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A Darwin woman was in no mood to be neighbourly when a visitor from up the road dropped by. Jo Dodd, who lives at Bees Creek, 30km south of Darwin's centre, says aggressive barking from her pomeranian pup...
*British scientist
Stephen Hawking has had to miss a convention to smear his 70th birthday for the reason that of ill health.* As well as running through his individual times past and pronouncements on th...
As the world marks the 20th anniversary of the
Soviet Union’s demise at the end of 1991, the U.S.-Russian effort to lock up
nuclear weapons and avoid a doomsday scenario has been revealed. Soviet nukes fa...
Loggers in Brazil who had illegally entered an Amazon
Indian reserve captured an eight-year-old indigenous girl and burned her alive, it was claimed today. The child, who belonged to the isolated Gwaja-Aw...
A couple in a quiet suburb of Denver, Colorado, were badly burned after they were targeted with a package bomb that exploded in their car. Allyson Stone, 44, and
Christopher Stone, 59, picked up a paper t...
If we could trust Vanity Fair to fairly evaluate an economic crime (ha!), this is what we'd get for our trouble. And it may be as good as any evaluation we'll get at this time. On Eve of $41 Billion MF Glo...
I was born just as a wave of paranoia swept the United States that gay people were a threat to national security. The idea was that gays, forced to stay in the closet and petrified about exposure, could ...
*The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have united stars on the red fitted carpet at the UK debut of Steven Spielberg's new film War Horse. *The film's cast includes Sherlock actor Benedict Cumberbatch, Emily...
A couple on vacation from New Hampshire were found shot dead in their car near the scenic resort town of Sedona, in Arizona. The killings of James Johnson, 63, of Jaffrey, and Carol Raynsford of Nelson, ...
A 46-year-old male nurse suspected of murdering three patients at Stepping Hill Hospital has been bailed pending further inquiries. Victorino Chua was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of tampering with ...
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck the Tonga Region at a depth of 36.5 km (22.7 miles), the quake hit at 03:43:33 UTC Monday 9th January 2012 The epicenter was 172 km (106 miles) Southeast of Nulu'Alofa,...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 36.7 km (22.8 miles), the quake hit at 02:38:07 UTC Monday 9th January 2012 The epicenter was 176 km (109 miles) ESE of Raoul...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Halmahera, Indonesia at a depth of 86.9 km (54 miles), the quake hit at 23:45:19 UTC Sunday 8th January 2012 The epicenter was 117 km (72 miles) Northeast of Ternate, M...
A magnitude 6.6 earthquake has struck the Santa Cruz Islands at a depth of 49.6 km (30.8 miles), the quake hit at 04:07:17 UTC Monday 9th January 2012 The epicenter was 363 km (225 miles) East of Kira Kira,...
“Named for a forgotten constellation, the Quadrantid Meteor Shower is an annual event for planet Earth's northern hemisphere skygazers. It usually peaks briefly in the cold, early morning hours of January ...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 524.2 km (325.7 miles), the quake hit at 23:40:58 UTC Sunday 8th January 2012 The epicenter was 322 km (200 miles) SSW of Ndoi ...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Eastern Honshu, Japan at a depth of 67.2 km (41.8 miles), the quake hit at 22:13:10 UTC Sunday 8th January 2012 The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) ESE of Morioka, Honsh...
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 40.2 km (25 miles), the quake hit at 21:51:50 UTC Sunday 8th January 2012 The epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) Northwest of Port-Vila, Efate, Vanuat...
*“In The Sweet By And By”* by Chet Raymo “In the Bahamas there's a saying: Everbody wanna go to hebben, but nobody wanna die. I suppose you could find the same expression anywhere in the world. It's one ...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Tajikistan at a depth of 156 km (96.7 miles), the quake hit at 20:49:33 UTC Sunday 8th January 2012 The epicenter was 37 km (22.9 miles) Northeast of Ekaem, Tajikistan ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Bonin Islands, Japan at a depth of 13.4 km (8.3 miles), the quake hit at 20:25:33 UTC Sunday 8th January 2012 The epicenter was 140 km (86 miles) East of Chichi-Sh...
*It's from Verizon*: "Fees often added to customers’ payments" January 05, 2012|Todd Wallack, Globe Staff After just a *day of heated complaints by angry consumers* on *social networking sites*, Verizon ...
"All our lives are collections curated through memory. We pick up recollections and facts and store them, often half forgotten, or tucked away on shelves buried deep in the psyche. Not everything is as bl...
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wmtc - 2 hours ago
Our second full day in Montreal was simply lovely. In the morning we headed up to the Marché Jean-Talon, the largest of Montreal's four public markets. I felt as if we had wandered into Europe. The gorgeou...
