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India's army is eating out-of-date food, the government's spending watchdog the
Public Accounts Committee said. The PAC report on food management within the army found "glaring deficiencies and inadequaci...
Japan has been developing a virus that could track down the source of a cyber attack and neutralise its programme, the daily
Yomiuri Shimbun reported Sunday. The weapon is the culmination of a 179 milli...
Fire crews are fighting a blaze that is threatening the Ross River Homestead, about 90 kilometres east of Alice Springs. Bushfires NT says the fire is burning less than a kilometre away from the homestead...
The Queensland Government is investigating the discovery of more dead fish in a Gladstone waterway. The Department of Environment and Resource Management imposed a local fishing ban when sick fish were fo...
Firefighters are busy fighting a number of blazes in and around the Perth metropolitan area. A fire burning near the Perth airport is causing delays on Tonkin Highway and the smoke is posing a risk to mot...
A man suing Pepsi Co claiming to have found a dead mouse in a can of Mountain Dew has been told the drink would have dissolved the carcass too quickly. According to the *Madison County Record* the man was...
A surfer has survived a shark attack on the NSW Central Coast, paddling away with puncture wounds to his arm. The 28-year-old man was bitten by a shark while surfing about 8pm (AEDT) on Tuesday at North A...
With temperatures in Queensland's far west expected to soar into the 40s again today, the Birdsville pub has come up with a funny solution to attract punters. Birdsville reached 43 degrees Celsius yesterd...
A thunderstorm over Perth has started bushfires, uprooted trees, and damaged property. Lightning from the storm started a bushfire near the Gnangara state forest which is burning on Hawkins Road in Jandab...
Voltaire Network January 4, 2012 From November 2011 - Suzanne Nossel, former assistant to Richard Holbrooke in his capacity as UN Ambassador and currently Hillary Clinton’s Deputy Assistant for Interna...
A seven-year-old girl who suffered cuts and bruises after being attacked by a kangaroo in Australia has said she thought she was going to die. Makayla McEvoy was playing near a group of the kangaroos at a...
"Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?" - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The commander of Syria's armed rebels has threatened to step up attacks on President Bashar Assad's security forces if there is an Arab League 'whitewash'. The warning comes as opponents to Mr Assad's re...
The White House has dismissed Iran's threat to take action against a US aircraft carrier in the Gulf as a sign the regime is under pressure from new sanctions. Amid rising tensions over the West's respon...
Two people have died in Australia after eating poisonous Death Cap mushrooms at a New Year's Eve dinner party. A third person remains in hospital. Four people were initially hospitalised after eating the...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 233.1 km (144.8 miles), the quake hit at 04:47:35 UTC Wednesday 4th January 2012 The epicenter was 88 km (54 miles) NNE of Luganville, Espiritu Sa...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck South of Sumba, Indonesia at a depth of 26.9 km (16.7 miles), the quake hit at 04:41:06 UTC Wednesday 4th January 2012 The epicenter was 216 km (134 miles) Southwest o...
[image: ISI Web of Science search of the trend in published reports of climate-related forest mortality in the scientific literature, for the years 1985–2009. Plotted bars show the percent of references ...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Ryukyu Islands, Japan at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:07:52 UTC Wednesday 4th January 2012 The epicenter was 102 km (63.2 miles) Southeast...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Bonin Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 9.3 km (5.8 miles), the quake hit at 01:49:13 UTC Wednesday 4th January 2012 The epicenter was 148 km (91 miles) East of ...
[image: Best Science or Technology Weblog entry form for the 2012 weblog awards] *Best Science or Technology Weblog* Game on, Desdemona readers. If you'd like to nominate Desdemona Despair, please scro...
[image: Add Image]A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck offshore Bio-Bio, Chile at a depth of 32.6 km (22 miles), the quake hit at 21:50:27 UTC Tuesday 3rd January 2012 The epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) W...
*Oops... too late* In October I asked a very straightforward question here, When will Artur Davis officially join the Republican Party? Basically, we've been watching Davis, first as a conservative, corpo...
"Look to this day for it is life, the very life of life. In its brief course lie all the realities and truths of existence, the joy of growth , the splendor of action, the glory of power. For yesterday i...
...as of 10:50 PM, with almost all precincts reporting in, Santorum is creeping out from the rear (pun intended). He's actually in a dead heat with Romney 25%-25%.
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wmtc - 2 hours ago
Last night we went out in the neighbourhood of the B&B, in search of a local fast-food chain that mainly serves poutine. We found a Chez Ashton a few blocks away, a brightly lit, bare-bones place with a st...
*“Knowers and Gropers”* by Chet Raymo "Karl Popper, the eminent philosopher of science, wrote, "It is imperative that we give up the idea of ultimate sources of knowledge, and admit that all knowledge is...
Talking heads. Image from Today's Word on Journalism.Sleeping through the news:'I suppose there is nothing we can do...'By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / January 3, 2012While I sleep through some of the news sh...
“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...
Image from Chocolate City.The Homeland Battlefield BillWith the stroke of Obama’s pen, the United States military has become a domestic law enforcement authority and American citizens on American soil are su...
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*Closing my archives for 2011* I still appeared to have the 'case of the skating Tupolev' open. What happened the 29th of April 2011 at *Chkalovsky Airbase*, some 40 km NE from Moscow? A *Tupolev 154-B* p...
*“How Stress Is Really Hurting Our Kids”* by Thomas Rogers “Fear is a part of everyday life, for all of us. We worry about the mortgage, about the way we look, whether we'll be fired. We worry whether we...
*"Iowans might have the first say in choosing the country’s president, but they don’t always get it right."* *Especially if Ron Paul** wins.* "All eyes on Iowa today; GOP field makes last caucus push" by M...
In a landmark report, the NAACP directly takes on the new Jim Crow tactics passed in 14 states. Image from NAACP.org.Has America’s stolen election process finally hit prime time?By Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wa...
A "Yeti" crab, seven-legged seastar and a pale octopus discovered around the vent are reshaping theories on marine life.
From *The Guardian*: Undercover police officers routinely adopted a tactic of "promiscuity" with the blessing of senior commanders, according to a former agent who worked in a secretive unit of the Metro...
“I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be "happy." I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all, to matter and to count, to stand for some...
"What Shall He Tell That Son?" "A father sees a son nearing manhood. What shall he tell that son? 'Life is hard; be steel; be a rock.' And this might stand him for the storms and serve him for humdrum and ...
