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Hey everyone - here's the poll: December 16 - What are you going to miss the most? As you can see, Will changed it so it's not a popularity contest... And if none of this makes sense and you're wondering ...
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Iranian government says it has hacked the GPS of a stealth drone, capturing it intact.
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Not PC - 56 minutes ago
I’ve been trying to limit my pile of holiday reading this year. [image: DSC_0002] I thought reading books on my
iPad would help reduce the stack. But I suspect I’ve overdone it again. [image: SortOfBo...
*Belhaj of the CIA.* The
CIA's Libyan fighters, led by Libya's Abdel Hakim Belhaj, are on the
Turkish-Syrian border. (Islam Times - Belhaj on Syria's border with Turkey.) The Free
Syrian Army is trying t...
December 17, 2011: Occupy Wall Street teams up with artists, musicians and faith leaders to demand a space for public expression and to seek sanctuary in an unused lot owned by Trinity Church, an institut...
Victoria, Argentina: UFOs, Bridges and the Unexplained By Silvia Pérez Simondini,
Vision OVNI The passing of the years has not caused the UFO phenomenon to dwindle at all over Victoria. Quit...
On Native America Calling today, Russell Means describes beating cancer. Russell describes the prayers from all over the world and thanks his children for the prayers and ceremonies from Lakota, Navajo an...
I just returned from a lecture and it was much more amazing than I expected. *Click for more pictures with the same guy.* My bank has organized a public lecture for clients who are not just generic thou...
The 10-month old girl died after a 20-hour long surgery to separate her from her sister.
Phobos-Grunt, Russia's ambitious Mars probe, remains stranded in Earth orbit after a botched launch in November. It will plunge back into the atmosphere between Jan. 6 and Jan. 19, 2012.
Iraq’s Shiite-dominated government was thrown into crisis on Monday night as authorities issued an arrest warrant for the Sunni vice president, accusing him of running a personal death squad that assassina...
A contender for the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize plans to put a small remotely operated telescope on the surface of the moon.
Holiday house lights blink to a dub step beat.
Taking advantage of iPhone's computing prowess, iBike Dash is a trainer, navigator and data analyzer all in one.
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 40 km (24.8 miles), the quake hit at 17:24:47 UTC Monday 19th December 2011. The epicenter was 11 km (6.8 miles) West of ...
Renowned torture enthusiast and perennial Israel apologist Alan Dershowitz is in Tel Aviv this week attending an annual business conference sponsored by *Globes* and, as usual, has been busy equivocating f...
Collection of 'lost' SDS writings revealsdepth of Sixties radical thinkingBy Jerry Harris / The Rag Blog / December 19, 2011[Revolutionary Youth and the New Working Class: Lost Writings of SDS, edited by Car...
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle says Europe must work together to battle throught the financial crisis. The German foreign minister pledged to "build bridges" in the wake of David Cameron's su...
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Buckdog - 3 hours ago
*American politics in a nutshell ... H/T to Mike B at UBC for this ...*
*Bucharest. * One of the two units of the Romanian Cherna Voda Nuclear Power Plant has been decommissioned due to leakage of distilled water. The Romanian operator–company say they have avoid violation of...
Six people died during a flash flood and landslide in Wonosobo, Central Java on Sunday. According to the spokesman for the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB), Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, a joint search ...
A strange disease is said to have killed two persons in the Amansie West District of the Ashanti Region. Laffa viral hemorrhagic fever has symptoms similar to malaria but causes victims to bleed to death...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck offshore Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 48.1 km (29.9 miles), the quake hit at 16:57:55 UTC Monday 19th December 2011. The epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) Southeast of Sa...
A man who buried his fiancee alive in a woodland grave and then claimed he only wanted to frighten her has been found guilty of attempted murder at Leeds Crown Court. Marcin Kasprzak, 26, shot Michelina L...
One of Britain's most notorious serial killers, known as the 'Black Panther', has died suddenly after becoming ill in jail. Donald Neilson, 75, was serving a whole-life sentence for murdering five people...
Britain is refusing to contribute to the IMF's bailout fund for the EU, Sky News understands. Chancellor George Osborne has apparently told his EU colleagues he will not provide any cash to boost the fun...
As Romney's firm profited in SC, jobs disappeared I've already written about the state bank that North Dakota founded over a decade ago that has safeguarded their taxpayers' funds from the machinations of ...
The mother of missing toddler Ayla Reynolds filed for full custody of the 20-month-old hours before the child disappeared from her father's home, it was revealed today. Trista Reynolds, who also has a nin...
