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I have a small confession to make. I don't like cake. I know, that makes me crazy or something. Another confession? My husband doesn't like it either. I guess crazies gravitate together. Even with both o...
Florida primary day. I wrote something over at Plum Line arguing that it matters whether Romney wins by a narrow margin or by a landslide because it will influence how he behaves over the next five weeks, ...
[image: Link] For months they have been forced to wander a desolate landscape, lost, confused and alone. The thousands of dogs and cats abandoned in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear crisis have endured d...
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Lilith News - 31 minutes ago
By Suzanne MacNevin. I had a comment on a different blog (Feminist Truths) a few days ago from a loser claiming that men are the unequal ones. Ha. Here is some interesting facts for those people who don'...
*TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2012* *Will the future be served:* Filling in at the
Washington Monthly last weekend, Elon Green made it look *very* easy. Responding to
Maureen Dowd’s latest breakdown, he offered ...
The bills hope to shield the public from seeing undercover videos at factory farms.
It's easier to grow bigger in the sea with the water holding up your weight, say researchers.
A farmer was understandably left fed up to the gills by the sight of fish after a staggering 20 tonnes of mackerel spilled onto his land from an overturned lorry. It was travelling towards
Ardglass in Co...
A history of Bolivian mining with a list of its most important mineral resources From 1557 to 1985, mining dominated the Bolivian economy. By 1987 mining accounted for only 4 percent of GDP, 36 percent of...
A main cause of deforestation in South America and Asia has been clearing land for palm oil production. Palm oil has become a major source of biodiesel, a supposedly green fuel. Not so fast. *The Gu...
Holder & Obama’s Propaganda is “Belied by a Troublesome Little Thing Called Facts” By William K. Black [excerpt] "The Obama administration’s record of prosecuting elite financial frauds is worse than the...
"Treasury Investigates Freddie Mac Investment" By SHAILA DEWAN Published: January 30, 2012 the New York Times [excerpted] "The Treasury Department is investigating a report that Freddie Mac, the mortgag...
* France * Hugh Cuthbert, a top rated UK fund manager, says the euro crisis is probably over. He believes that Europe now has the funding, and austerity, needed to end the 'sovereign debt' problem once an...
Authorities are investigating the cause of a huge fire in New Delhi, as slum dwellers look for new homes. Sarah Wali reports.
Iran is keeping the option open to develop a nuclear weapon but U.S. intelligence agencies do not know whether it will eventually decided to build one, the U.S. intelligence chief said on Tuesday. New U....
Attacks in southern Pakistan city kill six, including a woman and young girl. Travis Brecher reports.
popseal Slidell, La. *If you liked the leftist assault against Palin, just wait. The yet to be exposed weakness of Romney is the touchy subject of religion. The left will turn over Mormon rocks and find ...
The Somali militant group Al-Shabaab says it has banned the International Committee of the Red Cross from operating in the regions it controls, accusing the organization of distributing expired food. In ...
Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- Yemen's information minister escaped an assassination attempt unharmed Tuesday, his office manager said. The minister, Ali al-Amrani, was headed to the prime minister's office when ...
The BBC really is the last bastion of defence for bloated Public Sector finances. Biased BBC contributor Alan notes; 'Public sector workers will be “dramatically” better off in retirement and receive si...
*TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2012* *Chris and Eugene and Jack Welch oh my:* Embarrassment is watching your own side do it. Last night, a repurposed Chris Matthews and two scripted guests were complaining about...
A Biased BBC reader observes; "Sean Coughlan,BBC education correspondent, reporting here on the BBC web page today about a Twitter-linked session of the Education Select Committee: "... when Mr Gove was a...
*Found a questionnaire on social justice on Common Dreams**.* Hated the way it was formatted – but the questions are good and the answers are sourced/cited, so that’s a good thing. Found this ALEC related...
A self-guided bullet flies like a missile and can hit targets more than a mile away.
If you're heavier than your doctor, you're more likely to be told you're overweight.
