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David Johnson, an organizer for the Sheet Metal Worker's International Association, carries a sign during demonstration at the Indiana Statehouse. Image from NUVO.Right to Work (for less) in Indiana:The Supe...
I love this interactivish graphic. I just couldn't resist running it instead of a post about that nutty Florida primary tonight. Created by Educational Leadership
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Those programmers’ Always yammering. Here’s some shit programmers say. Watch until the end. [Hat tip Geek Press] Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish...
By far the funniest thing of the day is the revelation that, through the
Bush family, Chiang Kai-shek has morphed into "a mythical conservative warrior." That's a link to Dan Larison's fine discussion, whi...
*"Waiting for Someday: Why Not Now?"* by The DailyOm "All the joy and passion you can envision can be yours right now, rather than in a future point in time. The time we are blessed with is limited and t...
*"Mmmm Good: Pink Slime and Ammonium Hydroxide"* by Abby Zimet "Okay, for any of you still eating
Big Macs despite the aforementioned 7,642 reasons why you shouldn't: Possibly thanks to activist chef Jami...
A controversial article in Tablet magazine by Spencer Ackerman connects the critics of post-9/11 false flag and post-
Gaza massacre Israel with an image of Hitler's head, and has a tagline that reads: "Note...
Before we get to the abundantly amusing source for the title to this post, we'll take a quick look at a recent example from the news, of dying trees. A Florida story is so ghastly that I almost wasn't goi...
Over at Plum Line today: an update on the next steps with exec branch and judicial nominations, in light of Senator Mike Lee's threat to put holds on everything. Meanwhile: it's a record-breaking month fo...
"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem." - Theodore Rubin
*"Trends that Won’t End"* by Addison Wiggin "U.S. taxpayers have lost $133 billion from TARP — the abominable acronym inflicted on us by former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson — a new report out this mor...
Community organizer Saul Alinksy. Image from Addicting Info.Saul Alinsky’s American values'The Radical... is that person to whom the common good is the greatest personal value. He is that person who genuinel...
Last week, as the sun crackled with flare activity and launched a succession of coronal mass ejections (CMEs), it wasn't only Earth that felt the sun's wrath.
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I’ve just got rid of Google Ads on this blog. The amount I was earning was worthwhile, but I got sick of advertising things I wouldn’t personally recommend. Seeing Google Ads pushing Gareth Bloody Mor...
So much disunity and fractiousness inside the GOP these days! I think people are turned off by it. But in an interview with the *National Journal*, anti-tax/anti-government fanatic-- and self-loathing, d...
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No, apparently it’s not just me who’s wondering. While I’ve been recuperating over the last week, a man has been thrown in jail, his property seized, his bank accounts frozen, and his business shut down...
Limits on production mean that supply can't expand to meet the demand.
This painting looks like a simple still life, but turn the frame and the whole thing changes.
Graphic artist and designer has a more creative option for recycling all those obsolete electronics.
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wmtc - 4 hours ago
No go on the threaded comments. First of all, it only indents once. That's a good space-saver, but kind of defeats the purpose of using the threaded format. Second, as Allan points out, threading makes it...
After the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed signed by 16 prominent scientists that has urged the politicians and policymakers to stop panicking about "global warming" and start to review the money f...
A few weeks Ana Luisa Cid advised us of the chase involving several police units in the city of Mexicali, Baja California. She has posted a video of a segment of the La Sobremesa program (dated 26...
The final word, I hope, on the impossibility of a late entrant into the GOP nomination battle at this point goes to Josh Putnam, who has a data-filled post detailing all the filing deadlines and other tech...
BREAKING: Trout Point Lodge asks Nova Scotia Judge Suzanne Hood for $1,000,000 in damages against Slabbed plus a cyber execution for the blog.
Source: Diario Popular and Planeta UFO http://diariopopular.com.ar/dp001.php?nId=628085&src=NP Date: 30 Jan 2012 Argentina: UFO Wave Ongoing in the "Western Corridor" Initially unnoticed, a p...
This is so good........... *You Should Read About it HERE* Not even gonna tell you what it is about - cause it is just that damn good! Wish more people would do the correct thing - it is a joyful!
*"Why Economic Growth Will Continue to Disappoint in 2012"* by Bill Bonner “Tutto va bene… That was what the crew told passengers on the Costa Concordia just before it sank. And it was what the crew of t...
