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A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Kodiak Island Region,
Alaska at a depth of 16.9 km (10.5 miles), the quake hit at 19:13:46
UTC Wednesday 21st December 2011. The epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) SSW...
*Ian Hurst, former spook.* Most terrorists work for the security services.
Lord Stevens, a former
UK police chief, is quoted as saying that *only three out of 210 terrorist suspects he arrested in a pr...
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Contact: Tom Weis, President, Climate Crisis Solutions, 303-378-1364 (mobile) tom@climatecrisissolutions.com *
TARSANDS: The "Tour of Resistance,” with support from Lakotas and other Native Americans, end...
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Buckdog - 56 minutes ago
*Security
cameras caught this Christmas delivery of a computer monitor!*
Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA), Europe’s largest oil company, shut its 200,000 barrel-a-day Bonga field off Nigeria after oil leaked during a tanker loading. An export line from the field’s floating produc...
A wooden ferry carrying people home for the Christmas holidays sank Wednesday in stormy weather in eastern Indonesia, officials said. Most of the 100 passengers were rescued, they said. Four bodies were ...
An intense hail storm in the Ladysmith area has damaged vehicles and made for treacherous driving conditions along the N3. Motorist Roger Ramseier, who was en route to Bethlehem when the storm hit yesterd...
Roger Erikson of the National Weather Service confirmed to the Southwest Daily News that a tornado touched down in DeQuincy late Tuesday morning. "We had a storm, and we saw it on the radar, Erikson said. ...
This goes along with my last post *What is this a sign of: While half of Americans have descended into poor/low income, congress only puts effort into writing deceptively titled un-Constitutional legislati...
Piles of dead crows, possibly hundreds of them, have been found at Mesilla Valley Bosque State Park. Members of the Mesilla Valley Audubon Society reported Tuesday the stack of dead birds discovered duri...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration today declared the recent deaths of ringed seals in the Arctic and Bering Strait regions of Alaska an unusual mortality event, triggering a focused, expe...
TERNATE, Cavite - A dead buntanding (whale shark) was found on the shore of a barangay (village) in this town, police said yesterday. It was the first time that a lifeless butanding was discovered on the...
*A Requiem for Prudence* On Monday, we lost a dear friend. Prudence was “just” a dog, an 18 year-old beagle who has been a part of our family for what seems like forever. Our youngest son Arthur was only...
A pygmy sperm whale has washed up on a North Side beach overnight. The dead, 14-feet long whale was discovered in the morning hours of Wednesday, 21 December, on the beach at Northern Lights condos near Ol...
Four teenagers have been jailed for life for murdering a pupil outside the gates of his school. Zac Olumegbon, 15, from Brixton, south London, was stabbed to death in front of Park Campus School in West ...
Lt. John Pike, who was photographed pepper spraying passive protesters at U.C. Davis, is shown here doing the deed in Andrew Wyeth's "Christina's World." Graphic by Brady Hall / Pepper Spraying Cop /
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*House Republicans stiff attempt from Democrats to call up Senate payroll bill* By Pete Kasperowicz - 12/21/11 10:14 AM ET House Republicans blocked a Democratic attempt Wednesday to call up the Senat...
A young galaxy has been spotted at the very edge of our observable Universe, thought to be one of the first galaxies to emerge from the "dark ages."
Two Earth-sized worlds are seen orbiting a burned-out star, defying theories about the ultimate fate of planets.
Police in the UK are trying to identify hundreds of young victims of an internet child abuser. Children as young as 12 are thought to have been targeted by man arrested in Kuwait. Many were forced to pe...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Potosi, Bolivia at a depth of 208.6 km (129.6 miles), the quake hit at 16:54:52 UTC Wednesday 21st December 2011. The epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) WSW of Tupiza, Bol...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 7 km (4.3 miles), the quake hit at 17:07:03 UTC Wednesday 21st December 2011. The epicenter was 31 km (19.2 miles) Northwest of Van, Turkey...
Soldiers who just returned from Iraq are among several thousand being ordered to Afghanistan in six months as part of a mission designed to beef up Afghan forces ahead of a planned 2014 U.S. military withd...
An Iranian-American man held on spying charges in Iran must be tried there, the spokesman for a key parliamentary committee said Wednesday, according to the semi-official Mehr news agency. "The America...
Gibson and Boehner are both drunken right-wing slobs. That's about as close to Braveheart as the congressional Republicans are going to manage to get. Unless David Dreier, Patrick McHenry and Aaron Schock...
US State Department now races to find a new home for US State Department-listed terrorist organization. by Tony Cartalucci December 21, 2011 - In a move that almost defies belief, is so brazen and hypocr...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck South of Panama at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:36:00 UTC Wednesday 21st December 2011. The epicenter was 107 km (66 miles) SSE of David, Panama No...
The Hong Kong government said Wednesday that more than 17,000 chickens were being culled at a poultry market after a chicken carcass tested positive for avian flu. The territory's Director of Agriculture...
[image: Image of a Japan neighborhood before and after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. Google's Memories for the Future, an interactive website that allows users to scroll through Street View ima...
Sweden's prime minister wants two Swedish journalists who were found guilty Wednesday of supporting terrorism in Ethiopia to be freed and returned home as soon as possible, saying they were on a "journalis...
A Russian rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, with a crew of three bound for the International Space Station. The Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft carries U.S. astronaut D...
[image: Seth Shteir, a field representative for the National Parks Conservation Association, points out features in the Mojave National Preserve near Kelso, Calif., in this 19 October 2011 photo. By tapp...
The death toll in the Philippines from a tropical storm that struck the south of the country over the weekend has risen above 1,000, a government official said Wednesday. The number of dead has increased...
Japanese officials unveiled a decades-long plan Wednesday to decommission the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, where reactor cooling systems failed after the country's devastating earthquake ...
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki warned the county's Kurdish government Wednesday that it is responsible for handing over Iraq's vice president to the judiciary in Baghdad, part of a controversy portend...
Go to NewtGingrich.com for the latest on the most dysfunctional presidential campaign ever. Go back often, report the results (My personal favorite is the Tiffany's ad). How, after all this time and after...
The son of Libya's former dictator Moammar Gadhafi, Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, should have immediate access to a lawyer, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday. Libyan government officials appear to be treating hi...
* * *Greetings, Citizens of the World,* The internet is in danger of an oppressive new law that will allow the Federal Government of the United States to shut down, arrest, fine and prosecute any website...
In China, companies hire paid Internet posters to trash-talk each other in cutthroat competition.
A train passenger dubbed "Big Man", whose confrontation with a fellow passenger featured in a viral YouTube video, has been charged with assault. Alan Pollock, 35, was shown apparently removing 19-year-old...
Or can you? [Please accept my heartfelt thanks for the support you've given to my blog this year (or any other). It's been a particularly difficult economic time in my life, and I want to thank my friends ...
[image: White dots indicate documented localities with forest mortality related to climatic stress from drought and high temperatures. Background map shows potential environmental limits to vegetation ne...
[image: Methane bubbling up from beneath a lake bed near Fairbanks, Alaska. Josh Haner / The New York Times] By JUSTIN GILLIS 20 December 2011 In my article over the weekend about the climate risks from...