[image: Coal-fired power plant in Oxnard Dunes, Oxnard, California, on 9 May 2009. Rennett Stowe / flickr] By Valerie Volcovici 24 January 2012 NEW YORK – U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions will be 7 pe...
I have covered the topic of vaccines many a time on the blog. The fact that they are mostly ineffective, often contaminated or prone to going wild and spreading the disease they are supposed to prevent. And...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Spain at a depth of just 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 14:36:05 UTC Tuesday 31st January 2012 The epicenter was 6 km (3.7 miles) Northwest of Huesa, Spain No Repor...
The battle over Mexican American Studies- TUSD has been going in since 2006... intensely since 2009. HB 2281 was signed by Gov. Jan Brewer in May 2012. We have been telling people about this insidious meas...
*TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2012* *Part 2—How we the rubes remain clueless:* At one time, a person could count on two things. He could count on death *and* taxes. Over the past forty years, that bargain has bee...
By William K. Black The Obama administration’s record of prosecuting elite financial frauds is worse than the Bush administration’s record, which is a very large statement. Syracuse University’s TRAC issu...
Last summer DC's Mayor Gray selected a real estate consulting and loan outfit from Illinois to "study" the public schools of DC to determine which will live and which will die. Yep, the pick to do the "re...
No Obit for Roy D’Aquila???? Rampant speculation has begun ~Slabbed ~Editilla Brotellas~ We're keeping a close watch on Slabbed as t day a Nova Scotia Judge will rule whether two, 2-bit hooligan partners of...
Perched on the rim of Kïlauea volcano's summit caldera, the Hawaii Volcano Observatory (HVO) has watched over one of the world’s most active eruptors since 1912.
*Fr**om the Hill * *Increasing number of ethics probes rattles House Republicans* *By Jordy Yager - 01/30/12 08:32 PM ET* By next Monday the House Ethics Committee is slated to decide whether to formally ...
Mark Thompson describes the moment when he was in charge of dimming the lights of a whole town in the name of astronomy.
Here's your chance for action today. Andrew's Round Table was formed after the anti-gay marriage amendment was pushed onto the 2012 ballot in Minnesota. We are a group of straight, fair-minded individuals...
RESEARCHERS say melting Arctic sea ice is enticing more killer whales to Nunavut waters where they are competing with Inuit hunters for food and threatening to replace polar bears as the North's top preda...
Although the DCCC either tries to sabotage them or ignores them, there *are*progressive candidates, sometimes a *very* different thing from "Democratic Party candidates," running for Congress across the ...
Yesterday, I looked at the ten names being tossed around most frequently for Liberal leadership - Rae, Leblanc, Trudeau, McGuinty^2, Garneau, Brison, Coderre, Cauchon, and Kennedy. Today, a look at some l...
*STOP War Against Iran.* *STOP Economic shocks.* *NO MORE S.O.P.A / A.C.T.A. / Biden-Sinde-Wert-Law / ... * *NO MORE Censorship.* *OPEN DATA.* *FREE Manning, FREE Assange, FREE Anons.* *FREE KNOWLEDGE.* *...
Lots of good stuff today, so getting right to it: 1. Very interesting study from Lynn Vavreck and Ryan D. Enos about how candidates can affect voters' perceptions of reality, centered on Newt's rhetoric a...
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wmtc - 3 hours ago
Chris Hedges: What happened to Canada? It used to be the country we would flee to if life in the United States became unpalatable. No nuclear weapons. No huge military-industrial complex. Universal health...
A 54-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the bodies of two men were found in a pond, according to Sky sources. The first body was found in Reed Pond, near Tennyson Avenue in Cante...
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This report was just released in MInnesota. It is an example where the author recognizes something isn't right - but the author doesn't know where the original idea came from - in this case ALEC. Because...
Investigators were combing through the charred remains of two Arizona homes for clues Monday after they were destroyed by a mysterious late-night explosion in a Phoenix suburb. Local residents in Chand...
A voter's political inclinations may be reflected in the structures of their brains.
The meningococcal meningitis epidemic has spread in five provinces and cities in Vietnam, including Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Long An, Binh Phuoc and Quang Tri, the Preventive Health Department under the H...