"Hospital lures rural doctors with unusual offer" by Roxana Hegeman, Associated Press / Dec 31, 2011 *I thought the wait in the office was long. * An unorthodox approach to bring doctors back. All employ...
Animal Planet's trading card game inspires learning about the Serengeti with photos, videos and animation.
"As immigration officials consider whether to deport him, Obama, 67, finds his life in the United States the subject of intense curiosity.... *Not here. * --more--" * * *Also see:* *Obama's Uncle Owes ...
We have isolated a compound here that could be imbibed in conjunction with alcohol that actually is beneficial in that: Slows sleepiness effect directly Slows impact ...
*These were the links and stories I salvaged from the stacks of unread Metro sections. Sorry.** ** * * ** * Reopening of Maine paper mill stirs hope Mainers hope to save spiny sea urchin trade *Do you kn...
*"I thought one of the gifts of comedy was supposed to be to the ability to tell fucking truth, but you know what TV's most scared of? The fuckin' truth! . . ."* *-- Lee Camp, in Moment of Clarity #103, "...
*I must have been groggy this morning to have read this front-page feature*: "With each celebratory, Richter-scale spike of the football, the 22-year-old phenom punctuated a magical season in which he help...
*The documents that Congress, and news reporters, choose to ignore* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com There are two documents that Congress, and news reporters covering Proj...
*CANADIAN LABOUR LONDON ONTARIO:* *RALLY TO PUSH BACK AGAINST THE CORPORATE BULLDOZER CATERPILLAR INC.:* **Since New Year's Day 425 workers at Electro-Motive (a subsidiary of heavy equipment firm Cater...
This photograph is from a story on NPR about research into the mathematics of trees. The rest of the pictures are from the damage done by extreme winds during recent storms in the UK and Europe (y'all kn...
*G&M *:* 'Foreign money' could gum up pipeline approval, Harper warns* "Stephen Harper is warning about the possibility that hearings into Enbridge's Northern Gateway pipeline will be "hijacked" by foreign...
posted by PC at
Not PC - 5 hours ago
I’ve had to discuss Ron Paul frequently over the holiday break. Not because I brought him up. For some reason, friends wanted to talk about him. Here below are links saying a little of what I tried to sa...
[image: The MV Rena is split into two pieces on Sunday, 8 January 2012, after overnight bad weather pounded the vessel. It ran aground in October on the Astrolabe Reef in Tauranga, New Zealand. Maritime ...
Orlando, Florida, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
“Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.” - Bruce Lee
*"30 Lessons A Wise Man Once Shared"* by Marc "My father is one of the wisest men I know. Over the past year he has been dispensing bits of wisdom to friends, business partners and family members via hi...
The UK is home to one of the most corrupt and self-serving Establishments the world has had the misfortune to experience. From the Windsor mafia at the top, to the leading career civil servants, the motiv...
- This event has been reviewed by a seismologist. Magnitude*5.2* Date-Time - *Sunday, January 08, 2012 at 22:13:10 UTC* - Monday, January 09, 2012 at 07:13:10 AM at epicenter - Time of Ea...
A lot of us may choose to walk away from a discussion when it turns to pro-life issues, and when the conversation turns to the topic of over-turning Roe v Wade Sometimes we need some help on what we could...
Since when did oil companies give a red rat's ass about the "ethical" behaviour of the governments of lands from which they sucked oil out of the ground? The truth is, *oil companies* are some of the *le...
posted by David Preiser (USA) at
Biased BBC - 6 hours ago
It's been one year since an unhinged Arizonan killed several people in cold blood while attempting to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. The BBC is silent on that matter today, which is slightly curious ...
I am pleased to see that the awful Billy Bragg image thingy has now gone, thanks to our dear friend, All Seeing Eye. Recorded an interview on 5live - things have come to a pretty pass when I have to attack...
*This is the first half of the third-season opener, "The Funeral," of the great Britcom Waiting for God, which used a sensational performance of the finale of the Trout Quintet by the Nash Ensemble for it...
This whole War of 1812 glorification schtick the Harper-toons are pushing is actually starting to amuse me - to a point. Most recently, the mucous ones have hired a firm *to inject 1812* into this year's C...
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STEPHEN HAWKING IS 70 today. Our foremost living theoretical physicist, his work is given thoughtful appraisal by Luboš Motl, who ponders things astrophysical from Pilsen, in the Czech Republic, on his s...
*"The Gilded Age of Bankers and Income Disparity"* By: Richard Mills "As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information Between 1865 and 1898 the US economy grew a...
Dr. Paul is a great voice of moral conscience. Go to the 8 minute mark.
