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“Dreams are the answers to questions that we haven't yet figured out how to ask.” - "
Fox Mulder", "
The X-Files"
A team of conservative policymakers and thinkers believes that there's a real chance that Western efforts to stop Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon will fail, in which case the United States would have ...
As the violence in
Syria spirals out of control, top officials in President *
Barack Obama*'s administration are quietly preparing options for how to assist the Syrian opposition, including gaming out the u...
A few days ago we mentioned that the DCCC has refused to add
Progressive Caucus chair
Raúl Grijalva to their Frontline list of endangered incumbents. That isn't because Grijalva isn't endangered; between ...
A walker has found human remains in woodlands on the Royal Family's Sandringham estate, according to police. "Detectives from
Norfolk Constabulary have launched an investigation following the discovery o...
Fierce storms are set to batter Britain with winds of up to 85mph and heavy rain expected to cause traffic chaos as commuters return to work and school. The latest round of unsettled weather will add mor...
"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal." - Ralph Vaull Starr
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Buckdog - 1 hour ago
*Dear Mr. Harper; Why aren't your multi-Billion dollar corporate tax cuts tied to ACTUAL job creation? A Canadian taxpayer* *OTTAWA - Profitable Canadian businesses are set to reap $2.85 billion in addit...
In times when nearly a billion people are starving, it is simply immoral to artificially increase prices of foods through patent monopolies. Effectively, companies such as Monsanto are abusing patent law...
"Most bright stars in our Milky Way Galaxy reside in a disk. Since our Sun also resides in this disk, these stars appear to us as a diffuse band that circles the sky. The below panorama of a northern band ...
*"Wickedness, And The Bonfire of the Vanities" * by Chet Raymo "It seems a simple, innocuous, almost obvious statement: The point of life is to seek pleasure and avoid pain. It was a goal enunciated by Ep...
"Nothing ventured, nothing gained - but if everything is ventured, and still nothing gained, give up and venture elsewhere." - Peter Wastholm
*"Research Shows Transfats Found in Junk Food Causes Brain Damage"* by The Daily Mail "Not only does it rot your teeth and add inches to your waistline, but now researchers have discovered that junk food ...
South Australia is sweltering with the hottest start to the year in more than a century as a hot air mass which can sear vegetation moves across the state and into Victoria. The weather system is dragging...
It is really unusual for such asite to be established at this elevation in the first instance and for it to besustained and later revisited for obviously what must be centuriesafterward. It plausibly ...
*Poor Willard Inc.! Nobody warned him that reality could possibly intrude on his campaign fantasy land. But then, who signed off on the idea of passing him off as a "job creator"?* *by Ken* Two points ab...
*Remarks by John Zerzan at a benefit for Tohono O’odham people fighting mining on their traditional lands, near Tucson, Arizona, December 2011* Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Photo: John ...
I stole this from Nancy. 1. What did you do in 2011 that you’d never done before? *** Traveled to Germany, Jamaica, San Diego, and Puerto Rico. Wore an all sequined dress. Became obsessed with running a...
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wmtc - 5 hours ago
The drive from Mississauga to Quebec was long but easy. My only concern was winter storms, and we saw nothing more than the occasional flurry. In fact, for the portion of the trip in daylight, it was brigh...
Grapevine, Texas, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
* * *"3.5 Million Homeless and 18.5 Million Vacant Homes in the US"* by Diane Sweet "The National Economic and Social Rights Initiative along with Amnesty International are asking the U.S. to step up its e...
*"Questions Before Dark"* "Day ends, and before sleep when the sky dies down, consider your altered state: has this day changed you? Are the corners sharper or rounded off? Did you live with death? Make de...
*3 deranged GOP homophobes... and one is a closet queen himself!* I believe in equality, but in marriage... not so much. I mean if people want to get married, by all means let them. It doesn't interest me;...
There was a real BBC hatchet job carried over the holidays concerning Margaret Thatcher and her approach to Liverpool in the early '80's and B-BBC contributor Alan picks up on the detail; "And aren’t w...
*BOOKS:* *PAPAL SIN AND LORD ACTON:* *"The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks"* *- Lord Acton* ** I thought that...
Remarkable story in the DT the other day, I know Miliband is deluded but this takes it to a whole new level! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
*Cops want you to do more than turn down the volume*: "Police detain and shave dozens after raiding Indonesian punk rock concert" December 15, 2011|Associated Press BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - Police in Indon...
Biased BBC's Alan notes; "Richard Black illustrates why he is not a good journalist...allowing prejudice and bad judgement to influence his reporting. On Twitter he claims people who don't follow the 'con...
"Flood kills hundreds in Philippines; Tropical storm waters ravage region in south" December 18, 2011|By Oliver Teves, Associated Press MANILA -* Flash floods* swept through a southern Philippines region ...
In campaign shakeup, Mitt Romney announces new campaign chairman is Mr. Miyagi.
* *"See? Red, white and blue! USA! USA! We're #1!!!"* * *"Surprising New GOP Candidate"* A Letter from Kim Jong-un To the People of Iowa by Andy Borowitz PYONGYANG (The Borowitz Report) – "The following i...
"Nepal hopes elephant games boost tourism" by Associated Press December 29, 2011 Soccer-playing elephants used all four feet and even their trunks trying to score goals. Racing pachyderm thundered to the...
*I'm sorry, readers; however, I am simply never going to catch up so I decided to dump the agenda-pushing trade and cyber war posts from the Boston Globe's business section.* "China cracking down on reali...
*"Nobody Understands Debt"* By Paul Krugman "In 2011, as in 2010, America was in a technical recovery but continued to suffer from disastrously high unemployment. And through most of 2011, as in 2010, al...
