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A good Samaritan has brought Christmas cheer to shoppers at a US Toys'R'Us after she paid for at least 50 people's purchases. The woman, who described herself as a "retired grandma", flittered between two...
Hailstones the size of cricket balls, flash-flooding, planes diverted and
flights postponed, power lost from homes, major transport delays and a tornado to top things off - that was
Christmas Day in Melbou...
Queenslanders will have to give Christmas Day picnics on the beach a miss this year as swells as high as four metres take over many popular spots. The Queensland Weather Bureau has issued a severe weather ...
An out-of-control bushfire is threatening lives and homes in Western Australia's mid-west. A bushfire watch and act has been issued for people at Marrilla Station, in the Shire of Carnarvon, and Giralia a...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 49.3 km (30.6 miles), the quake hit at 17:41:39 UTC Sunday 25th December 2011. The epicenter was 51 km (31.6 miles) ...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Eastern Sichuan, China at a depth of 23.3 km (14.5 miles), the quake hit at 16:46:52 UTC Sunday 25th December 2011. The epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) West of Deyang, ...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Guatemala at a depth of 108.3 km (67.3 miles), the quake hit at 13:25:18 UTC Sunday 25th December 2011. The epicenter was 30 km (18 miles) NNE of Tapachula, Chiapas, Me...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Ethiopia at a depth of 10.2 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 10:48:20 UTC Sunday 25th December 2011. The epicenter was 145 km (90 miles) East of Mekele, Ethiopia No Rep...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Sichuan-Gansu Border Region, China at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:11:40 UTC Sunday 25th December 2011. The epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) WNW...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the Izu Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 433.8 km (2269.6 miles), the quake hit at 07:46:41 UTC Sunday 25th December 2011. The epicenter was 271 km (168 miles) SSW ...
The proof that CNN as well as the entire mainstream media are controlled by pro-Israel Zionists is contained in these CNN videos of Ron Paul and the Republican debates: This first video here is CNN's UNCU...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Nicaragua at a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 06:37:29 UTC Sunday 25th December 2011. The epicenter was 116 km (72 miles) WSW of Rivas...
A radical Muslim sect has claimed responsibility for two bomb attacks on churches in Nigeria during Christmas Day services in which at least 30 people have died. The first explosion ripped through St The...
Pope Benedict XVI presided over Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve, delivering a homily that focused on the "essence" of the holiday rather than the "commercial celebration" it has become. "Today Christmas ha...
Last time Virginia Republicans were polled (just over 2 weeks ago), Gingrich was up 26% over Romney. To have a lead this large requires broad support with the various different factions of the party, and...
*Nigeria's Goodluck Jonathan shakes hands with visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi in Nigeria, 8 January 2010. * *On 25 December 2011, there were bomb attacks on churches in Nigeria. * The group B...
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We can say two things about Congress in the wake of the news that Rep. Barney Frank is retiring after this term: It’s about to get a little dumber, and a lot duller. So here, in appreciation for his year...
*We will still be there, 'murka.* "Afghan parley to debate US role; Man with bomb reportedly killed at site of meeting" November 15, 2011|By Joshua Partlow, Washington Post KABUL - The Karzai government w...
The goal, stated in the last sentence, for this research from Croatia - conducted from 1991 to 1995 - makes the charmingly naive assumption that the problem it investigates can be ameliorated. I have left...
"Hope waning among Afghan-Americans" by Ernesto Londono Washington Post /October 9, 2011 KABUL - The *Sept. 11 attacks had made a US assault* on Afghanistan feel *all but inevitable*.... *Related*:* "the ...
"Insurgents strike on 10th anniversary of Afghan war" October 08, 2011|By C.J. Chivers, New York Times FORWARD OPERATING BASE TILLMAN, Afghanistan - Insurgents attacked four US outposts simultaneously nea...
"Insurgents strike on 10th anniversary of Afghan war" October 08, 2011|By C.J. Chivers, New York Times FORWARD OPERATING BASE TILLMAN, Afghanistan - Insurgents attacked four US outposts simultaneously nea...