*"Medical Care And Medical Choices"* by Karl Denninger "I may be beating on a dead horse here, but this topic keeps coming up on the forum and I think it needs substantive expansion and more pounding of ...
Capital Account can be accessed here and subscribed to if you wish. I have known of Russia Today (RT) from videos I had come across at random. But it was only a few days ago I that was clued in to...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Kyrgyzstan at a depth of 17 km (10.8 miles), the quake hit at 19:00:43 UTC Sunday 8th January 2012 The epicenter was 32 km (19.8 miles) Northwest of Tyrup, Kyrgyzstan N...
MYSTERY surrounds the cause of death of MDC-T legislator, Gladys Gombami. News reports said she had died of avian influenza or bird flu but health expects deny there any cases of the disease in the country...
posted by PC at
Not PC - 9 hours ago
[image: image] “Balloon Race” by Wairarapa artist David Knowles is posted this morning to mark the tragic accident over the weekend—and to remind us of the spirit that animates the sport, and produces t...
*“On Roses”* by Paulo Coelho “Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright. He dares not say ‘I think,’ ‘I am,’ but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowi...
Source: analuisacid.com.mx Date: 05 January 2012 Mexico: Fireball over Sinaloa Local residents reported seeing a fireball in the sky that split into three parts before disappearing. The phenomen...
posted by PC at
Not PC - 9 hours ago
Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales explains why making money isn’t his primary goal—to the surprise of those who think it should be for an Objectivist. [Hat tip Diana Hsieh, who Jimmy quotes in his Ford Hall Forum ...
posted by PC at
Not PC - 9 hours ago
Welcome back everyone. How was your holiday? Mine was a beauty. And thanks for asking. So what’s been happening with everyone? Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permissi...
*Anna Stam*, 41, was standing at the back of a shop, in Amsterdam. A little girl asked her in English: *"Do you know where my mummy is?" * Stam replied that her mother was a little further back in the sto...
Our friends at Grupo G.A.B.I.E. have shared the following report from the mid-80s that suggests a possible abduction experience or at least a high-strangeness incident that is being made known...
A magnitude 2.8 earthquake has struck the San Pedro Channel, California at a depth of 0 km (0 miles Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 19:15:02 UTC Sunday 8th January 2012 The epicenter was 23 km (14 mi...
A magnitude 3.1 earthquake has struck Arizona at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 19:11:11 UTC Sunday 8th January 2012 The epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) Southwest of Winslow, Arizona No Report...
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un turns action hero in a new documentary released on what is believed to be his birthday. The film, aired by state television, shows him riding a horse, a tank and enjoying ...
A senior Iranian official says Iran will launch a second uranium enrichment facility later this month at an underground site that is well protected from potential air strikes by nations opposed to the Ira...
A British Airways jet was forced to make an emergency landing at Heathrow after both pilots suddenly felt light-headed – and had to be fitted with oxygen masks to guide the plane to the ground. The Capta...
Mark Driscoll, the pastor of a megachurch in the Seattle area, understands the uniqueness of a man in his profession coauthoring a book about sex with his wife. From the chapter on biblical approval of det...
To D-fox: if you're reading this, please contact us at thecomingcrisis@gmail.com. It's important -- we believe.
A Navy SEAL has died after accidentally shooting himself in the head while showing a gun to a woman he had met in a bar. The 22-year-old, identified by the Navy as Petty Officer Third Class Gene 'Geno' C...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Kepulauan Mentawai Region, Indonesia at a depth of 25.7 km (16 miles), the quake hit at 12:59:30 UTC Sunday 8th January 2012 The epicenter was 207 km (128 miles) S...
Politically, Robert Brady's got it made. His Philadelphia House seat is about as generically Democratic as any you'll find in Pennsylvania. PA-1 went 88-12 for Obama in 2008, and even last year, in the m...
posted by David Vance at
Biased BBC - 11 hours ago
B-BBC contributor Alan observes... "The caring broadcaster that is Victoria Derbyshire who gives a voice to the disaffected of Britain, whether Muslim extremists, student protesters or rioting, house burn...
posted by Robin Horbury at
Biased BBC - 11 hours ago
I'm not sure why BBC correspondents are on Twitter. When I was trained to be one, the emphasis was in ensuring balanced reports that gave all sides of a story. Twitter is deliberately designed to push one-...
The world's largest passenger plane may not be sky-worthy, some aircraft engineers in Australia are saying. The BBC reports that the engineers are concerned about small cracks that have appeared on the wi...
*Willard "Mitt" Romney practices sucking lobbyist cock before last night's debate.* By now, we've seen the six remaining GOP presidential contenders on TV more often than Madge the Manicurist and Josephin...
