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*Click here to see video of Iranian boats harassing the USS New Orleans and
Coast Guard cutter Adak* At a time of heightened tensions with
Iran, U.S. military officials told CNN Friday that U.S. military...
Doubt this if you dare. USA USA USA!!!!!!!!!
*Jon Vickers lip-syncs Otello's great entrance declaration, "*Esultate*," from Act I of Verdi's opera, from the 1974 Karajan film.* *OTELLO*: Rejoice! The pride of the Muslims is buried in the sea; the gl...
*“Addicted! Internet Dependency Alters the Human Brain”* by Jeremy Laurance “
Internet addiction has for the first time been linked with changes in the brain similar to those seen in people addicted to alc...
Dollar is not gold. Dollar is God. And wherever there is God, there is also a class of priests who are ready to sacrifice the people's lives and money in rituals and wars to prop up the God that they beli...
“It is the largest and most complex star forming region in the entire galactic neighborhood. Located in the
Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy orbiting our
Milky Way galaxy, the region's spid...
"If man were relieved of all superstition, and all prejudice, and had replaced these with a keen sensitivity to his real environment, and moreover had achieved a level of communication so simplified that ...
*“Exile”* by Chet Raymo “ Are we truly alone With our physics and myths, The stars no more Than glittering dust, With no one there To hear our choral odes?” “This is the ultimate q...
*"The average voter is a low-information decider, making his or her choices about candidates based on often times incomplete or just plain wrong facts. The analysis of political races -- from the presiden...
Spoil. A beautiful and powerful documentary on the Great Bear Rainforest - extraordinarily footage from some of the world's best photographers hoping to show us what we have to lose if the Enbridge Gatew...
A major rescue operation is under way after a luxury cruise ship carrying 4,200 passengers and crew is said to have run aground off the coast of Italy. The Costa Concordia had left the port of Savona at 7...
I've noticed that radiation levels spike the most in west coast cities that have mountains on their east side. Sacramento (east is Sierras) and all central valley cities on down Cal. have had significant...
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." - Ann Landers
*A March For Our Ancestors* January 31st through February 3th District 7 to Sacaton’s Veteran’s Park Shap Kaij Hahajun, This is notice to all O’othham brothers and sisters that after many years of att...
Even Sarah Palin has stumbled into attacking the presumptive Republican candidate for the presidency. This is the man who the one percent will use to try to turn back the modest, vaguely pro-middle-class ...
There is a funny quote in Mark Perry's article in Foreign Policy Magazine called "False Flag" that looks at "how Israeli Mossad agents posed as American spies to recruit members of the terrorist organizati...
Frozen Puck Hovers Over Track Using “Quantum Levitation” WIRED October 18, 2011 | By Olivia Solon, Wired UK Researchers at the school of physics and astronomy at Tel Aviv University have created a ...
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“Before our white brothers came to civilize us we had no jails. Therefore we had no criminals. You can’t have criminals without a jail. We had no locks or keys, and so we had no thieves. If a man was so p...
Not really sure what to make of this news story? I find it so improbable. But here goes..... A Lebanese suspect from the Hezbollah group has been taken into custody by Thai officials and police are investi...
*$9,000,000,000,000 Missing From The Federal Reserve! ($9 Trillion) Gone...* "Rep. Alan Grayson questions the FED inspector General where $9 TRillion dollars went... and General Elizabeth Coleman hasn't a ...
“If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?” - Tuco, “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”
Sensitive data -- possibly including information on JAXA's H-2 Transfer Vehicle -- appear to have been leaked.
Week 2 of the Google+ Space Hangout was a great success, discussing everything from dark matter to exoplanets. Watch it now!
UNCONFIRMED http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/01/hydrogen-explosion-reactor-4-happened-1-9-2012/ There have been quite a few unconfirmed reports about unit 4 over the last week or so http://majiasblog.blog...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck South of the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand at a depth of 31.1 km (19.3 miles), the quake hit at 20:25:28 UTC Friday 13th January 2012 The epicenter was 424 km (264 mil...
Read Arthur Silber's new awesome article about the Marine Pissing incident in Afghanistan called "The Varieties of Pissing." A key passage: "It is certainly disgusting that U.S. Marines pissed on the bodie...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Simeulue, Indonesia at a depth of 46.9 km (29.1 miles), the quake hit at 20:03:47 UTC Friday 13th January 2012 The epicenter was 285 km (177 miles) WNW of Sibolga, Suma...
