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Does anyone like the redesigned "Sunday Review" section of the
NYT? I haven't, much. Except it seems to furnish more and more opportunities for cranky blogging. Such as this week's "Dialogue" about reformi...
Some Bigfoot and
Loch Ness believers were hoping the video was real.
*"Anyone Else Feeling The Strange Vibes?"* By Zen Gardner "It's weird out. I mean weird. Anyone getting the dizzies, battling disorientation? Myself and my friends and loved ones are, and it's not that p...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 33.1 km (20.6 miles), the quake hit at 16:55:10 UTC Monday 13th February 2012 The epicenter was 171 km (106 miles) E...
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*"Dawn of the Drones: * *The Realization of the Total Surveillance State"* By
John W. Whitehead “To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled...
No deaths, just long sought after provocations; a geopolitical gambit executed with the proficiency of Mossad. by Tony Cartalucci February 13, 2012 - "...it would be far more preferable if the United Sta...
One of the arguments for special government support of manufacturing is that manufacturing is a key to industrial R&D throughout the US economy (e.g., here). The data above comes from BEA and
NSF and sho...
Heartbreaking story, above, by Rachel Maddow about how Michigan Governor Rick Snyder is decimating democracy in his state. Ten minutes after I watched it I got a heads up from Trevor Thomas, the grassroo...
Feb 13 - Hundreds of tribesmen rally in northwestern Pakistan's Bannu against U.S. drone strikes in the region. Travis Brecher reports.
Madrid (CNN) -- The death of an American college student last month, which investigators in Barcelona initially considered to be accidental, is now under investigation as a homicide and a suspect has been...
— the epitome of the Prancing Horse — *32 MILLION DOLLARS for a 1964 Ferrari 250 GTO.* It's the second-most expensive car to be sold, according to *AUTOBLOG*: Word has it that a private treaty sale – the ...
The GOP talking point that Democrats are irresponsible because the Senate hasn't passed a budget resolution has got to be one of the more annoying things around. So I'm cranky because Glenn Kessler over at...
Based on my analysis of past Tepco pronouncements immediately prior to and after disasters, I recommend people in Japan expect the worst from unit 2 and take all necessary precautions. Fukushima's No. 2 re...
A coating of carbon nanotubes simplifies the design of these otherwise complicated sensors.
Diseases are decimating great ape populations, to the point that some argue it's time to issue vaccinations.
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In our house this year, we are looking for alternatives to our regular Valentine's traditions. I love flowers, but the honest truth is, they can be expensive and they don't last very long so this year we...
*MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2012* *More deep thoughts from Slate:* Has Jacob Weisberg adopted a pen name? If so, is it Julia Felsenthal? The following piece remains the number-one story sitting atop Slate’s fro...
World aviation bosses warned on Monday of a potential trade war over a carbon tax imposed by the European Union.
The flexible, low-cost small satellite launcher complements ESA's ability to send a range of satellites into orbit.
Foreclosure Deal to Spur US Home Seizures By Prashant Gopal and John Gittelsohn, Bloomberg News 11 February 12 http://www.readersupportednews.org/news-section2/320-80/9916-foreclosure-deal-to-spur-us-home...
*— Chuckie Cheezie —* CHARLES MURRAY HAS RE-APPEARED. Odious? Maybe. Peter Schmidt, from *The Chronicle Of Higher Education* reports in *"Charles Murray, Author of 'The Bell Curve,' Steps Back Into the Ri...
You would be forgiven for thinking that this solitary boulder on the Moon had recently rolled down a sloping wall, leaving a track behind it. But NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) is able t...
The search for a 30-year-old accountant who went missing after an argument with her fiance has been called off after investigators found no leads in a forest where her burnt-out SUV was found. Dara Lee W...
Vials of 'medical-grade' E.coli bacteria which were found in the fridge of an apartment have been safely removed, authorities have confirmed. Marked 'E.coli', the 25 containers were found in a foam box in...
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Britain's most controversial police chief was returned to jail today after being found guilty of corruption for a second time. Scotland Yard commander Ali Dizaei will never wear police uniform again afte...
More than 300 human bones have been found in a well after a serial killer revealed the burial spot of at least 10 more of his victims. Skull fragments, as well as clothes, a purse and jewellery, were disc...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Banda Sea. Indonesia at a depth of 31.6 km (19.6 miles), the quake hit at 14:47:04 UTC Monday 13th February 2012 The epicenter was 215 km (133 miles) ESE of Bauba...
Today the Wall Street Journal has 2 articles on Japan's post-Fukushima energy situation. The articles, "Japan Nuclear Crisis Pushes Plants to Limit" and "Crisis in Japan Transforms Global Natural Gas Ma...
This app takes the guess work out of dreaming.
The by election in Toronto Danforth (or, as it must be referred to in every article on the subject, "Jack Layton's old seat") has been called for March 12 March 19. If you're looking for political excitem...
Haitian Hearts patient number 154 arrives today for heart surgery. Many thanks to his family in Port-au-Prince for never giving up on him and to Miss Ginny and Miss Amy for supporting him through some toug...
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*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* I do not and cannot support the Libertarian party. Primarily --if the libertarian position re: taxation had been the rule, FDR could NEVER have spent the U.S. out ...
------------------------------ ------------------------------ An Iraq Vet's Journey From Wall Street to OWS Derek McGee January 25, 2012 | This article appeared in the February 13, 2012 edition of ...
By Arlene Paredes 8 February 2012 The ill-fated *MV Rena*, which brought to New Zealand its worst maritime disaster, has so far cost $130 million, and $28 million of this amount has come from taxp...
*MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2012* *Our drive resumes tomorrow:* It’s very, very hard to express the depth of our political culture’s depravity. How did George W. Bush reach the White House? On Saturday, Digby n...
[image: The Suncor oilsands mine near Fort McMurray, Alberta, seen in a 24 September 2010, file photo. This area was boreal forest, before the mine destroyed it. Bruce Edwards, Edmonton Journal] By Mike...
By: Duane Craig People who live near the Little Rock Air Force Base can breathe easier knowing lead contamination there has been mitigated, according to this article in the Defense Video & Imagery Distr...
