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(CNN) -- Italian authorities on Friday arrested eight people in possession of an estimated $6 trillion in counterfeit U.S. Treasury bonds, according to Italian paramilitary police and an Italian news agen...
***Thais* There is a plot to break up Thailand. *Reportedly the plan is make the Patani region, in the south of Thailand, a separate Moslem state. * *This Moslem state would be like Kosovo - 'a Moslem Maf...
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*John Baird and the Ottawa Citizen seem to want a 'probe' to determine the source of @Vikileaks30. Probe what? ... the republishing of documents from the public record??* *-Ottawa Citizen seems to be a b...
FBI's nation-wide stable of patsies can be switched "live" at any moment. by Tony Cartalucci February 18. 2012 - The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has once again proven that the only thing America...
The FBI has confirmed the arrest Friday of a man suspected of plotting a suicide attack against the U.S. Capitol, which was first reported by Fox News. The unidentified man was arrested after a lengthy und...
Fine, have it *your way, Vic*. Public Safety Minister Vic Toews will request a parliamentary investigation into a Twitter account that's being used to post his personal information and is linked to an IP ...
Volunteers are drafted in to repair extensive damage to the UK-based component of the LOFAR array.
Feb 17 2012 p. A3 "Workers in technical fields ranging from architecture to software design account for 4.9% of the labor force in 2010, according to a new analysis of Census data being released on Friday...
*Priorities*, don'tcha know? - CP
*"Weekly News Wrap-Up 2.17.12”* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "The big story is the continued threat of World War III in the Middle East. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, this week, sanc...
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So the government which used the *private* medical records of Vets activist Sean Bruyea and Vets Review Board member Harold Leduc to smear them, and the *private* government correspondence of diplomat Rich...
"Gerald Celente, the founder of the Trends Research Institute gives RT's Marina Portnaya his predictions for the headlines of tomorrow. OWS movement, US presidential elections, economic embargo on Iran ar...
* “The Role of Youth Unemployment* * in Staving Off Default”* By Bill Bonner "The headlines still focus on Greece. It is broke. Here is Lucas Papademos, describing what an orderly default would mean. In t...
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The world is now teetering on the edge of madness, where the criminal terrorist state of Israel along with their slave puppets in the United States and NATO, are now rushing headlong into a confrontation w...
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While I have been focused here lately on incompetence in modern climate science (and in modern science generally), it needs to be emphasized that scholars throughout history have been thoroughly misguided ...
An oldie but goody. Daniel D. asks: Does the weakness of the Republican presidential field have anything to do with Obama's strength as an opposing candidate? Were younger guys who would've been stronger ...
*“Moochers Against Welfare”* By Paul Krugman “First, Atlas shrugged. Then he scratched his head in puzzlement. Modern Republicans are very, very conservative; you might even (if you were Mitt Romney) say...
Navajos protest Peabody to protect homelands in Navajo capitol of Window Rock, Ariz. Photo Sierra Club.*Navajo and Environmental Organizations Partner to Appeal Peabody’s Kayenta Coal Permit* *Appeal aims ...
Cyrus The Great freed the Jews. Now, Jewish pharaohs, with a state of their own, want to enslave his descendants. The Jews and modern day Romans in Washington want to wage war against Persia. Why are th...
Between concrete-clad South Korea and deforested North Korea, the demilitarized zone (DMZ) stands in sharp relief as a verdant refuge for rare plants and animals.
Would you go to the zoo to see a cloned wooly mammoth? Zoos are trying to figure out the future of their industry, and the ideas are big.
A Biased BBC reader draws our attention to some interesting information concerning one of our ..ahem..favourite BBC propagandists.... "For further analysis of how the BBC’s environment correspondent Richa...
Aw, look who DM'd Owen Jones after his Question Time appearance last night: What do you suppose she said? "You were awesome. We love you in the newsroom." "Agreed that left ideas don't get enough hearin...