Chelsea and England captain John Terry will face charges over allegations he racially abused another player. The player will appear in court on February 1 following the decision by the Crown Prosecution ...
North Korea has tightened security in cities, put troops on alert and won loyalty pledges from top generals after leader Kim Jong Il's death as it consolidates power behind his anointed heir, South Korean ...
Two top scientific journals said Tuesday they were mulling whether to publish details of a man-made mutant killer flu virus.
Fear, information control, personality disorders play a role in keeping a people under a tight grip, experts say.
[image: A man walks along Lake Travis after water receded during a drought in Austin, Texas 10 September 2011. Joshua Lott / Reuters] By Jim Forsyth; Editing by Corrie MacLaggan and Greg McCune 20 Decemb...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 201.6 km (125.3 miles), the quake hit at 13:59:44 UTC Wednesday 21st December 2011. The epicenter was 70 km (43 miles)...
Gingrich a "Distinguished Advisor" at Think-Tank Where Ron Paul Attacks Originated. by Tony Cartalucci December 21, 2011 - GOP presidential contender Newt Gingrich, a corporate-financier sponsored Counc...
Which evolved first -- heads or tails? Heads win, suggests new research.
"The sun was about to have its eye put out by the murdering moon." -- Dark Nantucket Noon
Which story is your favorite: trade secrets, neanderthals or unlucky inventors?
The new crew will restore a full staff of six to the space station.
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wmtc - 5 hours ago
One of my favourite comedies has always been "The Burns and Allen Show," the old TV vehicle for the comedy team of Gracie Allen and George Burns. The show's entire run (1950-1958) was finished before I w...
The European Central Bank has announced its biggest ever liquidity operation, worth almost half a trillion euros, to shore up confidence in the eurozone and its cash-starved banks. It made 489 billion eur...
A deadly strain of bird flu with the potential to infect and kill millions of people has been created in a laboratory by European scientists – who now want to publish full details of how they did it. The...
The 63-foot Sierra White Fir lighted at the U.S. Capitol Grounds on Dec. 6 as the official 2011 Capitol Christmas Tree includes a prominently displayed ornament paying homage to President Barack Obama, but...
Members of a close knit Amish community gathered Saturday night to mourn the death of a 15-year-old girl, who was shot to death under circumstances that are shrouded in mystery. David Zuercher, a friend...
Take a break from traditional stuffing by forming it into balls. These portion-sized balls are great for entertaining at parties and quick serving at Thanksgiving or Christmas. You will need: 1 loa...
FedEx has vowed to track down the deliveryman who was caught on video carelessly tossing a computer monitor over a fence during a delivery. Company spokeswoman Shea Leordeanu would not say what would be...
The United States Coast Guard has scaled back the maximum number of passengers allowed on a given ferry, resulting in a lower maximum capacity rate for commercial vessels such as the Savannah Belles Ferry....
In today's news there is curious reporting regarding the US government "asking" medical journals not to publish the details surrounding the creation of a deadly strain of H5N1. You may recall I put this po...
It's been 30 years since gasoline took such a big bite out of the family budget. When the gifts from Grandma are unloaded and holiday travel is over, the typical American household will have spent $4,155 ...
We got an incredible response to the story we first told you last night about the local family, the death of their father and the change fee from an airline. This story was viewed more than 100,000 times o...
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck South of the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand at a depth of 27.6 km (17.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:37:18 UTC Wednesday 21st December 2011. The epicenter was 442 km (27...
A Queens man is very upset after trying to put his trash out for collection and ending up with a ticket. He, and others, are getting snared in an enforcement of a law that few people even know exists. ...
As 2011 winds down, it's time to pick a Calgary Grit Person of the Year for the 8th consecutive year. The criteria is simple - someone who made an impact on the Canadian political scene in 2011. While I u...
*Walmart eyes NYC, Keith O's back on the air, a "civics literacy test"?, the Civil War rages, the Great Sharia Panic, and more* *Jimmy McMillan, of the Rent Is Too Damn High Party, showed up at CPAC to an...
Residents of a blockaded southern Chinese village canceled a protest march after winning concessions from the highest-ranking official yet to intervene in a two-week standoff over land and the death of a l...
A father who used his 9-year-old daughter as a designated driver in a Detroit suburb pleaded guilty Monday to second-degree child abuse and allowing an unlicensed minor to operate a motor vehicle, authorit...
The Japanese coast guard said Tuesday that it had chased down and arrested a Chinese fisherman it found in waters near southern Japanese islands, taking his boat into custody. Encounters between Chinese ...
In Portugal's second city, Porto, crowds throng the main shopping streets, accompanied by the smell of roasting chestnuts and the twinkle of festive lights. Bacalhau, the dried, salted codfish traditionall...
Mohamed Bouazizi's self-immolation one year ago was an act which symbolized the frustration and desperation of millions in the Arab world, setting into motion a series of revolutions across the Middle East...
The death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has raised a number of questions about the future of the totalitarian state, and while it's difficult to predict the future of such an isolated and secretive co...
The Philippine government shipped more than 400 coffins Tuesday to two flood-stricken cities in the south where the death toll neared 1,000 as President Benigno Aquino declared a state of national calamity...
Fighting in hockey should be stopped because it leads to head trauma that causes progressive brain damage, says an editorial in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. "The tragic story of Sidney Crosb...
Troops from Djibouti have arrived in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, to bolster the 10,000-strong African Union (AU) force battling Islamist militants. It is just the third country to contribute to the AU ...
Sweden has cut interest rates for the first time since July 2009, blaming the eurozone debt crisis. The main interest rate was cut by 25 basis points to 1.75%. "The weak development of the economy in the...
French authorities say they will decide this week whether to ask 30,000 women given a potentially defective type of breast implant to have them removed. Earlier reports said a decision to call for remova...
Rivalry between the New Orleans Saints and the Atlanta Falcons is reaching a boiling point ~Mike Triplett Vieux Carre Commission battle over crime camera goes to a draw Corps can do better flood managemen...
The outpouring of grief in North Korea after the passing of Kim Jong-il has been fervent and widespread. So are the people sincerely feeling this loss or are they behaving as they think they should? The ...
Although there has been no official confirmation, all the indications are that Kim Jong-un, the youngest son, will take over from his father as leader of North Korea. But as these examples show, the transf...
Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila's victory in the 28 November election is fragile and contested. His swearing-in ceremony is scheduled for Tuesday. But main opposition leader Etienne ...
Police should be given clear rules about when they can use water cannon and plastic bullets against rioters, a watchdog has said. But officers could lawfully have shot arsonists in some cases during the ...
Scrambling over rubble, Hamid Mishri picks his way through what is left of his house. Not much. Something catches the elderly man's eye. "Grad rocket," he says with a weary look, as he bends down to pick...
* * *Editor's note: After Kim Jong Il's death brought tears in North Korea and caused concern for South Korea, we're taking a look at the secretive nation from the view of those who have traveled there....
*Editor's Note:*** North Korea's enigmatic leader Kim Jong Il - who, after succeeding his father 17 years ago, captained his poor, closed nation and antagonized its enemies - is dead, state media reporte...