Over the weekend Paul Krugman gave Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden a name that will probably stick for the rest of his career, useful idiot. He and Ezra Klein explained how Wyden gave "cover to the fundamental ...
By: Duane Craig Ameren's plan to build a new 400-acre coal ash storage landfill near Labadie, Missouri continues to face opposition, and a new revelation that an existing storage site has been leaking si...
Almost one in three teenagers and young adults have been arrested by the age of 23 for anything from underage drinking to violent crime. Experts believe the increase is not necessarily because of more crim...
Barack Obama’s annual vacation in Hawaii this year is likely to be his most expensive ever - and the majority of it is being funded by the taxpayer. The President will travel separately to his family this ...
*ATTAWAPISKAT, KASHACHEWAN AND DEBEERS DIAMONDS, COLD AS ICE* By Mohawk Nation News http://www.mohawknationnews.com MNN: 18 Dec. 2011. Kashechewan is a Cree community on James Bay. In 2005 half their peo...
Like a modern day Dr Frankenstein, Enrique Gomez De Molina creates hauntingly stunning hybrid sculptures made from the stuffed parts of dead animals. But it is his beloved mythical creatures that could la...
The death toll from a tropical storm in the southern Philippines has reached more than 900, an official with the country's disaster agency said Monday. Benito Ramos of the National Disaster Risk Reductio...
Wheat is Murder You think it might be over the top? You may have to re-think that as you give this interview a listen. Ties in nicely with previous interviews I have had here with Sally Fallon and the Oilin...
[image: Mark Boslough having a beer with Christopher Monckton, at the Third Santa Fe Conference on Global and Regional Climate Change. Photo: Mike Thompson] By Mark Boslough 19 December 2011 The Third ...
*http://iranpoliticsclub.net/photos/nazi-girls4/index.htm* *What is a fascist? * "They claim to be superpatriots, but they would *destroy every liberty*guaranteed by the Constitution. "They demand free ent...
[image: South Sudanese women gathering wild greens. Photo: WFP / Challiss McDonough] By Jeremy Hance, www.mongabay.com 19 December 2011 Drought and erratic rains could lead to further food scarcities i...
The Divide from Timothy McKee on Vimeo.
Three commuters have been injured after a train ploughed into a lorry trapped on a level-crossing today. Up to 60 people were on the crowded service between Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, and Manchester wh...
[image: Dessicated corpse of a steer, killed by the worst drought in Texas history. wdrep.com] By Betsy Blaney, The Associated Press 17 December 2011 LUBBOCK, Texas – The worst drought in Texas' histo...
[image: 21st Century Ecological Sensitivity - Biome-Level Changes in Plant Species. Predicted percentage of ecological landscape being driven toward biome-level changes in plant species as a result of pr...
* "The Christmas Hope: A To-Do List for a Better World"* By John W. Whitehead “The Christmas hope for peace and good will toward all men can no longer be dismissed as a kind of pious dream of some utopian...
"*Look in my eyes. What do you see? The Cult of Personality.*" -Living Color, "The Cult of Personality. The man called a "pygmy" by mental pygmy George W. Bush, Kim Jong Il, has died. After the boo-hooing...
*"Boehner: Let's Just Lie Some More"* by Karl Denninger "Aw, Boehner has his panties in a wad! "House Speaker John Boehner said he and fellow House Republicans oppose Senate legislation to extend through ...
[image: Velký den jeho hněvu (The Great Day of His Wrath), c. 1853, by John Martin (1789–1854)] The economy's bust, the climate's on the brink and even the arts are full of gloom. Has there ever been an...
US prepared for "Sudden Change" in North Korea since 2009. by Tony Cartalucci December 19, 2011 - The Council on Foreign Relations, a corporate-financier funded think-tank that represents the collective in...
You can decide the best Animal Story of 2011!
A LED bio-bulb would help late-night workers and long distance travelers keep their natural sleep habits intact.
Our sincere condolences on your loss. A guy like Kim Jong-Il doesn't come along every day and he'll be hard to replace. Sure you've got his pork pie kid but he's untested, unproven and, let's face it, a...
Saints 42 @ Vikings 20: Mauling at the Metrodome~Canal Street Chronicles ~now it's time to get into all the post-game coverage. Drew Brees is playing as the heart and soul of the New Orleans Saints, nothin...
THE HIDDEN EMPIRE 1. *City States.* Did the world wars, revolutions & big events of human history happen naturally or coincidentally, or were they calculated & pre-planned? If they were pre planned, w...
The left wing media bias rears its ugly head. Michael Ignatieff *proves *he's not an elitist. Stephen Haper in 2006: "*Meeting celebrities was the other guy's schtick*". Since then, he's been rather "h...