*"Food Crash Coming-* * Understand That As Fast As You Can"* By Tom Dennen “There's a massive change under way, it's happening fast and we have very little control over it short of being prepared. Here's ...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Seram, Indonesia at a depth of 30 km (18.6 miles), the quake hit at 18:25:19 UTC Monday 30th January 2012 The epicenter was 100 km (62 miles) Northeast Amahai, Indonesi...
*UK soccer player Duncan Ferguson introduces himself to Steffen Freund* -* * *Coming out of the Closet with Fuse: Meet Big Dunc e * ** *Duncan Ferguson*, former team mate of UK footballer *Gary Speed*, was ...
The wide origins of domesticated horses offers insight on how our love affair with the animal has transformed humankind.
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Barat Daya, Indonesia at a depth of 149.9 km (93.1 miles), the quake hit at 16:34:12 UTC Monday 30th January 2012 The epicenter was 289 km (179 miles) WNW Sa...
* * *"Why Does The Military Seem To Be Preparing For * *Urban Warfare In The United States?"* by Madison Ruppert "Recently, I published an article covering the January 22-26 multi-agency exercises being c...
Griffin's Twenty let you wirelessly stream lossless sound to your favorite non-powered loud speakers.
E.T. would have had plenty of time to reach us by now. Are we just being ignored?
The Oakland Police Department has assaulted the occupiers and brought out its military-grade weapons and tanks. Actions called "coldly intentional and ruthless" are getting quite a bit scarier now at the h...
I can't help but love colorful polka dots. The second I saw this fun printed felt, I knew it was coming home with me. I have a weakness for felt and fun fabrics, much to my husband's dismay. This whimsi...
Pangea Exposed! Posted on January 23, 2012 by GILA RIVER AGAINST LOOP 202 The Pecos Landowners Association (PLA) has had longstanding ties to Pangea, but under a recent cloud of suspicion about business ...
Among the assigned readings for my new doctoral seminar in Human Securitythis week are a number of pieces from last year's International Studies Review Theory v. Practice Symposium. There are numerous fasci...
HEALTH - Did you know bread is one of the most fattening things you can eat? Its high in carbohydrates, it has sugar in it and corn syrup... Corn syrup is not part of traditional bread recipes, but you wil...
Resolution calling for Bashar al-Assad to step down wins support of 10 security council members necessary to force a vote. Hillary Clinton, William Hague and Alain Juppé are due at the UN security counci...
A 13-year-old boy has died after a shooting incident in Oxfordshire, police have said. The teenager suffered "a life-threatening injury" at a house in Souldern, near Bicester, yesterday morning. He died...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 16:49:09 UTC Monday 30th January 2012 The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) East of Christchurc...
*Vernon Masayesva: Days are numbered for Navajo Generating Station's use of Black Mesa coal and water* ** *Black Mesa Trust Calls on EPA to Help Put Navajo Generating Station on Sound Environmental Footin...
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As of today, airplanes using European airports must use credits to account for some of their greenhouse gas emissions.
Just two glasses of wine each week during the first four months of pregnancy is found to increase the rate of miscarriage significantly.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syria rebel fighters continued clashing with government forces in neighborhoods on the doorstep of Damascus on Monday in an escalation of the spreading war there, while a new diplomatic ...
By: Duane Craig Fort Detrick, located at 810 Schreider St. in Frederick, Md., is under scrutiny for possible links of contamination to cancer illnesses and deaths, according to an article in The Baltimore...
Above left: Billionaire Sheldon Adelson gave $10 MILLION donation to philanderer Newt Gingrich, above right. Last week I wrote this post: *(Saturday, January 21, 2012) Jewish American newspaper publishe...
A French military vessel equipped with a variety of non-lethal defense technology could provide security in waters where pirates abound.
Nicolas Sarkozy’s sneering claim that Britain is a country with 'no industry' has been ridiculed as ‘totally false’ by his own Press. The embattled French President made the extraordinary outburst as he ...
We are the 99% and we know it. They are the 1% and they know it. But do you truly understand the why and wherefore behind those statements? And do you truly understand why the 1% don't care? There are some...
Neglected Lights: Mexico’s 1970 Saucer Wave By Scott Corrales (c) 2012 Perhaps there were far better things to do in 1970 than look at the sky. After all, Man had already been to the Moo...
*Boehner consorting with the McKeon criminals* Even a casual reader of *DWT* is aware that California Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon (R) has been writing himself a record of corruption noteworthy even by Insid...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Egypt at a depth of 44 km (27.2 miles), the quake hit at 17:04:35 UTC Monday 30th January 2012 The epicenter was 65 km (40.3 miles) West of Al-bad, Egypt No Reports of ...
