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My mom quickly discovered when we were kids that if she put real candy canes on the Christmas tree, they disappeared pretty quick. So instead, we put these candy canes on the tree. They are the perfect c...
*“A New Theory of Government…”* by Bill Bonner "Not much to report from yesterday. Dow up 78 points. Gold bouncing around. All eyes are on Europe. If the Europeans can pull off a save…well, we’re all sav...
The Obama administration does not know Israel's intentions regarding potential military action against Iran, and the uncertainty is stoking concern in Washington, where the preferred course for now is sanc...
China's navy should speed up its development and prepare for warfare,
President Hu Jintao has said. He told military personnel they should "make extended preparations for warfare". China is locked in ter...
An online
video game lets players chose a disease and then use their skills to advance the frontier of a cure.
The constant thump of oil and gas exploration and military testing has made ocean noise levels unbearable for some sea mammals.
We suffer our share of devastating hurricanes and typhoons seasonally, but imagine a super storm that ravages a planet for an entire year.
Engineers work to build a wind-powered car that can "sail" faster than the wind.
Sometimes I think that my favorite man is Neil Garfield. This is one of those times. And he possesses all of the data (and then some) that we need to define our economic times precisely (and sickeningly). ...
Have you ever visited Stop Paul Ryan? It's the page Blue America uses to try appeal for contributions to help defeat the most dangerous Member of Congress. We just switched out an old Blue America ad wit...
Nasa's Voyager 1 has entered a new region of space between the Solar System and interstellar space in what Nasa has described as a 'cosmic purgatory'. The spacecraft is close to leaving the Solar System a...
The RQ-170 stealth drone that crashed in Iran last week has been used by the CIA in the past to spy on Iran's nuclear facilities and Hezbollah training camps inside Iran, U.S. officials told NBC News on Tu...
Police are continuing to recover hypodermic needles that have been hidden inside garments at a Walmart in Georgia. Yesterday morning, Bartow County Sheriff's Office deputies again arrived at the store in ...
Derek Capo was living the high life. He was in his early 20s, an analyst at hedge fund Everest Capital monitoring international equities, and soaking up the weather and nightlife of his hometown of Miami. ...
Police say a York County woman admitted to killing a 67-year-old family friend in Florida and leaving the woman’s body underneath a pile of Christmas presents in her own home. Patty White, 40, has been ar...
Schoolchildren in Catalonia are the latest victims of austerity cuts with authorities instructing them to limit their use of lavatory paper in a bid to save money. The northeastern region has been ordered...
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has traveled to Dubai after falling ill, fuelling rumors Wednesday of his possible resignation. Close associates of the president told the Associated Press he is curren...
China faces "severe challenges" to its exports due to economic difficulties in key Western markets, the country's commerce ministry has warned. Data due to be released on Saturday will show a sharp slowdow...
Nearly half of cancers diagnosed in the UK each year - over 130,000 in total - are caused by avoidable life choices including smoking, drinking and eating the wrong things, a review reveals. Tobacco is th...
One Palestinian militant has been killed and at least two others injured in an Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medics say. Islamic Jihad confirmed the dead man had been a member of its mi...
The leaders of France and Germany have called jointly for eurozone countries to have common corporation and financial transaction taxes. The tax policy would apply only to the 17-member eurozone. France ha...
Police in China say they have rescued nearly 200 children after uncovering two child-trafficking gangs. More than 600 people were arrested in raids in 10 Chinese provinces. A BBC correspondent in Beijing ...
Firefighters came to the rescue of two police officers outnumbered in Mariners Harbor today, in a scene so chaotic that New York’s Bravest employed a truck-mounted deluge gun -- a water cannon -- to fend o...
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates confirmed Wednesday he is in discussions with China to jointly develop a new and safer kind of nuclear reactor. "The idea is to be very low cost, very safe and generate very...
Canada's fossil fuel-powered generating plants average higher greenhouse gas emissions for the same amount of electricity than American or Mexican stations, an international report has found. The figures,...
"I can haz cheezeburger *and* bwog wike HuffPo?" Gonna be a busy hump day so this is all I can manage for the time being. Keep on rockin' in the (formerly) free world. Peace.
A regional chief who represents Attawapiskat says that a number of his counterparts in other First Nations are prepared to engage in civil disobedience over Ottawa's handling of a housing crisis in the nor...
The condition of a prominent blind Chinese legal activist, whose nearly 15-months of house arrest and alleged mistreatment by local authorities have drawn international criticism, has slightly improved, a ...
Global mean temperatures this year might not have scaled the record-equaling heights of 2010, but it's been another tumultuous 12 months. According to the World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) provisio...
Since humans discovered fire in 770,000 B.C., we've depended on energy to help us survive.
A new additive to road salts could slow corrosion of bridges, signs -- and your car.
Residents of Pembroke, Ont., are devastated and looking for answers after three teenagers committed suicide over the last four months. Community members, including many parents and students, met Tuesday ev...
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, called Wednesday for new parliamentary elections in Russia over concerns about vote fraud. "Mikhail Gorbachev is very concerned about how the situation in Russi...
Just one decade after the European single currency was launched amid fanfare and fireworks, its future is now in doubt as the debt crisis that has engulfed Greece, Ireland and Portugal threatens the entire...
