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More than 100 firefighters have been battling a large
blaze on an industrial estate in northwest England. Huge flames were seen shooting into the night sky at the Enterprise Business Park in Leyland, Lanc...
With less than a year to go until America elects its next president, the country has been warned of a looming new economic crisis. Major cities across the *United States* are declaring themselves bankrupt...
A Sky News investigation has discovered shops in London selling unlicensed or prescription-only skin-bleaching products. In Peckham, southeast London, we purchased a tube of Fashion Fair Cream from two s...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck offshore Guatemala at a depth of 49 km (30.4 miles), the quake hit at 04:50:21 UTC Thursday 22nd December 2011. The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) SSE of Tapachula, Chi...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday demanded an immediate halt to controversial NATO-led night raids and for foreign forces to stop entering Afghan homes, his spokesman said. The comments come after ...
Large forest regions in Canada are apparently about to experience rapid change. Based on models, scientists can now show that there are threshold values for wildfires just like there are for epidemics. Lar...
The Syrian navy and air force conducted live-fire manoeuvres on Tuesday to test their preparedness to repulse "any aggression against the homeland," the official SANA news agency reported. "The air force ...
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” - Plato
Taiwan on Tuesday ordered a halt to planned live-fire military drills to avoid inflaming regional tensions after the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il, officials said. Planned live-fire exercises o...
Iranian officials, lawmakers and media on Wednesday worriedly snapped their focus on to their country's sanctions-hit economy amid a sudden and accelerating plunge in the currency. The currency, the rial,...
Iraq's government marked its first anniversary Wednesday in turmoil as its Sunni vice president disputed charges he ran a hit squad and the US urged calm in a row that has heightened sectarian tensions. A...
Amid deepening tension between Iran and its principal adversaries -- the United States and Israel -- the Jewish state has formed a Special Forces command to carry out strategic strikes deep inside hostile ...
Robert Finne was talking with a friend about the Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission earlier this year when they both started wondering, "Who are these people?" So they wrote to the commission and asked. Fin...
Thousands of people besieged a government office in a southern Chinese town Tuesday and blocked a highway to demand a halt to a planned coal-fired power plant because of concerns about pollution, protester...
In a sign that the Obama administration is willing to clear the regulatory decks for oil drilling in Alaska's remote Arctic waters, the Interior Department on Friday gave a conditional green light allowing...
Banks gobbled up nearly 490 billion euros in three-year cut-price loans from the European Central Bank on Wednesday, easing immediate fears of a credit crunch but leaving unresolved how much will flow to n...
*"This time of year is all about family and tradition. It’s not really about convenience."* *by Ken* I know this letter will seem long, and whiny, and repetitive, but you should really read it all, just a...
US requests scientific journals publish redacted versions of studies on a version of bird flu that could spread to humans. The US government has asked the scientific journals Nature and Science to censor ...
A decade of billions in spending in the name of homeland security has armed local police departments with military-style equipment and a new commando mentality. But has it gone too far? Andrew Becker and G...
Seize the day. Only 52 weeks and a day are left before Dec. 21, 2012, when some believe the Maya predicted the end of the world. Unlike enthusiasts of other doomsday theories who suggest putting together...
North Korea will shift to collective rule from a strongman dictatorship after last week's death of Kim Jong-il, although his untested young son will be at the head of the ruling coterie, a source with...
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*The New Journalism: Get out the barf bag* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Normally I don't read the newspapers at the library, especially if I don't have a bottle of Pe...
Little by little China is forming military links in Africa and in the Indian Ocean in order, experts say, to protect Beijing's economic interests in the region. In the past three weeks Beijing has commit...
The Israeli government's watchdog agency says the country is short on bomb shelters and is ill-prepared to protect its citizens in case of war. The state comptroller's annual report, published in part on ...
The United States will cut the number of national guard troops patrolling the border with Mexico as it steps up other surveillance on the porous southern border, officials said Tuesday. The effort reflec...
