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[image: Australia rainfall deciles for the 15 years, January 1997 to December 2011. bom.gov.au] In light of the exceptionally wet two-year period (2010–2011) we have updated maps from the Special Climat...
Nature-loving tourists have been warned not to climb Mount Gamalama in
North Maluku after the frequently active volcano started emitting ash again over the past week. Darno Lamane, of Gamalama’s observat...
BEIJING (AP) -- A seating section has collapsed at a concert by
Hong Kong pop star Wang Fei in southwest China, injuring 64 people. The state-run
Beijing News says concertgoers suffered cuts, broken bones...
More than 30 people, many of them foreign tourists, have been rushed to hospital after a chlorine leak at a hotel swimming pool on the Thai resort island of Phuket. The accident occurred shortly after 10...
GUWAHATI, Feb 17 – An unexpected rise of typhoid and viral fever cases in the city has baffled a section of doctors, who agree that young children are particularly vulnerable to the diseases. A large num...
Photo by John Carroll--February 18, 2012This is the Internal Medicine Department at St. Catherine Laboure Hospital in Cite Soleil. Doctors Without Borders quit staffing the hospital in December, 2011. MSPP...
[image: Union of Concerned Scientists logo]Union of Concerned Scientists 17 February 2012 WASHINGTON – Seven leading climate researchers who themselves were the victims of an email theft which was pro...
In towns and cities across Libya, celebrations took place marking the first anniversary of the uprising that led to the overthrow of Col Gaddafi, but hundreds of former rebels are still armed and many bel...
And if you don't recognize what Vic Toews was (and still is) attempting to do, you're not paying attention. Toews had (and still has) every intention of sending "inspectors" into your Internet Service Pro...
Impossible to say, since black and white are the only two colors that are polar opposites on the light spectrum. But if we had to choose a color that's the perfect analogue of lavender, the more or less o...
A disembodied foot in a hiking boot that was found last November has been identified as the remains of a man who went missing a quarter century ago after boating on a British Columbia lake. The boot was ...
Walkers in Blackpool were left bemused after 100ft long footprints appeared in the sand. The prints gave the impression that a giant had crossed the sand. But they were actually the creation of a pair of ...
Just a year after outbreaks of swine flu killed more than 500 people, the country is having a much-needed reprieve from the dreaded winter curse. The Health Protection Agency (HPA), which monitors outbrea...
Iran's nuclear ambitions could plunge the world into 'a new Cold War' with the Middle East, Foreign Secretary William Hague warned today. He predicted a nuclear arms race among rival Middle Eastern states...
Police today revealed the identity of a 'dangerous man' they are hunting over the murder of vicar John Suddards at his vicarage. Detective Chief Inspector Simon Crisp, of Avon and Somerset Police, said t...
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Buckdog - 1 hour ago
I have banged heads with fellow blogger, Jeff Jedras a number of times in some old fashioned *NDP VS Libs* battles. HOWEVER, he is 'dead on' with his observations concerning how the MSM is handling the cur...
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A local official reported a NATO helicopter crashed Saturday in eastern Afghanistan, though there was no immediate confirmation from coalition forces. A spokesman for NATO's I...
A computer program that reserves slots at an intersection might be a way to ease gridlock and boost safety.
*I know it's a little early, but then again, we are up early.* *Looks like we are all going hungry today. * "Patrick’s budget would cut senior meals; Decry plan for cut in food program" by Martine Power...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 36.8 km (22.9 miles), the quake hit at 14:20:31 UTC Saturday 18th February 2012 The epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) ...
*Hasbara* for $1600, Alex! Back in January, a $1000 first-round clue on * Jeopardy!*, falling under the category "Judea," asked, "Galilee, Samaria & Judea in the south were the 3 traditional divisions of th...
Adolf Hitler had a son with a French teenager while serving as a soldier during the First World War, according to new evidence. Jean-Marie Loret, who died in 1985 aged 67, never met his father, but went ...
If you read my post below, you would know that I was not happy about the way I was treated at court the day I was to give my victim impact statement. Thus, not wanting to make a decision while angry, I sle...