*Senate GOP floats bill to bypass Obama and approve Keystone* *By Ben Geman - 01/30/12 10:24 AM ET * Senate GOP leaders are flexing their constitutional muscles with a new push for approval of the Keyston...
It's obvious our entire national economy from top to bottom, from side to side and from inside and out is completely predicated on fraud and malfeasance that always pulls back just enough and just in time...
[image: Flooded temple in Thailand, 2011. nationmultimedia.com] BANGKOK, 30 January 2012 (Xinhua) – Bangkok Governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra said Monday that the government had completed 80 percent of the ...
Joan BertinExecutive Director National Coalition Against Censorship bertin@ncac.org 212-807-6222 x 101 Michael O’Neil Communications Coordinator National Coalition Against Censorship michael@ncac.org 212-8...
A new hybrid snowshoe/ski lets you climb up a hill and then glide down it.
If there were no Apollo crash program to beat the Soviets to the moon, would still be planning to go there eventually?
In his State of the Union Address last week President Barack Obama seemed to link the fate of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad with that of Libya’s Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. “A year ago, Gaddafi was one ...
It's after 10 p.m. when we see a light in the distance. We've traveled for more than three hours up a windy, icy road in western China. Our hope is to get to the Tibetan autonomous zone, in the mountaino...
The chief executive of the company behind mobile gaming phenomenon, Angry Birds, has said that piracy helps companies attract more business. Talking at the annual Midem music conference, in Cannes today, ...
The Syrian army has continued its offensive against rebel groups, taking back Damascus suburbs previously under opposition control, as William Hague joins other foreign ministers in New York to discuss t...
"Funds From MF Global Feared Gone." The Wall Street Journal, Jan 30, 2012 p. A1, A2. The article reports that $1.2 billion in customer money has "vaporized" due to "chaotic trading." Most of the funds ...
One of the things that you're going to hear a lot of is that Mitt Romney's big win in Florida tomorrow -- and per the polling, it looks certain -- wasn't caused by debates or Newt's crazy moon rhetoric or ...
Two 15-minute tickles could be the future of male birth control.
Heavy weather forced salvage crews to suspend pumping thousands of tonnes of fuel from the wrecked Costa Concordia liner Saturday.
Wall Street Journal Jan 30 2012, p. B3 print edition. The article explains that Exxon Mobil plans to sell its subsidiary in Japan for $3.9 billion and to relinquish control of refiner TonenGeneral Sekiyu ...
*MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 2012* *Why didn’t anyone speak:* Tomorrow, we start our third annual fund-raising drive! After thirteen years at our post! Lucky duckies will get the chance to fund our incomparable ...
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wmtc - 10 hours ago
Blogger now supports threading commenting, which (mostly) alleviates the need to quote the person you're responding to or use @soandso. It also helps distinguish between comments responding to other commen...
[image: Water Levels for Anvil Lake in North Central Wisconsin, 1936-2010. National Fish, Wildlife and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy draft, 2012] Between 2000 and 2010, the worst drought ever record...
[image: Lightning over Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia. Peter Kennelly / ABC] 30 January 2012 (ABC) – Lake Macquarie Council's effort to manage the impact of rising sea levels has again raise...
In Oct 2010, Bill C-300, An Act respecting Corporate Accountability for the Activities of Mining, Oil or Gas in Developing Countries, went down to defeat 140 to 134 because 13 Liberals, 4 Bloc, and 4 NDP s...
[image: Victor Muruga (r) and his three-year-old brother Ian Kimani (l) prepare lunch from their camp at Mumoi farm. Peter Kahare / IPS][Desdemona’s been following this story since the beginning: Mau for...
[image: Drought-stricken wheat crops bake in the sun in 2011 near Hermleigh, Texas. More intense heat waves due to global warming could diminish wheat crop yields around the world through premature agein...
*MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 2012* *An important story continues:* In this morning’s column, Paul Krugman continues a very important story—an important story which won’t gain traction, except in his own persisten...
The trio of Cold War-era satellites were among the most prolific U.S. spy systems between the 1960s and 1980s.
Japan's stricken nuclear power plant has leaked more than 600 litres of water, forcing it to briefly suspend cooling operations at a spent-fuel pond at the weekend, but none is thought to have escaped int...
