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Today, the blogosphere was atwitter with the news that bow-tied super-douche Tucker Carlson, last night on *
Fox News*, declared that "*Iran deserves to be annihilated. I think they're lunatics. I think t...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Southern
Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 05:08:12 UTC Thursday 23rd February 2012 The epicenter was 2585 km (1606 miles) ESE ...
Hundreds of illegal immigrants from India are sleeping rough in appalling conditions in West London, a
Sky News investigation can reveal. Unable to find work after the economic downturn, the men huddle to...
Technicians monitor the air for radiation during a nuclear accident drill in Zhuhai,
Guangdong Province following the Fukushima disaster in Japan last March. Photo: CFP An inter-provincial squabble over ...
*"You Reading This, Be Ready"* "Starting here, what do you want to remember? How sunlight creeps along a shining floor? What scent of old wood hovers, what softened sound from outside fills the air? Will ...
Soldiers practically inhabiting the mechanical bodies of androids, who will take the humans’ place on the battlefield. Or sophisticated tech that spots a powerful laser ray, then stops it from obliteratin...
"Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse "Siddhartha" is a novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of a boy known as Siddhartha from the Indian Subcontinent during the time of the Buddha. The...
You might not want to read this article if you have a weak stomach. Most Americans have absolutely no idea what is going on in the dark corners of America, and when people find out the truth it can come a...
Any financial system that is based on debt is doomed to fail. Today, we are living in the greatest debt bubble that the world has ever seen, and if all of a sudden people could not use credit to buy thing...
"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to
kindle a light in the darkness of mere being." - Carl Jung
Do you want to know what the future of America is going to look like? Just check out what is happening to Detroit. The city of Detroit was once one of the greatest industrial cities in the history of the ...
In the United States today, unemployment among those age 18 to age 34 is at epidemic levels and the number of young adults that are now living at home with Mom and Dad is at an all-time high. So why are s...
The stock market is way up again and many economic indicators are pointing upwards as well. Any rational judge would say that Obama's fiscal and economic policies-- despite concerted, persistent and even ...
About five years ago, my husband and I were in the investigative stages of having a stand-by generator installed on our home. I called a company that sold one of the more popular brands and asked if the g...
Paul Krugman wrote yesterday that it looks like Europe is going down the drain (so to speak) due to the austerity master no-minds in charge. The economies have gotten much worse since the medicine (poison)...
A recent Reuters poll revealed some interesting insights into the mindset of many Americans today. A large majority (73 percent) revealed that they believe we are “off on the wrong track”. Nearly half of ...
The United States of America is becoming more like Nazi Germany every single day. In fact, the Nazification of America is almost complete. The parallels between Nazi Germany and the United States of toda...
Barack Obama wants to disarm America. There simply is no other way to explain his reckless behavior. On Tuesday it came out that the Obama administration is considering plans to unilaterally slash the siz...
The following are 19 facts about abortion in America....Shocking #1 There have been more than 53 million abortions performed in the United States since Roe v. Wade was decided back in 1973. #2 When you to...
When most people think about America's debt problem, they think of the debt of the federal government. But that is only part of the story. The sad truth is that debt slavery has become a way of life for ...
Plans to build a new generation of "fighter drones" that can wage war by remote control are set to be agreed today by Britain and France. David Cameron and President Nicolas Sarkozy are preparing to put t...
Soldiers with the 25th Mechanized Brigade near the front lines in Zinjibar Yemen. Image credit: Richard Rowley, Big Noise Films Gen. Mohammed al-Sumali sits in the passenger seat of his armored Toyota La...
By Danny Schechter Author, The Crime Of Our Time New York, New York: William H McRaven is an admiral in Obama’s Navy. He was a member of Seal Team 3, and oversaw the killing of Osama Bin Laden. He’s the ...
Leila is watching her baby intently, as his mouth moves trying to swallow the small blob of yellow peanut paste Dr Tayab has spooned gently into his mouth. She sits on the floor of her one-room mud house...
I did a wrap for it over at Plum Line. Short version: these candidates are awful. I was a little more cranky than usual, so you might or might not enjoy that. My usual practice is that I watch the debate ...
Dimitri Lascaris: Heart wrenching personal stories show that Greece should reject austerity deal and pull out of Eurozone
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 577.8 km (359 miles), the quake hit at 04:05:32 UTC Thursday 23rd February 2012 The epicenter was 353 km (220 miles) West from NUKU'ALOFA...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Bay of Plenty Region, New Zealand at a depth of 210 km (130.2 miles), the quake hit at 01:34:16 UTC Thursday 23rd February 2012 The epicenter was 50 km (31 miles)...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Libertador O'Higgins, Chile at a depth of 47.3 km (29.4 miles), the quake hit at 22:38:40 UTC Wednesday 22nd February 2012 The epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) WNW of C...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 33.2 km (20.6 miles), the quake hit at 20:21:142 UTC Wednesday 22nd February 2012 The epicenter was 53 k...