CALMECAC ABYA YALA IN IMIUH TENAMAZTLE La Flecha de Tenamaztle : Arrow of Tenamaztle 2012 Wednesday March 14 – Friday March 16 Tucson to Phoenix Inline image 1 Alianza Indigena Sin Fronteras Submission to t...
------------------------------ *Ben Swann Reality Check: Vote tampering in Maine GOP caucus? Rigged for Romney? * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ktJ3LDt6jQ Uploaded by jeffr0xicity on Feb 14, 2012 Tel...
*Trying to catch votes*: Brown rips fishing agency over purchase of 'party boat' Fed boat bought with fines used for fun *Your government hard at work, dear Americans.* *And why was the lame excuse in my...
Argentina: The Fito Vivas Cases (Miramar, 1968) By Andrea Pérez Simondini – Visión OVNI Life can be unbelievable at times. I spent all these days in January (2011) discussing the differenc...
------------------------------ *Internet Voting: Will Democracy or Hackers Win? * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgZewQYZK7w Uploaded by PBSNewsHour on Feb 16, 2012 While it seems like everything can be...
------------------------------ IN HONOR OF THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE WISCONSIN UPRISING, February 11, 2011, WISCONSIN: THE NEW FLORIDA AND OHIO? Written by Sheila Parks World News Fe...
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Thanks to James and Stephanie and everyone else who sent me these. From Peace Love & Pitbulls.
[image: Vietnam 064] Our social science faculty association organized a trip to Vietnam last week. It was pretty fascinating. It was my first trip, and I don’t speak the language, so obviously I am qual...
A convention of scientists has asked our Furious Leader to be less of an authoritarian, undemocratic asshole. There, I said it. In an open letter to His Majesty, King Steve, the American Association for...
State gives green light for autonomous vehicles.
*Oh, no, we give away enough tax dollars** on the stuff. Just don't want to pay the higher rates(?)*. "Green electricity finds few customers in Mass." January 28, 2012|By David Abel Five years after NSta...
Endymion still may roll Saturday; NOMTOC, Iris move to Sunday, Tucks to Monday ~Flambeaux wait for the Krewe of Hermes parade on Magazine and Napoleon Ave. in New Orleans, Louisiana, Friday, February 17, 2...
Thursday Roland asked, facetiously, whether Wolfgang Schäuble and the German and Wall Street banksters were going to make Greece sell any islands or give away naming rights to sites like the Parthenon. I...
*The filthy tribe of child-molesters once again show their soulless cold black emptiness as they scorn and ridicule the tragic horrible deaths of innocent little children. I have NO respect for yiddish kha...
I'm going to delve clumsily into IR Theory here, so I'd be grateful to get some feedback on the question of the 'Realist' minimum. In a fascinating post recently on US-China relations, Stephen Walt wrote: ...
Syrian forces have reportedly opened fire on a large crowd gathered for the funerals of anti-regime demonstrators in the capital Damascus. Activists said there was "sustained gunfire" and the forces also ...
As a part of the "DenierGate", green activists at Think Progress have created a list of 19 most charitable corporations in America (using the Heartland Institute documents). These great companies have do...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Preliminary tests appear to rule out radiation from Japan's tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant as the cause of mysterious deaths and illness that struck scores of ...
HALIFAX - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is investigating after seafood company Cooke Aquaculture reported a possible virus outbreak at one of its fish farms in Nova Scotia. The New Brunswick-based ...
Humane Society of US Urges Californians to Voice Concern About Dan Richards' Leadership Apparently Dan Richards, the new president of California Fish and Game Commission likes to hunt and is willing to tr...
Israel has reached a $1 billion preliminary deal to buy 30 Italian military training jets, Israeli defense officials said Thursday, providing a long-awaited upgrade to what is widely viewed as the most adv...
The F-15SG Strike Eagle fighter jet of the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) at the Singapore Airshow. Read More
Canadian Snipers with C14 Timberwolf MRSWS (Medium Range Sniper Weapon System) sniper rifle in Afghanistan. Read More
Scripps scientists propose mass melting as new force behind volcanic activity in Columbia River region Like a stream of air shooting out of an airplane’s broken window to relieve cabin pressure, scientis...