This has evidently been out there for a week now and I have seen little posted about it around the web. Please take the time to read the entire announcement. Occupy Portland calls for a national day of no...
Tony Blair's money-making has soared to unprecedented levels as official figures reveal his companies posted a bonanza 42 per cent rise in income last year. The former Prime Minister's secretive business...
There's not much foreign policy talk on the campaign trail except for one issue - Iran. Everyone is talking about Iran's new strength and assertiveness - its missile tests, its progress on the nuclear prog...
G-Form's iPad Extreme Sleeve 2 utilizes super impact-absorbing material to protect tablets from drops and shocks.
The body found on Queen Elizabeth II's estate in Sandringham last week was a 17-year-old who had been missing since August, police said Sunday. DNA tests helped detectives identified the woman as Alisa Dm...
Saying it was "shocked and alarmed" after a Chinese man and infant were killed in a botched robbery in Rome, the Chinese Embassy urged Italian authorities to protect Chinese citizens in Italy. Zhou Zheng...
[image: Projected soil moisture anomalies, 2046-2100. Thsi graph shows projected annual changes in dryness assessed from changes in soil moisture (soil moisture anomalies, SMA). It shows changes for two ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the South Coast of Western Honshu, Japan at a depth of 64.2 km (39.9 miles), the quake hit at 15:37:40 UTC Sunday 8th January 2012 The epicenter was 27 km (16 mil...
A 1,250-horse-power helicopter engine and an after burner from a fighter jet could help Richard Brown set a land speed record.
The killing of dozens of Christians in recent days has raised fears of a wider religious conflict and ignited anger among Christian leaders who have compared the situation to era preceding the country's ...
*ACCORDING TO IO9,* the *"French fast food chain offers Darth Vader burger with black Dark Side bun"*. Looks like a *Stevieburger*, to me, fried in *VX * for an extra tasty, crispy flavor.
*"It is a pitiless, one-sided, mechanical view of the world, which elevates the rights of property over everything else, meaning that those who possess the most property end up with great power over othe...
posted by David Vance at
Biased BBC - 14 hours ago
It's a recurrent BBC meme - "executives" are getting paid far too much and something must be done about it. (Cue Red Flag playing gently in background, comrades) True to form is this report which leads BBC...
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A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:00:24 UTC Sunday 8th January 2012 The epicenter was 39 km (24.2 miles) North of Saryg...
WHODAT? WHODAT? WHODAT SAY DEY GONNA BEAT DEM SAINTS? Business Insurance and the Myth of Hurricane Flood Risk Modeling in N.O. ~Paul R. Becker, president of the construction practice at Willis North Ameri...
Fun Things First *was the printed headline for the feature, and unfortunately I have a basketball game to play this morning and will be socializing over football after that before returning later this even...
The renown astrophysicist was once told he wouldn't live past his twenties.
*FAA shutdown, "concerned" Repug mom, Rupert's mop-haired henchgal fired?, damn Methodists!, another "debate," and more * *. . . it would be directed by Wes Craven.* *by Noah* *8/5/11 -- The FAA shutdown...
*Not today. * "Subway, rail delays vex shivering commuters" January 05, 2012|Eric Moskowitz, Globe Staff Several thousand *commuters were delayed* yesterday as *frigid weather*thwarted subway cars and com...
Prime Minister David Cameron has said for the first time he would veto a European-wide financial transaction tax unless it was imposed globally, deepening a confrontation with European Union heavyweights F...
posted by David Vance at
Biased BBC - 15 hours ago
The BBC obsesses about race whilst most of us just happily get on with our lives treating individuals as we find them, disinterested in such group collectivism. Biased BBC Contributor Alan notes; Black is...
Dr. Greta Aeby and researchers at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology have discovered a coral disease called Montipora White Syndrome in waters of Kaneohe Bay. "You see these white coral down here th...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Bonin Islands, Japan at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:59:30 UTC Sunday 8th January 2012 The epicenter was 137 km (85 miles) East of Chichi-Shima...
posted by David Vance at
Biased BBC - 15 hours ago
This from Pounce two days ago in the OT. It received 29 ‘likes’. You’ll see why. "At the end I link to pieces from the Telegraph, Independent, the Jerusalem Post and Wiki. You decide if there are grounds...
*The timing of the story is odd since I not only posted a blog about such things** yesterday, but also that my friend finds himself with plumbing problems as I type. * "Aging sewer lines could create disr...
Oreti Beach, near Invercargill, is closed after hundreds of bluebottles have been discovered in the water and on the beach. Surf lifeguard patrol captain Robert Cole said one of the biggest clusters of j...
