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Url movie: http://youtu.be/xV1mbTRIHzM -- the movie has no sound. *If you have Linux Mint 12* installed and use Gnome 3 shell you might try and test my usr/share/gnome-shell alternative from here. It's new...
An attack against one is an attack against all.
In an odd twist, global warming may have helped scientists with the breakthrough needed to clone the elephant-like giant.
In the past we've talked a bit about the role of
Bain Capital in the demise of
Warner Bros. Records and how, despite Romney's campaign being predicated on his role as a "job-creator," Bain has always bee...
This social online game has partnered with 12 nonprofits to raise money for children in need.
Using a
Sony Move controller and pico projectors, two British studios film a Holodeck-like experience, without post-production tricks.
The
St. Louis Zoo has successfully bred Ozark hellbenders for the first time in captivity.
Sunday's NDP debate was a chance to get a first look at the field of candidates, for the 99.9% of Canadians who don't have the complete collection of Paul Dewar speeches on their
Ipod. With nine debaters...
*Edmonton East MP Peter Goldring charged with impaired driving: sources* EDMONTON - According to sources within the federal government, Edmonton East MP Peter Goldring has voluntarily resigned from caucu...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Mindanao, Philippines at a depth of 92 km (57 miles), the quake hit at 19:09:44 UTC Monday 5th December 2011. The epicenter was 102 km (63.2 miles) Southeast of Pundagu...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Xizang-Qinghai Border Region at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles - Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 18:55:44 UTC Monday 5th December 2011. The epicenter was 36...
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Not PC - 3 hours ago
A 2007 Cato Institute podcast interview with Herb Walberg, author of book *School Choice: The Findings*, summarises the American Charter Schools system. Here’s two take-home quotes from the discussion: ...
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck near the South Coast of Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 10.8 km (6.7 miles), the quake hit at 19:28:35 UTC Monday 5th December 2011. The epicenter was 129 km (80 miles)...
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Not PC - 3 hours ago
TVNZ News: “The Families Commission will remain but the number of commissioners will drop from four down to one… That’s a good start. But it’s still one too many. Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com ©...
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Not PC - 3 hours ago
New Zealand homes are overvalued by 25 per cent and the country is one of nine under threat of a housing bubble burst, says the *Economist* magazine in a report titled “House of Horrors*.”* The bursting ...
* Pressure to agree proposals before EU summit * Euro zone must tell world it pays its debts -- Sarkozy * EU treaty change might involve only euro zone members * Italian austerity plan cheers market The...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Western Australia at a depth of 9.8 km (6.1 miles), the quake hit at 19:10:03 UTC Monday 5th December 2011. The epicenter was 224 km (138.8 miles) Southwest of Karratha...
Astronomers have confirmed the existence of an Earth-like planet in the "habitable zone" around a star not unlike our own. The planet, Kepler 22-b, lies about 600 light-years away and is about 2.4 times ...
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Iran appears to be in possession of one of America's most sophisticated weapons, a super-secret spy plane whose stealth technology is the same as the drone used...
Britain and the United States have expressed "serious concern" about the conduct of Russia's parliamentary elections, which election monitors said had stifled competition and shown a "lack of fairness". ...
* Pressure to agree proposals before EU summit * Euro zone must tell world it pays its debts -- Sarkozy * EU treaty change might involve only euro zone members * Italian austerity plan cheers market The...
Motorola's MotoActv is a groovy DJ and motivational fitness trainer morphed into one.
With the help of NASA's Kepler space telescope, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has some new "Earth-analog" targets.
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Sangihe, Indonesia at a depth of 293 km (181.6 miles), the quake hit at 17:11:25 UTC Monday 5th December 2011. The epicenter was 68 km (42.1 miles) Southwest...
I'm working on a long post, mostly about the Fall 2011 installment of Issues in Ecology, titled "Setting Limits, Using Air Pollution Thresholds to Protect and Restore U.S. Ecosystems", which advocates usin...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russia at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 17:43:22 UTC Monday 5th December 2011. The epicenter was 39 km (24.8 miles) East of Ongud...
Argentina is quietly reaching out to Iran, worrying key Western powers and Israel as they try to tighten Tehran's international isolation over its nuclear program, U.N. diplomats told Reuters. Argentina'...
*The coast of Italy, near Rome * "Today Americans are ruled by propaganda. Americans have little regard for truth, little access to it, and little ability to recognize it." *Exporting the economy** * *Ve...
Origami is one of those things that my husband randomly loves. He has been making me origami for as long as I can remember, roses and boxes have been among his favorites and this week he started making ...
