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*THREATS BY U.S.-BIA HOPI POLICE AND RANGERS TO TAKE AWAY MORE DINEH PROPERTY* *By Bahe Katenay* *Sheep Dog Nation Rocks* http://sheepdognationrocks.blogspot.com/2012/02/big-mountain-update-alert-more-thre...
“That's the gate to wisdom - being able to say ‘I don't know.’" - “Byron Sully”, “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman” (1993)
The U.S. intelligence community has found no evidence to suggest North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is dead, a senior U.S. official said Friday following posts on China's version of Twitter that claimed Kim h...
*And not really looking forward to it. Long day ahead tomorrow and I'm already tired; however, I promise I will be back tomorrow evening with more wonderful posts.*
We have decided to do a trial run with a faith-based chat area for the Coming Crisis, predominantly focused on study of the scriptures. The Coming Crisis is, of course, a fact-based news-orientated website...
*I find it hard to get anything the agenda-pushers say down.* "India winning battle against polio; Reaches stunning milestone of zero cases in one year" by Simon Denyer | The Washington Post, January 13...
This Week in Discovery News we follow
Russian scientists to
Lake Vostok, we learn about JFK's mistress, and explore a daredevil's attempts to skydive from 23 miles up.
When Harper was in Davos he was practically busting to tell the high priced nobs that he was going to trim Canada's sails, especially our nation's Old Age Security programme. That promptly backfired se...
“This sharp Hubble Space Telescope view looks deep into NGC 6752. Some 13,000 light-years away toward the southern constellation Pavo, the globular star cluster roams the
halo of our Milky Way galaxy. Over...
"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...
*“Somewhere Over The Rainbow” * by Chet Raymo “One of the wackier ideas to have emerged from modern physics is parallel universes. That's right, folks. This universe that we live in may not be the only u...
*Must be the new leadership.* "US asks China to restrain N. Korea; Official works to maintain calm" by Choe Sang-Hun | New york times, January 06, 2012 SEOUL - The highest-ranking American official to v...
"Study: Australia tops in marijuana use" January 07, 2012 SYDNEY - A study published yesterday in a British medical journal may have finally uncovered the *secret behind Australia’s laid-back lifestyle*, a...
*It's 104 acres with 27 buildings, and hardly used (okay, that last part is a wee exaggeration): How might we repurpose that intergalactic embassy we built in Baghdad?* *by Ken* The Bush regime war crimi...
"Grounded ship splits on New Zealand reef" Associated Press, January 09, 2012 WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A *cargo ship* grounded off the New Zealand coast since October has *split in two*, spilling sea c...
Each semester, I teach several classes that speak to the crisis that we live here in Arizona. As part of my classes at the University of Arizona (The History of the Chicano Movement and Indigenous Thinkers...
"Sandals pile up in protest of child charges" January 05, 2012|By Sara Schonhardt JAKARTA, Indonesia - More flimsy, worn-out* sandals* piled up around Indonesia yesterday as part of a *protest campaign* a...
Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey is going head to head with the state's teacher union and the Education Law Center as part of his continued march towards school privatization and deep cuts in public e...
In recent weeks, "conservatives" have proposed that cops should not be able to arrest people (i.e., men) for domestic violence unless they witness it, that U.S. school textbooks should be purged of refere...
"Rescuers pulled more than 200 survivors from the ocean yesterday as the search for more passengers from a packed ferry that sank off the coast of Papua New Guinea was set to extend into today, rescue offi...
All across the U.S., state after state is falling victim to the accountability juggernaut fueled by the Common Core standards movement. The Obama administration, led by Secretary Duncan, has proven in the ...
*AMERICAN LABOUR:* *MORE ANTI-WORKER LEGISLATION IN ARIZONA:* The following item is from the National Public Radio in the USA. ☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼ *Arizona Lawmakers Target Public Workers' Unions *by Ted R...
*To the only people that matter in my agenda-pushing paper*: "Malaysia opposition leader acquitted of sodomy" January 10, 2012 KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was acquit...
"Maldives president resigns amid protests" New York Times, February 08, 2012 NEW DELHI - President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives resigned yesterday after *weeks of mounting protests* and an apparent *pol...
Despite the fact we have guests.... here I am. We should be expecting an upswing in propaganda. If that is possible? The United States has recently stepped up intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissanc...
"[Discussing the effects of the Genesis torpedo] McCoy: Dear Lord. You think we're intelligent enough to... suppose... what if this thing were used where life already exists? Spock: It would destroy such ...
Following is a documentary originally produced in Germany. The English translations are posted on youtube in four parts, so they are all linked sequentially below. I'm not sure why they have clock number...
*PEOPLE OF PALLOR STRIKE BACK* * * *By Mohawk Nation News* http://www.mohawknationnews.com MNN. Feb. 10, 2012. What is white culture? To steal everything the brown and blackpeople have and pretend it’s th...
New report cites military interest in neuroscience in future defense applications.
A recent video seems to show a large, mysterious snake or monster in an icy river in Iceland.
*I guess you taxpayers didn't fork over enough dough to keep them, and worker wages were too high. * "For 2 Mass. firms, opportunity in China; Pollution and soaring power needs make country a promising ma...
*LOCAL EVENTS WINNIPEG:* *ANNUAL WOMEN'S MEMORIAL MARCH:* Coming up this February 14 (next Tuesday Valentine's Day) Winnipeg's annual March for Murdered and Missing Women. Here's the invite. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥...
*Probably better** and than the crap I find in my paper. *"US presses China on Iran sanctions" by Michael Wines | New York Times, January 12, 2012 BEIJING - Timothy F. *Geithner, the US Treasury secretar...
Over at Plum Line, I listen to Mitt Romney at CPAC and hear Bob Dole, 1996. Which reminds me of my favorite (and probably not apocryphal) Bob Dole 1996 campaign story. Two more quick things from Romney's ...
Zerohedge is certainly the blog with the most constantly updated unfolding of the Greek economic crisis-- and his twitter feed keeps reminding me of what conservatives seem to be trying to drag us into as...
The South Korean military is closely watching movements of North Korean forces after detecting frequent shelling sounds across the Northern Limit Line, the imaginary inter-Korean sea border in the Yellow S...
Charlemagne, Quebec, Canada. Thanks for stopping by.
*Star : Harper blasts foreign money in oil sands debate while welcoming China* *cough* *Reuters : Canada PM vows to ensure key oil pipeline is built * * * *CBC : Harper ties China trade deals to...
"What Is Consciousness?" As Seen On: UniqueDaily.com
*"Breaking the Code: Why Yuor Barin Can Raed Tihs"* by Natalie Wolchover "You might not realize it, but your brain is a code-cracking machine. For emaxlpe, it deson't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a...
"It never ceases to surprise me at the infinite capacity of the human mind to resist the introduction of useful knowledge." - Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury
*“Why US Job Creation Heats Up in Cold Weather”* by Bill Bonner "We used to like traveling. Now, it’s a drag. “No, we don’t want to go through your new x-ray machine,” we told the TSA guard. “Whassa matte...
