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Google FriendConnect. The so-called "lost decade" of economic stagnation in Japan has been blamed on widespread lack of motivation throughout
Japanese society. The trend sees a growing number of young people left behind in a ...
Some 45.3 percent of Koreans identify themselves as "lower class" in terms of their socioeconomic status, the highest percentage since Statistics Korea first included questions on status consciousness in ...
Eight out of 10 high school graduates go on to university, but that still remains a distant dream for children from low-income families. Although no official government statistics exist, teachers say most...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Rota Region, Northern Mariana Islands at a depth of 117 km (72.7 miles), the quake hit at 04:42:05 UTC Thursday 26th January 2012 The epicenter was 18 km (11 miles...
Dead Air and Early '70s Radio:The formatting revolutionin American radioBy Bob Simmons / The Rag Blog / January 26, 2012Kim Simpson, author of Early '70s Radio, and Jan Reid, editor of Bill Young's Dead Air,...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the
Dodecanese Islands, Greece at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 04:38:03 UTC Thursday 26th January 2012 The epicenter was 43 km (26.4miles) Southwest ...
Like any American who refused to ever buy into the shortsighted bipartisan corporatist de-industrialization of America by clueless, pie-in-the-sky Wall Street elites making their way blithely between bank...
Private clinics that undertake abortions for profit will be allowed to advertise their services on television and radio for the first time, watchdogs ruled yesterday. The decision last night attracted c...
With Silvio Berlusconi in charge for 17 years, it’s no surprise that men put themselves first. 'How many gears do Italian tanks have? Five – one forward, and four reverse.” It wasn’t until we’d been mar...
Organized crime-related deaths in one Mexican border state during the first nine months of 2011 exceed the number of Afghan civilians killed in roughly the same period in all of war-torn Afghanistan. Acc...
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — The revamped school lunches at Los Angeles Unified School District have won awards, commending them for improving the menu at the second largest school district in the nation. Too bad ...
In the world of economic and social development, lists are easy to come by. The class of leaders gathering in Davos are well aware that ranking nations -- by levels of freedom, ease of doing business, com...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Crete, Greece at a depth of 18.5 km (11.5 miles), the quake hit at 04:25:00 UTC Thursday 26th January 2012 The epicenter was 46 km (28.6miles) Northeast of Pánormos, Gr...
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia (CNN) – China is thirsty for oil to fuel its economic boom – and it’s increasingly looking to Saudi Arabia to help quench that thirst. Saudi Arabia produces nearly 10 million barre...
London (CNN) – It’s Friday and many of you out there may already have gone home for the weekend. Some of you may be reading this on your smart phone or handheld computer. But here are some questions for ...
An independent Scotland would face 'significant restrictions' from the rest of the UK if it kept the pound, JP Morgan has warned. Analysts at the bank, in a note titled Divided Kingdom? Scottish Indepen...
More than 370,000 migrants who were admitted to Britain to work, study or go on holiday are now claiming out-of-work benefits, according to official figures compiled for the first time. The migrants, wh...
I once took the Life in the UK test – for research purposes, obviously. One occasionally reads columnists, bloggers or tweeters pointing out that the test is really hard, and that they failed it. It’s act...
Russian police detained a punk group on Friday after they performed a protest song criticising Vladimir Putin next to Saint Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow. Eight members of an all-girl punk group called Pu...
Ah Nee Mah, “The Sacred Fire”
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Northern Xinjiang, China at a depth of 7 km (4 miles), the quake hit at 03:11:22 UTC Thursday 26th January 2012 The epicenter was 99 km (61.6 miles) East of Yining, Chi...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Russia-Mongolia Border Region at a depth of just 1 km (0.6 miles - poorly constrained), the quake hit at 03:02:43 UTC Thursday 26th January 2012 The epicenter was ...
"Why are there faint rings around this spiral galaxy? Possibly because the galaxy, NGC 4911, is being pulled at by its neighbors as it falls into the enormous Coma Cluster of Galaxies. If NGC 4911 ends up ...
A magnitude 3.4 earthquake has struck Northern California at a depth of 12 km (7.5 miles), the quake hit at 02:20:19 UTC Thursday 26th January 2012 The epicenter was 7 km (4 miles) ENE of Watsonville, Calif...
New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees is No. 1 most powerful athlete
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Flores Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 17.8 km (11.1 miles), the quake hit at 22:12:03 UTC Wednesday 25th January 2012 The epicenter was 117 km (73 miles) Northeast o...
"The roles that we construct are constructed because we feel that they will help us to survive and also, of course, because they fulfill something in our personalities; and one does not, therefore, cease ...
My car is home! Super yay. Nothing too major wrong. Two things that has to do with the ignition switch. Both parts were switched out. Glad to have my baby back. I seriously love the Saab more than any car ...
