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Social Darwinism* By Robert
Reich, Robert Reich's Blog WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2011 What kind of society, exactly, do modern Republicans want? I've been ...
A British soldier has been jailed for stabbing a 10-year-old boy after getting drunk on vodka while serving in Afghanistan. Grenadier Guardsman Daniel Crook was jailed for 18 months and dismissed from th...
France is repatriating a number of diplomats and their families from Iran following an attack on the
British embassy in Tehran. French officials said the move was a temporary security measure. Britain ex...
A huge
Icelandic volcano long overdue an eruption is showing signs of activity - threatening disruption to air traffic, experts have said. There have been more than 500 tremors at Katla in the south of th...
Before 12:59, when it was updated, the top story on the BBC’s Middle East page was: “US urges Israel to end 'isolation in Middle East' " Apparently US defence secretary
Leon Panetta made another speech ab...
The finding of 18 distant planets boosts a theory about how planets form.
Blogwhoring. You do it, I do it, we all do it. What have *you* been up to? ------------------------------ I'm not one to make to make resolutions because I'll be the first one to admit that when it comes...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck near the North Coast of Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 12:26:19 UTC Saturday 3rd December 2011. The epicenter was 75 km (46 miles)...
Highrise windows shattered, apartments were evacuated and houses shook as a 5.7 magnitude earthquake rocked Wellington, Marlborough and much of central New Zealand. GNS Science says the quake at 7.19pm t...
(Courtesy of the Daily Show co-creator Liz Winstead) The baby Jebus as a Vienna sausage? Now, *that's* a eucharist I can get into!
*Want to win some AWESOME scrapbooking software? Go here to enter! * Hey Friends! The Christmas season is upon us! I thought I would celebrate with a round up of some of my favorite Christmas crafts from y...
On Wednesday we took a look at how Republicans and other conservatives serve their corporate masters with an unending jihad against regulations that protect consumers, small businesses, the environment, w...
Many thanks to Tim for allowing me to share his most recent essay, written with his inimitable savagery! *Recipe for Nuclear Winter* Has the prospect of global temperature rises between two and six degr...
- Animals involved include mares, cows, pigs and chickens - Study finds that men who have sex with animals are twice as likely to develop cancer of the penis A new study has found that 35...
Everyone has at some point had the same problem: no matter how much you try to be consistent with your camera face, some pictures look great and others look awful. Photographer Stephen Eastwood has fina...
Low temperatures and mixed loads are spreading dangerous bugs The pasta stains might have disappeared — but are your freshly laundered clothes really clean? In our desire to be greener, as well as softer o...
We're all urged to believe that this offended Jewish Americans. I am sure it did offend them to some extent. Not because they love Christmas. Most likely because it portrayed them as dolts. Unloyal traitors...
A magnitude 3.1 earthquake has struck Virginia at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 11:12:50 UTC Saturday 3rd December 2011. The epicenter was 6 km (4 miles) SSE from Claypool Hill, Virginia No ...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Antofagasta, Chile at a depth of 32.9 km (20.4 miles), the quake hit at 10:29:44 UTC Saturday 3rd December 2011. The epicenter was 153 km (95 miles) W...
Thousands of fish were found floating on the surface of the Baldeneysees in Essen, An unknown Poison killed the fish, according to a police spokesman. The surface of the lake was covered with several hundr...
Some TRF readers incorrectly dislike the gadgets in the sidebar and the colorful non-minimalistic design of this blog. They're wrong but if they reduced their criticism to the printed version of TRF, the...
Photo courtesy: beautiful garden Scientists are still debating this question - so, for now at least, the answer is maybe. Here's what is known: in the fall, chlorophyll, the key chemical in photosynthesis...
Wandan mud dome, one of Taiwan's 17 active mud volcanoes, erupted early Friday after nearly a year of inactivity, spilling mud flows of up to two meters high. Up to noon Friday, hot gray mud was still sp...
