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*I'm sorry I failed you, dear readers. The business articles generally sucked, save for one exception: the printed paper more often than not carried a picture of protesters along with the printed pos.* *W...
According to Postmedia,
NDP membership numbers have "skyrocketed": *NDP memberships skyrocket heading into leadership vote*
OTTAWA — The number of NDP members has increased by about 50 per cent in the pas...
The most effective propaganda is invisible, passing itself off as reality even to those producing it. "Come here for America in all its glory" is the current banner heading for
Mark Mardell's BBC webpage, ...
Not so long ago it was acceptable to attribute variations in human ability and achievement to variations in ethnicity. The nineteenth century’s eminent thinkers were content to attribute specific mental tr...
Dear BBC, I would like to complain about the contribution CBBC appears to be playing in creating unrealistic aspirations in its young viewers. As you may have heard, a recent study has detected a marked s...
Across the political divide, ‘liberal’ seems to have become a dirty word. In part this is just due to the multiple meanings that have grown around the term. Nevertheless if we look at the various reasons p...
In a slight anatomical shift, opinions on last month’s riots and looting seem more like coccyx vertebrae – everybody has several. Rather than add any more, this is an attempt to impose some order on the ex...
As the fallout from the *
News International* scandal spreads, it now seems unavoidable that even the formal constitution of
British government will be affected. At the very least, it appears that it may n...
Of the many puzzling inconsistencies to be found in religion one seems particularly relevant at this time: If Christ died for our sins then why is sin still present? If he really did shoulder the whole wor...
April saw another condemnation of the BBC’s legendary political bias, this time by its veteran broadcaster Michael Buerk. “What the BBC regards as normal and abnormal, what is moderate or extreme, where t...
For defenders of authority, it seems there is no act so obscene it can’t be counterbalanced by the claim that it serves a greater good: •* Bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved lives in the long run. • Tor...
For Conservative MP Philip Davies the Christmas run-up was spent distancing the government from Vince Cable’s auto-Assangement. On the BBC’s PM, in a state bordering on bewilderment, he told Eddie Mair: “...
Below is the text of an email I have just sent to all Lib Dem back-benchers, and copied to their front-bench. I have included the email list at the bottom in case anyone would like to do something similar ...
It’s Blitz season again, and it seems to be bigger than ever. The BBC alone boasts ten programmes in the space of a week. That’s aside from news reports and memorials and related features on *Antiques Road...
It’s a common misconception that propaganda must be consciously created. The campaign posters for this year’s poppy appeal show how good intentions can have deeply ideological consequences. The simplest f...
*Celestial Monetarism* It has long been a dream of leftists that the market might one day be eradicated. Not because state control of production is itself desirable, rather that with the right state plann...
Each of the following responses is rooted in the same observation: There are more important things in the world than economics. Even if everything depends upon economics, it remains the means not the end g...
*1% Truth?* For some people ‘capitalism’ will always be a dirty word – synonymous with greed and exploitation. In more mainstream discussion the term pulses between negative and positive, in step with his...
If capitalism survives this crash one thing is certain. The corporate classes will again lobby for the same rules that brought us here. History will be rewritten and it won’t be the unregulated market to b...
For a great many of us the term *Ossetia* is new on the ear. It’s the sort of noise one might hear briefly on mainstream news in the context of an earthquake or flood or ‘senseless’ war, before returning t...
Like the paedophile summer of 2000 and the hoodie summer of 2005, 2008 seems all set to be forgotten as the summer of knife crime. Rather than pit-bulls or perverts this season’s ephemeral terror is the bl...
*Media* Comical as it might seem most news outlets maintain the pretence of sticking to the following journalistic principles: 1. Strive to tell the truth. 2. Strive to reflect opinion. At first this mi...
*Politics * The BNP’s success in the May elections is clearly a matter of concern for the main parties. Condemnation rains down from all sides. To be fair some of this may be genuine, motivated by fear of ...
*Innate Levels of Obedience* Dissent isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. While some find it natural others find it excruciating. Some feel it’s wrong to complain in the first place, wince at any challenge to au...
Much is made of the virtue of disregarding the lives of some in the name of others. It’s a real tough-guy decision, fetishised in popular culture: Do you have the guts do sacrifice the few to protect the m...
If media attention is the measure, some civilian deaths are less tragic than others. Six years on and the three thousand killed in the attacks on the world trade centre continue to generate more breast-bea...
Celebrity trivia is only natural, some would have us believe. Humans have an innate urge to gossip and there’s no better subject than the great and good. *Hello!* and *OK!* are the modern woman’s way of go...
*“30,000 Year Old Plant Brought To Life”* by Dailymail.co.uk "As far a flowering pot plants go, the Silene stenophylla plant sitting in a corner of a Russian laboratory will not win many awards. The one aw...
Hey, folks a little bit of housekeeping: in addition to all the other cool places you can read me, I'm now going to be contributing to PostPartisan, which is (another) one of the blogs over at the Washingt...
*AIDS patient. **Website for this image** * Why are so many people dying of TB in Indonesia? Indonesia has a lot of AIDS, and that leads to TB. *Indonesia's AIDS epidemic could wreck "the big economic, p...
Yesterday was my birthday and the "present" I'm referring to didn't come wrapped with a bow. It was delivered orally by a friend when I was out for my hike in the morning. I wasn't quite sure where the di...
*Could be the last gasp for Portugal.... * "Portugal’s woes may be warning for Greece" February 15, 2012|By Landon Thomas Jr. LISBON - As debt-plagued Greece struggles to meet Europe’s strict terms for r...