The International Monetary Fund said on Monday its board had approved a 2.2. billion euro loan disbursement to Greece, part of a three-year IMF-EU bailout package to help the country from going bankrupt ...
The newly confirmed planet, Kepler-22b, orbits smack in the middle of the habitable zone of a star similar to our own.
The physics behind a simple flame could help astrophysicists understand one of the most powerful cosmic explosions known -- the type 1a supernova.
This physically lockable USB drive also has 256-bit AES hardware encryption.
A team in Peru is fighting glacier loss by painting the Andes Mountains white.
Pentagon chief Leon Panetta on Friday warned there was no guarantee a US military strike on Iran would hit intended targets linked to Tehran's nuclear program, saying the sites are "difficult to get at." ...
For Pakistanis, arguably the world's most anti-U.S. population in the world, the NATO airstrike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers at a military post at Salala in the Mohmand Tribal Agency on the Afghan-Pak...
Faced with lay-offs and wage cuts as falling demand in the West hits the country's vast manufacturing sector, the workers who have powered China's breakneck growth are refusing to go quietly. Over the pas...
Gudiya Das whines as flies settle on her face, waiting for her mother to swat them while she lies on a cot in Ichra, one in a cluster of villages around India's only functioning uranium mines. The 12-year...
Around the time Abraham Lincoln had decided to deal the rebel South a potentially crippling economic blow by freeing the slaves, Tsar Alexander II of Russia abolished the institution of serfdom in Russia...
Syria has said it "would like" to agree soon to an Arab League peace plan to end its eight-month crackdown on popular unrest - but is demanding a number of conditions. The country wants the removal of sa...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Jalisco, Mexico at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:57:39 UTC Monday 5th December 2011. The epicenter was 311 km (193 miles) WSW of P...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Central Mongolia at a depth of 28 km (17.4 miles), the quake hit at 15:32:42 UTC Monday 5th December 2011. The epicenter was 206 km (128 miles) WNW of Bayandalay, Mongo...
*BREAKING NEWS* *Censored News* Rosebud President Rodney Bordeaux*http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com* Lakota leaders met with President Obama Friday and opposed the Tarsands and Keystone XL pipeline on Frid...
[image: Hurmi, 35, who has been displaced by heavy floods for almost a year, holds her child near makeshift shelters along a road in Jamshoro, some 150 km (93 miles) north of Karachi, Pakistan, 25 July 2...
[image: RV Polarstern in the Weddell Sea. Sediment cores for this project were taken by the German Polar Research Vessel 'Polarstern'. The photo shows Polarstern at the ice shelf edge in the Weddell Sea....
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Nias Region, Indonesia at a depth of 44.2 km (27.5 miles), the quake hit at 14:28:05 UTC Monday 5th December 2011. The epicenter was 190 km (118 miles) West of Sib...
Be careful of the German term 'Fiskalunion', the next phase of Europe’s misadventure. What Chancellor Angela Merkel means is increased powers to police the budgets of EMU sinner states. She means prior v...
The Federal Reserve, along with the 17 euro zone national central banks, may help provide the International Monetary Fund with funds that could be used to aid debt-ridden states, a German newspaper said. ...
At an Iranian military base 30 miles west of Tehran, engineers were working on weapons that the armed forces chief of staff had boasted could give Israel a "strong punch in the mouth." But then a huge exp...
The Stop the War campaign is gaining momentum. Tonight those jihadists of peace, George Galloway, Tony Benn and Lindsay German, launch their latest bid to stay the hand of the warmongers threatening the Is...
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Buckdog - 6 hours ago
*Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his good friend, Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall, both adhere to the flawed 'trickle down' economic theory. They firmly believe that if you stoke the rich and cor...
A fleet of high-performance cars, including eight Ferraris, has been involved in one of the most expensive accidents in history after an astonishing multi-car pile-up in Japan. Police said three Merced...
I continue to give a good portion of my time currently to trying to fathom how we (the USA, land of my birth and ex-home of the free) got this far down the rabbit hole. I'd swear (if I did swear, of course...
With the dizzying fall of Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich has stepped into the breach and now stands alone as the most popular GOP presidential candidate in The Des Moines Register’s new Iowa Poll. Gingrich, w...
A Gastonia mother says her son was suspended for calling a teacher "cute.” Chiquita Lockett said her 9-year-old son, Emanyea, spent the last two days at home. Lockett said the principal of Brookside Eleme...
