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Dakota Indians were hung in Mankato. It's a dark day in history but a group of American Indians are...
While the head of the
Arab League delegation in Syria said the situation in the flashpoint city of
Homs was "reassuring so far," activists say the regime has killed six people in Hama. Sudanese General M...
A 19-year-old woman found stabbed to death in Borehamwood has been named as Chatherine Wynter. The teenager, also known locally as Katy, had been at her sister's house on Beech Drive, babysitting her sis...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Southwest of
Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 28 km (17.4 miles), the quake hit at 14:23:52
UTC Wednesday 28th December 2011. The epicenter was 198 km (122.7 miles) So...
These kinds of robots could represent us in faraway places, letting us interact with friends, family and coworkers as if we were there.
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Southwestern
Siberia, Russia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:54:34 UTC Wednesday 28th December 2011. The epicenter was 57 km (35.3 miles) Northeas...
Occupy Rigged Elections: A Call for the Second American Revolution in 2012 Tuesday 27 December 2011 *by: Victoria Collier and Ronnie Cummins, Truthout | Op-Ed * *When candidates emerge who suppor...
****Analyzing social engineering through domestic propaganda & official mythology *Written and Photographed by Nile Bowie* *Editor’s note by Nile Bowie: *After years of fascination, I had the opportunity ...
*American Crystal Sugar – Union busters* *PLEASE BUY CANE SUGAR until this issue is resolved.* *Please BUY PRODUCTS MADE WITH CANE SUGAR until this issue is resolved.* *Almost any beet sugar product you buy...
*WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2011* *PART 1—THE YEAR OF GOING TRIBAL:* In 1961, Gidget went Hawaiian. Following suit, the liberal world went a bit tribal this year, following the conservative world down a long...
There are five key areas to consider when you are trying to achieve physical fitness and they aren't all focused on how to lose weight.
OK, this is the last Open Thread of 2011 so say what you see.... Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
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wmtc - 2 hours ago
Bradley Manning's pre-court martial hearing ended a few days ago, but for most media and the public, it might as well have never happened. This story in *The Nation* outlines how the US military denied ac...
*Homo-haters hate "gay" identity, selling Altoona, Orange County weasels' "wit," mean Charlie Manson, and a war on Easter?* *Without Altoona's railroad shops, once a crucial cog in our industrial machine, ...
Admits "statistical studies can't prove vote fraud" but US-funded Golos "data" collaborates conclusion. by Tony Cartalucci December 28, 2011 -
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), going through extraordinary ...
Officials say fast-moving mudflows streaming from the mouth of a volcano in eastern Indonesia have killed four villagers. About 1,000 others have fled their homes. Mount Gamalama, located in the Molucca ...
A MUMMIFIED finger smuggled out of Nepal 50 years ago and revered as a yeti’s has been revealed to be human after all. The relic was taken from a monastery by a US explorer in the 1950s, who replaced it ...
Scientists from the University of Southampton have brought to the surface remarkable images of life in the depths of the Indian Ocean. Researchers believe that the footage from one of the most inhospitab...
Levels of radiation in cesium contained in cedar pollen in Fukushima Prefecture, which hosts the crippled nuclear power plant, are so low that they will not pose any health hazard, the Forestry Agency said...
Gov. Yuhei Sato has demanded that Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), the operator of the crippled nuclear plant, decommission all its 10 nuclear reactors in the prefecture. Sato made the demand in a meeti...
December holiday shoppers were not just interested in buying the hottest electronics and toys -- they also were purchasing record numbers of guns, according to the latest FBI figures on background checks r...
At least 26 people were injured when a plane crash-landed at the airport in Osh, Kyrgyzstan Wednesday, the country's Health Ministry said, according to the Kyrgyz AKI-press news agency. The Kyrgyzstan Ai...
Most of us are used to dealing with a Christmas visit from a cranky relative but one family had a very unwelcome surprise on their doorstep this year - a highly venomous gila monster. The menacing-looking...
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - SETI - project looks for alien life in a one, main specific way - scanning for radio signals deliberately beamed towards earth from distant stars. But two a...
A crowd of up to 70,000 people took to the streets in Syria yesterday in an unprecedented show of defiance against President Bashar Assad’s embattled regime. Emboldened by an Arab peace-monitoring group’...
A 19-year-old man was charged with homicide after allegedly beating his friend's 2-year-old daughter to death while he was babysitting her. Police reported that the man, Jonathan Rodriguez, is said to hav...
Iran says it will stop the flow of oil through one of the world's most important oil shipping lanes over threats to impose foreign sanctions on its crude exports. In a move which could trigger military co...
Vladimir Putin has vowed to give Russians a dose of ‘nationwide psychotherapy’ rather than submit to the demands made by protesters in a spate of street rallies. Hinting at new media controls, he demande...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Western Iran at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 11:58:36 UTC Wednesday 28th December 2011. The epicenter was 59 km (36.5 miles) S...
China's own satelite navigational system has become operational after the tenth satellite was sent into space earlier this month. Beidou, known as the Big Dipper, can offer location, timing and navigation...