*Understanding the 21st Century Global Information War: Protect Your Zeitgeist * *By Eric Pottenger and Jeff Friesen* *Special Report for Color Revolutions and Geopolitics* *January 24, 2012* *Authors' Int...
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*NNHRC witnesses Beebe’s and Sanford’s federal sentencing today* *First defendants to be charged under the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act* By NNHRC Censored News ST. MICHAEL...
Well, you say that I'm an outlaw, You say that I'm a thief. Here's a Christmas dinner For the families on relief. Yes, as through this world I've wandered I've seen lots of funny men; *Some will rob you w...
*“For The Time Of Necessary Decision”* “The mind of time is hard to read. We can never predict what it will bring, Nor even from all that is already gone Can we say what form it finally takes; For time gat...
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"The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew." - John Milton, "Paradise Regained"
*"Brain's 'Cheat Sheet' Makes Moral Decisions Easier"* by Stephanie Pappas “How much would someone have to pay you to switch from drinking coffee every morning to drinking tea? How about to rescind the al...
*"The Smell of Anxiety Induces Empathy In Humans"* by Sayer Ji, GreenMedInfo.com "New research flying in the face of many popular and not-so-forgiving views about 'human nature' indicates there is an olfa...
It's hard to "maintain the rage" in this topsy turvy world of yiddish hegemony, so, for your delectation: I am Posting this essentially quirky and parochial article in the "now for something completely di...
Dr. Seuss' The Lorax Theatrical Trailer (2012) Dr. Seuss was an artist and a poet. In my opinion this movie is tripe and a pure form of hype. It doesn't portray the feelings or the message of what the ...
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Yaron Brook discusses the economics of the Great Depression, with an explanation of the broken window fallacy, the most common error in economics. From his talk 'Why Bad Economics Won't Go Away.' Conten...
*"Obama Risks Alienating Republicans By Using Facts"* Radical Tactic Sparks Outrage by Andy Borowitz WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) – "In what some critics are calling the most radial tactic ever employ...
*by Noah* Running for President on laundered taxpayer money from Fannie & Freddie to the tune $1.6 million... Running for President while being paid to spew your brand of irrational hate and delusional ...
This site brings nostalgia to the digital age.
A new Open Thread for your edification - in Hulk green just in case you are angry.... Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
The Gay Secretary [image: Link] All the US/EU oil embargo against Iran can do is wreck the already fragile economies of the US and EU. China has already contracted for additional supertankers to bring more...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 52.4 km (32.6 miles), the quake hit at 20:42:56 UTC Wednesday 25th January 2012 The epicenter was 64 km (39 miles) E...
The Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was never ratified by the required number of States. This is the Amendment that allegedly entitled the Federal Agent (government) in the fed...
The Liberal convention earlier this month grabbed a lot of headlines - Mike Crawley's 26-vote victory over Sheila Copps for party President, the party's move to the supporter system, the decision to, *like...
That's all I got. Since the 23rd, I've been painfully shaving about 2300 words off *American Zen*'s word count since Amazon/Penguin's contest has an unreasonable bias against books that are greater than 1...
*Railway Children, Indonesia.* *Google Admits It Will Track Everything Its Users Do, No Opt Out* *Soros Mouthpiece Calls On Google To Police “Conspiracy Theories”* [image: Gen. Sinclair, Santiago,, 19...
*“America Isn’t a Corporation”* by Paul Krugman “And greed — you mark my words — will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the U.S.A.” That’s how the fictional Gor...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 17:47:07 UTC Wednesday 25th January 2012 The epicenter was 209 km (130.6 mil...
The first magnetic soap ever could revolutionize cleaning.
Unmarried couples who live together are generally happier.
Mexican American Studies Student teach-in Thurs Chavez #205 U of Arizona 11-noon Platica Wakefield Middle School and Pueblo H.S. students will address crisis at TUSD re the recently suspended MAS pro...
*Treaty Council Wins Judgment Against RainDancer Resource Management* *By: Natalie Hand* *Censored News* *http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/* The Oglala Sioux Tribe’s Law and Order Code, Chapter 2, Secti...
*"Confusing Gradual Bankruptcy with Economic Recovery"* by Bill Bonner We have a wintry landscape here in Baltimore…or what is left of one. But forget the weather, happy days are here again. At least, tha...
The Dutch livestock industry is struggling to cope with yet another contagious virus: Schmallenberg. It's the seventh outbreak of a livestock disease in the last fifteen years. The Schmallenberg virus ap...
By: Duane Craig Dubbed by the Environmental Protection Agency as "one of the largest and most complex cleanup projects in the U.S.," another part of the Hanford Superfund site in Washington will enter the...
The Tibetan government-in-exile has called on the international community to take action to halt violence in western China that has reportedly killed several Tibetans and left others wounded. "The Centra...
