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LEROY, NY -- Administrators in the Leroy Central School District updated parents and students about a mysterious disorder that's affected twelve female high school students, causing them to exhibit symptom...
"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - Albert Einstein
*MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (CBSNewYork)* – Parents in a Connecticut suburb are outraged over disturbing disciplinary actions at a local elementary school. They claim students are being locked in unsupervised “scr...
It's unclear exactly why, but the Department of Homeland has been operating a "Social Networking/Media Capability" program to monitor the top blogs, forums and social networks online for at least the past ...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Southern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 29.9 km (18.6 miles), the quake hit at 04:34:13 UTC Friday 13th January 2012 The epicenter was 431 km (...
Source: Dees Illustration. "This year we are witnessing not just a series of brutal but fundamentally independent human rights violations committed by disparate governments around the globe. This year we...
*McHenry "associate" Jason Robert Drake (RIP)* I hope you're not surprised that all the GOP closet cases-- well, not whack job
Trent Franks, but the rest of them-- have endorsed Mitt Romney. I mean last t...
About 1,500 young North Korean defectors attended primary and secondary schools in South Korea, and they often have trouble adapting to a new school life due to discrimination and cultural differences. So...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 14.5 km (9 miles), the quake hit at 04:12:41 UTC Friday 13th January 2012 The epicenter was 111 km (68 miles) ES...
On the streets of Nigeria, we bear witness to what many see as a bold decision on fuel subsidies is also uncovering decades of frustration and corruption. On the heels of re-election, President Goodluck ...
Exactly 10 years ago Wednesday, the first batch of terrorist suspects seized in Pakistan and Afghanistan arrived at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on board a C-141 transport plane. From freezing nights in the dep...
Japan is prepared to gradually reduce the amount of oil it imports from Iran, Finance Minister Jun Azumi said Thursday, as the United States seeks to muster international support to put fresh pressure on T...
We begin today's broadcast with the latest on the plight of rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng. On Tuesday, Gao's wife said her husband is being denied visitors while being held in a remote prison in China's Xinji...
A manhunt is underway in eastern China. One-time policeman and now multiple murder suspect Zeng Kaigui is on the run. He's wanted in connection with at least six armed robberies and murders since 2004, the...
Around six million households would be unable to survive for more than five days if they stopped being paid, such are the low levels of savings among Britons, new research shows. A new report from First ...
The nuclear watchdogs at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists reset the hands of the symbolic Doomsday Clock to five minutes to midnight. The Bulletin, which is self-tasked with keeping the public cognisan...
*"Acid Rain: Outrage at Afghan "Golden Shower"* * Hides Far Greater Atrocity" * by Chris Floyd "As you might expect, Arthur Silber cuts straight to the core - and also lays out the much broader, mu...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Gulf of Alaska at a depth of 8.1 km (5 miles), the quake hit at 01:38:32 UTC Friday 13th January 2012 The epicenter was 186 km (116 miles) East of Chiniak, Alaska N...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Kamchatka, Russia at a depth of 128.2 km (79.7 miles), the quake hit at 00:18:59 UTC Friday 13th January 2012 The epicenter was 43 km (26 miles)...
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 79.5 km (49.4 miles), the quake hit at 22:31:00 UTC Thursday 12th January 2012 The epicenter was 74 km (45 miles) SSE of Hihifo, Tonga No Tsunami Wa...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck South of Africa at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 22:08:11 UTC Thursday 12th January 2012 The epicenter was 892 km (554 miles) Southwest of Marion Islan...
*Is This Land Made for You and Me - or for the Super-Rich?* truth-out Thursday 12 January 2012 by: Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Moyers & Co. | Op-Ed The traveling medicine show known as the race fo...
Wow, Stephen Harper's had *quite the week*. First, one of his minion could keep his yap shut about Kitimat pipeline, pissing off the very people who, if not fully convinced of the benefits, must be persuad...
"Spiral galaxy NGC 4651 is a mere 35 million light-years distant, toward the well-groomed constellation Coma Berenices. About 50 thousand light-years across, this galaxy is seen to have a faint umbrella-sh...
*No, our performance of the sublime final Adagio of the Mahler Ninth Symphony isn't by Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic (pictured here). It's by Otto Klemperer and the New Philharmonia Orchestra...
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"How (not) to communicate new scientific information: A memoir of the famous Brindley lecture." [Hat tip Geek Press] Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republ...
No one breaks down the news like Alex Jones. The establishment media's coverage of the U.S.-Iran crisis lacks depth and context. But Alex's analysis of the tragic U.S.-Iranian relationship contains histori...
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If you’re going to play golf, then this is probably the way to do it. Like Rory McIlroy. On top of the Burj al-Arab. Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republ...
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Here’s a recommendation from our friends at NZ’s Maria Montessori Education Foundation: Dear Friends and Advocates for Young Children. The new website Aid to Life is now on-line and it is *superb!* htt...
Sweet, sweet irony. Or is it poetic justice? Don't care, really. Either way, there's a week's worth of *schadenfreude*watching Harper squirming on this. Here's a guy who redefines the words "control freak...
A video featuring women from the Jarawa tribe ordered to dance for tourists has rights groups angry.
*“Is The Milky Way Crammed With 100 Billion Alien Worlds?”* by Ian O'Neill "Last year, using the exoplanets discovered by the Kepler space telescope as a guide, astronomers took a statistical stab at esti...
