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A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck
Guatemala at a depth of 9.6 km (6 miles), the quake hit at 04:19:49 UTC Friday 27th January 2012 The epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) WNW of
Jutiapa, Jutiapa, Guatemala N...
The first time I read
David Korten's most recent book, Agenda For A New Economy, it was for his economic insights. I reread it for more of that-- plus moral instruction. Like this: We humans are living o...
Arab hackers claimed responsibility Wednesday for a series of attacks on prominent Israeli websites, including that of daily newspaper Haaretz. Cyber attacks against Israeli sites have been increasing sinc...
HOUSTON (CBS Houston) — A pet serial killer is on the loose in the Houston area. Seven dogs were found dead, six of them pit bulls, over the Martin Luther King holiday weekend. Three of those pit bulls w...
The Internet is becoming our main source of memory instead of our own brains, a study has concluded. In the age of Google, our minds are adapting so that we are experts at knowing where to find informati...
Davos, Switzerland (CNN) – With the world still shaking from the global economic earthquake, and suffering daily aftershocks from Europe, it is not surprising that the topic at Davos is whether capitalism...
Online shops already have a frightening amount of information at their fingertips - from whether you've purchased from them before, to what sites you've visited before you arrive at their shop, accessible...
It is far too important to make sure the Republican Party does not again make the mistake of –attempting- to replace the Democrat impostor with our own impostor. Conservatives ARE the majority in this part...
Miami, Cities In Texas Also Said To Be Trying This New Way To Be Eye In The Sky. NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — They’re used in war zones for surveillance and military strikes. But are there plans to deploy dr...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 04:19:27 UTC Friday 27th January 2012 The epicenter was 19 km (11.8 miles) N...
The U.S. Postal Service needs to slash 260,000 jobs and end weekend delivery if it is to climb out of its "financially insolvent" condition, Rep. Darrell Issa said. Despite a mandate to avoid deficits, t...
VELIKY NOVGOROD — In this historic city that was once the cradle of Russian democracy, an unprecedented new campaign kicked off over the weekend to install web
cameras in every polling station around the ...
The world's political and business elite will shelter from the chill winds buffeting the global economy and plot a new path for capitalism at the annual Davos forum which begins Wednesday. Some 40 heads ...
I'm really struggling to work out what all the fuss is about over this one. It seems to me to be much ado about nothing. Breaking news: Mitt Romney is very rich. He also gave millions and millions of doll...
Rather than deal with the complexities of U.S. tax law, Americans living overseas are increasingly renouncing their citizenship in order to avoid paying their income taxes. According to National Taxpayer...
So far, during the presidency of Barack Obama, the price of a gallon of gasoline has jumped 83 percent, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. During the same period, the price of ground ...
BEIJING--The Shanghai Maritime Safety Administration plans to expand its aerial patrols to cover areas of dispute between Japan and China, including the Senkaku Islands and the Shirakaba natural gas field...
BEIJING--Eye-catching explosions of fireworks filled the night skies over Beijing to celebrate Chun Jie, or the Chinese New Year, before dawn on Jan. 23, but there was a downside to the picturesque cascad...
BEIJING--It was a prestigious contest involving some of the top technological minds in China, with prizes totaling 2.65 million yuan (about 32 million yen or $400,000) up for grabs. But the occupations o...
A man whose decapitated body was found on a grass verge after a fire in Greater Manchester has been identified. John Grainger, 32, was discovered by firefighters after they had been called to a wooded ar...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Crete, Greece at a depth of 8.9 km (5.5 miles), the quake hit at 01:33:22 UTC Friday 27th January 2012 The epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) North of Iraklion, Crete, Gree...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 38.5 km (23.9 miles), the quake hit at 01:08:34 UTC Friday 27th January 2012 The epicenter was 263 km (163 miles) Eas...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck near the North Coast of Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 30.6 km (19 miles), the quake hit at 00:06:48 UTC Friday 27th January 2012 The epicenter was 296 km (183 miles) ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Seram, Indonesia at a depth of 66.5 km (41.3 miles), the quake hit at 23:04:19 UTC Thursday 26th January 2012 The epicenter was 129 km (80 miles) WNW of Ambon, Moluccas...
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck the Mariana Islands Region at a depth of 313.6 km (194.9 miles), the quake hit at 22:04:06 UTC Thursday 26th January 2012 The epicenter was 244 km (151 miles) WNW of F...
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*CANADIAN LABOUR QUÉBEC:* *RIO TINTO LOCKOUT SOON TO ENTER SECOND MONTH:* In the town of Alma Québec the lockout of employees of Alcan will soon be into its second month. 780 members of the United S...
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wmtc - 2 hours ago
Community meetings, rallies, emergency mobilizations, and a five-hour Council meeting ended with the Peel Regional Council voting not to close 12 publicly-funded daycare centres - yet. The Council voted un...