"There exists no more difficult art than living. For other arts and sciences, numerous teachers are to be found everywhere. Even young people believe that they have acquired these in such a way, that they ...
And the next question is DID YOU PAY FOR THAT TRIP WITH PRECIOUS TAX DOLLARS? I have no idea who this is - it was just another one of those pieces of ALEC information that shows up on the web. During t...
"November trial set for Khmer Rouge leaders" October 19, 2011|Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Cambodia’s *war crimes tribunal* will begin its long-awaited full-scale trial of the top surviving lea...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 60 km (37.2 miles), the quake hit at 19:35:01 UTC Monday 2nd January 2012 The epicenter was 107 km (66.4 miles) East...
Pakistani security forces detained three Iranian border guards Monday after officials say they illegally entered Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province and opened fire on a vehicle, killing one perso...
*You expect something else from a government?* * *"Sri Lanka OK’s panel to mend postwar ties" November 24, 2011|Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka’s Parliament approved the creation yesterday...
*"Seeing Through The Apocalypse"* by Zen Gardner "They don't own the earth. They don't own you and me. They don't own all their stupid secret symbols. They don't own the present, they don't own the futur...
"Maldives urged to stop flogging women" November 25, 2011|Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - The United Nations human rights chief urged the Maldives yesterday to end the practice of *flogging* women fo...
*"Take this APR and Shove It"* By Kimberly Thorpe “At last count, Steven Katz owed $80,000 on his six credit cards, and he has no intention of paying any of it off. In fact, he'd like to show you how to ...
*"They're Getting Desperate: GIVE THEM THE FINGER!"* by Karl Denninger “Happy New Year... * I am getting sued by a creditor. The account is about six or seven years old. Can the creditor collect mone...
From *CBC*: (emphasis mine) Electro-Motive Diesel, which makes diesel-electric locomotives and engines in London, Ont., has locked out almost 500 unionized workers *after they failed to take a 50 per cen...
"Police ban Malaysia gay rights event" November 04, 2011|Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Police ordered gay rights activists in Muslim-majority Malaysia yesterday to scrap an annual arts festival...
*All the photos are of Venice and the surrounding area.* *Politico Botches Poll Results to Downgrade Ron Paul* *Conspiracies Make the World Go Round* *The 1% Seem to be Following Hitler’s Playbook and ...
From Think Progress - They always do such a wonderful job of reporting the issues. PLEASE - read the whole article *>>>>>HERE<<<<<* Your tease:
A Syrian man has been killed 'execution-style' in Germany as fears grow that the Damascus regime is actively hunting down its critics in Europe. The 35-year-old man was killed after he stopped in his Volks...
MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Wash. — Police said a body believed to be that of a gunman suspected in the shooting death of a park ranger has been found, but the identity has not yet been confirmed. Public ...
The stricken eurozone will start disintegrating this year and will almost certainly collapse within the next decade, a think tank warned today. At least one country will quit before the end of the year and...
Thousands of dead herring have been discovered washed up on a north Norwegian beach - prompting Doomsday predictors to hail it as another sign the world is set to end. More than 20 tonnes of the fish is c...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 40 km (24.8 miles), the quake hit at 18:28:27 UTC Monday 2nd January 2012 The epicenter was 110 km (68.2 miles) East...
I hope those U.S. senators are telling the ITALIAN PEOPLE that they are REPRESENTING the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Italy–USA Foundation (Italian...
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FOTOfrontera - 10 hours ago
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*I hope he's okay.* "Chavez declares himself cancer free" October 21, 2011|Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO - President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela declared yesterday that he had beaten cancer, less than five...
Firefighters in Chile battled three huge wildfires Monday that have burned about 90 square miles (23,000 hectares) of forest, destroyed more than 100 homes and have driven away thousands of tourists while ...
Iran launched a long-range missile during a naval exercise in the Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, a move regarded as Tehran’s warning to the west over imposing oil sanctions because of its nuclear programme...
"Latin American birthrates plummeting; Urbanization, health care, TV soap operas cited" by Juan Forero | Washington Post, January 01, 2012 BATAN, Brazil - Fertility rates have dropped in many parts of t...
*THE NEW YEAR'S SPECTRE:* Perhaps the ghost of New Years Yet To Come ?
"Argentine raised by parents’ ‘Dirty War’ killer" October 09, 2011|By Alexei Barrionuevo, New York Times BUENOS AIRES - The nation’s top military leaders engaged in a *systematic plan to steal babies* fro...
*Hoax detector Ben Stein, hoax makers Glenn Beck and Harold Camping, Ahnold can't be prez and T-Paw won't be, and more* *Self-proclaimed sage Harold Camping managed to whiff on twoend-of-the-world predicti...
I keep hitting links to this all morning - so it means I have to publish something. My question is - being that I have worked in higher ed and at nonprofits AND done grant accounting reporting..............
*She must be; otherwise, the terrorist would not be getting so much attention from the paper.* "Peru lets US activist take holiday trip" December 17, 2011|Associated Press LIMA, Peru - A Peruvian court ha...
A magnitude 3.1 earthquake has struck Syria at a depth of just 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 17:12:11 UTC Monday 2nd January 2012 The epicenter was 28 km (17.4 miles) South of Al-hasakah, Syria No Repo...
Image: The hybrid shark contains DNA from both the Australian blacktip shark and the common blacktip shark, researchers say. The world's first hybrid sharks have been discovered in substantial numbers off...
*Except the newspaper. * "French court approves Noriega extradition" by Jamey Keaten and Pierre-Antoine Souchard Associated Press / November 23, 2011 PARIS—A French court ruled Wednesday that former dict...
