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Jan. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. should declare a moratorium on
hydraulic fracturing for natural gas in populated areas until the health effects are better understood, doctors said at a conference on the dri...
Flawed database doesn’t capture all hazardous chemical releases. The
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has unveiled its analysis of the 2010 Toxics Release Inventory, a database containing information o...
OTTAWA—A biologist, an energy lawyer and an aboriginal geologist will sit down Tuesday in a recreation centre in the wilderness of northern
British Columbia to initiate what could be the fiercest environme...
Well, this is a bad way to start the year. Over the past 48 hours, news has broken in India of the existence of at least 12 patients infected with tuberculosis that has become resistant to all the drugs ...
Rough conditions at
Christmas Island have left authorities on the foreshore watching a broken-up cargo ship leak oil and phosphate on to the coastline this afternoon. General cargo vessel the MV Tycoon, ...
Air pollution levels in Hong Kong were the worst ever last year, the South China Morning Post reported on Monday, a finding that may further undermine the city's role as an Asian financial centre as busin...
EMILY BOURKE: Think Antarctica, think pristine but a new study has again found that's not exactly so. A team of oceanographers have discovered the sea birds in the Southern Ocean have four times the mercu...
Scientists have found that food packaging appears to increase the levels of two phthalates in lunches fed to children by up to 50%, following a study in Italy. Researchers from the University of Naples m...
Current predictions overlook two important factors: the differences in how quickly species relocate and competition among species. As climate change progresses, the planet may lose more plant and animal s...
------------------------------ http://youtu.be/i3EADdr-5AY Busted! Ron Paul racist rant caught on tape! OMG! OMG! http://youtu.be/CWpICzxteMk Ron Paul 2012: Unmatched Intellect Cherchez la Verite
For career criminal Darrell Issa to set loose the hounds of hell on a senior Republican colleague-- in this case, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon-- the preponderance of evidence of cri...
We have been hearing a lot about what the oil spill is doing to the ocean. But something else which is also concerning is the condition the ocean was in, even prior to the spill. We live in a finite world....
Seaview beachcomber Matt Mulvey is eager for debris from the Japanese tsunami to wash up on the Long Beach Peninsula. He hopes to find real glass fishing floats and buoys among the sea-trash swept into t...
"In life you have to do a lot of things you don't ****ing want to do. Many times, that's what the **** life is... one vile ****ing task after another.” - “Al Swearengen”, “Deadwood”
The U.S. Coast Guard will escort the first ship coming to the EGT grain terminal at the Port of Longview this month, and the Occupy movement and local labor groups say they are planning to greet the vessel...
President Obama formally notified Congress on Thursday of his intent to raise the nation’s debt ceiling by $1.2 trillion, two weeks after he had postponed the request to give lawmakers more time to conside...
The Treasury Department has begun maneuvers to avoid hitting the debt ceiling, as the Obama administration waits for Congress to return from the holiday break before it can raise the federal borrowing limi...
A Cincinnati landlord found to have violated state anti-discrimination laws after she hung a "white only" sign outside her swimming pool lost an appeal with the Ohio Civil Rights Commission on Thursday. ...
The record of President Obama’s first three years in office is in, and nothing that happens now can go back and change that. What that record shows is that President Obama, with his throwback, old-fashione...
Michael Hastings' new book, The Operators, jabs at what could be a vulnerable spot for the Obama Administration, the president's relationship with the troops. The book describes a visit to Baghdad: After ...
Over the past few months, I have written several articles dealing with the coming cashless society and the developing technological control grid. I also have written about the surge of government attempts ...
Former customers of MF Global Holdings' collapsed brokerage were disappointed to hear on Thursday that the trustee hunting for funds missing from their accounts has no immediate plans to transfer more mone...
A Mount Pleasant woman is serving 10 days in jail after failing to pay a $480 fine for having a messy yard. The Post and Courier of Charleston reports 53-year-old Linda Ruggles has sold blood and even vo...
