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A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Eastern
Uzbekistan at a depth of 12 km (7.4 miles), the quake hit at 04:01:32
UTC Friday 17th February 2012 The epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) East of Qumqo'rg,
Uzbekis...
A magnitude 3.0 earthquake has struck
Nevada at a depth of 18.8 km (11.7 miles), the quake hit at 04:58:15 UTC Friday 17th February 2012 The epicenter was 15 km (9.3 miles) North of Sutcliffe, Nevada No Re...
O'Reilly and
Hannity and
Beck and those clowns always bring up a ridiculous and totally imaginary so-called "war against Christmas." In the video above you can see with your own eyes the right-wing
Repub...
Thanks to billionaire's legal battle, we now know a lot more about how the super-rich work. With his long limbs and delicate gait,
Lord Mandelson could no doubt manage a quite convincing turn in Thunderb...
Andrew Pole had just started working as a statistician for Target in 2002, when two colleagues from the marketing department stopped by his desk to ask an odd question: “If we wanted to figure out if a cu...
Oil is the lifeblood of modern society, powering over 90% of our transportation fleet on land, sea, and air. Oil is also responsible for 95% of the production of all goods we buy and ultimately drives the...
This is the week of Xi Jinping, China’s vice-president who is inching toward taking up the oars as China’s helmsman by the end of the year at a defining period in China’s modern history as well as in cont...
AMMAN — Booming sounds continued to be heard in Amman and other central parts of Jordan on Thursday for the second day in a row. Residents of Amman, Madaba, Salt and the Jordan Valley said they heard the ...
ORMOND BEACH, Fla. - An Ormond Beach woman was arrested Tuesday night on suspicion of stealing $4,000 from her son -- a U.S. Marine -- while he was deployed in Afghanistan. Paula Barker, 43, was arreste...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — People in the Tri-State Area are living longer than ever, and if scientists have their way, life expectancies will continue to rise. Technologies today could allow the next generat...
MIAMI (CBS4) – People who are looking for the perfect match, both men and women, go online seeking a certain kind of arrangement. A “sugar baby” is typically younger and eager for adventure. A “sugar dad...
Russia and Iran are continuing to send arms to the Syrian regime that can be used against protesters, a top State Department official said today. "Iran is resupplying Syria and through Syria has supplied ...
Sanjay Wagle was a venture capitalist and Barack Obama fundraiser in 2008, rallying support through a group he headed known as Clean Tech for Obama. Shortly after Obama’s election, he left his California ...
A Petco groomer cut off part of a puppy's ear and then tried to cover it up by gluing it back on, claims its devastated owner. Grandmother Gladys Kapuwi, who is now suing the firm, claims she took Pomeri...
After a year-long reprieve from rising foreclosures, the numbers are going up again. One in every 624 U.S. households received a foreclosure filing in January, up 3 percent from the previous month, accor...
(Reuters) - Rich Arzaga owns a luxury home in San Ramon, California, but he's not betting on it as an investment. The founder and CEO of Cornerstone Wealth Management, who bought the 5,000 sq. ft. proper...
China, the largest foreign lender to the U.S., reduced its holdings of Treasuries in December to the least since June 2010 amid efforts to assist Europe in addressing its debt crisis. The world’s second-...
*300,000 Organic Farmers Sue Monsanto in Federal Court: Decision on March 31st to Go to Trial* Original here Little did Willie Nelson know when he recorded “Crazy” years ago just how crazy it woul...
Yes, I have not been covering the situation in Greece in any of my articles so far. I have long looked at the collapse of the Greek economy and the enforcement of evil "austerity" measures by the crimina...
President Obama's border enforcement officials prevented over 13,000 dangerous hair dryers from entering the country, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) trumpeted today. "U.S. Customs and Border P...
(CNN) -- Ask a small farmer in Indonesia about the impact of the global financial crisis on his daily life and he will answer, "Crisis? What crisis?" As farmers, we know what a big crisis is. In 1997, we ...
Heavy snow in recent weeks has already wreaked havoc across Europe -- now it is damaging some of the continent's most recognized historic monuments. The Colosseum in Rome has been forced to shut after sma...
The entire Heartland document episode has become far more interesting than a typical tale of an advocacy group paying off shills now that it seems clear that one of the documents that was leaked was in f...
A Nigerian student who confessed to trying to blow up a US passenger plane headed for Detroit with explosives concealed in his underwear has been jailed for life. A bomb hidden in the underwear of Umar ...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 50.5 km (31.4 miles), the quake hit at 01:57:31 UTC Friday 17th February 2012 The epicenter was 40 km (24 miles) West of Isangel, Tanna, Vanuatu ...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the CENTRAL MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 00:22:59 UTC Friday 17th February 2012 The epicenter was 624 km (387 miles) Northea...
Set the Record Straight on Monsanto Monsanto’s marketing efforts would have you believe that its product line—centered around genetically engineered (GE) seeds and the chemicals used to grow the...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 73.5 km (45.7 miles), the quake hit at 20:14:41 UTC Thursday 16th February 2012 The epicenter was 35 km (21 miles) Southwest of...
I have for years now been bringing forward important information right here in this blog about how truly dangerous and unnecessary vaccinations truly are. Many people are finally realizing that what th...
I've been trying to find words to express my disgust with this turn of events all day. I've been unsuccessful in coming with anything more coherent than why the fuck are these vile, God bothering assholes ...
By William K. Black Daniel Indiviglio, a columnist for Reuters, wrote a column(“Dogma show”) denouncing the agreement to extend the payroll tax reduction. He was distressed by what he considered *faux *f...
“Liquid Mind is deeply relaxing and soothing music for relief of stress and anxiety, meditation, healing. Music By Chuck Wild, “Liquid Mind V: Serenity - Awakening.” Images courtesy of ESA, NASA and The H...
“These two spiral galaxies make a photogenic pair, found within the boundaries of the northern constellation Draco. Contrasting in color and orientation, NGC 5965 is nearly edge-on to our line of sight and...
*This is the panel of witnesses invited to testify before Chairman Darrell's hearing this morning on the birth-control insurance mandate. Hmm, now what could be wrong with this picture? (Thanks to ThinkPro...
Anna Nieto Gomez & Cihuatl Ce Platica & lunch March 1, 2012 Thurs 11am-noon Cesar Chavez #205 University of Arizona Kicking off Women’s History Month , one of the original feminists of the Chicana/Chica...
*One would hope.* "Iranians suspected in Bangkok explosions; Israeli official ties attack to terror campaign" by Thomas Fuller | new york times, February 15, 2012 Israeli officials said *Israeli forensi...
The NYTimes has a story today about confidential documents obtained from the ultra right wing Heartland Institute, which has a new program to bring propaganda to schools to counter the climate science that...
"I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive." - Henry Miller
Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom. Thanks for stopping by.
“Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we ...
“Now I become myself. It's taken Time, many years and places, I have been dissolved and shaken, Worn other people's faces, Run madly, as if Time were there, Terribly old, crying a warning, "hurry, you will ...
Today was............stressful. A relief. Perplexing. Kurt & I attended the sentencing of Umar. We were allowed to give victim impact statements. We arrived about 30 minutes early, and I got to meet the t...
