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Bangkok joins the list of cities playing host to "Iranian" bombings. by Tony Cartalucci February 14, 2012 - Already, the corporate-media and certified warmongers alike are pinning the recent bombings in B...
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The push for war with Iran is still proceeding with breakneck speed... The Israelis are now trying their tried and proven ploy of having some of their Embassies, or other
Israeli targets, bombed by their o...
A massive surge of adrenaline caused by grief or shock can lead to a heart attack.
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck
Costa Rica at a depth of 22.1 km (13.7 miles), the quake hit at 16:46:08 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 80 km (49 miles) South from SAN JOSE, Costa R...
*TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2012* *Last fund-raising pitch before freeway:* Should Americans know the actual history of the Clinton-Gore years? A great deal of that history has been disappeared. Next week, PBS...
Regarding yesterday's "bomb" in India "targeting" the Israeli diplomatic vehicle. I came by this via NiqNaq, who is quoting from the
Jerusalem Post. "In the first attack, the wife of an Israeli diplomat wa...
There's a bunch of new, good stuff out there speculating about
Rick Santorum,
Mitt Romney, and exactly where the GOP race is now. I recommend Steve Kornacki, Ed Kilgore, and Nate Silver. I may have more to...
One of Kenner's Most Wanted fugitives, a LaPlace man accused of firing a gunshot at a car on Interstate 10 on Christmas Eve, was held under $250,000 bond Monday after being arrested in New Jersey and extra...
*TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2012 * *Making Ezra Klein dumb:* On Monday, Paul Krugman wrote a column about a very important fact. See THE DAILY HOWLER, 2/13/12. Krugman’s fact is a *sensitive* fact. On the othe...
High temps are used to arrange gold and palladium atoms on a carbon film.
Japan's 9.0 earthquake last year lubricated seismic faults and increased the chance that they will give way and rattle the region again.
A former cage-fighter who gunned down two gangland enforcers linked to an IRA drugs gang has been jailed for life. Drugs mule Thomas Haigh, 26, killed David Griffiths and Brett Flournoy on a remote Corni...
There is no congressional race anywhere in the country more important than Rob Zerban's contest against Wall Street's favorite politician, Paul Ryan. They look at Ryan and they see the perfect sieve for ...
*TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2012* *Last fund-raising pitch before freeway:* Should Americans know the actual history of the Clinton-Gore years? A great deal of that history has been disappeared. Next week, PBS...
A bungling Iranian bomber blew off his own legs when he hurled a grenade at Thai police outside a Bangkok school - which bounced off a tree and then exploded at his feet. A bizarre sequence of explosions...
*TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2012* *Creeping Kit Seelyism:* Finally, the New York Times has explained a basic point. How the heck would that Buffett Rule work? Jackie Calmes has the honors: CALMES (2/14/12):...
I've been reading Neil Garfield for quite a long time and it's addictive. He has one of the best opinion blogs with the economic data to back it up that I've seen anywhere detailing what I'm starting to th...
It's pretty good at sports, but will probably be used for industrial tasks.
The UV light in this bottle kills 99.99 percent of bacteria and viruses in 60 seconds.
Willie Soon has pointed out a new conflict in between two groups of climate change alarmists. What do they disagree about? One group led by David Roberts of Grist argues that the alarmists should wait ...
[image: The remains of a pan head catfish are seen at the O.C. Fisher Lake, Texas. Entire ecosystems are at risk of being wiped out as lack of rain and 100 degree plus temperatures have dried up lakes, r...
At least six people have died in the besieged Syrian city of Homs after it came under renewed attack by regime forces, according to pro-democracy activists. Rami Abdel Rahman of the London-based Syrian ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Negros - Cebu Region, Philippines at a depth of 50 km (31 miles), the quake hit at 15:40:06 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 8 km (5 miles) Southe...
Feb 14 - U.S. carrier USS Abraham Lincoln sails through the Strait of Hormuz near the Iranian coast, but an official says this has nothing to do with tensions with Iran.
[image: A field of withered crops in the Mali’s Kayes region. Drought has ruined food supplies in the Sahel region of Africa, which includes the countries of Mali, Niger, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Camero...
The video above is of course the much discussed Super Bowl commercial from Chrysler featuring Clint Eastwood titled "Halftime in America" which celebrates manufacturing. The video does not note that Chrys...
http://www.npr.org/2012/02/14/146827471/study-1-8-million-dead-people-still-registered-to-vote
Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- A man attempting to attack a voting center in the southern town of Crater died Tuesday when the grenade he was handling blew up in his hands, Yemeni security officials said. The uni...