Accident at Second Japanese Nuclear Complex: The Nuclear Accident You Never Heard About http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28623
The Gay Secretary So that you could buy a few more mansions complain, it's just envy! Because we all secretly admire you and look up to you and want to be just like you, a callous and insensitive (if not ...
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/01/breaking-news-possible-rapid-increase-of-temperature-at-reactor2/
Cattle, mechanically immobilized before being stunned and slaughtered Israel kills Iranian scientists and sabotaging Iranian facilities, then follows a false-flag attack claimed to be Iran's "retaliation"...
Navajo Generating Station near Page, Ariz., on the Navajo Nation, is a major source of greenhouse gases in the US. Navajos recently protested the operator, the Salt River Project, during protests of ALEC,...
Nuclear Energy Institute FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Contact:202.739.8000 - For Release:December 16, 2011 Industry Welcomes Nuclear Energy Funding in Final Spending Bill[excerpted] ...“We particular...
"When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which h...
*"Has Capitalism Failed Us?"* by Bill Bonner “Americans think we are stupid,” said a European diplomat at a dinner party in Washington. ”But we’re not stupid. We’re just working out the problems involved...
You can say a lot of things about Standard & Poor's, but the one thing you cannot question is their sense of timing. Last month, they could have chosen almost any day to warn that they were placing the e...
France, Austria and Italy have all had their credit ratings downgraded by ratings agency Standard & Poor's. France and Austria now both hold AA+ ratings, while Italy, which formerly held a BBB+ rating,...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Queen Charlotte Islands Region at a depth of 15 km (9.3 miles), the quake hit at 16:46:09 UTC Friday 13th January 2012 The epicenter was 210 km (131 miles) WNW of ...
* Indonesians* Standard Chartered bank forecasts that Indonesia will be the sixth biggest economy in the world by 2030. On 4 January 2012, an Indonesian court found a boy guilty of stealing a pair of wor...
The emanation of a gray cloud, possibly containing ash, at the Turrialba Volcano was confirmed Thursday afternoon by the Observatorio Vulcanológico y Sismológico de CostaRica (OVSICORI), that resulting in...
At least 20 people were wounded, some critically, in a double bombing Friday in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, police said. The two car bombs targeted the homes of police officers in different parts ...
The deputy commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan ordered troops Friday to treat the corpses of slain insurgents and civilians with "appropriate dignity and respect." The order follows a video that ap...
Peruvian judges on Friday sentenced Dutch national Joran van der Sloot to 28 years in prison and ordered him to pay thousands of dollars in reparations for the killing of a 21-year-old Peruvian woman in 2...
Iran's embassy in Turkey has issued a formal statement denying reports Tehran was shipping weapons through Turkey to Syria. "We deny such claims and we would like to state that the Islamic Republic of ...
A BBC radio presenter has admitted a string of sex attacks against five underage girls, a court heard today. Father-of-one Peter Rowell, 53, admitted 12 counts of indecent assault, six counts of making in...
Q. Why are such research documents - Which Path to Persia? or "String of Pearls" - made public on the web? If these are in fact strategic and provide a view into the world of powers that run the show on ou...
Tens of thousands are dead, hundreds more of the dying lie writhing on the battlefield, powerless to protect their children. These horrifying and yet fascinating scenes are the highlights of a three-hour...
[image: Dörte Siedentopf. tagesschau.de]By arevamirpal::laprimavera 7 January 2012 (UPDATE: Second part of the translation is posted, translation done by the reader Florian Zschage.) (H/T to the reader...
Julie Jones describes the day her best friend died as 'the worst day of my life'. But she didn't have time to grieve. The single mum-of-three had agreed to adopt Caroline Atkin's three boys and two girls...
Fears are rising that the credit ratings of several eurozone countries could soon be downgraded - prompting global markets to fall and the euro falling to a 16-month low. Analysts today said that ratings ...
Front page of Americans for Tax Reform. Thou shalt have no other god before Grover. And they probably joined ALEC also. Martha Zoller and Doug Collins have become the first and second candidates to sign...
New devices from iHealth will connect to a Cloud service in order to store and share health data.
A Mars probe's tank is expected to melt during re-entry, so there's no need for a missile intercept, like in 2008, experts say.