*Suspensions lifted for Tucson's "Niños Heroes" Wakefield M.S. students (And banned books petition)* *Acoma Pueblo's Simon Ortiz speaks to students today* *By Roberto Rodriguez* *Censored News* *http://w...
By arevamirpal::laprimavera 26 January 2012 When it was someone else's problem (Chernobyl), Japan was telling the truth about the effect of radiation, particularly on children. Here’s Tokyo Brown Tabb...
*"Yosemite HD"* by Project Yosemite "This video is a collaboration between Sheldon Neill and Colin Delehanty. All timelapses were shot on the Canon 5D Mark II with a variety of Canon L and Zeiss CP.2 Len...
Been wondering about that off-the-charts stock market? Not really. (Published on Zerohedge) Biderman Explains The Bullish Market Ponzi Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/26/2012 "All markets trade their ...
*By Quanah Parker Brightman* *United Native Americans,Inc* *Unitednativeamericansinc@gmail.com* *(510)672-7187* SAN FRANCISCO -- The Native American Community, with support from the Occupy Movement ...
*No, that $374,327 isn't in Monopoly money.* *"Now is not this ridiculous, and is not this preposterous? A thorough-paced absurdity -- explain it if you can."* *-- the Dragoons, in Act I of G&S's Patience* ...
A civil court in Munich has blocked a British publisher's plans to print excerpts of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" in Germany later this month. The court ruled Wednesday that British publisher Peter McGee's ...
The commentary below was provided Knoxville, TN educators who prefer (for now) to remain anonymous: In light of the planned action by the State Board of Education (download pdf from state website here com...
“A mere 12.5 million light-years from Earth, irregular dwarf galaxy NGC 4449 lies within the confines of Canes Venatici, the constellation of the Hunting Dogs. About the size of our Milky Way's satellite g...
"What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature." - Voltaire
"I once was a little child who longed for other worlds, but I am no more a child for I have known fear, I have learned to hate, how tragic then is youth which lives with enemies, with gallows ropes. Yet, I ...
Riot Police face off against Occupy Wall Street activists in Oakland, California. November 2011. Source: Noah Berger, Associated Press. State of Emergency Communique #1: "Opening A New Theater of War In T...
Sam: "It's like in the great stories Mr. Frodo, the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn't want to know the end because how could the end be happy? How ...
[image: Fertilizers and Ocean Dead Zones. unep.org / source: World Bank, World Development Indicators] Industrially produced nutrient fertilizers (nitrogen, phosphorus) are essential to global food secu...
[image: Elephant at 'Elephants and Friends', Kanchanaburi, Thailand. Lauren Hayhurst via orientaltales.com]26 January 2012 (AP) – Thailand's revered national symbol, the elephant, may face a new threat o...
If you try to find a recent issue of Inside ALEC - you can't. Our good friends at the American Legislative Exchange Council - have stepped up their secrecy - they are hiding everything now. This was the...
Rosemère, Quebec, Canada. Thanks for stopping by.
Poland on Thursday signed an international copyright agreement, sparking more demonstrations by Internet users who have protested for days over fear it will lead to online censorship. After the signing,...
*"Edward Bernays: Propaganda And Power"* by Administrator “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Tho...
“Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the t...
*“Best Places in the World to Retire, Or Escape, To”* by Daily Reckoning Contributor "If you had $20,000 a month to retire on — you could live lavishly pretty much anywhere on the planet. But we’re intere...
The spiders possess a unique vision that allows them to quickly capture prey.
The weekly Google+ Space Hangout aired live once again today, discussing everything from angry solar storms to even angrier black holes!
The weekly Google+ Space Hangout aired live once again today, discussing everything from angry solar storms to even angrier black holes!
Chemists have found a chemical that can absorb radioactive gas.
*And now they want to tar Ron Paul supporters? * "‘Anonymous’ hackers target US security think tank" December 25, 2011|Cassandra Vinograd and Ramit Plushnick-Masti, Associated Press The loose-knit hackin...
I forget which MSNBC wag said it the other day, but someone did mention that Gingrich hasn't been using dog whistles in up-country South Carolina and the Florida Panhandle, he's using a *fog* whistle. And...
The number of known multi-planetary star systems has just tripled.
Students who were suspended from Wakefield Middle School in Tucson for walking out earlier this week spent the day attending MAS classes at the UA. So did a suspended Pueblo H.S. student. In the second c...
Submarine vents provide a substrate for life well after the vents themselves become inactive.
A panel suggests towns volunteer to host dumps that would last for generations.
Oglala VP: Continued Resistance to Keystone XL Pipeline Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
*"Persian Gulf Option One: A False Flag"* by Patrick Henningsen “Remember the Maine!”, was the cry back in 1898 from William Randolph Heart’s New York Journal – a forerunner the modern Murdoch press. Then...
The tallbloke climate site appears to have warmly (and all too quickly) embraced the "Unified Climate Theory" of Nikolov and Zeller. Here I offer my physical understanding, and my reasons for rejecting tha...