"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.” - Orson Welles
*It made me laugh hard*: "NATO expects help to fund Afghan Army" by Robert Burns and Slobodan Lekic | Associated Press, February 04, 2012 BRUSSELS - NATO’s top official said yesterday that the alliance *...
*I suppose it doesn't really matter anymore since the Globe is printing and distributing the Herald. * "Nonprofit admits it pays five in 6 figures" by Stephanie Ebbert and Travis Andersen | Globe Staff,...
*I'm folding and flushing them, folks! * "MGM latest big casino operator to look at Bay State" January 12, 2012|By Mark Arsenault MGM Resorts International, which operates some of the most elaborate gamb...
*“Natural Law”* by Chet Raymo “I suppose I learned about the Roman Catholic "natural law" tradition in a philosophy or theology class as an undergraduate at the University of Notre Dame in the 1950s, but...
Just so readers of Wit's End won't imagine that *all* I do (as opposed to *almost *all) is blog about trees dying from ozone pollution, as evidence I present pictures of favorite paintings taken when I we...
The phenomenal run of the former third string, undrafted point guard is about more than just basketball skills.
An unpredictable environment might explain infidelity and divorce -- at least in birds.
*There is money out there, and plenty of it.* "The Institute of Contemporary Art, just five years after opening its first permanent home, is flexing its *newfound financial muscle*. The ICA will announce ...
"Old foes gird for slots parlor fight" February 07, 2012|By Mark Arsenault The *dawn of casino gambling* in Massachusetts has *revived the rivalry *of Gary Piontkowski and George Carney.... The competitor...
What do you mean, *"no plan B"*? Other allies, such as Australia, have placed orders for Super Hornets -- the newer, beefed up version of the CF-18 -- to hedge against F-35 delays. It's not necessary for ...
The United Nations General Assembly passed Thursday by an overwhelming margin a nonbinding resolution endorsing the Arab League plan for the Syrian president to step down. The vote was 137 in favor and 12 ...
The #TellVicEverything meme has exploded on Twitter today, in response to Vic Toews' proposed legislation to force Internet service providers to monitor their customers’ online activities and turn the info...
Physicists at Fermilab usually don't pay attention to the hums and growls emanating all around them -- but to contemporary composer Mason Bates, it's music to his ears.
"America is something that can be easily moved. Moved to the right direction.They won’t get in our way." - International terrorist and war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel. Source of...
House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa is at it again, holding yet another inane hearing. This was the scene in his committee room this morning: Yes, his first panel of witnesses was solely com...
Buck McKeon is fighting for his political life-- and not just within the confines of the House Ethics Committee, where he stands accused of taking a massive bribe from Countrywide's predatory then-CEO Ang...
From Blogger today: Since the first post on August 8, 2008: Pageviews all time history: 1,032,888 Thank you all for stopping by, it's been an honor and privilege to share this with you. - CP
*“U.S. Dirty War on Iran” * by IRD “In December Iran announced that it had brought down a US drone- by the Iranian Army’s electronic warfare unit- with insignificant damage. The aircraft was apparently f...
"Thefts rose 26 percent on MBTA in 2011; Bicycles, smartphones were leading targets" by Eric Moslowitz | Globe Staff, January 24, 2012 A rash of smartphone, bicycle, and catalytic-converter thefts spurre...
"In tight local market, no relief for renters, apartment hunters" January 26, 2012|Jenifer B. McKim, Globe Staff Rents in the Boston area hit *record highs* in the last quarter of 2011, pushed up by incre...
*"Is a US-Iran War Inevitable?"* by Doug Casey "US-Iranian saber-rattling or impending shoot-out? In his usual, candid manner, contrarian investor Doug Casey talks about why he believes it’s serious this...
Skeptics are questioning the cold fusion claims made by Italian physicists last year -- and issuing a challenge.
"The Venus flytrap’s precarious survival in the wild along the coast of the Carolinas faces an added threat from poachers looking to cash in by uprooting and selling them.... --more--"
THIS STORY APPEARED IN [image: Boston Articles] *Sorry I didn't read it, dear readers. I rarely -- if ever -- read Metro or Business sections stories anymore. * *Hell, who am I kidding, I can't even make...
Leonard Cohen, “Hallelujah” • This song just keeps running through my head, no idea why, but might as well share it with you... - CP
*"A Greek Debt Crisis Recap"* by Bill Bonner "The Dow down 97 points yesterday. And the Greek story nears its conclusion…The Germans agree to bail out the country…at least for a while…and the Greeks agre...
by Kurt Haskell Every victim of a crime in Michigan is entitled to make a statement in open court regarding the impact of the crime on their life. The statement is limited to the victim's physical, emot...
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Not PC - 8 hours ago
*Another short ramble around a few things that caught my eye this week…* - A new report suggests an earthquake in Wellington would dwarf the economic damage of the Canterbury earthquake . The rep...
Because the spirit of vengeance and justice won't be kind to it. Pray that the victims of Israeli terrorism and Israeli aggression will forgive Israel.
It's nice that these groups are finally working together, isn't it? I feel about this development as warmly as I felt when hearing earlier today that the Congressional groups had finally reached a mutual d...
In the fight against cancer, these nano-robots could be the equivalent of sending in SEAL Team Six.
A total of six lives were saved by Sweden's massive swine flu vaccination programme, according to a new report, despite 60 percent of the Swedish population getting vaccinated. In Sweden, 60 percent of t...
HONG KONG - The Centre for Food Safety has ruled out any cause for alarm after a pig tested positive for the human swine flu virus H1N1. According to The Standard, the center said the positive sample was...
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Biased BBC - 9 hours ago
Tonight Question Time comes from Nottingham. David Dimbleby is joined by Ken Clarke, John Prescott, LibDem Susan Kramer, businesswoman Julie Meyer* and a random lefty freak called Owen Jones. In fact ign...
The Department of Preventive Health announced on Wednesday that Vietnam has recorded the first human case of swine flu caused by the H3N2 virus, Tuoi Tre reported. However, the case, a two-year old girl ...
The dzongkhag has seen four outbreaks in two months Just as the report from Bhopal laboratory in India officially confirmed that a bird flu or H5N1 virus had killed the 87 birds in Tshimasham, last Decembe...
Scientists met behind closed doors in Geneva Thursday to discuss whether controversial research on a mutant form of bird flu capable of being spread among humans can be made public. The two-day gathering...
(CNN) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is offering to resume talks over his country's nuclear program as soon as possible, according to a letter he sent to the European Union. CNN obtained a cop...
The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Here We Go Again: Fukushima Nuclear Reactors In Nuclear Meltdown Once Again!
There have been numerous controlled media reports, and actual reports coming from both the Japanese government and officials from TEPCO themselves, that have stated that the reactors at Fukushima are now i...
*"You Will Not Believe Some Of The Things * *Americans Are Doing Just To Survive"* By The Economic Collapse Blog "You might not want to read this article if you have a weak stomach. Most Americans have ab...
Over at Plum Line, I ask: what if Santorum manages to stay very popular...but his campaign continues to be a shoestring operation. Could he wind up winning the bulk of the primaries and caucuses and still ...
