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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 supe...
*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...
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...
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 ...
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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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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*"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 ...
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 floatin...
*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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[image: Una hermosa chica del anime (Cartoon y Manga)]
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[image: Donas, panquecitos y triki trakes para el desayuno]
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[image: Postales de la Ciudad de San Francisco, California.]
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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...
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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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Biased BBC - 23 hours ago
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...
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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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Link: http://youtu.be/WK2LpUoqX6A -- click here to see enlarged Thanks Marian for the head-up! Enjoy a good weekend, John
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...
Ignoring the beauty contest in Missouri and taking the ballot vote in the caucus states (which he'll probably underperform in delegate selection, given that he's the least organized of the candidates), her...
Locked water tap in Kipsaraman, Kenya. Image from oxfam.org.uk.As benign as Lucifer:The privatization of waterBy Richard Raznikov / The Rag Blog / February 9, 2012Beginning about 20 years ago, it dawned on t...
I've lost track of how many times I have struggled through reading scientific research, posting the most relevant sections here on Wit's End and thought, whew, I'm done now! Surely, *this* study proves de...
Tepco Injects Boric Acid Into Reactor as Temperatures RiseBy Tsuyoshi InajimaFeb 6, 2012 Tokyo Electric Power Co. injected boric acid into a reactor at its crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to prevent an ac...
Today, Feb 9, in the WSJ print edition "Southern Nears Reactor Approvals" p. B3 "Federal regulators are expected to give Southern Co the green light on Thursday to build two nuclear reactors in Georgia, ...
*THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2012* *As always, Chris and the Times can’t explain:* Wedge issue fights can boil up fast, especially in election years. Clarity tends to take a hike. Inevitably, your nation’s bigg...
KATHMANDU — A leopard dragged away and devoured a 14-year-old girl in western Nepal in what is thought to be the fifth deadly attack by the same animal in just two months, police said on Thursday. The yo...
Nine members of an al Qaeda-inspired terror group that plotted to bomb the London Stock Exchange and build a terrorist training camp have been jailed. The group also planned to send five bombs through the ...
A man has been arrested after a 12-year-old girl was stabbed in Wigan, police say. The girl, who had been stabbed twice in the back, was treated for a punctured lung. Her injuries are not believed to be ...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Papua Region, Indonesia at a depth of 15.1 km (9.4 miles), the quake hit at 15:18:11 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) North of J...
MEXICO CITY — Officials of a Mexican political party are apologizing to 650 Indians and other people who suffered food poisoning after attending a campaign rally in southern Mexico. But the leader of the...
La Paz, Feb 8 (Prensa Latina) The alert for increased cases of dengue and hemorrhagic fever was declared on Wednesday in the Bolivian department of Beni. The head of epidemiology at the Departmental Heal...
An oil platform was partially evacuated earlier this week when a gas leak was detected, Shell has said. Of the 76 staff on the Gannet Alpha platform in the North Sea, 48 were returned to shore by helicop...
SYDNEY (AP) — A 10-foot tiger shark has attacked a swimmer off a remote beach in Australia's third attack this month. That's as many attacks as the country generally sees in an entire year. Western Austr...
Sent to the Baltimore Sun, Feb. 9 We should all “worry about overwhelming students, schools with tests” (2/7/12). As the Sun points out, the new testing will be extremely time-consuming. There is no sci...
My kid can't go - she's gotta new TV show that's failing....can you send your daughter to kill them Iranians? gotta' show to catch on Fox - now grab your rifle and kill them crazy Iranians! These "people...
------------------------------ Nevada Election Result Likely Fraudulent, Ron Paul Votes Seemingly Discarded [image: Nevada Election Result Likely Fraudulent, Ron Paul Votes Seemingly Discarded ava...
American Scofflaw Rick, Rick, Rick.....before you attempt to instill unnecessary fear into the hearts of your sheep again, we ran out of the desert camo for you but here is a left-over bright orange jumps...
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/275-42/9849-is-america-a-police-state Perhaps the real question is, "why have we allowed this to occur?"
[image: Luftverschmutzung in Liaoning China] Photo credit: lhgszch on Flickr. Back in December 2009, I wrote a post for the Duck called "Wal-mart Isn't Green." Jared Diamond had written a provocative op-ed...
After being isolated for more than 30 hours, a 37-year-old paperboy, SA, suspected of being infected with bird flu died on Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. in the isolation room of Hasan Sadikin Hospital in Bandung, ...