European nations could be penalized by being stripped of some powers if they fail to manage their budgets, according to a memo from European Commission President Herman Van Rompuy leaked Tuesday. The conf...
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai said Wednesday his government will discuss with Pakistan a militant group's reported claim of responsibility for a deadly suicide strike at a Shiite shrine in Kabul. A...
Radioactive cesium has been found in baby formula in Japan following the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, the manufacturer of the product has said. Meiji Co., the maker of the formula, said ...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands, Russia at a depth of 129 km (79.9 miles), the quake hit at 14:41:59 UTC Wednesday 7th December 2011. The epicenter was 306 km (189.7 miles) Southeas...
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Sula, Indonesia at a depth of 29.5 km (18.3 miles), the quake hit at 13:38:28 UTC Wednesday 7th December 2011. The epicenter was 266 km (165 miles) SSW of Te...
*SUPER ZEROS* Mohawk Nation News http://www.mohawknationnews.com MNN 6 Dec. 2011. The secret ruling cabal of an old European blood line is trying to run a fascist globe out of London, the financial capit...
Based on the 2010 US Census I am under the median income for the State I live in and under the US median income. Money is always a hot issue with me and today I’m going to visit money issues. It is my op...
Actually, not so shocking. They were the "correct" sort of Christians. During a question and answer session at a conservative Christian college in Iowa on Monday Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santor...
*And other large corporate conglomerates rather than creating jobs; in fact, you lost a bunch of those to China. * "Clean energy projects powered by massive subsidies; With risk low, big companies eager t...
Roux dat! at the Treme Gumbo Fest ~NewOrleans.com Find a way to treat horses humanely ~James Gill NAMBLA opens a chapter in Ocean Springs: Tater Nut’s legal troubles getting worse ~Slabbed Halliburton re...
Last week, I lamented that kind of dirty tactics we saw in Mount Royal are turning Canadians off politics (as did Bruce Anderson). As luck would have it, the good folks at Samara released a report today l...
Hard to imagine the congressional Republicans are clueless enough-- just on a political survival level-- to force payroll taxes up for millions of Americans-- taking money out of the pockets of people wh...
IMHO - Having this happen once is an - oops. Having it happen a second time - is a evidence of failed policy and incompetent government officials.l This is what less government looks like. Reported on Thi...
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has said Sunday's Russian parliamentary election was marred by fraud and has called for a re-run. "The country's leaders must admit there were numerous falsificat...
*THREE more natural disaster zones have been declared in northern NSW after heavy rain and flooding. * The communities of Uralla, Guyra and Glen Innes Severn were heavily impacted by the recent storms an...
Americans stood up and said, "We have a right to shelter. No one can take that right from us." Today we re-occupied our homes. In East New York, Brooklyn - a foreclosed home is being reclaimed today by ...
An “unidentified toxic substance” closed a South San Francisco street for nearly five hours after a building inspector became ill during a routine inspection. Second Lane between north to Magnolia Avenue ...
Nineteen people have died of suspected food poisoning in Biu Local Government Area of Borno State. About 100 people had been hospitalised for developing symptoms after eating some food about 21 days ago....
By: Duane Craig The Flathead Basin in Montana is a complex and sensitive watershed that may be seeing threats from septic systems, pharmaceuticals, personal care products and volatile and semi-volatile or...
More then 200 people took ill after they drinking some milk-shake during the Muharram observance in two villages in Sanand Taluka. According to officials the incident took place in Sayala and Vekariya vi...
A landslide in the central Colombian city of Manizales destroyed water pipes between water treatment plants on Tuesday, leading to water rationing in the city. Assistant manager of Manizales Water Sebast...
By: Duane Craig Groundwater contamination at an old Texfi Industries plant in Fayetteville, North Carolina, is now deeper than anyone thought, according to this reportat WTVD-TV in Raleigh-Durham, North Ca...
Syria. You knew we had to get back to this topic right? When I say the "beat goes on" I mean the continuing saga. I have been following along with some of the news surrounding that nation's destabilization ...
A woman surfing off the Oregon coast suffered a bite to her lower leg, and authorities are trying to determine whether a shark is responsible. The woman surfing at Seaside suffered blood loss and damage t...
Midweek and time for a new open thread for you! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
[image: Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke] I see that the BBC has given Ken Clarke's broadside to Cameron *"not to seek to repatriate powers from the EU"* great prominence this morning. They love Clarke, an...
Australia appealed for leniency after its citizen was sentenced Wednesday to 500 lashes and a year in prison by a Saudi Arabian court. Mansor Almaribe, 45, was found guilty of blasphemy after he was arres...
At least 19 people, including women and children, were killed when their bus hit a roadside mine in Afghanistan Wednesday, said Daud Ahmadi, a spokesman for the governor of Helmand province. Their bus wa...
In the small town I live in – we have what is referred to as “Election Sunday Sermons”. That is the Sunday before “election Tuesday” all the Catholic priests in our small town do their “You must save the ...
Private investigator Glenn Mulcaire has been arrested as part of the phone-hacking inquiry, according to Sky sources. Police said a 41-year-old man was arrested this morning as part of Operation Weeting....
