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Like clockwork, the corporate media are swinging into action. Or perhaps like robots. Either way, the narrative is being reinforced and amplified. Just now on CTV a "news" report is pegging the cost of Oc...
"You have never lived a perfect day ... until you have done something for someone who never will be able to repay you." - Ruth Smeltzer
*The opening of Berlioz's Childhood of Christ is performed by the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana under
Serge Baudo, with tenor Yves Saelens as the Narrator and, well, some other people in the continuat...
"Bright stars, clouds of dust and glowing nebulae decorate this cosmic scene, a skyscape just north of Orion's belt. Close to the plane of our
Milky Way Galaxy, the wide field view spans about 5.5 degrees....
*"Subliminal Cues Can Empty Wallets"* by Scientific American "Feelings, especially unconscious ones, can affect financial decisions, so it's a good idea to monitor your moods." - Ingrid Wickelgren "Ratio...
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wmtc - 2 hours ago
It's a wmtc tradition: my annual I Hate Christmas post. This year, it's a continuation of what we started here. Feel free to post your list, too, of any length. Hate only, please. If you love Christmas, go...
"There's an old proverb that says you can't choose your family. You take what the fates hand you. And like them or not, love them or not, understand them or not, you cope. Then there's the school of though...
For millions of American families, there will be no Christmas this year. The sad truth is that an increasing number of families simply do not have money for Christmas presents or any other luxuries right n...
*Catching up with Zach --* *from* MoveOn.org *by Ken* Sometimes it bothers me when I find that I've written exactly the same thing as 6000 as other bloggers -- and then again sometimes it doesn't. Whic...
*PERSONAL:* *FAREWELL TO MY SISTER:* I've reached the age where I see my siblings dying, something quite different from having your parents die (many years in the past for me). Just this week I have...
Winter 2011: Iran gains possession of a high-tech U.S. stealth aircraft that was spying on Iran for military and intelligence purposes. The Iranian government says the capture of the drone will provide ...
Police officers were called in to break up fights and restore order at a mall where shoppers sought to take advantage of the overnight sale of a new Nike shoe. The disturbance started inside Carolina Pl...
*"When Is Enough Enough?"* by Chet Raymo "22 years ago, Bill McKibben jolted our environmental awareness with a splendid little book, The End of Nature, that cataloged the ways human economic activities...
Santa Clara, California, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
It has been said that I have a fondness for taking a pop at the Protestants in the UK-administered part of Ireland. I certainly have raised issues concerning the manipulation of the people in that area, ...
This week California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa, an unlikely proponent of something good for a change as stalwart warrior to stop SOPA, released the Judiciary Committee list of the businesses and organ...
Merry Christmas to all readers, including those who – much like your humble correspondent – fail to be proper Christians! *"Vánoce" [Vah-naw-tseh] is the Czech word for "Christmas". Skip any video you...
“The reason for publishing this account,” writes Carlos Iurchuk, editor of Argentina’s El Dragon Invisible, “so soon after having received it is in the hope that it may be possible to contact some o...
AND YOU WON'T LIKE IT. *Rolling Stone's* Matt Taibbi has a posting, *"A Christmas Message From America's Rich"*. These people are evil. Really. *The very rich on today’s Wall Street are now so rich that...
“There is a silent self within us whose presence is disturbing precisely because it is so silent: it can’t be spoken. It has to remain silent. To articulate it, to verbalize it, is to tamper with it, and ...
Heretic Productions presents the last production of 2011, a redacted adaptation of Zen Gardner's piece "You Are The Battlefield!" to be found at http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/1539/287/You_Are_The...
Cold fusion would be the "silver bullet" for interstellar voyages... in theory, anyway.
A Soyuz-2 rocket carrying a military communications satellite failed to reach orbit today after Russia's fifth launch accident within a year.
CANADA - Former cabinet minister Helena Guergis was falsely accused of cocaine use, extortion and associating with hookers in a plot to chase her from politics. Guergis, the former MP for Simcoe—Grey and m...
• "The Grapes of Wrath" (Excerpts) by John Steinbeck ․ "They breathe profits; they eat the interest on money. If they don't get it, they die the way you die without air, without side-meat." [referring to...
"Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful,...
*"The Perfect Heist: * *Why Government Theft Continues to Go Unnoticed"* by Bill Bonner "Today, we doff our caps to the folks at the European Central Bank. They’ve pulled off the perfect heist. The euro-...
*"Matt Taibbi, Financial Schemes And The US Congress"* by Karl Denninger "I don't agree with everything Matt comes up with, but when you're right, you're right. "It seems America’s bankers are tired of a...
*"A Christmas Message From America's Rich"* by Matt Taibbi "It seems America’s bankers are tired of all the abuse. They’ve decided to speak out. True, they’re doing it from behind the ropeline, in front o...
Another day, another breathtaking view of Comet Lovejoy.
Three of the rarest turtles in the world have been washed up on Britain’s beaches. Conservationists say they were dragged thousands of miles by the massive currents which caused storms in Scotland earlier...
Two huge explosions tore through the Syrian capital Damascus, leaving dozens dead and up to 100 wounded in an attack which officials and state television blamed on al-Qaida suicide bombers. Opposition act...
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck South of Africa at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 19:12:33 UTC Friday 23rd December 2011. The epicenter was 904 km (561 miles) Southwest of Marion Isl...
