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Rare and threatened species of dolphins got some good news with the opening of three new wildlife sanctuaries in Bangladesh.
A middle-weight black hole -- the first object of its size found -- is shrouded by a cluster of young stars, evidence that the black hole may have once prowled in another galaxy.
Four new tiny chameleons found on an island off Madagascar measure just tens of millimeters from head to tail.
*"Where to Wait Out the Great Correction"* by Bill Bonner "Tired of running out of time and money? Scrimping and saving just to make ends meet? Try moving to
Harlingen, Texas. The cost of living there is ...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Eastern Iran at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 18:57:36 UTC Wednesday 15th February 2012 The epicenter was 108 km (67 miles) Northeast of Ravar, Iran No...
Auckland's bleak summer produced another turn yesterday - a swarm of twisting waterspouts around
Waitemata Harbour. Christine Keller Smith glanced up from a book she was reading in her Northcote living r...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck
Guangdong, China at a depth of 18.7 km (11.6 miles), the quake hit at 18:34:24 UTC Wednesday 15th February 2012 The epicenter was 118 km (73 miles) ESE from
Yingde, Gu...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the
Nicobar Islands, India Region at a depth of 29.9 km (18.6 miles), the quake hit at 18:31:57 UTC Wednesday 15th February 2012 The epicenter was 182 km (113 miles) ...
And how do we know the man was Iranian? The legs were tattooed "I am an Iranian. In case of suicide bombing please mail pieces back to Tehran. Thank you, schmuck!" My theory: "Hey you, Iranian guy. I'l...
Faith can be a source of comfort, but it can also be a trap. Schisms within religions are often presented as acts of sincere devotion which help the faithful to reach a purer understanding of the Religi...
So chuckling male TSA workers in a back room could get a good look at her “cute” figure!
FEHD releases latest results of influenza virus surveillance in pigs ************************************************************ The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Depa...
Bird flu has spread further in nine Vietnamese localities, with new infected flocks reported in Hai Phong and four more provinces, an agricultural official said. Van Dang Ky, head of the Epidemic Departm...
Special Ops warrior. Image from Military Pictures.Special Ops now definethe Pentagon's expanding warsThese special ops units often operate outside the chain of command and, as they become institutionally str...
(Reuters) - To reach his office in Galveston National Laboratory, where scientists study deadly pathogens such as the Ebola and Marburg viruses, director James Le Duc swipes his key card at the building's...
I adore the nexus of hair metal and politics. Like when Ted Nugent or Gene Simmons go after President Obama. This stuff is always gold. Today comes word that legendary singer/guitarist Dave Mustaine, front...
For those who can, please consider physical gold and/or silver as a hedge right now. I don't know about the rest of our readership, but even going into a "big box" store these days has its moments of "s...
WASHINGTON — The United States Wednesday dismissed Syria's call for a referendum on a new constitution, which critics see as a move designed to ease global outrage over the government's bloody crackdown. ...
American Scofflaw The snow storm never happened, and the GOP official who postponed Washington County (where Ron Paul won in 2008) is a Romney supporter. Also, the votes from Kennebec and Waldo counties w...
To Rachel Maddow. The liberal talk show host went off on a diatribe against Politifact after it rated "Mostly True" a claim by Marco Rubio that "The majority of Americans are conservatives." There are a f...
Especially since the police are saying the surveillance cameras didn't actually show anything! Funny! Like when "sources" insisted 9-11 was carried out by Osama Bin Laden before the dust had even settl...
Yesterday, Inside-the-Beltway Republican-leaning trade publication, * Politico*, ran an interesting post with an even more interesting title, 5 Most Vulnerable House Incumbents. They probably should have w...
President Eisenhower (shown here as Supreme Allied Commander, Dec., 28, 1944) projected competing images of Imperial America. Photo from AP.On plausible deniability:U.S. foreign policy since the Eisenhower y...
By: Duane Craig For all those in Wisconsin hoping to selltheir contaminated properties to the government at prime prices, a recentruling by the state’s Supreme Court may foil their plans. According to ...
The Red Planet is at it's furthest point from the sun today and we won't see a more extreme aphelion until 2027.
With BoxeeBox and LiveTV you can watch sports and shows live and quickly switch to Netflix, HBOGo or other apps.
Chamtech's aerosol antenna boosts power; even turns a tree into powerful transmitter.
Nearly all of China's electricity is produced from coal plants.
CANADA - No offense to the NDP... but their roster of candidates to replace Jack Layton (we will miss you Jack!). The charismatic leader who died in August 2011 has big shoes to fill. And frankly these 7 ...
CANADA - A Canadian man, Larry Vacon, 51, testified yesterday that he can`t remember where a group of corrupt drug squad police officers took him on Jan. 30th 1997. “I said they took me back to my house a...
CANADA - Almost 10 million Canadian residential phone numbers (landline, cellular and fax) are now blocked to Canadian telemarketers (but still reachable by telemarketers operating overseas or in the USA)....
If you are a frequent visitor to Lilith News you will have noticed some immediate changes to our layout. Left is now right, the background is now grey instead of white We've added a lot more social media t...
Anonymous has affixed its digital crosshairs on Jamestown, PN based chemical munitions manufacturer Combined Tactical Systems on the anniversary of Bahrain’s protest movement that began one year ago. *An...
*Information Liberation* *By John W. Whitehead* “To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, chec...
Just something quick today.... First let me thank Freethinker for bringing this book to my attention. Perhaps you may be interested in getting a copy for themselves? You can. I haven't read it yet, but,...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Panama at a depth of 9 km (5.6 miles), the quake hit at 14:54:47 UTC Wednesday 15th February 2012 The epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) South of La Palma, Panama No Tsuna...