A Molotov cocktail was tossed at an Islamic center in one of three attacks in New York City, authorities said early Monday. The three attacks in Queens were at the Islamic center, a bodega, and a private...
The militant Islamist group Boko Haram has issued an ultimatum giving Christians living in northern Nigeria three days to leave the area amid a rising tide of violence there. A Boko Haram spokesman, Abul...
Iran is using what is normally a quiet holiday lull in the West to make the most of its military manoeuvres in the Strait of Hormuz, which have concluded after 10 days. The navy test-fired two types of lon...
Britain is a nation in denial about obesity, according to a new survey. Just under a quarter of the UK population is officially obese, but only 6% of people believe their weight problem is severe enough t...
A woman thought to have been abducted from a house in east London has been found dead an hour later in an abandoned car. Police said the 20-year-old had died from stab wounds. Initial investigations sugg...
The Daily Mail is running an article about a Super volcano in Germany (Laacher See) insinuating that it could erupt. In truth, any volcano could erupt at any time: it has only just been discovered that rat...
*FLASHBACK*: "Ex-general atop polls as Guatemalans vote" September 12, 2011|Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY - A *former military general known for his “iron fist’’ *campaign to stop Guatemala’s epidemic...
[I hate to keep mentioning that I really need some financial support at this very tough time for everyone, but anyone who would like to donate to the maintenance of this site could do so through the PayPal...
What really makes my skin crawl about living in the world of the Far Right is how seamlessly, yet powerfully, fantasy is interwoven with reality. Let's name it. How about *hyperconservativopathy?* Extrem...
Because of modest festivities, I didn't have enough time and energy to celebrate the anniversary of Satyendra Bose, an eminent theoretical physicist who was a kind of Indian counterpart of Albert Einstei...
"Nicaragua pres Ortega poised to win 3rd term" by Filadelfo Aleman Associated Press / November 6, 2011 MANAGUA, Nicaragua—Nicaraguans were poised to return one-time Sandinista revolutionary Daniel Ortega ...
"16 die in St. Lucia as bus falls off cliff" November 12, 2011|Associated Press CASTRIES, St. Lucia - A minibus carrying mourners from a funeral fell off a cliff into the ocean in the eastern Caribbean is...
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Biased BBC - 12 hours ago
The BBC's US President editor ("North America editor" is a misnomer, as Mardell never discusses - with the lone exception of the heroic Pvt. Manning - anything other than US politics and things which affec...
"Suspect in killings may go free in Ecuador; Countries at odds over where to prosecute him" November 16, 2011|By Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff Ecuadoran officials have warned the US government that a *man a...
*Would have never seen it on the website*: "GATHERING STEAM -- The Hudson Volcano in Chile spewed a column of steam nearly a mile into the air yesterday, as seen from a flight near Coihaique town, some 1,...
*Just giving you what the Globe is giving me*: "Colombian drug lord pleads guilty" October 07, 2011|Associated Press MIAMI - A Colombian drug kingpin who was part of a cartel that smuggled at least 30 ton...
*Close the book*: "Canada won’t extradite terror suspect" November 04, 2011|Associated Press TORONTO - A Canadian indicted in the United States on charges he supplied Al Qaeda with weapons in Pakistan wil...
"Cuba cracking down on corruption" November 25, 2011|By Paul Haven, Associated Press HAVANA - Green-clad security agents swoop down on an upscale business complex to shutter the offices of a Canadian car ...
16 people were admitted into hospitals in the city of Zarqa (east of Amman), on Friday after suffering from food poisoning symptoms. All the patients were taken to prince Hashim and prince Faisal military ...
Health authorities in Australia are warning of a possible outbreak of Murray Valley encephalitis, a rare but potentially deadly disease. The mosquito-borne disease has recently been found in chickens in ...
A magnitude 3.0 earthquake has struck Northern California at a depth of just 2.4 km (1.5 miles Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 15:54:43 UTC Monday 2nd January 2012 The epicenter was 4 km (2.4 miles) ...
(By American Zen's Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari Goldstein.) *Astute readers will also notice that Obama's signing statement has no legal binding whatsoever and only refers to Obama's momentary intenti...
Mount Rainier National Park remains closed Monday as an intense manhunt continues for a gunman who shot and killed a park ranger Sunday. Police have a strong person of interest in the shooting. He's named ...
This device could bring medical diagnostics into the hands of patients.
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CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours ago
*MNN: SKY IS NOT FALLING* *By Mohawk Nation News* *http://www.mohawknationnews.com* MNN. Jan. 1, 2012. No. The world is not coming to an end. It’s continuing. We’re been lead to think that we are he...
ShareE-mailPrint *In the form of a cosmetic s*** political fooley mud face pack*: "Kuwait leaders resign, but stay on" November 29, 2011|Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Kuwait’s ruler *accep...
*I wouldn't blame you if you didn't readers. * "Activists call for Bahrain election boycott" September 24, 2011|Associated Press MANAMA, Bahrain - Bahrain’s Sunni rulers are practicing “fake democracy,’’ ...
Form Wiki According to the U.S. Census Bureau data released Tuesday September 13th, 2011, the nation's poverty rate was at its highest level since 1993 rose to 15.1% (46.2 million) in 2010,[2] up from 1...
*I apologize to you for mine, readers.* "Rally urges boycott of Moroccan vote" November 14, 2011|Associated Press CASABLANCA, Morocco - Thousands of prodemocracy activists demonstrated in Morocco’s larges...
Spain's public deficit for 2011 may be higher than the 8 percent of GDP forecast by the new government, the economy minister said Monday, fuelling fears the country faces a prolonged period of tight budget...
Syria's military has withdrawn from residential areas and is on the outskirts of the country's cities, but gunfire continues and snipers are still a threat, Arab League Secretary General Nabil Elaraby said...