Looking over some of the most recent entries on the *ThinkProgress Security*blog, posts by neoconservative "Israel-Firster" witch-hunt targets Ali Gharib and Eli Clifton, along with associate Ben Armbrust...
*"Obama's Fairness Doctrine"* by Bill Bonner “The US is going to hell,” we told the group at the Watergate last night. “You mean the economy is really going to get worse, huh?” “No, I mean it’s going to ...
A seven- month- old Libyan baby died in an Athens Children's hospital on Friday in the first fatality linked to the H1N1 flu virus of the new year in Greece, local authorities reported. According to loc...
A number of overseas Israeli diplomatic missions had security scares Monday when they received envelopes containing a suspicious white powder, raising fears of an anthrax attack. While the Foreign Ministr...
Fighters return to their old frontline after war crimes suspects released and four soldiers killed in attack on local garrison. A powerful sense of deja vu grips the men of Libya's national guard as they ...
Three white teens have been charged with race hate crimes after allegedly tying a noose around the neck of a black classmate and calling him 'n*****'. The trio, reportedly annoyed with the boy's relation...
A 5 - 10 minute read that will make you smile from CMD. *Spoof Program Handed Out at Walker's State of the State Address* Submitted by Sara Jerving on January 26, 2012 - 10:51am Well-dressed women in suit...
Working excessive overtime without a single day off during the week, living together in crowded dormitories and standing so long that their legs swell and they can hardly walk after a 24-hour shift. Thes...
There I've said it. I'm just too damned dumb to accept atheism. And, the way I see it, so are you even if you won't admit it... yet. It's the whole faith thing that stops me in my tracks. What is ...
A Dutch citizen convicted of killing a Peruvian student in a fit of rage is suffering from deteriorating health after being transferred to a high security prison, it has been revealed. Joran van der Sloo...
A Special Forces soldier has been jailed after being accused of using an electric dog collar to punish two small children. Michael Lee Mitchell is also accused of torturing the girls by making them carry...
Altai in southern Siberia sits right at the centre of Russia. But the tiny, mountainous republic has a claim to fame unknown until now - Native Americans can trace their origins to the remote region. DNA...
Rail bosses were accused of giving its workforce a 'bribe not to strike' as it emerged staff could earn up to £2,500 for working during the Olympic games. In what was described by union bosses as a 'trul...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Mindanao, Philippines at a depth of 172 km (106.6 miles), the quake hit at 15:47:21 UTC Thursday 26th January 2012 The epicenter was 27 km (16.7 miles) Northeast of Ma...
After the successful 24 hours of virtual reality – Al Gore's online project in Fall 2011 that was watched by dozens of people in the whole world, mostly by the readers of WUWT, the world's most followed ...
Britain and the United States have dropped down a league table which rates the freedom of the press across the world, it emerged today. The UK’s slide from 19th to 28th place is partly blamed on fallout f...
Iran has indicated it is ready to revive talks with the West as Tehran cedes ground in the face of toughened sanctions. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has insisted international pressure will not force Ir...
A teacher was able to film himself abusing young girls in his classroom because school bosses failed to act on his increasingly sexual behaviour, a damning report concluded today. Nigel Leat, 51, was des...
*The Adelsons: bad news for America* What everyone already knows is that Sheldon Adelson and his wife are financing Newt Gingrich's bid for the White House and that he's an aggressively anti-Palestinian Z...
Two men are being questioned on suspicion of murder after a decapitated body was found on a grass verge following a fire in Greater Manchester. Emergency crews were called to the wooded area near Stockpor...
A Church of England vicar has been jailed for two-and-a-half years after carrying out sham weddings. The Rev Canon Dr John Magumba helped with 28 bogus marriages. He also stole more than £8,000 from chu...
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Buckdog - 11 hours ago
*Canada's PM Harper spoke to delegates at the elitist Davos conference in Switzerland today. Here are a couple of key points that he DID NOT make in his speech: 1) When the free-market tanked due to cap...
The Vatican was shaken by a corruption scandal Thursday after an Italian television investigation said a former top official had been transferred against his will after complaining about irregularities in...
Yesterday I was at the gym watching on closed caption the story of Apple's cash problems. Seems they have almost a hundred billion bucks (more than most European countries) that they don't know what do wi...
*Website for this image** * The old Google is no more and *youtube is no more** * "When you search for [young babysitter] or other keywords like it, the majority of the results, like 90%, are links to porn...
Several people have died after being tortured by militias in Libyan detention centres, human rights group Amnesty International has said. It claimed to have seen patients in Tripoli, Misrata and Gheryan w...
*THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 2012* *It’s a somewhat hard story to tell:* We’re not satisfied with Chapter 6 at our companion site, How He Got There. (To read Chapter 6, just click here.) We’ll continue to tink...
Sao Paulo, Brazil (CNN) -- Brazilian rescue workers dug through rubble in search of survivors Thursday morning, hours after three buildings collapsed in the historic center of Rio de Janeiro, Mayor Eduard...