I don't really like this new movie. I don't particularly care for the style of animation. If a target audience is American, they shouldn't have had an Irish narrater (although she's quite good), because ...
We have a new paper just accepted for publication in the *Journal of Climate *, titled "Historical Global Tropical Cyclone Landfalls." Here is the abstract: *Historical global tropical cyclone landfalls*...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Maule, Chile at a depth of 6.8 km (4.2 miles), the quake hit at 14:08:45 UTC Wednesday 15th February 2012 The epicenter was 169 km (105 miles) ) WNW ...
------------------------------ * the**REALnews Permalink* February 14, 2012 *The Greek Experiment* Michael Hudson: Greek cr...
In 1997 Apple share were worth as little as $3.19 and the company even faced the possibility of bankruptcy. Yesterday, the shares passed $500 (£317) a share for the first time and rumours and enthusiasm c...
POVERTY MAKES ME ANGRY. Rich people make me angry. But even in spite of Stevie and his marching morons, the spark of human love prevails. It may take decades, but we *will* repair the Stevie damage to o...
[image: Women and girls, caught in a small sandstorm, fetch water in Wajir in this recently taken handout photo released on 21 July 2011. REUTERS / Jakob Dall / Danish Red Cross / Handout] By Katy Migir...
------------------------------ * the**REALnews Permalink* February 14, 2012 *Shills and Cruel Jokes* Labor Beat: Parents an...
------------------------------ *Washington’s Insouciance Has No Rival* ------------------------------ February 15, 2012 | Original here Is Obama a hypocrite or merely insouciant? Or is he an idiot? ...
After dancing on the head of a pin for pages and pages, the conclusion is that “The Balen report was held for purposes of journalism. On the premise that it was also held for purposes other than those of j...
His species is renowned for its ability to blend in, but this tiny critter is even better than most as the world's smallest chameleon. Balanced on the tip of a scientist's fingernail in Madagascar, the-th...
. The Protocols of Zion are, in their own way, straightforward and honest. They lay out how their conspiracy will destabilise and destroy the nations of the world, then they state clearly how they intend...
The husband of a slain pregnant Craigslist prostitute has been charged with her murder and the murder of their unborn child. Justin Adams, 25, from Oklahoma, was charged with two counts of first-degree m...
The cloth mimics the body's own energy levels, speeding up healing.
Cuttlefish can pick the perfect camouflage without seeing the whole picture much like people can understand simple sketches.
President Obama and the AFL-CIO's Trumka: Putting on a happy face? Photo from AP.An abusive relationship?The labor movement and the DemocratsA union movement that has tethered itself to the Democratic Party ...
Steve Harper knows how to weasel out of commitments. Remember how we were in Afghanistan "to stay" until we had the Taliban crushed and the country safe for democracy? Harper wrung every drop of politi...
*WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2012* *We hope you’ll help history proceed:* It would be hard to overstate how broken our news culture actually is. We’d say the culture is so broken that its problems can be har...
Watching Willard Romney's inevitable tanking in the polls and the GOP and Independent base's refusal to accept him no matter how much the MSM and Paul Singer try to fluff him up is like watching the last ...
A 43-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a clergyman was found dead with multiple stab wounds inside a locked vicarage in a small market town. Reverend John Suddards, the vicar o...
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"From the Tory benches the prime minister (Pearson) was greeted by jeers and hoots and shouts of derision. 'Vote with pride', "All right," exclaimed Mr. Pearson, "they have turned it down with jeers and i...
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck the Eastern New Guinea Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 14:07:51 UTC Wednesday 15th February 2012 The epicenter was 88 km ...
The Wall Street Journal Feb 15 p. A10. The article explains that Mexico's oil regulator is expressing concern over Pemex's plan to dig two ultra-deep (6000 feet) oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico near US w...
Navy Seal Warns False Flag is Coming: Ed Asner Reports *Surprise, Surprise: Navy Seals Don't Want To Be Sacrificial Lambs In New False Flag* *Officer accuses U.S. military of vast Afghan deception* *“S...
*WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2012* *The dumbest report of all time:* We’ve seen a lot of dumb cable “news” segments. Who hasn't? On Monday evening, Tucker Carlson’s segment on the O’Reilly Factor may have be...
. Bad Bear, Chief Johnny Bobb, and others in attendance in Wadsworth, Paiute Indian Nation, in Nevada, to initiate an AIM meeting to address racism and hate crime assaults, youth leadership, land manageme...
The Wall Street Journal reported Feb 14 that "Tokyo Ends Tepco Funding Standoff" p. B4. The Japanese government has already aided Tepco with 1.58 trillion yen and the "amount is expected to balloon, to a...
[image: Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, Nigerian Minister of Petroleum Resources, will visit the site of Chevron's KS Endeavour rig fire, 15 February 2012. thisdaylive.com]By Ejiofor Alike in Lagos and Chin...
Japan Today: Official defends secrecy over worst-case nuclear disaster scenariohttp://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/official-defends-secrecy-over-worst-case-nuclear-disaster-scenario [excerpte...
ALEC IS NOT A PAC I am seeing new reference to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) as a PAC. I must disagree with this conceptualization of ALEC. ALEC is not a PAC. If anything, ALEC behaves...
"The latest budget document can be seen as *more a platform for the president’s reelection campaign* than a legislative proposal.... * * *Then there really is no reason to read the rest, is there?* --**...
Prevent what? We'll get back to that. I remember taking something of a thrashing for even suggesting that Harper and his coalition of degenerates were the most dangerous group to have ever occupied the pr...
