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Michael Aitkens's brilliant Britcom *Waiting for God* *by Ken* I explained the genesis of this post in my post earlier this evening, "Two personal mar...
Today, Paul Krugman entertains us "primary" avoidancers with the real news about Mitt, Rick and Newtie. And it doesn't bode well for anyone who doesn't understand what "carried interest" means to tax avoid...
*"Stress Test"* "I am not sure exactly how it works, but this is amazingly accurate. Read the full description before looking at the picture. The picture below has 2 identical dolphins in it. It was used ...
"A Full Moon rising can be a dramatic celestial sight, and Full Moons can have many names. Captured on January 8 from Östersund, Sweden, this evocative moonrise portrait might make you feel the cold of win...
"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." - Joseph Conrad, "
Under Western Eyes"
*"The Vaccination Agenda:* * An Implicit Transhumanism/Dehumanism”* by Sayer Ji, GreenMedInfo Let's face it: the only real justification for using vaccines to "immunize" ourselves against disease is derive...
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Stephanie Cole (born 1941) and
Graham Crowden (1922-2010) as Diana and Tom in Waiting for God, in the early '90s* *by Ken* This is an expanded version of an e-mail I wrote my friend Richard yesterday, an...
*Because I no longer believe manipulative, made-up polls from the agenda-pushing press. * "Most Americans optimistic about 2012, poll says" December 30, 2011|By Jennifer Agiesta WASHINGTON - Americans ar...
"‘Quick draw’ game blamed in death of Mass. soldier" January 11, 2012|By Milton J. Valencia They were two soldiers testing their skills in a *game* known as *quick draw *, often played during downtime on t...
*I must have muted the ringer. * "Phone tax surprises many buyers" January 12, 2012|By Michael B. Farrell When Shari Worthington upgraded to an
iPhone 4S, she expected to pay more for the latest technolog...
*Some people have plenty of money*: "Gardner shows off its graceful update; When leaders of the 109-year-old Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum unveiled its $114 million addition yesterday, they did so with ...
Chuck Wild, “Liquid Mind - VII: Reflection - My Orchid Spirit (Extragalactic)” Images courtesy of ESA, NASA and The Hubble Space Telescope. "The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. Our fe...
"O, how incomprehensible everything was, and actually sad, although it was also beautiful. One knew nothing. And sometimes it seemed that something never seen yet long desired was about to happen, that...
Shared with us by Gail at our neighbour blog, Wit's End, in response to the below post regarding children crossing the fallen bridge in Indonesia. Her precise comment was: "I'm sorry, but as a parent I ...
You read that right. 55 percent of Syrians support Assad. Do 55 percent of Americans support Obama? No, they do not! Borrowing the latest from RealClear Politics President Obama has a 47 percent job approva...
"Many of the West's Iran analysts and experts, both Iranian and American, assert that the regime needs a U.S. enemy for its survival. If true, wouldn't sustained offers of friendship -- which would put t...
An upcoming online application will monitor weather, energy and small wind turbine performance.
Yes, I know. *You're shocked*. Conservative MP Wladyslaw Lizon has raised a little ridicule by sending a survey out in his ethnically diverse riding asking constituents if they speak “Indian.” The probl...
Bratislava, Slovakia. Thanks for stopping by.
*"Sunrise"* by Chet Raymo "I used the word "prayer" in the last two posts, which always causes some mild dismay among those close to me, who think I am lapsing into transcendental delusion. And they have...
*Take me home. * "Cars’ Internet connections may change driving life" January 10, 2012|By Hiawatha Bray Talk about a smart car. Coming soon to a garage near you is a * car *that will *download your work ...
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* "Weekly News Wrap-Up 1.20.12"* by Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com There are about a dozen dead and twenty more missing off the coast of Italy. Video of the Costal Concordia on its side made this story ir...
Every time I used to hear the term "SOPA," the above Dictators song would always come into my mind. I know, sick. But it's an amazing song that predated the Ramones and Pistols in terms of punk. Wednesda...
Children in Indonesia have been filmed risking their lives by crossing a collapsed suspension bridge to get to school. Three bridges in the district of Lebak have given way recently due to flooding. When...
The body of British hostage Alan McMenemy who was kidnapped in Iraq five years ago has been handed in to the British Embassy in Baghdad. The security guard from Glasgow was seized from the Iraqi finance mi...
*FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2012* *Will someone please tell Brother Atkins:* At Hullabaloo, David Atkins complains about the way those people react. He refers to Gingrich’s much-loved reply to last night’s openi...
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Buckdog - 7 hours ago
*... because Dick Cheney IS a war criminal!!* *ABC News Online* *(By the way, the Allies did in fact execute Imperial Japanese military officials FOR waterboarding POW's during WW2!)*
*FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2012* *Lawrence still hates Clinton/Gore:* On Tuesday evening, Lawrence O’Donnell treated himself to some good solid fun involving the “girls” at the Bunny Ranch. Last night, he was ...
An upcoming online application will monitor weather, energy and small wind turbine performance.
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck the Flores Region, Indonesia at a depth of 116 km (71.9 miles), the quake hit at 20:32:54 UTC Friday 20th January 2012 The epicenter was 95 km (58.9 miles) West of Rut...
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wmtc - 8 hours ago
Matthis Chiroux, veteran and war resister, on the "urination video" and similar war porn: To some, mostly the weavers and backers of war policy, it seems again that ‘a few bad apples’ have acted on their ...
Iran slipped further into global isolation on Thursday as China, its traditional ally, warned Tehran against its pursuit of nuclear weapons. After a visit to the Gulf in which he met the leaders of the st...
