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*This may not be quite the winter storm Vivaldi imagined, but we'll be hearing it in more traditional form in a moment.* *by Ken* We began our exploration of storms imagined in music with the orchestral ...
"Often having what you want is a function of letting go of what you have. Odd, huh, the stuff people cling to?" “If you know what I mean.” The Universe "Thoughts become things... choose the good ones...
"About 40,000 light-years across, pretty, irregular galaxy NGC 3239 lies near the center of this lovely field of galaxies in the galaxy rich constellation Leo. At a distance of only 25 million light-years ...
In the shadow of the Fukushima nuclear plant, one man's quiet defiance echoes through the contaminated, empty streets of Tomioka, Japan. Tomioka, 10 miles (16 kilometers) away from the disaster, is insid...
"No files on pardoned Miss. killers; Men were among 198 helped by outgoing Barbour" by Holbrook Mohr | Associated Press, January 26, 2012 JACKSON, Miss. - Pardon *files are missing or do not exist* for f...
*Enjoy!* "Pa. carjack hoax mother gets 8 years in jail" Associated Press, January 27, 2012 PHILADELPHIA - The in-vitro treatments. The suburban house. The lavish trips and dinners out.
None of it was ...
*Anonymous hacked e-mails reveal global security spies' paranoia over Indian movements, and De Occupy movement* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com The files of a global sec...
The government in Washington is a failed terrorist state. It can no longer manage American public opinion, its violations of international law are resented by many nations, and it has failed to psychologic...
*FLASHBACK*: "Calif. prison psychologist accused of faking rape" by Don Thompson Associated Press / December 9, 2011 SACRAMENTO, Calif.—She split her own lip with a pin, scraped her knuckles with sandpap...
*The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King are among those at the head of the marchers crossing the Alabama River on Mar. 21, 1965, early in the five-day march from Selma to Montgomery, Al...
*HUMOUR:* *MOTIVATION ?:*
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*"Intergenerational tension has yet to erupt into open warfare in Canada, but politicians are keenly aware of the dangers of segmenting the electorate into warring age cohorts. Mention the name Solange ...
*Press Release:* Anonymous Hacked Documents Reveal Law Enforcement Spied on Occupy and Shared Information with Private Intelligence Company, STRATFOR FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 26, 2012 Contact Deep Gre...
R. Carlos Nakai & Nawang Khechog, "Wisdom" • "What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass ...
*"10 Commandments for a Good Life"* by Marc "A good life is when you assume nothing, do more, need less, smile often and realize how fortunate you are right now. It’s about the simple pleasures that make...
*Will I get in trouble if I ask "Who Made Who?"* "Details of lab-made bird flu won’t be revealed" December 21, 2011|Lauran Neergaard, AP Medical Writer The *U.S. government paid scientists to figure out h...
"This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining t...
An article in the Boston Globe announced the publication of new guidelines from the Obama Administration to manage and protect the nations federally-owned forest resources. Absurdly, it is illustrated wi...
*The first item is a photograph in today's printed edition of my Boston Globe*: "HONORARY FIREFIGHTER -- The Indiana House of Representatives made Brandon Vinson, a 7-year-old with cystic fibrosis, an hon...
*It's all the Boston Globe gave me to work with. * "3 Utah children home after icy plunge" Associated Press, January 03, 2012 SALT LAKE CITY - Three children trapped in an upturned car after it skidded in...
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"I love America more than any other country in this world; and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually." ~ James Baldwin
It takes a hawk in doves' clothing to kill the doves.
Did you know Paul Krugman thinks Noot has tooted his last toot? I am not so sure (and most of the commenters he's engendered don't either). The amount of money being spent in Florida ensures that it will a...
*"Tax Laws, Corruption and Other Reasons to Expatriate"* by Joel Bowman "Here’s a meaningless abstraction for you, Fellow Reckoner. You ready? US GDP grew at an annualized rate of 1.7% for 2011. Now, what...
*"Best Places in the World to Retire (Or Escape To), Part II"* by Daily Reckoning Contributor "In the States today, most Americans are on the verge of retiring are much more likely to talk about their fea...
Corporate Tax Freedom Day now arrives on Feb 1 next week as corporate income tax has been slashed to 8% of all government revenue at a cost of $13 billion a year. Notice that invisible hand of the marke...