CAIRO: With all eyes on Egypt’s new parliament in January, 13 cases of the H5N1, or bird flu, were reported in Egypt, highlighting that the deadly virus was making a return to the North African country. ...
Shillong, Feb 9 (PTI) Eighteen days after culling of bird-flu affected poultry ended in Meghalaya's East Garo Hills, residents of a locality and government officials were in a tizzy after more than 100 pi...
VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has had only two H5N1 influenza patients in the last two years and both of them are dead. Thus, the H5N1 epidemic has returned, remarked Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh ...
Argentina should be in no doubt that Britain will "defend the Falkland Islands properly" against any threat to its inhabitants' right to self-determination, Prime Minister David Cameron has said. Mr Came...
The capsized Concordia is shifting closer to a dangerous drop off as workers scramble to contain contamination.
This week more than 200 dolphins were found dead along a 106-kilometer stretch at the beaches of Lambayeque. Authorities have not yet been able to determine the cause of the deaths. According to El Comer...
It's easy to think of the Security Council as essentially a reflection of great power interests when we see outcomes such as the failure of a resolution calling for President Assad's departure. However I...
A zero-gravity roller coaster will make you hurl...down the tracks at 100 miles an hour.
RFID tags may soon be cheap enough to stamp on paper.
*THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2012* *What the heck happened to Seamus:* This was an amazing morning on the op-ed page of the Times. As usual, Collins and Kristof bordered the page. But this morning, each scribe...
The Bank of England has agreed to extend its quantitative easing (QE) programme by £50bn to give a further boost to the UK economy. When completed, it will bring the total amount of QE stimulus to £325bn....
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Indonesia has another bizarre way to keep commuters off the roofs of trains: swat them with brooms drenched in putrid goop. "For anyone who is still up there, it'll be like a w...
Nerve Gas May Be Used on UK Rioters, Scientists Fear By Steve Connor, The Independent UK 08 February 12 http://www.readersupportednews.org/news-section2/328-121/9869-nerve-gas-may-be-used-on-uk-rioters-sc...
NEW DELHI (AP) -- India has decided to buy 126 fighter jets from France, taken delivery of a nuclear-powered submarine from Russia and prepared for its first aircraft carrier in recent weeks as it moderni...
Some 1.1 million computers have been infected with a virus that displays obscene images that can't be erased without sending money to its suspected creators, Kyoto Prefectural Police announced on Feb. 8. ...
A temporary storage site for radioactive waste generated under a model decontamination project around the disaster-struck Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant was unveiled to reporters on Feb. 9. To prevent rad...
Social/Science/Fiction preliminary course outline SIS-419.B01, Summer session 2012 Professor Patrick Thaddeus Jackson This course will meet Mondays and Wednesdays, 1:00pm-4:10pm, from 21 May until 28 June,...
Feb. 9 - One dead and 13 wounded in a truck bomb attack in Thailand’s restive south. Nick Rowlands reports
Feb. 9 - Local Maldivian television airs footage showing ousted president being led away by police. Paul Chapman reports.
(Reuters) - The second U.S. drone attack in two days in Pakistan's North Waziristan region killed five people on Thursday, including a senior militant commander with links to al Qaeda, Pakistani intellige...
Feb. 9 - A report finds the CTV building which collapsed in the New Zealand quake last year was not constructed to required standards. Paul Chapman reports.
(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...
(Reuters) - Syrian forces bombarded opposition-held neighborhoods of the city of Homs with rocket and mortar fire on Thursday, activists said, as divided world powers struggled to find a way to end the vi...
(Reuters) - Greek leaders clinched a long-stalled deal on reforms and austerity measures needed to secure a bailout and avoid a messy default, government sources said, hours before the country's financial...
*THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2012* *Part 4—Helene Cooper tries to explain:* “Journalists” are deeply involved in the joy of the flub. Just consider one reaction to Candidate Romney’s latest. Romney had been ...
*Castle Romeo was a lithium-deuteride fueled H-bomb** **exploded 1 March 1954 at Bikini Atoll. ** **It yielded 15 megatons and** **had a fireball 4 miles in diameter.* PAKISTAN HAS DOUBLED THE SIZE OF ITS N...
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My inbox is flooded with action alerts from all different groups, which I feel obligated to pass on, even though many (most?) people who read this blog probably get these petitions through multiple sources...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russia at a depth of 21 km (13 miles), the quake hit at 13:24:11 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 32 km (19.8 miles) Northeast o...
