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*Bye-bye to habeas corpus, can't feed family on $4K/wk?, Bill-O's threat, workplace of the future, Georgia bloodlust, and more* *He can't say this stuff, can he? (See 9/20 below.)* *by Noah* *9/14/11 -...
"Tonight,
New Hampshire. Tomorrow... Mordor!" Make me ashamed of myself by showing me whatcha got.
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Shorter wmtc: Quebec in winter: the weather is cold, the people are warm, the food is good. I loved all of it, and I especially loved traveling with my sweetie. Driving home, we were on smaller country r...
A French reporter has been killed in a bomb attack in Syria that left eight others dead, the channel said. Gilles Jacquier, who worked for
France 2, was on a government-led trip to the restive city of Ho...
Iran has blamed Israel for the murder of a nuclear scientist who was killed by a bomb that had been attached to his car. Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, 32, died after two unidentified men on a motorbike fasten...
A defendant has shot a prosecutor dead in a German court, according to the state justice ministry. The 54-year-old man is believed to have opened fire at the district court in Dachau, Bavaria, hitting the...
Smoking marijuana on a regular basis, even over many years, does not impair lung function.
Washington Post: In Greece, fears that austerityis killing the economy* *By AnthonyFaiola, Published: January 10 http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/in-greece-fears-that-austerity-is-killing-the-economy/2...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Northern Iran at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 17:08:08 UTC Wednesday 11th January 2012 The epicenter was 15 km (9.3 miles) East of Qa'emshahr, Iran No...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:53:13 UTC Wednesday 11th January 2012 The epicenter was 416 km (258 miles) ...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Java, Indonesia at a depth of 69 km (42.7 miles), the quake hit at 16:23:21 UTC Wednesday 11th January 2012 The epicenter was 97 km (60.2 miles) South of Wonosari, Java...
The end of the US military occupation does not mean Iraqis have full control of their oil. *Baghdad, Iraq -* While the US military has formally ended its occupation of Iraq, some of the largest western o...
Nine-year-old Mahmood Ahmed was playing near his home in Zintan, western Libya, when he found a green object he had never seen before. He wanted to know what was inside, so took it into his backyard and b...
ABOARD THE FISHING VESSEL AL MULAHI, in the Gulf of Oman — Late on Thursday afternoon, as the American destroyer Kidd loomed alongside this hijacked Iranian dhow, the warship’s loudspeaker issued a command...
EPA's Toxics Release Inventory doesn't offer full picture of pollution. The Center for Public Integrity. Author Corbin Hiar.http://www.readersupportednews.org/off-site-news-section/49-49/9371-epas-database...
OVER the last three years, as I delved into the world of American nuclear weapons, I felt increasingly as though I had stepped into a time warp. Despite the nearly total rearrangement of the international ...
FROM the outside, China often appears to be a highly centralized monolith. Unlike Europe’s cities, which have been able to preserve a certain identity and cultural distinctiveness despite the homogenizing ...
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Buckdog - 1 hour ago
*Anyone who tries to tell you that the once great Liberal Party of Canada is doing well ..... is out to lunch. "Five Liberal riding associations have recently been deregistered by Elections Canada and f...
The premise is jarring and a half-measure -- obviously corporations are made up of people (not cats, not trees, not insects, not compost heaps, or at least not those that make laws and vote). From the valu...
Our galaxy's light as it would appear from another galaxy's view is revealed by new analysis.
A nuclear scientist. How many nuclear scientists have been killed under very suspicious circumstances in the past year or so? If you don't know the answer is 4. Iran points a finger at Israel. I am sure t...
(*Editor's note*: *What follows is a post I had to write to a young man, a friend of my son Adam who friended me on Facebook last month. This kid has the seedier side of humanity pegged, the part about us ...
*WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2012* *Boston Globe 17, Union Leader 10:* Within the “press corps,” script never dies. This includes script from elections. Examples: Last night, in just one half-hour watching Ch...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 27.5 km (17.1 miles), the quake hit at 14:28:29 UTC Wednesday 11th January 2012 The epicenter was 118 km (73 miles) East of Nuku'Alofa, Tonga No Tsu...
The decision by China’s airlines to snub Europe’s carbon emissions tax opens a new front in the battle of European Union versus the Rest of the World. From this year, airlines which use EU airports must ...
Over 3,000 people were killed in South Sudan in brutal massacres last week in an explosion of ethnic violence that forced tens of thousands to flee, the top local official in the affected area said Friday....
[image: A dead rhino and calf killed by poachers. File photo. AFP PHOTO / STRINGER] January 11 (Sapa) – Eight rhino carcasses have been found in the Kruger National Park, SA National Parks says. "Yeste...
When an insurgent rocket attack badly injured Cpl. Dustin Lee while he was on patrol in Iraq, his shrapnel-impaled partner, Lex, picked himself up to lie over Lee - an effort to protect him. "He knew Dus...
The decision by China’s airlines to snub Europe’s carbon emissions tax opens a new front in the battle of European Union versus the Rest of the World. From this year, airlines which use EU airports must ...
Can you imagine a world without Google or Facebook? If plans to protest the potential passing of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) come to fruition, you won’t need to; those sites, along with many other we...
*WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2012* *Rick Perry brings it with Sean:* What did Romney do wrong at Bain? What did he do there at all? This morning, the New York Times struggles (and fails) to explain. But last ...
Four casualties of a certain type in five years isn't exactly an entry for the Guinness book of records. However, the precision and focus of these operations are symptoms of intelligent design behind the...
It has been exactly 99 years and 11 months since the world's most storied liberation movement, the African National Congress, was born, and I am looking for its birthplace. In Bloemfontein, the old Boer ...
China and to a lesser extent India are positioned to meet challenges resulting from the downturn in the world economy. *New Haven, Connecticut* - Today, fears are growing that China and India are about to...
Schools are routinely cheating Ofsted inspections by bribing pupils, sending troublemakers home and rehearsing lessons, teachers have warned. Rising numbers of schools are resorting to underhand tactics to...
The pound benefited as the euro plunged to its lowest level for 15 months amid fears that eurozone countries and their banks may be buckling under the weight of their debts. Traders dumped the single cur...
*He may have come in second, but he looked like a winner to me. * "Paul gains momentum with runner-up finish" by Bobby Caina Calvan | Globe Staff, January 11, 2012 MANCHESTER, N.H. — Ron Paul, who for y...
The number of working men's clubs in the country have halved in the last 30 years. Hannah Marshall investigates why these great British institutions are worth saving. Off Barking Road in *London*'s East ...
[image: Sumatra Deforestation, 1995-2009. SMG/APP associated concessions, natural forest remaining in 2008/2009, and natural forest lost since 1995 in the Eyes on the Forest study area. Eyes of the Fores...
It is the poor, both black and white, who are the truly marginalised members of society. In theory, this year ought to be one of triumph for the British National Party. The far Right is on the march acros...
*Some liberation.* *Almost makes you feel all the dead people was worth it.* "Libyan women relish freedom they helped win, with a way to go" November 13, 2011|By Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post TRIPO...
The euro is in such a poor state that asking this question has become almost cliché. In truth, as the crisis is overwhelmingly about erratic domestic politics, it’s absolutely impossible to predict when ...