I was shocked and dismayed to read Brian Rathbun's characterization of mein a recent Canard as a "robot" who has only been posing as a Battlestar Galacticaaddict as part of my cover (!) : The academic an...
Last year here at DWT we asked "Is Chuck Grassley Still Capable Of Working For The Good Of The Citizens Of Iowa?" You probably knew the answer to this question then, but if not, you will by the end of thi...
You will need a sunny day, a frozen lake, a sharp knife, warm hands and some dry leaves or wood.
Does it always take a lethal mill fire before the *minister will leap into action* to help displaced mill-workers? I only ask because between *2000 and 2010 the Canadian forest industry*lost 144 900 direc...
*And you thought "Enemy of the State" was just a movie. * "Court wrestles with police use of GPS" November 09, 2011|Associated Press WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court invoked visions of an* all-seeing Big Br...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Izu Islands, Japan Region at a depth of just 38 km (23.6 miles), the quake hit at 18:29:48 UTC Friday 27th January 2012 The epicenter was 209 km (129 miles) ESE of...
This Week in Discovery News we've got psychics on the moon and the sun is spitting radiation right at us!
*I really struggle to stay awake during Boston Globe sermons.* "High court gives churches latitude in hiring, firing" January 12, 2012|By Adam Liptak WASHINGTON - In what may be its *most significant reli...
Scientists are trying to find a way to protect Earth from the giant rocks which travel around the Milky Way. Run out of Berlin with funds from the EU, the NEOShield project, which will look for a way to p...
'Sex and the City' star Cynthia Nixon says that she chooses to be gay. What does science say?
If there is a ring system, it could spell doom for the speedy New Horizons probe when it flies by in 2015.
Two Iranian bloggers are to be executed for 'spreading corruption' - as Tehran cracks down on freedom of expression in the run up to its parliamentary elections in March. Four journalists have also been ...
*"The Three Biggest Government Lies"* by Charles Goyette “Government lies are legion. So many are its lies, that narrowing them down to three of the most important is a demanding task. But our current cri...
New World Order sock puppet and the apologist for Zionist terrorists Newt Gingrich attacks the "old order," and says Goldman Sachs ripped off America. Of course this guy is a hypocrite and a little devil...
http://www.propublica.org/article/drive-by-scanning-officials-expand-use-and-dose-of-radiation-for-security-s
Eurozone countries must show 'the colour of their money' in shoring up the single currency before any IMF funds are given to members facing economic collapse, George Osborne said today. The Chancellor sa...
A Roman Catholic priest who lied to his flock and told them he was going on a spiritual retreat is actually a survivor from the Concordia cruise liner disaster, it emerged today. Father Massimo Donghi’s ...
A dangerous sexual predator from the Czech Republic who murdered his wife at home came to the UK and carried out a knifepoint rape and three serious sex attacks on women, a court heard. Kajus Scuka, 48, ...
Excellent resource http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28870
*"Accelerating Great Collapse & Hyperinflation"* by John Williams “The U.S. economic and systemic-solvency crises of the last five years continue to deteriorate. Yet they remain just the precursors to t...
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/contrary-to-widespread-claims-there-is-no-evidence-that-iran-is-building-a-nuclear-weapon.html Although no evidence supports the existence of an Iranian nuclear weapo...
Cold, electrically charged particles have long been suspected to exist tens of thousands of miles above the Earth's surface, and now satellites have detected such ions there for the first time.
*“Weekly News Wrap-Up 1.27.12”* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com “The Federal Reserve announced, this week, that it was keeping interest rates at near zero percent until at least 2014. It sure doesn’t lo...
"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit." - Elbert Hubbard
http://pissinontheroses.blogspot.com/2012/01/26-times-backgroung-radiation-in-630am.html I know some people are wary of Potrblog's readings because they have been so high but I have admired their willinge...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Dodecanese Islands, Greece at a depth of just 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 19:06:32 UTC Friday 27th January 2012 The epicenter was 48 km (29.8 miles) Southwest o...
Alison Redford looks to have her first caucus defection on her hands, as former Finance Minister Lloyd Snelgrove is out, according to Redford's Chief of Staff: While losing your first MLA is never fun,...
Prologue “When you, here, every one of you, were kids, you all admired the champion marble player, the fastest runner, the toughest boxer, the big league ball players, and the All-American football player...
The number of Spaniards without jobs rose by more than half a million last year to reach 5.27m, or 22.85 per cent of the workforce, in the final quarter, according to the National Statistics Institute (IN...
