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America’s Protestant pastors overwhelmingly reject the theory of evolution and are evenly split on whether the earth is 6,000 years old, according to a survey released Monday by the
Southern Baptist Conve...
( There's a picked audience if I ever heard of one. The Southern Baptist Conference is a tool of the CIA and friends and delights in dumbing down the rubes. I first ran into that info in a serious analysis in a biography of CIA Director Nelson A. Rockefeller a couple of decades or more ago. Ratville's links to Jonestown, Guyana go into more detail of CIA cult experiments. )
During the summer months, in the arid, subtropical coastal plains of the
United Arab Emirates, temperatures rise to 40 Celsius plus -- while average rainfall is a desolate four inches a year. And yet, ...
Beijing (
CNN) -- Until about four years ago, farmer
Zhou Jie and his family had been living in rural
Anhui province, growing grain and other staples on a small plot of land. Now they live in the outskirt...
If you haven’t seen this yet, it’s pretty hysterical I’d like to thank *Duck *contributors/editor, especially Vikash, for soliciting my contribution. The *Duck *is a great site, one I link...
We are pleased to announce roster changes at the Duck. Patrick Porter and Brian Rathbun have agreed to become permanent contributors. Quacktacular! And today we want tointroduce a new guest blogger - R...
I'd like to help the Democrats keep control of the Senate. And
Blue America has a
Senate page. But the Democrats running in a lot of the most vulnerable states, Missouri, Nebraska, West Virginia, Virginia...
CAIRO (AP) - Assailants attacked a prominent Egyptian activist as she left work at Cairo's Nileside state television headquarters late on Wednesday, in the latest incident of violence against the protest ...
People travel to Hawaii to relax and get some sun and surf, but a Minnesota man’s trip to paradise turned into a nightmare after he contracted a paralyzing disease. Eric Reinert is 22 years old and learn...
Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- The South Korean government on Friday approved the first shipment of food aid to North Korea since the death of dictator Kim Jong Il last month. The South Korean Unification M...
South Africa (CNN) –It was a hot summer day when Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund visited South Africa in early January. However, it appeared that she received a rather chill...
Google has dropped its logo shroud, Wikipedia has returned from limbo, normal service in general has been resumed, and all’s right with the world … except that SOPA and PIPA are still looming on Capitol H...
Despite Google’s much-heralded support for the anti-SOPA movement, the web giant is already enforcing SOPA-like policies of its own, blacklisting legitimate websites from its news aggregator and following...
President Barack Obama’s decision yesterday to reject a permit for TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone XL oil pipeline may prompt Canada to turn to China for oil exports. Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in a tele...
HASTINGS (AP/CBS Detroit) — Did a frustrated teacher dump hot tea on fighting students at Hastings High School? The district isn’t talking about the incident directly, but interim Superintendent Michelle...
First responders had to cut through the side of a house on Long Island to rescue a man who had become trapped inside on Thursday, Newsday reported. The man, who was trapped in a second-floor bathroom, was...
NATO is not planning or even "thinking" of intervening in Syria, the alliance's most senior officer said Thursday, days after a top Russian official said such plans were in the making. "There is no plann...
Iran has boosted security for all its nuclear workers after one of its scientists was assassinated last week, First Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi said Tuesday. "Whoever is active in the nuclear fie...
Senior officials from the United States and close allies South Korea and Japan met Tuesday to coordinate their next steps on North Korea amid deep concern following the death of leader Kim Jong-Il. The U...
Russian aircraft manufacturer Sukhoi has flight tested its Serial Three Su-35S Flanker-E multipurpose jet fighter for the first time. During the test Tuesday, which lasted more than two hours, the aircraf...
An international summit to be held in March will discuss ways to prevent nuclear terrorism, Indian officials said on Tuesday, following a preparatory meeting in capital New Delhi. Officials from 49 count...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck South of Java, Indonesia at a depth of 58.3 km (36.2 miles), the quake hit at 04:16:05 UTC Monday 23rd January 2012 The epicenter was 171 km (106 miles) SSW of Jember,...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 585 km (363.5 miles), the quake hit at 03:27:02 UTC Monday 23rd January 2012 The epicenter was 101 km (62 miles) NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji ...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Island of Hawaii, Hawaii at a depth of 8.1 km (5 miles), the quake hit at 02:36:32 UTC Monday 23rd January 2012 The epicenter was 15 km (9 miles) South of Fern For...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck New Zealand at a depth of 110 km (68.2 miles), the quake hit at 00:02:11 UTC Monday 23rd January 2012 The epicenter was 20 km (12.4 miles) Northwest of Reporoa, New Zea...
"Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like." ~ Lemony Snicket
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Seram, Indonesia at a depth of 43.7 km (27.2miles), the quake hit at 23:41:00 UTC Sunday 22nd January 2012 The epicenter was 198 km (123 miles) ENE of Ambon, Moluccas, ...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Lake Rudolf Region, Kenya at a depth of 15.2 km (9.4 miles), the quake hit at 21:03:36 UTC Sunday 22nd January 2012 The epicenter was 74 km (45 miles) Northeast of...
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has been pushing reverse mortgages for the elderly *since 1993*. In 1993 - ALEC believed that this was how seniors should finance both their healthcare and...
Liquid Mind, “Whisper To Me” Turn down the lights, breathe deeply and relax, and play with the images and feelings...
"Believe it or not, this is the North Pole of Saturn. It is unclear how an unusual hexagonal cloud system that surrounds Saturn's north pole was created, keeps its shape, or how long it will last. Original...