Did you know that the BBC doesn't think that Jerusalem is in Israel? Check out this excellent post over on The Elder of Ziyon. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
A new Open Thread for you to take us off into the blue yonder of the weekend! ENJOY. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Bryan asks: I'm working through Polsby's How Congress Evolves, which details how liberal Democrats overcame the conservative coalition in the House. In the course of doing so, the House reforms seem to ha...
Only the BBC would dare to present Gordon Brown as some sort of model politician, not on the make, in any way. As B-BBC Alan points out; "Evan Davis stands guard over *the corpse of Gordon Brown's dignity...
*Jymn at LFR* has some stuff up on the Vikileaks30 twitter feed, the one that is sticking lines from Vic Toews divorce files on the interwebs. The posts are apparently sourced to House of Commons IP. I'...
By: Duane Craig Washington state is moving ahead with thecleanup of hundreds of parcels of land in Everett, where smelter operationsmore than 100 years ago contaminated the soil with arsenic, according ...
Long before he ever reared his head as a politician, *DWT* came across dirty FBI agent/crime figure, "Mikey Suits" as part of our investigation into organized crime figure "Gus" Kontogiannis and Duke Cun...
Singers need to train their vocal chords just like athletes train; but even the fittest singers strain with age.
Two linguists aim to save endangered languages using digital multimedia and the Internet.
*Strike The Root* [image: Photobucket] by JGVibes. Although the common perception of human nature is very negative, the truth is that most people who aren’t mentally ill have a very difficult time comm...
A Biased BBC reader notes; "I heard this story on Radio 1's Newsbeat last night, they were trying to claim that in the US 1 in 10 young people have been physically attacked in a relationship but then fou...
Biased BBC's Alan reports.... "The BBC trumpets on its frontpage a Greek tragedy for Greece's historical artifacts.....*'Armed robbers have stolen dozens of artefacts from a museum in Ancient Olympia -...
About 66 percent of people surveyed suffer from nomophobia, or "no mobile phone phobia."
Paro the seal robot is being offered to people made homeless by the disaster.
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Jan Mayen Island Region at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:52:22 UTC Friday 17th February 2012 The epicenter was 714 km (442.6 miles) Northwest o...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Jan Mayen Island Region at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:08:45 UTC Friday 17th February 2012 The epicenter was 724 km (448.8 miles) Northwest o...
[image: Climate science: What is more likely? A massive conspiracy with 90 percent of the global scientific community creating a hoax to ruin the world economy, or oil companies spending obscene profits ...
*This review for Wuthering Heights is full of spoilers, but I would surprised if you don't already know the story. * It took me a long time to read Wuthering Heights. I have seen so many different versi...
Scientists' strange sexual tendencies, the dark history of Valentine's Day and mysterious sounds. Time for This Week in Discovery News!
Commercial aircrafts are usually piloted by two men and it is so for a good reason. On Wednesday, captain Mr Jaroslav Váňa (58), a great and beloved pilot and a lover of his old Škoda 120 car, almost co...
A member of the Dutch royal family was severely injured in an avalanche at an Austrian ski resort Friday, local authorities told CNN. Prince Johan Friso, 43, a son of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, was ...
*FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2012 * *Expanding what Ezra Klein said:* Everybody has said it—once. Back in 2006, Ezra Klein sketched the remarkable history of the 2000 campaign for the White House. On its face, ...
[image: Link] Space scientists have caught a delayed glimpse of a cosmic blast that dazzled observers when it was seen from Earth more than 150 years ago. Astronomers are trying to unravel the mystery of ...
------------------------------ http://youtu.be/nQolgjRoHW4 *Judge Napolitano's Last Freedom Watch 2/13/2012* Uploaded by littletammy20 on Feb 14, 2012 I will miss him I hope another network picks him up...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Xizang (Tibet), China at a depth of 42.8 km (26.6 miles), the quake hit at 15:44:25 UTC Friday 17th February 2012 The epicenter was 116 km (72 miles) West of Lumaring...
