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ELEANOR HALL: And staying with climate change, another international group of scientists says it has new evidence that ocean currents around the world are being affected by global warming. The scientist...
( Beats saying they`ve been influenced by oil in the Gulf of Mexico, perhaps. More P.C. )
CHIGAGO: India, the world's fourth-largest oil consumer, will not take steps to cut petroleum imports from Iran despite US and European sanctions against Tehran, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said on ...
*Now, what could these two pious baloneys have in common, other than corruption?* This weekend shady Staten Island Republican Michael Grimm was in Florida shilling for Mitt Romney's rough-and-tumble campai...
Britain's Prime Minister will join EU leaders in Brussels today, seven weeks after he refused to sign up to a treaty designed to shore up the eurozone. The UK became the only country to walk away from th...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Jujuy, Argentina at a depth of 245.1 km (152.3 miles), the quake hit at 02:18:14 UTC Monday 30th January 2012 The epicenter was 56 km (34 miles) WSW of Abra Pampa, Juju...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck the Dodecanese Islands, Greece at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 00:23:14 UTC Monday 30th January 2012 The epicenter was 15 km (9.3miles) Southwest of ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Dodecanese Islands, Greece at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 22:46:33 UTC Sunday 29th January 2012 The epicenter was 43 km (26.4 miles) Southwest o...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the North Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:54:20 UTC Sunday 29th January 2012 The epicenter was 1441 km (895 miles) NNE of Cayen...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the North Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:43:25 UTC Sunday 29th January 2012 The epicenter was 1420 km (882 miles) NNE of Caye...
Wherever you are in the world, you've probably used or coveted some Japanese product - a Honda four-wheeler; a Toyota Prius, a Sony, a
Panasonic TV, a
Nikon camera. Since the 1950s, Japan's exports have ...
*"Courage"* by Rollo May "We are living at a time when one age is dying and the new age is not yet born. We cannot doubt this as we look about us to see the radical changes in sexual mores, in marria...
By L. Randall Wray In theprevious weeks, we examined the functional finance approach of
Abba Lerner. Itis clear that Lerner was analysing the case of a country with a sovereigncurrency (or what many call...
“There is pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more, Fro...
A pub landlord and landlady have been suspended and threatened with the sack for serving pints “too full” of beer. Pete and Debbie Gibson were ordered to close their Junction Inn pub on New Year’s Eve ...
"I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!"...
"Ron Paul, though he did not get as much airtime as the two front-runners, scolded both for their Latin American policy, saying ‘‘this usually means that we impose ourselves, go and pick the dictators, und...
*It could be the issue that decides the nomination! * "GOP rivals make cases to Hispanics in Florida" January 28, 2012|By Glen Johnson Yesterday, Gingrich began running an ad in Florida criticizing Romney...
*Cut before he left Congress. * "Delahunt, champion of wind project, now may profit from it; In Congress, he helped Hull secure $1.7m; as consultant, he’s in line for no-bid contract" by Glen Johnson | ...
"Colo. reevaluates child care rules; Regulations are out of control, GOP argues" by Ivan Moreno | Associated Press, January 28, 2012 DENVER - Talk about red tape: Last year, Colorado’s Department of Huma...
"Wind gusts carry Montana wildfires" associated press, January 06, 2012 BROWNING, Mont. - A pair of rare winter wildfires fueled by 60-mile-per-hour gusts burned buildings and forced hundreds from their h...
"Broad Institute, with $32.5 million gift, launching center to study human cells" by Mary Carmichael, Globe Staff Scientists are launching an ambitious effort to diagram how the human genome controls cell...
*If a newspaper is unread does it make a sound? * "US unveils new rules for forests; Environmental activists praise policy guide" by Juliet Eilperin | Washington Post, January 27, 2012 WASHINGTON - Tom ...
*By Brenda Norrell** Censored News* Beware of the online ripoff sales from www.latptoptown.com Three weeks after purchasing a power cord from this company online, the wires frayed and the cord produced a da...
"Autism gaining greater visibility in films, TV" January 25, 2012|By Joseph P. Kahn Premiering tonight on Fox TV is “Touch,’’ a drama centered on a mute, emotionally withdrawn 10-year-old named Jake who p...
Supertramp, "The Logical Song"
"Sculpted by stellar winds and radiation, a magnificent interstellar dust cloud by chance has assumed this recognizable shape. Fittingly named the Horsehead Nebula, it is some 1,500 light-years distant, em...
posted by David Preiser (USA) at
Biased BBC - 2 hours ago
This is regarding a comment from Dez on an open thread which had already dropped off the main page by the time I noticed it. I haven't had time to put together the response his comment deserves, and since ...
*"Things to Think"* "Think in ways you've never thought before. If the phone rings, think of it as carrying a message Larger than anything you've ever heard, Vaster than a hundred lines of Yeats. Think th...
"Carl Jung, Modern Media & the Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Sensei "In the long run, the most influential book of the 20th Century may turn out to be Joseph Campbell's "The Hero With A Thousand Faces." ...
"Brain Makes Good Unconscious Decisions" By Rick Nauert, Ph.D., Senior News Editor "Researchers have shown that the human brain — once thought to be a seriously flawed decision maker — is actually hard-wi...
"Long-hunted molester gets 560 years in prison" January 14, 2012 PHOENIX - A man dubbed by “America’s Most Wanted’’ as one of the *most prolific child molesters* in Arizona history was sentenced yesterday ...
"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat, "We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said th...
"US joins Fla. abortion clinic fire inquiry" January 03, 2012 PENSACOLA, Fla. — Federal investigators plan to join the investigation of a *suspicious fire* at a Florida Panhandle *abortion clinic *that has...
*Caused by -- who else? -- the "terrorists!"* "Man caught in terrorism sting admits bomb plot" by Sarah Brumfield | Associated Press, January 27, 2012 *Was that before or after the torture?* BALTIMORE ...
*Then-Rep. Bill Delahunt (D-MA) in 2009, doing the people's business -- and, apparently, a certain amount of "sideline" business of his own* *"Experts on Congressional earmarks said they could think of no ...
*You will have to take the long way around*: "Detroit slashes precinct hours to enable more patrols; Effort to boost safety without spending more" by Corey Williams | Associated Press, January 13, 2012...
"4 mothers turn selves in over toy thefts" by Associated Press | December 29, 2011 HONOLULU - Four *unemployed single mothers* surrendered to police after they were *seen on surveillance footage* takin...
"4 mothers turn selves in over toy thefts" by Associated Press | December 29, 2011 HONOLULU - Four *unemployed single mothers* surrendered to police after they were *seen on surveillance footage* takin...
*Don't get full up, readers*: "Wealthy N.J. county has dramatic rise in food stamp clients" December 18, 2011|By Elise Young, Bloomberg News TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey’s Hunterdon County, the *hilly regio...
"Danish drug maker sells drug used in US executions" December 23, 2011|By Andrew Welsh-Huggins COLUMBUS, Ohio - The only US-licensed maker of a drug used by several states to execute inmates is selling th...