"The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Suddenly I saw the cold and rook-delighting heaven That seemed as though ice burned and was but the more ice, And thereupon imagination and heart were driven So wild that every casual thought...
*“Dancing With The Daffodils”* by Chet Raymo “Take your pick. The Age of Reason or the Romantic Revolution. Laplace or Rousseau. Newton or Goethe. Locke or Liszt. Thinking or feeling. The world out there...
On Friday, January 20, 2012, Richard Silverstein reported at his blog Tikun Olam that "Atlanta Jewish Newspaper Advocates Mossad Assassinating Obama If Iran Gets Nukes." Silverstein wrote: Andrew Adler, n...
Four men have died in New York's subway in less than 24 hours. Police say the mishaps — all on Saturday — are unrelated. The first victim was found unconscious at about 2 a.m. in Queens' Elmhurst Avenue s...
Several objects resembling living beings were detected on photographs taken by a Russian landing probe in 1982 during a Venus mission, says an article published in the Solar System Research magazine. Le...
*The Carroll Street Bridge over Brooklyn's super-toxic, Superfund-designated Gowanus Canal (seen on a very different day from today's post-snowstorm one), is one of the country's few remaining "retractile...
posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at
- 4 hours ago
Url movie: http://youtu.be/4lBEaZKXWLU The PDF report can be downloaded here. It is quite interesting to read. A lot of controversial issues are addressed, like global governance, nationalism, aging popul...
"If I was an Iranian national security planner I would want a nuclear weapon. Look at the neighborhood I live in: everyone else who matters has nuclear weapons and those who don’t, don’t matter and get i...
Kudos to Bank of Canada governor, Mark Carney, for coming right out and warning that the crippled U.S. economy is unlikely to ever fully recover. “*It’s going to take a number of years before they get ba...
click here to read this funny article about why Newt Gingrich annoys me. And I am not posting this to say I support Obama in the next election, because I do not. Newt just terrifies me, LOL. Go Ron Paul! O...
At the heart of much of the opposition to the Athabasca Tar Sands is that it exports dangerous contaminants that put entire ecosystems at risk. We export a semi-refined product bearing significant quantit...
*"Refugee" * by Paul Sprawl “This is a video for a song about a refugee. According to a recent U.N. High Commission for Refugees study, nearly one half of the world's refugees are from Afghanistan and I...
*The PPJ Gazette* *“People are a great deal like electrons. When they get too close to each other, they are repelled by each other’s negative charge and can never come together, except in times of immens...
Dormagen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Thanks for stopping by.
"Duty, Honor, Courage" by General Douglas MacArthur "Duty, Honor, Country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying po...
[image: Price indices of commodity groups, January 2000-September 2011. World Economic Situation and Prospects 2012 / IMF, World Economic Outlook database, September 2011.] After sliding considerably in...
*HUMOUR:* *TO ALL MY ENEMIES:*
*THE "UNDOCUMENTED" MAS BOOKS* by Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ TUCSON -- The following list is what Tucson Unified School District claims are the Mexican...
Saudi Arabia says it will withdraw its observers from Syria despite the Arab League being set to extend the monitoring mission in the country for another month. The monitors, whose mandate expired on Thur...
Andrew Adler, the owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, a weekly newspaper serving Atlanta's Jewish community, devoted his January 13, 2012 column to the thorny problem of the U.S. and Israel's ...
*"My Thoughts On S.O.P.A."* by Paulo Coelho "In the former Soviet Union, in the late 1950s and 60s, many books that questioned the political system began to be circulated privately in mimeographed form. ...
Remember when all truly serious people were really confused about Newt Gingrich's uncalled-for (based on his being thrown out of Congress and forced to pay a $300,000 fine for fraud), recurring appearances...
I spent a lot of time traipsing all over Afghanistan in the '60s and '70s. What a spectacularly beautiful and unique country! And what terrific, hospitable people! Because I also operate a travel blog, pe...
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wmtc - 7 hours ago
On a recommendation from a friend, I watched Harry Belafonte interviewed by Charlie Rose in New York City. Belafonte - musician, actor, social-justice activist, radical - is a joy to hear, and his life sto...
Engineers propose anchoring the ship to the reef and sea bottom using 4-inch-diameter steel ropes.
* "In Confident Sign, Gingrich Changes Facebook Status to ‘In an Open Relationship’"* Newt to America: ‘Join Me. Join Me in My Marriage’ by Andy Borowitz CHARLESTON, SC (The Borowitz Report) – "In a sign...
I wonder how many TRF readers recognize places in this video: I just randomly posted an unedited people-free May 2006 11-minute video to YouTube. It didn't happen earlier because the YouTube limit was on...
The Gay Secretary And the message is, "Israel is going to sink this old clunker and we're gonna blame YOU for it!" With the collapse of the oil embargo to force Iran into a confrontation over the Straig...
As trees succumb to air pollution, their branches weakened and their root systems shriveling, it's not surprising to see ever more frequent stories in the news about property damage, power outages, and inj...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck near Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 9 km (5.6 miles), the quake hit at 19:31:21 UTC Sunday 22nd January 2012 The epicenter was 20 km (12.4 miles) West of Chri...
We need a palate cleanser especially after last night's boondoggle over a primary in South Carolina. So Mrs. JP and I are going out to watch the Patriots advance to the Super Bowl over the broken bodies o...
*Arab citizens of Israel are growing fast in number.* On 21 January 2012, The Economist reports that *the promised land needs people**: * After the Soviet Union collapsed, one million Russian Jews emigrat...
A video showing fifteen Pakistani soldiers being lined up and shot dead by a firing squad has been released by the Taliban. The paramilitary troops were abducted on December 23 in what the terror group d...
