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A South Korean court sentenced two teenagers to prison terms Monday after they admitted bullying a school classmate until he committed suicide. The two, both 15, were sentenced to terms of three years and ...
*Paul Babeau and his illegal Mexican lover Jose in happier, more closeted and self-loathing times.* It's hard to see where Paul Babeau expects us to see the separation. While admitting that he's gay, he's...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 525 km (326.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:31:22 UTC Monday 20th February 2012 The epicenter was 217 km (134 miles) ESE of Lambasa, Vanua ...
*SANTORUM'S SURGE* INSURGENTS,
DEATH PANELS, ACCORDING TO ISLAMIC LAW, etc...etc...all the flavor of the day media brainwashing soundbite. The new one, in case you haven't turned on your "radio news brie...
Hardline Dutch Finance Minister
Jan Kees De Jager demanded Monday that
the EU and IMF take "permanent" control of government decision-making over revenues and public expenditure in Greece. As the eurozon...
A seven-year-old girl is being monitored in hospital after possibly ingesting the date rape drug GHB Saturday night. Langley RCMP were called to a home in the 5500 block of 209th Street just after 9 p.m. ...
A federal agency created by the Conservative government to mediate complaints about Canadian mining operations abroad has spent more than $1.1 million in the past two years, but has yet to mediate anything...
Know your rights as a photographer this election season! Know your rights as a photographer this protest season! Know your rights as a photographer this occupy season! *They Can't Turn the Lights Off Now* ...
------------------------------ * the**REALnews Permalink* February 20, 2012 *US General: "Iran a Rational Actor", but is US o...
*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* If 'corporations' are people, then why are they NOT paying their fair shaire of taxes? Some pay very little! Some pay no taxes at all! The tax burden has, in fact,...
From an article reported on February 18th. By Stacey Singer Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Snips Below – no comments needed! Asked about his efforts to sway public opinion, Koch acknowledges his group is ha...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia at a depth of 89.7 km (55.7 miles), the quake hit at 13:55:30 UTC Monday 20th February 2012 The epicenter was 209 km (129 miles) Southeast...
GREENPEACE AGAINST THE MONSTERS. Anatolij Pickmann is a fine illustrator. According to Lauren Davis at *io9*, *"Stylized Greenpeace posters pit David against mecha-monster Goliaths"*. No foolin'. Check o...
Iranian state television shows a nine-person crew being rescued from a burning ship in Iranian waters. Rough Cut
Justin Trudeau raised a bit of a stir last week with his comments that he'd consider supporting Quebec separatism if the Harper government took Canada too far to the right. Most have already weighed in on ...
First lady Michelle Obama’s weekend jaunt to Aspen, Colorado for a President’s Day ski holiday with her daughters Sasha and Malia makes the 16th time members of the first family have gone on extended vacat...
Three members of Anonymous sneaked past extreme police and private security controls to jump onto the stage as the event was at one of its highest points, as this video shows. Meanwhile, the Spanish film a...
The show becomes the longest-running prime-time scripted program on U.S. TV.
[This is a cross-posting from Dart-Throwing Chimp.] I've just finished reading
John Lewis Gaddis's terrific biography of George Frost Kennan, a towering figure in American foreign policy after World War ...
I was going to post about Romney's big fundraiser with the anti-gay agenda who made his money on a pyramid scheme business so sleazy, he was legally sanctioned by the government. Then I read about how he b...
University of Victoria professor Andrew Weaver has supposedly dropped a bombshell - the Athabasca Tar Sands are inconsequential to the problem of global warming. Or that is at least what the reporter who...
*MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2012* *On to the long hard slog of our forthcoming Chapter 7:* Our third non-annual fund-raising drive has come to an end as predicted! For everyone who participated, Oprah has agre...
At least two protesters have been killed during demonstrations in Senegal demanding the departure of the country's 85-year-old president. Tension is running high in the usually peaceful country, six days ...
In 2001, the PR firms that the Business Roundtable hired to sell their plan to blow up public schools and to rebuild them in the corporate image for corporate benefit could not have settled on a more cynic...
[image: A dead whitetip reef shark caught accidentally in a fishing net. Alamy]By Steve Connor, Vancouver 18 February 2012 The indiscriminate slaughter of vast numbers of turtles, sharks, albatrosses...
------------------------------ *Silencing The Critics* ------------------------------ February 20, 2012 | Original Here In 2010 the FBI invaded the homes of peace activists in several states and ...
*Washington Post* scribes Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have, for decades, been widely credited with taking down Richard Nixon. The popular narrative goes that they were fed their story by a shadowy ...
Writing in the Boulder Daily Camera yesterday Tom Rohrer identifies a howler of a mistake in a recent report by the City of Boulder on "Safe Streets." The city has been implementing "flashing crosswalks"...
In 2001, the PR firms that the Business Roundtable hired tosell their plan to blow up public schools and to rebuild them in the corporateimage for corporate benefit could not have settled on a more cynical...
By Ruairidh Villar and Yuriko Nakao; Writing by Elaine Lies; Editing by Michael Perry 10 February 2012 FUKUSHIMA (Reuters) – On the snowy fringes of Japan's Fukushima city, now notorious as a byword...
[image: The Ganges River dolphin, known as shushuk in Bangladesh. BCDP / WCS]NEW YORK, New York, 15 February 2012 (ENS) – Bangladesh has established three new wildlife sanctuaries for endangered freshwa...
Technology allows a person to "talk with their hands" -- literally!
NEW Open thread. Will post more later... Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
[image: Chinese bulk coal carrier the Shen Neng 1 grounded near the Great Barrier Reef, 3 April 2010. indybay.org] Editing by Robert Birsel 18 February 2012 SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia will carry out ...