*And the paper acts as an apologist. * "Fees surge as banks hunt for revenue; Customers whose balances slip hit with $50 levy" by Todd Wallack Globe Staff / January 9, 2012 Many *bank customers* have long...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Mariana Islands Region at a depth of 149.9 km (93.1 miles), the quake hit at 18:22:21 UTC Friday 20th January 2012 The epicenter was 247 km (153 miles) WSW of Haga...
Humans may struggle with weight, but nature seems to know exactly how fat each animal on the planet should be.
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Buckdog - 8 hours ago
*"For the record, the oil industry is not a jobs machine. It is the world's most capital-intensive industry and earns more than 10 per cent of the world's GDP. But it only employs less than one tenth of on...
A frenzied Argentine mob torched Union flags outside the British Embassy in Buenos Aires today in an ugly protest over the Falkland Islands. More than 100 militants marched on the building as they called ...
Britain’s busiest shopping street ground to halt after a Victorian water main exploded - flooding shops with millions of gallons of water. Millions of pounds of damage was caused when the 100-year-old pip...
The uptick in solar activity has caused the Earth's atmosphere to expand, aiding the removal of dangerous space debris from orbit.
A UW-Madison scientist whose bird flu research has prompted an international debate over biosecurity, bioterrorism and censorship announced Friday he would stop the research for 60 days to allow for more ...
Herron, J. (2012, Jan 19). IEA Cuts Oil-Demand View as Crude Consumption Falls. The Wall Street Journal, p. C2. [excerpted]: "The International Energy Agency took an ax to its oil-demand forecast after c...
Divers may try anchoring the capsized Concordia to a reef to prevent it from tumbling into a drop off, which could cause fuel tanks to rupture.
A record number of billion dollar weather disasters struck the United States in 2011.
The Gay Secretary Stashing funds in the Caymans to attract foreign investors who wish to invest on the US but without paying US taxes? I am reminded of the Tom Clancy novel (and movie) "A Clear and Prese...
Keynote Lecture by Dr. Anthony Hall at the Dec 3 Lessons of Fukushima Conference held in San Francisco http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYu-K-LZcWg
SEATTLE — A powerful Pacific Northwest storm knocked out power to about 250,000 electric customers around Seattle, Tacoma and Olympia after it coated much of Washington in ice and swelled Oregon rivers, k...
A wildfire near Reno, Nevada, has burned 3,900 acres and damaged 26 homes, authorities said Friday. The blaze in North Washoe Valley, dubbed the Washoe fire, was about 50% contained Friday morning, said ...
http://freepdfhosting.com/ccafb5715d.pdf Produced by Bobby1, an incognito epidemiologist
Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- At least three gunmen have kidnapped two foreign aid workers in Punjab Province in central Pakistan, police said Friday. The aid workers, one German and one Italian, had just...
I am sure that most TRF readers have heard of MegaUpload.COM. It was one of the servers where some people uploaded the ClimateGate files, among other things that were vastly more important for the accoun...
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Dr Cintli - 10 hours ago
by Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez The following list is what TUSD claims are the MAS books that "have not been banned." The list is taken from the 2010 Cambium report that gave MAS-TUSD two thumbs up and re...
[image: Steller Sea Lions in Alaska. kewlwallpapers.com] [Desdemona suspects this: Sequential Collapse of Marine Mammals in the North Pacific Ocean and southern Bering Sea.] By Remy Melina, LiveScience....
The captain of the Costa Concordia ordered dinner for himself and a woman after the ship struck rocks off Italy's coast, a cook from the ship told a Filipino television station. In an interview with GMA...
Three Muslim men have been found guilty of stirring up hatred by handing out leaflets that said Islam "punished" homosexuals with the death penalty. Ihjaz Ali, Kabir Ahmed and Razwan Javed handed out the...
KUPANG—A wild crocodile swallowed a 10-year-old girl while she played in a river with her father in eastern Indonesia, the second death in the same place in two months, a local official said Friday. The ...
TEHRAN (FNA)- At least 230 people were injured when an earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale hit Northeastern Iran on Thursday. Reports on Friday said the number of the people injured by the Thurs...
MANILA, Philippines – The health department has expressed alarm over the possible rise of dengue cases in Cagayan de Oro (CDO) City following a leptospirosis outbreak at the start of the year. The city h...
[image: The latest image of sea surface heights in the Pacific Ocean from NASA's Jason-2 satellite shows that the January 2012 La Niña is peaking in intensity. Yellows and reds indicate areas where sea s...
ZAMBOANGA, Philippines – Health officials in Zamboanga City once again called on the public to clean their surroundings. This, after the number of dengue cases in the city increased in the first half of ...
*"Higher Taxes to Appease the Zombies"* by Bill Bonner "Dow up 96 yesterday. Gold up $4. Oil above $100. Nothing special to report, in other words. Mitt Romney has revealed his effective tax rate. “About...
*"Money Insider: US Will See Violent Civil Unrest In 2012"* by Paul Joseph Watson “Money insider Charles Ortel has warned that a worsening economic picture across the globe will see civil unrest hit the s...
I just adore David Michael Green. Don't you? Every time I read him I remember why I used to believe politics was a noble profession. He does not speak softly. And considering the current sickness infecting...
*"SOPA: Lyin' Lamar Spins Another Yarn"* by Karl Denninger "Getting a bit warm in your self-inflicted oven of public scrutiny isn't it Lamar? "Like many members of Congress, I have spoken to constituents ...