Heavy seas off Christmas Island have broken the wreck of a cargo ship into three pieces and there are growing concerns about the environment, as more oil leaks from the ship. The MV Tycoon broke its moor...
Israeli officials say no decision has been made on military action against Iran's nuclear programme, despite reports that the window for a pre-emptive strike is closing. A government source told Sky News...
Sequences of explosive volcanic eruptions in the tropics were the likely trigger for the Little Ice Age, according to a new study. The research attempts to answer two longstanding questions swirling around...
The discovery of the bodies of two men in a pond is being investigated by police. The first body was found in Reed Pond, near Tennyson Avenue in Canterbury, Kent, at about 12pm on Monday. The second bod...
Moss Landing, Calif. -Sea shells and crabs are usually found along the shore, but in Moss Landing people say a different animal is stinking up the beach. "Last week, [There was] clear beach, clear skies...
COTABATO, Philippines (Xinhua) -- Around 49 metric tons of fish have been found floating dead in Lake Sebu in South Cotabato province. The local Tilapia fish, in 50 cages, was valued at 3.8 million pesos,...
Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of five deer that were once exhibited at the Georgetown zoo. According to a press release, an independent post-mortem examination performe...
Historically, rabies came with a warning. A dog or other infected animal, staggering, perhaps foaming at the mouth, would launch an attack for no apparent reason. Seeing this, people knew to back away....
Labour leader accuses prime minister of failing to protect British interests and mishandling negotiations with European Union. David Cameron is to face Labour claims in the Commons that he sold the count...
Snow showers and freezing temperatures could cause icy conditions on roads in parts of Britain, forecasters have warned. The Met Office upgraded its cold weather alert to Level 3, stating that there was...
U.S. President Barack Obama has defended the use of drone strikes in Pakistan, which U.S. officials have never before publicly acknowledged. Speaking during an online town hall discussion Monday, Preside...
BRUSSELS — Eurozone unemployment hit a record 10.4 percent in November and December, provisional official figures showed on Tuesday. The Eurostat data agency had previously estimated an unemployment rate o...
The Royal Navy’s most sophisticated warship is being sent to the South Atlantic in a move that will send a powerful message to Argentina. Dauntless will set sail for the Falkland Islands in the coming wee...
Dozens of people were killed in clashes between Pakistani soldiers and militants in the northwest region on Tuesday, security officials said, casting further doubts on exploratory peace talks with the reb...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will use a planned visit to China this week to encourage Beijing to reduce its imports of Iranian oil, a German government source said on Tuesday. Last week, the European ...
Europe's next challenge is saving Greece and Portugal - but austerity alone won't help; China's property market reaches stalemate; and why Western banks are pulling out of Asia.
Occupy protesters in Washington hold their ground as a police deadline to remove bedding from their camps passes without incident.
Chancellor Angela Merkel cemented her political ascendancy in Europe Monday when 25 out of 27 EU states agreed to a German-inspired pact for stricter budget discipline, even as they struggled to rekindle ...
Image: A bridge in Sakae, Nagano Prefecture, thought to have collapsed because of heavy snow, is seen on Jan. 30. (Mainichi) Heavy snow has left 53 dead and hundreds injured in several prefectures in wes...
AOMORI -- A furnace malfunction at a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant here has stalled a planned trial run of the facility, throwing the future of Japan's nuclear cycle policy into doubt. Yoshihiko Kawai,...
* * *Irbil, Iraq (CNN)* -- Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi has lashed out at Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, predicting that Iraq could soon return to widespread sectarian violence that could requi...
The fate of dozens of construction workers kidnapped in Sudan, including a group of Chinese nationals, remained unclear Tuesday amid conflicting reports on the situation. Militants captured 70 workers --...
U.N. nuclear experts gave a thumbs-up to Japan's planned "stress tests" for its remaining nuclear power plants Tuesday but left Japanese authorities to decide whether the plants themselves are safe. A te...
Three suspected drone strikes hit militant targets in southern Yemen on Monday night and Tuesday morning, killing at least nine people with suspected links to al Qaeda, security officials said. The missi...