Eve Arnold, known for her intimate portraits of stars such as Marilyn Monroe as well as her groundbreaking photojournalism work, has died in London, at the age of 99 Magnum Photos said Thursday. Arnold, ...
[image: Two thirds of the whiting caught by the Press-Register on Dauphin Island, 9 January 2011, had lesions on their bodies. The fish live in the turbulent surf zone, where much of BP's oil ended up. S...
It is five minutes to midnight. Two years ago, it appeared that world leaders might address the truly global threats that we face. In many cases, that trend has not continued or been reversed. For that rea...
A dead whale was found in Tokyo Bay on Jan. 10, it has been learned. At around 8:30 a.m., a sailor spotted the floating carcass approximately 20 meters away from Tokyo Port's Aomi Container Terminal in th...
CHIBA -- Several cities in this prefecture relatively close to the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant are suffering a population decline as a result of the nuclear disaster, local governments ha...
*Even before Khadafy.... * "Libyans recover looted Roman antiquities Moammar Gadhafi’s forces tried to flee Tripoli with a sack of ancient Roman artifacts in hopes of selling them abroad to help fund thei...
*I might skip most the service. * "Libya rejoices as Khadafy meets with a violent end" by Kareem Fahim and Rick Gladstone New York Times / October 21, 2011 Moammar Gadhafi, the former Libyan strongman who...
*WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2012* *Part 3—The piffle we cling to instead:* What did Mitt Romney do wrong at Bain Capital? For that matter, what did he do there at all? For a bit of comic relief, click here ...
BHUBANESWAR: To arrest the spread of bird flu, Odisha government today ordered culling of about 30,000 fowls in three km radius of Keranga in Khurda district as advised by the Centre, official sources said...
A large number of fish were found dead Monday in a major river in the southern province of Guangdong, local authorities confirmed Tuesday. Floating fish were reported in a three-kilometer section of the X...
Dead fish began to mysteriously wash up at the Montagu fish ramp early this morning. There has been no official explanation for the anomaly, however, it left fishermen at the ramp a bit shaken up. Source...
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan 11th Jan 2012 — Missiles fired from unmanned U.S. aircraft killed at least four militants in Pakistan on Wednesday, officials said, ending an eight-week pause in the use of a tactic th...
The world's deepest known volcanic vents are also the hottest, a UK-led expedition has indicated. The seafloor vents are located 5km below the surface of the Caribbean, in the Cayman Trough. The researc...
Roadside restaurateur Little Chef is to close 67 outlets where trade has been hit by tough economic conditions and demographic changes, with the loss of up to 600 jobs. Little Chef, whose red chef logo ha...
The assassination on Wednesday of another Iranian nuclear scientist may now prompt Iran to try to respond in kind. The murder in Tehran of Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan is the fourth such attack on Iran's scient...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Kepulauan Mentawai Region, Indonesia at a depth of 33.4 km (20.8 miles), the quake hit at 11:36:19 UTC Wednesday 11th January 2012 The epicenter was 109 km (67 mil...
Flipping the switch at solar farm near Austin, Texas. Rag Blog photo.Let the sunshine in:On being young and crazy in AustinThey say that victory has 1,000 parents, but defeat is an orphan.By Paul Robbins / T...
An online anti-piracy group in Finland has been attacked by Anonymous after access was blocked to The Pirate Bay. Anonymous encouraged followers to target the Copyright Information and Anti-Piracy Centr...
A Missouri teenager who told authorities she wanted to know what it felt like to kill pleaded guilty to murder on Tuesday, telling a judge that she strangled her 9-year-old neighbor with her hands and the...
The pictures of the White House's secret 2009 Halloween party into Alice’s Wonderland emerged on the internet today showing Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter. The extravagant fantasy world that they created- ...
A soldier found dead in her barracks at a Colorado infantry post was identified today as a Houston woman whose death is being investigated as a homicide. The unclothed body of Specialist Brandy Fonteneaux...
The U.S. military has come to the aid of Iranians at sea for the second time in less than a week. A U.S. Coast Guard cutter rescued six Iranian sailors from a cargo ship in distress in the Arabian Gulf af...
*The one percent* Who would have ever guessed Obama could find a chief of staff as worthless and sleazy as Rahm Emanuel? But a year ago he came through with Chicago crook William Daley. Daley could claim ...
An Iranian university professor working at a nuclear facility has been killed by a magnetic bomb attached to his car, it has been reported. The explosion in Tehran killed Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a chemistry...
Controversial: Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour pardoned the men jailed for Murder after they worked as 'trusties' at his mansion Mississippi governor Republican Haley Barbour spent his last days in the rol...
*Update, 12.05pm:* The intensity of a bushfire in Western Australia's northwest has increased and remains a threat to lives and homes, authorities say. A bushfire watch and act alert remains in place for ...
Saints @ 49ers: Game Preview ~Canal Street Chronicles Mississippi ranks last in building standards ~Anita Lee Chihuahua saves Uptown woman's life City clarifying rules on bribes, ‘kickforwards’ ~The New O...
Residents have been allowed to return to their homes as a large grassfire continues to burn in Sydney's south-west. The fire in a reserve in the Ingleburn-Minto area is being fanned by strong winds. More...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra at a depth of 29.3 km (18.2 miles), the quake hit at 11:56:06 UTC Wednesday 11th January 2012 The epicenter was 416 km (258 mile...
*I haven't seen them in a while.* "Int'l Court in indirect talks with Gadhafi son" by Arthur Max Associated Press / October 28, 2011 AMSTERDAM—The International Criminal Court is in indirect negotiations ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia at a depth of 110.5 km (68.7 miles), the quake hit at 11:07:25 UTC Wednesday 11th January 2012 The epicenter was 269 km (167 miles) Southea...
This photo of the Shenandoahs in Palestine was blocked by Facebook at 6:26 am this morning, Wed. Jan. 11, 2011. Although Facebook says there is a problem with the jpeg image file, as you can see there is...
Transformation time. Image from Fluxed Up World.Moving through the end of growthand the collapse of the U.S. as we know itWelcome to the New World.By Richard D. Jehn / The Rag Blog / January 10, 2012Although...
A burger restaurant in Tampa, Florida appears to have had some divine intervention, after an image of the Virgin Mary reportedly appeared on one of its walls. The restaurant - fittingly called Hamburger M...
It's bad form to criticize other disciplines' journals based solely on titles, but *Annals of Tourism Research*? This is the sort of thing libraries spend their budgets on?Representative Carolyn Maloney (D...
More than 100 people are still working to contain a bushfire in the state's Gascoyne region. The fire, which began on New Year's Day, has burnt through almost 325,000 hectares of land next to the North We...
An 18-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of murder following a house fire in Lancashire which killed four brothers and sisters Police have also confirmed the blaze was started inside a wardrobe in on...
*The following post was blocked, as shown in the screen capture above, by Facebook on Wednesday morning, Jan. 11, 2012 at 5:50 am:* *Photos of march and rally Tuesday night, as Tucson school board voted to...
[image: Socialist film maker Ken Loach] I see that that *Ken Loach* was been prominent across the BBC media estate this morning. This is in regard to a government review of the film industry that is exp...
