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Despite conventional wisdom, government bonds are not a good investment. The endgame for government bonds is either default or default—either outright default or default by central bank-created inflation...
Bridal Shower season is upon us. Typically wedding season lasts from March- August give or take a few months, depending on where you live, which means bridal showers are starting to happen. I usually lik...
"Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world." -
Berkeley Breathed Running away from home. Image from goodbuddies inc.Grow up, Ron PaulRon Paul's right-libertarian ideology does espouse a new kind of freedom, just as rebellious children who fantasize about running away from...
* * *“New Virus Raids Your Bank Account-* * But You Won't Notice”* by Bob Sullivan “The best way to protect yourself from an online financial scam is to diligently check your bank accounts. At least, until...
BE VERY, VERY AFRAID. *WIRED* has a disturbing report: *"India Reports Completely Drug-Resistant TB"*. Not good. TB is difficult to treat at the best of times. Over the past 48 hours, news has broken in...
*“America’s Unlevel Field”* by Paul Krugman “Last month President Obama gave a speech invoking the spirit of Teddy Roosevelt on behalf of progressive ideals — and Republicans were not happy. Mitt Romney,...
Voting isn't and never will be enough. editorial by Tony Cartalucci January 10, 2012 - At the top of Tarpley.net is a five-point economic recovery program that has sat there since 2009. It was written by ...
*Update*: *Ron Paul Gaining Quickly on Romney in NH Polls * "Paul’s libertarian zeal draws in younger voters; Anti-interventionist foreign policy appeals" January 07, 2012|By Brian C. Mooney, Globe Staff ...
In his book The Conservative Soul: Fundamentalism, Freedom, and the Future of the Right, Andrew Sullivan makes the point that war is detrimental to the core conservative values and principles of small gov...
Dogs of war. Graphic from Press TV.Dogs are barking:Are we marching to war with Iran?By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / January 9, 2012The animosity between the United States and Iran has a longer history th...
Sicily's Mt. Etna rang in the New Year with a new eruption. Here's a look at some others that may wake up this year.
The colorful horned snake was discovered in a remote part of Tanzania, East Africa and may be critically endangered.
An aircraft launches on a 60,000-mile odyssey to study the atmosphere and show how far a gallon of gas can take you.
*Just one more reason not to want him to be president. * "George W. Bush barely mentioned in GOP campaign" January 03, 2012|Beth Fouhy, Associated Press A funny thing happened recently in the presidential...
*I've got nothing today and I'm in no mood to have one or two hours of hard work go completely ignored all over the internet. So I'll just outsource today's post to Alan Grayson. I reproduce in full the t...
Protesters at the State Capitol building in Madison, WI., demonstrating against Gov. Scott Walker’s anti-union legislation. Photo by Mark Hirsch / Getty Images.Brute facts and political choices:Thinking abou...
Costa Rica: Authorities Cannot Ascertain Source of Midnight “Explosion” Source: La Nación (Costa Rica) Date: 09 January 2012 www.nacion.com/sucesos San José (Hilda Miranda – Newsroom). The ...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Southern Iran at a depth of 37.6 km (23.4 miles), the quake hit at 19:53:39 UTC Monday 9th January 2012 The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) WSW of Bandar-e Abbas, Iran N...
*He just guaranteed himself fifth place in New Hampshire. * "Rivals race to block Romney sweep; Ex-governor expected focus in pair of debates as Santorum draws crowds in 1st post-Iowa events" January 07, 2...
*"World’s Biggest Zombies"* by Bill Bonner "Not much action at the end of last week… Gold closed the week over $1,600. Oil remained over $100. The show goes on! We are watching the destruction of an emp...
Forget Coach and Gucci, a 15th-century bag designed by Da Vinci conveyed stunning, unique fashion.
*For third.* "Jon Huntsman, who has focused exclusively on New Hampshire and desperately needs to do well to sustain his campaign, belittled Romney yesterday for saying, on several occasions, that “corpor...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russsia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 19:33:08 UTC Monday 9th January 2012 The epicenter was 33 km (20.4 miles) East of Saryg...
*Awwwww, incomplete. * "Gingrich plans to stay in race, says Republican contest only in ‘first few minutes’ " by Michael Kranish, Globe Staff CONCORD, N.H. – “Think of this *like the Super Bowl*,” Forme...