David Cameron has promised the Falklands Islands he will defend their sovereignty in a supportive Christmas message, amid growing tensions with Argentina. Almost 30 years since Britain fought off Argenti...
Prolonged heavy rain over the southern and central parts of Singapore on Friday afternoon led to flash floods in several areas. National water agency PUB said that from 2.20pm to 5.20pm, Orchard Road saw ...
Deadly explosion on state-run installation kills at least 11 and destroys 30 homes in Risarald province. An explosion at a fuel pipeline in Colombia has killed at least 11 people, injuring many more and ...
I come here, as I have since March 24/ 2011, the time I first noticed the seeds of destabilization being planted in Syria. Brought to my attention through nothing more sinister then carefully reading world...
* Java* "The ongoing 'women are oppressed in certain countries' psyop continues mad apace." - *PROP-A-GENDER* * Java * "Green Resistance has expelled NTC fighters from Bani Walid... Green Intelligence gr...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 7.6 km (4.7 miles), the quake hit at 17:37:30 UTC Friday 23rd December 2011. The epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) ESE of Christch...
By: Duane Craig The process of making community water safe to drink sometimes carries its own risks. Residents in iconic Hotchkiss, Colorado, have found that out since being told not to drink their commu...
By early yesterday Boehner claimed the pressure from mainstream Republicans to go along with the Senate compromise was more intense than pressure from the freshman teabaggers. Even some of the freshmen te...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Southern Alaska at a depth of 37.6 km (23.4 miles), the quake hit at 17:22:36 UTC Friday 23rd December 2011. The epicenter was 28 km (18 miles) WSW from Anchorage, Alas...
------------------------------ Original Here *The Eyes Have It* December 21, 2011 By Steve Fine *Time Magazine* paying homage to the global protester of 2011 as the person of the year is a double-edge...
There are two wars on Christmas: one public and baloney, one conceptual and terrifying. The first usually involves a group of “Bah! Humbug!” atheists trying to ruin everybody’s fun. Take this story from Sa...
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wmtc - 12 hours ago
Have you heard that 1,100-year-old Maya ruins have been uncovered in the US state of Georgia? Did it seem a bit hard to believe? There's a reason for that. If you haven't heard this, try Googling "Mayan r...
Awhile back in one of my entries I suggested that citizens start petitions to put a referendum on the ballot to get rid of ALEC. Well......... today on the Minnesota Uncut ALEC newspaper we have an excel...
A new paint called Sun-Believable harnesses solar energy for electricity to power your home.
Christchurch is today facing a grim future after being hit by yet another violent earthquake, its third major tremor in 15 months - with scientists predicting many more to come. Experts predict the quakes...
** *Robert Mueller at a Lockerbie memorial service. * Scotland's legal chief Frank Mulholland has been in Washington. Mulholland met FBI director Robert Mueller and US Attorney General Eric Holder. Mulhol...
The game takes over a former Disney Imagineer's home this holiday season.
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Admiralty Islands Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 14:54:05 UTC Friday 23rd December 2011. The epicenter was 153 km (95 m...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck near the Coast of New Zealand at a depth of 12 km (7.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:49:23 UTC Friday 23rd December 2011. The epicenter was 20 km (12.4 miles) East of Ch...
Paul Gilding is one of any number of authors I admire, who write brilliant prose about the several impending and converging catastrophes - what he has famously labeled, *The Great Disruption*. Invariably...
In the early 1980s, the largest patriotic party in the UK was the National Front. The party was infiltrated by State operatives who set out to cause internal disorder, and it was subjected to hysterical ...
Off a busy road near the New Jersey town of Lakewood, people are setting up camp. This "tent city", as it is called, is just an hour's drive from the skyscrapers of Manhattan. The camp organisers say in ...
Any doubt that the federal government has turned Canada into a petro-state beholden to Big Oil can be put to rest by this chilling account from yesterday's G&M. The Alberta Oil Patch appears to have pers...
At least 40 people have been killed and 100 injured in two explosions at security bases in Damascus, which according to state TV were the work of terrorists. Media reports said the explosions were caused...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the Coast of New Zealand at a depth of 15 km (9.3 miles), the quake hit at 12:30:11 UTC Friday 23rd December 2011. The epicenter was 20 km (12.4 miles) Southeast ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Gulf of California at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:32:44 UTC Friday 23rd December 2011. The epicenter was 65 km 40 miles) South of Puerto Penas...
*Making $$$ off juvie, using live ammo on protesters, the Half-Naked Congressman, Gulf dolphins dying, and more* *Then-NY Rep. Chris Lee was caught with his pants on but still had to quit -- very likely b...
After hearing from Alexandra Mendes , Sheila Copps, and Ron Hartling, my tour of LPC Presidential candidates lands on Mike Crawley. *Who is Mike Crawley?* Mike is the former President of the Ontario win...
Drew Brees making second run at NFL's single-season yardarge record ~Special thanks yous to Finn McCool's Irish Pub Third-party review of levees is welcome: An editorial ~Times-Picayune Failure to win st...
Remember back in May when I wrote about a court that said harassing people at work for their military service was not illegal? The case was one where airline pilots who are military members sued after bein...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Pakistan at a depth of 34 km (21.1 miles), the quake hit at 12:02:06 UTC Friday 23rd December 2011. The epicenter was 72 km (44 miles) North of Jacobabad, Pakistan No R...
The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday they are assisting in the investigation of a newborn baby who died of a rare bacterial infection that cou...
