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If you were playing a game against a dishonest opponent and you allowed that opponent to lie, cheat and steal as much as they wanted to, who do you think would win? Today, China is absolutely crushing the ...
In the United States today, the First Amendment is under attack like never before. Technological innovations such as the Internet have made it possible for average Americans to communicate directly with on...
New Republican primary rules are going to make it basically impossible for any candidate to wrap up the Republican nomination very early in 2012. In fact, the new Republican primary rules make a "brokered ...
I have learned that watching what people do is much more important than listening to what they say. Back in 2008, financial authorities in the United States insisted that everything was gone to be okay. Bu...
Can you hear that? It almost sounds like a little bit of peace and quiet. This year, the holiday season has been fairly uneventful, and for that we should be very grateful. But it isn't going to last long....
Let’s speak plainly. If you are in the United States or Western Europe, chances are incredibly high that your bank is simply not safe. In other words, your money is at risk. Big time. Let’s review some of ...
So yesterday, the European Central Bank (ECB) doled out €489 ($639) billion in loans to the European banking sector. Why’d they do it? ‘Cause Europe’s banks are broke: That is, if all the crap they colle...
If you live in the United States of America, you live in a giant prison where liberty and freedom are slowly being strangled to death. In this country, the control freaks that run things are obsessed with ...
*Whereas Britney, Courtney, Bentley, and Otto are either the least liked or the most exclusive* *by Ken* Unbeknownst to me until I read today's DNAinfo report on the NYC Dept. of Health and Mental Hygien...
*“If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures...
"I was astonished 44 years ago. Most people were," says criminologist Alfred Blumstein, a professor of operations research at the Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University, who served with criminologist ...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 513.6 km (319.2 miles), the quake hit at 03:46:15 UTC Friday 30th December 2011. The epicenter was 9 km (5 miles) SSW of Ndoi Island, Fiji...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Halmahera, Indonesia at a depth of 87.3 km (54.2 miles), the quake hit at 01:45:02 UTC Friday 30th December 2011. The epicenter was 130 km (80 miles) NNE of Ternate, M...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles - poorly constrained), the quake hit at 00:35:47 UTC Friday 30th December 2011. The epicenter was 18 km (11.2 miles) ...
*"Nature Loves To Hide" * by Chet Raymo "A rainbow. Pretty to look at. But what do you see? The arc of a perfect circle. Pure geometry. Think about how seldom we see pure geometric forms in nature. River...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Bougainville Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 505 km (313.8 miles), the quake hit at 22:25:50 UTC Thursday 29th December 2011. The epicenter was 177 km (109 ...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:33:58 UTC Thursday 29th December 2011. The epicenter was 43 km (26.6 miles) North of ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 102 km (63.4 miles), the quake hit at 20:34:59 UTC Thursday 29th December 2011. The epicenter was 59 km (36 miles) South of Tona...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:33:58 UTC Thursday 29th December 2011. The epicenter was 43 km (26.6 miles) North of ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 102 km (63.4 miles), the quake hit at 20:34:59 UTC Thursday 29th December 2011. The epicenter was 59 km (36 miles) South of Tona...
*We don't live in our fears. We live in our hopes.* — Pittsburgh Steeler coach Mike Tomlin In the "happy days" before its debt-based ponzi scheme fell apart in 2007-2008, the American Empire was already i...
I recently posted about China in China's Economic Miracle Is Not So Miraculous Anymore (December 12, 2011). A lot rides on what happens in China. Most importantly, China's growth, along with that of the ot...
Winter is here, and Christmas is two days away. For many, winter's arrival and the year's end signals a time for reflection on how we have lived our lives, our current circumstances and what life might hol...
Israel and South Sudan share no borders. The distance between their capital cities Tel Aviv and Juba is more than 3,000 kilometres. The two countries do not have any real cultural, religious or ethnic li...
The government is getting tough on traffickers and encouraging farmers to plant alternative crops, but will it work? Peru has now overtaken Colombia as the largest cocaine exporter in the world. Some re...
Let's celebrate the end of an eventful 2011 with a fable. Once upon a time in the young 21st century, the eagle, the bear and the dragon took their (furry) gloves off and engaged in a New Cold War. When ...
"While Comet Lovejoy entertained early morning risers in in the southern hemisphere, a lovely conjunction of a young crescent Moon and Venus graced western skies at sunset. Captured on December 26th the co...
*"Beyond My Solitude"* "Beyond my solitude is another solitude, and to him who dwells therein my aloneness is a crowded market-place and my silence a confusion of sounds. Too young am I and too restless t...
*"Man's Search for Meaning"* by Viktor E. Frankl "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor E. Frankl is among the most influential works of psychiatric literature since Freud. The book begins with a lengthy, ...