Forget Hawaii, one of the world's top big wave surfers believes he has found two spots which could produce waves 120ft high - off the Northern Irish coast. Al Mennie, who has surfed some of the most extre...
An American accused by Iran of working for the CIA could face the death penalty, it was reported today. In a closed court hearing, the prosecution asked for capital punishment for suspect Amir Mirzaei Hek...
Astronomers detected an object hurtling into the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way - our galaxy - at five million miles an hour in December this year. At the time, the astronomers specu...
MPs have spent more than £80,000 surveying their colleagues to find out how they can make their work even more comfortable, it emerged last night. For the third year running, they are polling themselves a...
Britain's jails are ‘very volatile’ and ready to explode into mass rioting, the Government has been warned. Prison chiefs have privately demanded that abandoned jails are reopened because of widespread ov...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Atacama, Chile at a depth of 41.9 km (26 miles), the quake hit at 11:43:41 UTC Wednesday 28th December 2011. The epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) South of Copiapo, Chile ...
Incoming president of the European Parliament Martin Schulz tells Haaretz the euro will not collapse, calls Merkel's conduct 'arrogant' and Cameron's 'obstructive'. BRUSSELS - Some would see it as poetic...
Our history has seen a lot of rallying cries, from the spine-tingling — “Give me liberty, or give me death!” — to the overly specific — “Fifty-four-forty or fight!” (Give up? A vocal minority wanted to set...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia's U.N. envoy on Monday demanded there be a thorough investigation of civilians killed in NATO air strikes during its military operations in Libya, which led to the ouster ...
The alarms are sounding in Iowa. Conservatives and Republican elites in the state are divided over who to support for the GOP nomination, but they almost uniformly express concern over the prospect that R...
WASHINGTON — Kim Jong-il, the enigmatic North Korean leader, died on a train at 8:30 a.m. Saturday in his country. Forty-eight hours later, officials in South Korea still did not know anything about it — t...
With the sudden death of his father, Kim Jong Un went from being North Korea's "Respected General" to "Great Successor" - a heady and uncertain promotion for a young man virtually unknown even to the North...
Retailers are linking security cameras with software to track consumer behavior. On the Web, every click and jiggle of the mouse helps e-tailers customize sites and maximize the likelihood of a purchase. ...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Impact Seen As Roughly Comparable to Radiation-Related Deaths After Chernobyl; Infants Are Hardest Hit, With Continuing Research Showing Even Higher Pos...
WHEN Washington Mutual collapsed in 2008, it was the largest bank failure in American history. So the $64.7 million settlement struck last week by federal banking regulators and three former WaMu executive...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Mindanao, Philippines at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 09:28:26 UTC Wednesday 28th December 2011. The epicenter was 33 km (20.2 miles) East of Caburan...
Natural disasters, fires and car crashes have made it a tough Christmas for many Aussies, Prime Minister Julia Gillard says. Ms Gillard said reports of Australians caught up in difficulties were becoming ...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 10:35:37 UTC Wednesday 28th December 2011. The epicenter was 114 km (70 mil...
Hackers who stole thousands of credit card numbers from U.S. security firm Stratfor are now set to release 2.7 million of its confidential emails. The loose-knit Anonymous movement vowed to heap further e...
Firefighters are battling three bushfires in Western Australia's Mid West and Gascoyne regions as temperatures soar. A fire is burning out of control 120 kilometres east of Carnarvon as temperatures reach...
A fourth man has been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of a 23-year-old man in Salford. Three others, a man and two teenage boys remain in custody on suspicion of murder. Anuj Bidve was at...
A cyclone watch covering parts of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory has been cancelled as ex-Tropical Cyclone Grant continues to move east. Nhulunbuy to Numbulwar and Groote Eylandt had been placed on ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 62 km (38.5 miles), the quake hit at 09:18:32 UTC Wednesday 28th December 2011. The epicenter was 179 km (111 miles) SSW of Kuril'sk, Ku...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 613.7 km (381.4 miles), the quake hit at 06:38:59 UTC Wednesday 28th December 2011. The epicenter was 156 km (96 miles) SSW of Ndoi Islan...
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Biased BBC - 6 hours ago
The greening of the BBC accelerates unchecked. I hope the 18,000 BBC staff who are in the pension fund are happy how their £9bn of funds are being managed; during the course of the past year, the trustees ...
*Both Alagabalus (above) and Obama "had to leave the countries they would one day come to rule.... They were raised in a foreign states, Obama in Indonesia and Elagabalus in Syria. Obama and Elagabalus's f...
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Biased BBC - 8 hours ago
Michael Buerk, for years one of the main BBC newsreaders, and now presenter of the R4's Moral Maze, has long been a trenchant critic of the BBC's climate reporting. Almost a year ago, he took a direct kick...
* * * * * * * * Yesterdays post on the gargoyles in Chile has given us an excellent eye witness report that has been missing in other similar reports which were often glimpses or over ridden by ...
Another important innovation in the manipulation of light at the nanometer scale level and adds another tool. The ability to work with light and metamaterials is continuing to evolve and remind...
