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Boston Police Department: 'You are chasing a ghost'* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ The big joke at...
* "A Buddhist Prayer of Forgiveness"* "If I have harmed anyone in any way either knowingly or unknowingly through my own confusions I ask their forgiveness. If anyone has harmed me in any way either knowin...
"A Prayer for the World" "Let the rain come and wash away the ancient grudges, the bitter hatreds held and nurtured over generations. Let the rain wash away the memory of the hurt, the neglect. Then let th...
*Cui bono?* "Pakistan Should Accuse Pentagon And CIA Of Murdering Rabbani" by Ahmed Quraishi, Sep 26th, 2011
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan— .... The assassination neatly fits in with the interests of three parties...
*Globe won't tie you down. * "
Afghanistan opens its first major railroad service" by
Kay Johnson Associated Press / December 22, 2011 Operators ran the first train down Afghanistan’s first major railroad ...
*HANDEL: Messiah: No. 2. Accompagnato, "Comfort ye"* Comfort ye, comfort ye, my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniq...
*And back again*: "Afghan car bomb targets police-friendly merchant" September 28, 2011|By Alissa J. Rubin, New York Times KABUL - A *bombing of a minibus* that *killed 11 children and five adults*headed...
Today is a day to celebrate the birth of the Messiah who ended the First Covenant and swept away the Chosen status of our would-be rulers; not some red-suited chimney-diver from the Coca Cola corporation....
Video: Ron Paul's Foreign Policy: Defend this country, restore our economy, secure our borders, end foreign aid, lead by example, not by force for a safer stronger America. .... For more informatio...
On CBC's *The House*, Evan Solomon asked Reform Party matriarch Deborah Grey about Harper. Harper used to be her legislative assistant so we can probably safely assume she has some insight into the way he ...
If 2012 sees the ouster of John Boehner as Speaker of the House, it won't be the first time Republicans have kicked him out of a leadership role. In the summer of 1997 Boehner, then chairman of the Republ...
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Buckdog - 7 hours ago
*A 73-year-old man hired as a shopping mall Santa Claus has been arrested in Regina for being drunk in public.* The man was escorted out of a downtown mall Friday. Santa arrested for public intoxication i...
*INTERNATIONAL ANARCHISM:* *SOLIDARITY WITH INDONESIAN PUNKS:* In the countries where anarchism is a tradition the idea of "anarchist subcultures" is definitely a peripheral matter. Even in countries w...
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wmtc - 8 hours ago
The most challenging part of being a library page has been not answering people's questions. Pages are in the stacks, shelving books, so naturally people are going to ask us questions. Plus people always a...
Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas! CP
Franz Schubert, “Ave Maria” Placido Domingo and the Vienna Boys Choir
A photographer slinks into the Pu'u 'O'o crater of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, which has been active since 1983. "A lot of the time the lava's flowing into the sea, and you can walk right up to it," said th...
“On Christmas Eve 1946, George Bailey (James Stewart) is deeply depressed, even suicidal. Prayers for George are heard by the angels. Clarence Odbody (Henry Travers), an Angel Second Class, is sent to Ear...
"Are you willing to forget what you have done for other people, and to remember what other people have done for you? To remember the weakness and loneliness of people who are growing old? Are you willing ...
*"The True Essence Of Giving: Give From The Heart"* by Jonathan "Giving is big business right now, so let’s look a little closer at the whole concept of giving. Once you back away from the commercial aspe...
The eruption of Mount St. Helens 30 years ago on May 18, 1980 (pictured), is the most devastating and most studied volcanic explosion in U.S. history. The blast killed 57 people and spewed 520 million tons...
The danger with Washington State's Mount Rainier is that it's covered by more snow and ice than all the other Cascade Range volcanoes combined, so it presents a high risk of lahars, or volcanic mudflows. "...
Climbers cross a ridge on Oregon's most dangerous volcano, Mount Hood. "A key issue with Mount Hood is that people live on the flank of the volcano, state highways cross its flanks—so there's a lot of stuf...
Flanked by an interstate, California's Mount Shasta volcano looms over thousands of homes, a key to its USGS "very high threat" rating. Around Mount Shasta an eruption's pyroclastic flow—rapid currents of ...
With South Sister (pictured) ranked by the USGS as a "very high threat" volcano, the Three Sisters area is a volcanic hotbed spanning about 115 square miles (300 square kilometers) just west of Bend, Orego...
It might be slightly unfair to single out Lassen Peak (pictured), since the Redding, California-area volcano (map) is simply one among several volcanoes in a volatile cluster. "The next eruption might not...
The largest volcano on Earth, Hawaii's Mauna Loa has erupted 33 times since its first documented eruption in 1843, but has been relatively quiet since 1984. (Video: Hawaii's Mauna Loa.) Mauna Loa's genera...