This woman is 51 yrs old. She is TV health guru Gillian McKeith, advocating a holistic approach to nutrition and health, and promoting yoga exercise, a vegetarian diet which is high in organic fruits...
(Reuters) - Britain will share in a Falkland Islands windfall when oil starts flowing there later this decade and, with taxes and royalties estimated at up to $167 billion (105.7 billion pounds), the pote...
Dead: The case relates to the fatal stabbing of Meredith Kercher, 21, a British student who shared a flat with Knox in Perugia, found in a pool of blood After months of tense battling between publishers ...
This is the shocking moment a man is blown off his feet after lighting a firecracker on a manhole cover. CCTV footage shows the man being thrown ten metres through the air by the force of the explosion. ...
It sometimes ain't easy trying to install authoritarian rule in Canada. If you're Harper or a minion, you open yourself up to all sorts of problems. Propose a sweeping electronic snooping bill, and people ...
With the failure of the latest Mossad attacks on Georgia, India, and Thailand, to try to sway world opinion into supporting Israel's upcoming attack against the innocent and peaceful nation of Iran, it doe...
Then the people are neither legally nor morally obligated to obey that government's dictates nor to pay its bills nor to send their children to die in that government's wars, and may with full moral justif...
The Coming Crisis will be issuing a major announcement within the next few days. As you already know from visiting us, the CC is a website that strives to break all molds. We have already made several eno...
A senior Scientologist was locked up, beaten and tortured by the controversial religion's tyrannical leadership, a court has heard after an attempt by the Church to silence her spectacularly backfired. D...
Short on time again today....so I just want to post this story. I had bookmarked it last week. What makes it so very interesting is that it spells out exactly what the NATO backed terrorists have been up t...
Spain is steadily becoming a nation of 'ghost towns' - with empty apartment blocks, streets and weed-filled gardens where bustling communities were supposed to move. Entire housing estates built during t...
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CENSORED NEWS - 10 hours ago
*The Oxymoron: Homeland Security seeking intelligence on Facebook* By Brenda Norrell Censored News Feb. 16, 2012 What could be more fun today than following the hearing on Homeland Security spying on Faceb...
(Reuters) - The loudest noise that Thongma Danoi had ever heard was followed 20 minutes later by the strangest sight: a dazed and bloodied Iranian carrying two wire-adorned devices through the usually sle...
Blue Dog congressman, Tim Holden (PA-17), insists that he and his fellow legislators are personally entitled to earmark our tax money. He bases this case on perceived tradition in the Northeastern Pennsyl...
Lipstick applied several times a day, every day, can add up to significant exposure levels.
A magnitude 3.5 earthquake has struck San Francisco Bay Area, California at a depth of 9.2 km (5.7 miles), the quake hit at 17:13:20 UTC Thursday 16th February 2012 The epicenter was 3 km (1.8 miles) NNW ...
Is the American presidency being transformed into a quasi-monarchy? What else do you call it when 196 enormously rich people can use their money to elect the president of their choice? *At a time when ...
POLITICS - We predicted it a long time ago. The bailout of Greece's economy would only fail because they're not fixing the real problem: Lack of manufacturing. We're not alone in our predictions. Many Eu...
An unprecedented number of dolphins have been beaching themselves in recent weeks, and experts are grappling as to why.
From climate change to bike-share programs, some see nothing but a United Nations plot.
Hunger Threatens 500 Million Children By Paul Vallely, The Independent UK 15 February 12 http://www.readersupportednews.org/news-section2/328-121/9990-hunger-threatens-500-million-children [excerpt] "A q...
An integral part of America's decline is its faltering ability to impose its will on the world, by force if necessary. Its colossal failures in both Iraq and Afghanistan are proof positive. For Washing...
*THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2012* *There’s only a few days left:* We know. We said we’d preview our upcoming Chapter 7 over at our companion site, How He Got There. We may do so in the next few days. For tod...
*THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2012* *What makes Willie Geist run:* This morning’s New York Times is a mess. But let’s close with Willie Geist. This morning, he was reading the news on his eponymous show, Way To...
A 200 metre cordon was placed around a cargo plane during a radiation scare at Auckland Airport. The Fire Service was called to the international section of the airport just before 8pm and confirmed that...
23 cases of dengue fever, 16 cases of leptospirosis and 14 cases of typhoid have been confirmed from the Western Division however the Health Ministry said it has not reached the level of an outbreak. Min...
JAMMU: Three persons, including an eight-month-old were buried alive and ten houses damaged in separate incidents of avalanche and landslide hits in Kishtwar, Ramban and Kathua districts of Jammu and Kash...
On Wednesday, flooding at the Encantada Lake caused a large avalanche of mud that swept through a camp belonging to the San Juan mining company, burying at least 27 homes in the lower llapo district in Pa...
BEIRUT: The Beirut River mysteriously turned blood red Wednesday after a stream of unidentified red liquid began pouring from the southern bank of the river in Furn al-Shubbak. The source of the liquid ha...
A SICKNESS bug which causes violent diarrhoea and vomiting has now closed 12 wards at a Worcester hospital. Ambulance crews have been forced to take patients to other hospitals and 12 wards are now parti...
Low Intensity Warfare: UFOs vs. Earth? By Scott Corrales (c) 1994 [This article originally appeared in Tim Beckley's Unsolved UFO Mysteriesmagazine in 1994. The electronic file was recently re...
As the UN secretary general accused the Syrian regime of potential crimes against humanity on Thursday, the top Syrian envoy to Canada blamed terrorists for civilian deaths and said President Bashar Assad...
Audit Uncovers Extensive Flaws in Foreclosures by Gretchen Morgenson Feb 15, 2012 New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/16/business/california-audit-finds-broad-irregularities-in-foreclosures.html...
------------------------------ * the**REALnews Permalink* February 16, 2012 *Austerity Policy Destroying Greek Society* Dim...
(By *American Zen*'s Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari Goldstein.) or * I Am Lego*. Oh, the poor Republican Party. It must be a lot like being the last man on earth in a post-Apocalyptic America, an Apoc...
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Dr Cintli - 13 hours ago
Arizona Daily Star Ariz. bill advances; teachers would be fired quickly, districts penalized 'Partisan doctrine' in classes targeted Howard Fischer Capitol Media Services | Posted: Thursday, February 16, 2...
*THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2012* *Pulitzer Prize-level work:* We hate to say it, but Rachel Maddow has done some good reports this week. If you omit the first and last moments in the segment, one such repor...
*POOR, WHITE AND REPUBLICAN*: a comment from George Packer, published by the *New Yorker*. *PLEASE* read it. *F.D.R. called him “the forgotten man,”* but that was long ago. By 1972, he was a member of t...
Inside Syria (CNN) -- Syrian security forces resumed their fierce shelling of opposition targets in Homs Thursday but appeared to be losing their tight grip in the northern region. Government troops wer...
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CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours ago
*HELTER SKELTER* *Mohawk Nation News* http://www.mohawknationnews.com MNN. FEB. 14, 2012. This is the culture of the invaders to Great Turtle Island. Gold has an objective value. Paper is a mortgage ...