[image: Captain Paul Watson with a baby harp seal friend. seashepherd.org] By Captain Paul Watson 29 January 2012 I have been fighting the Canadian seal hunt since 1974. It’s been a long hard road after...
"I address you tonight not as the President of the United States, not as the leader of a country, but as a citizen of humanity. We are faced with the very gravest of challenges. The Bible calls this day "A...
Puebla, Mexico. Thanks for stopping by.
*“On Winged Imagination”* by Chet Raymo “A sure test of dark skies is the ability to see with the naked eye the nucleus of the Andromeda Galaxy, the nearest large spiral galaxy to our own and the most dis...
The Jurist explains the math. While Stephen 'Jets & Jails' Harper did not directly mention raising Canadians' OAS pension eligibility age from 65 to 67 in his SOTU speech from the Davos 1%-ers bunfest...
EXCELLENT! *Cartoon Brew* is a fine site for classic animation aficionados. As Jerry wrote: Here’s the perfect film for me to post in the middle of the night. *Andres Tapeton’s graduation film from the Cl...
"This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune (often the surfeits of our own behaviour) we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars: as if we were villains...
"Are There Any Questions?" by Robert Fulghum "Are there any questions?" An offer that comes at the end of college lectures and long meetings. Said when an audience is not only overdosed with information,...
*1-2-3-4. * "Environmental groups in Northwest sue over effect Navy’s sonar use has on marine life SEATTLE - Conservationists and Native American tribes are *suing* over the *Navy’s expanded use of so...
If you live in America, you cannot escape the result of the Supreme Court decision in 2010 that changed political campaigns. Known as *Citizens United *, this decision allowed those with big checkbooks to...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Western Turkey at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles - Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 21:03:01 UTC Sunday 29th January 2012 The epicenter was 26 ...
Iran sent conflicting signals in a dispute with the West over its nuclear ambitions on Sunday, vowing to stop oil exports soon to "some" countries but postponing a parliamentary debate on a proposed halt ...
Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN) -- Fourteen people were killed and another 60 were injured in Indonesia over a four-day period as a result of Cyclone Iggy, according to the country's National Disaster Management...
Occupy protesters broke into Oakland City Hall, damaging displays and burning an American flag, the culmination of protests Saturday that saw police and protesters trade allegations over who was responsi...
Khartoum, Sudan (CNN) -- Militants captured 70 construction workers, including Chinese nationals, in Sudan's volatile South Kordofan state, military officials said Sunday. The group attacked the construc...
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday met with Libya's prime minister during the African Union summit, and expressed "support for the interim government's work," according to a U.N. statement. The...
An unmanned Israeli airplane capable of reaching parts of Iran crashed during an experimental flight Sunday, the Israel Defense Forces said. The Eitan-type drone spun in the air, lost a wing and crashed i...
Some weeks ago, I urged Canada's two main opposition parties to set aside their differences and work together for the greater good. Perhaps "urged" isn't the right word. But I'm moved to reiterate by re...
The U.S. Defense Department cannot account for about $2 billion it was given to cover Iraq-related expenses and is not providing Iraq with a complete list of U.S.-funded reconstruction projects, according...
At least 62 people were killed in Syria on Sunday, according to an opposition activist group, as the Arab League suspended a monitoring mission designed to protect Syrian civilians from government-sponso...
posted by laura k at
wmtc - 8 hours ago
There are two principal reasons why the U.S. presidential election doesn't matter. Corporate money's death grip on both parties is one. Election fraud is the other. Long-time readers of wmtc may recall a ...
posted by laura k at
wmtc - 8 hours ago
Occasionally a bit of slime seeps from the sewer of the Republican primaries into my oxygen, and I feel the need to share the smell. When a public figure says that a pregnancy from rape is a silver linings...
Several years ago I became somewhat infamous (in some circles) for telling one of my volunteer groups that I didn't think they should send any contributions to any organizations associated with the Clinton...
*"30 Statistics That Show The Middle Class Is * *Dying Right In Front Of Our Eyes"* By Michael Snyder "Once upon a time, the United States had the largest and most vibrant middle class that the world has ...
Berhampur (Odisha): With the death of 16 crows at Mudulipalli village in Odisha's Ganjam district in the span of two hours, triggering avian influenza scare in the area today. "We have found 16 dead crow...
More than 1,000 prisoners in Kyrgyzstan have sewn their lips together after a 10-day hunger strike in apparent protest at poor jail conditions. Meanwhile, authorities blamed organised criminal gangs for i...
A teenage girl has died after being hit by a train at a foot crossing in what is thought to have been a "tragic accident", police said. The 15-year-old, who has not been named, died after she was struck a...
A multi-million pound lawsuit has been filed in the US by passengers who were onboard the Costa Concordia when it ran aground in Italy. The six passengers are claiming £292m in damages against the owners...
*"America's Education System Teaches 'How to Become a Serf'"* By John Kozy "Educational systems now train workers to fulfill the needs of companies. A society in which people exist for the sake of compani...
* Lenders demand more reforms before handing out cash * German minister openly calls for Athens to surrender budget control * Greek finance minister rejects idea * Debt swap expected to be discussed at E...
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Benny Peiser has pointed out the following good news coming from Bloomberg: Spain Suspends Subsidies for New Renewable Energy Power Plants Spain is finally doing something about its fiscal sustainability...
And, so are these girls!!!
*I can't explain why I keep getting it.* "Need for courtroom artists fades as cameras move in; Some lament the passing of an art form" by Michael Tarm | Associated Press, January 29, 2012 CHICAGO - *Sk...
An SUV ignored flashing warning lights and veered around a rail crossing arm moments before it collided with a light-rail train, killing two adults and an 18-month-old boy in the vehicle, authorities said...
The Pentagon has made a secret request to develop its largest bomb because officials believe it is not capable of destroying Iran's fortified underground facilities. The 13.6 ton Massive Ordnance Penetra...
Despite appearances, the red-blue gap in the public's political opinions hasn't really changed in the last 40 years, an extensive study finds.
A teenager was arrested on murder charges in Oakland, California, after police found the bodies of his parents, two highly-educated civil servants, stashed under a blanket inside the family car. Police w...
The husband of a mother-of-two found strangled on the back seat of her Mercedes Benz has reportedly failed a lie detector test. Bob Bashara, who gave a series of emotional interviews following the discov...
*No wonder health care costs are so high*: "Hospitals woo patients with free parking, other perks; Marketing key as more take role in picking provider" by Michelle Andrews | Washington Post, January 29,...
Same question that I asked of conservatives. With the debates winding down for this cycle, what lessons if any should Democrats learn for 2016 about the way they were organized? What worked? What didn't? ...
"Blood found at site where Maine girl vanished" by Brian MacQuarrie | Globe Staff, January 29, 2012 WATERVILLE, Maine - Shortly after a prayer vigil ended for a 21-month-old girl who vanished six weeks...
Normally I don't post on the week-end. But what is normal about the goings on in the world. If you didn't read the previous post on Syria, please do. But before you do, take the time to read this editorial. ...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Kyushu, Japan at a depth of 67.6 km (42 miles), the quake hit at 18:18:24 UTC Sunday 29th January 2012 The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) SSE of Oita, Kyushu, Japan No ...