As diplomats gather half a world away to discuss the Syrian conflict, a humanitarian crisis is unraveling in the eastern suburbs of Damascus, opposition activists said Tuesday. Many parts of Ghouta -- a...
A Lithuanian man charged with the murders of a couple at their home in Birmingham has committed suicide in prison. Avtar and Carole Kolar were beaten to death with a lump hammer in the Handsworth Wood a...
There is no evidence that missing toddler Ayla Reynolds was abducted from her father's home, authorities revealed today. It was also believed that the adults in the house were not giving the full picture...
A mugger was last night fatally shot by an off-duty NYPD detective after he attempted to rob the cop and had attacked him with a cane, police said. Antoine White, 17, allegedly knocked over Detective Benj...
A long-range drone capable of surveillance and bombing missions over Iran crashed near an Israeli air base during a test flight on Sunday. The Heron TP unmanned aircraft, which has a massive wingspan near...
A nuclear reactor at a northern Illinois plant shut down today after mysteriously losing power. Officials from Exelon Nuclear and federal regulators confirmed Unit 2 at Byron Generating Station shut down...
Police were called to a troubled Texas high school after another major brawl erupted in the cafeteria - and parents say they have had enough. Cell phone video provided an inside look at Friday's mel...
Canadian paleontologists have identified bizarre tulip-looking fossils as animals, but with feeding holes and an anus not in the usual places.
This is the Official Online (Youtube) Release of "Zeitgeist: Moving Forward" by Peter Joseph. [30 subtitles ADDED!] On Jan. 15th, 2011, "Zeitgeist: Moving Forward" was released theatrically to sold out ...
The State Department said on Monday it has used unarmed drones to help protect its diplomats overseas and the New York Times reported that the program had outraged senior Iraqi officials. Read More
A pharmaceutical company has applied to the federal Food and Drug Administration to market its HIV treatment medication Truvada as a HIV prevention pill. Gilead wants to be able to market Truvada, which...
Australia is reviewing its timetable for buying 12 troubled F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, the defense minister said Monday after the United States announced a rethink of its purchase schedule for the futuris...
Images from the induction ceremony of the Japanese Type 10 (10式戦車) Main Battle Tank (MBT). Read More
This tiny tiger cub was so young when it was seized by poachers it would not have been able to open its eyes. The defenseless newborn was brutally plucked from the wild and killed and sold on London's t...
A burgeoning population of huge pythons — many of them pets that were turned loose by their owners when they got too big — appears to be wiping out large numbers of raccoons, opossums, bobcats and other m...
An international team of satellite experts and oceanographers have solved one of Nasa's most baffling mysteries - where the energy from the sun was going. Two years ago, scientists at Colorado's National...
Heavy snow and a severe cold snap have killed at least 36 people across eastern Europe. Poland, Serbia, Romania, Ukraine, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic have all been hit by temperatures as low as -26C ...
Mobsters have dumped the severed head of a pig on the doorstep of a brave crime fighting priest, it emerged yesterday. Father Ennio Stamile made the grim discovery as he left his house for morning Mass a...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 51.6 km (32.1 miles), the quake hit at 08:48:06 UTC Tuesday 31st January 2012 The epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) SSW of Mapaste...
Iran has issued a stark warning to the West vowing that response to any hostile action will be 'regretful but destructive'. As tensions over its disputed nuclear programme continue to rise General Masoud...
Day in Day Out, some within the BBC produce a relentless drumbeat to accompany the narrative that the Coalition is wrong in everything that it does. Take these consecutive items ran on Today this morning. ...
A mother has been arrested after she abandoned her two daughters aged just three and five on the street with only a few extra diapers. Dalisha Adams, 26, from Brooklyn, was picked up by police on Sunday n...
I am pleased that this story isgetting international attention and also that our judiciary and justice systemcontinues to get this right. Barbarismbelongs in the past and there is no valid religious ...
Victims of violent street attacks left with a dislocated jaw or broken hand will be denied compensation under new cuts. Burns victims with permanent scarring will also be refused payment as part of refor...