God is great! Bill Moyers is back on PBS. The above clip features an interview with Byron Dorgan, the North Dakota populist who warned most strenuously about the sleazy corporatists-- of both parties-- r...
Downing Street warned Russia on Monday not to block efforts at the United Nations to bring a peaceful resolution to unrest in Syria. Foreign Secretary William Hague was on Monday flying to New York to len...
The Ministry of the Environment has started a study to examine the effects of radiation from the disaster-struck Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant on nearby plant and wildlife, particularly their reprod...
Last week, the possibility of a new political party being formed under the leadership of Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara emerged, but Tokyoites were more shocked by news indicating there was a 70 percent cha...
*MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 2012* *Part 1—Sunday morning:* “She dreams a little, and she feels the dark Encroachment of that old catastrophe, As a calm darkens among water-lights.” Wallace Stevens said that. Jus...
Have you ever cast a vote for the Rhinoceros Party or the Guns and Dope Party? We're guessing not...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Simuelue, Indonesia at a depth of 33.1 km (20.6 miles), the quake hit at 13:20:35 UTC Monday 30th January 2012 The epicenter was 243 km (150 miles) West of Sibolga, Sum...
It's been six months since I last looked in on the field of possible Liberal leadership candidates, and that's because, well, there's not much to report. Apart from speculation surrounding the interim lead...
Further Confessions of an Outlier About five or so weeks ago, I made this confession: "I graduated high school eighth in my class, and then proceeded through undergraduate and graduate school to achieve a...
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wmtc - 12 hours ago
I've been holding on to this email from Leadnow.ca, hoping to write a scathing post... but this is too important to wait until I have time. In case you haven't seen it, I'll re-run the email in its entiret...
After a violent and ugly battle at Occupy Oakland this weekend, the Occupy D.C. protest is bracing for a fight today when a noon deadline to evacuate two Washington parks expires. On Friday, the National...
Jan. 29 update: Famed environmental activist Erin Brockovich met resistance as her team tried to test the area around an upstate New York school for clues to a case involving more than a dozen teens pla...
A popular wetland in Melbourne's north has been hit by a 'black water' event that has killed hundreds of fish. A POPULAR wetland in Melbourne's north has been hit by a ''black water'' event that has kille...
If you value independent investigative journalism please support Slabbed ~The power of Slabbed derives from the power of community sourcing. With 2,000 plus daily unique visitors if everyone did just a litt...
More than a ton of dead fish has been floating during last week at Canal dos Patos, the channel located between Macau and Zhuhai’s major cross-border area, the Maritime Administration announced. Accordin...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 138 km (85.8 miles), the quake hit at 12:33:17 UTC Monday 30th January 2012 The epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) South of Tonala, ...
Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) are a group of 17 diseases that disproportionally affect the very poor. The World Health Organisation estimates that more than a billion people worldwide are affected by...
The Tibetan government-in-exile has colluded with Western governments to distort a recent string of police shootings in Tibetan areas of China in a bid to discredit the government, an official Chinese new...
Syrian security forces tried to smuggle Syrian President Bashar Assad's family - including his British-born wife - out of the country. Rebel forces claim a convoy carrying Asma Assad, a graduate of King's...
A Norwegian of Chinese Muslim origin with alleged links to al Qaeda was convicted Monday of plotting to blow up a Danish newspaper that had printed cartoons of Islam's Prophet Mohammad, and was sentenced ...
The dataset produced at the center of the Climategate scandals, HadCRUT3(weather stations), differs from UAH AMSU (satellites), RSS AMSU (satellites), and GISS (weather stations). If you click at the prev...
Street battles raged on the doorstep of the Syrian capital on Monday, as President Bashar al-Assad's troops sought to consolidate their grip on suburbs rebel fighters had taken only a few miles from the c...
Japan's population will shrink by a staggering 30% by 2060, according to a new estimate by the country's government. The current population will shrink from the current level of 128 million to 86.74 mill...
The National Park Service plans to crack down Monday on what it calls "sleeping activity" at two longstanding camps established by Occupy DC demonstrators in the nation's capital. The service notified pr...
The Sudanese army has freed at least 14 Chinese nationals who were kidnapped in the volatile South Kordofan state, the official Sudan News Agency said Monday. The news agency quoted Ahmed Haroun, the sta...
Thousands of Chinese security forces have flooded into an ethnically Tibetan area of southwestern China following large protests that led to violent, sometimes deadly, clashes with the police. Amid ange...
