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Corvallis, Oregon gross beta count levels: http://public.health.oregon.gov/HealthyEnvironments/RadiationProtection/RadiationMonitoring/AirMonitoring/Page...
For society to work, we need to believe that it is reasonably fair — not absolutely fair, because nothing is, but broadly decent in apportioning rewards and penalties. Nothing does more to breed anger an...
Kids have unbridled imaginations and a healthy dose of optimism about what the future might hold. When they were asked about how robots might help them learn and work better, they had some potentially pre...
Necessity is the mother of invention, but is a museum dedicated to inventions that didn't work a necessary invention? Fritz Gall thinks so. A failed inventor himself, Gall decided to create a mu...
That’s what you thought Kiva did already? Not quite. But the new Kiva Zip lets you lend directly to a real person, with a higher chance it won’t get paid back. It’s a vast experiment in online trust and i...
*Where Is Our Tax Money? -by Carol Shea-Porter* A debate has been raging about the proper role of government and the proper government use of our taxes. The recession that began in early 2007 under the ...
The SUN-TV news network was never intended to cover the news, it was intended to make the news. Some might even say make up the news, but what I mean is that the gang of clown-shoed commentators put togeth...
Sweet Tweet offers a playful way to celebrate growing popularity on Twitter while raising questions about the future of interaction design. Whenever someone follows brand communications agency Uniform's T...
Big banks might say that they give back, but while the dollar amounts are high, their donations amount to a rounding error on their books. New bank AbleBanking plans to be the bank for people who care abo...
Smartphones are the epitome of planned obsolescence. If you don’t upgrade your phone every two years, you’re likely to be left out in the cold as software outpaces its capabilities. But all you really nee...
America is thinking too small when it comes to energy efficiency … according to a major new report from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE). The new report outlines three scenari...
RIVERS and mountains can move given enough time, but they don't normally move half a kilometre every year. Yet that is exactly what is happening to a bizarre group of Antarctic lakes. And the lakes seem t...
*Mark Pagel, professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Reading **In his thoughtful *Together: The rituals, pleasures and politics of co-operation*, Richard Sennett argues there are ways to ove...
Making a reality show isn't as simple as pointing a
camera at a person and hoping he or she is horrible. There are a lot of tricks and manipulations that producers use to make douchebags and handbag design...
Today’s soldiers are invisible. They can’t be harmed by bullets or chemical weapons. They can see through walls and distinguish enemy from civilian with a simple glance. At least, that was the vision out...
1. In August 2010, journalist Wayne Madsen uncovered Obama's deep roots in the CIA, writing: "The nexus of Obama's almae matres: Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard, as well as that of his parents, the Univ...
Police have discovered two hands and feet close to where a pair of dog walkers discovered a severed head on a trail leading up to the iconic Hollywood sign. The first hand was found after police sealed o...
Overcrowding in Britain's prisons is reaching crisis point and could lead to widespread riots - with staff struggling to regain control. The warning has come from the Prison Officers Association (POA) whi...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Santa Cruz Islands at a depth of 42.8 km (26.6 miles), the quake hit at 04:06:41 UTC Thursday 19th January 2012 The epicenter was 51 km (31.6 miles) Southwest of L...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Guatemala at a depth of 95.2 km (59.2 miles), the quake hit at 03:47:44 UTC Thursday 19th January 2012 The epicenter was 41 km (26 miles) SSE from Escuintla, Escuintla,...
A magnitude 3.0 earthquake has struck Northern California at a depth of just 2.1 km (1.3 miles), the quake hit at 00:57:59 UTC Thursday 19th January 2012 The epicenter was 4 km (2.4 miles) ESE from the Gey...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Philippine Islands Region at a depth of 46.1 km (28.6 miles), the quake hit at 00:54:01 UTC Thursday 19th January 2012 The epicenter was 111 km (68 miles) NNE of G...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Santa Cruz Islands at a depth of 54 km (33.6 miles), the quake hit at 23:56:05 UTC Wednesday 18th January 2012 The epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) Southwest of Lata...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the Bonin Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 477.7 km (296.8 miles), the quake hit at 22:35:23 UTC Wednesday 18th January 2012 The epicenter was 225 km (139 miles) WN...
A magnitude 3.2 earthquake has struck Northern Texas at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 22:30:55 UTC Wednesday 18th January 2012 The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) WNW of Cleburne, Texas No R...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Sunda Strait, Indonesia at a depth of 12.4 km (7.7 miles), the quake hit at 21:16:25 UTC Wednesday 18th January 2012 The epicenter was 150 km (93 miles) WSW of T'-...
University of Texas Government Professor David Edwards in the KOOP studios in Austin, Friday, January 13, 2012. Photo by Thorne Dreyer / The Rag Blog.UT-Austin Government Prof David Edwardsdiscusses transfor...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck offshore Veracruz, Mexico at a depth of 9.6 km (6 miles), the quake hit at 19:55:49 UTC Wednesday 18th January 2012 The epicenter was 24 km (14 miles) NNE of Coatzacoa...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu. Japan at a depth of 37.5 km (23.3 miles), the quake hit at 19:32:50 UTC Wednesday 18th January 2012 The epicenter was 142 km (88 miles) ...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck offshore Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 42.4 km (26.3 miles), the quake hit at 19:09:57 UTC Wednesday 18th January 2012 The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) Southeast of S...
It took two teenage suicide cases due to school bullying last year in South Korea for people to notice something was very wrong. The students lived in different cities and went to different schools, but b...
“The dark Horsehead Nebula and the glowing Orion Nebula are contrasting cosmic vistas. Adrift 1,500 light-years away in one of the night sky's most recognizable constellations, they appear in opposite corn...
Poor little car. I was driving home from court today, talking to my Mom on the phone, and suddenly, my car (the Saab) started not accelerating. weird. Hung up with my Mom and pulled almost to the side of ...
*“Listening”* by Chet Raymo “There are days here when the sea is as calm and flat as bottle glass, an apparently infinite expanse of turquoise stretching to the place where sea meets sky, where sky-gods ...
Racine, Wisconsin, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
*"Internet Blackout: The Time Has Come"* by Jeffrey Tucker "Wikipedia, that ever-evolving monument to human collaboration in the cause of global enlightenment, goes completely black today, Wednesday, Jan....
A Mormon friend of mine here in L.A. told me that Buck McKeon was so freaked out about being exposed for taking gargantuan bribes from Countrywide-- hundreds of thousands of dollars-- but not because he's...
