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BEIRUT, Lebanon — The failure of an
Arab League mission to stanch violence in Syria, an international community with little leverage and a government as defiant as its opposition is in disarray have left S...
Elephant Statues Covered in India A decision by the country's election commission blankets hundreds of politically themed statues in Uttar Pradesh with pink and yellow tarps Gallery
Nothing is quite as damning or convincing as photo evidence. And when
James Balog looked over his time-lapse photography of an Icelandic glacier, everything he thought he knew about climate change .... ch...
Country's
OPEC envoy threatens "consequences" if neighbouring states make up for oil shortfall caused by sanctions. Iran has warned its neighbours in the Gulf not to make up for any shortfall in its oil e...
Pakistan must end its policy of killings and kidnappings of
Baloch people and recognise the importance of the region. *
Washington, DC *- The behaviour of the powerful elite of Islamabad reminds me of the ...
As a third-grader in
Winsted, Connecticut, last year, Matthew Asselin was sick -- a lot. He was lethargic and plagued with a persistent wet cough, respiratory infections and painful headaches. As the sch...
*"A Tiny Elite Owns 80% Of The Wealth Of the World"* By The Tap Blog “Ever since Benoit Mandelbrot discovered “fractals” in the 1970s, the fascinating new science of Chaos Theory has become a part of our ...
LONDON — If you're not allowed to enslave people any more, or even loot their resources, then what is the point of being a traditional great power? The United States kept an army of over 100,000 soldiers i...
Is the ongoing crisis surrounding the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant being accurately reported in the Japanese media? No, says independent journalist Shigeo Abe, who claims the authorities, and many ...
Everyone loves chocolate. But for thousands of people, chocolate is the reason for their enslavement. The chocolate bar you snack on likely starts at a plant in a West African cocoa plantation, and ofte...
Russia remains one of the least-safe countries in terms of nuclear security, although the country is making progress in securing its weapons-usable nuclear materials, a new report released Wednesday found....
Capital outflows totaled $84.2 billion last year according to data released by the Central Bank on Wednesday, the second-highest figure since 1994 and a big jump from the $33.6 billion that exited Russia i...
Let's leave aside the episodes of Boehner handing out bribes on behalf of his lobbyist pals as people were voting on the House floor. One of the most notorious ones was caught in the explosive "career-en...
A growing number of Korean children are being looked after by their grandparents because their parents are divorced. According to a 2010 government survey, 0.4 percent or 69,175 households in the country...
Iran said Thursday that it would respond to Israel's 'cold war' against it - with attacks against Israelis, and possibly Jews worldwide. Iran is preparing its own answers to the string of assassinations of...
We follow Ukrainian miners as they go underground to dig the last pieces of coal from exhausted mine shafts. Filmmaker: Michael Glawogger *"Work is often difficult to see, and therefore difficult to depi...
"Well over a thousand galaxies are known members of the Virgo Cluster, the closest large cluster of galaxies to our own local group. In fact, the galaxy cluster is difficult to appreciate all at once becau...
Magazine report claims Israeli spies used fake US spy identities to work with Pakistani fighters targeting Iran. Agents with Israel's spy agency, Mossad, have posed as CIA agents in operations to recruit...
The US slapped sanctions on China's Zhuhai Zhenrong Company Thursday for engaging in energy deals with Iran. Analysts believe the US was sending a signal to Beijing, after US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithne...
Certain 2012 candidates are worth hundreds of millions, others far less. *Total net worth:* $85 to $264 million With no regular day job, Romney still earns a tidy income in the form of dividends and intere...
Fraudulent claims – mostly for hard-to-assess "whiplash" injuries – add about £40 a year to every honest driver's motor insurance costs but Parliament will struggle to reduce this while some doctors, lawye...
Danny Alexander and George Osborne have raised what is perhaps the key issue from an economic perspective facing Scottish independence – what on earth would Scotland do about its currency? Initially, Ale...
It's a breathtaking scenario. Hundreds of petrol-heads roaring across some of South America's most stunning landscapes in a grueling two-week endurance race where the competitors are at the mercy of treach...
For years, doctors around the country taking an exam to become board certified in radiology have cheated by memorizing test questions, creating sophisticated banks of what are known as "recalls," a CNN i...