ARMONK, N.Y. - Century-old technology colossus IBM on Monday depicted a near future in which machines read minds and recognize who they are dealing with. The " IBM 5 in 5 " predictions were based on soci...
*Interestingly, this exact same phenomenon has appeared recently over Pennsylvania and Lake Erie. What could they be?*
A court has convicted a 69-year-old man of incest, coercion and bodily harm against his daughter, with whom he fathered three children. The daughter stayed silent for more than 30 years because she feared ...
The head of South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS) on Tuesday expressed cautious doubts over the time and location of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's death, parliamentary officials said, raisi...
Up to 50,000 British women have been advised to consider having cheap breast implants removed after evidence in France showed they could lead to cancer. French medical authorities are expected this week ...
Six out of ten people with dementia are undiagnosed, it has been found, as MPs launch an investigation into how to pick up missed patients. The majority of people with the condition have not been diagnosed...
NORTH KOREA as we know it is over. Whether it comes apart in the next few weeks or over several months, the regime will not be able to hold together after the untimely death of its leader, Kim Jong-il. How...
On Dec. 24, 1861, the Charleston, S.C. Courier gave an impassioned account of the first anniversary of secession, as it was celebrated in the true birthplace of the Confederacy. “The Confederate and State ...
Just days before Christmas, a new study has emerged that suggests that one of Christianity's most prized but mysterious relics – the Turin Shroud – is not a medieval forgery but could be the authentic buri...
WASHINGTON, DC – Santa Claus came early this year for four former executives of Washington Mutual (WaMu), a large US bank that failed in fall 2008. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) had brou...
The price of an average house in Ireland fell by almost 16 per cent in the year up to November, according to new data from the Central Statistics Office. Residential property prices fell by 1.5 per cent l...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Molucca Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 38.7 km (24 miles), the quake hit at 22:10:47 UTC Wednesday 21st December 2011. The epicenter was 167 km (103 miles) WSW of Te...
Undefeated boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr has been jailed after pleading guilty in connection with domestic violence. Mayweather was given a 90-day prison term after pleading guilty to reduced batte...
"What's large and blue and can wrap itself around an entire galaxy? A gravitational lens mirage. Pictured above, the gravity of a luminous red galaxy (LRG) has gravitationally distorted the light from a mu...
*“The Miraculous Commonplace”* by Chet Raymo “My mention of the poet Howard Nemerov yesterday reminds me of another of his poems that has long haunted my imagination, called "Seeing Things": ․ "Close...
"Life is pain. A billion little cuts every second, a billion points of anguish. Terror strikes every day, from the little moments of fear when a child cries in pain, to the numbing shock of acts of viole...
*"Singing To The Deer" * by Patricia Monaghan “At solstice, the woods were bright in a snowy way, the sky pearl gray above the stately maples and gnarled burr oaks. An Alaskan marooned in the urban Midwe...
Wasilla, Alaska, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
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*This pic was taken at Stonehenge in England a few hours ago - Winter Solstice.* *-Solstices over the years on Buckdog .... *
*"Healing Past Hurt: Our Evolving Language"* by The DailyOm "We can create positive change by choosing not to use these words and phrases as we come across them in our vocabulary. There are many troubling...
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* Anyone who enjoyed the Lord of the Rings movies will be excited about THE HOBBIT by Peter Jackson - slated for release on December 14, 2012. *
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it w...
*After the 51-hour Window of Cluelessness in Washington and Seoul, the departed Dear Leader was abundantly on display Monday in this Seoul electronics emporium.* *In Kim's Death, an Extensive Intelligence...
I hate to say it (nah, not really), but I told you so. The reinstallation of the Bush Dynasty has been the sole reason for the clown circus, featuring the truly unqualified Rethugs. Calling all newts, herm...
* "Gingrich Plummets in Polls as Voters Start Remembering Who He Is"* Dawning Awareness Threatens Campaign by Andy Borowitz DES MOINES (The Borowitz Report) – "In a development that has imperiled his fron...