Militants launched a fresh attack Monday in Nigeria's second largest city, Kano, which is already reeling from a series of bombings and shootings that killed more than 200 people earlier this month. A po...
The former head of the European Central Bank says the eurozone's woes must not be taken in isolation, but viewed as part of a global crisis. Former ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet told CNN's Richard Qu...
Strikes by trade unions in Belgium disrupted travel Monday on the Eurostar and Thalys international train lines, the companies announced, as European leaders gathered in the capital Brussels for an inform...
The U.N. Security Council will take up a draft resolution this week that calls on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down and transfer power. The move follows news that the Arab League suspended a m...
The Number of injured has risen to 98 following the 6.3 Magnitude Earthquake according to the Director of the National Institute of Civil Defense, César Chonate. Speaking to RPP Noticias, He said that the...
*Scotty Bowers * Scotty Bowers, a former US Marine, reportedly ran a rent boy ring for top people. He also reportedly supplied girls to top people. These top people reportedly included Spencer Tracy, Col...
A long line of cars and trucks collided one after another early today on a dark Florida highway so shrouded in haze and smoke that drivers were instantly blinded. At least ten people were killed. When re...
Bird enthusiasts are reporting rising numbers of snowy owls from the Arctic winging into the lower 48 states this winter in a mass southern migration that a leading owl researcher called 'unbelievable.' ...
Two British tourists were barred from entering America after joking on Twitter that they were going to 'destroy America' and 'dig up Marilyn Monroe'. Leigh Van Bryan, 26, was handcuffed and kept under ar...
Sheets of plywood covered the windows of a home where a father and his twin three-year-old daughters were found dead Saturday. Robert D. King, 40, and his twin girls Caroline and Madison were discovered ...
About 400 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. Police fired tear gas and used 'flash' g...
A soccer coach has been charged with forcing a 13-year-old girl to make pornographic films of herself and posting them online for other paedophiles. Robert Vincent Peace is also alleged to have had more t...
A blood sample found at the home where toddler Ayla Reynolds went missing does belong to the little girl, officials have confirmed. Police found blood in the basement of Ayla's father's home in Waterville...
A new generation of pesticides may be to blame for the catastrophic decline in Britain’s honey bees. The contain chemicals, routinely used on farms and in garden centres make bees more vulnerable to dise...
They're known as the 'black collar class'. They dress in dark suits, drive black limousines and have rumoured links to 'black societies' from the underworld. Until now these shadowy mandarins leading the...
A magnitude 3.9 earthquake has struck Central Iran at a depth of 9 km (5.6 miles), the quake hit at 10:41:49 UTC Monday 30th January 2012 The epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) South of Ashtian, Iran No Reports...
Five men were murdered in execution-style shootings after a botched robbery in Birmingham, Alabama, police say. Officers discovered the bodies in a bullet-riddled home about 3.30am Sunday after they were...
EU leaders were accused of undermining democracy yesterday after Germany demanded that Greece surrender control of its economy to a Brussels commissioner. The bankrupt nation is expected to sign a new ba...
Billed as the toughest race in the world, the eight-mile assault course in Perton, Staffordshire, features a dizzying array of obstacles with names like Killing Fields, Battle of the Somme, Vietcong Tortur...
They were the underground military bases where MPs and the RAF prepared for what might have been during the Cold War. Now the Drakelow Tunnels, a 265,000 square foot complex encompassing nuclear bunkers ...
Police will no longer be able to ignore homeowners whose lives are being made a misery by yobs, the Home Secretary is set to announce. Once three separate complaints have been lodged, officers will have n...
An Afghan father, his wife and their son have been jailed for life after a jury found them guilty of killing three teenage sisters and a co-wife in what the judge described as a 'despicable' and 'heinous'...
David Cameron faces a double revolt over Europe today with Tory MPs demanding a referendum on the EU and threatening a backbench rebellion over the new treaty. The Prime Minister heads to a summit in Bru...
Temperatures are set to plunge as low as -11C this week as Arctic winds bring in a big freeze with ice and snow expected to blanket the countryside, forecasters said today. Parts of Britain were waking u...
Recession: These seven Staffordshire Bull Terriers are among a growing number of animals to be looked after at the rescue as owners struggle to afford the cost during tough economic times Dumped on roads...
Michael Slattery ‘distinguished’ himself during the infamous ‘Battle of Dale Farm’. The veteran traveller threw hot tea in the face of one bailiff, and called another a ‘black b******’. Long-suffering re...