THE two race-hate thugs jailed for murdering Stephen Lawrence are to appeal against their convictions, it emerged last night. David Norris, 35, and Gary Dobson, 36, will claim that their six-week trial, ...
Here's a rather wonderful instance of anti GOP bias from our old pal, Jonny Dymond in which he characterises Obama's opponents as the Party of * "old white America."* Gosh, that sounds almost a tad...racis...
The Army has been put on standby across Britain as Arctic conditions look set to bring in a -11C big freeze in February. Temperatures are set to plummet to well below freezing this week, making parts of ...
British bosses are offering thousands of jobs to Romanian workers as unemployment in the UK soars. Just days ago, officials revealed that the number of British unemployed had reached a 17-year high of 2....
David Cameron was embroiled in a fresh war of words with Nicolas Sarkozy last night as EU leaders agreed a new treaty to prop up the euro. Downing Street was forced on to the counter-attack after the Fren...
Disagreement on Syria is one underlying cause of the current diplomatic row between Iraq and Turkey, analysts say, but crucial economic ties are likely to prevent a serious escalation. Despite improving ...
North Korea plans a massive military parade including missiles and other weaponry to mark major anniversaries early this year after its leader's death, South Korean media reports said Monday. A large num...
Syrian Kurdish party leaders said they want a referendum after an eventual fall of embattled President Bashar al-Assad to decide on their people's future as part of Syria. More than 200 Syrian Kurds from...
The US military has concluded that its largest conventional bomb is not capable of destroying Iran's most heavily fortified underground facilities suspected to be used for building nuclear weapons, The Wa...
Japanese manufacturer's greenhouse gas emissions are rising after the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, hurting the country's carbon reduction goals, a report said Sunday. The trend will deal a blo...
China on Sunday called for greater efforts towards "peace and stability" in the region, after the Philippines offered to allow more US troops on its territory. Manila said Friday it planned to hold more ...
Thousands of critics of capitalism meeting in Brazil called Sunday for a worldwide protest in June to press for concrete steps to tackle the global economic crisis. The World Social Forum wrapped up a fi...
Nearly three months after MF Global Holdings collapsed, officials hunting for an estimated $1.2 billion in missing customer money increasingly believe that much of it might never be recovered, according t...
Iran could develop a nuclear bomb in about a year and create the means for delivery in a further two to three years, the US defense chief said Sunday, reiterating President Barack Obama's determination to...
Ömer Faruk Tekbilek, “Toros”
The country is so dangerous it's no wonder so many leave, travelling alone across the Middle East in search of a new life. Behind the security bars of a spartan, white-tiled room, 25 youths are arranging...
"Everything has been figured out, except how to live." - Jean-Paul Sartre
Viola Caon left her Italian home to find work. Now she returns to see how her former classmates are faring… and in the week that shocking figures showed how badly Europe's youth is being hit by the unempl...
Despite attempts by political and business leaders to suggest the Eurozone has turned a corner, the prevailing view of pundits is things can only get worse and a "perfect storm" is brewing. The five-day ...
The eurozone has agreed to establish a fiscal union and all other EU countries except for Britain and Czechia have joined this ill-conceived plan. The countries essentially agreed to pay a fine, 0.1% of ...
FORT LAUDERDALE— Tania Ouaknine is convinced the police are watching her. She's not paranoid — it says as much on the red sign painted along the side on the hulking armored truck that's been parked in fr...
REPORTING FROM MOSCOW -- Moscow’s Garden Ring street, a 10-mile circle around large portions of the city’s historic center, including the Kremlin, turned white on a frosty Sunday afternoon -- not with sno...
Sichuan province, China (CNN) -- 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...
Haifa, Israel (CNN) -- On a cool January morning, Israeli ambulances sped to the site of a simulated terrorist attack in Haifa, the country's largest port city. In keeping with the script for the long-p...
Washington (CNN) -- Newt Gingrich has absorbed a fair degree of ridicule for his campaign proposal to build an American colony on the moon. Before focusing the laughter solely on Gingrich, however, let's...