In an interview with Newsweek/The Daily Beast on Monday, December 19, Vice President Joe Biden said that "the Taliban per se is not our enemy. That’s critical. There is not a single statement that the pres...
Eliza Gilkyson. Photo by Alan Pogue / The Rag Blog.Texas Music Hall of Fame Singer/Songwriter andPolitical Activist Eliza Gilkyson on Rag Radiowith Thorne Dreyer. Listen to it here: Eliza Gilkyson was Thorne...
With the Wolf Pups: Carl 'Bad Bear' Sampson, Western Shoshone, and Manny Calapoo of Warm Springs, Ore. Renegade Walkers visit wolf sanctuary 2011. Photo Renegade Walkers. With the Wolf Pups: Renegade Walker...
Protester busted by LA cops at Occupy Los Angeles encampment outside City Hall. Photo by Lucy Nicholson / AFP / Getty Images.The 'peaceful evacuation' of Occupy Los Angeles'Evacuation' is what kindly firefig...
Suspicion of North Korea runs deep in South Korea, so it wasn’t a surprise that within hours of the announcement of Kim Jong-il’s death Monday, some South Korean newspapers were asking if the Dear Leader h...
I'm no football fan but I think the BBC are off-side with their treatments of these two stories. First off, John Terry "racist" But earlier today, Luis Suarez "misunderstood".Wonder could Terry claim he i...
A Kind of Magic -or- Drew Brees: Mindfreak ~moosedenied
Paul Ryan was in Afghanistan 3 times. I was only there twice. He was there for a matter of hours each time. I spent about 6 months there all told. I rode all around the country-- first in a VW van and lat...
A surrealist artist thematically art-wrapped ten Mini Coopers for Art Basel 2011.
The Rhode Island-sized B9B iceberg is preventing tourist ships from reaching Antarctica to mark the centenary of an Australian explorer's epic polar voyage.
Apple’s voice-recognition technology, Siri, is easy to use, as long as you don’t have an accent.
Louisiana State Officials Call For Troops On Streets National Guard engaged in door-to-door gun confiscation during Hurricane Katrina Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones Infowars.com Wednesday, December 21,...
Occupy The United Nations INDIGENOUS DAY OF RESISTANCE INDIGENOUS RIGHTS RALLY & FORUM January 27, 2012 Indigenous Unity March at 10:30 AM Meet at the Human Rights Commission 25 Van Ness Avenue San Franci...
"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us." ~ Bill Watterson, "Calvin and Hobbes"
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The best part of James Gleick's *The Information* was, for me, his history of communication and information technologies. Here's a terrific article that applies that lens to baseball: "The History of How W...
*"Climax Time: The Top 12 Trends for 2012"* by Gerald Celente "Hold onto your hat, your wallet, and your wits. After a tumultuous 2011 in which many of the trends we had forecast became headline news arou...
*"The Corruption of America"* by Porter Stansberry "The numbers tell us America is in decline… if not outright collapse. I say “the numbers tell us” because I’ve become very sensitive to the impact this ...
Rachel Maddow explains why House Republicans are about to allow taxes to go up on almost every working American, an act certain to hurt the economyquite a bit. Part 1: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, w...
I'm so close I feel I could almost reach out and touch it. In the distance I see smoke stacks from shut down factories, grey stark buildings, and the odd old truck. Set against an austere, cold ice blue ...
An "Efficient House Plus" project features an electric vehicle with cable-free recharging capabilities.
Anti-poaching efforts in the forests of Thailand seem to be paying off, according to photos snapped by camera traps.
Kim Jong Un issued his first military orders as leader of North Korea just before the death of his father was announced, a South Korean state-run news agency said Wednesday. Citing "a South Korean source,...
DETAILS FORTHCOMING. South Korean intelligence reveals that Kim Jong Il's train "never left Pyongyang", casting doubt over the circumstances of his death. Rumours are now surfacing that a military coup has...