RABAT, Morocco, January 19 (AP) – Five unemployed Moroccan men set themselves on fire in the capital Rabat as part of widespread demonstrations in the country over the lack of jobs, especially for univ...
By: Duane Craig You don't find refineries placed near homes worth millions of dollars, and homes with ocean vistas don't have their views obstructed by polluting industries. It's an economic fact that som...
*Before Patrick Murphy changed his party affiliation...* Unless you live in Florida-- and have a *really* good memory-- you probably don't remember banker Bill Phillips, who self-financed a run for the U.S...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Luzon, Philippines at a depth of 60 km (37.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:38:38 UTC Friday 20th January 2012 The epicenter was 36 km (22.3 miles) East of Casambalangan, ...
[image: Global surface temperature, 1880-2011. While average global temperature will still fluctuate from year to year, scientists focus on the decadal trend. Nine of the 10 warmest years since 1880 have...
In honor of Global Wind Day, you could win more than $1,000.
The elusive Miller's grizzled langur popped up unexpectedly in Borneo.
In the 1970s, the Environmental Protection Agency took thousands of photos from around the country, now it wants you to help them see what's changed.
Arrests of Megaupload.com's founders prompt a hacktivist group to temporarily take down the FBI's and others' sites.
The Costa Concordia capsized, oozing exoplanets 40 light-years away and the biggest story of the week: SOPA and PIPA!
[image: A section of the Xingu River as viewed by Google Earth.]By Jeremy Hance, www.mongabay.com 19 January 2012 Damming of the Xingu River has begun in Brazil to make way for the eventual constructio...
Wall Street Journal p. A6 Jan 20, 2012 [Excerpted] "Vietnam confirmed its first human death from bird flu in nearly two years, a day after neighboring Cambodia also logged its first fatality this year as...
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Dr Cintli - 11 hours ago
Stay tuned
(By *American Zen*'s Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari Goldstein.) *Bain, citing privacy reasons, declined to provide a list of the companies it invested in.* - The *WSJ*, January 9, 2012 OK, we've all he...
[image: Global distribution of physical water scarcity by major river basin, 2011. fao.org] Water scarcity is growing and salinization and pollution of groundwater and degradation of water bodies and wa...
[image: Cover of 'National Fish, Wildlife and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy' public review draft, 2012. doi.gov] Contact: David T. Eisenhauer (FWS), 703-358-2284 John Ewald (NOAA), 202-482-397...
Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi had an undeclared stockpile of chemical weapons, international inspectors have confirmed. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said inspect...
The riots that left whole neighbourhoods up and down the country in a state of ruin last August were the worst civil disturbances for a generation. But reading crime figures released yesterday, it is alm...
This beautiful, full flower, named after my baby sister, is one of my absolute favorite felt flowers. It is easy to put together, but it looks exquisite. With three simple supplies, you can make as ma...
An Alabama man has been arrested in connection with a video appearing to show a college football fan inflicting a horrifying sexual assault on a rival supporter after he passed out in a fast food restauran...
*FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2012* *The excitement builds:* On Monday, we’ll be posting Chapter 6 at our companion site, How He Got There. This is very significant recent history. And history lasts a long time.
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Biased BBC - 12 hours ago
The weekend beckons and so time for a new one of these. If you see bias, detail it here please. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
The driver of a fully-loaded fuel tanker was today arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after allegedly crashing into a bungalow and deliberately setting it alight. Neighbours claimed the man arrest...
[image: Survival of adult Hawaiian forest birds captured during January–March. Panels a and b are for years 2000–2004. Panel c is for control years 1990–1994. Sample sizes are above bars. Logistic regres...
He is used to sawing his wife Debbie McGee in half during magic tricks but pint-sized magician Paul Daniels recently found himself on the wrong end of the blade. The celebrity magician thought his career...
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wmtc - 12 hours ago
I love this town!
*FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2012* *Just as we liberals have done:* How does Romney escape on Bain? Consider what happened at last night’s debate when Gingrich actually asked the right question. Responding to a ...
A robot moves the way snakes do, using its scales and muscles.
A blind Iraq War veteran gets help playing a video game from another player who acts as a guide god.
People are going mad about Downton Abbey. The Rolling Stone calls it "crack for Anglophiles." The demand was enough to create a second "season," and is even giving PBS the notion that it might begin to dra...
[image: CREDO Action | more than a network, a movement.] Stop internet censorship! CREDO is joining hundreds of organizations in a one-day strike against internet censorship. We're doing this becaus...
*FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2012* *EPILOG—You may not want to know:* Who on earth is Dana T. Milbank? You may not want to know. No intelligent person would be intrigued by such an utterly fatuous fellow—by the m...
Sensors in the fabric monitor respiration, heart rate, activity, body posture and skin temperature.
Insects, dust and widely varying weather conditions are no problem for these new high-def outdoor-specific sets.
This controller kicked off the Guinness World Records 2012 Gamer’s Edition.
If you are surprised by China’s decision to buy 10pc of Thames Water, don’t be. If you’re worried about the world’s biggest authoritarian state flexing its financial muscles here, too late. First, the Ch...
A 51-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after an oil tanker crashed into a bungalow and burst into flames. The collision happened in Folly Lane in Wool, Dorset, at around 8.40...
HUNDREDS of people were evacuated from streets, homes and businesses amid fears of a huge gas explosion in Liverpool city centre. Police cordoned off roads within a 200m radius of the former Lewis’s depa...
Hey, don't say Lord Eddard didn't warn us...