The Center for America is Minnesota's version of the Heartland/Heritage/AFP crap. From their webpage Center of the American Experiment is a nonpartisan, tax-exempt, public policy and educational instituti...
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck the Scotia Sea at a depth of 12.1 km (7.5 miles), the quake hit at 15:52:53 UTC Thursday 26th January 2012 The epicenter was 314 km (195 miles) West of Coronation Islan...
Want to bet these “low” levels of ionizing radiation contribute directly tothese diseases? DNA analysis of people with autism finds microdeletions of DNA. No clearidea why. http://cirge.stanford.edu/do...
posted by laura k at
wmtc - 12 hours ago
Why you always have to ask, who is sponsoring this exhibit/ad/study/media. And why tax dollars should support the arts, humanities and sciences: because if we don't, they will. (Emphasis added.) The Canad...
When injected into an engine, cryogenic air creates high-pressure gas that drives the pistons.
Moon base and prize money top Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich's to-do list for space exploration.
Moderate levels of exercise helps supervisors minimize abusive behavior toward employees, research finds.
A warplane cloaked with such materials could become invisible in all directions to radar microwaves.
Few artists embody "space music" quite as well as DJ Food AKA Strictly Kev.
President Obama will ignore an order by an Atlanta judge to appear in court Thursday for a hearing in a case challenging his qualifications under the Constitution to be president. According to the White H...
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard clung to her bodyguard as she was dragged to safety through a crowd of angry protesters in Canberra today. Riot police formed a shield around the prime minister as...
posted by laura k at
wmtc - 12 hours ago
If only the Harper GovernmentTM weren't determined to waste our tax dollars on prison-building and useless mandatory sentencing, while telling us we can't afford to maintain decent spending levels for univ...
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Biased BBC - 12 hours ago
Tonight Question Time comes from Plymouth. David Dimbleby is joined by Conservative MP Liz Truss, Lib-Dem Foreign Office Minister Jeremy Browne, Labour's David Lammy, ex Socialist Workers Party member Ma...
I am getting into a rhythm with my 365. Feel free to link up any shots you have posted from the last week. January 20th- My daughter colored on her foot with pen, purple marker and decided M&Ms went betwe...
*THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 2012* *Until you see fact-checking done:* Fact-checking seems like a great idea—until you see fact-checking done. Many people have pounded Politifact for this fact-check of Obama’s...
see my post from yesterday for more details Washington Post: Philippines may allow greater U.S. military presence in reaction to China’s rise http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/philippi...
GOOD ADVICE from *CalgaryGrit:* *"Advice from South of the Border"*. How the Liberals can learn from Obama — *if only the back-room wizards would pay attention*. I sure hope that the party chimps that clus...
From Common Dreams and the US TREASURY!!!!
YEARS from Bartholomäus Traubeck on Vimeo. Thanks to Captain Leif for pointing out this amazing and delightful music developed from reading tree rings, as described in the following Treehuggerarticle: As...
Like QE1 and QE2 this will do nothing for the average individual. The 99 percent if I may. QE is for big banks to wheel and deal. To speculate. To drive prices of commodities up. To extract money from the m...
* First they came for the teachers. See below:* *TennesseeState Board of Education Agenda January 27, 2012 Final Reading Item: IV. G. * *LicenseDenial, Suspension, and Revocation Procedure Policy * *TheBa...
A new security machine scans bottles to determine if the contents are safe to take on the plane.
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CENSORED NEWS - 14 hours ago
Louise Benally during Salt River Project protest, speaking out against the coal fired Navajo Generating Station. Photo: Resist ALECBy Brenda Norrell Censored News On First Voices Indigenous Radio today, WBA...
*THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 2012 * *Part 2—Where does Dr. Luntz find them:* Last night, we liberals were given a good warm feeling at the start of the Maddow Show. Results were in concerning the State of the U...
David Cameron has described European Union plans for a financial transactions tax as "madness" in a speech in Davos. The Prime Minister called for a target for reducing Brussels red tape that he said wa...
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CENSORED NEWS - 15 hours ago
*TOK’NI:KON THAT’S IT! * *Mohawk Nation News* *http://www.mohawknationnews.com/* MNN. Jan. 25, 2012. That dance between Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his top Indian CEO, Shawn Atleo, at the ...
In the 2010 cycle Blue America backed Sheila Dow-Ford against reactionary Pennsylvania Blue Dog Tim Holden. 2010 was a conservative year and Holden won. Since then, he has voted (on crucial roll calls) wi...
The Hong Kong government said on Thursday a dead goose, found in the northwest part of the city, has been confirmed to be H5N1 positive after laboratory testing. The goose body was found and collected at...
LA Times' latest article on drones raises the spectre of "robot weapons" in relations to the X-47B, Northrup Grumman's new drone prototype with the ability to fly solo - part of an ongoing force restructu...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Guatemala at a depth of 77.9 km (48.4 miles), the quake hit at 13:25:31 UTC Thursday 26th January 2012 The epicenter was 14 km (9 miles) SSE of Santa Lucía Cotzumalguap...