* London* *'In a recent interview ... in Australia , a past ambassador to Syria has even stated that it is "outside" forces perpetrating the violence, and that Assad is popular and well liked.'* - *Syria ...
It's just what Christchurch didn't want to hear - warnings that more quakes may be on the way. The word comes from Canterbury University scientists who've been looking at a marked increase in seismic act...
At least 50 protesters opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime stormed the Syrian Embassy building in Cairo on Friday, smashing windows and tearing down the Syrian flag before dispersing, emb...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Western Turkey at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 17:43:20 UTC Friday 27th January 2012 The epicenter was 31 km (19.2 miles) Southeast of Pithagorio,...
[image: Cover of UK Climate Change Risk Assessment: Government Report, January 2012, www.defra.gov.uk]By Reed Landberg 25 January 2012 Sugar and wheat farming probably will become more productive as the...
I hope you're not too bored with hearing about Romney's tax manipulations and offshore tax-dodging accounts to read a perspective from our favorite investigative journalist, Russ Baker. He makes the point...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the South Coast of New Guinea, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:22:55 UTC Friday 27th January 2012 The epicenter was 92 km (5...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck South of Bali, Indonesia at a depth of 54 km (33.4 miles), the quake hit at 17:16:33 UTC Friday 27th January 2012 The epicenter was 207 km (128.3 miles) South of Praya...
Scores of civilians have been killed in Syria as government forces shelled buildings and fired into crowds. Opposition activists say the cities of Homs and Hama appear to be the main targets of the drama...
[image: Pakistani villagers carry a motorbike on a bed frame through flood water following heavy monsoon rain at Golarchi town in Badin district, about 200 km east of Karachi, on 13 September 2011. Asif ...
*FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 2012* *It’s hard to believe that this happened:* By the time of Campaign 2000, your so-called mainstream American press corps was in full break-down mode. In November 1998, Sally Qui...
If the priorities of the Harper government aren't fairly clear by now you, you've been living under rock. Everything is driven by the ideology espoused *in this Harper speech*. Now, Harper is going to st...
The Gay Secretary The Obama administration finally stumbled upon some change. Unfortunately for America, some top aides in the White House decided to pocket those pennies, which should have been sent to ...
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Clarence Darrow was one of my earliest heroes. I first encountered Darrow in the guise of Spencer Tracy, who portrayed the lawyer in the 1960 movie "Inherit the Wind". Darrow famously defended John Scopes,...
[image: Scientists say at least 2 billion dead bodies will be burned and converted into fossil fuels. From 'Scientists: 'Look, One-Third Of The Human Race Has To Die For Civilization To Be Sustainable, S...
A specialized camera allows people to see the world as reef-dwelling animals do.
Using a pioneering surgery technique developed for hospitals, could NASA fix satellites in orbit?
Google's plan to merge the data it collects from its users isn't actually a radical shift.
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Southeastern Iran at a depth of 100 km (62 miles), the quake hit at 16:08:01 UTC Friday 27th January 2012 The epicenter was 142 km (88 miles) Southeast of Kahnuj, Iran ...
Everyone is talking about this article in the Wall Street Journal: No Need to Panic About Global Warming The subtitle says that there's no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to 'decarboni...
Wall Street Journal: "The CEO Bankruptcy Bonus: Firms Sidestep Rules that Limit Rewards for Executives" Jan 27, 2012 p. A1 [excerpt] "On the way to bankruptcy court, Lear Corp., a car parts supplier, clo...
*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* The ideal of 'one man, one vote' has NEVER been achieved. If your VOTE does not carry the same weight as does the vote of someone else, then YOUR rights under the ...
*FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 2012* *Fact-checks and astronaut clown suits:* Rachel Maddow was pounding away at Politifact again last night. This is the fact-check about which she railed. We think Politifact pret...
A shipment containing 16 kilograms of cocaine was seized last week at the United Nations's mail intake centre, a New York Police Department spokesman said on Thursday. Paul Browne, NYPD's chief spokesman,...
South Korean Marines Thursday staged a live-fire artillery drill on an island shelled by North Korea in 2010, the first such exercise since the death of Pyongyang's leader Kim Jong-Il last month. "Our tro...
Students and parents watched at dismissal time Wednesday as a doe ran through the main doors of Red Lion Area Junior High School and collided with an eighth-grade student, knocking them both to the ground....