*"A Side to ‘Freedom’ Worth Considering"* by Old Jules "Those of us spoiled to a particular concept of freedom and the fear it's coming unravelled might be well served to read "Papillon" once in a whi...
Scott Horton Interviews Gareth Porter - Likud, Republican Parties Push for War (January 1, 2012). Wayne Madsen - Softening Up Iran for the Final Attack.
*As I **expected** they would. * "N. Korean leader meets delegation from South; Group offered condolences on death of father" by Choe Sang-Hun | New York Times, December 27, 2011 SEOUL - Kim Jong Un, th...
Coos Bay, Oregon, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
Gingrich, who has accused Romney of trying to buy the Republican presidential nomination and of spending $3.5 million in Iowa lying about him, is already an also-ran, wiped out basically by the way the Re...
"A man must comport himself as a man. He must fight always preferably and soundly with the odds in his favor but on necessity against any sort of odds and with no thought of the outcome. He should follow ...
*"The Crushing Weight of New Laws and Federal Tax Codes"* by Addison Wiggin "The sale, trade and distribution of shark fins are now banned in California. Daily drink specials — i.e., happy hour — have bee...
Chris Hedges, "Brace Yourself! The American Empire Is Over & The Descent Is Going To Be Horrifying!"
* Newt pondering how to turn this nomination thing around? * *"This is the first few minutes of the Super Bowl. I think it’s been a good three minutes for us. I think we've begun to lay out the themes that ...
TV Nova, the largest Czech commercial TV, just aired the first of the two episodes of Ice, a 2011 U.K.-Kiwi TV series. After some time, I watched a hardcore climate alarmist movie (in the Czech dubbing)....
*As you wish, war paper*: "US soldier gets 10 years in rape of S. Korean" November 02, 2011|New York Times SEOUL - A South Korean court sentenced a *US Army private* to 10 years in prison yesterday for ...
One of my favourite sayings is "*If you don't like the weather in Alberta, wait 30 minutes. If you don't like the politicians, wait 30 years*." However, the sleepy world of Alberta politics has come alive...
Did you hear the one where the Republican contender for president said we ought to repeal child labor laws? Sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but if you weren't paying attention due to all the holid...
On 2 January 2012, Ron Paul was ahead of Mitt Romney in a second to last 2012 New Hampshire Primary online straw poll. Paul got 28% of the votes (1,844 votes) for a first place finish. Romney earned 23% ...
EDF Energy reduced power output at its two Hunterston nuclear reactors in Scotland on Tuesday, after the grid operator moved to better manage electricity distribution amid severe power cuts following heavy...
A magnitude 3.9 earthquake has struck near Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 11 km (6.8 miles), the quake hit at 17:46:21 UTC Tuesday 3rd January 2012 The epicenter was 20 km (12.4 miles) East of Be...
A magnitude 3.9 earthquake has struck near Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 11 km (6.8 miles), the quake hit at 16:27:39 UTC Tuesday 3rd January 2012 The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) East of Bel...
In the early hours of Wednesday morning, the upper atmosphere will be peppered by the grainy remnants of an ancient icy body, heralding the first meteor shower of 2012.
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” - Mark Twain
North Korean troops have shot dead three compatriots who were trying to cross the border into China, according to a South Korean activist. The report comes as North Korea moves to tighten border controls a...
*"A Brief Retrospective of the Year Gone By"* by Bill Bonner "Before we say goodbye to 2011, let us pause to remember it…briefly. We spent 365 days with it — 365 days in a row. We can’t just move on to 20...
*Trump-Palin pizza party (write your own caption!), letter to the prez, Medicare "reform," you can't hear that speech!, and more* *Your caption here? (See below.)* *by Noah* *6/1/11 -- Palin and Trump di...
Shoes embedded with location tracking technology can help find people who unpredictably wander off.
A trio of blasts rocked the southern Afghanistan city of Kandahar Tuesday, killing at least 14 people and injuring 32, officials said. On Tuesday evening, an improvised explosive device exploded without c...
Syrian officials and opposition activists blamed each other for an attack on a gas pipeline near the restive city of Homs Tuesday, while a leading opposition group said at least 18 members of the security ...
Armed clashes erupted in the center of Tripoli on Tuesday, with unknown gunmen trading anti-aircraft and heavy machine gun fire, an AFP reporter said. The fighting broke out at a building used as intellig...
You know how much I gravitate to good satire, and when I started reading the following tidbit, I was screaming (with delight). There's no doubt in my mind that if the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) people don't ...
Iran warned the United States Tuesday not to return a U.S. aircraft carrier "to the Persian Gulf region." "The Islamic Republic of Iran will not repeat its warning," said Maj. Gen. Ataollah Salehi, comm...
TAKES ALL KINDS TO MAKE A POLITY. And in Iran, nuts and flakes abound. There's an election coming at the beginning of March. *I Need a Dinner Jacket's* kinda worried about it, too, because Iranian polit...
A lost Maryland man is located by a helicopter after he uses the flashlight on his iPhone.
No, the famed physicist, who turns 70 on Sunday, isn't looking to pick your brains about wormholes, dark energy or alternative universes. He, like many of us these days, needs tech support.
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CENSORED NEWS - 14 hours ago
Navajo and Apache children in prison at Bosque Redondo, Fort Sumner, N.M.*The Untouchables: News in Indian Country* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com The most censored issue...
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Biased BBC - 14 hours ago
No, I haven't gone mad but I am interested in your take on this. The BBC is claiming it generates £7bn worth of "value" each year and uses this Deloitte report to allegedly validate the claim. Give it a re...
*TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 2012* *Santorum’s ugly line:* Wow! As the day of reckoning drew near, the other tribe has gotten ugly! Luckily, Al Sharpton blew the whistle at the start of last evening’s show: SHA...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Guam Region at a depth of 22 km (13.7 miles), the quake hit at 15:40:00 UTC Tuesday 3rd January 2012 The epicenter was 137 km (85 miles) Southwest of Hagatna, Guam ...
posted by David Vance at
Biased BBC - 14 hours ago
Sometimes, bias is revealed in small ways. This morning, I heard the BBC talk about the likely results of the Iowa caucuses as concerns the GOP candidates in the running there. What got me was that they sa...
Usually the recipes that make your raise your eyebrows a little come from my side of the family with our typical Norwegian foods, but this yummy soft egg noodle comes from my husband's. My father-in-law ...
*"Another Deflection Attempt"* by Karl Denninger "This is getting old... It took a relatively obscure former British academic to propagate a theory of the financial crisis that would confirm what many p...
*TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 2012* *Our best friend makes us a promise:* Tonight, the “press corps” will finally stop speculating (guessing) about the way Iowa will turn out. What will these fly-weights do inste...
When Israel's top court runs headlong into international law it's an ugly day for the rule of law. The Israeli Supreme Court* *had to decide whether Israeli companies can exploit resources in the Palestin...
*"Tanks on Main Street: The Militarization of Local Police"* By John W. Whitehead “If we’re training cops as soldiers, giving them equipment like soldiers, dressing them up as soldiers, when are they goin...
Governor-appointed Board in Louisiana Says Levee Breach Sites Not Historic Six members of a governor-appointed board in Louisiana recently voted against placing the sites of two catastrophic levee breaches ...
And how to escape... by Tony Cartalucci January 3, 2012 - National Geographic's recent article, "The City Solution: Why cities are the best cure for our planet's growing pains," argues that urbanization i...
[image: James Hansen of NASA, one of the most outspoken scientists when it comes to advocating for climate policies, participates in civil disobedience protests against the Keystone XL pipeline in Washin...
*TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 2012* *The audible sighs of reporters:* You know you’re getting the press corps’ most fatuous work when they start a piece with snide critiques about a candidate’s background music. ...
[image: Deadliest storms of 2011, compiled by Jeff Masters.] By Jeff Masters 30 December 2011 A remarkable blitz of extreme weather events during 2011 caused a total of 32 weather disasters costing at l...
"Low-gluten" turns out to often be an ambiguous label.
The dog days of winter can bring on the worst of doldrums, this at-home light therapy visor may be able to pull you out of them.
Despite advances, security fears keep most U.S. voters marking paper ballots.
An expensive robotic hand mimics the impatient drumming of human fingers.
Gesture controls make this cute Wi-Fi radio simple to use.
A discreet, convenient, energy-saving solution that's environmentally friendly and maintenance-free.
DARPA project calls on small insects with microphones and cameras mounted to their backs to help save the day.
[image: A crew repairs potholes Friday along Austin Boulevard on the West Side, part of a record-setting year of road repairs, 30 December 2011. E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune] By Jon Hilkevitch 2...
As 2012 dawns on us, a look back at the most viewed posts on this blog in 2011. While the federal election was a bad time to be a Liberal, it was a good time to be a Liberal blogger. 1. *April 4th Seat Pr...
*Congratulations!* On January 8th, 2012, the most famous living scientist Stephen Hawkingcelebrates his 70th birthday. That's despite the fact that various doctors were predicting his imminent demise as ea...
Gary Dobson and David Norris have been found Guilty of the Murder of Stephen Lawrence in April 1993. Sentencing will take place tomorrow 4th January 2011 ******** Two men have been convicted of the racis...
A man has been killed after his van was crushed by an oak tree that was blown down by strong winds, Kent Police have said. Large parts of the UK are being battered by winds of up to 100mph and heavy rain...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the San Nicolas Island, Channel Islands, California at a depth of 17.3 km (10.8 miles), the quake hit at 14:18:56 UTC Tuesday 3rd January 2012 The epicenter was 7 km (...
A magnitude 3.9 earthquake has struck the San Nicolas Island, Channel Islands, California at a depth of 17.3 km (10.8 miles), the quake hit at 14:18:56 UTC Tuesday 3rd January 2012 The epicenter was 7 km (...
*TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 2012* *Part 4—Paul Krugman's search for the experts:* New years often start like old years. So it was in today’s New York Times, with an awful, horrible, no-good column by feckless ...
Ronald Searle was Britain's greatest graphic artist Ronald Searle (3 March 1920 – 30 December 2011) was best known as the creator of St Trinian's School. *http://ronaldsearle.blogspot.com/* has a post...
I'm not sure if it was Abby Melamed or Bonnie Simmons, but one of them told me when I was working at KSAN that the reason for playlists is because on the very day that a dj got completely sick of hearing ...
Vets in the Top End warn an epidemic of rabies in Indonesia could have disastrous consequences if it reaches Australia, because of the large dog population in remote Indigenous communities. The disease ...
An eight-year-old girl who had been lost in Western Australia's Gibson Desert for four days has died. Danielle Lane was last seen with family friend Augustine Winter Miller, 38, on New Year's Eve at Tjirr...
The first-ever observed hybrid may be a sign the predators are adapting to climate change.
Isn't this interesting? From reading through this everything seems in place except for possibly the "drilling"? Could that drill go live, as has happened before? I will post a number of links, so read on. ...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 40 km (27 miles), the quake hit at 12:20:17 UTC Tuesday 3rd January 2012 The epicenter was 143 km (88 miles) South of Severo-Kuril'sk, K...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 40 km (27 miles), the quake hit at 12:20:17 UTC Tuesday 3rd January 2012 The epicenter was 143 km (88 miles) South of Severo-Kuril'sk, K...
As fire crews continue to battle a series of blazes in Victoria's far east, the weather bureau has issued a warning for flash flooding in the same region. It has been a busy start to the New Year for the ...
The discovery of a woman's body on the Queen's Sandringham Estate in Norfolk is being treated as murder, police have said. A walker found the human remains in woodlands in the village of Anmer on New Yea...
France's President Nicolas Sarkozy demanded on Tuesday that Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad step down, accusing him of overseeing sickening "massacres" against his own people. Mr Sarkozy told an audienc...
The Met Office has issued severe weather warnings across many parts of the UK, as storms batter the country. Part of the roof of the grandstand at Epsom racecourse in Surrey has been blown off by high wi...
A magnitude 3.2 earthquake has struck Oklahoma at a depth of 4.9 km (3 miles), the quake hit at 10:56:57 UTC Tuesday 3rd January 2012 The epicenter was 30 km (18 miles) Northeast of Shawnee, Oklahoma No Rep...
The head of the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan and a member of the government panel received donations totaling 7.1 million yen from the atomic power industry before assuming duties at the watchdog, th...
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) said on Jan. 2 that the level of water in a tank for the No. 4 reactor at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant dropped "abnormally" after an earthquake measuri...
*Prince John, who died aged 13, at Wood Farm at Sandringham. * Prince John (1905 – 1919) was the youngest son of King George V and Queen Mary. Prince John had epilepsy and was mainly kept hidden from ...
*Twitter has added media mogul Rupert Murdoch to its ranks. Mr. Murdoch also threatened to create more problems for himself after twittering from his pill computer about the UK's bank holiday.* Trying to ...