Chimpanzees are being kept in research centres their whole lives and deliberately infected with killer diseases, a process activists describe as 'torture'. The plight of these laboratory apes has been hi...
To D-fox: if you're reading this, please contact us at thecomingcrisis@gmail.com. It's important -- we believe.
A thug who left a man's hand hanging by a thread of skin after he attacked him with a machete in a revenge plot has been jailed for 10 years. The attack left his victim requiring a 12-hour operation to ha...
We may be done with the debates, so it's perhaps a good time to look back: what about the debates worked? What didn't work? What should Republicans, as a party, attempt to do differently next time around?
At least nine people died in a series of crashes apparently caused by heavy smoke and fog overnight on Interstate 75 in north Florida, authorities said Sunday. Florida Highway Patrol Lt. Patrick Riordan ...
Childhood Leukemia Spikes Near Nuclear Power Plants By John LaForge, CounterPunch 28 January 12 http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/01/26/childhood-leukemia-spikes-near-nuclear-power-plants/ [excerpted] "F...
A Saudi prince once quipped, "the Stone Age didn't end because they ran out of stones." His point was that the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil. He is right. There are a number o...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Antofagasta, Chile at a depth of 125.2 km (77.8 miles), the quake hit at 16:44:39 UTC Sunday 29th January 2012 The epicenter was 128 km (79 miles)Northeast of Calama, ...
*There are funny storms too!* *Alexander Prior conducts the deliciously raging thunderstorm in Act II of Rossini's Barber of Seville at the Chuvash National Opera in the Volga River port of Cheboksary, ca...
No babies at the hospital have tested positive for pseudomonas bacteria which has killed four newborns in Northern Ireland. Another Northern Ireland hospital has reported an outbreak of the bacteria that...
Today it's sharing time - I have to try to fix the pictures on the DeadTreesDyingForest website! Besides, these are two excellent essays that precisely express my sentiments much more concisely than I cou...
* Protesters blame unidentified "thugs" for violence * Egypt marked first anniversary of anti-Mubarak revolt on Jan. 25 CAIRO, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Egyptian protesters demanding an immediate en...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Western Honshu at a depth of 338.4 km (210.3 miles), the quake hit at 17:01:46 UTC Sunday 29th January 2012 The epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) ESE of Tsu, Honshu, Japan...
[image: Children gather water from a broken pipe in Baghdad’s Sadr City. Karim Kadim / AP] Baghdad, 27 January 2012 (UPI) – Iraq is facing worsening water shortages caused by the failure of successive p...
Statement by Evangelos Venizelos in response to media reports about a 'proposal for the appointment of a special EU Commissioner in charge of the Greek state budget execution,' In response to media repor...
[image: Native people of the Gwichin Nation formed a human banner on the banks of Alaska's Porcupine River in in 2010 to protest environmental damage done by oil firms. 'Around the Arctic there is neithe...
Around 2,000 Syrian troops backed by tanks launched an assault to retake Damascus suburbs from rebels on Sunday, activists said, a day after the Arab League suspended its monitoring mission in Syria becau...
[image: Aerial view of Nagasaki after the U.S. atomic bombing, on 9 August 1945. via nuclearflower.com] By arevamirpal::laprimavera 28 January 2012 Toshihiro Takatsuji, associate professor at Nagasaki ...
[image: Dying forest near South Sister, Smith Rock State Park, Oregon. Robert Brown] Prominent doom blogger Gail Zawacki, of Wit’s End fame, has succumbed to the demands of her high-school-aged kid and ...
A Road on Grand Bahama, Paved During the Speculation Boom of the 1970s, Fragments a Caribbean Pine Woodland TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one tr...
Notorious meddler Robert Amsterdam back in Thailand. by Tony Cartalucci January 29, 2012 - Globalist lawyer Robert Amsterdam of Amsterdam & Peroff, a Chatham House corporate member, was spotted at Thailand...
[image: images 234] Part one of my response to Obama’s 2012 State of the Union is here. 3. The *foreign policy section was weaker and more militaristic than usual*. The opening bit about the Iraq war maki...
Last week, 33 of 99 beached whales were shot in New Zealand after they returned from the sea, and over 70 dolphins have died in similar events on the other side of the world, on Cape Cod. When there is no...
*by Noah* It’s hard for *any* total freakazoids to stand out in Florida. The competition is fierce. But two big-name freaks have certainly been trying to stand out this week. In the “It Doesn’t Get Any...
No reason to flee Girl Scouts~James Gill Killing of New Orleans 'Good Samaritan' shows that victims shouldn't be villainized: Jarvis DeBerry Enough! ~Clancy Dubos, Gambit New Orleans property taxes due t...
Five birds found dead in Causeway Bay yesterday are being tested for the H5N1 virus, just weeks after a ban on live chicken sales was lifted. Meanwhile, a ranger who handled a dead bird at a family camp s...
The number is now more than two dozen girls, all with Tourettes like symptoms, including twitching, jerking and vocal tics. As our health reporter Marcie Fraser reports, the case spans New York State and ...
BOSTON — Whether they got lost, sick or swam astray chasing food, 77 dolphins that beached on Cape Cod in recent weeks have died, the second time in three months New England has seen a mass of marine mamm...
KOLKATA: After ignoring the mysterious crow deaths in the city for nearly two months, the state government flew into action mode on Saturday and sent scientists to Rabindra Sarovar to gather carcasses and...
IMF pushes Greece over budget The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has signalled that Greece will have to give up autonomy over its budget as desperate last-minute negotiations continue to agree the cou...
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith insisted today that Britain would block eurozone countries from using institutions paid for by EU nations. The former Tory leader insisted he had absolute "t...
21st Century Teachers: Easy to Hire, Easy to Fire Detroit rises to the status of a major character in Jeffrey Eugenides's * Middlesex*. About a fifth of the way into the novel, the narrator, Calliope/Cal S...
TEHRAN — Officials from the UN atomic watchdog began a visit to Iran on Sunday to discuss Tehran's suspect nuclear drive, amid a backlash by furious Iranian lawmakers at a looming EU oil embargo. The thr...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Martinique Region, Windward Islands at a depth of 68.6 km (42.6 miles), the quake hit at 11:33:14 UTC Sunday 29th January 2012 The epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) E...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will "actively support" French President Nicolas Sarkozy, a fellow conservative, in his spring campaign to win re-election, her Christian Democrat (CDU) party in Berlin sai...
Last week, the Indian Navy commissioned a nuclear powered submarine called INS Chakra. The 8,000 ton vessel built by Russia has been taken on lease for a 10 year period, at a cost of almost $1 billion. The...