Source: The Telegraph. Hillary Clinton should get off her high horse. A couple of marines don't taint the image of the U.S. Armed Services. Plus, this sad incident pales in comparison to the barbarity ...
"The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds." - John F. Kennedy
Here is a question that will become increasingly important in the coming years. When does anecdotal testimony become scientific observation? Or conversely, when does scientific observation deteriorate into...
*“What Extreme Stress Could Do To Your Brain”* by Amanda Chan "Even for healthy people, stressful moments can take a toll on the brain, a new study from Yale University suggests. Researchers reported in ...
Riley, Choctaw, and Louise Benally, Navajo, at ethnic studies rally in Tucson on Jan. 10, 2012. Photo Brenda Norrell Censored NewsBy Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com TUCSON -...
Clowns. Clowns. Can you count the clowns? I don't want to bore you with old news . . . but so much of the new news is nothing but nonsense concerning which clown is at the top of the heap, the pinnacle of ...
The latest from iRobot is an autonomous robot on wheels that has an iPad for a head.
An unusual type of rock known as a quasicrystal was found deep in the Russian mountains in 2010 -- scientists think it might have extraterrestrial origins.
If you live in Moose Jaw (note: two words) you probably don't spend a lot of time thinking about BC Ferries. On the other hand, if you're planning on a vacation which involves world-class *flower gardens*...
*I was going to save this post until morning, but then it occurred to me that it may be morning in Iran when I post this and that coffee can also be drunk at night. * *So what do you think they are talki...
I suspect it won't be easy to find many people-- Glenn Greenwald and Ron Paul, perhaps more quietly, excepted-- who will care too much that another Iranian scientist was assassinated this week. In fact, ...
Though food allergies can be deadly, they are less common than most people think.
The system maps out songs based on mood and plays them according to how you're feeling.
*What security?* "Niger says it hasn’t found missiles; Worries growing about Libyan arms" November 12, 2011|By Rukmini Callimachi, Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal - Niger’s minister of defense denied yest...
I can't resist sharing this wonderful news clip from Malawi. I challenge Duck readers to have fun with this: What might the Tea Party or Occupy Wall Street movements learn from Malawi? Malawi protests s...
Teflon rails lubricated with Dawn dish soap were used to slide a new bridge into an existing highway.
Just 96 atoms make up one byte of magnetic storage space.
*How do you say bedpan** in Arabic?* "Salem hospital prepares for Libyan fighters; Religious, cultural concerns considered" October 29, 2011|By Kay Lazar, Globe Staff Doctors and nurses will wear names ta...
Perhaps Erik Loomis in his blog Lawyers, Guns and Money was being facetious but he may be onto something when he proposed earlier today creating the Bobo Awards for Socially Pernicious Journalism. I'm gue...
*At this point would expect any different?* "U.S. Debated Cyberwarfare in Attack Plan on Libya" by ERIC SCHMITT and THOM SHANKER, October 17, 2011 WASHINGTON — Just before the American-led strikes against...
Dr. Webster Tarpley breaks down current White House science adviser John P. Holdren's book "Ecoscience." Co-authored by Paul Ehrlich, the book is still available for purchase in some bookstores and online ...
*Ed Miliband (right) **Website for this image** * *Ed Miliband said that Tony Blair's government was "wrong" to go to war in Iraq. * Ed Miliband is now the leader of the UK Labour party, the party of Tony ...
*Some of the fish escaped through the holes*: "All sides in Libyan war face scrutiny; UN to review Khadafy, rebel, and NATO forces" November 03, 2011|By Anita Snow, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS - The p...
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“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. We are a part of the earth and i...
When two important countries appear to be goading each other into a dangerous and meaningless war, it can be useful to take a deep breath, lay the rhetoric aside for a moment, and go back to basics. The p...
*They bomb the place into oblivion and call it a success?* "NATO secretary general hails end of operations in Libya; Council chooses engineer as new prime minister" November 01, 2011|By Karin Laub, Associa...
"May the warm winds of Heaven blow softly upon your house. May the Great Spirit bless all who enter there. May your mocassins make happy tracks in many snows, and may the rainbow always touch your shoulde...
After ruefully running down the field of candidates for interim leader, here's the conclusion I reached back in May: But, above all these names, the one that stands out is Bob Rae. Rae is experienced, res...
"We have the best government that money can buy." - Mark Twain
*URGE ALL presidential, Congressional and other political candidates to sign a pledge promising to protect America and its people, and not to allow any false flag attacks on American soil.* *NDAA Is A H...
The Gay Secretary To deter or slow China’s rise as a military and economic power by controlling China’s access to energy. It was China’s oil investments in eastern Libya that led to the sudden move agains...
Weather forecasters in South Africa have been threatened with prison if their predictions prove incorrect. Independent forecasters have been told they could be imprisoned for up to ten years - or fined u...
Wind speeds over the Southern Ocean have been increasing --and pushing birds in the area to faster speeds.
*“WEF: Once Again, We Dissemble”* by Karl Denninger “Eh, am I am supposed to be impressed? "The financial crisis threatens to drag the world back to the dark days of the 1930s and wipe out the gains of g...
A mentally ill grandfather died after police officers strapped him naked to a chair, smothered him with a 'spit hood' and pepper-sprayed him 10 times during a 43-hour ordeal, it has been claimed. Nick Chr...