A mother of four was sent to prison because she felt too scared to give evidence against her ex-boyfriend who nearly killed her. Sacha Williams-Rowe had already endured two days testifying against Lloyd L...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck near Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 12 km (7.4 miles), the quake hit at 17:46:09 UTC Sunday 22nd January 2012 The epicenter was 20 km (12.4 miles) East of Chr...
... while Harper's thumb stays firmly planted up his ass. Montreal Simon and Owen Gray have already flagged this, so I can't really add much. But hey, I could be wrong, so please -- let me know if I've le...
To D-fox: if you're reading this, please contact us at thecomingcrisis@gmail.com. It's important -- we believe.
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Norwegian Sea at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:26:26 UTC Sunday 22nd January 2012 The epicenter was 594 km (369 miles) Northwest of Tromso, Norw...
*CBC's Dispatches hosts an interview with Matthew Willis*, who has a chapter on Canada in a new Royal United Services Institute book on the NATO/UK experience in Afghanistan. It's interesting because Will...
The Gay Secretary Bernanke is printing up trillions ion new dollars to buy back the fraudulent paper (aka the "Toxic Assets"), but in the process of such rampant inflation is crashing the value of the dol...
同性恋局长 Perhaps the US is used to resorting to war to solve geopolitical problems. But many worry that such a mentality will sooner or later lead to a US clash with Russia and China. So far Moscow and Beiji...
Documentary examines how toxic water at the nation’s largest Marine base damaged lives. By Darryl Fears Jan 21, 2012 Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/documentary-re...
The body of a woman was found in the wreckage of the cruise liner Costa Concordia on Sunday, bringing to 13 the number of bodies found so far, freelance reporter Sabina Castelfranco told CBC News. "The bo...
*Violinist Isaac Stern, cellist Leonard Rose, and pianist Eugene Istomin play the first 10 minutes of the opening movement of the Brahms B major Piano Trio, Op. 8; the last 1:10 of the movement is here. W...
There’s nothing quite like getting a message smashing into your window at 6 am to make one stand up and pay attention. The forest that surrounds my home is full of birds. Outside my living room, I have a ...
posted by laura k at
wmtc - 11 hours ago
[image: Cyclone Aila, which hit Bangladesh on 25 May 2009, producing a storm surge which in combination with a high tide, forced sea water upriver, breached the embankment that was supposed to protect th...
Rukus Solar is sun-powered, wireless and has an easy-to-read display.
Newt Gingrich swept back to prominence in the Republican ranks by a convincing win in South Carolina. Gingrich has been openly race-baiting and it seems the good folks of America's south like what they h...
[image: Vegetable Cafe Harmonize, in Fukushima, sells produce grown far from the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Ko Sasaki for The New York Times] By MARTIN FACKLER 21 January 2012 ONAMI, Ja...
The people of South Carolina have spoken. The folks that brought you the Civil War, Nikki Haley and Joe "You Lie" Wilson had suspended their Family Values long enough to vote for a old lech who got his co...
A SOUTH African woman appeared in court yesterday accused of leaving a pregnant woman for dead after slicing her open and stealing the unborn child from her womb. Loretta Cooke (29) from Randfontein in we...
Federal, state, and local authorities say a Dallas meat-packing company is under criminal investigation for possibly illegally dumping pig blood into a creek that leads to the Trinity River. Investigato...
Fears that the Palace of Westminster could fall into the Thames have prompted MPs to discuss selling the seat of British power. Subsidence caused by work on Parliament's underground car park and the const...
WristQue plugs you into smart buildings and allows you to adjust temperature and lighting levels from your wrist.
Lift up the little Logitech Cube and it quickly transforms from tiny travel mouse to handy presentation device.
Intuitive reasoning may help explain why some people are more accepting of evolution than others.
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CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours ago
*Censored News Print Edition to include interviews with Mohawk Warrior Society at the southern border!* Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ Censored News, focused on Indigenous Peoples and h...
Wow. South Carolina took a cane to the "Mormon Massachusetts Moderate" last night. This moves Nate Silver to write a longish post comparing the conventional wisdom (now embodied by my colleague, Hans Noel,...
*"Taxes at the Top"* by Paul Krugman “Call me peculiar, but I’m actually enjoying the spectacle of Mitt Romney doing the Dance of the Seven Veils — partly out of voyeurism, of course, but also because it...
It's the 21st century's double-whammy - population growth coupled with global warming - and even soggy old Britain isn't immune. Britain's Environment Agency has released a study on what lies in stores fo...
*"Power vs. People in the Digital Age"* by Jeffrey Tucker "The government seems determined to turn out the lights on the digital age. And this is with or without SOPA or the other bills that were only thi...
posted by laura k at
wmtc - 14 hours ago
Ten years, and still the concentration camp at Guantánamo Bay remains open. Ten years, and still 150 human beings remain imprisoned without charges, without trial. There have been deaths from torture, an...
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wmtc - 15 hours ago
If you're interested in taking part in some activism against the US military and in support of Bradley Manning - without leaving the comfort of home - go here as soon as possible. The Bradley Manning Sup...
*Those gloves are meant for progressives.* Friday we saw what a farce the DCCC claim to neutrality is when it comes to primaries between progressives and reactionaries. They *always* come down on the side...
*I have a basketball game to play this morning; however, I will be back sooner rather than later.* *That isn't the confession. * "Young athletes carry on antics of over-the-top stars" by Bella English | ...