[image: Satellite image of Hurricane Irene on the U.S. East Coast in August 2011. NOAA] By Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office 13 February 2012 Last August, Hurricane Irene spun through the Caribbean and part...
*MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2012* *First, you snark:* In this morning’s column, Paul Krugman asks a hugely important question. It may be the most important question in all of American politics. The question he...
William Hague has said Western troops are unlikely to join the peacekeeping mission in Syria, despite saying he backs the idea of a joint Arab League-UN plan. The Arab League's calls for a joint UN peac...
The Pentagon is opening up thousands of jobs to women, but hundreds of thousands more remain closed to females. What's holding them back?
Simple Math (coming to a state near you [1]) Common Core Standards adopted + Silence from teachers, professional organizations, parents + New tests, more tests, pre-tests, post-tests + Silence from t...
Citizen Journalist Live-streams BARKUS! ~Editilla Crowtellas~ Check out this very cool thingy as @small_affair uses Twitter and Ustream to live-blog the BARKUS parade! It turned into one of the most intere...
*Unpopular European Austerity reactionaries* Saturday hundreds of thousands of Portuguese workers took to the streets of Lisbon to protest international capital's demand for a European Austerity Agenda, m...
An explosion hit an embassy car in Delhi, injuring one diplomat. Police said there had been an "incident" but could not confirm an attack. Israeli and Georgian officials said a bomb had been found beneath...
(Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel's arch-foe Iran "stands behind" bombers who targeted Israeli embassy cars in India and Georgia on Monday. Netanyahu linked the incidents to repor...
(Reuters) - Syrian forces bombarded districts of Homs and attacked other cities on Monday after Arab states pledged support for the opposition battling President Bashar al-Assad and called for internation...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Ryukyu Islands, Japan at a depth of 30.5 km (19 miles), the quake hit at 13:11:30 UTC Monday 13th February 2012 The epicenter was 105 km (65 miles) ENE of Naha, Okinaw...
Happy Birthday to Grant Wood, born this day in 1891. I'm a huge fan of Wood's work...I especially love Parson Weems' Fable and Paul Revere. Also, it also gives me a chance to link back to a post of mine ab...
*MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2012* *Part 1—Also not even a peep:* Last Friday, a very important news report appeared on the New York Times’ front page. The report was written by Sabrina Tavernise. It appeared ab...
An electrical malfunction in a switchyard in a non-nuclear portion of the plant led to declaration of an “unusual event,” a news release states. Some electrical distribution equipment was damaged and abou...
UPDATE BELOW ORIGINATING STORY!! This one gets my false flag alarm going! Israeli envoy targeted in India and Georgia? Keep in mind that India and Georgia have a Mossad sort of a history and background......
(CNN) -- Flight delays and cancellations were expected Monday morning as portions of Schipol Amsterdam airport were closed to investigate a bomb threat, the airport's press office said. "Parts" of the int...
GAZA, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) -- Hamas police on Sunday prevented dozens of activists from demonstrating in solidarity with Syrian people in the Gaza Strip, witnesses said. The policemen peacefully stopped the ...
People who work long hours in the office end up with higher levels of some toxic chemicals in their blood.
The operation to extract 2,400 tonnes of fuel from 15 tanks is expected to take 28 days, weather permitting.
BEIRUT: Protesters backing Syrian President Bashar Assad gathered in front of the Chinese Embassy, praising Beijing for its veto at the U.N. Security Council last week that blocked the introduction of a r...
Israeli officials say an explosion has hit a diplomat's car outside the country's embassy in Delhi, India, injuring one diplomat. Police in Delhi told the BBC they were investigating "an incident" but co...
Almost 800 adverse reactions to swine flu vaccine identified THE SWINE flu vaccine has topped the list of drugs responsible for the largest number of suspected adverse reactions, new figures show. A total...
Health authorities have admitted to overreacting to a health scare at Auckland Airport but say it's better to be safe than sorry. They swung into action after it was suspected dozens of Japanese students ...
SHILLONG: Clinical tests on dead pigeons in this hill town have shown that the mysterious bird deaths were not due to avian flu. A veterinary department official said that the authorities have given the "...
ITAHARI, Feb 12: After it was confirmed that more chickens of PK Poultry farm in Itahari were infected with bird flu, 4853 chickens were culled on Sunday. Eggs and chicken feed have also been destroyed com...
*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* Julian Assange has been in 'custody' illegally! His right of 'habeas corpus' has been denied him though not formally. He is simply detained, denied his freedom of ...
The ministries of Agriculture and Rural Development and Health have warned of a possible large-scale outbreak of bird flu in the near future. Viet Nam News reporters Thu Hien and Thanh Hai talked to exper...
Hong Kong (HKSAR) - A spokesman for the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) said today (February 13) that two dead little egrets found in Tuen Mun on February 6 and 7 were confirmed ...
Preparations are being made for the imminent release of the radical Islamist preacher Abu Qatada after final bail conditions were agreed, according to Sky sources. The 51-year-old cleric once dubbed "Osa...
(Seaside, Oregon) – A crew from the Seaside Aquarium responded to a beached Killer Whale on the Washington coast Saturday, after the deceased creature showed up on the Long Beach peninsula, just north of ...
KUALA LUMPUR - A post-mortem will be held to ascertain the cause of death of a 13m-long baleen whale on Pulau Mengalum, Sabah, before it is buried on the island. Fisheries Department director-general Dat...
Reports about the deaths of millions of bats as the result of white-nose syndrome, researchers insist, have not been greatly exaggerated. What’s more, the disease seems to be spreading in Ohio. A fact sh...
More than 1,000 people died in 1986 when a lake in Cameroon released a cloud of CO2 that suffocated entire villages. A much larger lake in Rwanda - with two million people living nearby - is also at risk ...
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck Costa Rica at a depth of 27.9 km (17.3 miles), the quake hit at 10:55:12 UTC Monday 13th February 2012 The epicenter was 31 km (19.2 miles) Southeast of Quepos, Costa ...
Russia said on Monday that a ceasefire needed to be established in Syria before a joint UN-Arab peacekeeping mission could be deployed. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Russia was studying a new Arab L...
