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*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 6.0 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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Not PC - 6 hours ago
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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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wmtc - 10 hours ago
Found on G+, thanks to S.
Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band, "Like a Rock"
*Time to turn the SuperBowl off in over 40 cities in the United States - because of the ads!* *I wonder if they will put up a disclaimer before the game or before the ad actually airs. There has to be a d...
An advanced app intends to transform smart phones from a distraction into a lifesaving tool.
Astronomers have found a black hole that behaves like one of those batting cages that automatically spits baseballs.
*"The Real Crisis in Capitalism"* by Bill Bonner "The Financial Times led off its series on ‘Capitalism in Crisis’ with a wandering piece that attempted to outline the problem. Unfortunately, the FT writ...
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Biased BBC - 10 hours ago
Time for a new one of these before the existing one explodes! The floor is yours... Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Last week I wrote an entry asking you to read the article that was in the Toronto Star. It gave a quick overview of the ALEC treatment that happened to Beau Hodai in Scottsdale. Today - I am asking that...
Traces of a very strong form of tobacco were discovered inside a 1,300-year-old flask.
On Monday I voiced my support for Mike Crawley for LPC President, after profiling Crawley, Sheila Copps, Ron Hartling, and Alexandra Mendes over the past month. I mostly glossed over the fifth candidate, ...
Republican Presidential candidate Rick Santorum blinking may have influenced his loss in the recent debate.
The ferocious predator had arms that were equal parts Popeye and Barbie.
Octavia Spencer in The Help.The Help is powerful, complex:My 10 favorite films of 2011By Alan Waldman / The Rag Blog / January 11, 2012As was the case last year, some of the films I was most anticipating (Th...
MOSCOW-- A senior Russian diplomat has strongly warned the West against an attack on Iran, saying that it would upset global security. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told the ITAR-Tass news agency...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Southeast Central Pacific Ocean at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 18:58:37 UTC Wednesday 11th January 2012 The epicenter was 520 km (323 miles) S...
*vintage clothing + fashion blog // a blog for all things vintage.* Jacob (Jack) Lew, an Orthodox Jew, will be taking over as the White House Chief of Staff, a position considered to be closest to the Pres...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 18:03:09 UTC Wednesday 11th January 2012 The epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) Northeast of...
Three people have reportedly been killed by security forces across Syria on Wednesday. Bashar Al-Assad has spoken to supporters in Damascus for the second time in the last 24 hours, reiterating his dismi...
*“Health Care And Hospitals: Scam”* by Karl Denninger “We must tear down the entire medical system in this nation and imprison virtually all of the financial folks involved in it - especially Hospital-af...
*"Gaming for good"* Al Gore may have become irrelevant but he hasn't officially surrendered in his holy war against the fossil fuels and he still has lots and lots of money. Gaming For Good from Piers...
Video: You have rights, use them. If the government makes a ridiculous dictate banning gardens, collecting rainwater, building in "wetlands," guns, cottage industry, swap meets, flea markets, etc., just ...
What a mess. Even without the fires, our natural environment has been devastated by these droughts. This scene was taken in late August just around the corner from my house in southwest Austin. Fortunately I...
*“Dumb As A Rock: You Will Be Absolutely Amazed At The * *Things That U.S. High School Students Do Not Know”* By The Economic Collapse Blog “Are we raising the stupidest generation in American history? T...
Depp greeted guests in the costume he had worn in a film version of the Lewis Carroll story released around the same time by Burton, who was given carte blanche to transform the state dining room into a Ma...
Nurses in the NHS too often lack ability, compassion or even the simple desire to work in the profession, a report warns. In some cases staff lack basic skills, have a poor grasp of maths and do not unde...
The Star Wars' fictional planet Tatooine is not so fictional or unique after all.
Earthships seem like they were built by environmental aliens who crash landed in the desert; now they make fun lodging during eco-minded vacations.
Using a method known as "microlensing," astronomers have estimated the number of exoplanets that may exist in our galaxy.
http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1118/ML111861807.pdf hat tip HoTaters at Enenews http://enenews.com/nuclear-expert-allows-very-high-levels-radiation-be-released-nuke-plants-epa-protective-public-health-video
Incentive schemes continue to inflate fat-cat salaries to extraordinary heights. But to what extent do they truly reflect performance? You remember Cedric the Pig. He was the protesting porker at British ...
Home almost lost due to 80-cent oversight. A Florida man’s minor check typo nearly ends up costing him his house. ‘I did everything they told me to’ *80 cent check typo nearly costs man his home* A Flori...
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wmtc - 13 hours ago
I was driving around Mississauga listening to Bob Dylan's Live 1975, The Rolling Thunder Revue, a great live album, when I realized that the narrator of "Romance In Durango" dies at the end of the song. Or...
[image: The Doomsday Clock, sponsored by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which announced in Washington on 10 January 2012 that it has moved the Doomsday Clock to five minutes to midnight, because ...
Growing numbers of pensioners will be forced to take part-time and consultancy work into their 70s because they cannot afford to retire, a think tank has warned. A new generation of “Wearies” – Working,...
Maine clinic allows low-income residents to do yard work or other labour in exchange for medical help. A clinic in the US state of Maine is using a novel way to support those who cannot afford costly he...
While primary education is free, many children work to remove sand from bed of the River Nile to pay for extras. Children in Uganda are mining sand from the bed of the River Nile to earn enough money fo...
*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 --...
New York's bus garden drove south for the winter.
"Tonight, New Hampshire. Tomorrow... Mordor!" Make me ashamed of myself by showing me whatcha got.
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wmtc - 14 hours ago
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 - 15 hours 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...
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 them....
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 Development atop a city dump? Policy fiasco comes back to haunt Upper 9th Ward ~Ariella Cohen, The Lens Mississippi ranks last in building standards ~...
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...
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CENSORED NEWS - 18 hours ago
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...
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CENSORED NEWS - 19 hours ago
*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...
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Biased BBC - 19 hours ago
[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...
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Biased BBC - 19 hours ago
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...
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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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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Biased BBC - 1 day ago
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...
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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wmtc - 1 day ago
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)...
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...
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.
Security experts update the hands of doom -- one minute closer to imminent destruction.
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...
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*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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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