Hi, y'all. My name is Seth (Debra's husband) and I'll be your server this evening. Can I get you started with some drinks? Eating out - the great American pastime (I know you baseball junkies will be all ...
VS. "Everyone is aware of the difficult and menacing situation in which human society -- shrunk into one community with a common fate — now finds itself, but only a few act accordingly. Most people go...
*Best of the Best 2011 #1 Wikileaks revelations* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com In the Censored News pick for the Best of the Best in 2011, Wikileaks claims first prize...
As the lesser of two evils-- assuming Romney, the choice of the Republican Establishment, is the party's nominee-- I hope Obama wins the presidency next November. I'll follow the campaign with great inter...
*"Flying Home: Free of Gravity"* by The DailyOm "We take flight mentally when we rise above our habitual ways of thinking about things and experience new insights. As earthbound beings, humans have alway...
*"Dazed Lemmings Can't Bridge The Reality Gap"* by Zen Gardner "Ever wonder why people can't make the leap to real awareness of what's going on? Why do so few people seem to care about the dangers of the ...
*"Massive Solar Storm 'Could Knock Out * *Radio Signals' Over Next Three Days"* By Ted Thornhill "Skywatchers will be hoping for clear skies from today because particles from a recent solar storm will slam...
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In some ways my late dad was not a deep thinker. Just crawling out from under the Great Depression and severe wounds from combat in WWII likely had more than a little to do with that. Yet, to his eterna...
*Darcy with Jim McDermott -- what a winning team for the Seattle area that will be!* This week we took long drives through the Yucatán to Uxmal and Chichen Itza to see what we could make of the Mayan civil...
Last night’s BBC World Service broadcast two notable items for insomniacs. From Our Own Correspondent aired an old episode, first heard in 2007, by Martin Bell. As a BBC correspondent Martin Bell had been ...
"The Illusion of a ‘Limited War’ Against Iran" by Mahan Abedin "The frank admission by Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and America’s highest ranking officer, that the U.S. has p...
*“Iran Warns Of Closing Strategic Hormuz Oil Route”* By Ali Akbar Dareini “Iran's navy chief warned Wednesday that his country can easily close the strategic Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Persian Gu...
*"Insatiable US Debt and Other Jokes"* by Bill Bonner "Yesterday, the Dow dropped 139 points…with all 30 Dow stocks lower. Gold lost $31. It seems to be heading towards $1,500…or maybe $1,400…or lower! B...
*THE WILD WILD WEST* *By Mohawk Nation News* *http://www.mohawknationnews.com* MNN. Dec. 29, 2011. Western society prefers artificial interaction with inanimate objects. The globe is the resort o...
NASA's GRAIL mission will determine what lies beneath the lunar crust by measuring the moon's gravitational field.
A finger that was believed to be from a yeti, once revered in a monastery, turns out to be a human.
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 40.9 km (25.4 miles), the quake hit at 20:05:50 UTC Thursday 29th December 2011. The epicenter was 116 km (72 miles) South of Port-Vila, Vanuatu N...
"When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: Either you will be given something solid to...
"The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts." - Omar N. Bradley, the first general to be selected Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck New Zealand at a depth of 100 km (62 miles), the quake hit at 19:31:17 UTC Thursday 29th December 2011. The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) East of Rai Valley, New Zeal...
*THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2011* *The information never ends:* Increasingly, we’ve been struck by our tribe’s tolerance for The Dumb. We got that feeling as we read Kevin Drum’s post concerning Ashley Parker...
Large-scale tusk smuggling has reached a record high this year, with at least 2,500 dead elephants used for ivory. Organised criminals - particularly Asian syndicates - are increasingly involved in the il...
What do you think is the most pressing issue of our time? Better take a gander at the facts first. And leave the rightwingnut fictions behind. (Warren Buffett wasn't kidding about him paying a lower tax ra...
Iran has ramped up its war of words with the U.S. - by revealing it filmed and photographed one of its aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf. Tensions between the two countries are escalating on an almost ...
Images from three Nasa telescopes seem to have unearthed a scowling eye in deep space - but it's actually a nearby galaxy - NGC 4151 - with gas interacting with the growing black hole at its centre. The w...
A massive fire engulfed a Russian nuclear submarine at an Arctic shipyard today. The fire onboard the Yekaterinburg nuclear submarine occurred while it was in dock for repairs at the Roslyakovo shipyard i...
You could be forgiven for thinking that these pictures were taken after a heavy snowfall. But they actually show the huge amount of foam that has been blown onto the shore in Blackpool. The promenade alo...
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in central Moscow on Thursday to protest the detention of Russian opposition activist Sergey Udaltsov. About 3,000 people said they might attend ahead of the event, acco...