With the recent outbreak of avian influenza in China and Hong Kong, the Korean government is beefing up border inspection to prevent the disease from entering the country. The measure comes following a ca...
The strain of H5N1 avian influenza that infected and killed a man in Shenzhen, China, was a mutant strain of the deadly virus, according to Chinese and Hong Kong media reports. A 39-year-old bus-driver n...
“Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful, rich, downtrodden, gentle, sick,...
“All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewli...
Being wrong can be more interesting than being right. In November Terry Lovejoy, an Australian amateur astronomer, spotted a comet on a collision course with the sun. Comets fall into the sun all the time,...
More than 20 people were feared dead after a Kenyan ferry carrying more than 80 passengers capsized following a collision with a cargo boat off the island of Lamu. Survivors confirmed earlier suggestions...
Afghanistan — The Afghan girl’s nails had been pulled out, her skin on her ear and nose had been twisted with pliers, and she had been kept in a dark, filthy basement bathroom without proper food or water ...
The head of the Arab League said its peace monitors were helping to ease a violent crackdown on anti-government protests in Syria but activists said the organization was being manipulated by President Bash...
France is convinced Iran is developing nuclear weapons and should face "stricter sanctions", Foreign Minister Alain Juppe has said. He urged EU countries to follow the US in freezing Iranian central bank ...
An investigation is to be launched into how gunman Michael Atherton had been allowed to hold licences for shotguns and other firearms after he shot dead his partner Susan McGoldrick and two other women in ...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 99.8 km (62 miles), the quake hit at 08:41:37 UTC Tuesday 3rd January 2012 The epicenter was 38 km (22 miles) N...
Iran will take action if a U.S. aircraft carrier which left the area because of Iranian naval exercises returns to the Gulf, the state news agency quoted army chief Ataollah Salehi as saying on Tuesday. ...
Australians have been asked to heed safety advice from authorities as much of the country swelters through what is already shaping up to be a record-breaking heatwave. Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Tues...
Mexican federal police in Ciudad Juarez tortured five people to force confessions that they killed an officer and participated in a car bomb attack, the nation's human rights commission alleged. "Accordi...
Iraq's civilian death toll lingered at more than 4,000 for the third straight year in 2011, a sign of the country's "persistent low-level conflict," according to a public online database. A total of 4,06...
A top U.S. diplomat will arrive in Beijing on Tuesday at the start of a tour around Northeast Asia, which is still adapting to the change of leadership in North Korea following the death of Kim Jong Il las...
Another syringe has been found in clothing from a Walmart store in Georgia, bringing the number of cases to 15 at the same store since late November. A woman reported the case to the sheriff's office on ...
A soldier arrested on New Years Eve at a Texas airport with explosives is an Army-trained demolitions expert and member of the elite Green Berets who served in Afghanistan. Trey Scott Atwater, 30, who is ...
A killer’s conviction has been thrown out and he must be tried again after a court stenographer erased the transcript of his murder trial by mistake. Randy Chaviano, 26, of Hialeah, Florida, was convicted ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Southern Xinjiang, China at a depth of just 1 km (0.6 miles - Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 07:39:59 UTC Tuesday 3rd January 2012 The epicenter was 122 km (75....
An armed Iraq War veteran suspected of killing a Mount Rainier National Park ranger managed to evade snowshoe-wearing SWAT teams and dogs on his trail for nearly a day. He couldn't, however, escape chest-d...
This item by Al Sears extols the virtues ofbananas and it contains a lot of surprising value that is unsuspected by mostof us. After all it is sweet and tastesgood and surely cannot be good for us? We...
The take home is that we canexpect MRI technology to be used more extensively for not just CHD as skillsets improve in the interpretation of scanning results. It always looked like it should be that s...
This particular plankton appearsmade to order to do the job touted for algae in converting CO2 into a viableanimal feedstock. Obviously it is earlydays here but the nutrient spectrum and the possibilit...
Police in New York released surveillance video today of a man wanted in connection with firebombings of an Islamic centre and Hindu worship site on New Year's Day. Video shows a man hurling a lit Molotov ...
Fighting broke out between crowds of Muslims and police when a mosque was demolished - for being an 'illegal religious place'. Violence erupted in the town of Hexi, in China's northwest Ningxia region, af...
“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not...
"Risk, by definition, is part and parcel of our profession. It is not part of a teacher's profession, or a doctor's, or many others, but it is part of ours. This is why we are ready for it. I think that ...
Well, you know what part of my anatomy you can kiss. Try not to get shit on your lips. *Read it again*.
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Biased BBC - 23 hours ago
Polly Toynbee, former BBC correspondent and let-them-eat cake socialist, has framed a tub-thumping Cnut-like expression of the corporation's sense of self-importance here. Note especially the nasty, venomo...
A manhunt has been launched after a statue of former pope John Paul II was damaged. Vandals smashed off the head and hands of the statue in the resort town of Riccione on Italy's northern coast on New Yea...
British Interpol officials had warned that a professor’s son arrested over a frenzied murder in Costa Rica was a dangerous individual linked to a string of sex crimes and likely to commit acts of barbarism...
Image: Simon Cremer was forced to Pay former employee Mark Gilbert who FORGED Cheques and STOLE from the Company £13,000. Mark Gilbert, no doubt with help of the Human Rights Act Sued his Boss for 'Humili...
More than 900 police officers continue to serve despite being convicted of crimes including violence, robbery and fraud. Forces employ policemen and women with criminal records for assault, burglary, supp...
A manhunt was under way last night after a young mother was kidnapped from her home and stabbed to death. The body of Kirsty Treloar, 20, who just a month ago had given birth to a baby girl, was found in ...
The man accused of shooting a student in the head on Boxing Day gave his first name as ‘Psycho’ when he appeared in court yesterday charged with murder. Kiaran Stapleton, 20, who lives in the Ordsall neig...
Ministry of Defence civil servants have pocketed almost £40million in bonuses while frontline troops face a pay squeeze and job cuts. The penpushers were given the astonishing sum for ‘good performance’ as...
Britain's biggest banks are aiming to rake in around £35billion in combined profits this year while families see their incomes squeezed in the worst downturn for almost a century. Between them, the big fi...
Cool relief from Victoria's heat wave is on the way but authorities fear lightning strikes accompanying the change could spark more fires. The warning comes as Melbourne endures another hot day, with the m...
The Health Department has issued a warning to parents about a sharp rise in whooping cough cases in WA. More than 3,500 cases were reported in 2011; that's more than double last year's figures. While the...