Lenore Zimmerman, 85, was angry and embarrassed after what she claims was a strip search at Kennedy Airport Tuesday. Now another woman in her 80′s at the very same terminal says she was exposed one day b...
Peru's President Ollanta Humala has declared a state of emergency in a northern region that has seen bitter protests against a gold mine project. Mr Humala said the measure would last 60 days and allow sec...
There are a lot of critical meetings scheduled this week in Europe, and Asia is watching. There's no more talk now of financial decoupling from developed economies. The global economy is tightly interwo...
The gap between earnings by the rich and the poor is the widest in 30 years, the OECD said in a report released Monday. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development said the average income o...
An international report on volunteerism says that while involvement by young people in formal organizations is declining, there appears to be a shift to less structured forms of engagement. The internet a...
The leaders of France and Germany say the EU needs a new treaty to deal with the eurozone debt crisis. The statement from French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel came after th...
Organised crime poses an "open threat" to democracy in Mexico, President Felipe Calderon has warned. Mr Calderon said attempts by drug gangs to manipulate elections was a "new and worrying fact". Speakin...
Pol Pot's deputy has told a court the Khmer Rouge were not "bad people", blaming deaths of Cambodians under the Maoist regime on neighbouring Vietnam. Nuon Chea made the comments at his genocide trial at ...
A major international environmental group has pulled out of the process to guarantee that diamonds do not come from conflict zones, saying the Kimberley Process had refused "to evolve and address the cle...
Syria faced additional sanctions from its Arab League neighbors Monday unless it agreed to allow international observers into the country to monitor an agreement to end a months-old crackdown on anti-gover...
[image: Jordan Konek, 23, and cousin Curtis Konek, 21, from Arviat, Nunavut, are attending the UN climate summit in Durban, South Africa. The young men have spent time documenting the experiences of thei...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Tajikistan at a depth of 95 km (58.9 miles), the quake hit at 16:10:34 UTC Monday 5th December 2011. The epicenter was 12 km (7.4 miles) East of Khorug, Tajikistan No R...
Black holes: They're most destructive monsters in the universe. We already knew they can be powerfully massive. Now scientists say they've found the most massive ones yet, as reported in the journal Nature...
Sangduen "Lek" Chailert is known as Thailand's elephant queen. For over a decade she has been working tirelessly to save abused elephants after seeing first-hand the mistreatment many of them faced while w...
This week, world leaders have been at the United Nations Climate Change conference in Durban, South Africa, to discuss climate change. While climate change is predicted to get worse, it is not a hypothetic...
Thick air shrouding Beijing forced authorities to cancel flights and close expressways, state media reported Monday. The Beijing Capital International Airport canceled 56 departing flights and delayed doz...
This week, world leaders have been at the United Nations Climate Change conference in Durban, South Africa, to discuss climate change. While climate change is predicted to get worse, it is not a hypothetic...
More than 1,000 participants from 90 delegations have descended on Bonn for a critical international conference on the future of Afghanistan, but the country which holds the key to stability is conspicuous...
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wmtc - 6 hours ago
Allan has revived his non-baseball blog. He is writing about writing, music and the world out there. Formerly known as In Cold Blog and In Other News and maybe some other names, the blog is now called Ri...
Black holes: They're most destructive monsters in the universe. We already knew they can be powerfully massive. Now scientists say they've found the most massive ones yet, as reported in the journal Nature...
Thick air shrouding Beijing forced authorities to cancel flights and close expressways, state media reported Monday. The Beijing Capital International Airport canceled 56 departing flights and delayed do...
Italy's welfare minister Elsa Fornero was reduced to tears at a press conference as she outlined tough reforms to pensions contained in the government's plan to regain control of strained public finances a...
Flash flood swept Kulawi District, Sigi Regency, Central Sulawesi on Saturday, Dec 3. The National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) recorded that five locals died from the flood. “Five people died, one ...
Inequality in wealth quickly metastasizes into other afflictions including inequality in income and inequality in opportunity. It chokes off social mobility and nurtures the ascendancy of an oligarchy in ...
At least three people were killed and 90 are reported missing as a result of a shipwreck off the coast of the Dominican Republic. According to rescuers, about a hundred illegal immigrants were on a schoon...
Scientists from Japan and Russia have confirmed that there is well-preserved bone marrow in a mammoth thighbone found in August in permafrost soil in Siberia, increasing the possibility that they could cl...
China's services sector cooled in November to its weakest growth in three months, an HSBC purchasing managers' index showed on Monday, the latest data portraying an economy slowing quickly and in need of p...