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*"The asbestos industry should be served notice that we are coming for them and it would do my heart good to see somebody led away in handcuffs for all the misery that they've caused over the years." Pa...
Baghdad (CNN) -- Gunmen assassinated an Iraqi army general on Tuesday in one of several incidents that left at least four people dead and 28 wounded, according to government officials. Gen. Aziz Hamzah d...
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Whatever code of conduct that may have restrained them in the past has disappeared
[image: Thailand floods: damaged cars at a Honda plant in central Thailand. Lloyd's of London has taken a $2.2bn hit from the 2011 floods. Apichart Weerawong / AP] By Juliette Garside, www.guardian.co.u...
Tepco is reporting Xenon gas is being detected at Fukushima around reactor 2. Xenon's short half-life makes it a good indicator of fission. http://enenews.com/tepco-press-handout-xenon-detected-reactor-2...
I served as the Chairman of my Caucus in Belfast and I just called the State office to make sure they had the numbers from Belfast and the number they had wasn't not even close to the actually vote [sic]. ...
I am not an incurable cynic, really, I’m not. I spent much of my teenage and young adult life fawning over imagined and real romances, addicted to love, even if I found it in mostly the wrong places. When...
By William K. Black (Cross-posted from Benzinga.com) The fact that only 49 State Attorneys General ("AG") entered into the mortgage fraud foreclosure fraud settlement focused attention briefly on Oklahoma...
I am not against all forms of genetically modified seed. However, I have researched GM seeds that produce Bt, a pesticide, and GM seeds that are "Round-Up ready" enough to know that this path of using g...
As ebooks diverge in many different directions we find that we are often still left with the same 'buy to own' business model. We have long argued for ebook rentals not just for libraries, but in general ...
Measuring snowfall is advancing beyond simply putting a yardstick down.
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 132.4 km (82.3 miles), the quake hit at 14:20:19 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 366 km (228 ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Tarapaca, Chile at a depth of 126.1 km (78.4 miles), the quake hit at 14:08:40 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 93 km (57 miles) ESE of Tacna, Peru No ...
Biased BBC's Alan writes; * * *"Richard Bacon* was on the other day talking about the Queen's 60th Jubilee and Andrew Marr's programme about it .Bacon thought Marr too obsequious and reverential -.what was...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Greece at a depth of 17.1 km (10.6 miles), the quake hit at 13:21:45 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 1 km (0.6 miles) East of Zakynthos, Greece No Tsu...
Chamtech's aerosol antenna can turns a tree into a powerful transmitter.
In lak' Ech Tú eres mi otro yo. Si te hago daño a ti Me hago daño a mí mismo. Sí te amo y respeto, Me amo y respeto yo. You are my other me. If I do harm to you, I do harm to myself. If I love and r...
Hah! I did laugh at this interview with Ed Balls and his former Girlfriend Stephanie Flanders on today. To be fair to Flanders she did try to be neutral but Balls narrative that "we must go for growth and ...
And it's not just any version of Arizona Statehood Day -- it's the centennial. Arizona, b. 1912. Still younger than Ronald Reagan. As I've said, I've always been proud of my native state's contributions to...
[image: (A to F) Ocean Data View (ODV) plots indicating average temporal and spatial distributions of microbial plankton at BATS. The graphs show relative abundance of (A) plastid 16S rRNA genes, (B) Cya...
*TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2012* *Part 2—Why hasn’t this fact been reported:* Sabrina Tavernise’s report appeared above the fold on the front page of last Friday’s New York Times. Let's start with some basic...
I didn’t know the PLA likes Led Zeppelin… Here is part one, where I argued that China reasonably fits the prerequisites for Jack Snyder’s theory from *Myths of Empire*. Here is an application of it to ...
Cathie asks, *"Who do they think they are?"* I ask, what are they up to? Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the ...
This solar powered electric vehicle could log 21,080 miles by the end of the year.
Based on comparisons from the Stanford CREDO study of 2009, only 17 percent of charter schoolsnationwide are performing better than matched public schools. Of that 17 percent of higher-scoringcharters, t...
A common dolphin found stranded but alive Monday in Barnegat Bay died soon after it was removed from the beach, making it the third dolphin death in recent days. Two other dolphins died this weekend, one...
The devastating effects of debris on sea lions and seals has been highlighted in a video by fishing authorities in Alaska. Horrific images show the marine animals with their necks tightly bound and cut w...
RICHLAND, Wash. – Hanford Nuclear Reservation managers say they have contained a few drips of radioactive condensation found near a waste container. Federal Department of Energy officials say the contamina...
