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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". Allegedly. Just another day for the
Israeli extremists- Just another day in Israel. That "free" and "open society". The only "democracy" in the middle...
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! Criminal Charges Being Prepared Against BP For Gulf Oil Spill ~NPR Day Tripping~Charlie London
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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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 u...
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 ...
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 ran...
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 ...
By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Native America Calling will host the most censored Native American newsmakers of 2011 on Friday. Guests will include the Censored News Per...
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...
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...
Antioch, California, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
"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...
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CENSORED NEWS - 15 hours ago
*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."
African-Americans voting in 1867. Image from the Texas Liberal.The hidden history of TexasPart VII: Reconstruction in Texas, 1865-1876/2By Bob Feldman / The Rag Blog / October 26, 2011[This is the second sec...
*Related: Avoid Swimming in Aruba* "American suspect in Aruba to be freed" November 26, 2011|By Associated Press ORANJESTAD, Aruba - A *US businessman suspected* in the August *disappearance and presumed...
*“Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future”* by Olaf Stapledon “Great are the stars, and man is of no account to them. But man is a fair spirit, whom a star conceived and a star kills. He is...
"Ask the mirror on the wall Who's the biggest fool of all, Bet you feel small, It happens to us all. See the world Ask what's it for, Understanding, nothing more, Don't you feel small, It happens to us all...
A day after officials announced the cancer diagnosis of Argentina's president, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wondered Wednesday if the United States could be infecting the region's leaders with the illn...
Today I have reproduced the slides used in a presentation by Ray Knighton of the USDA in 2006, which was given as part of the Agricultural Air Quality Task Force Meeting. Even without his verbal accompani...
President Obama shown speaking to troops at Fort Bragg, N.C. Photo by Gerry Broome / AP.Lessons we should have learned from the Iraq WarAfter all the phony reasons for war in Iraq were found wanting, Bush an...
Sea Shepherd says airborne drones have enabled it to find the Japanese whaling fleet in the Antarctic.
"Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness." - Blaise Pascal
*"US Dollar Domination – Just Another Footnote In History"* by Mac Slavo "The assumption among the majority of Americans is that the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency will maintain America’s polit...
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Biased BBC - 18 hours ago
The BBC coverage of the murder of a youth in Oxford Street has already proven less than complete, leaving out the pesky detail that Seydou Diarrassouba was himself a member of the notorious London street g...
*Is it already too late to protect the right of American citizens to vote?* *"Mitchell, who was delivered by a midwife in Alabama in 1918, has never had a birth certificate. But when she told that to a dri...
*"The Great Divide"* by Financial Armageddon “How many times do you have to get hit over the head before you figure out who's hitting you?” – President Harry S. Truman "Although all of the examples inclu...
Within a decade we should have actual observations of black holes going "bump in the night."
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Biased BBC - 19 hours ago
Well, it's been an interesting year here on Biased BBC. I wonder have you an outstanding moment of bias that still outrages you from the past year? If so, let's be hearing from you! Click through to read ...
CONSUMERISM. You look at the Boxing Day ads, ya gotta wonder, *doesn't everybody have a flat-screen TV*? Like the song goes, buy, buy . . .
Three famous mathematicians were born or died on December 29th, in a year ending with a "1" or "6": - Leopold Kronecker (1823-1891) died 120 years ago - Tullio Levi-Civita (1873-1941) died 70 year...
As Rodney King would say: *"Why can't we all get along?"* From the CBC and other sources today: * * *Clergymen brawl at Bethlehem church* *Fight erupts at traditional site of Jesus' birth* The annual ...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Pakistan at a depth of 286 km (177.3 miles), the quake hit at 019:18:59 UTC Wednesday 28th December 2011. The epicenter was 17 km (10.5 miles) Northwest of Baffa, Pakis...
* "Janet Skewers MF, But Arianna Needs To Cut The Crap"* by Karl Denninger "Gots to love me some Janet today... In her book "Third World America," Arianna Huffington urged us to break "the choke hold that...