Note: Conflicting reports continue to come out of Syria with articles stating today that gun fire is still a threat whilst others report that all is calm. Gunfire is continuing and snipers are still a thr...
"UAE trial of activists draws criticism" November 04, 2011|Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - A coalition of international human rights organizations accused the United Arab Emirates yesterday ...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai called for an investigation into the torture of a 15-year-old girl, who police say they rescued after she was locked in the basement of her in-laws' house, starved and her n...
New Orleans riverfront park taking shape in Bywater, Marigny Yeah, Mr. Nice Guys! ~These Saints better than Super Bowl Champs Forbes recognizes LSU New Years Day~Disenfranchised Citizen 2011 Dec 30 - On...
Apparently if you say the words glitter and shoes in the same sentence to a 9-year-old on Christmas Eve, you will find yourself, like me, racing to glitter shoes before Santa could show his face that nig...
As Nicole Belle explained in her thoughtful apologia at Crooks and Liars Sunday morning, political reality dictated that Obama sign the heinous National Defense Authorization Act. It's a political reality...
"Iceland rejects Chinese tycoon’s land proposal" November 26, 2011|By Anna Andersen, Associated Press REYKJAVIK, Iceland - A Chinese entrepreneur’s bid to create a vast nature retreat in Iceland was turne...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the New Ireland Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:07:08 UTC Monday 2nd January 2012 The epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) Sout...
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Biased BBC - 15 hours ago
A Happy New Year to you all and time for the first Open Thread of 2012! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
*Related*:* Camping Out in the Congo* *Time to fold up the Globe tent. * "Violence, late ballots slow Congo vote" November 29, 2011|Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo - Voting materials arrived late or som...
Author: David Heath The spate of earthquakes that have inflicted major damage upon Christchurch in New Zealand display a very worrying trend. Is the nearby volcano about to erupt? There are a couple of w...
A magnitude 3.0 earthquake has struck the Island of Hawaii, Hawaii at a depth of just 0 km (0 miles Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 12:25:35 UTC Monday 2nd January 2012 The epicenter was 16 km (10 mi...
Los Angeles police this morning have detained and are questioning a “person of interest” in the spate of arson fires around the city since Friday. The suspect, believed to be the man in a video police rel...
Iran on Monday tested missiles near the Strait of Hormuz, underlining its threats to close the vital oil-transit waterway as the West prepares to impose more economic sanctions. The launch of two missiles...
Four members of the same family have been found shot dead at a house in County Durham. It appears that a man, named locally as taxi driver Michael Atherton Snr, known as Micky, killed three female relati...
*New Delhi, India (CNN)* -- Seventeen people died after drinking a toxic, illegal home-brewed liquor over the New Years weekend in southern India, authorities said Monday. At least 18 people were also po...
A man charged with the murder of an Indian student in the Salford area of Manchester on Boxing Day has told a court his name is "Psycho Stapleton". The 20-year-old from the Ordsall estate in Salford was a...
Iran has succeeded in building and testing the country's first domestically produced nuclear fuel rod, the semi-official Fars news agency reported Sunday. The uranium fuel rod was tested successfully a...
Head of the Arab observers' mission in restive Idlib province in northern Syria said Monday that there were no "military aspects and no gunmen" there and the situation was "quiet." Abdul-Latif al-Jibali ...
Activity in the eurozone manufacturing sector fell for the fifth successive month in December, but showed a slight improvement on the previous month, a closely-watched survey suggests. The Markit eurozon...
Fears are growing for imperilled high street chains after industry leaders warned that drastic discounting has failed to kickstart a recovery over Christmas. Despite the mild weather, activity on Britain'...
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- 17 hours ago
*My take on 2012 is*: start thinking! Don't longer believe everything that's been told to you. Don't believe everything that is written or you seein media. Be critical, skeptic even and use the Internet to ...
Indiana State Police are investigating who mailed a fake biological weapon to the Indiana Government Center South building in Downtown Indianapolis, but they say it posed no threat to the public. About 30...
Every year brings a fresh new crop of popular books on physics and cosmology, and 2011 was no exception.
Encephalitis has claimed the lives of two children, taking the death toll in the viral infection in eastern Uttar Pradesh to 643 this year (2011). The two children died in the last two days, Additional di...
Kiaran Mark Stapleton, 20, Remanded in Custody Charged with the Murder of Indian Student Anuj Bidve in Salford on Boxing Day
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 09:39:57 UTC Monday 2nd January 2012 The epicenter was 1413 km (877 miles) NNE of Cay...
ARIZONA-At about 8:20 pm on New Year’s Eve, a large fireball was seen by at least dozens of witnesses from Arizona, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and California. The unsubstantiated landing site of the sus...
JAKARTA (Xinhua) -- Some 40,000 people living in around 11,000 homes have been affected by floods in Central Java, following the collapse of three river levees, local media reported on Monday. Levees in ...
Hong Kong authorities late on Saturday suspended imports of live poultry and poultry products from parts of neighboring Shenzhen after a man there died from a lethal strain of avian influenza. The import...
The strain of H5H1 bird flu that killed a Chinese man cannot spread among people, a health agency said Monday, appealing for calm after the country's first reported case of the disease in humans in 18 mont...
Blackbirds raining from the sky for the second New Year running over the town of Beebe, Ark. was more likely a criminal rather than a supernatural phenomenon. The authorities in the small US town said Su...
Fragments of stricken Russian spaceship Phobos-Grunt are expected to come crashing back to Earth next week. The 13.5 tonne craft became stranded in Earth's orbit in November after its rocket boosters fai...