Employment growth picked up speed in November and the jobless rate dropped to a 2-1/2 year low of 8.6 per cent, further evidence the economic recovery was gaining momentum. Nonfarm payrolls increased 120,...
A tag from a lobster pot lost two decades ago in what came to be known as 'The Perfect Storm' has washed up 3,000 miles away in Ireland. The pot that held the tag with Richard Figueiredo's name on it was o...
Brooke is 7 years old and weighs just 45 pounds. But over the course of four months, a medical clinic being paid with state dollars prescribed her a cocktail of anti-psychotic drugs that her family docto...
A gunman slayed a man in an apartment before jumping aboard a crowded city bus and opening fire and fatally wounding another. Police in Queens, New York have arrested the 20-year-old suspected shooter, wh...
A senior Ministry of Justice official has married one of the world’s most wanted paedophiles in a secret ceremony behind bars. Sarah Smith, 34, wed Shawn Sullivan, 42, while he was fighting extradition t...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Central Alaska at a depth of 3.5 km (2.2 miles), the quake hit at 09:33:57 UTC Saturday 3rd December 2011. The epicenter was 20 km (12.4 miles) NNE from Skwentna, Alask...
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck East of Barbuda, Leeward Islands at a depth of 10.3 km (6.4 miles), the quake hit at 09:27:11 UTC Saturday 3rd December 2011. The epicenter was 212 km (132 miles) East...
In the novel *Catch-22*, by Joseph Heller, *Milo Minderbinder* is a US military officer. He also runs a giant business empire, on the side. (Schumpeter - Economist) The military are a sort of mafia. We...
A Philadelphia lawyer has been jailed for making a 12-year-old boy from the famed Bolshoi Ballet Academy his sex slave for six years. Though he was arrested in 2010, Kenneth Schneider, 47, was sentenced o...
The Milky Way bar was always advertised as the chocolate bar that you could eat without filling you up. But the galaxy after which it's named - our own - has an insatiable appetite. It's still devouring ...
Measles is on the rise in Europe, say new figures from the World Health Organisation. More than 26,000 measles cases have been reported so far this year and nine deaths - a threefold increase in cases fro...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Northern East Pacific Rise at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:57:23 UTC Saturday 3rd December 2011. The epicenter was 700 km (434 miles) ESE of C...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 55.7 km (34.6 miles), the quake hit at 06:42:25 UTC Saturday 3rd December 2011. The epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) E...
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck the Marlborough Region, New Zealand at a depth of 60 km (37.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:19:07 UTC Saturday 3rd December 2011. The epicenter was 30 km (18 miles) SSW ...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Northern Peru at a depth of 41 km (25.5 miles), the quake hit at 05:08:35 UTC Saturday 3rd December 2011. The epicenter was 113 km (70 miles) SSW of ...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 55.7 km (34.6 miles), the quake hit at 06:42:25 UTC Saturday 3rd December 2011. The epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) E...
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck the Marlborough Region, New Zealand at a depth of 60 km (37.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:19:07 UTC Saturday 3rd December 2011. The epicenter was 30 km (18 miles) SSW ...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Northern Peru at a depth of 41 km (25.5 miles), the quake hit at 05:08:35 UTC Saturday 3rd December 2011. The epicenter was 113 km (70 miles) SSW of ...
The conjecture itself isnaturally compelling and attractive to those who chase the racial dream. This article is a good summary of the variousclaims and speculations around this subject. The Nordic race ...
In the world of Real Politic,something is finally making complete sense. It is that no government anywhere is prepared to end the prohibition ofdrugs until the USAis prepared to do so because the potent...
Not quite, but we have a newroute to restoring cells or at least yeast cells by fifty percent. This adds one more research avenue. I believe that it is now probablethat folks who survive the next deca...
I must admit I was not optimisticwhen I read this headline. Yet it certainlyis a completely new avenue to attack the parasite. The first question iswhether such proteins can be eliminated without harmi...