Iran's military announced on Monday it has launched four days of manoeuvres in the south of the country aimed at boosting anti-air defences protecting nuclear sites. The announcement came as inspectors f...
------------------------------ *Poor America - P **a n o r a m a [B B C] - Broadcast Date: 13th February 2012 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suJCvkazrTc Uploaded by leenicklen on Feb 13, 2012 POO...
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*The majority of Canadians did not vote Conservative in the last election. Mr. Harper, you may have a 'majority' government under the British Parliamentary system. However, sir, you do not have the moral a...
The south east of England is now officially in a state of drought, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs admitted today. Some reservoirs, rivers and groundwater aquifers in the South East...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Kashmir-Xinjiang Borger Region at a depth of 7.1 km (4.4 miles Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 13:52:33 UTC Monday 20th February 2012 The epicenter was 159 ...
When we wrote the Brave New World report, we expected the digital audio market to take off. After all, the devices were already there, the download mechanisms existed, the bandwidth was there and MP3 was ...
Following the Ottawa Citizen's attempted sting to determine who was behind the Vikileaks twitter account targeting Vic Toews last week, the House Speaker's Office patiently explained that really it could b...
An international rugby referee who taught at an exclusive school threw his baby son from a bridge today before jumping to his own death, it has emerged. Jason Lees, 40, threw his two-year-old son from Br...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 21.4 km (15 miles), the quake hit at 13:09:27 UTC Monday 20th February 2012 The epicenter was 250 km (155 miles) ESE...
[image: Biologists at the University of Sussex have been analysing how effectively different species of flowers attract foraging insects. The best plants are the Mexican giant hyssop, which was particula...
An insanely impossible problem is becoming just merely difficult.
Robots take a stab at replacing Picasso.
[image: The rosette agent disease can cause 90% mortality in salmon species found in British rivers. ALAMY] By Richard Gray, Science Correspondent 19 February 2012 Biologists say they have found the ros...
... this was not a mistake. Starting a land war in Asia is a mistake. This is akin to wearing a meat tuxedo and gravy-scented aftershave to a wolverine convention. 'via Blog this' Canadian Cynic and ...
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Even if you live in a sports-free universe, the name Jeremy Lin may have seeped in through osmosis. The 24-year-old Harvard grad and point guard for the New York Knicks basketball team has inspired a wave ...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Kashmir-Xinjiang Borger Region at a depth of 26.7 km (16.6 miles), the quake hit at 14:18:05 UTC Monday 20th February 2012 The epicenter was 141 km (88miles) South...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Kashmir-Xinjiang Borger Region at a depth of 5.6 km (3.5 miles Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 13:59:23 UTC Monday 20th February 2012 The epicenter was 172 k...
Wiki: Lizzie Phelan (also known as Lizzie Cocker, born c.1986) is a British reporter and broadcaster from London with a mixed Greek, Irish and English heritage.A regular contributor to the Iranian Press TV...
*MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2012 * *Presidents Day is for lovers:* How will you spend your Presidents Day? Will you go shopping at the mall? Or will you devote yourself to remembering the things which actually...
*Greg Weston* pulls another Harper-floated piece of waste off the surface. A federal agency created by the Conservative government to mediate complaints about Canadian mining operations abroad has spent m...
BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's military sent tanks and other reinforcements toward the restive central city of Homs on Monday in what appears to be preparations by President Bashar Assad's regime for an offensive ...
Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- Officials with the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency begin a second round of talks Monday with Iranian officials over the country's nuclear program, a day after Tehran cut off crude expor...
(Financial Times) -- Eurozone governments are looking to the European Central Bank and national central banks to help pare back the cost of a second rescue package for Greece which would otherwise amount...
The meat is made from cows' stem cells.
Over the weekend I was disgruntled that the media-- particularly Fox, where Paul Babeu is a regular contributor ("border expert")-- chose to ignore my favorite news story, the outing of Republican hypocri...
Flowers are beautiful, fragrant and attractive throughout the entire year. Fresh bouquets placed among your home during dull winter days can add vibrancy. In the summer, cut wildflowers are a fun additio...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 114 km (70.8 miles), the quake hit at 12:43:30 UTC Monday 20th February 2012 The epicenter was 43 km (26...
A magnitude 3.4 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Oregon at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:13:58 UTC Monday 20th February 2012 The epicenter was 236 km (146 miles) West of Coos Ba...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Northern Columbia at a depth of 150.8 km (93.7 miles), the quake hit at 12:09:38 UTC Monday 20th February 2012 The epicenter was 33 km (20 miles) South of Bucaramanga...
Mardi Gras Sunday parade photos from the Times-Picayune ~A float rider leans out to toss to the crowds along St. Charles Avenue during the Iris parade Sunday, February 19,2012 in New Orleans. The parade wa...
(Becoming a tradition -- I just rerun this old thing. For a different perspective, see Matt Glassman. Also, probably light posting here today because I'll be over at Greg's place all day, and so I also won...
They have a reputation for being ruthless, solitary predators, but the opposite may be closer to the truth.
Squashed eyeballs was one of the prime concerns for doctors during first U.S orbital spaceflights.
*Expert player Sachin Thendulkar should have retired from international cricket after the success of 2011 World Cup, feels former Indian cricketer Kapil Dev,who led the nation to their first world cup tr...
*European stock markets were advanced before a meeting of euro zone economics ministers that many hopes will finalize a new post security for Greece. In last year the euro zone set up a bailout fund to t...
*According to a UK scientist studying volcanic vents in the ocean they hold a grave warning for future marine ecosystems. *At the end of last year, Dr Hall-Spencer published his findings on one volcanic ...
Dubai’s coast guard units have stumbled across thousands of dead fish in the emirate’s waters and the fishermen’s association believes banned fishing methods are behind this marine massacre. The Dubai-b...