The Housing Trust Tenants Association says it is concerned about the number of people with violent criminal backgrounds being granted access to public housing in suburban Adelaide. The association says it...
Harry Burkhart: "I Hate America" Los Angeles police have arrested a man who is suspected of setting more than 50 fires in and around Hollywood. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said that Harry Burkhart, 24, wa...
As Americans look upon the treacherous legislation passed under NDAA 2012, it it should first be remembered that the very bill President Obama threatened to veto was controversial due to the language the O...
NATO's multifaceted partnership with eastern member Turkey is at risk after Ankara slapped sanctions on Paris in response to a French Parliament vote criminalizing denial of genocide, including the deaths ...
Foreign troops fighting in Afghanistan continue to pay a high toll, with more than 560 killed in 2011, the second highest number in the 10-year war against the Taliban-led insurgency. Commanders from the ...
Fiery Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr sharply criticised an offshoot of his movement on Sunday, accusing them of killing Iraqi soldiers and policemen and being beholden to neighbouring Iran. It is the first...
The global economy will grow by around 3pc this year, down from 4pc in 2011. The US should manage a 2pc expansion, while Britain and the eurozone will struggle. A West European recession, the UK included, ...
Andrew Lansley, the Health Secretary, has ordered an urgent review of faulty silicone breast implants given to more than 40,000 women, after an investigation showed the rupture rate could be seven times hi...
The chief executive of Standard Chartered has warned that there is an increasing likelihood of a country falling out of the eurozone because of the inability of politicians to resolve the crisis. The hea...
US defence secretary Caspar Weinberger was left stunned by Israel's air strike on an Iraqi nuclear reactor in 1981, according to secret British files released Friday. Despite the close ties between Israel...
Prime Minister Lucas Papademos on Saturday warned Greeks of another difficult year ahead as it battles to avert economic collapse and an exit from the single European currency. "A very difficult year, ma...
The dawn of a new year is usually a time of hope and ambition, of dreams for the future and thoughts of a better life. But it is a long time since many of us looked forward to the new year with such anxiet...
What should investors watch in 2012? As the new year dawns, there are plenty of short-term issues on the horizon, ranging from the eurozone to fiscal gridlock in the US to upheavals in the Middle East. B...
According to the latest statistics show that in this year, global stock market value evaporated nearly $ 6.3 trillion, mostly in the second half of 2011 increased European sovereign debt crisis caused by ...
Crack addicts in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside have started receiving free crack pipes as part of a Vancouver Coastal Health Authority harm reduction strategy aimed at curbing the spread of disease. Part...
The new radar-evading aircraft, which cost the Air Force $15 million, has a maximum takeoff weight of 15,800 pounds and can fly at 460 mph. The drone, built near San Diego, is for testing purposes. The Ai...
Hacker collective Anonymous has just dumped 200 GB of names, email addresses and passwords for around 860,000 Stratfor users. Anonymous also exposed credit card numbers for 75,000 paying customers of Stra...
A 45-year-old Temple City woman is accused of providing false information to an airline in order to take revenge on a male passenger with whom she had a four-day fling. Lizet Sariol is expected to plead ...
The World Health Organization issued a stern warning on Friday to scientists who have engineered a highly pathogenic form of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, saying their work carries significant risks and ...
“We declare solemnly and confidently that the foolish politicians around the world, including the puppet group in South Korea, should not expect any change from us,'' the country’s powerful National Defe...
The official mourning period for Kim Jong Il is over and the world's eyes - and in many cases fears - are now focused on Kim Jong Un. We still don't know with any certainly how old he is, let alone whethe...
A recent analysis of a Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) data record spanning 38.7 yr revealed an anomalous increase of the eccentricity of the lunar orbit amounting to de/dt_meas = (9 +/- 3) 10^-12 yr^-1. The pre...
The Environmental Protection Agency recently finalized a rule that for the first time requires U.S. coal and oil-fired power plant operators to limit emissions of mercury and other hazardous air pollutants...
"The little river twittering in the twilight, The wan, wondering look of the pale sky, This is almost bliss. And everything shut up and gone to sleep, All the troubles and anxieties and pain Gone under the...
As Arab League monitors work to expose President Bashar al-Assad's crackdown, the head of the mission is a Sudanese general accused of creating the fearsome "janjaweed," which was responsible for the worst...
MOSCOW – On the night of Monday, Dec. 5, blogger, anti-corruption activist, and budding politician Alexey Navalny was one of 500 people arrested at a protest denouncing fraud in the previous day's parliame...
What conflict situations are most at risk of deteriorating further in 2012? When Foreign Policy asked the International Crisis Group to evaluate which manmade disasters could explode in the coming year, we...
In the middle of 2001, I predicted in my book, *The Coming Collapse of China *, that the Communist Party would fall from power in a decade, in large measure because of the changes that accession to the Worl...
The Tyee – This Year, Put the Country Ahead of the Party: " ... with the election of Stephen Harper, everything changed. No prime minister in Canadian history has come to power with such a ruthless determ...
“Dreams are the answers to questions that we haven't yet figured out how to ask.” - "Fox Mulder", "The X-Files"
A team of conservative policymakers and thinkers believes that there's a real chance that Western efforts to stop Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon will fail, in which case the United States would have ...
As the violence in Syria spirals out of control, top officials in President *Barack Obama*'s administration are quietly preparing options for how to assist the Syrian opposition, including gaming out the u...
A few days ago we mentioned that the DCCC has refused to add Progressive Caucus chair Raúl Grijalva to their Frontline list of endangered incumbents. That isn't because Grijalva isn't endangered; between ...
A walker has found human remains in woodlands on the Royal Family's Sandringham estate, according to police. "Detectives from Norfolk Constabulary have launched an investigation following the discovery o...
Fierce storms are set to batter Britain with winds of up to 85mph and heavy rain expected to cause traffic chaos as commuters return to work and school. The latest round of unsettled weather will add mor...
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*Dear Mr. Harper; Why aren't your multi-Billion dollar corporate tax cuts tied to ACTUAL job creation? A Canadian taxpayer* *OTTAWA - Profitable Canadian businesses are set to reap $2.85 billion in addit...
In times when nearly a billion people are starving, it is simply immoral to artificially increase prices of foods through patent monopolies. Effectively, companies such as Monsanto are abusing patent law...
"Most bright stars in our Milky Way Galaxy reside in a disk. Since our Sun also resides in this disk, these stars appear to us as a diffuse band that circles the sky. The below panorama of a northern band ...