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck the South Shetland Islands at a depth of 9.1 km (5.7 miles), the quake hit at 03:59:45 UTC Monday 16th January 2012 The epicenter was 569 km (353 miles) West of Corona...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Sulawesi, Indonesia at a depth of 18.9 km (11.7 miles), the quake hit at 03:21:55 UTC Monday 16th January 2012 The epicenter was 220 km (137 miles) NNE of Baubau, Sulaw...
The latest round of American sanctions are aimed at shutting down Iran's central bank, a senior US official said Thursday, spelling out that intention directly for the first time. "We do need to close do...
China is investing hundreds of billions of dollars to modernize some of the historic trading towns on its western frontier. But critics say modernization is happening at a cost to the region’s cultural h...
Despite tightening sanctions on Iran's oil industry, experts say the country's crude should still flow -- but perhaps at a deep discount. In fact, the bargaining has already begun, two analysts said. Chin...
Somali pirates are not building palaces with swimming pools with the ransoms they collect from international shipping companies and hostages, but they are helping the local economy, a new report finds. "...
The bigger they are, the harder they fall. That's the tenet behind the Skyscraper Index which tracks a link between construction booms of tall buildings and economic busts over the past 140 years. Some s...
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...
At least half a million children in the UK are unhappy with their lives, according to a survey. The Good Childhood Report 2012 revealed that 9% of school children aged between eight and 15 are miserabl...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck offshore Tarapaca, Chile at a depth of 42.2 km (26.2 miles), the quake hit at 23:51:10 UTC Sunday 15th January 2012 The epicenter was 43 km (26 miles) WSW of Iquique, ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 62.3 km (38.7 miles), the quake hit at 22:49:09 UTC Sunday 15th January 2012 The epicenter was 105 km (65 miles) WSW of Oaxaca, Mexico No T...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 80 km (49.6 miles), the quake hit at 21:58:50 UTC Sunday 15th January 2012 The epicenter was 82 km (50.8 miles) South ...
President Barack Obama: Blackmailed? On Sunday, January 15, CNN reported that "The U.S. military has postponed planned military exercises with Israel ahead of a scheduled visit by the chairman of the Joi...
*****Holiday tree some guests put up from a branch in the jungle the staff found and all natural ornaments, i.e. shells, etc. The same guests have been putting up an all natural tree on the beach the past ...
"Similar in size to other large, bright spiral galaxies, IC 342 is a mere 7 million light-years distant in the long-necked, northern constellation Camelopardalis. A sprawling island universe, IC 342 would ...
Zachary, Louisiana, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
The drive to Ottawa. Had there been an “annex the Turks & Caicos” policy, it would have passed overwhelmingly, simply on the prospect of a sun destination convention. Munir Sheikh – the Bono of former S...
"We don't have to hate ourselves for our own vulnerability. We don't have to hate ourselves for what life has done to us. We don't have to hate ourselves because hurt or loss or longing has gotten to us....
Very Interesting Bit of Detective Work 1. Back in 1961 people of color were called 'Negroes.' So how can the Obama 'birth certificate' state he is 'African-American' when the term wasn't even used at ...
“Superstition lies in the space between what we can control. Find a penny, pick it up, and all day long you'll have good luck. No one wants to pass up a chance for good luck. But does saying it thirty thr...
So don't forget to throw a few bucks their way!
Talks over a deal to write down Greek government bonds have been put on "pause," according to the industry group representing private sector investors and banks. The Institute of International Finance sai...
*"Mitt Romney looks no less presidential today than he did at the start. But none of the others has come close to making himself plausible."* *-- Fred Hiatt, in a WaPo column,* "Where are the serious Repub...
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Not PC - 3 hours ago
In case you hadn’t heard, European government debt was downgraded over the weekend. Not before time. After four years of attempting government “rescues” of their respective economies by borrowing to b...
Tunisia has cautiously added its voice to calls from Qatar for direct intervention to stop the bloody crackdowns on protesters in Syria. The foreign minister of Tunisia said in an interview to APTN on Sund...