The United Nations has warned villagers in South Sudan to flee from advancing fighters from a rival ethnic group. Fighters from the Lou Nuer ethnic group are pursuing members of the Murle group, reports ...
The second of two Nasa moon probes successfully completed its main engine burn and arrived in orbit over the moon last night. The Grail-B spacecraft reunited with Grail-A after a three-month mission cost...
South Korea's president opened the door Monday to possible nuclear talks with North Korea and warned the neighboring country to avoid any provocations, saying the Korean peninsula is at a crucial turning p...
Mt. Sakurajima, an active volcano in southwestern Japan, explosively erupted 996 times in 2011, the most since record keeping began in 1955, the local meteorological observatory said Sunday. At the 800-m...
A small fishing boat swept away from its home port in Iwate Prefecture by the March 11 tsunami was discovered here -- all the way on the other side of Japan's largest island of Honshu -- on Dec. 31. Acco...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 89.6 km (55.7 miles), the quake hit at 08:55:12 UTC Monday 2nd January 2012 The epicenter was 12 km (7 miles) S...
"Hollywood car fires continue, arson suspected; LA-area residents worried arsonist will strike again" by Michael R. Blood | Associated Press, January 01, 2012 LOS ANGELES - Several more cars burned in...
"With bees dying off, a search for solutions takes on added urgency" by Adrian Higgins Washington Post / January 1, 2012 WASHINGTON - The desire for a bee that will look after itself might seem pretty bas...
"Database bringing insight into the origins of slaves" January 01, 2012|By Suzanne Gamboa, Associated Press WASHINGTON - Almost two centuries before there was a man named Obama in the White House, there w...
*I'm not reading a whole lot of it these days, and even when I do I put it down after a handful of pages. * *Maybe I need a pill*: "ADHD drug shortages causing anxiety among patients; Manufacturers say D...
*British performer David Hockney has been chosen a member of the Order of Merit by the Queen in spite of spinning down a knighthood in 1990*.According to him “I don't value prizes of any sort. I value my ...
"Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we...
Four people - a man and three females - have been found dead in a house in County Durham after a suspected gun attack, according to police. A major investigation is under way after firearms officers discov...
Power has been restored to properties along South Australia's coast after it was switched off earlier today because of high fire danger. Energy company ETSA Utilities shut down the electricity supply to ab...
Two teenage boys have been charged with arson after burning down a factory on New Year's Eve. Police said Steven Gallagher, 17, and an unnamed 15-year-old were arrested and that the charges had become mor...
Police in India say they have arrested two people who are suspected of sacrificing a child. It's believed the girl was murdered and her liver was offered to gods to improve crop growth. Police chief Nara...
This is a welcome review ofthe present state of the art in terms of free energy, which is really aboutconverting or moving energy into a usable form. As he makes clear, we have not been wonderfully su...
This artifact was likely a giftif anything to an important shrine. Whatit does is clearly confirm the existence of active sea travel between theLevant and Malta which is anatural stopover on the way t...
Take the trouble to read this. Itmay not be the whole answer to the confounding problem of schizophrenia, but itis certainly an identified physical abnormality that can plausibly beadjusted. There may...
This is an important book forthose who wish to understand how the First World War came about. The ‘school’ explanations were always too patand something was clearly missing. Whatthis book makes abun...
High winds are tipped to stoke a severe fire danger risk across the western half of Victoria. Winds averaging 40km/h are predicted across the state's southwest on Monday, where the temperature is expected...
Police in Los Angeles distributed DVDs today featuring surveillance video of a man wanted for questioning in connection with a rash of suspicious car fires in the city. The person of interest is a white m...
(Reuters) - Iran said on Monday it has successfully test fired a long-range missile during its naval exercise in the Gulf, the official IRNA news agency reported. "We have test fired a long-range shore-t...
US President Barack Obama Saturday signed into law tough new sanctions targeting Iran's central bank and financial sector, in a move that could intensify a brewing Gulf showdown. The measures, meant to pu...
*China has launched its first three-dimensional television channel operated by China Central Television and five local stations, aims to be launched appropriately over the impending Chinese New year on a...
Casey Anthony has the right to ignore questions about her daughter's death while she appeals her convictions in the case, a judge has ruled. Anthony, 25, was found not guilty in July of killing her daughte...
Civil rights groups today voiced major concern over a defence bill allowing the military to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens suspected of terrorism. The $662billion bill was signed by Barack Obama on Satu...
Authorities are scouring Mount Rainier National Park for a cold-blooded killer who gunned down a U.S. Forest Service Ranger and then fired at officers who were coming to help her. Officials closed the par...
Iran will test-fire two long range missiles on Monday during the last day of naval exercises in the Gulf, a naval commander said, following its threat to halt oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz. ...
Many consider it a joke although others are scared we might never live to see next year thanks to the Mayan calendar’s ‘apocalyptic’ prediction. But Mayan expert Leonzo Barreno, of Saskatchewan, Canada, sa...
German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Nicolas Sarkozy have issued grave New Year warnings on the worsening plight of the stricken eurozone. Their words marked a sombre tenth anniversary for...
BEAVER (KDKA) — It won’t be long before the rain of today gives way to the snow of tomorrow and that means sledding. But in Beaver Borough, residents just got a newsletter, alerting them to restrictions ...
The Obama administration is considering transferring to Afghan custody a senior Taliban official suspected of major human rights abuses as part of a long-shot bid to improve the prospects of a peace deal i...
France will be making it harder for foreigners to seek French citizenship as of January. Critics say the new requirements, which include tough language tests and allegiance to “French values”, are an elect...
An unusual nativity display at a Claremont church that portrayed gay couples was vandalized over the weekend in an incident authorities are investigating as a hate crime. Claremont United Methodist Churc...