Feb 13 - Nearly a year after the quake and tsunami that unleashed the Fukushima nuclear disaster evacuated residents tell how their lives have changed. Paul Chapman reports.
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck Costa Rica at a depth of 40 km (24.8 miles), the quake hit at 10:55:13 UTC Monday 13th February 2012 The epicenter was 31 km (19.2 miles) Southeast of Quepos, Costa Ri...
(Reuters) - Iran has built up its naval forces in the Gulf and prepared boats that could be used in suicide attacks, but the U.S. Navy can prevent it from blocking the Strait of Hormuz, the commander of U...
(Reuters) - Syrian forces resumed their bombardment of the city of Homs on Monday after Arab countries called for U.N. peacekeepers and pledged their firm support for the opposition battling President Bas...
(Reuters) - NATO-led forces in Afghanistan said on Monday they had mistakenly killed a group of children in an air strike that has enraged the government, and said their deaths may have been linked to an ...
(CNN) -- Malaysian authorities extradited Saudi writer Hamza Kashgari back to Saudi Arabia Sunday on a warrant for his arrest over statements he made on Twitter. "Saudi media said Hamza made a posting on...
Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN) -- A high-profile terrorism trial for an Indonesian man accused of assembling the bombs used in the 2002 Bali attack got under way Monday in Jakarta. The defendant, Umar Patek, f...
Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- One of ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's surviving sons has had his phone cut off and been placed under house arrest in Niger after warning of a revolt against Libya's new gov...
(CNN) -- After repeated failures by international leaders to stop the Syrian massacre, U.N. diplomats are expected to consider a draft resolution Monday that would "strongly condemn" human rights violati...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's leaders urged the Hamas prime minister of Gaza to continue the Islamic militant group's resistance against Israel and promised support, state TV reported on Sunday. Supreme Le...
A Tokyo Institute of Technology professor received a large amount of donations from engineering firm OCL Corp. before he promoted lenient inspection standards for spent nuclear fuel casks that the company...
NAHA -- High levels of radioactive cesium have been detected in noodles produced in Okinawa, apparently because they were made with water filtered by ashes from Fukushima-produced wood. The noodles, call...
Concerns about radiation are preventing the massive amount of debris left in areas hit by the March 2011 tsunami from being sent to other areas for processing. Keisuke Hiwatashi, mayor of Takeo, Saga Pre...
Doubt has been cast on the accuracy of temperature readings from the No. 2 reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, as the government and plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) increasingly ...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck South of the Kermadec Islands at a depth of 112.9 km (70.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:12:15 UTC Monday 13th February 2012 The epicenter was 430 km (267 miles) SSW of...
Jesus Ignacio Flores of Nicaragua started working when he was 16, laboring long hours on construction sites and in the fields of his country's biggest sugar plantation. Three years ago his kidneys starte...
Image: Unemployment had reached 3m in January 1982 The number of people signing on is expected to reach almost 3million over the next few months due to firms laying off more and more staff. A third of pri...
The new leader of Al Qaeda has urged Syrians not to rely on the West or Arab governments in their uprising against President Assad. In an eight-minute video, entitled Onwards, Lions of Syria and posted on...
NASA's New Horizons probe has entered the one billion-mile long home stretch on its space odyssey to Pluto.
You would be forgiven for thinking these stunning vistas lay deep in the heart of Antarctica. But they are, in fact, what has become of the European landscape as temperatures plummet to nearly -40C - the...
The top US Navy official in the Gulf said Sunday he takes Iran's military capabilities seriously but insists his forces are prepared to confront any Iranian aggression in the region. Vice Adm Mark Fox, c...
A journalist could be the first person to face the death penalty for remarks made on Twitter after allegedly insulting the Prophet Mohammed. Hamza Kashgari fled his home in Saudi Arabia for Malaysia after...
A mother has criticised ‘selfish’ commuters for failing to help her teenage son after he collapsed on a packed tram platform. Oliver Tiplady was on his way to school when he fainted and banged his head a...
The BBC has apologised for broadcasting documentaries made by a television company that was paid millions of pounds by PR clients and corrupt regimes. It issued an extraordinary apology to 74 million BBC ...
*The Ku Klux Klan unmasked.** * *Osama* "Surprised not many people know this guy was a CIA asset, his family get the contracts to build U.S military bases around the world so it shouldn't be a surprise th...
Greek MPs last night voted in favour of a controversial austerity bill as rioters again took to the streets and set buildings alight. The punishing cuts to wages and pensions are fiercely stoking tensions...
Health experts in Germany are baffled by a small village where cancer has hit almost every household. Wewelsfleth, which has a population of 1,500, has been labelled the ‘village of the damned’ as new ca...
Good Morning. Monday morning arrives and so does a new Open Thread to take us off into this new week. BBC annoying you? Please do tell.... Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Tonga Region at a depth of 26 km (16.2 miles), the quake hit at 09:09:13 UTC Monday 13th February 2012 The epicenter was 172 km (106 miles) ENE of Neiafu, Tonga No...
Did you see that the BBC has apologised for broadcasting documentaries made by a television company that was paid millions of pounds by PR clients and corrupt regimes? It issued an extraordinary apology t...
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Biased BBC - 10 hours ago
MSM coverage of events in Athens last night was lamentably slow, with Sky and the BBC sharing honours in putting BAFTA trivia ahead of a major European capital in flames. Then again, when a broadcaster lik...
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Biased BBC - 10 hours ago
Back in November, the BBC begrudgingly admitted that some of its greenie/current affairs programmes broadcast on BBC World News and made by an outfit called FBC Media (UK) Ltd had been illegally sponsored ...
"Captain Spock: There is an old Vulcan proverb: only Nixon could go to China." - Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991). Steve Clemons raised the most important point in the Iran War debate in his...
A British man who carried out a horrific sex attack which drew parallels to The Silence Of The Lambs has been told he will be deported from Australia to the UK. Leslie Cunliffe posed as a policeman to ki...
Satellite telephony was thought to be secure against eavesdropping. Researchers at the Horst Gortz Institute for IT-Security (HGI) at the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) have cracked the encryption algorithm...