January 12, 2012 - The Corbett Report & Media Monarchy Welcome back to http://NewWorldNextWeek.com — the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important develo...
This is the 18-year-old who has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a house fire left four siblings dead. Dyson Allen, from Lytham, Lancashire, is believed to have been a friend of Reece Smith, 19,...
*"Markets Seen and Unseen"* by Joel Bowman “…it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…” ~ C. Dickens, 1859 When we hear people talk about the “tale of two economies,” we expect to find...
A sick thug who killed a Big Issue seller for kicks has been released from his custodial sentence after just two years and has taken to Facebook to tell of his ‘boredom’. Warren Crago was 16 when he and ...
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Welcome back to the Biased-BBC Question Time Live-Chat! We resume after the Christmas break with a classic line-up of typical BBC fodder. Tonight Question Time comes from London. David Dimbleby is joined...
via Tarpley.net: “Free Syrian Army” Unleashes Suicide Bombing in Damascus; Madrid 2004 Bomber Belhadj of Al Qaeda Now Commands “FSA” from Iskanderun, Turkey; NATO Airlifting Libyan Terrorists and Weapons...
Ditch the dressing room and try on clothes virtually with this Kinect-powered system.
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Tonga Region at a depth of 39 km (24.2 miles), the quake hit at 17:12:09 UTC Thursday 12th January 2012 The epicenter was 188 km (116 miles) ENE of Neiafu, Tonga No...
State biologists are unsure what caused the death of about 16 swans near Mill Pond late last month, but say it is unlikely the cause would be harmful to humans. “I don’t think there are any human health ...
A mystery disease has killed over 100 people and infected more than 2,000 in northern Uganda. The disease, first reported in September 2009, has since been dubbed ‘nodding disease’ as it leaves its victi...
The Gay Secretary The reality is that vote fraud is rampant in the United States and the GOP all but put up billboards announcing they will not allow Ron Paul to win the nomination and spoil their worship...
The Gay Secretary I am a peaceful, reasonable human being; a person of faith, and a recovering Democrat. I do not advocate any violence (although, under certain circumstances,I can foresee scenarios where...
*Secede already, Texas!, Solyndra -- all Obama's fault, Repugs on science, megachurch mogul calls Mormons a cult, and more* *Anti-science raver Steve Milloy makes a lovely living being paid not just by FO...
The payment of compensation for narcolepsy attributed to the H1N1, or swine flu vaccine during the pandemic of 2009 has started. In the first stages, 78 children and young people will get an advance payou...
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*Your ALEC legislator wastes your time and money * *at ALEC meetings* * writing stupid legislation - that makes no damn sense.* I worked in higher ed for over 14 years - I have seen a lot of stuff and this...
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's command center routinely monitors dozens of popular websites, including Facebook, Twitter, Hulu, WikiLeaks and news and gossip sites including the Huffington Po...
There is new concern about a new strain of Swine Flu, which has sickened at least 12 Americans. The new strand, called H3N2v, is a mutated version of the original H1N1 Swine Flu virus. The CDC is now inve...
A fresh oil leak at a New Zealand coral reef has left dozens of birds dead from the spill. The report from the Maritime New Zealand agency said that the Rena ship, which went aground in the reef months ag...
A few years ago, I was at an Liberal Party of Canada in Alberta AGM voting on policies to go forward to the Vancouver Biennial in 2009. We were debating a policy that called for a 25% reduction in greenhou...
While much of the country hasn't felt Old Man Winter's icy touch yet this season, conditions in one Alaskan town may be a sign of what's soon to come. Although many cities across the U.S. exhausted their ...
Time for another climate edition of the Centennial Courier by Mr Ivan Motýl [Mr Ivan Butterfly]. Let's look at the beginning of the year 1912 from the perspective of Prague. *Butterflies took off, ice-h...
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Url movie: http://youtu.be/eKLaJDIoWfI?t=1m -- Svetlana Kapanina is hereand there. Sukhoi is here.. *What a woman*, this mother of 2 children and a husband. John
The Pew Research Center is reporting that more Americans see fundamental conflict between upper and lower economic groups in society http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2012/01/11/rising-share-of-americans-see-...
East Syracuse (WSYR-TV) -- Doctors’ offices across Central New York are packed with sick patients and ‘What’s Going Around’ might surprise you. It’s not influenza – at least not yet. More than 500 people...
The United States' latest sanctions on Iran target Tehran's ability to sell crude oil but they give President Barack Obama wide latitude to pull his punches and avoid imposing penalties. Below is a descr...
Have astronomers spotted Saturn's twin (plus rings) orbiting a star 420 light-years away?
For the first time in a decade the award for the best Nessie photo will be given out again.
Oil union says it will shut down output on Sunday as pressure grows on Goodluck Jonathan to restore subsidies. A major union representing Nigerian oil workers has said it will shut down all production on...
This last week, my goal was to plan my photos. I had a ton of pictures that I needed to take of my little girl. My parents gave her oodles of dress ups for Christmas and I am slowly going through my favori...
Watch the 2 minute video here. http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/in-a-tyranny-even-pointing-out-the-fact-of-tyranny-is-grounds-for-harassment.html This is fascism. Here is some background on the poli...
The Microcebus gerpi lemur was discovered in the Sahafina forest in Madagascar.
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 21.1 km (13.1 miles), the quake hit at 15:26:27 UTC Thursday 12th January 2012 The epicenter was 108 km (67 miles) ES...