Bring out the melted butter and cocktail sauce. There's an invasive species to eat.
Eta Carinae underwent an enormous eruption in the 1800's -- we are now seeing light from the event bounce off the star's nebula.
This team won a $100,000 scholarship for using an Xbox Kinect to analyze the gait of patients with movement affecting injuries.
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 25.6 km (15.9 miles), the quake hit at 18:28:18 UTC Thursday 29th December 2011. The epicenter was 192 km (119 ...
*"Stress Kills, So Try A New Action-Meditation"* by Paul B. Farrell "Ask any expert, stress kills, especially when there’s no let up. Like right now during the holiday season. We all want to enjoy, be hap...
*THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2011* *PART 2—A TENDENCY OF THE TRIBE:* Yesterday, we said that Julie Mack’s column was one of the year’s most memorable texts (see THE DAILY HOWLER, 12/28/11). Mack’s column appea...
Troops used to playing commercial games tend to lose concentration unless MoD simulations look equally realistic. The British military has had to radically improve some of its simulated training war games...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck New Zealand at a depth of 15 km (9.3 miles), the quake hit at 15:45:27 UTC Thursday 29th December 2011. The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) East of Belfast, New Zealand...
Iran's vice president has warned that the country could block the Strait of Hormuz if sanctions are imposed on its exports of crude oil. What does the threat mean and what is likely to happen next? *Wh...
*Doctor Ron Paul* - Caleb O'Connor painting (Caleb O'Connor : Fine Artist.) On 31 December 2011, The Economist, read by top people worldwide, mentions*Ron Paul. * Among the Directors of The Economist are S...
"It comes, then, to this: that to be "viable", livable, or merely practical, life must be lived as a game - and the "must" here expresses a condition, not a commandment. It must be lived in the spirit of ...
Spain: UFO Sightings in Seville (1999) By José Manuel García Bautista The following is a list of UFO sightings in the province of Seville (southern Spain) and outlying districts during the mo...
*“Our Last Christmas In The Old America”* by Justin Raimondo "As the world celebrates the birthday of the Prince of Peace, the Lord of War looms large over the land. The shrikes and talking heads are scre...
A conservationist group's boat that was chasing a Japanese whaling vessel off Antarctica was seriously damaged by a giant wave Thursday -- a major setback in the group's ongoing and sometimes violent battl...
Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. started on Wednesday the operation of new, more efficient centrifuges at its uranium enrichment plant in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture. After a warm-up operation, the centrifuges --...
All of the primary shelters for evacuees in the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake and the ensuing nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant have been closed down in Fukushima Prefectu...
[image: Copper Theft At El Cajon Store Caught On Tape. 28 December 2011. Surveillance video obtained by 10News shows a copper thief in action in El Cajon and provides some insight into the person's ident...
The government's request that an interim facility to store soil and other waste contaminated with radiation be built somewhere in Futaba county near the crippled nuclear power plant sent ripples of concern...
*That's Guinta looking uncomfortable between the two clowns.* This week, New Hampshire's main Republican Party propaganda sheet, the *Union Leader*, responded to Carol Shea-Porter's op-ed about the Republi...
Leftover holiday wrapping paper and packaging could be fermented into enough biofuel to power Santa's sleigh around the planet hundreds of times.
Political cartoon by Charlie Loving / The Rag Blog.The Rag Blog
I received this as a piece of chain mail. I agree with most of it - I have a problem with term limits - but for the most part, this is common sense and what every citizen of the United States is forced to ...
*Sometimes, quantitative progress isn't real progress* A week ago, many media outlets including BBC and Fox News announced that the LHC at CERN has discovered its first new particle. It's called \(\chi_...
Large ivory seizures across the world made this a "horrible year for elephants."
The amoeboid is distinctly no technology, but it could provide the key to designing bio-computers capable of advanced networking.
The Times Square Ball has gone through several iterations; this is the most technically advanced one yet.
Two of the Today guest editors bucked a familiar BBC trend. Two in a row. Yesterday Tracey Emin courageously admitted that she Voted Tory, (gasp) and our Thursday, Jewish guest editor chose to explore lead...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Tajikistan at a depth of 80 km (49.6 miles), the quake hit at 15:27:31 UTC Thursday 29th December 2011. The epicenter was 33 km (20.4 miles) Southwest of Karakendzha, T...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Greece at a depth of 9 km (5.7 miles), the quake hit at 15:19:35 UTC Thursday 29th December 2011. The epicenter was 5 km (3.1 miles) North of Kamarai, Greece No Tsunami...
Weak demand for long-term Italian bonds at its final auction of the year Thursday sent the yield of the country's 10-year debt above the troubling 7% level. Overall, the auction sold just over €7 billion,...