This is a little diversion from Politics, Global woes, and Crimes Against Humanity! Some say I'm not an "Intellectual".. Just for a moment, let's pop in as a fly in the bedroom of Intellectuals... An...
Seven year old Jorelys Rivera was sexually assaulted and then stabbed and bludgeoned to death. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2070852/Jorelys-Rivera-7-sexually-assaulted-stabbed-beaten-death-Ge...
Have you been following the BBC's coverage this morning of the the National Centre for Social Research's 28th annual British Social Attitudes report? They appear* outraged* that... "Britons are less willi...
After around 30-tonne of fish were found dead near Hindustan Shipyard Limited (HSL) on Sunday, various NGOs in the city are up in arms against the Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board (APPCB) alleging th...
The Press-Register encountered 20 dead pelicans just south of Gaillard Island in the middle of Mobile Bay around noon today. The pelicans had no apparent injuries and were all floating within a quarter m...
After gazillions of particle collisions in the LHC and countless rumors of Higgs discoveries, we have... yet another rumor of a Higgs discovery.
The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) has raised the alert status of Mount Sundoro in Central Java from level I to level II after the mountain showed increased volcanic activity on Monday night. ...
North Korea's adoption of a new rule on natural disasters last month indicates that experts' warnings of volcanic eruptions of Mount Paekdu have spread widely throughout the country, the South Korean gover...
As Mount Gamalama continued to erupt on Tuesday in Ternate, North Maluku, authorities grew concerned about a possible outbreak of respiratory ailments and a clean water shortage. Fandi Febriyadi, a spoke...
The world is eagerly expecting whether or not CERN will announce some evidence from the diphoton channel that there is a Higgs boson whose mass is between 124 and 126 GeV. *Well, the bump will probabl...
*Art experts have signed a request to prevent drilling into a wall painting in Florence's Palazzo Vecchio which may be thrashing a Leonardo Da Vinci work. Drilling began last week to permit cameras withi...
A university student was taken to a hospital for a cut to her stomach on Wednesday after she reported being slashed by a male assailant near her home in the Chiba Prefecture city of Kashiwa, police said. ...
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Tuesday that around 150 liters of water containing strontium and other radioactive substances has flowed into the Pacific Ocean from its crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear pow...
What's been described as a bug in some new computer code briefly allowed Facebook users to snoop on the private pictures of other members. The glitch, which Facebook discovered Tuesday, was part of the si...
Dozens of protesters staged sit-ins in front of lawmakers' offices Tuesday and several hundred more camped out on the National Mall as part of a new movement calling itself Take Back the Capitol. U.S. ...
A U.S. stealth drone that crashed in Iran last week was part of a CIA reconnaissance mission which involved both the intelligence community and military personnel stationed in Afghanistan, two U.S. offic...
*The most accepted hash tags, are used to group mutually tweets connecting to the similar topic of 2011 have been exposed. That illustrating how Twitter spans diverse topics from political beliefs to cel...
Islamic Jihad said one of its members was killed and five others wounded in two Israel airstrikes in Gaza on Wednesday morning. A posting on the group's website said its fighters were confronting an Isra...
Police arrested at least 250 protesters and an opposition leader in Russia's capital Tuesday in a second day of demonstrations against parliamentary election results. Protesters decried what they descr...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has canceled a visit to the United Kingdom to return home following deadly blasts in the capital, Kabul, and in the northern city of Mazar-e Sharif. A spokesman for the Af...
Standard and Poor's timing for its downgrade warning to the eurozone is no coincidence. European leaders are meeting this week to hammer out a solution to the debt crisis and the ratings agency says they ...
Police in Russia are preparing for a fourth day of protests against the result of Sunday's election. More than 250 people were arrested during rallies in Moscow and St Petersberg overnight as they demand...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Veracruz, Mexico at a depth of 202.6 km (125.9 miles), the quake hit at 05:13:17 UTC Wednesday 7th December 2011. The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) Southeast of Coatza...
posted by Robin Horbury at
Biased BBC - 10 hours ago
Former BBC science reporter David Whitehouse explains with masterful precision here why BBC science journalism has turned into sychophantic political drivel. Basically, Mr Whitehouse says that the corporat...
This is a very attractiveprotocol. The aim is to discover thebest cocktail of microorganisms and mushrooms and inoculate the soils in conjunctionwith a willow planting. The end resultis that the cont...
Katla is attracting attention,although it is still early. The concernhere is that this particular volcano is able to make a very large mess unlikelast years round of activity. Our problem is that we ...
This research is working withactual electrons and negative ions in a vacuum. This will be worth following because I suspect that a lot of new physicsis awaiting us in this approach. I presume they hav...
So much written material is lostin the normal course of business it is forgotten just how much there wasoriginally. The Roman Empire and the Egyptian Empire before that ran on papyrus. It was easily ...
"You can chain my body But you cannot chain my soul. You can enslave my body But you’ll never own my soul. You can whip my body, But you cannot touch my soul. For my soul is mightier than your chains, My so...
*Based on the study, it is found that 72% of species had refused in great quantity and that the allocation of 54% had been reduced. In the opinion of researchers approximately three quarters of UK butter...
"President Nixon thought that in moving to create an all-volunteer army he was moving to demilitarize the country; actually he was completing the transformation of America into a banana republic. Profess...