This is the dramatic moment a police boat capsized and officers were swept overboard by a wave as they looked in vain for a missing eight-year-old boy. The footage, caught on camera, shows increasingly d...
*But it gets repeated every 394.3 years* Czechia may be the most atheist nation in the world but be sure that it doesn't prevent the Czechs from believing any kind as well as all kinds of superstitious ...
Welcome to another Wednesday! How did your exfoliation go? I hope yours was fantastic because... ...mine was AWESOME. (That is 4 boxes and a garbage bag, stuffed full of things to get rid of - not pictur...
The search for a six-year-old girl who fell into a fast-moving river was suspended late last night after rescuers recovered several items of her clothing as deteriorating weather conditions put the crews ...
Speaking out: Several rape victims documented, including Marine Corps 1st Lt. Ariana Klay (shown center) who was raped by her senior officer and his friend, have contemplated suicide following their attac...
Curious? Is this the sacrificial lamb going to slaughter? I blogged on this false flag potential long ago, sadly blogger removed my post. May 2011. My draft version is still intact. Quoting from it The U...
Apologies for my absence. I'm caught up in some home renovation work, that is limiting my time. So just some quick news stories... Cabinet kept alarming nuke report secret Fearful of scaring public, existe...
Infants understand the laws of physics much earlier than previously thought.
A poll of 16 to 25-year-olds on innovation turns up a few unexpected twists.
Why is the universe filled with magnetic fields? A laser experiment points to exploding stars.
"*Capitalism, in its current form, no longer fits the world around us*." What a curious thing for the founder and chairman of the Davos World Economic Forum, professor Klaus Schwab to declare. "*A glob...
A mysterious blood-thirsty wild cat is feared to have struck again after three wallabies were found devoured on farmland. The trio were found stripped to the bone, with their internal organs neatly place...
Before he was thoroughly rejected by Democrats in the Alabama gubernatorial primary in 2010, Rep. Artur Davis, a conservative corporate shill representing one of the safest Democratic seats in the country...
A Muslim man who raped women to 'teach them a lesson' for being on the streets at night was jailed indefinitely today because of the danger he poses to women. Sunny Islam, 23, who comes from a strict Mus...
MYTHICAL, SUPER-SECRET BUT YET FAMED AND LEGENDARY TEAM 6, who "got Bin Laden" after he was running around in caves for 10 years while on dialysis, is back from the DEAD and DOIN' THEIR THING!!! Notice t...
[image: Link] The body of a British tourist was found on a beach just hours after she arrived in the Caribbean for her father’s wedding. Nicola Raybone, 33, vanished when she went to watch the sunset after...
Blogger's Note: This was received today, January 25th 2012, via e-mail. ------------------------------ ------------------------------ Dear Friends and Colleagues, I thought you would be interested in George...
[image: The Green Economy in a Blue World report will cover six marine-based sectors, including fisheries. UN Photo/Martine Perret] 25 January 2012 (Agence France-Presse) – The worldwide fishing industry...
A shopkeeper has been caught on video fending off a crowbar-wielding masked man - using just a mop. Dinesh Gorania retaliated after the would-be robber burst into the family-run convenience store in Rush...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the South Pacific Ocean at a depth of 13 km (8.1 miles), the quake hit at 16:04:11 UTC Wednesday 25th January 2012 The epicenter was 1994 km (1239 miles) East of Hakape...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 140.5 km (87.3 miles), the quake hit at 15:56:49 UTC Wednesday 25th January 2012 The epicenter was 164 km (102 miles) West of Neiafu, Tonga No Tsuna...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Salta, Argentina at a depth of 191.6 km (119.1 miles), the quake hit at 14:58:36 UTC Wednesday 25th January 2012 The epicenter was 51 km (31 miles) WNW of San Antonio d...
Two brothers claimed they found a skull that belongs to an animal that has been extinct since 1936.
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck South of Panama at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 14:55:51 UTC Wednesday 25th January 2012 The epicenter was 170 km (105 miles) South of David, Panama N...
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Tomorrow, Peel Region Councillors will vote on whether to end publicly financed, union-staffed daycare services in Mississauga and Brampton. A report from an audit by KPMG - released only days ago - recom...
Newt and the "Food Stamp President." Image from The Economist / Keep on Keepin' On!We're all in the same boat?On the topic of Obama, theGOP can't even blush anymoreBy Carl Davidson / The Rag Blog / January 2...
Today the Wall Street Journal has an interesting article on a US policy shift on nuclear pacts: "U.S. Shifts Policy on Nuclear Pacts" Jan 25 2012 p. A10. This article contains many interesting and reveal...