And of course it is more extremism from "God's Chosen". Alleged "chosen" ones that is. If one believes that kind of tripe? Just another day for the Israeli extremists- Just another day in Israel. That "free...
This article is about the American Justice Partnership (AJP) and ALEC. (Please do *NOT* confuse this with Rocky Anderson’s Justice Party.) The important thing about this is – IF AJP is in cahoots with the A...
Tree Kill in Central Texas, drought of 2011. Photo by Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog.Drought and wildfires:Welcome to climate change in TexasBy Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog / December 29, 2011Environmental resea...
The R.A.N.'s the place for you! That would be the Royal Australian Navy which, in case you hadn't been approached by some digger with a funny looking cap, is making *some interesting offers*. Apparentl...
Photo by Ian MacKenzie / Occupy Wall Street.Occupy your heart:Compassion is our new currencyOccupy arrived and, as if swept by some strange pandemic, a contagious virus of truth-telling, everyone was suddenl...
A young girl takes on gendered marketing for kids. Her rant is epic but who is really behind pink for girls and blue for boys anyhow?
Once the New Year's Eve conversation peters out, you can impress your friends with the science behind champagne.
Happy Birthday to Head Coach Sean Payton! Saints RB Thomas fined for TD celebration ~Notice of the fines was taped to Thomas' locker by teammates with a big red bow on top as part of a prank. Thomas says h...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck South of the Kermadec Islands at a depth of 248.8 km (154.6 miles), the quake hit at 13:58:55 UTC Thursday 29th December 2011. The epicenter was 105 km (65 miles) SSE ...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Central Peru at a depth of 77.5 km (48.2 miles), the quake hit at 03:45:41 UTC Thursday 29th December 2011. The epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) SSE of...
A toddler has been attacked by a python which wrapped itself around his body and tried to suffocate him in northern Australia. The child's mother said she heard the boy's "blood-curdling scream" and went...
*FOX's birther "experts" debate, nutters rage over Obama's choice of church, Big Bad Gov't except . . . , Repugs & Ayn Rand* *by Noah* *4/27/11 -- Birther nonsense is all about dehumanization* A mere bi...
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wmtc - 15 hours ago
This has been a strange winter break. I've been working at the library, collaborating with Allan on some paid writing work, taking care of the massive number of appointments and personal chores that pile...
Overcrowded, troubled and making the best out of a bad situation. Tawerghans living in a refugee camp in Tripoli squeeze into their accommodation. It isn't just raining on them right now it's pouring dow...
Belgian engineers have taken another step towards making hologram displays a reality.
When you leave a job, you are usually entitled to most of your cubicle's belongings. But what about those Twitter followers you racked up?
*New Russian report says U.S. tortures, wiretaps, fails to prosecute officials and CIA human rights abusers, continues to operate Guantanamo Bay prison, censors news and silences reporters* In a new huma...
Libya is heading into the New Year with new leaders and hopes. But it turns out, as the immediate post-revolutionary excitement fades, the different factions of the former rebels are turning on each other ...
Syrian security forces have opened fire on anti-government protesters at demonstrations across the country and killed at least eight people, according to activists. Two protesters were killed and around ...
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Biased BBC - 15 hours ago
Wonder if you heard Sarah Montague interview Tony Blair this morning here?I was struck by her clear assertion that the Muslim Brotherhood is "moderate" and that Hamas is a legitimate government that we must...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck near Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 09:48:11 UTC Thursday 29th December 2011. The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) East of ...
Had to chuckle when I heard this quote on the news this morning. "Kent Sorenson personally told me he was offered a large sum of money to go to work for the Paul campaign," Bachmann told reporters. "Kent s...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Northern Colombia at a depth of 147.3 km (91.5 miles), the quake hit at 11:58:29 UTC Thursday 29th December 2011. The epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) South of Bucaramang...
Although we are still in the Christmas period, for the UK, the major festival is over, and the shift has gone from spending on mass-produced material goods, to spending on vast quantities of alcohol for t...
*Amazing images of living from one of the most inhospitable spots in the sea have been captured by scientists. *They believe some of the species may be new to science. This area is also unusual because it ...
Turkish warplanes killed at least 35 people in an air strike near the country's border with Iraq, after apparently mistaking smugglers for Kurdish militants. Turkish warplanes strike militant targets reg...
A fifth person has been arrested by police investigating the murder of an Indian student who was shot in the head. Anuj Bidve was targeted at point-blank range as he walked with friends near their hotel ...
In the left picture a group of men are seen on the left side of the picture but in the right picture which was sent directly to Reuters by KCNA, the group is missing Photo: Reuters Now new evidence has e...