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*The frost fields slipping downward Mont Blanc and the nearby mountains of the European series enclosed various 375 sq km in the late 1960s/early 1970s. This region had fallen to regarding 275 sq km in l...
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CENSORED NEWS - 11 hours ago
*Arizona spy towers were one billion dollars of laughs, and the new ones have a $1.5 billion price tag* By Brenda Norrell Censored News Arivaca spy tower aka 'billion dollar boondoggle' Photo Brenda Norrel...
A woman accused of launching a vile racist rant on a tram is to spend Christmas behind bars after she was remanded in custody for her own safety. Magistrates took the decision to refuse Emma West’s bail ap...
*PERSONAL:* *WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT PART FIVE:* One thing I am certain of about the Occupy Movement (much more certain than how it will all end up) is that it has *finally* leapfrogged o...
Greek police have fired tear gas at protesters gathered outside parliament in Athens to commemorate the third anniversary of the fatal police shooting of a teenager. Several hundred anarchists threw ston...
A radio journalist has been shot dead by gunmen on motorbikes outside her home in the Honduran capital. Luz Marina Paz and her driver were hit by dozens of bullets fired by men on two bikes as she prepar...
David Cameron has said he will veto plans for a new EU treaty unless European leaders agree to a list of British demands. The Prime Minister has insisted that if eurozone countries want to use the "insti...
*- by Juan* The Verizon "All I want for Christmas is my 20 MHz" Holiday bash for the GOP was held yesterday. I was lucky to have as a housemate, not only a fly on the wall but a fly who brought home some...
Banners at Occupy Seattle. Photo by David Bacon / The Rag Blog.From planton to Occupy:Unions, immigrants, and the Occupy movementBy David Bacon / The Rag Blog / November 6, 2011OAKLAND, California -- When Oc...
The US military has said a missing unmanned spyplane was involved in a joint CIA military operation on Afghanistan's border with Iran. The Pentagon has admitted the RQ 170 Sentinel drone is lost somewhere...
A teenager has been attacked and killed by piranhas in northeastern Bolivia. Police have said the 18-year-old was drunk when he jumped out of a canoe in Rosario del Yata, 400 miles north of the capital o...
Smoking can make your nipples fall off - this is the astonishing claim by Dr Anthony Youn, one of American's top plastic surgeons. The practitioner from Detroit, Michigan, was quick to point out this ap...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 29.3 km (18.2 miles), the quake hit at 04:08:36 UTC Wednesday 7th December 2011. The epicenter was 132 km (82 miles) Northeast of Nuku'Alofa, Tonga ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Leyte, Philippines at a depth of 47.2 km (29.3 miles), the quake hit at 19:31:47 UTC Tuesday 6th December 2011. The epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) WNW of Tacloban, Leyt...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 110.8 km (68.9 miles), the quake hit at 18:39:13 UTC Tuesday 6th December 2011. The epicenter was 140 km (86 miles) South of Hihifo, Tonga No Tsunam...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the North Atlantic Ocean at a depth of 15.2 km (9.4 miles), the quake hit at 18:18:38 UTC Tuesday 6th December 2011. The epicenter was 757 km (470 miles) East of Bridg...
*CANADIAN POLITICS:* *THE RICH GET RICHER:* Oh my, is this "news" ? During good times the rich pull ahead as they manage to grab the fruits of expansion. In bad times guess what ? They keep pulling ...
“For reasons unknown, star V838 Mon's outer surface suddenly greatly expanded with the result that it became the brightest star in the entire Milky Way Galaxy in January 2002. Then, just as suddenly, it fa...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Sula, Indonesia at a depth of 44.8 km (27.8 miles), the quake hit at 18:16:43 UTC Tuesday 6th December 2011. The epicenter was 220 km (136 miles) SSW of Tern...
*"The Multiverse"* by Chet Raymo "Alan Lightman, another Tennessee boy (now at MIT) who works on the interface of science and the humanities, has an essay in the current Harper's called "The Accidental U...
“Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.” - Tom Krause
Winter ages a woman's eyes by four years and eight months, a team of beauty scientists have claimed. The anti-ageing experts studied the eyes of 5,000 women throughout the seasons for a clinical study. ...
As any parent can attest to, children's tantrums are a force unto their own. But where they have previously been considered best left alone, scientists have now revealed that temper tantrums can be analy...
Exclusive: Government Activating FEMA Camps Across U.S. Kurt Nimmo and Alex Jones Infowars.com December 6, 2011 Infowars.com has received a document originating from Halliburton subsidiary KBR that provid...
Anti-war vet Vince Emanuele. Photo by Jessica A. Woolf / nwtimes.Veterans unplugged:Hoosier anti-war activist connectsreturning veterans to the 99%By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / November 6, 2011“I grew up in...
* * *"The Future of the Occupy Movement"* by Jules Lobel ”The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire" - Ferdinand Foch "The Occupy Movement, which has already been hugely successful in thr...
For some men, keeping quiet while their wife is on her 17th attempt at reversing into a parking spot would not come naturally. But research suggests that they might be better advised to bite their tong...
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*Is Barney Frank the kind of boss that "The Boss," the late George Steinbrenner, was -- a pussycat to people with power and a bully to those without? His present and former staffers don't seem to think so....