[image: Table of contents for the 2012 proposed budget for the Heartland Institute. The Heartland Institute is a self-described 'think tank' that finances climate science denialism, and embarrassing docu...
*They always make me lose my appetite.... * "Rules seek less fat, more fruit in school meals" January 26, 2012|By Ron Nixon WASHINGTON - Hoping to combat the growing *epidemic of childhood obesity*, the ...
*WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2012* *If you read all the way to the end, you learn that Romney was wrong:*We’ve often said the news is a novel. Sometimes, it’s more like a dream state. Chronology may get tangle...
Another excellent write-up that I found today that deserves the attention of Wisconsinites. Looks like Heartland has thier eye on the Badger State. No snips on this one - read the whole thing. Read the wh...
CALMECAC ABYA YALA La Flecha de Tenamaztle 2012 Wednesday March 14 – Saturday 17 Tucson to Phoenix Alianza Indigena Sin Fronteras Submission to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues May 12-...
At least 14 people have been killed in gun attacks between security troops and armed forces in Syria's largest city Aleppo. Residents in the city said they had been hearing gun shots since two car bombs...
Efforts are under way to return the Internet to a decentralized system that can never be shut down.
No medical degree? No prob. Augmented reality allows the untrained to perform complex medical procedures.
*Looks like I missed it today.* "Hub school bus drivers gave warning of route troubles" January 30, 2012|Akilah Johnson, Globe Staff Three weeks before classes began this school year, bus drivers *warned ...
WELLFLEET, Mass. -- Crews with the International Fund for Animal Welfare rescued 10 of 11 dolphins found stranded in deep mud at low tide in the Herring River in Wellfleet on Tuesday. IFAW officials said...
Mardi Gras Parades Roll Into the Mystic! Mystic Krewe of Druids~ Uptown 6:30 p.m. Mystic Krewe of Nyx~ Uptown 7 pm Mardi Gras is more open, thanks to Dorothy Mae Taylor: James Gill There is the Slabbed le...
BEIJING, February 15, 2012 (AFP) - Four workers have died and about 30 have fallen ill in south China from suspected glue poisoning that caused severe nerve damage, health authorities and state media said...
Thermometer readings at the bottom of the No. 2 reactor at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant rose further to exceed 90' C for the first time since it attained a cold shutdown in December 2011. ...
Two Moscow Region residents have been hospitalized, twelve of their relatives are on ambulant treatment after coming into contacting with a rabid moose, the Life News tabloid website wrote on Monday. For...
The Health Ministry says it has taken necessary measures to anticipate a possible bird flu outbreak, such as by ensuring the availability of medical workers, community health centers, hospitals and antivi...
JAKARTA, Feb 14 (Bernama) -- The unusual features found on some poultry that died of bird flu in Indonesia has prompted the health authorities in some provinces in the republic to believe that the symptoms...
This is an excellent recap of what was going on yesterday - 2/14 at the Minnesota Legislature. Read the entry *>>>here<<<* Looks like Minnesota probalby has more ALEC legislators than we thought - or th...
Happy Birthday to Graham Hill, b. 1929, died in a plane crash in 1975. If you're older, more interested in motor sports, or perhaps more British than I am, you might remember him as an apparently outstandi...
*When Europeans start killing their plutocrats in the next few days, none should be allowed to jump to the front of the line and immigrate here* I hope you didn't miss Josh Holland's incisive book, The Fif...
WASHINGTON (Kyodo) -- Defense Secretary Leon Panetta indicated Tuesday that the United States is considering moving some of its Marines in Japan's Okinawa Prefecture to the Philippines as part of efforts ...
NEMURO, Hokkaido -- An extremely rare double mirage was observed near a frozen lake here on Feb. 14. Yasushi Nagao, 55, from Nemuro, managed to capture the optical phenomenon on his camera at around 7 a.m...
(Reuters) - To reach his office in Galveston National Laboratory, where scientists study deadly pathogens such as the Ebola and Marburg viruses, director James Le Duc swipes his key card at the building's...
*WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2012* *Part 3—One group has been losing ground:* Have black kids really been closing the achievement gap? Last Friday, in the New York Times, Sabrina Tavernise mentioned this im...
(Reuters) - As looming budget cuts force the Pentagon to plan for a smaller U.S. navy, China is accelerating the launch of new, increasingly capable warships as part of a sustained drive to become a major...
(Reuters) - Syrian government forces attacked the opposition strongholds of Homs and Hama on Wednesday and also raided a district of Damascus in the closest military operation to the capital's centre sinc...
(Reuters) - Just before noon on a sticky, overcast Saturday morning earlier this month a truck carrying two white containers waited at an electronic checkpoint to leave Singapore's main port. The containe...
Tehran: Iran has stopped oil exports to six European states in retaliation for European Union sanctions imposed on the Islamic state's key export, its English-language Press TV reported on Wednesday. "Ir...
Seoul (CNN) -- A pastor and his wife are in custody accused of killing three of their children by starving them to ward off evil spirits, police in South Korea said Wednesday. The couple told police the ...
(CNN) -- At least one person was critically injured Tuesday in Venezuela when police clashed with opponents of the government of President Hugo Chavez. According to CNN affiliate Globovision, violence er...
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- NATO expressed "deep regret" Wednesday following a coalition airstrike that killed eight Afghan youths last week. The International Security Assistance Force offered condolence...
Homs, Syria (CNN) -- A massive plume of thick, black smoke billowed from the Syrian city of Homs Wednesday, punctuating the chaos that has plagued the opposition stronghold for months. According to the ...