Straying yet again from the topic of this blog (trees dying from air pollution) I feel compelled to remark on the disturbing reports of so many dolphins, almost 200 now, beaching in Wellfleet on Cape Cod. ...
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Reconsidering testing: Some fundamentals Sent to the Austin-American Statesman, Feb 21, 2012 A year's delay to reconsider the role of testing is a very good idea (“It’s smart to step back on STARR,” Feb 20)...
Jeffrey Goldberg makes a reasonable point concerning Republican presidential candidates who believe that Iran is a weakness for Barack Obama -- that Obama has been "tougher" on Iran than George W. Bush was...
On 20 february 2012, we learn from the Bangkok Post that *the people who did the Thailand Bombing were 'Anti-Iran Exiles'.** *(Bomb suspects 'were anti-Iran exiles') "Four Iranians suspected of involv...
*“Farewell Redress”* by Calen Fretts “Yesterday we observed Presidents Day, a federal holiday originally enacted by Congress in 1879 to honor President George Washington's birthday (the holiday was then ...
I have made the following comment on Roy Spencer's web site, concerning his defense of the greenhouse effect. *Roy Spencer wrote: " ...the cooler object (the atmosphere) keeps the warmer object (the ground...
"Drowning Man," by David Galletly / 2headedsnake.We are drowning here:War, banks, and dumbed-down media“At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. Oh had I the ability, and co...
* "Economic Recovery Without the Pain of De-Leveraging"* by Bill Bonner "If only Keynes had gone to Carnival! Buenos Aires is hot and humid. We wilt. We slow down. We find it hard to breathe. It’s like Ma...
*NEW HAMPSHIRE - Introduced 1/17/12* AN ACT relative to criteria for the government regulation of occupations and professions. ANALYSIS This bill establishes criteria for the regulation of occupations and...
*“Then There Was This...”* by Chuck Butler “I read a report this past weekend that talked about how with interest rates this low here in the US, and Treasury yields going lower all the time, this year’s ...
*Blogger's Note*: China's most egregious exploitation of workers in high-tech factories like Foxconn Technologies is due to their being *cheated by the company's management*. Although expressly forbidden b...
*I was surprised to see it in my Glob*:"Thousands protest Spain’s new labor reforms" Associated Press, February 20, 2012 MADRID — *Hundreds of thousands of protesters marched* throughout Spain yesterday i...
The discovery of the rare earth element tellurium in 3 ancient stars helps astronomers piece together how heavy elements are formed and, ultimately, where we came from.
Samsung's Galaxy Note is laughably and awkwardly large. Did somebody there lose a bet?
Throw me something, Mickey! ~moosedenied Carl Nicks Wants More Money than Jahri Evans? ~Canal Street Chronicles
*They must not have the requisite creativity**, etc, etc, to make the agenda-pushing paper.* "Police break up remains of Occupy Newark" by NEW YORK TIMES | February 16, 2012 NEWARK, N.J. — Authorities ...
This is unbelievable! Satan's dark, secret agents like Rick Santorum are so bold. They do Satan's bidding behind the scenes, and then pose as Satan's adversaries on the microphone in public. Santorum is ...
JALO, Libya (AP) — Scores of civilians have been killed in the past 24 hours in tribal warfare in southern Libya, witnesses said on Tuesday. Moussa Bazama, an ambulance worker driving north taking injured...
(Reuters) - Japan is close to agreement with Washington on the size of cuts refiners must make in imports of Iranian crude oil to win waivers from U.S. sanctions, two ministers said Tuesday after a media ...
(Reuters) - Syrian government forces killed more than 60 people on Tuesday in assaults on villages and an artillery barrage in the restive city of Homs, activists said, and the Red Cross called for daily ...
Long before YouTube, cats were in the limelight.
Signal Snowboards takes their functional hybrid board for a test run on both snow and surf.
Wearers beware tighty-whities, tight jeans, high heels, cinched waists, tight ties and biking shorts!
In preparation for the 2012 Olympics, London is pulling out all of the tech stops for visitors.
(Reuters) - The European Central Bank wants its second offer of cheap ultra-long funds next week to be its last, putting the onus back on governments to secure the euro zone's longer-term future. Powerfu...
(Reuters) - European Union leaders will call at a summit next week for the world's 20 biggest economies (G20) to agree in April to substantially boost funds available to the International Monetary Fund, d...
Graphic from Progressive America Rising.Is the U.S. in a ‘Dangerous State of Funk’?Much political rhetoric, and a spate of new books, would have us believe that the U.S. is in a dangerous state of funk.By Ia...
I found this posted this morning and thought I should take a further look at it. Ridiculous Republican bill of the day In a further attempt to turn back the calendar to the 1950's, four Minnesota Senate ...
To Steve Benen, who finds four examples of Republican efforts to brand some Obama scandal or near scandal or whatever as "Obama's Watergate." Excellent fun. Benen asks: "[C]an the right at least come up w...
Apologies it is a long winded, sort of tangle webbed post In case you missed it the “peaceful” protestors, armed terroristsassassinated a Judge and Prosecutor over the weekend “Gunmen in Syria staged a g...
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Afghan police have intercepted 41 children whom insurgents were planning to use as suicide bombers, an Interior Ministry spokesman said Tuesday. Four suspected insurgents were...
Another UFO Encounter in the Spanish Sahara [Researcher Alfonso Ferrer has just reminded us of another – and more spectacular – case involving the Canary Islands and the Spanish Sahara. Our re...
Greeks are facing severe austerity cuts because of their country's mounting debt crisis. Here, nine Greek citizens describe the effect the cuts are having on them. Konstantinos Papaioannou Greek language ...