With an Alberta election on the horizon this spring, the Wildrose Alliance have brought on Tom Flanagan to manage their campaign. For those of you who have never heard of Tom Flanagan, he was a political s...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Northern Italy at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 14:53:06 UTC Friday 27th January 2012 The epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) Southwest of of Parma, Italy N...
The two men skied 1,400 miles to the pole without the help of sails or air drops.
A sound-powered medical device could be implanted deeper into the body.
Ford Focus Electric drivers will be empowered to monitor charging, plan trips and other smart stuff.
The FBI wants to locate possible criminals and analyze their movements.
This app finds the events between birth and graduation and brings them to your Facebook Timeline.
[image: Imja glacier lake, situated at 5100 meters altitude in Nepal's Everest region. At its center, the lake is about 600m wide, and according to government studies, up to 96.5m deep in some places. It...
By Michael Hudson *This article first appeared at FAZ* The inherently symbioticrelationship between banks and governments recently has been reversed. Inmedieval times, wealthy bankers lent to kings and p...
Here's Conservative MP Graham Stuart responding to a cheap shot from Nicky Campbell on Radio Five Live's Breakfast show this morning. GRAHAM STUART/NICKY CAMPBELL (mp3) Nicky Campbell: For the first time ...
[image: Coastal erosion at Singapore's East Coast Park, May 2008. wildshores.blogspot.com]By David Fogarty; Editing by Ron Popeski and Sanjeev Miglani 26 January 2012 SINGAPORE (Reuters) – A 15-km (10 ...
Each year I try to write on the SotU (2010, 2011). I know they are preposterously scripted, usually forgettable, and almost meaningless as a guide for the upcoming policy season/budget debate. But the ...
[Apologies in advance for the ad.] By Kyung Lah, CNN 26 January 2012 Inside Fukushima Exclusion Zone, Japan (CNN) – When you stand in the center of Japan's exclusion zone, there is absolute silence. Th...
*FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 2012* *Part 3—In search of information and outreach:* What do we the people think? We the people may have strange ideas! Information surveys have long made it clear—we often don’t k...
The Minnesota House passed the ALEC Voter ID bill yesterday. This is the second day in a row I have to report on the impact of the Amrerican Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in MInnesota - and it makes...
THE CANARD "All the fake news that fit to print." -- Amherst The academic and foreign policy worlds were rocked today by the news that Charli Carpenter -- prolific academic, policy wonk, and mom -- is in...
Even Brian Fratbun will have to admit this is pretty brilliant! More on the most anticipated Super Bowl Commercials of 2012.
The newly discovered asteroid came within 36,750 miles of Earth when it made its closest approach at 10:30 a.m. EST.
In sweeping reform, Mayor Landrieu appends the suffix "stat" to a bunch of stuff ~Library Chronicles Let's All Be Careful Out There~Cliff's Crib Rage over victim’s arrest record should be directed at NOPD...
*Progressive winners* Suppose there’s a swing district you-- "you" being a Democratic Party committee or strategist or booster-- want to win, and you have your choice of two comparably strong candidates: ...
THE central west of Queensland was bracing for the onslaught of a monsoonal storm cell from the Gulf of Carpentaria last night, as more than 1200 properties remained isolated in northeast NSW as flood war...
The district administrations of Srikakulam, Vizianagaram and Visakhapatnam have issued a bird flu alert in the wake of avian influenza cases in Odisha. The administrations of the three coastal districts h...
Five children are recovering after being stung by a swarm of bees Thursday afternoon, near 91st Ave and Peoria. They were chased by hundreds of bees and stung at least a dozen times -- but firefighters s...
WATERLOO, Iowa --- Reports of norovirus outbreaks have increased in recent weeks, according to health officials. The quick-spreading bug can induce diarrhea, vomiting, nausea and stomach cramps. Dr. Pat...
Police have released an e-fit of the man accused of helping a dangerous criminal escape prison custody. The man is accused of aiding Andrew Farndon in a planned escape as he arrived at West Suffolk Hosp...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Central Iran at a depth of 7 km (4.3 miles), the quake hit at 12:52:24 UTC Friday 27th January 2012 The epicenter was 31 km (19.2 miles) South of Ashtian, Iran No Repor...
I’m a mediator, and I’ve been one pretty much since mediation has existed. When I was trained, in the olden times, mediations were scheduled in 2 – 3 hour sessions. If they lasted longer and the parties we...