Photo Showcase is here! Basically it is a chance to show off any image you have taken in the last week/month/just a photo that you love. In my case, I will be sharing my 366 project, but in your case, sh...
These batteries could help boost the prospects of wind and solar energy.
The vehicle maker has illuminated and motorized the back seat buckles to expand on safety features.
Argentina: “Shining Object” in the Skies of Oro Verde Date: 02.14.2012 Source: Diario UNO (Entre Rios) and Planeta UFO http://www.unoentrerios.com.ar/laprovincia/Un-objeto-brillante-en-el-cielo...
Argentina: “Shining Object” in the Skies of Oro Verde Date: 02.14.2012 Source: Diario UNO (Entre Rios) and Planeta UFO http://www.unoentrerios.com.ar/laprovincia/Un-objeto-brillante-en-el-cielo-de-Oro-Verde...
Austin, Texas, Late Summer 2011: This is not autumn in Central Texas. These are cedar trees (juniperus Asheii). The fall leaf drop does not begin here until about mid-October and extends through the first of...
Recently, Mike Innes tweeted playfully that he feared the Duck had become a "creative writing" blog due to the proliferation of satirical posts about pop cultural topics. This tweet was in response to my r...
Willie Nelson. Image from OTRC.Occupy the Food System:Willie Nelson and 300,000other activists sue MonsantoBy Jane Ayers / Reader Supported News / February 16, 2012Little did Willie Nelson know when he recor...
Recently, Mike Innes tweeted jokingly that he feared the Duck had become a "creative writing" blog due to the proliferation of satirical posts about pop cultural topics. The implication (confirmed in a sec...
The end of the world as we know it could come in any number of ways, depending on who you ask. Some people believe global cataclysm will occur when Earth's magnetic poles reverse. When north goes south, t...
This FOX News correspondent has a message to US women soldiers who fall victim to rape - enough already. And, of course, she kept her job at FOX.
The CMS Collaboration organized its first hangout via Google+: The selection of beverages and babes wasn't too wide. Instead, the event was a video conferencing session with a physicist in the CMS cave...
HOMELAND SECURITY loves body scanners. According to *Jalopnik*, *that's how the security staff gets their jollies*. Erin Gloria Ryan's report, *"TSA Agents Singling Out Sexy Women For Multiple Body Scans...
*THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2012* *Interlude—Irate academics speak:* Is man (sic) the rational animal? That’s what Aristotle is said to have said. But how much did Aristotle know? He also “defined motion as t...
Infant formulas, cereal bars and other foods made with organic brown rice syrup can contain high levels of arsenic.
By: Duane Craig There is a long story of radioactivecontamination across New Mexico, especially in the northwestern portion of thestate, where recent estimates of cleaning up just one site will require ...
On CBC's The Current yesterday, internet law prof Michael Geist and Paul Gillespie, a former Toronto Police sergeant and CEO of *Kids' INternet Safety Alliance, *faced off on the potential for invasion of...
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wmtc - 14 hours ago
From Maureen O'Reilly, library workers' union, Toronto Public Library (emphasis mine): + + + + + It hasn’t taken Ford and company long before launching a new attack on our public library. Frustrated tha...
And this is a Harper Conservative's brain on pure room air Now read *Cathie* ... Then *Kady*.
Some people have obtained several documents from the Heartland Institute, a libertarian/conservative U.S. think tank. These documents show that the folks in the Heartland Institute are climate skeptics who...
This natural-color satellite image, collected on February 10, 2012, shows the site of the El Hierro eruption. Credit: NASA An underwater eruption off the Canary Island of El Hierro has been going on for...
Mystic Krewe of Nyx rolls for the first time in Mardi Gras splendor ~Mardi Gras Parades Tonight! ~Knights of Babylon*~Uptown 5:45 p.m.* ~Knights of Chaos~Uptown 6:30 p.m. ~Krewe of Muses*~Uptown 6:30 p.m.* ~...
Typical Republican vote counting shenanigans, normally used against Democrats to subvert free and fair elections, are being used by the GOP Establishment against the Republicans running against Romney, t...
I have been reading Gerald Coles for a long time, and I am glad to see Anthony Cody hosting him here to get underneath the neoliberal rhetoric of the Times to see its real influences: Gerald Coles: The Gr...
Happy Birthday to LeVar Burton -- hey, that's the second Star Trek one this week! Apparently, Geordi was...er, will be also born on February 16. Ah, the good stuff. 1. Charles Franklin tells newspapers a...
Digging up the Antarctic ice in Lake Vostok could be a good test run for looking for life beyond.
This app translates light and color values from video to create a custom soundtrack.
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wmtc - 15 hours ago
The Harperites have resurrected the unjust, immoral, and, according to international treaties to which Canada is a signatory, illegal bill formerly known as C-11. Jason Kenney doesn't want so much riff-r...
*A red pulsar bike found abandoned in Delhi. Delhi police, 'believed to be under the control of Mossad', have ruled out that the bike was used by the 'Mossad' attacker on 13 February 2012. * The 13 Febru...
Ancient eruptions in the Pacific Northwest may have been caused by the tearing of a titanic slab of rock. Ancient giant eruptions in the Pacific Northwest may actually have been caused by the tearing of a...
Like a stream of air shooting out of an airplane's broken window to relieve cabin pressure, scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego say lava formations in eastern Oregon are the ...
A Canadian company wants to continue test drilling for copper and other minerals near Mount St. Helens in southwest Washington, but environmentalists worry the move could open the door to mine development...
JERUSALEM — Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak on Thursday accused Iran of "exaggerating" progress on its disputed nuclear programme a day after Tehran unveiled what it said was its first domestically-pr...
(Reuters) - European shares fell and the euro eased to a 3-week low on Thursday as a delay in deciding on a crucial bailout for Greece unnerved investors and halted the rally for riskier assets like equit...
FUKUSHIMA -- Massive levels of radioactive cesium have been detected from gravel at a quarry near the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, after high radiation was detected at buildings using gravel from the...
South Korea has been trying to hire top nuclear experts from Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) in the wake of the meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant. South Korea is looking to expand its nucle...
(Reuters) - World Bank President Robert Zoellick said on Wednesday he will step down in June and Washington pledged to put a replacement candidate forward within weeks for a job that has always gone to an ...
(Reuters) - The European Union trade commissioner brushed off on Thursday the potential impact of any Iranian suspension of oil supplies saying such a threat would not sway Europe from its opposition to I...
(Reuters) - China disapproves of armed intervention or regime change in Syria, a minister said on Thursday before leaving on the first official trip to Syria since Beijing blocked a U.N. resolution callin...
(Reuters) - Four months after one of Japan's biggest corporate scandals, police and prosecutors on Thursday arrested seven men, including the former president of Olympus Corp and ex-bankers, over thei...
Reuters) - Moody's warned on Thursday it may cut the credit ratings of 17 global and 114 European financial institutions in another sign the impact of the euro zone government debt crisis is spreading thr...
Astronomer Mark Thompson shares his tips for the perfect photo of the night sky, but ultimately it's a game of trial and error.