Alaska's Redoubt Volcano, which last erupted in 2009 (pictures), presents a high risk because of its proximity to the city of Anchorage, its international airport, and the flight paths overhead. Pictured ...
[image: Link]*A lava outcrop juts from the rim of Oregon's Crater Lake. Born of a blast that expelled more than 50 times the volume of magma as the Mount St. Helens eruption 30 years ago, this watery calde...
*The world's "sleeping giants" can wake up much quicker than thought, according to a new Volcano model.* Scientists believe the magma chambers—or reservoirs of molten rock—under dormant volcanoes are fill...
Unless you live in British Columbia you might not consider yourself affected by the goings on at BC Ferries. That would be until you realize that, while BC Ferries fares have skyrocketed since they became...
* "*No more lives torn apart, That wars will never start, And time will heal our hearts. Every man will have a friend, That right will always win, And love will never end. This is my grown-up Christma...
*"Many Thanks- An Internet Merry Christmas!"* Author Unknown "As we finish up the year 2011, I want to thank all of you for your educational e-mails over the past year. I am totally screwed up now and ...
The head of the government's nuclear energy panel warned in March that all residents in areas within a 170-kilometer radius of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant might need to be relocated in a worst-cas...
Note: Additional Aftershocks 24th Dec 2011 - 07:39 UTC - 4.0 Magnitude - Depth 15 km - 10 km East of Christchurch - 07:51 UTC - 3.5 Magnitude - Depth 8 km - 20 km Southeast of Christchurch - 10...
An influenza virus similar to one found in wild birds but never before seen in seals has been linked to the recent spate of harbor seal deaths off northern New England, scientists said Tuesday. Since Sep...
Imagine being trapped in a society that considers heretical the notion of living within its finite means. That is very much the civilization within which you and I and the rest of humanity live. Life on ...
*“The Christmas Truce of 1914”* by Simon Rees “You are standing up to your knees in the slime of a waterlogged trench. It is the evening of 24 December 1914 and you are on the dreaded Western Front. Sto...
The fisheries, forest and health departments of Ahmedabad district swung into action on Friday after receiving reports of fish dying en masse in a pond near Kerala, a village located 38 km from Ahmedabad. ...
On a crystal-clear summer morning in this mountainous Patagonian resort, a lone paraglider floated gently above a placid lake shore. "You know, when the wind is blowing right, everything here is still perf...
Fragments of a Russian satellite that failed to launch properly have landed in a street named after cosmonauts in a remote Siberian village, reports say. The Meridian communications satellite failed to r...
Fighting between a radical Muslim sect and Nigerian troops have left more than 60 people dead. Several days of violence in the Nigeria's northeast has left churches bombed and people hiding in fear. Th...
North Korea’s state-run media on Saturday published an entreaty to the country’s new young leader, Kim Jong-un, to become “supreme commander” of the military, signaling that his succession is moving forwar...
Recently, my earlier post, "Blackbody: The Key Error in Climate Science", was attacked by Christopher Monckton (a widely-known "lukewarm" believer in the consensus greenhouse effect), on Jo Nova's site. I ...
Daily Kos: I See What Occupy Vancouver Did There...And It's Brilliant: 'via Blog this' At the Daily Kos, Ed Murray shines the light of reason on the corporate media's theme-O-the-week: The media’s lates...
A timeline & history: One year into the engineered "Arab Spring," one step closer to global hegemony. by Tony Cartalucci dupe (dp, dyp) *n.* *1. * An easily deceived person. *2. * A person who functions as...
*Madrassas and palm trees in Wisconsin, Mike Huckabee's Mau-Maus, Sean & Kase, the real NFL lockout victims, and more* * It'd be something if Southerners were at least embarrassed by arrogant dunces likes ...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the New Ireland Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 74.9 km (46.5 miles), the quake hit at 17:14:15 UTC Saturday 24th December 2011. The epicenter was 86 km (53 mil...
Media culpa: Margaret Wente, Math and Christianity: More factual/attribution errors?: 'via Blog this' What's that? Wente being sloppy with numbers? Wente being shoddy and haphazard with attributions? I'm...
Forces loyal to Yemen's Ali Abdullah Saleh fired guns, tear gas and water cannons to keep tens of thousands of protesters away from the president's compound in Sanaa on Saturday, killing at least one woman...
The Kentucky mother of an autistic third-grader said she found him outside his classroom stuffed in a duffel bag with the drawstring pulled tight — because he misbehaved. Sandra Baker said she heard her s...