The Gay Secretary 1) Ron Paul supports decriminalizing marijuana and ending the War on Drugs 2) Ron Paul supports the freedom to choose what you eat and drink, including raw milk 3) Ron Paul would seek t...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Fox Islands.Aleutian Island, Alaska at a depth of 30.9 km (19.2 miles), the quake hit at 14:20:35 UTC Thursday 12th January 2012 The epicenter was 108 km (67 miles...
The Gay Secretary Romney is desperate to avoid having to talk about the wars and the economy, or Ron Paul will eat him alive in South Carolina, where Bain Capital did a "Gorden Gecko" on a GST steel mill,...
The Gay Secretary *To achieve the precise outcome they desire* I know a lot of thinking people. And absolutely *NONE* of my friends or acquaintances think, for a millisecond, that attacking Iran is a re...
*THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2012* *To Collins, those people are funny:* We have never been able to understand the horrible Lady Collins. We think we pretty much get Maureen Dowd. It’s fairly clear that Chris ...
It's only natural that pop culture's favorite one percenters now ascend into space aboard Virgin Galactic and film the mother of all music videos.
http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2012/01/12/mercury-poisoning-of-our-mind-body-and-the-planet-no-multidimensional-perception/ I think it very, very probable that we are poisoning ourselves with mercury. ...
*THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2012* *Did those pensions get looted:* Yesterday, the New York Times tried to explain what firms like Bain Capital do. Let’s ignore the fumbling effort of the silly-bills, Barbaro/...
*THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2012* *Part 4—Our mind-reading skills on display:* What did Mitt Romney do wrong at Bain Capital? Last night, Ed Schultz took another stab at this very significant question. He spo...
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[image: BBC's Sex and Relationship Education] Interesting story here over on The Mail. "A sex education video produced by the BBC for children as young as nine has been criticised as being 'like a blue m...
Lessee here: Paul Krassner will bring The Realist out of retirement, resurrect cartoonist Wally Wood, and publish a Republican Party Orgy centerfold. The Republican Party will not be amused.Predictions for 2...
The first 500 Discovery News readers get access to a private beta project featuring an animated underwater experience.
Therefore *it's not on the agenda you can see*. The Harper government has served notice that thousands of same-sex couples who flocked to Canada from abroad since 2004 to get married are not legally wed....
Alex Haley. Image from Gather.A Better Day:Remembering Alex Haley and Mario SavioBy Tony Platt / The Rag Blog / January 12, 2012Let me drink from the waterswhere the mountain streams floodLet the smell of wi...
A wonderful gift I received from a famous Ivy League professor teaches the most curious kids and deniers about global warming. So I have constructed my own Earth with the continents etc. and just like t...
The War Without End drags on laboriously. The past few months saw a curious optimism about a political settlement between Kabul and the Taliban. That might have been premature. A new American intelli...
What's the old saying - If you live by the sword - you die by the sword. Well, ALEC - I think the Koch brothers just pushed you onto your sword with the 12/2/11 press release. Unreported (to the best of my...
The Middle East is a smouldering mess that could erupt into a regional conflagration this year among Sunni and Shiite Muslims as well as Israelis. That's the assessment of the UN Office for Humanitarian A...
Myself and Jeff Jedras follow up our online debate, with a video chat over beers on the primary resolution which will be up for vote at this weekend's convention. After the video ended, the rest of the ...
College-aged adults still drink a lot, but Midwesterners and senior citizens can probably drink them all under the table.
This line of separation alarms have ranges of 30 to 120 feet, making sure you never leave your device behind.
Two Brazilians who have never even heard of the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway tarsands-to-tankers pipeline appear to have been signed up as applicants to speak at the hearings. A Calgary Herald editor...
Found this posted on the web just now: alec.org is ranked #804,228 in the world according to the one-month Alexa traffic rankings and 6 out of 10 according to Google Pagerank. The site was founded 16 yea...
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Are these two paragraphs related? First the lead ... "British police are to investigate claims that UK secret services helped in the rendition of a man to Libya." And then... The Metropolitan Police a...
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck South of Africa at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 14:11:08 UTC Thursday 12th January 2012 The epicenter was 2026 km (1259 miles) South of Port Elizabeth...
Almost 13,000 people were killed in Mexico by suspected drug violence in the first three quarters of 2011, the country's federal attorney general's office said Wednesday. The figure was the first officia...
Japan is prepared to gradually reduce the amount of oil it imports from Iran, Finance Minister Jun Azumi said Thursday, as the United States seeks to muster international support to put fresh pressure on T...
Some new mothers in Japan may soon be adding radiation testing of their breast milk to their list of health checkups. Government officials say they are considering widespread testing of breast milk sampl...
A number of websites including TMZ and YouTube posted a video Wednesday showing four men dressed in U.S. Marine Corps combat gear urinating on the apparently dead bodies of three men sprawled on the grou...
Iran has issued an impassioned letter to the United Nations Secretary General charging that the killings of Iranian nuclear scientists were terror attacks that followed a clear pattern -- an assertion the ...
It's a question many people inside Iran -- and those who watch the country closely around the world -- were asking Wednesday: Who is killing nuclear scientists in Iran? An explosion on Wednesday killed M...
The family of a teenager who took her own life after being harassed over the internet has sent a message about the dangers of cyber bullying. Sheniz Erkan took her own life on Monday, just a week before he...