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Apple is facing demonstrations on Thursday at a half-dozen of its retail stores around the world from customers concerned about how Apple's suppliers treat their factory workers in ...
Kiev, Ukraine (CNN) -- Suffering in the grip of a brutal winter where temperatures have not risen above freezing in nearly a month, Ukraine has seen a wave of deaths related to the cold, and the country'...
(CNN) -- The deposed president of the Maldives was facing arrest Thursday, a former foreign minister said, as political turmoil gripped the capital following days of violent clashes in the Indian Ocean na...
Brussels, Belgium (Financial Times) -- Representatives of eurozone bail-out lenders are scrambling this morning to finalise an agreement with the Greek government after last-minute demands by Athens thre...
*Beijing (CNN)* -- Do you ever get the feeling you are being watched? Closed circuit cameras recording your movements, strange noises on the phone line, phone calls that suddenly stop, emails being monit...
A new app helps you focus on a smart phone and see where you're going at the same time.
(CNN) -- Germany is expelling four members of the Syrian Embassy, citing the arrest this week of two men suspected of spying on Syrian opposition groups in Germany, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said...
Happy Birthday -- and there are lots of great options today -- to Carole King, b. 1942. Carole King is 70! Another songwriter and performer, by the way, who has been oddly overlooked by the Kennedy Center ...
Corps to appeal EPA ruling to kill their huge, badly engineered pumps project ~Corps lackeys at the Mississippi levee board are asking a federal appeals court to revive a $220 million flood control project...
February 8, 2012 (Photo by John Carroll) *Impunity in Port-au-Prince* *By AMY WILENTZ* Port-au-Prince, Haiti IT has been painful to watch as Jean-Claude Duvalier, who inherited the brutal dictatorship t...
Fred Upton (R-MI) and Aubrey McClendon are attempting to commandeer the natural gas market. Aubrey is the CEO of the largest shale oil interest in the world, Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy; Fred is...
(CNN) -- The United Nations was expected to take up an Arab League proposal Thursday calling for a joint monitoring mission in Syria as President Bashar al-Assad escalated a devastating assault against a...
(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 o...
A court has thrown out a legal bid to free whales from SeaWorld by campaigners claiming they are enslaved. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) claimed that five killer whales at the San D...
Europe's largest volcano burst into life last night - stranding a top Italian football team on the southern island of Sicily. Lava spewed down the sides of Mount Etna as home side Catania met Roma to pl...
Bold black and white stripes might help zebras evade disease-carrying flies but that's not the only benefit.
Iran today warned it is capable of carrying out military strikes on U.S. interests around the world if America attacks the Islamic Republic. The U.S. has tried to force Tehran to scrap sensitive nuclear w...
The White House said the U.S. was not considering arming rebels in Syria but that no option would be completely ruled out as the Obama administration struggled to find a way to quell violence and end the ...
This is the horrific moment a man was captured on CCTV as he attempted to abduct a seven-year-old girl in the middle of a Walmart supermarket. Brittney Baxter was in the toy aisle of the store in Bremen, ...
Groupon was hailed as a firm for the future when, valued at $15billion, it became the biggest IPO since Google. But investors who stumped up $20 per share when the online deals site went public last year...
A 'perfect storm' of rain falling on freezing ground creating roads like ice rinks has caused dozens of crashes as forecasters warn more snow will fall today. More than 97 road accidents have been report...
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wmtc - 1 day ago
Isn't this amazing? Many other wild shadow creations by Tim Noble and Sue Webster can be seen on a slideshow on Environmental Graffiti and on this *Daily Mail* story. BuzzFeed brings us examples of shad...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the Crozet Islands Region at a depth of 15 km (9.3 miles), the quake hit at 11:21:09 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 1733 km (1077 miles) Southea...
The Eleventh Hour - Why we must not allow BP to settle out of court by Cherri Foytlin They are calling it “the biggest environmental litigation in the country’s history.” And why shouldn’t they? It is the ...
The Eleventh Hour - Why we must not allow BP to settle out of court by Cherri Foytlin They are calling it “the biggest environmental litigation in the country’s history.” And why shouldn’t they? It is the ...
*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* 'Mormanism' is a cult which believes Joseph Smith is a prophet! But believing Joseph Smith a prohet is no 'kookier' than any number of unquestioned shibbboleths an...
Temperatures fell to -13 degrees Fahrenheit in Berlin as the current cold front that has claimed hundreds of lives in eastern Europe makes its way west.