Tegucigalpa, Honduras (CNN) -- At least 272 people were killed in a fire at a prison in central Honduras, a local fire department said Wednesday. The blaze was under control, but the exact number of fatal...
Iran has started loading domestically made nuclear fuel at a major research reactor for the first time - a defiant move in response to toughening Western sanctions. The loading ceremony at the plant in ...
Scientists hope to replicate the fish scales of a tough, ancient Amazonian fish that repels predators' bites.
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A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck the Dodecanese Islands, Greece at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:28:28 UTC Wednesday 15th February 2012 The epicenter was 48 km (29.8 miles) Southw...
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Our illustrious Minister of Censorship and Deportation is at it again - attacking freedom of expression and those who defend the rights of Palestinians. This time his target is Palestine House, a Palestini...
One of the most accepted footwear collections is offered as alligator crocodile shoes. Their styles and designs make a unique appeal to the world wide fashion footwear enthusiasts.*Mens shoes* have made a ...
Israel's prime minister has said Iran is "destabilizing the world" and its "aggression must be halted", following a series of explosions in Thailand and India it is blaming on Tehran. Two Iranian men ha...
*The exact structure of sea urchins strong spines has been unraveled - and the find may contribute to stronger real in the future. But efforts to understand exactly how they are put together have yielded...
*This is very familiar that leather has been into very well trade as a very long time.** One of the most accepted footwear collections is on hand as alligator crocodile shoes.**History says that leather f...
Nile Bowie NileBowie.blogspot.com February 15, 2012 Between the chaos and artillery fire unfolding in Homs and Damascus, the current siege against the Ba’athist State of Bashar al-Assad parallels event...
*A Chinese company is to request customs officials to block shipments of Apple's iPad both into and out of the nation*. Several dozen iPads were taken from shelves in the city of Shijiazhuang just south ...
Here is* Richard Littlejohn:* 'Kevin Bakhurst has deemed it impossible not to mention the Conservative ties of the Tax Payer's Alliance The BBC has decided it has a duty to ‘out’ those dangerous headbanger...
*South Korea's Samsung Electronics has said it is considering spinning-off its Liquid Crystal Display element in an offer to rationalize its production.* Samsung is not the only electronics firm that has ...
A Libyan delegate sparked outrage after telling a United Nations human rights panel that gay people threaten the future of the human race. The unnamed official made the remarks as violence based on sexual...
Look at this Picture, if this was in your street would you want the government to send the army in? Syria has a population of over 20 Million, why are we only seeing groups of 4 or 6 people at a time? Br...
The French president has caused an outcry after dozens of infant school children were forced to chant 'Long Live Sarkozy!' when he visited their school. Parents complained about the youngsters being used...
Iranian patrol boats and aircraft shadowed a U.S. aircraft carrier strike group as it transited the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday. The passage ended a Gulf mission that displayed Western naval power amid h...
The imaging technology of Google Maps Street View is taking a river tour.
More than one million pensioners have been consigned to a life of poverty because of the Bank of England’s strategy of pumping money into the economy. Every day, 1,500 people are forced to take a retiremen...
Almost £400,000 of taxpayers’ money has been spent on renting a dozen trees for MPs’ offices on the banks of the Thames. They take pride of place in the glass-roofed courtyard which forms the centrepiece...
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The outlook for Greece darkened yesterday as it plunged deeper into recession and eurozone leaders cancelled a meeting to discuss a crucial bailout. New figures showed that economic output slumped by 7 p...
Note: Most Evil of our society are still being rewarded. - He admitted to his crimes because he was caught. A nursery worker who filmed himself raping a three-year-old girl has had his sentence reduced –...
A murder investigation has been launched after a 13-year-old girl, who was seriously assaulted on Tuesday afternoon, died in hospital overnight. The girl, who has not yet been named, managed to call emerg...
Police are investigating the "suspicious" death of a man found inside a locked vicarage in a small market town in South Gloucestershire. The vicar of St Mary's in Thornbury, Reverend John Suddards has be...
All medium and long-range air defense missile units of the air force will be merged into a single unit under General Staff Headquarters, the Ministry of National Defense (MND) said yesterday. With Missile ...
Bangladesh Navy concluded its Annual Sea Exercise titled "Exercise Sea Thunder 2012" through successful launching of a Missile in the Bay of Bengal today, said a handout, reports BSS. Local Government, Rur...
The Obama administration's budget proposal for the 2013 fiscal year, which begins in October 2012, includes reductions in US aid for Israel's Arrow and Iron Dome anti-missile programs for the second consec...
Boeing Co. (BA), maker of the F-18 and F-15 fighter jets, said it’s “very confident” of winning a $7 billion South Korean order for combat planes as it boosts focus on Asia amid shrinking military spending...
Iran will today load locally made nuclear fuel rods into its Tehran Research Reactor for the first time, a senior official has said. The loading ceremony will be attended by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,...
The Indian Air force has expressed interest in acquiring six more C-17 heavy lift transport aircraft, in addition to a contract for 10, the US defence giant Boeing said today. "Indian Air Force has express...
Do you think that someone could steal 150 million dollars and get away with it? Well, the truth is that such a theft is taking place every single hour of every single day. The federal government is stea...
Beijing's assertiveness in the South China Sea could soon be replicated in neighbouring waters, a Japanese government-backed report said Friday, amid rising regional nervousness about China's intentions. ...
A massive Russian navy submarine was armed with long-range nuclear missiles when it caught fire while undergoing repairs at a northern dock late last year, a respected weekly reported on Monday. In a cov...
A senior Chinese envoy on Monday urged Iran and world powers to quickly resume stalled talks over Tehran's suspect nuclear programme, and called for better cooperation between the Islamic state and the UN...