A man who buried his fiancee alive in a cardboard box has been given a 20-year prison sentence for attempted murder. Marcin Kasprzak used a taser on 27-year-old Michelina Lewandowska before binding and...
If societies paid the communities who live closest to wilderness areas to be stewards, 331 million of the world's poorest could earn a dollar a day.
Mexico's economy has made life even harder for the country's stray dogs. But there's a way you can help.
A British student accused of breaching US copyright could face trial in the US after a judge ruled that he can be extradited. A judge at Westminster Magistrates Court agreed with US prosecutors that 23-...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck South of the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand at a depth of 25 km (15.5 miles), the quake hit at 17:49:13 UTC Friday 13th January 2012 The epicenter was 132 km (82 miles)...
Reason Magazine, Benny Peiser, James Delingpole, and WUWT mention an amusing story. In April 2008, climate skeptic and astrophysicist David Whitehouse – who is currently an adviser to the Global Warming...
*"Greed and Deception on Wall Street"* by Eric Fry "For the last several months [years- CP], the sordid tales of greed and deception issuing from Wall Street have read like the story line from a riveting...
This video by the YouTube channel "LexLuvsMovies" contains footage from The Dark Knight Rises trailer and from Batman Begins.
*"Pinstriped Psychopaths"* by Eric Fry "Some psychopaths occupy a prison cell. Others occupy a corner office. Both are dangerous. Psychopaths possess a profound lack of empathy. They use other people cal...
*Spot the loony: (1) Mark Driscoll and (2) Rick Santorum, Repugs' Thesaurus: 30 ways to say n*gg*r, how did the GOP sink to this?* *Pastor Mark Driscoll offers this dilly as a free e-book. In it he explain...
*FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 2012* *Where the freak were the Reuters scribes:* We’ll offer one last thought about MSNBC’s conduct this week: We’ll offer our thought in the form of a question. Where were the Reute...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 54.2 km (33.7 miles), the quake hit at 16:02:28 UTC Friday 13th January 2012 The epicenter was 176 km (109 miles) South...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 67.3 km (41.8 miles), the quake hit at 15:54:48 UTC Friday 13th January 2012 The epicenter was 175 km (108 miles) SSW o...
*FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 2012* *Third time is almost the charm:* Here’s the way the workload has gone at The One True Liberal Channel this week: All week, the rest of the children have gamboled and played, ri...
So, is Mitt Romney and the other vultures at Bain Capital made of money or full of shit? Discuss.
Afghanistan defines the notion of "wheels spinning within wheels." It is the very home of policy chaos where virtually every action invites blowback of one or more kinds, usually unforeseen. This brief...
*FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 2012* *Life in a Brave New Dumb World:* Last night, Rachel Maddow took a good snootful and rattled off a collection of silly old tales. She recalled the way George Bush 41 looked at h...
Today's unlucky date is the first of three for 2012. Here's a look at some superstitions and where they originated.
Mainichi: Courts find black rain from A-bomb was more far-reaching than gov't acknowledged http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20120113p2a00m0na007000c.html [Excerpted] "Eight lawsuits brought against ...
There's a powerful conservative movement in America determined to purge unwanted subjects from their schools' curricula. For generations they've fought against teaching kids about the theory of evoluti...
Israel's paper thin veneer of being a Western-style liberal democracy is being shredded. It's the inevitable result of Israel having to come to grips with issues it has for decades been able to duck. Iss...
*FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 2012* *The dishonesty comes from both sides now:* What words should a progressive use to describe this kind of conduct? Last night, Steve Kornacki told Rachel Maddow about an exciting...
*FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 2012* *Epilogue—Rachel’s brown liquids:* We’re going to be good sports and admit it. Rather plainly, The Big Stupid has won! Just consider the political dynamics of the past week. L...
This is only a 6 minute excerpt. I cannot wait for the entire interview because the excerpt is excellent: http://www.readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/9405-bill-moyers-the-biggest-story-of-our-t...
Barack Obama seems to have found Mitt Romney's petard. Now if he can only light the fuze. The petard, or bombshell, is the issue of income inequality in America. While Harperland is doing its best t...
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A Syrian opposition group demanding the end of President Bashar al-Assad's reign announced Friday that it has begun coordinating with the rebel Free Syria Army and anti-government protesters took to the ...