I have a question for all of my readers... Are you as sick as I am about the constant BS coming out of our media and our governments about Iran being a threat to world peace, and that it must be attacked i...
Sixteen-year-old Jessica Ahlquist sued Cranston High School in Cranston, Rhode Island, for displaying an eight-foot tall prayer banner in the school gym. Photo by Gretchen Ertl / NYT / Facebook.'City upon a ...
Moonquakes detected by seismic sensors installed during the Apollo missions support the notion of recent activity on the moon.
The space telescope has taken a closer look at this alien world, revealing a brand new type of exoplanet.
Every time I see Wisconsin Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin on TV, I forget she's a politician. She doesn't come across as one. She comes across as a friend or a neighbor who you turn to for good advice, someo...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the New Ireland Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 379 km (234.9 miles), the quake hit at 16:42:58 UTC Tuesday 21st February 2012 The epicenter was 50 km (31 mile...
A Nasa satellite has provided jaw-dropping pictures of a huge 'storm' brewing under the sea. The swirling mass of water - which measures a whopping 93 miles wide - has been spotted off the coast of South...
Internet search giant Google is evading privacy settings of Internet Explorer users, claims Microsoft, the computer firm behind the browser. Dean Hachamovitch, Microsoft’s corporate vice president for Int...
Beginning roughly 4-5 days ago, Verizon wireless customers all over the country began complaining on message boards that their wifi connections went down. This seems to be a regular thing, if my research ...
I guess I may as well wade in because the honest truth is, I've *always*hated it when I don't get invited to the party. I saw that everybody who has posted the documents released last week has received cea...
A new magnetic system would recharge electric vehicles wirelessly as they drive along the highway.
When it comes to rank stupidity, Sarah Palin takes even Dan Quayle off the hook. In the runup to the release of the HBO docudrama "*Game Change"*based on John McCain's decision to revitalize his flagging p...
New polling research out late last week shows exactly the mess that Republicans have made for themselves on taxes. A YouGov study by political scientists Gregory Huber, Conor Dowling, and Seth Hill shows a...
EU bureaucrats who are totally detached from the reality have invented an insane carbon trading scheme, the ETS, and they attempted to incorporate the global airline industry into this scheme. Every flig...
A teenage student was sacked from his first ever job as a waiter in an upmarket Chinese restaurant - for being white. David O'Neill won a race discrimination battle against the Ocean Dragon in Birmingham...
By Capt. Fogg It's hard to observe the growing and comical chaos in the GOP without thinking of B movie icon Ed Wood and his Plan 9 From Outer Space, wherein space aliens resurrect dead humans as zombies ...
------------------------------ Find Original Here ------------------------------ Chris Hedges' Columns *Acts of Love* Posted on Feb 19, 2012 By Chris Hedges Love, the deepest human commitment, the ...
So remember how the Cons withdrew their just-tabled internet surveillance bill, the *Lawful Access* *Act,* on Feb 14 and replaced it an hour and 15 minutes later with the identical but renamed *Protecting ...
*Judge Not that Ye Be Not Judged - *Matthew 7:1. Apparently Rick Santorum somehow missed that sermon. The current Republican nomination frontrunner positively delights in judging, and invariably condemn...
*TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2012* *How should this story be told:* In the past week, we have continued to read and reread Paul Krugman’s very important column from February 13. We hate it here when Krugman sn...
Peter Skyllberg, the Swedish man who apparently survived more than two months of freezing winter in a snow-covered car had been living in the vehicle since last summer, when he was a regular customer at a ...
Most people who inhabit America's middle-classes and upper-middle-class (and lower upper-class) have a strong, but rarely explicated faith that in the event of a crisis situation the US federal and state ...
These pork chops are quite literally amazing. This easy, hands off, recipe produces delicious and tender pork chops that never last long in our house. I am not a pork lover (except bacon, because ever...
An Ontario man says he's angry and frightened after discovering someone hid a GPS tracking device under his vehicle, apparently to secretly monitor his movements. “I was doing just a regular inspection on...
There have been several news accounts lately of a new trend in US law enforcement. Police officers arresting juveniles on criminal charges for typical childish schoolyard misbehaviour including swearing,...
Iran would take pre-emptive action against its enemies if it felt its national interests were endangered, the deputy head of the Islamic Republic's armed forces was quoted by a semi-official news agency as...
Source: Angel Carretero – Andalucía Misteriosa Date: 02.20.12 Spain: UFOs Over the Spanish Sahara [Many of our readers may not be aware that Spain had – and continues to have – a signifi...
Zapping out pedestrians from your landmark photos can be done with one shot.
Journalists everywhere bury their heads in their hands.
*TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2012* *The Los Angeles Times hurts our heads:* The miracle lies in the fact that our nation ever made it this far. On Sunday, the Los Angeles Times performed a dual service. First, ...
London (CNN) -- Eurozone finance ministers have agreed a second bailout package for Greece, giving it the funds it needs to avoid a potential default next month. The deal will take the pressure off the c...
*TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2012* *Part 1—The Post visits 28 states:* Within our hopeless political discourse, facts really *aren’t* stubborn things, despite what you may have heard. Quite frequently, pseudo-...
[image: U.S. presidential candidate Rick Santorum speaks at a church congregation. AP via talkingpointsmemo.com] By Sahil Kapur 21 February 2012 Climate change denial has become a litmus test for modern...
I guess your best overall review of this finally came up today on Common Dreams. *Occupy Movement Targets Corporate Interest Group with Ties to Legislators* *American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) wil...
Steve Harper has been warned - the Athabasca Tar Sands pose a "*significant environmental and financial risk*" to Alberta. That warning came in a secret report prepared for Wayne Routers, the clerk of the...