Tragedy was averted early Saturday morning when fire officials were called to 232 Madison Ave. A total of 10 people, including children, were sent to nearby hospitals with carbon monoxide symptoms. Earl...
Seven passengers have been injured in a mid-air incident aboard a Qantas A380 flying between London and Singapore en route to Sydney. QF32, which left London at 11.15am on Friday morning, struck severe t...
Kendrapara (Odisha), Jan 7 (PTI) One person was killed and another seriously injured by lightning, which followed an unseasonal gale at Rajnagar tehsil of Odisha's Kendrapara district today. Official sou...
Kolkata, Jan 7 (IBNS) At least one person was killed and about 50 more were injured on late Saturday when a train collided with another standing at a railway station in West Bengal's Nadia district, in an...
Taiwan has reported its first H5N2 bird flu case this year after test results confirmed that chickens at a poultry farm in Changhua County were infected with the virus. Despite the infection, the farm ha...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Seven long-finned pilot whales died after being beached in New Zealand, but rescuers were confident Saturday they had saved the other 18 marine mammals that stranded. Seven of t...
Three anti-whaling activists boarded a Japanese vessel off southwest Australia on Sunday as part of a campaign to stop whale hunting in Antarctic waters. The three Australian men boarded the Shonan Maru ...
A massive amount of water contaminated with radiation has been found in a tunnel at a waste treatment facility at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant, the plant operator said. The radioactiv...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 46.5 km (28.9 miles), the quake hit at 11:56:49 UTC Sunday 8th January 2012 The epicenter was 54 km (33 miles) ...
It's bad news for anyone who has eBook readers such as Amazon's Kindle, Kobo's readers, or Barnes and Noble's Nook sitting under the Christmas tree. An agreement between six major publishers has seen pri...
They have been one of the retail sensations of the Christmas season. Sales of eReaders, the handheld devices on to which electronic books can be downloaded, rocketed through December. It is good news for ...
posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at
- 17 hours ago
Url movie: http://youtu.be/Cl1uHSgxrgQ *Nothing* to add to this... Cosmic strings connect every thing. John
Members of Congress may be on vacation, but that hasn't calmed critics who say an effort to stamp out online piracy would create an unprecedented threat to free speech on the Internet. Far from fading fr...
A northeastern Nigerian state was under a 24-hour curfew Saturday following three days of violence that left more than 30 Christians dead. The curfew was placed in effect as fears rose that Christian yo...
Close to 15% of federal taxes -- or $385 billion -- went unpaid in 2006, according to new estimates by the IRS. That's the net tax gap number -- meaning what didn't get paid even after the $65 billion the...
Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant is just weeks from operating at full capacity, the country's top nuclear official said Saturday. Feireidoun Abbasi, the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, also s...
Beef from Brazil is on Iranian dinner tables. An Iranian-built hospital treats patients near Bolivia's capital. Iranian-funded factories dot the Venezuelan countryside. Iran has forged hundreds of agreem...
Arab League officials meet in Cairo on Sunday to discuss their Syria mission amid escalating tension and a growing international outcry over the unrest that has killed thousands. "The option of suspendin...
Permanent cosmetic facial filler injections are potentially dangerous and should be removed from sale, a senior surgeon has told Sky News. Dermal fillers are used to plump out wrinkles or change the conto...
A cargo ship which ran aground off the coast of New Zealand three months ago has broken in two during a storm. Officials said heavy seas had snapped off the stern section of the Greek-owned Rena, which l...
An Australian woman has miraculously survived plunging into crocodile-infested waters after the cord snapped during her bungee jump over the Zambezi River. Erin Laung Worth fell from the Victoria Falls b...
A man and three children have died following a blaze at a house, police said. They have been named by the victims' family as Reece Smith, 19, four-year-old twins Holly and Ella Smith and two-year-old Jor...
A father has been robbing banks in order to pay for the hospital bills of his dying son, according to police. The man, nicknamed the 'dying son bandit', has been apologetic during the hold-ups, explainin...
A woman who threw her two-year-old granddaughter to her death from a 45-foot-high bridge at a busy shopping mall has been jailed for 35 years. Carmela dela Rosa, from Fairfax, Virginia, was found guilty of...
A Russian tanker carrying desperately-needed fuel supplies for the far northern Alaskan city of Nome keeps getting stuck in thick ice flows as it crosses the frigid Bering Sea in the dead of winter. Fort...
A wrongful death lawsuit linked to a defining moment of the Iraq war has ended with the company formerly known as Blackwater agreeing to settle with the families of four security contractors killed in a gr...
Environmental experts are now certain that the recent earthquakes in Ohio and Oklahoma were direct results of the practice of fracking nearby, a controversial process used to obtain natural gas. Conserva...