BAGHDAD — A month after the last American troops left Iraq, the State Department is operating a small fleet of surveillance drones here to help protect the United States Embassy and consulates, as well as...
The Tories’ “zero tolerance” policy on knife crime is in tatters, with four out of five knife-wielding thugs escaping a jail term. New figures show that of the 5,466 caught carrying a knife between July ...
Religion is one of those big taboo topics that many people are terrified to touch: too afraid that others will question their religious loyalties and just as afraid to step on the minefield that is the ove...
Birds have long had a very special place in my heart — as in most human hearts. Birds are magic, myth, fairy tale and the subject of intense scientific scrutiny. One of the startling ways in which birds h...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 593 km (367.6 miles), the quake hit at 07:26:11 UTC Tuesday 31st January 2012 The epicenter was 425 km (263.5 miles) South of ...
*Some Asians like to hug. *'Mommy left us on the sidewalk and drove away'. On 29 January 2012, the Alisha Adams abandoned her kids, aged 3 and 5, on a street in New York. Brooklyn mom Dalisha Adams aband...
The first thing we all need toget our heads around is that various species of fur covered primates existthroughout the globe have been extensively reported on over the decades. Bigfoot is the North Am...
The problem is to get a correctmeasure. The most important time isduring summer when one is mostly impacting the air conditioning system or itslack thereof. Importantly the buildingsare noticeably co...
An international research team studied ancient plants from Iceland and Canada, and sediments carried by glaciers. *Scientists conclude that little Ice Age was caused by the cooling effect of gigantic vol...
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Dr Cintli - 10 hours ago
In checking to see how many books of mine have been banned, I stumbled upon more than I bargained for. At the moment, here is what is banned by TUSD and the state: Justice: A Question of Race. The X in L...
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CENSORED NEWS - 11 hours ago
*By Sherman Alexie* *The Progressive* http://progressive.org/sherman-alexie Let's get one thing out of the way: Mexican immigration is an oxymoron. Mexicans are indigenous. So, in a strange way, I'm pleas...
*According to the research a strong link among the spread of pythons and drops in recorded sightings of raccoons, rabbits, bobcats and other class. They are a new top marauder in Everglades National Park...
*A Smartphone app to help people with disabilities voyage around London more simply has designed by a severely injured survivor of the 7/7 bombings*. Drumming the icons brings up the information wanted t...
The head of the Army will pose a question bordering on heresy today. What, he will ask, is the Army for? Given that Sir Peter Wall is the Chief of the General Staff with a lifetime in uniform behind him,...
DUBAI, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Eleven militants including a number of local al Qaeda leaders were killed in an air strike in Yemen overnight, local residents said on Tuesday. They said an unidentified drone a...
As the fighting in the Syrian uprising reaches the capital, a diplomatic battle is shaping up at the UN headquarters in New York. Worryingly for all concerned, the uprising is taking on an increasingly ...
Iran is moving closer to the point when it will be too late to destroy its nuclear facilities with a precision air strike, Israel's defence minister has warned. Reviving Western concerns that his governm...
IMF head Christine Lagarde says no country will be safe from the eurozone crisis if action is not taken soon. Speaking with CNN's Richard Quest at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Lagarde, the managin...
The blurring of reality and the virtual world has come full circle. Just over twenty years ago I can remember watching the first stirrings of the Gulf War, arguably the first television war, and one where...
FAIRBANKS, Alaska — The temperature in Fairbanks has not reached 50 below zero but this month may be one of the coldest Januaries in community history. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports the average ...
*According to a most important new safety report Israel, Finland and Sweden are seen as leading the way in cyber-readiness. It also suggests charitable more power to law enforcement to fight cross-border m...
WASHINGTON—Pentagon war planners have concluded that their largest conventional bomb isn't yet capable of destroying Iran's most heavily fortified underground facilities, and are stepping up efforts to ma...
Hawaii's legislature is weighing an unprecedented proposal to curb the privacy of Aloha State residents: requiring Internet providers to keep track of every Web site their customers visit. Its House of R...
Google today dismissed concerns by a former senior federal IT official that the company's controversial new privacy policy would create problems for customers of Google Apps for Government (GAFG). In a s...