At the Recall Walker rally in Austin: Travis Donoho, left, organizer for Education Austin (American Federation of Teachers) and Steve Rossignol, Texas State Association of Electrical Workers. Photo by Carlos...
Study shows money flowing to oil lobby ahead of decision on tar sands pipeline in the November elections. New analysis of oil industry contributions to members of Congress has revealed the level of the oi...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The most detailed data yet on emissions of heat-trapping gases show that U.S. power plants are responsible for the bulk of the pollution blamed for global warming. Power plants released ...
WASHINGTON — When the companies that supply motor fuel close the books on 2011, they will pay about $6.8 million in penalties to the Treasury because they failed to mix a special type of biofuel into their...
The captain of a cruise liner that capsized after crashing off the Italian coast ignored an order to return on board, according to 'black box' recordings. Taped telephone conversations released by authori...
Wikipedia will black out its English-language site for 24 hours in protest at proposed US anti-piracy legislation. If passed the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) would give content owners and ...
Homs is not a city under siege, but it is a city divided, and parts of it are besieged. Under government supervision we were taken to Homs to see the side of the Syria story it prefers to show. We can o...
Former CIA counter-terrorism specialist Philip Giraldi gives a picture of "What War With Iran Might Look Like," concluding that, "A minor engagement between American and Iranian forces in the Persian Gulf,...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Eastern Honshu, Japan at a depth of 57.3 km (35.6 miles), the quake hit at 03:30:16 UTC Tuesday 17th January 2012 The epicenter was 38 km (23 miles) North of Tokyo, Ja...
The European Court of Human Rights is to rule on the whole-life sentences of three convicted British killers. Jeremy Bamber, Peter Moore and Douglas Vinter claim that a sentence which condemns them to di...
An early warning radar station that is part of NATO's controversial missile defense system in Europe is now operational in Turkey, a foreign ministry spokesman said Monday. The station is located in the c...
Standard & Poor's axe took another swing at Europe Monday, this time stripping Europe's bailout fund of its AAA status. The move was largely expected after S&P downgraded nine euro area governments last w...
I was talking to a friend tonight about the studies and planning undertaken by the province and municipalities of the Lower Mainland of sea level rise projections. It's a complex issue comprising impa...
*"Revenge: A Different Approach to Anger"* by The DailyOm "Thoughts of revenge create an energy of imbalance and is best dealt with by releasing your anger. There can be times when we get so angry with s...
from sopastrike.com *by Ken* Here's a general description also from the sopastrike.com website (a project of fightforthefuture.org): January 18th is going to be amazing. Sites are striking in all differ...
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Are you burning with ambition? Or merely harbour a desire for success in your chosen field? That’s the difference that really makes the difference, you know—as actor Kevin Spacey explains… [Hat tip Dia...
By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com TUCSON -- High school students from the now-forbidden Mexican American Studies classes in Tucson spoke out during Martin Luther King Day h...
"Ahmadinejad faces Iran power struggle" November 01, 2011|By Brian Murphy, Associated Press TEHRAN - A scandal surrounding a *$2.6 billion bank fraud*, the biggest financial abuse case in Iran’s history, ...
Why January 17th you ask? The U.S. House of Representatives convenes for the first time in 2012 on January 17th. We can’t wait until the weather gets nice and everybody has the day off.We need to be ther...
The world's smallest ear can pick up noises a million times softer than any human can hear.
Searching systematically through news headlines of major global newspapers provides concrete evidence of a media cover-up of the severity of the Fukushima disaster and the reality of ongoing radiation r...
"If I am what I have, and I lose what I have, who then am I?" - Erich Fromm
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If you want to get things done, then don’t work in an open plan office. Most of us now work in teams [notes the New York Times], in offices without walls, for managers who prize “people skills” above all...
Daniel McAdams LewRockwell.com January 17, 2012 Poor Tamas Fellegi. Hungary's envoy to the International Monetary Fund had to spend last week enduring endless lectures on democracy and fiscal responsibili...