Yes, it is time someone did it up properly on the subject of angels. This book appears to do the trick. So far, I find that the best explanation for the idea of an angel can be derived from ...
It is always nice to confirm a likely human presence and at the same time confirm the likelihood of human origins for the stone structures observed. These would otherwise remain forever contro...
Shoppers abandoned austerity with a record £4.3billion spending spree at the sales. Some £2.5billion passed through the tills yesterday on top of an estimated £1.8billion on Boxing Day. Retail analysts be...
* All the pictures are of Java, Indonesia. * *The Apollo Moon Hoax - The Audio Delay Problem: Earth-Moon Delay: Wrong?** * *The Cloud Will Kill The Free Internet* *Libyan Liberation Frontline News [26.1...
Police have made a third arrest in connection with the fatal shooting of an Indian student in Salford on Boxing Day. *Greater Manchester Police* said an adult male was arrested on suspicion of murder and...
*We have paid an obscene price for the so-called war on terror, which has benefited none other than 1) Israel and 2) American energy corporations. * *Were the costs of human lives and the damage to our ec...
Outrage over the death of Xue Jinbo, a villager from the small fishing town of Wukan in China’s southeastern Guangdong province, has turned a longstanding land dispute with authorities into an unheard-of, ...
*Has Germany saved the euro or doomed the European Union? ZEIT ONLINE’s Matthias Krupa looks at the high political price of the crisis summit in Brussels.* So was that the night the euro was saved? Or wil...
"The secrets of the 20th century are the realities of the 21st. It is too late to hide them." - The Daily Bell. "It's no longer about lights in the sky, it's about lies on the ground." - Stephen Bassett...
On the northern edge of Benton Harbor, just beyond the grim grid of housing projects, shuttered storefronts, boarded-up homes and junk-laden yards that dominate much of the town, sits an emerald oasis know...
Bank of Greece reveals that investors fearful of political instability and economic collapse pulled €12.3bn from local banks as Papandreou referendum threatened debt deal. An unprecedented exodus of capit...
Shock figures today revealed fearful UK banks have pulled tens of billions of pounds out of the struggling French economy in fear of a looming credit rating downgrade. The figures emerged as France fired ...
New findings by Virginie Stevens (CNRS), Jean Clobert (CNRS), Michel Baguette (Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle) and colleagues show that interactions between dispersal and life-histories are complex, ...
By 2100, global climate change will modify plant communities covering almost half of Earth's land surface and will drive the conversion of nearly 40 percent of land-based ecosystems from one major ecologic...
Israel and the United States are determined to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons and do not rule out any option to that end, Israel's defence minister said on Sunday. "Our two countries clearly ...
Western sanctions have taken such a toll on Iran over the past 18 months that now -- as the screw is about to be tightened yet further -- Tehran's studied insouciance is slipping, with officials admitting ...
Ronan Parke - A Thousand Miles ** *WHO, according to the powers that be, are the following people ? * * 1. *Officially, this is David Headley (but it could be a Mossad double) * 2.* Officially this is...
Chinese hackers have redefined the concept of room service: In one recent attack, they infiltrated an Internet service provider to some of the world’s leading hotels, potentially gaining access to millions...
Koreans who perceive themselves as middle class are on the decline as more households experienced a continued slide in income, a state-run survey said Thursday. Statistics Korea said its nationwide survey...
There is no bigger political forum than the United Nations and no better place than Geneva to set the global human rights agenda. So there was little doubt that the biggest ministerial conference of its ki...
Filmmaker: Karim Miské As issues of immigration and integration raise Europe's political temperature, this three-part series examines the history of Muslim immigration to France - a country where debate ...
Filmmaker: Claudio von Planta Albinism is a non-contagious, genetically inherited disorder, affecting about 1 in 20,000 men and women around the world, regardless of ethnicity and geographical location...
Long delays for visas mean thousands of former interpreters for US remain in Iraq, afraid of assassination. *Baghdad, Iraq –* It was supposed to be a simple deal: Work with the American occupation here fo...
Obama says US influence will turn from the Middle East towards the "vast potential of the Asia-Pacific region". When it comes to China policy, is the Obama administration leaping from the frying pan direc...
"If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?" ~ Stephen Levine
Three weeks ago, a rumour emerged that the CFA franc - two closely-related currencies used by 14 countries in western and central Africa - would be devalued by 35 per cent on January 1, 2012. As a result...
*Cambridge, Massachusetts* - Early last month, a group of students staged a walkout in Harvard's popular introductory economics course, Economics 10, taught by my colleague Greg Mankiw. Their complaint: Th...
Disclose.tv - The Outer Space Connection (1975) pt.1/2 Video Disclose.tv - The Outer Space Connection (1975) pt.2/2 Video
Junk food manufacturers "manipulate" children online to tempt them to eat foods loaded with salt, fat and sugar, according to charities. It has led to calls for stricter regulations to protect youngsters ...
Barack Obama won't say if he still believes the war in Iraq was a "dumb" one. That was his description of it before he took office - comparing what he saw as a war of choice with a war of necessity in Afg...