Standard & Poor's ratings agency has downgraded France's credit rating, French television channels reported on Friday, citing a government source. S&P warned in December that it could downgrade the credit ...
A new design based on sunflowers could help solar concentrator plants save space and increase output.
So far this winter, the Alaskan city has been buried in nearly seven feet of snow.
Now that the flat-panel TV has become a commodity, the next step is to make them flatter and bigger.
[image: Territorial borders in the Arctic Ocean, showing the United States, Canada, Russia, and Greenland. University of Durham, UN, Marum.] By Richard Heinberg 10 January 2012 From competition among h...
The Herman Cain sexual harassment case brought up an issue that has concerned me for years: one-sided confidentiality agreements. As you may recall before your holiday eggnog distracted you, Mr. Cain settl...
[image: Beijing smog, 1 November 2011. NRDC] Beijing, January 12 (AFP) – Beijing on Thursday began publishing real-time air quality data on the Internet, bowing to a vocal online campaign for greater go...
I tend to think politics is nothing but a circus to distract the electorate from the true environmental collapse that underlies all the other woes of industrial society...but this act is too good to pass u...
If you're driving around or watching television, odds are you aren't exercising.
In the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) Report “Show Me The Money: Budget-Cutting Strategies for Cash-Strapped States” dated 2002 they advocate that state governments should: *Turn Capital Ass...
John Waltz is one of the most outstanding candidates for Congress running anywhere. He's a blue-collar New Deal Democrat who has one overarching political goal: to represent the regular working families i...
Norweigan killer Anders Breivik, who murdered 77 people in twin attacks in July, will undergo a new psychiatric evaluation following a widely contested test which found him criminally insane. "Due to the...
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"So long, good Canadian jobs!" Electro-Motive, a subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc., a huge US company, has locked out 465 workers from its London, Ontario plant. The company has offered a take-it-or-leave-i...
Bankers and Russia. Specifically State owned banks expanding and controlling the majority of the market. Is this the "problem" with Russia? The problem requiring destabilization? Does the problem boil down ...
In defending Israel I’ve come to realise that preconceived ideas and gut feelings override all reasonable argument. That is to say however well argued, very few are willing to engage, or even listen to any...
A British man is among four people who have been charged in Kenya with planning a terror attack in the country. Jermaine John Grant, a 29-year-old Muslim convert, and three Kenyan nationals appeared in c...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Molucca Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 115.2 km (71.6 miles), the quake hit at 10:24:02 UTC Friday 13th January 2012 The epicenter was 119 km (73 miles) Northwest of...
Master coastal plan positive~Amy Wold $1.1 billion levee around Lake Charles part of bold proposal Gulf of Mexico oil spill environmental data drives damage assessment~Mark Schleifstein Mississippi, Atch...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Western Iran at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 12:35:35 UTC Friday 13th January 2012 The epicenter was 47 km (29.2 miles) South Abhar, Iran No Reports of...
FUKUOKA -- Police have arrested three people for allegedly dispatching a worker to the Oi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukui Prefecture under a falsified contract, sparking a police probe into the yakuza's poss...
Eight lawsuits brought against the government by plaintiffs seeking certification of radiation sickness from the "black rain" that fell on Hiroshima after the city's atomic bombing in 1945, have seen ruli...
The Mount Pleasant School District has cancelled classes for the rest of the week after a suspected norovirus sickened about 200 students. The Morning Sun reports schools will be closed today and Friday i...
Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche withheld vital data about the effectiveness of its swine flu drug Tamiflu from scientists, a report will claim next week. The report, to be published on January 18 by the...
Officials burn chicken coops in reaction to a fatal case of bird flu in Jakarta, Indonesia. The virus has killed more than 80 percent of Indonesians infected with it since 2005. JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indo...
In the wake of news last month that researchers had created a version of the deadly bird flu that was easily transmissible by air, a heated debate has arisen in the scientific community about whether or n...
Report by Akshya Rout; Jajpur: The mysterious epidemic that has claimed many crows and hens in some areas of Odisha recently has now spread to Jajpur district , with about 150 crow and ducks deaths in Jaj...
The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) has confirmed that H5N1, the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus, has been signalled the Bhutanese village of Tsimasham, in the Chhukha district. The ou...
South Africa's ostrich farmers are struggling to cope after thousands of their birds were culled during one of the country's worst outbreaks of bird flu. Exports to Europe - the biggest market for South ...