[image: Scrimping: Women are managing to save 40 per cent of their earnings] Scrimping: Women are managing to save 40 per cent of their earnings Women are thriftier than men and manage to build up large...
All good things must come to an end. And yesterday, after the second-warmest November since records began, snow finally fell in England. The first flurry of winter came as the Met Office warned that tempe...
Reader Contribution; MANHATTAN — Rayon McIntosh, the Greenwich Village McDonald's worker caught on dramatic cellphone video beating two unruly female customers, was not indicted by a grand jury, prosecuto...
The head of Britain’s banking lobby was widely condemned yesterday after claiming the days of bumper bonuses are over. As City workers looked forward to lavish payouts of £4.2billion this Christmas, Angel...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Southwest of Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 29.7 km (18.5 miles), the quake hit at 21:42:22 UTC Friday 2nd December 2011. The epicenter was 301 km (187 miles) Southw...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Lake Rudolf Region, Kenya-Ethiopia at a depth of 16 km (9.9 miles), the quake hit at 02:14:44 UTC Saturday 3rd December 2011. The epicenter was 151 km (94 miles) S...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 9.8 km (6.1 miles), the quake hit at 01:30:54 UTC Saturday 3rd December 2011. The epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) East of Van, Turkey No Rep...
David Cameron is facing renewed demands for a referendum on Britain’s future in Europe after Germany and France unveiled the biggest shake-up of the EU in a decade. The Prime Minister insisted he is a ‘bi...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 17.5 km (10.9 miles), the quake hit at 20:55:27 UTC Friday 2nd December 2011. The epicenter was 53 km (32 miles) ESE...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Solomon Islands at a depth of 91.8 km (57 miles), the quake hit at 20:13:48 UTC Friday 2nd December 2011. The epicenter was 59 km (36 miles) WNW of Kira Kira, Solom...
Christmas time shoplifting is likely to hit an all time high this year, according to new research. Experts are predicting that more than £1bn worth of goods will be lost from stores in the run-up to Dece...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Solomon Islands at a depth of 91.8 km (57 miles), the quake hit at 20:13:48 UTC Friday 2nd December 2011. The epicenter was 59 km (36 miles) WNW of Kira Kira, Solom...
Christmas time shoplifting is likely to hit an all time high this year, according to new research. Experts are predicting that more than £1bn worth of goods will be lost from stores in the run-up to Dece...
A key architect of the eurozone has revealed it was flawed from the beginning and efforts to tackle its problems have so far been "too little too late". Jacques Delors, former President of the *European ...
"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." - James Madison. "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to ...
December 02, 2011 *Richard Wolff: Eurozone Woes Result from Mating of Our "Dysfunctional" Political, Economic Systems* European leaders are preparing to unveil their plans for addressing the sove...
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*A Revelation- The Fed Grants $7.77 Trillion in Secret Bank Loans * Original here *The Fed Grants $7.77 Trillion in Secret Bank Loan - Now Do You Understand Occupy Wall Street? * Original here Cher...
*Martin Scorsese’s 3D children story Hugo has been named best big screen by the National Board of analysis in the US. Quiet movie The Artist, which was named greatest film by the New York Critics sphere ...
Astronomers have measured the vital statistics of the black hole living in the famous Cygnus X-1 binary system to a very high precision. The mass and physical size of the black hole may surprise you...
Keith Moon. "The Ox." The video can't keep up with him. Not even close. And don't you just wish you had been there on this night?
*Violinist A* *Violinist B* *We have two very different takes on this luscious little violin solo. Note just the timings, Violinist B at roughly 44 seconds taking a full third longer than Violinist A at 3...
The Pentagon's F-35 programme director wants to slow down productionbecause of the mass of problems turning up in testing. "*The analyzed hot spots that have arisen in the last 12 months or so in the progr...