Who says American salaries are stagnating. After two years of lower pay packages, chief executives at the nation's major companies enjoyed a 36.5% jump in pay last year, according to a leading survey of C...
[image: Link]The funeral of the former ruler of North Korea Kim Jong-il is taking place. Kim, who led the nation with an iron fist, died of a heart attack December 17 at the age of 69. After 11 days of m...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russia at a depth of 8.2 km (5.1 miles), the quake hit at 04:23:41 UTC Wednesday 28th December 2011. The epicenter was 96 km (59 miles) East of K...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Koryakia, Russia at a depth of 7.7 km (4.8 miles), the quake hit at 01:35:49 UTC Wednesday 28th December 2011. The epicenter was 188 km (116 mil...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russia at a depth of 9.8 km (6.1 miles), the quake hit at 00:40:33 UTC Wednesday 28th December 2011. The epicenter was 90 km (55 miles) ENE of Ky...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Banda Sea at a depth of 404.2 km (251.2 miles), the quake hit at 23:22:06 UTC Tuesday 27th December 2011. The epicenter was 281 km (174 miles) Northeast of Dili, Ti...
*by Ken* Let me say once again that I'm quite a poor prognosticator of the decision-making process of the portion of the American electorate in thrall to the Great Right-Wing Noise Machine. As hard as th...
"I do my thing, and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each ot...
"A Psalm of Life" "Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is n...
"In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder." - Pearl S. Buck
"The first hint of what will become of our Sun was discovered inadvertently in 1764. At that time, Charles Messier was compiling a list of diffuse objects not to be confused with comets. The 27th object on...
"It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian." - James Baldwin
* * *“Have We Met? Tracing Face Blindness to Its Roots”* by Karen Barrow “Close your eyes. Picture your closest friend. Maybe you see her blue eyes, long nose, brown hair. Perhaps even her smile. If you s...
With a flexible, easy-to-use companion app, this tiny little device gives your i-thing room-by-room control over your multimedia.
An Egyptian court ordered the Egyptian army on Tuesday to stop forced virginity tests on female detainees, months after the practice sparked a national outcry.
(The Best Posts of the Year, Chosen by the Bloggers Themselves)Welcome to a tradition started by the much missed Jon Swift/Al Weisel. He left behind some excellent satire, but was also a nice guy and a stro...
Melancholia:Von Trier's final refrainBy Gregg Barrios / The Rag Blog / December 27, 2011It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine. – REMA crescendo of superlatives: Lars von Trier’s Melanchol...
Munich, Bayern, Germany. Thanks for stopping by.
* "Surviving Beneath Ice"* by Alex Noble "The image… a pond, deep in the woods, black water, a few fading autumn leaves, floating like feathers, rust red, yellow. You are deep underwater now, looking up, a...
Following is the complete transcript of a lecture, titled, "Are Humans Unsustainable by Nature?" by William Rees...because it is essential reading. You can click here for a video of his talk, also worth w...
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CENSORED NEWS - 14 hours ago
Chief Harry Kindness, Danny Glover and Dorothy Ninham Praying at Occupy Oakland * Photos by Arthur Jacob/AIM West * *Censored News* *http://www.bsnor...
**Plus a qualifying note about Senator Ben's "retirement" (see Ken's update below)* *by Ken* To the end, the son of a bitch manages to pass himself off as a "moderate" Democrat. If he were any more "mod...
"One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life." ~ Kahlil Gibran
*"The Imperfect Is Our Paradise"* by Chet Raymo "'The Anecdote of the Jar' by Wallace Stevens: "I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness ...
China, the world's largest rare earths producer, said Tuesday that its export quota for the sought-after commodities will remain roughly the same in 2012 as this year.
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CENSORED NEWS - 16 hours ago
*Anonymous on a holiday roll with Stratfor and the hashtag subpoena* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com *AntiSec announces new target: SpecialForces.com* The Antisec, Anon...
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Biased BBC - 16 hours ago
Another festive slice from Biased BBC's Alan... The BBC has woken up to its one sided reporting from foreign climes...and it has done something about it...it has sent the fearless Evan Davis all the wa...
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Biased BBC - 16 hours ago
Biased BBC's Alan observes; "Not content with inflaming Muslim anger towards Jews the BBC is set on creating antagonism between Christians and Jews with its creative use of the truth in Bethlehem....as no...
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Biased BBC - 16 hours ago
Easing my way back into this post-Christmas blogging and I am sure you will have read about the horrific mass murder in Texas carried out by a* "gunman who shot dead six relatives before killing himself at...
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CENSORED NEWS - 17 hours ago
*UN-SETTLING OCCUPATION: Occupy Wall Street* Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com ROOKLYN, N. Y. -- Please join Occupy Wall St. at IRONDALE on the evening of December 29th 2011 as we connect th...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of just 1 km (0 miles poorly constrained), the quake hit at 19:18:53 UTC Tuesday 27th December 2011. The epicenter was 26 km (16.1 miles) Eas...