The second half of February brings news on the proposed sum of NASA's budget for 2013 fiscal year. Even though President Obama hasn't made the request yet, it is already known that the planetary program w...
A Russian naval officer committed suicide by hanging himself onboard a nuclear submarine based at the northwestern port of Murmansk, a navy spokesman said Monday. "Lieutenant Maxim Galkin, the head of th...
China Monday urged the Arab League to continue its "political mediation" on Syria but refused to be drawn on the bloc's proposal to form a UN-Arab peacekeeping force to the violence-hit nation. The Arab ...
In last month’s State of the Union address, President Obama called on Congress to pass “legislation that will secure our country from the growing dangers of cyber threats.” The Hill was way ahead of him, ...
*Pictures of the three suspects caught on a surveillance camera at Soi Pridi Banomyong 31. 'The man in the middle is Saeid Moradi and the one on the right is Mohummad Hazaei, who was later caught at Suvarn...
Following ongoing public outcry and organized protests at Apple stores last week, Apple has announced that an organization called the Fair Labor Association is conducting independent assessments of worker...
This is what people think of when they imagine the Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC — the secretive, über-elite military unit that killed Osama bin Laden. The leader of a JSOC unit in Iraq, known...
Thought the Iraq war was over? The Obama administration certainly wants you to think so, the better for its re-election campaign. Inconvenient fact, though: The Pentagon is asking for nearly $3 billion fo...
During the late December media lull, the USDA didn't satisfy itself with green-lighting Monsanto's useless, PR-centric "drought-tolerant" corn. It also prepped the way for approving a product from Monsant...
Study comes amid attempts across U.S. to ban use on playgrounds, parking lots and driveways Children living next to driveways or parking lots coated with coal tar are exposed to significantly higher dose...
(CNSNews.com) – A top Muslim Brotherhood official has warned that any cuts in U.S. aid to Egypt could affect Cairo’s peace treaty with Israel – the latest sign that Egypt’s emerging political forces inten...
GOP describes squads of supporters as “propaganda teams to deceive voters” The Obama campaign is to “educate” and deploy what it describes as “truth teams” to ensure that any attacks on the president’s re...
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. -- Two Columbine High School students were wounded when a hammer-wielding classmate attacked them outside a school restroom Monday. According to Aaron Flowers, one of the injured ...
City police officers stopped and questioned 684,330 people on the street last year. The number of so-called "stop and frisks" is rising. City police officers stopped and questioned 684,330 people on the ...
If Israel attacked Iran's nuclear facilities, the strike would probably take the form of a complex air assault involving scores of planes that would have to penetrate Iranian air defenses and attack up to...
Gas prices' earliest-ever rise above $3.50 means motorists could pay more than ever this year. Source
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congress Tuesday that the president's new $3.8 trillion spending plan would impose new taxes on only 2 percent of the nation's wealthiest famili...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Virgin Islands Region at a depth of 23.1 km (14.4 miles), the quake hit at 08:25:58 UTC Wednesday 15th February 2012 The epicenter was 51 km (31.6 miles) NNW of R...
The Defense Department may have to force soldiers, Marines or other members of the military out of the services for the first time since the aftermath of the Cold War to achieve the spending reductions in...
President Obama wants to give raises to people collecting federal paychecks, but in his new budget proposal, troops would get a larger pay boost than civilian employees. The White House budget plan relea...
Gene Sperling, director of the White House's national economic council, said today at an official meeting that "we need a global minimum tax": “He supports corporate tax reform that would reduce expendit...
The World Health Organization called Monday for greater efforts to fight leprosy, warning the disfiguring disease was defying efforts to wipe it out across many countries in the Asia-Pacific region. "We ...
A new strain of gonorrhea is resistant to one of the last known effective treatments. Gonorrhea, one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases in the United States, is increasingly showing resista...
A United Nations delegate from Libya’s newly formed government told a human rights panel that gays and other groups threaten “reproduction of the human race,” drawing a stern rebuke from leaders of the in...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana health officials say the number of confirmed measles cases in central Indiana has grown to 10 children and adults. The Indiana State Department of Health said Monday that all ...
Vandals ruined a new auditorium at a Richmond elementary school Sunday, causing close to $1 million in damage, police said. The perpetrators broke into the new Nystrom Elementary School building in the a...
CHICAGO (CBS) — Some parents and activists rallied at Chicago Public School headquarters in the Loop Monday to accuse a chain of charter schools of overly harsh discipline. Protesters chanted: “Invest in...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 50.9 km (31.6 miles), the quake hit at 06:28:36 UTC Wednesday 15th February 2012 The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles)...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Jujuy, Argentina at a depth of 179.5 km (111.5 miles), the quake hit at 05:53:56 UTC Wednesday 15th February 2012 The epicenter was 122 km (75 miles) West of Abra Pamp...
Iran and al Qaeda's core leadership under Ayman al Zawahiri have established an "operational relationship" amid fears the terror group is planning a spectacular attack against the West. There are concern...
In a way they are stating theobvious here. Our minds are not able to digest data past a certain intuitivelevel although that clearly varies. Iwill take it a little farther that that. The process of d...
Graphene is moving into the thirddimension simply because a two dimensional structure appears unsuitable forfabricating electronics because of huge current leakage. As I have posted once before, we ar...
It is hard to see how quicklythis will emerge as a working technology, but it appears promising. It certainly is a neat trick and joins the rapidlyexpanding tool kit we are developing around nanotechno...
It would be rather nice toactually produce and contain the suggested pressures. Here we are modeling them to learn of theircharacteristics and of course there may always be error or a failure of theor...