Alabama has been hit with the first U.S. outbreak of a foreign form of the virus that causes the childhood illness called hand, foot and mouth disease this winter, according to state health officials. T...
The last time a Democrat won a majority in any of Arkansas' 4 congressional districts was in 2000, when Gore edged out Bush 50-48% in the first CD. It's been straight downhill for national Democrats since...
Leadership races are tricky beasts to project, due to their insular nature. There are few meaningful polls, the media is being spun in twelve directions, and the air war rarely corresponds to the ground wa...
Happy Birthday to Andrew Robinson, b. 1942 -- TV's Garak. He's famous, or at least semi-famous, for several roles, but the one that I know well and love is from Deep Space Nine...it's a series not known fo...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Greece at a depth of 11.8 km (7.3 miles), the quake hit at 12:08:13 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 98 km (60 miles) SSW of Kavalla, Greece No Tsunami...
President's Fiscal 2013 Budget for US Army Corps of Engineers' Civil Works ~Also~President Barack Obama's budget proposal is $3.8 trillion Slabbed blog is guest blogging here ~Editilla Brotellas~ Slabbed wa...
Dutch military police say that a man they arrested for making a bomb threat at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport was a 40-year-old Russian citizen. Military police spokesman Martijn Peelen is quoted in Wester...
Earth's first cellular life probably arose in vats of warm, slimy mud fed by volcanically heated steam—and not in primordial oceans, scientists say. The concept, based on the latest cellular and geologic ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- A senior Iranian military official said Monday that Tehran's nuclear and other industrial facilities suffer periodic cyber attacks, but that the country has the technology to protect ...
* The King of Thailand.* On 14 February 2012, explosions hit Bangkok. An attempt has been made to blame Iran. TV reports suggest an Iranian identification card was planted near one of the explosions. Bl...
(Reuters) - An Iranian man was seriously wounded in Bangkok Tuesday when a bomb he was carrying exploded and blew one of his legs off, police and government officials said, but they declined to speculate ...
(Reuters) - After a bruising meeting in a five-star Cairo hotel, Arab foreign ministers led by Gulf states hinted to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that unless he halts his violent crackdown, some Arab ...
(Reuters) - The Greek government rushed on Tuesday to wring out another 325 million euros ($428 million) in budget cuts to satisfy euro zone finance ministers mulling whether to sign off on a rescue packa...
Image: Burning of the EU Flag is becoming a favorite pastime in Countries around Europe. (Reuters) - The European Union is likely to take action against Spain's newly installed government by May for delay...
(Reuters) - Syrian government forces attacked opponents of President Bashar al-Assad on several fronts on Tuesday, sending residents fleeing from one town near the capital and bombarding the city of Homs ...
(Reuters) - Rating agency Moody's warned it may cut the triple-A ratings of France, Britain and Austria and it downgraded six other European nations including Italy, Spain and Portugal, citing growing ris...
slamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- An employee at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad was detained at the Peshawar airport in Pakistan on Tuesday after bullets were found in his luggage, police said Authorities found...
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Moody's cut the credit ratings of six European countries on Monday amid continued anxiety over the continent's debt crisis and its sluggish economy. Italy, Malta, Portugal, Slovaki...
Syria (CNN) -- Fear and horror paralyzed residents in the Syrian city of Homs Tuesday, with snipers preventing anyone from moving and heavy shelling blasting through the air, opposition activists said. ...
Iran has denied a car bomb attack on an Israeli diplomatic car in India as police hunt a "very-well-trained" assassin. The country has also denied responsibility for a foiled bombing in Georgia, despite ...
A veteran cop and married father of three shot himself on his way home from work yesterday, becoming the fourth NYPD police officer to take his own life in less than a month. Highway-safety officer Matthe...
*Scientists have revealed how some cells in the body can resist attacks from HIV by starving the virus of the building blocks of life. HIV attacks the immune system and can weaken the body's defenses to ...
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Do you like Valentine's Day? Do you celebrate it or avoid it? Do you celebrate it *and* avoid it? Tell us why. Three reasons, please. I don't do Valentine's Day. Here's why. 1. I don't like being told whe...
A freshman at Columbine High School, the setting for one of the deadliest school attacks in U.S. history, has been accused of attacking two students with a hammer. She warned a school employee of the att...
Remnants of Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami are headed for the California shoreline - 25million tons of it. The 9.0-magnitude earthquake that struck coastal towns near Sendai on March 11, 2011...