Before I launch in, I just wanted to say quickly to Dan Nexon and all the folk at the Duck, thanks for letting me stay on board! I normally lose respect for institutions that decide to keep me as a member,...
Free market Egyptian plow, circa 1200 BC. Image from Wikimedia Commons.The plow and the iPhone: Conservative fantasies aboutthe miracles of the marketAs is often the case in faith-based systems, reconciling ...
*WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2012* *This episode did change the world:* As we noted yesterday, we have posted Chapter 6 at our companion site, How He Got There. Today, we’ll outline the basic background to th...
An X-Ray laser will let scientists see things smaller than ever before.
By measuring heart rhythm and breathing rate, this device helps users manage their stress.
Joint military training exercises will be held evenings in downtown Los Angeles through Thursday, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. The LAPD will be providing support for the exercises, which...
Google will soon know far more about who you are and what you do on the Web. The Web giant announced Tuesday that it plans to follow the activities of users across nearly all of its ubiquitous sites, inclu...
A bus driver has smashed his vehicle into traffic and pedestrians in the western Indian city of Pune, killing nine people and injuring 27 others. The driver damaged 40 vehicles before the bus was brought t...
*WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2012* *One out of three ain’t half bad:* We love Chris Matthews at moments like this. Last night, right after Obama’s address, the brain trust gathered on The Ed Show. Big Eddie t...
A 22-year-old car theft suspect tried to elude police Tuesday morning, but was stopped in his tracks when he was confronted by a gun-toting 64-year-old woman. "I was not going to let him go," said Karen G...
*You'll need to check this out and verify it...* - as of right now I have not been able to confirm this but here's the skinny that I have. Information supposedly sent to Florida Legislators: You are cordi...
*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* The origins of 'corporate personhood' are dubious, suspicious! 'Corporate personhood' derived from an informal note from a CLERK: "The defendant Corporations are ...
[image: A school of jack mackerel in the Southern Pacific. Stocks of the fish, rich in oily protein, have declined from 30 million metric tons to less than a tenth of that in two decades. Eduardo Sorense...
[image: Deforestation in Brazil, driven largely by clearing land for cattle, as in Mato Grosso, above, has lessened. But there has been a shift under President Dilma Rousseff. Damon Winter / The New York...
Women rate pain higher on a scale of 1 to 10 than men for the same conditions, a study finds.
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck near the West Coast of Colombia at a depth of 22.3 km (13.9 miles), the quake hit at 14:37:01 UTC Wednesday 25th January 2012 The epicenter was 106 km (66 miles) WSW o...
Its stated intent is to take thrill-seekers 'through the sky on its mission of complete annihilation'. But theme park bosses might have hoped that a test run would not prove it quite so literally - after...
*Then another war would do us good, huh?* "Military shift may shield N.E. jobs; Technology needs expected to rise" by Bryan Bender | Globe Staff, January 23, 2012 “Even in a downturn there will still b...
Electronic ballots are being offered by Florida, California and Virginia to help expats and servicemen vote.
Minnesota party caucuses are coming up in a little over a week. Last night and again this morning I heard advertisements for Ron Paul. Unfortunately I am hearing way too many people who think this guy has ...
A British tourist holidaying in Africa has been stung to death by a swarm of bees. Mick Bryan, 61, and his 43-year-old wife Jacqueline were attacked at a campsite in Tanzania. The couple, from Ramsey in...
Somali pirates have started to cut off their hostages' limbs in a bid to extract even greater ransoms from the owners of the ships they capture. The horrific new tactic was used last Friday on the Vietnam...
At ThinkProgress Alyssa Rosenberg shares a lovely new short film about robots and prejudice: No Robots from YungHan Chang on Vimeo. Rosenberg draws a distinction between the representations of robots in th...
Last night DefMin Peter Airshow MacKay announced a pending "Combined Defence Plan" between Canada and the US to "further integrate cross-border military co-operation" : "This agreement provides a framewor...
*Depends on your **point of view**.* "Patrick administration avoids local aid cut in budget proposal; News welcome to cities, towns" by Andrew Ryan | Globe Staff, January 21, 2012 For the first time in ...
MR, 18, a patient who was suspected of having contracted the H5N1 virus died on Wednesday at Tangerang General Hospital after being treated for five days in an isolation room at the city-run hospital. “Th...
Master plan forgets bayou communities, residents say ~Daily Comet A lesson in spin…oil spills and states of unions~Disenfranchised Citizen Big fish in BP claims reel in suckers ~James Gill Governor Bobby ...
Yesterday I read that the bottom has been falling out of Mitt Romney's popularity among white males-- his main audience. I think some see him as a wimp who can't stand up to Gingrich, while others see him...
Whale rescuers remain on high alert at Farewell Spit as they warn a group of pilot whales, refloated for a second time today, could still get confused and head back to shore. The whales were part of a po...