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Biased BBC - 17 hours ago
Propagating AGW cultism is an essential element of BBC broadcasting, as Biased BBC's Alan points out here... "The BBC have been busy recently pumping out the propaganda to support their belief in man made...
Eleven people died Thursday in attacks in two separate towns in the northern portion of Mexico's Veracruz state, officials said. Seven were killed in an attack on three passenger buses by a group of armed...
Heavy rains and flooding have killed at least 23 people in Tanzania and displaced more than 4,000 others, state-run media reported. Officials fear the death toll could rise. Three consecutive days of rai...
Veteran rights activist Chen Wei was sentenced to nine years in prison Friday by a Chinese court in one of the harshest sentences involving a dissident this year. A court in Suining in southwestern China...
More than 1,000 people are missing in the aftermath of a tropical storm that wreaked havoc across the southern Philippines last weekend, the country's government said Friday, as it grappled with the mounti...
An oil spill near the coast of Nigeria is likely the worst to hit those waters in a decade, a government official said Thursday, as slicks from the Royal Dutch Shell PLC spill approached the country's sout...
A worker at the tsunami-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear station manually stopped a coolant injection system in the plant's No. 3 reactor following the disaster for fear that the reactor would be damaged and le...
CLEARFIELD, Utah— Wildlife officials and Clearfield city officials are investigating the mysterious death of thousands of starlings in Davis County. State wildlife officials are warning residents to stay...
Hong Kong authorities say a second dead bird in a week has tested positive for a dangerous strain of bird flu, raising health concerns in the city. The agricultural department said Friday that lab tests co...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck near the Coast of New Zealand at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 10:32:12 UTC Friday 23rd December 2011. The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) East of Chri...
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck South of the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand at a depth of 8.9 km (5.5 miles), the quake hit at 10:51:55 UTC Friday 23rd December 2011. The epicenter was 357 km (221 mil...
The report blamed both sides for a failure in communications that meant two *Pakistani* border posts were destroyed by American aircraft. On Thursday, the Pentagon offered condolences, a statement of regr...
Crisis talks between political leaders set for Friday, a day after Iraq's worst attacks in four months, were cancelled amid a worsening row that has seen its premier threaten to dissolve power-sharing. Su...
North Korea said it would open its border near the town of Kaesong for South Koreans to enter and pay their respects to deceased leader Kim Jong Il, clearing a land route for symbolic visits by two high-pr...
Dozens of people suffered minor injuries when a series of powerful earthquakes rocked Christchurch, sending terrifed Christmas shoppers fleeing. The quakes - including one of magnitude 6 and two above ...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck near the Coast of New Zealand at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:17:16 UTC Friday 23rd December 2011. The epicenter was 20 km (12.4 miles) East of Ch...
Financial experts claim that up to 100,000 Australian jobs could be cut in the months following Christmas. Westpac chief economist Bill Evans maintains that lead indicators point to a very weak employme...
Utility customers face a "perfect storm" of sharply higher bills for electricity and natural gas because trillions of dollars in capital expenditure will be needed to upgrade aging US infrastructure and co...
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) painted a gloomy picture for the housing markets with its release of the OCC Mortgage Metrics Report for the third quarter of 2011. Mortgage delinquencie...
BEIRUT, (SANA)-A Lebanese Government source stated Wednesday that Lebanese security apparatus informed the Government of the infiltration of al-Qaeda members into Syria through Arsal border town in East Le...
The white collar criminologist calls out Bush and Obama for not prosecuting financial fraud and demands an end to the free pass for campaign contributors. *Sixty Minutes*' December 11, 2011 interview of ...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Fox Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 35.2 km (21.9 miles), the quake hit at 09:01:29 UTC Friday 23rd December 2011. The epicenter was 53 km (32 miles...
Sen. Tom Coburn has released his annual oversight report highlighting some $6.5 billion in what he calls “the most egregious ways your taxpayer dollars were wasted” over the past year. The report, which th...
What do Americans fear the most: big business, big labor, or big government? According to the latest Gallup poll, 64 percent of Americans surveyed at the beginning of December said the biggest threat that ...
Two explosions at security bases in Damascus were caused by suicide bombers, according to Syrian state TV. The TV report does not give exact numbers of deaths, saying only "a number of military personnel...
Contingency plans for the collapse of the euro should be talked about more openly to "soften the blow" to the British public, a leading eurosceptic has said. Conservative John Baron, the MP for Basildon ...
While dreams of Santa popping down the chimney on Christmas Eve to deliver presents were extinguished for most during childhood, a select few Bellevue residents have seen St. Nick trade in his sleigh for a...
As you stand in endless lines this holiday season, here’s a comforting thought: all those security measures accomplish nothing, at enormous cost. That’s the conclusion of Charles C. Mann, who put the T.S.A...
The Finnish authorities have impounded an Isle of Man-flagged ship bound for China with undeclared missiles and explosives, officials say. Police are questioning the crew of the MS Thor Liberty after what...
DAMASCUS, Syria - Syrian state TV said Friday that two vehicles packed with explosives had been detonated in Damascus, reportedly targeting state security services. The TV said Friday's explosions were...
WESTERLY, R.I. (WPRI/AP) - National Grid says technicians are continuing to work on a natural gas outage in Westerly and that some restorations will be made overnight Thursday into Friday morning. 70 t...
TAYLORSVILLE — A 34-year-old man has been arrested for investigation of multiple counts of sex abuse against a 13-year-old girl. The four-month relationship was discovered after a bizarre incident at th...