A fish which has used a 'natural antifreeze' to thrive in the Antarctic for millions of years is under threat, scientists say. The 'antifreeze' glycoproteins in notothenioid fish - known as icefish - ena...
The strict father who became a YouTube phenomenon when he turned a gun on his foul-mouthed daughter's laptop is standing by his actions, and he has a message for his critics. The 8-minute clip on the vid...
According to doctors in the US injure caused by a heart attack has been healed with stem cells gathered from the patient's own heart. *This test, at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, was intended to test...
A paedophile firearms officer raped an eight-year-old girl and carried out violent attacks on a series of former girlfriends. Jonathan White, 41, who worked for South Yorkshire Police,was a firearms supp...
As speculation surrounding music legend Whitney Houston's death grows, Nancy Grace insists there may be a more sinister plot in play. The TV hostess and legal commentator appeared on CNN this afternoon to...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck of the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 45.4 km (28.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:48:22 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 291 km (181 miles) E...
The husband suspected of killing his spouse during an Australian honeymoon scuba diving trip to get insurance money arrived at court today with his new wife as jury selection for his U.S. trial began. Ga...
*In the opinion of BAE Systems torches, drones and an electric Le Mans racing car are all test beds for a new kind of structural battery. The company discovered that it had constructed a torch and a smal...
A desperate Spanish village has turned back time and reintroduced the peseta in a bid to kick-start its ailing local economy. Residents in Villamayor de Santiago, 80 miles south-east of Madrid, initially...
Abu Qatada is a long-term threat to the UK, former security minister Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones said today. She said of the Islamist extremist: 'He's unlikely to be much of a risk at the moment under...
A man was found 'frozen to death' inside his tent after going on an overnight fishing trip in sub-zero temperatures. While Britain braced itself for an almost-nationwide blanket of snow on Saturday, Febr...
Two explosions have rocked a busy neighbourhood in the Thai capital Bangkok, police said. A picture posted on Twitter purportedly showed a wounded man laying on a sidewalk outside a Thai school. Several...
*President Barack Obama's 2013 budget request for NASA would slash spending on Mars exploration and shift funds to human spaceflight and space technology.* In 2014, while the budget is flat, the agency n...
When poor nations become richer, their appetite for natural resources grows. Sustainability experts say policymakers meeting in Rio de Janiero this year need to think about just how much growth Earth can ...
Yuliana can’t remember the last time she had a proper sit-down meal during her lunch break at the North Jakarta garment factory where she works. The 30-year-old mother of one said she simply doesn’t have ...
Armed police patrolled on January 31,2012, in a Tibetan area of Chengdu in China's Sichuan Province. Photo: AP Officials in the Tibet Autonomous Region have been ordered to recognize the "grave situation...
Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Egypt’s credit rating was downgraded by Standard & Poor’s, which cited a plunge in the country’s foreign reserves and persistent political instability. S&P lowered the ratings on l...
Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar and her Russian counterpart Sergei Victorovich Lavrov agreed to promote bilateral relations in diverse fields including trade, energy, and people-to-people con...
Do you think that the calendars you get given by your aunt each christmas are just full of kitsch and clichés? They’re probably not as bad as this one: the Lycee de Kimolos on the Greek island group of Cyc...
Greeks are stepping up their anti-German rhetoric, in part by increasingly comparing modern day Germans to Nazis, according to Germans who have lived many years in Greece and reports by Greek newspapers. ...
Some herald it as the cure for terrorism, others deride it as mindless video game warfare, but few doubt that the American era of drone warfare has arrived. From short range surveillance craft like the Ra...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Baja California, Mexico at a depth of 31.1 km (19.3 miles), the quake hit at 10:09:28 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 17 km (11 miles) SSW from Guada...
MANILA - A recently concluded three-day port call by three Russian warships in Manila has sparked speculation that Moscow may be angling to wade into the intensifying Spratly Islands dispute in the South ...
A Kalashnikov in Iraq, until recently, sold for US$100. Now it's at least $1,000, and most probably $1,500 (those were the days when Sunnis joining the resistance in 2003 could buy a fake Kalashnikov made...
Ah, Valentine's Day. I'll go ahead and link my 2008 rant, 'The Death of Twue Wove,' a.ka. 'The Grinch Who Shanked Cupid,' since I can't really top it. (Sorry for the dated political references.)However, ma...
In the tantrums thrown by the Western powers in the wake of the Russo-Chinese veto of their UN Security Council resolution on Syria, the US’s UN Ambassador, Susan Rice, expressed «disgust» at these two st...