Judges reject Christopher Tappin's argument that he was tricked by US customs agents in deal to ship missile parts to Iran. A retired British businessman has lost his appeal against extradition to the US...
A drone strike in Pakistan's tribal region killed at least eight militants Thursday, Pakistani intelligence officials said. A suspected U.S. drone fired missiles at two vehicles in North Waziristan, the ...
Investigators in Thailand have arrested a a Lebanese terror suspect who tried to attack spots in Bangkok that are popular with Western tourists, the Thai government said Friday. The United States, meanwh...
North Korea apparently test-launched three short-range missiles this week, the South Korean Defense Ministry said Friday, an indication that the reclusive state's military is operating normally after a lea...
Negotiations between labor unions and the Nigerian government ended late Thursday without an agreement to restore fuel subsidies, and a union official expressed resolve, in the absence of an accord, to h...
Apple halted sale of its iPhone 4S in Beijing and Shanghai on Friday after scuffles broke out over a delayed launch of the device, sending a shopper hurling eggs at a store in the capital. Hundreds of ...
A Syrian opposition group demanding the end of President Bashar al-Assad's reign announced Friday that it has begun coordinating with the rebel Free Syria Army, while thousands of anti-government protest...
Iran's top cleric has blamed the CIA and Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, for killing an Iranian nuclear scientist, Iran's state broadcaster said. Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, who died Wednesday, was the ...
At least 15 people were injured and at least 60 buildings damaged when a tornado struck in western North Carolina, the National Weather Service said Thursday. The storms struck in Rutherford and Burke cou...
Che Guevara, the famous Argentinian-born revolutionary and military theorist, wore many hats – including that of physician, author, and guerrilla leader. But he almost certainly never wore one with a Merc...
The Jewish community is on alert after Molotov cocktails were thrown at a synagogue and ignited a fire inside the rabbi's residence - in what authorities are billing a hate crime and attempted murder. The...
Fourteen people were arrested today in South Africa after an elderly couple were burned to death by vigilantes who accused them of being witches. Grandparents Elsa Dubazane and Rafael Zukhulu, both 63, die...
A high school principal who hypnotised pupils faces up to a year in jail after being charged with carrying out the practice without a license. Dr George Kenney, 51, hypnotised 75 students, teachers and the...
A top military psychologist has suggested that the reason American soldiers urinated on dead Afghan bodies was because they were 'stressed'. Eugenia Weiss, an expert from the University of Southern Califor...
President Barack Obama asked Congress today for another $1.2trillion increase in the nation's debt limit, a request that is largely a formality but which carries election-year implications. It was the thi...
Decades before the September 11th terrorist attacks, New York City saw another tragic event in its skies, when two airliners collided in mid-air over Brooklyn, weeks before Christmas. Two passenger plane...
A mysterious celestial body detected outside our solar system five years ago may actually be a ringed planet similar to Saturn, scientists say. Researchers at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory i...
A tree trimmer was decapitated after getting sucked head first into an industrial wood chipper in a freak accident. Martin Lara, 50, of Applegate, California, died Thursday morning after getting dragged b...
A stable number of humans on the planet doesn't necessarily mean less impact on the environment. But it helps.
Researchers have taken a step closer to creating ‘cyborg insects’ that could carry out spying missions - with biofuel cells that run off their own bodies. A team has created the implantable power packs th...
A couple who sold a monkey which had seven separate bone fractures to a pensioner for £650 have been ordered to pay nearly £6,000 costs to the RSPCA and banned from keeping animals for life. Lee Powell, 5...
A little-understood molecule in the atmosphere could play an important role in reducing pollution and global warming, scientists believe. The 'Criegee biradicals' could lead to aerosol formation - and ulti...
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Here you go, an Open Thread for the next few days. If you have spotted BIAS then this is the place to detail it. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Weary Alaskans today woke up to another heavy snowfall as Anchorage experiences its snowiest period since records began, causing more headaches in coastal areas already struggling to dig out. The snow sta...
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Biased BBC - 18 hours ago
It's really all so simple when you understand the meme. The US is always wrong and the US military in particular is evil, a global bully. By way of contrast the Taliban are noble, exuding a humanity few t...