Labour MP Eric Joyce has been arrested on suspicion of assault after an alleged fight at a bar at the House of Commons, according to Sky News sources. Sky's home affairs correspondent Mark White said po...
Southern Man can think of at least three reasons to celebrate today. First off, it is Teen Daughter's last birthday as Teen Daughter. Photo by Southern Sister. It is also the birthday of the Father Of Our...
A nine-year-old boy has shot and critically wounded a girl in their classroom in Washington state. Police took the schoolboy into custody after the shooting at the Armin Jahr Elementary School in Bremert...
By David DesRoches Type “plag” in a Google search box and “plagiarism” is the first word suggested. Second on the list is “plague.” Some rough logic would indicate that people are more interested in, or c...
*"Ice Age: Back to 18th Century?* by Igor Siletsky "In the near future the mankind will face a new ice age not a global warming. That is the forecast which has been made by Habibullo Abdussamatov, the he...
Can you believe it's Wednesday again? My husband was off work Monday for the holiday, so I'm a day behind... How did it go last week, being a more patient driver? I actually didn't drive all that much las...
[image: Radiation at a children's center in Japan. High levels of radiation around the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant and ongoing leaks of radioactive material have caused Japanese nationals to seek re...
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Around seven-score and twelve years ago the Confederate slave states of the United States America seceded from the Union in a bid to protect their alleged right to own human beings as property, and broug...
“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anyb...
[image: Workers in China harvest coal. blogs.ft.com] [*cf.* U.S. CO2 emissions to stay below 2005 levels as coal use shrinks] 22 February 2012 (Bloomberg News) – China’s energy use rose at the fastest p...
“NGC 3314 is actually two large spiral galaxies which just happen to almost exactly line up. The foreground spiral is viewed nearly face-on, its pinwheel shape defined by young bright star clusters. But ag...
Spent the day at the beach so I almost forgot about the debate. Tuning in late, but I'm hearing I didn't miss much. So far the most interesting thing is they're sitting down this time. And the audience is ...
Election fraud? The Harper Conservatives? Oh, say it ain't so, Joe. But apparently it is so, very much so. *Elections Canada launched its investigation after it was inundated with complaints about elec...
*Governor Bob, that cagy pol, knows there's a line in there somewhere that got crossed.* *by Ken* Just last week we were talking about the runaway craziness exploding in the Virginia legislature, now full...
Alleged death of two Western journalists in Syria used to dance around UNSC veto. commentary by Tony Cartalucci February 22, 2012 - You are an embattled nation with the entire world watching. Your allies...
*Constitution stops Sheriff's agent from Bankster Theft of Home in Ireland. * QUESTIONS TO ASK: 1. DID YOUR BANK PAY IN FULL YOUR LOAN? 2. DID IT REPACKAGE AND SELL IT...
Kenny is hot today (and yesterday and the day before . . . .). And if you want to know where the boys who brought you the subprime fiasco are now, there's no better place to learn that and quite a lot more...
Age of Decay: The Red Beast Feasts on The Fleeced Dead. "eternally in my mission Is to be more than just a rap musician The elevation of today's generation If I could make 'em listen Prison ain't what we ne...
A dodgy connection between a GPS unit and atomic clock may be the real reason neutrinos appeared to travel at superluminal speeds.
Enigma, "Return To Innocence"
Barely two months ago, F-35 boosters were thumping their chests as Japan announced plans to buy about 50 of the aircraft. That "done deal", they argued, virtually ensured other prospective buyers would s...
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Whale Oil has done sterling work hunting down the real story behind the case of Tania Wysocki. Turns out the only real prostitutes in this story are *Herald* journalist Simon Collins and Labour MP Jacind...
In reaction to Charli's provocative February 20 post on the constructivist peace, I left a number of questions in comments. Since more people read the blog than read the comments, I thought it was worthwhi...
[image: Cumulative rainfall anomalies for southeastern Australia starting from January 1997 to December 2011 in mm. Individual monthly anomalies are shown in the columns. Australia National Climate Centr...
Paw Paw, Michigan, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
*"Stronger than You Know: Getting Ourselves Worked Up"* by The DailyOm "Often we get anxiety for no reason as we are almost always stronger and more capable than we believe ourselves to be. Our capacity t...
“While washing dishes after the family supper tonight, I was listening, rather idly, to BBC Radio 4, some radio play or dramatization. And suddenly I heard, in passing, what struck me as a very apt descri...
This movie sounds awesome. It takes place in the future and it is about aliens. It is directed by Andrew Niccol (Gattaca, In Time, Lord of War, wrote the screenplay for The Truman Show). All great films. ...
*Navajo president says he didn't pay to attend Obama's million dollar fundraiser* *By Brenda Norrell* *Censored News* http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Navajo President Ben Shelly said he did attend Pres...
Paulo Coelho, “On Immortality” Paulo Coelho, “Humans and Energy”
I have an item up at PostPartisan talking about third party candidates, but it also gives me an excuse to try again to debunk the myth that Ross Perot was a strong and effective champion of reducing budget...