THE Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) said the US is preparing the Philippine Navy as its “frontline force” against China in connection with the brewing conflict over the Spratly Islands. “The tra...
Russia is reported to be negotiating sales of its Pantsir-S1 surface-to-air missile system to Azerbaijan. Azerbaijani news agency APA said that Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan are all in negotiat...
The mass media have repeated the official results for the Maine GOP presidential caucuses that former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney narrowly beat Texas Congressman Ron Paul by a 39 percent to 36 perc...
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Link: http://youtu.be/6szIi40upf0 *Moody just downgraded* several European countries (again). Who is in charge in those countries? Why is the (poor) police fighting the (likewise poor) demonstrators, thei...
UK aid to India was never about helping the needy; it was always about buying influence, post-colonial arrogance and misplaced condescension. Now it transpires, it is also about Britain’s traditional penc...
Russia has launched a $1.5 billion project to create a high-energy superlaser site which designers pledge will be the best in the world. Capable of igniting nuclear fusion, the facility will be used both ...
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 situation is this: The bubble burst in 1990. But rather tha...
Total should not sign oil deals with the Kurdistan region without Iraq’s approval, Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Hussain al-Shahristani said on Sunday, warning the French major would bear the “full con...
A new report by Global Witness, an international non-governmental organisation, has warned of a high risk of corruption in natural resource contracts in Nigeria and Angola. The report, titled 'Rigged: Th...
MANHATTAN (CN) - A group of Ecuadorians have taken the offensive against a Hague arbitration panel that they claim will meet in secret, without transparency or accountability, this weekend to determine th...
The Kim Jong Eun regime was launched in a flurry of activity following the sudden death of Kim Jong Il. It is led by a collective, not by Kim Jong Eun. This is the opinion of many. The problem is the char...
Google has begun a $120million project at its California headquarters to build a major new test facility. The new facility, which is already under construction, will include buildings that are screened ...
In a meeting with potential publishers, Knox was said to be self-assured and intelligent, quoting her favourite novels and describing her dreams of becoming a writer as she promised to deliver the truth a...
American billionaire George Soros slammed German Chancellor Angela Merkel in an interview published on Sunday, warning that her policies could lead to a repeat of the Great Depression. "I admire Chancell...
The public President Obama, bubbly in his reelection campaigning about a recovering U.S. economy, isn’t as optimistic in private, telling a select few that it will likely take up to two years for any reco...
The ragtag Occupy Wall Street encampments that sprang up in scores of cities last fall, thrusting “We are the 99 percent” into the vernacular, have largely been dismantled, with a new wave of crackdowns a...
NEW YORK (AP) - Mike Trang likes to use his iPhone 4 as a GPS device, helping him get around in his job. Now and then, his younger cousins get ahold of it, and play some YouTube videos and games. But in ...
Apple has granted access to several controversial factories in China to a charity that campaigns to end “sweat shop” conditions. The technology giant, which has faced criticism over working conditions at...
A total of 63 sailors tested positive for illegal substances between October 2007 and July 2011. That is more than the number who typically serve aboard one of the navy's minesweepers. Of these, 29 were...
A seven-year-old boy was kept chained in a closet as relatives hacked off pieces of his flesh to eat, a court has heard. In a case with echoes of the Fritzl family horror in Austria, Ondrej Mauerova was...
Greece's plight has alerted the world to the way the EU extinguishes democracy. It is peculiarly appropriate that the country that gave the world the words “democracy” and “tragedy” should now be the be...
The last time Germany needed a bail-out from world creditors, it secured better terms than shattered Greece last week. The US, Canada, Britain, France, Greece, and other signatories at the London Debt Ag...
The 80,000 Greeks that came out in Athens yesterday to protest the latest round of bailout austerity imposed by EU-ECB-IMF troika can shout all they want. They can even express their disgust at the pollin...
Libya’s interim authorities have ramped up security precautions ahead of the anniversary of the country’s revolution after threats of a counter-revolution by the former leader’s exiled son. Saadi Gaddaf...
(Reuters) - When they saw the house on El Dorado Drive in this Los Angeles suburb being painted a startling orange and green and giant billboards hung on the outside, Scott and Beth Hostetler's neighbors ...
(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...
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link: http://youtu.be/vIizHlUMZMg -- song text here. More about the astrophysicist and song writer Dr. Brian May at the QueenZone website. John
Blue moon, you targeted me standing alone...Yesterday Charli wrote a poston whether or not those opposed to the use of drones should use the concept of “atrocity law” instead of “war crimes” or human rights...