Suppose you're basically pretty conservative, especially on economic and fiscal matters, but early in life picked the blue team instead of the red team. And you're looking for a career in politics. What t...
The Pentagon is rushing to send a large floating base for commando teams to the Middle East as tensions rise with Iran, al-Qaeda in Yemen and Somali pirates, among other threats. In response to requests ...
Two decades after evicting U.S. forces from their biggest base in the Pacific, the Philippines is in talks with the Obama administration about expanding the American military presence in the island nation...
VIENNA — Austrians gathered in memory of the 2 million Jews murdered in Adolf Hitler’s Auschwitz camp condemned plans to hold a ball of extreme rightists later in the day Friday, saying the event’s timing...
BEIJING (Reuters) - A cancer-causing cadmium discharge from a mining company has polluted a long stretch of two rivers in southern China, and officials warned some 3.7 million people of Liuzhou in the Gua...
The Arab League’s decision on Sunday to renew its monitors’ mandate consigns Syria to further bloodshed and the pan-Arab body back to its longstanding position of irrelevance. Arab League representatives...
The European Union threatened Iran on Monday with cutting off petroleum imports into the 27 EU member states, and announced sanctions on Iranian banks and some port and other companies. Iran sells 18 per...
North Korea’s leadership succession from Kim Jong-il to Kim Jong-un has gone according to script. The Korean Workers’ Party and the Korean People’s Army are supporting Kim Jong-un as North Korea’s new lea...
Ex-SKF and Enenews are both running articles covering the offline nuclear plant in Ill that is spewing tritium infused steam that is purportedly safe http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/01/byron-nuclear-plant-...
Long accustomed to its role as the dominant player in the Americas, the United States is now seeing that position eroded by the increasing footprint of China in the Americas. Since then-President Jiang Ze...
The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits the condition of slavery. But it does not refer to a "person" or any particular class of victims. So, can animals be slaves? In a precedent-setting ...
Davos, Switzerland (CNN) – “Bazooka” is competing for word of the year so far. As in, Europe needs to bring out its big bazooka to deal with the debt crisis in which it has been embroiled for nearly two y...
The World Health Organization has ranked cities around the world on their amount of particulate pollution in the air. Here's the dirtiest of the dirty in the U.S. 10. Pittsburgh/San Diego During its indu...
Here’s one thing you probably know: Most Canadians are going without the sustained cold and blustering snow by which we define our winters, if not the nation. But here’s another thing you probably don’t:...
Lola, a three-month-old elephant calf at the Hellabrunn Zoo in Munich, Germany, died the morning she was supposed to receive life-saving heart surgery. Lola's body was brought back to the Hellabrunn herd...
I’ve had a Mercedes flash a small coffee cup light at me to tell me I might want to pull over for break; I’ve had a Volvo set off warnings that someone was creeping into my blind spot on my right; I’ve ha...
Many Russians have made their home on the holiday island, but the Putin regime seems to be reaching deep into the tiny nation. A mysterious Russian cargo ship limped into the Cypriot port of Limassol, th...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia at a depth of 52.8 km (32.8 miles), the quake hit at 03:40:30 UTC Tuesday 31st January 2012 The epicenter was 309 km (192 miles) Southeast...
A magnitude 3.2 earthquake has struck Virginia at a depth of just 3 km (1.8 miles), the quake hit at 23:39:47 UTC Monday 30th January 2012 The epicenter was 9 km (5 miles) South of Louisa, Virginia No Repo...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 483.2 km (300.3 miles), the quake hit at 19:56:07 UTC Monday 30th January 2012 The epicenter was 503 km (312 miles) SSW of Ndo...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the North Coast of Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 38.2 km (23.7 miles), the quake hit at 19:38:22 UTC Monday 30th January 2012 The epicenter was 328 km (203 miles...
Liquid Mind, "Letting Go (Lunar Voyage)” Music by Chuck Wild, background vocals by A. J. Teshin and Seven Whitfield. "Liquid Mind IX Lullaby: Letting Go.” Footage from multiple Apollo lunar missions (196...