A major Syrian opposition group said the killing of a French journalist illustrates the efforts of the Bashar al-Assad regime to intimidate media and called for an independent probe into the death. "The...
I am *still waiting* for someone to debunk ALEC's "Rich States Poor States"(RSPS) . I saw a news article report today that led me to believe that there is a very high possibility that Mitch Daniels is usi...
When discussing loathsome Democrats, it's often repeated that "at least he's not as bad as a Republican." That doesn't really work with Minnesota Blue Dog Collin Peterson. He's more corrupt than most Repu...
Did you hear or read the news that a journalist was killed in Syria? Have you noticed the vagueness with which this news is being covered? Have you noticed that what is being implied via the main stream medi...
More than 3,500 homes and businesses in Port Hedland are without power after Tropical Cyclone Heidi swept through the Pilbara town this morning. The system has been downgraded to category one and is losing...
*Update, 7.45pm (10.45pm AEST) Thursday:* Tropical Cyclone Heidi has crossed WA's Pilbara coast, bringing strong winds and heavy rains to the region.At 5pm the cyclone was was estimated to be 170km south o...
Louisiana coastal restoration 50-year blueprint released~Mark Schleifstein ~The strategy is outlined in the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority’s draft five-year master plan update, which for the f...
Two years ago today, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake shredded Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital. Some aid donations went straight to landfills.
No MI5 or MI6 agents will face torture prosecutions, officials have said after an investigation into the treatment of terror suspects. However, the Director of Public Prosecutions said a new investigation...
A woman who murdered her toddler son and concealed his mummified body has been jailed for life and told she must serve a minimum of 15 years. Kimberley Hainey, 37, was found guilty by a majority verdict l...
An icebound convoy in Alaska is in nearly the same position it was a day ago, despite efforts to extricate it from the ice so it can deliver fuel to the capital, nearly 100 miles away. Because of strong c...
The financial crisis threatens to drag the world back to the dark days of the 1930s and wipe out the gains of globalisation, a hard-hitting report said tonight. In its annual assessment of the global econ...
The United State's entire orange juice supply is being tested by the Food and Drug Administration for an illegal fungicide after it was found in products imported from Brazil. U.S. health regulators said ...
Joran van der Sloot pleaded guilty on Wednesday to the 2010 murder of a 21-year-old Peruvian woman he met at a Lima casino who was killed five years to the day of the unsolved disappearance in Aruba of an ...
Casey Anthony believes her daughter Caylee may have been conceived after her drink was spiked at a party and she was raped, according to explosive sealed documents released today. The depositions of two d...
Twelve Americans have been reported infected with a mutating and now possibly human-to-human transmitted form of the H1N1 Swine Flu virus called H3N2v. An investigation undertaken by the U.S. Center for D...
A new aircraft carrier strike group has been sent to the Arabian Sea - as U.S. tensions with Iran continue to escalate. The move comes as Iran threatens to close the world's most important oil shipping la...
An woman allegedly killed her newborn twin daughters and abandoned them in the trunk of her car, after giving birth at home. Jackie Burkle, 22, of Huxley, Iowa, has been charged with two counts of first-...
The attorney general of Mississippi is has temporarily blocked the quick release of 21 pardoned inmates after one of the state’s governors spent his final days in office granting pardons or early release t...
Image: Intimidation and murder: Mariano Bacioterracino was shot dead in 2009, a classic Mafia-style public 'hit' intended to spread fear and keep control Organised crime is the biggest earner in Italy - w...
A tourist city in northern China is to ban residents from keeping large dogs such as German shepherds. The city of Xi’an, home to the Terracotta Army, will introduce the ruling on February 1. Any dog wit...
GM mosquitoes created by a British laboratory could thrive in the wild to pose a risk to human health and the environment, it is claimed today. The warning comes from GM critics and is based on the relea...
Habitable planets may be in orbit around billions of stars in the Milky Way, a long-term study has suggested. Astronomers came to the conclusion after a six-year star survey which suggests planets on whic...
Heading out to sea from Portsmouth, this is the Royal Navy’s newest and most hi-tech warship setting sail on its maiden deployment. A crowd of family members and well-wishers gathered to wave off HMS Darin...
Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen has described Iran and Cuba as threats to the national security of the United States as the leaders of the two nations met in the island's capital of Havana today. Irania...
Anglers fishing off the coast of Margate are used to catching a range of species including the chip shop favourite cod. But the latest animal to wash up on the beach at the Kent seaside resort is somethin...
Jane Clough (pictured), killed by her boyfriend who was out on bail Prosecutors and police will be able to appeal against court decisions that let dangerous suspects walk free on bail, it was announced yes...
A loving pet owner has spoken of her horror after finding her beloved pony had been sadistically tortured and mutilated. Linda Vickerage found the maimed remains of her seven-year-old Welsh pony, Barney,...
Facebook has admitted that paid adverts are now appearing in users’ news feeds - and looking identical to normal posts. Users will now see unsolicited adverts for a range of products in between regular u...
Students are being targeted by a ‘legal loan shark’ offering cash at an astonishing 4,214 per cent annual rate of interest. Wonga com is marketing its exorbitant scheme as an alternative to Government-bac...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Tajikistan at a depth of 20 km (12.4 miles), the quake hit at 08:45:34 UTC Thursday 12th January 2012 The epicenter was 53 km (32.8 miles) South of Garm, Tajikistan No ...