AT least 10,000 ducks will have to be destroyed to contain an outbreak of bird flu at two Victorian farms. The virus found in birds on the two properties is a low pathogenic avian influenza (LPAI) and no...
The Ministry of Health confirmed on Friday that a man who was initially thought to have died as a result of contracting bird flu was instead killed by complications caused by the H1N1 virus, formerly know...
Agartala: The culling of bird flu affected poultry began on Friday in five gram panchayats areas of West Tripura district. The culling began after confirmation of the presence of H5N1 virus in the affec...
Approximately 200 dolphins have been sighted in the center of Cape Cod Bay, dolphin stranding specialists said today, announcing that rescue teams have been put on alert in case the dolphins come ashore. ...
A harbor porpoise washed up on the rocks at the far end of Fisherman's Beach Thursday morning, the third dead porpoise in the last nine months to beach on local shores. Town Animal Control Officer Diane ...
Santa Barbara - Fish and Wildlife agents issue a new plea to the public after a series of abuse cases involving brown pelicans. The most recent pelican turned up dead Wednesday in the waters off the...
By: Duane Craig Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, for natural gas has been blamed for making western Wyoming's air dirtier during winter than Los Angeles' air, according to this article in the Houston Ch...
Stalker Elliot Fogel has been sentenced to two years in jail for breaking the terms of a restraining order. Fogel was given a lifetime restraining order in 2005 which stops him or anyone acting on his b...
IDOE–Shrinking State Power to Expose Your Tender Underbelly (UPDATE) by Douglas Storm [UPDATE in the body of the text] Indiana is at the forefront of a concerted and aggressive drive to weaken state pow...
Lava is becoming more active at both Halemaumau and Puu Oo craters, scientists at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory report. The observatory posted new video of lava splattering at Halemaumau Crater. Scie...
Costa Rica’s Turrialba volcano produced a burst of activity that shot water, vapor and ash more than 15,000 feet into the air. Nearby residents reported that ash from the blast showered several communitie...
Mexico City, Jan 27 : The 5,400-metre high Popocatepeti volcano has erupted again with a plume of ash after shaking for several minutes early on Thursday. Civil protection authorities reported that the...
India has displayed its latest nuclear-capable strategic missile in front of the country’s leadership at the annual Republic Day parade. Article >>>>
The social network Twitter is facing a storm of criticism from users, after revealing that it has implemented a system that would let it withhold particular tweets from specific countries. The company ha...
The Philippines is considering a U.S. proposal to deploy surveillance aircraft on a temporary, rotating basis to enhance its ability to guard disputed areas in the South China Sea, the Philippine defense m...
As the European Union prepares to ban Iranian oil and the United States turns the screw on payments, oil executives and policymakers say China and Russia stand to gain the most and Western oil firms and c...
A law to be debated in Iran's parliament on Sunday could halt exports of oil to the European Union as early as next week, the semi-official Fars news agency quoted a lawmaker as saying on Friday. "On Sun...
Rights of nature laws seek to grant the environment legal rights.
Nine rockets were fired at the Pakistan Military Academy Kakul Friday about 500 meters from the infamous compound of Osama Bin Laden in Abbottabad, Syed Imtiaz, Hussain Shah a senior police official said....
A suicide car bomber targeted a Shiite funeral procession in the Iraqi capital Friday, killing 31 people and wounding 60 others, two police officials said. The blast occurred as mourners passed by an out...
Bahrain police on Friday denied opposition claims that security forces were responsible for the death of an anti-government protester, saying the man died from natural causes. The death of 19-year-old Mo...
The U.N. Security Council will hold closed-door talks Friday afternoon on the situation in Syria, the British and French delegations reported Thursday night on their respective Twitter feeds. The discus...
An asteroid will pass by the Earth on Friday in something of a cosmic near-miss, making its closest approach at about 1600 GMT. The asteroid, estimated to be about 11m (36ft) in diameter, was first detec...
In the shadow of the Fukushima nuclear plant, one man's quiet defiance echoes through the contaminated, empty streets of Tomioka, Japan. Tomioka, 10 miles (16 kilometers) away from the disaster, is insid...
Clashes between rival militias. Allegations of detainee torture. Assaults on the headquarters of the National Transitional Council, which governs Libya. These are among the signs that Libya faces challen...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:42:10 UTC Friday 27th January 2012 The epicenter was 389 km (241...