Facebook's Timeline combines the time-suck distraction of a photo album with instant feedback from friends -- and one huge privacy risk.
*Congressional net worth more than doubles since 1984* The net wealth of members of the U.S. House of Representatives has increased over the years, with net worth in 2009 more than double that of 1984, but...
What is a mixed feeling? This is the feeling when I read about a Czech compatriot who does something extraordinary – it makes me proud – but the extraordinary thing is to bring 247 reptiles such as liza...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russia at a depth of 16.7 km (10.4 miles), the quake hit at 20:19:11 UTC Tuesday 27th December 2011. The epicenter was 119 km (73 miles) East of ...
On the subject of Drew Brees' unquestioned greatness ~Alejandro De Los Rios Drew Dat~Beauty Jackson, Red Bean Dreams The Paradox of the National Team ~Tom Junod, Esquire ~And so the game last night was a c...
In a bid to end its dependence on foreign global positioning satellites, China's navigation system is now live.
From the look on the man’s face in this video, it was a thrilling, almost scary, yet lovely once-in-a-lifetime experience.
A 15-year-old American has become the youngest person to climb the highest mountains on each of the seven continents.
Researchers developed a car seat equipped with 360 sensors to measure weight to identify drivers.
*"Devil Deals"* by Bill Bonner "Occasionally, when we’ve had too much to drink, we lull ourselves to sleep with the notion that someone like Ron Paul might succeed. Maybe America won’t become a police st...
"The death squads and concentration camps of history were never staffed by rebels and dissidents. They were run by those who followed the rules." http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6NcLN...
*"2012: The Big Suck (2011 Review, 2012 Outlook)" * by Karl Denninger "As is my usual practice it's that time of year when I score my "best guesses" from the previous year, and look forward with my next ...
A team of scholars has discovered what might be the oldest representation of the Tower of Babel.
This black tiger shrimp was caught in 210 feet of water off the coast of Louisiana on a shrimp boat under the direction of Captain Tony Pena of Brownsville. US - An exotic, large species of shrimp is bein...
A nuclear plant in Plymouth has been shut down after a suspected leak from the one of the plants safety relief valves. “An Nuclear Regulator Commission Resident Inspector was at the the Pilgrim nuclear p...
There is wisdom and cautions in this article. *The Big Lie (excerpt)* *Dec 26, 2011 12:00 AM EST* *Wall Street has destroyed the wonder that was America. * * * I have lived what now, at 75, is starting to...
Greek authorities say a Turkish freighter is sinking in the eastern Aegean Sea and the crew has safely evacuated to another ship. A defense ministry statement said the Turkish-flagged Dogu Haslaman issued ...
Mount Gamalama spews thick ashes and gas as seen from Ternate, Indonesia, on Dec. 5. The mud and ash left from the explosion have decimated local farmers' crops, leaving many with little hope of making end...
The man was caught in Argentina trying to board a flight with several exotic animals, some dead.
Security forces assaulted demonstrators in the volatile Syrian cities of Homs and Hama on Tuesday as Arab League monitors visited, witnesses told CNN. Loubna, a Homs resident who asked that her full na...
*And showing such patience.* "Saleh sets conditions for transition; Says he won’t leave while chief rivals remain in place" September 30, 2011|By Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post SANA, Yemen - Yemen’s ...
[image: Bangladeshi pedestrians holding umbrellas hitch a ride on a rickshaw van as they attempt to stay dry over flood waters in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka on 28 July 2009. The Met Office study pr...
*"2011: A Civil Liberties Year in Review"* By John W. Whitehead "It’s been a year of populist uprisings, economic downturns, political assassinations, and one scandal after another. Gold prices soared, wh...
Note: Reports are being pushed forward to show the public that there is nothing to worry about in the Economy. With headlines screaming bumper Boxing Day sales, Consumer confidence shoots higher etc. But w...
An Italian tanker with 18 people on board was hijacked off the coast of Oman, officials said Tuesday. The chemical product tanker, Enrico Ievoli, was on its way from the United Arab Emirates to the Medit...
"Drone attack kills US-born cleric linked to Al Qaeda" by Alan Cowell, Laura Kasinof, and Mark Mazzetti New York Times / October 1, 2011 SANA, Yemen - Anwar *al-Awlaki, the radical US-born cleric who was a...
*Editor’s Note: **The following piece, exclusive to GPS, comes from ** Wikistrat,** the world's first massively multiplayer online consultancy. It leverages a global network of subject-matter experts via a ...
Angry protesters have confronted visiting Arab League monitors in Syria's restive city of Homs, demanding international protection. The observers are verifying compliance with an Arab League plan to end t...
Rich countries are failing to contribute to an international emergency fund leaving the world "dangerously unprepared" for future disasters, the International Development Secretary has warned. Andrew Mit...
*It's their version of it*: "Yemeni women burn their veils to protest crackdown" by Gamal Abdul-Fattah Associated Press / October 26, 2011 SANAA, Yemen—Hundreds of Yemeni women on Wednesday set fire to tr...