The greenfinch is among common garden birds that have taken their leave of suburbia this winter. Photo courtesy: David Tipling/Alamy It has been a hard winter for English suburban bird spotters. The nation...
Avocets are just one of the many species that rely on the Thames estuary to survive. Photo courtesy: Omar Torres/AFP/Getty The reflections of redshank that shimmer in the wet silt of the Thames river estu...
Photo courtesy: © Stephanie Wolff/the pothole gardener When TreeHugger profiled Pete Dungey, an artist making miniature gardens in the cracks in Oxford's roads, they wrote that he "works alone, but hopes ...
posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at
- 15 hours ago
*The war is on!* The war about the Internet and the politico-economic 'culture' of the USA. Its bull-headed behavior over the last 15 years starts to get annoying people worldwide. So much so, that the rec...
Master plan for coastal restoration gives hope: Bob Marshall ~Also~Louisiana coastal restoration forecast: An editorial ~Photo: Morganza Floodway, by Quinta Scott, from her blog post: Corps of Engineers: A ...
High Strangeness: Forgotten Humanoid Encounters By Scott Corrales (c) 2012 In the fall of 1996 I began work on my second book, Flashpoint: High Strangeness in Puerto Rico, not realizing that...
In today's Independent on Sunday: It's just after breakfast time and Giles Fraser is smoking his third fag of the day. Clad in faded black jeans and a baggy black T-shirt, he flicks haphazardly into a ful...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck the Turkey-Iran Border Region at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles - Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 11:25:26 UTC Sunday 22nd January 2012 The epicenter was 26 km ...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Atacama, Chile at a depth of 62.1 km (38.6 miles), the quake hit at 11:24:10 UTC Sunday 22nd January 2012 The epicenter was 148 km (92 miles) SSW from Copiapo, Chile No...
Muslim gunmen killed nine people and wounded 12 others in the latest round of religious violence to hit northern Nigeria, a community elder said. The attack, in the early hours of Sunday morning, came les...
MARSHALL, Okla. -- A drilling rig explosion in far northwest Logan County left four people hurt Friday night, fire officials said. The incident happened in Marshall, Guthrie's fire chief told Eyewitness ...
A 39-year-old man died of highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) in southwest China on Sunday, the Ministry of Health said. The man, who began to suffer from fever on Jan. 6, died Sunday noon in a hospi...
Malkangiri (Odisha), Jan 22 (PTI) Death of a large number of birds at several places in the tribal dominated Malkangiri district of Odisha has triggered bird flu scare with ignorant villagers throwing the...
Barry Soetoro, the President of the USA, who goes by the pseudonym, Barack Obama, is fighting for re-election. In a time of economic crisis, massive unemployment, growing home-repossessions, and real suff...
The chief negotiators for Greece's private creditors have left Athens without securing a deal to write off some of the country's debts. The Institute of International Finance (IIF), which represents the ...
A teenager was in a "serious" condition in hospital after he was shot in the back in the street. Police said they were called to an incident in Westbourne Park, west London. They found a 16-year-old boy ...
Damascus, Syria (CNN) -- The Arab League is scheduled to meet Sunday to decide whether to leave its observers in violence-wracked Syria. The purpose of the Arab League's month-long mission is to determine...
*callista gingrich mk delta beta sex slave intheknow7's Blog** *In the South Carolina Primary, Newt Gingrich came top. Newt is the brother of Candace Gingrich, an 'out and proud lesbian activist.' Newt G...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The health ministry has not added up the radiation doses received by workers at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant while they were evacuated or are not at work, ministry o...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The government kept a worst case scenario for the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant under wraps for months after the document was shown to a small group of policymakers in...
(Reuters) - More than 100,000 people rallied Saturday in a show of support for the embattled Hungarian government, as it prepares to compromise in a bitter row with the European Union to secure a vital lo...
(Reuters) - Nine bodies have been recovered from a passenger vessel that sank off the Iranian coast with 22 people aboard, but five survivors have been rescued, the official IRNA news agency reported on Su...
Russian opposition leader and renowned chess champion Garry Kasparov predicts that if Vladimir Putin loses the upcoming election, he will not give up power, even if it means resorting to violence. Kaspa...
Athens, Greece (CNN) -- Talks on restructuring Greek debt continued Saturday, with negotiators reporting some progress made toward reaching a deal with the nation's private creditors. The negotiations wi...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Western Iran at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 09:44:52 UTC Sunday 22nd January 2012 The epicenter was 18 km (11.2 miles) South ...
Jaipur, India (CNN) -- Author Salman Rushdie now believes police lied to him about a threat to his life to keep him away from India's largest literary festival. "Rajasthan police invented plot to keep awa...
Damascus, Syria (CNN) -- Syrian security forces and members of a resistance movement comprised of military defectors clashed in the Damascus suburb of Douma, activists groups said Saturday. But activists...
Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) -- A northern Nigerian city targeted by bombs and a hail of gunfire remained on edge Sunday after blasts that killed at least 156 people and left the police headquarters and other go...
A Canadian Iranian software engineer is facing imminent execution in Tehran for allegedly operating a pornography website after the Iranian Supreme Court rejected a final appeal from his lawyers. Saeed M...
A man whose dismembered head, hands, and feet were found in a Hollywood park regularly hiked the area, a friend said. Hervey Medellin, a 66-year-old retired airline worker enjoyed trekking the rugged, hi...
Forecasters are expecting up to eight inches of snow in the New York region as the first serious winter storm of the season blanketed much of the northeast. Armies of salt spreaders and plows, so far use...
