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A weak, harmless voltage run through metallic structures underwater is reviving near-dead reefs.
“*Well, I’m an absolute fan of lacy lingerie. I want to make that perfectly clear*.” -Michael Ignatieff "*I mean we have the ridiculous thing of a government saying how much confidence they have in Bev ...
*Guvs do Big Oil's dirty work, a "human-decency gene"?, asleep at the air controller's station, shoot them immigrunts!, and more* *Show of hands, how many people think Newt believed his March 8 position o...
In another safety scare for China's dairy industry, the country's biggest milk producer says it has destroyed a batch of milk which was found to have high levels of a cancer-causing toxin. The problem wa...
A renewed military campaign in Syria has reportedly killed at least 20 people as an Arab League delegation arrives in the country to assess the ongoing crisis. Heavy machine gun fire and mortar shells fi...
The National Defence Authorisation Act continues the onward march of the 'war on terror' through the American homeland. *New York, NY* - In an instructive coincidence, the passage of the National Defence ...
Palm oil companies are suspected of killing the endangered animals to preserve their plantations. Indonesia is home to about 90 per cent of the world’s wild orangutan population, and was once covered by...
China is buying commodities and fuelling economic growth, but some worry the communist giant is creating dependency. The small restaurants and shops selling plastic sandals, tacky umbrellas, kitchen wares...
A sub-species of tiger faces extinction by 2022 unless decisive action is taken, environmental group WWF warns. Worldwide tiger populations have plummeted from 100,000 a century ago to less than 7,000 t...
Since Kim Jong Il's death was announced on Monday, many people have marveled at the mourning scenes featured on North Korean state television, made viral on the Internet: North Koreans prostrate, weeping, ...
Yellow swaths of corn surround a nuclear reactor building in one image, revealing a surprisingly outdated system of gathering and drying crops, and thousands of North Koreans form a bird formation during...
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The girl named Wati, 15, who uses just one name, was ripped from her mother's grasp in the province of Aceh by the raging waters and has not been seen since. But on Wednesday a friend of the girl's grand...
Earlier this week, Pete Cashmore, the founder of Mashable, published his *top 10 trends for 2012*. And while Cashmore's list is characteristically prescient, it misses one trend which I suspect will increa...
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...
Officer and past president of the Antigua and Barbuda Fishermen’s Corporation Gerald Price said news of a shark attack during an early morning swim at Fort James beach is unusual in Antigua. Veron Edwards...
North Korea identified Kim Jong Il's son as head of a top ruling party body Monday, a post that gives him authority over political matters in addition to the military control attributed to him in recent da...
The *Syrian* Observatory for Human Rights claimed: "The shells fired from heavy machineguns in the Baba Amro district caused 13 deaths on Monday morning and dozens of injuries. The situation is frightening...
Some 60,000 passengers on the Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train line found themselves going nowhere in a hurry on Dec. 26 after a snow-laden tree fell onto the tracks and cut power to one section of the line...
Radiation fears stemming from the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant and radiation monitoring activities are raising concern among people handling trees to grow mushrooms and make ch...
Some 60,000 passengers on the Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train line found themselves going nowhere in a hurry on Dec. 26 after a snow-laden tree fell onto the tracks and cut power to one section of the line...
The head of Rajasthan's health ministry denied reports that more than 40 patients have died in recent days amid an ongoing strike by doctors at public hospitals in the Indian state. "The number of deaths...
The death toll from the tropical storm that lashed the southern Philippines just over a week ago has topped 1,200, the government said Monday, as the bodies of people swept out to sea by flash floods wash ...
Authorities have opened a murder investigation after the discovery of 13 bodies Sunday in an abandoned truck in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, the attorney general's office reported. They were discover...
A delegation of South Korean citizens arrived in Pyongyang on Monday to express condolences over the death of the North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, the North's state-run news agency reported. The 18-membe...
An off-duty police officer has been charged with executing a man in a sports bar - after an argument over a game of darts. Riverside County sheriff's deputy Dayle Long, 42, allegedly shot Samuel Vanettes...
Nine people were shot after a fight broke out at a nightclub Christmas party. Chattanooga police said that an off-duty officer who had been working at Club Fathom fired shots at a suspect who pointed a gu...
A woman was being held on $10,000 bond today after reportedly telling police she threw her daughter's body out with the trash. India Parker, 35, of Cleveland, Ohio, is facing a charge of abuse of a corpse...
Remote station communities in Western Australia's northwest remain under threat from a bushfire that started on Christmas Eve. Authorities on Monday warned there was a possible threat to lives and propert...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 178.9 km (111.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:35:45 UTC Monday 26th December 2011. The epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) SSE of...
On Christmas Eve, videos of a strange streak of light over Europe surfaced... it wasn't Santa's sleigh.
