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I'm a speeder - I admit it - I use to live in the backwoods of Pennsylvania for awhile. Back there, on the major freeway, the highway patrol use to set up empty cop cars with blow up dummies in the driv...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 49.2 km (30.6 miles), the quake hit at 03:55:11 UTC Monday 19th December 2011. The epicenter was 139 km (86 miles) East o...
At least 10 protesters have been killed and 441 others wounded as troops and pro-democracy protestors clashed during three days of violence in the Egyptian capital Cairo. The fighting, sparked when troops...
Iran's state TV broadcast video of a young man today it claimed was a
CIA spy who sought to infiltrate Iran's secret services. The release is another step in the ratcheting up of tensions between Iran a...
Japan called an emergency security meeting Monday to formulate its reaction to news of the death of
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il. Minutes after the noon broadcast by
Pyongyang's official media, Japanese...
Kim Jong Il, North Korea's diminutive but ruthless dictator who has led the communist regime since 1994, has died. He was 69. Kim's death was announced tonight by state television from the North Korean ca...
Keen photographer Lionel Cironneau was in the right time at the right place when he took these stunning shots of a tornado. The twister was spotted swirling off the coast of France at Nice near the island...
Friday the Senate passed a 2 month payroll tax extension 89-10, after Boehner reportedly gave McConnell his proxy to negotiate deal. Purists on each side of the aisle voted NO-- Bernie Sandler and Jim De...
The Libyan military leader who led the assault on Tripoli has begun legal proceedings against the British government, Sky News has learned. Abdul Hakim Belhadj has accused the British security services of...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 04:13:51 UTC Monday 19th December 2011. The epicenter was 78 km (48.3 miles) West of Kuril'sk, Kuril...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Eastern Iran at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles - Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 01:52:56 UTC Monday 19th December 2011. The epicenter was 140 km (86.8 miles) N...
*POLITICAL HUMOUR:* *WAR IN IRAQ ENDS AS US FORCES LEAVE UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS:*
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Barat Daya, Indonesia at a depth of 171.2 km (106.4 miles), the quake hit at 02:00:32 UTC Monday 19th December 2011. The epicenter was 313 km (194 miles) ENE...
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck Sulawesi, Indonesia at a depth of 9.8 km (6.1 miles), the quake hit at 01:23:24 UTC Monday 19th December 2011. The epicenter was 199 km (123 miles) NNW of Palopo, Sulaw...
*INTERNATIONAL POLITICS:* *THE KING IS DEAD; LONG LIVE THE KING:* The news tonight is that the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il has gone to join his unlamented father in apotheosis. The Korean regi...
"You do not become a 'dissident' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of extern...
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Buckdog - 1 hour ago
*North Korean leader Kim Jong-il died on Saturday at age 69, North Korean state television reported on Monday. An announcer said he died of physical and mental over-work.* Toronto Star
[image: Small amounts of trauma can make us more resilient, a new study has found] Small amounts of trauma can make us more resilient, a new study has found They say what doesn’t kill you makes you stro...
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) on Monday placed all military units on emergency alert following the news of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's death. The JCS said it called an emergency meeting ...
South Korean shares tumbled 4.87 percent soon after the announcement that North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il had died. The benchmark KOSPI fell 89.36 points to 1,750.60 minutes after the news before edging b...
I noticed a strange item in the news this week. An estimated 200 North Koreans are stranded in Libya right now, among them doctors and nurses whose services are much needed back home. Why are they there?...
News reports around the world are indicating that the dictator Kim Jong Il is dead, and that South Korea's military has been placed on high alert due to possible destabilization or imminent armed conflict....
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is dead, North Korean state TV said Monday. Kim, 69, died at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, state TV said. A broadcaster reported that Kim died due to "overwork" after "dedicating his...
“The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs; the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, ’Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; f...
*“The Audacity Of Hope”* by Chet Raymo “In the middle of the last century, Teilhard de Chardin wrote: "A great many internal and external portents (political and social upheaval, moral and religious unea...
*"Love That (Not Man Apart From That)" * *․ * "Then what is the answer?- Not to be deluded by dreams. To know that great civilizations have broken down into violence, and their tyrants come, many times befo...
“All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence, in order to reach forth to the enchanted place where we can danc...