The leaders of Germany and France have called for a new European Union treaty to ensure that the region's debt crisis never happens again. French president Nicolas Sarkozy said after meeting German chancel...
The Met Office has issued severe weather warnings for most of Scotland as well as Northern Ireland and parts of northern England. They warn of sleet and snow showers and ice on untreated surfaces. * * ...
[image: Leaked water from the evaporative condensation apparatus at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, 4 December 2011. At least 45 tons of highly radioactive water leaked. The company said that the wa...
Occupy NOLA remains defiant Criminal District Court Judge Calvin Johnson would like a word ~Slabbed Churchill Downs increases annual dividend Oil-spill cleanup at Fourchon Beach draws fire ~Robert Zullo ...
Angela Holgate and her mother Alice Huyton were strangled to death, police have said, as the manhunt for lodger Barry Morrow continues. An international murder inquiry has been launched for the lodger of ...
Beiseker’s streets looked like a scene from a movie after a wicked windstorm blew through the town, Nov. 27. Wind speeds reaching close to 100 km/h ripped the roofs off several buildings, brought down pow...
Eight Ferraris, three Mercedes-Benz cars and a Lamborghini have crashed in a massive -- and very expensive -- 14-vehicle accident in southwestern Japan. The wreck took place Sunday on Chugoku Expressway ...
Workers at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility have discovered a leak of 45 metric tons of radioactive water, operator Tokyo Electric Power Company said in a statement Monday. It's unclear whether...
*Indonesia closed a domestic airport in eastern part of the country today after a volcano spewed ash 2,000 metres into the air, an official said.* Mount Gamalama, which forms the entire island of Ternate i...
Digging isn't tough, but finding the right soils is key.
X-ray technology reveals an unfinished self-portrait that had been painted over by the 17th-century Dutch master.
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Greece at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles - Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 12:30:26 UTC Monday 5th December 2011. The epicenter was 9 km (5.9 miles) Southwest i...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Western Turkey at a depth of 11.6 km (7.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:17:28 UTC Monday 5th December 2011. The epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) South of...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Guatemala at a depth of 72.3 km (44.9 miles), the quake hit at 07:35:03 UTC Monday 5th December 2011. The epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) Southwest of Escuintla, Guatema...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Andaman Islands, India Region at a depth of 22.6 km (14 miles), the quake hit at 05:59:18 UTC Monday 5th December 2011. The epicenter was 214 km (132 miles) ENE of...
Australia's ruling Labor Party has voted to overturn a decade-long ban on exports of uranium to India. The change, proposed by prime minister Julia Gillard, came despite fierce opposition. Critics of th...
Scotland Yard detectives have spent time in Spain as part of their re-examination of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann in Portugal. *The Metropolitan Police* joined the hunt for the missing girl, who ...
We've been talking about the impact of the Florida redistricting and I can't emphasize enough that, even counting states like Texas and Illinois-- and the criminal activities for Arizona's governor-- Flor...
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wmtc - 9 hours ago
Amid the deluge of fundraising appeals that arrive via email and paper mail this time of year, the letter from the Canadian Peace Alliance stood out for me. Under the "Canada First Defence Strategy," Har...
Connecting dots? Perhaps?Maybe just thinking aloud.... In 2006 the US introduced a rotavirus vaccine followed two years later in 2008 by an additional rotavirus vaccine...... RotaTeq, the first of the two...
Pyromorphite used to mitigate lead contamination.By: Duane Craig What do you get when you combine a paste made from fish bones with lead? Pyromorphite. What's significant about that is it could be a much ...
I want to say some things about the group called \(G_2\), manifolds that have a "holonomy" equal to \(G_2\), and M-theory compactifications on these manifolds. *Symmetries and groups in mathematics: dis...
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Biased BBC - 13 hours ago
Monday morning and I'm back after a short break. George awaits your comments on the all pervasive bias of the State Broadcaster.... Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
posted by David Vance at
Biased BBC - 13 hours ago
Did you read this BBC report on a new study by the London School of Economics and the Guardian newspaper (Naturally) which places "anti-police anger" as a key factor in the summer riots. Of those intervie...
Type 2 diabetes could be reversed in just four months by simply following a low-calorie diet, a study has revealed. According to the research, people who reduced their calorific intake in their daily di...
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Broken of Britain - 13 hours ago
Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first U.S. president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." The second? William Jefferson Clinton. Some things speak for themselves, don't they? The...
- Women spend almost 10 hours a week doing household chores - When children arrive this rises to over 16 hours The news will come as a major blow to all those new age men who reckon they do thei...