*That is what the corporate media want you to believe.* "Occupy group tries to draw attention from primary MANCHESTER, N.H. - A small circle formed in Veterans Park yesterday as members of Occupy N.H. Pri...
James Gandolfini in the British film, In the Loop.From 2003 to 2010:Looking back at my favorite filmsBy Alan Waldman / The Rag Blog / January 18, 2012[Last week we posted Alan Waldman's 10 Favorite Films of ...
by Tony Cartalucci January 18, 2012 - The entire reason why SOPA's authors and supporters have the money, influence, and power to put draconian bills like it forward in the first place is because of our d...
*The Boston Globe sure has made it memorable.* "Couple found love at Occupy Boston" January 16, 2012|By Martine Powers November 15 was a busy day at Occupy Boston. Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons was speaki...
Thomas Hobbes, "Leviathan" (Excerpt) Commentary by Kevin de Bruxelles "Kevin de Bruxelles argues that the government has broken the social contract with the American people, and discusses the ultimate mea...
*The Rev. took the juiciest parts *of Harper's latest "sit down" with Peter Mansbridge and spread them out *here*. It's so good that it's difficult to pick out which part of *"Iran really scares me"* is th...
*The Washington Post had a fine op-ed this weekend by law professor Jonathan Turley asking the provocative question, Is the U.S. still the “land of the free?” He gave 10 compelling reasons that it is not...
"You are under the unfortunate impression that just because you run away you have no courage; you're confusing courage with wisdom." "The Wizard of Oz"
posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at
- 8 hours ago
Yep, what you do as 'politicians' when getting afraid of your own 'work'... and what that brings when you 'take care of your citizens'... We already know too well! Isn't it a sad story, or rather a Bad D...
posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at
- 8 hours ago
Url movie: http://youtu.be/pnnlEEpSmMQ
posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at
- 8 hours ago
url movie: http://youtu.be/6Cf7IL_eZ38 -- full screen version here. Thanks Juma for the tip! By the way: what if electricity fails or is made too expensive? John
The NYPD is developing an infrared scanning device that may have a range of up to 82 feet.
*"Embattled Washington: From SOPA to the Debt Ceiling"* by Addison Wiggin "It’s hard to crawl the Internet today without running across something like this… *Wikipedia Blackout Notice*: Wikipedia and sev...
As I mentioned in this post a few weeks ago, I've decided to shift the focus of my Wednesday posts to cover all of the good and important things in life, both on and off the web. Inspired by by Wake Up We...
posted by laura k at
wmtc - 9 hours ago
If Rob Ford and Stephen Harper are both unhappy, this *must* be a good day! Yesterday the voices of reason on the Toronto City Council united to defeat Rob Ford's most dangerous budget cuts. There will sti...
*"Plan B – * *How To Loot Nations And Their Banks Legally"* By Golem XIV "Is there a plan B? That question is usually asked of governments regarding their attempts to ‘save’ the banks domiciled in their...
UPDATE: Deazen has made significant corrections to the article. It still implies, I think, more than is warranted, but the egregious misrepresentations in his article are gone. SECOND UPDATE: In case anyb...
What is SOPA? Here are five things you need to knowWikipedia was among several websites to shut down Wednesday in protest of anti-piracy bills now in Congress that critics say could amount to censorship.Inst...
*Obama Rejects Keystone XL Pipeline* * * *By Noah Greenwald* *Censored News* * * *WASHINGTON*****— President Barack Obama today denied the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, finding that building the pipe...
[image: Aerial of an Amazon geoglyph. Geoglyphs, geometric designs carved into the earth, have become increasingly visible with the deforestation of the Amazon. Douglas Engle for The New York Times]By SI...
[image: Drought stricken trees are visible in a residential area in Austin, Texas. The full effect of Texas' record-breaking drought and scorching hot summer on the state's trees will be revealed next sp...
PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.
After more than six months of silence, Syria's leader, Bashar al-Assad, spoke last week for only the fourth time since the beginning of the country's widespread uprising in March. His words show that he is...
posted by Suzanne MacNevin at
Lilith News - 10 hours ago
By Suzanne MacNevin - January 2012. FEMINISM/SEX - In the world of feminism there is nothing more controversial than sex workers (aka escorts, prostitutes, hookers, whores, hoes, whatever word you choose ...
Russia has warned that a military attack on Iran risks triggering a "chain reaction" that would destabilises the whole world. Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow was "seriously worried" about the ...
posted by David Preiser (USA) at
Biased BBC - 10 hours ago
So the Union-led petition to force a recall election against Republican Gov. Scott Walker has gathered 1 million signatures. That's nearly twice what's required to force the recall. Of course, that's only ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Bonin Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 488 km (302 miles), the quake hit at 18:20:43 UTC Wednesday 18th January 2012 The epicenter was 739 km (458 miles) Southe...
SIMPSON COUNTY, Ky. – The National Weather Service has confirmed that a tornado touched down in Simpson County, Kentucky on Thursday afternoon. A home on McKendree Church Road, just off of Highway 100, w...
For the past two weeks, people in the remote Kumadzong village of Gongdue gewog in Mongar have been eating beef every day. On January 13, the villagers reported to the gewog livestock extension office in...
Thirty people in Ho Chi Minh City have tested positive for the bacterium that causes meningitis, which could be fatal if left untreated, the Tuoi Tre newspaper reported Tuesday. The paper quoted Tran Phu...
By: Duane Craig Photo from: BEAU CABELL/THE TELEGRAPHThere doesn't have to be uranium mining nearby to cause contamination of water supplies because uranium occurs naturally in many parts of the country. ...
A Doctor has reportedly died of the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever, otherwise known as Lassa fever, in Ebonyi State. Some other doctors are being treated for the disease at the Federal Teaching Hospital (FTH), ...
Rick Mercer gives a *great rant here*. And a *video* to remind you that in the eyes of Harper, you are under attack.
The commute between Albuquerque and Santa Fe is getting longer and it's not the traffic.
Taking a picture of a black hole, an object so gravitationally bound that not even photons of light can escape, sounds like an oxymoron, but astronomers this week will attempt to do just that.
SOUTHERN INDIANA — As the storm clouds rolled into the area Tuesday, mother nature seemed to have her eye on Veterans Parkway in Clark County. “It was crazy in here,” said Ron Trotter, a host at the Tex-M...