By Harry Papachristou and Dina Kyriakidou, with additional reporting by Karolina Tagaris in Athens, Stephen Brown in Berlin; Writing David Stamp; Editing by Louise Ireland 10 February 2012 ATHENS (R...
The religious right has been up in arms for the past couple of months because they claim that the Obama administration's decision on prescription birth control, which requires most employers who provide h...
I avoid reading certain blogs run by imperious autocrats because they only annoy me, but every now and then someone will send me a link and I'll feel compelled to visit. That's what happened this morning....
Suzy Khimm reports that the Senate confirmed a district judge today, over the objections of six diehard Republicans, led by Mike Lee of Utah, who had threatened to block every nomination to retaliate for B...
Once upon a time, I enjoyed the News Quiz! Barry Took was a decent cove as Chairman and the likes of Alan Coren provided acid wit and intelligence. Fast forward to this edition broadcast today with Sandi...
A new map is emerging that shows more details than ever of the deepest place on Earth.
A McDonald's chicken nuggets ad set off a furor among pit bull owners who claimed it demonized their dogs. Did it?
Jerusalem (CNN) -- Israel declared a Friday test of its Arrow weapon system a "major milestone" in the development of a system to defend against medium range missiles that could be fired from countries li...
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Biased BBC - 9 hours ago
The BBC never ceases to push a Nanny State agenda and often stumbles across some ingenious angles to use: ** *An American-Indian tribe in South Dakota has sued some of the world's biggest beer firms over ...
to hold it last, I fear for you, the game is pass... AND YOU ARE IT (kaboom )
North Korean TV aired Friday footage of its young leader Kim Jong Un getting angry with military commanders in a Nov. 25, 2010, visit to the North Korean People’s Army’s 233 Large Combined Unit, also know...
Beyond what people outside of Tucson have heard about the MAS situation, there is also another story brewing related to TUSD Superintendent Pedicone and TUSD school board member, Michale Hicks. Both have b...
Yes, this one* did* catch my attention and B-BBC Alan lays out the indictment; "A squirmingly coy Evan Davis attempts 'clever' but finishes looking 'stupid'. Here Davis thinks he can work a fast one on...
Armed police are dealing with an incident in Glasgow city centre after a man was reported to be "acting suspiciously" in a restaurant. A spokeswoman for Strathclyde Police said the man is involved in the ...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Minoro, Philippines at a depth of 125.9 km (78.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:55:35 UTC Friday 10th February 2012 The epicenter was 48 km (29 miles) WNW of Batangas, L...
*"Weekly News Wrap-Up 2.10.12"* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "The big news, this week, was the $25 billion mortgage settlement with the five biggest banks in the country over allegations of mortgage ...
A teenager has been found strangled in a flat above a shop after neighbours reported hearing a disturbance. Police found Cheryl Tariah's body after being called to the first floor of an east London flat....
The Coming Crisis is not yet able to verify this situation. Chinese and foreign media sites are alight with comments regarding this developing story, and Russian and American news outlets are beginning to ...
*MoS nails it*. That's why Harpo has gone to China to ink all those deals, so the Chinese will give us the money we need to buy airplanes to defend ourselves against the Chinese. And China gets the Cana...
Bomb blasts hit security compounds in the Syrian city of Aleppo today - sparking a propaganda war between the regime and rebels. State media blamed the 'terrorist' opposition for killing 25 people, inclu...
*"Money and Morals"* By Paul Krugman "Lately inequality has re-entered the national conversation. Occupy Wall Street gave the issue visibility, while the Congressional Budget Office supplied hard data on...
Argentina: Latest UFO Reports from CEUFO By Fabio I. Romano, La Pampa www.ovnismac.blogspot.com Several qualified witnesses claim having seen the movement of an orange triangular object wi...
Okay, now it all makes sense. According to *PostMedia's* howler, Matthew Fisher, Canada needs the F-35 to defend Canada against the creeping Red Menace, China: *Despite its staggering cost, the jets' ca...
Animal rights campaigners accidentally killed the rhino they were using in a demonstration to raise awareness of the threat to the endangered species from poachers, it was revealed today. The anti-poachi...
* "How We're F*ed - In Raw Numbers"* by Karl Denninger “Worth watching... and thinking about. But do so soon, because if we don't the system will collapse, and then there will be no benefits at all. Bill p...
Rioters armed with petrol bombs and sledgehammers clashed with police in Athens today as unions launched a two-day general strike against a fresh wave of austerity measures. Scores of youths, in hoods an...
“The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those ...
A French nuclear reactor has gone into an unscheduled shutdown, state energy giant EDF said on Friday, placing fresh pressure on a national power grid already strained by freezing temperatures. The compa...
Steve Harper likes to boast how Canada and our NATO allies saved Libya by bombing the hell out of Gaddafi's forces. It sounds nice but it's hogwash. As the United States and coaltion did in Iraq, as we...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Mindanao, Philippines at a depth of 62.2 km (38.7 miles), the quake hit at 17:36:35 UTC Friday 10th February 2012 The epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) ENE of Cotabato, ...
The kings of the jungle are changing their behavior as they face ongoing stress, trying to avoid deadly human encounters.
Here's where you can forget about getting any serious use out of your smart phone.
Like a Dan Brown-style thriller, a questionable document reveals a power struggle within the Vatican.
People with memory loss injuries may regain some independence by using smart phones.
I knew this was coming. Since I first got the news after being pre-Enronned over at Westinghouse in the 90's before it sold all its facilities (except the nuclear where it was being sued for millions) when...
Thank god for Governor Mark Dayton. If I have said it once – I will say it a million times – that if we had elected Tom Emmer – we would be Wisconsin #2. Yesterday Mark Dayton stepped forward to protect t...
The Afghans have figured out a way to produce a history textbook that everyone can accept. Make sure it stops at 1973. Afghanistan's newly approved history textbook is free of the last four decades of...
By: Duane Craig Concord, N.C., wanted to revitalize its downtown area, but its industrial legacy of textile mills stood in the way. Sure, the industry had supportedthe community for nearly a century, but i...
With all those hundreds of Members of Congress-- and so many of them in thrall to lobbyists and willing to prostitute themselves to corporate interests-- it says a *lot* about Fred Upton that he was singl...
Did the "Mars Curse" try to knock out NASA's flagship rover mission to the Red Planet?
by Richard Wolff http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/feb/09/bailout-main-street-america [excerpted] "In reality, a $25bn mortgage deal with banks is a drop in the ocean – given US hom...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Guam Region at a depth of 121.7 km (75.6 miles), the quake hit at 16:29:39 UTC Friday 10th February 2012 The epicenter was 27 km (16 miles) Northeast of HAGATNA, G...
Michael Ignatieff referred to it as the "beating heart of the Canadian economy in the 21st century." Prime ministers, Liberal and Conservative alike, have dared to dream of Canada as a global "energy sup...