Wall Street's Shinawatra and Aung San Suu Kyi pledge mutual support. by Tony Cartalucci December 21, 2011 - AFP reported that Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra met with and pledged full support for Aung San Suu...
North Korea's government was famously accused in 2002 by U.S. President George W. Bush of helping terrorism and seeking weapons of mass destruction, along with fellow "axis of evil" countries, Iran and I...
A new autonomous robot is inspired by the swarming skills of insects, birds and fish.
A titanosaurus lived 70 million years ago in Antarctica. Look out penguins!
Photo courtesy: Wikipedia/CC BY 2.0 Brominated vegetable oil is patented as a flame retardant and it's banned in food all over Europe and Japan, but it's on the ingredient list of about 10 percent of soda...
All photos courtesy: treehugger.com In mid-November, the members of the Greenspeed club headed to the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah to put their Chevy pickup truck to the test. Stripped of all aesthetics...
Curcumin, a natural substance used to make turmeric, a chief ingredient in curry sauces, has been shown to be effective in reducing cancerous tumors. (Photos.com)via theepochtimes.com While researchers ar...
Watching 'SpongeBob' adversely affected kids concentration, learning, and problem-solving. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images) via theepochtimes.com Four-year-olds’ ability to concentrate, learn, and solve...
Children playing outside in the sunshine. Photo courtesy: theepochtimes.com Parents now have another reason to shoo their kids outdoors to play, along with making sure they get enough fresh air and exercis...
There are some things we, as humans, do without thinking of the possible consequences of our actions. I have gathered a few no-nos; and, the reason they are more dangerous than you think. 1. Releasing he...
. *Sometimes the obvious needs stating.* If or, rather (it appears), when Iran's nuclear sites are attacked we know that the consequences will be dreadful for Iranians and probably everyone else on the ...
Kepler has spotted small worlds orbiting close to their stars and other worlds orbiting inside habitable zones -- when will the discovery of a bona fide Earth-like exoplanet be announced?
Under the article about Dirac's book on quantum mechanics, A.S. Maier remarked that Feynman's thesis deserves a similar extended review. And I agree with him, indeed! The thesis was published as a book ...
A trail of dark-suited officials was shown on national television marching solemnly into the Olympus's downtown Tokyo office building. Japanese prosecutors raided the headquarters of Olympus and the home o...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Crete, Greece at a depth of 109 km (67.6 miles), the quake hit at 09:43:48 UTC Wednesday 21st December 2011. The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) Northeast of Análipsis, ...
A policeman in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, was burned alive Tuesday by unknown attackers in front of several witnesses who saw him writhing in agony as he died. The killing was the 33rd of a municipal police ...
*Curtis LeMay, the 'Nazi' general who wanted acts of terrorism in the USA. * During the Second World War, the UK lost 0.94% of its population, France lost 1.35%, China lost 1.89% and the US lost 0.32%. Du...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 583.9 km (362.8 miles), the quake hit at 09:21:12 UTC Wednesday 21st December 2011. The epicenter was 170 km (105 miles) Northeast of Ndo...
Two Swedish journalists charged with terrorism in Ethiopia will hear their verdict Wednesday, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. If they are found guilty they could face up to 15 years in p...
Residents of the southern Chinese village of Wukan held talks with government officials on Wednesday to try to defuse a tense standoff with the authorities following violent protests over land rights. Mo...
As Gen. Martin Dempsey toured around the globe over the last eight days, one issue was prominent -- Iran's nuclear intentions. Dempsey, in an exclusive interview with CNN, warned that Iran is playing a d...
U.N. war-crimes prosecutors are leaving an investigation into the death of ousted Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi to Libyan authorities for now, they said Tuesday. Gadhafi's daughter Aisha pressed the I...
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Biased BBC - 10 hours ago
Wonder what you make of this story on the BBC news portal concerning the decision by a South American trading bloc *to close its ports to ships flying the Falkland Islands flag.* Mercosur, which includes ...
Egypt's ruling military council Tuesday expressed "great regret" to Egyptian women over recent attacks on female demonstrators by military police and vowed to hold accountable those responsible. Days of ...
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Biased BBC - 10 hours ago
You have to admire Trevor Kavanagh, associate editor of The Sun, for really putting it to the BBC. Listen to this - it's not so much about bias in the item itself but rather about how the BBC itself has li...
Syria has tested its military's ability to "repulse any aggression the enemies of our nations might think about", the country's state media has said. Its air force, air defence units and naval forces hav...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Volcano Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 5.9 km (3.7 miles), the quake hit at 08:20:29 UTC Wednesday 21st December 2011. The epicenter was 291 km (181 miles) SS...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Galapos Triple Junction Region at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 05:33:19 UTC Wednesday 21st December 2011. The epicenter was 1229 km (763 miles) S...
* 2005 : William Cohen, Anwar Ibrahim and Paul Wolfowitz * Prosperous, peaceful 'Moslem countries', like Malaysia, are not popular with the CIA and its friends. On 20 December 2011, we learn that China an...
"That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is *the* miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life; he transcends himself...
In the end, endlessly gaming thesystem has actually backfired. Theoriginal constitution was specifically designed to preserve the position of theCommunist party then attempting to hang on to power. O...
We are steadily getting better atplanet detection and these are the first earth approximate objectsobserved. Such Planets if situated inthe habitable zone are obviously prospective for a living biosph...
This is welcome news. It appears that improving independent incomesglobally are accelerating the outright abandonment of marginal agriculturallands and a concomitant restoration of former forestlands....
Linking this to anything ispremature. We do not know if this iseven a new event. Besides, a reductionin the sea ice should have no impact deep in the ocean bed itself. Even a noticeably warmer layer...
*Protection charities and scientists are beginning a research project to discover whether birdsong has any impact on human’s mental well being.* The project will involve laboratory and playing field rese...
*The first Earth-sized planets have detected, have detected by astronomers which are orbiting a star similar to our own Sun.Dr .Francois Fressin of the Harvard-Smithsonian centre for Astrophysics in Cambr...
Last week, leading Republican candidate Ron Paul spoke on the Alex Jones radio show about his presidential campaign, his solutions for America's problems, and his views about the 2012 National Defense Auth...
*Singer Lady Gaga has been the victim of a targeted attack on her Twitter and Facebook accounts. The singer often refers to her fans as monsters suggesting the cut was purposely targeted at the singer - ...
*"The Invitation" * "It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing. It doesn't interest me how old you are. I...
*"The 1,700-Foot Tsunami That Struck Alaska in 1958"* by Casey Kazan "On the night of July 7th, 1958, the world’s largest wave in recorded history engorged Alaska's Lituya bay, located about 250 miles west...
*“5 Things You Should Realize About Fear”* by Declan O Flaherty *“1.* Thoughts motivated by fear are based around an imaginary reality. We don’t know for sure that an outcome is going to happen the way o...
*"One Day"* "One day I will say the gift I once had has been taken. The place I have made for myself belongs to another. The words I have sung are being sung by the ones I would want. Then I will be read...
“NGC 253 is not only one of the brightest spiral galaxies visible, it is also one of the dustiest. Discovered in 1783 by Caroline Herschel in the constellation of Sculptor, NGC 253 lies only about ten mill...