The countdown to the apocalypse is on. We're one year away from Dec. 21, 2012, the date that the * *ancient Mayan Long Count calendar allegedly marked as the end of an era that would reset the date to ze...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Ceram Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 33.5 km (20.8 miles), the quake hit at 06:20:54 UTC Friday 23rd December 2011. The epicenter was 299 km (186 miles) South of Sor...
Programme will examine effect of Arctic warming on frozen soils. The US Department of Energy (DOE) is embarking on a US$100-million research programme to investigate what will happen to the 1,500 billion t...
The Pentagon expressed "deepest regret" and "sincere condolences" to Pakistan as the US conceded for the first time it bears significant responsibility for the Nato airstrike that killed 24 Pakistani soldi...
Japanese celebrity magician who performed in Pyongyang at Kim Jong-il's request could be among few non-Koreans to attend. As North Korea prepares for the funeral of Kim Jong-il, the guest list is generati...
The massive drought that has dried out Texas over the past year has killed as many as half a billion trees, according to new estimates from the Texas Forest Service. "In 2011, Texas experienced an except...
THE city government yesterday freed 40,000 hairy crabs into the mouth of Yangtze River near the Qingcaosha Reservoir, the first step in a five-year campaign to repair the ecosystem to improve the water qua...
Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to withdraw their troops from the area surrounding a disputed border temple, the official Thai news agency MCOT reported. The two countries reached a deal to implement a...
Lego boss Jorgen Vig Knudstorp, who pulled the iconic toy brand back into profit, says Europe needs to face up to its harsh economic reality. Knudstorp believes Europeans think they are wealthier than t...
Frankincense could soon become only a relic of the past if nothing is done to protect the trees that produce it.
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Biased BBC - 20 hours ago
The bias of the BBC is often accompanied by the sheer inanity. Next week, the Today programme will have "guest editors" and one of these is the "comedian" Stewart Lee. Clearly the BBC are so excited about ...
*2011 was a revolutionary year for a new movement that is changing the world. From NYC to Cairo, we are just getting started. We are still busy building this amazing movement, and we couldn't do it without...
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Biased BBC - 20 hours ago
Good to see the Daily Mail following in our humble footsteps and getting stuck in to the State Broadcaster; "Two hours before Britain’s economic figures were released yesterday, the BBC enthusiastically p...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Banda Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 452.9 km (281.4 miles), the quake hit at 08:02:18 UTC Friday 23rd December 2011. The epicenter was 268 km (166 miles) SSW of Amb...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck near the Coast of New Zealand at a depth of 11 km (6.8 miles), the quake hit at 08:01:39 UTC Friday 23rd December 2011. The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) Northeast o...
This is a copy of the Hobbittrailer recently released. Even moreinteresting is the other pieces in which we get a good look at the technologybeen used to produce 3D and some of the issues involved. T...
A long time ago, I came to thestunning conclusion that the earth could readily support a population of 100billion people. It meant managing everysquare mile of land intensely and cleverly. This still ...
I have long thought that theprime driver for increased intelligence was the expansion of the socialuniverse. This work at least begins thetask of testing those ideas although the antiquity of social sy...
For some reason, I have beenexposed to this phenomenon of therapist implanted memories. It rose and fell over a decade long periodduring the late eighties through the nineties when the excesses simply...
I confess I may or may not have coerced my child into her Christmas list. I had a long conversation with the big guy at the North Pole and he told me what he was bringing her, so I have spent the last mont...
That premise may not sit well with the fuckwad beer drinkers who think Steve Harpers "Lawnorder" agenda is cool. They haven't read any of it and that's what Brother Harper is counting on. They just keep o...
Ultraviolet vision may explain how Santa's reindeer see so well in snowy landscapes.
* Ron Paul - like Obama?* The 'very Jewish' columnist Melanie Phillips writes in the UK's Daily Mail: "*The really striking thing is the symmetry between Ron Paul and Barack Obama. * "Both are isolationi...
A Mexican city's entire police force has been dissolved and the Navy sent in to patrol the streets in a bid to root out corruption, it was revealed today. State government officials in Veracruz said the a...
The United States on Thursday established a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to Yasin al-Suri, accused of operating from Iran as a facilitator and financier for al-Qaeda. The bounty is...
The Atlas detector - one of the LHC's two huge particle detectors - captured a particle that physicists had suspected to exist for years, but had never seen 'in the wild'. The Chi_b (3P) particle was dete...
Two thousand Syrian soldiers have been killed trying to put down a revolt against the regime, the country's government said today. The claim comes as Arab League monitors arrive in Syria to try and put an ...
At least 69 people were killed and more than 190 wounded in a wave of co-ordinated bombings across Baghdad yesterday, days after U.S. forces finally left. The 16 blasts were immediately blamed on Al Qaeda...
Nearly 1,300 hospital patients have been struck down with the winter vomiting bug, figures show. More than 50 NHS trusts have been hit by norovirus, and many have shut wards in an attempt to stop it sprea...
It is a mysterious ball that looks like a prop from a science fiction film - and nobody can explain where it came from. Police have been left baffled after a strange metal sphere fell to the ground in a r...
A student worried about his exam results jumped to his death days before securing the grades he needed to go to university. Jack Connor Clarke, 18, leapt from the top floor of a multi-storey car park last...