Photos of the Chinese Shi Lang (Ex-Varyag) aircraft carrier at the Dalian Port. People's Liberation Army Navy has recently started the sea trails of the Shi Lang (Ex-Varyag) aircraft carrier. Read More
CLEVELAND: Satellite images show that dome has grown in the last week. A lava dome is growing at Cleveland Volcano as its current slow eruption continues, a sign that the restless Aleutian volcano could p...
Defense Attaché at the Pakistani embassy in Sultanate of Oman, Captain Naveed Anwar Cheema that F-22P PNS Zulfiquar (251) warship, Agosta 90B class diesel attack submarines (SSK) PNS/M Hamza (S139) Read More
New photo of the Sino-Pak ZDK-03 Airborne Early Warning and Control System (AEW&C) Karakoram Eagle in China. Read More
The concern that hydraulic fracturing of shale formations to extract natural gas is contaminating groundwater is overstated, claims a new report. Researchers reviewing the available data in the US found n...
(Reuters) - A suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest outside a mosque in a Shi'ite neighborhood Friday in Pakistan's northwestern Kurram tribal region, killing at least 26 people, government official...
DAMASCUS: A senior Chinese envoy called for all sides in Syria to stop the violence and for elections to go ahead peacefully after Damascus talks with President Bashar al-Assad on Saturday, state media sa...
*Maldives * Both the USA and China take an interest in the Maldives. On 7 February 2012, there was a coup in the Maldives. President Mohammed Nasheed was replaced by his vice-president Mohammed Waheed Ha...
*Experts have delayed a result on whether controversial research into the H5N1 bird flu virus should be unconfined*. In last year the controversy is centered on two research papers - one of which was sub...
Pakistan and India have unresolved disputes that have taken them to war in the past, future wars cannot be ruled out either. India has always tried to hegemonic her neighbours, some she has annexed. In tod...
TSURUGA (Kyodo) --Kansai Electric Power Co. said Friday it will suspend its only remaining active reactor -- the No. 3 reactor at the Takahama nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture -- for a regular checkup ea...
Strategically located Indian Air Force (IAF) airbases at Bathinda, Srinagar and Bagdogra will now deploy the latest armed helicopters - the Mi-17 V5 - that provide crucial all-terrain night-flying capabili...
Feb 18 - An electrical fault is blamed for a blaze at a Lima shopping centre that put dozens in hospital. Paul Chapman reports.
Feb 18 - Jail inmates donate food and time to help villagers trapped in snow after weeks of winter storms.Paul Chapman reports
Feb 18 - The whereabouts of two guards are under the spotlight after the theft of ancient artifacts from the Museum of the History of the Olympic Games. Paul Chapman reports.
Israeli journalist Yossi Melman has written a fascinating piece in Tablet Magazine called "Face Off". He notes that "The Israeli leadership is at war with itself over Iran: In one corner, Bibi Netanyahu a...
(CNN) -- Mexico's president called on U.S. officials to stop gun trafficking across the border Thursday, saying the move would be the best thing Americans could do to stop brutal drug violence. "The crim...
Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- In Tripoli, "no guns" signs outnumber ones that say, "no smoking." Khadija Teri made that telling observation in her blog a few days back. She witnessed men drawing weapons while...
(CNN) -- In Syria's cyberwar, the regime's supporters have deployed a new weapon against opposition activists -- computer viruses that spy on them, according to an IT specialist from a Syrian opposition g...
*(CNN)* -- Resolute in the face of their government's bloody, incessant crackdown, opposition activists are planning a massive protest and joint funeral Saturday -- not far from President Bashar al-Assad'...
*A new report reveals that the concern that hydraulic fracturing of shale formations to remove natural gas is contaminating groundwater is overstated. * Fracking has been hailed as an energy game-changer,...
Obama administration officials reportedly believe sanctions will not stop Tehran pursuing its nuclear programme, leaving the US with no option but to launch an attack on Iran. While the president has ind...
During a trip to a Boeing plant in Washington on Friday, President Obama lauded the work conducted by its workers in South Carolina - just months after he tried to close the factory there. The president'...
We just learned that the FBI might shut off the internet for millions of people in an effort to rid the country's Internet infrastructure of the DNSChanger Trojan. You should really check if you're infecte...
