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CP . “All the talk of history is of nothing almost but fighting and killing, and the honor and renown which are bestowed on conquerors, who, for the most pa...
The bacteria are more virulent than the infamous hospital MRSA, can affect otherwise healthy people and are spreading across Britain. They can be transmitted through skin-to-skin contact and hugging as we...
The world can no longer afford to ignore the environmental cost of economic growth and must redefine the very concept of national wealth, a UN panel of heads of state and environment ministers said Monday....
SAO PAULO - A group of Internet hackers says it has taken down the website of the Banco do Brasil, Brazil's largest state-run bank. It's the third such attack against financial institutions in a week. The...
House Republicans assailed the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday morning for its claims that “fracking” caused water contamination in a small Wyoming town, but the hearing was overshadowed by t...
Nearly 90 percent of major U.S. cities had lower unemployment rates in December than the same month a year earlier, a reflection of stronger hiring nationwide. The Labor Department said Wednesday that un...
I have always said that I would put up any new news about the continuing disaster at Fukushima, Japan, and any information about high radiation levels from radioactive fallout over North America when they ...
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The recent weather has been so warm that groundhogs like Phil may wake up earlier this winter. The same goes for deer, skunks and raccoons. Those are some of the findings from a study...
With January snowfall marking the third-lightest on record, unseasonably warm temperatures in recent weeks have been welcome for most humans across the U.S. But spring-like conditions in the Lower 48 are...
A gravity-mapping spacecraft orbiting the moon has beamed home its first video of the lunar far side — a view people on Earth never see. The new video was captured by one of NASA's twin Grail probes using...
*Is there a government regulation that prevents a congressman from paying for his wife's plastic surgery out of his campaign funds?* Patricia McKeon, a 70 year old strict Mormon grandma and wife of House ...
A small quantity of radioactive gas leaked inside one of the buildings at San Onofre nuclear power plant north of San Diego, according to a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The spokesman ...
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 23.8 km (14.8 miles), the quake hit at 04:33:09 UTC Friday 3rd February 2012 The epicenter was 117 km (73 miles) WNW of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanuatu...
Like father, like son. Since the recent death of Kim Jong Il, North Korean state-run media has been releasing a series of images of the "Great Successor," Kim Jong Un, visiting schools, factories, and mil...
"Over 400,000 light years across NGC 6872 is an enormous spiral galaxy, at least 4 times the size of our own very large Milky Way. About 200 million light-years distant, toward the southern constellation P...
A Florida teacher is in hot water after administrating some hot sauce-based discipline. Lillian Gomez, a special needs teacher at Sunrise Elementary School in Kissimme, Florida, had a problem with some o...
A Massachusetts woman says the FBI used a chain saw blade to cut through her door and held her at gunpoint for at least 30 minutes before agents realized they were conducting a raid at the wrong home. J...
The U.S National Archives has released long-lost audio recordings of conversations that happened on Air Force One during the flight back to Washington, D.C., following the assassination of John F. Kennedy...
Rising oil prices and chilly economic times are prompting increasing numbers of Greeks to chop down trees for winter warmth, a group of forest engineers warned Tuesday. Nikos Bokaris, a spokesman for the...
Timber production in the world's tropical countries is exceeding the forests' ability to replace the felled trees, an Australian report says. Researchers at Australian National University and James Cook U...
A Florida couple was fined $1.6 million for cutting down mangrove trees on their property without proper state and city permits. Roger and Myrna Byrd of Jupiter removed 109 mangroves, a tree Florida has ...
Long convoys of Chinese lorries laden with rice were seen entering North Korea after Beijing reportedly agreed to provide major food aid to Pyongyang's new regime, a South Korean activist said Tuesday. T...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck off the Coast of El Salvador at a depth of 59.2 km (36.8 miles), the quake hit at 04:10:46 UTC Friday 3rd February 2012 The epicenter was 129 km (80 miles) SSW of Usu...
I'm going to write more on this this weekend - cause there's a lot to process on thei one. But right now - today - you can do something Go to >>>*this page*<<<< REad the letter and if you agree - sign yo...
MEXICO CITY — A drought that a government official called the most severe Mexico had ever faced has left two million people without access to water and, coupled with a cold snap, has devastated cropland i...
When I was a kid, university graduates were as rare as unicorns, now they are more like popcorn: cheap and plentiful. No big surprise, considering there are millions of fresh ones every year to join a l...
Drought and new Three Gorges Dam blamed as fishers forced to seek other work and freight trade comes to a halt. For visitors expecting to see China's largest freshwater lake, Poyang is a desolate spectac...
The world is running out of time to make sure there is enough food, water and energy to meet the needs of a rapidly growing population and to avoid sending up to 3 billion people into poverty, a U.N. repo...
Israel has test-fired its new Arrow-3 anti-ballistic missile system, the country's main defense against Iran's Shehab-3 missiles, as it drives to boost its arsenal of about 120 of the weapons amid rising ...
Washington must obtain Baghdad's permission to use drones to watch over US facilities in Iraq, the Iraqi government spokesman said on Tuesday, adding he does not believe such a request has yet been made. ...
New research has shown that malaria is killing almost twice as many people globally than was previously thought. More than 40% of victims are older children and adults, contradicting the belief that the ...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:47:52 UTC Thursday 2nd February 2012 The epicenter was 96 km (59 miles) WNW of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanuatu ...
At least two protesters have been shot dead by Egyptian police using live ammunition in the city of Suez. Witnesses said protesters were trying to break into a police station when shots were fired. "We...
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 21.7 km (13.5 miles), the quake hit at 03:46:23 UTC Friday 3rd February 2012 The epicenter was 116 km (72 miles) WNW of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanuatu...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 9.8 km (6.1 miles), the quake hit at 21:38:34 UTC Thursday 2nd February 2012 The epicenter was 90 km (55 miles) SSW of Hihifo, Tonga No Tsunami War...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 17.4 km (10.8 miles), the quake hit at 20:26:31 UTC Thursday 2nd February 2012 The epicenter was 104 km (64 miles) WNW of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanua...
*“Books”* by Chet Raymo "An article in the NYT Business section last Sunday on the potential fate of Barnes & Noble, the county's only remaining big paper-inventory bookseller. B&N's main rival, Borders,...
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Buckdog - 2 hours ago
*-Three quarters of Canadians oppose increasing Old Age Security eligibility to 67*
Tried this tonight as the start of my workout. Only went through it once, as I wanted to bike as well. Anyway, I went into it thinking it would be super easy, as I already do all those exercises as part of...
When I did the first of many rants that I wanted to start doing last month, I had promised that I would do them on a weekly basis. However, due to a persistent bout of sinusitis and head colds due to the ...
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wmtc - 3 hours ago
The one and only Katha Pollitt: The anti-choice movement can be so clumsy, and so weird, we forget that it is also smart and strategic and busy busy busy. Because while you were shaking your head over pin...
*The latest "Moment of Clarity" from the great Lee Camp.* *For news of a special show Lee's doing in NYC on February 18, scroll down.* *by Ken* Thinking back, I'm not sure I can overstate the importance ...
"Betrayal is a garment without seams, and one betrayal inexorably leads to another." - Robert D. King, "Treason and Traitors," Society Magazine (1989). It is not terrorism that threatens the core value...
Germering, Bayern, Germany. Thanks for stopping by.
“Hell is timely, for Hell is the thought that Hell will go on, on and on, without end. Heaven is only present, instantaneous and eternal, a mayfly, a blue dayflower, a life entirely given, complete forever ...