We've reached the 25,000 post mark! 25,000 pieces of researched news have now spread out into the Internet and world, hopefully enlightening people about things they didn't previously know, and to foster f...
A potentially historic winter storm is forecast to dump heavy snow across the Pacific Northwest Wednesday, probably wreaking travel havoc in areas not used to so much of the white stuff. Unlike most Nort...
An anticipated snow dump has begun to fall in the Ottawa-Gatineau region Tuesday afternoon with Environment Canada warning as much as 15 cm could fall before the day is over. The City of Ottawa had about...
posted by PC at
Not PC - 11 hours ago
As a reward for all his sterling work in Christchurch—including barring businessmen’s access to their own property, evicting people from their own homes, shutting down the CBD while simultaneously closin...
The European Union is planning further sanctions against Syria, spokesman Michael Mann said Wednesday, as Syria continued its crackdown on anti-government protesters. The EU will place restrictions on 2...
After more than six months of silence, Syria's leader, Bashar al-Assad, spoke last week for only the fourth time since the beginning of the country's widespread uprising in March. His words show that he i...
Making an informed decision:Paying for a funeral need not require charityMany families succumb to grief, social pressures, and salesmanship by a funeral director and spend much more on the funeral than they ...
LONDON: A backseat passenger on a motorcycle weaving through the crush of Tehran's morning traffic reaches out and places a small magnetic device on the door of a silver-grey Peugeot 405. When the direc...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Santa Cruz Islands at a depth of 31.7 km (19.7 miles), the quake hit at 17:26:02 UTC Wednesday 18th January 2012 The epicenter was 51 km (31 miles) Southwest of La...
Today, Wikipedia, Anthony Watts' blog, and others are protesting against a planned legislation to fight online piracy. In principle, it is directed against servers such as thepiratebay which are not exac...
Scientists pining for a sample return from Mars have a consolation prize -- rocks recently found in Morocco are freshly arrived bits from our neighbor planet.
The names of 27 passengers and crew still missing after the cruise ship disaster off Italy's coast have been released by authorities. Eleven people are confirmed to have died after the vast liner was holed...
posted by laura k at
wmtc - 12 hours ago
What's going on SOPA Why it's wrong
I think most reasonable people, at least in hindsight, would agree that one of the things the Liberals' got right under Chretien and Martin was keeping Canada out of the gigantic deadly goat rodeo known as...
Two people have been killed after a light aircraft crashed into a mountain in Wales. Police said a "small aircraft" had been involved in the incident at Long Mountain in Leighton, near Welshpool, Powys. ...
The types of planets and planetary systems out there are so varied that just about anything is possible in a "compulsive" universe.
La Nina sets the stage for disease by reshuffling the mixing patterns of migratory birds, which are a major reservoir for influenza.
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck the Santa Cruz Islands at a depth of 34.2 km (21.3 miles), the quake hit at 17:02:56 UTC Wednesday 18th January 2012 The epicenter was 72 km (44.6 miles) Southwest of ...
*WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2012* *Katrina lets Romney walk:* What allows people like Romney to walk? Consider Katrina vanden Heuvel’s column for the Washington Post. The column has appeared on-line, though n...
Young people participating in the Occupy the Dream rally in front of the Federal Reserve in Washington DC, January 16, 2012. Photo by Scott Galindez / RSN.Occupy the Dream:Black churches join the Occupy move...
Still thinking about the "terror in Thailand" nonsense. When I first put up the story Thailand police were saying no charges were laid because the individual who had been arrested had actually done anythi...
The addition of virtual reality may encourage people to exercise more often and at a greater intensity.
The findings could change the way stroke victims receive therapy.
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Santa Cruz Islands at a depth of 30.3 km (18.8 miles), the quake hit at 17:01:25 UTC Wednesday 18th January 2012 The epicenter was 49 km (30.4 miles) Southwest of ...
The International Monetary Fund has asked its member countries for an extra $500bn to help fight what it says will be a $1tn global demand for bail-out loans over the next two years. The estimate, present...
Hungary's PM Viktor Orban has told a sceptical European Parliament that his government's legal dispute with the EU can be resolved swiftly. He was speaking a day after the EU Commission launched legal pro...
[image: The original projections of the limits-to-growth model examined the relation of a growing population to resources and pollution, but did not include a timescale between 1900 and 2100. If a halfwa...
Syria's powerful ally Russia said Wednesday it would block any attempt by the West to secure U.N. support for the use of force against the regime in Damascus, which is under intense international pressure...
In a major step towards global centralization of election processes, the world's dominant Internet voting company has purchased the USA's dominant election results reporting company. When you view your lo...
[image: Percent area covered by temperature anomalies in categories defined as hot (Ļ > 0.43), very hot (Ļ > 2), and extremely hot (Ļ > 3). Anomalies are relative to 1951-1980 climatology; Ļ is from detr...
[image: Inundation resulting from 0.1 meter (m), 0.4 m, 1.0 m, 2.5 m, and 5.0 m of sea level rise in Washington, D.C. (left maps); and a composite on right map. Risk Analysis] By Andrew Freedman 17 Janu...
Three suspects got out of a car and beat a young man to death, but the driver stayed in the car. He never got out and he didn’t participate in the fight. That is the man Philadelphia police want to track...
*WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2012* *Plutocracy down through the years:* Mitt Romney says his effective federal tax rate is close to 15 percent. That means he pays roughly 15 percent of his income in combined ...
A Long Island car dealership had plenty of cars, but no way to drive them after thieves targeted the wheels. It happened overnight at the Merrick Dodge on Sunrise Highway in Wantagh. A worker arrived at a...
Jan 18 Wall Street Journal p. B1 "The U.S. is rapidly losing high-technology jobs as American companies expand their research-and-development labs in China and elsewhere in Asia, the National Science Boar...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Molucca Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 26.1 km (16.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:09:11 UTC Wednesday 18th January 2012 The epicenter was 198 km (123 miles) SSW of Te...
January 17, 2012 Journalist Chris Hedges Sues Obama Admin over Indefinite Detention of U.S. Citizens Approved in NDAA Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges has filed suit against President Oba...
[image: 'After the floods, all my crops in the field were dead. All the fish were washed away,' said Xu Sanmei, a villager in Jiangxi, 23 Jun 2011. trust.org] By Chris Buckley; Editing by David Fogarty ...
Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart work out the kinks on their completely separate presidential campaign and Super PAC. *The Daily Show* Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The...