A woman who was disabled by relentless muscle jerks has been fitted with a 'brain pacemaker' that has allowed her to return to normal life. Jayne Bargent's head and neck were so badly affected by the unco...
The top news story of 2011 is not the assassination of Osama Bin Laden (a CIA psyop), but the advancement of the Martial Law agenda in America under the public radar. On Wednesday, December 21, Infowars.c...
Hello everyone. This very brief presentation takes a closer look at a rather interesting bit of UFO footage that was shot in Southampton, England back in 2008. The raw footage was originally uploaded to ...
Lord West, the former the former First Sea Lord, said Britain should also undertake military exercises in response to the “aggressive” decision by the Mercosur bloc to close ports to ships flying the “il...
Mario Draghi donned his plague suit on Wednesday and urged European banks to "Bring out your dead". But rather than financial corpses it was €489bn (£408bn) of zombie debt from zombie banks that emerged bl...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia at a depth of 170.9 km (106.2 miles), the quake hit at 04:46:12 UTC Friday 23rd December 2011. The epicenter was 308 km (191 miles) NNE...
The Centre for Economics and Business Research expects one in six workers, some five million people, to enjoy an extended holiday from today until Jan 3. Thousands of businesses will stay closed because ...
A six decade old tradition in which Nativity scenes are erected in the ocean-front Californian city of Santa Monica could be ended after the practice was usurped by atheists. Every Christmas season the s...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 10.2 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 23:50:15 UTC Thursday 22nd December 2011. The epicenter was 45 km (27 miles) NNW of Hihifo, Tonga No Tsunami W...
*As this September 2010 WISH-TV8 report suggested, the chances were slim that anything would be done about Charlie Fisher's little fraudulent-voting problem before the November election, in which he was i...
Six blasts and gunfire rocked the Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Thursday, residents and a military source said, after explosions and shooting earlier broke out in another northeastern city. "There has so ...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Western Xizang (Tibet) at a depth of 27 km (16.8 miles), the quake hit at 23:42:59 UTC Thursday 22nd December 2011. The epicenter was 217 km (134 miles) East of Lumari...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Taiwan Region at a depth of 22.4 km (13.9 miles), the quake hit at 19:39:57 UTC Thursday 22nd December 2011. The epicenter was 96 km (59 miles) Southeast of Su'ao, ...
*Their main asset*: "Suu Kyi encouraged by changes in Myanmar" November 15, 2011|Associated Press YANGON, Myanmar - Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi said yesterday that Myanmar’s government has taken po...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Mindoro, Philippines at a depth of 44.3 km (27.5 miles), the quake hit at 04:27:13 UTC Friday 23rd December 2011. The epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) WSW of Calapan, Mi...
Managing Occupy protest cost city $1-million, city says - The Globe and Mail: 'via Blog this' It's masquerading as "objective" "news," but in fact it's anything but. Note how Canada's National Fishwrap ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Hokkaido, Japan Region at a depth of 52.5 km (32.6 miles), the quake hit at 19:14:02 UTC Thursday 22nd December 2011. The epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) Southeast of K...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Aisen, Chile at a depth of 8.7 km (5.4 miles), the quake hit at 04:18:42 UTC Friday 23rd December 2011. The epicenter was 606 km (376 miles) Southwest...
Image: the Damage done by the 6.3 Magnitude Earthquake in February which claimed 182 lives. WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A series of strong earthquakes struck the New Zealand city of Christchurch on Friday, ...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck near the Coast of New Zealand at a depth of 9 km (5.8 miles), the quake hit at 04:06:21 UTC Friday 23rd December 2011. The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) Northeast of...
“Maybe we accept the dream has become a nightmare. We tell ourselves that reality is better. We convince ourselves it’s better that we never dream at all. But, the strongest of us, the most determined of ...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck near Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of just 8 km (5.2 miles), the quake hit at 03:50:12 UTC Friday 23rd December 2011. The epicenter was 20 km (12.4 miles) East ...
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck near Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of just 4.9 km (3 miles), the quake hit at 02:18:02 UTC Friday 23rd December 2011. The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles)East of...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck near Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of just 3.7 km (2.3 miles poorly constrained), the quake hit at 01:06:25 UTC Friday 23rd December 2011. The epicenter was 20 ...
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck near Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of just 4.7 km (2.9 miles), the quake hit at 00:58:36 UTC Friday 23rd December 2011. The epicenter was 20 km (12.4 miles) ENE...
“Sometimes the sky itself seems to glow. Usually, this means you are seeing a cloud reflecting sunlight or moonlight. If the glow appears as a faint band of light running across the whole sky, you are prob...
“There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to kno...
*“The Art of the Luminous Particular”* by Chet Raymo "It was a love affair that lasted till the end. Donald Hall, the poet, was 19 years her senior when he married his former student in 1972. Jane Kenyon ...
*Havel translator Paul Wilson talks about his friend on Al-Jazeera following the Czechoslovak activist and former president's death this week.* *"Let us pause to express gratitude to Václav Havel, who die...
Miami, Florida, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
"Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason." - John Harington
*“This is Where the American Illusion Comes to an End: * *2012, The End of the World As We Know It”* by Andrés Perezalonso "As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression... There is a twi...
*Let's see what the Globe gives us before we proceed.* "Radioactive elements found at crippled Japanese plant; Questions arise about nuclear facility’s status" November 03, 2011|By Hiroko Tabuchi, New Yor...
