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"No Ways Tired in A Sea of Lies" (Adapted) by Chris Floyd "I think we are living in a world of lies: lies that don't even know they are lies, because they are the children and grandchildren of lies. One o...
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American Zen*'s Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari Goldstein.) *"The reason is simple: Romney is not a conservative. He's not, folks. You can argue with me all day long on that, but he isn't. What he h...
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Cheyenne River Lakota WBAI New York*First Voices Indigenous Radio* *Listen to the Programs* *http://www.firstvoicesindigenousradio.org/program_archives* *January 12, 2012 * WINONA...
Is that, unlike real grass, it wears out. That's a fact. The other problem, of course, is that, (despite the fact that it's a
Monsanto invention), you can't kill it with *this Monsanto invention*. Unlik...
*Judge beats daughter,
Rick Perry melts down, "manly" pizza, my letter to
Al Franken, is mac 'n' cheese "a black thing"?, and more* *by Noah* *11/2/11 -- Quote of the Year nominee:
Ann Coulter, "Our bla...
That is the policy decision. Yesterday, I noted that valley cities in Ca were most impacted with radiation. Those valley cities are where the majority of Ca’s agricultural crops are grown (I’m a native C...
------------------------------ Original Here *America’s Last Chance* ------------------------------ January 14, 2012 America has one last chance, and it is a very slim one. Americans can elect R...
High Strangeness: Earth's Shadow Denizens By Scott Corrales (c) 2012 On the last day of the year in 1968, an uncle and nephew were driving from the town of Isabela on the island’s north shor...
I agree with *Cathie*. I am done with giving the Harper Cons the benefit of the doubt. I'll believe they'll actually amend the residency requirements law only when I see them bring it to the Commons and ...
http://billmoyers.com/segment/jacob-hacker-paul-pierson-on-engineered-inequality/ I love Jacob Hacker's work and his new book with Paul Pierson is excellent and very accessible. Whoopie at Enenews provide...
The Italian ship apparently hit a reef on Friday, killing at least 3 people, leaving 70 unaccounted for.
God knows *there's* some truth... - CP
*“Weekly News Wrap-Up 1.13.12”* Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com “It looks like GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney is opening up a wide lead in the national polls. Gallup has his up by as much as 20 poi...
*“Greece: The Fuse Is In The Box”* by Karl Denninger "This one's headed toward the ground in a power-dive... “Greece’s creditor banks broke off talks after failing to agree with the government about how ...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Pakistan at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 18:45:51 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 309 km (192 miles) WSW of Karachi...
John Bush Returns to Austin City Council After Being Banned to Point Out the Gun in the Room.
Steven Spielberg is as big a liar as the notorious shoah-businessman, Elie Wiesel. He has produced film after film defaming the European people and upholding the ridiculous Holyhoax fable. As a strong...
Letters to My World has always been one of my favorite things to do on my blog. For one reason or another they have gotten lost in the shuffle for the last year or so, but today they are back and hopefully...
[image: 40 foot containers and liberated cargo float Off M/V Rena. Maritime New Zealand via cargolaw.com] January 15 (Fairfax NZ News) – As cargo from the wrecked *Rena* continues to wash up on the shor...
*"Money Printing: The Ugly Truth Behind the 'Good News'”* by Bill Bonner "Yesterday’s trading revealed nothing of importance. Small moves in stocks and gold. And oil dipped below $100. But the news has be...
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*I want to point out to Conservatives, Reformers, Sask Party and Right Wing members of the Liberal Party that your blind faith in 'unfettered free markets' is NOT in the best interest of most citizens. Wil...
Passengers and crew on a luxury cruise ship which ran aground off the Italian coast have described how people jumped for their lives into the sea. Some passengers likened scenes on the blacked-out, sin...
[image: Clothianidin molecule, a Neonicotinoid insecticide. Populations of honey bees and other pollinators have declined worldwide in recent years. A variety of stressors have been implicated as potenti...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Unimak Island Region, Alaska at a depth of 26.2 km (16.3 miles), the quake hit at 18:01:42 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 110 km (68 miles) ESE f...
THE ORIGINAL TERMINATOR: the *Japanese Giant Hornet*. Really. Check out the BBC doc below, as 30 of these intelligent *team-workers* slaughter 30,000 European honeybees. *Awesome photography of ruthless ex...
David Allun Jones* *has an excellent review of Gotye's "Somebody that I Used to Know" (via* Jonk Music*). Between the original and Walk Off the Earth's cover of it (5-person guitar-style, no less) I am pos...
