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It’s not entirely accurate , but this graphic presentation of the wars and battles of the last thousand years—with explosions (not always) showing the number of casualties—is sobering viewing. Since the...
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*Worship Greed* *Debra White Plume in New York: Occupied land* By Debra White Plume Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com During a visit to New York City, my friend and I rode the train downtown ...
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The Herald editorial writers weigh in the future for ACT and its members under
John Banks, concluding “a new liberal party seems the only viable solution”: Act's lone MP, John Banks, has been making all...
Career criminal
Darrell Issa, the wealthiest crook in Congress, has a district in suburban northern
San Diego County tailor made for a reactionary, and his Democratic opponent, Jerry Tetalman, is far fro...
So we're "crazy", huh? Or "anti-semetic", right? All of us who keep saying Israel has infiltrated our government, law enforcement, and courts? NOW WHO'S CRAZY!!!!!!!!!! My fellow Americans: in my last po...
Former Mossad Director Meir Dagan emerged from the shadows to warn his people about the consequences of attacking Iran in a television interview.
Richard Silverstein writes:
Ilana Dayan has the first inte...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Eastern
Honshu, Japan at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 19:20:05 UTC Sunday 4th December 2011. The epicenter was 18 km (11.2 miles) Northeast of Tono, H...
Indigenous Environmental Network executive director Tom Goldtooth at COP 17 in Durban, South Africa. Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
*After the earthquake and tsunami that struck north eastern Japan last Friday, the question on the lips of most Nigerians is “can such happen in the country?”* A REVIEW of earthquake occurrences and obse...
While I was in Phoenix for the N30 protest against the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) later that night I heard news reports (which I cannot find links to at this time) that stated the reason ...
* the**REALnews Permalink* *New York Janitors Join Occupy Wall Street* Janitors who may strike to defend wa...
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 41.6 km (25.9 miles), the quake hit at 18:53:03 UTC Sunday 4th December 2011. The epicenter was 76 km (48 miles) North of Tanahmerah, Iri...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 40.9 km (25.4 miles), the quake hit at 18:40:24 UTC Sunday 4th December 2011. The epicenter was 76 km (48 miles) North of Tanahmerah, Iri...
[image: Members of the Sierra group sporting flags of countries and logos of companies protest on Durban beach on 2 December 2011 denouncing that world governments that have their head in the sand regard...
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"I think the problem is that the poor children, keep in mind it's 42% of poor children who live at or near poverty, it's 25% in poverty. Our audience needs to keep that in mind." Cornel West said on MSNBC ...
Two weeks after a mysterious explosion at an Iranian missile base, a Washington-based research group has released a satellite image showing extensive damage to the site. The image of the compound, near th...
The digital age has left men's nether parts in a squeeze, if you believe the latest science on semen,
laptops and wireless connections. In a report in the venerable medical journal Fertility and Sterility,...
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Researchers say they've found two pits to the east and west of Stonehenge that may have played a role in an ancient midsummer ceremony. The discovery suggests that the 5,000-year-old circle of stones we se...
Two huge financial dangers that still seemed somewhat unlikely a few months ago now appear hard to avoid. First, the common euro currency is in deep trouble, and European governments are frantically trying...
Richard Leakey has spent a lifetime exploring Kenya's Turkana Basin searching for the origins of man. Each layer of sediment, says the paleoanthropologist and founder of the Turkana Basin Institute, hel...
Syrian security forces have killed at least 256 children since the onset of protests against Bashar al-Assad, shooting dead a two-year-old girl to prevent her from "growing into a demonstrator", according ...
All key measures of the money supply in the eurozone contracted in October with drastic falls across parts of southern Europe, raising the risk of severe recession over coming months. The three main gauge...
British embassies in the eurozone have been told to draw up plans to help British expats through the collapse of the single currency, amid new fears for Italy and Spain. As the Italian government struggl...
The number of New Jersey residents receiving food stamps has doubled in the past four years and is at its highest level in more than a decade as the nation’s still sputtering economy continues to take its ...