I was called by social conditioning in my family and biographical details. I was born relatively poor in Berkeley in the 1960sand experienced the Civil Rights Movement. I was called by education and by te...
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CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours ago
Cesar Chavez*TUSD BANNED BOOKS LIST* O'odham professor Ofelia Zepeda By Roberto Rodriguez Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com TUSD BANNED BOOKS LIST(s) The lists of banned books comes from the...
*"The Country Of Marriage"* * * *I.* "I dream of you walking at night along the streams of the country of my birth, warm blooms and the nightsongs of birds opening around you as you walk. You are holding ...
*Probably there isn't even any missing money, just missing records. "The audit says it believes records management is to blame, and 'has been an ongoing problem for DoD in Iraq. By all accounts, DoD establ...
"Behold one of the more detailed images of the Earth yet created. This Blue Marble Earth montage shown below - created from photographs taken by the Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrum...
"Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about his religion. Respect others in their views and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, bea...
"Within the circles of our lives we dance the circles of the years, the circles of the seasons within the circles of the years, the cycles of the moon, within the circles of the seasons, the circles of our ...
Globalization, as practiced by the U.S. government since the state terror attacks on September 11, 2001, is colonization under a new internationalist flag. International usurers aka banksters are at the t...
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Dr Cintli - 14 hours ago
The lists of banned books comes from the Cambium report, which was gathered from MAS-TUSD. Searn Arce, director of MAS-TUSD affirms that all the books on the lists below have been banned. In this format, ...
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Not PC - 14 hours ago
[image: _Bollard]It was no surprise that news of Alan Bollard’s forthcoming resignation from the job of Reserve Bank Governor was followed almost immediately this morning by calls to “shake up the moneta...
*"Dying"* by Chet Raymo "I'm sure I have written here before about Caenorhabditis elegans, a tiny worm - about the size of this letter i (without the dot) - that has become one of the most thoroughly stud...
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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Not PC - 17 hours ago
Those programmers! Always yammering. Always chattering. Here’s the sort of shit those programmers area always saying. Watch until the end. [Hat tip Geek Press] Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Ple...
Tofino, British Columbia, Canada. Thanks for stopping by.
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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Not PC - 18 hours ago
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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Not PC - 19 hours ago
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 - 19 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 flo...
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...
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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...
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*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 ...
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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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
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I have a small confession to make. I don't like cake. I know, that makes me crazy or something. Another confession? My husband doesn't like it either. I guess crazies gravitate together. Even with both o...
[image: Link] For months they have been forced to wander a desolate landscape, lost, confused and alone. The thousands of dogs and cats abandoned in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear crisis have endured d...
By Suzanne MacNevin. I had a comment on a different blog (Feminist Truths) a few days ago from a loser claiming that men are the unequal ones. Ha. Here is some interesting facts for those people who don'...
A farmer was understandably left fed up to the gills by the sight of fish after a staggering 20 tonnes of mackerel spilled onto his land from an overturned lorry. It was travelling towards Ardglass in Co...
A main cause of deforestation in South America and Asia has been clearing land for palm oil production. Palm oil has become a major source of biodiesel, a supposedly green fuel. Not so fast. *The Gu...
* France * Hugh Cuthbert, a top rated UK fund manager, says the euro crisis is probably over. He believes that Europe now has the funding, and austerity, needed to end the 'sovereign debt' problem once an...
popseal Slidell, La. *If you liked the leftist assault against Palin, just wait. The yet to be exposed weakness of Romney is the touchy subject of religion. The left will turn over Mormon rocks and find ...
The Somali militant group Al-Shabaab says it has banned the International Committee of the Red Cross from operating in the regions it controls, accusing the organization of distributing expired food. In ...
Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- Yemen's information minister escaped an assassination attempt unharmed Tuesday, his office manager said. The minister, Ali al-Amrani, was headed to the prime minister's office when ...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoAn international team of satellite experts and oceanographers have solved one of Nasa's most baffling mysteries - where the energy from the sun was going. Two years ago, scientists at Colorado's National...
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