day"* by Michael McAuliff "The Senate passed a defense bill Thursday that authorizes indefinite detentions of American terrorism suspects, ...
[image: Stub it out: Doctors are urging men to quit smoking if they want to have a child (posed by model)] Stub it out: Doctors are urging men to quit smoking if they want to have a child (posed by mode...
A ten-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl who shot themselves may have intentionally pulled the trigger, police said today. Kameron Asgari, ten, died from his injuries on Tuesday and the girl, who has not...
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.
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“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 ...
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[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.
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Westford school officials are getting tough on classroom holiday parties. They’re banning sugary snacks and sweetened beverages from the celebrations this year. Students are being told to leave the Chris...
Van Dyke Public Schools in Warren are closed Friday because of bus vandalism. A recording from the Superintendent’s office says: “Today is Friday, December 16 and due to a transportation problem, the dis...
California launches a campaign against the widespread notion that oil changes are needed every 3,000 miles. Officials say the practice wastes millions of gallons of oil a year. Many automobile owners are ...
Scientists say acid rain probably will cause a decline in the Great Lakes region's sugar maple trees. Sugar maple abundance already has dropped in parts of the northeastern U.S. and southeastern Canada o...
The influential bond rating agency Moody's Investors Service has warned that it could downgrade the Province of Ontario's debt rating. Late Thursday afternoon, the New York-based agency downgraded Ontario...
A New Zealand plane has dropped supplies of equipment and fuel to a Russian fishing boat stranded in icy Antarctic waters. A water pump and containers of diesel were dropped onto the ice next to the vess...
The death of Libya's former leader Muammar Gaddafi "creates suspicions" of war crimes, says the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. Luis Moreno-Ocampo said the ICC was raising the concer...
Authorities in Beijing have issued new rules requiring users of microblog sites to register personal details. New users of Weibo - Chinese equivalents of Twitter - will now have to submit their real name...
Penicillin dosing guidelines for children need to be reviewed to avoid serious health issues and antibiotic resistance, British scientists say. In an article published in the Thursday issue of the British...
Fewer people were on employment insurance in October compared to the previous month, continuing a multi-year downward trend, but more people submitted benefit claims, Statistics Canada said Friday. The f...
Russia's space agency (Roscosmos) says its unsuccessful Mars probe will fall back to Earth next month. The unmanned Phobos-Grunt spacecraft became stranded in orbit in November. The agency says it expec...
Thousands and thousands of children suffered from sexual abuse in the Dutch Roman Catholic Church over more than six decades, and about 800 "possible perpetrators" have been identified, an independent Comm...
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