"We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implante...
Whilst many Americans are dreaming of a white Christmas, they probably didn’t want it like this. Fierce winds and snow that caused fatal road accidents and shut highways in five states are crawling deeper...
If you believe the Mayans, there is only one year left until the end of the world on December 21, 2012 - and Mexico is cashing in. While some doomsday theorists may suggest putting together survival kits,...
Infomercial veteran Kevin Trudeau has been slapped with a $38 million fine after allegedly scamming customers for decades. Trudeau, 48, has made millions flogging what he claims are natural cures for ser...
*From the website of the Ben & Jerry's Scoop Shop at Broadway and 104th Street in Manhattan -- you should definitely click to enlarge, to understand what the fuss is about.* *by Ken* This falls under the...
Up to 10,000 women took to the streets of Cairo yesterday to protest against the horrific abuse by soldiers. They were surrounded by a cordon of male protesters as they marched through the centre of Egypt...
The French government is to foot the bill for tens of thousands of women to have their breast implants removed, amid fears they are at a heightened risk of cancer. But a similar number of British women w...
A landmark deal to resolve the bitter public sector pensions dispute descended into shambles last night – just hours after ministers declared victory. Unions representing local government workers pulled o...
A toddler was beaten to death a month after he returned home to the parents whose abuse led to him being in hospital. Two-year-old Joshua Jones, from Runcorn, Cheshire, died on November 6, 2007. His mothe...
Note: Sounds to me they have found a way to force the UK to hand over Billions AGAIN for the Euro Bailout Fund. George Osborne was last night rocked by a warning that Britain could be stripped of its gold...
* "Not A Single Sparrow Falls" * by Chet Raymo "If you don't know this painting don't read beyond this first paragraph until you have examined it closely. The painting is titled "Landscape with the Fall...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Izu Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 33.3 km (20.7 miles), the quake hit at 03:04:06 UTC Wednesday 21st December 2011. The epicenter was 214 km (132 miles) Sout...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Eastern Honshu, Japan at a depth of 62.5 km (38.8 miles), the quake hit at 02:06:53 UTC Wednesday 21st December 2011. The epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) East of Moriok...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of just 1 km (0.6 miles - Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 23:37:56 UTC Tuesday 20th December 2011. The epicenter was 107 k...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck offshore El Salvador at a depth of 63.1 km (39.2 miles), the quake hit at 22:53:01 UTC Tuesday 20th December 2011. The epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) SSE of Acajutla, ...
Those with the most to lose: Warmongering corporate fascists. by Tony Cartalucci December 21, 2011 - From the remorseless liars that brought America into the Iraq War, have kept the US mired in Afghanista...
A social and evolutionary theory of human disease and chronic painBy Denis G. RancourtWe like to nurture a species self-image where we are radically different from ants and bees. The idea goes like this. Ant...
This is *only going to grow*. At least 25 current and former female RCMP officers are seeking to join a possible class-action lawsuit against the force for alleged mistreatment on the job, a lawyer invol...
*"One Percent To 99: Stop Picking On Us" * by Jason Linkins "According to Bloomberg today, what the major banks and the gentlemen who run them want for Christmas is for everyone to stop persecuting them w...
Good afternoon, everybody. It is no secret that there hasn’t been an abundance of partisanship in Washington this year. And that’s why what happened on Saturday was such a big deal. Nearly the entire Sen...
Ankara, Turkey. Thanks for stopping by.
"When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight it concentrates his mind wonderfully." - Samuel Johnson
*"14,000 U.S. Deaths Tied To Fukushima Reactor Disaster Fallout"* by PRNewswire "An estimated 14,000 excess deaths in the United States are linked to the radioactive fallout from the disaster at the Fukus...
*Kseniya Simonova winner of Ukraine's Got Talent (wtf?) tells a story in sand of the bloody-thirsty oppression of The Christian Ukraine by the filthy yiddish satanic communist khazarian hordes of greedy t...
It's always sunny in low-Earth orbit, so what better place to look for a source of solar energy?
MSNBC: White House: There's no sign of E.T. or UFO cover-up. (November 7, 2011). Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Author Richard Dolan on Coast to Coast AM on Nov...
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CENSORED NEWS - 19 hours ago
MEDIA ADVISORY *Fracking protesters to go to Court* *Posted at Censored News* *http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com* The three women who were arrested by the Blood Tribe Police for preventing a column of tru...
*Hamlet:* “I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.” - William Shakespeare, “Hamlet” (2.2.28)
MIDI commands an AirPort Express and allow Siri to "play" this piano.
We know how to buy digital gifts, but we still don't know how to wrap them as presents.
*“Power Corrupts…”* by Bill Bonner "This is the last in a series. We began by wondering how come some people get to boss other people around… We’re not talking about wives and husbands or employees and t...
*Cameron & Clegg, match made in hell-- at least for the British people* Yesterday some of us may have been thinking about all the snot-nosed little Republican shits who are *just* like Conservative Parliam...
Old St. Nick has a new way to get in touch with him compliments of Google Voice.
*Mark Boslough's most damning criticism of the deniers: they have no shared defining ideology and motivation!* Mark Boslough is ironically employed as a *scientist* in New Mexico. His most significant con...
*"Hoyer: 'None Of Us Has Read' the $1 Trillion Spending Bill"* "I rise in strong support of this bill. I urge my colleagues to support this piece of legislation. *None of them have read it. Not one of us...
*"Is This How Liberty Dies?"* by Karl Denninger "On Thursday, December 15 - the 220th anniversary of the Bill of Rights - Congress passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which can be used ...
*"10 Ways The U.S. Gov't Has Destroyed Its * *Own Declaration Of Independence"* By ActivistPost "The irony cannot be escaped that a country that issued a document codifying independence for free citizens,...
Five people, including two children, perished when a small plane plummeted into the middle of one of New Jersey's busiest highways, exploding violently as it crashed to the ground. Jeffrey Buckalew, 45, a...
A pair of cruel youths wished a bloody homeless man 'Merry Christmas' after brutally beating him and stealing his bicycle near the New Jersey shore. Police tracked down and arrested 20-year-old Taylor Gir...
The worlds are a part of a "jam-packed" star system called Kepler-20 where rocky and gaseous planets co-mingle.
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Barat Daya, Indonesia at a depth of 266.6 km (165.7 miles), the quake hit at 18:45:35 UTC Tuesday 20th December 2011. The epicenter was 265 km (165 miles) No...
A rocky planet the same size as the Earth has been discovered orbiting a star like our sun. It is the first time a planet of this size has been detected in another solar system. Scientists have hailed the...
By: Duane Craig Sanford, Florida, has the dubious distinction of having not one, but two high level contaminated sites within its boundaries, and one of those is sending its pollution closer to Lake Monro...
This is the scene of carnage left in the wake of a sick joyrider who deliberately ploughed his 4x4 into a flock of heavily-pregnant sheep. Devastated farmer Chris Sargent, 29, found the mangled bodies of 1...
Getting back to Syria... I find this NYT's article interesting. "Syrians find creativity in uprising" I find the hand of PR firms in these forms of protests that are made for television. Made for the vide...