Through the prism of the BBC, the Banks are the bad guys, solely responsible for our financial woes. The role of Labour in bringing about the financial crisis is being sanitised and in fact the Labour Gove...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Bonin Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:07:35 UTC Wednesday 11th January 2012 The epicenter was 156 km (97 miles) ESE of C...
An Iranian nuclear scientist who worked at one of the country's uranium enrichment facilities has been killed by a bomb that had been attached to his car. Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, 32, died after two unid...
*Ever wonder why the drug war never ends?* "US agents are said to launder cash for Mexican drug cartels; Efforts defended as effective way to trace drug money" December 04, 2011|By Ginger Thompson, New Yo...
Hong Kong, one of the world's richest cities, is abuzz with a luxury property boom that has seen homes exchanged for record sums. But the wealth of the city has a darker side, with tens of thousands price...
Nasa's Cassini spacecraft has orbited the planet Saturn since 2004, studying the planet, its mysterious moons, and its rings of tiny particles of ice. The orbiter captured an image directly 'across' Satu...
Injured: Erin Langworthy's back was left battered and bruised after her bungee cord broke. Zambia's tourism minister made a bungee jump from the Victoria Falls to reassure visitors after a rope snapped se...
British scientists have revealed the first ever examples of a 'soldier' bee, which is physically designed to protect its hive from attack. The discovery is highly significant in terms of illustrating the ...
An aristocrat accused of raping a schoolgirl said ‘Sorry’ to her 21 times in a text hours after the alleged assault, a court heard yesterday. The Hon James Murray, 42, is said to have raped the girl, a reg...
A group of astrophysicists from The University of Texas at Arlington suggests a habitable Earth-like planet could exist in a distant solar system found by Nasa’s Kepler space telescope. Kepler-16 has two ...
A horse died after being horrifically mutilated in a ‘cowardly and barbaric’ attack. The tortured animal suffered severe injuries to its head and body in the sickening incident. Police believe the two an...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of just 1 km (0.6 miles - Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 09:33:44 UTC Wednesday 11th January 2012 The epicenter was 25 km (15.5 miles)...
Ski resorts across Europe are in 'lockdown' after a series of freak snowfalls severed road, rail and air links amid serious fears of avalanches. Tourists in areas across Austria, southern Germany, France a...
Three hundred staff at a factory that builds X-Box 360s have threatened to commit mass suicide if their wage demands are not met, it emerged today. Employees working for electronics giant Foxcon in Wuhan, ...
*Moslem Girls * The 'Clash of Civilisations' seems to be a project linked to various recent events - attacks in Nigeria, attacks in Norway, attacks in India, attacks in Belgium, attacks in Indonesia, the ...
Three friends of an Auckland man could only stand by and watch in horror as a freak wave pulled him out to sea while they were fishing on rocks near Waihi Beach last night. Waihi police Sergeant Dave Lit...
The giant Kiwi awaiting deportation from Australia after bashing a small-time drug dealer says moving home will be a death sentence. "You [may as well] put me in a coffin with the rest of my family member...
LOCALS are refusing to swim in murky Bayside beaches because of dead fish floating near the shore. Dendy Iceberger John Fisher said the water was “oily, dirty, smelly and had dead fish in it”. He and o...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 29.4 km (18.3 miles), the quake hit at 08:22:27 UTC Wednesday 11th January 2012 The epicenter was 418 k...
This video Appeared on the 7th of January of 2012, personally it looks very set up and would go as far as calling it a Hoax. One man, a room and some nice 80's props has the internet alive with alien in...
A Northern Territory woman has been jailed for fatally stabbing a friend during a drunken dispute over a meat pie. Cindy Wunungmurra, 47, had been drinking with her female friend when the pair went to a h...
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Global uncertainty on how to deal with the threats of nuclear weapons and climate change have forced the "Doomsday clock" one minute closer to midnight, leading international scientists ...
Residents in Western Australia's Pilbara region are being warned to prepare for Cyclone Heidi, which is due to cross the coast overnight. The category one system, which is intensifying, is expected to hit ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Southern Iran at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:06:25 UTC Wednesday 11th January 2012 The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) ENE of Jahrom, Iran No Repo...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 01:45:12 UTC Wednesday 11th January 2012 The epicenter was 33 km (20.4 miles) North of S...
Four badger baiters who laughed and joked as their dogs ripped apart a heavily pregnant badger in a field near York have been jailed. (Jailed?, 2 received a suspended sentence and the 3rd received a Reha...
No one seems to know the real meaning of this tried-and-true anthem to time passing, etc., but somehow in the forgetful Rethuglican joyous wake, it seems like almost anything can be forgotten (and forgiven...
What this study does do is confirm rather nicely that the climate is warmer in Europe as is understood from other work. The effect of been warmer is that plant life has been forced to adjust ov...
Everyone in the media business should be feeling totally used upon reading this bit on just how well Paris Hilton is doing with her various business ventures. This is the famously multi untalen...
This nicely outlines how it is possible for molecular complexity to arise in an evolutionary environment. Read it slowly as it is important. The whole process turns out to be easy and inevitab...
* * * * Statistical analysis on a large population finds, as expected, a correlation between present low vitamin D levels and current symptoms of depression. I suspect that some folks are also wa...
Jesus H Christ on a popsicle stick.* This is the same guy *who made a joke about Canadians dying from listeriosis. Isn't it wonderful? If you criticize a politician in a position of power, you get a pers...
*CANADIAN POLITICS QUÉBEC:* *POLITICIANS LEAD CHARGE AGAINST PENSIONS IN QUÉBEC:* It seems that in almost all countries there is a concerted effort to deny workers the pension benefits that they ...
*CANADIAN POLITICS TORONTO:* *NO TO BUDGET CUTS IN TORONTO:* The following call out for protest against proposed budget cuts in the City of Toronto comes from the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OC...
Between 1999 and 2008 Enbridge recorded 610 oil and gas spills. Regarding the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline, Gina Jordan, an Enbridge spokesperson quoted a study quite casually stating the chance of a ...
*» The Dismal Economic Outlook For The New Year* ------------------------------ By: Paul Craig Roberts| January 6, 2012 | Jobs offshoring, financial deregulation, and ten years of wars have sever...
A magnitude 3.4 earthquake has struck Northern California at a depth of 23.3 km (14.5 miles), the quake hit at 04:09:53 UTC Wednesday 11th January 2012 The epicenter was 7 km (4 miles) North of Petrolia, C...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 218.5 km (135.8 miles), the quake hit at 03:29:38 UTC Wednesday 11th January 2012 The epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) Northeast of Port-Vila, Efate...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 41 km (25.5 miles), the quake hit at 01:16:33 UTC Wednesday 11th January 2012 The epicenter was 160 km (99 miles) Eas...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the East Timor Region at a depth of 41.1 km (25.5 miles), the quake hit at 00:20:21 UTC Wednesday 11th January 2012 The epicenter was 54 km (33 miles) North of Dili, T...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 22:36:51 UTC Tuesday 10th January 2012 The epicenter was 381 km (236.2 miles) ...