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has come to the conclusion there is a growing likelihood Israel could attack Iran sometime this spring in an effort to destroy its suspected nuclear weapons program, acc...
*“What I Have Learned”* by Paulo Coelho (This text, which I found on the Internet, is attributed to me. I did not write it, but I think worth reproducing here) “I’ve learned that you cannot make someone ...
*No History Is Illegal* *A Campaign to Save Our Stories* http://www.teacheractivistgroups.org/tucson . They say shut it down. We say spread it around! As a network of Teacher Activist Groups (TAG), we beli...
Measuring over 13 inches long, they were found in waters north of New Zealand.
*Anons hack white supremacist network* * * *Jamie Kelso and American Third Position Hacked and Destroyed; Private Emails Expose Blatant Racism and Ties to Ron Paul* *Reposted from:* http://pastebin.com/M...
*"A Clarification from Mitt Romney About Poor People"* by Andy Borowitz LA JOLLA, CA (The Borowitz Report) – "Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney today released the following letter to the Ameri...
*"Why the State Will Fail"* by Kevin Carson “To paraphrase the assessment of libertarian socialist Rosa Luxemburg a century ago, we face an imminent choice between freedom and barbarism. There are only t...
Art historians thought it was just one of dozens of replicas produced in the centuries after Leonardo's death.
* * *"How Piracy Works Against an Unnatural Monopoly"* by Joel Bowman "What the market giveth, the state rises to taketh away. One of the more striking features of this whole modern spectacle must surely b...
*— Fred —* MIDWINTER: AKA GROUNDHOG DAY. Actually, celebrating midwinter happened a long time before some American marketing weenie thought of promoting a rodent. According to *thepaganperspective*, Midw...
Linking a murky unknown circular artifact on the ocean floor to alien visitors is leap of faith wider than jumping the Grand Canyon.
Has the BBC been running with this story today? The BBC received millions of pounds from the European Union and local authorities over the past four years. The BBC admitted in a letter to a Tory MP that i...
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Not PC - 7 hours ago
*Yesterday was Rand’s Day: Ayn Rand’s birthday. Not everyone wants to celebrate that, but I do. Not every country has a reason to celebrate its birth. We are one of those happy few, yet we don’t. So ho...
If you didn't change your password on "Change Your Password Day" yesterday, I forgive you.
Earlier this morning we talked about Romney's revealing "slip of the tongue" in terms of not caring for poor people. (A tangent: people should never confuse the Christian Jesus, the one who talked a *lot...
Some time in the next two years the United States will pack up its guns and leave Afghanistan. Like Vietnam, and to some extent Iraq, it will be able to boast that its military was never defeated in batt...
Political tensions in Egypt may have helped create the atmosphere for the latest deadly incident but it's not entirely uncommon.
Well, the votes are in and I’m a little surprised. I thought *Destination Truth* (20 votes or 13%) would do better than it did. Sure, they really never find anything extraordinary but they seem to have a g...
The death by suicide of Don Cornelius of "Soul Train" fame is in the news today. The LA Times is reporting that health and money problems may have been behind Mr. Cornelius's choice to take his own life: ...
If you're going to struggle with a hooker so bad she winds up needing surgery, and if you're busted for forceable confinement of the woman, and if you're going to get caught by police with illicit drugs, a...
This was sent my way! Well worth a read... "I assume you've noticed BBC outrage re the Student Loans Company. e.g. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16854187 It reminds me of this story from 1993. htt...
You really should read this post over on Elder of Zion. It concerns the BBC's idea of what makes a hero. Or, as others might call it, a vicious savage who killed two Israeli teenagers. I suppose he had no ...
You can always count on the BBC to articulate the questions we are all thinking, right? For example... Are US Muslims abandoning domes and minarets out of fear? Then again, maybe not... Click through to ...
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- 8 hours ago
Canon Pixma: Bringing colour to life on Vimeo.
Via Brian Beutler, a wonderful quote from John McCain, showing exactly how Republicans think about budgeting: Let’s not let a domestic issue such as tax increases interfere…with our nation’s security. Th...
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Buckdog - 8 hours ago
*.... the part where they have to remove half your fucking brain!!*
Just in time for tax day, these scanners make tracking down expenses a little less mind boggling.
Two teensy-weensy PCs offer plenty of brains, braun and options.
A swarm of robots can act together, doing stunts, avoiding obstacles, and behaving like a swarm of insects.
American Scofflaw [image: Photobucket]FOOLISH CITIZEN There is still a segment of the population that confuse being told what to think with actual thinking and that beliefs imposed from above are just as ...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 31.9 km (19.8 miles), the quake hit at 19:44:35 UTC Thursday 2nd February 2012 The epicenter was 118 km (73 miles) WNW of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanua...
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Buckdog - 9 hours ago
*Two words to the Prime Minister's Office. Piss Off!! "Pat Martin wants to correct his breech of parliamentary protocol: “I should have called him an Honourable Asshole,” the NDP MP says now. [...] And no...
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Buckdog - 9 hours ago
*Two words to the Prime Minister's Office. Piss Off!! "Pat Martin wants to correct his breech of parliamentary protocol: “I should have called him an Honourable Asshole,” the NDP MP says now. [...] And no...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 10.3 km (6.4 miles), the quake hit at 19:20:45 UTC Thursday 2nd February 2012 The epicenter was 59 km (36 miles) WSW of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanuatu...
** *How have the biggest tech companies performed?*o *Apple * Total shareholder return for last year: *+ 34.53 % * *IBM * Total shareholder return for last year: *+ 20.91 % **Amazon * Total shareholder r...
The Gay Secretary 1. The embargo will hurt the EU badly - Greece in the midst of a terrible debt crisis. They import 25% of it's oil from Iran. Now that they are led by a Goldman Sachs/European technocrat ...
Over at Plum Line, my post today is a speculative one about Romney's strengths and weaknesses as a general election candidate. I've been saying he's mostly a generic Republican candidate, but I find some p...
*From Utah to CERN's cafeteria* The U.S. LHC network has launched a P.R. project called The LHC Lunch. They catch various members of the set of 1700 U.S. scientists in the CERN's largest cafeteria, the ...
The Gay Secretary The power grid has decayed to the point of collapse, along with nuclear reactors that have reached the end of their useful lives and are also facing "involuntary shutdowns" (as just happ...
First of all you have to understand one thing: The "secretive" American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) IS NOW HIDING – their member magazine. Since the last meeting they had – they are no longer releas...
Gunshots have reportedly been heard and tear gas fired outside the interior ministry in Cairo as protesters took to the streets following the deaths of at least 74 people at an Egyptian football match. ...
Maybe Rachel Maddow was right last fall when she said Mitt Romney was embracing his inner Thurston Howell III (Maddow correctly listed him as the GOP front-runner but back during Romney's first pre-New Ha...
For the first time we can peer through a glass window into a live brain and see the individual neurons up close.
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck New Zealand at a depth of 200 km (124 miles), the quake hit at 18:00:11 UTC Thursday 2nd February 2012 The epicenter was 90 km (55.8 miles) South of Opunake, New Zeala...
Seeking democratic alternatives:Gar Alperovitz's America Beyond CapitalismBy Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / February 2, 2012Historian and political economist Gar Alperovitz, author of America Beyond Capitalism...
A strange carcass washed ashore, sparking speculation about chupacabras and demons; scientists have a more earthy solution.
Criticize supposed "free market" capitalism these days and that makes you a flag-burning, god-hating, Socialist to some. There are some very wealthy capitalists who spread a bit of their wealth around to...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 20.8 km (12.9 miles), the quake hit at 17:28:47 UTC Thursday 2nd February 2012 The epicenter was 1003 km (64 miles) West of PORT-VILA, Efate, Van...