** * * *Beth* * * *Teledjol is a Haitian word which means gossip or rumor mill. It is the way news is spread in Haiti. Facebook is here too but teledjol is still king.* When Haitian Hearts comes to Haiti ...
[image: The KS Endeavor fire at the Funiwa Field in Nigeria on 17 January 2012. Chevron] By Chika Amanze-Nwachuku 21 February 2012 Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) has begun the process of drilling a relie...
[image: Vietnam 013] ** Here is part one, where I noted how much the communist super-idolization of leaders like Ho and Mao weirds me out. Here are a few more social science impressions from our university...
[image: Global map of forest height produced from NASA's ICESAT/GLAS, MODIS and TRMM sensors. The map will advance our understanding of Earth's forest habitats and their role in Earth's carbon cycle. NAS...
Protest outside main U.S. military base in Afghanistan over a report that foreign troops had improperly disposed of copies
[image: Skip Stiles stands on a bridge in Norfolk, where Wetlands Watch is based. Norfolk has the highest rate of sea-level rise on the Atlantic Coast, and Stiles is working with communities around Hampt...
"It's interesting to me that (ALEC) has managed to stay below the radar and secretive for many, many years," Underwood said in a phone conversation. "It piques my curiosity. Why have they worked so hard ...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Bering Strait, Alaska at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:50:43 UTC Tuesday 21st February 2012 The epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) South from Poi...
(This is my fourth post on the ALEC MN Voter ID issue - Please see my February history for other posts.) From a report released by the Minneapolis League of Women Voters the following items. 4. Absentee ...
After finally reading his own bill, it appears Vic Toews has decided to sidewith the child pornographers: Public Safety Minister Vic Toews says he is surprised to learn that a section of the government's o...
What does it take to accumulate a billion dollars? I mean psychologically. What kind of people have the drive to devote themselves to that onerous task and what kind of people come out of inheriting it? L...
Anonymous attracted the attention of the National Security Agency. In private meetings at the White House, NSA director General Keith Alexander warned that in a year or two the group could attack the energ...
Mexico: “Stunned and Surprised” – UFO over Dzilam de Bravo By Darvin Canché Source: Diario Por Esto! (Yucatan) Date: 17 February 2012 DZILAM DE BRAVO, Yucatán, 17 Feb – Residents of this port ci...
Four residents of Gowa, South Sulawesi, were rushed to the nearest hospital after showing the symptoms of H5N1 virus or famously known as the bird flu. The four residents of Kunjung Mae Hamlet, Panakkukan...
Happy Birthday to John Lewis, Member of Congress and American hero, 72. Straight to the good stuff: 1. David Mayhew on the most important elections in US history. 2. "Harry McPherson and Presidential Deci...
Gods of Money: Wall Street and the Death of the American Century.... http://coto2.wordpress.com/2011/02/25/william-engdahl-gods-of-money-wall-street-and-the-death-of-the-american-century/ William Engdahl...
*"Is Google's AdSense Doomed?"* by Karl Denninger "Google may have stepped in a bear trap this time. Friday The Wall Street Journal claimed that Google had apparently figured out how to bypass Safari's ...
The 1000 Mardi Gras ~He Said/She Said NOLA ~Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club~Uptown 8:00 a.m.** ~Krewe of Rex*~Uptown 10:00 a.m.* ~Krewe of Elks Orleans*~Uptown 11:30 a.m.* ~Krewe of Crescent City*~Uptown aft...
Remains of a dinosaur brooding in its nest have emerged from the red sandstones of the Gobi desert in Mongolia.
JAKARTA (AFP) - Tests on a 19-year-old woman who died last week showed she had contracted the bird flu virus, Indonesia's third human death from the deadly disease this year, the health ministry said on T...
Suspected Nigerian Islamists have opened fire and set off bombs at a market in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri, killing at least 30 people, a medic and a witness said. Gunmen believed to be members o...
Buried beneath a coal mine in Mongolia, scientists have discovered a 'Pompeii-like' forest, 300 million years old, buried by volcanic ash. Because volcanic ash covered a large expanse of forest over the c...
The filesharing website The Pirate Bay has come a step closer to being blocked in the UK after the high court ruled that the site breaches copyright laws on a large scale. Major music groups want Britis...
Feb. 21 - Clinton calls for Russia and China to stop their support for the Assad regime while Westerwelle says more sanctions are needed. Sophia Soo reports
(Reuters) - Syrian government forces killed at least 16 people and wounded some 340 on Tuesday when they unleashed a heavy artillery barrage on a rebel-held district of the city of Homs, activists said. ...
Rio de Janeiro : At least 20 people suffered slight injuries on their toes and fingers when they were attacked by carnivorous fish as they were bathing in a river in southern Brazil, authorities reported M...
*Having Money Can Make a Difference* *Rick Santorum grew wealthy* over his four years working as a corporate consultant and media commentator after leaving the Senate in 2006, his newly released federal t...
THERE were floating cars, soggy carpets and about 80 calls for help to the State Emergency Service after a storm swept through St George and Sutherland Shire last night. Some suburbs were flooded by 50 t...
Scriba, NY -- The Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station Unit 1 was shut down Sunday due to a leaking valve. Jill Lyon, spokeswoman for the plant owned by Constellation Energy Nuclear Group, said Monday the pla...
BEIJING - At least 10 people were killed and another 17 were injured in an explosion at a steel plant in northeastern China, state media said Tuesday, in the latest industrial accident to hit the country....
OKUMA, Fukushima -- The crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant was shown to the media on Feb. 20 for the first time since the government declared in December that the nuclear facility had achieved a...