The Federal Reserve and the big banks fought for more than two years to keep details of the largest bailout in U.S. history a secret. Now, the rest of the world can see what it was missing. The Fed didn’t...
The currency team at Bank of America Merrill Lynch have taken a stab at what "fair value" would be for the major legacy currencies in the euro in the event of a breakup. And they've come up with some quite...
In predicting a "mild" recession for the UK and the eurozone for this quarter and next in its latest economic outlook, the OECD stresses that this is assuming nothing untoward happens on the Continent, and...
The dam is breaking in Europe. Interbank lending has seized up. Much of the financial system is paralysed, setting off a credit crunch just as Euroland slides back into slump. The Euribor/OIS spread or`f...
The International Monetary Fund is being lined up potentially to help Italy and Spain amid growing fears that a European rescue scheme will not be able to prop up the countries. Reports in Italy suggested...
Official house price figures show that property values have fallen for ten consecutive months and are down over 3pc on last year. Land Registry figures showed that the house price index decreased 3.2pc in...
When it comes to pensions, public sector workers are much better off than their private sector counterparts, a leading pensions expert says. Many private sector workers retiring today will be 16pc worse of...
The above graphic details the world's 10 most populated cities and their annual carbon emissions. There is currently no standard approach by which cities measure their carbon output. The figures represente...
A Taiwan girl whose story of being sold into slavery was featured in the CNN Freedom Project has met with the country's foreign minister. Isabel's story of abuse sparked a media storm in Taiwan and CNN h...
[image: Puffins and guillemots depend on the sea for food. The UK government has been accused of failing the environment after announcing delays to the creation of marine reserves. Andy Hay / RSPB]By Lew...
Anyone catch "CountryFile" this evening. John Craven was doing his best to demonise the Fracking process for making the most of Shale Gas. It says something of the note struck that when that swivel eyed e...
[image: World energy consumption by fuel type, 1990-2035 (quadrillion BTU). In the long-term, the Reference case projects increased world consumption of marketed energy from all fuel sources through 2035...
Bomb disposal experts in the German city of Koblenz have successfully defused two bombs from World War II found in the riverbed of the Rhine. They were discovered when water levels fell because of a prolo...
Candlelit vigil for child held in Gravesend amid 'highly charged' atmosphere over couple who were arrested and bailed. Police appealed for calm on Sunday after more than a 100 people staged a vigil in Ken...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 35.1 km (21.8 miles), the quake hit at 18:09:47 UTC Sunday 4th December 2011. The epicenter was 393 km ...
Mount Gamalama in Indonesia's North Maluku province erupted at 23:00 local time on Sunday (1400 GMT), releasing volcanic ashes. There is no death or material loss due to the eruption. Sutopo Purwo Nugro...
Police say 11 people were killed when a high concrete wall collapsed in a housing complex on central Indonesia’s Sulawesi island. South Sulawesi police chief Maj. Gen. Johny Waenal Usman says the 23-foot-...
Iran's military said it shot down a US Army drone inside its territory near the Afghan and Pakistani borders on Sunday, and threatened to retaliate for the violation, Iranian media reported. The Al-Alam A...
*Here's the opening movement of the September 1968 performance of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto by David Oistrakh with Gennady Rozhdestvensky conducting the Moscow Philharmonic from which we heard the f...
Last night, Occupy K Street-DC erected a new structure, "a people's pavillion," at their main encampment in McPherson Square. According to Occupiers, the structure will be used for General Assemblies, teac...
A small earthquake shook houses overnight in Cornwall, it has emerged. The 2.2-magnitude quake hit Bodmin at 2.40am on Sunday and lasted just a few seconds, the British Geological Society said. There wer...
[image: Australia sharks will not be culled] By Ellyn Schwaiger 16 November 2011 Sharks have been active in the clear, jewel-like waters of Western Australia (WA) in recent years. In fact, there have be...
As Russians headed to polls Sunday for national parliamentary elections, opposition websites, radio stations and an election monitoring group claimed they had come under online attack. The Golos electi...