(Reuters) - Greece expressed hope it was within days of finally securing a 130-billion-euro EU/IMF bailout to ease its debt crisis but markets reacted skeptically on Thursday as acrimony grew between Athe...
(CNN) -- A bus carrying school children burst into flames after a collision with a truck outside the Palestinian city of Ramallah on Thursday, killing at least six people, authorities said. Dozens more w...
(CNN) -- The United Nations General Assembly is set Thursday to take up a symbolic resolution condemning President Bashar al-Assad's violent crackdown in Syria after China and Russia blocked the Security...
Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) -- A group that set off explosions in Bangkok this week intended to strike Israeli diplomats, a Thai police official said, intensifying a heated argument between Israel and Iran a...
(CNN) -- The Australian government has angered koala conservationists by again delaying a decision on whether to add the national icon to the country's endangered species list. Last year, a Senate inquir...
Japan's debt levels have ballooned to a level that makes Greece look like a steward of capital. Wall Street has noticed, and it's placing its bets. FORTUNE -- With the European sovereign debt imbroglio ta...
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) -- Armed militias in Libya are committing human rights abuses with impunity, threatening to destabilize the country and hindering its efforts to rebuild, Amnesty International said Thursday. Militi...
A stepfather who admitted repeatedly punching, suffocating, dropping and kicking his wife's two-year-old daughter has been sentenced to up to 20 years in jail. Brandon Bishop, 25, was given ten to 20 yea...
The man accused of killing his new bride as they honeymooned in Australia wept as a police interview tape was played out in court, in which he described his failed attempts to resuscitate his wife. Gabe ...
A college lacrosse player accused of killing his ex-girlfriend had a 'blank stare' and lied about visiting friends on the night she died, a former teammate claimed yesterday. Ken Clausen testified at the...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Sumbawa Region, Indonesia at a depth of 85.5 km (53.1 miles), the quake hit at 11:12:46 UTC Thursday 16th February 2012 The epicenter was 44 km (28 miles) WNW fro...
A one-year-old girl died and her five-year-old sister remains in critical condition after their mother tried to drown them in a baby bath in their Los Angeles home. Police suspect that Lorna Valle, the m...
North Korea has staged a military parade to mark what would have been late leader Kim Jong-il's 70th birthday. State television footage showed people gathered in the cold at the square outside Pyongyang...
You could be forgiven for thinking it was a polar bear that had wandered off the ice and somehow found itself in a forest. But this golden, almost white, beautifully unique creature is in fact a white va...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Turkey at a depth of just 3 km (1.8 miles), the quake hit at 11:01:03 UTC Thursday 16th February 2012 The epicenter was 12 km (7.4 miles) Northwest of Darende, Turkey ...
The British Antarctic Survey is taking planetary protection measures to reach Antarctica's subglacial Lake Ellsworth next.
Beauty and the Geek pants create the ultimate "jeans and keyboard sandwich."
A new material from paper and old food containers can make laptops greener.
A severely malnourished 15-year-old girl was allegedly forced to live in the basement of a home by her parents for years while they beat her, starved her and even forced her to eat her own faeces. The Wi...
More than two dozen senior officials at the Department of Health are being paid their salaries via private companies in an attempt to avoid tax. Leaked emails last night revealed at least 25 senior staff ...
Aftershocks of the bomb explosions in New Delhi and Bangkok had barely subsided on Wednesday when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dropped another bombshell by showcasing the country's advancements i...
What separates Amazon from the crowd and makes it a true bookseller may be its understanding of the lifecycle of books and of consumer needs and desires. It has always excelled at customer service, but it...
Greek anger with the way they believe Germany has taken over their economy is boiling over on the country's streets. In recent days, protesters have burned German flags and defaced the Bank of Greece's h...
This is the dramatic moment a Greek woman threatened to jump from an Athens office block - because she was about to lose her job because of the euro debt crisis. Lambrousi Harikleia said she would commit...
Civil servants are scooping £2million in bonuses each month, despite a pledge by ministers to stamp down on spending. Whitehall bureaucrats have been handed sums of up to £187,500 – more than the Prime M...
A magnitude 2.9 earthquake has struck Northern California at a depth of of just 1.5 km (0.9 miles Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 10:35:27 UTC Thursday 16th February 2012 The epicenter was 3 km (1.8...
Nato has voiced regret for the killing of eight civilians in an airstrike in eastern Afghanistan last week. The coalition dropped two bombs on February 8 in Najrab district in Kapisa province, after move...
The Bank of England has ruled out help for savers and pensioners and warned that any attempts it made to improve ‘negligible’ returns on their nest eggs would tip the economy back into recession. Britain...
The BBC has been accused of a cover-up after spending almost £350,000 on a legal battle to suppress an internal report about bias in its Middle East coverage. A seven-year campaign to gain access to the ...
AROUND 580 foreigners landed a job in the UK every day last year while the number of British-born workers collapsed, official figures revealed today. The Office for National Statistics said the number of ...
Falklands hero Simon Weston yesterday branded Sean Penn an 'idiot' and a 'fool' over his comments about Britain's ownership of the islands. Former Welsh Guardsman Weston, 50, hit back at the Hollywood act...
Mohamed Kendeh, whose crimes include robbery and 11 sex assaults, was allowed to stay in the UK because of his right to a 'private and family life' under the Human Rights Act A woman who was sexually ass...
A jilted boyfriend set himself alight outside his former lover’s house after she dumped him by text, an inquest has heard. 'Volatile' Maysam Mayani, 26, drove to Sona Khamseh’s flat in Chelsea, west Lond...
The full scale of how the banks are still failing to lend to Britain’s desperate small firms emerged yesterday. Despite a series of public promises from senior ministers and bank officials, lending to bu...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Crete, Greece at a depth of 15 km (9.3 miles), the quake hit at 08:34:36 UTC Thursday 16th February 2012 The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) Southwest of Ayía galíni, G...
A fire that killed at least 358 people at a Honduras prison was started deliberately by one of the inmates, according to a local politician. Paola Castro, the governor of Comayagua, said: "One inmate got...
Russia has sought to water down a draft UN resolution condemning the bloodshed in Syria, while welcoming the regime's pledge to hold a referendum on a new constitution. The General Assembly is to vote on...
The Prime Minister says he will "fight with everything I have" to prevent Scottish independence. David Cameron will come face-to-face with Scotland's first minister in Edinburgh today for talks on the p...
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraq's Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, has called on the Chinese companies to play a greater role and share in building strategic projects in Iraq, saying that his country wishes...
A U.S. “alphabet soup” agency-sponsored themed revolution in the Maldives, an island nation in the Indian Ocean comprising twenty-six atolls, stands to plunge the nation, heretofore considered a tropical ...
This winter has been a serious test of strength, not only for electric power systems in Central Asia, but also for their good relations with neighbours. Unprecedented cold in February affected not only E...
Who will benefit from the new set of Greek austerity measures, which got a violent response from the crowd on Sunday? Author and consultant Adrian Salbuchi says it’s the bankers, who are responsible for t...
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Wells Fargo Bank and J.P. Morgan Chase charge homebuyers who go into default inflated fees and interest rates, customers say in a federal RICO class action. Lead plaintiff Latara Bia...