"Governor Rick Perry of Texas, who has struggled to regain his footing and is focusing on South Carolina, sought to appeal to the party’s conservative base. He labeled the president a socialist and said th...
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A reader (thanks Greg) has spotted the warmists’ latest spin, trumpeted by no less than their favourite outlet the BBC. They are now not trying to hide the decline [notes Greg]. In fact they admit that ...
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Could this be the greatest jazz solo of all time? The good folks at Jazz on the Tube sure think so. Coleman Hawkins, ‘Body and Soul’ Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for pe...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Santa Cruz Islands at a depth of 47.8 km (29.7 miles), the quake hit at 17:45:34 UTC Monday 9th January 2012 The epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) West of Lata, Santa ...
There’s a popular mantra circulating that “Romney needs to be taken out”. He doesn’t. It’s an illusion. He’s the ONE liberal in the race and has terrible poll numbers except for in New England, home of ...
The state-backed Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) will this week unveil plans to shed up to 4000 more jobs in its investment banking arm, I can reveal. The news will form a key element of an announcement which...
IN CONTRAST TO the political foulness below, here's a bright piece of humanity. According to *the Star*, *"Video for Burlington band Walk off the Earth goes viral"*. Almost five million hits. *Wonderful.* ...
A suspected Islamic extremist has been arrested over an alleged plan to attack businesses and a police station in Florida, US authorities have said. Sami Osmakac, 25, a naturalised US citizen who was bor...
A giant tortoise which helped shape Darwin's ideas about evolution and was thought to have been extinct for 150 years may be living a secret life in the Galapagos Islands. Genetic clues suggest pure-bred ...
A couple accused of suffocating their baby as he slept in their bed – three years after another of their children died the same way – have had charges against them upheld. The Utah Court of Appeals refuse...
Micro-thin coatings encase your device and keep the water out.
The body of the missing pregnant mother who was later revealed to be a Craigslist prostitute has been found on a dirt bike track and her husband and mother-in-law's cars have been seized Jaymie Adams, 25...
A cargo ship grounded off the New Zealand coast since October has split in two, spilling sea containers and debris and sparking fears of a fresh oil spill, maritime officials said. The wreck of the Greek-...
British PM David Cameron is prepared to roll the dice. He'll tell the Scots this week they can hold a binding referendum on sovereignty provided, 1) that it be held in the next 18 months, and, 2) that if ...
*GOP vs. nuclear safety, FOX lies, stick it to Karl Rove!, Darrell Issa's incognito aide, the pestilence of vulgarity, and more * *Taking down "the hero of 9/11" -- see 8/30* *by Noah* *8/17/11 -- More f...
There's an invader in our midst, and it comes in the form of a delicate insect that has graced our gardens for years. The humble harlequin ladybird may appear harmless enough, but the billions that have a...
Spain, like Italy, and especially Greece and Ireland, is in the throes of an austerity purge. Some 64% of working Spaniards now take home about a thousand Euros per month. For a country that was riding ...
This seven-year-old Indian girl was murdered and had her liver cut out by two farmers in a ritual sacrifice to a Hindu 'mother goddess' to ensure a bumper harvest. Lalita Tati had been watching television...
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Lefty BBC London news producer Jane Bradley has been doing her lefty thing on Twitter again: Migration Watch responded: Her reply: Except BBC journalists don't issue warnings on Twitter about left-lea...
Migrant workers from the EU are keeping young Britons out of jobs, new figures suggest. Campaign group Migration Watch UK said statistics released today show the number of migrants working in the UK who w...
Editor's Note: Edited Twitter posts from January 8-9, 2012, ordered from most recent to oldest. [image: knimmo] knimmo IMF forcing Nigeria to remove subsidies: Press TV | Nigerians have launche...
Australian aircraft engineers have called for Airbus A380 - the world's biggest passenger aircraft - to be grounded, after Singapore Airlines and Qantas found cracks in the wings of their super-jumbos. 'W...
Well then how 'bout this? Investors *paying* a premium to lend money to Germany. That's right, *negative* interest. *The auction of six-month German government bills on Monday produced a negative inter...
A Polish prosecutor shot himself today in dramatic footage caught on film in his office after cutting short a news conference. Moments earlier, he had defended a military investigation into leaks related ...
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A toddler in Bryansk in western Russia has died after falling through a hole that opened up as his mother took him for a walk. The pavement gave way because of a burst hot-water pipe, emergency officials...