*Muammar Gaddafi is leading the Human Rights Hero of 2011 award of Amnesty International USA's online poll* On 1 January 2012, Franklin Lamb, author and researcher, has an article entitled *"**Will 2012 ...
Twelve protesters have been arrested at the Iowa Democratic headquarters this afternoon, as they protested that Guantanamo remained open and corporate donations to campaigns. As arrests were going on, o...
Iran claimed to have taken surveillance footage of a US aircraft carrier near the Strait of Hormuz as both countries raised the stakes in their standoff over the key oil route. The commander of *Iran*'s ...
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano has recruited hockey fans into counterterrorism efforts, as DHS has expanded the "If you see something, say something" campaign to National ...
Twitter has been threatened with legal action by an Israeli pressure group in an attempt to force it to close accounts run by Hezbollah and other organisations classed as terrorist by the United States. ...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 13.2 km (8.2 miles), the quake hit at 05:59:14 UTC Monday 2nd January 2012 The epicenter was 20 km (12.4 miles) East of Christc...
At first glance it appears to be just another photograph of immaculately turned out troops paying their last respects to North Korea’s former leader Kim Jong-il. But a closer inspection of the back row o...
The GRAIL spacecraft are now orbiting the moon -- GRAIL-A arrived on Saturday, GRAIL-B arrived on New Year's Day.
Europe is at mounting risk of a fresh credit crunch after the eurozone money supply contracted for a second month in November and the volume of private loans began to shrink. Data released by the Europea...
1. . .If America attacks Iran. America won't be defeated on the battlefield, and neither will Iran. Both countries will fight to the point of mental, spiritual, political, and economic exhaustion, and infl...
House prices in Britain dipped in December, mortgage lender Nationwide said on Friday, adding that the property market looks likely to remain sluggish next year as a weak economy and rising unemployment ke...
As my dad writes out the cheque, I feel like a teenager again, asking for a new pair of shoes or tickets to see my favourite band. Except this time I’m a 41-year-old mother-of-two with a house and husband...
Across the Washington area, black students are suspended and expelled two to five times as often as white students, creating disparities in discipline that experts say reflect a growing national problem....
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Delinquent borrowers facing foreclosure are learning that they can stay in their homes for years, as long as they're willing to put up a fight. Among the tactics: Challenging* *the ...
Israeli police and ultra-Orthodox protesters clashed on Monday in Beit Shemesh, an Israeli town on the outskirts of Jerusalem where protests have flared over demands to crackdown on extremists accused of...
*Vancouver, Canada* - As the Arctic sea-ice melts, the Dragon looks to the north. China has a voracious appetite for oil, natural gas and minerals - of which the Arctic has plenty. The world's newest super...
Over the past decade, the US military has shifted the way it fights its wars, deploying more unmanned systems in the battlefield than ever before. Today there are more than 7,000 drones and 12,000 ground...
Financial reform? Not exactly. The bill before Congress does nothing to address the fundamental background causes of the crash of 2008. Wall Street may have been the instrument of the crash. But the crash...
As the average life expectancy of Koreans increases, seven out of 10 women consider caring for their aging husbands a burden, and more than 60 percent of people fear they will end up getting their inherita...
A recent spate of student suicides has drawn attention to school bullying, with some cases hushed up to save schools’ reputations, leading victims to distrust their schools and teachers. Reported cases of...
Rich countries are failing to contribute to an international emergency fund leaving the world "dangerously unprepared" for future disasters, the International Development Secretary has warned. Andrew Mit...
This time last year a match was lit by a fruit vendor in Tunis, which triggered uprisings throughout the region. Countries big, Egypt, and small, Tunisia, have witnessed wholesale change and the toppling o...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Romania at a depth of 12 km (7.4 miles), the quake hit at 00:23:53 UTC Monday 2nd January 2012 The epicenter was 3 km (1.8 miles) Southeast of Sacelu, Romania No Report...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Romania at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 00:17:17 UTC Monday 2nd January 2012 The epicenter was 4 km (2.4 miles) Southwest of Bengesti, Romania No Repor...
Firefighters in Hollywood are on full alert after a third consecutive night of arson attacks on cars. *More than 30 vehicles were set alight on Thursday and Friday* - with at least four more blazes start...
“At about 100 meters from the cargo bay of the space shuttle Challenger, Bruce McCandless II was farther out than anyone had ever been before. Guided by a Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU), astronaut McCandles...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Romania at a depth of 33.2 km (20.6 miles), the quake hit at 23:57:21 UTC Sunday 1st January 2012 The epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) NNW of Craiova, Romania No Reports ...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 32.2 km (20 miles), the quake hit at 22:59:13 UTC Sunday 1st January 2012 The epicenter was 134 km (83 miles) NNW of Luganville, Espiritu Santo, ...
“The mind is its own place, and in it self. Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.” ~ John Milton, “Paradise Lost” “’Paradise Lost’ is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet ...
"There are those much more rare people who never lose their curiosity, their almost childlike wonder at the world; those people who continue to learn and to grow intellectually until the day they die. And...
And we're gonna harmonize our regs to them? Nothing like a little chelated herbicide with your cornflakes... http://www.healthtruthrevealed.com/articles/11375936312/article America's Farmlands To Be ...
"Geese appear high over us pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, as in love or sleep, holds them to their way, clear in the ancient faith: what we need is here. And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to...
"Someone once told me that time is a predator that stalked us all our lives. But I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey, that reminds us to cherish every moment becaus...
*One of the sample Michael Maslin cartoons Bob Mankoff offers:* *"Once again I find myself in the rather awkward position of having to ask one of you for a biscuit."* *by Ken* We've been following *New Yo...