BEIJING (AP) — Deadly clashes between ethnic Tibetans and Chinese security forces have spread to a second area in southwestern China, the government and an overseas activist group said Wednesday. The gro...
*WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2012* *Part 1—Last night, Sean Hannity did:* Last night, in his State of the Union Address, Barack Obama said the following. We will highlight one anodyne passage—one *apparently* ...
Rescue teams are arriving at the site of a deadly landslide in Papua New Guinea, but continuing wet weather and fears of another landslide are hampering their efforts. Tumbi village near Tari, in the coun...
When it floods in Bellingen, the locals seek higher ground. And the pub sits on some of the loftiest ground in town. "The only thing we worry about when it floods is that there's beer on tap and the pub'...
The latest figures show that migrants are leaving Australia in record numbers. There are those who want to stay, and those who can't wait to leave. The grass is supposed to be greener, but it seems ‘the ...
About 2,000 people are being evacuated from their homes on the New South Wales far north coast, after the same weather system that drenched Queensland moved south. Major flooding is expected in the Tweed...
Mother Nature has delivered a mixed bag of weather this Australia Day, with scorching temperatures in the west, monsoons in the north, flooding in the east and sunny, fine weather in the south. Heavy rai...
Two free-ranging deer shot by hunters in Macon County are the first wild deer in Missouri to test positive for chronic wasting disease, according to the Missouri Department of Conservation. The positive ...
Angela Merkel's predecessor, Gerhard Schröder, was the first German chancellor spared any memory of the Hitler years. That explains why, the story goes, he was the first German leader to view the European...
This got lost yesterday - with everything else that was going on. It happened the first thing of the first day fo the session. *“Intensely Partisan” Cuts Start MN Legislative Session* Minnesota Republi...
The captain of the doomed Italian liner Costa Concordia said he was told by managers to take his ship close in to shore on the night it ran aground and capsized, according to bugged conversations leaked i...
As the population of sharks has depleted, fishermen are turning more and more to Manta Rays - animals unfit to handle the pressure.
At least four people were killed and 74 injured when a fireworks display exploded during a Lunar New Year celebration in central Thailand, officials said on Wednesday (January 25). Local television ...
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*VANCOUVER — Geographic profiler Kim Rossmo told the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry Tuesday that his 1998 bid for a working group to investigate a possible serial killer was shot down in flames by a s...
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Anyone catch Bill Gates on the BBC this morning? Quite an interesting interview here. I note that he was asked to choose "between Mitt Romney and Obama" - not that the BBC have an agenda in play when it c...
Sunflower oil pressed from seeds harvested in a village in the Fukushima nuclear disaster no-go zone had almost no cesium contamination, a government research center has announced. The National Agricultu...
KAWAUCHI, Fukushima -- Authorities in this village, part of which still stands in the no-go zone around the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant, plan to call on all evacuated residents to return ...
Efforts to remove highly radioactive radium from the premises of a supermarket in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward still continue three months after two bottles containing radium 226 were discovered in underground s...
Attacks by the Taliban in southern and eastern Afghanistan have risen sharply in recent months, according to figures released by the U.S.-led coalition, a sign that the allied offensive against the insurge...
Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Six Pakistani soldiers were killed and four others wounded during a militant attack in the northwest tribal region Wednesday, a senior government official said. About 50 milit...
Iran summoned Denmark's ambassador to Tehran to protest a decision by the European Union to impose sanctions on Iran's oil imports, the semiofficial Fars News Agency reported. Iran protested to the ambas...
A magnitude 3.4 earthquake has struck Washington at a depth of 8.9 km (5.5 miles), the quake hit at 10:51:30 UTC Wednesday 25th January 2012 The epicenter was 16 km (10 miles) NNW of Mount St. Helens Volcan...
by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy American Airlines is the source for information that AA Flights 11 (North Tower) and 77 (Pentagon) did not fly on 911. If neither flew on 911, the Bush 'theory' is a...
Source: www.analuisacid.com and La Voz de la Frontera Date: 01.24.2012 Mexico: Police Engage in UFO Chase By Juan Galvan - Mexicali, Baja California "A UFO with white lights, blue and yellow ...
As the Earth's magnetic field begins to calm after several days of intense geomagnetic activity, the NOAA has announced that we experienced the largest solar radiation storm since 2003.
A big landslide has ripped through a village in a remote area of Papua New Guinea, killing at least 40 people and leaving 20 others missing, authorities said Wednesday. The country's National Disaster Of...
A new species of catfish discovered in a river deep in a South American jungle has an ingenious way to avoid being a snack for giant piranhas. Instead of camouflage, its body is covered with bony spines t...
One Texan man sent his small unmanned drone plane up for a spin, hoping to get some beautiful aerial shots of the Dallas suburbs. He ended up unearthing an environmental hazard instead. The man, who is n...