Some would say they already have. These researchers explain how.
[image: Warrensville Heights, whose schools and security attracted Fran Matthews in 1987. 'Now when you come home, you have to look around before you get out of the car,' she said. Credit: Dustin Franz f...
*Professor Ola Tunander is an expert on security politics, naval strategy, submarine operations, geopolitics, the dual state, psychological operations (PSYOP) and Cold War history. * On 14 Dec 2011, we rea...
Michael Byers has an excellent analysis on China, the Arctic, oil and international relations in today's Al Jazeera: *The dragon looks north* ** *China grows hungry for Arctic resources and shipping rout...
[image: A ringed seal displays significant hair loss on the Artic Ocean coast near Barrow, Alaska. An unknown disease is killing or weakening ringed seals along Alaska’s north coast. Ringed seals, the ma...
Skywatchers will be hoping for clear skies from today because particles from a recent solar storm will slam into Earth and produce amazing Northern Lights, or auroras. On the downside, experts expect radi...
A 40ft sperm whale has been washed up dead on an East Anglian beach, with what appears to be a large gash in its stomach. The sand around its tail did not appear disturbed, suggesting the creature was de...
Why Moscow Doesn’t Believe Washington on Missile Defense… or on Just Almost Nuthin’… William Engdahl Geopolitics-Geoeconomics December 28, 2011 Most in the civilized world are blissfully unaware that we a...
2011 saw a spike in climate disasters around the world, with a corresponding spike in global food prices. It’s no exaggeration to attribute the “Arab Spring” to widespread food insecurity caused by rapid...
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CENSORED NEWS - 21 hours ago
*Anonymous: Operation Free Palestine* https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6918037 Dear Citizens of the world, We live in the most troubled times! Ravaged by debt, enslaved by greed, and trapped by media lies...
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Biased BBC - 21 hours ago
Excellent post here showing how the BBC manipulates situations to ensure they conform to the narrative and of course the narrative means the Jews are always baaaaad. Do you think Palestinians sign off the ...
[image: Cover of 'A Great Madness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest'. Photo by Patricia Wall / The New York Times]By CORNELIA DEAN 26 December 2011 The intense, deep blue skies of...
[image: Melt water from the glaciers of the Cordillera Blanca forms lagoons that in turn feed rivers and streams. The water supplied by the glaciers of the Cordillera Blanca, vital to a huge region of no...
It's coming right at us! But don't worry, it shouldn't hurt too much when the coronal mass ejection (CME) hits.
[image: Blue marlin (M. nigricans) with an electronic tag used to monitor horizontal and vertical habitat use. As one of the largest teleosts in the Atlantic that grows to nearly 1,000 kg, this high-oxyg...
The US Navy has said it will not tolerate disruption to a vital oil-trade route, following an Iranian threat to close it. Iran warned it would shut the Strait of Hormuz if the West imposed more sanctions ...
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Biased BBC - 22 hours ago
Interesting bit of analysis here from the fiercely neutral BBC; It concerns the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem and a fight that broke out between the Priest in charge of it. Luckily (sic0 the Palestin...
The selection of a Sudanese military commander to head the Arab League monitoring mission in Syria is a "farce" because of his government's actions in the embattled Darfur region, a Syrian opposition group...
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wmtc - 22 hours ago
[image: The Bordo Poniente dump, thought to hold millions of tons of compressed waste, towers over 17 meters high. AFP]Mexico City (AFP) Dec 19, 2011 – Authorities Monday shut down Mexico's -- and possib...
POLITICS - The last 500 American soldiers rolled out of Iraq across the border into neighbouring Kuwait under the cover of darkness on Sunday December 18th. The convoy was done in secret during the night f...
UNITED STATES - Sears has announced it will close 120 Sears and Kmart stores, the largest closing of its properties after disastrous holiday sales. The closings will effect 1000s of jobs. The retailer wil...