CIAMPEA, Indonesia, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Nine people in Ciampea, Indonesia, were swept away by a river after the bridge they were crossing collapsed Sunday, emergency officials said. Around 11:30 a.m., in th...
First it was Alaska's Mount Cleveland that awoke and threatened to erupt. Now Kanaga, another Alaska volcano is growing restless. This weekend, the Alaska Volcano Observatory raised the threat level to y...
A British driver was today facing charges of manslaughter and "involuntarily causing injuries" following a fatal coach crash in northern France. The 47-year-old, who has not been named, is suspected of f...
(Reuters) - A teenage Tibetan Buddhist monk has set himself on fire and died in southwestern China, a rights group said, in the latest reported self-immolation by a monk denouncing Chinese policies in Tib...
(Reuters) - Angela Merkel's conservatives accused their coalition partner on Monday of a "massive breach of trust" in backing opposition candidate Joachim Gauck for the German presidency, a move which for...
(Reuters) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday Russia needed a stronger military to protect it from foreign attempts to stoke conflicts around its borders. In a newspaper article intended to bu...
Feb. 19 - Supporters of embattled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad gather in a Turkish border town where they blast international attempts to force the long-time leader to step down. Andrew Raven reports
*Scientists in Dutch have used stem cells to produce strips of muscle tissue with the plan of producing the first lab-grown hamburger later this year*. The price of producing the hamburger will be £200,0...
(Reuters) - An explosion tore through a polling station in the southern Yemeni city of Aden on Monday, followed by gunfire that killed one soldier, a day before a presidential vote to replace Ali Abudllah...
(Reuters) - Secretive North Korea raised its military alert ahead of a live-fire artillery drill by rival South Korea Monday amid heightened tension on the peninsula during a delicate transition of power ...
Feb. 20 - Family members of prisoners face off with Mexican police after a prison riot kills dozens of inmates. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
Feb. 20 - Russian protesters set up toys carrying placards against Vladimir Putin's 12-year rule. Sophia Soo reports
Feb. 20 - Protesters retaliate after security forces fire teargas grenade into a mosque during a demonstration as vote looms. Rough cut (no reporter narration)
Feb. 20 - Three skiers and one snowboarder killed in separate Washington avalanches. Sophia Soo reports
Feb. 20 - Bus plunges into a ravine killing 24 adults and two children in northern Ecuador due to excessive speed
If the blood pressure readings from a patient’s two arms differ by 15 or more, it could indicate a narrowing of arteries to the legs, decreased blood flow to the brain, heart disease, and a 70 percent incr...
(Reuters) - Two Iranian naval ships have docked at the Syrian port of Tartous, Iran's state-run Press TV reported on Monday, in a development likely to raise concern in the West. The ships docked on Satu...
(Reuters) - China's main newspaper accused Western countries of stirring civil war in Syria and two Iranian warships docked at a Syrian naval base, underscoring rising international tensions over the near...
Dakar, Senegal (CNN) -- Clashes erupted between police and protesters in Senegal Sunday, a week before the country's presidential elections. Demonstrators threw rocks and police threw tear gas canisters ...
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- It's officially crunch time. European finance ministers need to agree to the terms of a second bailout to keep Greece from defaulting on an upcoming bond payment. While it's been w...
*Jews in Kochi (Cochin)* In 2010, a Jewish couple came to the Chabad house in Kochi, in Kerala, in India. In early February 2012, the local authority gave the Jewish couple a deportation notice for alle...
A Syrian provincial attorney general, a judge and their driver were fatally shot in the Syrian province of Idlib.
(CNN) -- Officials with the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency begin a second round of talks Monday with Iranian officials over the country's nuclear program, a day after Tehran cut off crude exports to Britis...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korea conducted live-fire military drills near its disputed sea boundary with North Korea on Monday despite Pyongyang's threat to respond with a "merciless" attack - a thr...
SEOUL (Kyodo) -- The North Korean military issued a notice Sunday warning South Korean islanders living in a disputed part of the Yellow Sea to "evacuate" if the South Korean military goes ahead with a li...
A shark carcass was found in a parking lot at Yoyogi Park in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Feb. 19, police said. A guard alerted Yoyogi Police Station at around 7 a.m. to say that a shark covered with a tarp h...
FUKUSHIMA (Kyodo) -- The Fukushima Prefecture government said Monday residents of three municipalities near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant are estimated to have been exposed to up to 2...
Another human skeleton has turned up in a wooded area on the eastern end of Long Island, in a town where at least four other sets of human remains have been discovered in recent years. The latest set of ...
Authorities say two people are dead and four others injured after a private airplane from Texas crashed just short of an airport runway during a heavy snowstorm in Colorado. The crash happened at about 3...
Photo courtesy: jonfeinstein/CC BY 2.0 So you are rationing the apple juice after the previous arsenic scandal, and paying extra for the sure-to-be-melamine-free baby formula. All is right with the world....
The Himalayan snowcock is a large, grey partridge-like bird. Its nests are often found way up high in the Himalayas at heights of over 13,120 ft. Alexander the Great couldn't grow a very good beard, so ea...
Study finds that fruit flies can medicate themselves with alcohol to avoid death from parasitic wasps. (André Karwath/Wikimedia Commons) While humans can use alcohol to disinfect wounds, some insects take...
Male Asian elephant. Photo courtesy: Wikipedia Poachers have killed more than 200 elephants in Cameroon in just six weeks, in a "massacre" fuelled by Asian demand for ivory. A local government official sa...
A registered New York sex offender kidnapped his estranged girlfriend at gunpoint in Ohio along with her one-year-old she was pushing in a stroller. Thomas Lorde, Latasha Jackson, and her infant daughter ...