Nigeria's Christians are losing faith that the government will protect them from attacks by Islamic extremists and will "respond appropriately" to future killings, the country's leading church group warned...
Stratfor, a global intelligence company, is delaying the launch of its website following an apparent computer hack that saw the release of subscriber credit card information. "As part of our ongoing in...
Chinese officials said they killed seven members of the Uighur ethnic group in the restive western region of Xinjiang in order to free two hostages -- an account the Uighurs disputed. The hostages -- loc...
The U.S. Navy said Iran's threat to block the strategically and economically important Strait of Hormuz is unacceptable. "The free flow of goods and services through the Strait of Hormuz is vital to re...
An explosion early Thursday rocked a neighborhood in the city of Yangon killing 20 people and injuring more than 95, Myanmar's state-run television MR TV reported. The blast occurred in Mingalar Taung Ny...
A person wearing an Afghan National Army uniform killed two members of NATO's International Security Assistance Force in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, the alliance said. It did not release additional ...
An airstrike in southeast Turkey killed at least 31 Kurdish villagers crossing into the country from Iraq on Wednesday night, a local official from the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party said. "A grou...
To look at these remarkable images you'd find it hard to believe that anyone could survive such a devastating plane crash. But incredibly not a single one of the 70 passengers on board the aircraft lost ...
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url movie: http://youtu.be/UPkYyDiuGyc *In the New Year* I'll be reviewing this development. If this were transposed to larger desktop computers it could easily wipe away Unity and Gnome 3 shell. KDE 4.8 ...
A man was tonight charged with the murder of his elder brother at a Christmas day party. Police formally charged 33-year-old Vaides Juras after his sibling Bronius was knifed through the heart. Bronius, ...
Underwater volcanic activity has pushed an previously unseen island to the surface in a remote part of the Red Sea. Fishermen witnessed spewing lava fountains reaching up to 90ft tall on December 19 near ...
A teenage babysitter was stabbed to death while looking after her three-year-old nephew and four-year-old niece on Boxing Day. Chatherine Wynter, 19, was knifed multiple times at her sister’s house where ...
Bumper crops of vegetables are arriving months too early in the latest saga of this year’s topsy-turvy weather. Farmers say they are harvesting cabbages, sprouts broccoli and cauliflowers up to three mont...
Hundreds of thousands of people packed Pyongyang's main square this morning as Kim Jong Il's son and successor was declared the new 'Supreme Leader' of North Korea. The announcement, the communist governm...
A record number of patients picked up life-threatening infections in NHS hospitals last year, alarming figures show. Poor hygiene on the wards has resulted in those with hospital-acquired infections doubl...
Foreign-domination of Iraq's economy are the real chains of servitude. by Tony Cartalucci December 29, 2011 - Even as US troops symbolically withdraw from Iraq, a superficial indicator that many may inter...
Brussels rules are letting thousands of migrants into Britain ‘by the back door’. Nearly 11,000 moved here this year on the basis of having been given citizenship in another EU country. The total, reveal...
Taxpayers are funding aid to Brazil even though it has become richer than Britain, Whitehall officials admitted yesterday. Millions has been handed over in development aid in recent years despite the rap...
Officials in Burma say a warehouse fire that spread to neighbouring houses has killed at least 17 people and injured more than 100. The blaze started in a state-owned warehouse before dawn on Thursday and ...
Violence has escalated across Syria as the Arab League observers continue their mission to find signs of a brutal crackdown on protests. Activists claim troops opened fire on unarmed demonstrators, killin...
Australian stocks fell to their lowest point in a month as doubts resurfaced over the state of the European debt crisis and a rush to the US dollar put downward pressure on commodity prices. Shares extend...
Wildfires are in fact a net benefit to the ecosystem and we have learned the hard way that it is best to encourage them to rid the forest of a fuel build up and allow propagation of a wider rang...
This work has nicely sorted out the genome tree for plants and resolved a number of issues and provides confidence in the sequence established. It will now be easier to go after targets worth c...
Somewhere out there someone always wants to make the argument that we are going to slow down now. It is my position that this will plausibly occur upon the human economy at the least been optim...
Lucid dreaming is a phenomenon that is clearly not understood, but been able to at least trigger it would be a great start. Meditation is very much trying to do just this and although the goals t...
"The powers that be not only try to control events, but they try to control our memory and understanding of these events, which is part of controlling the events themselves." - Michael Parenti. "As long...
*Sao Paulo in Brazil (**http://www.fotosedm.hpg.ig.com.br/**) *The quotes below are from the January 2012 edition of the UK's *Money Observer.* ** *1. The world economy has been growing very fast.* *"The ...