A helicopter pilot speaks out about his experiences onboard a number of purse seine tuna fishing vessels operating in the Pacific. His gruesome footage shows how the use of Fish Aggregation Devices is r...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Kamchatka, Russia at a depth of 10.7 km (6.6 miles), the quake hit at 15:55:26 UTC Sunday 4th December 2011. The epicenter was 46 km (28.5 miles...
by Daniel McAdams via lewrockwell.com December 2, 2011 Reaction in the Western press to reports that Russian authorities have investigated the activities of the Russian NGO "Golos, the Regional Civic O...
Yesterday, former pizza mogul Herman Cain announced at the opening of his new campaign headquarters in Atlanta that he was "suspending" his presidential campaign. Citing "prayer and soul-searching", the m...
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A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Baja California, Mexico at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 15:35:39 UTC Sunday 4th December 2011. The epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) WNW from Loreto, B...
Police are investigating after two women - a mother and her daughter - were found dead at a house in Southport. *Merseyside Police* were called to the address in Fairhaven Road at around 5.45pm on Saturd...
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*Dutch "Sinterklaas" celebrations* have risen to the status of official part of the Dutch cultural folklore and heritage. See here what that means and,,, how dangerous that can be. Url movie: http://youtu....
(Tip o' the tinfoil hat to Mrs. JP. Click image for larger view.) Now that Herman Cain's made official the previously unofficial suspension of his campaign, we can get back to ridiculing the other GOP rod...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 28.6 km (17.8 miles), the quake hit at 14:45:32 UTC Sunday 4th December 2011. The epicenter was 38 km (23 miles) North of L'E...
Iran's military has shot down an unmanned US aircraft over the east of the country, state TV has reported. "Iran's military has downed an intruding RQ-170 American drone in eastern Iran," Iran's Arabic-l...
Coco Robicheaux to be memorialized with two parades Occupy Fowl Street or Vote For The Punter, It's Important~Library Chronicles Even in Austria, David Duke is embarrassing ~James Gill Black Sabbath dawns...
We are now on Day Two of Olli Rehn’s 10 days to save the euro and the tempo is heating up. Mario Draghi, the new European Central Bank president, has tantalizingly hinted he will do more to help out pro...
I caught Nick Clegg on the BBC this morning as he was given a free canter on how to further demoralise the UK's wealth-creating sector. Using the much loved "excessive boardroom pay" meme, Clegg was allowe...
B-BBC contributor Alan notes; "For a long time it has been apparent that John Pienaar allows his delivery to be coloured by viewing the world through rose tinted glasses....a Labour Rose that is. Tory pl...
Biased BBC Martin from a land down under points on BBC's double standard; "When deadly rocks are hurled by Arabs in Israel against Jews it's called "resistance" but if it occurs in the UK then it's "murde...
The Republicans who served with him in the House, better than anyone, know he's an undisciplined, pedantic egomaniac-- and worse. Those aren't my words; they come to us from Long Island Congressman Peter ...
Hi folks! Been away for the past few days so trust this finds you all well. Quite a bit to catch up on and I think I will start with this one because it nicely articulates my own views having read the same...
*And I may be ready to as well, at least where the Boston Globe is concerned *: "Cain suspends campaign after reports on his conduct" by Matt Viser and Michael J. Bailey Globe Staff / December 4, 2011 H...
Florida Fish and Wildlife personnel recovered a dead manatee Friday morning from waters near Lovers Key. The animal was taken to FWC’s Marine Mammal Pathobiology Laboratory in St. Petersburg where researc...
Residents of Piparo are living on the edge as the mud volcano that ravaged the village 14 years ago, has begun to threaten their community again. Residents are subjected to sleepless nights as they are hau...
An undersea volcano erupting just south of Spain's Canary Islands may be the beginnings of a new island, or an extension to an existing one. For some, it's a colourful spectacle - for others a major blow t...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:44:35 UTC Sunday 4th December 2011. The epicenter was 1657 km (1029 miles) ENE of ...
A group of U.S. nuclear and Korean affairs experts completed a five-day visit to North Korea on Saturday, but one member said the group did not visit the country's main nuclear complex in Yongbyon. "We d...