*The world is closing in on Santa Clarita crooked congressman Buck McKeon* Before Boehner put the House Armed Services Committee-- and all the millions of dollars in graft and bribery possibilities inheren...
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There’s a few things that US Republican candidates (and other antediluvian anti-immigration bigots) can learn from Ayn Rand—one of them, reckons Shikha Dalmia, is Ayn Rand being an “illegal” immigrant… ...
The carvings show symbols of death and crude representations in line with the Aztecs' bloody rituals.
Is that the head of an owl you see on the nose of this new bat species or an elaborate shield?
Or is the criticism doing more harm than good?
*BREAKING NEWS* Of course, your humble correspondent wasn't the only one who was saying that the apparently faster-than-light neutrinos detected by the OPERA experiment were due to a mistake: see Italia...
The GOP’s uterus inspection device. Image from Little Green Footballs.Vaginal penetration in Virginia:Just lie back and enjoy itBy Richard Raznikov / The Rag Blog / February 22, 2012Yes, I do appear to be ou...
The state broadcaster *is reporting* that Vic Toews has asked the RCMP to look into threats against him. Whether there is any veracity Minister Toews' claims is up to the pony soldiers to decide, but the ...
“Every day, I saw more evidence about the evils humankind will inflict on their fellow humans to gain or maintain power…What is more, those who choose not to empathize may enable real monsters. For withou...
*"Opposing Trends in Debt and GDP Growth"* by Bill Bonner "$100 billion down…$40 trillion left to go! Hey, don’t hold us to those figures. But yesterday European sages cut another deal to stave off the t...
***** Bush and Assad (senior) * Did the USA fall out with Assad over heroin? Syria's Basil Assad died in a car crash in 1994. Reportedly Basil was killed because of his role in suppressing the Syrian-Le...
RCMP Corporal Monty Robinson, of Robert Dziekanski killing fame, says he wasn't trying to obstruct justice when, after striking and killing a motorcyclist, he drove home and got into the vodka. Mounty Mon...
Getting a drugged up patsy with a fake bomb onto a plane to America: $1500. Drumming up baseless fear to make the people kneel and worship the terrorist state: $10 billion dollars. Selling surveillance tech...
*"Why Inequality Matters"* by Jesse's Café Américain "I think this is about as good a statement of the problem facing the US economic system today. The 'checks and balances' and 'equal protection under t...
*Whether it’s theirs or not!* Should locals have power to stall controversial projects? Article by: JOSEPHINE MARCOTTY , Star Tribune Updated: February 21, 2012 - 10:38 PM * * Bill would limit citizens...
Brazil's Sao Paulo carnival parade contest ended in riots after a man stole and destroyed the judges' results. As crowds waited to hear which samba school would be named the winner, a man jumped over se...
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You’ll have heard it reported in recent days that Greece has been “saved.” That the Greek government has been bailed out by the European Central Bank and the EU Rescue Fund (EFSF), that things will be to...
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Palanpur: Four peahens and a peacock were found dead on the border of the fields in Merwada village near Shyamlaji in Sabarkantha district on Tuesday. Two peahens were also found struggling for life and w...
READING, Pa. — The bodies of dozens of dead chickens have been found dumped at a Pennsylvania cemetery that's had similar incidents in the past. Officials say more than 20 shopping bags filled with dead c...
(CBS/AP) COLUMBUS, Ohio - Police say an animal rights activist in Ohio has been charged with soliciting a hitman to fatally shoot or slit the throat of a random fur-wearer. Meredith Lowell, 27, appeared ...
FROM four farms in January, to 29 in February, Schmallenberg virus has now been identified on 58 farms. And, from six counties last week, it now affects ten. The virus is known to infect and cause diseas...
“If you think you can or think you cannot, you are correct.” ~ Henry Ford
Scientists have found evidence of relatively recent quakes on the surface of Mars by studying boulders that fell off cliffs, leaving tracks behind HiRISE image When space probes first began taking closeup...
BioLite stoves make cooking on wood clean and safe, while generating electricity.
I am not a fan of the Koran. But I am a fan of religious freedom. Burning people's holy books is arrogant, unethical, and disrespectful. NATO just loves to stir shit up, don't they?
Eight more bodies have been found in the wreckage of the semi-submerged cruise liner Costa Concordia, according to Italian officials. One of them is believed to be five-year-old Dayana Arlotti, an Italian...
Being that I'm now the senior political blogger for the Detroit News, I've of course been particularly interested in the Michigan primary. After eight years of being harangued in the comments, I'm not that...
Ezra Klein today has a terrific overview of why corporate -- and individual -- tax reform is so difficult. Part of this is a classic collective action problem. The advantage in a clean tax code is generall...
About 300 million years ago, volcanic ash buried a tropical forest located in what is now Inner Mongolia, much like Vesuvius did to the ancient Roman city of Pompeii.