Jan 20 (Reuters) - The Philippine cargo ship Aztec Maiden had an accident off the Dutch coast on Friday, and is now stranded and at risk of leaking fuel, local media reported citing emergency services. T...
BESUT, Jan 20 (Bernama) -- A few villages in Jabi, Setiu, were hit by flash floods due to continuous heavy rain from last night which caused Sungai Tok Dor and Sungai Selasih to burst their banks around 5...
The ACT State Emergency Service received 77 calls for help from tonight's storm. A spokesman said crews responded to minor flooding from leaking roofs, mainly in the Tuggeranong Valley, and to trees and b...
Radioactive material has been stolen from a nuclear power station on Egypt's Mediterranean coast that was the scene of violent protests last week, the state-run al-Ahram newspaper reported on Thursday. A ...
Update, 4.45pm: A fourth person has been struck by lightning, after a severe thunderstorm swept over the city this morning. The storm ripped through the south metro area this morning, causing havoc with ...
Flooding in Turner is so bad that much of the city is inaccessible, and officials say it will remain inaccessible for at least two days. Turner Mayor Paul Thomas said the worst-flooded areas include downt...
A trawler with about 150 passengers on board, suspected bound for Malaysia for employment, capsized near the Saint Martin's Island in Cox's Bazar Thursday morning. Coast Guard so far rescued 33 persons ...
THE Northern Division has recorded 29 cases of fish poisoning. According to the Health Ministry, these are the only cases recorded nationwide. Ministry spokesman Peni Namotu said hospitals on Viti Levu h...
Three persons in the district are suspected to have died of Scrub Typhus causing concern among villagers. The disease spreads from mice and is suspected to be contagious. The virus causing the disease is...
Wednesday the DCCC, which always claims to stay neutral in primaries, released their first challenger endorsements for the 2012 cycle. I noticed they endorsed all the grotesque conservatives backed a few ...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 20.5 km 12.7 miles), the quake hit at 13:30:50 UTC Friday 20th January 2012 The epicenter was 217 km (135 miles) ESE of Se...
A Somerset man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a fuel tanker crashed into a Dorset home and started a fire this morning. Dorset Police say a 51-year-old Yeovil man has been arrest...
New footage has emerged of rescuers searching for the missing clambering through the wreckage of the Costa Concordia as the operation was suspended after the ship moved again amid choppy seas. Divers en...
Salman Rushdie has pulled out of a literary festival in India after receiving death threats from a mafia gang based in Mumbai. The writer was also warned to stay away from the festival in Jaipur by Musli...
One of the men accused of murdering two soldiers at Massereene Barracks in Antrim has been found guilty on all charges and sentenced to life in prison. Brian Shivers, 46, from Magherafelt was convicted of...
Republican Brian Shivers has been found guilty of murdering two British soldiers outside an Army base in Northern Ireland - hours after Colin Duffy was acquitted of the crime. More follows...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - An international debate over whether to censor new research on bird flu may soon prove academic, as other laboratories close in on similar findings showing how one of the most deadly ...
JAKARTA (AP) — Indonesian health officials say a 5-year-old girl has died of bird flu in Jakarta — just days after her uncle succumbed to the virus. The H5N1 virus also claimed the lives of a man in Vietn...
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wmtc - 16 hours ago
This seems like a good time to mention: Tala is now on Twitter. She saw Pooh Bear was doing it and she wanted in. Because Tala's mommy needs new ways to waste time.
On Monday, as Saporam village in Jharkhand’s Khunti district celebrated the festival of Tusu, cousins Peknath Munda, 35 and Fagu Munda, 20, went to a village fair nearby. That was the last anyone saw of t...
The Beast of Stroud may have struck for a third time after a mutilated roe deer was yesterday found 10 miles from the scene of the first killing. Worker Mike Gorry, who spotted it on a building site while...
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wmtc - 16 hours ago
From HSI Canada: Humane Society International has just secured the biggest reduction in animal testing requirements in history! Our science team has been hard at work for more than two years, negotiating ...
BOSSASO, Somalia Jan 19 2012 (Garowe Online) - Three tonnes of dead fish washes up on Bossaso's shore on Tuesday, Radio Garowe reports. Abdiwahid Mohamed Jo'ar Director General of the Ministry of Fishery...
How Will the Saints Defensive Personnel Change Under Spagnuolo? ~Canal Street Chronicle New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees would be 'beyond stunned' if new contract isn't worked ou The Urban Legend...
(Reuters) - Police erected a 100-metre cordon around a house in Somerset on Friday after arresting a man under the Explosives Act. Avon and Somerset Police said the 36-year-old man had been detained after ...
Jerusalem (CNN) -- America's top military official began a series of high-profile meetings with Israeli leaders Friday amid growing international concerns that the Israeli government could act on its own ...
A high profile dissident republican has been found not guilty of murdering two British soldiers in Northern Ireland. Colin Duffy, from Lurgan, was acquitted of killing Sapper Patrick Azimkar, 21, and Sa...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Molucca Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 11:54:12 UTC Friday 20th January 2012 The epicenter was 202 km (125 miles) SSW of Ternate, ...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck near Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 11 km (6.8 miles), the quake hit at 12:08:13 UTC Friday 20th January 2012 The epicenter was 20 km (12.4 miles) Southwest o...
NIHONMATSU, Fukushima -- The Ministry of the Environment announced on Jan. 19 that high levels of radioactive cesium were detected in ash found in the wood stoves of private homes in this town. The findi...
FUKUSHIMA -- Highly radioactive gravel from inside the Fukushima nuclear disaster evacuation zone that was traced to several construction projects in Fukushima Prefecture, including apartment buildings and...