America’s top military official said it’s not ‘prudent’ to attack Iran at this point in time over its nuclear facilities, noting that the increase in sanctions on the country is beginning to have an effec...
A man plunged to his death on Sunday after falling into a holding tank filled with toxic chemicals at work. Firefighters reported to the tanker located on a barge on Swan Island, Portland, Oregon at abou...
A winter storm has dumped several inches of snow on a band of southern states, triggering accidents on slippery roads and knocking out power to tens of thousands. The storm brought wet snow on Sunday to ...
Inside Job, Narrated by Matt Damon (Full Length HD) from jwrock on Vimeo.
For the Marines who served with Sgt Manuel Loggins Jr., it would have been an injustice to stay quiet. So in a move that broke with the military's tradition, Loggins' commanding officer at California's C...
The skeletal remains of a 14-year-old runaway, who went missing in 1999, have been found after the home where she was last seen was demolished, according to police. The remains of Nicholle Coppler were f...
These amazing pictures, captured by a NASA satellite, show a gigantic tornado moving across the sun. The tornado is larger than it might look - in fact, it is probably bigger than the Earth, and could ex...
A rise in antibiotic-resistant blood poisoning - caused by the E.coli bacteria - is posing such a huge risk that experts fear the country could be facing a timebomb of diseases that are impossible to trea...
Details about text messages, phone calls, emails and every website visited by members of the public will be kept on record in a bid to combat terrorism. The Government will order broadband providers, lan...
Every year in the month of February, the sun's angle is such that it lights up 'Horsetail Falls' in Yosemite National Park. As the sun sets, the beam of light falling on the falls gets narrower and narro...
The world’s first test-tube burger will be ready to eat within months. It will look, feel and, it is hoped, taste, like a regular quarter-pounder, its creator Mark Post told the world’s premier science co...
They're incredible by today's standards, but once upon a time these adverts were perfectly acceptable. From an ad that claims smoking is healthy to one telling mothers they should give Coca-Cola to th...
Iran cut off oil sales to British companies yesterday after Foreign Secretary William Hague accused the Islamist regime of promoting terrorism. The oil ministry in Tehran announced that it had ceased all ...
A teacher was killed in a school holiday coach crash yesterday which left a 13-year-old girl in a coma. Peter Rippington, 59, died when the coach bringing the school party home from a ski trip overturned...
A nursery nurse has revealed how she was forced to play dead during a terrifying assault which left her with such shocking injuries her own mother did not recognise her. Katey Wall thought she was going ...
Home ownership has fallen to its lowest level since Margaret Thatcher was in Downing Street, figures show. Only 66 per cent of homes are owned by those who live in them compared with a peak of 71 per cen...
Britons in Greece were warned yesterday they may have to be evacuated. It comes as eurozone ministers prepare to sign off another £108billion rescue package for the crippled economy. Foreign Secretary Wi...
Tesco is to hold crisis talks with employment officials as the row over the supermarket chain’s use of ‘slave labour’ intensifies. Several high-profile companies have already pulled out of the Government’...
A crazed knifeman was shot up to four times by armed police officers after Taser stun guns failed to incapacitate him. The man, aged in his 20s, was fighting for his life in hospital last night after rec...
Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has called for the expansion of Tehran-Islamabad trade and economic ties to a level worthy of the two “friendly and neighboring” countries. In a meeting with his...
This satellite image of the ice pack on the Atlantic side of the Arctic was taken last Saturday and tells a story you have never heard in February: The entire Kara Sea east of Novaya Zemlya is ice-free. ...
Google tracked the web-browsing habits of millions of iPhone users without their consent, it has been revealed. The search giant wrote programming code that circumvented the Apple iPhone’s default priva...
The latest findings from the BDRC Continental quarterly Landlords Panel research reveals the biggest rise in the number of portfolio landlords making a loss since the Landlords Panel began in 2006. The r...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Western Turkey at a depth of 11.8 km (7.3 miles), the quake hit at 06:34:29 UTC Monday 20th February 2012 The epicenter was 36 km (23 miles) Southeast of Izmir, Turkey...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Kyrgyzstan at a depth of 51.6 km (32.1 miles), the quake hit at 04:18:16 UTC Monday 20th February 2012 The epicenter was 59 km (36 miles) North of Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzst...
When I published my article fiveyears ago on the Pleistocene Nonconformity, I essentially argued that: 1 The crust was shifted thirty degrees south and theoriginal North Pole during t...
It is becoming rather plausiblethat the dairy industry knows that their product has long establisheddeleterious effect on human health and that real competition from a successfulraw milk protocol is far...
This is my second or third visitto the Moringa story and it seems to steadily improve. Dr Al Sears is out scouting Africafor product and has recently taken another look at the Moringa tree. I have p...
I continue to be disturbed bythis obvious abuse of the unlimited enforcement power of government in what isa quasi legal attack on this particular individual with effectively any properrecourse. In e...
Kim Jong-nam, the eldest son of dead North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, is in financial trouble and cannot pay his bills, Russian magazine Argumenty i Fakty reported. It said Kim was recently kicked out of ...
Students will not be penalised for repaying university loans early after David Cameron scrapped a Liberal Democrat plan to raise more money from the middle classes. Vince Cable, the Business Secretary, ...
U.S. researchers say findings from genetics research are inspiring them in their search for ways to combat increasing number of global cyberattacks. Scientists at Wake Forest University say they've used a...
Israel and Western powers say they are becoming nervous about Syria's significant arsenal of chemical weapons, primarily the possibility that they could fall into the hands of militant groups such as al-Q...
Nine North Korean refugees detained by China are being transferred to a border area in preparation for repatriation despite pleas from South Korea, reports said Friday. The nine are among dozens of North...