The Amelia Case: UFO Contact in Necochea (Part Two) By Guillermo D. Giménez 1989 was a fruitful year for UFO sightings in the city of Necochea and throughout the region. We can also ment...
*Hoover and boy* Darwin Porter has written* 'J. Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson: Investigating the Sexual Secrets of America's Most Famous Men and Women'*. *The world's largest porn stash, under-age boy lo...
Stevie Wonder, “As”, “Songs in the Key of Life”
(Reuters) - Greek leaders failed on Thursday to agree on reforms and austerity measures, the price of a bailout to avoid a messy default, forcing Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos to go to the country's...
As the Tourette's-like illness continues to plague Le Roy school and baffle health experts, questions are now arising around the cleanup of a 40-year-old chemical spill that contaminated some of the local...
A new wonder fuel dubbed ‘fire ice’ could be buried under the Scottish coast, according to government ministers and experts. They suspect that massive quantities of methane hydrates reserves are locked o...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 34.5 km (21.4 miles), the quake hit at 09:21:57 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 33 km (20 miles) West from Miahuatlán, Oa...
A passenger plane landing at an island airport got caught-up in RAF war games involving 14 military aircraft. A report into the 'needless incident' today heavily criticised military planners and said the...
Britain hit back last night after Argentina vowed to complain to the United Nations that the Falkland Islands were being ‘militarised’. Politicians and military veterans mocked President Cristina Fernande...
A veteran TV anchor in Denver, Colorado, was rushed to the hospital after a dog that recently survived a harrowing rescue bit her in the face during a live TV segment. Max, an 86-pound Argentine Mastiff...
After more than two decades of drilling in Antarctica, Russian scientists have confirmed that they reached the surface of a gigantic freshwater lake hidden under miles of ice for some 20 million years. T...
A psychopath dubbed the ‘Cold Cat Killer’ is believed to have struck for the 34th time - after lacing chicken with anti-freeze. Dozens of moggies have died agonising deaths after ingesting the harmful li...
A father suffocated his six-month-old son in the bath and then hanged himself, an inquest heard today. Paul McBride, 39, of Lancashire, killed baby Ollie shortly after the break-up of a ‘turbulent relati...
A father shot dead a young couple after allegedly becoming upset that they deleted his daughter on Facebook. Marvin Potter, 60, has been charged with the first degree murders of Billy Payne Jr, 36, and h...
A man who became a global internet sensation after he was caught on camera throwing an apparent fare-dodger off a train will not be prosecuted, it emerged last night. Alan Pollock was captured hauling Sa...
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:49:24 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) ENE of Visoko...
* MacArthur* On 5 February 2012, at Voltaire Network, *Thierry Meyssan has an article about the decline of the USA; and about Syria. **www.voltairenet.org/a172632** * According to Thierry Meyssan: *1.* T...
The Australian Medical Association is calling on the State Government to do something about the increasing rate of Ross River virus. The number of recorded cases in WA has doubled in the last year. The s...
A nuclear waste dump in the Northern Territory is a step closer to reality, after the ALP and the coalition revealed they had struck a deal on laws to allow a facility to be built. Despite calls from a l...
The agricultural industry is expected to suffer losses of at least $750 million as a result of the devastating NSW floods, with tens of thousands of livestock at risk. As floodwaters from Queensland and ...
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh says there is "no end in sight" to the flood crisis in St George, as the town deals with a rising river, a damaged weir and inoperable sewerage systems. The Balonne River...
Slaughter poultry of unknown origin is a risk of epidemic spread. (Inspector) - Bird flu (CGC) has made two recurrent deaths from the beginning of the year. Concerns about new varieties of the virus appea...
Alteration of H5N1 virus in poultry in the absence of vaccine against the disease is an increased risk of virus mutate to spread from person to person. Afternoon 7-2, National Steering Committee for hum...
MANILA, Philippines – Philippine officials conceded Wednesday that there was little hope of finding any survivors among 71 people still buried in landslides set off by a powerful earthquake, as jittery re...
Alain de Botton’s suggestion of a “temple to atheism” has received quite a bit of press coverage. It is just one of many suggestions that stem from his new book, Religion for Atheists, which looks at the...
In 2006 the Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet began an investigation into the curious rise of the Icelandic bank Kaupthing, which had come from a small community on a volcanic island and become an unlikely g...
I’m never been sure about Newt Gingrich. On the one hand he doesn’t recognise that Palestinians exist – a remarkably stupid and tactless thing for a potential world leader to say, as my colleague Michael ...