*Young conservative love* I shudder when history's villains are labeled "gay." Like Hitler. And some of them, J. Edgar Hoover and Roy Cohn, for example, were. But *Nixon*? Richard Milhous Nixon? I grew up...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 22:17:01 UTC Tuesday 10th January 2012 The epicenter was 381 km (236.2 miles) ...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Central Turkey at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:55:48 UTC Tuesday 10th January 2012 The epicenter was 20 km (12.4 miles) North of Bogaziliyan, Turke...
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Riley, Choctaw, with Louise Benally, Navajo. . *Ethnic Studies march and rally: In the spirit of survival and excellence!* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com TUCSON -- Marchi...
Below find a comment I read at *Ex-SKF blog*. I found it worth re-posting. The comment was made in a discussion about why the Japanese do not rise up and demand that their government seize Tepco and TAKE...
"If you could travel back in time to the present moment, what would you do differently?" - Robert Brault
Al-Qaeda is a regiment of ghosts. It is everywhere, yet nowhere. Speaking in 1939 of Russia and its potential role in WWII, English Prime Minister Winston Churchill said it was "a riddle wrapped in a myst...
*“System D Is For Free”* by Joel Bowman "It’s all happening today, Fellow Reckoner. Gold, stocks, oil…all have rallied to important highs. That’s what the papers say anyway, so it must be true. Gold has ...
Mitt Romney has won the New Hampshire Republican primary by a comfortable margin, early reports suggest - a major boost for his bid to run for president against Barack Obama in November. Returns from a fi...
“The star near the top is so bright that it is sometimes hard to notice the galaxy toward the bottom. Pictured above, both the star, Regulus, and the galaxy, Leo I, can be found within one degree of each o...
“From birth to death time surrounds us with its intangible walls. We fall with the centuries, the years, the minutes. Is time only a falling, only a wall? For a moment, sometimes, we see not with our eyes b...
"The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now." - James Baldwin
Google has been making money from illegal Olympic ticket touts advertising their wares via the search engine, an investigation has found. Despite these Olympic ticket reselling services being illegal, Goo...
*"Demolishing Anger’s Walls: Resentment"* by The DailyOm "When anger has no outlet it can morph into resentment and carries the potential to cause great turmoil. Anger, when channeled into the pursuit of ...
*Will this We the People video lay the groundwork for the overturning of Citizens United? After all, it's got a cute (though arguably not cute enough) baby and giant-lizard-luring sausage-headgear and an ...
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Recovery authorities are asking business, property owners and customers what would entice them back into Christchurch's quake-stricken CBD. An Enterprise Zone would. But never in a million tears would ...
In an "unprecedented" reaction to internal Arab affairs, an Israeli official said the country is getting ready to absorb fleeing Syrian Alawites if the Bashar al-Assad regime falls. Israeli military chief...
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Not PC - 17 hours ago
The Ayn Rand Institute’s ‘Online Campus’ has just gone live, a major new educational initiative promising “free courses on Ayn Rand and her ideas in an innovative and interactive learning environment!” ...
A doctor's age could make the difference between an easy recovery and one full of woe.
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Not PC - 18 hours ago
[image: image]Yes, I know it’s 2012 already. But 2011 ended so busy for me I didn’t have a chance to do my semi-regular Top 10—i.e., in the spirit of Epic Beer’s own Top 10, listing the top ten things we...
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Not PC - 18 hours ago
[image: image]Yes, I know it’s 2012 already. But 2011 ended so busy for me I didn’t have a chance to do my semi-regular Top 10—i.e., in the spirit of Epic Beer’s own Top 10, listing the top ten things we...
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Not PC - 18 hours ago
Yes, I know it’s 2012 already. But 2011 ended so busy for me I didn’t have a chance to do my semi-regular Top 10—i.e., in the spirit of Epic Beer’s own Top 10, listing the top ten things we achieved at O...
*Sorry.* "Ariz. sheriff accused of bias toward Latinos; Justice Dept. questions his policing policy" December 16, 2011|By Marc Lacey, New York Times PHOENIX - In a harshly worded critique of the country’s...
Scientists genetically alter ants to produce super soldiers with big noggins.
This personal fitness device uses games and challenges to motivate wearers to reach fitness goals.
*"Real Unemployment Rate: 22.4%"* by Barracuda “The real unemployment rate for December 2011 is closer to *22.4 percent*, not the 8.5 percent reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Jerome Corsi’s Re...
Winterville, North Carolina, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
"We've been told there's a certain way to live... that this is living... and we... we never really questioned it. We just sort of went along. But what if it's not the best way? What if there's another way...
"...now, class, please turn to page 121 in your textbooks that describes the Republican caucus and primary process..."
"It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more manhood (or womanhood) to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind r...
George Romney moved to the U.S. from his native Mexico and decided to take on Richard Nixon. There wasn't an active birther movement yet, but before Romney admitted he had been brainwashed in Vietnam, sab...
* "16 Harsh Truths that Make Us Stronger"* by Marc “*1. Life is not easy.* Hard work makes people lucky – it’s the stuff that brings dreams to reality. So start every morning ready to run farther than ...
Smart fabric aims to bring the touch screen experience to your upholstery.
"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." - Marcus Aurelius •
*Can I see yours?* "Green cards for job creators; Program gets push even as critics question its fairness" October 25, 2011|By Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff JAY, Vt. - Birinder Bhullar had grown weary of t...
Shortly after my recents posts in the Oliver and the Oil Pipeline, *I tripped over this bit by Michael T Klare*, where he surveys the shifting geostrategic picture around oil resources. In a nutshell, he t...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:00:51 UTC Tuesday 10th January 2012 The epicenter was 369 km (228.7 miles) ...
*Freeman Dyson shouldn't be allowed to use cars, airplanes* A superstitious tabloid ironically calling itself Scientific American has asked one of the most notorious fraudulent crooks on this planet, Micha...
A paedophile who has been held in secure hospital units for more than 45 years has gone missing - for the third time. Convicted child sex offender David Marker, 75, vanished from a hospital unit in Taunt...
A group of Muslim men handed a leaflet out to the public that called for homosexuals to be 'punished' and given the death sentence, a court has heard. The five men gave out the pamphlet, called The Death ...
Four thugs who were caught laughing as their dogs tore wild animals to pieces have been jailed for their part in ‘barbaric’ and ‘abhorrent’ badger baiting. Scarborough Magistrates’ Court heard how a group...
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[image: image] Horrors! I’ve gone through nearly this whole holiday period without a post on beer! My apologies, gentle readers. Let me remedy that now. Let me remedy that by talking about affordable ...
*We've got an Alberta prime minister trying to bully British Columbians.* *Art Sterritt* *Haida First Nation * Executive Director Coastal First Nations 10 January 2012 I have no doubt that the hillbillies ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 19:58:13 UTC Tuesday 10th January 2012 The epicenter was 391 km (242.4 miles) ...
“Mankind is like dogs, not gods- as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you- but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.” - Jack Kerouac
*"Eight Simple Truths You Need To Know About 2012"* by Simon Black, Sovereign Man "Yesterday we discussed certain events that, in my view, are nearly mathematical certainties. Things like a restructuring...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 19:46:15 UTC Tuesday 10th January 2012 The epicenter was 407 km (252.3 miles) ...