...and Rush Limbaugh wants to be that constipation. Shorter Rush: "Sh! I agree. Fuck the very poor. But don't be so obvious about it!"
After looking at some of the people who might run for Liberal leader (part 1, part 2), I figured it's worth puting the question to a completely unscientific vote. I've listed three questions below. The fi...
MICHAEL T. KLARE (January 31, 2012) No Exit in the Gulf Why Closure of the Strait of Hormuz Could Ignite a War and a Global Depression http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/01/31/no-exit-in-the-gulf/ IRAN: D...
The mother of a five-year-old girl could be facing murder charges after the child was found dead in her home with cuts and bruises from her head to her feet. Candy Flores was pronounced dead when paramed...
Excellent essay by Paul Craig Roberts http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/02/01/economic-101/ My take on the evolving economic order is available here http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/neofeudalism-book-...
http://nuclearhistory.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/fallout-from-fukushima-no-1-on-the-rise-in-january-2012-japan-times/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4mU9C1RI_g&feature=player_embedded#!
*Dr. Steve Porter has been a good friend of Blue America's since we got started in 2005. At that time he ran for Congress in northwestern Pennsylvania as a Democrat. I was somewhat naïve back then and cou...
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 22.8 km (14.2 miles), the quake hit at 17:27:07 UTC Thursday 2nd February 2012 The epicenter was 119 km (73 miles) WNW of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanua...
Police in Ontario have arrested 60 men — including a daycare worker — and charged them with hundreds of child pornography offences. The co-ordinated raids by 24 police forces across Ontario picked up the ...
As casualties mount before the brutal onslaught of Bashar al-Assad's forces against Syria's pro-democracy protesters, the Russians are being unhelpful again. In Washington and Brussels, even habitually co...
*THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2012* *With your help, we'll keep the ball rolling:* In yesterday’s Washington Post, Melinda Henneberger did a good thing. To see what she wrote, click here. In the hard-copy Washi...
A potentially habitable alien planet that orbits a triple-star system is perfectly positioned for liquid water -- and possibly life.
This has come up twice already this week, so I guess it's time for a reminder: people usually don't know why they vote for the candidates they choose to vote for, and are not particularly good at assessing...
A fourth potentially habitable planet outside our solar system – about 22 light-years from Earth – with temperatures that could support water and lifen has been discovered by international astronomers. T...
Did Rmoney's off-the-cuff comments about the poor (of whom he evidently has no real personal knowledge) seem perhaps a little bit pathological to you? (Okay. Maybe more than a little.) His smiling, good-hu...
JERUSALEM — A senior Israeli official said on Thursday that the missile testing site near Tehran that was destroyed in a huge explosion three months ago was developing missiles with a range of some 6,000 ...
Iran did not fall into Islamic despotism because of the cleverness and cruelty of the CIA and MI6 who made friends with power-hungry and equally clever Islamic Ayatollahs in Iran. No, Iran fell because o...
The Black Sea has frozen for up to 400 meters from the shore in Constanta harbor, Romania, which is currently under a Code Yellow for blizzards and Code Orange for low temperatures. The layer of ice has...
*THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2012* *We're afraid he already has:* We’ve always warned you about Nicholas Kristof. This morning, he continues his latest peculiar crusade. This passage comes near the end, but h...
*THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2012* *As it turns out, we have two skills:* This should be an embarrassing day in the neighborhood. It should be, but it isn’t. By now, it’s fairly clear that our tribe can’t be e...
[image: This image provided by NASA shows sediments in the Gulf of Mexico taken by the Aqua satellite in Sept. 2002. Nitrogen and phosphorus pollutants from the farms end up on a huge scale in the Gulf, ...
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Did you catch the movie reference? If so then you might be a mom, or just a Disney lover. :) I find some days I am fabulous at taking photos. I find other days I am lucky to snap a photo right before I ho...
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CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours ago
*4 DIRECTIONS* *Mohawk Nation News* *http://www.mohawknationnews.co* * * * * *MNN. Jan. 31, 2012. “The future ain’t what it used to be” [Yogi Berra]. * * * *White bankers being the bosses of the world is ...
How Iran & the West Planned Islamism for Afghanistan U.S. and Iran agree: Shar'ia, or Muslim religious law, has "all the elements that are really required" for a "modern state" by Jared Israel Emperor's C...
By Dan Kervick As you read this, millions of Americans who desperately want to work either cannot find employment at all, or cannot find the quantity and quality of work they need to meet their own needs...
Rather than hibernating through freezing snowstorms, nature is being awakened by the weird warmth.
*THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2012* *Part 4—Compared to whom and to what:* Readers of the New York Times can count on two things—dogs and taxes. They can count on a stream of crackpot reports about the adventur...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:57:07 UTC Thursday 2nd February 2012 The epicenter was 124 km (77 miles) WNW of PORT-VILA, Vanuatu No Tsun...
Land plants may have brought about their own demise by triggering a series of ice ages.
Smart phones connect to a Xappr Gun for augmented-reality and shooting games.
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 13.4 km (8.3 miles), the quake hit at 13:53:45 UTC Thursday 2nd February 2012 The epicenter was 119 km (74 miles) West of PORT-VILA, Vanuatu No T...
If it's got a *pink ribbon* on it, *I'm not buying it*. Simple. As *TBogg* points out, the upper end of the Susan G Komen foundation had to know that *THIS* bombshell was being released in the same week a...
Thousands of residents in northern NSW are bunkered down in evacuation centres, as the worst floods in over 35 years hit the region. Across NSW, more than 12,000 people were isolated by rising floodwaters...
What does this mean? Cassandra explains:
Israel estimated on Thursday that Iran could make four atomic bombs by further enriching uranium it has already stockpiled, and could produce its first within a year of deciding to build one. But in his ...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 33 km (20.4 miles), the quake hit at 13:48:20 UTC Thursday 2nd February 2012 The epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) West of VILA, Vanuatu No Tsunami ...
*"Creating More Debt to Solve the Crisis"* by Bill Bonner "Readers who expect an early end to this Great Correction are going to be disappointed. There is no sign of it reaching its conclusion anytime soo...
Google's informal motto is 'don't be evil' - but a recent policy shift could see the search giant help repressive governments to pursue policies many might see as 'evil'. Bloggers who have relied on Goog...
By: Duane Craig Montgomery County, Md., is considering ways to deal with contamination from its oldest dump, according to this article on Gazette.Net. But first, it had to trade other land to the Maryland...
Mitt Romney is the candidate of, by and for the rich. That simple. His statement yesterday that he's not really concerned about the very poorshouldn't come as a surprise, except in terms of how inept he is...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 60 km (37.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:29:19 UTC Thursday 2nd February 2012 The epicenter was 93 km (57.7 miles) East of Nemuro, Kuril...
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Biased BBC - 15 hours ago
Tonight Question Time comes from Southport. David Dimbleby is joined by Southport by International Development Minister Alan Duncan, Shadow Justice Secretary and frequent Guido target Sadiq Khan, Labour ...
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 13:34:38 UTC Thursday 2nd February 2012 The epicenter was 122 km (76 miles) West of PORT-VILA, Vanuatu No W...
South-east Asia's most-wanted terrorist and two other senior militants were killed today in a U.S.-backed air strike in the Philippines, military chiefs said. Malaysian Zulkifi bin Hir, known as Marwan, ...