*The smart phone software maker of that triggered a probing chain has been called to explanation by a US Senator. The opinion of Carrier IQ is that its software did not proof keystrokes except was an ana...
Nearly a third of us take a vitamin, mineral or dietary supplement. But while there’s no doubt some are vital — such as folic acid in pregnancy to prevent birth defects — many experts believe that, for m...
*The latest rudiments were between a handful of elements put ahead for enclosure in the table in recent years. Scientists have put onward their optional names for the latest accompaniments to the Periodi...
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Not PC - 13 hours ago
“The likelihood of Banks transforming himself into a standard-bearer for [ACT’s] values and principles is as great as that of Ahmadinejad converting to Judaism.” - Lindsay Perigo, from ...
*It is looking ever bleaker for Russia's Mars task Phobos-Grunt, which has been fixed rotating the Earth because its commence in untimely November. Phobos-Grunt was built to land on the bigger of Mars' t...
*It's a fascist nation now.* "Occupy activists don’t fold tents in LA, Philadelphia; Many disregard eviction deadlines" November 28, 2011|By Andrew Dalton, Associated Press LOS ANGELES - With the clock wi...
As NATO Plans To Push In Eastern Afghanistan Gen Kayani Authorizes Troops To Return Fire If Attacked Again Source: POLITACT December 2, 2011 In the aftermath of the NATO attack on Pakistan’s check post i...
*I feel like I'm getting pretty close to it myself. * *What Frank represents to me is your typical Democrat; they quit when faced with a tough fight. Say what you want about Repuglicans; at least they fi...
TerraCycle is a great company. It was created by Tom Szaky.
*"Our elites will do what they will do regardless of what public opinion is" * *"What matters is not 'opinion', but action. So with regards to Occupy, all I cared about is how many people were being radica...
A Texas psychic's visions failed to locate a missing girl, though she insists her powers are real. Are psychics ever right?
A grapefruit-sized octopus needs a name, and we discuss how the ice mummy might have died.
(English Version) مع خروج البرادعي ، ممدوح حمزة الآن في صفوف الإمبرياليين البرادعي يصنف من قبل حلفاؤه على أنه عميل للغرب بقلم : توني كارتلوشي بتاريخ : 1 ديسمبر 2011 الآن بعد سنة تقريباً من الربيع الع...
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Native Americans and supporters protested today at the Salt River Project in Phoenix, as protests continue at the American Legislative Exchange Council, ALEC, meeting in Scottsdale in the Phoenix...
Globalists Grind Development to a Halt in Myanmar (Burma). by Tony Cartalucci December 3, 2011 - Part of a strategy to confound Chinese expansion, part of a long Malthusian tradition of stifling human prog...
*IL closet queen Aaron Schock says he's not gay either; only his outfit is* Tiny little North Carolina fascist Patrick McHenry still hasn't been officially outed-- even if everyone in DC knows he's a ragin...
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FOTOfrontera - 19 hours ago
Honda expands a recent recall to include some 273,00 new vehicles. Check and see if your car is on the list.
The Mayans never predicted the world would end on Dec. 21, 2012 -- the Doomsday misconception is a "distorted world view of ancient civilizations."
The last thing on Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell's mind when he was running through a checklist to turn his lunar lander into a lifeboat was how much his notebook would be worth someday.
I just love the way some people express themselves in addition to really agreeing with their premises. This essay embraces the ideals and solutions (calculated logically from those ideals) shared by Robert...
Walking by a billboard ad in the future might be a bit like stepping on a scale and for advertisers, your weight is valuable.
The coils will be 10 stories high and generate 200-foot-long arcs of high-voltage electricity.
YouTube's new page makes room for more customization by users with an easier-to-navigate home screen.
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck the Nicobar Islands, India Region at a depth of 38.7 km (24 miles), the quake hit at 19:37:48 UTC Friday 2nd December 2011. The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) ESE of M...