Two parked car bombs in the Iraqi capital have killed at least 14 people and wounded many more, officials say. The attacks appear to have targeted Shia pilgrims who were travelling through the city. Off...
French ferry firm SeaFrance went into official liquidation on Monday after the European commission ruled a bailout by the French government was illegal. A French court said the offer of a buyout by a co-o...
A giant tortoise believed extinct for 150 years was actually just moved from its original home.
Britain should approve the eurozone treaty vetoed by David Cameron last month, Nick Clegg has said. The Deputy Prime Minister said the new treaty on fiscal union should be "folded into" the existing EU r...
Jeneda Benally, Navajo, at San Francisco rally now in San Francisco. Photo by Dixie/Censored News.Ninth Circuit Court to Decide Fate of Human Health and Environmental Impacts Indigenous-led Caravan to Stop ...
* * *Media Contact:* mstargali@gmail.com**** * * *California Indigenous Peoples Demonstrate Heartfelt Support for Plaintiffs Fighting Imminent Desecration of Sacred Arizona Mountain!** * *Long-Standing L...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Tunisia at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles - Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 12:45:48 UTC Monday 9th January 2012 The epicenter was 25 km (15.5 miles) West of Ga...
------------------------------ *Lost in Tokyo* *by Mark Bramley* 8 days ago Lost in Tokyo from Mark Bramley on Vimeo. Had 2 days to myself in Tokyo so I decided to take about 10,000 photos. All shot...
The much anticipated Liberal convention kicks off this Friday in Ottawa, with the internal races for party positions drawing a lot more attention than usual. If you're losing sleep over who the next VP-Fr...
An old battery technology could give new hope for incorporating solar and wind energy into public power grids.
[image: Aerial view of Mount Adams in Washington state. Mount Adams' 12 glaciers have shrunk by nearly half since 1904 and are receding faster than those of nearby sister volcanoes Mount Hood and Mount R...
"A style tip for the campaign trail: Dress down for success" by Beth Teitell Globe Staff / January 7, 2012 Mitt Romney is parading around New Hampshire in mom jeans. Rick Santorum is rocking a sweater ves...
*MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 2012* *Telling the truth very slowly:* In this morning’s New York Times, Jeremy Peters profiles Joe McQuaid, publisher of the (Manchester, N.H.) Union Leader. The Union Leader was on...
A Baised BBC reader notes; "There was an extraordinary interview around 6.15am today with the CEO of Rolls Royce Motors which has had a record year, doing particularly well in China. "But surely it's not...
Levees can be a mortal, as well as a moral hazard ~Len Bahr, LaCoastPost
A one billion light-year wide map has been created, showing an intricate web of dark matter filling the cosmos.
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*For those fed-up* with Gnome-3 experiments and Unity bugs there now is KDE 4.8, the alternative desktop even available for Windows. For tablets and netbooks KDE has released an *overwhelming* Plasma Acti...
In 2010, I wrote about a groundbreaking article, In defense of Milankovitch by Gerard Roe This paper by a former student of Richard Lindzen finally managed to fix Milutin Milankovič's theory which hadn'...
*MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 2012* *Lead paint and baby steps and the crime rate in Los Angeles:* Why are Los Angeles crime rates way down? We recommend Friday’s post by Kevin Drum—though it’s just a gateway post...
Argentina: Seven UFOs Reported Over Resistencia Date: 08 January 2012 Source: Diario NORTE http://diarionorte.com/noticia.php?numero=77133 Strange flashes in the skies over Resistencia at...
[image: Vassilis Ballas and his wife, Roula Boura, extracted the gum from a mastic tree on their 400-tree farm in Chios, Greece. Eirini Vourloumis for The New York Times] By RACHEL DONADIO 8 January 201...
"Group claims fraud in presidential vote MONROVIA- A group of Liberian opposition parties said yesterday that they are pulling out of a recent presidential election and threatened to refuse the results ov...
[image: Glaciation and natural deglaciation are caused cycles discovered by Milutin Milanković. SPL]By By Richard Black, Environment correspondent, BBC News 9 January 2012 Human emissions of carbon di...
*Maybe you can get there if you cut through the *African bush*.* "New radios to help track brutal militia in Africa; Isolated villagers can alert wider world to attacks" November 13, 2011|By Jason Strazius...