Israel and the United States recently carried out a successful test of the Arrow anti-missile system over the Mediterranean Sea, the Israeli defence ministry said on Friday. During the target-only tracki...
Discounting US intelligence reports of a limited armed conflict between India and China, a senior Indian Air Force officer Friday ruled out any war in the near future but said Indian forces were fully pre...
Russia will produce six submarines and one aircraft carrier annually starting 2013, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said Thursday. "By 2013, production capacity [at Russian shipyards] will allow us t...
An Australian academic has uncovered what he believes is evidence of a mutiny by African-American soldiers stationed Down Under during World War II sparked by racial abuse. James Cook University historia...
A former Chinese police chief rumoured to have tried to defect visited a US consulate, it was confirmed Thursday, fuelling a political intrigue analysts say may signal a power struggle in China. The spec...
In the quiet after the storms, streets and cars had all but disappeared under piles of snow. The U.S. Postal Service suspended service for the first time in 30 years. Snow plows struggled to push the evid...
Alien planets might experience tidal forces powerful enough to remove all their water, leaving behind hot, dry worlds like Venus, researchers said. These findings might significantly affect searches for h...
China and Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council draft resolution on Syria on Feb. 4. At present, Syria is not only the eye of the storm in the Middle East, but also a focus of interest for great...
SPRINGFIELD — Lawmakers are working to erase a state prohibition on recording police in public that carries the same penalties as trafficking in drugs. State Rep. Elaine Nekritz, D-Northbrook, has introd...
Rochdale's Dick Bove went on a tirade this morning on CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" claiming the joint state-federal mortgage settlement, which he dubbed in a note earlier as "the mortgage deal from hell,...
Brazilian Army troops locked down the northeast Brazilian city of Salvador on Sunday as an elite unit prepared to besiege the legislature and arrest armed police officers whose strike action has sent homi...
Just a week after the Web site of the Greek Ministry of Justice was defaced by Anonymous in a protest against the signing of the controversial ACTA treaty by the Greek government, the online activist grou...
A gold rush is underway in Poland, where international energy companies are scrambling for the right to drill for shale gas. Poland's government sees the extraction as a ticket to independence from Russia...
India figured as Iran’s number one crude oil customer in January. That may be difficult to believe but it is indeed a statement of fact. Actually, India stepped up its imports of Iranian oil by 37.5 perce...
WASHINGTON (AP) — If scientists find microbes in a frigid lake two miles beneath the thick ice of Antarctica, it will illustrate once again that somehow life finds a way to survive in the strangest and ha...
ATHENS – Frustratingly slow talks among Greece’s leaders on whether to accept tough measures to keep international aid coming – which could push Greece into a Depression – or reject them – which could for...
End of Cold War and Fall of Soviet Union Staged to Collapse America When they called it “Neocon,” the new form of conservatism, it only reminded me of Stalin. It was gulags, controlled press, police state...
The NYTimes is reporting that NY and California have agreed to sign on the 50 state deal and that is will immunize robo signing. If that is true, it’s over folks. The housing market is not going to recove...
Political candidates seem to think "declinism" is just a state of mind...and that economic and military success can be had by act of willpower. "Decline," writes Charles Krauthammer, "is a choice." And ...
Syrian state-controlled media blames most of the deaths on armed groups (which it calls terrorists). These allegations have awakened Russia’s dormant–but not forgotten–memory of the Saudi-American allianc...
*On December 16, 2011* a South Korean lawmaker dropped word that the Republic of Korea would be moving forward with plans to develop bombs capable of penetrating fortified North Korean installations: SEO...
Year-end estimates of the Republic of Korea’s (ROK) 2011 Defense Exports reflect an extremely prosperous year for the nation and its growing arms industry, doubling their sales from 2010 and showing few s...
Zhang Jianping, the director for China’s “National Development and Reform Commission’s International Business Cooperation Department” has recently stated that: “Chinese automakers are capable of making h...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck South of the Kermadec Islands at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 07:50:32 UTC Monday 13th February 2012 The epicenter was 289 km (179 miles) SSE of L...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Simeulue, Indonesia at a depth of 27.7 km (17.2 miles), the quake hit at 05:59:17 UTC Monday 13th February 2012 The epicenter was 321 km (199 miles) Southwest Langsa,...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck South of the Kermadec Islands at a depth of 13.2 km (8.2 miles), the quake hit at 05:58:49 UTC Monday 13th February 2012 The epicenter was 340 km (211 miles) SSE of L...
I have posted on this before andit has been pretty clear that cats were indicated as an agency for odd mentalbehavior and even schizophrenia in cases. Enough for this trained scientists to pick up the t...
I think that tree ring data mustalways be compared as much as possible to similar sources, nearby and also faraway in order to determine if there are any possible gaps. However, I am skeptical about a ...
A number of protocols have beenannounced over the past couple of years and most continue in researchmode. This will be no different. That silver is involved is good news and doespromise a more benign...
As this article shows wellenough, the open war against the mullahs and their nuclear program is in fullswing and nothing is off the table. WhatI do appreciate is how it is been conducted. Iran has an ...
* Ed and David Miliband.* In the UK, the Labour Party, the party of Tony Blair, is out of power. Ed Miliband is now leader of the Labour Party; his brother David Miliband is not in Ed's shadow cabinet. "...
BREAKING! Greek Lawmakers Approve Austerity Bill As Athens Burns From my buddy at Down With Tyranny we learn the Greek language (of despair). DownWithTyranny! "When fascism comes to America, it will be w...
On Thursday, March 22nd, the CERN Colloquium between 4:30 pm and 5:30 pm will be dedicated to a very, very unusual topic: cold fusion. The title is Overview of Theoretical and Experimental Progress in Low ...
Were we lied to about 9/11, lied to about Libya & Syria, or perhaps both? by Tony Cartalucci February 13, 2012 - On September 20, 2001, just days after the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York...
The Japanese and U.S. Governments withheld vital informationfrom their citizens about the direction and risks of Fukushima radiationfallout: Aninterim report produced by the Japanese Government found ...