*"First Europeans Were Cannibals"* by Stonepages.com "The remains of the 'first Europeans' discovered at an archaeological site in northern Spain have revealed that these prehistoric men were cannibals w...
"We Are Stardust" by Nigel Calder "We are stardust... In a sense, human flesh is made of stardust. Every atom in the human body, excluding only the primordial hydrogen atoms, was fashioned in stars that ...
*When you reach the point of having cutting boards that are, you know, too fancy to cut on, like these olive-wood beauties Bobby Flay's so fond of, well, my gosh, then you've got some kind of class.* *by ...
*Not really since we are leaving an embassy the size of a city, with armed contractors to guard it.* "‘It’s their country; let them have it’; Weary of Iraq war’s sacrifice, but proud they gave democracy...
My quick reaction to the video: I don't know how bad the coming social and economic collapse will be. But it will have different features and characteristics in different cities, regions, communities, c...
[image: Katey M. Walter Anthony, a scientist, investigated a plume of methane, a greenhouse gas, at an Alaskan lake. Dr. Walter Anthony is a leading researcher in studying the escape of methane. Josh Han...
[image: Russian workers riding an airboat clean up an oil slick in the river Kolva near the Russian town of Usinsk in this 16 August 1995 file photo. Gennady Galperin / REUTERS] By Nataliya Vasilyeva, A...
“The ethereal tidal streams of stars that surround galaxy NGC 5907 in arcing loops extend more than 150,000 light-years from the narrow, edge-on spiral, also known as the Splinter or Knife Edge Galaxy loac...
Willie Nelson at Farm Aid 2011.Occupy the food systemFrom seed to plate, our food system is now even more concentrated than our banking system.By Willie Nelson / Reader Supported News / December 18, 2011Than...
The Arizona Snowbowl has been given approval by the U.S. Forest Service and the City of Flagstaff to use reclaimed water to make snow on the San Francisco peaks. Thirteen indian tribes consider the peaks...
Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow shown "Tebowing." Whose side is God on?The Gospel according to TebowBy Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog / December 18, 2011I don’t normally write about an individual’s rel...
Goldman Sachs In the Fourth Level of Hell According to William K. Black, Goldman Sachs executives should find themselves in the fourth Circle of Hell as punishment for their frauds committed against the pe...
Durham, North Carolina, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
Judi Bari was a remarkable woman, a labor organizer and principal organizer of the Earth First! environmentalists. It's incredible to me that I had never heard of Judi Bari's existence before today, and n...
* "Stress"* "Stress is the trash of modern life - we all generate it but if you don't dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life.” ~ Danzae Pace "Stress is not what happens to us. It...
posted by Robin Horbury at
Biased BBC - 6 hours ago
Richard Black is the man most obviously responsible for the BBC's deeply biased approach to climate reporting, as readers of this blog well know. I have a spot of digging to further expose his techniques....
George Monbiot – Unmasking the Press: 'via Blog this' Too bad about Hitchens, but the best thing I've found about the corporate media this week comes from Monbiot. Everything you need to know, including ...
*"Holiday Stress Advice"* by Dr. Phil McGraw "My dad used to joke that holidays are that time of the year when you find yourself thrown together with people you don't really know that well or have much i...
New Orleans Saints rout Minnesota 42-20! Joy Theater on Canal Street comes back to life, 6 years after Katrina Horse pulling a cart dies on Bourbon Street Modern Love: Merchant ~He Said/She Said NOLA
The Monarchy in England have always considered themselves to be better than the people they rule over. In times gone by, the institution of Monarchy * was* tied to the people, and the allegiance given by ...
Which GOP clown keeps strutting around beating his chest and bellowing that he'll never apologize for the U.S.A.? Mittens, I think, although it could be Newt or Perry or any of the seven dwarves. Last yea...
"Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contra...
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Not PC - 7 hours ago
[image: image] THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT HISTORICAL event of the last fifty years was the collapse of Communism, and with it the liberation of hundreds of millions from slavery. One of the most importa...
Earth is the planet of the apes. No question about it.
*"The 1 Percent, Revealed"* By Barbara Ehrenreich and John Ehrenreich "Class happens when some men, as a result of common experiences (inherited or shared), feel and articulate the identity of their inte...