I have been on a hiatus for almost a year in regard to writing on this blog, but Valentine’s Day 2012 is making me come out to ask for your support. The story is neither romantic nor joyful. I am writing t...
Metallica, “Nothing Else Matters” • Yeah, nothing else matters...
CINCINNATI, Ohio (CBS Cleveland) — A Cincinnati high school is paying its students to come to school. The Dohn Community High School has launched a $40,000 incentive program to get students to come to cl...
A few days ago, when the San Francisco Chronicle reported that state Treasurer Bill Lockyer's wife, who is an Alameda County supervisor and who is 30 years younger than her husband, was beaten up at a che...
After seeing yet another controversy regarding the outcome of the Maine elections, where once again Mitt Romney may have been declared the winner of a caucus when the final tally is in question due to only...
Was doing some research on the status of the Minnesota vote on enacting the supermajority act that is pushed by the American Legislative Exchange Council and I found this article. Senate voting whether...
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A Mount Airy middle school teacher was taken to the hospital after he was assaulted by a student. It happened in a classroom at the Leeds Middle School just before 9 a.m. Monday. S...
WASHINGTON – More than 24 million voter-registration records in the United States— about one in eight — are inaccurate, out-of-date or duplicates. Nearly 2.8 million people are registered in two or more s...
CALIFORNIA, Pa. (KDKA) — Thousands of crows have invaded a local town and university and people want the birds gone. Dave Mason from the American Legion Post in California, Washington County, says it’s e...
LEWISVILLE (CBSDFW.COM) – A gun battle on a video game turned into guns drawn in a Lewisville neighborhood Monday. A family had to face down a police swat team for what police say was a hoax, delivered ...
A renowned former ballet dancer and actress was fatally hit by two vehicles and dragged more than 600ft along the road after getting out of her car in an apparent attempt to help a wounded animal. Zina B...
*Note: Hypocrisy is endemic. The amount of people lamenting that she's gone seems gargantuan compared to the number of people who cared about her when she was actually alive. Who felt sorry for and helpe...
(Financial Times) -- Japan's economy shrank for the third time in four quarters between October and December, after floods in Thailand damaged production and a strong yen and subdued overseas demand hurt ...
(CNN) -- In a New Delhi hospital, a two-year-old girl is fighting for her life after a teenager brought her there three weeks ago, unconscious with severe head injuries and bruises, fractured arms and hum...
Saw these two reports and thought I would share snips - the titles are linked.. (The reports aren't very long and an easy read.) The American Legislative Exchange Council and Laffer are always pushing th...
In the past week, since the Russian and Chinese veto in the UN Security Council, we have seen a significant rise in violence on the streets of Syria. A number of the countries that supported the vetoed ...
The sprawling housing estate of Bab al-Tebbeneh north of Tripoli sits cheek-by-jowl alongside the Jabal Mohsen estate. They are neighbours but their allegiances are worlds apart. To get to the street tha...
This is my outlined summary of ways whereby the Japanese and US media misrepresented the Fukushima disaster. I will be providing evidence to support each of the claims made below: •Duringthe early days ...
Despair has enveloped Greece. This weekend the bankrupt nation, for that is what it is, began negotiating the latest act of a drama that many fear will end in catastrophe – financially, socially and polit...
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 tensi...
There have been projections among some Indian experts and think tanks that a limited Chinese attack along the unresolved Sino-Indian border may be imminent. This view cannot be totally faulted. They are b...
I never could really understand how a political party could be so stupid as to pick a fight with a whole gender... I mean, like half the population. After reading Cory Robin's The Reactionary Mind I under...
You know it’s bad when banks are the most truthful guys in the room. Remember that historical mortgage settlement deal that was the lead news story on Thursday? It has been widely depicted as a done deal....
Greece is a "a breath away from ground zero", Prime Minister Lucas Papademos warned as he urged politicians to back an unpopular international bailout on Sunday that may have to be raised to €145bn to sav...
One of the most fundamental principles of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is the principle of collective defense, wherein an armed attack on a NATO Ally constitutes an attack against all mem...
Online collective Anonymous has pledged a “crusade” against Israel. Claiming the country is committing “crimes against humanity” and gearing for “nuclear holocaust”, the group promised a campaign against ...
Weapons from China, Russia and Belarus are fueling are fuelling serious human rights violations in Sudan's Darfur region. It was stated in a report by Amnesty International. In this situation, human righ...
Brazil prepared to deploy troops on the streets of Rio de Janeiro on Friday, as a strike by the state's police force threatened to disrupt upcoming carnival festivities and raised new questions about secu...
[If you have even a very small contribution you could make to this blog's continued operation, it will be wholeheartedly appreciated. Thank you for your support. Peace to all!] Glenn Greenwald, whom I admi...
UNITED NATIONS – Argentina upped the rhetoric in its long-running dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands, accusing the British navy of sending nuclear missiles to the South Atlantic. Argentine Fo...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 316.5 km (196.7 miles), the quake hit at 01:49:36 UTC Wednesday 15th February 2012 The epicenter was 207 km (128 miles) Northeast of Ndoi...
[image: Chew on this: An apology to customers is posted Sunday in a supermarket in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, where radioactive beef was sold in 2011. KYODO] Scraped from Ex-SKF, 14 Feb 2012 to 30 May...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 23:39:16 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 632 km (392 miles) Northeas...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 29.7 km (18.5 miles), the quake hit at 22:55:23 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 131 km (81 miles) ...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Vancouver Island, Canada Region at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 22:54:40 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 191 km (118 miles) SSW of ...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 18.6 km (11.6 miles), the quake hit at 22:34:39 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 108 km (67 miles) ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck South of Panama at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 21:46:24 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 320 km (198 miles) South of David, Panama...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Greece at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 21:45:59 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 11 km (6.8 miles) Northeast of Sárti, Greece No Tsuna...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 35.6 km (22.1 miles), the quake hit at 19:15:13 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 96 km (59 miles) S...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Bonin Islands, Japan at a depth of 15.2 km (9.4 miles), the quake hit at 18:24:27 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 155 km (96 miles) ESE of Chichi...