Sudan has started to confiscate some oil exports from South Sudan to meet “unpaid transit fees” but said it will not shut down a pipeline carrying the southern state's oil. "Since early December we've sta...
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Biased BBC - 5 hours ago
As seasoned B-BBC readers are all too aware, the BBC has an unpleasant habit of editing elements of its stories, without changing the 'last updated' timestamp in the article header - an activity known as s...
*VISIONS:* *THE PRODUCER CO-OP OPTION:* There are basically two types of cooperatives, consumer and producer. The former is a mutual aid society of purchasers banded together to get the best possible...
Any surviving components of the doomed Phobos-Grunt spacecraft plunged into the ocean on Sunday.
Skip the Turban, Check the Brain: It’s Called the Persian Gulf for a Reason By Mark Sheffield Published: December 26, 2011 Policy on Point.com Iran just can’t help but make the ‘news’ these days. Whether i...
[image: Atmospheric NO2 concentration over China, 1 June 2007 - 30 August 2007. disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov] By Nina Chestney, editing by Rosalind Russell 15 January 2012 LONDON (Reuters) – A rise in the atm...
Follow up to the news story I posted on Friday. Thanks for the interesting comments. It appears to be time for a map! Oh look, a map...... Relevant comment from Veritas " Thai Oil reserves in the Gulf ...
*Lena Horne sings what the YouTube poster aptly describes as her "signature song," "Stormy Weather," from the 1943 film Stormy Weather.* *by Ken* In Friday night's preview we heard two thrilling musical ...
Tohono O'odahm veteran protests outside the school board meeting in Tucson on Tuesday night, when Mexican American Studies was banned. It resulted in Tucson schools banning books by award winning Chicano and...
"Why should Man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him?" ~ Pierre Troubetzkoy
posted by PC at
Not PC - 7 hours ago
As I blogged last year, temperature “predictions” by alleged climate scientists have failed over recent decades to match the measured surface temperature record. “Predictions” from 1990 for example expec...
posted by PC at
Not PC - 8 hours ago
There’s plenty of reasons for a person to feel negative about life in Christchurch. Or not... Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.c...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 49.2 km (30.6 miles), the quake hit at 14:52:02 UTC Sunday 15th January 2012 The epicenter was 126 km (78 mi...
Yanni, “To The One Who Knows”
The irony of deceit. by Tony Cartalucci January 16, 2012 - Prachatai describes itself as "an independent, non-profit, daily web newspaper established in June 2004 to provide reliable and relevant news a...
*“The Final Steps in Achieving Global Totalitarianism”* by Richard Posner "The ultimate tyranny in a society is not control by martial law. It is control by the psychological manipulation of consciousness...
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." - George Carlin
The mother and daughter who were killed at their home near Leeds are Sarah Laycock and eight-year-old Abigail, according to Sky sources. Their bodies were found at a house in Garforth on Saturday after p...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 16.2 km (10.1 miles), the quake hit at 19:06:47 UTC Sunday 15th January 2012 The epicenter was 2447 km (1521 miles) South...
*"The U.S. Government Is Bankrupt" * by Doug Casey, Casey Research "Everyone knows that the US government is bankrupt and has been for many years. But I thought it might be instructive to see what its cur...
[image: Half of the grounded container ship 'Rena' is seen in the Bay of Plenty near Tauranga on 9 January 2012, after it broke in two in a storm. The cargo ship which caused New Zealand's worst maritime...
Pieces of a failed Russian Mars probe plummeted into the Pacific Ocean far off the Chilean coast on Sunday, Russian news agencies cited a military official as saying. Debris from the Phobos-Grunt craft fe...
Survivors of the Costa Concordia have told of the panic and chaos as thousands of people desperately attempted to flee the stricken vessel. Incredible stories of survival have emerged today from some of th...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the South Shetland Islands at a depth of 15.7 km (9.8 miles), the quake hit at 18:41:10 UTC Sunday 15th January 2012 The epicenter was 358 km (223 miles) West of Coron...
To D-fox: if you're reading this, please contact us at thecomingcrisis@gmail.com. It's important -- we believe.