Police state shown busily creeping. Image from The End of the World.Ask the cop on the corner:Creeping fascismThe infant U.S. police state is no longer learning to crawl; it has learned to walk and will soo...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck near Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 15 km (9.3 miles), the quake hit at 16:21:27 UTC Wednesday 22nd February 2012 The epicenter was 20 km (12.4 miles) Northe...
Protests have taken place outside parliament in Greece, as MPs considered emergency laws after a 130bn-euro (£110bn; $170bn) bailout deal. Rallies were called by the two main unions but the turnout was lo...
A meteor that lit up the night sky of western Saskatchewan and eastern Alberta Tuesday night likely landed in the North Battleford area. Those who saw the meteor as it passed through the Earth's atmospher...
As an avid motorcyclist I get plenty of e-mail from suppliers of bike parts and accessories. Some of them throw in freebie teasers. Today I got a taser teaser. Really. California based A&S Powersport...
Dominion Virginia Power has found elevated levels of a weak form of radioactivity in a sampling well at its North Anna nuclear power station. The radiation poses no hazard to the public, the Nuclear Regul...
(AP) SALT LAKE CITY — Radioactive contamination from the Fukushima power plant disaster has been detected as far as almost 400 miles off Japan in the Pacific Ocean, with water showing readings of up to 1,...
The system is designed to exploit unused areas of artificial reservoirs or disused quarries.
The UN's humanitarian chief, Valerie Amos, is to travel to Syria to negotiate access for aid workers in the conflict-torn country. It comes amid reports of continuing violence and increasing concerns of a...
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*"Satan is targeting the United States. Satan has done so by attacking the great institutions of America, using those great vices of pride, vanity and sensuality as the root to attack all of the strong p...
It’s always interesting to note how one story comes out of another: while discussing the very positive response to her interview with experiencer Fito Vivas, published only last weekend in INEXPLIC...
(Reuters) - Ethiopian and Somali troops captured a key Islamist militant stronghold in Somalia on Wednesday, as the rebels left their positions, a regional government official and residents said. The los...
(Reuters) - A Libyan military court ruled on Wednesday that 50 people accused of fighting for Muammar Gaddafi and helping a mass jail break by alleged supporters of the deposed leader should be freed and ...
When is this madness going to stop? This time it's Britain. There Judge David Farrell sentenced two men convicted of raping an 11-year old to just 40-months imprisonment. The judge accepted their cla...
Feb 22 - Family members of inmates set fires outside Monterrey prison where inmates continue to riot. Simon Hanna reports.
Feb. 22 - Hundreds injured as rescue workers continue to pull trapped people from the wreckage of a Buenos Aires train crash. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
(Reuters) - Thousands of protesters angry at punishing spending cuts poured into Athens' central Syntagma Square on Wednesday as Greek lawmakers rushed to pass laws needed to secure payment of a second ba...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the East Timor Region, Indonesia at a depth of 28 km (17.4 miles), the quake hit at 17:12:15 UTC Wednesday 22nd February 2012 The epicenter was 24 km (14.9 miles) Sou...
Or... if only Ron Paul wasn't wasting his money attacking Santorum instead of Romney. Or... if only Romney's cadre of billionaires and steely-eyed Mormons weren't more dedicated to seizing the White Hous...
(Reuters) - The euro zone economy is in danger of tipping into recession, with the services sector shrinking this month along with manufacturing, tempering a wave of optimism after a new bailout deal for ...
(Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai appealed for calm Wednesday after officials said six people were shot dead and dozens wounded in protests over the burning of copies of the Koran, Islam's hol...
The game promises to step up more traditional running apps with layers of story and puzzles.
I was intrigued to see an argument being made in a recent Brookings Institute report (Helper et al. here in PDF) that productivity gains do not lead to job losses in manufacturing. This post explains why...
(Reuters) - Fitch cut Greece's long-term ratings on Wednesday to its lowest rating above a default, becoming the first ratings agency to make the widely expected downgrade after the country announced a bo...
Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN) -- Hundreds of Indonesian police officers charged into a prison in Bali on Wednesday to subdue rioting inmates who had set a building on fire and thrown stones at firefighters. T...
Spain: Cádiz – A UFO Hotspot By Angel Carretero, AndalucÃa Misteriosa I’ve spoken much of triangular UFOs and hotspots, adding that over the course of the years, UFO cases have diminished in t...
Pumwani, Kenya (CNN) -- Asha Mohamed sits in her cramped room in Pumwani slum clutching a tiny photo of her son, Harun. He's dressed in a blue-striped tie framed by a crisp white T-shirt -- a typical 15-...
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Violent protests left at least five dead and others wounded Wednesday as demonstrations over Quran burning intensified in Afghanistan. Police killed four people and wounded 1...
(CNN) -- One of the main opposition videographers in Homs was killed on Tuesday as the Syrian city experienced its heaviest day of bombardment, residents and activists told CNN. "Rami al-Sayed was crucia...