A rare explosion in space on Sunday that has caused a solar radiation storm has led to Delta Air Lines Inc. rerouting some of its flights. Delta, which is based in Atlanta, Georgia, announced on Tuesday t...
Researchers have long theorised that our universe may be one of many. It has always been their aim to prove their existence through observing high energy collisions. Now they hope to prove their existenc...
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Biased BBC - 19 hours ago
David Preiser has already covered this story but I wanted to put in this little post-script. I think you need to listen to the soundtrack below whilst contemplating *Mark Mardell *on Today this morning, eu...
A military judge recommended confinement for a Marine sergeant who pleaded guilty to negligent dereliction of duty in the Haditha assaults that led to the deaths of 24 unarmed Iraqis in 2005. The judge's...
Intriguing: Researchers standing in holes left by wooden posts of a very big later - still Roman - building built on top of the winged structure. The wall foundations of one of the wings runs diagonally a...
Two U.S. helicopters swooped into central Somalia early this morning and rescued two hostages from pirates in a rare raid into the Horn of Africa nation. American Jessica Buchanan, 32, and Dane Poul Hage...
English-born conservative political commentator, former Newt Gingrich press secretary and former child actor Tony Blankley died of stomach cancer on January 7th, 2010, at the age of 63. I'll modify what I w...
The death penalty is being sought against a couple accused of killing their ten-year-old cousin by locking her in a storage bin as punishment for taking a Popsicle without permission. John and Samantha A...
A mass grave found in Dorset contains the bodies of an elite ‘hit squad’ of invading Viking warriors, experts claim. All decapitated and buried alongside their severed heads, the 54 skeletons were discov...
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has blasted the use of a controversial movie portraying American Muslims as extremists to help train New York police officers. The mayor said police chiefs used ‘terrible judgment...
Libya's ramshackle government lost control of a former Gaddafi stronghold today after locals staged an armed uprising. Forces loyal to ousted, and now dead, leader Muammar Gaddafi seized control of Bani ...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Ceram Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 39 km (24.2 miles), the quake hit at 09:03:41 UTC Wednesday 25th January 2012 The epicenter was 188 km (117 miles) North of Ambo...
Three alleged fraudsters have been caught after using the Costa Concordia disaster to try and fake the death of a woman. Police in Hungary arrested the trio after New York lawyer Peter Ronai detected the...
Billy Joel, "Goodnight Saigon"
MONTEREY PARK, Calif. (KABC) -- A suspect armed with a crowbar was shot outside of a Carl's Jr. restaurant in Monterey Park on Monday morning. Authorities say the incident began with the suspect breaking ...
*Sri Lanka by* Aidan Jones China is lending money to Sri Lanka. The USA wants China out of Sri Lanka. India must kick China out of Sri Lanka, says William Avery Firstpost In October 2011, The Economist wr...
Not a single penpusher has been sacked under Ministry of Defence job cuts despite the 'grotesque' axing of hundreds of troops, a damning report reveals today. MPs say it is 'stark and shocking' that no b...
Nathaniel was a director of Manchester United footballer Rio Ferdinand's Live The Dream Foundation which helps disadvantaged youngsters. However he quit the post just five days before his arrest. A high-...
A woman who defied a driving ban on female motorists in Saudi Arabia has died in a car crash. Another was hurt in the crash in the only country in the world where females are banned from getting behind t...
Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey today launches an astonishing attack on the five bishops trying to derail the Government’s £26,000-a-year benefit cap. In an article for the Daily Mail, Lord Ca...
Syria has reportedly agreed to allow monitors from the Arab League to stay for another month - but the mission has been hampered by the withdrawal of the Gulf states. The six Gulf Arab states joined Sau...
A paedophile whose partner is accused of murdering their children has been found hanged in his cell at Strangeways prison. Martin Smith, 46, was discovered by wardens at the Manchester jail. They battled...
Barack Obama has delivered what could be his final State of the Union address to the American people promising to build "an economy to last". In a speech to both houses of Congress, carried live at prime...
As Mitt Romney cruises to his inevitable coronation as the Republican presidential candidate, increasing amounts of attention are being focused on his history at Bain Capital, where he made his fortune. D...
Pulsing sounds made by technology used to monitor fish stocks may affect how baleen whales communicate, even at great distances. Marine biologists working in Massachusetts waters noticed that humpback wh...
Peace talks with the Taliban are just getting started. But one major component of the Afghanistan conflict — the air war — is rapidly winding down on its own. In December, NATO planes flew 133 missions i...
RIVERS and mountains can move given enough time, but they don't normally move half a kilometre every year. Yet that is exactly what is happening to a bizarre group of Antarctic lakes. And the lakes seem t...