*David Headley, the American who has admitted planning the Mumbai attacks of 2008. *"CIA agent" David Headley met a lot of Jewish folks in India. He also took instructions from "CIA operative" Illyas Kash...
Terror attacks targeted at Christians, including two bombs at church services, have killed at least 40 across Nigeria. A radical Muslim sect claimed responsibility for five attacks which struck the nation...
Here is another oddity that begsan explanation. I wish when ‘tests’ aredone, the folks could be more forthcoming in describing what was done. There is really little reason fora metal ball to exist. I...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Timor Region at a depth of 112.7 km (70 miles), the quake hit at 08:03:01 UTC Monday 26th December 2011. The epicenter was 135 km (83 miles) NNE of Kupang, Timor, I...
A woman who was to be stoned to death in Iran on an adultery conviction could be hanged instead. Authorities said today they were moving ahead with plans to execute the woman but are reconsidering what p...
U.S. security think tank Strategic Forecasting Inc (Stratfor) said its website had been hacked and that some of the names of corporate subscribers had been made public. Stratfor said the breach came from...
Driving through Banff last summer, I had a chance to see the overpassesbuilt in the park. They were somewhatover engineered but certainly did the job. What these numbers make obvious is that the animal...
It appears that another wine friendlylocale has been identified. Ningxia isbeyond the wall and somewhat emote for anything but the conditions soundsimilar to BC’s Okanagan in particular. It is always ...
This is a one off event describinga creature seen in Marylandover a couple of years. Since this creature is clearly diurnal, it has to be atransient and may have come up from South America. No such cr...
Driving through Banff last summer, I had a chance to see the overpassesbuilt in the park. They were somewhatover engineered but certainly did the job. What these numbers make obvious is that the animal...
It appears that another wine friendlylocale has been identified. Ningxia isbeyond the wall and somewhat emote for anything but the conditions soundsimilar to BC’s Okanagan in particular. It is always ...
In the USA, a study by Boise State University found that 60% of heterosexual women have been sexually attracted to other women. In the USA, the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) has found that sexu...
Insurance companies have been inundated with inquiries as householders mop up after wild weather that ripped through Melbourne on Christmas Day. An estimated 300 to 400 State Emergency Service volunteers w...
Seven people believed to be related had opened their Christmas gifts and started cleaning up the wrapping paper when they were shot dead in a suburban Texas apartment, police said Sunday. Authorities say ...
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 78.6 km (48.8 miles), the quake hit at 04:48:08 UTC Monday 26th December 2011. The epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) SSW of Hihifo, Tonga No Tsunami Wa...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Northeastern Iran at a depth of 27.2 km (16.9 miles), the quake hit at 01:49:17 UTC Monday 26th December 2011. The epicenter was 32 km (19 miles) Northeast of Bojnurd, ...
If history is humanity's cultural and psychological software, then it needs serious updating. Our current software, the history of the last several centuries and especially the last century, has been corr...
*A surprising Christmas gift from the Boston Globe*: "Romney leads, Paul rises in N.H. poll; Gingrich’s surge muted as 1st US primary nears" by Michael Levenson Globe Staff / December 25, 2011 Newt Gingri...
*The primary victor of the US version of The X Factor has been named as Melanie Amaro from dawn, Florida. Amaro had been tipped by the show's four adjudicators to win after her performance of the Beyonce...
*For more than 300 years, the structure has puzzled researchers, reported that a mysterious bony growth found in elephants' feet is actually a sixth toe. According to Lead author Professor John Hutchinso...
*Russia's current poor launch record has sustained with so far one more Soyuz rocket breakdown. It was a Soyuz-2.1b, the most contemporary version of the rocket that has been in check within a variety of ...
*The campaigner hacker group Anonymous says they were able to gain the information because the company, Stratfor, did not encrypt it. The campaigner hacker group Anonymous says it has stolen thousands of...
*This photo comes from the website official Navy website!* *by Ken* As many commentators noted this week, widely circulated photos like the one above (taken, you'll note, from the Navy's official website)...
*You got milk, Globe?* "Battle boils over sales of raw milk; Advocates decry armed US raids" December 16, 2011|By Stephanie Armour, Bloomberg News WASHINGTON - One sun-drenched August morning, *armed offi...
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"In the time of your life, live — so that in good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of i...
*Yeah, now that Ron Paul might win. * "Voter excitement scarce as Iowa caucus draws near" December 22, 2011|By Christopher Rowland DES MOINES — Ron *Paul*, the libertarian Texas congressman, is *buildin...
*"On Saying 'I Don't Know'"* by Chet Raymo “Johannes Kepler is best known for figuring out the laws of planetary motion. In 1610, he published a little book called “The Six-Cornered Snowflake” that asked...