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Biased BBC - 15 hours ago
I got into a bit of a twitter debate with BBC Presenter *Nicky Campbell*yesterday. It started off with my tweet that I believed * "same sex marriage is an oxymoron if you believe that Marriage is Biblical...
Violent criminals, including murderers, have been using Facebook to taunt victims and their families from behind bars. Other prisoners have been maintaining their criminal empires via the social networki...
The Royal Navy has revealed details of a new air defence system capable of destroying enemy missiles travelling at supersonic speeds. Sea Ceptor missiles fired from Navy warships will reach speeds of up t...
A sneering Nicolas Sarkozy has attacked Britain for being a country with 'no industry'. The embattled French President, who is hoping to be re-elected this spring, made the extraordinary outburst as he d...
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Biased BBC - 15 hours ago
Monday morning and time for a new Open Thread! Detail your observations here... Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
"You need no longer participate in a pyramid of information where it's filtering down to you from the scientific, medical, governmental, and military elite, being explained by CBS, NBC, Newsweek, and Tim...
American prosecutors have warned that data from users of file-sharing site Megaupload could be deleted from host servers within days. US officials have blocked access to Megaupload and charged seven men, ...
Two months into Pakistan's blockade on NATO supplies crossing into Afghanistan, thousands of trucks are crowding the port in Karachi where drivers, fed up with waiting, are starting to desert. For a mont...
The Israeli military has conducted its first full-scale parachute exercise for its airborne brigade in 15 years as part of military preparations for "any possible scenario" and "potential regional changes...
The 2010 earthquake that devastated southern Haiti may have opened a new era of seismic activity and residents should brace for more massive temblors, said a US study on Thursday. The 7.0 quake that kill...
A Tibetan-inhabited region of China appeared to be under lockdown Thursday after it was rocked by deadly clashes, as exile groups gave grisly details of how the unrest unfolded. The west of Sichuan provi...
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Biased BBC - 16 hours ago
B-BBC contributor Alan also observes; "5 Live's 'Morning Report' races to inform the population of impending doom before their ignorance kills them...... 'The cost of flooding in the UK could rise to bill...
NATO and Russia have made little progress in talks to cooperate on a US-led missile shield for Europe, and failing a deal may have to drop plans for a summit in May, NATO's secretary general said Thursday...
The U.S. Navy SEAL raid into violence-wracked Somalia to rescue two Western hostages is widely seen as a harbinger of more wide-ranging covert U.S. operations against terrorists and their allies. Wednesd...
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Biased BBC - 16 hours ago
B-BBC contributor Alan notes; "Another explanation for why the 'right-on' Lefty liberals in the BBC hate Maggie Thatcher and are pro Islam...and it has a nice symmetry...because it also gives them anothe...
Baghdad hit out on Tuesday at alleged Turkish provocations after Ankara said it would speak out if sectarian conflict erupted in Iraq, in a dramatic worsening of tensions between the two neighbours. Desp...
Researchers say a drone aircraft being tested by the U.S. Navy that could conduct a combat mission without human involvement raises troubling ethical questions. The drone, designed to land on the deck of...
The United States is taking "serious and noticeable" measures to prevent another breach of classified files like the massive WikiLeaks document dump, the nation's spy chief said Thursday. James Clapper, ...
Astronauts on a mission to Mars will need much more than freeze-dried ice cream to sustain them, and researchers at Cornell are working to determine the best way to keep them well nourished during their t...
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Biased BBC - 16 hours ago
A B-BBC reader draws our attention to this... "A talk on sharia and human rights by NSS Council Member Anne Marie Waters' at Queen Mary University of London was cancelled at the last moment because of an ...
Discoveries made in some underwater caves by Texas A and M University at Galveston researchers in the Bahamas could provide clues about how ocean life formed on Earth millions of years ago, and perhaps gi...
Part 1: A true story: A fifty-ish woman I know was diagnosed with breast cancer. Dutifully, she and her husband contacted their insurance company to start the process of paying for her medical bills. But ...
Russia will not enter Korea’s advanced jet acquisition project as none of its aircraft manufacturers including Sukhoi expressed their intent to join the heated competition, officials here said. The Defense...
The Republic of China Navy (Taiwanese Navy) has ordered 440 highly advance AN/SSQ-53F sonobuoys from the United States to improve its anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capabilities. Read More
The crash of the new Heron TP unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) this morning was caused by human error, according to the preliminary investigation by the Israel Air Force (IAF) and Israel Aerospace Industries ...