CONTACT LENSES: A young woman wears cat's eye contact lens. The American Academy of Ophthalmology recently warned that decorative lenses could damage eyes. Photo courtesy: theepochtimes.com Contact lenses...
FOREST: Time spent walking through the woods and forest glades has positive effects on health. Photo courtesy: theepochtimes.com I could spend all day sitting on the bridge breathing the air, feeling the ...
[image: Tough at the top: Career women are now encountering psychological problems usually faced by men, according to the research] Tough at the top: Career women are now encountering psychological probl...
Doctors are being urged to check the pulse of every patient they see. Research suggests that doing so could prevent 12,000 strokes a year. Charities have called for pulse checks to become a routine par...
The arguments in favor of vitaminD supplementation keep getting stronger. It goes so far as to suggest breast cancer would effectively disappearwith enough vitamin D. I do not know what this indicates...
The solution is brilliant. A nasty gene is introduced that effectivelyprevents female carriers from reproducing but does not affect males who pass onthe gene. This happens over and overagain out in t...
This is a report out from theGreek company who was joint venturing with the physicists Rossi and Focardi ontheir heat engine. It is claimed thatthey replicate or better the work of the two although the...
The Arab Spring saw women emergeon the streets to assist in the overthrow of regimes. It was an awakening for women’s rightsalso. Yet this article shows how fragileany such rights are. These are soc...
posted by Robin Horbury at
Biased BBC - 15 hours ago
Richard Black is getting pretty desperate. The reality is that nothing but hot air is emerging from the Durban climate boondoggle - showing maybe (though I am not so sure as Richard North) that the alarmis...
*(Photo by **en:sannse** at the City of Birmingham Championship Dog Show, 29th August 2003) **LABORATORY BEAGLES FREED FOR THE FIRST TIME** *
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CENSORED NEWS - 17 hours ago
Tom Goldtooth, IEN, Global Day of Action Durban Ben Powless, Mohawk, COP 17 Durban, South Africa *Photos, video and article from COP 17 ongoing in Durban, South Africa*Riot Police Block Most Affected by Cl...
*French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are to gather to be in agreement on combined proposals intended at resolving the euro zone balance crisis.* Temporarily, two badly-hit...
A snow shortage across Europe which put paid to World Cup alpine races last week is now threatening to ruin pre-Christmas skiing holidays for thousands of Britons. Pistes across France and Switzerland hav...
*Bollywood celebrity actor-director Dev Anand, aged 88, has died in London by a heart attack. His famous films incorporated Guide, Paying Guest and Jewel Thief.* He sustained to direct approximately await...
*Lincoln: "Labor is the Superior of Capital"* by Alan Grayson, candidate for U.S. Congress Saturday, 3 December 2011 During my two years in Congress, I heard an awful lot of speeches. Some of them wer...
FORENSIC teams are examining a device that exploded in a minibus outside the British Embassy in Manama, early yesterday.Source The incident occurred on Al Hokoma road shortly after midnight, blowing off t...
Early today, *Wall Street Journal* reporters Janet Hook and Naftali BenDavid gave America a startling peek into Friday's contentious closed-door meeting of House Republicans. This is what happens when you...
OK, don't even know where to start. Well, Vegas for Thanksgiving 2011 was super fun! We flew out via Delta after work on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Flight was fine, no issues. Picked up our rental...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 10.3 km (6.4 miles), the quake hit at 01:01:11 UTC Monday 5th December 2011. The epicenter was 116 km (72 miles) Eas...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Eastern New Guinea Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 85.4 km (53.1 miles), the quake hit at 00:14:06 UTC Monday 5th December 2011. The epicenter was 73 km (45...
posted by PC at
Not PC - 18 hours ago
Perhaps the Black Caps were watching Chris Martin batting videos? That can surely be the only explanation for what happened in their second innings against Australia? [Hat tip Tim Blair] Content is copy...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off Libertador O'Higgins, Chile at a depth of 17.6 km (10.9 miles), the quake hit at 22:49:27 UTC Sunday 4th December 2011. The epicenter was 185 km (114 miles) WSW of...
*KPMG has suggested that UK shoppers are taking on knowledge, and at a sooner speed than further countries, a review of global shopping lifestyle. KPMG’s survey is about 9,600 customers old between 16 an...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 14.7 km (9.1 miles), the quake hit at 22:15:05 UTC Sunday 4th December 2011. The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) SSW of Van, Turkey No Repo...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Seram, Indonesia at a depth of 181.6 km (112.8 miles), the quake hit at 21:45:27 UTC Sunday 4th December 2011. The epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) WSW of Ambon, Moluccas...