At least £2million of Britain’s overseas aid budget has gone into the pockets of outside consultancy firms since the election, figures have revealed. Rather than ensuring as much money as possible goes to...
A graduate made to work for her jobless benefits as a shelf stacker in Poundland is taking legal action against the Government under the Human Rights Act. Cait Reilly, who studied geology at university, h...
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The BBC leads its news this morning with the news that the Taliban are"furious" about the video of some US soldiers urinating over the dead bodies of some Taliban terrorists. Sorry, I mean fighters. Have t...
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Biased BBC - 19 hours ago
Biased BBC's Alan points out... "The BBC has revealed that MI5 and MI6 have been *'cleared'* over allegations of being involved in torture....in other words the allegations by the 'victims' are lies. But...
A doomed Russian Mars probe that's been stuck in Earth orbit for two months may finally come crashing down on Sunday January 15 over the Indian Ocean, Russian space officials say. The 14.5-tonne Phobos-Gr...
A Russian boy tackles his Beijing opponent in a friendly on October 25. Photo: CFP Thankfully Beijing's kids were spared much physical harm this year, but the capital's children had their carefree lives...
*Illustration: Liu Rui * In the past few days, Hollywood has done its best to end the movie year on a high. There have been openings for everything from the second Sherlock Holmes epic to the latest Missio...
One in five women in Korea in her 30s is single, while in Seoul the ratio is one in three, according to Statistics Korea. Although there are no specific data on the total number of single women, experts be...
Tens of thousands in Budapest have protested against Hungary's new constitution, which they believe will weaken democratic institutions. The protest took place near the State Opera House Monday as the cen...
Reports from Iran say the nation's currency has slumped to a record low against the U.S. dollar, two days after U.S. President Barack Obama signed into law new sanctions that could affect Iran's central ba...
Spain warned Monday that the government's deficit for last year could be even higher than it predicted just days ago. Spain's new conservative government last week projected the 2011 deficit at 8 percent ...
Indonesians have found a new symbol for their growing frustration at uneven justice in this young, democratic nation: cheap, worn-out flip-flops. They have been dropping them off at police stations through...
From the Middle East to the streets of London and cities across the US there is a discontent with the status quo. Whether it is with the iron grip of entrenched governments or the widening economic divid...
It was a show of might that could serve to test the West's patience. Iran said it has successfully test-fired two long-range missiles during military exercises in the Gulf. Just a day earlier, Barack Ob...
To continue its dominance on the Arctic, the Russian Bear needs the help of foreign markets, investors and technologies. *Vancouver, Canada -* In the 1990 film *The Hunt for Red October*, Marko Ramius, t...
With Russia-like tax reforms and world gold standard system, the post-Keynesian era will be a time of great prosperity. *New York, NY* - The beginning of the Keynesian Era can be dated, perhaps, to Septem...
Iraq's deputy Prime Minister accuses Nouri al-Maliki of acting like "a dictator" amid fears of "chaos and civil war". *Baghdad, Iraq *- Less than 24 hours after the US military withdrew the last of its o...
*Mormons wear special underwear - **Website for this image** * Mitt Romney is the candidate of the rich (Exit poll fun: Catholics, Mormons, and the Rich) Mitt Romney is a Mormon. Mitt Romney founded Bain ...
Algerian forces cross into Mali as the possibility of another Tuareg rebellion looms over the region. *London, UK - *There is a new crisis in the Sahel: On December 20, Algerian army forces crossed into ...
Years of the government's unyielding restraint and manipulation over citizen's lives are unlikely to end. As China prepares for leadership succession, clashes between the people and the authorities steal ...
Any state with a civilian cyber infrastructure faces a clear and present threat to its critical infrastructure. *Washington, DC* - Since September 11, terrorism has dominated the domestic security agenda,...
Settlers try to stop security forces from dismantling illegal outposts by making the price too high to bear. *Oz Zion, West Bank -* Heroic youth. Righteous Jews. Hill top kids. Crazy folks. Nationalist c...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 15 km (9.3 miles), the quake hit at 07:56:00 UTC Thursday 12th January 2012 The epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) ENE of Christchu...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck near the West Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 299.7 km (186.2 miles), the quake hit at 07:54:28 UTC Thursday 12th January 2012 The epicenter was 123 km (76 miles)...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 35.1 km (21.8 miles), the quake hit at 07:08:13 UTC Thursday 12th January 2012 The epicenter was 113 km (70 miles) Northeast of Neiafu, Tonga No Tsu...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Ecuador at a depth of 56.3 km (35 miles), the quake hit at 06:59:02 UTC Thursday 12th January 2012 The epicenter was 51 km (31 miles) South of Esmera...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 43.5 km (27 miles), the quake hit at 05:37:29 UTC Thursday 12th January 2012 The epicenter was 144 km (89 miles) Eas...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Lake Baykal Region, Russia at a depth of 15 km (9.3 miles), the quake hit at 04:45:25 UTC Thursday 12th January 2012 The epicenter was 22 km (13.6 miles) East of B...
Detectives have launched a murder inquiry after a 36-year-old man was found shot dead in a car in Northern Ireland. Police said the victim was discovered on Ballydrain Road in Comber, Co Down, last night...
The first issue we all face is sourcing real licorice. The stuff we do consume happens to be anise oil which tastes the same but is not the same. Here we discover that the real ingredient avai...