*"Bankers are the Dictators of the West"* by Robert Fisk "Writing from the very region that produces more clichés per square foot than any other "story" – the Middle East – I should perhaps pause before I...
posted by leftdog at
Buckdog - 8 hours ago
It would have been tragic enough if he had just killed himself. No, he killed 3 others plus himself because a young woman would not do exactly what he wanted. Women are not property! Raise your sons to un...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 180.2 km (112 miles), the quake hit at 20:08:32 UTC Sunday 18th December 2011. The epicenter was 135 km (84 mile...
Though many of us carry a "fat gene," diet and exercise can largely overcome its effects.
*CIA flights used Glasgow, Edinburgh and Prestwick. * CSC (Computer Sciences Corporation) is an American information technology and business services company headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, USA. ...
Melbourne is bracing for flash flooding as thunderstorms head south across the state from Mildura, where 50mm or rain fell in just two hours. State Emergency spokesman Lachlan Quick says the service receiv...
A family in Maine is panicking after their 20-month-old daughter was reported missing yesterday morning after disappearing from her bed in the middle of the night. Ayla Reynolds's father woke up in his W...
Foreign criminals released from jail have gone on to commit murders, rapes and kidnaps after border officials failed to deport them from Britain, it emerged today. A confidential UK Border Agency document...
A bare-chested thug who dropped a five stone concrete block off the top of a building onto a policeman has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years. Benjamin Cyster launched the deadly missile at an advancin...
To D-fox: if you're reading this, please contact us at thecomingcrisis@gmail.com. It's important -- we believe.
Note: Herman Van Rompuy the First Class Idiot and yes OUR Unelected President..... unelected by the people of Europe. With the EU battling against failing economies and a faltering single currency, world ...
London Mayor Boris Johnson said European leaders should abandon 'hysterical' efforts to rescue the eurozone and recognise that some countries have to drop the single currency. 'I would be amazed if we wer...
At least 50 Russian crew were dead or missing today after an oil rig capsized and sank as it was being towed in a storm. Fourteen workers were rescued from the stricken rig in the icy Sea of Okhotsk 200 k...
[image: Adolescent birth rates by country, most recent estimates. (Number of births per 1,000 women aged 15-19) UNFPA] In Ethiopia, a low-income country with 39 per cent of its 82.9 million people livin...
Tens of thousands of flood-affected children in Pakistan are being kept free of disease through the emergency provision of safe water, sanitation facilities, and hygiene lessons. But a lack of funding i...
[image: Aapico Hitech Pcl workers recover containers and raw steel rolls at the company’s flooded factory in the Hi Tech Industrial estate, Ayutthaya, Thailand. Bloomberg] AYUTTHAYA, December 18 (AFP) –...
A man is being questioned by police after a woman was burned to death in a lift by an attacker in her New York apartment building. Doris Gillespie, 64, was ambushed, sprayed with flammable liquid and then...
More than 200 people are feared dead after an overloaded boat packed mostly with Afghan and Iranian asylum seekers sank off Indonesia en route to Australia. The boat had a capacity of 100 but was overloa...
One man has been killed in a mid-air collision between two light aircraft in Leicestershire. After hitting each other, the two planes landed near Gartree Road in Great Stretton, close to *Leicester Airpo...
Devastation from a tropical storm that deluged the southern Philippines mounted Sunday, with the death toll rising to 652, the Philippine Red Cross said. Hundreds are missing, the relief agency said, a...
*Since we already saw the "Nutcracker Suite" sequence of Disney's Fantasiawith Friday night's preview, I thought to kick off we'd just look at this little teaser from Helgi Tómasson's San Francisco Ballet ...
A walker has died after getting caught in an avalanche and falling 500ft down a mountain in Snowdonia. The unidentified man, who was believed to be in his 30s, fell on Y Garn - a peak more than 3,000ft h...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Moro Gulf, Mindanao, Philippines at a depth of 603.3 km (374.9 miles), the quake hit at 16:24:01 UTC Sunday 18th December 2011. The epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) Sout...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Central Mediterranean Sea, off the Coast of Malta at a depth of 15 km (9.3 miles), the quake hit at 15:01:02 UTC Sunday 18th December 2011. The epicenter was 114 k...
We learned about the sad news in the morning. It had to happen at some point and it did happen today. Václav Havel died at sleep: a blessed way to leave the world (a cardiovascular failure). BBC I, BBC I...