Recall the mysteries of 2011 and the ones that endure into the coming year.
*"It was the best of times. It was the worst of times." Does former RNC Chair Mike Steele know his Tolstoy or what?* *by Noah* This year I decided to keep a ragged little journal of random thoughts or obs...
12 Layer Jello is one of my favorite dishes to bring to dinners. It always gets quite the reaction from everyone who sees it and it is delicious too! You will need: A large tub of sour cream 6 small box...
Syria finally gave its agreement Monday to an Arab observer mission to monitor a deal to end nine months of bloodshed, ending weeks of prevarication that had prompted the Arab League to adopt sanctions. S...
Saab Automobile, the Swedish auto maker which filed for bankruptcy Monday after a desperate three-year fight for survival, will be missed as a once-innovative manufacturer of turbo-charged cars. The comp...
With President Obama read to sign away the freedoms of Americans by inking his name to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, opponents are already going after the lawmakers that made...
Nine Internet godfathers have taken out full-page ads in the New York Times, saying SOPA is an offer they will refuse. Founders of giants like Yahoo, eBay, Google and Netscape claim the bill will “undermin...
Tempers are fraying in austerity-racked Portugal. A top socialist politician was taped at a party dinner calling for diplomatic warfare against the EU's northern powers and issuing threats of debt default....
Christine Lagarde's blood-curdling warning of a 1930s style depression is all very well as far as it goes, but she fails to provide anything in the way of solutions. After a brief interlude in which the mu...
A rising number of children are learning about sex from watching pornography because sex education lessons are inadequate, researchers have found. The average age at which children first watch pornograph...
Iran escalated its confrontation with the United States on Thursday over the captured American spy drone launched from Afghanistan, warning the Afghan government to order a halt to such surveillance flight...
Arizona Sen. John McCain on Thursday unleashed a blistering attack against the “military-industrial-congressional complex,” leaving no service and almost no major program out of a broadside that excoriated...
Pakistan stood firm Thursday in charging that US-led forces deliberately carried out air strikes that killed 24 soldiers and led Islamabad to shut critical NATO supply routes to Afghanistan. Pakistan's em...
North Korea has reportedly conducted a short-range missile test - just hours after it revealed leader Kim Jong-il had died of heart failure aged 69. South Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted unidentified g...
The US withdrawal from Iraq will leave a power vacuum in the Gulf, analysts say, paving the way for Iran to increase its influence in this economic and politically strategic region, a concern echoed by Ame...
Iran is to insert its first domestically produced uranium fuel into its Tehran reactor by mid-February, Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said in comments published by the IRNA state news agency on Thursda...
Many of the animal species at risk of extinction in the United States have not made it onto the country's official Endangered Species Act (ESA) list, according to new research from the University of Adelai...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture released a document yesterday that got no attention on the nightly news, or almost anywhere, really. Its title, I'm sure you'll agree, is a snooze: National Nutrient Mana...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture released a document yesterday that got no attention on the nightly news, or almost anywhere, really. Its title, I'm sure you'll agree, is a snooze: National Nutrient Mana...
South Korea on Thursday unveiled a home-made interceptor missile designed to counter North Korean ballistic missiles and fighter jets. The new Iron Hawk-II surface-to-air missile, with a range of up to 40 ...
Afghan territory should not be used in a proxy war between the United States and Iran, President Hamid Karzai said Wednesday after the Islamic republic captured a US drone. Karzai was speaking in Kabul af...
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 98.2 km (61 miles), the quake hit at 11:12:50 UTC Monday 19th December 2011. The epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) NNW of ...
Total European defense expenditures will total about $280 billion by 2015 as a result of the continent's economic troubles, a report says. The prediction by market intelligence and analysis firm Forecast ...
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak called for "strong" measures to protect the country's coast guard sailors during the crackdown on illegal fishing by Chinese boats. This could mean more equipment and ...
A Japanese journalist who worked at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant this summer claimed Thursday that Japan's yakuza crime syndicates were involved in supplying clean-up crews. "Roughly ten percent o...
*Scientists have assembled a remarkable record of water value in the Thames that stretches reverse larger than 140 days. Over the 140 years of the new time series, this nitrogen part of river chemistry is...
Over the past 10 years, the death of forest trees due to drought and increased temperatures has been documented on all continents except Antarctica. This can in turn drive global warming by reducing the...
Congressional negotiators struck a deal Thursday that overturns the new rules that were to have banned sales of traditional incandescent light bulbs beginning next year. That agreement is tucked inside t...