Great graphic that aptly demonstrates the revolving door in action at one of the most ruthless American corporations Monsanto Employees in the Halls of Government By Jeremy Bloom, Red Green and Blue 16 ...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Komandorskiye Ostrova, Russia Region at a depth of 34.7 km (21.6 miles), the quake hit at 14:28:20 UTC Friday 17th February 2012 The epicenter was 197 km (122 mil...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 6.3 km (3.9 miles), the quake hit at 12:52:39 UTC Friday 17th February 2012 The epicenter was 113 km (70 miles) West of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanuatu...
Charlie asks: Is there anyone who analyzes where the MONEY in the primary season is being spent? TV? local parties? local consultants? Who is benefiting from an extended primary? Great question, but I on...
Charlie asks: Is there anyone who analyzes where the MONEY in the primary season is being spent? TV? local parties? local consultants? Who is benefiting from an extended primary? Great question, but I on...
*FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2012 * *Who does Obama’s accommodation accommodate:* Our public discourse rarely makes sense. Often, twists and turns in the public discourse seem to happen by magic. For ourselves...
BPA's Obesity And Diabetes Link Strengthened By New Study. The Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/14/bpa-chemical-hormone-obesity-diabetes_n_1276996.html?ref=daily-brief?utm_source=Dail...
New Poor Grows From Greek Middle Class By Johannes Korge and Ferry Batzoglou, Der Spiegel 17 February 12 http://www.readersupportednews.org/news-section2/355-europe/10011-new-poor-grows-from-greek-middle-c...
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*Had public outrage not raised the red flag on Vic Toew's internet security Bill, Canadian freedom, as we understand it, would have taken a serious body blow. The Conservatives tried to sneak this intrusi...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Tarapaca, Chile at a depth of 98.8 km (61.4 miles), the quake hit at 12:30:46 UTC Friday 17th February 2012 The epicenter was 151 km (93 miles) North of Calama, Antofa...
Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhai Jun said Beijing opposed armed intervention and forced "regime change" in Syria, a day before to heading to Damascus to push for an end to the conflict there. China and ...
The app features interviews, music and concerts performed by artists in NPR studios.
A while ago in the theater, I saw a preview for "The Hunger Games", a truly creepy movie that will likely become a doomer porn classic. It's so presciently malevolent that I may not be able to stand to w...
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wmtc - 5 hours ago
Further to the saga of dumping Rogers, this morning I ordered internet service through TekSavvy. (I had already called for information on how to switch and called Rogers to cancel my service.) The cus...
Flags will be lowered in New Jersey Saturday, the day of Whitney Houston’s funeral. But a Marine mom in Arlington says it’s an honor Houston doesn’t deserve. When Phyllis McGeath heard Gov. Chris Christ...
*FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2012* *If you don’t like the tax code, just wait:* If you don’t like the tax code, just wait! At one time, this bromide concerned New England’s famously changeable weather. Now, it...
[image: Ohio electric generation, by fuel, 2001-2011. EIA] By Valerie Volcovici 24 January 2012 NEW YORK – U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions will be 7 percent lower than their 2005 level of nearly 6 bi...
One bright spot in an otherwise dismal news cycle yesterday was the announcement that Pat Buchanan was fired from MSNBC. He blamed the vast left conspiracy, specifically Color of Change and Media Matters....
[image: M4 motorway near Swansea. walesonline.co.uk] By Claire Miller 14 February 2012 CAR use in Wales has decreased dramatically since the start of the economic crisis in 2007, latest figures show. T...
[image: Units five and six of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station are seen through a bus window in Futaba, Japan Saturday, 12 November 2011. David Guttenfelder / AP] By arevamirpal::laprimaver...
[image: Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology logo] By Sou from Bundangawoolaran 7 February 2012 Today the Bureau of Meteorology issued a Special Climate Statement: Australia's wettest two year p...
I'm pleased to announce that I've signed with Career Press to publish my new book, tentatively titled *Stand Up For Yourself Without Getting Fired: Resolve Workplace Crises Before You Quit, Get Fired, or S...
*FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2012* *Part 4—It’s time for the royals to act:* Are black kids doing better in school? How about Hispanic kids? Low-income students? Very poor children in very poor neighborhoods? H...