[image: A paying passenger (bottom) on an ocean garbage patch research cruise (file picture). Photograph courtesy Stiv Wilson, 5gyres.org] December 16 (Maritime Executive) – At the end of October, the *S...
(With grave apologies to Charles Dickens.) Lay was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that, unless one believed in liberal conspiracy theories. The register of his burial was signed by...
Original Here *Federal Government Takes Final Step to Suspend Constitution* http://youtu.be/Lwedx6kZhHg Cherchez la Verite
[image: Dead trees destroyed by forest fire in British Columbia, Canada. Scott Latham / Fotolia.com] By Tilo Arnhold, tilo.arnhold@ufz.de Phone +49 341 235 1635 16 December 2011 Chicago/Leipzig (UFZ) –...
Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday ordered $1 billion in midyear cuts to California's budget that will result in pain for students who rely on school buses to get to class, mothers who depend on child care subsid...
In July, as a political dispute in Washington threatened to cause a U.S. debt default, the central bank of the United Arab Emirates declared it had stopped investing in U.S. government bonds “due to the ve...
By Erik De Castro, with additional reporting by Rosemarie Francisco and Manny Mogato in MANILA; Editing by Robert Birsel 18 December 2011 CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines (Reuters) – Rescuers searched for...
Police escalation in New York as my brother and 17 other people are arrested for observing an occupation. Monday morning marked yet another Day of Action for the Occupy Wall Street movement. Eight cities ...
China has sent its largest patrol ship to the East China Sea to guard the country's territorial rights, state media said Wednesday, in a move likely to fuel tensions over the disputed waters. China has re...
It's been a good week for the great effort to strip corporations of their rights to unfettered free speech as legal persons, supported by the US Supreme Court. First Vermont senator Bernie Sanders introdu...
Crisis-hit Greece is still losing billions of euros to corruption in spite of efforts to stamp out graft and maximise the state's tax revenue, a report says. The Ta Nea newspaper on Wednesday said that ta...
Following similar reports by former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, Israeli intelligence sources confirm that US Special Forces are massing in Jordan on the Syrian border having been transferred from Iraq. ...
British regulators are meeting with banks to discuss the state of their preparedness for a potential breakup of the euro zone, according to people familiar with the matter. The U.K.'s Financial Services A...
This is an eye opener as far as understanding what the young, uninvolved (except with themselves) hipsters in New York think of the Occupy Wall Street movement (and a lot else). It addresses the hope for i...
(1) D18: CHARAS COMES HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS Facebook Event (2) D18: IMMIGRANTS OCCUPY Facebook event (3) D18: OWS-WIDE VISIONING SESSION Facebook Event *CHARAS COMES HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS* For over 20 ...
Occupy Columbia protesters will continue their around-the-clock demonstrations on the State House lawn after a federal judge determined that state government does not have regulations in place to prevent ...
They claim it is more cost effective. They claim limited government is good. But here is an example what happens to the citizen that gets stuck with privatized public services. *Private Water Companies ...
Channel 4 makes Goebbels proud with conveniently timed propaganda piece. by Tony Cartalucci December 18, 2011 - With the UN's recent "human rights" report falling flat, for lack of evidence and being compi...
Congress passed a massive $662 billion defense bill Thursday after months of wrangling over how to handle captured terrorist suspects without violating Americans' constitutional rights. A last-minute com...
[image: Link]Clashes between government troops and suspected al Qaeda militants in Yemen left at least 10 people dead Saturday, according to two senior security officials. The dead included three soldier...
posted by David Vance at
Biased BBC - 13 hours ago
A Biased BBC reader notes; "Here's religious affairs correspondent Robert Pigott this morning in sunny Jamaica: http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9663000/9663844.stm But wait: the patois bible ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck South of Panama at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:47:07 UTC Sunday 18th December 2011. The epicenter was 116 km (42 miles) SSE of David, Panama No Ts...
posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at
- 14 hours ago
*Linux Mint 12 has gone a different way*. Has it become a Linux centipede? It could well be. The fabulous number of individual options to change the look and feel of its *desktops* has attracted much atte...
*I've got my own game to play this morning. * "Crimson in clover: Harvard hoops’ unlikely rise; Campus fascinated by team gunning for first tourney bid in 65 years" December 17, 2011|By Joseph P. Kahn, Gl...
