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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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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...
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...
*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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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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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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Biased BBC - 10 hours ago
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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Biased BBC - 11 hours ago
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 milit...
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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CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours ago
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. by Tony Cartalucci February 16, 2012 - Called "Revenue Watch" it claims to be "a non-profit policy institute and g...
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...
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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.
A woman of 26 is being questioned after a teenage girl was found with fatal stab wounds in a park on Tuesday afternoon. South Yorkshire Police have launched a murder inquiry following the death of 13-ye...
(Reuters) - NATO is to buy five U.S.-made unmanned drone aircraft capable of countering Afghan insurgents, hunting pirates off Somalia or monitoring arms embargoes, an alliance official said on Wednesday....
(Reuters) - Iran proclaimed advances in nuclear know-how on Wednesday, including new centrifuges able to enrich uranium much faster, a move that may hasten a drift towards confrontation with the West ...
Feb. 15 - Ships are trapped by ice in the frozen Azov Sea, as unusually cold weather sweeps across Russia's southern regions. Travis Brecher reports.
London (CNN) -- 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 ...
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...
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* Army officer whistleblower says we're being LIED to by the go...
*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 ...
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...
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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...
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...
*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...
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...
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 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...
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...
posted by Big Dan at Big Dan's Big Blog - 1 day 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* Army officer whistleblower says we're being LIED to by the go...
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