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A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck Halmahera, Indonesia at a depth of 159.7 km (99.2 miles), the quake hit at 17:33:55 UTC Wednesday 28th December 2011. The epicenter was 99 km (61 miles) North of Terna...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Mindanao, Philippines at a depth of 53 km (32.6 miles), the quake hit at 16:27:35 UTC Wednesday 28th December 2011. The epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) East of Baganga,...
[image: NW India Groundwater Depletion, 2002-2008. The water table in NW India is declining at an average rate of 17.7 km3 per year. NASA] New Delhi, December 20 (UPI) – India's rising population and eco...
A state of emergency has been declared in Tuva, Central Siberia, close to the border with Mongolia. An earthquake of magnitude 6.7 on the Richter scale hit the area in the early hours of Wednesday. The R...
The reactor at the River Bend nuclear plant in Louisiana shut down automatically after an issue in the turbine caused safety systems to trip. According to an event notification report filed with the Nuclea...
HEMORRHAGIC fever (EHF) has infected more than 140 people in the port city of Qingdao in Shandong Province and caused about a dozen deaths so far this year, China National Radio reported today. The hemorr...
Suspected food poisoning landed 57 people in hospital on Tuesday in southwest China's Sichuan province, local authorities said Wednesday. The patients suffered from vomiting after eating at a restaurant in...
[image: America's Next Top Model logo]By Chris Hedges Posted on 14 September 2010 by rockingjude The United States, locked in the kind of twilight disconnect that grips dying empires, is a country entran...
It's pure coincidence, but I sometimes mix Orrin Hatch and Dick Lugar up. They're both doddering Republican conservatives, but that has nothing to do with it. One of them sat next to me at a state dinner ...
At least 80 children from this city were rescued after being trapped in the floods that inundated parts of the town of Kapalong in Davao del Norte where they were attending a youth camp on Tuesday, Kapalon...
Two women are feared dead after being swept by strong waves on the Indian Ocean coast of Kwale village in Mkuranga district, Coast region yesterday. Confirming the incident yesterday, Coast regional polic...
El Général performing at the first meeting of Tunisia's main PDP opposition party on Jan. 29, 2011 in Tunis. Photo by Fethi Belaid / AFP / Getty.The hip hop revolutionof the Arab SpringBy Ulysses / openDemoc...
I'm seeing a lot of tweets about how important Holder's actions were in SC. Mike Papantonio is on the Ed Schultz show today - and he was talking about how Holder waited too long. His premise is that the ...
Drew Brees Will Lead New Orleans Saints to Another Super Bowl~Bleacher Report Hurricane Katrina victims fight FEMA repayments 6 years after receiving aid In eroding civil liberties, Barack Obama finishes ...
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NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- The euro plunged to its weakest level in nearly a year against the dollar Wednesday, as thin market conditions converged with concerns that Italy's impending debt auction could fall ...
Syria’s Assad regime has ordered the release of hundreds of political prisoners in an attempt to keep a troubled Arab League monitoring mission to the country from collapsing. The mission, which on Wedne...
US navy says Iranian threat to block the strait of Hormuz will not be tolerated, pushing Brent crude price down to $108 a barrel. Oil prices fell on Wednesday after the US navy said Iran's threat to block ...
December 28 2011 James Corbett RT.com / Corbett Report RT.com December 28, 2011 The Syrian government has released 755 detainees as Arab League monitors continue their mission to stop nine months of vi...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russia at a depth of 15.5 km (9.6 miles), the quake hit at 15:25:42 UTC Wednesday 28th December 2011. The epicenter was 107 km (66 miles) East of...
*WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2011* *The use of a useless old template:* The New York Times is defiant in its dumbness. This morning, Ashley Parker is back on page one, following Romney all around and typing f...
. *Dakotos Ride for the Ancestors to Mankato* By KEYC TV KEYC screen capture photos by Censored News Posted at Censored News 149 years ago today 38 Dakota Indians were hung in Mankato. It's a dark day in...
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.
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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,...
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...
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...
*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...
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