Police are looking into whether a young Iranian molecular scientist shot dead in her car on Sunday night as she drove home to her upscale neighbourhood was followed by her killer. Just after midnight, Ge...
[image: Four simulated max-stable processes, using the model in equation (5.2) with parameter estimates from the last column of table 3. (a–d) Show the simulations on the log FrĆ©chet scale, and (e–h) sho...
Believe it or not, there are alternatives to the big websites millions have come to rely upon.
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Kepulauan Sula, Molucca Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 24 km (14.9 miles), the quake hit at 14:18:02 UTC Wednesday 18th January 2012 The epicenter was 208 km (129 mi...
[image: A little brown bat with white nose syndrome in New York state. Al Hicks, New York Department of Environmental Conservation]By Darryl Fears 17 January 2012 More than five years since the deadly wh...
*Not everyone is seeing it** that way.* "Cruise ship runs aground off Italy; Night of chaos and fear leaves 3 dead, 40 missing" by Frances D’Emilio and Nicole Winfield | Associated Press, January 15, 20...
*WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2012* *Part 3—The shorthand described through the years:* As we noted in Monday’s post, we have sometimes referred to Dana Milbank as “Lord Dowdinpantz.” This morning, Dowd emulate...
London bankers at Goldman Sachs are in line for a pay and bonus pot of £1.5billion, despite a fall in profits. With Britain in the grip of a recession, the announcement will only add to public fury over C...
Costly business: Britain is facing a £17.5billion bill after Chancellor George Osborne said he was prepared to use taxpayers' cash to boost resources of the IMF, led by Christine Lagarde. Britain is faci...
A 'dangerous' Lithuanian rapist who subjected a woman to a brutal sex attack was allowed into the UK despite having a conviction for raping a seven-year-old girl. Victor Akulic is appealing the life sente...
The humble flashlight gets a serious makeover.
A six-year-old girl was left home alone in a freezing flat for five days with nothing to eat but Monster Munch, yoghurt and drinking water a court has heard. Shekinha Terry's mother, Natalie, was jailed ...
In a remarkable example of a grassroots campaign gone viral, several websites including Google, Reddit, Wikipedia , BoingBoing, Imgur and Tucows, are planning an unprecedented Internet "strike" Wednesday ...
Every few years, lobbyists seem to push for outrageous legislation aiming to censor the Internet or restrict digital rights.
Originally used on cars, Nissan's "Scratch Shield" paint has a chemical structure that mends itself when damaged.
A controversial provision would allow federal authorities to "blacklist" sites, essentially cutting off portions of the Internet to all U.S. users.
Every few years, lobbyists seem to push for outrageous legislation aiming to censor the Internet or restrict digital rights.
Originally used on cars, Nissan's "Scratch Shield" paint has a chemical structure that mends itself when damaged.
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Molucca Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 40 km (24.8 miles), the quake hit at 13:44:23 UTC Wednesday 18th January 2012 The epicenter was 198 km (122.6 miles) South of ...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Baja California, Mexico at a depth of just 0.2 km (0 miles Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 13:31:40 UTC Wednesday 18th January 2012 The epicenter was 13 km (8 mi...
Source: El DragĆ³n Invisible & Planeta UFO Date: 01.19.2012 Argentina: An Encounter at Tres Lagos, Santa Cruz (2009) By Pablo RamĆrez (Gobernador Gregores –Arg.) Greetings. My name is Pabl...
Snakes do not just kill on instinct, but instead monitor the condition of their victims right until the very end.
*WTF, readers?* "US sticks to secrecy as drone strikes surge" by Karen DeYoung | Washington Post, December 25, 2011WASHINGTON - Since September, at least 60 people have died in 14 reported CIA drone stri...
End Piracy, Not Liberty Millions of Americans oppose SOPA and PIPA because these bills would censor the Internet and slow economic growth in the U.S. Two bills before Congress, known as the Protect IP ...
*And Scott Walker - said NO! Even before he was in office!!!* As the recall petitions are being examined in Wisconsin and as Wisconsinites posture themselves on both sides of the Scott Walker issues. I f...
"US drone crashes at an airport off the coast of East Africa; ‘Mechanical’ failure downs unarmed craft" December 14, 2011|By Malkhadir M. Muhumed, Associated Press NAIROBI - An American military drone tha...
Above right: Romney, NEWT, Santorum: the MASS MURDERER Republican candidates, with their fake Jesus on the left who also loves war and mass murder. Take a look at these videos of "evangelicals" arguing o...
The boldest and most surprising outcome of this weekend's Liberal Renewalfest in Ottawa was the party's decision to open its doors to all Canadians by adopting a supporter system. As a result, any voter wh...
*That's why Dempsey** is hustling on over to Israel right now. * "Iran to enrich uranium at 2d site, official says; Report adds to tensions with US, allies" by David Sanger New York Times / January 9, 2012...
People are doing some amazing things to help destroy ALEC - by exposing ALEC. The following reports are great examples for the rest of us and hopefully they will serve as an impetus for others to do someth...
It has been revealed a further area of radioactive contamination has been found at Dalgety Bay. Concern has mounted over recent months after radioactive particles ten times higher than previously found, ...
and are you planning on voting Republican anytime in the future, please quit your job right now so someone else who can appreciate that job can have it! If you are planning on voting Republican evidently ...
Seattle could see one of its largest snowfalls since the 1940s as twin winter storms move over the Pacific Northwest, according to the National Weather Service. Between 5 and 10 inches of snow could hit...
*Related*:* I Spy Iran* "Iranian Court Begins Trial of U.S. Man" by J. DAVID GOODMAN, December 27, 2011 An Iranian court began hearings on Tuesday in the trial of a man who appeared on state television t...
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck the Molucca Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:50:18 UTC Wednesday 18th January 2012 The epicenter was 197 km (122 miles) SSW of Terna...
Three anti-whaling activists were injured in a clash with Japanese whalers off the coast of Antarctica on Wednesday when the Japanese crew used grappling hooks against pursuit boats, the conservation grou...
*People are telling you that Wiki is closed to day* *BUT IT IS NOT* *Today - Wiki is the easiest way to become an activist today.* When you go to Wiki - the screen will ask for your zip code. When you e...
An Iranian non-profit company says it will honor U.S. President Barack Obama's request that Iran return a drone that crashed there last year. But instead of the actual drone, the company says it will send...