JEDDAH — Various groups in the Kingdom have intensified their campaign to boycott Russian and Chinese products after the two countries vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Presid...
The White House announced plans on Monday to help “Arab Spring” countries swept by revolutions with more than $800 million in economic aid, while maintaining U.S. military aid to Egypt. In his annual bud...
An explosion on Aurangzeb Road in New Delhi damaged an Israeli embassy car, and injured its occupants.Tal Yehoshua Koren, the wife of the defense attache at the Israeli embassy was seriously wounded. She ...
How poignant that the first anniversary of a true Arab pro-democracy movement in the Persian Gulf - then ruthlessly crushed - falls on February 14, when Valentine's Day is celebrated in the West. Talk abo...
In a little brick-walled taverna in Athens, over a lunch of Cretan salad and stuffed grape leaves, a Greek journalist named Aris Hadjigeorgiou was holding forth one day in late November about the calamito...
Xi Jinping, likely to be China's next president, visits President Obama in the White House this week. This visit ensures that the ongoing currency war between the United States and China will be on the li...
Britain sold over £1m worth of weapons including rifles and artillery to Gulf kingdom during last year's unrest. Britain has continued to sell arms to Bahrain despite continuing political unrest in the G...
The Obama administration’s claim to support freedom and democracy in the Middle East has been tarnished by recent reports it will sell military hardware to Bahrain despite the regime’s brutal crackdown on...
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, often referred to as "drones," don't get a lot of good press. Usually, when a drone makes the news, it's just completed an airstrike somewhere across the world, likely in the Mid...
Back in May 2007, I stumbled across online sketches at the website of a Kansas architectural firm hired to build a monster U.S. embassy-cum-citadel-cum-Greater-Middle-Eastern command center on 104 acres i...
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How interesting. I happened to be listening to the BBC Today programme this morning and around 6.55am there was an item on the French Presidential election. Those of you will follow these things will kno...
Alaska glaciers have been shedding about 46 billion tons of ice each year, making America's Arctic state the world's single biggest contributor to glacier-fed sea level rise outside of Greenland or Antarc...
After years of complaints and workers' suicides in China the technology giant faces up to the human cost of its gadgets. Thousands of Chinese factory workers will be given the chance to detail the punish...
*Javanese Girl * The media is lying about Syria. *High-Tech Trickery in Homs? Al Akhbar English* [image: Pose - D7K 1223 ep] *India by* Eric.Parker The 'Holocaust' is complex. Nobody alerts us to *Paul ...
A magnitude 3.1 earthquake has struck Utah at a depth of of just 0.1 km (0 miles Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 08:20:58 UTC Thursday 16th February 2012 The epicenter was 8 km (5 miles) West of Fai...
The inner workings of a libertarian thinktank working to discredit the established science on climate change have been exposed by a leak of confidential documents detailing its strategy and fundraising ne...
The Oregon Department of Corrections is considering closing multiple prisons in the state’s 14,000-inmate, 14-prison corrections system, going far beyond previously disclosed plans to shut down one Salem ...
British lawmakers will visit the Falkand Islands next month, stoking tensions with Argentina before the 30th anniversary of the war between the two countries, The Times reported on Wednesday. Members of ...
The continued existence of Russia as a transcontinental power depends on its ability to leverage vast energy wealth into political stability and power. Without energy wealth, Russia begins to disintegrate...
BRUSSELS - A first report by the EU commission looking at macro-economic data across the bloc up until 2010 warns that 12 countries, including Italy and Spain are at risk of new crises due to their public...
American attempts to get major Asian importers of Iranian oil to rein in their purchases are faltering as allies South Korea and Japan give U.S. officials a polite brushoff. Emerging giants India and Chin...
When Muammar Qaddafi seized power in 1969 he pledged to eliminate tribalism and unite Libya. But throughout the next 42 years - especially when his popularity wavered - Qaddafi succumbed to the temptatio...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Vancouver Island, Canada Region at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 06:37:33 UTC Thursday 16th February 2012 The epicenter was 145 km (90 miles) W...
Light from a stellar eruption 170 years ago is only just being received after bouncing off a cloud of dust.
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 53.5 km (33.2 miles), the quake hit at 05:09:40 UTC Thursday 16th February 2012 The epicenter was 109 km (67 miles)...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 200 km (124 miles), the quake hit at 04:07:26 UTC Thursday 16th February 2012 The epicenter was 7 km (4.3 miles) Nort...
This makes us rethink the idea ofa rapid recovery and evolutionary explosion as has been posited ratheruncritically once mass extinctions became accepted. More sensibly, life refills the availablespac...
This is a fine reminder that anyonewho wants to can establish themselves in small time real estate and all thatgoes with it. There are many who simplyare not keen to do this and do not, but for even ...
This report strongly indicatesthat the energy storage industry is coming of age, quite the same way as thewind industry put it all together. Thishas been happening behind the scenes over the past sever...
A surprising idea really thatiron pyrite might succeed as a catalyst. Rare earths have been the easy route when a catalyst is needed, but aswe have seen, the demand has become ruinous to industry and th...
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Richard Black has plumbed new depths of partisanship. Here, with vicious claws out and fists flying, he sneeringly attacks the Heartland Institute, an organisation which on meagre resources, bravely tries ...
The Pentagon has concluded that computer sabotage coming from another country can constitute an act of war, a finding that for the first time opens the door for the U.S. to respond using traditional milita...
A seagrass meadow in Florida. Photo courtesy: Heather Dine / NOAA Photo Library/CC BY 2.0 It's survived for possibly hundreds of thousands of years, spreading across the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. B...
The Russian Navy has decided against construction of Lada class submarines (Project 677) and will instead modernize its existing boats, Navy Commander-in-Chief Adm. Vladimir Vysotsky said. The design of th...
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Little Colorado River*Media falls for Sen. Kyl's Indian water theft scheme, as Navajo president sells out the people* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com The media fell for a...
Russia and Vietnam are planning to start in 2012 joint production of a modified anti-ship missile, head of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation Mikhail Dmitriyev said on Wednesday. “We ar...
India will next month test a new long-range nuclear-capable missile which can strike targets more than 5,000 kilometres away, a defence research spokesman said on Wednesday. The announcement came three mon...
Indian unmanned aerial vehicle " Rustom" and pilot-less target aircraft " Lakhsya", have attracted strong interests from several countries, including Brazil, Canada and Israel, a top DRDO official said her...
A 26-year-old woman has been charged with the murder of a teenage girl who died after being stabbed in a park. Hannah Bonser, of Cusworth House, Doncaster, has also been charged with two counts of posse...
It was always going to be unwise naming a restaurant that glorifies unhealthy food the Heart Attack Grill. And on Saturday the inevitable happened when a customer suffered a cardiac arrest in the chain's...
Lockheed Martin yesterday unveiled a new version of the evergreen F-16 Fighting Falcon designated the F-16V. The new moniker is derived from the fighter’s long-standing unofficial nickname: Viper. It will ...
It may look just like the regular Mk 82 500-pounder that is used the world over, but IMI’s MPR-500 is an altogether smarter beast. Israel Military Industries (Booth Q66) has developed a bomb that is identi...