HIROSHIMA -- A report filed by an expert panel to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare on Jan. 20 stating that insufficient data prevents it from reviewing the area affected by radiation-tainted "blac...
ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi -- A 47-year-old man was arrested on the night of Jan. 19 for allegedly receiving a bribe over housing demolition work ordered by the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, in the after...
A fuel tanker has crashed into a woman's bungalow in Dorset, setting it on fire. The vehicle ploughed into the property in Folly Lane, Wool, just before 08:40 GMT, causing a fire to start. The woman who...
Signatures to a petition against SOPA and PIPA, two internet piracy bills currently being debated in Congress, topped seven million according to Google, who used their blacked out logo as a link to the pe...
North Korea on Friday credited new leader Kim Jong Un with spearheading past nuclear testing, as it adds to a growing personality cult that portrays the young son of late leader Kim Jong Il as a confident...
Iran's Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar is scheduled to arrive in Moscow on Sunday to hold talks with Russian officials on matters of mutual interest. The visit comes at the invitation of the Ru...
A remix of the now-infamous video to include a few of those "foreign special interests" not mentioned in the original broadcast, as Ethical Oil pocket puppet Kathryn Marshall strives mightily - eight ti...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Santa Cruz Islands at a depth of 40 km (24.8 miles), the quake hit at 11:29:57 UTC Friday 20th January 2012 The epicenter was 51 km (31.6 miles) Southwest of Lata,...
During a 2011 expedition in the Wehea Forest, a team of Ethical Expeditions and UW-Oshkosh scientists discovered Miller's Grizzled Langur, one of the rarest primates in Borneo.
France has suspended all joint operations with the Afghan army and threatened to withdraw from the country after an Afghan soldier shot dead four French troops. The attack was the second to hit French so...
The rescue operation aboard the Costa Concordia has been suspended once again after the wreck shifted on the sea ledge on which it rests. It is the third time the search has been called off, amid fears th...
Twelve female students from Le Roy Junior Senior High School in upstate New York are experiencing a mysterious medical condition. Their symptoms include stuttering, uncontrollable twitching movements and v...
*A study claims that aged people with dementia are more likely to suffer falls if they are given anti-depressants by care home staff. Dr. Carolyn Sterke recorded the daily drug use and records of falls in...
A senior al Qaeda operations planner was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan last week, according to a U.S. official. Aslam Awan died January 10 when a CIA-operated missile slammed into a compound ...
The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln arrived in the Arabian Sea on Thursday, Navy officials said, a likely prelude to testing Iran's recent warning against sending a U.S. carrier through the Strait of...
British author Salman Rushdie on Friday canceled his appearance at the Jaipur literary festival in India following warnings of threats to his life. "I have now been informed by intelligence sources in Mah...
Yemen's largest opposition coalition blamed President Ali Abdullah Saleh's ruling family for causing chaos in the town of Radda, Baitha province, and said the family intentionally eased the way for al Qae...
Prosecutors examining possible insider trading are looking into whether information was passed on before ratings agency Standard and Poor's downgraded Italy last week, according to a report. Italian pro...
A paedophile who escaped justice for eight years has become the first person to be extradited from China to the UK. Teacher David Price will be sentenced later after admitting 21 charges of possessing an...
Most of the websites shut down by a hackers group were up and running early Friday, including the U.S. Department of Justice, FBI and some entertainment sites after one of the federal government's largest...
*Johnson & Johnson has settled for $158m over allegations that a subsidiary defrauded a state healthcare programme in the US state of Texas. *Mr. Jones, a former employee of the Pennsylvania Inspector Ge...
A Japanese Coastguard patrol aeroplane came close to disaster when it was hit by an albatross. The bird smashed a one-metre wide hole into the Bombardier DHC8-315's nose as it flew at just 300 metres ove...
A snorkeller has told how he punched a tiger shark in the face to escape after it sank its teeth into his arm in Western Australia. David Pickering battled with the predator as two children and their moth...
Syrian forces have retreated from a rebel-held town under a local ceasefire, residents said, but deadly violence raged on elsewhere as a month-long mandate for Arab League peace monitors in Syria was expi...
A third baby has died after an outbreak of a deadly infection at the Royal Hospital in Belfast. The death was confirmed as it emerged that all expectant mothers were set to be transferred to other hospit...
Two anonymous letters have been sent to police investigating the murder of a former teacher in Worcestershire. Betty Yates, 77, was found stabbed in her cottage by the River Severn in Bewdley, Worcesters...
Police in Londonderry believe dissident republicans were responsible for two bomb attacks on Thursday night. The bombs exploded at the tourist centre on Foyle Street and on Strand Road, close to the DHSS...
The political roar over the pipeline from Canada is deafening the real concerns over tar sands development.
Three people have died, tens of thousands lost power, and hundreds of cars slid off roads a today after the Pacific Northwest was hit with a major snowfall. The storm claimed the lives of a mother and he...
*A study in science shows the trick can extend to cloud services such as Google Docs without loss of security. Quantum cryptography uses this feature to send the keys to decrypting messages with high secu...
Wind gusts of up to 82 mph pushed a fast-moving brush fire near Reno out of control Thursday as a wall of flames burned several homes, threatened dozens more and forced about 10,000 people to evacuate the...
Animal lovers are fighting to save the lives of hundreds of donkeys that are being systematically executed because they are not native to a Texas wildlife park. Already, wildlife officials have killed 75...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 13 km (8.1 miles), the quake hit at 09:57:38 UTC Friday 20th January 2012 The epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) NNE from Van, Turkey No Report...