Syrian forces have been accused of perpetrating one of the deadliest massacres of the country's nine-month uprising after scores of soldiers were mown down by machine-gun fire as they attempted a mass dese...
How predictable-- and how predicted by virtually everyone following the GOP sitcom-- that the Newtster wouldn't last long at the top of the heap. Whether you're of the thought that it was just a matter of...
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Smithsonian's National Zoo has a feisty new grapefruit-sized octopus that lacked a name ... until now.
*Israel wants its Arab neighbours to be weak and divided. For Israel, the Arab Spring is going well.* There are new protests in Benghazi. (http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2102713,00.html#ix...
A 22-year-old man has been arrested at Birmingham Airport on suspicion of a terrorism offence. The Pakistani national was detained by counter terrorism officers on Monday evening after arriving on a flig...
Remember the problems at Bank of America? No, they are not resolved. And it looks like they will not be without moneyshed (like bloodshed, but worse.) Neil Garfield is my source today. [On a sidenote, plea...
*N.B. This image and the quote below were found at Reader Supported News.* Here's what Vaclav Havel had to say about living within a lie: "Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, ...
We think of them as courageous, chivalrous, brutal and cold-hearted, but medieval knights lived hard lives and suffered.
The Russian fishing boat was damaged by ice and is taking in water.
The iconic double-decker bus has a hybrid setup and a new look after 50 years.
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Oregon at a depth of 10.2 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 16:06:46 UTC Tuesday 20th December 2011. The epicenter was 364 km (226 miles) WNW of Barvie...
A Biased BBC reader flags up a looming issue; "First to emphasise that this is a prediction not a report. Following the impact of the BBC's *Pedigree Dogs Examined,* where the BBC withdrew coverage of C...
*Corruption and insider trading are guaranteed around the EU structures* According to Bloomberg and others, the European Union Parliament's environment committee backed a decision to make the "carbon cap...
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*If there is any province in the nation where the main stream media has completely bought into a political party, it is Saskatchewan. Yesterday, Canada's Health Ministers met and were told that a ceiling...
*From Think Progress * Seven big banks – Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, US Bank, and Wells Fargo – are set to dole out year-end bonuses in the coming weeks. T...
If you have any doubt about how feeble Canada's corporate media have become you need only read the *PostMedia* scribe Matthew Fisher's articleproclaiming that " *Canada will buy F-35 joint strike fighter, ...
Roughly the size of a cow, the plant-eating animal had two tusks and a horny beak.
From Think Progress *Pro-Adultery Website Endorses Gingrich* | A website that promotes adultery has endorsed Newt Gingrich for president, and even erected a giant billboard in Pennsylvania to announce it...
KiteGen's approach would send tethered kites to high altitudes in order to take advantage of stronger wind.
A head-to-head look at the EyeSee360 GoPano micro and Kogeto Dot for the iPhone.
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SO NOW EVEN OUR TAX OFFICE IS ON THE TAKE!, ANYONE LEFT NOT ON THE TAKE? Tax bosses have been lambasted by MPs for bending rules to do favours for big firms at a cost of millions to the taxpayer - then hid...
Saw this little posting this morning Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Monday hailed the death of Kim Jong Il, saying the deceased North Korean leader ran “one of the most totalitarian regimes the world has ...
*Sarah Palin shoots from the hip, Keith Olbermann gets the boot, Bernie Sanders challenges the oligarchy, and more* *by Noah* *1/14/11 –- Utah Sen. Mike Lee says child labor laws are unconstitutional* He...
It just happened that after more than 20 years, I opened Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac's book on quantum mechanics again, for a longer time. And it's great, indeed. If this book were used as a textbook, the ar...
While cannibalism is not against Dutch law, there could be legal difficulties for the surgeon. Two Dutch presenters are expected to provoke outrage after with a macabre television stunt in which they eat ...
WARNING VERY GRAPHIC UPSETTING CONTENT A Brazilian nurse who was caught on camera repeatedly attacking a dog, which later died of its injuries, has gone into hiding after the video was published on YouTub...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Ryukyu Islands, Japan at a depth of 157.6 km (97.9 miles), the quake hit at 12:26:37 UTC Tuesday 20th December 2011. The epicenter was 302 km (188 miles) NNE from ...
image source I have read Snowmen at Night so many times that I can tell you the story word for word without turning the pages. It is one of our favorite Christmas/Wintertime stories. This children's ...
Some of you may not be aware of the newest Fitzwalkerstan saga.... Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) is beginning to roll out his new policy to require protestors to pay big money if they want a permit to de...
*THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS.* Former Pakistan president Musharraf stated that Omar Saeed Sheikh was recruited by MI6, while studying at the London School of Economics. *Israeli Embassy in London*, hom...
The UKuncut movement must feel satisfied at the publicity afforded it by the BBC this morning. Tim Street gets a four minute canter here, followed up by an extensive interview with Margaret Hodge here! Oh...
*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* The decline of the U.S. as a net exporting nation is the inevitable result of the growing, yawning gulf between rich and poor. A nation cannot be productive if it...
Bishop George Packard climbs a fence along with other protesters. Photo from Getty Images.Seeking 'sanctuary' at Trinity Church:Protests mark third anniversaryof Occupy Wall StreetTrinity Church may be there...
I have really been struggling with what is happening in the US Congress right now. The first thing I can tell you is that I am sick and tired of hearing about the tax increase on 160,000,00 people who - h...
A staggering 83 major firms, including Tesco, British Telecom, British Gas and Vauxhall have been indirectly funding pirate film and TV websites through advertising, according to The Federation Against Cop...
A council has been attacked for awarding a £4million wheelie bin contract to a German company - despite a British bid that was £250,000 cheaper. Durham County Council will buy 225,000 'twin bins' from the ...
Free Syrian Army commanded by Military Governor of Tripoli Thierry Meyssan voltairenet.org December 20, 2011 In the wake of the "Arab Spring" and NATO interventions, both official and secret, Qatar seeks ...
The weather bureau says there is an increased threat of a tropical cyclone forming in the Top End of the Northern Territory on Friday. The chance of a cyclone forming is now listed as a 50 per cent to 100...
France still believes Britain will help fund a planned IMF eurozone bail-out once other world powers agree to chip in, a minister said on Tuesday, despite London's reluctance to take part. Budget ministe...
Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, has signed into effect a law imposing the death penalty on anyone arming "terrorists", according to state media amid mounting clashes with rebel troops. "The law pr...
A Dutch laboratory claiming to have developed a deadly strain of bird flu wants to publish its research, sparking fears that terrorists could use the information. Scientists at the Erasmus Medical Cent...
A volcano erupted near Saba Island in the Red Sea on Monday, said fishermen from Salif port city in the west of Yemen. The fishermen confirmed that the volcano erupted near Saba Island one of the Al-Zubai...
~Brain-eating tap water amoeba kills at least two in Louisiana~Deborah Dupre, Examiner ~It is Naegleri fowleri, a rare amoeba that lives in warm fresh water that attacks the brain, causing death. The brain...
*A building housing an experimental nuclear reactor in Japan caught fire Tuesday, but there was no leak of radioactive materials, officials said, amid nervousness over Japan's atomic industry. * The quasi...