Take a deep breath, because our Bill of Rights is ALSO SKEWERED... with a handy little item called the " Notwithstanding" Clause (33) in which "in a case where the good of the nation" is involved, i.e...
*At Prince Orlofsky's (Act II), at the Bavarian State Opera* *DETECTIVE GREGGS*: Boring, ain't we? *CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANT BUBS*: How y'all do what you do every day and not want to get high? That's what I...
The Washington Post: Ron Paul denies ‘9/11 trutherism’ accusation (1/1/2012). Ron Paul Denies That The Bush White House And Shadow CIA Did 9/11 on ABC's This Week. There is nothing wrong with being accu...
Jorge Martinez Boero had a heart attack after falling from his motorcycle.
*PERSONAL* *HAPPY NEW YEAR:* Welcome to 2012 all you friends, enemies and innocent bystanders of Molly's Blog. May it be even more eventful and productive than 2011.
I've been thinking about this all day and there are things that I would like to see for the New Year in relation to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). 1. An investigation by every State Att...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Halmahera, Indonesia at a depth of 87.1 km (54.1 miles), the quake hit at 21:07:28 UTC Sunday 1st January 2012 The epicenter was 182 km (113 miles) Northeast of Ternate...
*Hitchens didn't "solve" the problem of maintaining an "outside" perspective as he became more and more of an "insider." On the contrary, he seems to have embraced his privileged status.* *"Hitchens was o...
*RT *January 1, 2012 The Arab Spring uprisings were arguably the most significant events of the last 12 months. Protests are still raging across the region, even after regimes were toppled. Journalist a...
"Annual New Year's Eve Economic Forecast With Karl Denninger", - "On the Edge with Max Keiser" http://www.presstv.ir/Program/218655.html
Iran has test fired a new medium-range missile capable of avoiding radar detection, raising the stakes in its defiance of the West. The launch was part of a 10-day military exercise being conducted in the...
The Occupy Wall Street movement made a surprise invasion of Zuccotti Park last night while the police focused on New Year's Eve celebrations elsewhere in New York. Around 800 demonstators piled up metal ...
“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift ...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 12 km (7.4 miles), the quake hit at 20:01:43 UTC Sunday 1st January 2012 The epicenter was 20 km (12.4 miles) Northeast of Chris...
*"To Believe"* "To believe is to know that every day is a new beginning, Is to trust that miracles happen, and dreams really do come true. To believe is to see angels dancing among the clouds, To know the...
*“My Wife And The Burnt Light”* by Paulo Coelho "On Christmas Eve, my wife and I were reflecting on the year that was nearly ending, whilst dining at a restaurant. I started to complain about something ...
*"21 Things Not To Do if You Want to Succeed"* from Advanced Life Skills by Jonathan "Did you make a list of things you intend to do in the upcoming months to move you closer to your goals? Have you got y...
European leaders return to work this week seeking to buy time for the Spanish and Italian governments to wrest control over their debt and rescue the single currency from fragmentation as the region’s cris...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Bougainville Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 146 km (90.7 miles), the quake hit at 19:32:51 UTC Sunday 1st January 2012 The epicenter was 183 km (114 miles)...
A man has been charged with the murder of an Indian student on Boxing Day. Kiaran Mark Stapleton, 20, from the Ordsall district of Salford, will appear before Manchester City magistrates' court on Monday ...
Ofelia Rivas, O'odham, describes how Border Patrol agents abuse O'odham in their homeland. Ofelia shares how O'odham carry on to protect O'odham homelands, the birthplace of their ancestors, while be...
The number of fires believed to be linked to an arson spree has risen to 39 across the Los Angeles area, fire officials said Sunday. A total of 32 fires have been set in Los Angeles and seven others in n...
A series of explosions in western Pakistan killed four people Sunday, including a young boy, authorities said. Fourteen others were wounded. A blast in Pakistan's volatile Balochistan province left three ...
Authorities were investigating Sunday after a gunshot wound to the face killed the governor of Argentina's Rio Negro province, state media reported. The shooting occurred around 4:45 a.m. Sunday in Gov. C...
To D-fox: if you're reading this, please contact us at thecomingcrisis@gmail.com. It's important -- we believe.
A jogger who died from Bird Flu may have caught the deadly virus after running through a wetlands park full of migratory flocks, medical officials in China claimed on Sunday. The 39-year-old Chinese man,...
By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com The hacktivists of Anonymous and Antisec kickstarted 2012 with the release of an avalanche of data, beginning on New Years Eve by hacking ...
*The Laetoli footprints of Tanzania date back to approximately 3.5 million years: the original Mall-crawl*. EVERYWHERE AND EVERYWHEN, people have tried to cope, tried to "get ahead", tried to prevail. Diff...
Ground-to-air naval test firing follows previous day's claim of nuclear fuel breakthrough. Iran has claimed to have successfully tested a new medium-range ground to air missile during naval exercises in t...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of just 1 km (0.6 miles - poorly constrained), the quake hit at 18:09:01 UTC Sunday 1st January 2012 The epicenter was 57 km (35...
Ron Paul is doing the smart thing by rejecting the reality that 9/11 was done by the Bush White House and the shadow CIA. This is understandable. Dr. Paul does not have to raise the 9/11 question on the ca...
Iran defiantly announced on Sunday that it had tested a new missile and made an advance in its nuclear programme after the United States unleashed extra sanctions that sent its currency to a record low. T...
*Gas prices rise and fall, Meghan McCain lashes back at Glenn B, the $enate & Big Oil, Newt plays the food stamp card, and more* *by Noah* *5/13/11 -- Public outrage has been building to a fever pitch ov...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 12 km (7.4 miles), the quake hit at 16:50:23 UTC Sunday 1st January 2012 The epicenter was 20 km (12.4 miles) Northeast of Chris...