One person has died and at least 33 more have fallen ill from salmonella poisoning that is believed to be linked to eating imported watermelons. The sufferers, aged from six months to 85, have all fallen ...
Saints’ Bushrod already thinking about New Orleans Super Bowl~“We’ve got to fight to win these games because we’ve got people depending on us. We help put smiles on people’s faces. They’ve been through a l...
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Broken of Britain - 16 hours ago
Happy Birthday today to Pat Tabler; he's 54. 109 PAs with the bases loaded: .489 BA. OBP/SLG of 505/693; that's an 1198 OPS, which is just a bit higher than Babe Ruth's career number. Alas, we don't know w...
A huge crustacean has been found lurking 7km down in the waters off the coast of New Zealand. The creature - called a supergiant - is a type of amphipod, which are normally around 2-3cm long. But these ...
While authorities in Northern Norway, Sweden and Finland have detected insignificant concentrations of the radioactive isotope Iodine-131, the numerous Russian nuclear industry installation on the neighbo...
Agartala : Over 6,200 poultry birds and ducks were culled in Tripura after reports of a fresh outbreak of bird flu, officials said here Thursday. The culling was done in Lembuchara area of western Tripura...
The agency of animal husbandry of Brebes district, Central Java has confirmed that the death of 88 birds recently in villages such as Terlangu, Kemaron, Kutamendala and Purwodadi was due to bird flu. Most...
A young woman has died in Vietnam's Mekong Delta of bird flu, the second human death reported in the country within two weeks due to the killer disease. A 26-year-old woman from Soc Trang province in the...
Two more cows were found dead at Walt's Meats in Woodland recently in what may be a pattern of attempted rustling in the area. Jay Houser, president of the butcher company, said the dead cattle were disco...
The Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network is investigating a series of attacks against wild pelicans that have taken place over the past month. The organization’s rehabilitative specialists examined six del...
PASSERS-BY at Greendale Creek, Curl Curl, were repulsed to see more than 20 dead eels and fish floating on the water’s surface this morning. A slick of murky liquid lined the top of the water, while plent...
NEW ORLEANS — A new study finds that Louisiana's second Gulf of Mexico dead zone stretches at least from the Chandeleur Sound off Louisiana's coast to Alabama's Dauphin Island and could extend across Alab...
MORE people are expected to be evacuated from their homes in Mitchell and the evacuation centre has been relocated to higher ground due to the rising flood waters. The evacuation centre is now at the cou...
CANBERRA Feb 2 (Reuters) - Heavy summer rains across eastern Australia prompted authorities to issue flood warnings for vast areas of Queensland and New South Wales states on Thursday, including coal mini...
Hundreds of people were trapped overnight on trains as freezing temperatures and heavy snowfalls in the centre and north of Italy caused widespread disruptions on roads, railways and at airports. Over 60...
Tokyo: Heavy snow that has blanketed northern Japan for weeks, triggering avalanches and affecting transport networks, has left at least 55 people dead, officials said on Thursday. In one of the country...
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- 17 hours ago
Url movie: http://youtu.be/hB2Ft3t7ceg -- More on Godfrey Bloom here *Proud words*, but nevertheless the 'myth' is true. Indeed, too much is "believed", too little known, as the current global crisis so cl...
Cold snap across eastern Europe leaves remote areas of country cut off after blizzards. Authorities in Serbia say 11,000 villagers are trapped by heavy snow and blizzards as a cold spell grips eastern Eu...
*A huge crustacean has been found lurking 7km down in the waters off the coast of New Zealand.* Amphipods have been found alive in large numbers at the very base of ocean trenches, deep, thinny valleys i...
Russia said on Wednesday it would veto any U.N. resolution on Syria that it finds unacceptable, after demanding any measure rule out military intervention to halt the bloodshed touched off by protests aga...
Germany wants talks between six world powers and Iran over its disputed nuclear program to restart, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday. She was speaking at a joint news conference with Chinese Prem...
A car bomb allegedly detonated by FARC rebels in Tumaco, Colombia leaves five dead and levels a police station.
China is considering greater involvement in the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) and the upcoming European Stability Mechanism (ESM), Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao told journalists on Thursday. ...
A NASA orbiter has beamed back its first images of the far side of the moon, including scenes of a massive crater caused by an ancient cosmic impact, the space agency announced Wednesday. NASA released 3...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Antofagasta, Chile at a depth of 108.6 km (67.5 miles), the quake hit at 10:56:50 UTC Thursday 2nd February 2012 The epicenter was 146 km (90 miles) ESE Iquique, Chil...
Investors were unable to trade shares in scores of companies listed in Tokyo for several hours Thursday after a computer problem at the city's stock exchange. The Tokyo Stock Exchange said it had suspend...
Republican presidential candidate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich created controversy with his recent comments about setting up a permanent American base on the moon and making it the 51st state. T...
Armed with batons, four Bronx police officers were caught on camera as they set upon a teenage drug suspect and viciously beat him to the ground. Horrified witnesses can be heard screaming at the office...
A reactor at a nuclear power plant was shut down because of a possible leak but there is no imminent danger, operators said. Sensors at the San Onofre plant in California detected a possible leak in one...
A 15-year-old boy charged with murdering both of his adoptive parents had been arguing with his mother about getting suspended at school when he strangled her, a court heard. Moses Kamin, 15, was charged...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 147.2 km (91.5 miles), the quake hit at 10:44:07 UTC Thursday 2nd February 2012 The epicenter was 20 km (12 miles) Southeast from PORT-VILA, Vanu...
The neighbours of a dead teenage girl who mysteriously vanished while babysitting for them have finally been charged over her death. Couple Eric and Dea Millerberg were long suspected in the death of 16-...
A pastor charged with killing his second wife is now also being investigated for murdering his first wife, authorities have revealed. Arthur Schirmer, 63, former pastor of Reeders United Methodist Church ...
A man claiming to be an accomplice in the murder of marketing executive Jane Bashara - who was found strangled in the back seat of her Mercedes - turned himself into police yesterday and said her husband ...
This monstrous creature was poised to unleash hell on one of America’s most precious and fragile ecosystems. But with improbable luck, the vast and menacing Burmese python was caught by rangers in Florid...
An outbreak of salmonella which struck 68 people across the U.S. originated at Taco Bell, it has emerged. A government agency had previously announced that a Mexican-style fast-food chain was behind the ...
A new movie recalls the events of October 1988, when the world was fixated on three gray whales off Alaska.
Airlines tank up passenger jets with used restaurant cooking oil in an effort to make travel a bit greener.
It's a hidden world that hasn't seen the light of day for 20 million years. Russian scientists are on the brink of drilling into a lake in the Antarctic which is buried more than two miles underneath ice....
The Taliban is set to return to power in Afghanistan when British and Coalition forces end their combat role in 2014, a damning leaked confidential report reveals. Despite 10 years of fighting by NATO fo...
A woman threw white powder, apparently flour, on the leading candidate in France's presidential elections during a campaign appearance.
A mysterious blood-thirsty wild cat feared to have devoured at least six animals in the Gloucestershire countryside was today revealed to be a mere fox. DNA tests on two mutilated deer confirmed the kill...
A terror gang who planned a Mumbai-style bomb blitz in London could walk free in less than six years after striking an extraordinary 11th-hour plea bargain. The four Muslim fanatics intended to unleash a...
*A painting thought to be the earliest copy of Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa has been discovered at Madrid's Prado Museum. The original painting, which presently hangs at the Louvre in Paris, is obscured...