The quote is from a Daily Beast article called, "Despite Official Line, Taliban Foot Soldiers Are Furious at Video of U.S. Troops Urinating on Dead Afghans," by Ron Moreau and Sami Yousafzai. From a war-o...
What can we learn from histories of the AIDS crisis? Jacques Pépin's *The Origins of AIDS* and Nathan Geffen's *Debunking Delusions: The Inside Story of the Treatment Action Campaign* are two important con...
After being exposed to antibiotics for only 2 weeks, a drastic rise in drug-resistant E. coli has been detected in guts of pigs.
Beirut, Beyrouth, Lebanon. Thanks for stopping by.
Dark Moon. Image from The Sage Grove.Moon Musings: Dark Moon(January 20 – 22, 2012)By Kate Braun / The Rag Blog / January 16, 201210 a.m. is the best time to perform Dark Moon magick for the garden. This m...
I’ve always believed that American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) members are so loyal because somewhere along the line there’s a “lil’ somethin somethin” for them to sell off our democracy to the cor...
"The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without...
Weekend Edition January 13-15, 2012 * * *Bernanke's Double-Whammy* *The Foreclosure-to-Rental Screwjob* by MIKE WHITNEY Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke wants US taxpayers to purchase more ...
I was up just before 4 today. The first tweet I saw was from John Boehner pointing to a pro forma statement he issued to commemorate Martin Luther King Day, for him another excuse for the House not being ...
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M.I.T. is a world leading university. And no, Virginia, I’m not talking about the low-rent second-rate impostor out in Otara. I’m talking about the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology in ...
*"Privatizing the War on Terror: America's Military Contractors"* By John W. Whitehead “Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops th...
Printing your own electronics gets a little closer, using silver as the base for an ink.
The tomb of a singer for the supreme deity Amon Ra during the Twenty-Second Dynasty has been discovered in Egypt's Valley of Kings.
Karl Marx stated in his book, Capital, that the inherent contradictions in the Capitalist system were the seeds of its own destruction. How right he was. Love him or loath him, Karl Marx has certainly m...
Mexican American Studies students marched and rallied in honor of Martin Luther King Jr Day in Tucson today, protesting the decision by Tucson Unified School District board to forbid their classes. Studen...
These headlines prove the point: Enenews reports on UC Berkeley Research: Over EPA limit: Cesium levels in San Francisco area milk now higher than 6 months ago http://enenews.com/over-epa-limit-cesium-lev...
No Army Can Stop An Idea Whose Time Has Come! - Victor Hugo And speaking of real patriots (but come onnnnnnn! who dares to?): Published on BuzzFlash.org (http://blog.buzzflash.com) Global Corporations Have...
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” - Martin Luther King • I wish you all a peaceful, and thoughtful, Martin Luther King Day. - CP
New York Times: Foreclosure Auctions Show Raw Form of Capitalism http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/us/foreclosure-auctions-in-phoenix-show-capitalism-at-its-rawest.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha23 Ne...
*Tom Clay, “What The World Needs Now”* * (“Abraham, Martin and John”) * “Detroit DJ Tom Clay brought this out in the early 1970's and it was seen as a celebration of the message behind that spread by John ...
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a ...
Martin Luther King's prophetic last speech, April 4 ,1968
*“Unicorns Are Mythical Creatures...”* by Karl Denninger “...and that pretty colored thing you're about to stick in your mouth, which came from the back side of the alleged unicorn, is *not* candy. How m...
Beirut, Lebanon (CNN) -- At least 25 people are dead after a six-story building collapsed in Beirut, the country's news agency reported Monday. The collapse occurred Sunday night in the Ashrafieh neighbor...
Environmental campaign group Greenpeace has warned that if oil leaks from the stricken cruise liner Costa Concordia it could cause an environmental disaster, threatening marine life including birds, whale...
*“Such A Waste...”* by Bill Bonner “All over the world, the press is howling for the heads of the marines seen urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban soldiers on YouTube. Everyone is appalled. Defense i...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Tonga Region at a depth of 28.8 km (17.9 miles), the quake hit at 18:39:54 UTC Monday 16th January 2012 The epicenter was 135 km (84 miles) ESE of Neiafu, Tonga No ...