The government's Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters did not fulfill requests from the Cabinet's Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan (NSC) to conduct further testing on the internal radioactive exposur...
The BBC’s coverage of Khadar Adnan the Palestinian hunger striker closely resembles the extract from Al Jazeera highlighted by Elder of Ziyon, only the BBC’s version has been dumbed down, so that the publi...
Feb. 21 - A top executive of Japan's sandal-ridden Olympus Corp is found dead in a park outside New Delhi. Sophia Soo reports
(Reuters) - Members of the Zetas drug cartel plotted with prison guards to orchestrate an elaborate escape and kill 44 of their rivals in one of the worst episodes of prison violence in Mexico, the local ...
(Reuters) - Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was taken in for questioning on Tuesday by police investigating an alleged prostitution ring run out of the northern French city of Lille. Strauss-Kahn...
(Reuters) - Iran would take pre-emptive action against its enemies if it felt its national interests were endangered, the deputy head of the Islamic Republic's armed forces was quoted by a semi-official n...
(Reuters) - Euro zone finance ministers sealed a 130-billion-euro ($172 billion) bailout for Greece on Tuesday to avert a chaotic default next month after forcing Athens to commit to unpopular cuts and pr...
(CNN) -- Poachers in search of ivory in northern Cameroon have slaughtered nearly 300 elephants for their tusks since mid-January, according to the country's minister of forestry and wildlife. Minister N...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Hokkaido, Japan at a depth of 111.7 km (69.4 miles), the quake hit at 11:14:27 UTC Tuesday 21st February 2012 The epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) Northeast from from Ao...
Baghdad (CNN) -- Iraq's Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi denied terrorism charges against him Monday, calling them "politically motivated" in a televised speech broadcast from the semiautonomous Kurd...
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 expo...
A disabled teenage boy was tied up and shocked for seven hours by his teachers at a controversial Massachusetts school. Andre McCollin was the latest victim of a form of electroshock therapy at a school ...
Thousands of protesters have attacked the main US military base in Afghanistan in the wake of reports that US troops set fire to copies of the Koran. Angry demonstrators fired slingshots and hurled petr...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Bali Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 257.1 km (159.8 miles), the quake hit at 10:46:54 UTC Tuesday 21st February 2012 The epicenter was 137 km (85 miles) Northeast f...
Apple have opened the doors to their Chinese 'sweatshop' factories where employees are paid as little as £1.12 an hour. Many of the staff perform monotonous tasks like wiping down screens or shaving alum...
U.S. politicians are rapidly losing faith in the dollar, with more than a dozen states proposing legislation to legalise gold and silver as a currency. Politicians in Colorado concerned about the nation'...
As far a flowering pot plants go, the Silene stenophylla plant sitting in a corner of a Russian laboratory will not win many awards. The one award it will win, however, is pretty impressive: The most anci...
Fruit seeds stored away by squirrels more than 30,000 years ago and found in Siberian permafrost have been regenerated into full flowering plants.
Giant chunks of melting ice are breaking free on the River Danube in Serbia, damaging hundreds of boats, sweeping away barges and sinking one of Belgrade's trademark floating nightclubs. The thick ice ha...
The south east of England is now officially in a state of drought, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said today. Some rivers and groundwater levels are lower than during the drought o...
These are the scenes of squalor which greeted police when they arrived to rescue a young girl from neglectful and abusive parents. Teesside Crown Court heard how police were called after the girl tearfull...
Chip shop worker Kimberley Burrell had spent a happy ten years working at her local chippy. The 29-year-old had been a fixture at Joanna's Fish Bar in Hartlepool, meeting and serving customers for 16 hou...
A policeman who funded an extramarital affair with by fraudulently raking in £70,000 in bank loans walked free from court after a judge branded him as 'emotionally fragile'. PC Jamie Hillman, 37, defraud...
Britain's shambolic Border Agency has routinely dropped or downgraded major immigration controls for the past five years without ministerial approval, a devastating report revealed last night. It found u...
They have penalised British drivers for not carrying a warning triangle or a fluorescent safety vest. Now French police have another weapon to wield against holidaymakers – a law insisting all motorists ...
The following probably comes into the category of ‘what the BBC won’t report’. Admittedly, few outside the Israeli press have covered the story, but it merits a little mention by the BBC because ill-concei...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Southeastern Missouri at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 09:58:43 UTC Tuesday 21st February 2012 The epicenter was 16 km (9 miles) ESE of Sikeston, Misso...
One in seven people in their 20s earn less than W1 million a month, according to National Health Insurance data. Out of 2.4 million employed people in their 20s, 15 percent or 360,000 people -- 150,000 m...
Korea officially has the highest suicide rate among all 34 member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, putting it even higher than Japan. The suicide rate last year sto...
Image: London Looting during riots, 2011 An increasing number of young people turn to theft amid the continuing recession. According to the National Police Agency, the number of 20-something thieves arre...
The first space tourist may be flying around the moon already five years from now if Space Adventures company has its way. The Virginia-based private space exploration company recently announced plans to ...
International investors say capitalism is in crisis, with almost one in three backing radical changes to the system, according to a Bloomberg survey. As the global financial and business elite gather in ...
The Earth's surface is mostly water, yet across increasingly large swaths of the planet, H2O reservoirs are drying up. This isn't a metaphor, and it's not hyperbole. It's a fact that's changing the destin...
Thomas Malthus, history’s celebrated pessimist, wrote in 1798 that, should war and disease fail to claim humanity, “gigantic inevitable famine stalks in the rear, and with one mighty blow levels the popul...
When Daniel Lacalle, in his early 20s, took a job with Spanish oil company Repsol YPF SA in 1991, friends chided him for entering a field with no future. "They all said, 'Why do you want to do that? Don't...