Two years after a devastating earthquake, Haiti is struggling to rebuild its ravaged buildings and hundreds of thousands of victims remain homeless. The 7.0 magnitude quake on January 12, 2010, lasted onl...
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One of my important geopolitical sources of information is Stratfor. Not only for me, but for many thousands of professionals and organizations who need solid information about the world we are in. Stratf...
A Russian space probe designed to banish the nation’s faded space glory in a mission to one of Mars’ moons will come crashing back to Earth in a few days' time. Russian space Agency Roscosmos has predicte...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 41.8 km (26 miles), the quake hit at 09:44:02 UTC Friday 13th January 2012 The epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) S...
A report from the World Economic Forum (WEF) shows cyber attacks on governments and businesses are considered to be one of the top five risks in the world. The report, Global Risks for 2012, examined 50 g...
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Biased BBC - 19 hours ago
Well then, it's been a busy morning on the BBC pushing the old "Institutional Racism" narrative. I do hope Diane Abbott was listening. It seems that whether we like it or not, the Met just can't stop thems...
Photo courtesy: FFI/BANCA/PRCF/via When a new species of 'snub-nosed' monkey was discovered in 2010, the world's only glimpse came in the form of one researcher's photo-reconstruction since the elusive a...
Photo courtesy: © Living-On-Purpose-Lynn This past summer I told you about BC farmer Dirk Becker's fight with the local elected government that could have ended with a six-month jail sentence. His crime? ...
Photo courtesy: © vincentraal It is said that the ability to use tools is an important commonality shared between humans and non-human primates -- likewise, so it seems, is the desire to be free. In the ...
When concerned residents in Northumberland felt an ominous rumbling and saw buildings shake near their homes this afternoon, many suspected a minor earthquake had hit the north east. But after contacting...
Jailed: Michael Roberts, 45, joins a small group of 'life means life' prisoners after raping three victims - one aged 83 - and viciously attacking a fourth in Bermondsey, south London A brutal rapist who ...
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A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Southern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 29.6 km (18.4 miles), the quake hit at 09:15:33 UTC Friday 13th January 2012 The epicenter was 419 km (...
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Biased BBC - 19 hours ago
Recession? What recession? The expenses of senior BBC bosses have soared by 20 per cent in a year largely as a result of the costly move to Salford. Executives face fresh accusations of profligacy after s...
A British engineer is facing a month in jail after he told colleagues in a meeting, 'When will we finish with the damn mosques?' The worker, who has not been named, told an appeals court yesterday that he ...
An Oxford don was being held last night over the death of a colleague with whom he was the ‘best of friends’. Professor Steven Rawlings, 50, died of a heart attack after he was allegedly beaten up at the...
The Duchess of York has been charged in a Turkish court over secret filming of an orphanage in the country for a documentary. Officials accused Sarah Ferguson in her absence of going "against the law in ...
Ahmadinejad’s Latin America tour seen as effort side-step international tensions and find new markets as the European Union considers an outright embargo on Iranian oil. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadin...
Turkish officials say ship, which was briefly held in Cyprus, arrives at Syrian port of Tartus after ship turning off its tracking device. Turkey says a Russian ship, allegedly carrying tons of weapons, ha...
David Cameron is making his first visit to Saudi Arabia since becoming Prime Minister to discuss trade and Middle East security. *Mr Cameron* will meet King Abdullah and Crown Prince Nayif in talks whic...
A column by the chief editor of an influential Iranian paper says Iran should respond in kind to Israel's alleged clandestine war on Iran by assassinating Israeli officers. A hard-line Iranian newspaper ...
*Mountain view from Aston Hotel in Bogor Indonesia. * *1. Bogor*, about one hour's drive from Jakarta airport, gets surprisingly few tourists and yet it is one of the most friendly and attractive places i...
The U.S. military said on Wednesday that a new aircraft carrier strike group had arrived in the Arabian Sea and that another was on its way to the region, but denied any link to recent tensions with Iran a...
PYONGYANG -- Following the mourning period for former leader Kim Jong Il, North Korean authorities have begun to punish citizens who did not display enough sadness at his death, The Daily NK reported Wedne...
A size 6 is now plus size in the fashion world, and most runway models meet the physical criteria for anorexia, according to a report that offers shocking insight into the disparity between models and the ...
The Navy’s top officer detailed Tuesday the strategy for making sure the South China Sea and Western Pacific remain open to international shipping, saying an emerging China might try to “limit access in th...