*By Marshall Auerback, a portfolio strategist and hedge fund manager. Cross posted from New Economic Perspectives* *http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/02/marshall-auerback-greece-and-the-rape-by-the-rent...
Japan wants in on nuclear accident compensation pact By TORU NAKAGAWA http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/politics/AJ201202030021 [excerpted] "Prompted by the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nucl...
Argentine president Cristina Kirchner last night accused Britain of introducing nuclear weapons into the Falklands. She revealed her Foreign Minister would make the sensational claim when he lodges a pro...
In a previous post, I puzzled about the popularity of Downton Abbey. It is (was?) a very well-done show, but no different, I thought at the time, than the standard PBS Masterpiece Theater that generally at...
The Pope will die within the next 12 months, a senior Vatican figure has reportedly claimed amid fears of an assassination plot. The sensational prediction was allegedly made by Cardinal Paolo Romeo, the ...
The Lebanese army late Thursday reinforced its presence in the northern region of Wadi Khaled, which borders Syria and is close to the flashpoint province of Homs, officials and local residents said. "An ...
Acrid smoke from a fire at a sprawling trash dump blanketed swaths of Jamaica's capital Thursday, and officials warned people to stay indoors to avoid exposure to potentially dangerous pollutants. Jamaica...
Several hundred Belgian firefighters have broken through police lines in Brussels and hosed down the prime minister's office in protest at the government's tougher retirement plans. The firefighters want ...
A mother allegedly slashed her nine-month-old baby’s throat just months after telling a pastor she could be possessed and might hurt the girl. Bradie Simpson, 39, of Camdenton, Missouri, was found in woods...
A NATO airstrike killed eight children in Afghanistan's Kapisa province northeast of the capital Kabul, President Hamid Karzai said Thursday. The president "strongly condemned the aerial bombing by foreign...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Northern Xinjiang, China at a depth of just 1 km (0.6 miles), the quake hit at 16:19:42 UTC Friday 10th February 2012 The epicenter was 112 km (69.4 miles) Southeast ...
Three Muslim extremists who handed out leaflets calling for homosexuals to be hanged, stoned and burned to death have been jailed. The group handed out the material in the street as well as posting it th...
Chris Blattman has an idea to effectively cap the amount of money going into presidential campaigns, which is hard to do now under Court findings from Buckley to Citizens United: One fabulously rich perso...
*FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2012* *If Romney could just learn to fake it:* Over and over, the news is a novel! Just as we have long said! In this morning’s New York Times, David Brooks sketches a novelized form...
By aiming a new telescope at the highest-energy X-ray light, astronomers hope to see where black holes are hiding.
Now is the time to reduce your expenses. Now is the time to get out of debt. Now is the time to set aside some money so that you will have something to live on if you do happen to lose your job. I typic...
"Harrowing visions of Fukushima's plight to be shown in Berlin" February 09, 2012 http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201202090039 The impact of the Fukushima nuclear disaster wil...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand at a depth of 72.2 km (44.9 miles), the quake hit at 15:49:50 UTC Friday 10th February 2012 The epicenter was 136 km (84 miles) SSE ...
Brazil could become the first country to take Twitter up on its plan to censor Tweets at government request. The move has sparked alarm among privacy groups, who fear governments will use the same policy...
(Image courtesy Liberalease) This one kind of just writes itself. Still, I'd like to think my readers will risk redundancy for a challenge.
*FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2012* *The logic that simply won’t leave:* We strongly recommend Kevin Drum’s recent post, The Hypocrisy Trope That Won't Die. Drum’s post concerns the claim that Obama is being hyp...
In recent years, Greece has been a major source of negative energy in the world's markets. Greece became a textbook example of the pernicious influence of any left-wing ideology, a proof of an inevitable o...
Aleppo pays for being anti-terror! WP- Blasts hit security headquarters in Syrian city that has stood by Assad. Another headline-Two blasts kill at least 25 in Assad stronghold of Aleppo, Syria Those he...
The father of Damilola Taylor has called for a public inquiry after one of his son's killers was returned to prison for a second time – just 16 days after being released. The Ministry of Justice has con...
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Biased BBC - 13 hours ago
Friday and a new one of these. Am rather busy hence lack of posts, it would be helpful if a few others could post to try and keep momentum going. Click through to read and contribute comments on this po...
*FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2012* *Epilogue—With respect to those 28 states:* As you may have noticed, Mitt Romney’s flubs have been out of the news. Reason? A culture war issue has boiled up concerning inclus...
*"Why I will go into my house in the hills of Santa Fe with nobody around, open the doors, lift up the lid of my grand piano and play this piece, is because it feels like it's just for me."* -- mezzo-sopra...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Virgin Islands Region at a depth of 18.7 km (11.6 miles), the quake hit at 15:10:43 UTC Friday 10th February 2012 The epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) Northwest fro...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Health (MoH) announced Wednesday a confirmed case and death of a 26-year-old pregnant female from H5N1 avian influenza. Health officials reported a bird flu death in Vietnam las...
HA NOI — The People's Committee of northern Ha Nam province yesterday announced the first outbreak of bird flu in Nhat Tan Commune, Kim Bang District, while many other localities reported high risk of the...
America's Nuclear Nightmare: Hanford Cleanup Now $112 Billion By Annette Cary, Tri-City Herald 09 February 12 http://www.readersupportednews.org/news-section2/312-16/9889-americas-nuclear-nightmare-hanfor...
[image: Changes in ice thickness (in centimetres per year) during 2003-2010 as measured by NASA's GRACE satellites, averaged over each of the world's ice caps and glacier systems outside of Greenland and...
If there was a Purple Heart for journalists, my first nominee would be Charles Pierce for taking for the team not one not two but many, many slings and arrows of outrageous wingnuttery in his ongoing cove...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRLog (Press Release) - Feb 10, 2012 - BP’s Bob Dudley reported from London, England a stunning financial report concerning BP while Ken Feinberg listened. http://www.nytimes.com/2...
How can our brains decipher even garbled nonsense? A key factor could be context.
Amputee athletes can run safely on these blade-fitting soles.
A giant heart in New York City responds to your touch.
Eleven common dolphins were sighted yesterday [Feb. 9] in the mouth of Barnstable Harbor off Bone Hill Road. As rescuers arrived, four dolphins were swimming and two were freeing themselves in the risin...
MANADO, INDONESIA (BNO NEWS) -- Indonesia's Mount Lokon erupted again on Friday after showing increased activity since the previous day, local officials told an Indonesian news agency. Mount Lokon, w...
Shimoga, Feb 10 (PTI): Nine persons have tested positive for 'Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD), known as Monkey disease in Theerthahlli taluk in the past 15 days a top district official said here today. Kyas...
LIMA, Feb 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Fourteen people were killed while 29 others were injured and about 44,000 more affected in Peru the past two days by heavy rains and ensuing flooding and landslides. Nonstop...
VietNamNet Bridge – The Heath Ministry has quoted sources from the Ho Chi Minh City Pasteur Institute confirming that a new kind of porcine flu virus, A/H3N1, has appeared, apparently a combination of the...