------------------------------ Original Here Audit AZ takes transparent election fight to court fox11az.com Posted on January 13, 2012 at 11:15 AM *Updated yesterday at 11:23 AM* TUCSON, Ariz. -...
American Scofflaw Excuse me, waiter. There is a fractured proximal phalanx bone in my soup. A wealthy CEO is finding himself in hot water after he allegedly snapped at his waiter while dining at a swanky ...
*Annie's campaign is financed by actual people, not Romney people, not corporate special interests looking for government handouts* Today at 11am (PT), so 2 back East, Blue America will formally endorse An...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Antigua and Barbuda Region, Leeuward Islands at a depth of 30 km (18.6 miles), the quake hit at 16:45:06 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 23 km (14...
Iran said on Saturday it had evidence Washington was behind the latest killing of one of its nuclear scientists, state television reported, at a time when tensions over the country's nuclear program have ...
European leaders promised on Saturday to speed up plans to strengthen spending rules and get a permanent bailout fund up and running as soon as possible, a day after U.S. agency S&P cut the ratings of sev...
The Gay Secretary Did the erased emails divulge Romney’s previous support for an individual mandate in health care coverage? Did loyal aides purge evidence that Romney once supported LGBT equality and rep...
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck the Babuyan Islands, Philippines at a depth of 25.5 km (15.8 miles), the quake hit at 16:36:22 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 126 km (78 miles) NNE o...
*What if England did go it alone? MI6 Online* Leading friend of the London establishment Andrew Woberts says England is begging to keep Scotland as part of the UK. *A bankrupt economy, no more North Sea ...
*Global Research* American President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Harper have unveiled a new border security agreement that has received scant attention in the American media. However, far from b...
At least three people were killed and scores remain unaccounted for as a giant cruise ship keeled onto its side after running aground near the Italian island of Giglio on Friday night, local emergency offi...
A knifeman who spat on the ground before trying to kill an elderly woman was trapped when police collected his DNA from the pavement. David Walters, 22, screamed 'Die! Die!' as he punched and then stabbed...
A UK bus operator flew bosses to Poland to recruit 50 new drivers despite there being 2.6million people on the dole in the UK. Abellio, a subsidiary of the Dutch state rail operator, claimed it could not ...
major power blackout hit Turkey's largest city Saturday afternoon, leaving millions of residents without electricity while shutting down Istanbul's subway and tram systems. Officials with the Istanbul g...
A man suspected in a series of buttock slashings in Fairfax, Virginia, has been captured in Peru, authorities said. Johnny D. Guillen, known as the "Corta Nalgas" -- or "butt cutter" -- was captured Frid...
The cost and speed of sequencing your genes is now in line with other medical tests.
“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain” – the Wizard of Oz In Frank Baum’s famous political satire *The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,* a naïve Dorothy is manipulated by a totalitarian ruler (the wizar...
The Royal Navy has captured 13 Somali pirates onboard a sail boat in the Indian Ocean, the Ministry of Defence has said. A combined Nato-led counter-piracy force successfully intercepted the vessel which...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 9 km (5.6 miles), the quake hit at 13:47:51 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) East of Christch...
Collecting debts~Library Chronicles ~Some of us have very very long memories. A few years ago, an NFC Championship match-up with a similar bugaboo from days gone past had us quoting scripture we were in suc...
The tentacles of the Koch Brothers' neo-fascist octopus are everywhere in America. But the heart of their evil empire is in Topeka, Kansas. And they countenance no backtalk from politicians of any stripes...
Three people have died and at least 50 more are missing after a cruise ship carrying thousands of passengers, including 24 British holidaymakers, ran aground off Italy's coast. One of the victims was a m...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Java, Indonesia at a depth of 17.8 km (11.1 miles), the quake hit at 11:55:20 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) North of Tasikmalaya, Ja...
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A crazy design proposal for an underwater city can't be kept down.
A 24-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the murder of a couple in their Birmingham home. The arrest came as detectives were due to reveal the results of post mortems on the victims, Avtar ...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck South of the Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 34.7 km (21.6 miles), the quake hit at 11:35:00 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 193 km (120 miles) ...
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Url movie: http://youtu.be/hwob5rdecTM -- More here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16558910 *Unrelated*, but highly informative what it means for passengers: http://youtu.be/9BFux2AAMso At 00:57 ...
by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy I fully support a movement to enact a 28th amendment to the U.S. Constitution that rejects and will undo the recent SCOTUS decision 'creating people' of mere 'legal ...