Ionizing radiation-induced mutant frequencies increase transiently in male germ cells of older mice Guogang Xua, C. Alex McMahanb, Kim Hildretha, Rebecca A. Garciaa, Damon C. Herberta, Christi A. Walter ...
*Israeli F-16 Showing Seven Syrian Aerial Victories and the Bombing of Iraq's Osirik Reactor.** ** ** ** * Iran has warned it may strike pre-emptively in the face of persistent threats of imminent attack ...
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*EVIL STEPCHILD* *By Mohawk Nation News* http://www.mohawknationnews.com MNN. Feb. 21, 2012. For over 400 years the Vatican, Europe,Britain, Africa and other nations have used Great Turtle island and b...
*"A creator who judges his own creation really judges no-one but himself."* *Contributor: "YYC":* A commenter on an old post has brought home to me the reason why there are so many North American blogs - b...
Well, it looks like they had quite a party in the East Room, what with all the legendary musicians that showed up including B.B. King and Mick Jagger. They had the whole audience shaking it, including Mich...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 27 km (16.8 miles), the quake hit at 15:14:17 UTC Wednesday 22nd February 2012 The epicenter was 214 km (132 miles) West of Hihifo, Tonga No Tsunam...
Texas authorities said Tuesday they removed 11 children from a crowded home where a registered sex offender lives after they found eight confined in a small, dark bedroom with restraints tying some to thei...
This is the first time anyone has deliberately manipulate bacteria to increase fuel cell electricity.
A magnet-studded tongue is pressed to a dental retainer to control movement.
Quotes, photos, purchases made, books read, etc., say something about a potential job candidate.
For the first time, buckyballs have been discovered in the cosmos in a solid form in the vicinity of a binary star system 6,500 light-years away.
Police Seek Answers in Deadly Norcross Spa Shooting: MyFoxATLANTA.com Police want to know why a man went on a killing spree at a Norcross spa before taking his own life. "Preliminarily it looks like a ...
El Paso Police Chief Greg Allen said the woman was a 48-year-old mother who was pushing a child in a stroller when she was shot in the upper right calf. Allen said the round went through her leg. She was t...
An 81-year-old man was shoved onto the tracks at a Brooklyn elevated subway station after he chased a teen who stole his iPhone, authorities said yesterday. The victim was waiting for a J train at the Lor...
Russia, China and Iran showed support for Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s president, on Monday, just days before an international meeting which is likely to put more pressure on him to step down amid an increasin...
he federal government has filed a lawsuit to force anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan to provide her financial records to the Internal Revenue Service. An IRS revenue officer said Sheehan refused to answer ...
By Isabella Kaminska (Cross-posted from FT Alphaville) We’ve discussed MMT’s recent foray into the mainstream, and the confusion it has consequently courted. But that’s the funny thing about the theory. I...
American Scofflaw Let's say you hire a carpenter to build you a house. You pay for all the materials and for the carpenter's labor. You move into the house and live there happily for many years. Then on...
Members of Occupy Purdue demonstrate on Dec. 11, 2011. Photo by Steven Yang / The Exponent.Hoosier teach-in:Narratives of labor and elections posebig questions for Occupy movementBy Harry Targ / The Rag Blog...
(CNN) -- For some 100 years, tourists have flocked Arenhold Hooper's ostrich family farm in Oudtshoorn, the South African city renowned as the ostrich capital of the world, to ride its long-legged, long-...
ACCORDING TO *THE YOUNG TURKS*, The American Life League released an absurd (and unintentionally hilarious) propaganda video meant to smear Planned Parenthood. Enjoy. Is Planned Parenthood's gateway dru...
*Because I won't be back until tomorrow afternoon, dear readers.* *“Is the American public interested in pursuing another war? I doubt it.’’ * *Let me EMPHATICALLY SECOND THAT with a BIG NO!* *"Israeli of...
At least 40 people were killed and 550 were injured following a train crash at Once station, officials confirmed. A 7-year-old boy was amongst the first reported fatalities as he remained trapped inside o...
And, of course, Kim's Girlfriends!!
Update at bottom I have been following along with the reported death of the journalist Marie Colvin in Homs for the past couple of hours. I find some huge, huge problems with the story. Early this am, the...
*Maybe, just maybe, they will prevent WWIII with this action since I'm sure the global-kicking war-planners had Egypt in the ally column.* "Egypt bans travel for US official’s son, 6 others; Six Americans...
*WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2012* *We were surprised by this fact:* At the end of last week, we were talking to a very big name about the proposed Virginia law involving the ultrasound exams. We haven’t se...
WASHINGTON (Kyodo) -- The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission released Tuesday some 3,000 pages of transcripts from the days following Japan's tsunami and nuclear disaster last March, showing that U.S. off...
Excellent column yesterday by Jack Shafer, which makes several very important points about leaks, the press, bureaucracies, and bureaucrats. Highly recommend it. The occasion of the column is a new book c...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia at a depth of 14.2 km (8.8 miles), the quake hit at 14:13:08 UTC Wednesday 22nd February 2012 The epicenter was 325 km (201 miles) Southea...