*Yes, it's an Obamulke -- and this one's touted as a bargain compared with other versions out there, only $9 plus S&H.* *by Ken* As the *Washington Post*'s Emily Heil pointed out earlier this week in her ...
*I'm glad the first of the year is coming up because a resolution needs to be made.* "For Iowa’s evangelicals, no clear GOP favorite; Major factor in Republican caucus" by Tracy Jan Globe Staff / December...
*Maybe you wouldn't mind taking a ride on one, you unscrupulous corporate cretin.* "Mitt Romney courts Tea Party activists in S.C., December 18, 2011 Romney, speaking in a state with military bases, made s...
The Philippines relaunched an old U.S. Coast Guard cutter Wednesday as its biggest and most modern warship to guard potentially oil-rich waters that are at the center of a dispute with China. President B...
Every grain of sand in the Syrian desert now knows there won't be a "responsibility to protect"-enabled North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) “humanitarian” intervention to provoke regime change in Dam...
Turkey’s Western-like secular political structure is not suitable or compatible for Middle Eastern countries in the post-Arab Spring era, Ali-Akbar Velayati, senior adviser to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatoll...
Two-thirds of chief executives of the largest U.S. companies say they don't plan to increase hiring or will cut staff in the next six months, mainly because of sluggish growth in the United States and fina...
Female unemployment has risen to a 23-year high and youth joblessness has broken a new record amid mounting eurozone woes, official figures reveals. Total unemployment is now higher than at any point duri...
posted by laura k at
wmtc - 16 hours ago
Paging George Orwell: a new US anti-abortion bill is named Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act. Good story plus mostly good comments at the link, too. Thanks to James.
The science behind counting fish in the ocean to measure their abundance has never been simple. A new scientific paper authored by NOAA Fisheries biologist Eric Prince, Ph.D., and eight other scientists sh...
* Pierre sur la Balancoire by Bernard Faucon (Le site officiel de bernard faucon) **THE ECONOMY EXPLAINED * *A Nightmare Most Of Us Are Ignoring** * *The Iraq War explained * *On the Dark Side in Al Dou...
In better days, the loading dock in this East Texas harbor city would be a bustle of activity: fishermen unloading sacks filled with fresh oysters, dealers paying by the sack for the bivalves, 18-wheelers ...
One of the seemingly ideal and direct solutions to climate change is to efficiently vacuum up greenhouse gases straight from the atmosphere. But a new study finds that such a proposal is very far-fetched a...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Pakistan at a depth of 121.4 km (75.4 miles), the quake hit at 12:28:10 UTC Sunday 18th December 2011. The epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) NNW of Chitral, Pakistan No Re...
Earlier this week, comedian Stephen Colbert announced dramatically that there were important developments underway in Europe that we should know about. True to form, Colbert didn't talk about the big probl...
*After billions of dollars and nearly nine years of training, American troops are leaving behind an Iraqi security force arguably capable of providing internal security but unprepared to defend the nation ...
The Fund for the Exploitation of State-owned Private Property (TAIPED), the new public agency tasked with enacting the Greek government's privatisation plans, has officially begun procedures to exploit a s...
posted by laura k at
wmtc - 16 hours ago
Those who think that the danger of war is past are living in a fool’s paradise. We are faced today with militarism more powerful and more dangerous than that which brought on the World War. That is what ...
The Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s visit to Washington meant a great deal to US President Barack Obama. It could help ward off criticism by the neocons and the Republican right that Obama didn’t do...
U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon urged world powers on Wednesday to act “in the name of humanity” against Syria’s crackdown on dissent, as a U.S. official likened the Damascus regime to a “dead man walking.” Activi...
China's credit bubble has finally popped. The property market is swinging wildly from boom to bust, the cautionary exhibit of a BRIC's dream that is at last coming down to earth with a thud. It is hard t...
UK retail sales fell more than economists forecast in November as cash-strapped households shunned price discounts and chose to save rather than spend as the prospect of another recession looms. Sales in...
posted by laura k at
wmtc - 16 hours ago
From NCF, at Bradley Manning's hearing: And what the day it was! Manning's lawyer David Coombs (whose very nice wife is from TO) is a force to be reckoned with! After a half hour of grilling the Investiga...
In recent months the commodities sector has certainly not looked like it was enjoying a so-called super cycle of soaring prices that was the investment scenario at the start of the year. And, given the s...