An unprecedented crisis faced America. Oil production was going to peak in just three to five years, resulting in foreign oil addiction and economic calamity. The scientist responsible for slapping the ...
Synopsis by Steven Neese Higher urinary concentrations of phthalates most commonly used in personal care products were associated with body size measures in overweight children. Overweight children ten...
As I told you on Saturday morning, the CDF Collaboration at the defunct Tevatron collider was going to publish a result on the Higgs physics that is based on 10 inverse femtobarns of their data. Here is th...
When biologist Tyrone Hayes discovered that a top-selling herbicide messes with sex hormones, its manufacturer went into battle mode. Thus began one of the weirdest feuds in the history of science. Darne...
Methane leaks during production may offset climate benefits of natural gas. When US government scientists began sampling the air from a tower north of Denver, Colorado, they expected urban smog — but not ...
Two Saturdays ago, I was walking with a friend in a park here in New York City. It was late January, but I was dressed in a light sweater and a thin fall jacket, which I had just taken off and tied around...
Syrian activists say 12 people have been killed and 100 wounded by government troops in the city of Homs. On Monday activists said the regime appeared to be sending infantry reinforcements including tank...
The melt-off from the world's ice sheets, ice caps and glaciers over eight years of the past decade would have been enough to cover the United States in about 18 inches (46 centimeters) of water, accordin...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Tonga Region at a depth of 81.9 km (50.9 miles), the quake hit at 09:10:34 UTC Tuesday 21st February 2012 The epicenter was 277 km (172 miles) North from Neiafu, T...
A previous version of this column incorrectly stated the number of people around the world who do not have reliable access to safe drinking water. The number is 1 billion. SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (Market...
After years of disagreement, NOAA's Fisheries Service has decided to list the Atlantic sturgeon as an endangered species. The listing will include five distinct populations of the fish -- four are endange...
Weird weather kept vexing large swathes of the United States over the last week, with unseasonably warm and dry conditions melting northern snows and spreading drought through the southwest, even as heavy...
"This glacier is really important," adds mightily to sea level rise, experts say. With a gargantuan crack slowly splitting it apart, Antarctica's fastest-melting glacier is about to lose a chunk of ice l...
Man-made air pollution from north America causes Europe to lose 1.2 million tonnes of wheat a year, a new study has found. Ozone pollution - produced by coal fired power stations and cars - travels betwe...
BP’s 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill is still affecting the lives of many Americans, particularly the tens of thousands that have not settled lawsuits with the company. Yet the company has bounced back from the...
This software illustrates a theory of time, history and the end of history as first described in the book The Invisible Landscape by Terence and Dennis McKenna. As related by Terence McKenna in his book ...
(CNN) -- We first thought about starting this piece with the story of Saleha Begum, a survivor of Bangladesh's 1971 war in which, some reports say, as many as 400,000 women were raped. Begum had been ti...
Patenting seeds has led to a farming and food crisis - and huge profits for US biotechnology corporations. New Delhi, India - The seed is the first link in the food chain - and seed sovereignty is the fo...
David Cameron and Ed Miliband don't want to lose Scotland, but it's losing England that really worries them. London, United Kingdom - Last year the Scottish Nationalist Party won a majority of the seats i...
The UN estimates that one in five women in Iraq suffer from domestic abuse, in a society where a woman leaving her husband for any reason is considered grounds for punishment. One rights group says case...
A decrease in ship traffic in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks lowered the levels of stress hormones in the feces of endangered North Atlantic right whales in the Bay of Fundy, a new study shows...
Children who cry easily and show other signs of depression are more likely to be bullied, but researchers suggest the depression may not necessarily be caused by bullying. People often assume that being ...
Look! Up in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? It’s … a drone, and it’s watching you. That’s what privacy advocates fear from a bill Congress passed this week to make it easier for the government to fl...
The American public's dependence on the federal government shot up 23% in just two years under President Obama, with 67 million now relying on some federal program, according to a newly released study by ...
It has been said there is no high ground in American politics since any politician who claims it is likely to be gunned down by those firing from the trenches. That’s how the Obama team justifies its deci...
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Biased BBC - 13 hours ago
The BBC is a strange beast. The past few days have seen it giving lots of publicity to those trade unionists/marxists/hard leftists who oppose the Coalition plan to allow unemployed people to gain unpaid w...
The American commander of Western forces in Afghanistan has ordered an investigation into the alleged burning of Korans by US troops. General John Allen apologised over reports that foreign soldiers had s...
There is overwhelming evidence that those who live in poverty have little access to books at home, in schools and in public and school libraries, and that the lack of access to books impacts literacy devel...
* Maisie * On 21 February 2012, we learn of the death of teen singer Maisie Baxter, a friend of teen singer Ronan Parke. *Framingham Earl school's tribute to “sunny and friendly” Maisie Baxter* Police wer...
This is a report from Athens on the Defkaliondevice which is now pumping out heat and is similar to the device been producedby Rossi and Focardi. We also hear moreof the conflicts been engendered by Ro...
This is a nice effort to describethe energy production in a graphic form but does not capture the real technicalvirtuosity that this design demonstrates. The energy take off is in the form of an ion pul...
Perhaps a little real science anda touch of sanity can creep into the fracking debate, whose major crime seemsto be that they show up next door one day and set up a portable industrial sitefor a month o...
Right now we are merelyconsidering the possibility. Yet thereis plenty of merit because the seismic attack wave is normally constrained interms of wavelength anyway and does most of its damage through ...
Ante GotovinaLast week I wrote about targeting and mentioned the Gotovina Case. This case has become interesting for those interested in international law and post-conflict justice because of the decision ...