A scientist researching a potentially highly lethal airborne version of the H5N1 bird flu virus said on Wednesday he must be allowed to pursue his studies if deadly pandemics are to be prevented. Despite...
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) wants to privatize government services. In ALEC's sick little mind the only thing they are worried about is corporate profits and not interested in the goo...
Inside Fukushima Exclusion Zone, Japan (CNN) -- When you stand in the center of Japan's exclusion zone, there is absolute silence. The exclusion zone is the 20-kilometer (12-mile) radius around the cripp...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 12:22:08 UTC Thursday 26th January 2012 The epicenter was 114 km (71 miles) ESE...
In what authorities believe is one of the worst fish-kills in recent times, a lot of Curiass is being washed up on the Guyanese and Surinamese foreshores, apparently due to murky Atlantic Ocean waters and...
Wildlife protection officials in New Zealand shot 33 whales, after the creatures beached themselves and could not be saved. The long-finned pilot whales were among 99 that initially stranded themselves o...
Some places saw the ground rise by ten inches, experts report. Yellowstone National Park's supervolcano just took a deep "breath," causing miles of ground to rise dramatically, scientists report. The sim...
Two days ago, I found an article on the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) which made me feel good - because the article was pretty good. Critics: Politics, business too cozy in group that inclu...
Yeah...this makes perfect sense... ~American Zombie ...because the arena kind of looks like a toilet anyway?~Louisiana seafood marketing group says it may buy naming rights to New Orleans Arena. Ohhhhhhh......
Fiji has declared a state of disaster over flooding and landslides that have killed at least six people and displaced thousands. Officials say that at least 3,500 people are now in temporary shelters. Th...
Libyan militias are holding thousands of people in secret detention centres, while the interim government struggles to assert authority, the UN has heard. The Security Council was told recent violence in...
Jan 26 (Reuters) - Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill said on Thursday a military mutiny in the Pacific Islands nation was over and the government had regained full control of its military barra...
Medan, North Sumatra, a team from Padang Sidempuan Health Agency will conduct a thorough examination on a 1-year-old girl, PA, suspected of being infected with bird flu. The baby’s mother, Suriani, said t...
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Schools Matter - 16 hours ago
*"I tell you, my friends, the trouble with this whole country is that so many are selfish! Here's a hundred and twenty million people, with ninety-five per cent of 'em only thinking of self, instead of tur...
TOKYO (AP) -- The Japanese government's worst-case scenario at the height of the nuclear crisis last year warned that tens of millions of people, including Tokyo residents, might need to leave their homes...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck near the West Coast of Colombia at a depth of 22.3 km (13.9 miles), the quake hit at 11:50:32 UTC Thursday 26th January 2012 The epicenter was 82 km (50 miles) West of...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Minahasa, Sulawesi, Indonesia at a depth of 136.1 km (84.6 miles), the quake hit at 11:44:55 UTC Thursday 26th January 2012 The epicenter was 171 km (106 miles) Northe...
Australian prime minister Julia Gillard was visibly shaken as she was bundled out of a restaurant by secret service agents after it was surrounded by around 200 protesters who banged on windows. At one p...
By: Duane Craig Who says protecting the environment doesn't create any jobs? It does in West Virginia where Arch Coal Inc. will fork over $2 million that will hire "a lead land-use attorney, two supportin...
An Iraqi policeman and nine relatives were killed as they slept when militants bombed their home south of Baghdad on Thursday, police sources said, in the latest attack on local officials and security for...
An Iranian military plane crashed in the early hours of Thursday near the Gulf coast, the semi-official Fars news agency reported, saying no reason had yet been given for the incident. "An F-14 crashed th...
Mutiny leader in Papua New Guinea demands the governor-general reinstate former Prime Minister Michael Somare. Source
Egyptian youths camped out on Thursday in Cairo's Tahrir Square and vowed to stay put until the army hands power to civilians, a day after a mass demonstration marked a year since an uprising which brough...
Arab League observers in Syria, depleted by a pullout of their Gulf Arab colleagues, resumed work on Thursday for the first time in a week during which a bloody struggle between President Bashar al-Assad ...
China on Thursday criticized the European Union for banning oil imports from Iran, Beijing's third biggest crude supplier and a major trading partner. The European Union agreed on Monday to ban imports o...
The International Monetary Fund warned on Wednesday that global crude prices could rise as much as 30 percent if Iran halts oil exports as a result of U.S. and European Union sanctions. If Iran halts exp...
A protester gestures to police as they shoot tear gas during a standoff after a mourning procession on the third day after the death of 14-year-old Yassin Al-Afsoor in the village of Mameer January 24, 20...
HSBC Holdings PLC is under investigation by a U.S. Senate panel in a money-laundering inquiry, the latest step in a long-running U.S. effort to halt shadowy money flows through global banks, according to ...