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*Canada under Conservatives not what it used to be * *by Joan Baxter "It is interesting that Laurent Le Pierrès seems to believe Canada hasn’t fundamentally changed, and he can still look his "country in th...
*Spoiled by security forces*: "3 more killed as Egypt’s military takes to TV to criticize protests" December 20, 2011 CAIRO - Egypt’s ruling *military questioned the morals of a female detainee*, accus...
A brazen mass prison escape in Mexico recalls some equally radical prison breaks in history.
------------------------------ * the**REALnews Permalink* February 20, 2012 *Is Obama Getting Serious About Bank Fraud?* Bi...
Anonymous has been extremely active over the last few weeks; for one, disclosing the inept state of Alabama’s privacy of 40,000 of its residents, after hacking into their site in just minutes. In additio...
*WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2012* *Maddow and Lithwick can’t:* How are we liberals now being trained? We were struck a colloquy on Monday evening’s Rachel Maddow Show. Maddow was speaking with Dahlia Lithwic...
BIG VICTOR IS A BIG TARGET — and so is Stevie. *Get to know your local Con — * *you never know when a citizen's arrest might save your Canada from Con Fascism. * *Be prepared:* give them enough time and ...
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Link: http://youtu.be/Nyb9oGbgxhY *Many of us in Spain are concerned* about these images and what we see and hear in the streets. A new conservative government -obviously without well thought out plan- re...
Grrr. I was hoping to get away from the Heartland nonsense and back to trees dying from pollution - but then I read an article in the Atlantic - which ironically is completely speculative about the authe...
The current goings on in Australian politics are utterly fascinating. Combining elements of high-minded democratic governance with characteristics of a reality television show and UFC fighting, the next ...
A freelance producer for reality TV show The Amazing Race has been found dead in his hotel room in Uganda after a suspected poisoning. Father-of-two Jeff Rice and his assistant were apparently poisoned af...
The eyeless creature lives in total darkness in caves, where it feeds on fungi and decomposing matter.
Five people have died following a shooting at a health spa in what appears to be a murder-suicide, it has emerged. Four people were found already dead when police officers arrived at Sujung Beauty Health...
Royal Bank of Scotland is to pay out just under £400m in bonuses to its investment banking staff for their work in 2011, according to Sky sources. The day before RBS announces its full-year results, the ...
*WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2012* *Part 2—What Jay Carney said:* If it wasn’t for facts which are bungled, misleading or false, would we have any facts at all? Sometimes, it seems we wouldn’t. Bogus facts ha...
Wednesday was a day of reflection as more than 10,000 people stood in silence, some in tears, while police officers and firefighters read out the full list of victims. The earthquake destroyed thousands...
Observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have added a new type of planet to the mix. By analyzing the previously discovered world GJ1214b, astronomer Zachory Berta (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for As...
The bombers who allegedly planned to attack Israeli targets in Bangkok, Thailand, were armed with professional-grade explosives hidden in $27 portable radios. Authorities discovered an Iranian hit squad ...
Washington: Bacteria usually found 30km above the earth have been identified as extremely efficient generators of electricity. Bacillus stratosphericus – a microbe commonly found in high concentrations ...
A number of announcements, press articles and incidents have recently occurred, which individually may mean little, but collectively bring us to question whether we are finally addressing some of the copy...
Ray Nagin was a flop as a politician and a businessman~James Gill New Orleans Saints guard Carl Nicks says he still hasn't talked to team about new deal Buddy Roemer gives up GOP bid to seek two third-par...
The prehistoric herd of about 13 walked through mud and left behind clues to how elephants lived millions of years ago.
A charity worker drowned in a 3ft deep lake when a policeman and a paramedic were ordered not to try to rescue him. Simon Burgess, 41, was left to float face down as emergency crews watched. Health and s...
The millionaire founder of file-sharing website Megaupload was released on bail in New Zealand today after authorities seized funds to prevent him fleeing the country. Authorities in the U.S. allege foun...
[image: Members of the media wear protective suits asthey are shown around by Tepco staff, 21 February 2012. EPA via independent.co.uk] By David McNeill 21 February 2012 The journey to Fukushima Daiichi...
We started this post on Sunday-- Why Won't Santorum's Former Senate Colleagues Endorse Him?-- but there's more to it than just the desire of Republican senators to stay out of the way of the still presump...
*Greeks know what is going even if my Globe obfuscates their protests*: "Bailout bought eurozone more time; Greece’s partners have weeks to achieve more" by Stephen Castle | International Herald Tribun...
A magnitude 3.4 earthquake has struck West Virginia at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 12:49:57 UTC Wednesday 22nd February 2012 The epicenter was 35 km (21 miles) WNW of Beckley, West Virgin...
A father of five who was released from jail after arguing that a sentence for burglary breached his human rights was sent back to prison today for assault. Wayne Bishop, 34, was jailed for eight months f...