Israel has been sending their Dolphin class submarines through the Suez Canal. Traveling on the surface, the Dolphins can travel 8000 miles without needing to refuel. Given a sub-tender in the Indian oce...
[image: A NASA map shows ecological sensitivity for the next century, with purple representing regions only slightly vulnerable to change. The ecological stress increases through blue, green, yellow, and...
Compared to the snaking queues and crowds at Tokyo’s biggest food festival, the four stalls from Fukushima prefecture are an oasis of quiet. It might just be a pre-lunchtime lull, but among the hundreds o...
The Gay Secretary The US military has a long history of attempting to weaponize animals, with often comical failures. Most people are already aware that B.F. Skinner trained pigeons to guide bombs onto ...
Dozens of suspected al Qaeda militants attacked government posts southeast of the Yemeni capital, seizing strategic areas, local authorities and witnesses said. The group of at least 30 entered Radda Sat...
NYT: "The Top 1 Percent: What Jobs Do They Have?" "Explore the occupations and industries of the nation’s wealthiest households." http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/newsgraphics/2012/0115-one-percen...
The Gay Secretary We have seen rumblings on the netabout a 1940's style "Pearl Harbor false flag" possibly against a US military asset in the Gulf, to blame on Iran as the "reason" to attack it. Released...
*Ayutthaya, Thailand, 9 January 2011* [image: Flood waters continued receding in Thailand’s historic city of Ayutthaya in January 2012. The Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) ...
France does not see a need to launch further austerity measures as a result of losing its top-notch AAA rating with Standard and Poor's, Finance Minister Francois Baroin told a German newspaper. "We are c...
The Gay Secretary Whether this is simply public posturing by the Obama administration (possibly to lull Iran into a false sense of security) remains to be seen. The US still has 9,000 troops deployed to...
Enenews today has a column on excess deaths in the US attributable to Fukushima. The research was conducted by Dr. Janette Sherman and epidemiologist Joseph Mangano, co-authors of the medical journal arti...
[image: A Zapada stonefly is in the same genus as the western glacier stonefly, which the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will study to determine whether to propose adding it to the federal lists of threa...
[image: Agricultural Systems At Risk: Human Pressure On Land And Water. FAO] ROME, 28 November 2011 (FAO) – Widespread degradation and deepening scarcity of land and water resources have placed a number ...
Dozens of suspected al Qaeda militants attacked government posts southeast of the Yemeni capital, seizing strategic areas, local authorities and witnesses said. The group of at least 30 entered Radda Satu...
[image: Herpetologist Bryan Stuart] By Laurel Neme, special to www.mongabay.com 21 December 2011 Scientists and the public usually rejoice when a new species is discovered. But biologist Bryan Stuart ha...
A woman whose father died in a factory accident has seized the chance to rid herself of the sight of the building where it happened - by blowing it up. Sarah Griffiths, 41, pushed the button which trigge...
[image: Abandoned horses in Britain stand near an office building. Thousands of horses were abandoned by owners in 2011, as spiralling costs mean horses are left to roam. Redwings] By Tim Rich and Jonat...
Happy Birthday Drew and Baylen Brees! ~Hat Tweet @humidbeings~HAPPY BIRTHDAY @*DrewBrees*! We love you and everything you do for the city of New Orleans! // "Me and Drew by @*IanHoch*" youtu.be/amWMhBxHjs0
Israel and the United States are "supporters of state terrorism" and will suffer a "punitive response" at an "opportune time," Iran's Press TV cited a top Iranian general as saying Sunday, days after an...
Seven officers killed as suspected Sunni insurgents detonate car bomb and storm prison for terror suspects in Ramadi. Seven policemen have been killed after gunmen detonated a car bomb and blasted their ...
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Buckdog - 12 hours ago
*Why should anyone take the Liberals seriously on marijuana reform in Canada? "While they were in power, Canada's former Liberal government introduced marijuana reform legislation a number of times ... a...