Al-Qaeda's branch in Iraq likely carried out recent suicide bombings in Syria and has infiltrated opposition forces fighting President Bashar al-Assad's regime, the US spy chief said Thursday. Bombing at...
The United States vowed Thursday to retain close military ties to its European allies after unveiling plans to withdraw more than 11,000 troops from Germany and Italy as part of a strategic shift to Asia....
The US and South Korean navies will stage a joint anti-submarine drill in the Yellow Sea next week to guard against potential attacks by North Korea, Seoul's defence ministry said Thursday. The drill fro...
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...
India's lone aircraft carrier, INS Viraat, may be over 50 years old, but the latest refit that it went through in 2009-10 has made it a potent warfare platform of the 21st century and this was showcased t...
An awful long time has elapsed since the media began frenetically covering the uprising in Syria—long enough for more truth to have emerged by now. At WhoWhatWhy, we’ve had our suspicions that pressworld ...
John Mauldin posted an extraordinary interview by Kate Welling of Dr. Lacy Hunt, the chief economist of Hoisington Investment Management. Dr. Lacy Hunt correctly identifies fractional reserve lending as t...
*You can tell by reading the reaction in the paper, and it is really not surprising considering its location regarding Iran. * "US reevaluates Maldives power change" Associated Press, February 11, 2012 MA...
Dutch finance minister Jan Kees said a second Greek bail-out should be paid only after April elections, to ensure Athens keeps its promises. "A number of countries, including the Netherlands, said they c...
(ANSAmed) - ATHENS - The record is one that the birthplace of the Olympics would have been glad to see pass it by: the Greek crisis will soon surpass that of Argentina in terms of severity, with a GDP down...
*Ooops! * "It was New Year’s Eve. She had been drinking. It was late. And that was the moment the world chose to welcome Sarah LaRose to the not-so-exclusive club of people who have dropped their iPhone i...
A former-- and no, doubt future, insurance industry lobbyist-- multimillionaire and reactionary Ben Nelson was easily the worst Democrat in the U.S. Senate. According to ProgressivePunch, the Republicans ...
*And the joke is on you, Americans! * "Off-color text messages damage FBI sting in foreign bribery case; Jurors, lawyers say attitude of agents hurt credibility" by Del Quentin Wilber | Washington Post,...
A taxpayer-funded electric vehicle battery company, that is considered in great danger due to its dependency on troubled EV company Fisker Automotive, has awarded its top executives big salary increases d...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A report this week showing rampant foreclosure abuse in San Francisco reflects similar levels of lender fraud and faulty documentation across the United States, say experts and off...
Amine Derkaoui, a 21-year-old Moroccan man, is pissed at Facebook. Last year he spent a few weeks training to screen illicit Facebook content through an outsourcing firm, for which he was paid a measly $1...
In September 2011, Vladimir Putin announced a program to begin offshore oil and gas exploration and drilling in the Russian Arctic. Putin is also interested in creating new sea terminals, which he said wo...
As Iran remains defiant over its nuclear program, tough new sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union have sent prices for basic foodstuffs soaring on the streets of Tehran. “Prices h...
By Mitch Green Via Animals Explain EconomicsMMT received some love from the mainstream press today. WashPo ran a story titled, "You know the deficit hawks. Now meet the deficit owls." via Ezra Klein's W...
February 16, 2012: The Americans are now sending confusing signals on their withdrawal strategy from Afghanistan and their “dialogue” with the Taliban. Their NATO allies would like to pack up and leave ...
LOS ANGELES – Banks took back more U.S. homes in January than in the previous month, the latest sign that foreclosures are accelerating after slowing sharply last year while lenders sorted out foreclosure...
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is running the economy in such a heavy-handed manner that he more resembles a socialist strongman reminiscent of the Soviet Union than the head of the world's largest ...
Imagine a war scenario in which miniaturised missiles equipped with Precision-Guided Munitions (PGMs) are unleashed from a mother missile to take out select enemy targets like an ammunition depot while avo...
CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. -- Central Falls is Rhode Island's smallest city and also one of its poorest. Boarded up homes line many streets and one-quarter of the city's families live below the poverty line. "...
"This is the epicenter of the week, where leggy models don the frocks that the world will be wearing next year as a chichi, stiletto-wobbling crowd jostles for front-row seats.... --A *fast track to Fashi...
For the second time in less than a fortnight, top American intelligence officials have claimed that India is building up its armed forces focused at China’s perceived aggressive posture in the Asia-Pacific...
I am truly amazed about all the false rhetoric and blatant lies coming from both our Jewish occupied governments, as well as our Jewish controlled media, about the senseless and ridiculous need to have the...
The MI-17 V5 falls in armed helicopter category, with substantial and effective firepower. It has latest and more powerful engines that enhance its payload carrying capability at higher altitudes. Of the 8...
A 300-pound man was arrested after he was seen walking around an Exton, Pa., Walmart wearing nothing but socks. It was later discovered that the only apparel the man had on was stolen from the store, polic...
MI5 investigated whether Charlie Chaplin was actually a Frenchman called Israel Thornstein, previously secret files on the Hollywood film star have revealed. Intelligence officers could find no trace of...
The 42-year-old "struck a deal" with the schoolboys aged 13 and 14 after she was dumped by her boyfriend for another woman, it was alleged. She is said to have asked them to damage the car of his new girl...
A bipartisan slate of senators announced this afternoon they would reject “any United States policy that would rely on efforts to contain a nuclear weapons-capable Iran.” Drawing a clear line in the sand...
LONDON, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore wants to end the default practice of quarterly earnings guidance and explore issuing loyalty-driven securities as part of an overhaul of capit...
The retail sales data for January from the Office for National Statistics is stunningly good. One analyst has even said that he thought it had to be a mistake when he first saw the 0.9% rise today. There’...