Iranian navy has test fired the long range Qader (Mighty in Farsi) anti-ship cruise missile during the Velayat-90 naval exercises near the Strait of Hormuz. Read More
Iranian Navy has inducted new 600-ton domestically produced Fateh (Conqueror) diesel-electric submarine which is far more capable then the Ghadir class submarines. Rad More
The Kilo class diesel-electric submarines (SSK) of the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy (IRIN). Read More
The F-14 Tomcat fighter jet of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) has crashed Ñ–n Bushehr province of Iran. Read More
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of just 5 km (3.1 miles - Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 09:59:17 UTC Sunday 29th January 2012 The epicenter was 57 km (36 miles) NNE ...
Indian Army soldiers with his INSAS (Indian Small Arms System) rifle during a drill at the Indian Army Mela (fair) at Khasa, in the state of Punjab. Read More
First look at the armed Z-10 attack helicopter of the People's Liberation Army (PLA). Read More
Two People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLA-AF) J-10 A/S fighter jets refueling from the PLAAF's H-6U Badger Aerial Refueling Tanker. Read More
Photo of the Chinese Shi Lang (Ex-Varyag) aircraft carrier returning to the Dalian Port for its 4th? sea trial .Read More
The People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) J-20 Mighty Dragon 5fifth generation fighter aircraft goes into the vertical climb. The J-20 fighter aircraft flew for the first time in January last year. Re...
Around 20,000 passengers across Europe and Africa have been left stranded or forced to find new flights after the collapse of Spain's fourth-largest airline, Spanair. Six-hundred-and-forty-seven flights w...
The Z-8 Super Frelon Airborne Early Warning (AEW) helicopter has been developed to meet the requirements of People's Liberation Army Navy (PLA Navy) for an early warning platform capable of operating from...
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*With greatest surprise*, even astonishment, I noticed that from April 1 (aka 'April Fools Day') an "e-Petition Project" will become in effect to make Europe more 'democratic'. Any group of 1 million peop...
A 15-km (10 mile) stretch of crisp white beach is one of the key battlegrounds in Singapore's campaign to defend its hard-won territory against rising sea levels linked to climate change. Stone breakwate...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Dodecanese Islands, Greece at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 09:55:06 UTC Sunday 29th January 2012 The epicenter was 47 km (28.4 miles) Southwest o...
A FT-7 fighter jet trainer of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) has crashed near Mianwali while it was on training mission. Read more: http://pakmr.blogspot.com/2012/01/pakistani-female-fighter-pilot-injured.ht...
Two F-16C Block 52 aircrew trainiong simulators of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) will be upgraded with the new SimuSphere HD-9™ visual displays by the L-3 Link Simulation & Training (L-3 Link).
HQ Video of Aerial Display by JF-17 at Dubai Air Show 2011 Pakistan Air Force is participating with seven aircrafts at the Dubai Airshow 2011. Organisers of the Dubai Air Show 2011 has said that pp to 1,00...
Pak Aviation-1 Contingent comprising three Puma helicopters arrived at KAVUMU Air Terminal, Bukavu, Congo. The helicopters had initially arrived in Entebbe, Uganda and after necessary fitments and test fli...
Large caliber weapons captured from the militants including RPG (rocket-propelled grenade), artillery and mortar rounds at display. Read more: http://pakmr.blogspot.com/2012/01/pakistan-army-destroys-mili...
“No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playi...
A new team of U.S. trade enforcers will make countries think twice about putting up unfair barriers to American exports, President Barack Obama's top trade official said. U.S. Trade Representative Ron Ki...
The growing power of a rebel army has seen control of the Syrian capital of Damascus split between rival gunmen fighting for or against President Bashar Assad. Two days of bloody carnage in which at leas...
Chuck Wild, "Liquid Mind VII: Reflection - In The Stillness" Photos, animations courtesy of ESA, NASA and The Hubble Space Telescope.
Maine State Police investigators have been analyzing blood that was found in the home where baby Ayla Reynolds was reported missing six weeks ago, an official said Saturday. The revelation comes as inves...
An on-duty police officer who was under investigation for an alleged sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl has been shot dead by fellow officers. The 29-year-old cop, who worked for Santa Maria pol...
A 24-year-old snowboarder has been killed after triggering an avalanche in back country which officials had warned the public against using after a bout of violent snowstorms. Alecsander Barton, original...
About 300 people were arrested in Oakland yesterday during a chaotic day of Occupy protests that saw demonstrators break into City Hall and burn an American flag, and police fire tear gas and use 'flash' g...
A bitter husband has been charged with killing his estranged wife and her lover after he had swapped partners with her new man. Lloyd Hill is accused of beating Frederick Tarantino, 43, to death with a b...
*Peter Lemesurier* According to author *Peter Lemesurier*, in his book "*Beyond All Belief*": *1.* "Your triumphs and disasters, the whole unrolling tapestry of your daily life turns out to be an educati...
Anonymous baby drop boxes have been introduced for the first time in Russia . The Krasnodar Territory in south Russia bought five of the so-called baby drop boxes in the beginning of November so mothers c...
Economist Nouriel Roubini, nicknamed 'Dr. Doom' for his gloomy predictions in the run-up to the financial meltdown four years ago, says the fallout from that crisis could last the rest of this decade. Dr...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Western Turkey at a depth of 140 km (86.8 miles), the quake hit at 08:06:24 UTC Sunday 29th January 2012 The epicenter was 18 km (10.8 miles) Southe...
We are on a dirt track snaking its way uphill through rice paddies and groves of yellow bamboo. Behind us, spread out across a vast, smoggy plain, are the homes of tens of millions of dirt-poor migrant wo...
A leading Somalia journalist was shot outside him home in Mogadishu on Saturday and died on the way to the hospital, according to other journalists. Hassan Osman Abdi, 29, was the director of Shabelle Me...
Thousands of Yemeni air force personnel rallied in the capital Saturday to demand the removal of the president's half-brother as the country's air force commander. They marched in front of the Sanaa home...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Eastern Honshu, Japan at a depth of 30.8 km (19.1 miles), the quake hit at 07:46:44 UTC Sunday 29th January 2012 The epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) ESE of Kofu, Honshu,...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Taiwan Region at a depth of 261.5 km (162.5 miles), the quake hit at 08:07:39 UTC Sunday 29th January 2012 The epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) ENE of T'ai-Pei, Taiwa...
The supposed ‘consensus’ on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperature data showing the planet has not warmed for the past 15 years. The figures sugg...
"An Age of Hell is now upon us: The earthly body pierced with spears." - Arthur Rimbaud, 'On The Subject of Flowers: Remarks, Addressed To The Poet,' July 14, 1871. (1). "A culture like ours -- a culture...
One of the country’s top private hospital chains has warned surgeons not to use a second type of breast implant because of fears it could be linked to cancer. Following the scandal over faulty PIP implan...
German calls for an EU bureaucrat to be given complete control over the Greek economy sparked fury yesterday – with eurosceptics in Britain urging Athens to resist ‘economic domination’. Under the extra...
A man has been charged with the murder of a toddler in Staffordshire, police have said. The 18-month-old boy, who has not been identified, was taken by paramedics from a house in Meir to the University H...
Fire swept through a rehabilitation clinic for drug addicts and alcoholics in Peru, killing 26 patients who were reportedly locked in to stop them from fleeing during treatment. Several survivors said t...