The season of peace and goodwill is under threat in the United States amid claims that a "war on Christmas" has been declared. Rows about the display of traditional Christmas symbols have broken out acros...
*“I’d Rather Be In Hell”* by Paulo Coelho "As soon as he died, Juan found himself in a gorgeous place, surrounded by all the comfort and beauty he had dreamed of. A fellow dressed in white approached him...
Rough surf from ex-tropical cyclone Fina has forced the closure of half the beaches in New South Wales. Dean Storey from Surf Life Saving NSW says the large swells are extremely dangerous. "At this stage...
"No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time." - James Baldwin
"The future is called "perhaps," which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you." ~ Tennessee Williams, "Orpheus Descending", 1957
*"Kenyon Commencement Speech, 2005"* by David Foster Wallace "This speech was originally transcribed and posted at Marganlia.org until recently. Here is the originally transcribed version." "If anybody f...
Last week we saw how Wisconsin Democrat Rob Zerban pushed back against Ron Wyden's harebrained scheme of working with Paul Ryan to destroy Medicare. Obviously Wyden isn't the only bad Democrat in Congress...
"We have become the greatest time wasters of all history, because we have created a vast entertainment world, which is not very entertaining, in which we escape from responsibility into something that is l...
More than 40 patients have died in the last five days amid an ongoing strike by doctors at public hospitals in India's Rajasthan state, CNN sister network CNN-IBN reported Sunday. The government has suspe...
China is launching a national online marriage database to fight bigamy, a move that has raised concerns among millions of Chinese about protection of privacy. The Chinese government's announcement that it...
I just wanted to take a minute away from our festivities this year (and talking to my baby brother who is a missionary in England!) To wish you all a very Happy Christmas this year. I hope all of your Ch...
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*The evidence is below you, readers. * - Globe's Christmas Meal - Globe Stocking-Stuffers - Globe Gift: Occupy is History - Globe Gift: Cutting Off Agenda 21 - Globe Gift: A Fine Christmas in...
*Just about time for us to sit down to some hot vegetarian lasagna.* "Under pressure over obesity, stores label healthy foods; But some systems are confusing, advocates say" by Leslie Patton Bloomberg New...
ENTERTAINMENT - This Christmas we recommend checking out the feline follies of "Simon's Cat" available on YouTube or www.simonscat.com. Have a happy and safe Holiday Season!
"A clatter of claims to a classic; Maine publisher champions rival author of old favorite" by Joseph P. Kahn Globe Staff / December 3, 2011 A new edition of the poem popularly known as “The Night Before Ch...
Peace on Earth and Goodwill to All People, Everywhere. pic borrowed from here A Baby sleeping, peacefully, perhaps even blissfully and safe. This is life. Human life. As humans we need to recognize the sa...
*It isn't, but the corporate media sure is acting like it.* "Museums begin collecting Occupy Wall Street mementos" Associated Press /December 25, 2011 It may be only a few months old, but Occupy Wall Str...
"Climate skeptics oppose preparations for rising sea levels" by Darryl Fears Washington Post / December 25, 2011 --NOMORE--" "Climate skeptics in Va. oppose preparations for sea-level rise" Monday, Dec...
"Debt crisis feels far from Europe’s small towns" by Edward Cody, Washington Post | December 17, 2011* * *This article was in my **December 25th** Boston Globe.* MONTARGIS, France — When dusk falls and ...
*As we're going to hear Kiri Te Kanawa close out Part I of Messiah, we have her here repeating her 1981 Royal Wedding triumph with Handel's "Let the bright seraphim" from Samson with James Levine conducti...
"Queen visits Prince Philip after surgery" Associated Press / December 25, 2011 * * *Isn't he the same puke who said he wishes he could reincarnate into a genocidal virus**?* Queen Elizabeth II’s husban...
"Christian pilgrims flock to Bethlehem" by Dalia Nammari Associated Press /December 25, 2011 Tens of thousands of tourists and Christian pilgrims packed the West Bank town of Bethlehem for Christmas Eve c...
"DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Thousands of mourners carrying Syrian flags and pictures of the dead took part in a mass funeral Saturday for 44 people killed in twin suicide bombings that targeted intelligence ag...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Solomon Islands at a depth of 70.9 km (44.1 miles), the quake hit at 20:07:32 UTC Sunday 25th December 2011. The epicenter was 51 km (31 miles) South of Kira Kira,...
"US keeps distance from growing Iraqi political crisis" by Helene Cooper and Thom Shanker New York Times / December 25, 2011 Sectarian violence and political turmoil in Iraq escalated within days of the...
*Well, it is Christmas. * *"no breakthrough is expected anytime soon" * *The f***ing box is empty?* "Pakistan upgrades trade ties to India; Islamabad gives most favored status to its rival" November 0...