Miniscule robot-like devices built from DNA could be used to seek out and destroy cancer cells, according to a new study. The so-called nanorobots, made using a technique called DNA origami, use a simila...
Sailors on board a luxury cruising yacht had a lucky escape today after a Greek helicopter rescued them from their sinking vessel. The terrified crew had scrambled to the highest point on the 60 metre (1...
An astronomer who has spent three decades hunting for the source of a transmission which is believed by many to be proof of alien life says it may have come from an interstellar 'lighthouse'. Since 1982,...
Today's dismounted warfighter can be saddled with more than 100 pounds of gear, resulting in physical strain, fatigue, and degraded performance. To help alleviate the impact of excess weight on troops, ...
Google and Facebook may have used a computer 'trick' that allows them to monitor web browsing via Apple's Safari browser to build up advertising 'profiles' - circumventing Apple's safety measures. The se...
We can see from this that therush to bring the Rossi Focardi Rector to the market is well in hand and that deliverablesare short months away. Whatever the final consensus that arises regarding thetheor...
This is rather important for lungcancer risks. Particularly since it canalso differentiate between types, it actually becomes a clear first choice. Scan and the follow up biopsy is hard on thepatient...
I think that this applieswonderfully to our friend the bumble bee and provides us a neatexplanation. Scale it up to human sizeand we will have a different matter altogether. We are informed however t...
One thing now obvious from thisarticle is that there is plenty a government can do to protect and warn itspeople living on the coast. The simpleststep is to ensure every land transfer has a declaration...
Eastern European criminals were responsible for more than 11,000 crimes in London last year. Nationals of Poland, Romania and Lithuania are most likely of all foreigners to be prosecuted by the police, a...
"It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking." - Ron Paul, End The Fed. "Technology, it is clear, was a means of escaping from the confines of realit...
Anti-mafia investigators have found fake US treasury bonds with a face value of $6trn (£3.8trn) hidden in a Swiss bank vault. The bonds were discovered inside false compartments in three reinforced meta...
A driver has told Sky News just how close he came to serious injury or worse after a concrete block was dropped from a bridge onto his pick-up truck. Callum Jackson, 23, from Worcester, said it was "as ...
A new virus is causing lambs to be born with deformities so severe that they die within seconds. It is thought midges brought the Schmallenberg virus to Britain from continental Europe last autumn. The...
*Armed robbers have stolen dozens of artifacts from a Greek museum dedicated to the history of the early Olympics. Police have cordoned off the museum as investigations continue inside. It is not clear h...
Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons could plunge the world into "a new Cold War", Foreign Secretary William Hague has said. Mr Hague warned a nuclear arms race among rival Middle Eastern countries would c...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 71.6 km (44.5 miles), the quake hit at 04:50:22 UTC Saturday 18th February 2012 The epicenter was 146 km (90 mi...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Minahasa, Sulawesi, Indonesia at a depth of 192.4 km (119.6 miles), the quake hit at 02:59:25 UTC Saturday 18th February 2012 The epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) WSW o...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Libertador O'Higgins, Chile at a depth of 42 km (26.1 miles), the quake hit at 02:06:29 UTC Saturday 18th February 2012 The epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) WNW of Curi...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Hokkaido, Japan Region at a depth of 50.7 km (31.5 miles), the quake hit at 01:59:10 UTC Saturday 18th February 2012 The epicenter was 110 km (68 miles) Southeast...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck offshore Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 47.2 km (29.3 miles), the quake hit at 01:38:05 UTC Saturday 18th February 2012 The epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) SSW of Salina...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck offshore Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 29.7 km (18.5 miles), the quake hit at 01:34:23 UTC Saturday 18th February 2012 The epicenter was 72 km (44 miles) SSW of Salina...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 33.8 km (21 miles), the quake hit at 00:38:38 UTC Saturday 18th February 2012 The epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) SS...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Morocco at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 00:28:25 UTC Saturday 18th February 2012 The epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) Northwest of Fes, Morocco No Re...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 192.1 km (119.4 miles), the quake hit at 22:31:58 UTC Friday 17th February 2012 The epicenter was 270 km (167 miles) North of ...