MANILA, Philippines — At least 20,000 families were assisted by the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) in its ongoing relief operations in the flood-stricken cities in Northern Mindanao. Citing the report from i...
BERHAMPUR: Bird flu scare spread to Chilika lake with a migratory bird found dead in Nalabana sanctuary, even as culling of poultry continued for the second day on Friday in Keranga of Khurda district. W...
Operations at all three nuclear reactors in Shikoku have been suspended as the last one was stopped for a regular inspection on Jan. 13. Shikoku Electric Power Co. suspended operations at the No. 2 reacto...
*Officials in Washington boost security in Gulf in case Jerusalem ignores US requests to hold off on military operation against Iran's nuclear facilities, The Wall Street Journal says. * Contingency plan?...
Russia's failed Mars probe, Phobos-Grunt, is about to fall back to Earth - quite probably on Sunday. The spacecraft has been losing altitude rapidly in recent days and will soon be pulled into the top of...
A suicide bomber disguised as a policeman targeted Shiite pilgrims Saturday outside the southern Iraqi city of Basra, killing at least 30 people and wounding 80, according to authorities and state-run TV. ...
Just one decade after the European single currency was launched amid fanfare and fireworks, its future continues to look uncertain as the debt crisis that engulfed Greece, Ireland and Portugal threatens t...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast Honshu, Japan at a depth of 47.3 km (29.4 miles), the quake hit at 09:57:55 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) ESE o...
As advances in computer technology make gadgets ever smaller and more portable the idea of carrying a screen of any kind could soon be outdated. Consumer products with screens have dropped in size from co...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 37 km (23 miles), the quake hit at 09:45:42 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 150 km (93 miles) S...
Nasa's Kepler space telescope has discovered the three smallest planets yet detected orbiting a star beyond our Sun - one of which is as small as Mars. The planets orbit a single star, called KOI-961, and...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Santa Cruz Islands at a depth of 41.4 km (25.7 miles), the quake hit at 09:30:30 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) WNW of Lata, San...
A disgruntled employee killed three of his co-workers and injured another before critically wounding himself in a bloody shooting spree this morning. The man, identified by staff as Ronald Davis, 50, alle...
A teenage filmmaker, who made an emotional and inspiring video in support of gay and lesbian youth, has committed suicide. One month after filming It Gets Better, gay-and-lesbian websites reported that ...
The first week in January was the driest in U.S. history with more than 95 per cent of the U.S. reporting below-average snow. About half of the U.S. had temperatures at least 5 degrees Fahrenheit above ...
A mother was jailed for 45 years today for suffocating her six-year-old son in a motel room and dumping his body along a dirt road. Julianne McCrery, 42, of Texas admitted killing Camden Hughes by kneeling...
Tensions rising by the day, the Obama administration said Friday it is warning Iran through public and private channels against any action that threatens the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf. The Navy rev...
Sarah Duff (who has contributed to this blog before) had a very interesting piece in the UK Guardian this week on the hurdles scholars in developing countries have to face in order to engage with scholars...
The father of a missing toddler says he took a polygraph test shortly after she disappeared from his Maine home but neither he nor police will reveal the results. Justin DiPietro reported 1-year-old Ayla ...
At least three people were killed and more than 4,000 passengers and crew were rescued last night after a packed cruise liner began sinking off the Italian coast after running aground. Twenty-four Britis...
Wow, what is it with spokesthingies called Marshall saying misleading things today? * * *First* we have BC Ferries' *Deborah Marshall* trotting out a line about a *smoking clutch* when in fact we learn it ...
Google is no longer the best search engine. Type in 'Prabowo' and you get 'Primark'. On 12 January 2012, Mat Honan writes that *Google Just Made Bing the Best Search Engine* "I just switched the default...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 48.5 km (30.1 miles), the quake hit at 07:42:50 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 198 km (123 miles) West of Jayapura, Iri...
David Cameron threatened Iran with military action yesterday if the regime blocks the Straits of Hormuz – the lifeline for the world’s oil supplies. The Prime Minister spoke as he paid his first visit to ...
A mother and her two daughters have been rescued from their BMW, which was teetering perilously on a California freeway bridge after a gravel truck rear-ended their car and plunged into a creek. The truck...