A magnitude 6.6 earthquake has struck the South Shetland Islands at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:40:18 UTC Sunday 15th January 2012 The epicenter was 485 km (301 miles) West of Coronati...
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wmtc - 13 hours ago
It has come to my attention that certain fundamental religious people believe that the death of Christopher Hitchens, who had advanced cancer, vindicates their beliefs and proves that Hitchens' atheism was...
Scientists have genetically modified silkworms to produce threads that are as strong as spider silk.
With the Optimus line of keyboards, each key is its own separate, customizable LED screen.
Two more bodies have been found on the stricken Costa Concordia cruise liner off the coast of Italy, bringing the total number of dead to five. According to the coastguard, the bodies of two elderly passen...
Israel and the United States are "supporters of state terrorism" and will suffer a "punitive response" at an "opportune time," Iran's Press TV cited a top Iranian general as saying Sunday, days after an ...
Nigerian labor unions failed to reach a deal with the government to stop a national strike over soaring fuel prices, with hours of late-night wrangling ending early Sunday without a compromise. Oil labor ...
A freighter carrying oil exploded off the South Korean port city of Incheon, killing three crew members, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Sunday. Five crew members were rescued but eight others w...
posted by David Preiser (USA) at
Biased BBC - 13 hours ago
The recent BBC coverage of the indictment and pending extradition of Richard O'Dwyer for abetting internet piracy has been pretty overtly biased in favor of the defendant. The main thrust of O'Dwyer's st...
Now imagine this was a supertanker filled with bitumen. Only imagine it's a supertanker full of diluted bitumen wrecked off the proposed tanker port of Kitimat. Okay, there are differences. This is a...
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wmtc - 14 hours ago
Last summer, Allan and I had plans to meet a friend for dinner, and I Googled the restaurant to get the address and details. The place came up in Google right away, but I couldn't get to the website. After...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Jan Mayen Island Region, Arctic Ocean at a depth of 30 km (18.6 miles), the quake hit at 14:45:56 UTC Sunday 15th January 2012 The epicenter was 721 km (447 miles)...
New Orleans Saints burned by blitz in final minute ~Jeff Duncan ~Hat Tweet @Pierre_Thomas~Hey fans, just to let everyone know...I'm doing great...it was a nasty hit but this is the sport we play, can't... ...
A magnitude 6.2 earthquake has struck the South Shetland Islands at a depth of 14.8 km (9.2 miles), the quake hit at 14:21:32 UTC Sunday 15th January 2012 The epicenter was 492 km (306 miles) West of Coron...
A failed Russian probe designed to travel to a moon of Mars, but is instead stuck in Earth orbit, will come crashing down within hours, the Russian space agency has said. Roscosmos said the unmanned Phob...
Foreign Secretary William Hague has told Sky News that Britain was not ruling out military action against Iran. He insisted all options remained on the table in relation to Tehran's "increasingly danger...
Iraqi officials say gunmen stormed a police building in the western city of Ramadi Sunday, as at least one suicide bomber detonated explosives outside the facility. Police say clashes are ongoing inside ...
The Arab League has not received any official request or suggestion that it send Arab troops to Syria, an Arab representative to the Cairo-based League told Reuters on Sunday. Qatar's emir, Sheikh Hamad ...
Damascus extends deal after criticism by Ban Ki-moon and Amr Mousa, as west again rules out military intervention. President Bashar al-Assad has offered an amnesty to citizens who have taken up arms agai...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Less than a week after New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu touted a string of peaceful and well-managed city events capped by the BCS championship game, he was back at the podium on Friday...
[image: Link]A magnitude 6.7 earthquake has struck the South Shetland Islands at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:40:17 UTC Sunday 15th January 2012 The epicenter was 539 km (334 miles) We...
Until recently, Arkansas had two Democrats in the Senate and three Democrats in the House and just one Republican in its congressional delegation. But you know what happened? The Democrats started abandon...
The purser of the ill-fated Costa Concordia was rescued Sunday morning after crews found him trapped in a restaurant, more than a day after the ship ran aground off the coast of Tuscany, killing at least ...