Happy Birthday to Jeri Ryan, 44, Star Trek actor who played a bit role in the rise of Barack Obama. Which I suspect is not what she wants to be known for, so my apologies to her as well, but we are all pol...
A packed train slammed into the end of the line in Buenos Aires' busy Once station Wednesday, injuring hundreds of morning commuters. The commuter train came in too fast and hit the barrier at the end of ...
A space attack by a hostile country or terrorists could bring down the UK's power supply and the threat should be taken more seriously, the Ministry of Defence has been told. If a nuclear device was deto...
A second body has been found by detectives investigating the murder of an elderly woman who was apparently killed during a burglary. Merseyside Police arrested a 43-year-old man after the discovery of a ...
Four more bodies have been found in the wreckage of the semi-submerged cruise liner Costa Concordia, according to Italian officials. Francesca Maffini said: "Bodies of victims have been located. It seems ...
Self-confessed cocaine addict and nightclub bouncer Carl Whant has been found guilty of the rape and murder of heavily-pregnant teenager Nikitta Grender. The jury at Newport Crown Court in South Wales ...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 12 km (7.5 miles), the quake hit at 12:02:42 UTC Wednesday 22nd February 2012 The epicenter was 122 km...
*I try to do my part.* "Greenfield woman wins Mass. recycling award" January 02, 2012|By Cori Urban MONTAGUE - The *Franklin County* Solid Waste Management District assists 22 member towns with trash, rec...
Predictable, improbable, and factually-deficient conclusion made by US-run Thai administration. by Tony Cartalucci February 22, 2012 - It was previously reported in "String of Global Bombings Blamed on I...
*In northeastern India a new family unit of caecilians, the most mysterious bough of the amphibians, has been discovered. *Caecilians are very rigid to blemish as they live either underground or under le...
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Kai, Indonesia at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:45:21 UTC Wednesday 22nd February 2012 The epicenter was 98 km (60 miles) northwest of ...
Santorum as quoted in the New York Times (article is worth reading) “Satan has his sights on the United States of America,” the conservative presidential candidate warned in 2008. “Satan is attacking the g...
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Tell Mayor Ford you want a free, public Toronto Public Library. Go here.
"Va. House passes 2 strict abortion bills" Associated Press, February 15, 2012 RICHMOND - A *Republican supermajority* has pushed through two of the *most restrictive antiabortion bills in years* in the V...
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*The history of our planet Earth is nebulous*. Sciences can hardly see deeper in time than 1.000 years. What happened before about the year 900 CE can only be reconstructed from a few fragments. One assume...
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*The history of our planet Earth is nebulous*. Sciences can hardly see deeper in time than 1.000 years. What happened before about the year 900 CE can only be reconstructed from a few fragments. One assume...
A Parliamentary Security and Defense Commission member denied today any corruption cases in arms deals with the United States. "Contracts were made with the USA to buy M1 Abrams Main Battle Tanks and fight...
Algeria has signed a contract with Russian state arms exporter Rosoboronexport for 120 additional T-90 main battle tanks. In 2006 Algeria purchased 180 of the type. Algeria signed the contract for the T-90...
Two Iranian warships sent by Tehran to the Mediterranean last week to help “train the Syrian navy” entered the Suez canal early on Tuesday on their way back to Iran, a canal authorities source told AFP, as...
*Rather than getting angry I should be laughing at the newspaper these days because the propaganda is so dog-gone ridiculous.* "Trial begins for 7 in Midwest militia" Associated Press, February 13, 2012 ...
Russia will continue with the overhaul of its missile defence unless the US drops its plans for a European missile shield or proposes a scheme for a joint effort, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said. Ru...
British households each face a £500 bill to bail out Greece and save the crisis-hit euro. Britain will be expected to hand over an extra £1billion for the International Monetary Fund's £110billion rescue...
Four people have been arrested in the fraud investigation surrounding David Cameron’s ‘back to work’ tsar Emma Harrison. Officers carried out dawn raids on the homes of former staff of her employment age...
Sunday Times war reporter Marie Colvin has been killed in heavy shelling in Syria, it has been reported by Reuters. The news comes just hours after the foreign correspondent reported on 'sickening' scene...
(Reuters) - Syrian troops and militia loyal to President Bashar al-Assad captured and then shot dead 27 young men in northern villages and two foreign journalists were killed in shelling of the besieged c...
Indian Air Force Has Recently Inducted Armed Multi-Purpose Transport Mi-17V-5 Helicopters Read More
The PTL02 6x6 Wheeled Self-Propelled 100mm Tank Destroyer of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in Action. Read More
New photos of the Chinese proof of concept for Chinese high-speed trimaran Littoral Combat Ship has appeared on the Chinese internet. Read More
[image: Link] One person was killed and 10 were wounded when shots were fired at anti-US demonstrators in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Wednesday, a doctor told AFP. "I saw the body myself. He i...