A couple found dead in a home explosion had planned to lure as many police officers as possible to their remote ranch before detonating the device and killing them all. Jesse Lee and Diedre Firestone mad...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Southeastern Iran at a depth of 28 km (17.4 miles), the quake hit at 08:52:43 UTC Sunday 22nd January 2012 The epicenter was 104 km (64.8 miles) Southeast of Bam, Iran ...
Gunmen kidnapped an American man in the northern Somali town of Galkayo on Saturday, officials said. The gunmen surrounded the man's car shortly after the man left the airport, said policeman Abdi Hassan...
An American Jewish newspaper has boldly suggested that 'Mossad agents' assassinate US President Barack Obama, claiming that he is 'unfriendly' toward Israel. In an article published in the January 13 edi...
The disappearance of species and biodiversity fears belong among the classic themes of the environmentalist movement – it has been talked about since the beginning and every new mutation of the environme...
A notorious Bulgarian gangster who was one of the world's most wanted criminals has been seized by police - after being tracked down to a gym in South London. Shaven-headed Tihomir Georgiev, who was on I...
*Andrew Potter pulled no punches on this one*. Tony Clement is the dumber than a sack of hammers and has a bag full of the stupidest ideas to hit government since the invention of the failed curved machi...
A rapist let out of a secure unit to watch a Harry Potter film under escort preyed on a teenage girl in the cinema's toilets. Carers let 25-year-old Steveland Kirk Robinson out of their sight to go to th...
Divers have found a woman's body in a submerged section of the grounded Costa Concordia, raising the death toll in the cruise liner tragedy to at least 12. The body, which had a life jacket on, was found...
This is the shocking moment a police officer launches a vicious assault on a 66-year-old-dementia sufferer. Officer Derek Middendorf then tried to cover his tracks by deleting the recording from his da...
David Cameron will this week confront European judges blamed for stopping the deportation of extremist Islamic cleric Abu Qatada and tell them: ‘Stop meddling in British justice.’ In a hard-hitting speec...
Over the past 20 years, they have become a familiar fixture on Britain’s high streets: bedraggled, wrapped up against the elements and far from freshly washed – but often with an engaging line in patter. ...
Researchers studying a potentially more lethal, airborne version of bird flu have suspended their studies because of concerns the mutant virus they have created could be used as a devastating form of biot...
A third of inmates at one of Britain’s most notorious youth jails are Muslims and the religion is attracting a large number of converts. There are 229 Muslims out of a total of 686 youngsters detained at ...
A British airline pilot arrested over an alleged terrorist plot is claiming racial and religious discrimination after losing his job. The pilot, a Muslim, was judged a security risk because of his close li...
British people are being warned against travelling to parts of Nigeria after a series of terror attacks left at least 143 people dead. Radical Islamist group Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for bom...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Samar, Philippines at a depth of 165.8 km (103 miles), the quake hit at 06:41:28 UTC Sunday 22nd January 2012 The epicenter was 25 km (15 miles) SSE of Tacloban, Leyte,...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 06:00:09 UTC Sunday 22nd January 2012 The epicenter was 139 km (86 miles) East of ...
A magnitude 3.2 earthquake has struck Southern Quebec, Canada at a depth of just 4.9 km (3 miles), the quake hit at 05:59:45 UTC Sunday 22nd January 2012 The epicenter was 38 km (23 miles) Southeast of Mon...
A magnitude 6.2 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 33.4 km (20.8 miles), the quake hit at 05:53:44 UTC Sunday 22nd January 2012 The epicenter was 138 km (85 miles) East o...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 37.7 km (23.4 miles), the quake hit at 03:09:01 UTC Sunday 22nd January 2012 The epicenter was 103 km (64 miles) ESE...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Seram, Indonesia at a depth of 27.4 km (17 miles), the quake hit at 01:00:24 UTC Sunday 22nd January 2012 The epicenter was 146 km (90 miles) Northeast of Ambon, Molucc...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Simeulue, Indonesia at a depth of 26.4 km (16.4 miles), the quake hit at 00:55:36 UTC Sunday 22nd January 2012 The epicenter was 310 km (192 miles) West of Sibolga, Sum...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Gulf of California at a depth of 10.2 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 00:39:52 UTC Sunday 22nd January 2012 The epicenter was 100 km (62 miles) Southeast of San Fe...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Crete, Greece at a depth of 35.4 km (22 miles), the quake hit at 22:48:24 UTC Saturday 21st January 2012 The epicenter was 171 km (106 miles) ESE of Iraklion, Crete, Gr...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 33.5 km (20.8 miles), the quake hit at 22:35:52 UTC Saturday 21st January 2012 The epicenter was 247 km (153 miles) E...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Santa Cruz Islands at a depth of 47.7 km (29.6 miles), the quake hit at 21:56:54 UTC Saturday 21st January 2012 The epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) Southwest of Lat...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck offshore Jalisco, Mexico at a depth of 19.5 km (12.1 miles), the quake hit at 20:34:47 UTC Saturday 21st January 2012 The epicenter was 69 km (42 miles) WSW of Manzani...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 63.1 km (39.2 miles), the quake hit at 19:46:51 UTC Saturday 21st January 2012 The epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) West of Tapach...
http://my.firedoglake.com/gregglevine/2012/01/20/aftershocking-frontlines-fukushima-doc-a-lazy-apologia-for-the-nuclear-industry/ my (less-developed) critique of it can be found here http://majiasblog.blo...
*AmeriKan newspapers do the same thing. * *One side*: "Taliban commander in Pakistan confirms peace talks; Move threatens to strain tensions between US, ally" December 11, 2011|By Anwarullah Khan, Assoc...