UN nuclear inspectors have arrived in Iran to investigate the suspected development of atomic weapons - on the day lawmakers are expected to ban oil exports to Europe. Iran - which could implement the em...
The Government must take action to clean up party political funding before another "scandal intervenes", an MPs' committee has warned. The MPs called on the Coalition to stick to pledges to reform party ...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck the Dodecanese Islands, Greece at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:32:56 UTC Sunday 29th January 2012 The epicenter was 47 km (28.4 miles) Southwest o...
Nightnoise, “Night In That Land”
In recent months, many TRF articles were dedicated to the CMS' search for multilepton (and multijet) signatures of supersymmetry or similarly behaving new physics. Quite many of them reported some excesses...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Leyte, Philippines at a depth of 580.1 km (360.5 miles), the quake hit at 06:01:48 UTC Sunday 29th January 2012 The epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) Southeast of Cebu, C...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 04:14:58 UTC Sunday 29th January 2012 The epicenter was 32 km (19 miles) Northeast of Van, Turkey No Rep...
A magnitude 3.2 earthquake has struck Wyoming at a depth of just 6 km (3.7 miles - Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 03:46:24 UTC Sunday 29th January 2012 The epicenter was 22 km (14 miles) East of Atl...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:34:55 UTC Sunday 29th January 2012 The epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) East of Kaa-khe...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Kyrgyzstan at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles - Poorly Constrained ), the quake hit at 01:25:15 UTC Sunday 29th January 2012 The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) Southe...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Mindanao, Philippines at a depth of 384.4 km (238.9 miles), the quake hit at 00:06:51 UTC Sunday 29th January 2012 The epicenter was 48 km (29 miles) WSW of General Sa...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck New Zealand at a depth of 9 km (5.6 miles), the quake hit at 22:56:11 UTC Saturday 28th January 2012 The epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) ESE of Westport, New Zealand No ...
*Ghana - by **Wieland Koerbel* "The US Africa Command is now at war on the continent of Africa. "And not surprising, the war is about oil." (AFRICOM Goes To War In Africa -m) Ghana made its first big oil...
*ANARCHIST THEORY:* *DIFFERENT SORTS OF FREEDOM:* My dear mother, God rest her soul, used to regale me with stories of the most stupid family in the patch of geography where she grew up. She was born ...
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*Potential hit man?* The Republican Party sure has changed. The GOP was once as anti-Semitic as it's now anti-Hispanic and anti-African American. And it was certainly the anti-Zionist party. Now, of cours...
"Illuminated by an eerie greenish light, this remarkable little planet is covered with ice and snow and ringed by tall pine trees. Of course, this little planet is actually planet Earth, and the surroundin...
How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the ‘1 Percent’ By George Lakey While many of us are working to ensure that the Occupy movement will have a lasting impact, it’s worthwhile to consider other co...
Photo courtesy: szatmarr666/CC BY 2.0 An article was written lately about the FAA Allowing Whooping Cranes To Resume Migration Flight to Florida. This was a feel-good story in which the FAA, charged with ...
Photo courtesy: Bonnie Alter It's eccentric and completely outrageous but it is gorgeous. This cape, on display in the exhibition "Golden Spider Silk" at London's Victoria & Albert Museum through June 5,...
Photo courtesy: xlibber Over the next three decades, the human population is projected to reach 9 billion people. In that same time, Sumatran elephants, currently numbering around 2,500 members, are expec...
Very interesting story about how the house came to be. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade; and, that's exactly what Frank Buckley did. When life gives you a global economic crisis, a gloomy real ...
Barrett, Devlin (2011, Jan 28-29). Retaliation Fears Spur Anonymity in Internet Case. *The Wall Street Journal*, p. A3. Paraphrase: Officials have been keeping their names out of press accounts after the...
WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE of Noah's house? Somehow, he remembered cockroaches and black flies, and a couple of Sasquatch to make up for it, I guess. Then there's bed bugs. Way to go, Noah.
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*Capitalism, in its current form, no longer fits the world around us.* When a high priest of Davos says this, I can't help but wonder. Has the idea reached a tipping point? Harper may have "unveiled hi...
*BILL PRESS*: Is President Obama really a populist, or does he just play one on television? *MATT TAIBBI*: When it comes to the Wall Street stuff that I cover, there's a lot of enthusiasm. Even in the la...
FEMINISM/POLITICS - Many female veterans who fought overseas in Afghanistanand Iraq are now homeless and unable to find work. How did this happen? When returning from Afghanistan and Iraq many female veter...
Zachary, Louisiana, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
"Sometimes life's Hell. But hey! Whatever gets the marshmallows toasty." - J. Andrew Helt • But wouldn't it be nice sometimes to not* be* the marshmallow? Just asking...
*“A Sense Of Place”* by Chet Raymo “It would be hard to find two writers more different than Eudora Welty and Edward Abbey. Welty was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of stories and novels who lived all h...
Reproduced from Bioedge.org, written byMichael Cook. Here is contrarian bioethics at its best. Pregnancy and childbirth are so painful, risky and socially restrictive for women that public funding should ...
We're not going to take it! The CPS Grind on Teachers by Katie Osgood Recently, in Chicagoland, a story hit the papers about a teacher committing suicide. She wrote in her suicide note that the major reas...
*The woman* really needs to hire a research assistant who *can click on and read the results* of any one of these links. Unlike Wente's fawning over Charles Murray's latest piece of fiction based on fant...
*"Oh Not Again!"* by Karl Denninger "'On Wednesday the Federal Reserve shared its thoughts on the course of interest rates—but not on the implications for the value of the dollar. The two can't be discon...
The theory was that a feisty Republican primary would introduce Mitt Romney, long ordained as the ultimate selection of the Republican Party Establishment, to the public through a series of exciting, nic...
*Greg nails it.* The Harper agenda to carry out "pension reform" because the population of seniors in Canada threaten to undermine the economy is based solely on ideological propaganda and not an analysis...
*CANADIAN LABOUR:* *SOLIDARITY WITH TORONTO CIVIC WORKERS:* The following appeal for solidarity with civic workers in Toronto Ontario is from the Toronto based Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (O...
Seemed like an eventful week to me in Yemen, Syria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan...that's a lot. The 4th amendment case decided this week, US v. Jones, seemed important to me. I don't really think there's...
There has been a significant uptake in quake activity in the Pacific region, with the Kermedec Islands having experienced multiple 5.x+ magnitude events in the past several hours. This may be an indicator ...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand at a depth of 15.2 km (9.4 miles), the quake hit at 20:00:35 UTC Saturday 28th January 2012 The epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) ESE of...
*TODAY IN HISTORY:* *CUBAN REVOLUTIONARY JOSE MARTI BORN:* On this day in 1853 Cuban revolutionary José Marti was born. An early advocate of both independence from Spain and resistance to the imperiali...
http://www.potrblog.com/ Saturday, January 28, 2012 Weaponized Fukushima Fallout: Radioactive Fullerenes and Endofullerenes Abstract of Potrblog video: "The improvised use of salt water to cool the Fuku...