Seems like the second-largest object in the asteroid belt is really not an asteroid at all.
Focusing on measurements of factors that influence the planet's total energy budget a new model confirms human contribution is the dominant cause of warming.
*"Automaton Conformity"* by Erich Fromm "In the mechanisms we have been discussing, the individual overcomes the feeling of insignificance in comparison with the overwhelming power of the world outside h...
"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement." ~ Foster ...
------------------------------ *December 5, 2011 at 00:03:07* *Promoted to Headline (H3) on 12/5/11:* Permalink The Obama Regime Has No Constitutional Scruples *By paul craig roberts (about th...
A newly discovered cockroach has a talent that none of the other 4,000 plus known species of cockroaches has. It's one of the insect world's best jumpers.
Microscopic 570-million-year-old fossils from China may represent the earliest evidence of animal life on Earth.
*They are almost worse than a bank*. * * *This is the front-page, above-the-fold, right-corner lead of the day*: "After outcry, debit fee dropped; Bank gives in to rivals, consumer pressure" November 02,...
It's always been assumed that presidents age at twice the normal rate, but a new study finds just the opposite to be true.
Judge Overturns Occupy NOLA Eviction ~NOLA DEFENDER
http://www.exopolitik.org
A Christmas display outside the courthouse in Leesburg, VA featuring Santa Claus crucified on a cross was torn down by an angry resident in spite of arguments by elected leaders that the display was Const...
An Open Message to Police & Military By StormCloudsGathering.
"Big corporations use loopholes to dodge taxes, report says" November 04, 2011|By Jia Lynn Yang, Washington Post WASHINGTON - Many of this country’s *biggest companies paid no federal taxes * - or even *ma...
Source: We petition the Obama administration to: Investigate Unidentified Aerial Phenomena as Reported by Citizens, Police, Astronauts, Pilots and the Military. Searching for microbes on Mars and radio...
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*Almost missed it*: "T ridership hits record high; More employment, high gas prices fuel a busy September" November 02, 2011|By Eric Moskowitz, Globe Staff Commuters who find it harder to get a seat on th...
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SPEAKING FROM PARIS, PROBABLY between bites of *foie gras*, the OECD has sniffily suggested that the rich-poor gap widened in the period between the mid-eighties and the mid-nineties, and have stayed tha...
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Not PC - 20 hours ago
John Banks’s Spending cap proposal is pseudo-conservative window dressing. Limiting increases in government spending to population growth and inflation, unless the Finance Minister goes to Parliament. I...
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Biased BBC - 20 hours ago
I had to pick myself up off the floor just now. The BBC has actually reported a gaffe by The Obamessiah. It's another geography error. He was in Kansas, but told the crowd it was great to be back in Tex...
*I started to flip through all the unread articles over the last six weeks and did exactly that: moved on it. * *What I've managed to save and read over the last few weeks, and it is more than enough to p...
Yesterday we talk about the option Europeans ensnared by banksters to go the Icelandic route. Rounding these banksters up and shooting the lot of them would be the most just thing to do. Iceland, however,...
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Bone marrow cells take home the checkered flag at the Word Cell Race.
Sulfur dioxide pollution from coal plants in the eastern United States dropped by nearly half compared to 2005 levels.
For those addicted to driving and texting, this could be just the tech you need.
Occupy Wall Street poster from Lalo Alcaraz / laloalcaraz.com.Occupy and the pundits:Do we really want 'specific demands?'By Carl Davidson / The Rag Blog / December 6, 2011I’m getting fed up with pompous pun...
"Adapt or die. As many times as we've heard it, the lesson doesn't get easier. The problem is we're human. We want more than just to survive. We want love. We want success. We want to be the best that we ...
*"Your Most Vital Commitment: * *Finding Time for You"* by The DailyOm “We can excel easier in our lives when our own spiritual, physical, and intellectual needs are fulfilled. Within each of there is a w...
Syria descended further into open warfare with armed clashes in the south and on its border with Turkey yesterday, with state media additionally pointing to the involvement of Turkish armed forces. In on...
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Biased BBC - 22 hours ago
[image: Can we expect unbiased #strike coverage from #BBC Radio #Berkshire?] I believe this image is from BBC Radio Berkshire. Who can doubt their impartiality? Click through to read and contribute comm...
Der Spiegel DE (EN) brings us a story indicating, in the words of Mark Duchamp, that hubris has but one limit: reality. *Germany's Reichstag wants the Parliament of the N-th Reich, whatever the value o...
John McCain tries to make good on longstanding threat to Putin. by Tony Cartalucci December 6, 2011 - As chairman of the International Republican Institute, an organization dedicated to fomenting extrater...
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Buckdog - 23 hours ago
*"Canada's big five banks made a record combined profit of $6.1 billion in the three months ended in November, with the full-year earning at $22.4 billion, a sharp rise over the previous year. The full-...
Typical 99% parasite. Image from Jobsanger.CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGEIt's everyone's fight'The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and for government to gain ground.' -- Thomas JeffersonBy Ted ...
Marine experts today warned people not to enter the water after two killer whales were spotted 100 yards off the English coast. The 'enormous super predators' were described as unpredictable and could at...