At least 74 football fans were killed and hundreds injured after a pitch invasion in Egypt last night. Trouble flared after a match in the city of Port Said when armed fans surged forward seconds after t...
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 28.7 km (17.8 miles), the quake hit at 09:32:15 UTC Thursday 2nd February 2012 The epicenter was 52 km (32 mile...
A flesh-eating form of pneumonia that is easily passed between healthy people on public transport is spreading across the UK, experts have warned. The deadly strain of MRSA called USA300 passes easily thr...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the New Ireland Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 74 km (46 miles), the quake hit at 09:16:18 UTC Thursday 2nd February 2012 The epicenter was 193 km (120 miles)...
A babysitter who wiped party drug Meow Meow on the mouth of the six-year-old girl she was looking after was today warned she could face jail. Chelsea Taylor, 17, was supposed to be looking after the girl...
This is the dramatic moment a mugger who robbed an elderly woman of her pension got rough justice - after being rugby tackled by a Good Samaritan in the middle of a car park. Violent thug Benjamin Brown ...
*According to Ofcom reports the UK's average home download speed is on the rise, but it could be still faster if more users upgraded at minimal rate*. Ofcom noted that the price difference between many of...
UAH AMSU has announced that the January 2012 global temperature anomaly was negative, -0.09 °C. The month was cooler than their average January! However, in some relatively important places on the globe su...
A new class of cyber attack is threatening PCs - emails which infect PCs without the user having to open an attachment. The user will not even be warned this is happening - the only message that appears ...
A passenger ferry with an estimated 350 people on board has sunk off Papua New Guinea. An airplane from Australia, three helicopters and six ships are scouring the search area after the MV Rabaul Queen w...
U.S. officials increasingly say they suspect that Maj. Gen. Qassem Suleimani, Iran's covert action mastermind, is operating in Syria, helping Tehran's key Arab ally, President Bashar al-Assad, crush a stu...
Iran has developed laser-guided artillery rounds designed to home in on stationary or moving targets at a distance of up to 20 kilometres (12 miles), Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi told state media Monday....
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." Sadly, those words by Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels more than 70 years ago still ring true and rema...
Here’s a strange one. It puts me in an unusual position, and could look as though I’m about to defend religious fundamentalism. That’s not what I’m trying to do. I had a message from someone who was offend...
Russia must be ready for wars in space and in networks, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Nikolai Makarov said on Saturday. "As you see, warfare center has moved to aerospace and info...
*Facebook, the world's largest social networking site, has announced plans for a stock market flotation. *Facebook filed its intention to float with the Securities and Exchange Commission after the US st...
U.S. officials say Algerian intelligence foiled an al-Qaida plot to mount suicide attacks against U.S. and European ships in the Mediterranean at a time when the jihadists are driving to expand operations...
Russia on Tuesday blamed a computer malfunction caused by the impact of cosmic rays for the failure of its Phobos-Grunt mission to Mars, one of a litany of setbacks for its embattled space programme. Ann...
Conventional and nuclear weapons pose continuing threats but the real arms race now on is in cyberspace, a new cyber defense report said. The report by Brussels think tank Security and Defense Agenda rece...
Hundreds of rare, endemic species in the Central Andes remain unprotected and are increasingly under threat from development and climate change, according to a Duke University-led international study. "T...
Villagers in China whose rebellion against local officials last year grabbed the headlines kicked off a key process on Wednesday that will see them hold their first-ever open, democratic elections. Resid...
At least 24 cargo ships carrying a total 480,000 tonnes of wheat and other grains are sitting off Iran's coast, unable to unload because of the effects of sanctions on the Islamic republic, an industry so...
Authorities in China's volatile Xinjiang region plan to recruit 8,000 extra police officers, a government official said Tuesday, as they beef up security in the remote area. The Asian powerhouse is geari...
Myanmar President Thein Sein has denied his country is trying to obtain nuclear weapons from North Korea, describing allegations of a covert programme as "unfounded". "We are not acquiring nuclear weapon...
An assessment by U.S. spy agencies concludes that Iran is prepared to launch terrorist attacks inside the United States, highlighting new risks as the Obama administration escalates pressure on Tehran to ...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — You might call it a marijuana mega mansion. Police raided a five-floor commercial building in the Bronx Tuesday afternoon that was filled with marijuana plants from wall to wall. ...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A St. Paul teacher is on paid leave after being accused of racial discrimination in his own classroom. Parents of some black students said their children have faced discrimination fo...
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*CONTACT: Tony Diaz, Nuestra Palabra Director 713-867-8943 AztecMuse@aol.com* ** * * *Houston writers and activists organize a caravan of Librotraficantes to smuggle contraband books back into Arizona!* *...
Young Mexicans are being abducted from poor towns and villages and forced to work for drug gangs, rights groups say, alleging the authorities are failing to do anything to stem the problem. Stories of yo...
It’s a crime wave happening around the country and it’s hitting the Twin Cities hard. Thieves are stealing smart phones — sometimes right out of the hands of the owners while they are on the phone. Minn...
Russian activists on Wednesday briefly put up a huge banner on a building opposite the Kremlin urging Vladimir Putin to quit power, as they prepare for a march through the city later this week. Braving t...
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- At Cappuccio’s Meats in the Italian Market, the cuts of beef are cutting into the profits. “Every week when I talk to my suppliers, I’m amazed by how much it’s going up,” said owner...
The city’s Human Resources Administration has already hired 100 new employees and plans to hire another 100. Economic woes have forced at least one city agency into a hiring spree -- adding more workers ...
On 1 February 2012, our security corespondent writes about a plot against a famous Rabbi: At the home of the ring-leader police found the name and location of the plotters' target, Rabbi Burns. Torn pie...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Sumba Region, Indonesia at a depth of 52 km (32.3 miles), the quake hit at 07:59:54 UTC Thursday 2nd February 2012 The epicenter was 177 km (110 miles) Southwest ...
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 8 km (5 miles), the quake hit at 06:46:24 UTC Thursday 2nd February 2012 The epicenter was 61 km (37.8 miles) S...
A Pakistani militant leader with links to terror attacks has told Sky News the US and Nato must leave the region immediately or face the wrath of the Pakistani people. In a rare interview at a rally in ...
The intelligence service MI6 has cancelled all leave until after this summer's Olympic Games in London, according to Sky News sources. Sky's defence and security editor Sam Kiley says it is not in respons...
All you need to know about Islamis here. It is that a group of clericscan sit in a room and sign off on outright executions. No more and no less. At their worst, during the heightof the inquisition, C...
Thisis a story that should be followed up on by a researcher as is done by BFRO forthe Sasquatch. Eight witnesses make apretty good crowd to support the authenticity of this sighting. Beyond that we h...
There is no mention in thisarticle about the levels of CO2 tested and one suspects effective CO2 poisoningwhich will never happen in the real world. Recall that maximum CO2 content in the atmosphere oc...
We already know that the Minoanexpansion hit its high pointduring the building of the Great Pyramid around 2450BC. It makes perfect sense that they were sailingthe waters of the Eastern Atlantic seabo...
The private spaceflight company has test fired a new rocket that will be used to rescue launching astronauts during an emergency and propulsively land on planetary bodies.
From left, Rag Radio's Thorne Dreyer and guests Bob Simmons, Kim Simpson, and Jan Reid. Photo by Tracey Schulz / Rag Radio / The Rag Blog.The formatting revolution in '60s-'70s American RadioBy Thorne Webb D...
The Chinese-made missile destroyer DDG-169 Wuhan successfully shot down missiles during a navy exercise, the PLA Daily reported Wednesday. The newspaper said that during the exercise in which "dozens of ma...
Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] received contracts totaling $921 million from the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command for hardware and services associated with the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Miss...
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*Benson, Flagstaff and Yuma areas targeted for dangerous private spy drone testing* Special Ops Hummingbird Drone*By Brenda Norrell* *Censored News* http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com TUCSON -- Arizona, al...
*Initiated by a memo from who?* "Pakistani inquiry said to widen" November 21, 2011|By Associated Press ISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s powerful army intelligence chief personally intervened to check details surro...
The Australian authorities said Thursday that they were helping Papua New Guinea with rescue efforts for a passenger boat that was reported to have sunk with as many as 350 people on board. The Australian...
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------------------------------ ------------------------------ *Auction 2012: How The Bank Lobby Owns Washington* Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy paulblum...
*Offside!* "Super Bowl loyalties divided in Connecticut" January 28, 2012|By David Filipov PLAINVILLE , Conn. - An invisible line wends its way along the Connecticut River Valley south of Hartford. It di...
California will run out of cash by early March if the state does not take swift action to find $3.3 billion through payment delays and borrowing, according to a letter state Controller John Chiang sent to...
(NewsCore) - A strong uptick in the sales of booze last year is painting one of the surest signs yet of a return to the pre-recession boom days, according to new data. US shipments of scotch, vodka, rum ...
"After championship drought, a delirious deluge; Since 2001, the exceptional has become the expected in this sports-mad region" by Eric Moskowitz | Globe Staff, January 29, 2012 Seven championships, fou...
*The first one to fall*: "Domino’s delivered for Bain; Romney’s Bain made big profit from the pizza chain, but left it saddled with debt" by Beth Healy | Globe Staff, January 29, 2012 Amid a flash of c...
Fewer Americans own homes and many of them are continuing to see values decline. The U.S. Census Bureau reported Tuesday that the nation's homeownership rate fell to 66% in the fourth quarter, continuing...
What do the NAR, Consumer Confidence and CBO forecasts have in common? If you said, "they are all completely worthless" you are absolutely correct. Alas, the market needs to "trade" off numbers, which is...
Concerns over the size of United States debt reared their head once again as ratings agency Standard & Poor’s warned that health care costs for a number of highly-rated Group of 20 countries, including th...
A device which reads the thoughts of brain-damaged patients could become a reality, scientists claimed, after proving they could tell what someone was hearing just by decoding their brain waves. Researc...
Russia warned Arab leaders against crossing a “red line” in trying to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and said it wasn’t the job of the United Nations to dictate who stays in power and who goes. Ar...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Southern Peru at a depth of 69.7 km (43.3 miles), the quake hit at 04:50:48 UTC Thursday 2nd February 2012 The epicenter was 174 km (108 miles) SSE ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck offshore El Salvador at a depth of 100 km (62 miles), the quake hit at 04:24:21 UTC Thursday 2nd February 2012 The epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) South of La libertad,...
Krugman gave a talk in Paris today and yesterday he posted the slides he's using as visual aids on his blog, like the one above. He also did a provocative *NY Times* column about the austerity debacle. It...
Good Will Hunting and pertinent to the principles of liberty in its condemnation of killing people abroad who have done no harm to you personally. Taken to it's logical conclusion this belief should lead...
Q. You forgot to mention all the global elite are Zionists/Jews! A. I don't see any value in obsessing over the religious trappings the global elite adorn their public appearance with. I am interested in w...
Helen, 50, was college educated, married, worked in middle management at a financial services company and had good health insurance. She was diagnosed with early stage breast cancer in 1990. She saw docto...
"Major GOP ‘super PAC’ raised $51 million in 2011; Other groups’ disclosures signal impact of ruling" by Jack Gillum | Associated Press, February 01, 2012 WASHINGTON - *American Crossroads*, the *Republ...
Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) -- The tin shack looks like any other in a patch of small plots on the dusty outskirts of Nairobi. It's the haunting sound that grabs you, the awful moaning and cries coming from with...
"A coincidence is what you have left over when you apply a bad theory." - Percy Williams Bridgman, an American physicist and winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics. "And men are so naive, and so much...
As Kenya's leading psychiatrist, Frank Njenga has been championing the cause of better mental health care on the east African country and the continent for more than three decades. He's been working tir...
Medical research has uncovered what some are calling a new epidemic in Central America. It's confined to the Pacific coast of Central America, where in the past few years, nearly 3,000 young men have die...
Canada's economy contracted slightly in November, bringing the annual pace of growth down to two per cent. On a monthly basis, the economy contracted 0.1 per cent in November, Statistics Canada said Tues...
Groups representing states and cities in the Great Lakes region have drafted a plan to separate the lakes from the Mississippi River watershed in the Chicago area. The backers describe the plan as the on...
Coptic Christians make up 11 to 15 per cent of Egypt's population and are the largest Christian community in the Middle East. The Zabbaleen, known in Arabic as 'the garbage collectors,' are one of the lar...
United Kennel Club Japan works to rescue pets that were abandoned during last year's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis. Source
Demonstrations in Dakar planned after two people shot dead amid anger sparked by court backing for Wade re-election bid. Senegal is bracing for more demonstrations on Tuesday, a day after at least two pe...
Rights group says dozens of Ethiopian Christians have been arrested and could be deported for "illegal mingling". Dozens of Ethiopian Christians are facing deportation from Saudi Arabia after authorities ...
Israel Military Industries Ltd. (IMI) is deeply worried about the future of the Merkava Mark IV tank, which is wholly manufactured in Israel under the auspices of the Ministry of Defense's Tank Development...
The announcement on Sunday night that Stephen Hester, the Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive, had bowed to political pressure in the UK and decided to waive his bonus -- worth £963,000 ($1.5M) in shar...
Once an isolationist communist state, over the last 20 years China has become the world's biggest exporter of consumer goods. But behind this apparent success story is a dark secret - millions of men and...
Israeli officials say no decision has been made on military action against Iran's nuclear programme, despite reports that the window for a pre-emptive strike is closing.A government source told Sky News "a...
At least 74 people have been killed and 1,000 injured after a football pitch invasion in Egypt, according to reports. Clashes are said to have broken out as fans flooded the field seconds after the game ...
FBI director tells a Senate committee Hackers will one day outstrip terrorists as top threat to U.S.. Attacks predicted to become more complex and frequent. Cyber attacks against government agencies and ...
South Korea's Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) has issued a request for proposals for its F-X III fighter requirement, paving the way for the acquisition of around 60 fighters. Bids for th...
"Defense News" reports that Israel and the US may export the Arrow 2 anti-ballistic missile system to South Korea in a $1 billion deal - the first potential exports of the system made by Israel Aerospace I...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck West of Macquarie Island at a depth of 10.3 km (6.4 miles), the quake hit at 02:48:06 UTC Thursday 2nd February 2012 The epicenter was 2007 km (1247 miles) SSW of Dun...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck West of Macquarie Island at a depth of 10.3 km (6.4 miles), the quake hit at 02:48:06 UTC Thursday 2nd February 2012 The epicenter was 2007 km (1247 miles) SSW of Dun...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Sea of Japan at a depth of 376.6 km (234 miles), the quake hit at 00:31:03 UTC Thursday 2nd February 2012 The epicenter was 179 km (111 miles) WNW of Kanazawa, Hon...
Alan Parsons Project, “A Dream Within A Dream” "For my own part, I have never had a thought Which I could not set down in words With even more distinctness that which I conceived it. There is however a cla...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Easter Island Region at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 21:43:48 UTC Wednesday 1st February 2012 The epicenter was 507 km (315 miles) SSW of Hang...