*HAVE A SAFE, WARM AND HAPPY CHRISTMAS.* There are three things I wish for 2012: 1) Stevie gets his; 2) the US Navy's fusion project gets green-lighted; and 3) that we are all here this time next year to b...
There are a lot more other important things going on, but *this is truly smile worthy*.
I heard this on the Thomm Hartman show while I was driving home from work tonight and wanted to see where else this was reported. This is not easy to find but it was reported November 14, 2011 in the NY T...
Most Canadians will not wake up to a white Christmas on December 25 for the first time since Canada's weather office began recording snowfalls in 1955.
"Many of us have a deep concern for our fellow man. It's very easy to become numb to the signs of poverty surrounding us, as the world's economy worsens each business day. A virtual insulating blanket is ...
Drew Brees: MVP stats, but still wanting to get better ~Jay Vice, WWL
Part of the GOP's deranged version of libertarianism-- the faux "freedom" we talked about earlier-- is a world where selfish and greedy sociopaths have no rules and no regulations holding them back from m...
*We are told Iran did, but.... * "Iraqi Shi’ites show little interest in forging closer ties with Iran" December 16, 2011|By Liz Sly, Washington Pos*t** * NAJAF, Iraq - When a senior Iranian cleric said l...
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Here in Minnesota we have been having a lot of Republican scandal lately and most of it not worth writing about. It is so common - a "family values" Repug having an affair. Last week, Minnesota's Senate ...
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I found this in a massive pile of un-read links. It's a conversation between progressive journalist Bill Moyers and Andrew Bacevich, author of *The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War...
*"Correcting the Growth of Human History"* by Bill Bonner "And so, yesterday, the northern hemisphere had its shortest day of the year. In Baltimore, the sun never rose and never set. It was gray all day....
Stephen Bassett - Demand a full congressional investigation of UFO/ET Disclosure efforts by the Clinton OSTP - the Rockefeller Initiative. Richard M. Dolan and Bryce Zabel - Investigate Unidentified Aerial...
Demonstrators faced tear gas and a heavy police presence as they gathered for a third straight day to protest a coal power plant in southern China. Video from CNN affiliate i-CABLE News showed the massing...
Company plans to roll out their first batch of spnKix by 2012, but they need your help.
Space station commander Dan Burbank managed to snap a stunning photograph of Comet Lovejoy from orbit.
A 2009 report linking a mouse retrovirus to chronic fatigue syndrome is disproved and retracted.
Syria's major opposition group condemned Bashar al-Assad's regime Wednesday for "brutal massacres" this week and urged the U.N. Security Council to protect civilians against "acts of genocide." "The re...
Less than a week after the final U.S. troops pulled out, a string of more than a dozen bombings have left more than 60 dead in largely Shiite neighbors around Baghdad. It apparent signals a resumption of t...
TRUST-iMontana from iMatter March on Vimeo. Motivated by Government Inaction, Youth to Launch Grassroots Movement Against Climate ChangeiMatter Marches: Our Climate. Our Future. Our Revolution: That is...
The High-Tech Priests at CNET have published an unusual, Top 10 List that they describe as the 10 technology trends that "keep us up at night." Most of their tech worries concern technological destruction...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Nias Region, Indonesia at a depth of 28.3 km (17.6 miles), the quake hit at 19:21:21 UTC Thursday 22nd December 2011. The epicenter was 252 km (156 miles) Southwes...
Want to be in two places at once? Hook up a laptop to a robotic body.
The roads are crazy, the shops are overrun so it's time to head online for some instant digital purchases. Might I suggest you shoot some space music down their e-stockings?
Pigeons may be ubiquitous, but they're also brainy, with surprising numerical competence.
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Tarapaca, Chile at a depth of 95.2 km (59.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:41:15 UTC Thursday 22nd December 2011. The epicenter was 132 km (82 miles) Northeast of Iquique,...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Aisen, Chile at a depth of 34.5 km (21.4 miles), the quake hit at 15:06:41 UTC Thursday 22nd December 2011. The epicenter was 277 km (172 miles) ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 35.3 km (21.9 miles), the quake hit at 12:56:36 UTC Thursday 22nd December 2011. The epicenter was 111 km (68 miles)...
Food Freedom by Rady Ananda December 20, 2011 Less than a year after Frito-Lay announced plans to make half their products without “any artificial or synthetic ingredients,” the $13 billion company was su...
A team of Arab League observers has arrived in Damascus to see if President Bashar al Assad keeps to the terms of the agreement designed to end months of bloodshed. The delegation begins its work even as...
We have expanded the team yet again. Dr. David Rudiak, who has done a great deal of work on the “Ramey memo” has accepted our invitation to join us as a consulting researcher along with Tony Bragalia and C...
An interesting piece from *Grist.org* suggests that getting action on climate change is a noisy business. The trick, it claims, is to be outspoken and brutally honest about what's happening and what's com...
*Well, it's anther Christmas in Hooland and "The Grinch" just can't stand it. With copious amount of unpremeditated gall, he re-affirms his alliance with AIPAC, and CUFI "Christians United for Israel, Rev...
The devastation in the southern Philippines left by Tropical Storm Washi has created "huge" humanitarian needs in the area, the United Nations said Wednesday, estimating that nearly a half-million people...
See this? I awoke this morning to four of these. Actually, three were slashed and the only one that wasn't touched was still flat as a pancake. After hoofing it to the nearest garage, lugging back a porta...