Whatever one may think of the ethics of harvesting sharks that simply do not reproduce quickly, it is also apparent that regulation is utterly unable to halt fishing piracy even in coastal water...
This is a bit of a surprise result that is not so surprising with the benefit of hindsight. It has always been amazing that it is possible to double the chromosome count by the two combined gen...
This is a neat development in which a lost giant tortoise species haws been identified living within another extant population in a nearby island. Restoring the original population appears to b...
*CANADIAN LABOUR NEWFOUNDLAND:* *TROUBLE IN PARADISE* It is a very old story out in Newfoundland way. Fish processing companies come and go, opening, closing and reopening elsewhere. All, of course, t...
Who Owns The Media? The 6 Monolithic Corporations That Control Almost Everything We Watch, Hear And ReadExcellent post. Read the comments also. http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/who-owns-the-medi...
Unelected Euro judges are making a relentless attack on British laws laid down over centuries by Parliament, a devastating report warns today. A group of Tory MPs are demanding action by the Prime Minister...
Gunmen in southwest Pakistan have killed 14 paramilitary soldiers, according to a security official in the country. The ambush is reported to have taken place close to Quetta in Baluchistan province. Th...
A big cat may be on the loose and killing deer in Gloucestershire, experts have warned. Dog walkers discovered the mutilated carcass of a roe deer on *National Trust* land near Stroud last week. The inj...
More than 500,000 people in Haiti are still living in makeshift tents two years after an earthquake devastated the country. The Caribbean state was hit by the 7.0-magnitude earthquake on January 12, 2010...
Detectives are investigating whether a couple were murdered in a revenge attack targeted at their son, a serving police officer. The bodies of 62-year-old Avtar Kolar and his wife Carole, 58, were disc...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck South of Africa at a depth of 10.4 km (6.5 miles), the quake hit at 02:52:37 UTC Thursday 12th January 2012 The epicenter was 1238 km (769 miles) Southwest of Marion Is...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck South of Africa at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:24:59 UTC Thursday 12th January 2012 The epicenter was 1227 km (762 miles) Southwest of Marion Isla...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck South of Africa at a depth of 10.2 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 02:20:23 UTC Thursday 12th January 2012 The epicenter was 1245 km (773 miles) Southwest of Marion Is...
I realize Willard didn't actually say he likes firing people, though I do think it just the least bit peculiar that when he said what he meant to say, the words that came out of his mouth included "I enj...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 51.5 km (32 miles), the quake hit at 01:40:05 UTC Thursday 12th January 2012 The epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) East...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Western Turkey at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 01:08:30 UTC Thursday 12th January 2012 The epicenter was 5 km ( 3.1 miles) East of Akkoy, Turkey No Rep...
Alex Jones and Stewart Rhodes talk about the NDAA, the end of trial by jury, the red coat establishment, the war on American citizens, and other topics.
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 41.6 km (25.9 miles), the quake hit at 00:57:17 UTC Thursday 12th January 2012 The epicenter was 105 km (65 mile...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Western Turkey at a depth of 66.3 km (41.2 miles), the quake hit at 00:26:33 UTC Thursday 12th January 2012 The epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) Southwest of Alanya, Turk...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Mindanao, Philippines at a depth of 16.7 km (10.4 miles), the quake hit at 00:19:03 UTC Thursday 12th January 2012 The epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) WNW of Hinatuan, ...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Northern Algeria at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 23:40:12 UTC Wednesday 11th January 2012 The epicenter was 27 km (16.7 miles) Northeast of Bani H'awa...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck offshore Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 34.5 km (21.4 miles), the quake hit at 22:27:55 UTC Wednesday 11th January 2012 The epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) SSW of Salina ...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Myanmar at a depth of 115 km (71.5 miles), the quake hit at 22:23:21 UTC Wednesday 11th January 2012 The epicenter was 118 km (73 miles) ESE of Kohima, Nagaland, India ...
Boys being boys. Where is R. Kelly when America needs him? This is an isolated incident. It's not a reflection on America. But it is a reflection on the piss poor of a president named Barack Obama.
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Banda Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 651 km (403 miles), the quake hit at 22:21:34 UTC Wednesday 11th January 2012 The epicenter was 192 km (119 miles) Southeast of ...
OP-ED COLUMNIST America’s Unlevel Field By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: January 8, 2012 Last month President Obama gave a speech invoking the spirit of Teddy Roosevelt on behalf of progressive ideals —...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:27:37 UTC Wednesday 11th January 2012 The epicenter was 26 km (16.1 miles) Northeast ...
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 30 km (18.6 miles), the quake hit at 03:20:52 UTC Thursday 12th January 2012 The epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) East ...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Central Peru at a depth of 69km (42.7 miles), the quake hit at 18:58:33 UTC Wednesday 11th January 2012 The epicenter was 55 km (34.1 miles) Northwest of Orcopampa, Per...
The vile *Harper is planning a mission to China to sell oil*. Used to be that Canadian conversations with China at least had to think about mentioning human rights issues. Reuters points out that Harper ha...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Southern Xinjiang, China at a depth of 40 km (24.8 miles), the quake hit at 17:53:52 UTC Wednesday 11th January 2012 The epicenter was 76 km (47.12 miles) Southeast of...
A number of websites including TMZ and YouTube posted a video Wednesday showing four men dressed in U.S. Marine Corps combat gear urinating on the apparently dead bodies of three men sprawled on the grou...