*They are lucky if they get one a day. * *This is liberation and winning?* "2 million Afghans face food shortages" November 19, 2011|Associated Press KABUL - More than *2 million people *are *facing food ...
*Almost makes you think the whole mass-murdering war crime based on lies was worth it*: "Afghans see dramatic boost in health care" December 01, 2011|By Patrick Quinn, Associated Press KABUL - Afghans ar...
*Wrong lesson.* "Afghans torture detainees, UN says" October 11, 2011|By Alissa J. Rubin, New York Times KABUL - Suspects are hung by their hands, *beaten with cables*, given *electric shocks*, and subje...
*Peace talk never gets very far in the war paper so please excuse me if I stop listening after a while.* "Karzai abandons talks with Taliban; Suggests shift of focus to Pakistan" by Rahim Faiez Associated...
I figured I'd take a picture of our tree before Popeye completely destroyed my already haphazard arrangement. Here's Popeye once the catnip got broken out. Looks as if my trepidations were well-founded....
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This video of Malalai Joya and Noam Chomsky speaking in Boston is from March of this year, but sadly, is every bit as relevant today. Chomsky's analysis of the situation in south and central Asia is especi...
If Christmas Day has clear skies, you may be able to spot Venus, Jupiter, Mars, Saturn and Mercury in the night sky.
*"America is not broke" (Michael Moore), real death panels, did she deserve to be beaten?, rehabbing the Bush name, and more* *"It's important to remember, no one was hurt at Three Mile Island"* *by Noah*...
by Kurt Haskell It has now been two years since the Underwear Bomber attack. Once again, Lori and I find ourselves reflecting during the holidays about what happened on Flight 253. The attack, which compr...
*And in the spirit of the season, he knows when you've been sleeping, he knows when your awake.* "CIA worker killed during attack in Kabul; Afghan assailant dies; Assaults grow on US forces, allied offici...
*Better take a seat for this, readers*: "Chair bomb targets Afghan general; 1 person injured; attack at ceremony called inside job" December 09, 2011|By Rod Nordland and Taimoor Shah, *New York Times* KA...
A bomb blast struck a Catholic church west of the Nigerian capital of Abuja on Sunday, the National Emergency Management Agency said, stirring memories of strikes against Nigerian churches during last year...
*Carla Bruni, who is in Marrakech.* It's Christmas 2011 and Carla Bruni, wife of Nicolas Sarkozy, is staying at a multimillion-pound villa near Marrakesh in Morocco. Carla Bruni jets out to multimillion-...
"Make 'em a sandwich and say, 'Oh by the way here!'" God bless us every one.
This is the hair-raising moment a Chinese soldier almost killed himself after fluffing hand grenade practice. Footage of the army training exercise shows the soldier preparing the hand grenade to throw it...
An alert has gone out for the recall of thousands of beaded bracelets sold in tourist attractions after it emerged they are made from a highly toxic seed. The Eden Project in Cornwall, which sold 2,800 i...
Wishing us Peace on Earth, and goodwill to all. Merry Christmas, folks! - CP
A moment of sanity amidst the infinite stupidity of war. In the end, we have more in common with the furthest flung foreign common man than the closest corporate-fascists that presume dominion over our ...
Website for this image Will 2012 see the end of the internet as we know it? In the USA there is something called the Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) Uploaded by JeepersMedia on 22 Dec 2011 Go to http://on...
T'is dark, And I like it. T'is silent, And I am reflective. T'is peaceful, And I am reminded of my friends. To all of you, may you and all who surround you have a joyful holiday season. * About the gra...
Images of nature with "Greensleeves" performed by David Nevue.
Jethro Tull's rendition of the classic celtic christmas song, “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”
The Moody Blues, "In the Quiet of Christmas Morning" (Bach 147)
A Christmas video set to the Christmas song “When A Child Is Born”, performed by The Moody Blues.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could face spy charges in the U.S. after a court revealed his apparent 'role' in the theft of secret military documents, it emerged today. Lawyers have produced logs of on...