MEXICO CITY (BNO NEWS) -- An ongoing swine flu outbreak in Mexico has left at least 29 people dead and nearly 1,500 others infected, health officials confirmed on Saturday. Thousands more are also ill as ...
Here is some of the latest- Russia and the UN concerning Syria Following a lengthy closed door meeting Friday afternoon on a draft resolution proposed by France, Britain and Morocco, the UN Ambassador from...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 72.8 km (45.2 miles), the quake hit at 19:37:30 UTC Saturday 28th January 2012 The epicenter was 167 km (104 miles) SSW from Vanimo, New ...
Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ *Rachel Tso:* Impoundments are currently happening on the HPL In a phone call, Hopi ranger Ronald Honyumptewa confirmed that animals were impounded fro...
Deep down on the bottom of the Baltic Sea, Swedish treasure hunters think they have made the find of a lifetime. The problem is, they're not exactly sure what it is they've uncovered. Out searching for ...
Syria has hit out at the Arab League after it suspended its monitoring mission, saying it is an attempt to influence the United Nations Security Council. The claim was made by Syrian state television, w...
*First they suspended MAS. Then they suspended the students. Now they've come after the books. * *By Roberto Rodriguez* *Censored News* If you missed Thursday's teach-in at the U of A by suspended Wa...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand at a depth of 13.8 km (8.6 miles), the quake hit at 19:05:18 UTC Saturday 28th January 2012 The epicenter was 342 km (212 miles) East...
Dying Honeybees: It Was the Insecticides All Along By Jeanne Roberts, Celsias 28 January 12 http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/312-16/9659-dying-honeybees-it-was-the-insecticides-all-along [exc...
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand at a depth of 48.8 km (30.3 miles), the quake hit at 18:49:07 UTC Saturday 28th January 2012 The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) ESE o...
The space men say Romney's approach to space policy will produce results.
The Gay Secretary Memo to President Barak Obama: this arms deal demonstrates (as if that reality *needed *any demonstration)is that for the United States Government, democracy and human rights are only a...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand at a depth of 31.9 km (19.8 miles), the quake hit at 18:17:51 UTC Saturday 28th January 2012 The epicenter was 111 km (69 miles) Sout...
[image: In this undated file photo released by Transocean, the ultra-deepwater semi-submersible rig Deepwater Horizon is shown operating in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. AP Photo / Transocean]By Cain Burdeau ...
[image: Chinese parents with children suffering from respiratory ailments, possibly caused by air pollution, flock to the Capital Institute of Pediatrics in Beijing. Gilles Sabrie for The New York Times]...
The late former House Speaker Tip O'Neill once said that all politics is local. So are our priorities in crunch times but I'll get back to that later. Today's my 7th anniversary as a blogger. I gue...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Central Alaska at a depth of just 0.1 km (0 miles - Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 18:11:38 UTC Saturday 28th January 2012 The epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) Ea...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand at a depth of 47.5 km (29.5 miles), the quake hit at 17:47:40 UTC Saturday 28th January 2012 The epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) ESE o...
Nigeria's army killed 11 suspected Boko Haram insurgents during a gun battle at a checkpoint in the Islamist sect's heartland of Maiduguri on Saturday, the field operations officer in the remote northeast...
A magnitude 6.2 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand at a depth of 28 km (17.4 miles), the quake hit at 17:42:53 UTC Saturday 28th January 2012 The epicenter was 44 km (28 miles) ESE of ...
Local media mogul gives 2 hour talk exposing CFR, NED, and global-corporate meddling in Thailand. by Tony Cartalucci January 28, 2012 - Media mogul Sondhi Limthongkul of ASTV, a popular news and media ou...
A man in Dorset has been left mystified after tiny blue spheres fell from the sky into his garden. Steve Hornsby from Bournemouth said the 3cm diameter balls came raining down late on Thursday afternoon d...
*NEVER GIVE UP!* At 11am PT today, Darcy will be over at Digby's Hullabaloo to talk with Digby about fixing Congress and answer questions from readers about her run for Congress. Back in 2006, when Blue...
The Japanese Scientists Mouse can be Seen here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLu37VvCozw Not sure what is so different as you can see from the First Video, Mice tweet already
[image: National current-account balances as a percentage of world gross product, 1996-2013. World Economic Situation and Prospects 2012 / IMF, World Economic Outlook database, September 2011.] The larg...
By David Ljunggren, with additional reporting by Jeff Jones in Calgary; editing by Peter Galloway 26 January 2012 OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada disassociated itself on Thursday from an embarrassing officia...
The elephant, a national symbol in Thailand, is facing a new threat because of a developing taste for its meat in the country, it was claimed today. The new interest in consuming the animal includes ever...
[image: Doppler radar view of Hurricane Gustav's landfall at Cocodrie, Lousiana, 70 miles southwest of New Orleans, on 1 September 2008. weather.com] By Sami Grover, Business / Corporate Responsibility ...
L'il Steve Harper has spent the past six or more years assuring Canadians at every opportunity that he really doesn't harbour any "secret agenda." Then he goes all the way to Switzerland, drops his pants, ...
[image: The Jolly Roger of the honeycomb, from 'The Honeybee Crisis: Colony Collapse Disorder', advocacy.britannica.com]By Mike Barrett, NaturalSociety 12 January 2012 It has recently been reported that...
The German government has called for Greece to hand control over its finances to the European Union in what would be an unprecedented expansion of Brussels' power. Under the plan, in order for the embatt...
[image: Pink camellia: Flower could be growing farther north as climate changes in North America. Getty Images]By Janice Lloyd, USA TODAY 26 January 2012 Southern magnolias, lovers of sultry weather, bra...
*Bad Hair Day: Execution of the Czech 'heretic' Jan Hus ** **at the Council of Constance, anonymous woodcut, 1415 ©AKG-images* * * *THE NEW HUMANIST* is a delightful site, at the other end of the intellectu...
Spanish airline Spanair went bust early Saturday, forcing many passengers to find seats on flights with other airlines at short notice. Spanair "announced that it has ceased its operations, and thus, it h...
I just discovered that my serious migraines and worsening photophobia are nodoubt caused by a pituitary tumor that I was diagnosed in 2008, but the doctorneglected to tell me was the cause of my migraine...
The Animal Humane Society is caring for 107 dogs and two cats after it helped authorities in northern Minnesota recover the animals Thursday evening from a property where two women lived in feces-littered ...
An East Bay dad claims a game of tag on the playground resulted in his 6-year-old son being accused of sexual assault – a decision he said was an overreaction by school officials. The parent, who asked on...
*FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 2012* *The role that was played by Chris Matthews:* By now, the gentleman has been repurposed. Today, Chris Matthews is a reliable member of the pro-Obama, pro-Democratic Party team...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Simeulue, Indonesia at a depth of 39.3 km (24.4 miles), the quake hit at 15:07:54 UTC Saturday 28th January 2012 The epicenter was 243 km (150 miles) West of Sibolga, ...