Bahrain's interior ministry says a blast occurred inside a minibus parked near the British Embassy, but there were no immediate reports of serious damage or injuries. A brief statement posted by the mini...
Violence sweeping across Syria has killed 25 people, most of them in a battle between troops and a growing force of army defectors who have joined the movement to oust the autocratic president, activists s...
Brazilian authorities say a tractor-trailor has slammed into a bus carrying sugarcane cutters, killing at least 33 people and injuring 13 others. A police spokesman says the truck driver lost control as h...
A radiation contamination guideline of 40 becquerels per kilogram that the government introduced in connection with school lunches was actually meant for selecting radiation measuring equipment, the minist...
The Miyagi prefectural government began testing the thyroids of 83 children of up to elementary school age Sunday in the town of Marumori, which borders Fukushima Prefecture, to examine the health impact o...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:23:54 UTC Sunday 4th December 2011. The epicenter was 1657 km (1029 miles) ENE of ...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Taiwan Region at a depth of 70.6 km (43.9 miles), the quake hit at 10:13:04 UTC Sunday 4th December 2011. The epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) ENE of Su-ao, Taiwan No...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck East of the North Island, New Zealand at a depth of 33.1 km (20.6 miles), the quake hit at 09:46:18 UTC Sunday 4th December 2011. The epicenter was 221 km (137 miles) ...
A Transco natural gas pipeline ruptured at approximately 3:07 p.m. Saturday with an explosion that could be heard for more than 30 miles while shooting flames nearly 100 feet in the air for over an hour. ...
Image: Richard Beasley, 52, hasn't been charged yet in relation to the case., but is being held in lieu of bail on an unrelated charge. Ohio authorities on Saturday advanced their investigation into killin...
YouTube has redesigned its website. 70% of users do not like the changes, according to one poll (YouTube Redesign Targets Sharing, But Misses Mark) Hours after YouTube put out a video explaining the chan...
Indonesia on Sunday released an Australian teen convicted of marijuana possession on the resort island of Bali after the boy spent two months in detention, a local prosecutor said. The 14-year-old was ...
At least five people were killed Saturday in the Yemeni city of Taiz amid heavy shelling and ongoing clashes between government forces and opposition fighters, according to witnesses. Four of those kille...
Syria on Saturday slammed the U.N. Human Rights Council's stinging condemnation of its security crackdown, calling the resolution "unjust and blatantly politicized." "It has become clear to the people of...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Northern Iran at a depth of 7 km (4.3 miles), the quake hit at 08:48:41 UTC Sunday 4th December 2011. The epicenter was 11 km (7 miles) Northwest of Minudasht, Iran No ...
Authorities say they searched a commercial airplane for explosives after it landed in Kansas City because the airline received a 'somewhat suspicious' electronic communication. Joe Sealer, spokesman for t...
A patient astronomer has discovered 18 massive new alien planets orbiting dying giant stars outside our solar system. It is a finding that could help scientists better understand the origins of our own sun...
The terrified wife of veteran reporter Malcolm Brabant is now campaigning for a pharmaceutical giant to reveal the results of its investigation into the case He is one of the BBC’s most respected reporte...
Convicted paedophiles have been given public money to launch court battles to see the children they abused. Campaigners have called on the Government to tighten the 'shocking' legal aid system, which also...
A teenager has been viciously stabbed to death as he tried to flee a gang of youths. Police launched a murder investigation after the 18-year-old was found bleeding from stab wounds in Gill Avenue, Newham...
Bomb disposal experts in Germany will attempt to defuse a British bomb dropped during the second world war. The city of Koblenz, in the west of the country, is being evacuated while the operation takes p...
Voters across Russia are going to the polls in parliamentary elections that will set the stage for Vladimir Putin's presidential comeback next year. The lionised prime minister is experiencing a dip in pop...