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Another take on Jason Kenney's bigotry, by Andrew Potter of the *Ottawa Citizen*. It would be a lot easier to debate the tough cases of Canadian multiculturalism if people understood how the system actual...
Is Univision promoting war with Iran? (via Activist Post) *YouTube -- RT* Description: In Univision documentary it is being alleged that Iran, Venezuela and Cuba are joining forces to plan attacks on ...
Iraqis knew they were getting something special for Christmas this year, the departure of American combat forces. And a good many Iraqis also knew that marked the time for settling old scores and balancin...
From Politico - Note what is first on McConnell's concerns in this statement. “The House should pass an extension that locks in the thousands of Keystone XL pipeline jobs, prevents any disruption in the p...
Beethoven's music changed throughout his life as he lost his hearing.
Lost to the 2004 tsunami at age 8, a survivor finally finds her way home.
*Isaiah Berlin by Pietro Ruffo* As Corey Robin wants to get across in The Reactionary Mind, contemporary politics divides along a line that pits "freedom" against "equality." And as George Monbiot pointed...
Yesterday and today Boehner is telling the American public that they are holding out for a one year extension of unemployment. What he is saying is spurious. The original two month extension (that the Ho...
*Zero Gov* by Bill Buppert December 20th, 2011 *“Under a Communist Party Government, South Africa will become a land of milk and honey.” * ...
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This is happening in my hometown. The cops chased us into City Hall Park. They followed us on their motorcycles as we ran into City Hall Park. Please keep in mind, we are a group of twenty people that we...
Around mid-November, authorities in Namibia were alerted to the discovery of a hollow sphere that had apparently crashed to Earth from space. What is it?
Potentially harmful chemicals show up in a wide variety of drugs and supplements, especially ones with time-release coatings.
RAP NEWS episode 10: The year we've all been waiting for - 2012AD (or 13.0.0.0.0, if you ask a Mayan) - is finally here. What will happen? Will we see the poles shift or a paradigm shift? Will a rogue Su...
The European Union bureaucrats apparently think that they have the right to impose their insane social engineering policies on the rest of the world. While Beyond Petroleum ("BP") plans to rename itself ...
By: Duane Craig The Northeastern region of South Carolina is home to the Great Pee Dee River, and a little tributary to it called, Black Creek. Black Creek has a problem with fecal coliform bacteria going...
Obama and Geithner: Government, Enron-Style POSTED: DECEMBER 20, 10:06 AM ET . ...
This pet door only opens for recognized, microchipped cats, and then locks the door behind them.
Three wise men arrested for illegal possession of “frankincense” and “myrrh.” Art from Dare to Create.Christmas is no time totalk about war and peaceWhen the angels sang, 'peace on earth good will to all,' t...
Orator and humanist Robert G. Ingersoll. Image from the Council for Secular Humanism.Robert Green Ingersoll:A humanist looks at ChristmasBy Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog / December 22, 2011Robert Green Ing...
Mummies, the Civil War and a possible wife of the Christian God? Must be a History poll! Vote for your favorite History story of 2011.
The way our planet temporarily captures asteroids suggests Earth should have an extra moon at any one time.
Clips from Fox News Newt Gingrich is giving fair warning to judges and courts across the country: If he becomes president, the judiciary won’t reign supreme. The former House Speaker and current Republica...
Benzinga / *By William K. Black* Bill Black's Handy Guide to Bankster Fraud, From 'Small Fraudulent Fry' to 'Septic Tank Scum' * * * The white collar criminologist calls out Bush and Obama for not p...
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So the Harper GovernmentTM finally uttered the words we've been expecting and dreading: health care. We all know what they're up to. It's the standard reactionary playbook on public health care. One, c...
Recovery School District releases final decisions on school sites In Judy's Kitchen: Atlanta Falcons 'Dirty Birdseed' * New Orleans Gets a Good Defense Lawyer ~Mac McClelland, MoJo LA attorney general fil...
*Plus Michele B & breast-feeding, Taibbi on Wall St. prosecutions, The Donald's the man?, war on workers, war on women, and more* * Don't cry, Mr. Speaker -- you've still got a job. * *by Noah* *2/16/11 -...
Read this in an article this morning - McCain bitching and moaning about the Pres going to PetSmart yesterday. He said "previous presidents I've served under … would be calling them over to the White Hous...
*Rove: Republicans should fold in payroll tax cut standoff* By Jonathan Easley - 12/21/11 05:16 PM ET Former Bush adviser Karl Rove said he agreed with the Wall Street Journal’s blistering assessment o...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck South of Java, Indonesia at a depth of 23.2 km (14.4 miles), the quake hit at 12:11:52 UTC Thursday 22nd December 2011. The epicenter was 239 km (149 miles) SSW of Tas...
French prosecutors have launched a criminal inquiry into a Conservative MP and 12 of his friends who attended a Nazi-themed stag night at an Alpine ski resort. Aidan Burley, 32, and members of his party ...
*They are TRYING to START A WAR because the old guy died.* * * *"Members of North Korea’s ruling class might also recognize that, at least for now, they have no choice but to accept the succession.... dur...
A young father was arrested yesterday after he posted a photo on Facebook of his 22-month-old daughter bound and gagged. Andre Curry, from South Side, Chicago,was charged with aggravated domestic battery ...
Hackers in China have managed to penetrate the computer networks of the America's top business-lobbying group, it has been claimed. All the data held by systems at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, including ...