The man whose headless body was found lying in a Stockport street died of a shotgun wound, a post mortem has shown. John Grainger was then decapitated. His head was found close by his body. Two people h...
The body of a surgeon, who was charged with a number of sex crimes against a 14-year-old girl, was found by his wife through his GPS ankle bracelet after he committed suicide. Dr Andrew Bourne, 46, from ...
Two neo-Nazi thugs have been jailed for branding a swastika into the skin of a man with learning difficulties with a searing hot coat hanger. Sadistic Paul Beebe, 28, and Jesse Sanford, 26, were sentenced...
Vladimir Putin has branded America a nation which 'wants to control everything' during a scathing verbal attack on the U.S. The Russian Premier said the USA is seeking to dominate the world and interfere...
A man accused of killing a Roman Catholic priest and taking the victim's car on a family vacation to Disney World was found dead in his prison cell today after apparently hanging himself. Jeremy Wayne Ma...
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Biased BBC - 18 hours ago
With BBC news coverage of the US Presidential race hotting up, it is quite useful to consider what B-BBC's Alan has to say here; "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and con...
Mitt Romney failed to reveal income from a Swiss bank account on financial disclosure forms filed last year. Other income was also missing from records required of presidential campaign candidates. A Ro...
A shipment of 16 kilos of cocaine crudely mocked up to look like a diplomatic pouch has been seized at the United Nations New York mail intake centre. The white bag raised suspicions when it was being sc...
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Biased BBC - 18 hours ago
Yes, well, the minute GOP Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich suggested that there could be a manned lunar base which would be *American*, then this was going to go disputed by the BBC. I laughed at the b...
A mysterious disorder which exhibits symptoms similar to Tourette's has affected more students at the same high school. Earlier this month, it was reported that 12 female students, who all attend Le R...
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Biased BBC - 18 hours ago
Here you go - it's Friday and time for a new one of these! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
It's called Argus One; the Pentagon's newest unmanned spy plane. But cheeky observers are already calling it the 'Flying Sperm'. It has the capacity to carry 30 pounds of high tech sensors and cameras and...
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Biased BBC - 18 hours ago
A Biased BBC reader contacted me with regard to what he sees is the BBC's biased attitude to the dog owning community. The BBC's programme,* Death Row Dogs*, 24th January has raised several hackles, inc...
The discovery gives clues to how ancient Egyptians viewed the importance of animals and their role in the afterlife.
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 27.7 km (17.2 miles), the quake hit at 09:54:34 UTC Friday 27th January 2012 The epicenter was 400 km (...
*In March, Coldplay, Mumford & Sons and Russell variety are among the acts who have signed up for the Secret Policeman's Ball. Organizers say the move to New York* *will mark the special centennial.* The...
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Biased BBC - 18 hours ago
Biased BBC contributor Alan notes; [image: Attack: Lord Carey has blasted the bishops who tried to derail the Government's £26,000-a-year benefit cap] "Had the former Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, ...
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Biased BBC - 18 hours ago
The BBC narrative is clear. Bankers were solely responsible for the global financial crisis. Go a little deeper and the narrative refines itself even more alarmingly; Capitalism was solely responsible for ...
David Cameron demanded a ‘zero tolerance policy on abuse’ in Libya last night following reports of widespread torture of Gaddafi loyalists. Thousands are apparently still being held in secret detention ca...
The FBI is to use automated scanners to monitor people’s posts on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, it has emerged this week – and privacy campaigners have described it as an attack on free sp...
The first thing that strikes you is the smell: a sweet, sickly stench that sticks to your skin. It is worst in the morning, since women are terrified of risking a nocturnal trip to the handful of lavatori...
A burglar who was freed from prison because he had five children to look after is facing another jail term for assault. Wayne Bishop carried out the attack just a few weeks after he was controversially l...
The boss of state-owned Royal Bank of Scotland was handed an annual bonus of nearly £1million yesterday. To widespread fury, the board of directors awarded Stephen Hester more than many ordinary workers ...
Bitter Siberian-style winter weather is finally about to arrive, forecasters warned last night. Up to four inches of snow are expected to fall across higher ground today with temperatures set to plummet ...
*"Sea of Dreams"* “We all have a sea of dreams. This song by 2002 is from their album “Land of Forever.” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMkzdVrgQ68
*A study published in present Biology recognized differences in infants brainwaves as of as early as six months. *Older children with autism can show a lack of eye contact, so the babies were shown pictu...