From the Magic Kingdom to the Apollo Theater, President Barack Obama on Thursday made the case for American tourism and his own re-election bid, mingling his political and economic agendas as he tried to ...
*In the US mega upload, one of the internet's largest file-sharing sites, has been shut down by officials. A federal court in Virginia ordered that 18 domain names associated with the Hong Kong-based firm...
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Biased BBC - 19 hours ago
The BBC seems intent to help the SNP choose economic oblivion in 2014. In one sense they are welcome to it but in another it is in clear breach of their code of conduct. Have a listen to this item on Today...
The father of one of the teens charged with beating up a boy in an attack which was filmed and posted on YouTube says his son is being treated as the 'fall guy'. Michael Palomino, a policeman, said his 1...
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Biased BBC - 19 hours ago
There are certain touchstone issues that inflame BBC bias. I'm sure we can name several of them; Israel, Afghanistan, Global Warming, Capitalism....and Immigration. Today has been relentlessly pushing the ...
A Vietnam veteran, who in the line of duty, was beaten to a pulp by a teenage gang who sprung on him as he walked to meet his wife at the bus stop . Police have arrested one of the six male suspects, aft...
The 20-year-old maintenance man sentenced to life in prison for beating and killing a 7-year-old girl, who was found in a trash bin has committed suicide in his jail cell. Brunn was found unresponsive at...
Perilous crossing: Students, some as young as five, hold on to the side steel bars of a collapsed bridge as they cross a river to get to school at Sanghiang Tanjung village in Lebak, Indonesia. At first ...
A cat killer was being hunted today after ten pets were poisoned in a single street. The suspect is thought to have killed the cats by lacing the food with deadly antifreeze and leaving it in gardens for ...
** *Breakfast in India.* "The differences between countries are often not as great as the disparities within them." There are rich and poor regions in the USA, in Australia, in Europe, in the UK... *Whi...
Hundreds of primary school-age children have been granted shotgun licences over the past three years, figures have revealed on the day MPs are due to debate a possible ban. Between 2008 and 2010, a tota...
A new hi-res photo has been beamed back from Mars -- will the wreckage of the failed 2003 British mission to Mars be found?
West Yorkshire Police have spent £3.3million on translation costs over the last three years. Police fighting to stop Eastern European migrants binge drinking in the street have put up posters in seven dif...
A teenage girl was today jailed for luring a 16-year-old to a house party where she was plied with drink and drugs before being gang-raped at knifepoint. Amber Roderick, 19, smothered herself in dog sham...
Anonymous launched a massive cyber attack against U.S. government and anti-piracy websites yesterday in response to the shut down of one of the world's biggest file-sharing services. Megaupload.com was t...
More than £2billion is being claimed in benefits by foreigners every year, including thousands of illegal immigrants, figures reveal. The Department for Work and Pensions announced a fraud investigation la...
Britain's elite military and police teams joined forces in a combined exercise to give a glimpse of the sheer scale of the country's biggest peacetime security operation yesterday. Operation Woolwich Arse...
Six American troops have been killed in a helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan, Nato has announced. It is believed all six of those who died in the accident were US marines, although there are no rep...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 534.3 km (332 miles), the quake hit at 07:31:35 UTC Friday 20th January 2012 The epicenter was 361 km (224 miles) Southwest of ...
A magnitude 3.2 earthquake has struck Western Montana at a depth of 4.8 km (3 miles), the quake hit at 07:05:55 UTC Friday 20th January 2012 The epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) ESE of Missoula, Montana No Re...
*CANADIAN LABOUR LONDON ONTARIO:* *COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOR LOCKED OUT CATERPILLAR WORKERS:* Time ticks on until this Saturday's mass demonstration in solidarity with workers at the Electro-Motive Dies...
This encounter is actuallyuseful. The sasquatch is noteworthy fora couple of reasons: Itwas around six foot tall. There areplenty of observations of extra tall creatures and few noted as ...
I cringe of course to touch thistopic, but a few things need to be said. Marriage exists in all societies to a greater or lesser degree and worksto accommodate the biological needs of the human species...
This article by Ellen Browncovers the present machinations under way as local governments struggle toreestablish the integrity of their titles system which has clearly been massivelycompromised by outr...
It appears that we activelyremodel our DNA and have been forever. Somuch for ideas of DNA conservation. Itnow looks way more dynamic than any of us ever imagined and surely this impliesthat the genome...
I'm *all for not passing judgment* until the facts are all in and examined, but it is becoming much harder to do that in light of what's coming out in the media now about the *[in]actions* of Costa Concord...
There's *this from Cathie.* Oh dear! Did the *Harper government lie to us again*? A federal agency created by the Harper government with great political fanfare in 2008 is costing millions of dollars to ...
The Bush Kangaroo lately, well, *now is a good time*. Because, as Jon Stewart says: When I want news, I go to CNN. And they turn to Skippy, The Bush Kangaroo. Said brother *Newt*: "I think the destruct...
*Problem that has occurred to me, too* Your computer may get restarted once, after you wake it up from hibernation. At any rate, next time, once you choose your user name to log in, you are waiting for lo...
Lefties - as in the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization - have joined in a warning to western governments of the economic and social risks they're inviting through ...
"Cesium is stocked 1.3 times more in unborn baby than mother from the study of cattle in Fukushima" Posted by *Mochizuki* on January 19th, 2012 http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/01/cesium-is-stocked-1-3-t...