Police are hunting a man suspected of killing two people in Virginia, US, who then escaped the scene in a stolen car with a two-year-old boy in the backseat. The shooting took place the Church Hill area ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Iran-Iraq Border Region at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 05:35:32 UTC Sunday 25th December 2011. The epicenter was 45 km (2...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 34.7 km (21.6 miles), the quake hit at 03:36:49 UTC Sunday 25th December 2011. The epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) So...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Mindanao, Philippines at a depth of 61.8 km (38.4 miles), the quake hit at 00:07:55 UTC Sunday 25th December 2011. The epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) ESE of Davao, Min...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Svalbard Region at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 22:39:07 UTC Saturday 24th December 2011. The epicenter was 678 km (421 miles) ESE of Nord, Greenl...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Tonga Region at a depth of 43.1 km (26.8 miles), the quake hit at 22:02:19 UTC Saturday 24th December 2011. The epicenter was 154 km (95 miles) Northeast of Neiafu,...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Hokkaido, Japan Region at a depth of 153.1 km (95.1 miles), the quake hit at 20:49:05 UTC Saturday 24th December 2011. The epicenter was 61 km (37 miles) North of Kush...
Josh Groban singing "O Holy Night" at the Christmas tree lighting ceremony at the Rockefeller Center in NYC on December 4, 2002.
St. Thomas Boys Choir (Thomanerchor)
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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 a...
* "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 - 21 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 - 22 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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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...
We're open every day, 365 a year, so detail any bias you spot over the Christmas holiday here! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
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...
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...
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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...
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Police at remote Croker Island in the Northern Territory say the local community has escaped serious damage from a category two cyclone. Tropical Cyclone Grant intensified into a category two system late o...
Queenslanders will have to give Christmas Day picnics on the beach a miss this year as swells as high as four metres take over many popular spots. The Queensland Weather Bureau has issued a severe weather ...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 49.3 km (30.6 miles), the quake hit at 17:41:39 UTC Sunday 25th December 2011. The epicenter was 51 km (31.6 miles) ...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Eastern Sichuan, China at a depth of 23.3 km (14.5 miles), the quake hit at 16:46:52 UTC Sunday 25th December 2011. The epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) West of Deyang, ...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Guatemala at a depth of 108.3 km (67.3 miles), the quake hit at 13:25:18 UTC Sunday 25th December 2011. The epicenter was 30 km (18 miles) NNE of Tapachula, Chiapas, Me...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Ethiopia at a depth of 10.2 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 10:48:20 UTC Sunday 25th December 2011. The epicenter was 145 km (90 miles) East of Mekele, Ethiopia No Rep...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Sichuan-Gansu Border Region, China at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:11:40 UTC Sunday 25th December 2011. The epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) WNW...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the Izu Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 433.8 km (2269.6 miles), the quake hit at 07:46:41 UTC Sunday 25th December 2011. The epicenter was 271 km (168 miles) SSW ...
The proof that CNN as well as the entire mainstream media are controlled by pro-Israel Zionists is contained in these CNN videos of Ron Paul and the Republican debates: This first video here is CNN's UNCU...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Nicaragua at a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 06:37:29 UTC Sunday 25th December 2011. The epicenter was 116 km (72 miles) WSW of Rivas...
A radical Muslim sect has claimed responsibility for two bomb attacks on churches in Nigeria during Christmas Day services in which at least 30 people have died. The first explosion ripped through St The...
Pope Benedict XVI presided over Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve, delivering a homily that focused on the "essence" of the holiday rather than the "commercial celebration" it has become. "Today Christmas ha...
Last time Virginia Republicans were polled (just over 2 weeks ago), Gingrich was up 26% over Romney. To have a lead this large requires broad support with the various different factions of the party, and...
*Nigeria's Goodluck Jonathan shakes hands with visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi in Nigeria, 8 January 2010. * *On 25 December 2011, there were bomb attacks on churches in Nigeria. * The group B...
The goal, stated in the last sentence, for this research from Croatia - conducted from 1991 to 1995 - makes the charmingly naive assumption that the problem it investigates can be ameliorated. I have left...
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