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Oregon at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 03:21:20 UTC Wednesday 15th February 2012 The epicenter was 256 km (159 miles) West of Coos ...
*Rated X for language.* There will probably be a lot of “F” BOMBS in this entry – so if that bothers you – pass on by. To start, you need to know that my life has been pretty quiet and pretty anonymous ...
*Better check the bottom of your shoes!* "NYPD document called for Shi’ite Muslim surveillance; ’06 report singled out mosques for religious beliefs" by Adam Goldman, Chris Hawley, Eileen Sullivan and Ma...
For the longest time, I have said that Israel did the attacks of 9-11. There should be absolutely no doubt in anyone's minds any more that statement is absolutely fact and has been backed up by a tremend...
[image: Japanese tsunami debris on the open ocean, March 2011. Corbis] Media Contact: Mark Floyd, 541-737-0788 Jack Barth, 541-737-1607 Kathy Higley, 541-737-0675 Jamie Doyle, 541-572-5...
“The Rosette Nebula is not the only cosmic cloud of gas and dust to evoke the imagery of flowers - but it is the most famous. At the edge of a large molecular cloud in Monoceros, some 5,000 light years awa...
*"I thought, how delightful to discover a nation that cares passionately about the physical environment in which children learn and adults work," Diane Ravitch writes of her visit to one of the schools fea...
*Then why do I feel like I'm going down?* "Suspect in New York torching charged with murder" December 20, 2011|By Verena Dobnik NEW YORK - A man accused of *spraying gasoline on a 73-year-old woman and s...
*“Flashing Ahead of Creation”* by Chet Raymo “When the sugar water in the feeder goes sour, the hummingbirds let us know. They dip their long beaks into the tiny holes, ever so briefly, then - am I imagi...
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*HUNGRY FOR POWER* *By Mohawk Nation News* http://www.mohawknationnews.com MNN. Feb. 13, 2012. Whites are hardwired for insane power. We learn about these crazy people by watching television, movies,...
*Time to home school. * "LA teacher charged with molesting 23 kids" February 01, 2012 LOS ANGELES - A *veteran elementary school teacher* was arrested on *child molestation* charges after a *film processo...
Acclaimed actor, humanitarian, and American patriot Ed Asner provided further proof on the Alex Jones show on Monday, February 13, that the bad guys in Washington and Tel Aviv are planning to stage a new ...
"Newton teacher charged with sexual assault" January 19, 2012|By Travis Andersen A *second-grade teacher* at a Newton school, already accused of participating in a *global child pornography ring*, was arr...
Your answer may be more important than you think.
“Quit your addiction to sneer and complaint. Try a little flaunt, Call for comrades who bolster your vim and offer you risk. Corral the crones, Goose the nice nellies, Hunt the bear that hugs and the raven ...
In the interests of openness, which is one of my prime watchwords, the following is a submission I made today to Anthony Watt's site, wattsupwiththat.com (which takes a strong "lukewarm greenhouse believer...
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Thanks for stopping by.
Billy Joel, “We Didn't Start The Fire” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR-A4QFHZBA
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*"Is Western Democracy Real or a Facade?"* by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts "The United States government and its NATO puppets have been killing Muslim men, women and children for a decade in the name of bringin...
*Is Western Democracy Real or a Facade?* ------------------------------ February 14, 2012 | Original here The United States government and its NATO puppets have been killing Muslim men, women and...
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*The paper that is full of love!* "Enough with the hearts and flowers, already" February 11, 2012|Beth Teitell, Globe Staff Oh, Valentine’s Day, *how do we hate thee*? Let us count the ways: In the Back ...
*"9/11 Cognitive Dissonance: * *Why People Are Afraid of 9/11 Truth"* by WHENDASHTF "Leading Psychologists explain why so many Americans refuse to listen or believe in the overwhelming evidence that the of...
Are You Looking to Become an SJL in K-12 Education? The Educational Leadership Doctoral Program (ELDP) at Cambridge College offers a unique degree program for educators pursuing careers as social justice ...
*Alison* and others are doing a remarkable job with unvarnished notes on China, Harper, and the growing weirdness between our maximum prime minister and the Chinese state. Terry Glavin hits it on the head ...
*Are You Looking to Be an SJL in K-12 Education?* TheEducational Leadership Doctoral Program (ELDP) at Cambridge College offers aunique degree program for educators pursuing careers as social justice lead...
The Mormon Church, Karl Rove and the cadres of multimillionaires and billionaires-- mostly from the finance sector-- behind Willard Romney's quest for the presidency must be tearing their collective hair ...
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A man has just been deported from one country to another to face the death penalty for a crime that is the ultimate in victimless crimes, i.e., a crime that has no victim. The man has been deported from...
Occupy Lubbock:Occupiers in conservative Texas cityhave support of mayor, some Tea PartiersBy William John Cox / Truthout / February 14, 2012Although protesters have been driven from their peaceful occupatio...
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Photo by Vancouver Media Coop*Hacked e-mails reveal Mexico manipulating climate change facts, destroying Indian sacred lands* *By Brenda Norrell* *Censored News* http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com The hack...