What was a TSA air marshal doing at an Occupy camp at 3:40 on a Saturday morning, just an hour before protestors were evicted by Boston police? Stealing the iPhone of one of the camp’s prominent voices, ...
January 12th, the displays of wealth on the verified Sina Weibo [microblog] account of “Jilin City Beijing Liaison Office worker Gao Yue’er” attracted netizens’ attention. Gao Yue’er showed off the Chanel ...
SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)--Amazon.com Inc.'s (AMZN) online shoe and clothing retail unit Zappos disclosed a massive cyber attack over the weekend involving millions of user accounts, underlining the need ...
The Gay Secretary Of course all these conservative propagandists, in addition to their radio shows on Clear Channel, also have programs on TV as well, into which they carry their agenda. after all, they c...
A state of emergency has been declared after an unidentified liquid began leaking from the capsized cruise liner Costa Concordia. Protective barriers have been put in place around the ship where 16 peopl...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck North of Ascension Island at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 17:53:12 UTC Monday 16th January 2012 The epicenter was 975 km (606 miles) SSW from Monrovia...
*Warning: the following line contains spoilers* *Nope.* That was the compactified version of the article. Below you may find the decompactified one. *The page containing this picture explains how to a...
It could be anything from a simple 'hello' to disrupting the earth's nuclear fusion process. But despite the uncertainty of how aliens could get in touch, one thing is certain for the astronomers from Sea...
A southern Russian farm had to slaughter all 30,736 of its pigs because of African swine fever, the country’s largest outbreak of the virus. The pigs at the Plemzavod Industrialny farm in the southern Rus...
*Do the Twin Towers look like they're "falling" or EXPLODING:* *Otherwise seemingly intelligent people, who endorse the 9/11 "MIRACLES" story: Are they being PAID OFF? Are their jobs threatened? Are their...
The Gay Secretary The US Government will likely not raise on this busted flush because Ron Paul's success in the primaries, despite the concerted efforts of the corporate media, the GOP, American citizens...
Researchers conducting influenza-like illness surveillance in Cambodia have confirmed a rare incidence of individuals becoming infected with a seasonal influenza and the pandemic strain at the same time, a...
The H5N1 bird flu virus may be evolving the ability to spread from mammal to mammal, says a team who have discovered that pigs in Indonesia have been infected with the disease since 2005. It's one step in...
Russia has been dealing with African swine fever (ASF) in its swine herd since 2007 and the virus keeps marching across the country. This has prompted serious concerns about the prospect of the virus sp...
FROM *THE NEW YORKER*, the triumph of the wall-wart.
*Newt sucks up $30K/hr of our money, Christine "I'm Not a Witch" O'D endorses Mitt, "Keep America American"?, phantom centrists* *CAUTION: The following image is pretty darned disgusting, and not recomme...
A third of Italians think it would be better for their country to return to the lira, a poll has revealed today. The survey, published in the Corriere della Sella, also said 65 per cent of those polled th...
Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton has warned a report that Iran is a year away from being able to build a nuclear bomb may be too optimistic. In a radio interview today, he said: 'I...
The websites of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and of El Al, the Israeli airline, were brought down Monday morning by an apparent hacking attack. An internet hacker who calls himself Ox Omar sent an e-mail t...
Back *here* I deleted comments and left a note explaining that I did so because of the vicious ad hominem nature of some of these comments. I won't speak for my co-bloggers but I ask that commenters on my ...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Taiwan Region at a depth of 30 km (18.6 miles), the quake hit at 15:40:47 UTC Monday 16th January 2012 The epicenter was 97 km (60.4 miles) Northwest of Basco, Taiw...
*MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 2012* *We don’t think the press corps will go there:* What did Mitt Romney do at Bain? And when did Mitt Romney do it? Within the mainstream press, very few major players seem incline...
Class conflict risesas middle class disappearsThe growing inequality of wealth and income in this country has reached a point where it is now causing a conflict between the rich (the 1%) and the vast majorit...
Dr. King was such an inspirational leader that he posed a real threat to the 1%.
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By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ Simon Ortiz, world acclaimed poet, author and professor, responded to the banning of books by Chicano and Native American authors. Tucson...