OK... *this is rich*. The Vancouver police department announced Monday its support for federal cybercrime legislation that critics say would give police extensive access to information about your activiti...
Peter Gleick, a self-described co-founder and president of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security in Oakland, California, is a hardcore climate fearmonger. This blog h...
If you're not a veteran you may not understand this. If you're a veteran and you've never made an application to Veterans Affairs Canada, you too may not understand this. But if you've* made a claim*, base...
"In sheepskin coats, I silence the lambs." - Jay-Z, from his song Murder To Excellence feat Kanye West. "Anybody vaguely familiar with occultism can easily associate the symbol of the lit torch held hig...
Hell hath no fury like a woman's rights scorned. Love this. David Dayden reports on a powerful protest against Virginia's state sanctioned rape bill. This happened. Hundreds of women gathered and said not ...
BEIJING (AP) — Pyongyang's top nuclear envoy arrived in Beijing on Tuesday ahead of the first nuclear talks with the United States since the death of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il. First Vice Foreign...
In the confusion following the earthquake and tsunami that damaged Japan’s Fukushima nuclear complex last March, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it was standing by to help. But a trove of e-mails ...
For some people, the end of the world as we know it is upon us, and there is no better time than now to start preparing. Such is the concept of National Geographic Channel's new reality show Doomsday Pre...
Girls as young as 13 have been fitted with contraceptive implants at school without their parents knowing. The procedure was carried out in Southampton, Hants, as part of a government initiative to driv...
This is what I'm talking about: City University London's Centre for Information Leadership is hosting this free symposium to bring together academics and practitioners from across industry to tackle the...
Ancient patches of a giant seagrass in the Mediterranean Sea are now considered the oldest living organism on Earth after scientists dated them as up to 200,000 years old. Australian scientists sequenced...
Greek finance minister Evangelos Venizelos was right in his claim that eurozone ministers would finally agree a second bailout for the country - but the deal still leaves questions unanswered. The crunch...
When I'm 75 years old, I want to be a bold old broad just like this: The Health Secretary was berated by June Hautot from Tooting who claimed he was privatising the health service. Brushing aside his denia...
Tomorrow Blue America will be officially endorsing Tammy Baldwin for the open Senate seat in Wisconsin. Currently she's one of the most effective progressives in Congress. She represents the state's seco...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 592.4 km (368.1 miles), the quake hit at 04:36:27 UTC Tuesday 21st February 2012 The epicenter was 324 km (201 miles) Northwest from NUKU...
Watching The Ed Show on MSNBC. They aired a clip of Little Ricky Santorum saying the federal and state government shouldn't be involved in education at all. That it should be solely a function of local gov...
SEATTLE (CBS Seattle) — Google is testing 252 “mystery” devices in its employees’ homes, but what the device is, nobody outside of Google knows. Google recently applied for an experimental license with th...
WASHINGTON — The Constitution has seen better days. Sure, it is the nation’s founding document and sacred text. And it is the oldest written national constitution still in force anywhere in the world. B...
Performing yoga while being instructed by an inexperienced teacher can be deadly as they sometimes put pupils in life threatening positions, an expert on the activity has warned. Over-eager "green" teac...
An 83-year-old woman has become the first person to have a 3D printer-created jaw fitted. The artificial jaw was made from titanium powder, heated and built-up in layers in a 3D printer to create a work...
Unwanted electrical goods worth £762 million are thrown away every year, according to new research. New figures show more than 17 million mobile phones, music players, satnavs and other devices are sent ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 33.6 km (20.9 miles), the quake hit at 03:54:36 UTC Tuesday 21st February 2012 The epicenter was 127 km (78 miles) ...
Cash was offered by five women to commuters at busy bus stations up and down the UK but an average of only eight people at each station, out of thousands of bus travellers, took up the offer. Women weari...
Israeli planning authorities on Tuesday approved construction of a detention centre for illegal immigrants, at a projected cost of 250 million shekels ($67 million, 51 million euros), the defence ministry...
SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. (CBS) – At Shippensburg University, students can now get more than snacks from a vending machine. The college is now making the “morning after” pill available through a vending machine. ...
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Managers at the Federal Air Marshal Service regularly made fun of blacks, Latinos and gays, took taxpayer-paid trips to visit families and vacation...
After a marathon 13 hours of talks, eurozone finance ministers have finally struck a deal for Greece's second bailout package worth 130bn euro, EU officials have confirmed. The programme for Greece will...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 03:20:17 UTC Tuesday 21st February 2012 The epicenter was 1231 km (764 miles) North o...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Tonga Region at a depth of 34.4 km (21.4 miles), the quake hit at 23:54:20 UTC Monday 20th February 2012 The epicenter was 156 km (96 miles) Northeast of Neiafu, T...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 176.8 km (109.9 miles), the quake hit at 20:59:08 UTC Monday 20th February 2012 The epicenter was 99 km (61 mil...
When the bombing in Bangkok Thailand happened just a few days ago, I knew right off the hop that when the Jewish controlled media was screaming that the attack was by "Iranians", it did not make any sense....
Many people have now awakened to the reality that Iran is absolutely NOT possessing, building, or in the action of acquiring nuclear weapons. The idea that Iran possesses nuclear weapons has always been ...
Cusco, “Native American Ghost Dance: Power Drums, Spirit Pride”
“Many spiral galaxies have bars across their centers. Even our own Milky Way Galaxy is thought to have a modest central bar. Prominently barred spiral galaxy NGC 1073, pictured below, was captured in spect...
*“Nature”* by Chet Raymo "Shortly after I return to New England in late March I'm scheduled to give a talk on the theme "Let Nature Be Our Teacher." So I've been pondering what nature might teach us, and...