Police searching for two dangerous criminals on the run after being freed in separate incidents are hoping televised appeals will lead to more information. Detectives are following up calls received af...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Kamchatka, Russia at a depth of 56.5 km (35.1 miles), the quake hit at 08:57:32 UTC Friday 27th January 2012 The epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) ...
*"They Said"* by Alex Noble They said: “He did not feel anything.” They said: "Please stop crying, Ma'm." They said: “He would have seen a blinding light, and then, nothing.” They said: "His death was i...
A woman is in custody in Norway accused of murdering her child while her boyfriend allegedly watched on Skype in the UK. It is the latest in a series of incidents allegedly witnessed on Skype or webcams. ...
The Yasuni National Park, known as "the lungs of the world" and one of the most bio-diverse places on earth, is under threat from oil drilling. The race is on to find the funds required to develop new sus...
“What do you now fear? How will you use this? Every fear is a gift, though every gift needs unwrapping. "Oh look, it's me, only more!" “You're welcome,” The Universe “Thoughts become things... choos...
Lead exposure over a lifetime may lead to a darker outlook, which can in turn increase risk of depression, reports a study on aging men. The lead levels in the men were associated with increased pessimism...
* Bomjon, aka Palden Dorje * In 2006, Discovery Channel showed a 45-minute documentary about Ram Bahadur Bomjon. Ram was filmed continuously for 96 hours, day and night, "during which time he did not cha...
Native birds at Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge are in unprecedented trouble, according to a paper recently published in the journal PLoS ONE. The paper, titled "Changes in timing, duration, and ...
In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists are reporting that the indoor air in offices is an important source of worker exposure to potentially toxic substances released by carpeting, furniture, paint and ...
*The owner of a French breast implant creator that sparked a safety jolt has been charged with involuntary injury.Mr. Mas have been under investigation since he revealed in a police interview last year t...
WASHINGTON (WTW) — The world last year wasn't quite as warm as it has been for most of the past decade, government scientists said Thursday, but it continues a general trend of rising temperatures. The a...
Warming in the North Atlantic over the last 32 years has significantly reduced winter sea ice cover in harp seal breeding grounds, resulting in sharply higher death rates among seal pups in recent years, ...
Shale gas has transformed the U.S. energy landscape in the past several years—but it may crowd out renewable energy and other ways of cutting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, a new study warns. A team of ...
Demand for the gills of manta and mobula rays has risen dramatically in the past 10 years for use in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), even though they were not historically used for this purpose, a tea...
After the Fukushima nuclear accident, Canadian health officials assured a nervous public that virtually no radioactive fallout had drifted to Canada. But last March, a Health Canada monitoring station in ...
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Jan 16, 2012 (IPS) - China, Brazil and India want seats on the Arctic Council as global warming creates new opportunities for shipping and resource extraction in the vast Arctic region. ...
After being exposed to antibiotics for only 2 weeks, a drastic rise in drug-resistant E. coli has been detected in guts of pigs. After giving pigs a low-dose of antibiotics for just two weeks, researchers...
GRANGER TWP.: A federal health agency says potentially explosive levels of natural gas at two houses in eastern Medina County are a public health threat. The problems in the two drinking water wells appe...
Survey reveals greater pressure on major players such as Apple and the Beijing government to clean up. Green activists applauded steady progress on environmental transparency in China after public campai...
IMPACTS OF GAS DRILLING ON HUMAN AND ANIMAL HEALTH MICHELLE BAMBERGER ROBERT E. OSWALD ABSTRACT Environmental concerns surrounding drilling for gas are intense due to expansion of shale gas drilling...
BLUEFIELD — Norfolk Southern Railway set a new record in terms of shipping coal tonnage by loading 159,941.45 net tons of metallurgical coal on an ocean-going vessel bound for China. NS issued a press re...
German chancellor speaks candidly to the Guardian and five other leading European newspapers as part of a unique collaboration to explore the EU's predicament. Angela Merkel has cast doubt for the first ...
Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the Federal Reserve is considering additional asset purchases to boost growth after extending its pledge to keep interest rates low through at least late 2014. Policy makers...
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve, declaring that the economy would need help for years to come, said Wednesday it would extend by 18 months the period that it plans to hold down interest rates in an effor...
A 65-year-old man who was knocked off his bicycle by three teenagers on a Pennsylvania trail shot two of them, killing one, police said according to reports. The Reading Eagle newspaper said the wounded...