By Marshall Auerback Pick your poison. In the words of Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos, the choice facing Greece today in the wake of its deal with the so-called “Troika” (the ECB, IMF, and EU)...
At 9:37 Eastern Daylight Time on September 11, 2001, American Airlines Flight 77 slammed into the western side of the Pentagon, killing all 59 passengers and 125 others in the building. News of the crash ...
Waiting for the end of the world, Waiting for the end of the world, Waiting for the end of the world. Dear Lord, I sincerely hope you're coming ‘cause you really started something. Elvis Costello, Waiting f...
IT NOW appears Europe is prepared to pay what it needs to pay to save its banks - but not to rescue Greece. Once again, there is optimism that a new round of European talks will result in the announcement...
KABUL—U.S. taxpayers paid Afghan entrepreneur Ajmal Hasas millions of dollars as part of a plan to win over villages in the country's insurgent heartlands. nstead, Mr. Hasas' seven-mile road construction...
A new federal law accelerating domestic use of government aerial surveillance drones brings America frighteningly close to an Orwellian police state. President Obama is expected to sign the FAA Reauthori...
Arms race seen amid South China Sea tension SINGAPORE/LONDON - Vietnam is opening up to Western defence firms as tensions in the South China Sea trigger subdued yet growing warnings of a regional arms ra...
Many Africans often go through an odyssey on their way to Europe. For many it is an odyssey of horror: Months or even years of fear, violence and torture pass until they finally set foot on European soil....
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Northern California at a depth of just 0.4 km (0 miles Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 04:47:12 UTC Monday 13th February 2012 The epicenter was 5 km (3 miles) E...
Students from Yale University have made the amazing discovery of a species of fungus that devours one of the world's most durable, and therefore environmentally troublesome, plastics: polyurethane, report...
Tuesday Blue America will be officially endorsing Rob Zerban for Congress-- looks like I let the cat out of the bag-- and he'll be our special Valentine's Day live guest over at C&L (1pm, CST). When I spo...
Over the last three years, gonorrhea has become increasingly harder to treat with antibiotics, making it now a reality that perhaps we may be facing a gonorrhea strain for which no current medications wou...
The $25 billion settlement with banks over foreclosure abuses may result in a wave of home seizures, inflicting short-term pain on delinquent U.S. borrowers while making a long-term housing recovery more ...
By Sue Sturgis 2 November 2011 Rank of coal-fired power plants among America's biggest sources of air pollution: 1 Of the five leading causes of death in the United States, number to which coal plant po...
(Reuters) - Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said on Thursday Russia faced turmoil because Vladimir Putin was unable and unwilling to carry out fundamental reform of a tightly-controlled political s...
MOSCOW (AP) — A rash of teenage suicides in Russia has set off alarm bells and experts are urging the government to take immediate action. Russia has the world's third-highest rate of suicide among teenag...
An elementary school teacher in Newfoundland, Canada has reportedly been put on paid leave as district officials investigate a claim she sprayed a student with an odor eliminator to mask his fishy-smellin...
(Reuters) - Spreading drug violence, kidnappings and carjackings in Mexico have led the State Department to increase the number of places it says Americans should avoid for safety reasons for the second t...
Google is to pay computer users to browse the web so the search giant watches every link they click. 'Panelists' in the new Google Screenwise programme will be paid up to $25 in Amazon gift cards. The p...
AUCKLAND, New Zealand – An Air New Zealand plane was quarantined after landing at Auckland Airport carrying children with flu-like symptoms, TVNZ reported. The Boeing 777-200 landed in Auckland Monday mo...
Millions of healthy people - including shy or defiant children, grieving relatives and people with fetishes - may be wrongly labeled mentally ill by a new international diagnostic manual, specialists said...
TRIPOLI, Libya — As the militiamen saw it, they had the best of intentions. They assaulted another militia at a seaside base here this week to rescue a woman who had been abducted. When the guns fell sile...
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — The LAPD is fighting crime from a high-tech war room that gives it eyes all over the city. The surveillance hub is now a model for police forces around the world and KCAL9 got an excl...
Tomorrow marks the 67th anniversary of one of the most evil and diabolical actions done against innocent people in all of our history. I am of course talking about the needless and unnecessary firebombing...
By NBC News, msnbc.com staff and news services SEATTLE -- A computer in Josh Powell's former home in Utah had animated images that depicted "incestuous" sex between parent and child, Pierce County author...
The Greek parliament has approved an austerity bill aimed at securing a second bailout as riots spread across Athens. Before the parliamentary vote, serious violence broke out in the capital and spread ...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 27.4 km (17 miles), the quake hit at 03:32:06 UTC Monday 13th February 2012 The epicenter was 115 km (71 miles) West of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanuatu...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Maule, Chile at a depth of 74.4 km (46.2 miles), the quake hit at 01:28:37 UTC Monday 13th February 2012 The epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) Northeast of Talca, Chile N...
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For reasons unnknown, Blogger will not allow me to follow my friend's NN's blog for more than a few hours. It insists on dropping Stacked-NYC from my reading list. Because of this, I missed Charles Dickens...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Mozambique at a depth of 10.8 km (6.7 miles), the quake hit at 00:49:31 UTC Monday 13th February 2012 The epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) NNE of Nacala, Mozambique No T...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 69.9 km (43.4 miles), the quake hit at 23:05:28 UTC Sunday 12th February 2012 The epicenter was 35 km (2...
One Town's War on Gay Teens | Politics News | Rolling Stone: "Asked on a radio program whether the anti-gay agenda of her ilk bore any responsibility for the bullying and suicides, Barb Anderson, co-author...
The US media is still going hog wild with their totally false message to the dumbed down American public that Iran needs to be attacked to prevent that peaceful nation from acquiring nuclear weapons. What...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Buryatiya, Russia at a depth of 15 km (9.3 miles), the quake hit at 22:35:40 UTC Sunday 12th February 2012 The epicenter was 28 km (17.4 miles) Southwest of Taksimo, B...
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In celebration of African American history month, thousands of Texas schoolchildren attended a screening of the film "Red Tails," about the famed Tuskegee Airmen, the first black aviators to serve in the U...