Waste becomes psychedelic public art.
An 'invisibility cloak' of rubber bumpers can send ground vibrations around buildings, keeping them intact.
You don't need sources inside Apple to have a decent idea of what the next iPad will be like.
Mardi Gras hangover remedies (trust us, you'll need them!) ~At Right: Hugemendous Editilla Crush, Actress and New Orleans native Patrica Clarkson was the honorary Muse as she rides in a giant shoe down St....
Well, it's Friday, and it's raining here, and my solution: Question Day! You ask 'em, I'll answer. Leave your questions in comments below, or tweet them or email them, and I'll give it my best shot. In th...
Last night the king of hackneyed superlatives, Arne Duncan, was on Jon Stewart's show demonstrating once again that there is an Orwellian platitude for every serious question, a punishing lie inside every ...
Two of the Wisconsin legislature's best members-- one from the Assembly, Mark Pocan, and one from the Senate, Chris Larson-- have teamed up to pull back the curtains of one of America's most insidious and...
Happy Birthday to Roger Craig. He's 82. When I was little, the Giants were a great team, and my memory stretches back to the end of that era, but my real memories of being a Giants fan was 1972-1985, when ...
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Like many Canadian activists, I am currently being bombarded with emails from Leadnow and Avaaz, pushing their "Cooperate for Canada" campaign. We are being urged to join the political party of our choice,...
Technically, "because I didn't have observational data." Working with experimental data requires only calculating means and reading a table. Also, this may be the most condescending comic strip about statis...
Archbishop Desmond Tutu and seven other Nobel laureates have written British prime minister David Cameron warning that Athabasca Tar Sands bitumen "*threatens the health of the planet." *The group is ur...
(Reuters) - Capital flight, soaring borrowing costs, tanking currency and stocks and a central bank forced to pump vast amounts of cash into local banks -- that is what Japan may have to contend with if i...
(Reuters) - Angela Merkel's hand-picked choice for the ceremonial post of president resigned on Friday in a scandal over political favors, dealing a blow to the German chancellor in the midst of the euro ...
(Reuters) - Optimism grew on Friday that Greece has finally done enough to secure a second bailout despite worsening relations with Germany, but doubts remained over lenders' demands for tighter supervisi...
Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- An explosion killed five people and injured several others in Pakistan's tribal region on Friday, a senior government official told CNN. Authorities were still trying to dete...
Anthony Shadid, who won two Pulitzer Prizes for his reporting from Iraq, died Thursday while reporting in eastern Syria, apparently of an asthma attack, The New York Times said. He was 43. The newspaper...
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After considering this contribution several weeks I believe the time has come to present the German psychologist, text-writer and comedian *Georg Schramm*. He belongs to the few excellent German 'kabarett...
Trips of a lifetime for thousands of holidaymakers have been wrecked after the collapse of an international budget airline. At least 4,000 passengers are stranded and sleeping on airport floors because A...
The parents of an eight-year-old boy who died from Hodgkin's Lymphoma after suffering for months from undiagnosed swollen glands were jailed for eight years after pleading guilty to denying him medical tr...
The odds of living a long life are much lower than previously thought.
David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy will today unveil plans for Britain and France to dramatically step up defence and nuclear co-operation with a new pilotless fighter jet. The two leaders will use a summ...
The Venus Express spacecraft has peered through the crushing and poisonous atmosphere of the planet, and found that it's spinning slower than expected. Using the orbiter's VIRTIS spectrograph at infrared ...
The editor of a leading science journal has said that it is hi duty to publish details of controversial research into a mutant H5N1 bird flu virus. Far deadlier than normal flu, the H5N1 strain kills roug...
The West is losing the heroin war in Afghanistan – ten years after Tony Blair pledged that wiping out the drug was one of the main reasons for invading the country. Despite spending £18billion and a conf...
A member of staff from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has lost a USB stick containing a safety assessment of a nuclear power plant. The data was misplaced by an employee of the Office for Nuclear R...