*Looking to Lead Social Justice in K-12 Education?* The Educational Leadership Doctoral Program (ELDP) at Cambridge Collegeoffers a unique degree program for educators pursuing careers as social justicele...
With a tip of the hat to Paul Krugman, and leaving out the fairly obvious one of praising Romneycare while bashing ACA... March: Barack Obama’s budget wastes money with crazy space fantasies that only Ne...
New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan, head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The group was infuriated by Obama's decision. Photo by Seth Wenig / AP.A week of invective:The Catholic bishops, women’s he...
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*Available without a warrant Under the new bill, the six identifiers of telecommunications subscribers that police, intelligence and Competition Bureau officials can obtain without a warrant from their ...
An ancient holy place in Egypt once known as the "Terrace of the Great God" reveals a wealth of new discoveries, from animal mummiesand human remains to a rare wooden statue.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) performed extremely well in 2011 and now engineers at CERN want to crank up the juice through 2012.
*Umar Patek , or his double, greets prosecutors at a court in Jakarta. Patek is alleged to work for the CIA and is alleged to have helped build the bombs used in the 2002 Bali attacks.* The trial of 'Umar...
Supplying Gaza with fuel is a complex matter. Various political complications have arisen, and electricity blackouts in Gaza are imminent. Egypt Independent has: ”The Gaza Strip’s sole electricity station...
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Much discussion this morning about the MP with the coolest name in Parliament, Mojo Mathers, and whether you or I should pay for an electronic note-taking system so the new Green MP can do her job. She’...
*“Inflation: the Economy’s Code Blue”* - Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh “In ordinary parlance, when there is a lot of paper or “fiat” (Latin for “let it be”) money in circulation, prices go up and our dolla...
*"How Warren Buffett Looks at Stocks vs. Gold Investing"* by Bill Bonner "Where we part company with Warren Buffet… Here’s the Sage of Omaha, explaining, in "Fortune Magazine," why bonds are dangerous: "I...
Tired of hurling birds at pigs? Try navigating a virtual high school social scene in this new game.
"I totally share the anger and disdain of this terrific report. We're being sprayed and it's indicative of the systemic insanity being exercised over us..." - Zen Gardner - http://beforeitsnews.com/story/...
The enormous pearly white choppers were probably mostly used to scare off others.
By: Duane Craig In what could be the shape of things to come, the St. Paul, Minn., Metropolitan Council has asked its lawyers to explore legal options against 3M to help it meet new standards related to t...
How Still My Heart, 1955 17.5 x 24 inches Cabro print 2010 In honor of Valentine's Day (oh, and because there is a mountain of research and tree pictures I have yet to sort through), I'm posting just a fe...
The head of the eurozone countries has downgraded an eurozone finance ministers meeting on Wednesday, saying Greece has not yet given the necessary assurances about its austerity plan. Ministers, who had...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 26.6 km (16.5 miles), the quake hit at 18:07:55 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 131 km (81 miles) WSW of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanua...
Bangkok joins the list of cities playing host to "Iranian" bombings. by Tony Cartalucci Update: Not even 24 hours have passed and "Thai officials" have already determined not only that Bangkok's bomb blas...
[image: Cupid's Lament: Global warming could melt Valentine’s Day favorites. climatenexus.org] Cupid’s Lament Technorati Tags: agriculture,global warming,climate change,Indonesia,Africa,crop failure
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...
USING RED HERRINGS is a key part of the exercise — in this case, kiddie porn. The way Vic Toews has it, Canada's very existence is threatened by countless hordes of deranged males downloading kiddie porn...
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):...
The Keiser Report is the best news reporting you will see of this catastrophic situation anywhere. Today, he interviews, among others, James Kunstler of Clusterfuck! Give it a few moments. You won't regret...
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.
*Apologies for the severely lowered frequency of blogging. I've been busy with many things including my new notebook (it's amazingly fast) I bought after a decade as well as a new stage of the translatio...
[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 turn 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...
Teen daughter leaves her iPod jacked into the stereo in The Hyundai so over the last month Southern Man has listened to pretty much her entire music library. It's an eclectic mix with everything from class...
*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 Canadian Judge Forces American Blog Exposing Louisiana Corruption T...
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...
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A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Eastern Iran at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 18:57:36 UTC Wednesday 15th February 2012 The epicenter was 108 km (67 miles) Northeast of Ravar, Iran No...
Auckland's bleak summer produced another turn yesterday - a swarm of twisting waterspouts around Waitemata Harbour. Christine Keller Smith glanced up from a book she was reading in her Northcote living r...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Guangdong, China at a depth of 18.7 km (11.6 miles), the quake hit at 18:34:24 UTC Wednesday 15th February 2012 The epicenter was 118 km (73 miles) ESE from Yingde, Gu...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Nicobar Islands, India Region at a depth of 29.9 km (18.6 miles), the quake hit at 18:31:57 UTC Wednesday 15th February 2012 The epicenter was 182 km (113 miles) ...
Faith can be a source of comfort, but it can also be a trap. Schisms within religions are often presented as acts of sincere devotion which help the faithful to reach a purer understanding of the Religi...
FEHD releases latest results of influenza virus surveillance in pigs ************************************************************ The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Depa...
Bird flu has spread further in nine Vietnamese localities, with new infected flocks reported in Hai Phong and four more provinces, an agricultural official said. Van Dang Ky, head of the Epidemic Departm...
posted by Big Dan at Big Dan's Big Blog - 4 hours agoNavy Seal Warns False Flag is Coming: Ed Asner Reports *Surprise, Surprise: Navy Seals Don't Want To Be Sacrificial Lambs In New False Flag* *Officer accuses U.S. military of vast Afghan deception* *“S...
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