Since Sarah Palin has now embarked on a literary career that seems bound and determined to supplant literacy itself and Schwarzenegger has left Sacramento and is depending on his old rival and fellow righ...
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*"He who plays around* *with Old Age Security Pension* *May walk away ....* *with broken political fingers."*
Source here. Strictly speaking, I have doubts about the authenticity, as this guy can actually spell. *Related posts:* - Electro-Motive: Foreign corporation takes Canadian tax dollars, fucks ov...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck La Rioja, Argentina at a depth of 90.2 km (56.1 miles), the quake hit at 15:07:45 UTC Saturday 28th January 2012 The epicenter was 174 km (108 miles) WSW of Belen, Cat...
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Ah, here's the real New York. This one's much closer to the mark. To be honest, these are not limited to native New Yorkers (except "I grew up in..."), but to anyone who lived in the City during the 1970s...
First they suspended MAS. Then they came after the books. Students walked out. And now they've suspended the students. If you missed Thursday's teach-in at the U of A by suspended Wakefield Middle Hig...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Simeulue, Indonesia at a depth of 35.1 km (21.8 miles), the quake hit at 14:47:19 UTC Saturday 28th January 2012 The epicenter was 240 km (149 miles) West of Sibolga, ...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 14:17:40 UTC Saturday 28th January 2012 The epicenter was 161 km (...
Not all countries value freedom of expression.
The Guardian, a top British left-wing daily, became an unlikely place that launched a war against materialism in science. In his article It's time for science to move on from materialism, Mark Vernon prom...
Tiny raspberry-scented capsules are baked into jeans. What scent would you chose?
The Arab League has suspended its observer mission to Syria following its submission of a new draft resolution to the UN Security Council. The League's deputy chief Ahmed Ben Heli said the trip - which w...
I doubt that even Rick Santorum, struggling to stay remotely relevant in Florida, would want an endorsement from spectacularly unpopular, even despised Gov. Rick Scott. No one else does. Teabagger junior ...
26th anniversary of Shuttle Challenger It is one thing to learn how to fly... Francis R. Scobee – Mission Commander Michael J. Smith – Pilot Judith A. Resnik – Mission Specialist 1 Ellison S. Onizuka – Miss...
The Final Conflict Shop is back online after a prolonged absence due to technical difficulties. Selling historical works as well as ideological material, the FC shop is well-worth a visit. An excel...
With a two-month moratorium still in place on research studies that make the H5N1 virus more transmissible in mammals, a Michigan State University grad student and professor showed how easily a new virus ...
A domestic cat died of rabies this week in the first reported case in Onslow County this year. The Friday announcement comes one week after Carteret County officials said a rabid raccoon was discovered i...
NEW ORLEANS-- It's been a busy few months for Suzanne Smith of the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas. "We keep all kinds of species here," she said. Smith is also a part of the Louisiana Marine Mammal and S...
An investigation is under way after more than 100 fish were found dead in a stream off the River Usk in Powys. Environment Agency Wales made the discovery at around 13:30 GMT on Friday. The fish and a la...
State and federal wildlife officials are investigating the shootings of at least eight sea lions found dead around the Puget Sound region in recent weeks. The latest was discovered Monday at Lincoln Park...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 51.1 km (31.8 miles), the quake hit at 12:44:27 UTC Saturday 28th January 2012 The epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) ES...
European and Arab nations are calling on the U.N. Security Council to back a resolution supporting the Arab League’s plan to end the 10-month-old political crisis in Syria. But, Russia has expressed conce...
Fighting sanctions with sanctions in a test of strength with the West over its nuclear ambitions, Iran warned on Friday it may halt oil exports to Europe next week in a move calculated to hurt ailing Euro...
A militia commander whose troops were driven out of the Libyan tribal stronghold of Bani Walid this week said on Friday that his forces were massing to recapture the town but were holding back at the gove...
Europeans are making progress to overcome the euro zone crisis but need to do more to boost their financial firewall, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde said on Saturday, addi...
South Sudan halts oil production, as leaders fail to reach deal to end dispute.
Filipino activists protest near the U.S. Embassy, denouncing talks in Washington of stationing more U.S. troops to the Philippines.
Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) -- Clashes between two tribes in northern Kenya left at least seven people dead this week, a local government official said Saturday. The clashes in Moyale on Thursday were a revenge...
KANO CITY, Nigeria (CNN) -- Police said a group of suspected militants attacked a police station in Nigeria's Kano province on Friday. Military forces have since cordoned off the area around the provincia...
Two Palestinian parliament members suspected of involvement in Hamas activity were arrested in Jerusalem on Monday, Israeli police said. Khaled abu Arafeh and Mohamed Totah were arrested at a Red Cross co...
(Financial Times) -- The German government wants Greece to cede sovereignty over tax and spending decisions to a eurozone "budget commissioner" to secure a second €130bn bail-out, according to a copy of ...
Bahrain's government has refuted opposition claims that security officers were responsible for the deaths of anti-government protesters, saying they died of natural causes. The death of teenager Mohammed...
A Norwegian U.N. official snatched from the streets of Yemen's capital city of Sanaa by armed tribesmen nearly two weeks ago was released unharmed, officials said Friday. U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky sa...
Deaths mounted in Syria on Friday as world powers in the U.N.Security Council weighed a draft resolution calling on the country's president to step down. Soldiers and security forces killed 60 people on...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. special envoy for North Korea travels to Russia next week for consultations on the North's nuclear program. The State Department said Friday that Glyn Davies will meet Russian ...
VIENNA (AP) -- The U.N. nuclear agency is including two senior weapons experts on its next mission to Tehran in an unusually clear statement on the team's prime focus -- wresting information from Iranian ...
TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's deputy prime minister acknowledged Friday that the government failed to take minutes of 10 meetings last year on the response to the country's disasters and nuclear crisis and called...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Antinuclear activists rejected a call by the industry ministry to remove their tents from its precincts by 5 p.m. Friday, and continued a four-month-old occupation of ministry grounds to ...
OMA, Aomori -- This town at the top of Aomori Prefecture is known nationwide for its tuna, and indeed the first tuna fish auctioned at Tokyo's Tsukiji Market in 2012 was hauled in by Oma fishermen. There ...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- An active fault around 200 kilometers in length, which is believed to have caused massive earthquakes in the past, has been found on the seabed off the Kii Peninsula on the country's main...
Japan's stockpile of plutonium had reached 45 metric tons by the end of 2010, inviting suspicion from the international community about what Japan intended to do with the fissile material. As a result, mu...
A pregnant woman suffered serious injuries after being badly mauled by a leopard in India - the third such attack there in as many weeks. The big cat clamped its jaws around Akila Bibi's head and arms, lea...
It's not easy keeping warm for all the small animals over winter - but it's much easier when they have a big family to fall back on. Just like this energetic family of lemurs who had been playfully chasin...
Bringing old homes up to scratch is nothing out of the ordinary for property renovators Andrew and George Hartley, But this professional couple nearly jumped out their skin when greeted by their most rec...