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Biased BBC - 11 hours ago
A while back, the BBC followed the lead of their brethren in the Left-wing US media and tried to get you to think the Occupiers were similar to the Tea Party movement. This was done because - to the media'...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Barat Daya, Indonesia at a depth of 156.5 km (97.2 miles), the quake hit at 19:42:55 UTC Friday 17th February 2012 The epicenter was 324 km (201 miles) ENE ...
*Google has been accused of bypassing the privacy settings of users of the Safari web-browser. Advertisers can use cookies to trail online behavior, helping them to target the commercials they show to in...
Almost half a year after its demise, the Tevatron still seems to be intellectually alive. The CDF Collaboration plans to publish several papers. One of them is a new high precision measurement of the W-b...
It may not be the long-awaited news about a Higgs boson discovery, but an "interesting" announcement will soon come from scientists analyzing data from the Tevatron particle accelerator.
Enenews is running a news story covering the seal deaths in Alaska. Enenews: NOAA: No radiation levels that would “directly” cause seal deaths, Fukushima not a “primary factor” — AP misreports this as “sc...
*[A]* *[B]* *[C]* *[D]* (Apologies for the surface noise in *[A]*, which you'll no doubt realize comes from an LP.) *by Ken* This week we're finishing up the series we began last week of "Impressions ...
Cello/sci-fi/heavy-metal nerds, all my favorites rolled into one.
Mexico's president called on U.S. officials to stop gun trafficking across the border Thursday, saying the move would be the best thing Americans could do to stop brutal drug violence. "The criminals have...
Haven't heard this new Bruce Springstein album yet and the reviewer is bit hyperbolic but the quotes from the Boss are good. "A big promise has been broken. You can't have a United States if you are tell...
*Let's start at the top, shall we?* "Mild winter in Lower 48 is harsh elsewhere" February 02, 2012|Associated Press WASHINGTON - Snow has gone missing in action for much of the United States the last cou...
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CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours ago
*CROUCHING WHILE MEXICAN* *TUSD escalates militarization of its meetings* *By Roberto Rodriguez* *Censored News* TUCSON -- A high school student who addressed the school board this Tuesday about the Tucson...
*"Below the Surface: Finding Deep Strength"* by The DailyOm "When we look back on our lives we see that we have survived many trials and often to our own amazement. We have all faced moments in our lives ...
MOSSAD at it again? This time destroying WHOLE countries, including JAPAN? The use of nukes to cause earthquakes or Tsunamis was researched way back in 1940's. This is old science given a new 21st Century...
"Marijuana in car gift-wrapped, police say COEUR d’ALENE, Idaho - A Washington state man faces felony marijuana trafficking charges after an officer found 3.3 pounds of marijuana wrapped up as Ch...
"Indiana governor signs right to work into law; Law prohibits mandatory union fees" by Monica Davey | new york times, February 02, 2012 Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, who had once said that he did not w...
"Malnourished Wis. girl abused for years" by Associated Press | February 16, 2012 MILWAUKEE — A severely malnourished Wisconsin teenager found walking barefoot in pajamas outside in the cold last week h...
Vangelis, "Hymn" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB7fnZ-AQNE&feature=fvwrel
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wmtc - 15 hours ago
In case you haven't done so already, you'll want to read Dr. Dawg on the Vic Toews phony scandal, internet surveillance, and the mind-boggling hypocrisy of the both the Conservatives and the mainstream med...
*"Gary Carter was often seen hugging somebody," George Vecsey writes. "It was easy to joke about that. The best hug of all was with Jesse Orosco at the end of the 1986 World Series."* *"Up close, Carter w...
*Who said they could?* "Risking union ire, Romney slams Santorum’s labor votes" by Michael Levenson | Globe Staff, February 17, 2012 Mitt Romney is taking an antiunion stance in Michigan, attacking Rick...
"Santorum’s bid fueled by 2 wealthy contributors" February 09, 2012|By Shira Schoenberg Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum’s super PAC is funded almost entirely by two men: Foster Friess and John Templeto...
*And Mitt stepped in s***! * "Protesters rally against Romney at dog show NEW YORK - About a dozen demonstrators - with a few pooches - rallied against Mitt Romney yesterday outside the Westminster Kennel...