On Friday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer doubled down on an assertion he made last week about the inevitability of an Israeli strike on Iran to l...
A 5.6 magnitude earthquake struck Northern California this afternoon, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. This moderate-sized temblor was located close to the state's border with Oregon and close to t...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Sumbawa Region, Indonesia at a depth of 66.4 km (41.3 miles), the quake hit at 07:06:08 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 184 km (114 miles) Southe...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck offshore Veracruz, Mexico at a depth of 21 km (13 miles), the quake hit at 06:52:35 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 9 km (5 miles) Northwest of Verac...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck San Juan, Argentina at a depth of 90.9 km (56.6 miles), the quake hit at 05:58:02 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 115 km (71 miles) Northeast of Los ...
A magnitude 6.5 earthquake has struck the Solomon Islands at a depth of 54.7 km (34 miles), the quake hit at 08:19:58 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 72 km (44 miles) West of Kira Kira, Sa...
A magnitude 6.2 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:21:58 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 93 km (57 miles) ESE ...
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CENSORED NEWS - 10 hours ago
*A Message To The Mining and Energy Companies In South America* *By Anonymous/Operation Green Rights* *Feb 2012* We want to express our condemnation for the Norte Energia‘s project on the Belo Monte’s da...
Jewish centres, and Jewish tourists, have become linked to terrorism in India. The 'CIA-linked' planner of the 2008 Mumbai terror was David Headley. Headley, whose mother allegedly has Jewish links, visi...
With all the expected footdragging, Chinais beginning to accept pluralistic democratic principles at the first rungs ofauthority. Political reform in China needs tobe done thusly in what I like to call...
I actually have little hope thatSETI will accomplish anything. Myreasoning is that a civilization makes radio noise for only a brief period oftime after which it shuts down. So notonly are we looking...
Maybe or maybe not. The problem is that recovered fluids need tobe handled, and this means recycling were possible and reinjection into anotherformation able to absorb the water. Generally, this is no...
First of all, the Brown lightsare important because they are continuously repeated. This is not intelligent activity. It isnatural bobbing and weaving in the presence of high altitude air streams. Ai...
*Pollution* The act or process of polluting or the state of being polluted, especially the contamination of soil, water, or the atmosphere by the discharge of harmful substances. *The Pollution Preventio...
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CENSORED NEWS - 10 hours ago
On tour in Europe, France Jan 2012, Pura Fe with John Trudell. Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
*FUCK ISRAHELL! Do they think we are all stupid? I hope and pray the Iranian leadership lose the plot and attack the filthy tribe of child-molesters in occupied Palestine and BAM! That would put and end t...
*CANADIAN LABOUR EDMONTON:* *SUPPORT NICK DREIGER:* Nick Dreiger is a shop steward for the Canadian Union Of Postal Workers ( CUPW) in Edmonton Alberta and an organizer for the IWW. He was recently f...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Central Peru at a depth of 42.4 km (26.3 miles), the quake hit at 04:42:20 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) SSE fro...
Three children of a local pastor who had been sick were found dead at home Saturday after their father chose prayer over medical intervention, police said. A relative found the bodies of the children, ag...
Portions of this article are adapted from The Violence All Around, forthcoming from Harvard University Press. It was ten years ago this month, on February 4, 2002, that the CIA first used an unmanned Pre...
As the generation of baby boomers born between 1959 and 1963 begin to retire en masse, the number of credit delinquents in their 50s or older is also growing. According to the Credit Counseling and Recove...
A citizens group formed by intellectuals Shinichi Nakazawa, Tatsuru Uchida, and writer Seiko Ito ran a full-page anti-nuclear power ad in the Feb. 11 edition of the Mainichi Shimbun. The ad reads in larg...
We have been opposing the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) ever since it was conceived in the mid-1980s. The people of Koodankulam village themselves were misled by false promises such as 10,000 j...
WASHINGTON — Kim Jong-un’s North Korea is muddling along. So far so good. The instinct for survival shared by the Kim family and the dynastic element of the key leadership is keeping things in check. But ...
The hunt for gold in northern Nigeria has left 400 children dead of lead poisoning and many more ill in the past two years, a human rights organization says. Human Rights Watch said in a release Tuesday ...
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States said Friday it would raise concerns about trade, human rights and Syria during a closely watched visit by China's likely next leader next week, despite hopes to improv...
Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman has said that the PAF has already updated its war fighting strategy to effectively counter Indian Cold War doctrine. Read More
There are two Patrick Murphys getting attention lately. The "new" one is a rich Republican who switched his party registration, tried to erase his contributions to Mitt Romney, George Bush and Charlie Cri...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Southern East Pacific Rise at a depth of 13.4 km (8.3 miles), the quake hit at 04:12:23 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 2987 km (1856 miles) SSE ...