*“Unemployment Drop Masks Ongoing Decline”* by Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com “Last Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said 200,000 new jobs were created which dropped the unemployment rate to 8...
Say hello to "El Gordo," one of the biggest cosmic collisions you will ever witness.
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The BBC's US President editor is in New Hampshire to cover the Republican Primary. "It's the economy, stupid" is the running gag these days about the number one reason why the President might not be re-ele...
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A Biased BBC reader notes; "There has been a small and rather unedifying incident in the Knesset - the Parliament of Israel. Basically, an Israeli MK name of Anastasia Michaeli has thrown a plastic beak...
*"It's Not Going To Work"* by Karl Denninger "Contemplate this chart a bit: This shows you what the stock market (S&P 500) did, along with the expansion in both GDP and debt (leverage) during that time. ...
Given that I have a little experience around pipeline and megaproject issues, I thought I might provide readers with a bit of a rundown on how the JRP hearing process works and what's involved. Under the...
BUCHANAN, N.Y. -- A nuclear reactor in New York City's suburbs has been shut down to repair a pump that was leaking slightly radioactive water. Entergy Nuclear, owner of the Indian Point power plant in Bu...
TWENTY-THREE people have been taken to hospital after a chemical leak at a warehouse in Livingston. The workers were affected by fumes after Denatonium benzoate leaked from a container at around 8am toda...
This tiny bread stamp could prove a Jewish community existed during the Christian-Byzantine period.
Shillong: Another 40 birds died Tuesday on a government-run farm in western Meghalaya, even as the state government awaited the test reports on earlier deaths to know whether they were due to bird flu, of...
Flash flooding across the Pilbara has forced the closure of Karijini National Park for at least the next 24 hours, with roads and sites within the park expected to be inundated with water. Millstream Chi...
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This week, the movie "The Iron Lady" opens, a big-budget biopic starring Meryl Streep as former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. No technical or directorial skills, nor the inevitable genius of Streep'...
A magnitude 7.3 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra at a depth of 29.1 km (18.1 miles), the quake hit at 18:37:01 UTC Tuesday 10th January 2012 The epicenter was 423 km (262 miles)...
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Does the BBC provide value for money? It thinks it does and got Deloittes to provide an "impartial" report that proves this. However a Biased BBC reader who is a professional accountant take issue with wha...
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Anyone else catch Miliband on with Humphyrs this morning? To be fair to Humphrys, he did challenge Miliband but then again Miliband is so abysmal that even the BBC struggle to make him look good. The inter...
Security experts update the hands of doom -- one minute closer to imminent destruction.
As a tanker filled with fuel slices toward iced-in Nome, Alaska, we talk to a crewmember of a ship featured on Discovery Channel's show 'Bering Sea Gold' who lives there.
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Romania at a depth of 136 km (84.3 miles), the quake hit at 18:25:46 UTC Tuesday 10th January 2012 The epicenter was 5 km (3.1 miles) East of Siriu, Romania No Reports ...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Ecuador at a depth of 27.9 km (17.3 miles), the quake hit at 18:07:11 UTC Tuesday 10th January 2012 The epicenter was 38 km (23 miles) NNE of Portovi...
* 1.* Brad lane was allowed to visit 'pedophile' gangster Reggie Kray, inside Gartree prison, in *Leicester*. Brad lane died young. (MYSTERIOUS PRISON; MYSTERIOUS DEATHS) *2.* Madeleine McCanns' home coun...
Russia said on Tuesday Arab League monitors are playing a stabilizing role in Syria, disagreeing with Syrian opposition figures who say the mission has only given President Bashar al-Assad more time to cr...
Jon Stewart lampooned the concentrated attacks from Republican candidates targeting Mitt Romney's role at Bain Capital because they are unbelievably hypocritical coming from those guys. They are also *abso...
I'm not seeing this anywhere and I am having a hard time figuring out why. Here's a blurb from the MIami Herald As part of Democrats' orchestrated effort to go after Mitt Romney the day after his narrow v...
Libyan authorities were granted more time Tuesday by the International Criminal Court to say whether they plan to hand over the deposed leader's son, Saif al-Islam Gadhafi. The ICC decision came as a dea...
REPORTING FROM KABUL, AFGHANISTAN AND ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN -- Heavily armed Taliban militants wearing suicide bomb vests stormed a government building in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing at least se...
*TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2012* *Rachel lets it fly:* As you may know, a deeply stupid “ad” appeared on-line concerning Jon Huntsman’s adopted daughters. The “ad” purported to be from unnamed supporters of R...
*"Quitter" Sarah throws a hissy fit, CEOs make out like bandits, FOX "deconstructs" a speech, Teabag gov loves Paris, and more* *Even mighty hurricanes cower before the wrath of crap artist George F. Wil...
The Brazilian savanna is home to a subterranean little shop of horrors for tiny worms.
This Android-powered DVD headrest will make sitting in the back seat a fun ride.
What's behind this "Marchuary" weather? There are a few factors (and global warming isn't one of them).
Gandhi on the Separation Wall (Photo: AP / Muhammed Muheisen) Palestine News and Information Agency (WAFA) reports: "An Israeli plan to build a statue for the late Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi on an East ...
Israel may be able and ready to strike at Iran’s nuclear programme even after a successful nuclear test by the Iranian regime, according to a group of Israeli analysts and former government officials who ...
A Polish military prosecutor who survived shooting himself at the end of a news conference says he had faced threats to his life. Col Mikolaj Przybyl said there was a contract out to kill him and that he ...
[image: In this photo provided by Maritime New Zealand, half of the cargo ship Rena sinks on a reef near Tauranga, New Zealand, Tuesday, 10 January 2012. The 774-foot (236-meter) vessel split in two over...
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*There is absolutely NOTHING ethical or upright about the slimy way in which Ms. St-Denis went to the Liberal Caucus. The voters of her federal riding only gave the Liberals 11.9% of the vote in the last e...
The National Interest interviewed former CIA officer Milton Bearden about the American war in Afghanistan on February 27, 2009.
Police found 13 bodies piled on top of one another outside a convenience store in western Mexico on Monday, local and federal authorities said. The corpses had been shot in what appeared to be a flare up i...
Europe and Japan moved ahead on Tuesday in planning for punitive cuts in oil imports from Iran, where a senior official dismissed Western anger at news Tehran is enriching uranium deep underground as cove...
Writing in *Foreign Policy*, Paul Pillar makes the case that most so-called "intelligence failures" stem from bad leadership rather than problems with the US intelligence community. He touches upon a numbe...
Fitch Ratings Tuesday said Italy is the euro-zone member that poses the greatest threat to the future of the currency bloc, as the lack of a region-wide plan to prevent the sovereign-debt crisis from sprea...
*Stephen Hume* gets it. Better yet though, via* Alison*, *Carol Off* gets it. In short, people (who should have been paying closer attention all along) are starting to see through the hypocrisy and *dirt...
The lawyer for Amir Hekmati, an American sentenced to death in Iran for espionage, has called for the ex-Marine's case to be judged on humanitarian, not political grounds. Pierre Prosper, who has been e...
Have you ever wondered how green salsa is made? The answer is in the tomatillo. The process of making this salsa is similar to others, with a little bit more prep work. This delicious salsa is worth it. ...
*TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2012* *Rosenthal blusters forward:* As noted below, a raft of bloggers noted that Romney’s comment was taken out of context yesterday morning. One major liberal did not. Here’s the s...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — More than two dozen people, including women and children, were killed on Tuesday by a truck bomb that a senior government official said appeared to target a pro-government group in we...
At least 11 Arab League observers have been injured after they were attacked by demonstrators in the Syrian port city of Latakia. Video footage appeared to show a crowd of pro-Assad demonstrators in La...
A magnitude 3.9 earthquake has struck near Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:07:42 UTC Tuesday 10th January 2012 The epicenter was 20 km (12.4 miles) East of Be...
[image: Trouble ahead: A motorcyclist tackles the floods in Thailand's Songkhla province, 4 January 2012. AP] By Cassandra James, Asia Travel Examiner 4 January 2012 Just as the north of Thailand and Ba...
A magnitude 3.9 earthquake has struck near Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:48:53 UTC Tuesday 10th January 2012 The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) Northeast o...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck South of Panama at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:41:44 UTC Tuesday 10th January 2012 The epicenter was 466 km (289 miles) SSW of Santiago, Panama No...
*TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2012* *Part 2—Did Ed Schultz make the sale:* They say a stopped clock is right twice a day. Today, David Brooks does better than that. At the start of his column, he asks an extreme...
There's over the top and then there's "over the top" American style. Perhaps it's all just part of America's transformation into a full-blown warfare state but an article in today's *Guardian* reveals j...
Don't miss this one. From VPROinternational's You Tube description for its documentary "A Way Out Of The War On Terror (Chai Locher, VPRO 2008)" : Some call it the War on Terror; some call it the Clash...
This is unconfirmed and is from Jeff Rense's contact in Hong Konghttp://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_Shimatsu_010912.mp3 Workers being evacuated from Fukushima because of high plutonium levels...
I suppose we shouldn't be shocked that one of the NDP's rookie Quebec MPs decided to cross the floor move down the opposition benches...but it's still a bit of a surprise to see Lise St-Denis jump to the ...
Mitt Romney can say all sorts of crazy stuff such as how much he likes to be able to fire people. It don't matter. Short of getting caught in public soiling his magic Mormon undies, Mitt's next advers...
If you are running for the nomination of the Republican Party for President, there are a few indispensables – you have to hate welfare recipients, oppose gay marriage, and have fired a gun at an...
Following up on yesterday's post, the bizarre dungeon house and the conveniently timed fire..... Aangirfan had done a brief post on this story. In that post is contained this little tidbit. Before I get t...
A contact microphone transforms vibrations into musical tones.
Voters on Election Day not only hold the fate of democracy in their hands when they step into the voting booths. Casting a ballot can also have subtle effects on the health and behavior of voters -- at tim...
Concerned citizens of the world have until Feb. 24 to speak out about changes needed to protect the Coral Sea's most precious resources.
Lately, I've concluded that there is no point in voting in the US, since corporate fascism has replaced democracy. However, I may have to revise that opinion. We'll see how Vermin does in the primary! ...
[image: Olivier Rech, responsible for petroleum issues at the International Energy Agency from 2006 to 2009.] Posted by JoulesBurn 5 January 2012 The following interview is a guest post by Matthieu Auza...
Survivors of the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami will start losing their unemployment benefits this month as Japan marks 10 months since the disaster, though many of them are struggling ...
North Korea said Tuesday that it would release an unspecified number of prisoners in February to mark the birthdays of the two dictators who ruled the reclusive nation for a total of more than 60 years. ...
Chinese authorities in eastern Jiangsu Province have launched a massive manhunt for a suspect in a deadly armed robbery, according to Chinese media. The suspect allegedly shot and killed a man who had jus...
*Jesus stepped in to help Tim Tebow beat his most hated enemy: the Muslims* Hi, I'm a *DITTOHEAD* and I agree with everything Rush Limbaugh says. *Like when he says that everyone's against the Denver Bro...
Thousands of Tibetans took to the streets in western China early this week to commemorate a monk who died Sunday after setting himself on fire, local residents and activists told CNN. The monk, 40-year-o...
Japan said Tuesday that it would hand over to Australian authorities three Australian anti-whaling activists being held aboard a Japanese vessel, but that it would press on with its annual whale hunt in th...
The stern of a cargo ship that ran aground last year on a reef off the coast of New Zealand has slipped further underwater, officials said Tuesday, spewing nearly 10 more tons of oil into the sea. Some 2...
Libyan authorities have until 5 p.m. (10 a.m. ET) Tuesday to tell the International Criminal Court whether it plans to hand over the deposed leader's son Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, ICC official Fadi Al Abdull ...
Joran van der Sloot returns to a Peruvian courtroom on Wednesday, five days after requesting more time to "reflect" on what plea he will make in his murder trial. The 24-year-old Dutch national indicated...
A nationwide strike in Nigeria enters its second day Tuesday as citizens take to the streets to show anger about the government's decision that has more than doubled fuel prices in the largely impoverish...
Various things are happening in the world. *Canada declares war on James Hansen and other green radicals* Reuters writes about the Canadian government's decision to blast insane critics of the Alberta t...
Guaranteed to blow your head apart... ~moosedenied ~Cha-ching, bitches! One more for the Bad Guys. The only thing missing was Chris Ivory busting a bottle upside Ndamukong Suh's head. But we'll forgive tha...
On yesterday's *Today Show* Newt tried to explain the difference between capitalism and the kind of vulture capitalism practiced by Mitt Romney and Bain. "They apparently looted the companies, left peopl...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Tonga Region at a depth of 35.6 km (22.1 miles), the quake hit at 13:08:43 UTC Tuesday 10th January 2012 The epicenter was 184 km (114 miles) Northeast of Neiafu, T...
Whalewatchers are thrilled by unexpected sightings off the coasts of Hawaii, Alaska, California, and Washington.
Syrian President Bashar al Assad has vowed to use an "iron fist" to defeat what he claimed were "terrorists" trying to destabilise the country as part of an international "conspiracy". Mr Assad also clai...
Last night after seeing a blurb on TV about Mitt's Mexican relatives and knowing his stand on immigration I thought I would take a look at his webpage. Going to his webpage was the epitome of every employ...
Tonight on As It Happens, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver continued on with his rant published in today's G&M against the "foreign special interest groups" and "jet-setting celebrities" that use "a q...
Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- A blast at a busy market in northwest Pakistan killed at least 35 and wounded more than 60 Tuesday, an official said. The explosion occurred in the Jamrud Market in the Khybe...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 11:54:31 UTC Tuesday 10th January 2012 The epicenter was 206 km (128 miles) ESE fro...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 11:45:04 UTC Tuesday 10th January 2012 The epicenter was 28 km (17.4 miles) Southeast of Ercis, Turkey ...
Our goal involved developing contamination dispersion plots of the radionuclides emitted from the Fukushima Daichii Nuclear Power Plant; after which, we compare the simulation results to physical measureme...
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Nine weeks after its bankruptcy, the general public still hasn’t quite realized the implications of the MF Global scandal. My own sense is, this is the first tremor of the earthquake that’s coming to the ...