...get them away from the computer. Because what follows is so incredibly no more suitable for young, innocent eyes than it's work safe. Because JP just got over his seemingly years-long, terminal c...
"Obama fund-raising tapping the 1 percent SAN FRANCISCO - President *Obama is preaching an economic message aimed at the 99 percent* and *raising campaign cash among the 1 percent*, walking an *election-y...
Mitt Romney wins Maine caucuses Click to continue reading this article or to log in to BostonGlobe.com. *What do you mean* "Page not found. We're sorry for the inconvenience. Here are a few suggestions t...
Rainy Friday night here and my belly is full of Indian food. Finally. Been craving it forever and can't get it in the little city. Been such an ugly couple of days in politics. Don't feel like blogging abo...
*So that is the smell coming from my paper!* "Life sentence for ’09 attempt to bomb airliner; Nigerian man pleaded guilty to plot, Qaeda ties" by Nick Bunkley | New York Times, February 17, 2012 DETROI...
*Now you know why tuition rates are skyrocketing, kids. * "A pricey - and familiar - perk for new UMass head; Year’s sabbatical after 5 on the job" February 04, 2012| By Todd Wallack and Mary Carmichael, ...
Watch the video, focusing on the smaller frame http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVN6ekM9qwI&feature=plcp&context=C3acdaaeUDOEgsToPDskKawp5N59zmg8xKI_qb-saO
And more, of course there is more! Isn't there always? First the ships in the Mediterranean- This is eerily reminiscent of a story from last year- which originated in Israel, and seemed quite bogus at that...
The Obama administration will no longer defend the constitutionality of denying veterans' benefits to same-sex couples: The Obama Justice Department has concluded that legislation banning same-sex couple...
“Are the nearest galaxies distributed randomly? A plot of over one million of the brightest "extended sources" detected by the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) shows that they are not. The vast majority o...
For some bizarre reason, the Wilbert Smith documents have gained new life and I’m not sure why. Smith was a Canadian radio engineer who worked with, or for the government and was well thought of. He was, f...
Lost the link, but read this morning both Texas and Pennsylvania primaries are being pushed back until probably May or June because it will take that long for the courts to decide if their convoluted redis...
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Thanks for stopping by.
*"Tuning In"* by Chet Raymo "I have mentioned here before my friend and neighbor Dwight, he of the preternatural powers of observation. To walk with Dwight is to realize that I go through life half blind...
A commenter asks: A lot of people think that the Republican Party is heading towards irrelevancy demographically because of its increasing trend to the right unless there's some kind of significant change...
*In-your-face on the front page*: "He’s become sort of a global figure and a global star.... somewhat of a cult figure.... It’s all been a blur.... *That's what happens when you don't read the article.* ...
*I can already here the screaming out there for my appropriation of the word for this porpoise*: "Dolphin strandings remain a mystery; Creatures are dying on the Cape in huge numbers" by Brian MacQuarri...
*"8 Reasons Why You Act Against * *Your Own Better Judgment"* by Mark Sisson "We all make poor choices against our better judgment. It’s kind of what makes us human – the tendency to actively and willfull...
Remember when the Bush/Cheney people threw all the Clinton holdovers out of the government? I do. You gotta love those Dims, don't you? And have any of you been wondering about anyone's (not sitting on a h...
"MIT president Susan Hockfield to step down" by Mary Carmichael | Globe Staff, February 16, 2012 Susan Hockfield, who as president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has launched major effor...
TN asks: Do you have any idea what the GOP is thinking by going all-out on this war against contraception? I can't imagine what possible political benefit it could have. They might as well campaign in fav...
"There is a place, like no place on earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger. Some say, to survive it, you need to be as mad as a hatter. Which, luckily, I am." - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adve...
"Emotional start for trial in deaths of 4; Two men charged in Mattapan killings" by Maria Cramer | Globe Staff, February 17, 2012 The trial of two men accused of executing four people on a Mattapan str...
Two German fighter jets F-4 Phantom were sent to the sky over Baltic Sea to escort of Russian bombers. “Today in the morning two German fighter jets, part of the NATO Air Policing mission (deployed in Siau...