Diagrams of the multi-planet systems detected by the Kepler space telescope: The planets range in size from 1.5 times the size of Earth to ones bigger than the gas giant Jupiter NASA’s Kepler space teles...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Dodecanese Islands, Greece at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:50:56 UTC Saturday 28th January 2012 The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) North of Ir...
A couple and their son accused of the quadruple honour killings of half of their family took the decision to commit murder in order to cut off 'the diseased limb on their family tree'. Jurors in Ontario,...
Britain and its NATO allies spent billions freeing Libyans from the evil clutches of Colonel Gaddafi, but what exactly has replaced him? Democratic elections are still some way away, there's serious unres...
Somali pirates have threatened to kill an American hostage after a daring night-time U.S Navy SEAL mission to rescue two foreign aid workers. The pirates have moved the hostage at least three times in 24 ...
An American man accused of killing a jewellery store owner, stealing $300,000 in diamonds and then fleeing to Europe has been found hanged in his Spanish prison cell. Andrew Robert Levene was found dead ...
The Pentagon is set to launch a floating naval base in the Middle East, a move which would make the military more flexible but could cause friction with America's friends and foes alike. The vessel, whic...
*Alisa, whose body was found on the Queen's estate.* *The body at the royal estate points to a wider human trafficking issue.* "T. Stokes, who has offered news and articles to WideShut in the past, bel...
The murder of a wife and mother-of-two who was found strangled in her car after she disappeared from her home has baffled her close-knit community with her husband saying he has 'no clue' what could have...
A retired NYPD detective severely burned his estranged wife by dousing her with petrol and setting her on fire because she was divorcing him. Christopher Hanney, 46, of Tampa Bay, Florida, forced Audrey M...
The U.S. Secret Service is investigating the origins of a photo on an Arizona police officer's Facebook page that shows a group of armed youths posing in the desert with what appears to be a bullet-ridden...
A federal judge on Friday sentenced 'Barefoot Bandit' Colton Harris-Moore to 6 1/2 years in prison for his infamous two-year, international crime spree of break-ins, and boat and plane thefts that ended i...
A woman who savagely killed her co-worker in a Lululemon yoga clothing shop, then tried to pretend masked intruders had done it, will spend the rest of her life in jail. Convicted killer Brittany Norwood...
A high school student killed himself by jumping off a cliff as his mother and sister helplessly looked on in horror. Witnesses said John Albrigo, 18, 'flew off the cliff like a bird' after talking to the...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Potosi, Bolivia at a depth of 204.5 km (127.1 miles), the quake hit at 08:51:37 UTC Saturday 28th January 2012 The epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) West of Tupiza, Bolivi...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Southwestern Ryukyu Islands, Japan at a depth of 37.1 km (23.1 miles), the quake hit at 07:14:54 UTC Saturday 28th January 2012 The epicenter was 24 km (14 miles) SSE ...
The audiotape of an emergency call pleading for paramedics to help actress Demi Moore as she apparently suffered convulsions has been released by officials in Los Angeles. "She smoked something, it's no...
Police searching News International offices in London have arrested four people over inappropriate payments to officers. More follows...
It is never a bad thing when anorganization’s finances are flushed out for public scrutiny. Certainly even seriously legitimateexpenditures can be made to look bad but those are also readily defended...
This may be important. Actual seaweed harvesting for digestion needsto be made to operate without a lot of handling. In fact a semi submersible tanker that simplyeats the algae seems a promising conc...
We have all been taught to eat far too much meat. That any meat is necessary at all has longbeen proven false and there are plenty of ways to eat a complete vegetariandiet. The problem of course has ...
Of course it is a major crisis,but this is shutting the barn door rather late in the day. Just about every creature that was slightlyvulnerable has already been eliminated. It also was not the work of...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 42.1 km (26.2 miles), the quake hit at 07:11:14 UTC Saturday 28th January 2012 The epicenter was 139 km (86 miles) ES...
Five eurozone countries had their credit ratings downgraded last night, as the single currency debt crisis deepened. Italy and Spain were among the nations to be hit by ratings agency Fitch, in a bitter ...
A former police worker could face jail for possessing more than 110,000 indecent images of children. Nicholas White, 27, admitted 20 counts of possessing indecent images and two of possessing extreme ima...
Chugging away from Port Stanley through choppy, slate-grey waters, the reminders of the costly but glorious military campaign that defined the Thatcher years were etched in the hills behind us. There was...
The parents of a newborn baby left with horrific injuries and fractures all over her body walked free from court today, despite admitting child cruelty charges. The unnamed infant was just 23 days old wh...
She strikes a pose for the camera, her bright eyes shining and a smile playing on her lips. A favourite picture from her family’s album shows Alisa Dmitrijeva a few weeks after she arrived in Britain to ...
Premier League star Anton Ferdinand has been the target of a death threat on the eve of his reunion with race-row rival John Terry. He was sent a bullet in the post just 24 hours before QPR meet Chelsea i...
"The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ign...
A policeman was reportedly killed as protests swept across Senegal after a court cleared President Abdoulaye Wade's bid for a third term. Angry youths spread through the streets of Dakar, burning tyres a...
A prisoner who went on the run after being sprung by an armed accomplice as he was being taken to hospital has been arrested. Andrew Farndon, 26, has been at the centre of a nationwide manhunt since he es...
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ELEANOR HALL: And staying with climate change, another international group of scientists says it has new evidence that ocean currents around the world are being affected by global warming. The scientist...( Beats saying they`ve been influenced by oil in the Gulf of Mexico, perhaps. More P.C. )
CHIGAGO: India, the world's fourth-largest oil consumer, will not take steps to cut petroleum imports from Iran despite US and European sanctions against Tehran, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said on ...
*Now, what could these two pious baloneys have in common, other than corruption?* This weekend shady Staten Island Republican Michael Grimm was in Florida shilling for Mitt Romney's rough-and-tumble campai...
Britain's Prime Minister will join EU leaders in Brussels today, seven weeks after he refused to sign up to a treaty designed to shore up the eurozone. The UK became the only country to walk away from th...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Jujuy, Argentina at a depth of 245.1 km (152.3 miles), the quake hit at 02:18:14 UTC Monday 30th January 2012 The epicenter was 56 km (34 miles) WSW of Abra Pampa, Juju...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck the Dodecanese Islands, Greece at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 00:23:14 UTC Monday 30th January 2012 The epicenter was 15 km (9.3miles) Southwest of ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Dodecanese Islands, Greece at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 22:46:33 UTC Sunday 29th January 2012 The epicenter was 43 km (26.4 miles) Southwest o...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the North Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:54:20 UTC Sunday 29th January 2012 The epicenter was 1441 km (895 miles) NNE of Cayen...
A pub landlord and landlady have been suspended and threatened with the sack for serving pints “too full” of beer. Pete and Debbie Gibson were ordered to close their Junction Inn pub on New Year’s Eve ...
"Ron Paul, though he did not get as much airtime as the two front-runners, scolded both for their Latin American policy, saying ‘‘this usually means that we impose ourselves, go and pick the dictators, und...
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