A growing number of bankers are considering suing their employer if they do not get the bonus they think they deserve this year, according to City employment lawyers. British banks should brace themselves...
One of the most extraordinary documents in human history -- the Bill of Rights -- has come to an end under President Barack Obama. Derived from sacred principles of natural law, the Bill of Rights has come...
The fuel price at the pumps has soared with the abolition of a subsidy, which proponents say will eliminate corruption in how it is allocated but labour is vowing to fight the move. A litre of petrol ju...
*The close of WWII found the victorious Allies staging the Nuremberg trials and convicting the Nazi leadership of ‘waging an aggressive war’. Those who went to the gallows were a symbolic sacrifice, as mil...
As if undermining the World Trade Organization’s Doha Round of global free-trade talks was not bad enough (the last ministerial meeting in Geneva produced barely a squeak), the United States has compounded...
The problems between Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq may pose a danger to the entire region, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at a meeting of the ruling Justice and Development Party, Turkish TV...
Despite recent moves to tighten controls on air pollution dangerous smogs will persist for decades, expert warns. Millions of city dwellers in China will be breathing unhealthy air for at least another 20...
The Lashkar-e-Toiba is raising a group of 21 female terrorists at its training camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir for carrying out sabotage activities in India, Army sources said on Tuesday. "We have con...
*Detroit*— Paying property taxes has become optional for a growing number of Detroit landowners using a legal loophole to wipe away debt by buying back their properties in foreclosure. As the city nears f...
No matter what the Chinese may say about 2012 being the year of the dragon, this is going to be the year of the Taliban so far as the United States is concerned. The New Year began with an exciting media...
Chinese trader Unipec paid a record premium for a February cargo of Russian crude and bought Vietnamese oil for the first time in at least a year, traders said, as the world's second-largest oil consumer l...
Swaziland's King Mswati III accused by activists of human rights abuses and of looting national wealth. Coca-Cola has been accused of propping up one of Africa's most notorious dictators. The multibillio...
So finally it is out in the open. China will be setting up its first military base abroad in Seychelles to "seek supplies and recuperate" facilities for its navy. The Indian Ocean island nation has defend...
Four Japanese citizens, including local politicians, landed on disputed islands in the East China Sea on Tuesday, drawing an official protest from Beijing. The group sailed to the uninhabited islets, know...
Iran has no long-range missiles, a Russian defence official said Tuesday in Moscow's first response to a series of tests conducted by Tehran near the vital Strait of Hormuz oil supply route. "Iran does no...
Around 162,000 people, almost 80 percent of them civilians, were killed in Iraq from the start of the 2003 US-led invasion up to last month's withdrawal of American forces, a British NGO said on Monday. I...
Video footage shows a bus driver trying to navigate his vehicle along the narrow and rock strewn road in Bolivia, known as 'Camino de la muerte' or death road, that runs from La Paz downhill to Coroico. ...
After burning coal to light up Cincinnati for six decades, the Walter C. Beckjord Generating Station will go dark soon—a fate that will be shared by dozens of aging coal-fired power plants across the U.S. ...
Forest thinning to help prevent or reduce severe wildfire will release more carbon to the atmosphere than any amount saved by successful fire prevention, a new study concludes. There may be valid reasons ...
Enjoy your festive treats while you can, chocolate could once again become an expensive luxury item due to climate change, according to a new study. Britain has a greater variety of chocolate bars and tre...
A groundbreaking study led by University of Miami (UM) scientist Shimon Wdowinski shows that earthquakes, including the recent 2010 temblors in Haiti and Taiwan, may be triggered by tropical cyclones (hur...
The fuel oil that discharged into San Francisco Bay from the cargo ship Cosco Busan devastated the herring population that feeds seabirds, whales and the bay's last commercial fishery, study says. Thick,...
Debris lies on the pavement after it fell from the front of two shops in Shirley, Southampton, as fierce storms battered Britain, with heavy rain and winds gusting up to 85mph Source
As millions of Britons return to the rat race after the festive break, a new survey suggests more than half will dream about turning their hobby into a new career with two thirds gripped by "work fear" ove...
The British manufacturing sector shrank to a lesser-than-expected extent in December but economists warned the wider economy is on course for recession. The Markit/CIPS headline PMI index which combines ...
So we enter Year IV of the Long Slump, the cruellest yet though not the most acute. There will be no Chinese credit explosion this time, no real help from post-bubble India or over-stretched Brazil. It...
Britain has endured a “seismic collapse” in private sector pensions which will force people to work until they are 70 to fund their old age, a leading pensions body has warned. The Association of Consulti...
A New Zealand woman allegedly fooled her family into believing she was pregnant for nine months before walking into a maternity hospital and abducting a baby. Police say 24-year-old Neha Narayan, of Fiji...
There is a warning that a cyclone may develop along Western Australia's Pilbara coast on Wednesday. The Bureau of Meteorology says a tropical low was located about 550 kilometres north of Port Hedland at ...
There's some truth to the idea that Republicans should pray for rain.
Four far north Queensland beaches have been closed after a woman was stung, possibly by a potentially deadly jellyfish. The 45-year-old woman was taken to Cairns Base Hospital in a stable condition after ...
Three miners have been seriously injured at the Agnew gold mine in Western Australia's Goldfields. The three were working underground at the mine in Leinster when meshing on the walls gave way and fell on...
Opposition citizenship spokeswoman Teresa Gambaro has apologised for suggesting that immigrants should be taught to wear deodorant and wait in queues. Ms Gambaro suggested on Tuesday Australian employers ...
U.S. authorities are close to taking legal action against one of Switzerland's oldest banks Wegelin & Co, which could see it charged with allowing wealthy Americans to evade taxes, it was claimed today. I...
City roads were flooded and thousands of residents lost power in Houston, Texas, on Monday after powerful thunderstorms barreled through the area. To add to the drama, a possible tornado damaged and shut ...
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Host with the most: Johnny Depp greeted the children while standing on a table in the State Dining Room while dressed up as the Mad Hatter. After it was revealed that the Obamas hosted a lavish Halloween ...
It’s news likely to delight Occupy Wall Street protesters and anyone else who isn’t a massive fan of financial workers or the firms that employ them. Hedge funds posted one of their worst-ever annual perfo...
Syrian President Bashar al Assad has said he will not leave power until all his people want him to do so, calling the violence in his country a "foreign conspiracy". In a televised address to the nation...
U.S. authorities are investigating allegations that an Indian government spy unit hacked into emails of an official U.S. commission that monitors economic and security relations between America and China. ...
An Arkansas woman who adopted her granddaughter after her son's death in Iraq stabbed the 7-year-old girl in the chest, then set fire to their home in a carefully planned murder-suicide. Janice Robbins, 6...
This blog has repeatedly updated the story about the ongoing war between Dark Matter Witnesses and Dark Matter Deniers. Some experiments claim that they have seen hints of a dark matter particle in direc...
America's national debt has reached a worrying milestone - it is now as big as the whole of its economy. The amount owed by the federal government to its creditors, combined with IOUs to government retire...
Caylee Anthony was 'without a doubt' murdered, according to the doctor who examined the two-year-old's body. Dr Jan Garavaglia said that homicide was the only explanation for Caylee's death, and criticise...