*Venice.* "In tribal societies ... telepathy is accepted as a human faculty." ( Telepathy) Animals are believed to have psychic powers like Telepathy and Premonition. "The commonest kinds of seemingly te...
A Tennessee man told his wife and mother-in-law ‘they'd be sorry’ before he shot and killed them in a Georgia hospital while others in the waiting room looked on in horror. The shooter, identified as 59-y...
"If any member of our party is guilty in that matter, you know it or you do not know it. If you do know it, you are inexcusable for not designating the man and proving the fact. If you do not know it, yo...
The American military has been accused of abusing detainees at its main prison in Afghanistan Saturday. The allegations by an Afghan investigative commission follows effort by President Hamid Karzai for p...
Iran accused the U.S. of a media stunt after the American Navy's rescue of 13 Iranian fishermen held by pirates, saying it was staged like a 'Hollywood drama'. American officials announced that the fishe...
It looks like the kind of home owned by a successful businessman or influential politician. But this imposing five-bedroom house, in one of the most affluent districts of Lahore, Pakistan, is understood t...
Popular Argentine president Cristina Fernandez has discovered she never had cancer - despite having her thyroid removed after a misdiagnosis. Fernandez had the gland removed on January 4 but doctors could ...
David Cameron is heading for a showdown with Alex Salmond over the plan for Scotland to quit the United Kingdom. The Prime Minister will confront Scotland’s First Minister after receiving new legal advice...
Bank chiefs who put major institutions at risk and damage the economy could face jail under new laws being considered by ministers. The Treasury said a new offence of corporate negligence was among options...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The Archdiocese of Philadelphia plans to shutter about a quarter of its Roman Catholic high schools and close or combine nearly 30 percent of its elementary schools mainly because of r...
Thousands of US troops began descending on Israel this week. Senior US military sources told debkafile Friday, Jan. 6 that many would be staying up to the end of the year as part of the US-IDF deployment i...
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A rare duck normally only seen in Asia has somehow turned up in California, drawing excited bird watchers from all over the U.S. and Canada to a wildlife refuge in the state's Central...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Central Peru at a depth of 151.3 km (94 miles), the quake hit at 07:35:40 UTC Sunday 8th January 2012 The epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) Northeast of Pucallpa, Peru No ...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Central Alaska at a depth of 15.4 km (9.6 miles), the quake hit at 06:47:33 UTC Sunday 8th January 2012 The epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) West of Gulkana, Alaska No Rep...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Northern Xinjiang, China at a depth of 23 km (14.3 miles), the quake hit at 06:20:08 UTC Sunday 8th January 2012 The epicenter was 106 km (65 miles) ENE of Korla, Xinji...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 133.1 km (82.7 miles), the quake hit at 05:26:11 UTC Sunday 8th January 2012 The epicenter was 51 km (31 miles) ESE of Luganville, Espiritu Santo,...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 03:21:49 UTC Sunday 8th January 2012 The epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) ENE of Kyzyl, Ru...
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 549.1 km (341.2 miles), the quake hit at 00:35:52 UTC Sunday 8th January 2012 The epicenter was 273 km (169 miles) Southeast of Lambasa, V...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Southern Iran at a depth of 40.8 km (25.4 miles), the quake hit at 23:25:37 UTC Saturday 7th January 2012 The epicenter was 99 km (61 miles) South of Firuzabad, Iran No...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Greece at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 23:00:11 UTC Saturday 7th January 2012 The epicenter was 4 km (2.4 miles) East of Thermon, Greece No Reports of ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Dodecanese Islands, Greece at a depth of 40 km (24.8 miles), the quake hit at 22:31:31 UTC Saturday 7th January 2012 The epicenter was 22 km (13.6 miles) North of...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 567.3 km (352.5 miles), the quake hit at 22:13:03 UTC Saturday 7th January 2012 The epicenter was 355 km (220 miles) East of Ce...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 25.5 km (15.8 miles), the quake hit at 21:30:09 UTC Saturday 7th January 2012 The epicenter was 152 km (94 miles) ESE...
A cargo ship that ran aground on a reef off the coast of New Zealand last year has split in two, spewing debris and triggering the possibility of a new oil spill, officials said Sunday. Hundreds of tonnes...
posted by leftdog at
Buckdog - 23 hours ago
*Le Canadien l'emporte 3-1 Par la suite, le Canadien a défait le Lightning 3-1, pour savourer un deuxième gain de suite. Le Canadien s'est ainsi détaché de l'équipe de Tampa Bay au 12e rang de l'Associ...
The geographic spread of human infections with a new swine influenza virus has widened, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control revealed Friday as it announced a new case, this time in West Virginia. The a...