[image: Landed bigeye tuna. Alicia Delgado de la Molina / IEO] 8 February 2012 (ScienceDaily) – A study shows that the impact of fishing for tuna and similar species during the last 50 years has lessened...
[image: MYTHSOFANEMPIRE] So I am re-reading Snyder’s Myths of Empire for an R&R. (Btw, not that this is bad book, but is anyone’s reading list in life now primarily driven by anonymous reviewers and the n...
Low-frequency signals reach this robot if it's underground or moving through heaps of rubble.
NEW DELHI: As Maldives plunged into a deeper crisis, India today established contact with top political leaders of the island nation with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sending his special envoy and favour...
BC Premier Christy Clark needs to be sat down by the Lieutenant-Governor and lectured on the propriety of leaving *this bit floating about*. "*In place of a formal Throne Speech, the Premier will be appear...
Employment law is a weird field to practice in. Just because something is obvious doesn’t necessarily mean the courts are going to find that it’s so. A recent case is a prime example of the *Twilight Zone*...
Stunning new videos showing a solar storm hitting the Earth have been released by Nasa. The video was created using time-lapsed images taken from the International Space Station (ISS), 225 miles above t...
Yes, it's soon to be back. Now if you've read A Clash of Kings, you might rightly wonder who the "priest" is in this allegory, since while Season 2 will feature kings and rich men the only important reli...
(Reuters) - The revolutionary fighters-turned-jailors who run what passes for a justice system in Libya's Gharyan region say they are making the best of a bad business. "We need help from the government....
Feb. 10 - At least 260 dolphins wash ashore in Chiclayo, Peru in over a week. Sophia Soo reports.
Feb. 10 - Mount Lokon volcano on Indonesia's Sulawesi island erupts, sending hot ash into the air.
(Reuters) - China's Foreign Ministry said on Friday it will send a senior official to Iran for talks on the country's nuclear program, which has spurred tensions between Tehran and the West and led to new...
(Reuters) - China betrayed signs of spluttering domestic demand on Friday as imports crumbling to their lowest in more than two years and weaker-than-forecast bank lending signaled to investors that p...
Feb. 10 - U.S., Thai and South Korean forces launch joint assault drill during their annual military exercise in Thailand. Sophia Soo reports
(Reuters) - With growing worries about the threat of "cyber warfare," militaries around the world are racing to recruit the computer specialists they believe may be central to the conflicts of the 21st ce...
Happy Birthday to Jim Barr, 64. I don't really have specific memories of seeing him pitch for the Phoenix Giants in 1971, but I must have -- he appeared in 47 games, and I believe I went to quite a few gam...
(Reuters) - On the snowy fringes of Japan's Fukushima city, now notorious as a byword for nuclear crisis, Zen monk Koyu Abe offers prayers for the souls of thousands left dead or missing after the ear...
(Reuters) - Equipped with heavy weapons from Muammar Gaddafi's looted arsenals, the Tuareg-led rebels who assaulted the town of Aguelhoc in northern Mali last month overwhelmed the remote garrison. Fight...
(Reuters) - Sanctions on Iran are already hitting global oil flows even though a European ban on imports from the Islamic Republic does not come into effect until July, the International Energy Agency (IE...
(Reuters) - Striking Greek workers denounced a new wave of austerity on Friday as a demand too far by the IMF and EU, but Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos told the nation it had to decide within days ...
This year a whole bunch of new names have come to the fore-- billionaires seeking to buy the government with their criminally undertaxed wealth. Trump-- who claims to be backing Romney (let's wait and se...
Overshot
It would appear that an intrinsic property of the process of overshoot - the insidious progression that culminates in achieving and then surpassing the point of no return, that place where there's no way t...
(CNN) -- Some of the bravest, noblest women and men I have met are members of the United States armed forces. To them, military intervention is not about winning a debate on television or sounding smart...
In space, flames burn like blobs instead of teardrops and it can be hard to find the source.
(CNN) -- Tens of thousands of Syrians took to the streets Friday to protest Russia and its recent veto of a United Nations resolution that would have condemned a brutal crackdown by President Bashar al-A...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Babar, Indonesia at a depth of 142 km (88.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:11:38 UTC Friday 10th February 2012 The epicenter was 183 km (114 miles) WSW of Saum...
Carnival canines cavort in the Quarter ~MISSION: Impossible-Canine Protocol Armstrong Bark Reloaded. Your "mission," if you choose to accept it, is to dress (your dog and/or you) in a costume appropriate fo...
A Syrian-British activist has pleaded for the UN and US to stop the bloodshed in Syria as people in his neighbourhood prepare to die. Blogger Danny, 22, has made a series of dramatic videos apparently sh...
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wmtc - 16 hours ago
Last summer I worked as a research assistant on a project about video surveillance in stores, malls and public spaces.* That project was headed by Andrew Clement, an expert in the field of identity, privac...
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Buckdog - 16 hours ago
*"I have a deal with your people to keep quiet. But after this seal of silence is lifted, I will tell you and you will be very red-faced." Georgiy Mamedov Russian Ambassador to Canada Well ... as a Canadi...
Nearly a third of terror suspects released or transferred from Guantanamo Bay after being classified as an acceptable threat went on to re-engage in insurgent activities, a secret report has revealed. Th...
A 46-year-old man convicted of the murders of two soldiers outside a military barracks in Northern Ireland must serve a minimum of 25 years in prison, a judge has ruled. Republican Brian Shivers was last...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Guerrero, Mexico at a depth of 44.4 km (27.6 miles), the quake hit at 12:13:03 UTC Friday 10th February 2012 The epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) East of of Acapulco, Gu...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Eastern Mediterranean Sea at a depth of 100 km (62 miles), the quake hit at 12:05:51 UTC Friday 10th February 2012 The epicenter was 62 km (38.4 miles) Northwest ...
The above poster comes from Sarah Houghton, who is the Acting Director for the San Rafael Public Library, Calofornia and writes a blog Librarian in Black. In frustration to the current non supply of some ...
Dr. Seuss' Lorax has always spoken for the trees, but now he speaks for nearly 70 sponsors of Universal Pictures' new Lorax movie.
A video that shows San Francisco police kicking and punching a man into submission after he threatened to draw a gun is being investigated for alleged use of excessive force. Police responded to repor...
Percy and Connie Emert were so frustrated by rodents infesting their garden and eating the food they put out for birds that they set up a trap to stop them. But what they found there was far more exotic ...
At least 65 people were executed in the first 40 days of 2012 for various offences, including 14 on a single day, Human Rights Watch said Thursday. Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director of the New York-b...
More than fifty pink flamingos have been found dead in southern France, victims of freezing weather conditions that have gripped Europe over the past weeks. Firemen who combed waters in Gruissan, in the ...
A British security guard who vanished at the same time as more than £1million 19 years ago has been arrested in the U.S. Eddie Maher, 56, was living in a backwater Missouri town and working for a cable c...