An Eagle Scout has been accused of hacking a young woman to death and disemboweling another. Quintin P O'Dell, 22, will stand trial for murder and assault following the alleged incidents in Missouri. He d...
A few friends kept raving about The Hunger Games trilogy, a series for young adults by Suzanne Collins, so I checked it out. It's well done, certainly markedly superior to what little I've read of the Twili...
Rising unemployment among British-born workers has not been caused by immigration - despite persistent claims it is, economists said today. Research from the National Institute of Economic and Social Resea...
'Dark matter' is a theoretical - and controversial - substance which is undetectable by telescopes on earth, but thought by some scientists to account for up to three quarters of the mass of the whole univ...
A paedophile found with the largest ever haul of child pornography ever seized by Scotland Yard has been spared jailed. More than one million child porn images were seized at the home of 57-year-old Rob...
NOTE: The World is NOT going to END this year. If it Does I will write a personal Apology... To those planning Mass Suicide, get some help or at least wait 1 extra day to see the world isn't going to end...
All photos courtesy: Trees For Life International A while ago, I did on blog on using seashells for water purification. One of my readers "aloecalico" left a comment recommending moringa seeds for water ...
Photo courtesy: Spots Unknown via TreeHugger.com Sometimes an idea comes along that makes me smile all over. This is that type of idea. I'll bet there are many people who would like to ride on the tree t...
Photo courtesy: University of Queensland Sharks are one of the oldest species on the planet, having honed their sleek, aquatic-killer image only over millions of years of evolution -- and as if that alone...
Photo courtesy: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum/Video screen capture I love stories where good things happen because one person cared. Too often we say, "But what can I do, I'm only one person?" Thi...
A senior executive at taxpayer-controlled Royal Bank of Scotland is in line for a multi-million pound bonus – as the bank prepares to axe up to 5,000 jobs. John Hourican, head of RBS’s troubled investmen...
Nick Clegg yesterday claimed that Britain would be signed up to controversial EU reforms despite David Cameron’s historic veto. The Deputy Prime Minister, who was furious at Mr Cameron’s actions in Bruss...
David Cameron’s Government plans a ‘crackdown’ on senior executive pay. Ministers recognise the strength of public rage not only towards bankers’ stratospheric rewards, but also towards those of company m...
At least 10,000 British emigrants are enjoying life in the sun on sickness benefits of up to £94 a week. This could be costing the taxpayer almost £1million a week in a time of austerity. Claimants in t...
The cross-Channel ferry operator SeaFrance has been ordered to close by a French court, putting more than 1,000 people out of work. Although the bulk of the redundancies will occur across the Channel, the...
A Russian model-turned-Israeli politician cooled a heated debate inside Israel's parliament by throwing a glass of water over an opposing colleague before storming out of the room. The unusual breach of ...
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has defended his Iranian counterpart after the UN confirmed Tehran has begun enriching uranium at an underground bunker. Speaking as Iranian Mahmoud Ahmadinejad began a t...
The stern of a cargo ship that ran aground on a New Zealand reef three months ago is now mostly submerged after it began sinking. A spokesman for Maritime New Zealand said the stern section of the vessel ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Djibouti at a depth of 4 km (2.4 miles), the quake hit at 04:11:24 UTC Tuesday 10th January 2012 The epicenter was 16 km (9.7 miles) Northeast of Tajurah, Djibouti No R...
I consider this position to be completely wrong as those who have reviewed my arguments regarding the Pleistocene Nonconformity will understand. It takes a lot more energy redistribution to end...
No one is entirely sure what this all means and how it all ties in to the persistent loss of gross sea ice throughout the Arctic. The apparent changes may be coincidental or not changes at all be...
The real take home here is that it is possible to train your immune system to support specific therapies. If you ever wondered why shamans got things to work for them, this is also a pretty goo...
This is an attempt to predict the time that it will become impossible to inhabit the Earth on the basis of what is known about how the sun will slowly become brighter. I am uncomfortable in...
"This ain't livin', no, no no..."
*The Barkey-Michell house, expropriated by the government in 1972. In the basement, a contractor found a recently-built room designed to hold someone captive. * *17 March 1995, * After a party, six teenag...
“How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy. In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age, we are looking backwards to things that are gone past; in manhood, alth...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Potosi, Bolivia at a depth of 174.9 km (108.7 miles), the quake hit at 04:46:16 UTC Tuesday 10th January 2012 The epicenter was 160 km (99 miles) East of Calama, Antofa...
Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com *Anonymous hacktivists announced the release of a large amount of Israeli data on Monday in Operation Free Palestine, OpFreePalestine. The release begins w...
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*Bye-bye to habeas corpus, can't feed family on $4K/wk?, Bill-O's threat, workplace of the future, Georgia bloodlust, and more* *He can't say this stuff, can he? (See 9/20 below.)* *by Noah* *9/14/11 -...
"Tonight, New Hampshire. Tomorrow... Mordor!" Make me ashamed of myself by showing me whatcha got.
A French reporter has been killed in a bomb attack in Syria that left eight others dead, the channel said. Gilles Jacquier, who worked for France 2, was on a government-led trip to the restive city of Ho...
A defendant has shot a prosecutor dead in a German court, according to the state justice ministry. The 54-year-old man is believed to have opened fire at the district court in Dachau, Bavaria, hitting the...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Northern Iran at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 17:08:08 UTC Wednesday 11th January 2012 The epicenter was 15 km (9.3 miles) East of Qa'emshahr, Iran No...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:53:13 UTC Wednesday 11th January 2012 The epicenter was 416 km (258 miles) ...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Java, Indonesia at a depth of 69 km (42.7 miles), the quake hit at 16:23:21 UTC Wednesday 11th January 2012 The epicenter was 97 km (60.2 miles) South of Wonosari, Java...
The end of the US military occupation does not mean Iraqis have full control of their oil. *Baghdad, Iraq -* While the US military has formally ended its occupation of Iraq, some of the largest western o...
Nine-year-old Mahmood Ahmed was playing near his home in Zintan, western Libya, when he found a green object he had never seen before. He wanted to know what was inside, so took it into his backyard and b...
ABOARD THE FISHING VESSEL AL MULAHI, in the Gulf of Oman — Late on Thursday afternoon, as the American destroyer Kidd loomed alongside this hijacked Iranian dhow, the warship’s loudspeaker issued a command...
OVER the last three years, as I delved into the world of American nuclear weapons, I felt increasingly as though I had stepped into a time warp. Despite the nearly total rearrangement of the international ...
FROM the outside, China often appears to be a highly centralized monolith. Unlike Europe’s cities, which have been able to preserve a certain identity and cultural distinctiveness despite the homogenizing ...
*Anyone who tries to tell you that the once great Liberal Party of Canada is doing well ..... is out to lunch. "Five Liberal riding associations have recently been deregistered by Elections Canada and f...
The premise is jarring and a half-measure -- obviously corporations are made up of people (not cats, not trees, not insects, not compost heaps, or at least not those that make laws and vote). From the valu...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA paedophile found with the largest ever haul of child pornography ever seized by Scotland Yard has been spared jailed. More than one million child porn images were seized at the home of 57-year-old Rob...
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