Humans are having an effect on Earth's ecosystems but it's not just the depletion of resources and the warming of the planet we are causing. Now you can add an over-abundance of nitrogen as another "footpr...
Alaska — A bubble rose through a hole in the surface of a frozen lake. It popped, followed by another, and another, as if a pot were somehow boiling in the icy depths. Every bursting bubble sent up a puf...
Russia supports Canada's decision to pull out of the Kyoto Protocol, says its foreign ministry, reaffirming Friday that Moscow will not take on new commitments. Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich t...
The residents’ opposition has focused on a central point: They don’t think climate change is accelerated by human activity, as most climate scientists conclude. When planners proposed to rezone land for us...
The efficiency of conventional solar cells could be significantly increased, according to new research on the mechanisms of solar energy conversion led by chemist Xiaoyang Zhu at The University of Texas at...
The United States, facing a rising China but a tighter budget, expects to station several combat ships in Singapore and may step up deployments to the Philippines and Thailand, a naval officer said. The U...
He is now a schoolteacher, but Abu Mustafa admits he still sometimes has flashbacks to his 10 months in American custody at Iraq's most infamous prison -- Abu Ghraib. "I cannot forget, and I cannot descri...
Oil from a small leak in Brazilian waters -- the second in less than two months -- has reached the shores of Rio de Janeiro state, environmental authorities said. The oil was discovered on Bonfim Beach d...
Making cities greener "actually makes a lot of sense" in spite of the economic crisis, says former Irish President, Mary Robinson. "You save money," she said, adding that the real challenge is greening ...
A man has been found guilty of the attempted murder of his fiancee who he buried alive in a cardboard box. Michelina Lewandowska, 27, escaped from the shallow grave in woods near Huddersfield, Leeds Crow...
EMERGENCY evacuation plans for Brits living in Spain and Portugal are being drawn up amid fears of the euro collapsing. The drastic proposals emerged as a former Security Minister warned expats could be l...
Standard & Poor's expected downgrade could create panic in the financial markets and make eurozone crisis even worse. France could be stripped of its triple-A credit rating before Christmas, raising new d...
At least 80 former Mexican government officials are currently working as informants for US intelligence agencies, the daily La Jornada reported, citing senior Mexican officials. Most of them are gatherin...
Protesting villagers in southern China said they will march on government offices this week unless the body of a local leader is released and four villagers in police custody are freed. The 13,000 reside...
The fire that broke out in a Cairo library that houses thousands of rare documents raised concerns over the government’s and the army’s ability to protect historic sites at times of upheaval and drove seve...
An Italian driver was stopped by astonished police in the southern city of Bari on Saturday when they saw him speaking on two phones with a handset in each hand and no control of the wheel. Asked to expl...
An Egyptian pipeline carrying gas to Israel and Jordan was bombed Sunday, the 10th such attack this year, but no fire erupted because the line that runs through North Sinai was already disabled, a security...
Leading GOP candidate Ron Paul has warned in recent interviews that the amendments passed in the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) are not only dangerous, but authorize the establishment of to...
*Some raise possibilities of power struggles among elites*. Experts are divided on whether the third-generation power succession in North Korea will be smoothly carried out following the death of its leade...
Leading GOP candidate Ron Paul has warned in recent interviews that the amendments passed in the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) are not only dangerous, but authorize the establishment of to...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants to change how it analyzes problems and makes decisions, in a way that would give it vastly expanded power to regulate businesses, communities and ecosystems i...
Ma Soe Soe Kyi's skeletal frame is visible above her blanket; she is too weak to keep her eyes open. Her husband waves away the flies and looks on helplessly. Kyi is HIV positive and finally getting he...
Nine months have passed since the uprising in Syria began. But events there have taken a very different path to those followed in the other states involved in the Arab Awakening. For one, the government...
Clashes erupted again in Tahrir Square after Egypt's security forces moved to retake control of the area - killing nine and wounding over 300. There were simultaneous protests in Tahrir Square and in front...
Police in Kazakhstan's central city of Shetpe have opened fire on rioters, killing one person and raising the death toll since violence erupted on Friday to 14. A statement from the prosecutor general's ...
NATO’s seven-month air campaign in Libya, hailed by the alliance and many Libyans for blunting a lethal crackdown by Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi and helping to push him from power, came with an unrecognized to...
As Christmas pilgrims converge once more on the birthplace of Jesus, tensions are rising in the town as Israel prepares to extend its separation wall. Mitri Michel Ghneim, painter and taxi driver, has ha...
Endless carols; inebriated worshippers; health and safety nightmares… for the vicars who inspired TV’s ‘Rev’, the season of goodwill only goes so far. "*Christmas* is a time of grin and bear it. It’s som...
Tens of thousands of political activists, including hundreds from the BNP, have been given free or subsidised holidays by British and European taxpayers. Even as it grapples with the financial crisis, th...
The eurozone was facing fresh splits today after one of the European Central Bank’s most senior figures said the bank should not be used to fund national debts and that if it was forced to, it would mean t...
Such is the scale of the eurozone's problems, Fitch ratings has dashed any hope that Angela Merkel might do a Wonder Woman twirl and unleash a Big Bazooka with enough financial firepower to end the debt cr...
President Dmitry Medvedev has acknowledged failings in Russia's political system as about 3,000 demonstrators gathered for a second weekend of protests in response to allegations of voting fraud. The p...
Meriem Ben Salah's 2-month-old will never know his mother's Tunisia. He won't play in a neighborhood where government minders are lurking and watching. He won't have to praise and thank the president b...
The European crisis is a potential job-killer for the United States and could hit pensions and 401(k)s, Federal Reserve officials told Congress on Friday. William Dudley, president of the New York Federal...
China's offshore oil and gas producer CNOOC said late Monday that a leak was found in a subsea gas pipeline at its Zhuhai Hengqin gas processing terminal in South China's Guangdong province. Following the...
[image: http://alondranelson.com/images/BodySoulHP.jpg]* * * * *Medical Self Defense and the Black Panther Party* *--An interview with Alondra Nelson* *By Angola 3 News* * * Alondra Nelson, aprofessor of ...
A federal report indicates that Shell International spilled 13,000 gallons of oil and drilling fluids into the Gulf on Sunday while drilling an exploratory well near the site of last year's Deepwater Horiz...
A federal report indicates that Shell International spilled 13,000 gallons of oil and drilling fluids into the Gulf on Sunday while drilling an exploratory well near the site of last year's Deepwater Horiz...
On Dec. 20, the day after the announcement of Kim Jong Il's death, North Koreans living in China crowded into a customs office by the border here, carrying large amounts of supplies and braving temperature...
Image: Sakie Yokota holds up pictures of her daughter Megumi that were provided by North Korea in Minato Ward, Tokyo, on Oct. 2, 2002. Megumi Yokota was abducted in 1977 at age 13 and North Korea said she ...
An intensive surveillance system is in place for all poultry farms, poultry markets, pet bird shops in Hong Kong following the death of a wild bird infected with H5N1, the OIE has reported. The H5N1 infe...