My blog was just attacked. My browser and all my setting were deleted. It may or may not have had something to do with the essay I just published by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts. Please read it if you have a spa...
First goal weight achieved! Southern Man will continue to replace a few meals a week with protein shakes until the existing supply of powder is exhausted and will slowly move back into his low-carb, low-st...
Photo by John Carroll--February 17, 2012
"The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it." - ...
Our species has a lot of pro-social tendencies, debunking the view that humans are competitive, aggressive and brutish in nature.
The Coming Crisis has created a new citizenship system aimed at acknowledging those who truly care about our website and the pursuit of the truth, and rewarding them for that support. By becoming a citizen...
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CENSORED NEWS - 20 hours ago
Monique Sonoquie (Chumash/Apache), Jim Brown III (Elem Pomo), Gail Brown (Yokáya Pomo) February 20, 2012 PRESS STATEMENT Jim Brown III, Elem-Modun Tribal Member: 2012 DOJ-EPA-ELEM-BRADLEY SETTLEMENT AGR...
*Noted pinhead Francis Fukuyama* *"Our system actively promotes people who will lie in the right way without even having to be told to and actively gets rid of anyone who is not a useful idiot – by which ...
*CANADIAN ANARCHIST MOVEMENT:* *DEADLINE FOR MONTRÉAL ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR EXTENDED:* It's coming up, the largest event of its kind in North America, the Montréal Anarchist Bookfair. As per what fol...
French teachers are turning Twitter into an educational tool.
By the end of the century, sea levels are predicted to rise by a meter along the North American west coast -- 'do-nothing' isn't an option.
Several hundred young people, responding to appeals on social networks, gathered outside the institute Lluis Vives , a college town, for protest against the liquidity problems that have private heating r...
I heard about this on the radio tonight and went looking for information. Found this report Insurance Coverage of Contraceptives By the Guttmacher Institute HIGHLIGHTS: ü 28 states require insurers t...
"A war lost by the aggressor who initiates it is a war of miscalculation. . . . Wars of miscalculation have been the scourge of the twentieth century [and] another such war threatens to destroy civiliza...
Who’d have thought that journalists who wish to investigate, uncover and expose scandals and injustices without compromising their freedom or exposing their pet whistleblowers, would be subjected to the wh...
Lorain, Ohio, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
*"CNN Says Nuclear Attack by North Korea Would * *Not Affect Whitney Houston Coverage"* Wolf Blitzer Promises No Interruption by Andy Borowitz ․ NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) – "As North Korea ramped up i...
*To stop the madness, we must stop the madness. There is too much money involved to think that the testing industrial complex will suddenly acknowledge their crimes against children and decide to call it ...
The snowdrops have been blooming for several days, hastened by the almost complete lack of anything resembling winter. By happenstance I came across an article I recall having read a couple of years ago,...
[image: Little blue penguin resuced from the oil spill of the MV Rena wreck, 8 October 2011. Bay of Plenty Regional Council]17 February 2012 (bigpondnews.com) – The *Rena* oil spill clean-up has reached ...
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Not PC - 23 hours ago
**[image: image]*Libz leader Dr Richard McGrath returns with fire in his belly, his regular column, and a book you just have to buy…* Nanny State has had it good recently, what with the censorship of “d...
*"Essential Books For Surviving In A Post-Disaster World"* by George Ure and Gaye Levy "We are not suggesting it will happen, but suppose in March something goes terribly wrong and there is a major terror...
He has railed against the evils of religion, and lectured the world on the virtues of atheism. Now Richard Dawkins, the secularist campaigner against "intolerance and suffering", must face an awkward reve...
By William K. Black Criminologists know that accounting control fraud causes greater financial losses than all other forms of property crime – combined. Some of the world’s best economists, George Akerlo...
The planet-sized moon Titan has all the trimmings of science fiction world with vast sand dune seas.
It's a tiny bit abstract, but more and more Americans are coming to understand the connection between the Supreme Court's corporate personhood thrust with the *Citizens United* decision and the unfortuna...
ENVIRONMENT - Alberta's tar pits (aka the oil sands) isn't likely to make much difference as far as global warming and climate change is concerned, says Andrew Weaver, one of the world’s top climate change...
POLITICS - The hermit republic of North Korea is threatening to attack South Korea, worried about live fire military drills its South Korean neighbours are doing in a disputed region of the sea near the bo...
Anthony Federico, who was fired for writing the 'chink in the armor' headline on ESPN.com regarding the many turnovers Jeremy Lin had committed in one game, says he had no intention of being racially off...
With hundreds of millions already in the bank, the vulture philanthropists and their hopped-up hedge funders are looking for more cash for their corporate welfare charter schools. Will the Florida State L...
Source: Grupo GABIE Date: 02.20.2012 Argentina: A UFO Over General Villegas A couple managed to record -- by means of a cell phone -- two unidentified flying objects over the municipality. Th...
On Feb. 8, Miss San Carlos, Desirae Rambler (left) and San Carlos Apache Youth Council President (right), support the testimony given by Shan Lewis (center), President of the Inter-Tribal Council of Ariz...
* "Borrowing Your Way Out of Debt and* * Other Normal Abnormalities"* by Bill Bonner "Dow up 45 points on Friday. The 10-year T-note right on the 2% yield mark. Almost all the news is good. It looks like ...
*"LEAP 20/20: GEAB N°61, Global Systemic Crisis: * *2012: The Year Of The Great Global Geopolitical Change”* by LEAP 20/20 "2012 will be the year of the great global geopolitical change: a phenomenon whic...
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