Times-Picayune back-slides, uses Katrina Shorthand to mis-frame "The Great Corps of Engineers Levee Failure Event of 2005" ~Editilla Commentellas~In the face of such an insulting and self-aggrandizing, Kat...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Veracruz, Mexico at a depth of 118.2 km (73.4 miles), the quake hit at 12:39:09 UTC Wednesday 18th January 2012 The epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) SSE of San Andres Tux...
Republican Mitt Romney acknowledged Tuesday that his income tax rate is "probably closer to 15 percent than anything," suggesting that one of the wealthiest people to ever run for U.S. president pays a mu...
The FBI is in the process of arresting Anthony Chiasson, who co-founded the Level Global Investors hedge fund, and others as part of the government's sweeping probe into insider trading, a person familiar...
JERUSALEM — Any decision by Israel on whether to launch a pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities remains "very far away," Defence Minister Ehud Barak said Wednesday as tension mounted between Ira...
A senior North Korean official dismissed concerns about Kim Jong-un's readiness to lead, saying he spent years working closely with his late father and helping him make key policy decisions on economic an...
For the UN Security Council, much is at stake when it comes to the Arab League's monitors in Syria. There are two broad but opposing positions in the Council. Both have tied their policies to the fate of...
At least four people have been kidnapped and five foreign tourists killed in an attack near the Eritrean border, the Ethiopian government says. German, Hungarian and Austrian nationals were killed in Mond...
Australia is in for a tough economic year after the World Bank slashed its global growth forecasts and warned there could be a worldwide recession worse than three years ago. In its latest Global Economic...
The captain of the stricken cruise ship Costa Concordia has told investigators he "fell into a lifeboat" during the evacuation and could not get out again. Francesco Schettino gave the excuse during thre...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck San Juan, Argentina at a depth of 5.9 km (3.7 miles - Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 11:35:50 UTC Wednesday 18th January 2012 The epicenter was 48 km (29 miles)...
Golden orb spider silk painstakingly woven into textiles goes on display this month in London.
We'll start posting again at midnight (ET). Meanwhile, please, take a look at the Wikipedia page that explains why so many websites and blogs are having a down day. These are the House cosponsors of this...
The long process will involve chains, pulleys and plugging a giant hole and could take several weeks.
*Why this matters in Canada : Michael Geist *: Wikipedia, Reddit, Mozilla, WordPress, and BoingBoing, will go dark tomorrow to protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (P...
The European Union and Hungary brought their fight over democratic rights fully into the open Tuesday, with the EU Commission launching legal challenges against the former Soviet-bloc country many fear ma...
NIHONMATSU, Fukushima -- Anger and anxiety are spreading here after highly radioactive gravel from inside the Fukushima nuclear disaster evacuation zone was traced on Jan. 17 to several construction proje...
Nearly half of the board members of the Nuclear Material Control Center (NMCC), the government-designated body to inspect nuclear materials to prevent sensitive materials from being used for military purp...
PHNOM PENH (Xinhua) -- A 2-year-and-7 month-old boy from northwestern province of Banteay Meanchey had died early Wednesday from avian influenza A (H5N1) virus after being admitted to hospital for about a ...
The remains of a shark which washed up on Motiti Island in a distressed state have been sent for testing by iwi concerned about the effects of the oil dispersant used in the Rena spill. Maori residents o...
The World Bank warned developing countries on Wednesday to prepare for the "real" risk that an escalation in the euro area debt crisis could tip the world into a slump on a par with the global downturn in...
Wikipedia has taken its English-language content offline as part of a "day of darkness" in protest at US anti-piracy laws that it says could "fatally damage the free and open internet" and "severely limit...
At least five tourists, including a number of Germans, have been killed by gunmen in Ethiopia, according to reports. Two other tourists were in a critical condition after the attack in the remote norther...
*Child soldier from Liberia * From the early 1980s onwards, Charles Taylor worked for the USA's Defence Intelligence Agency. In January 2012, this was confirmed by the Pentagon, thanks to a Freedom of Inf...
A truck loaded with rubble from Haiti's earthquake two years ago has crashed killing at least 29 people and injuring 67. It is believed the driver lost control of the vehicle in a hilly area of the impo...
A surfer has been seriously injured after being attacked by a shark off a beach in Australia. An ambulance service spokeswoman said the 44-year-old man suffered deep wounds to his leg as he surfed off Re...
Rescuers say the search of the luxury cruise liner that capsized off the coast of Italy has been suspended after the position of the ship shifted. It moved slightly in rough seas as teams were looking for...
Users think Facebook invades their privacy, AT&T has the lowest customer satisfaction of any wireless provider, Netflix squandered its goodwill with a 60 percent price hike and Goldman Sachs has become th...
Officials said Tuesday once-convicted serial killer Loren Herzog has committed suicide. Herzog's body was found Monday night hanging inside his trailer located immediately outside the grounds of High Des...
Police are investigating the morbid discovery of a severed human head found along a hiking trail below the Hollywood sign today. Two dog walkers discovered the remains inside a bag in California's Bronson ...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 48.6 km (30.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:55:40 UTC Wednesday 18th January 2012 The epicenter was 101 km (63 miles) ...
SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft - designed to be the first-ever commercial space flight to dock with the International Space Station - has been delayed. The unmanned craft was due to fly to the ISS on Februar...
Full names, addresses and even pictures of men suspected to be behind an infamous Facebook cyber attack have been published today by Facebook and the security firm Sophos. The gang - known as 'Ali Baba +...
A cruise company has said it was surprised and disappointed after one of its vessels was turned away by the Falkland Islands government. The Star Princess ship, owned by Princess Cruises, had planned to d...
Russia is concerned that a U.S. radar station could have inadvertently interfered with the failed Mars moon probe that plummeted to Earth, but experts argued that any such claims were far-fetched. Russia...
Scientists have confirmed that 15 pounds of meteorite from Mars fell in Morocco last July. It is only the fifth time in history scientists have chemically confirmed Martian meteorites that people witnes...
Charles Taylor worked for U.S. intelligence agencies during his rise to become one of Africa’s most notorious dictators. The former Liberian despot was employed by the Pentagon's spy arm from the early 1...
A judge sparked outrage by sparing a teenage burglar jail so he could continue with his job clubbing baby seals to death. Jack Taylor, 18, admitted stealing a 50cc motorcycle from a house because he thou...
Abu Qatada, widely acknowledged as one of the most dangerous terrorists in the world, has spent the past ten years making a mockery of British justice. In the process, he has cost the taxpayer more than £...