"We humans cannot see ourselves completely except as part of humanity, humanity as part of life, and life as part of the universe." - Teilhard de Chardin
*“Thinking About Molecules On A Lazy Afternoon”* by Chet Raymo “I was sitting on the beach yesterday with my pal Dwight, just sittin', watching the waves roll in, all that beautiful turquoise water reachi...
"Big beautiful spiral galaxy M66 lies a mere 35 million light-years away. About 100 thousand light-years across, the gorgeous island universe is well known to astronomers as a member of the Leo Triplet of ...
Yesterday marked the global debut of a new brand from an 86-year-old electronics company.
Chaotic Moon Labs' motorized longboard can hit speeds of 32 miles per hour.
- This event has been reviewed by a seismologist. Magnitude*4.7* Date-Time - *Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 01:40:05 UTC* - Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 10:40:05 AM at epicenter Location36...
International terrorism, the threat of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, and the mass murder of dissidents by the Syrian regime all belong in the category of "a false international crisis," each of whic...
*The Henry Street Settlement's Boys & Girls Republic, an after-school program at the Lillian Wald Houses in Manhattan's East Village, serves several hundred students each day. "More than three-quarters of ...
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It's a question many people inside Iran -- and those who watch the country closely around the world -- were asking Wednesday: Who is killing nuclear scientists in Iran? An explosion on Wednesday killed Mo...
- This event has been reviewed by a seismologist. Magnitude*5.0* Date-Time - *Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 00:19:03 UTC* - Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 08:19:03 AM at epicenter Location 8...
Or, Where National Policy Comes From. by Tony Cartalucci January 12, 2012 - I was shocked to see the corporate-financier Lowy Institute of Australia tweet a story explaining the ins-and-outs of think tan...
Fed Government/BigOil Overlap by Stephanie Herman, Geke.us is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at www.geke.us.
- This event has been reviewed by a seismologist. Magnitude*4.7* Date-Time - *Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 22:27:55 UTC* - Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 04:27:55 PM at epicenter Location...
- This event has been reviewed by a seismologist. Magnitude*5.1* Date-Time - *Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 22:21:33 UTC* - Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 06:21:33 AM at epicenter Location ...
This could just be what the corporatist Right fears most; the American public realizing there's a class war underway and they've been taking fire. If the American people get in a mood to counterattack,...
*"The Ultimate Authority: Using Our Own Minds"* by The DailyOm "Input from experts is valuable but our own sense of the truth is ultimately the most important. To a certain degree, we rely on other peopl...
Paris, Ile-de-France, France. Thanks for stopping by.
“Did you know that it's perfectly OK, even highly ideal, to claim all is well amongst doubt and confusion? To be happy in spite of challenges? To laugh at problems? Dance without a partner? Sing without a...
Astronomers have announced the smallest planets yet discovered outside of our solar system, closely orbiting a dim red dwarf star 130 light-years away.
Marathon running is generally safe for your heart, but be cautious if you have an underlying condition.
A pesticide used to help coat corn was found in each sample of dead and dying bees.
Just one extra penny tacked onto to every ounce of soda sold in the United States could prevent 95,000 coronary heart events.
An annoyed B-BBC reader writes.. "In case anyone missed it, the Victoria Drbyshireshow on 10/01/12 had a typical discussion about the recent report stating that immigration had a negative effect on jobs ...
*Hello, friends! I, Lu, am back at long last. I had a wonderful break, which was extended an extra week thanks to both me and my computer being sick last week. :) Thanks for reading!* It's the resolving t...
US State Department tells bold lies regarding the latest assassination in Iran as it harbors MEK terrorists in Iraq. by Tony Cartalucci January 12, 2012 - While the fifth and latest assassination of an Ira...
California working families had good political news this week with the announced retirements of reactionary congressmen Elton Gallegly and the even more heinous Mormon fanatic Wally Herger. And then there...
“Death twitches my ear. "Live," he says, "I am coming." ~Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)
*"50 Life Lessons"* by Regina Brett "Being from Cleveland, I sometimes forget the great local talent the city has. one is a columnist for the city paper, the plain dealer, Regina Brett. Here is one of he...
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*MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (CBSNewYork)* – Parents in a Connecticut suburb are outraged over disturbing disciplinary actions at a local elementary school. They claim students are being locked in unsupervised “scr...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Southern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 29.9 km (18.6 miles), the quake hit at 04:34:13 UTC Friday 13th January 2012 The epicenter was 431 km (...
Source: Dees Illustration. "This year we are witnessing not just a series of brutal but fundamentally independent human rights violations committed by disparate governments around the globe. This year we...
*McHenry "associate" Jason Robert Drake (RIP)* I hope you're not surprised that all the GOP closet cases-- well, not whack job Trent Franks, but the rest of them-- have endorsed Mitt Romney. I mean last t...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 14.5 km (9 miles), the quake hit at 04:12:41 UTC Friday 13th January 2012 The epicenter was 111 km (68 miles) ES...
On the streets of Nigeria, we bear witness to what many see as a bold decision on fuel subsidies is also uncovering decades of frustration and corruption. On the heels of re-election, President Goodluck ...
Japan is prepared to gradually reduce the amount of oil it imports from Iran, Finance Minister Jun Azumi said Thursday, as the United States seeks to muster international support to put fresh pressure on T...
Around six million households would be unable to survive for more than five days if they stopped being paid, such are the low levels of savings among Britons, new research shows. A new report from First ...
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