What would you do if you found yourself in a strange bed, your workplace had changed, and you discovered your lover no longer existed? A woman named Lerina García claims this is exactly what's happened to...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Northern Italy at a depth of 10.2 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 08:06:35 UTC Wednesday 25th January 2012 The epicenter was 14 km (9 miles) ENE from Parma, Italy No R...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 158.8 km (98.7 miles), the quake hit at 07:33:18 UTC Wednesday 25th January 2012 The epicenter was 111 km (68 miles) Northeast of Kuril'...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 51.9 km (32.3 miles), the quake hit at 07:17:03 UTC Wednesday 25th January 2012 The epicenter was 116 km (72 mil...
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of the South Islands of New Zealand at a depth of 15 km (9.1 miles), the quake hit at 06:02:31 UTC Wednesday 25th January 2012 The epicenter was 16...
The problem with the vaccinebusiness is that it is a business that wants a steady income and their solutionworks as an emergency solution sometimes. The easy problems were solved long ago. Smallpox is ...
This one way of saying thatmalaria is a primate disease that has been with us possibly for millions ofyears. Recent work suggests that we maywell send the mosquito packing and save us all the aggravat...
Obviously malaria is able to hidefrom the immune system and this work is beginning the task of stripping thatprotection away. Any pathway that opensthe parasite to an attack by the immune system will t...
A new pathway in the expressionof malarial proteins has been recognized and could well lead to new effectivetherapies. Since whatever actuallyhappens to the disease, the reality of infected individual...
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Dear readers of Not PC, Peter suffered a herniated disc. He's in a lot of pain, and hasn't been able to update his blog; or do much of anything really. Stay tuned; hopefully he'll be back online soon. In ...
*Google has changed its privacy policy, streamlining it across its multiple services including search, email, video and social networking sites. The main change applies to users who have Google accounts.*...
*Reuters: Environmentalists throwing global warming under the bus* Twenty years ago, Rio de Janeiro organized the Eco [June] 1992 Earth Summitwhich created the *Convention on Biological Diversity* and, mor...
*A voyage to a little South American country has revealed more than 40 species that scientists deem to be new to science.* The three-week project was part of preservation International's ongoing Rapid As...
*A study has suggested that current tropical wood practices are not sustainable and nations should consider the implications of peak timber. The scientists used logging on the Solomon Islands as an examp...
"Alex Jones: I have seen this NDAA and the SOPA bill and all of this wake people up who were asleep like nothing I've ever seen before. I mean, I'll say the response is ten, fifteen times what the Patrio...
*New statistics suggest that native dog breeds such as the English setter are being hard-pressed towards extinction by the mounting esteem of more alien dogs such as huskies and Chihuahuas.* The English ...
"Alex Jones: I have seen this NDAA and the SOPA bill and all of this wake people up who were asleep like nothing I've ever seen before. I mean, I'll say the response is ten, fifteen times what the Patrio...
*Sure is acting like one. * "Bypassing Congress, Obama fills consumer post" January 05, 2012|By Bobby Caina Calvan President Obama, in a *politically provocative move* that *incensed Republican leaders*,...
What does this percentage refer to? 97% That's the percentage of global production of Rare Earth Elements (REEs) controlled by the People's Republic Of China. But even with a virtual monopoly, sales are...
Which Disaster Is Most Worthy Of Our Attention? By the time Friday rolls around, I'm usually feeling a little burnt out. Today is no exception. As I was casting around for things to write about, it seeme...
As usual, the New York Times is "ahead of the pack" on the issue of upward mobility in America. In case you didn't know it already, there's very little upward mobility in America. WASHINGTON — Benjamin F...
Shale gas drilling and production in the United States is ramping up like there's no tomorrow. Natural gas is going for $3.01 per MCF ($MMBTU, Henry Hub future). The average well-head price in 2010 was ...
“Ah, the Iranians!” the politician said, eyes lighting up. ”They make carpets!” And his hand fanned across the air between us, a gesture both subtle and appreciative. It was the winter of 2003, in a chi...
*Yawn.* "Michelle Obama disputes book’s take on her White House role" January 12, 2012|Washington Post, Associated Press WASHINGTON - Michelle Obama is challenging assertions she has forcefully imposed h...
When I was about 15 or 16, I read Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago. The book is a history of the Soviet concentration camp system between 1918 and 1956, based on the testimony of actual prison inmates...
Unlike Greece, Spain and Italy, Hungary does not use the euro single currency, but it is afflicted by similar debt problems. Fears are now growing that Hungary could go bankrupt, prompting it to request ...
The blue plastic envelope is packed with papers: security camera photos, cell phone records, business cards and letters asking for help. "My folder, this is my son," Alfonso Moreno says. The young man le...