A lodger accused of the murders of his landlady and her mother has been found hanged in his prison cell, it has emerged. Barry Morrow, 52, was due to face trial in May over the deaths of Avon lady Angela...
Nine men who plotted a Mumbai-style series of terror attacks on Britain had their sentences cut by a fifth yesterday after their guilty pleas prevented a £2.5million trial. A judge ruled that the fanatic...
Argentinians reacted with fury yesterday after the Falkland Islands’ newspaper accidentally called their president a ‘b****’. The website of the Penguin News ran a photo of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner...
Tory MPs last night called for Abu Qatada to be deported without delay amid fears that the hate preacher could stay in Britain for years. Senior backbenchers demanded that the UK ignore rulings from the E...
The woman appointed by David Cameron to get problem families back into work pocketed £8.6million last year – most of it from the taxpayer. Emma Harrison paid herself the huge dividend from her firm A4e, w...
Police have launched a manhunt after a stalker who threatened Madonna in the 90s walked unnoticed from a mental health facility in California. Robert Dewey Hoskins, 54, was jailed for 10 years in 1996 aft...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 9 km (5.6 miles), the quake hit at 09:36:52 UTC Friday 10th February 2012 The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) East of Christchu...
Some 7000 people are isolated by floodwaters in northern NSW, but the figure is expected to surpass 10,000 with a massive body of water heading south. Flooding has also hit the state's south with Stat...
A wave of fresh protests is expected to hit Greece today after eurozone finance ministers rejected the country's proposals on austerity. Greek leaders agreed a last-minute deal including three-billion eu...
Two 'terrorist explosions' have struck Syria's second city of Aleppo, according to state TV, as up to 10,000 troops are reported to be massing on the outskirts of the besieged city of Homs. The blasts h...
Russian authorities have boosted military salaries to unprecedented levels. Military servicemen in Murmansk now earn twice as much as others. Lieutenants working on submarines in the Northern Fleet have h...
Chicago, Illinois plans to host more than 7,500 international dignitaries and 3,000 journalists at the G8 Summit this spring. But if history is any indication, those numbers will be dwarfed by tens of th...
I was a member of the Executive council at the National Transitional Council (NTC) during the uprising and liberation of Libya. To get a clearer picture of what the Libyan people are facing in the months ...
Seoul and Washington are reportedly in favor of U.S. marines being deployed on South Korea's west coast to prepare for an emergency. The mooted redeployment of U.S. marines from a base in Okinawa, Japan t...
1.4 Million Homes in the Foreclosure Inventory at the End of 2011 -- SANTA ANA, Calif., Feb. 8, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- CoreLogic (NYSE: CLGX), a leading provider of information, analytics and business se...
WASHINGTON: The United States will soon give a second Coast Guard cutter to the Philippines as part of efforts to boost the ally's military amid tensions at sea with China, officials said on Tuesday. The...
The government and the mortgage industry are now engaged in a race to amass teams of attorneys over upcoming securities investigations and charges. The Justice Department and New York Attorney General Er...
"There's no money for . . ." well you name it. At a time when all manner of government services are being cut, trillions in bailouts to the financial services industry aside, why should food safety be spa...
For centuries experts held that every language is unique. Then one day in 1956, a young linguistics professor gave a legendary presentation at the Symposium on Information Theory at MIT. He argued that ev...
China's massive Three Gorges Dam, which has already displaced more than 1 million people, may have claimed a new victim: Environmental researchers say it has helped turn the country's largest freshwater l...
The long-awaited announcement of another bout of money printing in England on this Thursday will prove once again that experience doesn’t modify behavior on the other side of the pond either. The initial ...
US funds, shelters, arms, and trains MEK terrorists for years, now attempting to pawn full responsibility off on complicit Israeli government. by Tony Cartalucci February 10, 2012 - The British Daily Mail...
WASHINGTON — U.S. states have reached a $25 billion deal with the nation’s biggest mortgage lenders over foreclosure abuses that occurred after the housing bubble burst. Federal and state officials annou...
The United States Central Intelligence Agency is considering a long term presence in Afghanistan. US official quoted by Washington Post said, CIA will play a vital operational role after US troops leave ...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Northern Iran at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:59:40 UTC Friday 10th February 2012 The epicenter was 96 km (59 miles) ESE of Tehran, Iran No Repor...
After decades of drilling, Russian scientists have pierced through 4 kilometres of Antarctic ice to a unique sub-glacial lake, Vostok, that has been sealed there for the past 20 million years, a scientifi...
*RCMP.* You can over-react and kill on the job, then utterly fail to provide to first aid to the VSA victim of your brutality, lie about it all to the point of perjury, and still keep your job. It is no su...
BANGKOK - Myanmar is winning more foreign friends while international criticism of the current and previous government's abysmal human rights records has all but ceased. Old adversaries in the United St...
US State Department has once again urged Pakistan not to go ahead with the Pak-Iran Gas Pipeline project and its spokesperson, Victoria Nuland has said that the US is considering giving Pakistan different...
(Reuters) - The United States is seeking more access to Philippines ports and airfields to re-fuel and service its warships and planes, diplomatic and military sources said on Thursday, expanding its pres...
The mystery surrounding one of China's top police chiefs has deepened after the US government confirmed he visited one of its consulates. Some are speculating that Wang Lijun was seeking asylum, although ...
The US trade embargo with Cuba is 50 years old and Washington shows no sign of ending it. In Havana, the BBC's Sarah Rainsford asks how Cubans have learnt to adapt. The classic American cars that crowd t...
Varanasi, India (CNN) – The sari is a symbol of Indian style known around the world, but the makers of India’s most coveted saris are losing out to Chinese competition. Banarasi saris are considered per...
*Walter Collins * In Los Angeles, in California, a boy called Walter Collins was kidnapped. He was one of a number of boys who went missing in the Los Angeles area around the same time. Walter's father w...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 36.3 km (22.6 miles), the quake hit at 06:52:44 UTC Friday 10th February 2012 The epicenter was 58 km (36 mile...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 70.8 km (44 miles), the quake hit at 06:28:36 UTC Friday 10th February 2012 The epicenter was 48 km (29 miles)...
WASHINGTON — Amid mounting tensions over whether Israel will carry out a military strike against Iran’s nuclear program, the United States and Israel remain at odds over a fundamental question: whether Ir...
Updated: 11:14 a.m. ET -- Deadly attacks on Iranian nuclear scientists are being carried out by an Iranian dissident group that is financed, trained and armed by Israel’s secret service, U.S. officials te...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 06:23:40 UTC Friday 10th February 2012 The epicenter was 83 km (51 ...
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck near the North Coast of Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 16.3 km (10.1 miles), the quake hit at 05:34:05 UTC Friday 10th February 2012 The epicenter was 166 km (103 mil...
In the end, I really do not need to have a report from the ground to understand what is happening in Afghanistan, nor do I think that many Americans need one either. Everyone knows we are in Indi...