Greece resumes tortuous negotiations on a debt swap with private creditors in Athens on Thursday, with all eyes on the European Central Bank after IMF chief Christine Lagarde said public sector holders of...
It's been nearly 30 years since British and Argentinian troops fought over the Falkland Islands, but politicians from both countries are ratcheting up their rhetoric over the British-controlled territory....
German Chancellor Angela Merkel launched an outspoken defense of the European project on Wednesday, but warned that the bloc's richest nation would not make bailout promises to solve the eurozone crisis ...
Three people were killed and at least 30 injured after an explosion near the compound of a governor in the city of Lashkar Gah in Afghanistan Thursday, authorities said. The area was being protected by B...
A rebel commander said Thursday that he had seized control of the military in Papua New Guinea, exacerbating the political instability in the country. The claims by the rebellion leader, Yaura Sasa, talli...
A Red Crescent official and a priest were among the two dozen reported killed Wednesday in Syria, where a pro-government militia stormed neighborhoods in a city already notorious for an earlier revolt. T...
The founder of a French company that makes breast implants linked to a health scare was arrested Thursday, the French national police said. Poly Implant Prostheses (PIP) founder Jean-Claude Mas was detaine...
Detainees in Misrata, Libya "are being tortured and denied urgent medical care," says aid agency Doctors Without Borders.
Heavy rain and powerful winds spawned by tornadoes have swept across Texas, forcing drivers to abandon cars on flooded roads, knocking out power to thousands and prompting water rescue efforts. The rainf...
Angela Merkel has called Europe the world’s economic ‘headache’ and demanded closer ties between eurozone nations to avoid financial meltdown. The German leader told the World Economic Forum in Davos that...
A woman who was overwhelmed while babysitting claimed that the month-old baby was evil and was arrested after allegedly pouring cleaning powder down the child's throat. Mabinty Williams, 33, was arrested...
It may have been snack time at this Connecticut school, but there were a different kind of munchies in mind when a boy displayed nine bags of pot. Police in the town of Meriden were called to Hanover Elem...
Police in Graham, Texas are investigating the disappearance of 20-year-old pregnant mother who disappeared last month. Candice Shields was last seen the night of December 10 at the home she shares with h...
Sixty people are missing and feared dead after an entire village was wiped out in a landslide in the Commonwealth country of Papua New Guinea. The flimsy village homes made of palm fronds and sticks were ...
This rare all-white Chinstrap penguin stands out against his friends as he takes his morning waddle around Antarctica. The unusual bird was photographed by naturalist David Stephens during a nature exped...
Eurocrats were last night accused of making a ‘massive power grab’ which would allow Brussels to dictate laws to Britain and decide punishments in our courts. The European Commission has drawn up a docum...
"Be near me when the sensuous frame Is rack'd with pangs that conquer trust; And Time, a maniac scattering dust, And Life, a Fury slinging flame. Be near me when my faith is dry, And men the flies of latte...
26-foot Queen Bee disappeared in Nantucket in 2008 after a storm. In 2008, Scott Douglas and his brother-in-law Rich St. Pierre were thrown overboard from their fishing boat off the coast of Nantucket duri...
A charred body has been recovered from a car which was found burning in a field near a remote village. Police investigating the grim discovery near the small village of Aston Cantlow, near Alcester, Warw...
Roof of the recently opened ice rink in Námestovo, Slovakia couldn't support the weight of snow and collapsed. Young hockey players were training on the ice just before the accident together with former ...
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer came to greet President Barack Obama upon his arrival in Phoenix today and was given a critique - of her book. The two leaders could be seen engaged in an intense conversation ...
Senior bishops have been ordered to cut the lavish costs of running their palaces and mansions by more than a quarter. The spending cap, confirmed yesterday by Church of England officials, will be lowere...
Now that you've finished your evil post-graduate degree it's time to find your first evil home.
Researchers in the U.S. have, for the first time, cloaked a three-dimensional object standing in free space - bringing the idea of an 'invisibility cloak' a step closer. The researchers used a hi-tech te...
European human rights laws undermine the fight against terrorism and put British lives at risk, David Cameron warned yesterday. He said a string of bizarre rulings on terror and immigration cases had ‘di...
A paedophile whose partner smothered their two children to death in a Spanish hotel has been found hanged in his jail cell. Martin Smith, 46, was discovered by prison officers shortly after eating his ev...
A Florida man has been arrested for allegedly hacking to death a Connecticut man and eating the victim's eye and part of his brain. Police in Lynn Haven, Florida, said Wednesday that 35-year-old Tyree Li...
Facebook's Timeline - a new look for people's Profile pages which exposes their entire history on the site - will become mandatory for all users. The 'new look' has been voluntary up until now. From now,...
A bank robber in Brazil spent very little time on the run from police - because he shot himself in the foot during the break-in. The incident was caught on a security camera during the bank job in a smal...