A group of prominent architects of the Internet added their voices Thursday to those opposing legislation in the US Congress intended to crack down on online piracy. In an open letter to Congress, more t...
A sinus-flushing device used to relieve colds and allergies has been linked to a deadly brain-eating amoeba. Louisiana's state health department issued a warning about neti pots - which look like mini wat...
*Engineers have created a marvelous element coating that causes cotton materials to clean themselves of stains and remove odours when exposed to daylight. The stuff is previously used in self-cleaning wi...
US mayors sounded an alarm Thursday over deepening economic woes after a survey of 29 cities from Los Angeles to Washington showed worrying rises in homelessness and poverty-related food aid. "Here is th...
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...
Prosecutors in New York on Thursday accused three Lebanese financial institutions of money laundering that benefited the militant group Hezbollah, and they demanded forfeitures and penalties totaling hundr...
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...
Uncertainty over the future of the eurozone runs high, despite last week’s high-on-hot-air agreement on moving towards greater fiscal union. And that uncertainty is driving European banks into a severe liq...
Looking back, I couldn’t have been more than 14 when my mother announced that she was cancelling Christmas – or at least Christmas presents. ‘Your father is sick, there is no money coming in and we can’t ...
*A Game of shade has topped the US and Canada box office in a slow weekend of takings in Sherlock Holmes. In compare, Sherlock Holmes 2 and Alvin and the Chipmunks 3 played in more than 3,700 cinemas both....
*I can guess or give you facts. Here is a fact. The FBI was responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing. * *Why? They had been turned into radical extremists when they had seen the militia movement take on...
How to deal with the rising cost of running your factory? Get rid of all those inefficient humans and hire robots instead. Citing labor shortage and rising wages Hon Hai, the world’s largest contract elect...
Now that 94 percent of the soy and 70 percent of the corn grown in the U.S. are genetically modified, Monsanto -- one of the companies that dominates the GMO seed market -- might look to some like it's win...
A sudden change of weather in Moscow and in the Moscow region has caused several car accidents with tragic outcomes. Ten people have been killed in the accidents, about 30 were hospitalized. A snowstorm ...
Apple Inc supplier Pegatron Corp reported an explosion at a subsidiary's plant in Shanghai over the weekend that it said had injured 61 workers, the latest in a series of incidents that have spotlighted s...
*ABOUT 600 people have been evacuated from their workplaces after a gas leak at a hot bread shop in Sydney's south. * Firefighters were called to Diment Way in Hurstville about 2.20pm today after police ...
Nealy 50 families from Tshikhwarani, Manavhela, Muduluni and Madodonga in the Kutama area were left stranded last Thursday afternoon, when a big storm, accompanied by rain, damaged their homes and uprooted...
The Philippines prepared for mass burials of flash-flood victims Monday to minimise the health risk from rotting cadavers after a disaster that has left many hundreds dead or missing. Hard-pressed author...
Farmers have been worried after an unknown disease killed cattle in Chauthe and Kumari VDCs of Nuwakot district. Around 30 cattle in Biruwatar, Dandagau, Phalamechaur of Kumari and Chauthe, Gaurikharka, M...
Brazil's environmental authorities said they have discovered a 10,000 liter leak at an oil platform in the pristine Bay of Ilha Grande, the second such mishap to threaten this country's shorelines in recen...
Two teenagers have been arrested over the stabbing of a ticket inspector on a C2C train in Essex. A 19-year-old and 17-year-old were arrested in Tilbury on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm and t...
Residents of the Southwest are bracing for a blizzard to kick off the holiday week with heavy snows, strong winds and icy roads that could make driving across the region dangerous. The snow is forecast t...
Tropical Storm Washi moved away from the southern Philippines early Monday, but not before leaving behind a wake of destruction and at least 652 people dead, according to the Philippine Red Cross. Ther...
Thousands of Palestinians celebrated the release Sunday night of 550 inmates from Israeli prisons, part of the second phase of the deal that won the freedom of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. The ...
Hope appeared to fade Monday for finding more survivors from a boat that sank off the coast of Indonesia over the weekend. At least 218 people, and possibly as many as 248, were on board, said Sutopo Pur...