"Pakistani journalist gets US asylum after threats from home; Colleagues were turning up dead" November 25, 2011|By Pamela Constable, Washington Post WASHINGTON - Siraj Ahmed Malik, an ambitious young Paki...
*Came a-knockin' kind of late, didn't I? * "US strategy puts faith in Pakistan’s spies; Plan’s goal is peace talks in Afghanistan Agents have aided militants, officials say" October 31, 2011|By David E. S...
*Can't you hear them, Americans?* "Sport legend’s political star rises in Pakistan" December 26, 2011 KARACHI - More than 100,000 people rallied in support of Pakistani cricket legend and opposition polit...
*Just keeping the conspiracy quiet. * "2 officers indicted in Bhutto’s killing ISLAMABAD - Two* police officers* and five members of the Pakistani Taliban will be tried in the 2007 assassination of Benazi...
*She just goes on and on!* "Clinton issues warning to Pakistan" October 21, 2011|By Joby Warrick and Karin Brulliard, Washington Post ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned...
On Friday, reading the polls , seeing all the talking of Willard's collapse, and sensing a Gingrich win-- read: a defeat for the Republican Establishment's pick-- GOP kapo Eric Cantor indicated it was tim...
*HUMOUR:* *HARD TIMES REPUBLICAN STYLE:*
From the Globe: The Office of the Independent Police Review Director concluded constables Michael Adams, Babak Andalib-Goortani, David Donaldson, Geoffrey Fardell and Oliver Simpson used excessive forc...
Yanni, "A Moment In Heaven," "Heaven And Earth Spirits"
"It is the largest and most complex star forming region in the entire galactic neighborhood. Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy orbiting our Milky Way galaxy, the region's spid...
*“Away Above The Chimney Pots”* by Chet Raymo “So Oz finally became home; the imagined world became the actual world, as it does for us all, because the truth is that once we have left our childhood plac...
Ron Paul vs. The Global Military-Industrial-Financial Complex Ron Paul is not simply the anti-war candidate. He is also the national security candidate. This is an important truth that is overlooked. The...
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*Anonymous* *An open letter to the citizens of the World* *Posted online Jan. 21, 2012* We stand at a unique time in our history, the rise of the internet and computer technology have contributed to an u...
*You can watch Anthony Sasso, the chef at Mario Batali's Bar Jamón in Manhattan's Gramercy Park neighborhood, make his signature spiced (and spicy) hot chocolate here. The recipe is below. From DNAinfo.com...
ENTERTAINMENT/RELIGION - "Anima" is a documentary with a goal of making you think about you really want to do in life and encouraging you to go after that goal. The film stresses the importance of human cr...
CNN projects that Newt Gingrich will win Saturday's South Carolina GOP presidential primary, a development that would mark a stunning turnaround for a campaign that observers had left for dead -- again -...
At least 11 people arriving in Ottawa and Toronto aboard flights from Cuba on Friday complained of a stomach illness, officials said. It marked the third time in a week passengers arriving from the Caribbe...
Nile Bowie NileBowie.blogspot.com [image: Link]January 22, 2012 For a nation who has historically subordinated itself to larger powers, Australia’s Labour-led foreign policy shows little divergence awa...
Politically Correct liberal bigots must be delirious with cognitive dissonance this week. They have been forced to address one of their pet minorities turning against another of their favoured groups. T...
Ahhhhh. Dean Baker, one of my favorite economists, continues to please me by heaping ridicule on Greenspan, Geithner and all their fellow travelers. He asks us to please, please pay attention (and demand i...
I just wanted to post this so people can understand that you find ALEC members in the strangest places. Yesterday my search for ALEC members brought this up. A review of this speech found this near the e...
The video above is a brilliant ad from the DNC based largely on Thursday's tragically flawed, distorted GOP debate. It's pretty devastating for Romney-- maybe not with brain-dead Republican primary voter...
Yesterday I saw an article on Think Progress *Meet The 40 Members Of The Congressional Koch Caucus* By Brad Johnson posted from ThinkProgress Green on Jan 20, 2012 at 12:35 pm Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), top...
It does not look good http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpA-rmt0avU&feature=youtu.be hat tip Purewater at Enenews http://enenews.com/forum-fukushima-webcam-discussion-thread-dec-14-2011-present#comment-191197
Few Cities HaveRegained Jobs They Lost, Report Finds by Micheal Cooper. The New York Times. Jan 18, 2012: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/18/us/few-cities-have-regained-lost-jobs-report-finds.html?_r=1&nl=t...
"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." - George Washington
* * *"Megaupload Takedown: The Real Meaning"* by George Washington “The Feds’ takedown of Megaupload shows beyond the shadow of a doubt that SOPA, PIPA or any similar legislation is wholly unnecessary. As ...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Hawke's Bay Region, New Zealand at a depth of 30 km (18.6 miles), the quake hit at 19:49:07 UTC Saturday 21st January 2012 The epicenter was 30 km (18.6 miles) So...
Jimi asked: I am a math guy, so sorry for the naivety. When I peruse the wikipedia I see many "variants" of quantum field theory... conformal quantum field theory, topological quantum field theory, axioma...
Gee, I thought I had something to say, but I didn't write it down.
*“Now Would Not Be The Time To Celebrate or Relax”* by Joseph W. Martin, Jr. “As last week progressed to its conclusion the pressures on Congress from the public and from actual Internet operators to drop...
“Now Would Not Be The Time To Celebrate or Relax” by Joseph W. Martin, Jr. "As last week progressed to its conclusion the pressures on Congress from the public and from actual Internet operators to drop...