*Lèse-majesté is a definite no-no in the Romney camp* John Dean was once White House counsel for Richard Nixon. He, more than most, understands what it means when you call someone "Nixonian." And that's t...
*Whether it's global warming to 9/11 and everything in between, you can $imply no longer believe the $cientists.* "Journal retracts fatigue study" December 23, 2011|By Malcolm Ritter NEW YORK - A prestigi...
*I was wondering what was the smell coming from the stacks of newspapers on the desk.* "US cities struggle to control sewer overflows; EPA exploring alternatives on water pollution" by John Flesher | As...
*What can Brown do for you?* "Brown’s efforts add to moderate credentials" December 22, 2011|By Noah Bierman Senator Scott Brown appears to be intensifying efforts to brand himself as a moderate as he pr...
"Beyond the horizon of the place we lived when we were young, In a world of magnets and miracles, Our thoughts strayed constantly and without boundary, The ringing of the division bell had begun. Along the...
*Don't worry about that cruiser on the side of the highway. * "Sleep disorders plague police officers; State Police fare better than most" by Deborah Kotz | Globe Staff, December 20, 2011 While sleep di...
"There are two types of people- those who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are." - Frederick L. Collins
"Galaxies are fascinating not only for what is visible, but for what is invisible. Grand spiral galaxy NGC 1232, captured in detail by one of the new Very Large Telescopes, is a good example. The visible i...
"Pain, or damage, don't end the world- or despair or f---in' beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you've got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man- and give some back." —"Al...
*“Natural And Artificial”* by Chet Raymo “Nothing more exacerbates my nature writing colleagues than the mechanical metaphor for life. Think of life as a machine, they say, and you'll treat life as a mac...
"The "what should be" never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no "what should be," there is only what is." - Lenny Bruce
Cosmetic surgery clinics have failed to offer free replacement of breast implants at the centre of major health concerns to the vast majority of the women who have them. The vast majority of clinics whic...
Late on Thursday afternoon, as the American destroyer Kidd loomed alongside this hijacked Iranian dhow, the warship’s loudspeaker issued a command in Urdu to the dhow’s frightened Urdu-speaking crew. Ameri...
*The idiot degenerate Patrick McHenry imagines himself as a bulwark against abuse of government powers? Is there anyone on Capitol Hill with a working set of marbles?* *by Ken* Amid the hubbub prompted b...
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On Saturday a number of national and regional media outlets reported the story of 10-year-old boy attacking two female teachers at his school 'in Avalon Road, Orpington'. It resulted in both teachers being...
Conyers, Georgia, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
"Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight...
*"The Consequences of Path Dependency: * *There’s No Going Back"* By John Mauldin “We enter 2012 with a great deal of hope, but our hopes are not for more bailouts, or money printing, or any of the my...
$4 trillion dollars, all those lives lost, for what? For *what*? - CP
* "Weekly News Wrap-Up 1.6.12"* *By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com * * * "The Middle East keeps getting hotter every week. Iran just finished war games in the Persian Gulf and threatened to shut down the St...
On the verge of being recalled for being, basically, the worst and most divisive governor in Wisconsin's 164-year history, radical right extremist Scott Walker is now coming under intense scrutiny for pol...
On November 18th, 2011, I wrote about the invalid paper by Pusey et al. Nature hypes anti-QM paper by Pusey et al. It was a pleasure today to learn about one of the first replies to this paper published...
"Casino idea was floated last summer; Krafts met with Foxborough officials" January 06, 2012|By Mark Arsenault, Globe Staff The Kraft Group* discussed a potential Foxborough casino* with two top town offi...
*Winyan Ituwan, Women of Vision, Jan. 15, 2012 at Porcupine S.D.* By Winyan Ituwan (Vision of the Women) Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ Tantoo Cardinal PORCUPINE, S.D. -- “Winyan Ituwa...
*No, not Hartford.* "Town finds casino is mixed blessing" December 12, 2011|By Peter Schworm, Globe Staff MONTVILLE, Conn. - On a rainy Tuesday afternoon, cars and buses stream off the highway onto Moheg...
*AMERICAN POLITICS:* *OBAMA BE DAMNED:* BREAKING THE CHAINS OF ILLUSION.
*IMAGES:* *THE CORPORATE RESPONSE:*
*I'm sure I've missed a bunch of Globe stories and won't be linking them. Sorry. * "R.I. to ask voters to approve table games" December 30, 2011|By Mark Arsenault The legalization of *casino gambling* in...
*ART:* *POLICING:* As in keeping "someone's peace.