*Just remember Iraq was supposed to have nukes, too. * "UN asked to show Iran nuclear data" October 16, 2011|By David E. Sanger and Mark Landler, New York Times WASHINGTON - President *Obama is pressing U...
The captain of the capsized Italian cruise ship has spoken of the disaster - and insisted he was last to leave the sinking vessel. Captain Francesco Schettino was detained yesterday on suspicion of multi...
*Last (?) thoughts on Cain, love Kentucky Baptist-style, Etch A Sketch-pad?, G. Will on Newt, Big House for Blago, and more* (*See 12/5.*) *by Noah* *12/1/11 -- Last (?) thoughts on Herman Cain -- with s...
Detectives investigating the murders of Avtar and Carole Kolar in Birmingham have arrested a second man. More follows...
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Broken of Britain - 17 hours ago
*Police are searching the home of plasterer John Miller after the bodies of a woman and an eight-year-old girl were found in Leeds, Sky sources say.* The victims were discovered in Kirkby Avenue, Garforth...
An animal welfare organization says up to 30 dolphins have been found stranded on five Cape Cod beaches, and only 11 were able to be released. Kerry Branon of the International Fund for Animal Welfare say...
BHUBANESWAR: Betanoti in Mayurbhanj district is in grip of a scare after preliminary reports on Saturday indicated that a poultry bird sample from the town had confirmed the presence of bird flu, official...
PHNOM PENH, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- A 2-year-old boy from northwestern Cambodian province of Banteay Meanchey was infected with avian influenza H5N1 virus, Cambodia's Ministry of Health and the World Health O...
Hong Kong slaughtered 17,000 birds last month, not in preparation for Christmas but because a single chicken at the Cheung Sha Wan wholesale market had tested positive for bird flu. The precaution was no...
NEW BRIGHTON — A large group of dead birds, including a hawk, found in New Brighton appear to be the result of poisoning, according to the Pennsylvania Game Commission. New Brighton Area police said they...
A magnitude 2.8 earthquake has struck Western Texas at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 09:29:03 UTC Sunday 15th January 2012 The epicenter was 22 km (14 miles) NNE from Balmorhea, Texas No Rep...
*Related*: *U.S. Government Uses Texas Used Car Salesman to Sell Terror Plot * *Turns out the Mossad gave the Texas car salesman his paperwork, and that the other suspect is a member of MKO, the CIA/Mossad...
***Buitenzorg **NATO Special Forces Led Takeover Of Tripoli** **12,000 US troops are heading from Malta to Libya** * [image: Dump Site in Mae Sot - Thailandia] Thailand by lucachizzali *Israel warns...
The stranded Phobos-Grunt probe will likely reenter Earth's atmosphere late on Sunday.
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 29.5 km (18.3 miles), the quake hit at 09:24:52 UTC Sunday 15th January 2012 The epicenter was 260 km (161 miles) South...
They gathered in their thousands, in the birthplace of the Arab Spring. Tunisians have been marking the first anniversary of the ousting of President Ben Ali. They filled Bourguiba Avenue in the capital ...
AP: The UN Secretary General has demanded that Syria's president stops killing his own people, saying the revolutions of the Arab Spring show that people will no longer accept tyranny. In a keynote addres...
The failed Russian Mars probe, Phobos-Grunt, continued its descent to Earth on Saturday, losing hundreds of metres in height every hour. By 23:00 Saturday (GMT), the 13-tonne spacecraft was circling the p...
Investigators say four women are being held in the western Mexican city of Guadalajara in connection with an apparent child-trafficking ring that aimed to supply babies to childless Irish couples. The Ja...
Clashes erupt at the border between Kosovo and Serbia. Police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse hundreds of demonstrators trying to block traffic from Serbia. The ethnic Albanian protester...
This was not an intentional fireworks display. A truck was making a delivery of fireworks and firecrackers and accidentally dropped its goods...setting off colourful sparks in this tunnel in southern C...
*Why?* *“It’s easier to think about this than it is to comment on the plight of the urban poor or climate change or war. The world weighs upon us. It’s complicated and it’s scary and it’s sad and it’s tra...