As most people know, Wikipedia will go offline on Wednesday—in protest over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA). The Financial Times has a brief but fairly ...
The Defense Ministry and two other government entities have suspended Mitsubishi Electric Corp. as a designated contractor because the company has been found to have inflated invoices, the ministry has ann...
A British drug manufacturer is hoping for a big score from consumers and a green light from the FDA for its medical marijuana mouth spray in 2013. Seven countries including the UK, Spain and Germany have ...
A small innovation will go a long way in giving the Army's T-90 main battle tanks the ability to hunt and kill in the dark - and at a fraction of the cost of imported equipment. Army engineers have integra...
India's much-delayed effort to upgrade the fighter aircraft fleet of the Indian Air Force is set to fructify soon. At present, a specially-picked team of the Ministry of Defence and the IAF is making final...
Wrapped up against Russia's midwinter in vivid balaclavas, brightly coloured minidresses and not much else, eight members of an all-girl punk group stood on a platform in Red Square and started an impromp...
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Three years after swine flu closed Mexico City and caused an international scare, the Mexican government and local media are at odds over the severity of this season's flu virus. Newsp...
For most Venezuelans, obtaining U.S. dollars in a tightly regulated economy is a nightmare. But not for President Hugo Chavez’s 14-year-old daughter, Rosines, who posted a picture of herself peering out ...
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Biased BBC - 16 hours ago
Rather fascinating case leading to an apology from BBC East Midlands for this; "Back in January 2010, on the second day of the book injunction trial in Lisbon, BBC East Midlands reporter Mike O' Sullivan...
Ener1--a company that manufactures batteries for electric cars, and that received $118.5 million in federal stimulus money, and that Vice President Joe Biden visited last year the day after President Obam...
American's weakness for coffee is proven once again in a new survey conducted by Accounting Principals . In a telephone survey of 1,000 Americans who were currently employed, ages 18 or older, the partic...
Libya's regular army and array of militias have been torturing loyalists of slain dictator Moamer Kadhafi, several of whom have been killed in custody, human rights groups charged on Thursday. Amnesty In...
BANGKOK - Thailand's revered national symbol, the elephant, may face a new threat of extinction: being poached not just for their tusks, but for their meat. Two wild elephants were found slaughtered last...
The announcement brings the number of confirmed planets to 729, with another 2,300 possibilities. The known universe just got a little bigger. Scientists at NASA's planet-hunting Kepler mission announced...
A Flatbush man fed up with the bad economy has penned a song about working-class woes - and is performing the proletarian prose on the subway. iPhone technician Jean “J. Scar” Lodescar, 28, raps, sings, a...
posted by David Vance at
Biased BBC - 16 hours ago
Oh my. BBC favourite Chuka Umunna seemed *almost embarrassed *when the issue of RBS CEO Stephen Hester's rejection of the Bonus to which he was contractually entitled was introduced as "Labour 1, City 0....
That's the final, pathetic growth number for 2011. From the just-released GDP report: Real GDP increased 1.7 percent in 2011 (that is, from the 2010 annual level to the 2011 annual level), compared with ...
Hospitals should check every elderly patient for signs of neglect on admission, health ministers will be told on Friday. The warning follows concerns that the system is failing to identify the extent of...
Leading accountants have warned that the squeezed middle would bear the brunt of the rise the income tax threshold to £10,000 – not the rich. Leading accountants have said that the plan by Nick Clegg to ...
A former Beefeater at the Tower of London has reportedly been thrown out of his local pub for talking German to his daughter. Tom Sharp, 71, said he was talking to his half-German daughter in the Packho...
Nintendo's profits are falling in the face of competition from smartphones and rival consoles. What can it do to save itself? Nintendo has cut its forecast for sales of its Wii console and handheld 3DS ...
Recently, there have been two powerful challenges to the conventional wisdom about the United States. First, Robert Kagan published a lengthy essay in The New Republic, arguing that predictions of America...
A quick observation. I could not help noticing that China’s imports from Japan fell 16.2pc in December. Imports from Taiwan fell 6.2pc. The Shanghai Container Freight Index fell 1.4pc to a record low of ...
Newt Gingrich briefly set aside earthly concerns like debt and deficit to promise the American people that if they elected him president he would establish a permanent colony on the Moon. In a speech ne...