------------------------------ Original Here THURSDAY DEC 22, 2011 8:14 am *When Democracy Becomes Disposable* BY ROGER BYBEE Benton Harbor Emergency Manager Joseph Harris speaks at the MLGMA Summer Co...
"The Pentagon will also be asking Congress to appropriate *$35 million to $40 million* in new and reallocated money to pay for the task force, a senior NATO official said.... * * *Good thing you aren't r...
The best way to sew up a deboned, stuffed turkey and keep it beautiful is with surgical staples.
T-Mobile's LG DoublePlay slides open to reveal a physical keyboard with a small utility screen in the middle of it.
If you're a defender of the space research, you may have been asked whether there is a danger that a failed satellite may return to the Earth and hit someone or his assets such as his house. Just like...
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Buckdog - 15 hours ago
Merry Christmas! Best Wishes For Health and Happiness!! from ....Buckdog Politics!!
I can't say it's any more than a hunch that Trump is-- and has long been-- kinda-sorta working to reelect President Obama. And I don't mean that he's stumbling around so pathetically that sane people are ...
Two U.N. World Food Programme workers and a third colleague from a local agency were shot to death in Somalia Friday, the organization said. The trio was attacked in Mataban town in Hiban Province in cent...
Christmas Eve bonfires set to go up in flames despite rain, high river~Jennifer Boquet Leah Rogne, Mankato, Minn., letter -- Corps to rural North Dakota: Drop dead
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 181.3 km (112.7 miles), the quake hit at 11:12:16 UTC Saturday 24th December 2011. The epicenter was 68 k...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck offshore El Salvador at a depth of 83.9 km (52.1 miles), the quake hit at 09:38:25 UTC Saturday 24th December 2011. The epicenter was 82 km (50 miles) Southwest of San...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Kyrgyzstan at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 09:20:04 UTC Saturday 24th December 2011. The epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) NNE of Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan ...
"India’s rapid expansion swallows up farmland" November 25, 2011|By Ravi Nessman, Associated Press ROZAJALALPUR, India - The farmers of Rozajalalpur knew what was coming. They saw others closer to India’s...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 337.1 km (209.5 miles), the quake hit at 08:03:12 UTC Saturday 24th December 2011. The epicenter was 128 km (79 miles) West o...
More than 50,000 Russians have pledged to attend what could be the biggest protest since the disputed parliamentary elections on December 4. The gathering is being seen as a litmus test for the opposition...
*Time to say a quick prayer and get out of India. * "Buddhist official faces charges over cash" December 09, 2011|By New York Times NEW DELHI - Indian police have filed criminal charges against one of Ti...
"31 guilty of killing Muslims in India riot" November 10, 2011|By Hari Kumar, New York Times NEW DELHI - A court in India found 31 people guilty yesterday of killing 33 Muslims in riots in Gujarat state i...
"94 killed in *fire* at high-tech Indian hospital; Doctors fled to safety, leaving patients behind" December 10, 2011|By Hari Kumar and Lydia Polgreen, New York Times NEW DELHI - When the smoke cleared, *...
*It's always best to abstain. * "Toxic bootleg liquor kills 143 people in eastern India; Homemade brew methanol-tainted; 10 suspects held" December 16, 2011|By Bikas Das, Associated Press SANGRAMPUR, Ind...
*I don't watch them here, so why would I care about them over there?* "Clerk’s game show win echoes movie" October 28, 2011|Associated Press NEW DELHI - A poor government clerk from a desolate region of e...
*Formally known as Slow Saturday Special; however, there was no Globe at the newsstand this morning and I'm not going back out. Not doing so will actually be a good thing; it will save me some money and no...
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Biased BBC - 19 hours ago
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Biased BBC - 19 hours ago
Just wanting to take a quiet moment from a hectic schedule to wish ALL Biased BBC writers and readers a very Merry Christmas and best wishes for 2012. It's been a very busy year on the site as we go from s...
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Biased BBC - 19 hours ago
Bang on cue, the BBC couldn't let Christmas arrive without having yet ANOTHER go at the pesky Jews. Check out this outrageous item ran on Today this morning. It seems that Israeli security restrictions are...
*"Brotherhood"* "I am a man: little do I last and the night is enormous. But I look up: the stars write. Unknowing I understand: I too am written, and at this very moment someone spells me out." Octavio Paz
Thousands gathered in the Egyptian capital on Friday in a mass demonstration against the country's armed forces and its heavy-handed treatment of protesters, which has since drawn international condemnatio...
The Taliban is claiming responsibility for a suicide car bombing Saturday that struck a military housing area in northwest Pakistan, a spokesman for the group said. The attack, which authorities say kill...
What is surprising is that thedifferences between the brains are that significant and that we also learn thatolfactory stimulus is linked to memory and emotion. It is all very suggestive and supports ...