It is hard to believe that, at a time of growing consensus among American voters and officials that this nation should start reducing the number of military personnel stationed around the world, the Obama ...
The Indian Army may be preparing for a limited conflict with China, says the US' top intelligence official. In a testimony to the US Senate, James Clapper, director of national intelligence, said, "Despite...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Liaoning, China at a depth of 38.3 km (23.8 miles), the quake hit at 21:17:00 UTC Wednesday 1st February 2012 The epicenter was 25 km (15 miles) SSE of Yingkou, Liaoni...
The criminal state of Israel has now reached the point of total desperation in trying to get their obedient slaves in the United States at war with the innocent nation of Iran. It is absolutely pathetic ...
The Australian prime minister Julia Gillard says a ferry with 350 on board has sunk off Papua New Guinea. Australia's foreign office said it "has responded to a request for assistance by arranging for ai...
Polish soldiers in Ghazni province of Afghanistan discovered over 6.5 tons of explosives hidden by the militants during a three day long operation. Read More
By L. Randall Wray There were a fewcomments this week, focused especially on Chinese holdings. It shouldbe clear from my post that I am not concerned about the holdings norabout a possible run. China wil...
New Picture of the Chinese Soar Dragon high altitude, high endurance, long-range Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (HALE UAV. Read More
Images of the female soldiers of the People's Liberation Army (PLA). Read More
Targeted attacks by the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) fighter jets has resulted in the death of 38 hardcore militants in the Jogi area of central Kurram Agency. Read More
"Steady hand on holdings of ex-governor" January 30, 2012|Todd Wallack, Globe Staff R. Bradford Malt is best known in legal circles as the chairman of Boston’s largest law firm, Ropes & Gray LLP. But last...
I recommend reading this thread at Enenews about the detection of radioactive Iodine-131 in Sweden, Norway and Finland: http://enenews.com/radioactive-iodine-131-detected-sweden-norway-finland-reactor-isot...
And money is not speech:'Corporations Are Not People'By Thom Hartmann/ Truthout / February 1, 2012[Corporations Are Not People by Jeffrey D. Clements (Berrett-Koehler, 2012); Paperback, 224 pp., $17.95.]Most...
“Why would the sky glow red? Aurora. Last week's solar storms, emanating mostly from active sunspot region 1402, showered particles on the Earth that excited oxygen atoms high in the Earth's atmosphere. As...
*The mission of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure took an unexpected twist with the hiring of an anti-choice zealot as its policy VP. Now, in furtherance of that demented creature's agenda, the foundation ha...
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[image: image] Anybody fancy a snug little cabin many miles from everything that troubles you? Then the website Cabin Porn is just for you. But maybe not exactly what you might think…. (Yes, Virginia,...
(In the interests of fairness and balance, I've decided to let Mr. Cyril Blubberpuss, longtime if intermittent conservative contributor and pundit, provide us with a conservative counterpoint. Mr. Blubber...
------------------------------ *Economics Lesson 1* ------------------------------ January 31, 2012 | Last Friday (January 27) the US Bureau of Economic Analysis announced its advance estimate that in ...
Mark Warren, whose career at Harvard was cut short because his work was more aligned with Paulo Freire than Milton Friedman, became the first recipient of Cambridge College's annual Social Justice Award l...
"The sun rises and sets, it is day and night, it will go on thus for a long time. You get to think you are part of it and your circumstances are related to the cosmos, but one day your little system ...
Published on Wednesday, February 1, 2012 by Common Dreams 'Gasland' Film Director Arrested at US Capitol Hearing Republicans Bar Filming of Fracking Hearing - Common Dreams staff Oscar-nominated documenta...
“He was digging in his garden– digging, too, in his own mind, laboriously turning up the substance of his thought. Death– and he drove in his spade once, and again, and yet again. And all our yesterdays h...
Hello again! How did your digital exfoliation go? Mine was great. I unsubscribed from email newsletters, uninstalled some no-longer-used programs, and transformed my desktop from this outdated (picture-wis...
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*“Sex and War”* by Chet Raymo "In an issue of “Science” there is a News/Focus article on the evolutionary history of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens. The standard view has been that Neanderthals and mode...
The Social Contract of Jean-Jacques Rosseau: giving a moral claim to property rights. Image from SCIFlo Public Health.Remember Rousseau:Property rights and human rights are still at warBy Danny Schechter / T...
By mid-2013 Afghan security or, arguably its civil war, will again be the responsibility of Afghans. U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has announced that he hopes America's combat mission will wrap up b...
At long last, the Holy Grail of Internet IPOs is here. Facebook filed Wednesday to raise $5 billion in an initial public offering. In 2011, Facebook earned $1 billion on sales of $3.7 billion. As of Decem...
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*[image: _hugh-pavletich-sml]Guest Post by Hugh Pavletich* At noon yesterday some 4,000 local citizens gathered next to the Civic Building in Christchurch to express their anger at the poor performance o...
Huffington Post: 'Gasland' Journalists Arrested At Hearing By Order Of House Republicans (UPDATES). Josh Fox, a journalist and filmmaker of the award-winning documentary 'Gasland,' said in a statement aft...
Climate scientists are protesting the Wall Street Journal's publication of a letter from climate skeptics with mostly non-climate backgrounds.
*A**CLU Sues U.S. for In**formation* * on Targeted Killing Program* By ACLU Posted at Censored News Today we filed a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act to demand that the government release ba...
I hope you're following the Buck McKeon saga. The ending will be explosive. Monday's episode will catch you up and put what we're going to look at today in perspective. So what does ole Buck fear? His li...
By TASA's Jenny LaCoste-Caputo: Commissioner Scott delivers no-holds-barred speech at Midwinter Texas Education Commissioner Robert Scott delivered a surprising speech to the thousands in attendance at TA...
I just returned from the theater. They were playing The Physicists by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, a top Swiss playwright. Our Pilsner actors are sort of amazing – and it's a happy coincidence that the EU has a...
Pulled by the same vessel for a full nautical mile, 145 water-skiers attempt to make the record books in Tasmania.
Tempe, Arizona, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
*"A Journey To The End Of Empire:* * It Is Always Darkest Right Before It Goes Completely Black"* by Phil Rockstroh "When the poet stands at nadir the world must indeed be upside-down. If the poet can no ...
Over at Plum Line, I reprise an argument I've made over here before: that the worst place to give your money if you want to affect the outcomes of campaigns is in presidential general elections. Still, in ...
And the losers are (clockwise, from upper left): Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, and Jon Huntsman (who dropped out of the race on Jan. 16). Caricature by DonkeyHotey / Wikimedia Commons....
Propaganda operates in many ways. Sometimes propaganda occurs simply through the framing of a story. Framing essentially tells readers how to "read" a story. Let me provide an example of how propaganda ...
Found this: We probably all know people, either at work or in our personal lives, who are really good listeners. No matter what kind of situation we're in, they always seem to know just what to say – and h...
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*"A tough-on-crime Conservative senator who said murderers should be provided with the tools to kill themselves in jail sparked a furor during Question Period on Wednesday. “Each assassin should have th...
"Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage." - Ray Bradbury
Well, this is something you don't hear every day. WikiLeaks investors are currently working on completing a deal to buy a boat that would house the controversial site's servers in international waters, F...
At least 50 people have been killed after a football pitch invasion in Egypt, according to reports. Clashes are said to have broken out as fans flooded the field seconds after the game in the northern co...