[image: Link]Brazilian biologists have found an extremely rare example of an albino dolphin among an endangered species that lives off the southern coast of South America. The research group, based at Uni...
An effigy of Olympic legend and all-round Great Briton Lord Coe was burned on the streets on Indian today in a demonstration against one of the sponsors for the London Games in 2012. Survivors of the worl...
A female passenger was left fighting for life after being struck by a concrete slab hurled from a bridge onto a busy main road. The woman suffered severe head and chest injuries when the slab smashed thro...
A tiny program that hides itself from your own scrutiny is probably monitoring how you use your phone on behalf of your wireless carrier.
How debased, how low-fallen has America become that a leading candidate for the Republican Party presidential nomination can get away with saying something like this? Watch Newt Gingrich lament how Ameri...
Muslim hardliners are set to push for strict religious laws in Egypt after their strong showing in the country's elections. A spokesman for an ultra-conservative Islamist party said that he was hoping to ...
Yesterday afternoon there was an interesting entry on the PowerlIne blog by John Hinderaker, coming to the rescue of poor ol' ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) down in Scottsdale. For those of ...
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CENSORED NEWS - 22 hours ago
Navajo Louise Benally, speaking on livestream in Arizona, at the same time Obama spoke began speaking on livestream in DC.Ofelia Rivas, O'odham founder of O'odham VOICE against the Wall. At SRP protest.Nav...
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wmtc - 22 hours ago
And I do mean bites. This was a grueling term, boring beyond belief, but I've just completed my last assignment, and am now gloriously free of school for a full month. I have a long list of things to do, a...
Twenty protesters have been arrested outside the US embassy in London on suspicion of representing the recently-banned extremist group Muslims Against Crusades. Some protesters had continued to demonstra...
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A 13-year-old was handcuffed and hauled off to a juvenile detention for burping in class, according to a civil rights lawsuit filed against an Albuquerque public school principal, a teacher and a city poli...
* the**REALnews Permalink* December 1, 2011 *US Fed Buys Europe Some Time* Rob Johnson: Move by Fed papers over structural iss...
It probably wouldn't sound cool for the Republicans to trumpet how they feel only the wealthy and, more important, those existentially beholden to the wealthy, should be allowed to run for president-- not...
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Biased BBC - 23 hours ago
A few months before the historic 2008 election, Senator Obamessiah declared His dream of transforming the US into a green energy economy. He promised to use His power to foster the development of green ene...
Pop-up kitchens come in a box, are ready for quick assembly and to fight off disease.
Controlled by a smart phone, the Kobot is perfect for navigating city streets.
Missiles that "allow coverage of entire Syrian coastline" reportedly delivered in accordance with 2007 contract. Russia has delivered anti-ship cruise missiles to Syria, the Interfax news agency cited an ...
This will enrage many readers — especially the "Austrian" internet vigilantes — but I have to say it. A near universal view has emerged that Europe's crisis can only be solved by governments and fiscal po...
Members of company pension schemes face losing tens of thousands of pounds in retirement income under changes to an inflation measure. Someone retiring with a private pension worth £10,000 will lose out o...
Fox News has declared war on the “War on Christmas”. This happens every year: one crazy liberal tries to outlaw use of the word “Christmas” and Fox announces the coming of the Anti-Christ. The furore can s...
Former park ranger Mark, 53, discovered the giant weta up a tree and his real life Bug's Bunny has now been declared the largest ever found. He came across the cricket-like creature, which has a wing span ...
t might be bathed in glorious sunshine throughout the year - but new research has revealed the Floridian city of St Petersburg is the saddest place to live in the U.S. Having a Guinness World Record for 7...
Sales of bananas in Maputo have plummeted following the circulation of malicious e-mails and mobile phone text messages claiming that South African bananas are infected with a lethal bacteria. The bananas...