Scores of prolife groups are calling for a public boycott of food giant, PepsiCo, due to its partnership with Senomyx, a biotech company that uses aborted fetal cells in the research and development of ar...
*HUMOUR:* *WITHOUT STRUGGLE THERE IS NO VICTORY:*
In 2008, James Galbraith defined a “predator state” as “a coalition of relentless opponents of the regulatory framework on which public purpose depends, with enterprises whose major lines of business com...
The Gay Secretary That's it? Arabs wearing cheap Casio wristwatches get waterboarded; this guy calls for the assassination of the President and an apology gets him off? Well, I guess we know the rules. We...
A magnitude 6.2 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 66.1 km (41.1 miles), the quake hit at 18:47:15 UTC Saturday 21st January 2012 The epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) West of Tapach...
The Gay Secretary *Don't you get it?!? * Russia and China will not sign off on such a deal, because they need the oil to keep their economies moving forward!!!!!!!!
The Indian Air Force (IAF) began airlifting Saturday passengers stranded after heavy snowfall caused the blockage of the only highway linking two cities in Kashmir.The IAF flew sorties to evacuate the pass...
The Gay Secretary The facts here are very simple: Israel is pushing the US to start a war against Iran, to "neutralize" one of Israel's alleged "existential threats" in the region, as happened in Iraq.(Of...
The Gay Secretary Iranian leadership is many things, *but stupid isn't one of them. * They understand that such an act would absolutely be used as the "justification" for a military attack against Iran. ...
NASA's GISS has completed their 2011 global temperature dataset. According to GISS, 2011 was the 9th warmest year. The average warming trend in 1880-2011 was 0.60 °C per century; in the satellite era 197...
PDY brought a sick pigeon to his home last December in Sunter Agung, Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta, oblivious to the dangers of contact with fowl that might carry the lethal H5N1 virus. The 23-year-old, ...
NEW YORK: 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 viruses cou...
The Department of Conservation sees no link between the Rena crisis, and the stranding of four whales at Papamoa Beach. Samples have been taken from the animals, which died on the beach yesterday. They'l...
*SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 2012* *This is how we got here:* On Monday, we will be posting Chapter 6 at our companion site, How He Got There. Shorthand sent George Bush to the White House—but a wide array of e...
REPORTING FROM TEHRAN AND BEIRUT— The deepening standoff between Tehran and the West over Iran's nuclear program has Iranians chatting nervously in butcher shops, grocery aisles and money exchanges. In a...
Outspent but hardly outgunned, online and high-tech companies triggered an avalanche of Internet clicks to force Congress to shelve legislation that would curb online piracy. They outmaneuvered the entert...
Today, January 21, is the two-year anniversary of the absolute worst and most dangerous Supreme Court decision of our lifetimes, *Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission*. We decided it would be t...
AN AMERICAN TOURIST in London decides to skip his tour group and explore the city on his own. He wanders around, seeing the sights, and occasionally stopping at a quaint pub to soak up the local culture,...
The Occupy London protest group says it has taken over a fifth site in London. Up to 20 demonstrators moved into Roman House, on Fore Street, Barbican, in the City of London, in the early hours of Saturd...
The opposition Syrian National Council (SNC) has formally asked the Arab League to refer the Syrian crisis to the U.N. Security Council, after Arab observers failed to end the bloodshed, an opposition spo...
I am going to try writing down pieces of advice that I give to students all the time, in the hopes that they might be useful for people who can't make it to my office hours. "Many if not most of the ter...
*SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 2012* *EPILOG—At long last, Rachel cites Reuters:* We must be the strangest creatures who ever drew breath on the earth. Just consider the way we go about selecting our nation's pre...
LOS ANGELES — The anti-piracy battle gripping Washington and the Internet pits two US West Coast power bases directly against each other: Hollywood is taking on Silicon Valley over the right to make money...
Prominent republican Colin Duffy, who has been cleared of murdering two soldiers in Antrim, has said he believed his DNA had been planted in the getaway car. On Friday, Mr Duffy, 44, from Lurgan, was acq...
At least 143 people have been killed in a series of co-ordinated bomb and gun attacks in Kano, Nigeria's second largest city, according to hospital sources. Witnesses have described seeing dozens of bod...
[image: Families displaced by drought line up for food this week in Mogadishu, Somalia, 20 January 2012. AFP / AFP / Getty Images] By Nancy Shute 20 January 2012 Food is getting elbowed out of the discu...
The NYPD says a police officer committed suicide while on duty Thursday night by shooting himself while responding to a call in Queens. The 28-year-old officer, whose name has been withheld, was found lyin...
Somewhat like effervescent tablets, these little rockets bubble up, then zoom away.
Non-slip, waterproof gloves from Isotoner play well with touchscreen of all kinds.
A Georgia mother who was arrested for allowing her 10-year-old to get a tattoo said she had no idea it was illegal for him to get one, even with her consent. When Chuntera Napier’s son Gaquan Napier asked...
*Right off the top I was giddy when I saw that Israel was backing off **feeling that the recent commentary here and other places had played a small part in staying their hand; however, at the gas station t...
*I call it that because the newspaper knows Saturday** is the slowest circulation and day the paper is read least.* "Paul says veterans are backing him more than others; Those on active duty especially re...
*"Sept 11 was good for Israel." -- Netanyahu (pictured above)* *"It's a Trick, We Always Use It." (calling people "anti-Semitic")* *Uproar after Jewish American newspaper publisher suggests Israel assas...
"Windows of Opportunity" project gives us a glimpse into the future of back seat entertainment.