*"Wickedness, And The Bonfire of the Vanities" * by Chet Raymo "It seems a simple, innocuous, almost obvious statement: The point of life is to seek pleasure and avoid pain. It was a goal enunciated by Ep...
"Nothing ventured, nothing gained - but if everything is ventured, and still nothing gained, give up and venture elsewhere." - Peter Wastholm
*"Research Shows Transfats Found in Junk Food Causes Brain Damage"* by The Daily Mail "Not only does it rot your teeth and add inches to your waistline, but now researchers have discovered that junk food ...
South Australia is sweltering with the hottest start to the year in more than a century as a hot air mass which can sear vegetation moves across the state and into Victoria. The weather system is dragging...
It is really unusual for such asite to be established at this elevation in the first instance and for it to besustained and later revisited for obviously what must be centuriesafterward. It plausibly ...
*Poor Willard Inc.! Nobody warned him that reality could possibly intrude on his campaign fantasy land. But then, who signed off on the idea of passing him off as a "job creator"?* *by Ken* Two points ab...
*Remarks by John Zerzan at 'De-Occupy O'odham Lands' benefit at Dry River Radical Collective in Tucson, for Tohono O’odham fighting mining on their traditional lands, in December 2011* Censored News http...
I stole this from Nancy. 1. What did you do in 2011 that you’d never done before? *** Traveled to Germany, Jamaica, San Diego, and Puerto Rico. Wore an all sequined dress. Became obsessed with running a...
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The drive from Mississauga to Quebec was long but easy. My only concern was winter storms, and we saw nothing more than the occasional flurry. In fact, for the portion of the trip in daylight, it was brigh...
Grapevine, Texas, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
* * *"3.5 Million Homeless and 18.5 Million Vacant Homes in the US"* by Diane Sweet "The National Economic and Social Rights Initiative along with Amnesty International are asking the U.S. to step up its e...
*"Questions Before Dark"* "Day ends, and before sleep when the sky dies down, consider your altered state: has this day changed you? Are the corners sharper or rounded off? Did you live with death? Make de...
*3 deranged GOP homophobes... and one is a closet queen himself!* I believe in equality, but in marriage... not so much. I mean if people want to get married, by all means let them. It doesn't interest me;...
There was a real BBC hatchet job carried over the holidays concerning Margaret Thatcher and her approach to Liverpool in the early '80's and B-BBC contributor Alan picks up on the detail; "And aren’t w...
*BOOKS:* *PAPAL SIN AND LORD ACTON:* *"The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks"* *- Lord Acton* ** I thought that...
Remarkable story in the DT the other day, I know Miliband is deluded but this takes it to a whole new level! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
*Cops want you to do more than turn down the volume*: "Police detain and shave dozens after raiding Indonesian punk rock concert" December 15, 2011|Associated Press BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - Police in Indon...
Biased BBC's Alan notes; "Richard Black illustrates why he is not a good journalist...allowing prejudice and bad judgement to influence his reporting. On Twitter he claims people who don't follow the 'con...
"Flood kills hundreds in Philippines; Tropical storm waters ravage region in south" December 18, 2011|By Oliver Teves, Associated Press MANILA -* Flash floods* swept through a southern Philippines region ...
In campaign shakeup, Mitt Romney announces new campaign chairman is Mr. Miyagi.
* *"See? Red, white and blue! USA! USA! We're #1!!!"* * *"Surprising New GOP Candidate"* A Letter from Kim Jong-un To the People of Iowa by Andy Borowitz PYONGYANG (The Borowitz Report) – "The following i...
"Nepal hopes elephant games boost tourism" by Associated Press December 29, 2011 Soccer-playing elephants used all four feet and even their trunks trying to score goals. Racing pachyderm thundered to the...
*I'm sorry, readers; however, I am simply never going to catch up so I decided to dump the agenda-pushing trade and cyber war posts from the Boston Globe's business section.* "China cracking down on reali...
*"Nobody Understands Debt"* By Paul Krugman "In 2011, as in 2010, America was in a technical recovery but continued to suffer from disastrously high unemployment. And through most of 2011, as in 2010, al...
"There exists no more difficult art than living. For other arts and sciences, numerous teachers are to be found everywhere. Even young people believe that they have acquired these in such a way, that they ...
And the next question is DID YOU PAY FOR THAT TRIP WITH PRECIOUS TAX DOLLARS? I have no idea who this is - it was just another one of those pieces of ALEC information that shows up on the web. During t...
"November trial set for Khmer Rouge leaders" October 19, 2011|Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Cambodia’s *war crimes tribunal* will begin its long-awaited full-scale trial of the top surviving lea...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 60 km (37.2 miles), the quake hit at 19:35:01 UTC Monday 2nd January 2012 The epicenter was 107 km (66.4 miles) East...
Pakistani security forces detained three Iranian border guards Monday after officials say they illegally entered Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province and opened fire on a vehicle, killing one perso...
*You expect something else from a government?* * *"Sri Lanka OK’s panel to mend postwar ties" November 24, 2011|Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka’s Parliament approved the creation yesterday...
*"Seeing Through The Apocalypse"* by Zen Gardner "They don't own the earth. They don't own you and me. They don't own all their stupid secret symbols. They don't own the present, they don't own the futur...
"Maldives urged to stop flogging women" November 25, 2011|Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - The United Nations human rights chief urged the Maldives yesterday to end the practice of *flogging* women fo...
*"Take this APR and Shove It"* By Kimberly Thorpe “At last count, Steven Katz owed $80,000 on his six credit cards, and he has no intention of paying any of it off. In fact, he'd like to show you how to ...
*"They're Getting Desperate: GIVE THEM THE FINGER!"* by Karl Denninger “Happy New Year... * I am getting sued by a creditor. The account is about six or seven years old. Can the creditor collect mone...
From *CBC*: (emphasis mine) Electro-Motive Diesel, which makes diesel-electric locomotives and engines in London, Ont., has locked out almost 500 unionized workers *after they failed to take a 50 per cen...
"Police ban Malaysia gay rights event" November 04, 2011|Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Police ordered gay rights activists in Muslim-majority Malaysia yesterday to scrap an annual arts festival...
*All the photos are of Venice and the surrounding area.* *Politico Botches Poll Results to Downgrade Ron Paul* *Conspiracies Make the World Go Round* *The 1% Seem to be Following Hitler’s Playbook and ...