A metal thief was killed by a 33,000-volt shock as he tried to steal copper from an electricity substation, an inquest heard. Father-of-three Gary Lawton, 46, was left for dead by at least one accomplice...
Doctors have questioned the effectiveness and safety of the main drug used to treat pandemic flu. International experts said the drug cuts the duration of symptoms, but they found no clear evidence tha...
Military police are investigating allegations of child abuse by two British soldiers in Afghanistan, it has emerged. The troops from the Mercian Battle Group have reportedly been arrested over claims the...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Scientists studying white nose syndrome in bats estimate the fungal ailment has killed at least 5.7 million bats in 16 states and Canada, providing alarming new numbers about the scope...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 187.5 km (116.5 miles), the quake hit at 03:55:03 UTC Wednesday 18th January 2012 The epicenter was 127 km (78 ...
Three strategies, each with different risks and rewards, can help an investor make more greenbacks while staying green.
The United States will take a stab at joining Europe and other nations in hammering out a code of conduct for activities in space.
SpaceX's historic mission to the space station isn't quite ready for prime time, yet.
Lon’s recent reports on a thunderbird sighting has triggered additional reports to come forward and we now haveenough good reports to reach a few conclusions regarding what we are dealingwith. Google t...
What is poorly understood is thata banker really does not want the small deposit business because it is theprincipal source of costs while if someone merely funded the other side ofevery loan it gets n...
This article is stuffed with alot of conclusions that are really assumptions and surely cannot be properlytested from the data. However, the birdis surviving and will easily expand once our fishing te...
Is it possible to construct yourlife around logic while attesting the faith of Islam? The discussion below reveals aroadmap to ignorance and it was no mistake that a Taliban ascendency in Afghanistanh...
"Only those beneath me can envy or hate me. I have never been envied nor hated; I am above no one. Only those above me can praise or belittle me. I have never been praised nor belittled; I am below no one...
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Tucson students said they were traumatized when the books were seized from their classrooms. They said it was as if they were in Nazi Germany. Tucson students were especially shocked at the seizure of th...
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*10 reasons the U.S. is no longer the land of the free* By Jonathan Turley, Published: January 13 Every year, the State Department issues reports on individual rights in other countries, monitoring the...
The industry uses the terms *brine* or *produced waters* to describe the salty waste fluid that constantly percolates out of wells drilled to tap oil and natural gas. For decades, the best way for Ohio o...
An image showing the shocking extent of pollution in China has been released by the space agency Nasa. The image was taken on January 10 and captures a haze taking over most of the North China Plain. Vi...
Counter to what logic might suggest, warm summers actually trigger cold winters, according to a new study. The study, detailed in the Jan. 13 issue of the journal Environmental Research Letters,offers an...
Nicotine-based pesticides in widespread use by farmers are implicated in the mass deaths of bees, according to a new study by US scientists. The authoritative, peer-reviewed research undermines the pestici...
Scientists in northern Europe are scrambling to learn more about a new virus that causes fetal malformations and stillbirths in cattle, sheep, and goats. For now, they don’t have a clue about the virus’s ...
Industrial agriculture = monoculture. * Small farms = biodiversity.* Small, organic farms like Rick Knoll’s are able to eliminate their reliance on petrochemical-based fertilizers and pesticides. The resu...
Unusual honeybee die-offs have become so severe that some US beekeepers will qualify for disaster relief funds. Anyone who's been stung by a bee knows they can inflict an outsized pain for such tiny insec...
A new study led by the University of Reading in the UK that examined breast tissue samples from 40 women who underwent mastectomies for breast cancer, found they contained widespread traces of parabens, p...
JERUSALEM (AP) - The top U.S. military commander is scheduled for talks in Israel this week, Israel said Sunday, at a time when the U.S. is concerned that Israel might be preparing to attack Iran over its...
Iran has repeatedly violated a UN arms embargo with exports to protest-hit Syria, the French foreign ministry said on Monday, citing a UN group of experts. "The UN panel of experts on Iran has identified...
*LONGWOOD -- * A 3,500-year-old Central Florida landmark is no more. A fire early Monday has destroyed the 125-foot-tall bald cypress tree known as "The Senator," the centerpiece of Longwood's Big Tree P...
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 ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An apparent smoke bomb was thrown over the fence of the White House as hundreds of Occupy protesters massed outside the gates. The crowds were dispersed Tuesday night, and U.S. Secret S...
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Grandmother Assaulted at Dearborn Chuck E. Cheese's: MyFoxDETROIT.com DEARBORN, Mich. (WJBK) -- It was a quiet, peaceful afternoon inside the Michigan Avenue *Chuck E. Cheese* restaurant in Dearborn Mond...
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INDIANAPOLIS – Thyroid cancer, which affects about 11 people per 100,000 each year, seems to be on the rise. It's a trend that baffles medical researchers. National Cancer Institute statistics suggest tha...
As an American of Jewish heritage I get frightened at the way Rick Perry pronounces "Israel." But just try to imagine how the 160,000 Turkish-Americans we have in this country (mostly in New York, New Je...
It was immortalised by the novelist Alexandre Dumas as the location for a stash of buried treasure, but the tiny Italian island of Montecristo is now struggling with a rather less romantic reality – a plag...
*CHICAGO (STMW)* – To the disgust of some staff, bodies are piling up at the office of the Cook County Medical Examiner, stacked atop each other in blue plastic tarps against a wall of the storage cooler b...
The agency will not retest the machines or airline passengers. Also, a survey says 2012 will be a good year for the travel industry, and a man wants to help Spirit Airlines passengers avoid baggage fees. ...
Capitalizing on one of the fastest-growing trends in law enforcement, a private California-based company has compiled a database bulging with more than 550 million license-plate records on both innocent ...
* "The Meadow Across the Creek"* by Thomas Berry "I was a young person then, some twelve years old. My family was moving from a more settled part of a Southern town out to the edge of town where the new ...
WASHINGTON — As demands for fiscal austerity dominated debate in Washington, Vermont’s three congressional lawmakers gave their staffers a combined $236,830 in bonuses last year. Many other congressional ...
You’ve got to hand it to the North Koreans, they certainly know how to throw a funeral. I stayed up until two am watching the mammoth funeral of the “Dear Leader,” Kim Jong-il, live on TV from North Kore...
This month marks the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union. In 1988, I saw the surest sign the USSR was facing an earthquake when I became the first western journalist to be invited into KG...