Colloidal silver has been with us for a long time and certainly needs to be revisited with the full weight and attention of modern method to fully refine its therapeutic value. That the overuse...
This opens the door for rapid and successful nerve repair in humans which has never been possible and does not ever occur naturally. It represents the first real therapeutic progress on nerves th...
The good news is that it has not gotten worse in the US economy for the past two years during which the whole cast of governments continued to do anything that might be construed as helpful to pro...
Newt Gingrich has complained mightily about pro-Romney SuperPACs paying for anti-Gingrich ads. In a recent Fox News interview, Gingrich said, "I think that people ultimately don’t want to have a candidate ...
"The future ain't what it used to be." - Yogi Berra
*It's not shocking that 31 °C is the highest ocean surface temperature you may get* Willis Eschenbach has performed a very interesting analysis of the ocean temperature data from Argo, a system of float...
*WINNIPEG EVENTS:* *JOE NICE ROCKIN' AT THE ROCKER FEB 11:* Coming up this Saturday at the Rudolf Rocker Cultural Centre, 3rd Floor, 91 Albert St., Winnipeg MB:...a benefit for cooperative radio CKUW. ...
This is from the Re:Generation project. This particular tune is based on a playground song. Mark Ronson, who arranged it, is joined by Erykah Badu, Trombone Shorty, Mos Def, Zigaboo Modeliste, and members...
By Marshall Auerback Here's the draft of the supposed agreement to "sort out" the Greek debt problem once and for all. According to Bloomberg, here are the essentials: - Greece's 2012 GDP will shrink...
* "When Death Comes"* “When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn, when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse to buy me, and snaps his purse shut; when death comes like the measle-...
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOdAItGD5_4&feature=related Chuck Wild, "Liquid Mind V: Serenity - Thought Museum." Photos courtesy of NASA
Eric Blair *Activist Post* February 10, 2012 Due to gross injustices built into the current system, angry mobs of disenfranchised protesters are pushing most of the world to the edge of global revolution....
The Pentagon on Thursday will propose rule changes that will allow more women to formally serve in jobs closer to the front lines. Defense officials say as many as 14,000 positions could be opened up, t...
Last year, a federal program paid out $1.6 billion to cover free cell phones and the monthly bills of 12.5 million wireless accounts. The program, overseen by the FCC and intended to help low-income Ameri...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, the U.S. Postal Service's quarterly loss ballooned to $3.3 billion amid declining mail volume and the soaring costs of health benefits for future r...
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — When you head down to the beach for a little fun this summer, county officials want you to know about some updated rules. The Board of Supervisors this week agreed to lift an all-out b...
Better technology yields better data. The bad news is the extra water from 2003-2010 would fill Lake Erie eight times. Nearly 230 billion tons of ice is melting into the ocean from glaciers, ice caps, an...
Hopar glacier in Pakistan. Melting ice outside the two largest caps - Greenland and Antarctica - is much less than previously estimated, the study has found. Photograph: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images The ...
Fans pose for photos around Super Bowl Village on Feb. 3, 2012 in downtown Indianapolis, Ind., before the start of Super Bowl XLVI. (credit: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (CBS Cle...
Ray Nagin is focus of federal grand jury probe
Chinese internet video posted Jan. 25 showing sea trials for China’s first aircraft carrier, the refurbished Russian aircraft carrier Varyag. The carrier is undergoing sea trials prior to deployment exp...
CERES -- A pregnant teenager suffered nine days of being beaten, choked and threatened by a boyfriend jealous over finding a message from another man on her cell phone, police said. Richard Garibay, 21, ...
The international community may be forced to 'militarise' the crisis in Syria unless president Bashar al-Assad stops the onsalught on his people, a senior US official warned on Wednesday. The official f...
When I tell people I've been to Mali, the only people who have ever heard of it are tropical disease specialists. Even when I say "Timbuktu," and people recognize the name in a vaguely "Madagascar" sense...
Personnel working offshore on one of Brunei Shell Petroleum’s platforms, Ampa Platform 6 (AP6), made a surprising discovery onboard the facility which is located 20 kilometres away from land. Hamdi Adnan...
The allegations span South American cocaine shipments, US-used car dealerships, money-laundering in West Africa, several money-exchange houses, and end up in a Lebanese bank. In December the US justice d...
The Bank of America Plaza skyscraper in the state of Georgia, the tallest building in the southern US, is just another lamb to the slaughter after it was auctioned off for about half the amount it was wo...
Israel's propaganda machine carefully chooses its words to assert illegal ownership over Jerusalem and Palestine. The words which people use, often unconsciously, can have a critical impact upon the thou...
Newt Gingrich's controversial statement begs the question: Who invented a nationality? The Palestinians or the Israelis? It is hard to believe that anyone who defends Israel's legitimacy as a state would...
Activists says arrests by neighbouring state's army deterring more injury victims from crossing border for treatment. Only a handful of Syrians have made it to hospitals in neighbouring Lebanon, after b...
Supporters rally in Male to demand Mohamed Nasheed's return to power, a day after he was forced to quit as president. Thousands of supporters of Mohamed Nasheed, who says he was forced to resign as the ...
International pressure may have saved some bloodshed in Syria, but a lack thereof will not doom its revolution. United Nations was not a credible institution, that it is just a "game" in which countries ...
Image: Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page issued revised projections about Canada's future finances Wednesday and said Old Age Security is an affordable program in the years ahead. (Adrian Wyld/Canad...
Bank of England policy-makers will attempt to inject life into Britain's ailing economy on Thursday by announcing additional stimulus through quantitative easing, economists predict. The Bank's Monetary...
Florence Green died two weeks before her 111th birthday Photo: Masons Mrs Green passed away in her sleep at a care home in Norfolk just two weeks before her 111th birthday. The great-grandmother signed u...
A home video showing a four-year-old Chinese boy being forced by his parents to run almost naked through the snow in bitterly cold New York has sparked an online uproar. In the video, the little boy run...
Very quickly: some of you will have seen that Greece’s tax revenue from VAT collapsed by 18.7pc in January from a year earlier. Nobody can seriously blame tax evasion for this. It has happened because 60...
The rate of increase in suicides in Greece was the highest in Europe in the first half of 2011, according to figures from the country's health ministry. Experts attribute the rise to the country's economi...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Coquimbo, Chile at a depth of 52.3 km (32.5 miles), the quake hit at 02:05:22 UTC Friday 10th February 2012 The epicenter was 16 km (9 miles) SSW of Ovalle, Coquimbo, ...
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 575.5 km (357.6 miles), the quake hit at 01:47:34 UTC Friday 10th February 2012 The epicenter was 282 km (175 miles) Southeast of Lambasa...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 50.8 km (31.6 miles), the quake hit at 00:38:39 UTC Friday 10th February 2012 The epicenter was 131 km (81 miles) E...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Eastern Honshu, Japan at a depth of 105.2 km (65.4 miles), the quake hit at 21:52:02 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 27 km (16 miles) Northwest of Se...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Macquarie Island Region at a depth of 13.8 km (8.6 miles), the quake hit at 19:21:02 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 413 km (256 miles) South of ...