Infighting in the Eurozone risks 'utterly destroying' Greece, a Foreign Office minister warned last night. Lord Howell, father-in-law to the Chancellor George Osborne, told peers that Britain was pressin...
A British Airways flight steward has been charged with making a mid-air bomb threat, police said today. Matthew Davis, 22, was on the Tokyo to London flight with 150 passengers on board when it is allege...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 33.8 km (21 miles), the quake hit at 11:26:48 UTC Friday 17th February 2012 The epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) NNW from Santo (Luganville), Vanua...
Leaked documents highlight a think-tank's plan to seed climate change confusion.
Police in Telford are appealing for information after a concrete block was dropped from a bridge over a busy road and hit a passing vehicle. The incident happened just before 10pm last night(Thursday 16 F...
A US federal agent who pulled a gun on his boss and repeatedly fired at him has been killed by a colleague, the FBI has said. The agent started shooting at his supervisor at about 5:30pm local time in a...
A bus driver who deliberately crashed his vehicle into a cyclist knocking him off his bike has been jailed for 17 months. Gavin Hill was shown on CCTV in an exchange with cyclist Phillip Mead before he ...
I’d like to make a statement about the growing crisis in the Americas. It’s time for justice. It’s time for liberty. It’s time to end the ludicrous and archaic commitment to colonialist ideology. It’s tim...
Britain should play its part to end this Greek tragedy by standing up for the underdog. For all of my adult life, support for the European Union has been seen as the mark of a civilised, reasonable and ...
Yesterday’s cold, sparse unemployment figures had a human face. Michael Taylor, an unemployed teacher, appeared on the BBC 10 O’Clock News and spoke in uncompromising terms of what it meant for him to be ...
ISLAMABAD - The proposed transnational Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India (TAPI) gas pipeline project is fast emerging as a geopolitical disquiet between the two major powers - the United State...
Scientists fear that with the disappearance of the Arctic sea ice in summer coupled with the rapidly rising temperatures across the entire Arctic region, trapped methane could be suddenly released into th...
Bolivia: Government Responds to UFO Information Request By Carlos Guzmán Rojas, C.I.F.E.E.E.A.C. [This information was provided by Carlos Guzmán, director of Mexico’s C.I.F.E.E.E.A.C. researc...
Many Americans know that despite the economic depression Americans are suffering under, the politicians in Washington are still sending well over $3 BILLION tax dollars every year to the Jewish state of I...
Germany’s Wolfgang Schäuble is entering into ever more dangerous waters. His apparent demand that Greece postpone elections scheduled for April, and impose a technocrat junta (a l’Italiana) for another ye...
The Government’s decision to scrap Vince Cable’s loan shark wheeze to punish numerate graduates who repay student debts as promptly as possible is a welcome outbreak of common sense. But it should not be...
Over the last several weeks, there have been many news headlines containing the words "Iran" and "nuclear capability." If you listen closely, you can almost hear the drumbeats of a fresh war in the Middle...
During his 1961 farewell address, President Dwight D. Eisenhower famously warned the American people that one of the greatest threats to freedom came not from enemies abroad but from “the conjunction of an...
IAE made up of former Energy ministers said in a release that the current energy situation in Argentina is no surprise: it was expected since there are “no long term policies for the industry, a total lac...
The anti-religion enforcers of the ACLU and Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) are out in force once again, sniffing for any sign of faith, worship, or Christian symbols at schools, court houses, or ...
“Parents are useless. The state is God.” That, says NaturalNews.com editor Mike Adams, was the message conveyed when a North Carolina state agent told a preschooler the lunch her mother had packed for her...
In 2010, American Thinker posted an interesting defense of a flat tax, noting that it would help preserve privacy and freedom of speech by eliminating the need for the federal government to know virtually...
The debt chickens are coming home to roost in Greece, and the hen house is collapsing. As the hard-pressed Greek parliament convened to vote on an enormously unpopular austerity measure insisted upon by i...