*Everyone knows who it is.* * * *Let's get started with some sabotage first*: "Iranian general dies in explosion" November 14, 2011|Associated Press TEHRAN - A Revolutionary Guard commander *killed in an ...
It’s dark and foggy here today along the mighty Bosphorus that separates Europe and Asia. Just as murky and dangerous as exploding next-door Syria. Turkey’s formerly very successful “no problems” foreign p...
In October, 2002, I wrote an analysis of the impending Iraq War for “American Conservative” entitled “The Road to Folly.” I observed, “A war that fails to achieve clear political objectives is merely an ...
The United States and its European allies are now looking to squeeze Iran’s oil exports in an effort to persuade Tehran to abandon its nuclear activities. Congress just gave President Obama the power to ...
The next time you pay $3.50 dollars for a gallon of gas, stop and think about a basic rule of economics. When demand is low and supply is strong, prices should fall. Right? Now apply that to oil. Peopl...
There are kingpins with names like the Engineer, head-chopping hit men, dirty cops and double-dealing politicians. And, of course, there are users -- millions of them. But the Mexican drug war, at its co...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Moluccas Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 39.7 km (24.7 miles), the quake hit at 01:19:36 UTC Wednesday 18th January 2012 The epicenter was 197 km (122 miles) SSW of T...
Probably the most useless endorsement this cycle, at least so far, was Huntsman's nod to Mitt Romney. There are almost a dozen videos, like this one, around with Huntsman explaining why Romney is untrustw...
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck Coquimbo, Chile at a depth of 23.6 km (14.7 miles), the quake hit at 23:21:34 UTC Tuesday 17th January 2012 The epicenter was 37 km (22 miles) West of Illapel, Coquimbo...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the South Coast of Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 22:27:11 UTC Tuesday 17th January 2012 The epicenter was 148 km (91 miles) W...
*Also known as propaganda, as I am now more convinced than ever that either the West is behind the pirate operations (cui bono? Allows them to patrol vital shipping lane near vital oil fields) or the pirat...
*How would you react if Iran's Navy was camped out in the Gulf of Mexico, American?* "Iran may put ships near US Fifth Fleet; Will conduct drill at strategic strait" Associated Press, December 23, 2011 T...
*Not helping the war effort!* "European Union fails to agree on Iranian oil embargo; But new sanctions are put into place there and in Syria" December 02, 2011|By Don Melvin and Raf Casert, Associated Pre...
Consumers are reporting that debit machines are down at major retail stores across North America. However, the problems are reportedly not consistent with specific stores or areas. News Talk Radio listen...
The McCain opposition-research file circulating on the internet (if genuine) is just devastating in its picture of a man without any convictions whatsoever. It makes one thing crystal clear: Mitt Romney wi...
"Don't give up! I believe in you all. A person's a person, no matter how small! And you very small persons will not have to die If you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY!" - Theodor Seuss Gei...
I talked Kurt into a charity event with me. We are climbing 70 flights of stairs at the Ren Cen in Detroit, MI, to help raise money for lung cancer research. We both have to raise $100. We started a Haskel...
"In this galaxy there’s a mathematical probability of three billion Earth-type planets. And in the universe, three million million galaxies like this. And in all that, and perhaps more... only one of each ...
“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble - maybe Macbeth should have consulted the Witch Head Nebula. This suggestively shaped reflection nebula is associated with the bright star R...
* ****me and grama, late holiday party Jan 2012. auntie's house. * Nothing major going on, I feel like there is a lack of posting here lately! I think I will do some bullet points, just to post some things...
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*“The British government [has] behaved in a hostile manner toward our people for the past five decades.’’ * *It's been longer than that. BP was a beneficiary of the CIA's Operation Ajax that overthrew th...
*“Lessons”* by Chet Raymo “There is a four-line poem by Yeats, called "Gratitude to the Unknown Instructors": "What they undertook to do They brought to pass; All things hang like a drop of d...
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The war on terrorism is a war without a definition of victory, and terrorism is an enemy without a face. Humanity and democracy are trapped in this endless war. The absurd legal and political context that...
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[image: image][image: image]So KiwiBank is to buy out Gareth Morgan Investments, including the Gareth Morgan KiwiSaver Scheme—a case of the politically appointed “People’s Bank” buying out the self-anoin...
*I know we saw this Paul Noth New Yorker cartoon on Tuesday, but I like it a lot. It says so much about Willard Inc.'s, er, appeal.* *by Ken* There's actually a significant development on the "Understandi...
Despite the "blogger ban", the interwebs are full of LPC Bienial reaction. For those of you thirsty for more first hand recounts, here's what some of the Liberal delegates who were there thought about the ...
Actor Peter Dinklage's acceptance speech gave a shout-out to a dwarf actor who was viciously attacked.
CANADA - It is largest and one of the longest awaited police corruption trials in Toronto history. Five former police officers from the drug squad, collectively charged with assault, threatening, theft, ex...
*Click image for larger sizes.* *․ * * * *"Where the Soul Is: Finding the Place You Belong"* by The DailyOm "There will likely be times in your life when your soul evolves more quickly than your circumsta...
From Matt Price @ HuffPost, who in turn credits Deep Climate and DeSmogBlogfor the research Meanwhile, about that "foreign money" and "foreign special interest groups"that Steve and Joe are so worried will...
*Foreign Affairs* has gone live with Colin Kahl's explanation of why we shouldn't commence bombing in five minutes. A sample: In arguing for a six-month horizon, Kroenig also misleadingly conflates hypoth...
Translation: Yes I would lock up American dissidents in secret prisons without giving them a trial.
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The US Congress votes today on their Stop Online Piracy Act, aka SOPA, aka the Silence Opposition Permanently Act, which if passed will do as much to Stop Online Activity here in EnZed as it will in the ...
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*"Romney Under Pressure to Prove He Was Manufactured in US"* Rivals Demand He Produce Label by Andy Borowitz MYRTLE BEACH, SC (The Borowitz Report) – "Controversy swirled at the Republican debate in South...
*Tucson Schools seize Chicano and Native books from classrooms* Mexican American Studies student at Martin Luther King Day in Tucson. Photo Brenda Norrell Censored NewsBy Brenda Norrell CENSORED NEWS http:...
"Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. "Patriotism” is its cult. It should hardly be necessary to say, that by "patriotism” I mean that attitude which puts the own nation ab...