*And the war-criminal is coming to AmeriKa for medical care(?)!* * *"Yemen fighting revives civil war fears" October 18, 2011|By Hamza Hendawi, Associated Press SANA, Yemen - Fighting between troops loyal...
I just have to put this out as a reminder to many. I moved my money last month and I am asking others to do the same. Moving your money to a local bank or credit union puts the money BACK INTO YOUR COMMUN...
Anonymous struck Stratfor a US Intelligence firm and used stolen information for charitable donations.
Although SETI has been scouring the skies for a signal from an intelligent alien civilization, perhaps a closer look at the lunar surface may uncover some alien artifacts.
Pilots are increasingly using electronic gadgets in flight and there's little reason why passengers shouldn't.
A few days ago John Nichols took to the pages of *The Nation* to write up the Progressive Honor Roll of 2011, and while we're not 100% in synch on every single particular-- Sherrod Brown over Bernie Sande...
Activists trying to combat Japanese whaling have gone high-tech. The longstanding battle against whaling has mostly been a game of wait, watch, chase and hope for the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Bu...
The burned bodies of two dead women were found in the boot of a flaming car just a week after two other dead bodies were found in another vehicle. Three of the four black victims found in Detroit, Michigan...
A magnitude 3.3 earthquake has struck Northern California at a depth of 27.1 km (16.8 miles), the quake hit at 17:33:57 UTC Tuesday 27th December 2011. The epicenter was 5 km (3 miles) Northeast of Petroli...
The search for a missing 9-year-old ended Monday with a grizzly discovery when they found her dismembered body in a dumpster and her head, hands and feet in her babysitter's freezer. Mike Plumadore, 39, b...
OCCUPY WALL STREET has created an extended awareness of the corporation as enemy of the people, a viewpoint shared by most thoughtful people. However, while a lot are concerned, *a lot of us have no rea...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Solomon Islands at a depth of 103.4 km (64.3 miles), the quake hit at 16:30:35 UTC Tuesday 27th December 2011. The epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) SSE of Arawa, Bou...
The BBC is fond of the familiar. It favours the tried and tested, nay, the formulaic, all year round. But tradition and ritual are an extra special feature at Christmas. It’s what the audience wants, is it...
*A great scientist is defending GRW-like pseudoscience* In recent months, I have made several comments suggesting that Steven Weinberg is somewhere close to one-half of his path towards a personal transmu...
Astrophotographer Bill Snyder captured the Dumbbell Nebula - a cloud of star debris which offers a vision of the death throes of our own solar system. 'All the expanding gas and dust in this image was ins...
One on the warmest autumns on record has left Britain with a huge stock of apples this year. And with the mild weather continuing long into the winter, apple trees across the country are still heavy with ...
*I'm sorry, readers; the Globe was there every day.* * * *The days I attended*: "Sudbury terrorism suspect’s trial to begin" by Milton J. Valencia | Globe Staff, October 23, 2011 Boston has not seen a ...
The biggest sales rush in British history was marked by bloodshed yesterday as a teenager was murdered in a suspected row over a pair of trainers. Bargain hunters looked on in horror as the 18-year-old was...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Northern Alaska at a depth of just 1 km (0 miles Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 15:52:54 UTC Tuesday 27th December 2011. The epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) NNE ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 651.2 km (404.7 miles), the quake hit at 15:49:13 UTC Tuesday 27th December 2011. The epicenter was 545 km (338 miles) WNW from Nuku'Alofa...
This particular side of the issue doesn't get much coverage - they mostly talk about students and people of color - which is justified. But being "almost a senior" by census standards - I thought it was i...
A magnitude 6.6 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russia at a depth of 6.9 km (4.3 miles), the quake hit at 15:21:56 UTC Tuesday 27th December 2011. The epicenter was 96 km (59 miles) East of Kyz...
Original Here The Book of Jobs Forget monetary policy. Re-examining the cause of the Great Depression—the revolution in agriculture that threw millions out of work—the author argues that the U.S. i...
*Iraq War: Reaffirmation or the End of U.S. Exceptionalism?* ** * * *By Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez* *Censored News* * * In the United States, the most significant event of 2011 hands down should have been...
"Andover couple slain at home; Developer, wife found fatally shot" by Peter Schworm and Brian R. Ballou Globe Staff / December 15, 2011 ANDOVER - A married couple was found slain in their million-dollar ho...
*I was a trailblazer of sorts when I began blogging; nowadays I'm out-of-date (?) despite the hundreds of hits a day. * "It’s become one of the most pressing questions for parents of children growing up i...
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How wonderful it is that my debut post here on Biased BBC times perfectly with a nugget of a post over at Bishop Hill, which underlines the BBC's reputation for telling half the story all the time. The su...
As I come out of the holidays I can’t help thinking what hypocrites the GOP in Minnesota are. What I fail to understand is why the Dems are not grabbing onto these two Minnesota stories and passing it a...
Swiss metallurgists have created the world's most resilient 18-karat gold.
These semi-homemade tarts my friend Megan, taught me to make, are some of the easiest cheesecake like tarts you can possible make. They come together quick and you won't be able to stop eating them. I co...