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By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com *Native America Calling: Listen online Friday at: * http://www.nativeamericacalling.com *1 Eastern; noon Central; 11 Mountain; 10 Pacific* ...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 03:44:00 UTC Thursday 29th December 2011. The epicenter was 46 km (28.8 miles) East of S...
Poisonous metal released as a vapour by burning fuel, then falls back to Earth and gets absorbed by the aquatic ecosystem. Earth is being showered with mercury that can land anywhere and enter the food ch...
Bisphenol A toys with the female heart, a new study finds. And under the right conditions, its authors worry, this near-ubiquitous pollutant might even prove deadly. BPA is a building block of clear hard...
Christmas has failed to raise more than a glimmer of festive cheer for Britain's consumers, with Nationwide reporting only a tiny rise in consumer confidence in November. The building society said that B...
Euro rage is reaching new heights over Britain's latest outrage. Our refusal to pony up a further €31bn we cannot afford, to prop up a monetary union that was created against our wishes and better judgmen...
To paraphrase Life of Brian, what has Europe ever done for us? In the Monty Python film, the Judeans could grudgingly cite the aqueduct, roads, wine, irrigation, public baths, sanitation, medicine, educati...
Bisphenol A toys with the female heart, a new study finds. And under the right conditions, its authors worry, this near-ubiquitous pollutant might even prove deadly. BPA is a building block of clear hard...
Christmas has failed to raise more than a glimmer of festive cheer for Britain's consumers, with Nationwide reporting only a tiny rise in consumer confidence in November. The building society said that B...
The economic downturn in the US has resulted in, among other things, a huge number of houses left vacant by foreclosure. And some people are trying to cash in on the US housing crisis, by turning abando...
"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapor, a drop of water suffices to kill him. But, if the universe we...
*Defence Secretary Leon Panetta's suggestion that the end of the U.S. troop presence in Iraq is part of a U.S. military success story ignores the fact that the George W. Bush administration and the U.S. mi...
House prices in most Chinese cities have fallen as government policies aimed at cooling the property market start to take effect. New home prices in 49 out of 70 Chinese cities dropped in November from th...
A majority of 28 mostly European countries have failed to comply with freedom of information requests about their involvement in secret CIA flights carrying suspected terrorists, two human rights groups sa...
Writing from the very region that produces more clichés per square foot than any other "story" – the Middle East – I should perhaps pause before I say I have never read so much garbage, so much utter drive...
The colors have been cased, the command has been shut down, and the war has been officially declared over. By December 31, the final U.S. troops will come home, and Americans seem to have decided they’re s...
Thousands of armed U.S. private contractors will be based in the country, and the potential for violence is real. In a speech at Fort Bragg, N.C., Wednesday, President Obama declared that the war in Iraq ...
*[Editor's. note: This is a transcript of a conversation between members of the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers and Noam Chomsky, which took place on September 21, 2011. Each question was asked in Dari and t...
Wall Street has become a battleground, defended by a battalion of New York Cops, and under surveillance around the clock. There's a war under way after months of protests and assaults by the non-violent wa...
*N**assary Hassan is an Egyptian citizen living in Germany. Last March, he was in Egypt and, during a visit to Hurghada - a resort town on the Red Sea - he saw piles of garbage in the streets. He carried a...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Guatemala at a depth of 10.2 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 05:19:58 UTC Thursday 29th December 2011. The epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) Northeast of Huehuetenango, G...
*FALSE FLAG ATTACK IN THE MAKING??? LIKE THE U.S.S. LIBERTY?* US Navy sets stage for reason to attack Iran. Will the Navy take the initiative to sink a ship in the Straights of Hormuz and blame it on Ira...
After Colonel Gaddafi died earlier this year, I wondered if, with both the Mad Dog and Saddam Hussein dead at 69, that age was becoming the new 27 for dictators. Now they’ve been joined in the, er, 69 Club...
Fear of the trauma of divorce is stopping many young couples from walking down the aisle, a university report has found. With the share of married adults at an all-time low in the United States, the late...
Bubbling under the surface of politics is the foreclosure crisis — where the power of big finance is brushing up against the rule of law. The party leaders seem to have decided it is essentially a giant — ...
Health officials have issued a warning about the serious threat posed by norovirus after an outbreak has seen cases jump by 20 per cent on this time last year. The winter diarrhoea and vomiting bug has a...
The coming break-up of the single currency makes Britain’s veto seem a mere sideshow, writes Jeff Randall. As George Osborne prepares his response to the Vickers report on banking reform (the Chancellor ...
Borrowers hoping to get mortgages stretching past retirement age will be subject to extra “prudent and proportionate” checks as part of a major review of the mortgage system by the Financial Services Autho...