End of controversial property tax breaks leaves the Pope facing €600m-a-year bill. After several years of scandal in which the Catholic Church has faced allegations of financial impropriety, paedophile p...
U.S. consumer prices rose the most in four months in January as the price of gasoline jumped, highlighting a growing concern that higher energy costs could slow the economic recovery. In a report that m...
After three years with unemployment topping 8 percent, the U.S. has seen the longest period of high unemployment since the Great Depression, the Congressional Budget Office noted in a report issued today....
The United States Department of Treasury will reach the the statutory limit it is allowed to borrow money before election day, according to a new study by Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio., former director of the...
Resentment of ruthless austerity programme may not be enough to prevent bailout package. Greek leaders express frustration and anger at the rapid erosion of their country's sovereignty by German and euro...
Doctors on Friday reported the first known case of Legionnaire's disease, a rare infection usually linked to faulty air conditioning and hot-water systems, that was caused by a visit to the dentist. The ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Eastern Uzbekistan at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 03:13:07 UTC Monday 20th February 2012 The epicenter was 57 km (35.3 miles) South of Panjakent, Uzb...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Carlsberg Ridge at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:11:22 UTC Monday 20th February 2012 The epicenter was 845 km (525 miles) Southwest of Male, M...
Michael Franti, "Hey World (Don't Give Up)"
ARLINGTON (CBSDFW.COM) – 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...
(Reuters) - The government of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is emerging as a rare supplier of diesel to Syria, potentially undermining Western sanctions and helping the Syrian government fuel its military in th...
*“We have the fourth-largest defense budget on the planet, superb armed forces, and antiterrorist and security capabilities that stretch across the globe and are feared by our enemies and admired by our fr...
The latest round of time-lapse videos from the Space Station features a beautiful pass over Canada and northern US under the light of the moon.
Philosopher Paul Thompson from Purdue University has suggested “The Blind Chicken Solution.” He argues that chickens blinded by “accident” have been developed into a strain of laboratory chickens that don...
The relationship between North Korea and Iran appears to be becoming closer and more cooperative as international criticism over their controversial nuclear programs increases and economic sanctions squee...
We are hearing a new concept these days in discussions about Iran - the zone of immunity. The idea, often explained by Ehud Barak, Israel’s defense minister, is that soon Iran will have enough nuclear cap...
(CNN) -- Mexico has landed some hard punches against the drug cartels that have stirred violence in parts of the country -- at least on paper. In 2011, against just the notorious Zetas cartel, Mexico ende...
(CNN) -- In 2012, hard-nosed rhetoric from the United States and Israel has accompanied an ever louder drumbeat for a possible "military option" to combat Iran's nuclear program. Tehran has responded wit...
*You only saw it if you bought a printed paper.* "BOLIVIAN PROTEST -- Indians clashed with police officers in La Paz, Bolivia yesterday after making a 41-day trek from their villages to the capital. The g...
Aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln (CNN) -- Lt. Timothy Breen flies missions close to Iranian air space almost every day in his U.S. Navy F-18 Hornet, often encountering Iranian military aircraft over the st...
I study biopolitics. That is the study of the intersections across(1) economic models; (2) health; (3) and dominant frameworks for interpreting andmitigating disease. In my research I’ve studied autism...
"Haitian leader could pardon Duvalier" Associated Press, January 27, 2012 DAVOS, Switzerland - Haiti’s president suggested that he might pardon former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, saying reconciliation f...
Unidentified attackers bomb their way into state-run jail in Kogi, killing one guard and freeing more than 100 inmates. Attackers have stormed a federal prison in Nigeria with heavy gunfire and explosives...
Calls for accountability and transparency grow at a time the military has fallen out of favour with the public. The military’s vast economic interests in Egypt are one of those secrets which is not real...
At least 44 people have died in a fight between rival gangs at a prison on the outskirts of the northern Mexican city of Monterrey. Victims were beaten, stabbed and stoned when a fight broke out on Sunday...
Four people have been killed in two separate avalanches near Washington state ski resorts. Three skiers died when an avalanche struck near the Stevens Pass ski area in the Cascade Mountains of north-cent...
Greece's future in the eurozone is the subject of a crucial meeting in Brussels later as violence erupted in Athens. The so-called Eurogroup, made up of the 17 countries which use the single currency, wi...
"The President just got in there. But in four years, will we still like him? In eight years, are we gonna still hype him? What if he says we've gotta go into Iran and kill a million people? Will you stil...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 188.6 km (117.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:28:17 UTC Monday 20th February 2012 The epicenter was 60 km (37.2 miles) Northea...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Kyrgyzstan at a depth of 40 km (24.8 miles), the quake hit at 02:24:00 UTC Monday 20th February 2012 The epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) Southeast of Toktogul, Kyrgyzst...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 10.2 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 00:50:03 UTC Monday 20th February 2012 The epicenter was 7 km (4 miles) South of Van, Turkey No Repo...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Central East Pacific Rise at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 00:35:53 UTC Monday 20th February 2012 The epicenter was 2006 km (1246 miles) North of...
"Official: 358 killed in Honduras prison fire; Blaze brings jail conditions under scrutiny" by Freddy Cuevas and Marcos Aleman | associated Press, February 16, 2012 COMAYAGUA, Honduras - Honduran offici...
If there's one thing that drives Southern Man into a boiling rage of vengeful fury, it's property crime. He'd be a happy camper if all of those SWAT teams would get pulled off the War On Drugs and go after...