A 37-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the murders of Birmingham couple Avtar and Carole Kolar. The husband and wife from Handsworth Wood were killed in their home last week. Police laun...
The search for 16 people still missing after the capsizing of the cruise liner Costa Concordia has resumed following an earlier suspension after the ship moved, according to a fire brigade spokesman. The...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 8.1 km (5 miles), the quake hit at 15:06:02 UTC Monday 16th January 2012 The epicenter was 140 km (86 miles) East of Vi...
For three days starting Tuesday, Seminole County Chief Circuit Judge Alan Dickey has scheduled 300 foreclosure cases. "If everybody shows up, I'll have about 30 seconds a case," said the judge, who expres...
A magnitude 3.0 earthquake has struck the South Dakota at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 13:41:10 UTC Monday 16th January 2012 The epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) East of Hot Springs, South Da...
Three people died when a civilian helicopter contracted to NATO forces crashed in flames in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province. The Nato-led alliance fighting in Afghanistan said a civilian helicopte...
South African authorities have indefinitively shut down the world's most dangerous beach for shark attacks after naming a man who was fatally mauled. Lungisani Msungubana, 25, died while swimming off the n...
*1962: FIFTY YEARS AGO,* and a time of great changes, the effects of which are still being adjusted to, today. *MORE INTELLIGENT LIFE*, a fine site run by the Economist gang, has an article by Matthew En...
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By: Duane Craig According to the Environmental Protection Agency, trichloroethylene, or TCE, is expected to be dangerous to humans in concentrations exceeding 5 parts per billion in drinking water. In Here...
*MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 2012* *Why can’t our team follow suit:* Three cheers for Kathleen Parker! In her column from Sunday’s Washington Post, Parker crosses tribal lines to defend Michelle Obama. Much of th...
[image: National Center for Science Education’s climate change education initiative: Understanding and teaching the science behind climate change] By Neela Banerjee, Washington Bureau 16 January 2012 R...
This simple rose can be whipped up in just a couple of minutes and just needs a few easy supplies. It looks cute as a brooch or on a headband. You will need: felt in a flower color green felt scissors h...
*MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 2012* *Part 1—Planet of the scripts:* In Sunday morning’s Washington Post, Dana Milbank jumped the shark. After that, he jumped the cage the shark is kept in! In the process, he crea...
What a dilemma~ Kevin McGill ~What impressed me most as I read the state's latest plan to save its coast is the map. A sea of red, representing an encroaching Gulf of Mexico, consumes almost every inch of ...
Solowheel is sort of like a Segway...if it only had one wheel and nothing to hold onto.
*Click on the image so you can see who's paying for it.* I was speaking to a friend in Montana today who was aghast that two of the top Democratic contenders for the Democratic congressional nomination, Ki...
Well, that was fun. It’s hard not to come out of this weekend’s Liberal Renewalfest in Ottawa without feeling good about the future. Considering the collective punch to the gut the Liberal Party took on M...
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wmtc - 16 hours ago
Girl, whispering so quietly I could barely hear her: Excuse me. Um, do you work here? Um... um... do you know where I can find books about diaries of wimpy kids? Ten minutes later, a boy: Do you have Dia...
an editorial by Tony Cartalucci January 16, 2012 - What a spectacle, the "first black president" of the United States celebrating Martin Luther King Jr Day. How far we've come, or so it would seem. And w...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 64.4 km (40 miles), the quake hit at 12:50:20 UTC Monday 16th January 2012 The epicenter was 139 km (86 miles) East of ...
Last week we shared the experiences of contactee Luis Sanchez with INEXPLICATA readers in the article “Argentina: A High Strangeness Event from 1986” and promised to follow up with any developm...
The search for 16 people still missing after the capsizing of the cruise liner Costa Concordia has been suspended after the ship began to move, according to a fire brigade spokesman. The vessel hit an u...
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wmtc - 17 hours ago
I have a little meta-reflection on writing my recent post about the walled-off internet. These thoughts are not specific to the topic; it could have been anything. As it happens, writing that post brought ...
The National Park Service has 30 days to correct a misquoted inscription at the base of the statue.