Now seems an unlikely time for handing out bonuses at bankrupt Solyndra LLC, but that’s the plan of company attorneys intending to dole out up to a half-million dollars to persuade key employees to stay pu...
A panel of federal judges has ruled that states cannot protect their courts from jurists who base their decisions on international or Koranic law. America needs better judges. On Tuesday, the 10th Circuit...
Really, how many times do we have to say this? If your drug dealer shorts you, steals your money, or provides a substance other than the illegal one sought, do not call 911. Suzanne Basham, 47, made that...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Central Peru at a depth of 54.5 km (33.9 miles), the quake hit at 05:13:26 UTC Friday 13th January 2012 The epicenter was 64 km (39 miles) Southeast ...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Santa Cruz Islands at a depth of 81.4 km (50.6 miles), the quake hit at 06:49:28 UTC Friday 13th January 2012 The epicenter was 364 km (226 miles) East of Kira Kira, So...
This writer completely misses the real point behind this huge pipeline project(s). It is all about North America outright exiting the international oil market just as soon as they are able. US t...
I am posting on this item more for my American readers because supplies an excellent insight into the electoral process of the parliamentary system that Canada uses as opposed to the American sy...
It appears that we are all going to be paying some attention to Ron Paul after all. He did poll twenty percent in New Hampshire and that pretty well puts him in the race although I suspect that...
The bad news is that if the thin ice conditions continue, then the mature seal population will shortly collapse as replacement becomes impossible. I hate to say this, but eliminating the cull wil...
*Iraq by **salwan s. alabdaly* *In January 2012, there have been bomb attacks across Iraq. * ** *US, Israel benefit from violence in Iraq* ** *Press TV*: The current situation is also being portrayed by ma...
I've seen parts of some talks at a recent Jerusalem winter school in theoretical physics. For example, the physicist from the title has updated our knowledge about the twistor'n'grassmannian minirevolution...
America's retailers enjoyed a record 2011 and their first $400 billion sales months ever. But the final month of the year was a dud. Sales eked out a 0.1 percent increase in December, lifting sales to a s...
ENTERTAINMENT - On January 9th Wizards of the Coast, the publishers of Dungeons & Dragons, announced they had begun development of a 5th Edition of the game. This could be potentially good or bad. If you ...
POLITICS - An Iranian university professor working at Iran's largest nuclear facility was killed by a car bomb in Tehran yesterday (Wednesday January 11th). He is the third Iranian scientist assassinated i...
Internet addiction has for the first time been linked with changes in the brain similar to those seen in people addicted to alcohol, cocaine and cannabis. In a groundbreaking study, researchers used MRI sc...
*Star Wars* creator George Lucas said Monday that Hollywood studios refused to back his new film *Red Tails* - about World War II's Tuskegee Airmen - because the cast was all black. This was told to a r...
A man is facing child cruelty charges after his 13-month-old daughter was found alone in a tent in the Occupy DC camp at McPherson Square. Occupy members told authorities that a baby was alone in a tent a...
Children are being abandoned on Greece's streets by their poverty-stricken families who cannot afford to look after them any more. Youngsters are being dumped by their parents who are struggling to make e...
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 ...
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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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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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
*Systematic Silence About NDAA Proves Long Plot To Destroy America Is Real, Vindicating Conspiracy Theorists* *URGE ALL presidential, Congressional and other political candidates to sign a pledge promisi...
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-hoc...
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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.
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*Click here to see video of Iranian boats harassing the USS New Orleans and Coast Guard cutter Adak* At a time of heightened tensions with Iran, U.S. military officials told CNN Friday that U.S. military...
*"The average voter is a low-information decider, making his or her choices about candidates based on often times incomplete or just plain wrong facts. The analysis of political races -- from the presiden...
A major rescue operation is under way after a luxury cruise ship carrying 4,200 passengers and crew is said to have run aground off the coast of Italy. The Costa Concordia had left the port of Savona at 7...
*A March For Our Ancestors* January 31st through February 3th District 7 to Sacaton’s Veteran’s Park Shap Kaij Hahajun, This is notice to all O’othham brothers and sisters that after many years of att...
Even Sarah Palin has stumbled into attacking the presumptive Republican candidate for the presidency. This is the man who the one percent will use to try to turn back the modest, vaguely pro-middle-class ...
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