*I already made clear where I stood** on sectarianism. * "In Afghan shift, sectarian attacks on holiday kill 63; Pakistani group says it’s behind the bombings" December 07, 2011|By Rod Nordland, New York ...
London-based "Syrian Observatory" Consorting Directly with UK Foreign Minister Hague. by Tony Cartalucci December 26, 2011 - In May 2011's article "The Siege of Syria," it was reported: "The coverage b...
*Second largest construction after the Great Wall of China* In recent days, it became much more likely that KM3NeT (home page), i.e. Cubic Kilometre Neutrino Telescope, would begin to be built in 2012. ...
*A Class 2 warning has been issued for Sweden as a storm, dubbed Dagmar, approaches from the west. *"We have issued Class 2 warnings and the most powerful winds are expected in the southern peaks of Norrl...
*The Cuban military searched for survivors after at least 38 Haitian migrants died as a boat in which they fled their country started taking in water and got stranded at sea.* The gruesome discovery was ...
*At least 2 people are dead and 5 still missing after a military-owned ship carrying 35 passengers was wrecked offshore Quang Nam Province on Sunday afternoon. * The ship, owned by the Battalion 70 under...
A gas leak left two workers dead and poisoned 23 others in East China's Jiangsu Province on Sunday, local government said. The accident happened around 9 am at a wire factory in the city of Jiangyin, whe...
Five meter waves hit three sub- districts in Thailand's southern Chumpon province's Langsuan district on Sunday noon, destroying several houses, bungalows and restaurants and forcing local residents to fle...
Sharks are continuing to plague Perth beaches today, closing swimming areas along the coast and causing frustration to Christmas beachgoers. Both Mullaloo and Scarborough beaches have been closed at times ...
Officials in Afghanistan ordered an investigation into a collapse at a coal mine that left as many as 13 miners dead this weekend. District Chief Fazel Rahman said Sunday that the cause of the collapse at...
A senior Japanese defense official said it is possible that North Korea may make military provocations as a display of power under new leader Kim Jong Un. "The young leader does not fully control the mil...
Three Indian paramilitary soldiers were killed by a comrade who opened fire at a military camp near Srinagar, the capital of Indian-administer Kashmir, a district police chief said Sunday. The shooting f...
Three of the seven victims of a highway attack this week in the Mexican state of Veracruz were American citizens, officials said. A mother and her two daughters, dual Mexican-U.S. citizens who lived in F...
Note: Additional Aftershocks 24th Dec 2011 - 18:55 UTC - 3.1 Magnitude - Depth 7 km - 20 km Southeast of Christchurch - 20:26 UTC - 2.9 Magnitude - Depth 7 km - 10 km East of Christchurch - 23:...
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...
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 ...
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)
*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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*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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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...
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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 m...
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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...
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*Guvs do Big Oil's dirty work, a "human-decency gene"?, asleep at the air controller's station, shoot them immigrunts!, and more* *Show of hands, how many people think Newt believed his March 8 position o...
In another safety scare for China's dairy industry, the country's biggest milk producer says it has destroyed a batch of milk which was found to have high levels of a cancer-causing toxin. The problem wa...
The National Defence Authorisation Act continues the onward march of the 'war on terror' through the American homeland. *New York, NY* - In an instructive coincidence, the passage of the National Defence ...
China is buying commodities and fuelling economic growth, but some worry the communist giant is creating dependency. The small restaurants and shops selling plastic sandals, tacky umbrellas, kitchen wares...
Since Kim Jong Il's death was announced on Monday, many people have marveled at the mourning scenes featured on North Korean state television, made viral on the Internet: North Koreans prostrate, weeping, ...
Yellow swaths of corn surround a nuclear reactor building in one image, revealing a surprisingly outdated system of gathering and drying crops, and thousands of North Koreans form a bird formation during...
The girl named Wati, 15, who uses just one name, was ripped from her mother's grasp in the province of Aceh by the raging waters and has not been seen since. But on Wednesday a friend of the girl's grand...
Earlier this week, Pete Cashmore, the founder of Mashable, published his *top 10 trends for 2012*. And while Cashmore's list is characteristically prescient, it misses one trend which I suspect will increa...
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...
Officer and past president of the Antigua and Barbuda Fishermen’s Corporation Gerald Price said news of a shark attack during an early morning swim at Fort James beach is unusual in Antigua. Veron Edwards...
The *Syrian* Observatory for Human Rights claimed: "The shells fired from heavy machineguns in the Baba Amro district caused 13 deaths on Monday morning and dozens of injuries. The situation is frightening...
Some 60,000 passengers on the Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train line found themselves going nowhere in a hurry on Dec. 26 after a snow-laden tree fell onto the tracks and cut power to one section of the line...
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