From Think Progress - They always do such a wonderful job of reporting the issues. PLEASE - read the whole article *>>>>>HERE<<<<<* Your tease:
A Syrian man has been killed 'execution-style' in Germany as fears grow that the Damascus regime is actively hunting down its critics in Europe. The 35-year-old man was killed after he stopped in his Volks...
MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Wash. — Police said a body believed to be that of a gunman suspected in the shooting death of a park ranger has been found, but the identity has not yet been confirmed. Public ...
The stricken eurozone will start disintegrating this year and will almost certainly collapse within the next decade, a think tank warned today. At least one country will quit before the end of the year and...
Thousands of dead herring have been discovered washed up on a north Norwegian beach - prompting Doomsday predictors to hail it as another sign the world is set to end. More than 20 tonnes of the fish is c...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 40 km (24.8 miles), the quake hit at 18:28:27 UTC Monday 2nd January 2012 The epicenter was 110 km (68.2 miles) East...
I hope those U.S. senators are telling the ITALIAN PEOPLE that they are REPRESENTING the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Italy–USA Foundation (Italian...
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*I hope he's okay.* "Chavez declares himself cancer free" October 21, 2011|Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO - President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela declared yesterday that he had beaten cancer, less than five...
Firefighters in Chile battled three huge wildfires Monday that have burned about 90 square miles (23,000 hectares) of forest, destroyed more than 100 homes and have driven away thousands of tourists while ...
Iran launched a long-range missile during a naval exercise in the Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, a move regarded as Tehran’s warning to the west over imposing oil sanctions because of its nuclear programme...
"Latin American birthrates plummeting; Urbanization, health care, TV soap operas cited" by Juan Forero | Washington Post, January 01, 2012 BATAN, Brazil - Fertility rates have dropped in many parts of t...
*THE NEW YEAR'S SPECTRE:* Perhaps the ghost of New Years Yet To Come ?
"Argentine raised by parents’ ‘Dirty War’ killer" October 09, 2011|By Alexei Barrionuevo, New York Times BUENOS AIRES - The nation’s top military leaders engaged in a *systematic plan to steal babies* fro...
*Hoax detector Ben Stein, hoax makers Glenn Beck and Harold Camping, Ahnold can't be prez and T-Paw won't be, and more* *Self-proclaimed sage Harold Camping managed to whiff on twoend-of-the-world predicti...
I keep hitting links to this all morning - so it means I have to publish something. My question is - being that I have worked in higher ed and at nonprofits AND done grant accounting reporting..............
*She must be; otherwise, the terrorist would not be getting so much attention from the paper.* "Peru lets US activist take holiday trip" December 17, 2011|Associated Press LIMA, Peru - A Peruvian court ha...
A magnitude 3.1 earthquake has struck Syria at a depth of just 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 17:12:11 UTC Monday 2nd January 2012 The epicenter was 28 km (17.4 miles) South of Al-hasakah, Syria No Repo...
Image: The hybrid shark contains DNA from both the Australian blacktip shark and the common blacktip shark, researchers say. The world's first hybrid sharks have been discovered in substantial numbers off...
*Except the newspaper. * "French court approves Noriega extradition" by Jamey Keaten and Pierre-Antoine Souchard Associated Press / November 23, 2011 PARIS—A French court ruled Wednesday that former dict...
A Molotov cocktail was tossed at an Islamic center in one of three attacks in New York City, authorities said early Monday. The three attacks in Queens were at the Islamic center, a bodega, and a private...
The militant Islamist group Boko Haram has issued an ultimatum giving Christians living in northern Nigeria three days to leave the area amid a rising tide of violence there. A Boko Haram spokesman, Abul...
Iran is using what is normally a quiet holiday lull in the West to make the most of its military manoeuvres in the Strait of Hormuz, which have concluded after 10 days. The navy test-fired two types of lon...
Britain is a nation in denial about obesity, according to a new survey. Just under a quarter of the UK population is officially obese, but only 6% of people believe their weight problem is severe enough t...
A woman thought to have been abducted from a house in east London has been found dead an hour later in an abandoned car. Police said the 20-year-old had died from stab wounds. Initial investigations sugg...
The Daily Mail is running an article about a Super volcano in Germany (Laacher See) insinuating that it could erupt. In truth, any volcano could erupt at any time: it has only just been discovered that rat...
*FLASHBACK*: "Ex-general atop polls as Guatemalans vote" September 12, 2011|Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY - A *former military general known for his “iron fist’’ *campaign to stop Guatemala’s epidemic...
[I hate to keep mentioning that I really need some financial support at this very tough time for everyone, but anyone who would like to donate to the maintenance of this site could do so through the PayPal...
What really makes my skin crawl about living in the world of the Far Right is how seamlessly, yet powerfully, fantasy is interwoven with reality. Let's name it. How about *hyperconservativopathy?* Extrem...
Because of modest festivities, I didn't have enough time and energy to celebrate the anniversary of Satyendra Bose, an eminent theoretical physicist who was a kind of Indian counterpart of Albert Einstein ...
"Nicaragua pres Ortega poised to win 3rd term" by Filadelfo Aleman Associated Press / November 6, 2011 MANAGUA, Nicaragua—Nicaraguans were poised to return one-time Sandinista revolutionary Daniel Ortega ...
"16 die in St. Lucia as bus falls off cliff" November 12, 2011|Associated Press CASTRIES, St. Lucia - A minibus carrying mourners from a funeral fell off a cliff into the ocean in the eastern Caribbean is...
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The BBC's US President editor ("North America editor" is a misnomer, as Mardell never discusses - with the lone exception of the heroic Pvt. Manning - anything other than US politics and things which affec...
"Suspect in killings may go free in Ecuador; Countries at odds over where to prosecute him" November 16, 2011|By Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff Ecuadoran officials have warned the US government that a *man a...
*Would have never seen it on the website*: "GATHERING STEAM -- The Hudson Volcano in Chile spewed a column of steam nearly a mile into the air yesterday, as seen from a flight near Coihaique town, some 1,...
*Just giving you what the Globe is giving me*: "Colombian drug lord pleads guilty" October 07, 2011|Associated Press MIAMI - A Colombian drug kingpin who was part of a cartel that smuggled at least 30 ton...
*Close the book*: "Canada won’t extradite terror suspect" November 04, 2011|Associated Press TORONTO - A Canadian indicted in the United States on charges he supplied Al Qaeda with weapons in Pakistan wil...
"Cuba cracking down on corruption" November 25, 2011|By Paul Haven, Associated Press HAVANA - Green-clad security agents swoop down on an upscale business complex to shutter the offices of a Canadian car ...