------------------------------ *January 19, 2912* *SOPA: Anti-Piracy or Censorship? Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales vs. Copyright Alliance’s Sandra Aistars* Congressional support for a pair of anti-pir...
I apologize but my university email has not been available for 1 1/2 days and may not be available for a day or two more. I have no access, at all!
"This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor... Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each g...
Three beheadings in two different states and they happened here in the United States, not Mexico. Former DEA supervisor Phil Jordan says all three beheadings have cartel written all over them. They happe...
MOSCOW: Russia on Wednesday warned that a military strike on Iran would be a "catastrophe" with the severest consequences which risked inflaming existing tensions between Sunni and Shiite Muslims. "As fo...
One in three American adults is obese, a national level that has stayed the same in recent years, said US data released on Tuesday. About one in six children and teenagers are also obese, according to the...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – The NYPD is stepping up their war against illegal guns, with a new tool that could detect weapons on someone as they walk down the street. But is it violating your right to privac...
The largest banks must show how they would break up their assets if they were in danger of failing, under a rule approved Tuesday. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp voted to require banks with $50 billio...
Rating agency Fitch said on Tuesday that Greece would default on its debt, although it said that such a default was likely to take place in an orderly manner. "It is going to happen. Greece is insolvent ...
One of the European parliament’s most influential members, the German Christian Democrat Elmar Brok, has declared that Standard & Poor’s decision to downgrade the credit ratings of nine eurozone member st...
ATHENS — Available for rent: The Acropolis. In a move bound to leave many Greeks and scholars aghast, Greece's culture ministry said Tuesday it will open up some of the debt-stricken country's most-cheri...
Unemployment rose by 118,000 in the three months between September and November taking the total jobless count to 2.685 million, a figure the Prime Minister called "hugely unwelcome". The numbers confirm...
*Crazy right-wing Kansas heather* Did you catch our brief post on the Republican civil war in Kansas last week? Koch Industries owns the GOP there, but a few of the legislators have had the temerity to tr...
Shopkeeper Naveed Hassamin has infuriated jobseekers in Cornwall by turning away anyone who doesn't speak Polish. Mr Hassamin placed an advert in the window of Costcutter in Bodmin, Cornwall, stating tha...
The European Commission has launched legal action against Hungary's Fidesz government for violations of European Union treaty law and erosion of democracy, marking a dramatic escalation in the war of words...
As many as one million children are being allowed to languish in coasting schools for at least six years, Ofsted warned today. Pupils across England are being failed after spending their entire primary or...
San Pedro Sula, Honduras (CNN) -- Flanked by police officers with assault rifles, and riding down a highway in the back of a police pickup, police commissioner Julian Hernandez explains the difficult tas...
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is warning people that some President's Choice Organics baby food may be rancid. Loblaws, which distributes the PC infant cereal products through its national grocery ...
Russia knew about it 'for some time,' ex-government official says. Electronic equipment hidden inside a fake rock in a Moscow park helped the United Kingdom spy on Russia, according to a former official w...
South Carolina Tea Partiers don't much like Mitt Romney, the Massachusetts moderate, but they seem willing to vote for him. If 300-plus black political activists held a convention in the Deep South, and ...
The Chinese people are increasingly frustrated with the Chinese Communist Party and the political situation in China is "very, very delicate," U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke said on Wednesday. "I do...
China fired a ground-based anti-satellite missile into space in January 2007, destroying a weather satellite and causing tens of thousands of pieces of debris to threaten orbiting spacecraft. A U.S. and R...
Iran might pound Persian Gulf cities with ballistic missiles and use swift boats to attack American war ships in an attempt to dissuade a U.S. attack on its nuclear arms sites, a new report states. Tehra...
*Winyan Ituwan holds first of four gatherings* * * *Photos and article by Vi Waln* *Lakota Country Times Editor* . Photos by Vi Waln: Top - Phyllis Young and Madonna Thunder Hawk; 2nd - Olowan Sa...
Why the latest news from Malaysia helps to undermine authoritarianism throughout the region. Something remarkable is happening in Malaysia, and the rest of the world should take note. Malaysia, you ask...
A 66-year-old man has been arrested over claims a buttock from a Saddam Hussein statue was illegally brought back to the UK after the Iraq War. Detectives from Derbyshire Police said the man was detained ...
Canadian skier Sarah Burke has died from injuries she suffered in a crash during training earlier this month, a family spokesman has said. The Canadian had remained in a critical condition after suffering...
Dramatic new pictures have emerged of the panicked, final moments of the Costa Concordia as a damning new audio recording reveals the crew initially refused offers of help. A taped ship-to-shore call, wh...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia at a depth of 258.8 km (160.8 miles), the quake hit at 01:37:30 UTC Friday 20th January 2012 The epicenter was 162 km (100 miles) NNW o...
. Photos by Vi Waln*A Thread in the Beautiful Fabric of Resistance * *by Debra White Plume* Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ Water is finite, and sacred. “Mni wicozani”, through water there...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 624.6 km (388.1 miles), the quake hit at 00:42:01 UTC Friday 20th January 2012 The epicenter was 246 km (152 miles) Southeast of Lambasa, ...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Tonga Region at a depth of 30.1 km (18.7 miles), the quake hit at 23:35:37 UTC Thursday 19th January 2012 The epicenter was 174 km (108 miles) ENE of Neiafu, Tonga ...
Music by Chuck Wild, "Liquid Mind VI: Spirit - In The Spirit" Images courtesy of ESA, NASA, and The Hubble Space Telescope.
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate o...