*POLITICS/HUMOUR:* *WHERE THE BALLOT "COUNTS"*
*I'll bet it is an expensive excursion.* "Mass. must vie with Asia for casino investors" December 21, 2011|By Casey Ross As far as casino proposals go, this is as big as it gets: A $4 billion resort with...
The Associated Press is reporting that a bighorn sheep lamb in Yellowstone National Park has pneumonia. Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks has been tracking sheep in the Gardiner area just north of Yellowst...
*HUMOUR:* *TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS*
A fully grown leopard attacked and injured four people after it strayed into a residential area in the north-east Indian city of Guwahati today. The locals were seriously wounded by the leopard after it r...
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands at a depth of 20.3 km (12.6 miles), the quake hit at 18:37:59 UTC Saturday 7th January 2012 The epicenter was 258 km (160 miles) East of Raoul Isl...
The Royal Navy's newest and most advanced ship is being sent to the Gulf for her first mission amid heightened tensions with Iran over threats by Tehran to block a busy shipping lane. The Type 45 destroye...
*CANADIAN POLITICS:* *THE REAL LAST MAN STANDING:* It turns out that I was wrong about Winnipeg being the last Occupy camp in Canada. Recently the authorities have evicted a camp in Fredricton New Bru...
At the kitchen table, two pretty girls giggle as they draw pictures with crayons. On the wall are posters listing their times-tables, while in the corner, the family’s tropical fish, Bubbles and Tiger, swi...
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A Darwin woman was in no mood to be neighbourly when a visitor from up the road dropped by. Jo Dodd, who lives at Bees Creek, 30km south of Darwin's centre, says aggressive barking from her pomeranian pup...
*British scientist Stephen Hawking has had to miss a convention to smear his 70th birthday for the reason that of ill health.* As well as running through his individual times past and pronouncements on th...
As the world marks the 20th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s demise at the end of 1991, the U.S.-Russian effort to lock up nuclear weapons and avoid a doomsday scenario has been revealed. Soviet nukes fa...
Loggers in Brazil who had illegally entered an Amazon Indian reserve captured an eight-year-old indigenous girl and burned her alive, it was claimed today. The child, who belonged to the isolated Gwaja-Aw...
A couple in a quiet suburb of Denver, Colorado, were badly burned after they were targeted with a package bomb that exploded in their car. Allyson Stone, 44, and Christopher Stone, 59, picked up a paper t...
I was born just as a wave of paranoia swept the United States that gay people were a threat to national security. The idea was that gays, forced to stay in the closet and petrified about exposure, could ...
*The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have united stars on the red fitted carpet at the UK debut of Steven Spielberg's new film War Horse. *The film's cast includes Sherlock actor Benedict Cumberbatch, Emily...
A couple on vacation from New Hampshire were found shot dead in their car near the scenic resort town of Sedona, in Arizona. The killings of James Johnson, 63, of Jaffrey, and Carol Raynsford of Nelson, ...
A 46-year-old male nurse suspected of murdering three patients at Stepping Hill Hospital has been bailed pending further inquiries. Victorino Chua was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of tampering with ...
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck the Tonga Region at a depth of 36.5 km (22.7 miles), the quake hit at 03:43:33 UTC Monday 9th January 2012 The epicenter was 172 km (106 miles) Southeast of Nulu'Alofa,...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 36.7 km (22.8 miles), the quake hit at 02:38:07 UTC Monday 9th January 2012 The epicenter was 176 km (109 miles) ESE of Raoul...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Halmahera, Indonesia at a depth of 86.9 km (54 miles), the quake hit at 23:45:19 UTC Sunday 8th January 2012 The epicenter was 117 km (72 miles) Northeast of Ternate, M...
A magnitude 6.6 earthquake has struck the Santa Cruz Islands at a depth of 49.6 km (30.8 miles), the quake hit at 04:07:17 UTC Monday 9th January 2012 The epicenter was 363 km (225 miles) East of Kira Kira,...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 524.2 km (325.7 miles), the quake hit at 23:40:58 UTC Sunday 8th January 2012 The epicenter was 322 km (200 miles) SSW of Ndoi ...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Eastern Honshu, Japan at a depth of 67.2 km (41.8 miles), the quake hit at 22:13:10 UTC Sunday 8th January 2012 The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) ESE of Morioka, Honsh...
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 40.2 km (25 miles), the quake hit at 21:51:50 UTC Sunday 8th January 2012 The epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) Northwest of Port-Vila, Efate, Vanuat...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Tajikistan at a depth of 156 km (96.7 miles), the quake hit at 20:49:33 UTC Sunday 8th January 2012 The epicenter was 37 km (22.9 miles) Northeast of Ekaem, Tajikistan ...
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