Wolves from northeast Oregon’s Imnaha pack have killed a cow for the second time this week, according to an Oregon Fish and Wildlife spokeswoman. Michelle Dennehy said her department confirmed Tuesday tha...
The submarine eruption south of El Hierro is still going on, but there are signs magma supply has dropped significantly. Most likely, the eruption which now has lasted over 2 months is approaching its end....
Italian government scientists have claimed to have discovered evidence that a supernatural event formed the image on the Turin Shroud, believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ. After years...
Egyptian troops and riot police raided Cairo's Tahrir Square early on Tuesday in their latest attempt to evict protesters who want the ruling military to immediately step down, according to a field hospita...
Dozens of army deserters have been shot dead by Syrian troops as they tried to flee their bases and join anti-government protests, reports say. Activist groups said more than 70 defectors were gunned down...
A day after Iranian TV broadcast video of what it called the confession of a U.S. spy, a State Department official confirmed the identity of the man in Iranian custody and called for his release "without d...
An Iraqi investigative committee issued an arrest warrant Monday for the country's vice president, who is accused of orchestrating bombing attacks against government and security officials. The committee...
The Obama administration "welcomes" a United Nations-led effort in Iraq to relocate a group on the State Department terrorism list, before an end-of-the-year deadline that could see heavy violence and a la...
[image: Link]Thirteen people left adrift off the coast of Indonesia after their boat sank have been rescued by a passing coal freighter, the head of the local search and rescue agency said Tuesday. The n...
“The top 10 things dead people want to tell living people are: *1.* They're not dead. *2.* They're sorry for any pain they caused. *3.* There's no such thing as a devil or hell. *4.* They were ready to go ...
President Benigno Aquino of the Philippines declared a state of national calamity on Tuesday after visiting areas in the south of the country that were devastated by a tropical storm over the weekend. Th...
The leadership of North Korea appeared to pass to a third generation of the Kim family Monday after the weekend death of Kim Jong Il, who ruled the reclusive Stalinist state since 1994. The man known a...
North Korea has been urged to follow "the path of peace" as national TV showed pictures of the body of Kim Jong-il lying in state. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called for a stable transition ...
A magnitude 3.6 earthquake has struck the Greater Los Angeles Area, California at a depth of just 1.6 km (1 miles - poorly constrained), the quake hit at 08:32:23 UTC Tuesday 20th December 2011. The epicen...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Panama at a depth of 36.2 km (22.5 miles), the quake hit at 07:33:55 UTC Tuesday 20th December 2011. The epicenter was 129 km (80 miles) SSW of La Palma, Panama No Tsun...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 46.9 km (29.1 miles), the quake hit at 06:26:22 UTC Tuesday 20th December 2011. The epicenter was 103 km (64 miles) ...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Southern Iran at a depth of 20 km (12.4 miles), the quake hit at 04:46:33 UTC Tuesday 20th December 2011. The epicenter was 43 km (26.6 miles) Northeast of Minab, Iran ...
Hsirihs asked: I am not entirely clear as to what were the bases for Heisenberg's assumptions in his 1925 paper. He claims that one cannot consider relations between quantities that are unobservable "in pr...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Luzon, Philippines at a depth of 36.8 km (22.9 miles), the quake hit at 03:34:48 UTC Tuesday 20th December 2011. The epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) South of San Pedro, ...
This is a reasonably sanequestion to ask as we are now closing in on technical equivalence to ourapparent progenitors. As I have pieced together on thisblog. A number of clear conjectures may be spell...
This is a direct observation of sensingthe death of a loved one at a great distance and it is nicely beyond rational challenge. In fact the ongoing acceptance of speculativescientific explanations beg...
This extraordinary piece spellsout things that we all know in part and pulls together a whole that reinspiresus. The west succeeded by producing asupportive culture and critical institutions that supp...
This is an odd bit of insightinto the decision process inside a bee swarm and certainly begs the question ofhow decisions are made in humanity. Itis also reasonable to presume that each individual bra...
I would not normally post on the same topic two days running, so forgive me. But right on cue after my post yesterday about Richard Black exaggerating the impact of nitrogen dioxide, his colleague Mike Amo...
*An Indian student, Jyothy Amge measuring just a little above two feet has been confirmed as the world's shortest livelihood lady by Guinness World Records. According to Ms.Amge it was astonishing to cel...
*A chatting dog has topped YouTube's catalog of most watched videos in the UK on behalf of 2011. YouTube's owner, Google, claims the videos replicate the actions and people that captured the nation's ima...
*US telecoms enormous AT&T has supposed it will not track its $39bn bid to get T-Mobile USA after consecutively into fierce management objections .AT&T is at present the country's second-largest wireless...
*The opinion of experts is that they have inveterate for the first time the exact origin of a number of of the rocks at Stonehenge*. Archaeologists hope the find will enable them to discover how the pebb...
“The crucified planet Earth, should it find a voice and a sense of irony, might now well say of our abuse of it, "Forgive them, Father, they know not what they do." The irony would be that we know what we...
"How much more there is now to living! Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there’s reason to life! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures ...
"In politics, as Jacques Derrida reminds us, the dead are sometimes more powerful than the living. To invoke their ghosts can constitute an affirmative practice rather than an immobilizing regret; it is ...
An Iranian-American branded a spy on Iran's state TV is nothing of the sort, and was merely visting relatives when he was taken into custody, the man's father said. Iran's state TV broadcast video on Sund...
*“Rune Charms For Warriors And For Peace”* by Sunnyway "I've been asked numerous times by soldiers and family members for magical charms to aid and protect our soldiers and news corps in the Middle East ...
Many of the most common fossils found in Antarctica are plants - dating from a time when the continent would have been rich in plant life. Now scientists have found the first evidence of giant dinosaurs t...
For centuries, scientists and historians have argued over why Stonehenge was built and, even more puzzlingly, how. They are now closer to cracking one aspect of the mystery after working out the exact sp...
"Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK. If you're not failing, you're not growing.” ~ H. Stanley Judd
"We do not rest satisfied with the present. We anticipate the future as too slow in coming, as if in order to hasten its course; or we recall the past, to stop its too rapid flight. So imprudent are we th...
The St Paul’s protest camp has become a ‘magnet’ for criminals, alcoholics and drug addicts, the High Court heard yesterday. The churchyard where anti-capitalist demonstrators have pitched 200 tents is al...
*by Ken* It's grotesque to put Kim Jong-Il and Václav Havel in the same title box, I know. All the more so since one is one of the great men to have touched my existence, while the other was . . . well, ...
A young father is now the subject of a police probe after a shocking photo of his daughter with her hands and feet bound was posted on Facebook. Andre Curry, 21, of Chicago, has generated intense internet ...
U.S. Senator John McCain has said the world is better off now that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is dead. McCain, a Republican lawmaker who was his party's nominee for president in 2008, said that Kim s...
Germany launched an extraordinary charm offensive to try to get Britain back to the EU negotiating table last night despite George Osborne’s refusal to contribute billions to a Brussels begging bowl. Guid...
Almost 800 patients have been struck down by the winter vomiting bug in hospitals in the last week. More than 40 trusts are known to be affected by outbreaks of norovirus and most have closed wards to vis...