"Gingrich offensive redraws race; Attacks on media, Romney erase 15-point deficit" by Brian C. Mooney Globe Staff / January 21, 2012 ORANGEBURG, S.C. - The wild ride of the South Carolina primary campaign ...
Nigeria imposed a 24-hour curfew in the northern city of Kano after assailants killed at least seven people and wounded many others in a hail of gunfire and coordinated bombings of eight government sites...
*Adelson saves the day!* "Super PACs and their cash are political game-changers" January 20, 2012|By Brian C. Mooney COLUMBIA, S.C. - No matter how Newt Gingrich fares in tomorrow’s Republican presidenti...
*They can't even get the winner of the first contest right and we are supposed to trust and have faith in fraudulent elections?* "Iowa says official caucus results show no clear winner" January 20, 2012|Gl...
* * *SLATE* ASKS: Saudi Arabia. Nigeria. Venezuela. Canada? *Is our neighbor to the north becoming a jingoistic petro-state?* Take, for instance, the country that provides by far the largest share of our...
Well, I think that more than few of us *forecast this *but because the BBC narrative insists that the "Arab Spring" was a "good" thing, our concerns were swept aside. It was all going to work out swell ; ...
The fear of an enormous eruption fills the neighours of the Turrialba Volcano, located southwest of Cartago and a stone's through (volcano wise) from San José, as the colossus continues to emit ash and so...
Santiago, Chile, Jan 20 (Prensa Latina) Chile decreed a state of agricultural emergency in the southern region of Los Rios by ashes from the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcanic complex, in eruption seven month...
ZAGREB, Croatia — Police clashed Saturday with a group of nationalist protesters who attempted to take down an EU flag on the eve of the country's membership referendum. The clash occurred at the end of ...
Two loud explosions rocked a rebel stronghold about 13 km from the Somali capital on Saturday and a third blast was heard close by, residents said, but it was unclear who was behind them. "We heard two b...
A mass collision on a northern German highway killed at least one person on Friday (January 20) and seriously injured several others, according to German media reports. Some 25 vehicles, both cars and...
The Muslim Brotherhood's electoral coalition has won 38 percent of seats allocated to party lists for Egypt's parliament, with Islamists of various stripes taking more than two thirds of the assembly, in ...
Bomb blasts killed 14 prisoners travelling in a security vehicle in northwest Syria on Saturday, the state news agency said, and troops fought rebels elsewhere as the Arab League weighed whether to ke...
With rumours of spiralling Tarahumara suicides, emergency aid arrives for the isolated Mexican group struggling for food due to drought and a harsh winter. Marie-Claire Fennessy reports.
Major powers signaled on Friday their willingness to reopen talks about curbing Iran's suspected pursuit of nuclear weapons but said Tehran must show it is serious about any negotiations. The focus on di...
Lately we've been talking up a storm about Buck McKeon and his new ethics problems involving taking a gigantic bribe from Countrywide. That story is still developing, although McKeon is looking toastier a...
Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Three German citizens, including a German army colonel, were arrested in a police raid Saturday in the northern Pakistani city of Peshawar, authorities said. Police official M...
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America’s Protestant pastors overwhelmingly reject the theory of evolution and are evenly split on whether the earth is 6,000 years old, according to a survey released Monday by the Southern Baptist Conve...( There's a picked audience if I ever heard of one. The Southern Baptist Conference is a tool of the CIA and friends and delights in dumbing down the rubes. I first ran into that info in a serious analysis in a biography of CIA Director Nelson A. Rockefeller a couple of decades or more ago. Ratville's links to Jonestown, Guyana go into more detail of CIA cult experiments. )
Beijing (CNN) -- Until about four years ago, farmer Zhou Jie and his family had been living in rural Anhui province, growing grain and other staples on a small plot of land. Now they live in the outskirt...
I'd like to help the Democrats keep control of the Senate. And Blue America has a Senate page. But the Democrats running in a lot of the most vulnerable states, Missouri, Nebraska, West Virginia, Virginia...
People travel to Hawaii to relax and get some sun and surf, but a Minnesota man’s trip to paradise turned into a nightmare after he contracted a paralyzing disease. Eric Reinert is 22 years old and learn...
Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- The South Korean government on Friday approved the first shipment of food aid to North Korea since the death of dictator Kim Jong Il last month. The South Korean Unification M...
South Africa (CNN) –It was a hot summer day when Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund visited South Africa in early January. However, it appeared that she received a rather chill...
Google has dropped its logo shroud, Wikipedia has returned from limbo, normal service in general has been resumed, and all’s right with the world … except that SOPA and PIPA are still looming on Capitol H...
Despite Google’s much-heralded support for the anti-SOPA movement, the web giant is already enforcing SOPA-like policies of its own, blacklisting legitimate websites from its news aggregator and following...
HASTINGS (AP/CBS Detroit) — Did a frustrated teacher dump hot tea on fighting students at Hastings High School? The district isn’t talking about the incident directly, but interim Superintendent Michelle...
First responders had to cut through the side of a house on Long Island to rescue a man who had become trapped inside on Thursday, Newsday reported. The man, who was trapped in a second-floor bathroom, was...
NATO is not planning or even "thinking" of intervening in Syria, the alliance's most senior officer said Thursday, days after a top Russian official said such plans were in the making. "There is no plann...
Iran has boosted security for all its nuclear workers after one of its scientists was assassinated last week, First Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi said Tuesday. "Whoever is active in the nuclear fie...
Senior officials from the United States and close allies South Korea and Japan met Tuesday to coordinate their next steps on North Korea amid deep concern following the death of leader Kim Jong-Il. The U...
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