The CIA could have been behind a computer virus dubbed the world's first cyber 'super weapon' that attacked an Iranian nuclear plant, experts claim. The launch of Stuxnet in 2010 marked the transformation...
Reality TV star Paddy Doherty is facing up to three years jail over a bare-knuckle brawl which police linked to an underworld shooting. The 52-year old Celebrity Big Brother winner was left bloodied and ...
Sediments drilled from beneath the Dead Sea reveal that this most remarkable of water bodies all but disappeared 120,000 years ago. It is a discovery of high concern say scientists because it demonstrates ...
It was a scene of sheer terror overnight, two men accosted an 80-year-old Roman Catholic priest as he lay sleeping in his South Side rectory and brutally beat him. As CBS 2′s Susanna Song reports, police ...
A woman accused of launching a vile racist rant on a tram broke down in tears in court as she viewed the video footage that became an internet hit, and then pleaded not guilty. Emma West, 34, appeared at...
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have been put on a war footing amid increasing signs that the West is taking direct action to cripple Iran’s nuclear programme. An order from Gen Mohammed Ali Jaafari, the com...
"The whole planet, the whole rock-grain, with its busy swarms, I now saw as an arena where two cosmical antagonists, two spirits, were already preparing for a critical struggle, already assuming terrestri...
The popular 90's toy is back with a full-color version to celebrate it's 15th anniversary.
Here is some of the latest- Massive Water leaks from the still crippled Japanese Nuclear Plants- — Japan's crippled nuclear power plant leaked about 45 tons of highly radioactive water from a purification...
"Take someone who doesn't keep score, who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he's free." - Rumi
With age come such things as catheters, colostomy bags and adult diapers. Now add another indignity to getting old — having to drop your pants and show these things to a complete stranger. Two women in th...
*"Worst In The World– * *U.S. Balance Of Trade Is Mind-Blowingly Bad"* by Michael Synder "Did you know that we buy about a half a trillion dollars more stuff from the rest of the world than they buy from ...
Police in Delaware are searching for three suspects who robbed a delivery driver at gunpoint this past weekend. The incident happened at about 5:30 p.m. Saturday in a parking lot on Elkton Road in Newark....
The leader of the Lebanese Shia Islamist group Hezbollah has made his first public appearance for several years at a rally in Beirut. Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah normally speaks to his supporters via video-lin...
US officials have expressed concern at the loss of a drone near Iran's eastern border with Afghanistan. A Pentagon spokesman said the US was worried especially as the unmanned aircraft was "in a place whe...
At least five people, including a Somali policeman, have been killed as a car exploded while it was being searched in Mogadishu, sources say. Police officers stopped the car in the busy K4 junction of the ...
Getting a police escort for a funeral procession was a common service at one time. But as WWJ’s Rob Sanford reports, budget concerns have forced Detroit to join other major cities in ending the practice. ...
JP Morgan, Exxon, Boeing, Among State Department's New Advisers. by Tony Cartalucci December 6, 2011 - The Washington Post has recently reported in an article titled, "Hillary Clinton turns to think tanker...
George Lakoff writes that the next step for OccupyWallStreet is out of the parks and into action-- electoral action. Far be it for me to challenge a guru like Lakoff-- and I'm working with candidates and ...
*"I Hope You’re Prepared. Really."* by Karl Denninger "I know, I know, the market was up something like 800 DOW points last week, with two huge spikes - one probably on the back of a leak that Bernanke an...
Police in central Moscow have clashed with demonstrators gathered for a second day of protests against alleged vote fraud in parliamentary elections - as Russia's opposition leader is arrested. Thousand...
Thousands of people gathered in this capital Monday night to protest Sunday’s surprisingly controversial parliamentary elections, shouting “Russia Without Putin” and “We Need New Elections.” Interior Mini...
A Russian opposition leader was arrested at an anti-government rally in Moscow on Tuesday, he told CNN by phone, as demonstrators protested against the results of Sunday's parliamentary elections. Boris ...
Former Obama adviser and Clinton Administration Labor Secretary Robert Reich editorializes on the Occupy movement and the challenges facing the American economy. Sad that a smart guy like this with a l...
Overfishing is taking a heavy toll on marine predators such as sharks, tuna and swordfish, says a new study by scientists at the University of British Columbia. The study, published online Monday in the j...
The senior government scientist facing child molestation and bestiality charges has returned to her high-powered job at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr Kimberly Qui...
Fraud in the workplace cost Canadian small businesses $3.2 billion last year, an accountancy group says. The report published Tuesday by the Certified General Accountants Association of Canada (CGA) found...
*"Zombified Government Spending"* by Bill Bonner "The huge rally on Wednesday of last week fizzled by the end of the week. What a week. Full of sound and fury…signifying nothing. Wednesday’s rally was t...
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We'd like to thank the United Kingdom for being the foremost nation in following the big banner on the top and assisting us in (nearly) meeting yesterday's goal. We appreciate that when you took the time t...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Turkey-Iraq Border Region at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:46:27 UTC Tuesday 6th December 2011. The epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) South of Hak...
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Remember TARP—the so-called “troubled assets” “relief” programme that cost US taxpayers US $700 billion? The programme that every bank "had to have", but few are now prepared to defend? Remember *those...
