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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 - 15 minutes 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 - 30 minutes 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...
*"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...
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CENSORED NEWS - 15 hours ago
*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...
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Biased BBC - 17 hours ago
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 caps"...
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Buckdog - 17 hours ago
*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 the iPhone.
Vote for your favorite Tech and Gadget story from 2011!
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 ...
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...
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Biased BBC - 20 hours ago
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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*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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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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