*And here is the proof*: "*Shortly before final passage, the Senate unanimously backed crippling sanctions on Iran as fears about Tehran developing a nuclear weapon outweighed concerns about driving up oi...
*I blew my stack when I read it.* "EPA relaxes rules on boilers and incinerators; Officials say health benefits to be unaltered" December 03, 2011|By Dina Cappiello, Associated Press WASHINGTON - Facing ...
German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Nicolas Sarkozy are due to meet in Paris at the start of a crucial week for the eurozone. They will present their plans to deal with the economic crisi...
*I'm glad you can afford the cost as your health care and social security are facing cuts, dear American taxpayers*: "Roosevelt home ready for makeover; Teddy’s ‘summer White House’ to get $6.2m facelift"...
*As ministers start in on incoming at the UN typical weather discussion in South Africa, innovative knowledge is screening the challenges they countenance in annoying to limit global warming. Nepal-based ...
*It's not one I'm taking. * "Patrick vows speed as casino era begins; Says he’ll soon name panel leader; foes consider ballot initiative" November 23, 2011|By Noah Bierman, Globe Staff Massachusetts join...
*I didn't; I bought a Boston Sunday Globe.* "Kraft, resort executive in casino talks; Plan involves Las Vegas figure Wynn Land would be leased for $1b facility" December 02, 2011|By Noah Bierman and Frank...
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CENSORED NEWS - 21 hours ago
Ofelia Rivas, O'odham, speaks during the protest of the Salt River Project in Tempe, Ariz., on Dec. 2, part of the protest of the American Legislative Exchange Council meeting in Scottsdale. Rivas welcom...
Columbia University will host Bolivian leaders on Thursday, 15 December, talking about talking about environmental and indigenous politics. Complete info below: Político Medioambiental y Pueblos Indígenas ...
*by Ken* Probably most *DWT* readers are on the Brave New Foundation mailing list, but even so I thought it was worth taking note of the celebration our friends at BNF are throwing for themselves, for wh...
The carbon credit scammers are being help up by the Bolivians again...read below an article from Links, an Australian based think tank: December 4, 2011 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal ...
Had to chuckle after I had read this article. The Annual Meeting of the American Legilsative Exchange Counil (ALEC) will be in Salt Lake City next year. Here's an article about a meeting about ALEC in Salt...
December 2, 2011, 8:21 pm Meh. And I Say That With Feeling A belated reaction to today’s employment report (I’ve been closeted in a room with a bunch of men in suits, myself included, talking about the dep...
by Tony Cartalucci December 5, 2011 - Before reading the following "interests" the United States government with US tax money, is pursing within the sovereign Russian Federation, it may be instructive to...
Having just come back from Scottsdale for the ALEC protest - based on my experiences there - this doesn't surprise me one damn bit. *Ariz. gun club offers Santa shoot* Want to improve the caliber of ...
posted by PC at
Not PC - 1 day ago
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...
*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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Not PC - 1 day ago
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...
To D-fox: if you're reading this, please contact us at thecomingcrisis@gmail.com. It's important -- we believe.
"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...
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In the past we've talked a bit about the role of Bain Capital in the demise of Warner Bros. Records and how, despite Romney's campaign being predicated on his role as a "job-creator," Bain has always bee...
Sunday's NDP debate was a chance to get a first look at the field of candidates, for the 99.9% of Canadians who don't have the complete collection of Paul Dewar speeches on their Ipod. With nine debaters...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Mindanao, Philippines at a depth of 92 km (57 miles), the quake hit at 19:09:44 UTC Monday 5th December 2011. The epicenter was 102 km (63.2 miles) Southeast of Pundagu...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Xizang-Qinghai Border Region at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles - Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 18:55:44 UTC Monday 5th December 2011. The epicenter was 36...
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck near the South Coast of Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 10.8 km (6.7 miles), the quake hit at 19:28:35 UTC Monday 5th December 2011. The epicenter was 129 km (80 miles)...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Western Australia at a depth of 9.8 km (6.1 miles), the quake hit at 19:10:03 UTC Monday 5th December 2011. The epicenter was 224 km (138.8 miles) Southwest of Karratha...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe International Monetary Fund said on Monday its board had approved a 2.2. billion euro loan disbursement to Greece, part of a three-year IMF-EU bailout package to help the country from going bankrupt ...
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