NASA's New Horizons probe has achieved another milestone on its already historic mission to our solar system's erstwhile ninth planet: it is now the closest any spacecraft has ever come to Pluto.
An old ethics problem gets an update with virtual reality.
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Halmahera, Indonesia at a depth of 136.7 km (84.9 miles), the quake hit at 15:04:21 UTC Tuesday 6th December 2011. The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) NNW of Ternate, M...
Researchers at Boston University say it's important not to over-interpret results from a study of former NHL enforcer Derek Boogaard's brain that show early signs of a neurodegenerative disease linked to r...
A couple of days ago, Bradley Schiller, "a professor of economics at the University of Nevada-Reno", wrote an op-ed piece for the *LA Times* that has to be read to be believed. The title, "What's So Awful...
Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah movement are risking their future ties with Syria by supporting embattled Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad now, the head of a leading Syrian opposition group says. Burhan Ghali...
France's interior minister admitted Monday that lapses in security made it possible for Greenpeace activists to gain entry to a nuclear power plant southeast of Paris. Interior Minister M. Claude Gueant s...
Amanda Knox may be one step closer to telling the world her side of the story about her saga of being wrapped up in an Italian murder trial that caught the world's eye. Knox, who recently returned home to...
I just love Paul Krugman. Not only is he witty with a great sense of humor about the ignoramuses and assholes he collides with daily, but he has the historical charts to dismiss their fraudulent politico-i...
From buying expensive caskets and tailoring new clothes to slaughtering animals and organizing a massive feast, little expense is spared in South Africa's elaborate funeral celebrations. Here, as in other...
As eurozone leaders prepare to meet in what some are calling a last-ditch effort to prevent a break-up of Europe's monetary union, the ratings agency S&P warned that 15 eurozone nations -- including top ra...
In the past few days, the WikiLeaks saga has taken two sharp turns. On Thursday, 287 documents appeared on the WikiLeaks site about the global surveillance and arms industry. The dump provided many docum...
[image: Climate change hotspots in Africa, 1 December 2011. guardian.co.uk] By John Vidal, environment editor, www.guardian.co.uk 1 December 2011 We are right on the equator, and Speke, Moebius, Elena...
A church that Sky News exposed as claiming to offer HIV healings will keep its charitable status. The Synagogue Church of All Nations, which is based in Southwark, south London and is a registered charit...
I have struggled for months now with the fact that I believe that the legislation the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) produces – is discriminatory in its underlying tone and in many cases over...
Traces of radiation spilled from Japan's hobbled nuclear plant were detected in baby formula in the latest case of contaminated food in the nation. Major food and candy maker Meiji Co. said Tuesday it was...
Twin suicide bombings killed dozens Tuesday in Afghanistan, most of them in a mass-scale sectarian attack on Shiite worshippers unlike anything the country has seen in its decade-long war. The terrorist...
The devastating wall of water that struck Japan in March was the result of at least two waves that combined to create a more powerful tsunami, U.S. scientists said Monday. Ocean ridges and mountain ranges...
Youssif shows off his "certificate of citizenship," an award given to the Iraqi boy by his school in Los Angeles for being exceptionally nice. "One kid got hurt, and I helped him," Youssif says. Another ...
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*"For the larger part of human history, for example, people were sure that the sun circles the Earth and that we are at the center of the universe. It doesn’t, and we aren’t. The conventional wisdom that t...
A convicted felon chose the wrong victim when he tried to rob an ultimate fighting champion Friday night on the Southwest Side and ended up with two black eyes and a gunshot wound to the ankle. Police say...
It sounds as though the Pentagon has had about a belly full of decadal, inconclusive ground wars of the sort it found in Iraq and Afghanistan. Goodbye Army. Hello Air Force, Hello Navy. If armies ma...
*Caught on camera: top lobbyists boasting how they influence the PM** * Bell Pottinger is a major 'lobbying' company. According to The Independent (PM 6 Dec 2011), executives at Bell Pottinger have been t...
Board games began as an exclusive pastime for the elite, with the Roman Empire spreading their popularity throughout Europe.
New technology brings tactile sensations to screens of your smart phone, tablet or television.
December 6th is the National Day of Action to stop and reverse foreclosures. The Occupy Homes movement is holding actions around the country in support of homeowners and people fighting to have a home. ...
[image: Cardinal Óscar RodrÃguez Maradiaga: 'Don’t we realize that the climate is out of control? How long will countless people have to go on dying before adequate decisions are taken?' said the Hondura...
Photo by Shut Down ALEC Protest at Salt River Project, Tempe, Ariz. Dec. 2, 2011 *Top stories at Censored News* Dec. 6, 2011 Navajo Louise Benally upstages Obama http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2011/12/arizon...
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The rich grow richer, the poor grow more numerous. The income gap widens - and our entire society is poorer because of it. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development released a study yest...
Occupy NOLA: not with a bang, but a whimper ~Photo by John McCusker / The Times-Picayune. An evicted Occupy NOLA protester watches from Gravier Street as the police clear Duncan Plaza. New Orleans Police c...
I don't usually write about climate change, because there are so many gifted writers and real scientists who have websites and blogs on the topic. It was apparent to me as soon as I began to learn about ...