With 16.5 billion letters, packages and cards expected through the U.S. Postal Service this holiday season, the last obstacle senders might expect their packages to face, are thieving rats. A post office ...
Police are searching for a woman who has gone missing after her desperate call to 911 was abruptly disconnected on Tuesday. Twenty-eight-year-old Jennifer Elizabeth Dunford's cell phone was found in piece...
A New York woman sent her husband on an errand on Wednesday, then allegedly used a shotgun to kill her father, her ten-year-old daughter and herself. Police say Penelope Luddy, 53, persuaded her 57-year-ol...
Syrian armed forces have carried out live firing exercises as a show of strength after 111 people were killed in one town yesterday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said troops using heavy machine ...
Three Britons and three other men have been sent to jail for evading tax on EU carbon permits. A judge in Germany said the defendants' €300million (£250million) conspiracy had undermined efforts to tackle...
First there was ghost riding, then flash robs, and now there's a disturbing new criminal trend that's going viral. Video clips of teens trashing local businesses have clocked up millions of views online. ...
When astronomers caught sight of a mysterious titanium white object circling the Earth in 2006, they assumed it was a spent rocket. But it was actually a small asteroid captured by our gravitational field ...
*The Hong Kong government has banned imports and the auction of live chickens for three weeks after an infected chicken carcass was found at a wholesale market on Tuesday.* Hong Kong is culling 17,000 ch...
Two teenagers subjected a woman to a terrifying rape ordeal after stalking her and abducting her as she left a nightclub. Jailat Khan and Shahzada Khan, both just 16, were caught after they were capture...
They're as much a part of Christmas as Santa. But now conservationists have warned Rudolph’s reindeer friends are under threat, as the world’s largest herd has gone into decline – and could be wiped out w...
It is usually a topic about which the authorities remain tight-lipped. So transporting a flying saucer on the back of a truck in broad daylight was more than a little out of character. Or so thought the re...
The judge behind a ‘whitewash’ review of extradition has admitted he had not met Gary McKinnon, the Asperger’s sufferer who faces being sent to the U.S. for trial on hacking charges. Lord Justice Scott B...
*Researchers have developed a clever way to achieve the coldest temperatures ever recorded on Earth. The approach, reported in Nature, may be well-suited to create memory for future quantum computers. Op...
*Mission accomplished. * "*The number of Iraqi neighborhoods in which members of the two Muslim sects live side by side and intermarry has dwindled*." * * *And they called it liberation. * "Iraqis celebr...
A hoodie who was caught on video dragging a rider from his scooter during the London riots was today jailed for five years and 10 months. Ryan Kichenside, 18, was caught on footage posted on YouTube chasi...
The idea of the surreal Hollywood blockbuster Inception, where people travel through someone's dreams to 'plant' an idea in his head may not be so out-there after all. Researchers at Yale have found that ...
A super-strain of bird flu that could infect and wipe out millions will not be published by the virologist developers. Dutch scientists who created ‘probably one of the most dangerous viruses you can mak...
Eight U.S. Army soldiers have been charged over the death of an Asian-American soldier in Afghanistan who was allegedly severely racially bullied. Private Danny Chen, 19, of New York, was found dead in a ...
At least 57 people have died following a series of bomb attacks across Baghdad - just days after American troops left Iraq for the final time. The blasts come amid a political crisis in the country, with ...
Two planets have been discovered that survived a grilling by a swollen dying star, providing astronomers with a sobering glimpse of Earth’s fate far into the future. The planets, found by astronomers from...
*Sony has unveiled a paper-powered battery prototype in Japan. The team behind the project said such bio-batteries are environmentally friendly as they did not use harmful chemicals or metals. The process...
A teenager was tortured and cut up in front of another woman so she would be frightened into cooperating with a human trafficking ring, police said. Jimmy Lee Massey, 33, was arrested over the first-degre...
Karl Smith (right) and Jeffrey Burton, who beat a teenager up on a night out, have had their curfew relaxed so they can watch football. Magistrates relaxed the curfews of two thugs so they could go to a fo...
But the news isn't all bad, with economists suggesting the nation's wobbly economy could drive the official cash rate as low as 3.5 per cent by the end of 2012, *The Daily Telegraph *reported. Westpac chi...
*I don't want to hear anymore from the Boston Globe, sorry. * "In Baghdad, Panetta Leads Uneasy Moment of Closure" by THOM SHANKER, MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and ROBERT F. WORTH, December 15, 2011 BAGHDAD — Al...
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For millions of American families, there will be no Christmas this year. The sad truth is that an increasing number of families simply do not have money for Christmas presents or any other luxuries right n...
*Catching up with Zach --* *from* MoveOn.org *by Ken* Sometimes it bothers me when I find that I've written exactly the same thing as 6000 as other bloggers -- and then again sometimes it doesn't. Whic...
*PERSONAL:* *FAREWELL TO MY SISTER:* I've reached the age where I see my siblings dying, something quite different from having your parents die (many years in the past for me). Just this week I have...
Winter 2011: Iran gains possession of a high-tech U.S. stealth aircraft that was spying on Iran for military and intelligence purposes. The Iranian government says the capture of the drone will provide ...
It has been said that I have a fondness for taking a pop at the Protestants in the UK-administered part of Ireland. I certainly have raised issues concerning the manipulation of the people in that area, ...
This week California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa, an unlikely proponent of something good for a change as stalwart warrior to stop SOPA, released the Judiciary Committee list of the businesses and organ...
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