"Almost every object in the below photograph is a galaxy. The Coma Cluster of Galaxies pictured above is one of the densest clusters known - it contains thousands of galaxies. Each of these galaxies houses...
*"A New Creation Oratorio"* by Chet Raymo "Two centuries have elapsed since Joseph Haydn composed his magnificent "The Creation" oratorio. In all that time, no other musician has given us a better evocati...
“Father, O father! what do we here In this land of unbelief and fear? The Land of Dreams is better far, Above the light of the morning star.” - William Blake, “The Land of Dreams”
As I have stated many times, the nuclear disaster at Fukushima is far from being over, and what we are being told by our own governments, and the complicit media, is nothing but bold faced lies. Right no...
*CANADIAN POLITICS:* *ONTARIO PREMIER'S SPEECH DISRUPTED:* What does a politician have to endure these days ? Just for the simple act of bragging in front of one's numerous rich friends about the devi...
*New York's Eric Schneiderman and California's Kamala Harris, two among the small group of state AGs who held out for a better settlement with the mortgage lenders, are putting a happy face on the deal ann...
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*Photo by Adam Thomas* *Thanks for sharing with Censored News!* By Adam Thomas Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com PRINCE RUPERT -- On February 4, 2012, over a thousand people marched in Prin...
"'Epitaph' solo piano composition by Ralph Zurmühle coupled with wilderness spirit imagery by Cecil Whitt. Video produced by Sam Henegar of Still Waters Imagery & Media, Inc." - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
NOPD detail controversy escalates~WWL Corps Quixotic Yazoo River pump project case heard by federal judges in N.O. BP's blemished safety record is off-limits in trial, judge rules
With beach landings, 25 naval ships and an air assault, the United Statesand eight other countries are staging a major amphibious exercise on the US East Coast this week, fighting a fictional enemy that be...
Disclaimer: The events and characters in this article are fiction like the history of the war on terror. (Fantasy Central, Washington) - On Monday, senior Pentagon officials, speaking before a group of r...
Neil Garfield at LivingLies tells us the specifics of the deal (with the five chosen banks guilty of making billions in wrongful foreclosures and paying pittance fines) . . . Which doesn't benefit you, tax...
This is such a sweet, sentimental video. Barack and Michelle look like they came out of Hollywood Central casting and it's so touching, it makes even me feel a little weepy though I realize it is treacl...
Unfortunately, the man who single-handedly created a secret garden in the middle of Los Angeles has left us for a better place; but, his creation lives on to inspire countless others. Amir Dialameh saw a...
A stand of dying Yellow Cedars. Photo courtesy: © Paul Hennon For the past hundred years, the only name for the plague killing off economically valuable yellow-cedars has been "yellow-cedar decline." The ...
Raccoons easily adapt to challenges of life in the city. Photo courtesy: © Laurie Peterson Able to squeeze into locked garages, open secured garbage cans, unzip tents, and pry up lids on Tupperware, urb...
Photo courtesy: Manish Prabhune/CC BY 3.0 How do you know when structures are about to snap, collapse, and otherwise bust apart? Unless there are intensive inspections happening at regular intervals, usua...
My daughter and I have started preparing my balcony for our spring planting. We have already started some colder-weather seeds outside. I may be a bit optomistic; but, the weather is so mild I couldn't re...
A huge thanks to Stephen Messenger for the use of these photos. They are a breath of fresh air. What's more - As soon as I'm finished this blog, I'm packing my suitcase and moving! Photo courtesy: Stephe...
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*[image: Winston]Parliament is back in session, so by Mark Twain’s standards neither life, liberty nor proper should be safe. But apart from questions about Maori Party integrity and Winston Peter’s wig,...
Reno, Nevada, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
*"Thought..." * by Ken Wilber "Thought proceeds in a line, while the real world does not. Thought is sequential, successive, one-dimensional, while the real world presents itself as a multidimensional, s...
"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either, but right through every human heart, and through all human hearts. This line shifts...
Ever wonder why Big Oil doesn't take its massive profits and take over the alternative ("clean") energy business? Why do the fossil fuelers make such an expensive and concerted effort to thwart the sprea...
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[image: image] AFTER THE REPORT ON the collapse of the CTV building, everyone now wants to hang the builder and designers. “Someone is incompetent!” Is the cry. “Someone must be to blame!” “There's cr...
*"When Your Back's Against The Wall... Don't Be There"* by Zen Gardner "Just don't be there. If lt all possible you shouldn't be in a place like that. If you can avoid getting pinned against anything, tha...
“A man always has two reasons for doing anything– a good reason and the real reason.” - J.P. Morgan
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Psyche! Not *that* Tala! This Tala is a wolf pup, now a full-grown wolf. Watch more inter-species love. Thanks, James!
From soup to nuts? Were back to Syria- The veto stopped the NATO nations from gaining legitimacy, so they continue on with their illegitimate tactics. I promise at some point in time there will be other top...
National Journal's Reid Wilson says that after the vote-counting flubs in Nevada and Iowa, caucuses are and should be on their way out. Josh Putnam demolishes the "are" part of that, pointing out that it's...
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I meant to include this in my earlier post with various action alerts. It's a bit old, but very important. Since this organizing started, Parks Canada has agreed to delay their decision to study it furthe...
Tuesday evening I promised you a more complete look-- and complete with charts (not my strongest suit)-- at Buck McKeon's pernicious, unethical stock trading. When have I ever not delivered? Remember, con...
*"Self-Interest And The Pathology Of Power:* * The Corruption Of America"* by Charles Hugh Smith "The self-interest of the alcoholic is to keep drinking. Is this truly in his best interests? The answer il...
You might want to think again when you post negative comments on Facebook.
To celebrate Jules Verne's birthday, take a look at his science fiction method for blasting astronauts to the moon. Realistic? No. Inspiring? Yes.
Britain's largest space rock -- excavated 200 years ago by an archaeological dig -- was also preserved by the Ice Age.
*All because they oppose the grand designs of the EUSraeli Empire*: "Russian, Chinese firms most likely to bribe" November 03, 2011|Associated Press BERLIN - Companies from *Russia*, followed closely by t...
[image: Kenya: Due to the climate changes, drought is now a common occurrence. James Akena / OXFAM]By Abjata Khalif 3 February 2012 MARSABIT – Nomadic communities living off the dry terrain of northern...
Anonymous has released hundreds of emails after hacking into a mail server used by Syrian President Bashar al Assad's office. *Leaked documents: Part one* *Leaked documents: Part two* Anonymous not only s...
"Tymoshenko’s husband granted refuge; Had applied for political asylum in Czech Republic" by Ellen Barry | New York Times, January 07, 2012 MOSCOW - The Czech Republic granted political asylum yesterday ...
The wireless phone giant is giving parents even more room to restrict their child's phone use.