The uninhabited island, a protected nature reserve lying between the coast of Tuscany and Corsica, has been invaded by thousands of black rats. The rodents are believed to have arrived on the four-square-...
NAKHON SI THAMMARAT : Fifteen districts of this southern province have been declared disaster zones after mountain runoff hit on Saturday night. A flash flood struck following days of heavy rain in Gulf-s...
Incessant rain in several regencies in Banten province over the past three days has triggered floods and landslides, leaving not only three people dead and more than 13,000 homes inundated, but also hampe...
...and watching the years grind out of this bloody extruder called Life is like watching an incipiently rickety assembly line struggling to make quota even though automation will someday in the near futur...
A flash flood warning has been issued for the Queensland coast, from Rockhampton to the New South Wales border. The Bureau of Meteorology issued a severe weather warning for Tuesday, predicting that 150m...
Radioactive gravel thought responsible for high radiation readings in a new apartment complex in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, was likely shipped to over 200 companies, making its way into apartments,...
Despite some poultry owners hiding their chickens and eggs either in their homes or away from the coops, all 192 chickens at the camp in Changedaphu (Kalabazar), Thimphu was culled by yesterday. The “ope...
Kobe University lab creates 'novel' H5N1 in 'secret' lab --Emails from Kobe virologist and H5N1-H1N1 virus creator, Teridah Ernala Ginting - -Story in e-mails: Kobe University PhD student Teridah Ernala c...
The World Health Organization says it will take a role in helping sort through an international scientific controversy over two bird flu studies that the U.S. government says are too dangerous to publish ...
Dutch lab that created deadly bird flu virus attacks America for redacting its research. America should not be allowed to dominate the debate over who controls sensitive scientific information that could...
Canal EnfoqueTV announces a new program for 2012: Archivo OVNI (in HD) A promotional video can be seen at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK9wxJWyd8M Inexplicata Podcasts covering items from UFO...
Source: Planeta UFO and LU24 Date: 01.15.2012 Argentina: Anomalous Object at Tres Arroyos (Barro El Molino) A resident of Barrio El Molino approached LU24 (the Tres Arroyos radio statio...
A surfer has been killed by a shark at a South African beach dubbed the world's deadliest following a string of attacks by the killer beasts. Ngidi Msungubana, 25, died yesterday after being repeatedly bi...
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A Romanian medical official says 59 people suffered injuries as days of protests against the government and austerity measures turned violent. Alis Grasu of Bucharest's ambulance...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Iran at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles - Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 10:07:52 UTC Monday 16th January 2012 The epicenter was 32 km (19.8 miles) Southeast of...
Source: Grupo G.A.B.I.E. Date: 01.15.2012 Source: www.grupogabie.blogspot.com Argentina: A UFO Over Suipacha, Buenos Aires G.A.B.I.E. Case # 20111224 Hugo Pelatti, a follower of our blog, ki...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Molucca Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 55.4 km (34.4 miles), the quake hit at 10:26:46 UTC Monday 16th January 2012 The epicenter was 204 km (127 miles) SSE of Manad...
The parent company behind the Costa Concordia cruise liner, which ran aground off the Tuscan coast, fears the disaster will cost it nearly $100m (£65.3m). Carnival said the tragedy will hit its earnings ...
Engineers are set to pour 24 million gallons of water into a dormant volcano in Oregon to test whether it can create a renewable source of energy that does not rely on the weather. Water will be pumped in...
So it looks like Jon Huntsman is calling it a race and he's endorsing Mitt Romney on his way out the door. Huntsman is the one guy that might have been able to give President Obama a hard time in the gene...
Smoke was visible for miles around an old mill that caught fire in a massive blaze on Sunday in Cornwall, north of New York City. Police in Orange County, New York, said firefighters spent several hours ...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck near the West Coast of Colombia at a depth of 13.5 km (8.4 miles), the quake hit at 09:20:16 UTC Monday 16th January 2012 The epicenter was 158 km (98 miles) WNW from ...
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Biased BBC - 20 hours ago
[image: Orwell broadcasting to India for the BBC] Blue Monday? Not on the rather pinkish BBC. A new Open Thread. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Has winter finally woken up? The northwest took a pounding at the weekend as a low pressure system from the Gulf of Alaska brought the first major snowfall of the season to the Seattle area. The mideast, ...