Ever since she was a toddler, Stacey Irvine has eaten little else but chicken nuggets and the occasional portion of chips. Now, at the age of 17, she has been warned by doctors to change her appalling di...
This is the first picture of 5ft 1in Michelle Williamson, who beat her businessman boyfriend so severely that he almost lost his arm and will need cosmetic surgery to heal his horrific scars. Ian McNicho...
Vladimir Putin has told Sky News that he is "not concerned" about recent mass protests calling for him to resign. The Russian Prime Minister spoke exclusively on the campaign trail in Tomsk, Siberia as ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 11 km (6.8 miles), the quake hit at 07:42:09 UTC Friday 27th January 2012 The epicenter was 30 km (18.6 miles) West of Chr...
I am sure that this will bemerely one of many pronouncements as we approach the 21st ofDecember this year. However, as stated, this person is a high status personwith an excellent educational backgroun...
This is all good fun and providesa little of the flavor of present efforts to create a fresh new tarpaulin to coverthe known facts and include gravity. For the record my new metric forphysics allows us...
I know work has gone on in thisarea for some time, but it appears that it is now getting more attention. This appears largely as a result of theactual proliferation of mind altering chemicals and the ...
We discover here that a coolingof the stratosphere will generate an ozone hole. Perhaps it is plausible that the originalcause of the hole in the Antarctic was caused by the naturally much cooler temper...
“To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our lives. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think. You should spend some time in tho...
*Organizers of a project to produce a series of new forest to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee expect to plant one million trees throughout February. Dame Judi Dench, the Oscar-winning actress, has ...
“Through the corridors of sleep Past the shadows dark and deep My mind dances and leaps in confusion. I don’t know what is real, I can’t touch what I feel And I hide behind the shield of my illusion. So ...
How do you determine teacher effectiveness? Sent to USA Today, Jan. 26, 2012 “States weaken tenure rights for teachers” (Jan. 25) emphasizes the importance of evaluating teacher effectiveness. A major pr...
A magnitude 3.4 earthquake has struck Northern California at a depth of just 3 km (1.8 miles), the quake hit at 05:21:42 UTC Friday 27th January 2012 The epicenter was 2 km (1.2 miles) NNW of The Geysers, ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer Americans bought new homes in December, making 2011 the worst sales year on record. The Commerce Department says new-home sales fell last month to a seasonally adjusted annual pac...
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — The Los Angeles Police Department teamed with military special operation forces Wednesday evening to conduct multi-agency tactical exercises in the skies above downtown LA. Many ques...
[image: Link] One in five young Germans has no idea that Auschwitz was a Nazi death camp, a poll released Wednesday showed, two days ahead of Holocaust memorial day. Although 90 percent of those asked did...
WASHINGTON - From postal workers to congressional staffers, federal workers failed to pay billions in taxes in 2010. According to records released by the Internal Revenue Service, active and retired fed...
An 18-year-old high school student had to be rescued from frigid waters in a Catskill lake in a bizarre incident. The New York State Police say the Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) stud...
A man who spent two years in solitary confinement after getting arrested for DWI was awarded $22 million for suffering inhumane treatment in New Mexico's Dona Ana County Jail. Stephen Slevin was arrested...
CHICAGO (CBS) – Significantly more Chicagoans are arming themselves with guns. As WBBM Newsradio’s Regine Schlesinger reports, over the past two years, the city has seen a 16 percent spike in the number ...
Graceann Rumer just started driving two weeks ago. She used the few driving skills she had to save a school bus full of students by grabbing the steering wheel as the driver collapsed from a heart attac...
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...
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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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 ...
*Update 9:34 AM Jan. 27: Last evening the State Board of Education pulled the "Scarlet Letter" reprimand action item from today's agenda. * The commentary below was provided Knoxville, TN educators who ...
“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...
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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...
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*The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King are among those at the head of the marchers crossing the Alabama River on Mar. 21, 1965, early in the five-day march from Selma to Montgomery, Al...
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An article in the Boston Globe announced the publication of new guidelines from the Obama Administration to manage and protect the nations federally-owned forest resources. Absurdly, it is illustrated wi...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoCosta Rica’s Turrialba volcano produced a burst of activity that shot water, vapor and ash more than 15,000 feet into the air. Nearby residents reported that ash from the blast showered several communitie...
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