A persistent group of thieves went to extreme lengths to get their hands on extra cash - after digging a 100ft tunnel under a building to reach a cash machine. The labour-intensive robbery saw the gang sp...
An obsessed Kate Bush fan has been deported from Britain after breaking into her home in an attempt to propose to her. Frank Tufaro, an American, was carrying a £3,000 diamond, sapphire and gold ring bo...
France was stripped of its coveted AAA credit rating last night in a crushing humiliation for President Nicolas Sarkozy. The downgrade of Europe's second largest economy - along with eight other Eurozone ...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Kamchatka, Russia at a depth of 62.9 km (39.1 miles), the quake hit at 06:11:45 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 72 km (44 miles)...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Hokkaido, Japan Region at a depth of 128.8 km (80 miles), the quake hit at 06:07:24 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) Northeast of Toma...
Slowly but surely general security is steadily improving. More cameras and more electronic capability as loopholes are systematically shut out. Here we have the addition of sprays that nicely ...
We are slowly getting better at all this. A chimera is a creature formed from the cells of two separate individuals, in this case of the same species. In folklore, it is extended to include tw...
It turns out that sea cucumbers are instrumental in cleaning up coral debris and redissolving it so it may once again be turned into fresh coral. It is not dissolving the reef at all. This ite...
The country has a population exceeding 150,000,000 of which half are Muslim and the other half are Christian. However, it looks more like a local thug is attempting to get his grab for power in...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 05:52:32 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 24 km (14.9 miles) East of Susehri, Turkey No ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 9.5 km (5.9 miles), the quake hit at 04:44:46 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 229 km (142 miles) ESE...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Tonga Region at a depth of 14.3 km (8.9 miles), the quake hit at 00:46:46 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 219 km (136 miles) WNW of Niue Island No ...
The eurozone economy has been plunged back into crisis after the credit worthiness of nine nations were downgraded by a leading ratings agency. Standard & Poor's (S&P) stripped France of its gold-plated A...
The current global average mean temperature is about 15 °C. However, Colin Goldblatt and Andrew J. Watson have submitted a preprint called The Runaway Greenhouse: implications for future climate change, ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 393.7 km (244.6 miles), the quake hit at 23:00:43 UTC Friday 13th January 2012 The epicenter was 273 km (169 miles) South of Sigave, Ile F...
TECHNOLOGY - In this age of internet advertising companies will frequently approach popular blogs and websites offering to pay for any number of advertising schemes. The problem is that is exactly what th...
* Indonesia* Black magic has long existed in the USA and Europe. On 14 January 2012 the *Sydney Morning Herald* reports on *Indonesia's fixation with black magic* *During the 2009 election campaign, Indo...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 113.2 km (70.3 miles), the quake hit at 22:50:00 UTC Friday 13th January 2012 The epicenter was 119 km (73 miles) West...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 129.8 km (80.7 miles), the quake hit at 21:25:09 UTC Friday 13th January 2012 The epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) South...
Six people have died and four more are missing after a luxury cruise ship carrying thousands of passengers, including British holidaymakers, ran aground off the coast of Italy. A major rescue operation...
*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...
I really feel saddened for this nation when I hear people who I greatly admire have been somehow seduced by the cult of Mitt Romney. We have only had ONE primary and some caucuses in two tiny little states...
"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 P...
*"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...
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(By *American Zen*'s Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari Goldstein.) *"The reason is simple: Romney is not a conservative. He's not, folks. You can argue with me all day long on that, but he isn't. What he h...
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*Judge beats daughter, Rick Perry melts down, "manly" pizza, my letter to Al Franken, is mac 'n' cheese "a black thing"?, and more* *by Noah* *11/2/11 -- Quote of the Year nominee: Ann Coulter, "Our bla...
------------------------------ Original Here *America’s Last Chance* ------------------------------ January 14, 2012 America has one last chance, and it is a very slim one. Americans can elect R...
High Strangeness: Earth's Shadow Denizens By Scott Corrales (c) 2012 On the last day of the year in 1968, an uncle and nephew were driving from the town of Isabela on the island’s north shor...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Pakistan at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 18:45:51 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 309 km (192 miles) WSW of Karachi...
Steven Spielberg is as big a liar as the notorious shoah-businessman, Elie Wiesel. He has produced film after film defaming the European people and upholding the ridiculous Holyhoax fable. As a strong...
Letters to My World has always been one of my favorite things to do on my blog. For one reason or another they have gotten lost in the shuffle for the last year or so, but today they are back and hopefully...
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