Late last week 150 pooh-bahs from the upper reaches of the religious right-- primarily the most backward of the backward evangelical money-grubbers and bigots-- got together to pick someone, anyone, who c...
*Neo-con war-makers and 9/11 conspirators are there best friends. * "Fringe Iranian bloc has well-paid allies in D.C.; Effort to reverse terrorist label for reviled group" November 27, 2011|By Scott Shane,...
Steve Wosniak likes Android's voice commands and GPS better than those on the iPhone.
*CAUGHT IN HIS OWN WEB … * By Mohawk Nation News http://www.mohawknationnews.com/ MNN. Jan. 15, 2012. In December the owner of MNN hired a webmaster to update the MNN website: Erland Campbell of Native ...
*"Remembering Eisenhower's Farewell Address"* by David Krieger "January 17, 2012 was the 51st anniversary of President Eisenhower's Farewell Address to the nation in which he warned of the dangers of the ...
"At UN, Turkey takes Israel to task; Blames ex-ally for fueling strife in Middle East" September 23, 2011|By Neil Macfarquhar, New York Times UNITED NATIONS - A couple of hours earlier, Iran’s president, M...
*“Iran War is Only A Matter of Time”* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "Two weeks ago, Iranians were saved from pirates on their hijacked ship by the U.S. Navy. Last week, the U.S. military saved a sink...
It is a good day when Chris Hedges explains why he is suing Obama for signing the National Defense Authorization Act - and the Occupiers have some fun when they arrest Senator Carl Levin. Thanks guys, for...
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[image: image] After TV3 screened the documentary ‘Inside Child Poverty’ just three days before the last election, causing screams of horror from the ruling party*, NZ on Air** is now considering*** ban...
*"Unsolvable Insolvency"* by Bill Bonner "Time and time again, Europe solves its debt problems… and every time they don’t get solved at all. Italian bond yields are edging back up. And Greece is negotiat...
A giant harpoon is being developed to be deployed from a hovering spacecraft and take a sample from a moving comet.
Electromagnetic Mysteries: CE-IIs By Scott Corrales In 1972, astronomer and UFO researcher J. Allen Hynek created a classification system that while not widely mentioned these days, remains...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 57 km (35.3 miles), the quake hit at 18:30:58 UTC Tuesday 17th January 2012 The epicenter was 141 km (87.4 miles) East of Yuzhno-Kuril's...
A mathematical power law may help explain the pattern of murders by serial killers.
Clad in what can only be described as a 'mourning' suit, a grief-stricken boyfriend married his dead girlfriend at her funeral and then posted their wedding snaps on his Facebook page. TV producer Chadil...
Punched to the ground and pummelled with his own shoes – this is the moment a 17-year-old boy was beaten while his attackers filmed his cries for help. Detectives in Chicago have launched an investigatio...
A 'major winter storm' could dump up to 12 inches of snow on Seattle in two days, weather experts are forecasting. Chris Dolce, a meteorologist with weather.com, said the Northwest could take an even big...
Excitedly unwrapping her Christmas present, Sundeep Sandhu was delighted to discover her husband Mark had bought her an Apple iPad2. But her joy soon turned to disbelief when the in-demand tablet computer...
Indonesia has gone to imaginative extremes to try and stop commuters from illegally riding on the roofs of train - from hosing them down with red paint to threatening them with dogs. But now authorities ...
A mother-of-three plagued by illness has told how her problems have been linked to an insect bite suffered 20 years ago. Adelle Huckins, 31, has been blighted by a range of medical conditions including m...
"It's Entertainment, Eh?" by Karl Denninger "Oh really, that's all it is? "Deen defended her fattening cooking style - and her decision to keep her diabetes diagnosis a secret for three years - to TODAY'...
A snarling President Nicolas Sarkozy refused to answer a question about France's credit downgrading four times - before criticising others for their 'lack of coolness'. In a meeting in Madrid yesterday, ...
I just want to follow up on a couple of news stories- First the Pickering dungeon house (both parts accessible at link) There is a video here Was there electricity in the building? There is an electrical ...
It may sound like the plot of a James Bond movie, but did a U.S. radar station accidentally zap the Phobos-Grunt Mars sample return mission?
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Former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali turned 70 on Tuesday.
The Gay Secretary So even as Leon Panetta admits that Iran does not possess nor is making nuclear weapons, even as the IAEA heads back into Iran to confirm that reality for the umpteenth time, even as the...
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For society to work, we need to believe that it is reasonably fair — not absolutely fair, because nothing is, but broadly decent in apportioning rewards and penalties. Nothing does more to breed anger an...
David Cameron accused Argentina of ‘colonialism’ for threatening the Falkland Islands yesterday after being warned the regime in Buenos Aires is plotting a mock ‘fishermen’s invasion’. He dramatically ra...
Kids have unbridled imaginations and a healthy dose of optimism about what the future might hold. When they were asked about how robots might help them learn and work better, they had some potentially pre...
That’s what you thought Kiva did already? Not quite. But the new Kiva Zip lets you lend directly to a real person, with a higher chance it won’t get paid back. It’s a vast experiment in online trust and i...
*Where Is Our Tax Money? -by Carol Shea-Porter* A debate has been raging about the proper role of government and the proper government use of our taxes. The recession that began in early 2007 under the ...
The SUN-TV news network was never intended to cover the news, it was intended to make the news. Some might even say make up the news, but what I mean is that the gang of clown-shoed commentators put togeth...
Sweet Tweet offers a playful way to celebrate growing popularity on Twitter while raising questions about the future of interaction design. Whenever someone follows brand communications agency Uniform's T...
America is thinking too small when it comes to energy efficiency … according to a major new report from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE). The new report outlines three scenari...
*Mark Pagel, professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Reading **In his thoughtful *Together: The rituals, pleasures and politics of co-operation*, Richard Sennett argues there are ways to ove...
Making a reality show isn't as simple as pointing a camera at a person and hoping he or she is horrible. There are a lot of tricks and manipulations that producers use to make douchebags and handbag design...
Today’s soldiers are invisible. They can’t be harmed by bullets or chemical weapons. They can see through walls and distinguish enemy from civilian with a simple glance. At least, that was the vision out...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoSOUTHERN INDIANA — As the storm clouds rolled into the area Tuesday, mother nature seemed to have her eye on Veterans Parkway in Clark County. “It was crazy in here,” said Ron Trotter, a host at the Tex-M...
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