Pro-democracy demonstrators battled Egyptian police for a third straight day Sunday, their anger stoked by images of a military police officer stomping on a woman's exposed stomach over the weekend. Th...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck the Queen Charlotte Islands Region, Canada at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:12:48 UTC Monday 19th December 2011. The epicenter was 170 km (105 mile...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck the Gulf of Alaska at a depth of 12.5 km (7.8 miles), the quake hit at 07:46:22 UTC Monday 19th December 2011. The epicenter was 104 km (65 miles) ESE of Chiniak, Alask...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 45.1 km (28 miles), the quake hit at 07:01:48 UTC Monday 19th December 2011. The epicenter was 113 km (70 miles) SSE of M...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Central Peru at a depth of 66.9 km (41.6 miles), the quake hit at 05:38:00 UTC Monday 19th December 2011. The epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) East of ...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands at a depth of 29.4 km (18.3 miles), the quake hit at 05:32:15 UTC Monday 19th December 2011. The epicenter was 164 km (101 miles) East of Raoul Is...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Jujuy, Argentina at a depth of 184.7 km (114.8 miles), the quake hit at 05:24:48 UTC Monday 19th December 2011. The epicenter was 72 km (44 miles) Northwest of San Anto...
Yet another impossible dictatorfor life has succumbed to natural causes. Huge uncertainty and the resultant huge opportunity once again will playout their dance. The countries outrightfailure has been...
posted by Robin Horbury at
Biased BBC - 14 hours ago
Richard Black is the man most obviously at the delivery end of the BBC's deeply biased approach to greenie reporting, as readers of this blog well know. This post unusually requires going back in time be...
The extensive military basesystem has provided a form of ecological refugia that has not been timbered offor even cleared and farmed. In way, theyare unplanned parks that do serve to protect and this ...
I have posted on and also reviewedindividual sightings that appeared to be some type of pterosaur. In fact there seems to be a wealth of typesand indicated within that family description. Here are som...
I am not so sure that the major constituentof a comet is water. It is more likelyto be a cocktail of frozen gases including water and plenty of elementalcarbon. This provides a plausibly muchmore surv...
At the center of our galaxy resides an invisible monster -- let's take a closer look.
North Korea's state news agency called the dead leader's son, Kim Jong Un, the "great successor."
- 'First study of this size to focus exclusively on women of child-bearing age' [image: A study found those who have fish-rich diets could cut their risk of heart attack or stroke by 90 per...
- Starch-rich diet linked to new tumours developing - Refined carbohydrates, such as white breads and white pasta, contain more starch than whole grains [image: Eating cereal, bread and p...
It is news that could be sweet music to the ears of record companies. Scientists may have unlocked the secret of what can make a single hit the top five. A team at the University of Bristol have come u...
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CENSORED NEWS - 15 hours ago
*Anonymous exposes Congressmen for NDAA: * *Anonymous says the link with Congressional exposures has had nearly 40,000 hit.* *Anonymous targets the Congressmen who advocated the NDAA, National Defense Au...
"Not long ago, if you wanted to seize political power in a country," wrote Italian philosopher and novelist Umberto Eco in his 1967 essay, Towards a Semiological Guerrilla Warfare, "you had merely to contr...
A man has been charged with murder and arson after a woman was burned to death in a lift in her New York apartment building. Jerome Isaac, 47, allegedly sprayed Deloris Gillespie, 73, with a flammable li...
He’s rough on the gridiron, and now he’s under investigation for being rough in his home. New York Giants linebacker Michael Boley is under investigation for repeatedly abusing his five-year-old son this ...
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 two-month payroll tax extension 89-10, after Boehner reportedly gave McConnell his proxy to negotiate a deal. Purists on each side of the aisle voted NO-- Bernie Sandler and Jim...
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...
posted by leftdog at
Buckdog - 17 hours 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...
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CENSORED NEWS - 21 hours ago
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...
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Biased BBC - 23 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 - 1 day 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...
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Buckdog - 1 day 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...
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*Belhaj of the CIA.* The CIA's Libyan fighters, led by Libya's Abdel Hakim Belhaj, are on the Turkish-Syrian border. (Islam Times - Belhaj on Syria's border with Turkey.) The Free Syrian Army is trying t...
Victoria, Argentina: UFOs, Bridges and the Unexplained By Silvia Pérez Simondini, Vision OVNI The passing of the years has not caused the UFO phenomenon to dwindle at all over Victoria. Quit...
On Native America Calling today, Russell Means describes beating cancer. Russell describes the prayers from all over the world and thanks his children for the prayers and ceremonies from Lakota, Navajo an...
I just returned from a lecture and it was much more amazing than I expected. *Click for more pictures with the same guy.* My bank has organized a public lecture for clients who are not just generic thou...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 40 km (24.8 miles), the quake hit at 17:24:47 UTC Monday 19th December 2011. The epicenter was 11 km (6.8 miles) West of ...
Renowned torture enthusiast and perennial Israel apologist Alan Dershowitz is in Tel Aviv this week attending an annual business conference sponsored by *Globes* and, as usual, has been busy equivocating f...
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