*Mob mentality, dumb in Dixie, water! water!, AP punked, Jesse Ventura makes sense!, Repugs & government, and more * *Why do righties love royalty? Simple: status. And since to Bushies and their kind stat...
.........the United States- Bomb ready. Highly enriched Uranium Fuel. Driving it right across the border! Where is the IAEA? By the way if you are a bit concerned about this material coming through a town...
Speedier computers may be on the way as a big bottleneck is eliminated.
"War Street," by Sue Coe / Revista Amauta.Let's be frank:The United States has beenin perpetual warWith the onset of the Korean War, the politics of fear converged with the politics of empire.By Harry Targ /...
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My friend and comrade David Heap is now blogging. Among other things, David will be writing about his experiences on the Tahrir, the Canadian Boat to Gaza, including his arrest and imprisonment. I am ver...
By Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. John T. Flynn, like other members of the Old Right, was disgusted by the irony that what he saw, almost everyone else chose to ignore. In the fight against authoritarian regim...
Real Estate investors are people who invest their money in Real Estate market to make more profit. Real estate is not an organized field in most of the countries and so investing is not an easy option to e...
"Educating the poor comes at a price for Pine Manor; Newton college looks to retool its finances" by Mary Carmichael, | Globe Staff, December 23, 2011 CHESTNUT HILL - Half a mile from Pine Manor College ...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Bonin Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 32.2 km (20 miles), the quake hit at 11:14:28 UTC Tuesday 27th December 2011. The epicenter was 124 km (77 miles) NNE of ...
A woman has been charged with animal cruelty, and refused bail, after she allegedly threw a puppy out of an apartment window during an argument in Sydney's west. Police say the 24-year-old woman and a man...
Thousands of homes have lost power in south-east Queensland after storms and strong winds swept though the area. Electricity has been cut to more than 2,500 properties in the Logan and Beenleigh region an...
Car workers in Germany will enjoy a Christmas free from harassment by a blinking BlackBerry, after unions forced bosses to agree to switch off corporate email servers outside working hours. Under the new...
Worshippers at the Nigerian Catholic church where a terror attack killed 35 people on Christmas Day say they fear Islamic militants will target more churches. At least 52 others were wounded when the bla...
China continued its Christmas jailings of democracy activists on Monday by sentencing Chen Xi, another veteran Tiananmen Square protester to prison for a decade. Chen Xi, 45, was found guilty of "incitin...
Rising numbers of parents are committing suspected admissions fraud in an attempt to cheat children’s way into the most sought-after state schools, figures show. Data obtained by The Daily Telegraph sugg...
Falling house prices failed to prevent first time buyer numbers slumping to an all-time low in 2011, despite home ownership becoming more affordable than it has been for eight years, according to Britain's...
The yuan has closed up against the United States dollar after hitting an all-time high in intra-day trading, guided by a stronger mid-point by the People's Bank of China (PBOC), and looks set for an over f...
[image: Link]Iran's navy has started a 10-day drill in international waters near the strategic oil route that passes through the Strait of Hormuz. The exercises, dubbed "Velayat 90", could bring Iranian s...
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China will try a veteran dissident, Chen Xi, on charges of "inciting subversion" for pro-democracy essays he published online, his wife said on Sunday, days after another dissident was jailed for nine year...
Authorities say nine people were shot when a fight broke out at a Chattanooga nightclub, where some 400 teens and adults were attending a Christmas party. Police say all those shot are expected to survive....
The head of the International Monetary Fund said the world economy was in danger and urged Europeans to speak with one voice on a debt crisis that has rattled the global financial system. In Nigeria last...
The Obama administration cleared the way for states to legalize Internet poker and certain other online betting in a switch that may help them reap billions in tax revenue and spur web-based gambling. A ...
A shy 8-year-old schoolgirl has unwittingly found herself on the front line of Israel's latest religious war. Naama Margolese is a ponytailed, bespectacled second-grader who is afraid of walking to her r...
Reports that Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul stormed out of a CNN interview earlier this week seem to be dramatically over-exaggerated. Raw footage of the Thursday interview shows that it la...
Andrei Krivorukov got a wonderful Christmas gift: his very own life. He saved it after a titanium ball from a Russian communication satellite crashed right into his house, escaping death by just a few feet...
A Vietnamese ship together with 23 crewmen has gone missing off the Philippines, Vietnam Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination Center (VMRCC) said Monday. The center quoted Vietnam National Shipping Li...
Outbreaks of a nasty stomach virus know as Norovirus has been reported in Sacramento County.KCRA 3 News found that at least two locations have been impacted, both residence homes for senior citizens. One-...
Over 3,000 poultry were culled and 1,300 eggs damaged at a poultry farm in Meherpur following detection of bird flu on Monday night, livestock officials said. Visiting other poultry farms in the area, the...
FLASH flooding swamped Wagga yesterday in a storm which hit the city at 4pm and left within an hour. State Emergency Service (SES) duty officer for the Murrumbidgee region Shane McLachlan said there were...