** *O'odham and other Native Americans protest the American Legislative Exchange Council, ALEC, in Scottsdale, **Arizona on Nov. 30. After being pepper sprayed Tohono **O'odham Veteran and elder David Or...
Men might find this difficult to believe, but half of women have faked an orgasm, according to a study published last week. U.S. researchers questioned more than 400 women and found 53.9 per cent of the...
Would a city-run lottery in Detroit solve the city’s financial problems? One state lawmaker thinks so. WWJ’s Vickie Thomas reports that state Rep. Dr. Jimmy Womack, D-Detroit, is drafting legislation to s...
Electric cords have been cut and stolen from the lighted displays in St. Paul’s Phalen Park this week. According to a representative of IBEW Holiday Lights, the thieves cut both heavy and light duty ele...
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly announced Thursday that a Manhattan woman has been charged with self abortion. Yaribely Almonte, 20, is accused of wrapping the fetus of her unborn daughter in plastic an...
A teenage girl's sense of style got her in trouble at the airport. Vanessa Gibbs, 17, claims the Transportation Security Administration stopped her at the security gate because of the design of a gun on he...
Having sex during teenage years could lead to bad moods, changes in brain development and smaller reproductive tissues, according to scientists. Researchers from Ohio State University College of Medicine...
Babies have a hard-wired sense of social justice, new research shows. Scientists say infants as young as five months old like to see bad behaviour punished and good conduct rewarded. The study, publis...
Nearly 140 flamingos were killed in a wildlife sanctuary in India when they flew into high-tension power lines.
Beijing's public security bureau has launched a six-month crackdown on so-called black jails operated by private security firms in the Chinese capital. Local governments hire the firms to stop people who ...
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Interesting article by Lawrence Martin: *"If someone had predicted a few years ago that Canada would fall into the embrace of right-wing nationalism, they would have been sent off to the nearest home for ...
European countries need to act now to tackle measles outbreaks, the World Health Organization warns. The WHO report says there were over 26,000 measles cases in 36 European countries from January to Octob...
The maker of the smartphone software that triggered a snooping row has been called to account by a US Senator. Senator Al Franken has written to Carrier IQ asking it to explain the "troubling" findings of...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said Europe is working towards setting up a "fiscal union", in a bid to resolve the eurozone's debt crisis. She told the Bundestag that a new EU treaty was needed to set...
The calendar used by the ancient Mayan civilisation does not predict the end of the world in December 2012 as some believe, according to experts. A new reading of a Mayan tablet mentioning the 2012 date su...
A former monk has set himself on fire in Tibet, reports say, in the latest such protest against Chinese rule. The monk is reportedly being treated for his wounds after the protest in Changdu, known as Cha...
Ballooning credit card bills, tangled lines of credit and hefty personal loans - these financial burdens continue to weigh heavily on the minds of Canadian consumers as the holidays near. Chartered Canadia...
Canada lost a surprising 18,600 jobs in November, pushing the country's unemployment rate up by 0.1 percentage points to 7.4 per cent, Statistics Canada said Friday. Economists had been looking for betwee...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel pushed for stronger rules against overspending as the long-term answer to Europe's debt crisis, saying fixes for the euro's flaws need to be written into changes in the basi...
The demise of the euro would deliver a significant blow to the Canadian economy, leading to less trade, higher unemployment and a possible recession, financial experts say. "The situation in Europe would ...
Syria faces a "full-fledged civil war" if the regime's "continual ruthless repression" against peaceful demonstrators and civilians isn't stopped now, the top U.N. human rights official said Friday. Speak...
Seven Afghan militants were killed and five Pakistani security forces injured in a cross-border skirmish Friday, officials said. It was the latest in a series of recent cross-border assaults from Afghanis...
Just like the credit crunch three years ago, the current eurozone crisis will no doubt spawn endless books and provide many an interesting case study for the world’s future economists. Whether the lessons ...