The Arab League has confirmed it will be implementing sanctions on Syria following continued violence against anti-government protesters. The measures include a travel ban and the freezing of assets for 1...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Sumbawa Region, Indonesia at a depth of 186.2 km (115.7 miles), the quake hit at 06:04:17 UTC Sunday 4th December 2011. The epicenter was 136 km (84 miles) WNW of ...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck West of Taupo, New Zealand at a depth of 160 km (99.2 miles), the quake hit at 04:05:11 UTC Sunday 4th December 2011. The epicenter was 30 km (18.6 miles) West of Taup...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Bonin Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 547.3 km (340.1 miles), the quake hit at 23:59:34 UTC Saturday 3rd December 2011. The epicenter was 337 km (209 miles) WN...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 34.6 km (21.5 miles), the quake hit at 22:57:05 UTC Saturday 3rd December 2011. The epicenter was 212 km (131 miles) ...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Babuyan Islands Region, Philippines at a depth of 45.5 km (28.3 miles), the quake hit at 21:41:47 UTC Saturday 3rd December 2011. The epicenter was 136 km (84 miles) N...
GREEDY YID!*Ask me again why I want the illegal, immoral and apartheid occupation of Palestine by khazarian satanists to be FORCEFULLY ended NOW!* *TRUTH IS NOT TALMUDIC | FACTS ARE NOT PUBLISHED BY MUR...
"Gerrymandering," writes Michael Cooper in today's *NY Times*, "of course, is nearly as old as the Republic and is practiced with relish by both parties." Do either of those factors-- that it's not a new...
[image: Foxglove was one of the first plants to be used for the development of a pharmaceutical medicine.] Foxglove was one of the first plants to be used for the development of a pharmaceutical medicin...
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Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
Women will regularly fake orgasms to stop their men from cheating, a study has revealed. Regularly pretending to climax is just one strategy women use to ensure their partners stay faithful, according t...
- Sonya 'The Black Widow' Thomas collects $1,581 first prize - Beats nearest rival by more than a pound of meat If Sonya 'The Black Widow' Thomas opts to have something other than turkey this Th...
With brutal honesty, one man admits to a problem he claims is worryingly widespread – and the toxic effect it’s had on his relationships Young men have been looking at pictures of naked women ever since a ...
It is amazing just how big and influential the 9/11 truth and justice movement has become. The New York Times, ABC, CNN, Time magazine, and other dinosaur media outlets cannot push back the political tsu...
Occupy Portland has reoccupied a new home. Marchers arrived at Shemanski Park at the corner of SW Park & Salmon around 5pm PST today and began setting up tents, canopies, and other infrastructure. Two...
Stonehenge, the ancient megalithic monument in the south of England built around 5,000 years ago. (Carl Court/Getty Images). Photo courtesy: theepochtimes.com Two huge pits discovered near Stonehenge migh...
A gold miner uses a high-pressure hose to wash away the earth and get gold particles, inside a huge crater near Delta Uno, department of Madre de Dios, southeast Lima, Peru. (Dan Collyns/AFP/Getty Images. ...
The researchers found that ravens often use their beaks like hands to make gestures, such as this male raven is doing as the bird shows two of its kin an object in its beak. Photo courtesy: Thomas Bugnyar ...
Richard Silverstein writes: Though a number of journalists and analysts have speculated that the U.S. collaborated with Israel to produce the Stuxnet worm which attacked Iran’s centrifuge system and sabot...
*The "chicken nugget" scene from Episode 2 of Season 1 of The Wire* *KID NO. 1*: Man, these shits is right. yo. *KID NO. 2*: Mm-hmm. *KID NO. 1*: It's good with the hot sauce too, yo. *KID NO. 2*: Most def...
Photo courtesy: New Zealand Department of Conservation Given their propensity for a less-than-speedy gait, it's no wonder snails evolved to blend in with their surroundings -- but for one snail in particu...
A word to the wise: When so-called Dumbya said the Constitution was just a piece of paper, he hadn't come up with that odd piece of information out of nowhere. I always assumed that anything Bush said (or ...
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Former ACT candidate Stephen Whittington has now said what was obvious as soon as the good ship ACT crossed the finish line last Saturday with only party hopper John Banks inside the boat: that Project A...