A Russian tanker is preparing to off-load more than a million gallons of diesel and gasoline to fuel-starved Nome, after finally reaching the Alaska town's iced-in harbor to send that cargo through a mile-...
Investigators are 'extremely confident' that a man in their custody is responsible for all four recent killings of homeless men in Orange County, Anaheim Police Chief John Welter said Saturday. Welter sa...
The Obama administration raised concerns Saturday about efforts in Congress that it said would undermine 'the dynamic, innovative global Internet’. White House officials urged lawmakers to approve measure...
The European Union has been accused of trying to 'brainwash' children after pupils all over the country were given pencil cases with its logo emblazoned across it. The brightly-coloured pencil cases feat...
A murder investigation has been launched after the bodies of a woman and an eight-year-old girl were found at a house in Leeds, police said. They were discovered in Kirkby Avenue, Garforth. Officers also ...
At least 53 people were killed yesterday when a bomb tore through a procession of Shia pilgrims heading towards a largely Sunni town in southern Iraq. It is the latest sign of a power struggle between ri...
A freighter carrying oil exploded off the South Korean port city of Incheon, killing three crew members, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Sunday. Five crew members were rescued but eight others ...
George Osborne will this week signal that Britain’s future lies away from the crumbling eurozone by calling for stronger ties with Asia. The Chancellor will use a three-day visit to China and Japan to sho...
Divers last night searching the Italian luxury cruise liner that capsized in the Mediterranean, pulled two people alive from the wreckage amid fears that more passengers were left trapped inside. More tha...
A honeymoon couple have been rescued from a cruise liner in Italy 24 hours after it capsized - as firefighters reportedly find a third survivor inside the ship. Rescuers have been banging on the doors o...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Sea of Okskotsk, Russia at a depth of 16.5 km (10.3 miles), the quake hit at 06:29:23 UTC Sunday 15th January 2012 The epicenter was 228 km (141 miles) WSW of Maga...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Solomon Islands at a depth of 96.5 km (60 miles), the quake hit at 02:40:09 UTC Sunday 15th January 2012 The epicenter was 126 km (78 miles) SSW of Arawa, Bougainvi...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Southern Iran at a depth of 36.9 km (22.9 miles), the quake hit at 20:15:20 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 43 km (26 miles) WNW of Lar, Iran No Report...
"All we have to do is remember who we are. We are not Germans. We're not peasants in China. We're not peasants in Russia. We have a legacy and a history of fighting for liberty. Americans have always fou...
We've been nuked! http://www.youtube.com/user/ichicax4 also available here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL4js7lqV_w
Tonight. the New England Patriots beat the Denver Broncos 45-10 to advance to the second round of the NFL playoffs. Many amazing facts and stats were accrued, including Tom Brady's 363 passing yards and R...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4nzeg9S6_E&feature=related I believe this link was provided by Heart of the Rose at Enenews but I've lost the link now. Someone who lives in Oregon was testing using her g...
*Sorry for the commercial, but it's the price we pay for access to an official CBS clip. For that matter, we have to make do with a really limited selection of clips. I couldn't find one with Sheldon's mo...
"What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams." - Pedro Calderon de la Bar...
Just got done watching something that I wanted to share with all. This is 2 hours 37 minutes of probably the most important thing you can watch in awhile. This is a program that every person in the 99% sh...
"This pretty planetary nebula, cataloged as NGC 6369, was discovered by 18th century astronomer William Herschel as he used a telescope to explore the medicinal constellation Ophiucus. Round and planet-sha...
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." - Robert Frost
*"10 Simple Truths Smart People Forget"* by Marc “Some of the smartest people I know continuously struggle to get ahead because they forget to address a few simple truths that collectively govern our pot...
Bozeman, Montana, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
*"Cupid's Dart"* by Chet Raymo "What is it about the martyr Saint Sebastian? He has perhaps been represented in art more than any other minor saint, young, lank and handsome, usually naked except for a l...