Wandan mud dome, one of Taiwan's 17 active mud volcanoes, erupted early Friday after nearly a year of inactivity, spilling mud flows of up to two meters high. Up to noon Friday, hot gray mud was still spe...
...then they laugh some more, then they laugh so hard they cry... Herman Cain's unwillingness or inability to pull out of the GOP presidential race cannot be explained by mere stubbornness. The only man i...
A new survey of teen girls and reality TV finds some surprising -- and positive -- trends.
Lexus dismantled 2,000 parts from its CT hybrid to use as material for fashion designs.
Features Jonny 5 Of Flobots, Bravo One, Aja Black, T Minus Katlyn, Dyalekt
And on the day indictments are rumored to be unsealed on Tom Wilkinson, Aaron Broussard and his ex wife….. Mayor Mitch: City to Begin Evicting Occupy NOLA ~NOLA DEFENDER ~Landrieu tells Occupy NOLA protest...
By: Duane Craig USMC pulls controversial water contamination booklet According to an ENCToday.com story, The United States Marine Corps has taken down a document on its website that was contradictory to th...
(Courtesy of Bag News Notes.) If there was ever an iconic photo that sums up the entire class warfare between Us vs Them on Wall Street and the true priorities of the power elite in this country... Here'...
A couple of Politico writers, Mike Allen and van Thomas, have put out a gossipy e-book (kind of an extended Politico column) called *The Right Fights Back* which purports to offer an inside look at the fa...
Had to publish this - as it has been on my mind ever since I left Phoenix. In the *Arizona Republic newspaper* they had a pretty good article on the protest against the American Legislative Exchange Counci...
Almost half the German city of Koblenz is under evacuation orders as experts prepare to defuse a two-ton ‘Blockbuster’ RAF bomb in the Rhine. The 10ft bomb, one of the biggest in the wartime arsenal of Bom...
Russia last night admitted it had defied the West and supplied Syrian president Bashar al-Assad with a batch of cruise missiles. Despite warnings today that the country was in civil war and ongoing concer...
Excerpt below from an interesting piece written by John Helmer-in Moscow. First this brief but connected digression: Russia has supplied Syria with cruise missiles, as in "Done Deal" Fulfilling a contract...
I got this excellent question from flower on Ask A Manager recently: Hi, I have a question about languages. I work in the shop as a sales assistance. I am from other country and there are working 5 more pe...
The en suite facilities would appear to be up to scratch but apparently the rooms are not served too well by a wireless internet connection. But this is no TripAdvisor review of some 3-star hotel, rather o...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel highlighted Friday the need for fiscal union to resolve the debt crisis that threatens Europe's single currency, the euro, and the global economy. "Fiscal union is the aim...
Male gonads of many species suffer negative effects from exposure to the herbicide atrazine.
*EVENT: Occupy Broadway (theatre/shopping district) with a 24-hour performance. * *WHEN: From December 2nd starting at 6pm until December 3rd at 6pm * *WHERE: Times Square by the red stairs, between 46th a...
Protests are being staged in India against a controversial sponsorship deal for the 2012 Olympics in London. Activists claim *Dow Chemical*, the firm which bought the company held responsible for the Bho...
Re-Posting this from Rabble. *When I read articles like this one.. I can't help remembering Scrooge saying.. Are there no Prisons? Are there no work houses.. Yes, Harperius is building Prisons for the ...
Radioactive xenon-133 some 400,000 times normal levels was detected in the atmosphere here immediately after the outbreak of the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant, a radiation survey organi...
Careful lookout for acorn worms has revealed nine new species thriving in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
With 10,000 pieces of LEGO, a model of the huge Large Hadron Collider detector has been built. And it wasn't easy.
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One person was killed and 16 others injured Thursday in three separate chain-reaction crashes involving 176 cars north of Nashville, authorities said. Heavy fog and black ice were thought to have contr...
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The streets of the Greek capital were jammed with tens of thousands of protesters Thursday as unions held a general strike in response to austerity policies and government spending cuts aimed at securing b...
Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has claimed responsibility for the capture in August of a 70-year-old U.S. citizen in Pakistan, according to a number of radical websites known for carrying militants' mes...
A explosion shook a branch of the China Construction Bank late Thursday afternoon in Wuhan, a provincial capital in south-central China, a municipal police official there said, and state media reported tha...
The search for the 'God particle' could be nearing a resolution as physicists prepare to announce the latest evidence from the Large Hadron Collider. At a special meeting at the Cern laboratory near Gene...
Egypt will hear the results of elections which Islamist parties look set to win on Friday, and protesters have called a rally to remember 42 people killed in clashes with police last month. Islamist succ...
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*LOCAL EVENTS WINNIPEG:* *FORUM ON ECONOMIC INEQUALITY AND BUSINESS:* ******************************** - *When *Thursday, December 8, 2011 *Time *5:00pm until 8:00pm *Where *James W. Burns Executive...
------------------------------ *The Rebirth of Social Darwinism* By Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2011 What kind of society, exactly, do modern Republicans want? I've been ...
A British soldier has been jailed for stabbing a 10-year-old boy after getting drunk on vodka while serving in Afghanistan. Grenadier Guardsman Daniel Crook was jailed for 18 months and dismissed from th...
France is repatriating a number of diplomats and their families from Iran following an attack on the British embassy in Tehran. French officials said the move was a temporary security measure. Britain ex...
A huge Icelandic volcano long overdue an eruption is showing signs of activity - threatening disruption to air traffic, experts have said. There have been more than 500 tremors at Katla in the south of th...
Before 12:59, when it was updated, the top story on the BBC’s Middle East page was: “US urges Israel to end 'isolation in Middle East' " Apparently US defence secretary Leon Panetta made another speech ab...
Blogwhoring. You do it, I do it, we all do it. What have *you* been up to? ------------------------------ I'm not one to make to make resolutions because I'll be the first one to admit that when it comes...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck near the North Coast of Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 12:26:19 UTC Saturday 3rd December 2011. The epicenter was 75 km (46 miles)...
Highrise windows shattered, apartments were evacuated and houses shook as a 5.7 magnitude earthquake rocked Wellington, Marlborough and much of central New Zealand. GNS Science says the quake at 7.19pm t...
(Courtesy of the Daily Show co-creator Liz Winstead) The baby Jebus as a Vienna sausage? Now, *that's* a eucharist I can get into!
*Want to win some AWESOME scrapbooking software? Go here to enter! * Hey Friends! The Christmas season is upon us! I thought I would celebrate with a round up of some of my favorite Christmas crafts from y...
On Wednesday we took a look at how Republicans and other conservatives serve their corporate masters with an unending jihad against regulations that protect consumers, small businesses, the environment, w...
Many thanks to Tim for allowing me to share his most recent essay, written with his inimitable savagery! *Recipe for Nuclear Winter* Has the prospect of global temperature rises between two and six degr...
- Animals involved include mares, cows, pigs and chickens - Study finds that men who have sex with animals are twice as likely to develop cancer of the penis A new study has found that 35...
Everyone has at some point had the same problem: no matter how much you try to be consistent with your camera face, some pictures look great and others look awful. Photographer Stephen Eastwood has fina...
Low temperatures and mixed loads are spreading dangerous bugs The pasta stains might have disappeared — but are your freshly laundered clothes really clean? In our desire to be greener, as well as softer o...
A magnitude 3.1 earthquake has struck Virginia at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 11:12:50 UTC Saturday 3rd December 2011. The epicenter was 6 km (4 miles) SSE from Claypool Hill, Virginia No ...
posted by Crystal Entertainment at You Will Read News - 12 hours agoNearly a third of us take a vitamin, mineral or dietary supplement. But while there’s no doubt some are vital — such as folic acid in pregnancy to prevent birth defects — many experts believe that, for m...
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