At least 11 people are feared dead or injured after one building collapsed and another partially crumpled in Rio de Janeiro following an explosion. The blast is believed to have been caused by a natural ...
As Port Huron turns 50:Peace and justice activistTom Hayden on Rag RadioBy Thorne Webb Dreyer / The Rag Blog / January 26, 2012Peace and justice activist Tom Hayden, a driving force in SDS and the Sixties Ne...
Japan reported its first annual trade deficit since 1980 as it imported expensive energy to offset shortfalls caused by the devastating tsunami and manufacturers shifted production overseas to avoid the d...
A vast army of heavily armed criminals has embedded itself in every major city in the United States. In fact, nearly every community in America is now affected by these thugs. Drugs, theft and brutal viol...
*The parents of two of three boys who were murdered in 1993 in the US have said they are disappointed that a documentary about the killings has been nominated for an Oscar. The trio spent 18 years in pri...
Fort Worth officials are gearing up to rewrite the city’s noise ordinance to make it more specific and ease enforcement. During a public meeting at the Botanic Garden Center Monday night, Fort Worth’s de...
"We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves." - Alice Bloch
According to a new and yet unconfirmed report, India bought oil from Iran using gold. India certainly has the gold resources to fund the oil, while Iran is under pressure by the West, due the continuation...
Since “No Child Left Behind” was passed 10 years ago, states have been required to ramp up the amount of data they collect about individual students, teachers, and schools. Personal information, including...
A Dallas drone hobbyist was flying his rig around one bright Texan afternoon, scouting the skies, when he hovered across something perturbing: an enormous, oozing river of blood behind a meatpacking plant...
"A Tribute to Dogs" by George Graham Vest "George Graham Vest (1830-1904) served as U.S. Senator from Missouri from 1879 to 1903 and became one of the leading orators and debaters of his time. This delig...
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (CNN) – For the past three years I have taken part in what is known within a group of 50 business and policy makers here in Riyadh as the “sand and snow expedition.” It starts from t...
Anti-Jewish feeling is "significantly" entrenched in German society, according to a report by experts appointed by the Bundestag (parliament). They say the internet has played a key role in spreading Holo...
Many in the West would like to see Iran punished for its nuclear ambitions. Tehran's residents would like those people to take a glimpse into their lives. The European Union announced Monday it is bannin...
One in four internet users are illegally accessing music through unauthorised sites every month, according to a new report. Despite the growth in popularity and availability of legal digital music servi...
O.K., Mr. President, here’s the plan. Sometime in the next few months you order the Department of Defense to destroy Iran’s nuclear capacity. Yes, I know it’s an election year, and some people will say th...
ST. LOUIS (AP) - A crude new method of making methamphetamine poses a risk even to Americans who never get anywhere near the drug: It is filling hospitals with thousands of uninsured burn patients requiri...
Economic and political elites meeting this week at the Swiss resort of Davos will be asked to urgently find ways to reform a capitalist system that has been described as "outdated and crumbling." "We hav...
Every weekday, Juan Andres drives across the U.S.-Mexico border from his home in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, to the University of Texas at El Paso. The three-and-a-half-mile commute takes him a world away from...
Geneva, Switzerland (CNN) -- The dragon is the Chinese counterpart of the phoenix rising from the ashes of destruction. And as we bring in the Year of the Dragon Monday, the most important of the years i...
Britain has sunk deeper into debt. Three years after bubble burst, the UK has barely begun to tackle the crushing burden left by Gordon Brown. The contrast with the United States is frankly shocking. Th...
When an ill-fated Russian Mars probe fell to Earth over the weekend, the spacecraft's untimely demise set off a flurry of conflicting media reports and conspiracy theories. Russia's Phobos-Grunt space pr...
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Palestinian officials say that they will resume their effort to gain U.N. membership, and that they could launch a nonviolent third intifada because they see no chance of reaching a ...
When Patty Tegeler looks out the window of her home overlooking the Appalachian Mountains in southwestern Virginia, she sees trouble on the horizon. "In an instant, anything can happen," she told Reuters...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Mariana Islands Region at a depth of 300.4 km (186.7 miles), the quake hit at 07:03:08 UTC Thursday 26th January 2012 The epicenter was 223 km (138 miles) WNW of F...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the Dodecanese Islands, Greece at a depth of 11.4 km (7.1 miles), the quake hit at 06:18:58 UTC Thursday 26th January 2012 The epicenter was 82 km (50 miles) North of ...
This is a new experimentalprotocol that will be certainly applied to other variations on the sameproblem. It allows us to see the effectof a test protein in real time which is a rather uncommon occurr...
Iron deficiency is a worldwideproblem and this protocol appears to be helpful in that large iron complexesare absorbed as well as the more common single atom form. Hopefully this is all bioavailable b...
The last story here is the bigone. It is the first case which turnedout to be internally verifiable and later confirmed fully. And unless someone can show me that it wascreated out of whole cloth, it ...