The leader of the Pakistani Taliban, the militant movement that poses the gravest security threat to the country, is believed to have been killed by a U.S. drone strike, four Pakistan intelligence officia...
Iran warned Gulf Arab neighbors on Sunday they would suffer consequences if they raised oil output to replace Iranian crude facing an international ban. In signs of Tehran's deepening isolation over its ...
Occupy protesters coordinated a global series of candlelight vigils tonight in honour of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Hundreds of Occupy activists, alongside members of the National Action Network, braved...
The so-called butcher of Brighton Beach who was convicted of killing four people in New York last February says he killed six other people that no one knows about. Maksim Gelman, 24, who faces sentencing...
Two adults and two children were killed in an apparent murder-suicide on Sunday at an apartment building in California's Central Valley, while a fifth person was hospitalized in critical condition, police ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Nicaragua at a depth of 33.4 km (20.8 miles), the quake hit at 08:26:17 UTC Monday 16th January 2012 The epicenter was 105 km (65 miles) WSW of China...
Protesters seeking the ouster of Romanian President Traian Basescu and early elections gathered for a fourth straight day Sunday in a main square of Bucharest, the capital, and 18 other cities in the East...
The FBI has called on property owners to search land in North Dakota and Montana for signs of the buried body of a maths teacher missing for more than a week. In a statement released last night, the FBI s...
British explorers are preparing to drill through almost two miles of ice into an Antarctic lake as they seek clues about life one million years ago. The team used a 'tractor train' to tow nearly 70 tonnes ...
*Comments about frozen methane and doubled fossil fuel reserves added at the end* Canada became the first country that has withdrawn from the Kyoto protocol a month ago. NASA's experts similar to James Ha...
Nutritionists are giving "dangerous" advice to patients suffering from illnesses including cancer, according to a Which? investigation. The consumer group said therapists are providing "expensive dietary ...
This past Wednesday, 1/11/12, marks the ten-year anniversary of the first prisoners' arrival to Guantánamo Bay. The American facility at Guantánamo remains a shameful stain on our national honor. The facil...
Officers discovered another parked car rigged with explosives in the same area, said Mosul police Lt. Col. Hilal al-Ahmedi. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. Al Qaeda in Iraq, w...
North Korea has angrily denied allegations that it punished some of its citizens for inadequately mourning the death of its late leader Kim Jong Il. Kim died last month after 17 years of repressive rule o...
A 12-year-old boy found guilty of murdering his 11-year-old sister said he was forced to confess to the murder after hours of 'terrifying' police interrogation - although he had nothing to do with it. Pol...
The Nigerian government has slashed fuel prices after a nationwide strike paralyzed the country last week. President Goodluck Jonathan made the announcement Monday. Minutes later, the federal government ...
The disaster that wrecked a luxury cruise liner and killed at least six passengers has left officials and experts on maritime navigation searching for answers -- fast. But two days after the massive shi...
Britain is once again suffering a recession and unemployment risks coming close three million this year, a leading economic forecaster reports. The UK's economic recovery is 'paralysed' by Europe's debt c...
Britain is once again suffering a recession and unemployment risks coming close three million this year, a leading economic forecaster reports. The UK's economic recovery is 'paralysed' by Europe's debt c...
George Osborne announced a landmark deal with China last night that will pour billions of pounds into the City of London. News of the deal came amid fresh warnings that the economy is edging into recessio...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Sulawesi, Indonesia at a depth of 156 km (96.9 miles), the quake hit at 08:26:16 UTC Monday 16th January 2012 The epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) South from Gorontalo, S...
A terrified girl of four was found hiding just a few feet away from the bodies of her murdered mother and eight-year-old sister. Omelia Miller was discovered cowering by police officers inside the famil...
William Hague said yesterday that Britain was braced for fresh disasters in the eurozone as markets looked set to plunge after France was stripped of its coveted Triple A credit rating. The Foreign Secre...
The UK is likely to have already fallen into recession as the eurozone crisis scuppers hopes of imminent recovery, two respected economic forecasters have warned. The Ernst & Young ITEM Club and the Centr...