Syrian rebels have killed 27 regime troops in the biggest series of attacks in a single day of the uprising against the regime of President Bashir al-Assad. Activists based abroad said that attacks on th...
[image: Link]A gangster has been awarded £15,000 after European judges ruled evidence used to convict him breached his human rights. Ali Tahery, who stabbed a rival gang member, had his right to a fair tr...
*Arab League irked as Assad flouts demands to allow observers in Syria, stop brutal crackdown on protesters. Qatar says will bring matter before UN Security Council. * The Arab League is threatening to ta...
*POLICE are evacuating homes in Stawell after torrential rain flooded the town in the state's west. * Floodwaters have caused parked cars to drift away and there have also been reports of people being re...
A gas explosion at a mine in central China has killed nine workers. The accident happened Saturday afternoon at a mine in Hunan province’s Sandu township. A Hunan work safety official says all nine worker...
I want to write better descriptions. For example, when I wrote ...treating it as the kind of fact that always has been... the "kind of" was kind of weak. I changed it to "sort of" but that was sort of w...
There are 60 typhoid cases in Nanoko, with 29 already hospitalized, according to Fiji's Health Ministry. Senior Health Inspector Paula Laqere said Sunday that the increas means that people are not practi...
A 20-day state of emergency was declared Saturday in the Kazakhstan's oil city of Zhanaozen after violent clashes between police and striking oil workers left 10 people dead. The clashes, which injured p...
Addendum to "US "Withdrawal" In Iraq Paves Way for US-Israeli Strike on Iran ." by Tony Cartalucci December 18, 2011 - Complacency will kill, apathy is complicity: as the elitist-engineered "Arab Spring" r...
Global elite maneuver into position for final leg of Middle East campaign, one year into "Arab Spring," one step closer to global hegemony. by Tony Cartalucci December 18, 2011 - Nearly every option descr...
At least four bodies have been found and 49 people are missing after an offshore drilling rig capsized in the Russian far east Sea of Okhotsk, the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry said Sunday. At le...
At least two people are dead and more than 100 missing after a wooden boat carrying migrants to the Australian territory of Christmas Island sunk off the coast of Indonesia, a rescue official said early Su...
New York police arrested 50 protesters Saturday on what organizers from Occupy Wall Street were dubbing a day to "re-occupy," coinciding with the movement's three-month anniversary. Those arrested were c...
Devastation from a tropical storm that deluged the southern Philippines mounted on Sunday, with the death toll rising to 548, military officials said. About 500 people are missing, the Philippine Red C...
posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at
- 18 hours ago
*In Italy* some nice software is written. What about this compact MP3 player for your website or blog? Some are using it already, I saw. To add it to Opera isn't much of a hassle. Follow the link to f...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 25.3 km (15.7 miles), the quake hit at 09:02:02 UTC Sunday 18th December 2011. The epicenter was 104 km (64 miles) S...
After being viciously beaten by a 10-strong mob of Egyptian male soldiers, this woman lies helplessly on the ground as her shirt is ripped from her body and a man kicks her with full force in her exposed c...
More than 500 people were killed – most of them children – and hundreds unaccounted for after a typhoon hit the southern Philippines, triggering flash floods and landslides. Typhoon Washi, with winds gust...
* Mehdi Belhaj, first victim in the Liege shootings.* *1.* According to Belgian prosecutor, Cedric Visart de Bocarme: Only a 'mental disturbance such as receiving CIA radio transmissions .... can explain ...
Pictured for the first time, this is one of the two men shot dead at his desk by a co-worker struggling to cope with financial pressures. Robert Lindsay, 53, from Chino, California was killed by a gunman a...
A woman has been burned to death by a man who doused her with a flammable liquid and set her alight in an elevator. The unidentified attacker - reportedly the woman's ex-boyfriend - was waiting outside th...
Leon Lederman originally wanted to call his book on the Higgs boson "The Goddamn Particle" because it was so hard to find it. But the title was too long and the publisher recommended to shorten it. "The ...
Police have discovered a massive cannabis farm worth £2million inside a council-owned warehouse. A raid on an industrial unit in Hull yielded 2,768 marijuana plants. Angry councillors have demanded an inq...
Some of the most graphic images ever to be shown on British television will be screened tomorrow night. Channel 4 is planning to broadcast shocking film of protesters – including children, teachers and a ...