[image: Petty Officer Second Class Marissa Gaeta (left) greeted her partner, Petty Officer Third Class Citlalic Snell, yesterday.] Petty Officer Second Class Marissa Gaeta (left) greeted her partner, Pett...
Families reported that available income had fallen by £46 a month on average in 2011, as the squeeze on living standards intensified. It was the fifth consecutive year of declining income according to the...
Squeezed by rising living costs, a record number of Americans – nearly 1 in 2 – have fallen into poverty or are scraping by on earnings that classify them as low income. The latest census data depict a m...
*That's the Globe for you! * "Unaligned N.H. vote a test for Romney; Independents could change the momentum in GOP" by Sarah Schweitzer Globe Staff / December 27, 2011 FREEDOM, N.H.- Bill Sindoni, 59, a s...
Do you see that sinister looking fellow*** on the cover of *Time Magazine*? Looks like he could be a bomb-throwing terrorist, doesn't it? That's *Time's* Man Woman Person Of The Year — The Protester Note...
*We don't do body counts* — General Tommy Franks Last week the long war in Iraq came to an end. I have some things to say about that. The hapless victim of my harangue today will be Gary Kamiya, who wrot...
battling protesters in Tahrir Square on Sunday. The clashes, into their fourth day now, have left 10 people dead and hundreds injured. The video uploaded on YouTube Sunday reveals the extreme cruelty o...
*Of course, one person's "moderate drinking" might be another person's drunken binge. * *by Ken* The folks behind FactsHub.net are pretty singleminded in their mission. On their website, such as it is, yo...
*On 15 December in London, Phil Mullan took part in the annual Institute of Ideas lecture, an event titled ‘Christmas in Euroland’. An edited transcript of his introductory comments is published below. * ...
Kim Jong-il is dead. Now, what's going to happen in North Korea? That's the question the world is thinking aloud, trying to peep into North Korea. But they are wrong. They should look at South Korea - what...
A copy of Manhattan, complete with Rockefeller and Lincoln centers and what passes for the Hudson River, is under construction an hour’s train ride from Beijing. And like New York City in the 1970s, it may...
While much of the world is in crisis and protests are erupting throughout Europe and the United States, Latin American and Caribbean nations are building consensus, advancing social justice and increasing ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Southern Peru at a depth of 197.3 km (122.6 miles), the quake hit at 03:32:46 UTC Thursday 29th December 2011. The epicenter was 38 km (23 miles) WNW of Juliaca, Peru N...
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck the Pacific Antarctic Ridge at a depth of 16.9 km (10.5 miles), the quake hit at 00:30:56 UTC Thursday 29th December 2011. The epicenter was 1826 km (1134 miles) NNW o...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 238.9 km (148.5 miles), the quake hit at 21:55:43 UTC Wednesday 28th December 2011. The epicenter was 131 km (81 miles) Northwest of Neiafu, Tonga N...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 64.3 km (40 miles), the quake hit at 21:45:53 UTC Wednesday 28th December 2011. The epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) Northeast of Salina Cruz...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:35:01 UTC Wednesday 28th December 2011. The epicenter was 44 km (27.6 miles) East of ...
*I missed the show. * "Local theaters ready to bow to tweeters in the audience; But distraction to others a primary concern" by Beth Teitell | Globe Staff, December 28, 2011 To tweet or not to tweet? T...
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 31 km (19.3 miles), the quake hit at 20:32:31 UTC Wednesday 28th December 2011. The epicenter was 182 km (113 miles) So...
*If you believe the agenda-pushing AmeriKan media.... * * *"Putin starts presidential run with warning" November 28, 2011|By Lynn Berry, Associated Press MOSCOW - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sternly *wa...
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You know I never comment on US election campaigns, but this was irresistible. Every barrel of oil that comes out of those sands in Canada is a barrel of oil that we don’t have to buy from a foreign sourc...
*"The Night Is Our Window On The Infinite"* by Chet Raymo "This is the time of the year when we catch Orion sneaking back into the sky before we hit the sack. I couldn't resist posting this new Hubble imag...
"And even the unhappiest life has its sunny moments and its little flowers of happiness between sand and stone. So it was then with the Steppenwolf too. It cannot be denied that he was generally very unha...
* "2012: Fear No Supernova"* by Science Daily "Given the incredible amounts of energy in a supernova explosion - as much as the sun creates during its entire lifetime - another erroneous doomsday theory ...
*Kyrgyzstan** * *"Kyrgyzstan, an impoverished and mainly Muslim nation of around 5 million people on China’s western fringes, is home to both US and Russian military air bases, making its fortunes the sub...
"Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at t...
"39 still missing from sunken oil rig" December 20, 2011 MOSCOW - Time appeared to be running out to rescue 39 people still missing more than a day after an oil rig capsized and sank in stormy, freezing w...