A sixth body has been found on the stricken Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia, Italian authorities have announced. The male passenger was found wearing a life jacket, but reports say he was in an area ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 53.2 km (33.1 miles), the quake hit at 06:29:02 UTC Monday 16th January 2012 The epicenter was 80 km (49 miles) SSE ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 64.6 km (40.1 miles), the quake hit at 06:20:59 UTC Monday 16th January 2012 The epicenter was 54 km (33 miles) Sout...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russia at a depth of 18.6 km (11.6 miles), the quake hit at 05:13:38 UTC Monday 16th January 2012 The epicenter was 113 km (70 miles) East of Kyz...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck North of Halmahera, Indonesia at a depth of 85.7 km (53.3 miles), the quake hit at 05:04:02 UTC Monday 16th January 2012 The epicenter was 333 km (206 miles) NNE of Te...
*Elvis Presley had Scottish origins.* Scotland would be the 6th richest country in the world if it had INDEPENDENCE *The revenue from Scotland's oil, over the last several years, amounts to £3.48 trilli...
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — White-tailed deer populations in parts of eastern Montana and elsewhere in the Northern Plains could take years to recover from a devastating disease that killed thousands of the an...
This is an important finding in afield that has been mostly confused. Italso puts my own observations on the topic on a sound physical basis. I have always had a keen interest in my owntalents and the...
This is a short survey on barleygrass and the quick take home is that it is the one specific thing that you canconsume with the expectation of a significant improvement independent of theusual protocol...
As I have posted extensively onthis subject and have drawn one specific conclusion it is worthy to alsodiscuss what are alternative sightings that fail to match our core conjecture. My specific conclu...
This is a delightful demonstration by a crow in which hedemonstrates clear intelligence, which is a well known trait of crows generally. I have long argued that the foundation of demonstratableintelligen...
An emotional video for Monday. A dog and a dolphin in Croatia are the heroes. By Jelena of Croatia, peugeot255.
Increasing human carbon dioxide emissions may be impacting the brains and central nervous systems of sea fish.
[image: Link]Just a year after record snowfall throughout much of the Rocky Mountain West, the region is locked in a snow drought not seen since Jimmy Carter surrendered the White House to Ronald Reagan in...
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 ...
A Shadow Hangs Over President Barack Obama: Is He Being Blackmailed? On Sunday, January 15, CNN reported that "The U.S. military has postponed planned military exercises with Israel ahead of a scheduled v...
*****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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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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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Elephant Statues Covered in India A decision by the country's election commission blankets hundreds of politically themed statues in Uttar Pradesh with pink and yellow tarps Gallery
Nothing is quite as damning or convincing as photo evidence. And when James Balog looked over his time-lapse photography of an Icelandic glacier, everything he thought he knew about climate change .... ch...
Country's OPEC envoy threatens "consequences" if neighbouring states make up for oil shortfall caused by sanctions. Iran has warned its neighbours in the Gulf not to make up for any shortfall in its oil e...
Pakistan must end its policy of killings and kidnappings of Baloch people and recognise the importance of the region. *Washington, DC *- The behaviour of the powerful elite of Islamabad reminds me of the ...
As a third-grader in Winsted, Connecticut, last year, Matthew Asselin was sick -- a lot. He was lethargic and plagued with a persistent wet cough, respiratory infections and painful headaches. As the sch...
Is the ongoing crisis surrounding the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant being accurately reported in the Japanese media? No, says independent journalist Shigeo Abe, who claims the authorities, and many ...
Capital outflows totaled $84.2 billion last year according to data released by the Central Bank on Wednesday, the second-highest figure since 1994 and a big jump from the $33.6 billion that exited Russia i...
Let's leave aside the episodes of Boehner handing out bribes on behalf of his lobbyist pals as people were voting on the House floor. One of the most notorious ones was caught in the explosive "career-en...
A growing number of Korean children are being looked after by their grandparents because their parents are divorced. According to a 2010 government survey, 0.4 percent or 69,175 households in the country...
Iran said Thursday that it would respond to Israel's 'cold war' against it - with attacks against Israelis, and possibly Jews worldwide. Iran is preparing its own answers to the string of assassinations of...
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