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 9.3 km (5.8 miles), the quake hit at 03:27:47 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 85 km (52 miles) ESE...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Tarapaca, Chile at a depth of 131.7 km (81.8 miles), the quake hit at 02:15:38 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 72 km (44 miles) ESE of Tacna, Peru No ...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Greece at a depth of 16.7 km (10.4 miles), the quake hit at 01:34:41 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 93 km (57 miles) SSW of Kavalla, Greece No Tsunam...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Bonin Islands, Japan at a depth of 35.3 km (21.9 miles), the quake hit at 23:07:09 UTC Monday 13th February 2012 The epicenter was 141 km (87 miles) Northeast of ...
For the last few years, I had been putting up reports about how the criminal war in Afghanistan was lost, and that we all should have been demanding an immediate withdrawal of all NATO and US forces immedi...
With all of the Jewish controlled media over the last while focusing the dumbed down American public on trivial matters such as the Super Bowl, there has been little attention given to the recent passage ...
"It is what it is, and it was what it was. Don’t fret the could-haves because if it should-have, it would-have." - Unknown
Here is a conversation of interestthat took place at Enenews on this thread http://enenews.com/reporter-asks-tepco-caused-device-break-nuclear-experts-doubt-foregone-conclusion-instrument-failure When Bl...
image taken from Jezebel.com This Sunday the 2012 Grammy Awards attracted more attention than normal due to the untimely passing of Whitney Houston on the eve of the awards show. During the Sunday night ...
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Alan Parsons Project, "Ammonia Avenue" *"Ammonia Avenue" Lyrics:* "Is there no sign of light as we stand in the darkness, Watching the sun arise? Is there no sign of life as we gaze at the waters, Into the...
[image: A road overgrown by weeds sits inside the evacuation zone around the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, in Minamisoma, Fukushima, Japan, September 2011. Stuart Biggs / Bloomberg] BERLIN, 13 Febru...
Alan Parsons Project, "Ammonia Avenue"
*Plus: How much damn energy does your damn brain need anyways?* from HuffPost Crime *by Ken* Yeah, sure, we all know that guns don't kill, *people* kill. But we also know that guns make the job a wh...
Satire or reality? Truth or fiction? You decide. (Al-Qaeda's HQ)---Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri praised President Barack Obama and his administration's policy to oust the hated dictator of Syria, Pres...
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Schools Matter - 16 hours ago
*"How do we help students and teachers to stop blaming ourselves and each other and start working together to change the system?" — CEJ Student Activist * [image: Labor/civil rights leader and author Bill...
2002 (Pamela & Randy Copus), “Stardust” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTgdp7RfBOM&feature=related
A new computer simulation -- based on real data -- has been created to reveal how dark matter might be distributed around, and beyond, the galaxies.
“A remarkable telescopic composition in yellow and blue, this scene features a trio of interacting galaxies almost 90 million light-years away, toward the constellation Virgo. On the left, two, spiky, fore...
* “Massive Bee Dieoffs May Be a * *Warning About Our Own Health”* by Jill Richardson “It's often said that we have bees to thank for one out of every three bites we take of food. In addition to producing ...
*“The Loom of Life”* by Chet Raymo “The nature writer Jill Sisson Quinn said it at the end of one of her essays: "We've had it backwards all along: the body is immortal - it is the soul that dies." Which...
Western society has been infiltrated by a malaise which has reduced the indigenous population to the position of slaves in our own lands. This malaise has so successfully captured our institutions that ...
"Tiny Texas House" builder Brad Kittel at the KOOP studios in Austin, Friday, February 10, 2012. Photo by Roger Baker / The Rag Blog.'Sustainablity through salvage':Brad Kittel builds 'Tiny Texas Houses'By T...
"I often dream about falling. Such dreams are commonplace to the ambitious or those who climb mountains. Lately I dreamed I was clutching at the face of a rock, but it would not hold. Gravel gave way, I...
(Mrs. JP and I still aren't out of the woods, yet, with a looming car repair bill and rent coming after the short month. Any Paypal donations would be immensely appreciated.) "We're not racist. We just a...
Ancient Roman traditions included naked men running through the streets. Then, things changed a little.
The proposed budget will see the U.S. space agency receive $59 million less than it did in 2012.
*Buck McKeon is very sensitive about his hair plugs* Andre Hollings worked for Buck McKeon both as a congressional staffer in Washington and as his Antelope Valley field rep. Hollings spilled the beanson h...