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*"It is not legally or morally acceptable that these so-called “schools of choice” that are concentrated in urban communities and supported with public funds, should be permitted to operate as segregated l...
There are many good reasons to read David Scheffer's All the Missing Souls: its insider story of the war crimes trials, written by one of their architects, the in-depth case studies on Bosnia, Rwanda, Camb...
Really busy week (shocker). Had dinner with my friend, Mel, on Tuesday night. Was really nice to catch up and talk about her upcoming wedding and other things going on with both of us. :). Need to plan a...
*Sadly, I'm still buying and reading it. * "Seafarers outraged that captain jumped ship" by Karl Ritter | Associated Press, January 20, 2012 STOCKHOLM - Seafaring tradition holds that the captain should...
Al-Qaeda Taglines: Al-Qaeda: The best enemy, and friend, that the petrodollar can buy. Al-Qaeda: The gift that keeps on giving. . .if you're a foreign policy psychopath working in Washington, London, and...
*Only briefly*: "Chain reaction prevented at Japan plant" Bloomberg News, February 08, 2012 TOKYO - Tokyo Electric Power Co. was forced to use boric acid at its crippled Fukushima atomic plant to prevent...
[image: Abandoned fishing boat stranded on shore. Joe Edwards] Contact: Rupert Crilly, rupert.crilly@neweconomics.org, +44 (0)207 820 6389 10 February 2012 Research published today by *nef *finds that p...
*Globe mostly misses.... * "Terrorist leader killed in Philippine raid" New York Times, February 03, 2012 MANILA - Philippine military officials said yesterday that an *early-morning raid had killed * one ...
*That's what the Globe has me digging through*: "US warns of terror threat in Bangkok" Associated Press, January 14, 2012 BANGKOK - Thai police were questioning a Lebanese man with alleged links to Hezbol...
"US diplomatic relations with Myanmar reinstated" by Seth Mydans and Steven Lee Myers | new york times, January 14, 2012 WASHINGTON - The *United States restored full diplomatic relations* with Myanmar...
*Tastes sour.* "Fungicide find halts orange juice imports" January 12, 2012 WASHINGTON - The United States temporarily halted shipments of imported orange juice from all countries and said it will destroy...
*"Blaming the problem on the richest of the rich ignores an equally important driver, [Besharov] said: two-earner household wealth, which has lifted the upper middle class ever further from less educated ...
Had to go into TCF again - about the account I closed three weeks ago. WHY? Because Even though I signed the closure papers Even though they gave me the money that was left in the account, at the time I c...
*The second term is pejorative and unfair; however, it is attention-grabbing.* "Killer says he’s sorry in Peru" January 12, 2012|By Frank Bajak LIMA - Joran van der Sloot pleaded guilty yesterday to the 2...
Heartbreaking video of rescue attempts to save dolphins stranding on Cape Cod - "in record-breaking numbers". Ric O'Barry (an amazing environmental activist with a profound history I had never heard of...
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It’s not quite “come on sucker, lick my battery” stuff, but economists are warming up for Valentine’s Day with the #FedValentines tag on Twitter [hat tip Offsetting Behaviour]. My favourites, from the Sa...
By L. Randall Wray In the nextseries of blogs we will turn to *what*government *ought to do*. This serieswill specifically treat only sovereign government—one that issues its owncurrency. From the earlier...
By L. Randall Wray Sorry for being late. There were really only two issuesraised (ignoring the comment about MMR vs MMT—which I’m not going to addresshere). The first concerned the orthodox belief that t...
My friends and colleagues over at *Tidal Station* have taken the time to chop into the "marine plan" issued by Enbridge for their northern gateway pipeline transfer terminal at Kitimat. While most marine...
Washington and Al-Qaeda are coordinating together in Syria. This isn't a case of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend." This is a case of sponsoring a terror group to create chaos and kill innocent Syrians ...
Will Iran Be Attacked? 44 US military bases surrounding Iran . . . Dr. Paul Craig Roberts Global Research, February 8, 2012 PaulCraigRoberts.com Washington has made tremendous preparations for a military a...
Omar Suleiman is known as "Egypt’s top spy chief." Read Professor Lisa Hajjar's article called, "Suleiman: The CIA's man in Cairo," for more information about this bad guy. The article was written on Febru...
“The constellation of Orion holds much more than three stars in a row. A deep exposure shows everything from dark nebula to star clusters, all embedded in an extended patch of gaseous wisps in the greater ...
Dear Jeremy Paxman & BBC, With complete shock and horror, we followed your interview with the British citizen of Syrian descent Danny Abdul Dayem! He, clearly, was on a mission to take full advantage of t...
“It is lovely indeed, it is lovely indeed. I, I am the spirit within the earth. The feet of the earth are my feet; The legs of the earth are my legs. The strength of the earth is my strength; The thoughts o...
I’m not going to discuss biased media especially NATO aligned warmongering mouthpieces, I’ll just put a small example and leave the readers to decide. BBC has built credibility over decades of hard work by...
Bat Yam, Tel Aviv, Israel. Thanks for stopping by.
* * *“95 Questions to Help You Find Meaning and Happiness”* by Marc “At the cusp of a new day, week, month or year, most of us take a little time to reflect on our lives by looking back over the past and a...
You all in the mood for a good laugh? Cause this is hilarious! Who would believe this rubbish? How much did these "activists" get paid to stand around with English Language signs?? Can you say, staged photo...
Relations between the United States and Iran, already strained by U.S. sanctions on Iran's central bank and Iranian naval exercises in the Strait of Hormuz, are on the verge of spinning out of control. Wh...
Keep close for more stories on Greece's precarious situation.
*"On Being Good"* by Chet Raymo “A 2006 issue of "Science & Spirit" has a long section on the origins of morality, a topic of some interest to readers of Science Musings. Harvard professor of psychology ...
As we mentioned a few days ago, California criminal Congressman Lucky Bucky McKeon started and chairs, the House Unmanned Systems Caucus, a polite way of saying the Drone Caucus. This is little more than ...
"What does peace mean in a world in which the combined wealth of the world's 587 billionaires exceeds the combined gross domestic product of the world's 135 poorest countries? Or when rich countries that ...