As many as 16 people at a hotel near Lambeau Field were hospitalized Friday night after becoming ill from an apparent carbon monoxide leak, officials said. Battalion Chief Ed Jarosz of the Green Bay Fire ...
Five persons, including two children, were reported dead and one person missing from Thiruvananthapuram district as torrential rain lashed the southern districts of the State from Friday evening. Adityan...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 17:06:32 UTC Sunday 1st January 2012 The epicenter was 20 km (12.4 miles) Northeast of Chris...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 15 km (9.1 miles), the quake hit at 16:54:49 UTC Sunday 1st January 2012 The epicenter was 20 km (12.4 miles) Northeast of Chris...
Update: Christchurch is being hit by quake after quake in the 3-4.x magnitude range. We will keep a close eye on the situation. Christchurch, New Zealand, has been struck by at least three 5.x+ magnitude ...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:25:26 UTC Sunday 1st January 2012 The epicenter was 37 km (22.9 miles) East of Saryg-...
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 19.4 km (12.1 miles), the quake hit at 16:45:05 UTC Sunday 1st January 2012 The epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) ENE of Christchu...
The appearance of three snowy owls at Smithville Lake has surprised birders unaccustomed to seeing so many of the Arctic birds. The sightings so far south of the birds' normal range does not bode well for...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck South of Mariana Islands at a depth of 22.2 km (13.8 miles), the quake hit at 15:44:15 UTC Sunday 1st January 2012 The epicenter was 208 km (129 miles) Southwest of Ha...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck South of Panama at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 14:48:42 UTC Sunday 1st January 2012 The epicenter was 276 km (171 miles) South of David, Panama No ...
New Orleans Saints feed off the atmosphere, crowd support at Sacredome DREW BREES! Coast Guard says oil cleanup continuing 'Silence Is Violence' challenges NOPD release of murder victims' criminal reco...
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An Arab League advisory body has called for the immediate withdrawal of the organisation's monitoring mission in Syria, saying it is allowing Damascus to cover up violence and abuses. The Arab League has ...
Japan's population decreased in 2011 at the fastest pace in the postwar era with the decline, calculated by deducting the number of deaths from that of births, coming to an estimated 204,000, health minist...
A British man has been arrested in Costa Rica on suspicion of murdering a Czech woman at a campsite. The 20-year-old, named locally as Alfred Alexander Mill Saunders, was held in the town of Colonia La L...
The first of twin research spacecraft entered the moon's orbit Saturday, part of an effort to learn more about how it and other terrestrial bodies formed, NASA said. The GRAIL-A -- which launched from Fl...
Thousands of fighters attacked a remote town in South Sudan despite the presence of United Nations peacekeepers in the area, a military official said Sunday. Authorities were counting casualties from Sat...
*I'll skip the breakfast like I always do*: * * Muslims skip NYC mayor's event to protest spying * ** * Muslims upset by NYPD to boycott mayor's breakfast *Besides, they are rewritten, reedited pieces of s...
*Only if Ron Paul wins.* "Paul may take Iowa, but it won’t matter" December 29, 2011|By Joshua Green IT’S GETTING hard to imagine a *plausible scenario* in which Mitt Romney does not wind up as the Republ...
North Korea is urging its people to show allegiance to the death for new leader Kim Jong Un. State media KCNA published North Korea's annual New Year's Day message, saying, "The entire army should place ...
If you've ever contributed to a candidate or signed a petition, you were probably inundated with desperate pleas for helping dozens of candidates beat their deadlines-- midnight yesterday-- for campaign f...
A North Carolina man was arrested on suspicion of attempting to carry explosives through a security checkpoint at an airport in Midland, Texas, federal authorities said. Trey Scott Atwater of Hope Mills ...
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As the violence in Syria spirals out of control, top officials in President *Barack Obama*'s administration are quietly preparing options for how to assist the Syrian opposition, including gaming out the u...
A few days ago we mentioned that the DCCC has refused to add Progressive Caucus chair Raúl Grijalva to their Frontline list of endangered incumbents. That isn't because Grijalva isn't endangered; between ...
A walker has found human remains in woodlands on the Royal Family's Sandringham estate, according to police. "Detectives from Norfolk Constabulary have launched an investigation following the discovery o...
Fierce storms are set to batter Britain with winds of up to 85mph and heavy rain expected to cause traffic chaos as commuters return to work and school. The latest round of unsettled weather will add mor...
*Dear Mr. Harper; Why aren't your multi-Billion dollar corporate tax cuts tied to ACTUAL job creation? A Canadian taxpayer* *OTTAWA - Profitable Canadian businesses are set to reap $2.85 billion in addit...
It is really unusual for such asite to be established at this elevation in the first instance and for it to besustained and later revisited for obviously what must be centuriesafterward. It plausibly ...
*Poor Willard Inc.! Nobody warned him that reality could possibly intrude on his campaign fantasy land. But then, who signed off on the idea of passing him off as a "job creator"?* *by Ken* Two points ab...
*Remarks by John Zerzan at a benefit for Tohono O’odham people fighting mining on their traditional lands, near Tucson, Arizona, December 2011* Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Photo: John ...
The drive from Mississauga to Quebec was long but easy. My only concern was winter storms, and we saw nothing more than the occasional flurry. In fact, for the portion of the trip in daylight, it was brigh...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA British man has been arrested in Costa Rica on suspicion of murdering a Czech woman at a campsite. The 20-year-old, named locally as Alfred Alexander Mill Saunders, was held in the town of Colonia La L...
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