I do not want to revisit the longongoing squabble regarding the quality of the data used which has been shown tobe a lot less convincing than one would desire. At least we are now getting the datadesc...
*O2 has apologized for a technical problem which caused users' phone numbers to be disclosed when using its mobile data.* The Information Commissioner's Office had said that it would speak to O2 to bette...
*Typical weather change this century poses both risks and opportunities, according to the first inclusive government appraisal of its type. *The investigate was carried out over the past three years and ...
“When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front-row seat.” - George Carlin
"Now everything’s a little upside down, as a matter of fact the wheels have stopped What’s good is bad, what’s bad is good, you’ll find out when you reach the top." – Bob Dylan, Idiot Wind. "No rays fro...
*Researchers have cloaked a three-dimensional object, making it imperceptible from all angles, for the first time. preceding efforts that have made 3-D objects disappear have relied upon a carpet cloak i...
THE BONES OF WAR, indeed. That's the article title at *WEB URBANIST:* *"The Bones of War: Haunting Skeleton Photography"* When Francois Robert unexpectedly acquired a human skeleton in the 1990s, he k...
Have you noticed that this primary season (considering the behavior of the Rethugs mainly) has turned out to be almost the New Age of Expressionism? Seems that people are not actually voting for policies t...
A prisoner who has escaped before is on the run again after two officers were threatened at gunpoint and forced to release him as he was being taken to hospital. Andrew Farndon, 26, was being transporte...
A Renfrew, Ont., mother says her seven-year-old son's allergy to nuts was used to bully him at school, an incident she says took a month for him to get over. Kerri McDonald said her son, Nevin Prevost, c...
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 ...
By L. Randall Wray OK there really were only two themes inthe comments: first a question about sovereign vs nonsovereignissuers of IOUs and second questions about the MMT position oninequality. The first...
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 ...
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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 cr...
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...
*We're not talking about Team 1, Team 2, Team 3, Team 4, Team 5, Team 7, Team 8, Team 9, or Team 10...we're talking TEAM 6!!!!!!* MYTHICAL, SUPER-SECRET BUT YET FAMED AND LEGENDARY TEAM 6, who "got Bin L...
[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...
As state legislatures purchased with unlimited corporate money continue to chop higher education funding, public colleges and universities become more susceptible to the Kochheads:
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...
Using some of those Harvard econometrics from Raj Chetty, Obama precedes the ridiculous "escape from poverty" contention with this emerging statisti-meme: *We know a good teacher can increase the lifetime...
*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...
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...
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...
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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...
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A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Guatemala at a depth of 9.6 km (6 miles), the quake hit at 04:19:49 UTC Friday 27th January 2012 The epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) WNW of Jutiapa, Jutiapa, Guatemala N...
The first time I read David Korten's most recent book, Agenda For A New Economy, it was for his economic insights. I reread it for more of that-- plus moral instruction. Like this: We humans are living o...
Arab hackers claimed responsibility Wednesday for a series of attacks on prominent Israeli websites, including that of daily newspaper Haaretz. Cyber attacks against Israeli sites have been increasing sinc...
HOUSTON (CBS Houston) — A pet serial killer is on the loose in the Houston area. Seven dogs were found dead, six of them pit bulls, over the Martin Luther King holiday weekend. Three of those pit bulls w...
Davos, Switzerland (CNN) – With the world still shaking from the global economic earthquake, and suffering daily aftershocks from Europe, it is not surprising that the topic at Davos is whether capitalism...
Online shops already have a frightening amount of information at their fingertips - from whether you've purchased from them before, to what sites you've visited before you arrive at their shop, accessible...
Miami, Cities In Texas Also Said To Be Trying This New Way To Be Eye In The Sky. NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — They’re used in war zones for surveillance and military strikes. But are there plans to deploy dr...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 04:19:27 UTC Friday 27th January 2012 The epicenter was 19 km (11.8 miles) N...
The U.S. Postal Service needs to slash 260,000 jobs and end weekend delivery if it is to climb out of its "financially insolvent" condition, Rep. Darrell Issa said. Despite a mandate to avoid deficits, t...
VELIKY NOVGOROD — In this historic city that was once the cradle of Russian democracy, an unprecedented new campaign kicked off over the weekend to install web cameras in every polling station around the ...
The world's political and business elite will shelter from the chill winds buffeting the global economy and plot a new path for capitalism at the annual Davos forum which begins Wednesday. Some 40 heads ...
I'm really struggling to work out what all the fuss is about over this one. It seems to me to be much ado about nothing. Breaking news: Mitt Romney is very rich. He also gave millions and millions of doll...
So far, during the presidency of Barack Obama, the price of a gallon of gasoline has jumped 83 percent, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. During the same period, the price of ground ...
posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoIn the 2010 cycle Blue America backed Sheila Dow-Ford against reactionary Pennsylvania Blue Dog Tim Holden. 2010 was a conservative year and Holden won. Since then, he has voted (on crucial roll calls) wi...
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