*"LEAP 20/20: GEAB N°60, Global Systemic Crisis: * *USA 2012/2016: An Insolvent and Ungovernable Country"* "As announced in previous GEABs, in this issue our team presents its anticipations on the changes...
The Earth's axial tilt will be as far from the Sun as possible this year at 12:30 a.m. Dec. 22.
The World is in a mess. This is a fact which only the wilfully blind can ignore. There exists in the UK, what is laughingly referred to as a legal system. In a sane world, the Law would serve to uphold...
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Two weeks ago, I wrote some impressions of *The Information*, by James Gleick. (If you read that earlier post, do also read the comments.) I was hoping that the book would not devolve (or advance, dependi...
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...
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 ...
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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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*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 / Tumblr....
*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 and personality disorders all 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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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 On Hating the Falcons ~Grand Master Wang, NOLA DEFENDER Vieux Carre Commission battle over crime c...
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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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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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...
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...
*Censored News adds We Pay for donations!* Censored News is fundraising for a new laptop to publish Censored News and video cam. We've added We Pay to make it easy for you to donate. Be the first to donate...
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...
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More than 100 firefighters have been battling a large blaze on an industrial estate in northwest England. Huge flames were seen shooting into the night sky at the Enterprise Business Park in Leyland, Lanc...
With less than a year to go until America elects its next president, the country has been warned of a looming new economic crisis. Major cities across the *United States* are declaring themselves bankrupt...
A Sky News investigation has discovered shops in London selling unlicensed or prescription-only skin-bleaching products. In Peckham, southeast London, we purchased a tube of Fashion Fair Cream from two s...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck offshore Guatemala at a depth of 49 km (30.4 miles), the quake hit at 04:50:21 UTC Thursday 22nd December 2011. The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) SSE of Tapachula, Chi...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday demanded an immediate halt to controversial NATO-led night raids and for foreign forces to stop entering Afghan homes, his spokesman said. The comments come after ...
Large forest regions in Canada are apparently about to experience rapid change. Based on models, scientists can now show that there are threshold values for wildfires just like there are for epidemics. Lar...
The Syrian navy and air force conducted live-fire manoeuvres on Tuesday to test their preparedness to repulse "any aggression against the homeland," the official SANA news agency reported. "The air force ...
Taiwan on Tuesday ordered a halt to planned live-fire military drills to avoid inflaming regional tensions after the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il, officials said. Planned live-fire exercises o...
Iranian officials, lawmakers and media on Wednesday worriedly snapped their focus on to their country's sanctions-hit economy amid a sudden and accelerating plunge in the currency. The currency, the rial,...
Iraq's government marked its first anniversary Wednesday in turmoil as its Sunni vice president disputed charges he ran a hit squad and the US urged calm in a row that has heightened sectarian tensions. A...
Amid deepening tension between Iran and its principal adversaries -- the United States and Israel -- the Jewish state has formed a Special Forces command to carry out strategic strikes deep inside hostile ...
Robert Finne was talking with a friend about the Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission earlier this year when they both started wondering, "Who are these people?" So they wrote to the commission and asked. Fin...
In a sign that the Obama administration is willing to clear the regulatory decks for oil drilling in Alaska's remote Arctic waters, the Interior Department on Friday gave a conditional green light allowing...
*"This time of year is all about family and tradition. It’s not really about convenience."* *by Ken* I know this letter will seem long, and whiny, and repetitive, but you should really read it all, just a...
US requests scientific journals publish redacted versions of studies on a version of bird flu that could spread to humans. The US government has asked the scientific journals Nature and Science to censor ...
A decade of billions in spending in the name of homeland security has armed local police departments with military-style equipment and a new commando mentality. But has it gone too far? Andrew Becker and G...
Seize the day. Only 52 weeks and a day are left before Dec. 21, 2012, when some believe the Maya predicted the end of the world. Unlike enthusiasts of other doomsday theories who suggest putting together...
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