All parents will be familiar with the frustration of trying to pacify a disobedient toddler from time to time. However, doctors have discovered some children have a condition which means they are unable t...
A jealous husband is facing life in prison after chopping off his wife's fingers because she began studying for a degree without his permission. Rafiqul Islam, 30, blindfolded his wife Hawa Akhter, 21, and...
Force: A police roadblock is seen on a route into the village of Wukan. The people have vowed to continue to fight for land rights. Hidden in the back of a motorised rickshaw, or ‘tuk-tuk’, I had travelled...
Experts have warned of the ‘death of History’ after shocking figures revealed the subject is becoming virtually extinct in some areas of the country. MPs have been appalled to read new research stating th...
The last US troops have withdrawn from Iraq, driving over the border into Kuwait nearly nine years after the US-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein. It brings to an end a military campaign that has cos...
A Tory MP who attended a stag party where guests dressed as Nazis has been sacked as a Commons aide for "offensive" behaviour and placed under investigation by David Cameron. Aidan Burley had expressed "...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 41.9 km (26 miles), the quake hit at 06:08:57 UTC Sunday 18th December 2011. The epicenter was 122 km (75 miles) ENE...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 219.5 km (136.4 miles), the quake hit at 05:03:19 UTC Sunday 18th December 2011. The epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) SSE of Comitan, Chiapa...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 615 km (382.2 miles), the quake hit at 22:42:24 UTC Saturday 17th December 2011. The epicenter was 290 km (180 miles) Southwest...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 68.7 km (42.7 miles), the quake hit at 20:54:20 UTC Saturday 17th December 2011. The epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) Sou...
Nude Socialist managed to create a cartoon that is both accurate enough when it comes to the content as well as kind of witty: Note that Z-bosons are zombies and W-bosons are George W. Bush, among dozen...
All parents will be familiar with the frustration of trying to pacify a disobedient toddler from time to time. However, doctors have discovered some children have a condition which means they are unable...
To brush off the results of a recent poll that asserts the word 'whatever' was voted the most annoying word for the third year running would seemingly be the best tribute to the news. A university in up...
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wmtc - 1 day ago
The episode of The Daily Show that I mentioned here can be seen here. The part I found hilarious begins at about 6:00. Many thanks to David H for the link! After you enjoy that laugh, please write to Lowe...
"Puzzlement and doubt are, however, already crimes in the totalitarian state. The mind that is open for questions is open for dissent. In the totalitarian regime the doubting, inquisitive, and imaginativ...
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wmtc - 1 day ago
Tonight on my way home from work, I had no music with me, and was forced to listen to the radio. To think I was once a radio addict; now I find it an annoying wasteland. In my button-pushing frustration, I...
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*Biased BBC contributor Alan observes;* "Mark Mardell joins the chorus of BBC voices vouching for the integrity of Bradley Manning, accused of leaking (should that be stealing ?) massive amounts of US int...
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[image: A general view shows a village hit by flashfloods caused by typhoon Washi in Cagayan de Oro in southern Philippines, 17 December 2011. Erik De Castro / REUTERS] By Erik De Castro and by Manny Mo...
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At least 10 protesters have been killed and 441 others wounded as troops and pro-democracy protestors clashed during three days of violence in the Egyptian capital Cairo. The fighting, sparked when troops...
Japan called an emergency security meeting Monday to formulate its reaction to news of the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il. Minutes after the noon broadcast by Pyongyang's official media, Japanese...
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A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Eastern Iran at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles - Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 01:52:56 UTC Monday 19th December 2011. The epicenter was 140 km (86.8 miles) N...
*POLITICAL HUMOUR:* *WAR IN IRAQ ENDS AS US FORCES LEAVE UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS:*
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Barat Daya, Indonesia at a depth of 171.2 km (106.4 miles), the quake hit at 02:00:32 UTC Monday 19th December 2011. The epicenter was 313 km (194 miles) ENE...
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck Sulawesi, Indonesia at a depth of 9.8 km (6.1 miles), the quake hit at 01:23:24 UTC Monday 19th December 2011. The epicenter was 199 km (123 miles) NNW of Palopo, Sulaw...
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South Korean shares tumbled 4.87 percent soon after the announcement that North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il had died. The benchmark KOSPI fell 89.36 points to 1,750.60 minutes after the news before edging b...
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