**There seems to be little debate among the masses of both nations that the KORUS FTA is anything but a race to the bottom for the majority of society. Nile Bowie nilebowie.blogspot.com December 4, 2011 * ...
BBC rewrites 10 years of history and declares Pakistan the new enemy. by Tony Cartalucci December 4, 2011 - BBC are propagandists whose lies have killed people. Their documentaries are made upon request by...
Digitized notes taken by the co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 can now be viewed online, as can countless other astronomical history delights.
Republican House Speaker John Boehner, who represents a gated golfing community just north of Cincinnati, says he's not an economist and that he doesn't know what the impact of the Republicans' decision ...
I know that I have been quite critical of* Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files*in the last few weeks. I said then, and I will repeat now, that I enjoy the show. In the last couple of episodes, I have found noth...
*PERSONAL:* *WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT PART 4:* As the various Occupy camps fall one after another (a proof of the need for organization ?) to the various authorities it is perhaps about t...
From YouTube Description: "Panelists: Darcy Burner, executive director of ProgressiveCongress.org and ASG member; Matthew Hoh, director of the ASG; and Paul Pillar, former CIA analyst, current professor at...
This country is a cesspool. Is it any wonder that Herman Vain Cain was so delusional as to think he could get away with being a blatant philanderer while proclaiming "family values"...when the pusillanimo...
An Auckland volcano would create a probable 6km ring of death as the "base surge" of superheated gases and ash exploded outward at ground level, a newly published study says. And the results indicate the...
Iranian news agencies reported an explosion Monday in the central Iranian city of Isfahan, which hosts a nuclear research facility, but on Tuesday the provincial deputy governor denied there had been any e...
On November 25th, the Friday evening after Thanksgiving, the PBS NewsHour ran a segment called In Aftermath of the Financial Crisis, Who's Being Held Responsible? Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism served as o...
The Federal Reserve released its Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit report this week. Calculated Risk duly reported on the results, which included this text from the Fed. Aggregate consumer deb...
Software installed on millions of Android phones is thought to be secretly tracking every key stroke, Google search, and text message by their users, it has been claimed. An Android app developer in Am...
The Iranian authorities have officially banned a new video game, Battlefield 3, because of an in-game assault on Tehran. The video game, which was made by the American technology company, Electronic Arts...
Just about two months after Dr. Mehmet Oz reported he found potentially dangerous levels of arsenic in apple juice, Consumer Reports released the details of its own investigation, which found 10 percent of...
When I hear the word austerity, I immediately think of nuns -- plainly dressed, in austere living quarters, with stern expressions. It's an odd admission coming from a secular Jew who has never set foot in...
Iran says it is developing its own missile defense system after Russia last year blocked delivery of the formidable S-300PMU system, which had been purchased in 2007. Israeli defense expert Uzi Rubin, arc...
Russia on Tuesday activated a radar warning system against incoming missiles in its exclave of Kaliningrad on the borders of the EU, in response to Western plans for a US missile shield in Europe. Preside...
The German government is under fire for its $2 billion sale of 270 Leopard 2 tanks to Saudi Arabia but the fact is that Germany is now a key arms supplier to the Middle East. Its customers include Israel,...
South Korean warships staged a live-fire drill Tuesday in a show of strength towards North Korea despite its threats to retaliate, the defence ministry said. The drill took place in the Yellow Sea to test...
Russia will send a flotilla of warships led by its only aircraft carrier to its naval base in Syria for a port call next year amid tensions with the West over the Syrian crisis, a report said Monday. The ...
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange blasted the mainstream media, Washington, banks and the Internet itself as he addressed journalists in Hong Kong on Monday via videolink from house arrest in England. Fres...
Nearly three quarters of the 1.2 million Americans with HIV do not have their infection under control, raising the risk of death from AIDS and transmission to others, said a US study on Tuesday. One in fi...
Will rich societies start consuming less? Could wealth go green? Might parsimony become the new luxury? Heresy, surely, you would say. But it might just be possible. Take Britain. A new study finds that t...