*Their own, anyway.... * "World court begins Ivory Coast inquiry" Associated Press / October 4, 2011 THE HAGUE - The International Criminal Court yesterday authorized an investigation into violence that l...
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[image: A man from Niger in his ravaged field due to lack of rain in 2011. Boureima Hama / AFP] By Mark Tran, www.guardian.co.uk 9 January 2012 Governments in the Sahel and international relief agencie...
*So we are led to believe; I think it is because they are now run by a group that supported the Palestinian cause all these years (how could they not?), that us newsreaders are given that impression. * *A...
In Howard Zinn’s masterpiece *A People’s History of the United States,* he describes the reaction of Columbus and his brigade of Spanish invaders when they encounter the First People of the Americas. Zinn...
The other day on Ring of Fire I heard Robert Kennedy interview Thomas Frank who has recently released a new book entitled: *Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the R...
The house with the dungeon, and all that surrounds it is gone! Yes, a house with a dungeon, was discovered. It was found and lost in a fire just a little more then a week later. This news story has been nag...
*MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 2012* *Part 1—Sean and Brent call in The Dumb:* Friday night, on his eponymous cable TV show, Sean Hannity helped us remember where it all began. Sean asked our old pal, Brent Bozell,...
They aren't just sucking in dirt. They may also be spewing out unwanted material.
In the destructive, dangerous hands of Roger Ailes and Republican Party hate-talk radio hosts like Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage and Laura Ingraham, "science" has become just another hot-button wo...
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*Attempts to import Seiberg duality from string-friendly research to routine model building* The first hep-ph paper on the arXiv today is called Light Stops from Seiberg Duality. Csaba Csáki (Cornell), L...
Check out the RBS Share Price 6 Month Chart. A senior executive at state-owned Royal Bank of Scotland is reportedly due to receive a £4m bonus this year, despite the Prime Minister saying he plans to stop...
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*OTTAWA - The Harper government has hired a consultant to inject a little war into this year's Canada Day bash on Parliament Hill. A Toronto theatre expert has been asked to find ways to insert a War of 1...
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BP hires chefs Emeril Lagasse and John Besh in massive oilspill PR whitewash ~Rat Fink spies the evil British Usurpers paying chefs Emeril Lagasse and John Besh to promote Gulf seafood, it’s hired two seafo...
MORE than 165 animals in Mana Pools National Park in the lower Zambezi Valley have died due to an anthrax outbreak over the past few weeks. Parks and Wildlife Management Authority public relations manager...
KINGS POINT, N.Y. -- Nassau County police say about 38 people have been taken from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point to area hospitals for evaluation after carbon monoxide was found to be le...
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Heavy snow has blocked road and rail services to Austria's western province of Vorarlberg, near the Swiss border. Fallen trees on the key S16 road cut off access to the Arlberg tunnel between Austria and...
DISASTER: Buildings collapse, avalanche closes road to airport. The fishing town of Cordova is used to dealing with excessive snow -- but not like this. Residents have turned to the state to help them dig ...
Different meteor types hit the Earth in different ways, creating flashes across the night sky or raining gently to the ground.
CHANDIGARH: A bee attack in Sector 19 left six persons hurt on Sunday. The incident took place around 12.30pm on road dividing C and D areas of Sector 19. A couple from Sector 47, Sonia and Rajiv Kumar, ...
Seven persons, including three women and a child, were feared drowned as the water gushing from the sluice of the newly inaugurated 30-MW Bhavani Kattalai Barrage-II (BKB-II) built across the Cauvery rive...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Police said Sunday they are searching for a 30-year-old Taiwanese man suspected of stabbing to death two female Taiwanese students at their apartment in Tokyo's Taito Ward on Thursday. T...
FUKUSHIMA (Kyodo) -- Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on Sunday again sought cooperation from Fukushima Prefecture to accept a temporary storage site for contaminated soil and waste from the nuclear crisis at...
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Sir Andrew Green continues to do a fine job over at Migration Watch and he was on the BBC this morning discussing the latest report which suggests that the number of "migrants" working in the UK who were b...
KUSHIRO, Hokkaido -- Marimo balls, a type of green algae that grows in a rare round shape, spread to various locations around the world from Japan, a researcher here has revealed. The study was conducted ...
Debris from a cargo ship that ran aground off the coast of New Zealand last year, and split in two over the weekend, washed up on a local beach Monday. Four shipping containers also came ashore on Waihi...