In the latest setback for the solar energy industry, Auburn Hills-based Energy Conversion Devices said today that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and intends to sell its assets, including its main ...
A mother in Hoke County complains her daughter was forced to eat a school lunch because a government inspector determined her home-made lunch did not meet nutrition requirements. In fact, all of the stude...
DUBAI (Reuters) - The Egyptian government, seeking to head off a funding crisis, is preparing to raise about $2 billion through its first issue of Islamic bonds, an Islamic scholar familiar with its planni...
CAIRO (Reuters) - State-run newspapers splashed accusations of a U.S. plan to spread "anarchy" in Egypt across their front pages on Tuesday, escalating a dispute Washington says must be resolved to ensure...
View more videos at: http://nbcphiladelphia.com. A neighborly dispute over dog poop turned deadly in the Tacony section of Philadelphia. It happened just after 4 p.m. Tuesday on the 6500 block of Torre...
IAI Elta Systems has devised a new maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) solution based on the Bombardier Q400 twin-engine commercial turboprop, in recognition of growing demand for cost-effective maritime patrol...
Russia has postponed indefinitely all flights of Su-24 Fencer tactical bombers after one of them crashed in Russia’s Urals, a source in the Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. The Su-24 combat aircraft crash...
*Mitt Romney seems to have picked a criminal operative as his main NY surrogate* The *New York Times* is on the Mikey Suits case-- big time. Mikey Suits? We first ran across him-- a dirty cop connected to...
A Niceville man is out of the hospital after his electronic cigarette exploded in his face two days ago. Friends say the blast knocked out tom Holloway's teeth, and burned his face. He was taken to USA ...
Chinese officials denied a visa to a top State Department envoy and refused to meet with her to discuss issues of religious freedom days before this week’s high-profile visit to Washington by China’s vice...
GENEVA (AP) -- The tidy Swiss want to clean up space. Swiss scientists said Wednesday they plan to launch a "janitor satellite" specially designed to get rid of space junk, the orbiting debris that can d...
Canada's government Tuesday introduced a bill to give law enforcement authorities sweeping powers to probe online communications, but the move sparked criticism about threats to privacy. "New technologie...
*"No Regret…Leave it All On The Field"* by Bonnie Ware "Many years ago I heard an athlete, who had just lost a huge game, being interviewed by a reporter. This reporter asked the tough question “So what’...
CHICAGO (CBS) — A former Chicago alderman turned political science professor/corruption fighter has found that Chicago is the most corrupt city in the country. He cites data from the U.S. Department of J...
President Obama’s fourth budget has now been released, which allows for a relatively full accounting of deficit spending during his four years in office. The picture isn’t pretty, but it is revealing. A...
(Reuters) - Postal officials were blunt in December when they stood before 120 residents in Dedham, Iowa, to tell them why their town's post office has to close. The Internet, officials said, was kill...
President Obama has ordered the Pentagon to consider cutting U.S. strategic nuclear forces to as low as 300 deployed warheads—below the number believed to be in China’s arsenal and far fewer than current ...
President Obama greeted the Chinese heir apparent in the Oval Office on Tuesday morning, a venue where the U.S. president usually receives only the nation's closest friends. But even as the two countries...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congressional Republicans on Wednesday vowed to block the Obama administration from sharply cutting the U.S. nuclear force, calling potential reductions of as much as 80 percent in the ...
With Iran allegedly striking out at Israeli citizens and Jewish targets around the world, Israeli and American security officials in the U.S. are on high alert. "We expect it and we are ready," one senior...
“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.” - Arthur Miller
Besieged by international sanctions over the Iranian nuclear program including a planned oil embargo by Europe, Iran warned six European buyers on Wednesday that it might strike first by immediately cutti...
(CNN) -- A China-EU summit ended Tuesday with promises for more support from Beijing for debt-straddled Europe, yet no concrete cash pledges to buy euro debt. It's becoming a familiar scenario in the wak...
Dongguan, China (CNN) -- The Chinese factory floor ain't what it used to be. Heavy industry machines now sit idle, where once hundreds of workers would have crammed into Dickensian sweat shops, slaving a...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Mauritius, Reunion Region at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 02:20:28 UTC Thursday 16th February 2012 The epicenter was 308 km (191 miles) Northeast ...
Lava hitting Lake Kivu in January 2002 from the nearby erupting Nyiragongo volcano. Photo courtesy: bbcnews The Rwandan government has a plan to reduce the risk of a lake erupting while at the same time p...
River winding through a canyon. Photo courtesy: Alan Vernon A government report released recently has found that selenium contamination from a phosphate mine in Idaho is connected to fish deformities in th...
In 1940, "Bugs" Hardaway, an illustrator at Warner Bros., submitted a drawing for a rabbit character to his bosses and labeled it "Bugs" Bunny. His drawing wasn't chosen; but, the name was chose for the b...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 557.1 km (346.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:09:43 UTC Thursday 16th February 2012 The epicenter was 475 km (295 miles) SSW of ...
A magnitude 3.5 earthquake has struck San Francisco Bay Area, California at a depth of 9.3 km (5.8 miles), the quake hit at 02:09:14 UTC Thursday 16th February 2012 The epicenter was 3 km (1.8 miles) NNW ...
By L. Randall Wray You might want to see my NEP front page piece: Mine’s BiggerThan Yours, which deals with various misunderstandings on size of government.It isn’t size that matters (beyond some minimum...
“You're searching... For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings - there are no such things. There are only middles.” - Robert Frost, “Mountain Interval,” "In the Home Stretch"
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Andreanaof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 76.9 km (47.8 miles), the quake hit at 23:03:49 UTC Wednesday 15th February 2012 The epicenter was 28 k...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Java, Indonesia at a depth of 42.3 km (26.3 miles), the quake hit at 21:59:28 UTC Wednesday 15th February 2012 The epicenter was 149 km (92 miles) Southwest of Sukabum...
In The Republic, Plato, through the character of Socrates, likens the Good to the sun. Image from Dover Public Library. The GoodThe Good resides in the natural world, in the web of relations among things and...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Java, Indonesia at a depth of 60 km (37.2 miles), the quake hit at 20:38:15 UTC Wednesday 15th February 2012 The epicenter was 86 km (53.4 miles) South of Banjar, Java...
The NASA New Horizons Pluto spacecraft's principal investigator will appear live with the weekly Google+ Space Hangout panel to discuss the mission and other cool space news from the week.
Just two days ago marked the 67th anniversary of what was probably one of the worse acts of criminal genocide conducted on innocent people in all of human history. I am of course, talking about the brutal...
"Last year I posted an article on the where the JFK assassination has led us to this day in history. In other words, a downward spiral from our Constitutional Republic to a police state. Since then, not ...
For the last few days we have seen a series of "terrorist" bombings take place in India, Thailand, and Georgia. When the attacks were reported on the Jewish controlled media outlets, I found it strange tha...
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There was one good alternative rock station on theFM dial. The station had been around for years and seemed to have a steadyformat and advertising success. That station played songs such as Muse’s andP...
*"What War With Iran Might Look Like"* by Philip Giraldi Back in September 2007 I wrote an article for Antiwar.com called “What World War III May Look Like.” The article, which presumed that an incident ...