The anniversary of the Allied bombing of Dresden on February 13 and 14, 1945 has become an increasingly contentious memory for thousands of Germans. Historians have debated the military value of the old a...
Middle East oil transit routes are at risk from Islamist revolutions and Iranian threats. Does Syria present an opportunity for the West to bypass the most troubling oil chokepoints? Is that a strong driv...
Greece's culture minister has resigned after armed robbers raided the ancient Olympia museum - the birthplace of the Olympic Games. The thieves took bronze and pottery artefacts just weeks after the coun...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 26.6 km (16.5 miles), the quake hit at 09:32:59 UTC Friday 17th February 2012 The epicenter was 17 km (10 miles) Northwest of Van, Turkey ...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 491.2 km (305.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:50:26 UTC Friday 17th February 2012 The epicenter was 175 km (108 miles) ESE of Lambasa, Vanu...
Egyptian Salafist preacher Mohammed Hassan has called for the replacement of U.S. aid to Egypt with local donations, Egyptian daily Al-Ahram reported on Wednesday. Egypt receives around $1.3 billion annu...
'Corporate paedophilia' is a worrying global trend on the rise. For those who might have missed it, Witchery has just launched a new clothing range for eight- to 14-year-old girls called "8fourteen". In a...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Jujuy, Argentina at a depth of 224.5 km (139.5 miles), the quake hit at 08:17:54 UTC Friday 17th February 2012 The epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) WNW of Abra Pampa, Ju...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Southern Greece at a depth of 17.1 km (10.6 miles), the quake hit at 08:05:05 UTC Friday 17th February 2012 The epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) WSW of ATHENS, Greece No...
The Russian energy giant has a lot riding on the success of a massive new gas field 250 miles above the Arctic Circle. So does Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin. The priest in the seat next to me is grippin...
The Eurasian steppes historically represented a serious security dilemma for Russia's rulers; without natural barriers to hinder the advance of invaders, the flat Russian borderlands proved nearly impossi...
Three 'Iranian' bomb suspects at a restaurant in Pattaya. Masoud Sedaghat Zadeh, left, was arrested in Malaysia, Mohammad Khazaei, centre, was detained at Suvarnabhumi Airport, and Saied Moradi was badly ...
The report from The New York Times on Wednesday about the foreclosure settlement reached between five big banks and 49 states’ attorneys general made it appear that justice was being served. The $26 billi...
There’s an old adage that goes something like this: “The human capacity to create technology exceeds our capacity to understand its impact.” Lots of people have referred to this idea, Einstein perhaps mos...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck offshore Bio-Bio, Chile at a depth of 11.4 km (7.1 miles), the quake hit at 08:01:17 UTC Friday 17th February 2012 The epicenter was 54 km (33 miles) NNW of Lebu, Bio...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Sulawesi, Indonesia at a depth of 18.5 km (11.5 miles), the quake hit at 07:47:19 UTC Friday 17th February 2012 The epicenter was 152 km (94 miles) WNW of Palopo, Sul...
Moody's warned last night that it may cut the credit ratings of 17 global and 114 European financial institutions in another sign that the eurozone debt crisis is spreading throughout the global financial...
(FOX19) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is back on track after winning the Maine caucuses. What the headlines haven't told you is that what happened in Maine is the messiest caucus Repu...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck New Zealand at a depth of 20 km (12.4 miles), the quake hit at 07:54:35 UTC Friday 17th February 2012 The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) Southeast of Masterton, New Ze...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Halmahera, Indonesia at a depth of 83.8 km (52.1 miles), the quake hit at 07:24:20 UTC Friday 17th February 2012 The epicenter was 143 km (88 miles) Northeast of Tern...
A suspected gunman is among two people who have been found dead in the charred remains of a house in Hollywood, Los Angeles. His body, and a second dead victim, were found after the blaze was out and fi...
German President Christian Wulff is to resign over a loan scandal, he has announced. The country's opposition party had called on Mr Wulff to step down from the largely ceremonial role after state prosecu...