Arab League officials decided Sunday to bolster the alliance's fact-finding mission to Syria, where thousands have been reported killed by security forces despite ongoing international pressure to halt t...
Three Australian activists are being held aboard a Japanese ship Monday after illegally boarding the vessel to protest Japan's annual whale hunt in Antarctic waters. The three men are not yet under arr...
A former Tibetan monk has died and another is seriously injured after setting themselves on fire in southwest China's Sichuan province on Friday -- the 13th and 14th acts of self-immolation in the country ...
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More BBC double standards. They ran an item this morning concerning whether tape recorded *confessions* of IRA terrorists made at Boston College in the States should be handed over to the Police. There is ...
The beheaded bodies of 10 Pakistani soldiers were found in a tribal region bordering Afghanistan on Monday, a senior government official said. Militants kidnapped the soldiers after attacking an army chec...
American Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, on trial in Iran for espionage, has been sentenced to death nearly five months after he was arrested, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency reported Monday. A court convict...
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In the BBC world, the murder of Stephen Lawrence may well have been the most important killing in the last one hundred years since it "proved" all that "institutional racism" that they lie in bed dreaming ...
A person suspected of being infected with bird flu, identified as PDY, 23, a resident of Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta, died on Sunday. PDY’s body was stored in a coffin by the Tangerang public hospital an...
FULTON, Texas (AP) — Raising its slim, white neck out of the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, one of the world's last surviving whooping cranes hungrily searches a Texas marsh for the blue crabs and berries ...
Bhubaneswar: Bird flu was detected for the first time in Odisha as the central laboratory confirmed the virus in two dead fowls in Khurda district, official sources said on Monday. "The union government...
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HONOLULU — Two Hawaiian monk seals were found bludgeoned to death on a remote coast of Molokai — one was killed in mid-November and the other shortly before Christmas. Earlier this month, a dead seal showe...
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I did a recorded interview on BBC5 live last night concerning the issue of Conservative plans to potentially imprison bankers who take what is deemed "excessive risk". I was more than happy to debate the C...
DESERT SHORES — Last week's Salton Sea fish kill was a natural occurrence and wildlife officials are no longer investigating what killed hundreds of tilapia, a California Department of Fish and Game offici...
The new year is just over a week old, and it already hasn't been kind to the Florida panther. A third panther was found dead this year in Collier County, this one on Saturday, at U.S. 41 and a half-kilo...
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A chemical that spilled into a water source has killed hundreds of fish in the past week. The dead fish were visibly seen floating along a canal from the sugar mill that passes through Nyetane to neighbo...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 58.6 km (36.4 miles), the quake hit at 10:54:01 UTC Monday 9th January 2012 The epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) West of Tapachula...
Cambridge university scientists say that a new Ice Age is due to start within 1,500 years. But due to human carbon emissions, the lethal 'big freeze' could be put off. Levels of CO2 in the atmosphere cou...
Email addresses and encrypted passwords of British military, intelligence and police officials were published online following a hack attack, according to an analysis of the data. The actual compromise t...
Diplomats have confirmed reports that Iran has begun uranium enrichment at a new underground bunker and say the process is producing material that can be upgraded quickly for use in a nuclear weapon. Two ...
An American has been sentenced to death by an Iranian court which convicted him of being a CIA spy, adding to the growing tension between the countries. Iran claims that as a former US Marine, Amir Mirza...
*Certainly must have made shore by now.... * "Oil spill approaching Nigeria’s coast" December 23, 2011 LAGOS, Nigeria - An *oil spill* near the Nigerian coast is probably the *worst to hit those waters in...
TV chef Antony Worrall Thompson has been arrested for shoplifting from a Tesco store, taking cheese and wine. The Ready Steady Cook celeb was cautioned by police in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, last we...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Sulawesi, Indonesia at a depth of 142.6 km (88.6 miles), the quake hit at 10:35:45 UTC Monday 9th January 2012 The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) South of Gorontalo, Su...
When it comes to government debt, it is not just new debt that is the problem. Every single year, governments around the world must "roll over" gigantic mountains of debt that come due. That means that t...
The streets of Harlem are being run by baby-faced gun-toting kids who aren't afraid to pull the trigger and leave a bloody trail of bodies in a new independent film that's quickly making the rounds uptown....
U.S. employment growth accelerated last month and the jobless rate dropped to a near three-year low of 8.5 percent, the strongest evidence yet the economic recovery is gaining steam. Nonfarm payrolls incr...
EBENSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania man had his mouth taped shut by sheriff's deputies after repeatedly disrupting a court hearing by saying his free speech rights were being violated. A Cambria County j...
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*Updated at 1:15 PM*: Contacted by HUMAN EVENTS, the White House press office did not have a response, but requested questions in writing. In a scathing letter sent to Barack Obama this morning, Senator Ma...
"Baby on Nigerian government payroll" November 12, 2011|Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria - A newborn baby in Nigeria got *added to a government payroll*, earning about $150 a month for the last two or three...
TAMPA, Florida (AP) - Tampa police are investigating a stun gun attack on a shopper wearing an Indian-style tunic. Police spokeswoman Irene Thomas says authorities want to question the woman who used a T...
*Ever notice oil stinks? * "At least 61 dead in northeast Nigeria violence" December 24, 2011|Njadvara Musa and Jon Gambrell, Associated Press At least *61 people have been killed* during *several days of...
Coward yids murdering innocence!*This year will sort the hobby bloggers and alternative wannabe media soft-ons from the genuine revolutionaries!* *For me, I can see a day this year when I stop blogging for...
A bushfire that has been burning for several days on an island off Brisbane has been escalated by strong winds and high temperatures and is threatening several campsites. Campers on northeast Moreton Isla...
Twin babies died following a fire that is being treated as "suspicious", police said. The 22-month-old boys died as a result of a fire at a house in Ilford, east London. A spokeswoman for the Metropolit...
A woman was suffering from severe depression when she wrapped her live newborn baby in a garbage bag and stashed it in a storage area at the family home on the Gold Coast, a court has heard. Dianne Lorrai...
Enamored with the 200,000 number? Don't be - the reason why the market has basically yawned at this BLS data is that as Morgan Stanley's David Greenlaw reports, 42,000 of the 200,000 is basically a seasona...
President Barack Obama unveiled a defense strategy on Thursday that would expand the U.S. military presence in Asia but shrink the overall size of the force as the Pentagon seeks to reduce spending by near...
WASHINGTON — Declaring that "the tide of war is receding," President Obama Thursday ordered a shift from the nation's longstanding capability to fight two major conflicts at once. The new strategy, which...
During his opening remarks at Shaker Heights High School in Shaker Heights, Ohio, President Obama got laughs when he told students that they inspire him. "I want you to know you're the reason that I ran...
The mighty American military machine that has for so long secured the country's status as the world's only superpower will have to be drastically reduced, Barack Obama warned yesterday as he set out a radi...
Restrictions on cybercafes and plans to launch national internet prompt fears users could be cut off from world wide web. Iran is clamping down heavily on web users before parliamentary elections in March...
Doctors in America are harboring an embarrassing secret: Many of them are going broke. This quiet reality, which is spreading nationwide, is claiming a wide range of casualties, including family physician...
A group of anti-Obama Facebook groups are planning to fly an “Impeach Obama” Banner over this year’s Super Bowl. The groups, Impeach Obama Tea Party, Stop Obama Now-San Diego, and Boycott Oprah, say they ...
The world’s congested mobile airwaves are being divided in a lopsided manner, with 1 percent of consumers generating half of all traffic. The top 10 percent of users, meanwhile, are consuming 90 percent of...
If Barack Obama wins in 2012, America is headed for something worse than a failing European-style socialist state, top-rated radio host Michael Savage said on his nationally syndicated show today. “I hav...
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Fortune-tellers beware: palm-reading could land you in New York state's criminal DNA database. Convicted graffiti artists, subway turnstile-jumpers and anybody who writes a bad check could also end up wi...
On his radio show last night, Mark Levin said that President Barack Obama has caused a “constitutional crisis” by appointing members to the National Labor Relations Board and a director to the Consumer Fi...
One does not need to be a rocket scientist to grasp the fudging the BLS has been doing every month for years now in order to bring the unemployment rate lower: the BLS constantly lowers the labor force par...
At the start of 2012, here are the four countries we all need to watch closely: Italy, Iran, Pakistan and North Korea. Let me explain: *Italy: Linchpin of the euro* The most important country to watch i...
As China increases its economic ties in Africa, has the continent entered a new era of colonialism? China's increasing engagement with Africa has become a subject of great controversy. The country's com...