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I mentioned this yesterday in my post about the Canadian Peace Alliance's Peace & Prosperity not War & Austerity campaign, but it deserves special emphasis. In April 2010, I wrote about the Conservative go...
Recent child sex abuse allegations expose serious flaws in Megan's Laws, which often target the wrong people.
Vesta is the second-largest object in the asteroid belt - 320 miles across - and is being probed by a hi-tech robot 'surveyor' that will then move on to its bigger 'sister' asteroid Ceres. New views sent ...
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...
The Big Freeze of winter 2011 has claimed its first lives as two truck drivers died in separate incidents on snow-bound roads, and forecasters warned more severe weather is on the way in the next 48 hours....
Iran's Revolutionary Guards have been put on a war footing after the West ramped up sanctions in a bid to cripple the country's nuclear programme. General Mohammed Ali Jaafari, commander of the unit, incre...
Thugs who dumped huge chunks of concrete on to passing cars could be linked to 30 separate incidents on the same stretch of road police have revealed. Officers said they were looking into a string of at...
The Democratic Party is in a desperate fight to hold onto the Senate-- it's a desperate fight not just for career-oriented party hacks but also for the people of America, who could be saddled with dangero...
Tis the season of pies. I love almost anything in miniature and pies are no exception. Cute baby pies are an easy, fun way to serve your pie this holiday season. First you will need to make your pie crus...
Last week, I provided my initial impressions on the field of LPC presidential candidates. Today, I begin posting posting the candidates' responses to a questionnaire I sent out to each of them. Up first- ...
A gang of Muslim girls who repeatedly kicked a young woman in the head walked free from court after a judge heard they were 'not used to being drunk' because of their religion. The group screamed 'kill th...
A State of Emergency is declared in Uniontown, Kentucky after pumps that keep water out of the town failed. The pumps move water through the hoses and out to the other side of the levee to keep the water...
An Air Force crew damaged a component of an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile while performing maintenance near a North Dakota base last month, prompting a partial evacuation, military officials ...
Heavy rains set off a landslide that swept over a home in central Colombia, flattening it and killing seven members of the same family, authorities said yesterday. “Sadly, early this morning a landslide ...
"I'll see your liar, liar, pants-on-fire," the Honorable Minister Peter MacKay told the House of Commons yesterday, "and raise you an easy peasy lemon squeezy." "Neener, neener," added Steve.
Over 13 early-morning landslides cut off parts of the Paria Main Road from Sans Souci to Grande Riviere, in north east Trinidad after heavier-than-usual rainfall over the weekend. Lines of Toco-bound beac...
Residents of a New York neighborhood said their homes are being swarmed by mosquitoes that have not been deterred by the December weather. Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal said residents of West 84th Street ...
Living inside an indigenous enclave, completely surrounded by aliens, the experience can become surreal, necessitating a periodic escape into the home country. Where I live, the number of indigenous peop...
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*Now and then*, when I think it is of importance to know, I allow myself to express my opinion on issues relating to our society and global community. This morning I noticed that some trusted journalists c...
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China's navy should speed up its development and prepare for warfare, President Hu Jintao has said. He told military personnel they should "make extended preparations for warfare". China is locked in ter...
Have you ever visited Stop Paul Ryan? It's the page Blue America uses to try appeal for contributions to help defeat the most dangerous Member of Congress. We just switched out an old Blue America ad wit...
Nasa's Voyager 1 has entered a new region of space between the Solar System and interstellar space in what Nasa has described as a 'cosmic purgatory'. The spacecraft is close to leaving the Solar System a...
The RQ-170 stealth drone that crashed in Iran last week has been used by the CIA in the past to spy on Iran's nuclear facilities and Hezbollah training camps inside Iran, U.S. officials told NBC News on Tu...
Police are continuing to recover hypodermic needles that have been hidden inside garments at a Walmart in Georgia. Yesterday morning, Bartow County Sheriff's Office deputies again arrived at the store in ...
Derek Capo was living the high life. He was in his early 20s, an analyst at hedge fund Everest Capital monitoring international equities, and soaking up the weather and nightlife of his hometown of Miami. ...
Police say a York County woman admitted to killing a 67-year-old family friend in Florida and leaving the woman’s body underneath a pile of Christmas presents in her own home. Patty White, 40, has been ar...
Schoolchildren in Catalonia are the latest victims of austerity cuts with authorities instructing them to limit their use of lavatory paper in a bid to save money. The northeastern region has been ordered...
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has traveled to Dubai after falling ill, fuelling rumors Wednesday of his possible resignation. Close associates of the president told the Associated Press he is curren...
China faces "severe challenges" to its exports due to economic difficulties in key Western markets, the country's commerce ministry has warned. Data due to be released on Saturday will show a sharp slowdow...
Nearly half of cancers diagnosed in the UK each year - over 130,000 in total - are caused by avoidable life choices including smoking, drinking and eating the wrong things, a review reveals. Tobacco is th...
One Palestinian militant has been killed and at least two others injured in an Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medics say. Islamic Jihad confirmed the dead man had been a member of its mi...
posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 20 hours agoYesterday we talk about the option Europeans ensnared by banksters to go the Icelandic route. Rounding these banksters up and shooting the lot of them would be the most just thing to do. Iceland, however,...
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