So we're almost 48 hours out from Rick Santorum's shocker big day and...where are the new endorsements? Has anyone seen any? Look -- we know how this works. Endorsements are a good indication of what part...
WASHINGTON — The United States on Thursday recognized the new government of Maldives President Mohamed Waheed as legitimate and urged him to fulfill a pledge to form a national unity government. State De...
A short while ago I commented on Sir Philip Gluckman's remarks on The Honest Broker. As science advisor to the New Zealand government he has prepared a discussion paper on science advice to government. He...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Uttaranchal, India at a depth of 25.5 km (15.8 miles), the quake hit at 19:17:33 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) NNE from Dehra Dun,...
Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- Two people were killed Thursday as hundreds of demonstrators marched in Yemen's southern province of Dhale protesting the upcoming presidential election, eyewitnesses told CNN. The ...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Northern Xinjiang, China at a depth of 21.7 km (13.5 miles), the quake hit at 18:57:07 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 235 km (146 miles) North from ...
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck the Macquarie Island Region at a depth of just 3.9 km (2.4 miles), the quake hit at 18:52:47 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 432 km (269 miles) South...
*"Debt Beats the Economy in a Growth Race"* by Bill Bonner "Get out your chopsticks! Brush up on your sushi! Learn to read backwards and upside down! Yes…we’re going to Japan! The gist of the Japanese si...
Details on the Russian drilling expedition in Lake Vostok tell of a geyser of drilling fluid that was collected at the surface after the lake was breached.
(Reuters) - Syrian government artillery barrages killed dozens of civilians in Homs on Thursday, activists said, as President Bashar al-Assad, bolstered by Russian support, ignored appeals from world lead...
Lockdown on Peaks 2011 Photos by Youths of Peaks*Ninth Circuit court bias mirrored in racist Arizona media* *By Brenda Norrell* *Censored News* *http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com* SAN FRANCISCO -- The Ninth...
I used to think that photography was in everything I did, but NOW after starting this project it really is in everything that I do. My husband is starting to hide his face more than ever in photos. What di...
Feb. 9 - The death toll from the heavy snow that has blanketed large parts of Japan rises to over 80. Simon Hanna reports.
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*"Scores of labour activists and seniors started occupying the offices of Conservative MPs in Ontario Thursday afternoon to protest possible changes in the retirement income system. Supporters of a so-c...
Feb. 9 - Turkey vows to help the Syrian refugees fleeing violence across the border. Nick Rowlands reports
(Reuters) - The United States has threatened action that could disrupt a French-led satellite maker's supply chain, spurred by suspicion that it illegally used U.S. know-how or parts in spacecraft launche...
Five people are dead in a village in Nepal after the same leopard attacked them.
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Tonight Question Time comes from London. David Dimbleby is joined by Defence Secretary Philip Hammond, Alastair Campbell, Shirley Williams (apparently not dead yet, it seems), Alan Partridge Steve Coogan...
The rise of the Jewish nation is inextricably linked with the rise of the banking families. In the first part of this article the positive actions of the Rothschilds were looked into. However, the relat...
A man has been charged with attempted murder after a 12-year-old girl was stabbed in Wigan, police say. The girl, who was stabbed twice in the back, was treated for a punctured lung. Her injuries are no...
While Professor Noam Chomsky was in Tucson this week he was asked about the Mexican American Studies ban. *By DA Morales* *Three Sonorans* http://tucsoncitizen.com/three-sonorans/2012/02/08/video-noam-cho...
A Damascus resident gives DNews an exclusive interview on the chilling juxtaposition of fear and normality there.
Powerful video... and it's been watched by over 18 million people on YouTube. *Religion puts you in bondage While Jesus sets you free Religion makes you blind Jesus makes you see* I spoke to a candida...
Over at Plum Line today, I talked about the possible effects of an improved economy -- and why it's possible that conventional wisdom is too pessimistic. See Ezra Klein this morning for more on the latter ...
By Eric Johnson 8 February 2012 SEATTLE – Debris from last year's earthquake and tsunami in Japan is already washing up on Washington beaches, and much more is expected. Oceanographer Dr. Curtis Ebbsm...
A Dragons' Den 'conman' allegedly blew £230,000 on living a life of luxury instead of his satnav for skiers product that wowed the show's judges. Jean-Claude Baumgartner, 50, is charged with duping Peter ...
*Folks, you may fluff this off as just a coincidence the choreographers choose this esoteric occult theme for the half time show, but, if you do the research, you will discover the ruling elites take it ...
By: Duane Craig Dome Rock Industries was busily handling hazardous waste in Quatzite, Ariz., when it got sideways with the local environmental folks. The company recently agreed to pay a $25,000 settlemen...
Look! Down on the ground. See that small speck at the lower left corner on this picture of Mars? It's alien technology...
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Yobs as young as 10 rolled a monster snowball into a busy main road as they terrorised passing drivers and pedestrians. The 20-strong gang pelted cars, buses and vans with snowballs and were confronted b...
Himalayan glaciers are melting far more slowly than predicted, according to a new satellite study from the University of Colorado Boulder. Previous estimates of ice loss in the high Asia mountains have ra...
A top food scientist jumped to his death from the roof of his work laboratory just hours after being made redundant, an inquest has heard. Dr Clive Blackburn - who developed products for big brand names i...
[image: Cover of 'The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines', by Michael Mann, 2012.] As anyone with the slightest interest in Earth’s climate knows, the *Merchants of Doubt...
A deaf girl of 10 was trafficked into the UK, repeatedly raped, kept in a cellar and treated as a virtual slave for almost a decade, a court heard today. The orphaned youngster from Pakistan, who is prof...
This photo of an Occupier at Zuccotti Park (Liberty Square) was taken several weeks after the footage of police brutality was posted on YouTube and elsewhere. Considering the government's treatment of the ci...
The Coming Crisis Over Water (Photo credit: thetexastribune)
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*THREATS BY U.S.-BIA HOPI POLICE AND RANGERS TO TAKE AWAY MORE DINEH PROPERTY* *By Bahe Katenay* *Sheep Dog Nation Rocks* http://sheepdognationrocks.blogspot.com/2012/02/big-mountain-update-alert-more-thre...
The U.S. intelligence community has found no evidence to suggest North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is dead, a senior U.S. official said Friday following posts on China's version of Twitter that claimed Kim h...
When Harper was in Davos he was practically busting to tell the high priced nobs that he was going to trim Canada's sails, especially our nation's Old Age Security programme. That promptly backfired se...
*It's 104 acres with 27 buildings, and hardly used (okay, that last part is a wee exaggeration): How might we repurpose that intergalactic embassy we built in Baghdad?* *by Ken* The Bush regime war crimi...
Each semester, I teach several classes that speak to the crisis that we live here in Arizona. As part of my classes at the University of Arizona (The History of the Chicano Movement and Indigenous Thinkers...
In recent weeks, "conservatives" have proposed that cops should not be able to arrest people (i.e., men) for domestic violence unless they witness it, that U.S. school textbooks should be purged of refere...
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