*Let’s start with the fundamental paradox:* Our personal technology in the 21st century—our laptops and smartphones, our browsers and apps—does everything it can to keep us *out* of crowds. Why pack into ...
Large areas of northern Uganda are experiencing an outbreak of nodding syndrome, a mysterious disease that causes young children and adolescents to nod violently when they eat food. The disease, which may ...
* Caught in the act, malaria invades a blood cell in our top video of 2011.* This malaria parasite just got busted for breaking and entering. Captured in high resolution for the first time, the **parasit...
*Lack of vitamin D is being linked to rickets, MS and asthma, so it's time to confront the Victorian villain once again* *Editorial:* "Down with this Dickensian disease" LAST month, Rohan Wray and Chana A...
WE ARE now privy to the ways bacteria outsmart antibiotics, thanks to a technique which measures the evolution of antibiotic resistance. A team led by Erdal Toprak and Adrian Veres at Harvard University d...
“People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only p...
Dolphin for dinner? It's more common than you might think. Though eating sea mammals is frowned upon in much of the world, the consumption of animals such as whales, dolphins and manatees is on the rise in...
*collapsonomics*, *n.* 1. The study of economic and state systems at the edge of their normal social and economic function, including preventative measures to avoid destructive feedback loops and vicious...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 33.9 km (21.1 miles), the quake hit at 07:10:46 UTC Monday 9th January 2012 The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) South...
*And I couldn't be happier.* *Christian leaders join Muslims in Lowe's protest* A coalition of Christian, Muslim and civil rights groups said it's planning a demonstration Saturday outside a suburban Detr...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 40 km (24.8 miles), the quake hit at 08:50:14 UTC Monday 9th January 2012 The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) Southea...
Website for this image *Obamas held a secret Alice in Wonderland-themed party at White House.** * *Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim acquitted of sodomy: timeline* *aangirfan: CIA'S NEXT TARGET ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 49.2 km (30.6 miles), the quake hit at 06:33:01 UTC Monday 9th January 2012 The epicenter was 175 km (108 miles) ESE of Raoul...
The leaders of France and Germany meet in Berlin today to kickstart a rescue plan for the euro. It is the first in a series of monthly mini-summits between Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy, who want toug...
This does not sound too practical, but it reminds us that protocols do exist for pigs that at least that takes advantage of the ammonia through bacterial activity in a deep bed of wood shavings. ...
Here we learn that the massive extinction of the late Permian caused by the Siberian Traps was driven not just by the massive influx of CO2, but even more significantly, by a poisoning of the oc...
It turns out that diabetic mouse models specifically present a superior response to the induction of a MS like pathology. This had not been noted before and since the current protocol fell a long...
Well, the Speaker of the Kansas state legislature is *a festering racist*who, if the US Secret Service is on the ball, should end up being seriously grilled under some seriously hot lights. Then, *Charles ...
*The opinion of University of Nottingham study the growth of an embryo during the early stages of pregnancy is linked to its risk of miscarriage. Researchers calculated the time-span of more than 500 only...
"Israel no longer provides the United States a strategic value like it did during the Cold War. Not only that, Israel is a strategic burden on the United States. That's a big difference from Cold War day...
*According to experts they have noticed that the force of fog has grown-up in the Indo Genetic plains in the last few days, leading to increased impacts. Scientists said that a quick rise in air contamin...
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...
*The film based on this book should be out soon* 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...
*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 - 19 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 o...
*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 the ability to tell the 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...
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CENSORED NEWS - 21 hours ago
*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...
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Not PC - 22 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...
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Biased BBC - 1 day 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...
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Not PC - 1 day 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...
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Not PC - 1 day 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 ...
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Not PC - 1 day 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...
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Bridal Shower season is upon us. Typically wedding season lasts from March- August give or take a few months, depending on where you live, which means bridal showers are starting to happen. I usually lik...
BE VERY, VERY AFRAID. *WIRED* has a disturbing report: *"India Reports Completely Drug-Resistant TB"*. Not good. TB is difficult to treat at the best of times. Over the past 48 hours, news has broken in...
In his book The Conservative Soul: Fundamentalism, Freedom, and the Future of the Right, Andrew Sullivan makes the point that war is detrimental to the core conservative values and principles of small gov...
*I've got nothing today and I'm in no mood to have one or two hours of hard work go completely ignored all over the internet. So I'll just outsource today's post to Alan Grayson. I reproduce in full the t...
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