I particularly like the strategyof at least having a full glass of water after each drink. Most of the symptoms of a hangover couldeasily be from dehydration. In the event, let be take thismoment to ...
We have watched a shifting ofbirthing protocols over the past few years and a restoration of the role of themidwife. This is obviously controversialalthough from this item it appears that what is need...
More impressively it will light up and become quite visibleto us and this will all happen inside of two years. It will also be an excellent field test ofour modeling to see how well they are working. ...
Note: Additional Aftershocks 23rd/24th Dec 2011 - 18:42 UTC 23rd Dec - 3.6 Magnitude - Depth 8 km - 20 km East of Christchurch - 19:27 UTC 23rd Dec - 3.7 Magnitude - Depth 5 km - 20 km East of ...
The mine at Fort McMurray, on the banks of the Athabasca River, Alberta, had already been operating for 17 years of the first picture from a U.S. satellite. Today the Canadian tar sands are recognised as o...
Nasa scientists were in a very festive mood on Friday, releasing an amazing image of a nebula they nicknamed the 'wreath nebula.' The scene looks like a ring of evergreens decorated with a red Christmasy ...
Barbaric textbooks handed out in Saudi Arabian schools teach children how to cut off a thief's hands and feet under Sharia law, it has emerged. The shocking books, paid for and printed by the Saudi governm...
At least seven people were injured in northern Georgia as powerful storms roared across the area, damaging homes, downing trees and knocking out power to thousands. A survey team planned to visit Gordon ...
President Barack Obama is starting his delayed Christmas vacation in Hawaii after securing an agreement to extend payroll tax cuts into 2012. Air Force One touched down in Honolulu on Friday evening. The p...
Video: Noam Chomsky in 1993 on the NED's projects in Nicaragua: "It's about what you would expect from a bipartisan democracy campaign - it's an attempt to impose what is called democracy, meaning rule b...
Ron Paul "believes the United States should shed its role as the world’s policeman and focus instead on its internal economic problems. *"Representative Ron Paul of Texas says he would cut a trillion doll...
The reputation of Russia’s space industry took yet another hit today after a communications satellite fell to the ground soon after it was launched. The Meridian satellite, which can have both military and...
Gale-force winds and heavy rain are expected to hit Darwin as the Northern Territory coast braces itself for a tropical cyclone. Localised flooding is expected over the northern Darwin-Daly, Arnhem and no...
A ‘depraved’ former police inspector who led a double life encouraging internet paedophiles to sexually assault children was jailed today for 30 months. Geraint Lloyd Evans, 48, was suspended and later sa...
Wintworth and Lurline Deslandes are desperate to confirm suspicions that Saturday Hassan - who shot their public schoolboy son Darren in the head after being thrown out of the family’s pub is a foreign nat...
Interpol is seeking the arrest of the founder of a French company responsible for making breast implants which have sparked a health scare, according to reports. The international police organisation say...
*Christmas in Jakarta - **Website for this image* Over the Christmas period, in Indonesia, millions of Moslems will be protecting both Christians and churches. H.M. Nuruzzaman, of the world's biggest Mosl...
"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." - Crowfoo...
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...
CBS News:"Yes, a card makes Christmas complete." These are the first (and only) words in this 1968 short video made by Terry Gilliam. The Monty Python member made this festive cut-out animation for the Briti...
"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 - 1 day 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 f...
“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 ...
Gather round the pole! And later... feats of strength!
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 - 1 day 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...
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...
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*Twitter and the menacing hashtag subpoena* *UPDATED* *Anonymous to Boston Police Department: 'You are chasing a ghost'* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ The big joke at...
*HANDEL: Messiah: No. 2. Accompagnato, "Comfort ye"* Comfort ye, comfort ye, my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniq...
Today is a day to celebrate the birth of the Messiah who ended the First Covenant and swept away the Chosen status of our would-be rulers; not some red-suited chimney-diver from the Coca Cola corporation....
If 2012 sees the ouster of John Boehner as Speaker of the House, it won't be the first time Republicans have kicked him out of a leadership role. In the summer of 1997 Boehner, then chairman of the Republ...
*A 73-year-old man hired as a shopping mall Santa Claus has been arrested in Regina for being drunk in public.* The man was escorted out of a downtown mall Friday. Santa arrested for public intoxication i...
*INTERNATIONAL ANARCHISM:* *SOLIDARITY WITH INDONESIAN PUNKS:* In the countries where anarchism is a tradition the idea of "anarchist subcultures" is definitely a peripheral matter. Even in countries w...
A photographer slinks into the Pu'u 'O'o crater of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, which has been active since 1983. "A lot of the time the lava's flowing into the sea, and you can walk right up to it," said th...
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