Found this report tonight and thought that a snip of it was worth sharing. *WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?* *New Photo ID Proposals Part of a National Push to Turn Back the Clock on Voting Rights* The rep...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Kepulauan Mentawai Region, Indonesia at a depth of 47.3 km (29.4 miles), the quake hit at 00:33:49 UTC Monday 20th February 2012 The epicenter was 170 km (105 mil...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 552.7 km (343.4 miles), the quake hit at 23:33:08 UTC Sunday 19th February 2012 The epicenter was 240 km (149 miles) ESE of Lambasa, Vanu...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Eastern New Guinea Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 61.8 km (38.4 miles), the quake hit at 20:46:21 UTC Sunday 19th February 2012 The epicenter was 40 km (2...
"Stampede kills woman in South Africa; Rare college seats drew thousands" by Lydia Polgreen | New York Times, January 11, 2012 JOHANNESBURG - One *woman died* and several people were injured yesterday i...
Liquid Mind, "Laguna Indigo (Planets)" Part 1. - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFYid8IERC8&feature=related • Liquid Mind, "Laguna Indigo (Aurora)" Part 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfvKD_SaQdQ&featur...
Liquid Mind, "Laguna Indigo (Planets)" Part 1. - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFYid8IERC8&feature=related Liquid Mind, "Laguna Indigo (Aurora)" Part 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfvKD_SaQdQ&feature=...
When John Glenn was preparing for launch on the first U.S orbital spaceflight, he realized that his capsule would be passing over some parts of the world that might be inhabited by aborigines.
Liquid Mind, “Society of Dreams”
"What are these Earthlings trying to tell us? The below message was broadcast from Earth towards the globular star cluster M13 in 1974. During the dedication of the Arecibo Observatory - still the largest ...
*I thought the U.S took care of that by taking out Hussein. That's what all my cable history channels tell me.* "400 Iranian exiles move reluctantly within Iraq"by Lara Jakes | Associated Press, Februar...
*The war for the cultural soul*: "Australia hopes to finally settle whether dingo killed baby" by Kristen Gelineau | Associated Press, February 19, 2012 SYDNEY - The mystery of Azaria Chamberlain’s dis...
*I do every time I buy one.* Why it matters that our politicians are rich Does being wealthy make you into an insensitive jerk? Science is offering some unsettling answers. * * *Meaning the answer is y...
A few days ago, I put out a call for financial support for a friend who was in need. I can report that she is doing well. I know it was a very short noticed. I am very humbled that supporters from Africa, ...
*The NBA player everyone's talking about, the Knicks' come-from-nowhere new starting point guard, Jeremy Lin, scored 28 points and notched 14 assists in today's come-from-behind win against the Mavericks.*...
"Auditors noted, then ignored, McLaughlin pay; AG investigating repeated failure to act on an outrage that was right in plain view" February 12, 2012 |By Andrea Estes and Sean P. Murphy, Globe Staff State ...
A similar version of this commentary was published by *Substance News*earlier today: The old-school eugenics of the previous century was aimed to eradicate all sorts of unfit and anti-social behavior, fro...
Saint-genis-laval, Rhone-Alpes, France. Thanks for stopping by.
*“Cultivating Delight”* by Chet Raymo “As an epigraph to one of the chapters in her book ‘Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden,’ Diane Ackerman quotes Oscar Wilde: "The true mystery of the...
The project may be on hold but that hasn't stopped TransCanada from pursuing land takings in Texas by eminent domain to build the damn Keystone XL pipeline. They don't need federal approval to do that part...
"Life is never easy for those who dream." - Robert James Waller
Photo by John Carroll--February 17, 2012
I know I shouldn't waste my time on this buffoon, but I simply can't help myself. This is real.Alan Dershowitz - Attorney General of *Hasbara* and Warmongering - has once again taken to the pages of the *...
By L. Randall Wray Thehouseholds and business firms in a modern capitalist economy make many of theimportant economic decisions that contribute to determination of the level ofemployment and output, the c...
*"Sweet Darkness"* "When your eyes are tired the world is tired also. When your vision has gone no part of the world can find you. Time to go into the dark where the night has eyes to recognize its own. ...
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[image: _Hickey]ONCE AGAIN BERNARD HICKEY offers the insalubrious example of a commentator who knows something is wrong, yet knows nothing about how to fix it. Nothing that is beyond yelling “Something M...
In the *Matrix*, it's trivial to specify the underlying data-generating process. It involves kung fu. Given PTJ's post, I wanted to clarify two points from my original post on Big Data and the ensuing comm...
Source: David Dees Illustration. The Joker: [over the PA] Tonight you're all gonna be part of a social experiment. Through the magic of diesel fuel and ammonium nitrate, I'm ready right now to blow you al...
*Finally... Rick earns a clown face!* Actually, on Friday someone who served with Santorum in the House and Senate-- and suffered a disastrous defeat like his in the same 2006 re-election bid-- *did* endo...
Intervention of course meaning, bombing to smithereens. Rape. Plunder. Torture. Seriously, boycott this woman's movies. She is a tool. A puppet. Her puppet masters fill the upper echelons of elitist org...
[This post was written by PTJ] One of the slightly disconcerting experiences from my week in Vienna teaching an intensive philosophy of science course for the European Consortium on Political Research inv...
To D-fox: if you're reading this, please contact us at thecomingcrisis@gmail.com. It's important -- we believe.
Paulo Coelho, “The Meaning of Life”
The silly video above is the first YouTube video posted by your humble correspondent that has surpassed 1 million views. I have no idea why. I don't know where the people come from. The video was create...
Just checking -- everyone assumes that clear support for same-sex marriage, no hedging in any way, will be mandatory for all Democratic WH 2016 candidates, correct? Bonus question, since that one (I assum...
Russ Baker at WhoWhatWhy says that the media coverage of the Syrian conflict "is a travesty." No due diligence (practiced) by the mainstream media." Very deliberate propaganda campaigns. Has anyone asked w...