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Biased BBC - 20 hours ago
Anyone watch Panorama this evening? Quite remarkable bias, even by the BBC standards. The programme was all about America's homeless but as ever that was the subterfuge for a more subtle agenda of; 1/Chidi...
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A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck Northern California at a depth of 32.9 km (20.4 miles), the quake hit at 21:07:02 UTC Monday 13th February 2012 The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) WSW of Weitchpec, ...
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*“A New Declaration”* By Derrick Jensen "We hold these truths to be self-evident: That the real, physical world is the source of our own lives, and the lives of others. A weakened planet is less capable ...
We all knew this was coming. We all knew Israel would stage new false flag attacks and blame Iran. Israel always has the same tricks up its sleeves. This is Israel's game of terror and deception: Step 1) I...
------------------------------ * the**REALnews Permalink* February 13, 2012 *What to do about Apple and Fraud Friendly Manuf...
*“The Greatest Source of Humility”* by Guy McPherson “Perhaps the greatest source of humility surrounds us every day. When I was a child of about ten years, I used to lie on the backyard lawn nearly every...
“Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilization... Without it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating u...
Net, cellphones; Police could probe without warrant "Public Safety Minister Vic ["Torture Lite"] Toews said the law will give the tools to police to adequately deal with 21st-century technology, and sai...
Response to The growing education gap between the rich and poor" Gerald Coles Appeared on the listserv of the Rochester Coalition for Justice in Education. Posted with permission, OK to share with others. ...
*"How to Ruin Your Economy and Influence People"* by Bill Bonner "We can learn a lot from the Argentines. When it comes to messing up an economy, they’re Numero Uno. They’re Olympians of financial legerde...
The big budget news today (other than the president's submitted FY 2013 budget) is that Republicans have apparently surrendered on the big extenders bill. They'll apparently (yes, I said it twice, there's ...
A closer look at a recent video of a supposed Icelandic river monster reveals some interesting surprises.
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Schools Matter - 22 hours ago
[image: Dr. John Thompson was an award-winning historian, lobbyist, and guerilla-gardener who became an award-winning inner city teacher after crack and gangs hit his neighborhood.]By John Thompson Accord...
The big budget news today (other than the president's submitted FY 2013 budget) is that Republicans have apparently surrendered on the big extenders bill. They'll apparently (yes, I said it twice, there's ...
When mixed with alcohol, the anti-anxiety drug's effects are intensified and breathing can be impaired.
The search for the elusive Higgs boson is to be turned up a notch, with more energy poured into the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. CERN scientists will be able to say whether or not the Higgs boson exists...
And if you're wondering where this cartoon idea came from... Humphrey Bogart, Alfonso Bedoya, "The Treasure of The Sierra Madre", 1948
The European Planck space observatory has discovered something peculiar about our galaxy: it's humming in microwaves and, for the moment, the source of the radiation is a complete mystery.
The Independent exposes what we already knew. by Tony Cartalucci February 14, 2012 - It has been recently reported by the Independent, that the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) "will today apologis...
*“The Rise Of The Dollar Stores”* by mybudget360 “Before 2000 dollar stores were largely seen as a bazaar of quirky trinkets and plastic oddities. Many sold excess volume of products, even selling old Su...
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...
You can join today's occupation today too! Tell Duke to stop mountaintop removal by clicking here.
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 story just keeps getting better and better.... with additional updates This one gets my false flag alarm going! Israeli envoy targeted in India and Georgia? Keep in mi...
(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 4.5 earthquake has struck Costa Rica at a depth of 22.1 km (13.7 miles), the quake hit at 16:46:08 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 80 km (49 miles) South from SAN JOSE, Costa R...
One of Kenner's Most Wanted fugitives, a LaPlace man accused of firing a gunshot at a car on Interstate 10 on Christmas Eve, was held under $250,000 bond Monday after being arrested in New Jersey and extra...
A former cage-fighter who gunned down two gangland enforcers linked to an IRA drugs gang has been jailed for life. Drugs mule Thomas Haigh, 26, killed David Griffiths and Brett Flournoy on a remote Corni...
There is no congressional race anywhere in the country more important than Rob Zerban's contest against Wall Street's favorite politician, Paul Ryan. They look at Ryan and they see the perfect sieve for ...
A bungling Iranian bomber blew off his own legs when he hurled a grenade at Thai police outside a Bangkok school - which bounced off a tree and then exploded at his feet. A bizarre sequence of explosions...
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