*Banned book includes Leslie Marmon Silko, Buffy Sainte Marie and Winona LaDuke* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ Updated Sunday with list of banned books and response f...
Many bloggers do not know how to delete a Blogger (blogspot) blog. The method depends on whether you are still using the old Blogger UI (User Interface) or the new UI. It is not difficult if you know wher...
A French Mirage and a Saudi F-15 collided in the kingdom's northern region of Tabuk without causing casualties, state news agency SPA quoted a military official as saying on Saturday. "During a joint exer...
I retired from Warner Bros before Bain formed a consortium of "investors" to come in and take over the company. AOL's Steve Case and his cronies had pretty much pillaged it and left it on the side of the ...
The leader of Qatar has said Arab troops should be sent to Syria to stop the regime's violent crackdown on protesters. Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani's comments, made to CBS, are the first by an A...
There's a veritable menagerie of alien worlds out there, and astronomers may have spotted the weirdest yet: An exoplanet that 'oozes.'
In an interview on the Chris Matthews show on MSNBC, former CIA officer Robert Baer said that Israel is behind the string of assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists. The latest victim of this terror c...
In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, the Foreign Secretary expressed concerns that Iran's actions could spark a nuclear arms race, and called on the Iranian government to negotiate a peaceful resolut...
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*"Courage*" "It is in the small things we see it. The child's first step, as awesome as an earthquake. The first time you rode a bike, wallowing up the sidewalk. The first spanking when your heart went on ...
"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...
(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...
Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse 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 provided...
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 ...
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Flawed database doesn’t capture all hazardous chemical releases. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has unveiled its analysis of the 2010 Toxics Release Inventory, a database containing information o...
OTTAWA—A biologist, an energy lawyer and an aboriginal geologist will sit down Tuesday in a recreation centre in the wilderness of northern British Columbia to initiate what could be the fiercest environme...
Well, this is a bad way to start the year. Over the past 48 hours, news has broken in India of the existence of at least 12 patients infected with tuberculosis that has become resistant to all the drugs ...
Rough conditions at Christmas Island have left authorities on the foreshore watching a broken-up cargo ship leak oil and phosphate on to the coastline this afternoon. General cargo vessel the MV Tycoon, ...
Air pollution levels in Hong Kong were the worst ever last year, the South China Morning Post reported on Monday, a finding that may further undermine the city's role as an Asian financial centre as busin...
EMILY BOURKE: Think Antarctica, think pristine but a new study has again found that's not exactly so. A team of oceanographers have discovered the sea birds in the Southern Ocean have four times the mercu...
Current predictions overlook two important factors: the differences in how quickly species relocate and competition among species. As climate change progresses, the planet may lose more plant and animal s...
For career criminal Darrell Issa to set loose the hounds of hell on a senior Republican colleague-- in this case, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon-- the preponderance of evidence of cri...
We have been hearing a lot about what the oil spill is doing to the ocean. But something else which is also concerning is the condition the ocean was in, even prior to the spill. We live in a finite world....
Seaview beachcomber Matt Mulvey is eager for debris from the Japanese tsunami to wash up on the Long Beach Peninsula. He hopes to find real glass fishing floats and buoys among the sea-trash swept into t...
The U.S. Coast Guard will escort the first ship coming to the EGT grain terminal at the Port of Longview this month, and the Occupy movement and local labor groups say they are planning to greet the vessel...
President Obama formally notified Congress on Thursday of his intent to raise the nation’s debt ceiling by $1.2 trillion, two weeks after he had postponed the request to give lawmakers more time to conside...
The Treasury Department has begun maneuvers to avoid hitting the debt ceiling, as the Obama administration waits for Congress to return from the holiday break before it can raise the federal borrowing limi...
The record of President Obama’s first three years in office is in, and nothing that happens now can go back and change that. What that record shows is that President Obama, with his throwback, old-fashione...
Michael Hastings' new book, The Operators, jabs at what could be a vulnerable spot for the Obama Administration, the president's relationship with the troops. The book describes a visit to Baghdad: After ...
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