A study to be published in the online journal mBio® on Nov. 29 shows that adding antibiotics to swine feed causes microorganisms in the guts of these animals to start sharing genes that could spread antibi...
The United Nations has completed the first-ever global assessment of the state of the planet's land resources, finding in a report today that a quarter of all farmland is highly degraded and warning the tr...
Women who drink water contaminated with low levels of the weed-killer atrazine may be more likely to have irregular menstrual cycles and low estrogen levels, scientists concluded in a new study. The most ...
British families' disposable income will have fallen by 4.7pc between 2009 and 2012 - by far the biggest three-year drop since records began in the mid 1950s, the Insitute of Fiscal Studies said in its ana...
Many culprits have been blamed for the alarming rise in childhood obesity in recent years. Video games. Fast food. Portion sizes. Television and computer screens. A decline in home cooking. The vanishing o...
If only all ecological pests were so easily dispatched. The Argentine ant (Linepithema humile), one of the world's worst invasive species, is disappearing from New Zealand – without any human intervention....
Herman Cain announced today that he is suspending his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, because of “the continued hurt” caused by claims of sexual harassment and a 13-year extramarital a...
The Chinese leadership's law-and-order czar is warning that the country is ill-prepared to handle social unrest amid a changing economy, in the latest sign Beijing is worried about flagging growth. State...
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A hunt has been launched for a sadistic pet owner who filmed himself feeding a kitten to a python. The vile video, entitled Python Christmas, shows a man in his 20s carrying the kitten called Jasmine into...
http://youtu.be/uvd7MkF5Ul0 This video brought to the blogger's attention by Brasscheck TV. Cherchez la Verite
A newspaper article out of Arizona noted that they had found the name of a Democrat that was published in a 100 page report distributed by PFAW at the Arizona American Legislation Exchange Council (ALEC) d...
Darcy Burner is running for Congress again-- this time in a blue Seattle area district-- and if she wins her primary fight against 2 more conservative candidates, corporate-oriented ex-state Rep. Laura R...
A new security research project is designed to read millions of IMs, texts and emails every day.
...AND THEY SAY WE DO NOT NEED THE DEATH PENALTY!! - They released these sick evil people on bail? A man and a woman have been arrested after one-month-old baby was allegedly raped and battered. The tiny...
Avatar and The Big Fix I saw the movie Avatar long before the 2010 BP oil spill off the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, the 2011 threat of fracking, gas extraction from shale rock and the transnational Tar...
*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 Educ...
------------------------------ *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...
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 told to believe, via the msm, that this offended Jewish Americans. I am sure it did offend them to some extent. Not because they love Christmas. Most likely because the adds portrayed them as dolt...
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*Worship Greed* *Debra White Plume in New York: Occupied land* By Debra White Plume Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com During a visit to New York City, my friend and I rode the train downtown ...
Career criminal Darrell Issa, the wealthiest crook in Congress, has a district in suburban northern San Diego County tailor made for a reactionary, and his Democratic opponent, Jerry Tetalman, is far fro...
So we're "crazy", huh? Or "anti-semetic", right? All of us who keep saying Israel has infiltrated our government, law enforcement, and courts? NOW WHO'S CRAZY!!!!!!!!!! My fellow Americans: in my last po...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Eastern Honshu, Japan at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 19:20:05 UTC Sunday 4th December 2011. The epicenter was 18 km (11.2 miles) Northeast of Tono, H...
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 41.6 km (25.9 miles), the quake hit at 18:53:03 UTC Sunday 4th December 2011. The epicenter was 76 km (48 miles) North of Tanahmerah, Iri...
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"I think the problem is that the poor children, keep in mind it's 42% of poor children who live at or near poverty, it's 25% in poverty. Our audience needs to keep that in mind." Cornel West said on MSNBC ...
Two weeks after a mysterious explosion at an Iranian missile base, a Washington-based research group has released a satellite image showing extensive damage to the site. The image of the compound, near th...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe terrified wife of veteran reporter Malcolm Brabant is now campaigning for a pharmaceutical giant to reveal the results of its investigation into the case He is one of the BBC’s most respected reporte...
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