Inequality won’t go away. The gulf between rich and poor concerns conservative commentators more than almost any other issue, as rightly it should. Niall Ferguson was making the point over the weekend tha...
LEAKS of radioactive water have become more frequent at Japan's crippled nuclear power plant less than two months after it was declared basically stable. The problem underlines the continuing challenges ...
TOKYO, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- The operating rate of 54 commercial nuclear reactors in Japan stood at 10.3 percent in January, marking a record low, according to the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum on Friday. T...
The codfish catch is declining, and nets are coming up empty. What to do? For some, the answer is to kill the marine mammals that compete with humans for fish. In Canada, where a resurgent population of ...
AS the death toll in Syria has climbed to perhaps 7,000, proponents of humanitarian intervention are asking, quite reasonably, why the West does not intervene as it did in Libya last year. Not only was Li...
US "prepares military options" to back terrorists in Syria. by Tony Cartalucci February 9, 2012 - After world opinion categorically denied Wall Street, London, and it's NATO forces a replay in Syria of th...
(CNN) -- Europe and the Muslim world seem to be on a collision course that could have major political, economic and ideological ramifications. January 23, 2012, may well come to be remembered as the cruci...
(CNN) -- Doctors studying to become dermatologists have, for years, shared exam questions by memorizing and writing them down after the test to become board certified, CNN has confirmed. Reports of the ...
(CNN) -- Kim Stevens has a problem that affects tens of millions of Americans. If left untreated, it could lead to the death of someone she loves, someone who's part of the family. Stevens' dog Dodger, ...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck of the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 46.3 km (28.8 miles), the quake hit at 07:09:40 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 123 km (76 miles) So...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Alaska Peninsula at a depth of 83.4 km (51.8 miles), the quake hit at 06:26:46 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) ESE of Cold Bay, ...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Solomon Islands at a depth of 65.5 km (40.7 miles), the quake hit at 05:59:01 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) South of Arawa, Bo...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 94.9 km (59 miles), the quake hit at 05:18:44 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 69 km (42 miles) Northeast of Luganville, Espiritu...
United Nations chief Ban Ki-Moon has warned there could be far worse bloodshed in Syria to come as he condemned the "appalling brutality" of the Assad regime. Amid fears the violence seen in Homs may be...
"Wolverine: Magneto's right: there is a war coming. Are you sure you're on the right side? Storm: At least I've chosen a side." - X-Men (2000, Director Bryan Singer/Screenwriter Tom DeSanto). "Col. Clau...
This seems to be our week for good news on the damage repair front for the human body. First nerve repair and now a way to speed heal a broken bone. Perhaps we will also see an end to the sad...
I find it difficult to believe that after a thirty year experiment in steady economic growth brought about by reforming the tax code, that any economist would suggest that a massive lift in taxes...
The rail gun is every high school student’s dream machine. The only problem with it was that it consumed the firing mechanism. Not much fun as a weapon’s platform. This work is now informing u...
What is missing in this discussion is how the Antarctic in particular drains this surplus accumulated heat and puts it all back in balance. The core of Antarctica is a close as one can get to t...
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Susan Rice: No Shame, No Honour, No Integrity. Just A Bloodthirsty, Crazy, and Wicked Witch of War. Hillary Clinton: No Patriotism, No Honesty, No Decency. Just A Bloodthirsty, Crazy, and Wicked Wi...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Seram, Indonesia at a depth of 34.9 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 05:09:11 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 281 km (174 miles) East from Ambon, Mol...
The events of 1989 are crucial to any understanding of the present world. The air is filled with noisy outrage about the moral emergency of the day. We are, according to the leaders of every major politic...
The rural population dwindled even though many baby-boomers are retiring to the countryside, falling below 3 million for the first time. The Korea Rural Economic Institute Thursday said the rural populati...
Bullying at work may be much more serious than it appears. In a survey conducted by the job portal Saramin on 2,975 office workers early this year, 45 percent of respondents said that bullying occurs in t...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSYDNEY (AP) — A 10-foot tiger shark has attacked a swimmer off a remote beach in Australia's third attack this month. That's as many attacks as the country generally sees in an entire year. Western Austr...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAs the Tourette's-like illness continues to plague Le Roy school and baffle health experts, questions are now arising around the cleanup of a 40-year-old chemical spill that contaminated some of the local...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA father suffocated his six-month-old son in the bath and then hanged himself, an inquest heard today. Paul McBride, 39, of Lancashire, killed baby Ollie shortly after the break-up of a ‘turbulent relati...
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