Argentina does not have the military capability to invade the Falkland Islands, Gerald Howarth, a Defence Minister, has claimed. Mr Howarth said that Argentina was “sabre rattling” and that the country ...
Journalists could still use “the dark arts” to pursue stories if there was a clear public interest in doing so, the Information Commissioner Christopher Graham has told the Leveson Inquiry. He said he h...
NASA's newest Earth-watching satellite has sent back a breathtaking image of our "Blue Marble" that offers a taste of the orbiting observatory's vast capabilities. The satellite's new photo of Earth from...
Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond says he expects levels of compensation across the banking sector to be down this year, but has defended large bonuses as "pay for performance." Speaking to CNN ancho...
The HPV vaccine for young males has been endorsed by a federal panel, but that doesn't necessarily mean provinces and territories will pick up the tab. This week, the National Advisory Committee on Immun...
TALCAHUANO, Chile — Eric Pineda, a dock agent in this old port south of Santiago, peered deep into the Achernar’s hold at a measly 10 tons of jack mackerel — the catch after four days in waters once so ri...
Restored wetlands like this pond converted from agricultural use in Aragon, Spain, may look natural, but a new study shows that it can take hundreds of years for restored wetlands to accumulate the plant ...
+Paying attention to root growthand health would appear a given except it is said here that it has largely beenignored. One needs to only understand thatfor every pound of plant material above ground, ...
Forget the toxic fume-spouting industries. Livestock - mainly cows and buffaloes - has been identified as one of the primary contributors of greenhouse gases in India by Brighter Green, a US-based public ...
“Global warming” and “climate change” succinctly describe a complicated phenomenon, and in just a few decades they have become common descriptors. But while global warming would be bad for the Earth as a ...
The strict new federal standards limiting pollution from power plants are meant to safeguard human health. But they should have an important side benefit, according to a study being released on Tuesday: p...
This is a bit of the unusual, butI have it from Lloyd Pye who is custodian of the Starchild Skull, that it hashappened before. We should actually haveall the necessary gene information on hand, as all ot...
The good news is that poison freepuffer fish can be safely eaten. The badnews is that there appears to be no end of takers for the opportunity to playRussian roulette. Thus the wild puffercontinues t...
Using engineered zeolites, theyare able to captured gaseous mercury and bind it integrally into the zeolites allowingexcellent disposal prospects. Theobvious hope is to apply the methodology or other ...
A couple of months past, I did anoff the wall post speculating on the plausibility of slime moulds formingbubbles of methane and then lofting into the stratosphere to reside. Slime moulds certainly hav...
posted by Robin Horbury at
Biased BBC - 18 hours ago
American Thinker neatly nails here the Nazi roots that underpin the insidious moonshine about sustainable development. There's been a seamless evolution pioneered by actual Nazis who escaped the Nurmeberg ...
posted by Robert D. Skeels * rdsathene at
Schools Matter - 18 hours ago
Talk by PESJA/CEJ activist and District 2 LAUSD Trustee Candidate Robert D. Skeels at the Support Cadre Resisting Administrative Maltreatment (SCRAM) Caucus Meeting at CTA State Council of Education on Jan...
This is a documentary about veterans who suffer from PTSD called "Community Stories: Healing a Soldier's Heart." It was made by Lisa Hardmeyer and it aired on Seattle Channel on November 28, 2011. Here is ...
Washington's blog covers the story http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/january-28th-oakland-police-fire-tear-gas-flash-bang-grenades-and-rubber-bullets-at-occupy-oakland-protesters.html Why are police r...
By Marshall Auerback News stories continue to suggest that Greeceonce again appears on the verge of reaching a deal with its private sectorcreditors on how much of a loss they would be willing to accept ...
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Central Peru at a depth of 39.2 km (24.4 miles), the quake hit at 05:11:00 UTC Monday 30th January 2012 The epicenter was 15 km (9.3 miles) Southeast...
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CENSORED NEWS - 20 hours ago
*The Cost of Access in the Age of Spying* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com While many Native Americans were cold and hungry this winter, President Obama charged $10,000 t...
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...
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 ...
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CENSORED NEWS - 22 hours ago
*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 - 23 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...
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wmtc - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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
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Before we get to the abundantly amusing source for the title to this post, we'll take a quick look at a recent example from the news, of dying trees. A Florida story is so ghastly that I almost wasn't goi...
So much disunity and fractiousness inside the GOP these days! I think people are turned off by it. But in an interview with the *National Journal*, anti-tax/anti-government fanatic-- and self-loathing, d...
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