It is all a big experiment. Let's see how it goes: @RogerPielkeJr
"Big, beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 7331 is often touted as an analog to our own Milky Way. About 50 million light-years distant in the northern constellation Pegasus, NGC 7331 was recognized early on as a s...
by Kurt Haskell Tomorrow at 1:00 P.M. is the sentencing hearing for the Underwear Bomber. This will likely be the final hearing in the case. The charges Umar took a plea to require a mandatory like senten...
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*[image: _McGrath001]Don’t look now. Dr Richard McGrath is back with his formerly regular column. This week: Is that a bird, or a plane? No, it’s a duck!* Assuming Trevor Mallard still possesses any shr...
I find myself wondering if the Harper Regime's snooping legislation is projection of, for instance, Vic Toews own experiences of having his *deposits of marital dishonesty *aired to the world. It doesn't s...
*"Virginia is for thugs and fugitive mental patients!"* *(proposed slogan for new state tourism campaign)* *"Imagine that a State were to enact a law that requires men to undergo an invasive rectal probin...
WANTED: BENJAMIN NETANYAHU AND BARACK OBAMA. CRIMES INCLUDE WARS OF AGGRESSION, STATE TERRORISM, MASS MURDER, GENOCIDE, CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT FRAUD, CRIMES AGAINST PEACE, AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY. REWA...
Corporate-fascist feel-good scam seeks to crush competition & establish global monopoly with army of NGOs. by Tony Cartalucci February 16, 2012 - Called "Revenue Watch" it claims to be "a non-profit polic...
Desperately seeking outrage, the GOPers are yelping like a pack of chihuahuas about Jim Messina's tweet: We demand that Mr. Messina immediately apologize and we ask that President Obama disavow his campai...
A Coruña, Galicia, Spain. Thanks for stopping by.
*"Know Thyself"* by Chet Raymo "The ancient Greek aphorism, attributed to Socrates and others. Good advice, I'm sure. If only we knew what it means. Is it the same as the "examination of conscience" we w...
"Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something- something else, something *more*, whether it be true love or a glimpse just beyond the horizon. It wa...
"He whose law is within himself walks in hiddenness. His acts are not influenced by approval or disapproval. He whose law is outside himself directs his will to what is beyond his control and seeks to ext...
Navajo Generating Station on the Navajo Nation near Page, Ariz. *Native America Calling: Coal fired power plants poisoning Native Americans* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.co...
* “Different Bodies, Different Minds: * *The Handedness Bias”* by Association for Psychological Science “We like to think of ourselves as rational creatures, absorbing information, weighing it carefully, a...
By L. Randall Wray For most of my career—going on 30 years--I’ve been accused of advocating Big Government. That is mostly because I adopted Hyman Minsky’s views—which I won’t go through here. Of course, ...
Over at Plum Line, I have a post up talking about what happens next if Rick Santorum wins in Michigan. That said...Intrade has Santorum at 56% and Romney at 44% to win Michigan, and if I were betting I'd ...
The eagerly anticipated Drummond report has been released - if you're into horror stories, by all means curl up by the fire and read the full 562 pages here. In it, Drummond offers 320 recommendations. Th...
One of the world's smallest nations may have found a low-cost solution to one of the world's biggest space problems.
Perhaps Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon (R-CA) doesn’t recall the outcome of former Rep. Anthony Weiner’s scandal when he falsely declared his Twitter account was hacked. Understandable, because McKeon has been...
Good Wednesday to you! I hope you all are having a wonderful day, and enjoyed your extra 10 minutes outside this week! We were so blessed to have a-ma-zing weather last Friday, so we spent an extra 2 hour...
Sean Trende tries to find a way to make a deadlocked* convention pan out by looking at the past for examples, but I think I see where he goes wrong, and it's instructive. Looking at 1984, Trende writes: B...
*"A Bad Week For Freedom"* by TheBurningPlatform “We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it ...
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I was pleased to see the results of a recent Environics survey about Canadians' attitudes towards immigrants and new Canadians. It's reassuring to know that the attitudes that led to an attack on a Muslim ...
An archaeologist believes she may have discovered an ancient mine that may lead to where the Queen of Sheba drew her wealth.
Ancient giant eruptions in the Pacific Northwest may actually have been caused by the tearing of a titanic slab of rock and not the supervolcano underlying Yellowstone National Park.
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A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Eastern Uzbekistan at a depth of 12 km (7.4 miles), the quake hit at 04:01:32 UTC Friday 17th February 2012 The epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) East of Qumqo'rg, Uzbekis...
A magnitude 3.0 earthquake has struck Nevada at a depth of 18.8 km (11.7 miles), the quake hit at 04:58:15 UTC Friday 17th February 2012 The epicenter was 15 km (9.3 miles) North of Sutcliffe, Nevada No Re...
Thanks to billionaire's legal battle, we now know a lot more about how the super-rich work. With his long limbs and delicate gait, Lord Mandelson could no doubt manage a quite convincing turn in Thunderb...
Andrew Pole had just started working as a statistician for Target in 2002, when two colleagues from the marketing department stopped by his desk to ask an odd question: “If we wanted to figure out if a cu...
Oil is the lifeblood of modern society, powering over 90% of our transportation fleet on land, sea, and air. Oil is also responsible for 95% of the production of all goods we buy and ultimately drives the...
This is the week of Xi Jinping, China’s vice-president who is inching toward taking up the oars as China’s helmsman by the end of the year at a defining period in China’s modern history as well as in cont...
AMMAN — Booming sounds continued to be heard in Amman and other central parts of Jordan on Thursday for the second day in a row. Residents of Amman, Madaba, Salt and the Jordan Valley said they heard the ...
MIAMI (CBS4) – People who are looking for the perfect match, both men and women, go online seeking a certain kind of arrangement. A “sugar baby” is typically younger and eager for adventure. A “sugar dad...
Sanjay Wagle was a venture capitalist and Barack Obama fundraiser in 2008, rallying support through a group he headed known as Clean Tech for Obama. Shortly after Obama’s election, he left his California ...
A Petco groomer cut off part of a puppy's ear and then tried to cover it up by gluing it back on, claims its devastated owner. Grandmother Gladys Kapuwi, who is now suing the firm, claims she took Pomeri...
After a year-long reprieve from rising foreclosures, the numbers are going up again. One in every 624 U.S. households received a foreclosure filing in January, up 3 percent from the previous month, accor...
China, the largest foreign lender to the U.S., reduced its holdings of Treasuries in December to the least since June 2010 amid efforts to assist Europe in addressing its debt crisis. The world’s second-...
*300,000 Organic Farmers Sue Monsanto in Federal Court: Decision on March 31st to Go to Trial* Original here Little did Willie Nelson know when he recorded “Crazy” years ago just how crazy it woul...
Yes, I have not been covering the situation in Greece in any of my articles so far. I have long looked at the collapse of the Greek economy and the enforcement of evil "austerity" measures by the crimina...
President Obama's border enforcement officials prevented over 13,000 dangerous hair dryers from entering the country, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) trumpeted today. "U.S. Customs and Border P...
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