16 people were admitted into hospitals in the city of Zarqa (east of Amman), on Friday after suffering from food poisoning symptoms. All the patients were taken to prince Hashim and prince Faisal military ...
Health authorities in Australia are warning of a possible outbreak of Murray Valley encephalitis, a rare but potentially deadly disease. The mosquito-borne disease has recently been found in chickens in ...
A magnitude 3.0 earthquake has struck Northern California at a depth of just 2.4 km (1.5 miles Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 15:54:43 UTC Monday 2nd January 2012 The epicenter was 4 km (2.4 miles) ...
(By American Zen's Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari Goldstein.) *Astute readers will also notice that Obama's signing statement has no legal binding whatsoever and only refers to Obama's momentary intenti...
Mount Rainier National Park remains closed Monday as an intense manhunt continues for a gunman who shot and killed a park ranger Sunday. Police have a strong person of interest in the shooting. He's named ...
This device could bring medical diagnostics into the hands of patients.
*MNN: SKY IS NOT FALLING* *By Mohawk Nation News* *http://www.mohawknationnews.com* MNN. Jan. 1, 2012. No. The world is not coming to an end. It’s continuing. We’re been lead to think that we are he...
ShareE-mailPrint *In the form of a cosmetic s*** political fooley mud face pack*: "Kuwait leaders resign, but stay on" November 29, 2011|Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Kuwait’s ruler *accep...
*I wouldn't blame you if you didn't readers. * "Activists call for Bahrain election boycott" September 24, 2011|Associated Press MANAMA, Bahrain - Bahrain’s Sunni rulers are practicing “fake democracy,’’ ...
Form Wiki According to the U.S. Census Bureau data released Tuesday September 13th, 2011, the nation's poverty rate was at its highest level since 1993 rose to 15.1% (46.2 million) in 2010,[2] up from 1...
*I apologize to you for mine, readers.* "Rally urges boycott of Moroccan vote" November 14, 2011|Associated Press CASABLANCA, Morocco - Thousands of prodemocracy activists demonstrated in Morocco’s larges...
Spain's public deficit for 2011 may be higher than the 8 percent of GDP forecast by the new government, the economy minister said Monday, fuelling fears the country faces a prolonged period of tight budget...
Syria's military has withdrawn from residential areas and is on the outskirts of the country's cities, but gunfire continues and snipers are still a threat, Arab League Secretary General Nabil Elaraby said...
Note: Conflicting reports continue to come out of Syria with articles stating today that gun fire is still a threat whilst others report that all is calm. Gunfire is continuing and snipers are still a thr...
"UAE trial of activists draws criticism" November 04, 2011|Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - A coalition of international human rights organizations accused the United Arab Emirates yesterday ...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai called for an investigation into the torture of a 15-year-old girl, who police say they rescued after she was locked in the basement of her in-laws' house, starved and her n...
New Orleans riverfront park taking shape in Bywater, Marigny Yeah, Mr. Nice Guys! ~These Saints better than Super Bowl Champs Forbes recognizes LSU New Years Day~Disenfranchised Citizen 2011 Dec 30 - On...
Apparently if you say the words glitter and shoes in the same sentence to a 9-year-old on Christmas Eve, you will find yourself, like me, racing to glitter shoes before Santa could show his face that nig...
As Nicole Belle explained in her thoughtful apologia at Crooks and Liars Sunday morning, political reality dictated that Obama sign the heinous National Defense Authorization Act. It's a political reality...
"Iceland rejects Chinese tycoon’s land proposal" November 26, 2011|By Anna Andersen, Associated Press REYKJAVIK, Iceland - A Chinese entrepreneur’s bid to create a vast nature retreat in Iceland was turne...
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Eurozone leaders used their New Year's message to highlight the dangers facing Europe's economy in the coming 12 months. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she expects turbulence in 2012 as she does "e...
India's army is eating out-of-date food, the government's spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee said. The PAC report on food management within the army found "glaring deficiencies and inadequaci...
Japan has been developing a virus that could track down the source of a cyber attack and neutralise its programme, the daily Yomiuri Shimbun reported Sunday. The weapon is the culmination of a 179 milli...
Fire crews are fighting a blaze that is threatening the Ross River Homestead, about 90 kilometres east of Alice Springs. Bushfires NT says the fire is burning less than a kilometre away from the homestead...
The Queensland Government is investigating the discovery of more dead fish in a Gladstone waterway. The Department of Environment and Resource Management imposed a local fishing ban when sick fish were fo...
Firefighters are busy fighting a number of blazes in and around the Perth metropolitan area. A fire burning near the Perth airport is causing delays on Tonkin Highway and the smoke is posing a risk to mot...
A man suing Pepsi Co claiming to have found a dead mouse in a can of Mountain Dew has been told the drink would have dissolved the carcass too quickly. According to the *Madison County Record* the man was...
With temperatures in Queensland's far west expected to soar into the 40s again today, the Birdsville pub has come up with a funny solution to attract punters. Birdsville reached 43 degrees Celsius yesterd...
A thunderstorm over Perth has started bushfires, uprooted trees, and damaged property. Lightning from the storm started a bushfire near the Gnangara state forest which is burning on Hawkins Road in Jandab...
A seven-year-old girl who suffered cuts and bruises after being attacked by a kangaroo in Australia has said she thought she was going to die. Makayla McEvoy was playing near a group of the kangaroos at a...
The commander of Syria's armed rebels has threatened to step up attacks on President Bashar Assad's security forces if there is an Arab League 'whitewash'. The warning comes as opponents to Mr Assad's re...
The White House has dismissed Iran's threat to take action against a US aircraft carrier in the Gulf as a sign the regime is under pressure from new sanctions. Amid rising tensions over the West's respon...
Two people have died in Australia after eating poisonous Death Cap mushrooms at a New Year's Eve dinner party. A third person remains in hospital. Four people were initially hospitalised after eating the...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 233.1 km (144.8 miles), the quake hit at 04:47:35 UTC Wednesday 4th January 2012 The epicenter was 88 km (54 miles) NNE of Luganville, Espiritu Sa...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck South of Sumba, Indonesia at a depth of 26.9 km (16.7 miles), the quake hit at 04:41:06 UTC Wednesday 4th January 2012 The epicenter was 216 km (134 miles) Southwest o...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Ryukyu Islands, Japan at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:07:52 UTC Wednesday 4th January 2012 The epicenter was 102 km (63.2 miles) Southeast...
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