“Begirt with many a blazing star, Orion, the Hunter, is one of the most easily recognizable constellations. In this night skyscape from January 15, the hunter's stars rise in the northern hemisphere's wint...
“We live our lives of human passions, cruelties, dreams, concepts, crimes and the exercise of virtue in and beside a world devoid of our preoccupations, free from apprehension- though affected, certainly, b...
Saw this on Think Progress in reference to Citizens United. On the eve of the anniversary, a new survey reveals that small business owners overwhelmingly say the ruling hurts their business: Two-thirds of...
The head of Nigeria's police has been given 24 hours to produce a terror attack suspect who escaped police custody under suspicious circumstances, a government minister said Thursday. Minister of Police...
I'm a Mike Malloy type of gal and he just asked a question about stud muffin Newt Gingrich. Women, Can you imagine Newt naked? Oh, my........................................... that's a vision...
*From this morning's NYT "Today's Headlines" newsletter.* *Since it's a screen grab, the links don't work, but if you want to read these stories (really?), they should be easy to find on nytimes.com. Did y...
The governor of Cameroon's Far North Region on Thursday said threats posed by militant Islamist group Boko Haram were "very critical." Speaking in Mokolo, Gov. Joseph Beti Assomo told reporters that all se...
In my last post, I profiled the *Origins of AIDS*, JacquesPépin's masterful study ofhow the virus that causes AIDS in humans originated in chimps and then jumpedto humans and later took off as a result of...
SFS undergrad Anton Strezhnev has a new blog called Causal Loop. Highly recommended. Via Jay Ulfelder who, naturally enough, critiques Anton's "first substantive post."
At the end of the day it won't matter what the JRP recommends or what the Cons and Enbridge do to negate or subvert the process. Something is different about this pipeline proposal compared to others. Th...
"Stability is an unworthy American mission and a misleading concept to boot. We do not want stability in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and even Saudi Arabia; we want things to change. The real issue is not...
Within minutes of the site being shut down, and DOJ releasing its statement, Anonymous sprang into action and started taking down a ton of sites -- including websites for the DOJ, the US Copyright Office, ...
*"Comets"* by Chet Raymo "In the deep winter of 1744, Sophia, a fourteen-year-old minor German princess, was on her way to Russia. She had been summoned, with her mother, by the Empress Elizabeth, as a p...
WHILE DAVE, BORIS & REV regale us with an outrageous string of things to get outraged over, I ran across this small delight, worth 1:27 of your time. It's a video, as you see, with the title: *"Aston Marti...
First, via *thwap*, a link to another Rabble piece by *Tyler McCreary*. In it he describes the appalling start by which Enbridge and even JRP chair Sheila Leggett stepped in it. Second, *The Regina Mom*...
The availability of junk food in middle school is not the culprit.
Fifteen hundred tank shells were stolen from an IDF munitions base in southern Israel. A senior officer in Southern Command said that the shells could reach terror organizations. Some of the shells may ha...
*And checking out just as quick*: "Brown’s big quarter boosts total to $12.8m" by Frank Phillips | Globe Staff, January 09, 2012 Senator Scott *Brown* raised $3.2 million in the last three months of th...
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*How enjoyable was it yesterday to see so many bloggers and website owners going on strike yesterday over the misguided Stop Online Piracy Act. For one day, the internet shrugged at the projected imposit...
Stories of courage and heroism aboard the stricken luxury cruiser are beginning to emerge.
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I needed to get a job as a library page in order to be "in the system" at the Mississauga Library. Job openings rarely, if ever, go external. Since after I earn my degree, I want to work as a librarian in ...
Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. Thanks for stopping by.
"We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever." - Carl Sagan
"The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. ...
Lift Your Head Up High (And Blow Your Brains Out) Part 2 – No-Coaching Motherfucker Edition ~moosedenied
*"The Chance Encounter and the Self-inflicted Wound"* by Joseph W. Martin, Jr. "A friend of mine (you know who you are) once told me that what he liked about my presentations was that I seemed to have a “...
By: Duane Craig The Omega Chemical Corporation Superfund site in Whittier, California, needs $70 million to cleanup the volatile organic compounds in the ground water, according to a recent report at 89.3...
Reverend Billy from 2gee on Vimeo.
The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln arrived in the Arabian Sea on Thursday, Navy officials said, a likely prelude to testing Iran's recent warning against sending a U.S. carrier through the Strait of ...
*"A Letter from Mitt Romney: About My Finances"* by Andy Borowitz SOUTH CAROLINA (The Borowitz Report) – "Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney has released the following letter to the American ...
*"Debunking the Myth of the Great Recession"* by Bill Bonner "There is a rumor- which we started ourselves- that Captain Francesco Schettino of the Costa Concordia has been invited to join the Federal Re...
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Part 1 of "The Funeral," the third-season opener of Michael Aitkens's brilliant Britcom *Waiting for God* *by Ken* I explained the genesis of this post in my post earlier this evening, "Two personal mar...
*Stephanie Cole (born 1941) and Graham Crowden (1922-2010) as Diana and Tom in Waiting for God, in the early '90s* *by Ken* This is an expanded version of an e-mail I wrote my friend Richard yesterday, an...
You read that right. 55 percent of Syrians support Assad. Do 55 percent of Americans support Obama? No, they do not! Borrowing the latest from RealClear Politics President Obama has a 47 percent job approva...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoRepublican Brian Shivers has been found guilty of murdering two British soldiers outside an Army base in Northern Ireland - hours after Colin Duffy was acquitted of the crime. More follows...
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