First, here's how their war on regulations *isn't* toxic, just annoying. Have you ever been on the phone-- or in the middle of something important-- when you've been interrupted by a robocall? I signed up...
(Reuters) - Two Iranian naval ships have sailed through Egypt's Suez Canal into the Mediterranean, in a move likely to be keenly watched by Israel. "Two Iranian ships crossed through the Suez Canal (on Th...
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CENSORED NEWS - 20 hours ago
Great new video from Navajo, Hopi, and Indigenous youths telling their own stories, with Native youth mentors describing video making in Flagstaff, Ariz. http://youtu.be/F2F85d7iGX8 Outta Your Backpac...
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Biased BBC - 20 hours ago
Biased BBC contributor Alan comments; "Mark Mardell suspects Pat Buchannan of being *a racist *based on some quotes from his book...some of which are reproduced below....though they seem nothing that you ...
I tend to agree with *pogge*. There is nothing that has been posted on Twitter about Vic Toews that wasn't already a matter of public record. His demand for an investigation, (and the releasing of the Harp...
Teen Daughter is ill (a cold, with the aches and fevers and headache and all that goes along with it) so she is curled up on the futon for our favorite family cure: the movie marathon. Unfortunately we did...
(Reuters) - Two studies showing how scientists mutated the H5N1 bird flu virus into a form that could cause a deadly human pandemic will be published only after experts fully assess the risks, the World H...
Heavy snow has claimed the lives of 103 this winter, topping the 100 mark for the seventh time since the end of World War II, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency stated on Feb. 16. While high, the nu...
ABIRA, Hokkaido -- A Japan Freight Railway Co. (JR Freight) train derailed and crashed into the wall of a snow shelter here after failing to stop at a red light on Feb. 16. The crash happened at JR Higas...
(Updated below) Matthew Carroll-Schmidt asks: Do we have any idea what the real delegate count is right now? Excellent question! There are basically two flavors of delegate counts out there right now. On...
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...
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Buckdog - 20 hours ago
*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...
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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Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
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...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fOaCemmsnNk “5 Minutes of TRUTH That Got Judge Napolitano Fired from Fox News”
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...
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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 ...
Then: 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 ...
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.
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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 comp...
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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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...
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Nature-loving tourists have been warned not to climb Mount Gamalama in North Maluku after the frequently active volcano started emitting ash again over the past week. Darno Lamane, of Gamalama’s observat...
More than 30 people, many of them foreign tourists, have been rushed to hospital after a chlorine leak at a hotel swimming pool on the Thai resort island of Phuket. The accident occurred shortly after 10...
GUWAHATI, Feb 17 – An unexpected rise of typhoid and viral fever cases in the city has baffled a section of doctors, who agree that young children are particularly vulnerable to the diseases. A large num...
Photo by John Carroll--February 18, 2012This is the Internal Medicine Department at St. Catherine Laboure Hospital in Cite Soleil. Doctors Without Borders quit staffing the hospital in December, 2011. MSPP...
In towns and cities across Libya, celebrations took place marking the first anniversary of the uprising that led to the overthrow of Col Gaddafi, but hundreds of former rebels are still armed and many bel...
Impossible to say, since black and white are the only two colors that are polar opposites on the light spectrum. But if we had to choose a color that's the perfect analogue of lavender, the more or less o...
A disembodied foot in a hiking boot that was found last November has been identified as the remains of a man who went missing a quarter century ago after boating on a British Columbia lake. The boot was ...
Walkers in Blackpool were left bemused after 100ft long footprints appeared in the sand. The prints gave the impression that a giant had crossed the sand. But they were actually the creation of a pair of ...
Just a year after outbreaks of swine flu killed more than 500 people, the country is having a much-needed reprieve from the dreaded winter curse. The Health Protection Agency (HPA), which monitors outbrea...
Iran's nuclear ambitions could plunge the world into 'a new Cold War' with the Middle East, Foreign Secretary William Hague warned today. He predicted a nuclear arms race among rival Middle Eastern states...
Police today revealed the identity of a 'dangerous man' they are hunting over the murder of vicar John Suddards at his vicarage. Detective Chief Inspector Simon Crisp, of Avon and Somerset Police, said t...
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