At least 500 homes in Kampar district, Riau, were inundated with a meter of water after a flash flood hit the nearby Sebayang River on Monday. Jafri Datuk, a community elder in Kampar Kiri subdistrict, sa...
Dozens of dead fish are floating towards the mouth of the Caloosahatchee river. Many fear red tide is to blame, and some charter fishermen worry this could affect their bottom line. The Florida Fish and ...
There's a bizarre scene in Montgomery County where dozens of birds are dead. More than 30 birds are lying dead on Indian Mound Drive at the intersection of Grassy Lick Road in Mt. Sterling. All the bird...
One of Indonesia's most active volcanoes erupted Tuesday, spewing clouds of ash and panicking villagers but no evacuation has been ordered so far, a government vulcanologist said. The first eruption at Mo...
A 17-year-old boy was today arrested on suspicion of shooting dead an Indian student as he visited a city with friends. Police arrested the teenager in Salford, Greater Manchester, in the early hours of t...
Mexican army special forces have arrested a top lieutenant for alleged drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the Defense Ministry said Monday. Troops arrested Felipe Cabrera Sarabia on Friday in "a su...
Representatives of India and Pakistan on Tuesday will hold the second day of two-day talks on conventional and nuclear weapons, Indian officials said. No major developments were expected from the high-l...
Criticism of lax food safety standards at Chinese companies abounded on microblogging sites in China on Tuesday following the latest scare involving dairy products in the country. Tests found that carton...
Iran is prepared to expand military and security cooperation with neighboring Iraq, a top Iranian military official said -- a week after U.S. forces pulled out of Iraq. "The Islamic Republic of Iran is r...
Two Swedish journalists who were found guilty in Ethiopia of supporting terrorism were sentenced to 11 years in jail Tuesday, the Swedish foreign ministry said. "Our belief was that the court would think...
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck the Izu Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 94.2 km (158.5 miles), the quake hit at 09:04:30 UTC Tueday 27th December 2011. The epicenter was 218 km (135 miles) SSE of...
An Arab League delegation is set to visit the besieged city of Homs on Tuesday as reports of bloodshed at the hands of the Syrian regime continue to escalate. The team of observers are visiting Syria t...
A former Calvin Klein art director climbed onto the roof of her burning house and tried to smash the windows of her daughters' bedrooms in a bid to save them from the flames ravaging her home. Madonna Bad...
Television chef Matt Golinski is fighting for survival after a fire ravaged his home and killed his entire family. The Ready Steady Cook star fought to save his wife and children before they died in the b...
Residents of Brisbane and the Gold Coast are bracing for a severe thunderstorm, with predictions of damaging winds and hail to lash the region. The Bureau of Meteorology said thunderstorms had been detect...
Two men have been injured after they were trapped in a freight train that was swept off a bridge near Katherine, south of Darwin. The 20-carriage train derailed near the Edith Falls River Crossing in floo...
Insurance companies are recalling staff from holidays to cope with the volume of calls from policyholders affected by severe storms that hit Melbourne on Christmas Day. Thousands of homes, mainly in Melbo...
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. *Dakotos Ride for the Ancestors to Mankato* By KEYC TV Posted at Censored News 149 years ago today 38 Dakota Indians were hung in Mankato. It's a dark day in history but a group of American Indians are...
While the head of the Arab League delegation in Syria said the situation in the flashpoint city of Homs was "reassuring so far," activists say the regime has killed six people in Hama. Sudanese General M...
A 19-year-old woman found stabbed to death in Borehamwood has been named as Chatherine Wynter. The teenager, also known locally as Katy, had been at her sister's house on Beech Drive, babysitting her sis...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:54:34 UTC Wednesday 28th December 2011. The epicenter was 57 km (35.3 miles) Northeas...
Occupy Rigged Elections: A Call for the Second American Revolution in 2012 Tuesday 27 December 2011 *by: Victoria Collier and Ronnie Cummins, Truthout | Op-Ed * *When candidates emerge who suppor...
****Analyzing social engineering through domestic propaganda & official mythology *Written and Photographed by Nile Bowie* *Editor’s note by Nile Bowie: *After years of fascination, I had the opportunity ...
*Homo-haters hate "gay" identity, selling Altoona, Orange County weasels' "wit," mean Charlie Manson, and a war on Easter?* *Without Altoona's railroad shops, once a crucial cog in our industrial machine, ...
Admits "statistical studies can't prove vote fraud" but US-funded Golos "data" collaborates conclusion. by Tony Cartalucci December 28, 2011 - The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), going through extraordinary ...
Officials say fast-moving mudflows streaming from the mouth of a volcano in eastern Indonesia have killed four villagers. About 1,000 others have fled their homes. Mount Gamalama, located in the Molucca ...
Levels of radiation in cesium contained in cedar pollen in Fukushima Prefecture, which hosts the crippled nuclear power plant, are so low that they will not pose any health hazard, the Forestry Agency said...
Gov. Yuhei Sato has demanded that Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), the operator of the crippled nuclear plant, decommission all its 10 nuclear reactors in the prefecture. Sato made the demand in a meeti...
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