"Severe drought takes toll on Balkans, with no relief in sight" December 04, 2011|By Amer Cohadzic, Associated Press BEZDAN, Serbia - The waters of the mighty Danube are so low that dozens of cargo ships ...
"Bagpipers greet pandas arriving in Scotland" December 05, 2011|Associated Press LONDON - Two giant pandas from China landed yesterday in Scotland, where they will become the first to live in Britain in n...
*"The economists Barton Lipman and Wolfgang Pesendorfer argue convincingly that people have a profound distaste for temptation, and are willing to go to great lengths to avoid it. That's precisely what la...
Spain: Strange Phenomena at the Bobadilla Army Base (2002) By José Manuel Garcia Bautista and Rafael Cabello The Bobadilla Military Facility is located in the province of Málaga, which was an ...
*Mailman hasn't come yet. * * *"Postal Service moving ahead with $3b in cuts; Changes could end next-day mail delivery" December 05, 2011|By Hope Yen, Associated Press The changes would provide *short-ter...
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"People don't have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you're dead, when they've killed you by what they made you go through, they say you didn't have any character. T...
*Photos by Brenda Norrell/Censored News* Postal workers in Tucson marched in downtown Tucson to save their jobs this evening. Protesting the announced closure of the Tucson mail processing plant, posta...
"'The Imp of the Perverse': Edgar Allan Poe Updated for the 21st Century" by Brint Montgomery "In the consideration of the mental faculties and neuro- impulses- of the basic movements within the human "s...
"You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?" - Robert Louis Stevenson
*Don't know what it is yet, but Obama is going to spend $500 million so a bunch of guys at MIT can think about it!* "Academics turn minds to factories for a new era; MIT leads effort to reinvent field" De...
*He's called House Speaker here.* "DeLeo to oust a top lieutenant; House speaker has been fuming over perceived betrayal" November 20, 2011|By Frank Phillips, Globe Staff House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo, *f...
The UN headquarters may be following protocol, but critics argue the organization's human rights message is "being blurred."
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If you were playing a game against a dishonest opponent and you allowed that opponent to lie, cheat and steal as much as they wanted to, who do you think would win? Today, China is absolutely crushing the ...
In the United States today, the First Amendment is under attack like never before. Technological innovations such as the Internet have made it possible for average Americans to communicate directly with on...
New Republican primary rules are going to make it basically impossible for any candidate to wrap up the Republican nomination very early in 2012. In fact, the new Republican primary rules make a "brokered ...
I have learned that watching what people do is much more important than listening to what they say. Back in 2008, financial authorities in the United States insisted that everything was gone to be okay. Bu...
Can you hear that? It almost sounds like a little bit of peace and quiet. This year, the holiday season has been fairly uneventful, and for that we should be very grateful. But it isn't going to last long....
Let’s speak plainly. If you are in the United States or Western Europe, chances are incredibly high that your bank is simply not safe. In other words, your money is at risk. Big time. Let’s review some of ...
So yesterday, the European Central Bank (ECB) doled out €489 ($639) billion in loans to the European banking sector. Why’d they do it? ‘Cause Europe’s banks are broke: That is, if all the crap they colle...
If you live in the United States of America, you live in a giant prison where liberty and freedom are slowly being strangled to death. In this country, the control freaks that run things are obsessed with ...
*Whereas Britney, Courtney, Bentley, and Otto are either the least liked or the most exclusive* *by Ken* Unbeknownst to me until I read today's DNAinfo report on the NYC Dept. of Health and Mental Hygien...
"I was astonished 44 years ago. Most people were," says criminologist Alfred Blumstein, a professor of operations research at the Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University, who served with criminologist ...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 513.6 km (319.2 miles), the quake hit at 03:46:15 UTC Friday 30th December 2011. The epicenter was 9 km (5 miles) SSW of Ndoi Island, Fiji...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Halmahera, Indonesia at a depth of 87.3 km (54.2 miles), the quake hit at 01:45:02 UTC Friday 30th December 2011. The epicenter was 130 km (80 miles) NNE of Ternate, M...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles - poorly constrained), the quake hit at 00:35:47 UTC Friday 30th December 2011. The epicenter was 18 km (11.2 miles) ...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Bougainville Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 505 km (313.8 miles), the quake hit at 22:25:50 UTC Thursday 29th December 2011. The epicenter was 177 km (109 ...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:33:58 UTC Thursday 29th December 2011. The epicenter was 43 km (26.6 miles) North of ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 102 km (63.4 miles), the quake hit at 20:34:59 UTC Thursday 29th December 2011. The epicenter was 59 km (36 miles) South of Tona...
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