Nothing too creative this week...we've had a bunch of essays recently evaluating Barack Obama and his presidency (most of which are still on my To Read pile, alas...). So I want to do an Obama question. L...
*"Illusion Of Economic Recovery – Feelings & Facts"* By James Quinn “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.” - Albert Einstein "*Until Debt Do Us Part:* T...
Traditionally known as FuckFBIFriday, this weekend's eve turned into FuckCIAFriday, as Anonymous downed the official website for the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States CIA.gov. The CIA webs...
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[image: image] Yes, folks, the trial of the Urewera 18, 16, 15, 4 has *finally* got under way this morning in Auckland’s High Court. So we may *finally* hear some facts about what this motley lot are ac...
By William K. Black (Cross-posted from Benzinga.com) Golf is one of the sports associated with the CEOs of big banks, so it is not surprising that Jamie Dimon is expert at seeking to invoke Winter Rules w...
"Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them." - Richard Bach
To D-fox: if you're reading this, please contact us at thecomingcrisis@gmail.com. It's important -- we believe.
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck near the Dodecanese Islands, Greece at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 19:17:35 UTC Sunday 12th February 2012 The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) South...
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Not PC - 22 hours ago
[image: image] *“Socialist governments traditionally make a financial mess. They always run out of other people’s money.”* - Margaret Thatcher His ambition, he said, was to make Auckland the world’s m...
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Not PC - 23 hours ago
I’ve written many times about the benefits of Montessori education for your youngsters, not just through their early years but right on through primary and high school. *If* you can find them in your nei...
"The Law of Jante" by Paulo Coelho "'The Law of Jante?' Of course I had never heard of this, so he explained what it was. I continued on my journey and discovered it is hard to find anyone in any of the ...
Rick Santorum still has hardly any endorsements from elected and other prominent Republicans, many of whom have done a good deal of whining about Mitt Romney. Why not? Are they really for Romney? Do they h...
In a reflective post not long ago, Robert E. Kelly noted: "...we are elated that the Libya operation worked, (against all odds given the Iraq experience and what we know about foreign intervention in LDCs ...
*CANADIAN LABOUR ONTARIO:* *PENSIONERS AND ALLIES OCCUPY 21 ONTARIO TORY OFFICES:* ** **It's called "Blue (collar)-Grey Power", an alliance of workers and pensioners to oppose Tory plans to gut Canada...
Want a good idea of what's happening in our world? Two views of the same spot in Shanghai, one as it was in 1990, the other as it was just 20-years later.
(Reuters) - The most important leader of Peru's leftist Shining Path insurgency has been found dead by security forces after being shot in a remote jungle rife with drug trafficking, President Ollanta Hum...
Feb. 12 - Rescue workers save a young girl after her village in southern Kosovo was buried under 33 feet of snow as Europe struggles with the harshest winter in decades. Deborah Gembara reports.
(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....
(Reuters) - The Arab League threw its support on Sunday firmly behind the opposition mounting an uprising against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, and called for the U.N. Security Council to send peacek...
(Reuters) - Black-masked protesters throwing petrol bombs created a wall of fire on Sunday outside Greece's parliament as lawmakers inside looked set defy public rage by endorsing a new austerity deal to ...
*Or government assistance and aid, as it were*: "Changes in autism definition could reduce diagnoses; Proposed tighter criteria considered by researchers" by Benedict Carey | New York Times, January 20,...
Bill Moyers points a finger Bill Moyers Essay: Who Shipwrecked Our Economy? from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo .
*They hired labor from Pennsylvania?* "State investigates use of Pa. shelter workers" January 20, 2012|Casey Ross, Globe Staff Contractors using laborers from a Philadelphia church shelter to renovate Bo...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Ascension Island Region at a depth of 9.8 km (6.1 miles), the quake hit at 18:09:21 UTC Sunday 12th February 2012 The epicenter was 173 km (107 miles) ENE of Asce...
"US judges balk at rigid child porn sentences; Say guidelines often demand punishment beyond severity of crime" by Milton J. Valencia | Globe Staff, February 12, 2012 As law enforcement officers and p...
*United Opt Out National endorses Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Together by creating ACTION in solidarity. * *PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE POST FOR ALL INFORMATION ON THE OCCUPATION. WE OPT OUT OF CORPORATE...
What happens when you have a newspaper mired in scandal, several of its key personnel arrested, and a gaggle of unruly journalists suspicious that you're about to throw them to the wolves? That's the pr...
Mardi Gras Parade Cams Y'all!!! ~St Charles Ave ~WWLTV Parade Cam @ Gallier Hall! ~Barkus XX, @small_affair <other/> ~Nola Parades today~Krewe of Carrollton...
*By way of an opening tease, we hear this c1982 Vox recording by the great Czech pianist Ivan Moravec of "*Reflets dans l'eau*" ("Reflections in the water") from the First Series of Debussy's Images for P...
I was playing online poker around 6 pm last night when I heard on the radio that Whitney Houston had died. Whitney Houston, a willowy church singer with a towering voice who became a titan of the pop c...
British-Born Syrian 'Shot For Protesting' (7th Sept 2011)
Guatemalan president Otto Perez Molina is proposing that Central America become a zone where drugs are legal to make, possess and transport. *Mr Perez Molina will test the waters by discussing the subject...
20-years ago off the Aleutians a cargo ship lost some containers in a heavy storm. Among that cargo were nearly 30,000 bath toys. Since then some of these toys have circumnavigated the world. Tracki...
[image: Woodland caribou are on the verge of dying out in Alberta, where tar sands development adversely affects the herds. British Columbia Forest Service] By Dean Kuipers 9 February 2012 Woodland car...
Whole Fraud: The Myth of So-Called Natural Foods By Ronnie Cummins, CounterPunch http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/271-38/9927-whole-fraud-the-myth-of-so-called-natural-foods
[image: A radiation decontamination worker is lifted onto the roof of a school gym in Iitate, Japan. Ko Sasaki for The New York Times] By HIROKO TABUCHI 10 February 2012 IITATE, Japan – As 500 workers ...