I was having a talk with Ken the other day about how so many businesses in his uptown Manhattan neighborhood had closed down and so many others are barely holding on. Here in L.A. discounters and low-pro...
Have you ever heard of the dodo bird? Once upon a time, dodo birds lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. But if you go there today you won't find any because they are extinct. Well, if you...
*And he is being sent to the penalty box? * "Disillusioned with politics, Thomas skips White House WASHINGTON - Boston Bruins goaltender Tim Thomas skipped a White House ceremony with President Obama yest...
Pretty strong speech by the President in my opinion. Judging by instant twitter reaction--no one changed their minds about anything and everyone feels exactly the way they did about the president after the...
*I lost my appetite.* "Obama to ease travel rules for some foreign tourists LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - President Obama sought his piece of Florida’s political spotlight with a high-profile appearance at Wal...
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The Stuxnet virus that last year damaged Iran's nuclear program was likely one of at least five cyber weapons developed on a single platform whose roots trace back to 2007, according to new research from ...
The field of neuroscience evolved so rapidly in the past twenty years that it will pose unprecedented challenges to the legal system in the decades to come, changing the way we understand crime and punish...
The bad economy and slowdown in immigration is shrinking the nation's youthful population for the first time in a generation, according to Census data released today. The number of people under 18 stood ...
An arrogant scientific elite has divorced themselves from common sense, morality, and the rest of the human species in their quest for full spectrum scientific domination. While the vast majority of the p...
To be in good health is a true blessing, and without proper nutrition a foundation for health cannot be built. I found this out the hard way. For several years I experienced severe fatigue daily, along w...
No, this absurd piece is not (intentional) satire. But the “headline could just as well be found at the Onion,” as one of the many exasperated New York Times readers puts it. Obviously any paper, but mos...
If We Have Trouble Delivering Fuel on Land, How Would We Handle a Winter Oil Spill in the Arctic Ocean? Today the Russian tanker Renda, escorted by the United States’ only operating icebreaking vessel, wi...
The year 2011 was the tenth warmest year on record for the globe, but the warmest year on record when a La Niña event was present (Ricky Rood has a discussion of this in his lastest post.) Seven nations a...
In the lead up to another 15% reduction in Germany’s feed-in tariff (the price paid for solar electricity fed into the grid), the German solar industry finished 2011 off with a bang — installing 3,000 meg...
Beware of bubbles of false hope. Right now there is a lot of talk about how the U.S. economy is improving, but it is all a lie. The mainstream media can be very seductive. When you sit down to watch telev...
*How **lewd**. * "Obama shakes up inner circle; Daley resigns; Lew takes over as chief of staff" Globe Staff and Wires, January 10, 2012 WASHINGTON — President Obama yesterday tapped his budget chief, Jac...
Chinese New Year is a dangerous time for pet dogs in Thailand. Traditionally the time of peak demand for dog meat in Vietnam, the dog smugglers of the Mekong work deep into the night shipping thousands of ...
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Eight out of 10 high school graduates go on to university, but that still remains a distant dream for children from low-income families. Although no official government statistics exist, teachers say most...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Rota Region, Northern Mariana Islands at a depth of 117 km (72.7 miles), the quake hit at 04:42:05 UTC Thursday 26th January 2012 The epicenter was 18 km (11 miles...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Dodecanese Islands, Greece at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 04:38:03 UTC Thursday 26th January 2012 The epicenter was 43 km (26.4miles) Southwest ...
Like any American who refused to ever buy into the shortsighted bipartisan corporatist de-industrialization of America by clueless, pie-in-the-sky Wall Street elites making their way blithely between bank...
Private clinics that undertake abortions for profit will be allowed to advertise their services on television and radio for the first time, watchdogs ruled yesterday. The decision last night attracted c...
With Silvio Berlusconi in charge for 17 years, it’s no surprise that men put themselves first. 'How many gears do Italian tanks have? Five – one forward, and four reverse.” It wasn’t until we’d been mar...
Organized crime-related deaths in one Mexican border state during the first nine months of 2011 exceed the number of Afghan civilians killed in roughly the same period in all of war-torn Afghanistan. Acc...
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — The revamped school lunches at Los Angeles Unified School District have won awards, commending them for improving the menu at the second largest school district in the nation. Too bad ...
In the world of economic and social development, lists are easy to come by. The class of leaders gathering in Davos are well aware that ranking nations -- by levels of freedom, ease of doing business, com...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Crete, Greece at a depth of 18.5 km (11.5 miles), the quake hit at 04:25:00 UTC Thursday 26th January 2012 The epicenter was 46 km (28.6miles) Northeast of Pánormos, Gr...
London (CNN) – It’s Friday and many of you out there may already have gone home for the weekend. Some of you may be reading this on your smart phone or handheld computer. But here are some questions for ...
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