Britain's biggest firms owe the taxman up to £25.5billion, but are regularly let off the hook, MPs say today. By contrast, families and small businesses are treated much more harshly and forced to pay up....
"Some beautiful things begin as grains of sand. Locked in an oyster, a granule grows into an iridescent pearl, lustrous and lovely to behold. While hurtling through the atmosphere at 35 kilometers per seco...
Just got done watching the house rules committee arguing and I could not stand this guy. So I took - 45 minutes - just 45 minutes to look at his PAC money donations and this is what I found So far in the...
"If you think it's a joke, that's alright, do what you want to do. I've said my piece, now I leave it all up to you." - The Moody Blues • And if, after all this, you still think "Oh, that could never happ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the North Coast of New Guinea, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 55.4 km (34.4 miles), the quake hit at 03:03:16 UTC Tuesday 20th December 2011. The epicenter was 10...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 45.7 km (28.4 miles), the quake hit at 01:54:19 UTC Tuesday 20th December 2011. The epicenter was 125 km (77 miles) Sout...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Southeast Indian Ridge at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 01:26:53 UTC Tuesday 20th December 2011. The epicenter was 1980 km (1230 miles) East of H...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Bonin Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 362.5 km (225.3 miles), the quake hit at 01:22:23 UTC Tuesday 20th December 2011. The epicenter was 205 km (127 miles) We...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 00:35:16 UTC Tuesday 20th December 2011. The epicenter was 130 km (80 miles) Southeast of...
*"But Then It Was Too Late"* An Excerpt from "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-1945" by Milton Mayer “What no one seemed to notice,” said a colleague of mine, a philologist, “was the ever wi...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Southwest of Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of just 1.1 km (0.7 miles - Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 21:03:45 UTC Monday 19th December 2011. The epicenter was ...
21,000 villagers are in “full revolt” against Communist authorities, for illegally selling farmland and pocketing the profits. Chinese Authorities Lose Control as Village Revolts Technorati Tags: China...
“My heart broke on its shame and sorrow. I suddenly knew how much crying there was in me, and how little love. I knew, at last, how lonely I was. But I couldn’t respond. My culture had taught me all the w...
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*"Collective Action to Prolong a Depression"* by Bill Bonner "Have yourself a merry little depression… What’s this? Christine Lagarde, IMF chief, said last week that the world’s nations needed to work tog...
*"We’ve Crossed the Rubicon"* by Eric Peters "Do you suppose cows have any idea what’s coming as they’re marched down the chute? Or do they stare with bovine indifference at the tail and hind quarters in...
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Observed Alexander Pope, *“Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.”* So drink sensibly this Festive Season, i.e., start early, then lash yourself securely to a bar. And tell the wowsers to g...
*From 1971 to 1974, back when the current University of West Georgia was still West Georgia College, Newt Gingrich managed to secure employment on its faculty, first in history, then in geography. Accounts...
Locked Down: Protecting Sacred San Francisco Peaks Youths of the Peaks/Indigenous Action Media *Censored News Top News Stories for 2011* *Photographers of the Year and The Spirit Award* By Brenda Norrell C...
Boston University's YouTube description: Andrew J. Bacevich, a College of Arts and Sciences professor of international relations, discusses the legacy of American social critic Reinhold Niebuhr and the re...
Senator Joseph Lieberman and Senator Lindsey Graham are terrorists.
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*"Debt-Free United States Notes Were Once Issued Under JFK" * And The U.S. Government Still Has The Power To Issue Debt-Free Money by The Economic Collapse Blog "Most Americans have no idea that the U.S. go...
The 3D-gaming console will take the place of traditional audio guides in March.
December 16, 2011 *Iraqi Women's Activist Rebuffs US Claims of a Freer Iraq: "This Is Not a Democratic Country"* Yanar Mohammed, president of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq, joins...
*Young Aidan Burley (right) with the PM in happier times* Everyone remembers John Boehner's pal Rich Iott, right? He's an Ohio right-wing kook with an affinity for Tea Party ideology and Nazi pathology-- ...
Vineyard records dating back to the 14th century show that the time to harvest pinot noir correlates with ocean temperatures.
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 ...
The Iranian government says it has hacked the GPS of a stealth drone, capturing it intact.
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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 th...
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...
The *US Department of Justice has issued a repor*t taking the bigot Sheriff Arapaio of Maricopa to the cleaners. *The document* makes really interesting reading in its descriptions of the systemic profilin...
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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*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...
UGLY PEOPLE ARE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST; *the human mind has a hard-wired appreciation for facial symmetry*, for example (and the reason I *don't*draw caricatures anymore). Like the old joke goes, *she wa...
"*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.
*Gov't cutbacks save lives!, Speaker Boehner, Tragic day in Tucson, Tea Party racism, and more* *"It was the best of times. It was the worst of times." Does former RNC Chair Mike Steele know his Tolstoy or ...
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*Ian Hurst, former spook.* Most terrorists work for the security services. Lord Stevens, a former UK police chief, is quoted as saying that *only three out of 210 terrorist suspects he arrested in a pr...
By: Duane Craig Well, pardon the pun, Cabot Oil and Gas Corp. is in the news again as the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection investigates the problem of methane showing up in water wells ...
Contact: Tom Weis, President, Climate Crisis Solutions, 303-378-1364 (mobile) tom@climatecrisissolutions.com *TARSANDS: The "Tour of Resistance,” with support from Lakotas and other Native Americans, end...
Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA), Europe’s largest oil company, shut its 200,000 barrel-a-day Bonga field off Nigeria after oil leaked during a tanker loading. An export line from the field’s floating produc...
Roger Erikson of the National Weather Service confirmed to the Southwest Daily News that a tornado touched down in DeQuincy late Tuesday morning. "We had a storm, and we saw it on the radar, Erikson said. ...
This goes along with my last post *What is this a sign of: While half of Americans have descended into poor/low income, congress only puts effort into writing deceptively titled un-Constitutional legislati...
Piles of dead crows, possibly hundreds of them, have been found at Mesilla Valley Bosque State Park. Members of the Mesilla Valley Audubon Society reported Tuesday the stack of dead birds discovered duri...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration today declared the recent deaths of ringed seals in the Arctic and Bering Strait regions of Alaska an unusual mortality event, triggering a focused, expe...
TERNATE, Cavite - A dead buntanding (whale shark) was found on the shore of a barangay (village) in this town, police said yesterday. It was the first time that a lifeless butanding was discovered on the...
*A Requiem for Prudence* On Monday, we lost a dear friend. Prudence was “just” a dog, an 18 year-old beagle who has been a part of our family for what seems like forever. Our youngest son Arthur was only...
A pygmy sperm whale has washed up on a North Side beach overnight. The dead, 14-feet long whale was discovered in the morning hours of Wednesday, 21 December, on the beach at Northern Lights condos near Ol...
Four teenagers have been jailed for life for murdering a pupil outside the gates of his school. Zac Olumegbon, 15, from Brixton, south London, was stabbed to death in front of Park Campus School in West ...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA day after Iranian TV broadcast video of what it called the confession of a U.S. spy, a State Department official confirmed the identity of the man in Iranian custody and called for his release "without d...
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