Soggy old Britain is facing the prospect of mega-drought. Even at the height of winter, aquifers are being used to keep English rivers and lakes from running dry. *Andrew Chapman, a senior environment pl...
In this short video, produced by the International Fund for Animal Welfare, IFAW Marine Mammal Rescue and Research team staff and volunteers help as many dolphins as possible during one of the largest c...
I guess we can still be grateful that the internets haven't been shut down yet (with a huge "thank you" going out to Global Research), but I imagine the plans are being finalized as we breathe. Washington ...
Street clashes have been breaking out in Athens as tens of thousands of people gather in anticipation of parliament's vote on a fresh raft of austerity measures. The country's prime minister, Lucas Papa...
Oh there's a hoax all right, a well-funded, carefully scripted hoax that's being played out by the denialist community and its backers, the fossil fuelers. And, as the pieces continue to fall into place...
*Sri Lanka's President Rajapaksa* On 8 October 2011, in Colombo, in Sri Lanka, Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra, *an adviser to Sri Lankan president Rajapaksa, was killed in broad daylight* during a shoot-...
**Tabuchi, H. (2012, Feb 10). A Confused Nuclear Cleanup. The New York Times: "Cleanup workers: [excerpted] “We are all amateurs,” he said. “Nobody really knowshow to clean up radiation.” Nobodymay reall...
by HARVEY WASSERMAN at Counterpunch http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/02/10/we-may-yet-lose-tokyo-and-alaska-and-georgia/ [excerpted] "As the Nuclear Regulatory Commission approves a construction/operating...
The political discourse is finally turning towards a much-needed conversation. The Susan G. Komen fiasco generated robust outcry from the usually subdued progressive left, forcing even the conservative me...
I am not normally a lucky person, but I am when it comes to HTML. I can program by myself, but it takes me hours of frustration. I took one class in college on the subject and by pulling out all of my note...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Babuyan Islands Region, Philippines at a depth of 22.7 km (14.1 miles), the quake hit at 14:37:13 UTC Sunday 12th February 2012 The epicenter was 121 km (75 miles...
BEE COLONY COLLAPSE is scary — without pollination, food becomes a problem. *GRIST* is concerned with how we live, proclaiming itself to be a "Beacon in the Smog". Well, there's a report by Tom Philpott ...
* * *CRACKED* IS DELIGHTFULLY IRREVERENT, which helps with these trying times. Danny Gallagher has an entertaining post, *"The 5 Least Surprising Toy Recalls of All Time"*. #5. The Cabbage Patch Snacktim...
Gemini is a constellation high in the winter sky and can be easily seen this week after dark.
Elephant seals are spending more time in deeper, cooler waters as temperatures warm. The change may limit their feeding.
(CNN) -- Turkish fighter jets targeted suspected Kurdish militants in overnight airstrikes along the country's border with Iraq, the military said Sunday. The airstrikes targeted a shelter and a cave bel...
Better late than never, I hope: Syria is the headline again, no? Also, I'd say that the announced decision to cut US personnel in Iraq matters. Why? It's another indication that this administration is wil...
The death toll in a magnitude-6.9 earthquake in the central Philippines rose to 41, with 67 people still missing and feared dead, the Office of Civil Defence said on Sunday. The toll rose after rescue te...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 53.8 km (33.4 miles), the quake hit at 14:13:35 UTC Sunday 12th February 2012 The epicenter was 151 km (94 miles) South...
Striking firemen in Belgium have turned their hoses on the thugs of the Establishment - who for once, have found themselves powerless to impose their tyranny! Bravo. It is wonderful to see the scum of th...
MANILA, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) -- Hundreds of families were evacuated Sunday as a low pressure area brought more rains in southern Philippines resulting to flash floods, a senior government official said. Unde...
Release the Hounds! Krewe of Barkus XX ~ Mission: Impossible - Canine Protocol Armstrong Bark Reloaded! Mardi Gras Indian history, intricate beading traditions highlighted in videos ~Katy Reckdahl ~Editill...
AN evacuation order has been issued for residents of Walgett, as more than 5000 people remain isolated by floodwaters across northern New South Wales. Power has been lost at Namoi Village at Walgett, spar...
*I have a confession** to make, readers. **I'm late for mine** this morning. * "Whitney Houston, superstar of records, films, dies" by Nekesa Mumbi Moody | associated press, February 12, 2012 LOS ANGEL...
DHAKA — Two prominent television journalists in Bangladesh were brutally stabbed to death on Saturday at their home in the capital Dhaka, police said. The motive for the slaying of the husband and wife w...
An 18-year-old Tibetan nun has set herself on fire in western China in the latest protest against Beijing's handling of the Tibetan regions it rules, an activist group said. Free Tibet said in a statemen...
(Reuters) - Tens of thousands of protesters took part in rallies across Europe on Saturday against an international anti-piracy agreement they fear will curb their freedom to download movies and music for...
The head of the suspended Arab League observer mission to Syria has resigned as League foreign ministers meet to decide their next move in the crisis. League Secretary General Nabil al-Arabi told its memb...
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A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 33.1 km (20.6 miles), the quake hit at 16:55:10 UTC Monday 13th February 2012 The epicenter was 171 km (106 miles) E...
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Heartbreaking story, above, by Rachel Maddow about how Michigan Governor Rick Snyder is decimating democracy in his state. Ten minutes after I watched it I got a heads up from Trevor Thomas, the grassroo...
Madrid (CNN) -- The death of an American college student last month, which investigators in Barcelona initially considered to be accidental, is now under investigation as a homicide and a suspect has been...
— the epitome of the Prancing Horse — *32 MILLION DOLLARS for a 1964 Ferrari 250 GTO.* It's the second-most expensive car to be sold, according to *AUTOBLOG*: Word has it that a private treaty sale – the ...
In our house this year, we are looking for alternatives to our regular Valentine's traditions. I love flowers, but the honest truth is, they can be expensive and they don't last very long so this year we...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA British man who carried out a horrific sex attack which drew parallels to The Silence Of The Lambs has been told he will be deported from Australia to the UK. Leslie Cunliffe posed as a policeman to ki...
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