*A deal with France to strengthen co-operation in the development of civil nuclear energy signed by UK. An announcement about joint development of a future unmanned aircraft is also expected.* UK and Fre...
"The earth turns, but we don't feel it move. And one night you look up. One spark and the whole sky is on fire." - From "Gangs of New York." (2002, Director Martin Scorsese, Screenwriters Jay Cocks, Stev...
Smokey, 12-year-old gray and white tabby cat in Northampton, England has the world's largest purr according to Guinness World Records. Alisdair Tait/Northampton College/Associated Press. Photo courtesy: cb...
In fairness, it has nothing to dowith the next generation. It has to dowith cell replacement which can be upon us in a couple of decades. It is easy to imagine a protocolthat reverses senescence and su...
This is not a common event in Europe, but the mechanism is now quite clear. A colder period of climate could well producedevastating conditions and even freeze the Rhine and the Thames. Thus answerin...
This is a reminder that humanityhas always been keen to take his favorite plants home with him and to establishtheir horticulture close at hand. Sometimesit did not work, but those were the exceptions....
There are a number of reports outthere that tell of a reptilian derived species that is humanoid and appears tolive within the earth. I have alsoposted a report of an interview with one such creature ...
Photo courtesy: don_macauley/CC BY 2.0 Freshwater, or river, dolphins are by their very nature a rarity in the world. Only four species are known, with two in Asia and two in South America — one of the As...
Very short clip; but, shows exactly how this is designed to work. Video courtesy: youtube.com The fierce summer heat in the Gulf has led to concerns about conditions for players and fans at the tourname...
Giant African land snails are shown to the media as the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services announces it has positively identified a population of the invasive species in Miami-Dade cou...
Would giving poor students more books solve the achievement gap? Matthew Haag/Reporter mhaag@dallasnews.com Feb. 16, 2012 DMN reporter Dianne Solis is attending the 41st annual convention of the Nationa...
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Dr Cintli - 15 hours ago
A high school student who addressed the school board this Tues about the TUSD-MAS controversy was reportedly pulled out of his classroom yesterday by security personnel. There is more to the story (and thi...
Russia’s options regarding the situation in Syria and Iran are limited. But if somebody needs the Russian support in Syria and, especially, in Iran, that would come at a price, argues Yevgeny Satanovsky. ...
In the most comprehensive analysis of its kind to date, scientists have used NASA satellites to gauge just how much of the world's ice has been lost to the oceans. Their results? Data collected over eight...
In the years of conscious, self-inflicted decline at home, “losses” continued to mount elsewhere. In the past decade, for the first time in 500 years, South America has taken successful steps to free itsel...
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*Diné CARE Opposes Kyl, McCain legislation settling water claims with Navajo Nation, Hopi Tribe* By Dine' CARE Censored News Dilkon, Arizona (Navajo Nation) -- Diné Citizens Against Ruining Our Environm...
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 *fi...
“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...
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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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*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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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...
*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 cavern...
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...
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The operation of the NPT treaty requires Iran be open about nuclear technology implementation. Reassurance they are doing so means they are honouring their commitment.Note North Korea's reasons for not participating. )
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...
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A sodium detector at Japan's prototype fast-breeder reactor Monju went out of order, the government's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said Thursday. But neither sodium leakage nor d...
(CNN) -- Italian authorities on Friday arrested eight people in possession of an estimated $6 trillion in counterfeit U.S. Treasury bonds, according to Italian paramilitary police and an Italian news agen...
***Thais* There is a plot to break up Thailand. *Reportedly the plan is make the Patani region, in the south of Thailand, a separate Moslem state. * *This Moslem state would be like Kosovo - 'a Moslem Maf...
*John Baird and the Ottawa Citizen seem to want a 'probe' to determine the source of @Vikileaks30. Probe what? ... the republishing of documents from the public record??* *-Ottawa Citizen seems to be a b...
The FBI has confirmed the arrest Friday of a man suspected of plotting a suicide attack against the U.S. Capitol, which was first reported by Fox News. The unidentified man was arrested after a lengthy und...
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