*This is not the vision of America* *The world’s economic powerhouse has a sickness … * *America can’t fully admit it’s poverty … * *And it’s certainly not dealing with it!* I didn’t find this. I don'...
*1960s Iran - **Website for this image** * On 16 February 2012, in congressional hearings, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said that Iran has *not* decided to develop an atomic bomb. *Panetta: No Iranian...
Where do you see the Republican Party headed on same-sex marriage? First, do you think that conservatives somehow or another turn the tide back? If not, when does opposition cease to be a litmus test for ...
American Scofflaw The only reason certain words offend and shock us is that we are trained to allow those words to offend and shock us, to give power over us to those who use such words to shock and offen...
A real revolution may be about to follow. by Tony Cartalucci February 20, 2012 - Neo-Conservative Max Boot is a certified warmonger, an elitist policy wonk sitting on the Fortune 500-funded Council on For...
*CANADIAN LABOUR EDMONTON:* *HOSPITAL WORKERS WILDCAT IN EDMONTON:* Sometimes some people such as bosses need a little wake-up call before they move at all. Such seemed to be the case recently in Edm...
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Gwich'in Sarah James battling to protect the caribou during the Cancun climate summit. Photo Brenda Norrell.*By Brenda Norrell* *Censored News* http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com *Media promotion of destruc...
Egyptian election officials have failed to confirm the date of the first presidential election since the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak. An election commission briefing only expressed hope the process could b...
General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, says a strike 'at this time would be destabilising' The United States is stepping up efforts to dissuade Israel from attacking Iran's nuc...
WASHINGTON — The top US military officer warned Sunday that intervention in Syria would be "very difficult" and said it would be "premature" to arm the besieged country's opposition movement. General Mar...
A man arrested over the death of a vicar in South Gloucestershire is being questioned over the murder of a pensioner in Worcestershire. Betty Yates, 77, was found stabbed at her cottage near Bewdley last ...
Adolf Hitler's son may be dead but his grandkids are alive and well and living in France. It's all the result of a romantic interlude when Adolf was a German soldier in France in WWI. Here's Adolf Jr. an...
American Scofflaw Unfortunately, however, there are those in the bowels of power in DC and Tel Aviv who have a very different agenda other than that driven by logic. For the Israeli leadership, such an a...
American Scofflaw Those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it. Let's take a look at drug trafficking during the Viet Nam War, shall we?!? Perhaps the biggest secret of the Vietnam War is t...
Let's exercise a little logic here. IF the Iranian Revolutionary Guard was going to smuggle explosives into Gaza, *why would they be stamped as having been made by the Revolutionary Guard, when these p...
*Still slaving away.... * "Survey highlights burdens of black women in recession; Willingness to aid family adds to financial strains" by Chris L. Jenkins | Washington Post, February 19, 2012 WASHINGT...
American Scofflaw ...and the Federal Government that claims authority over us based on that discredited voting system. While vote fraud has been epidemic in this country for decades, most Americans becam...
(Reuters) - Iran has stopped selling crude to British and French companies, the oil ministry said on Sunday, in a retaliatory measure against fresh EU sanctions on the Islamic state's lifeblood, oil. "Ex...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Costa Rica at a depth of 45.4 km (28.2 miles), the quake hit at 17:34:04 UTC Sunday 19th February 2012 The epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) SSE from SAN JOSE, Costa Rica...
A fire has swept through street markets in the capital of Honduras - five days after the nation was left traumatised by a prison fire that killed 358 people. Despite hellish scenes of huge flames and ac...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck New Zealand at a depth of 100 km (62 miles), the quake hit at 12:19:25 UTC Sunday 19th February 2012 The epicenter was 5 km (3.1 miles) of Whanganui, New Zealand No Re...
*The beautiful Scottish soprano Mary Garden, chosen by Debussy to be the first Mélisande in 1902, sings the solo from the Tower Scene that opens Act III of Pelléas et Mélisande in this famous (if sadly li...
*Each and every Friday Anonymous will be launching attacks… with the specific purpose of wiping as many corrupt corporate and government systems off our internet.*
*I notice the AmeriKan media never focuses on him taking away the printing of currency from the private banking cartel -- actions that another president would also attempt 100 years later. Isn't it odd tha...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Izu Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 434.7 km (270.1 miles), the quake hit at 16:06:07 UTC Sunday 19th February 2012 The epicenter was 345 km (214 miles) SSW o...
Old colonial powers look to bring Syria back under their sphere of influence. RT - February 19, 2012 Video: RT - The EU states are calling for creating humanitarian corridors in Syria, which some fear ...
Yes, I'm still running late this weekend, sorry. Let's see: Syria, Iran, Egypt, to begin with. For the economy, developments in Greece and Europe, and the passage of the extenders bill for payroll taxes a...
Mexico City (CNN) -- More than 20 people were killed in a prison riot in northern Mexico Sunday morning, state media reported. Inmates took a guard hostage as clashes broke out in the prison in Apodaca, N...
Photo by John Carroll--February 17, 2012
In all likelihood the 21st century will be marked by a succession of dramatic upheavals. The rise of radical conservatism and the true warfare state followed by a decade of democratic suppression and fut...
*LAST CALL!* "Pakistani bartender retires after 25 years of beer, burgers, intrigue" by Karin Bruilliard | Washington Post, February 12, 2012 PESHAWAR, Pakistan - As *US-funded Afghan jihadists* *battle...
By Capt. Fogg "He is imposing his values on the Christian church. He can categorize those values anyway he wants. I’m not going to,” lied Republican candidate Rick Santorum to an assemblage of Tea Bag idi...
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. What goes around, comes around. Read it and weep! When John F Kennedy ran for president you would read and hear things like: Many voters, especially those...
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