BREAKING: Nova Scotia Justice Suzanne Hood awards Trout Point Lodge damages against Slabbed and injunctive relief. ~Hat Tweet @SLABBEDblog~OMG! The Girls have issued a wanted poster! pic.twitter.com/bvpVCl...
Police are hunting a killer who shot dead a man in his 30s near a north London underground station. The attack happened close to the Turnpike Lane Tube station on the Piccadilly line, Scotland Yard said....
Bond was set at $23 million Wednesday for a Los Angeles elementary school teacher who allegedly took bondage photos of more than two dozen students in his classroom -- $1 million for each of the 23 count...
Los Angeles (CNN) -- Don Cornelius, the founder of the "Soul Train" television show, was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head Wednesday, authorities said. He was 75. Cornel...
Our solar system is traveling slowly through an interstellar cloud of gases.
The Smithsonian has bred four mane wolf pups. It's their first litter in two years and they are CUTE.
Syria on Wednesday, opposition activists said, as diplomats at the United Nations prepare to debate once again how to respond to the mounting crisis in the country. The number killed in Wadi Barada, in ...
A magnitude 3.4 earthquake has struck Southern California at a depth of 22.6 km (14 miles), the quake hit at 19:05:05 UTC Wednesday 1st February 2012 The epicenter was 7 km (4 miles) South of Brawley, Cal...
By: Duane Craig Residents near California's Santa Monica airport have stepped up their efforts to publicize the negative effects the facility has on the quality of their lives. Citing noise, pollution and...
Volcanoes could give us a detectable 'warning' decades before they erupt, say geologists. Stones from an eruption 3,500 years ago in Greece hint that magma beneath the ground had been running into the ma...
[image: Link] An astonishing photograph taken from outer-space illustrates how an iceberg the size of New York is close to breaking off from Antarctica. A 19-mile crack in Pine Island Glacier's ice is cle...
Sweden's most evil couple - a cannibal and a Satan-worshipping vampire - have applied to get married behind the bars of their secure psychiatric hospital. Isakin Jonsson, 33, has asked human vampire Mich...
At least 25 people have been killed in fan clashes following a football match in the Egyptian city of Port Said, reports from Egypt say. Reports said the deaths occurred after supporters invaded the pitch ...
The GOP: Preaching the Prosperity Gospel Wednesday February 1, 2012 Tina Dupuy One of the richest men in the country, ranking in the 0.006 percent of Americans, likes to accuse the President of creating an...
A boy was dramatically rescued by strangers after sliding out of a chair lift on a ski slope and left dangling 25 feet in the air. He was spotted gripping on to his father's hand below the chair at 2.45pm...
If you are unaware of what is going on - they are referring to this as "Wisconsin on Steroids" Elimnation of all unions - even police and fire. *>>READ THIS<<* *>>**READ THIS**<<* *>>**READ THIS**<<* ...
Constance Demby, "Alleluliah: Sanctum Sanctorum" Posting the articles about the economy directly below made me think of this for some reason... heaven help us, indeed... - CP
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 59.2 km (36.8 miles), the quake hit at 17:08:17 UTC Wednesday 1st February 2012 The epicenter was 378 km (234 miles) ENE of Kuril'sk, K...
Amy Winehouse's family says it is seeking legal advice after the coroner who oversaw the singer's inquest resigned because she did not have the required qualifications for the job - raising the possibilit...
*“34 Shocking Facts About U.S. Debt”* By The Economic Collapse Blog “We have all been lied to. For decades, the leaders of both major political parties have promised us that they can fix our current syst...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 239.6 km (148.9 miles), the quake hit at 16:20:35 UTC Wednesday 1st February 2012 The epicenter was 93 km (57 miles) NNE of PORT-VILA, Efate, Van...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 16:48:57 UTC Wednesday 1st February 2012 The epicenter was 316 km (196 miles) East o...
TUSD flagrantly violates Constitution and International Human Rights Treaties By Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez, PhD http://progressive.org/TUSD-flagrantly-violates-constitution-international-human-rights-...
Kids with the most nurturing parents end up with a hippocampus 10 percent larger than the other children.
Researchers found a new way to create super thin solar cells without the waste.
Rival militia groups have been locked in a gun battle in a coastal area near the centre of Libyan capital Tripoli. Exchanges of heavy and light weapons could be heard coming from the area of El Saadi be...
*If you are new to the MInnesota Caucus process here is a good link with decent information.* *On to the good stuff.....* *Here is a draft of a resolution* that you could revise and enter at your precinc...
*“CBO Confirms Tickerguy's Projections”* by Karl Denninger (Reuters) - “Government spending for Medicare, Medicaid and other healthcare programs will more than double over the next decade to $1.8 trill...
*WAGNER: Die Walküre, Act I orchestral introduction* *Inside a dwelling* *In the middle stands a mighty ash tree, whose prominent roots spread wide and lose themselves in the ground. The summit of the tre...
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When a leading breast-cancer charity severs its relationship with the largest provider of reproductive health services in the US, we have to ask, who is behind this terrible decision? *The Atlantic*: The ...
Even before I got to know Matt Cartwright I heard rumblings of dirty tricks coming out of sleazy defeated Blue Dog Chris Carney, who has been working to help his fellow reactionary Democrat Tim Holden hol...
*Child in a British concentration camp in South Africa. * The British Empire is like the American Empire. *The British Empire was involved in:* ** *The drugs trade* (Dope inc)*, * ** *Slavery, * **...
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The bacteria are more virulent than the infamous hospital MRSA, can affect otherwise healthy people and are spreading across Britain. They can be transmitted through skin-to-skin contact and hugging as we...
The world can no longer afford to ignore the environmental cost of economic growth and must redefine the very concept of national wealth, a UN panel of heads of state and environment ministers said Monday....
House Republicans assailed the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday morning for its claims that “fracking” caused water contamination in a small Wyoming town, but the hearing was overshadowed by t...
Nearly 90 percent of major U.S. cities had lower unemployment rates in December than the same month a year earlier, a reflection of stronger hiring nationwide. The Labor Department said Wednesday that un...
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The recent weather has been so warm that groundhogs like Phil may wake up earlier this winter. The same goes for deer, skunks and raccoons. Those are some of the findings from a study...
With January snowfall marking the third-lightest on record, unseasonably warm temperatures in recent weeks have been welcome for most humans across the U.S. But spring-like conditions in the Lower 48 are...
A gravity-mapping spacecraft orbiting the moon has beamed home its first video of the lunar far side — a view people on Earth never see. The new video was captured by one of NASA's twin Grail probes using...
*Is there a government regulation that prevents a congressman from paying for his wife's plastic surgery out of his campaign funds?* Patricia McKeon, a 70 year old strict Mormon grandma and wife of House ...
A small quantity of radioactive gas leaked inside one of the buildings at San Onofre nuclear power plant north of San Diego, according to a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The spokesman ...
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 23.8 km (14.8 miles), the quake hit at 04:33:09 UTC Friday 3rd February 2012 The epicenter was 117 km (73 miles) WNW of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanuatu...
Like father, like son. Since the recent death of Kim Jong Il, North Korean state-run media has been releasing a series of images of the "Great Successor," Kim Jong Un, visiting schools, factories, and mil...
A Florida teacher is in hot water after administrating some hot sauce-based discipline. Lillian Gomez, a special needs teacher at Sunrise Elementary School in Kissimme, Florida, had a problem with some o...
posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*The mission of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure took an unexpected twist with the hiring of an anti-choice zealot as its policy VP. Now, in furtherance of that demented creature's agenda, the foundation ha...
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