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has denied the real aim of the country's nuclear programme is to build "atomic" weapons. "We are not after an atomic weapon. We want to break the supremacy (o...
The Syrian National Council has said it is coming to the view that military intervention would be the only way to break the on-going deadlock in Syria. "We are really close to seeing this military inter...
(Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday it had failed to secure an agreement with Iran during talks over disputed atomic activities and that the Islamic Republic had rejected a request to ...
(Reuters) - Two Western journalists were killed in the besieged Syrian city of Homs Wednesday when shells hit the house they were staying in, opposition activists and witnesses said. They were named as M...
(Reuters) - Russia faces a growing international outcry over its arms sales to Syria but shows no sign of bowing to pressure and has even increased deliveries of arms that critics say are helping keep Pre...
War between Israel and Iran now seems inevitable. Leon Panetta claimed that it would be this coming spring—and I see no reason to doubt him. How an Israeli-Iranian war will play out—that is, whether it w...
The North Korean human rights bill has suffered a long, ignominious fate in the National Assembly. Since getting the green light from the parliamentary Foreign Affairs, Trade and Unification Committee in ...
The man fingered by South Korean authorities as being responsible for the torpedo attack against the South Korean Navy corvette Cheonan, has been promoted from lieutenant general to general, the North's o...
The Syrian National Council has said it is coming to the view that military intervention would be the only way to break the ongoing deadlock in Syria. More follows...
Although we've reached a time when we can identify exoplanets, we have yet to find one that is habitable. Los Angeles, CA - Earlier this month, an alien world was discovered orbiting a distant star. This ...
American decline is real - but the US remains the world's dominant power by a large margin. Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated - Japan’s attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, for ...
President Goodluck Jonathan says there are Boko Haram sympathisers in government, judiciary and armed forces. Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has said that spiralling violence blamed on the radical...
BRAY’S POINT, Ore. – They can’t be moved; even when yanked by a four-wheel drive truck pulling on heavy chains tied around these humming metal boxes that are still appearing as of Feb. 8 up and down West ...
Atheists’ arrogance is their Achilles’ heel, as a cringemaking radio performance has proved. Which of us hasn’t groaned when the Rev Giles Fraser, former canon of St Paul’s, pops up with his Thought for ...
An anonymous donor calling him (or her)self "Heartland Insider" has released the Heartland Institute's budget, fundraising plan, its Climate Strategy for 2012 and sundry other documents (all attached) that...
Lumbering elephant seals in Antarctica seem to be taking the heat from global warming, as scientists have found the mammals must dive to deeper than normal depths in warmer seas to snag food. The deeper d...
Last year the Arctic, which is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth due to global climate change, experienced its warmest twelve months yet. According to recent data by NASA, average Arctic temperat...
In December, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda announced the "conclusion" of the meltdown crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, saying Tokyo Electric Power Co. was managing to keep the three crippled r...
Seawater to a depth of up to 700 meters is warming at a pace of 0.02 degree every 10 years worldwide, according to an analysis by the Meteorological Agency. In its first analysis into deep-water temperat...
Update, 6:11 p.m.: Monsanto spokesman Tom Helscher says the company does not think there is “sufficient data” to demonstrate a link between the use of Lasso herbicide and the symptoms Francois reported. ...
China's defence budget will double between 2011 and 2015 and outstrip the combined spending of all other key defence markets in the Asia-Pacific region, global research group IHS said Tuesday. China's de...
Israel's military says major cuts in defense spending will hit air-defense missile systems being developed by Israel Aerospace Industries and others and halt production of the Merkava Mark 4 tank and the ...
They call it the jineyee, Arabic for "genie" — or crazy female. Standing at about 60 cm high, the rust-colored metal tube doesn't look like much. But it's what's inside that counts: 2 kg of yellow granula...
Lebanon marked Tuesday's seventh anniversary of the assassination of Rafik Hariri as a ground-breaking international tribunal investigating his death threatens to reignite the country's smoldering sectari...
"The 12 Rules of Survival" by Laurence Gonzales From "Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why" "As a journalist, I've been writing about accidents for more than thirty years. In the last 15 or so year...
The man who leaked documents from a climate-change-denying think-tank reveals his identity. Ethical debates ensue.
Australia's foreign minister Kevin Rudd has resigned, saying he was unable to continue without prime minister Julia Gillard's support - paving the way for a challenge to her leadership. As speculation gr...
The Ministry of Civil Affairs will amend its regulations to ensure that names commonly ascribed to parentless children, like Dang and Guo ("Party" and "State") will not be ascribed to orphans. Chinese or...
We were in Tunisia just before the CIA's revolution. Tunisia WAS relatively prosperous and liberal. Ben Ali was more popular than Sarkozy. Tunisia is now run by the CIA's 'pedophile' Islamists, and Tunis...
Nowadays, some light Internet stalking is as common a pre-date ritual as showering or putting on a clean shirt. But for Icelanders, that online screening process can include running a date’s name through ...
Electric cars are all the rage in China, but they may not be helping to clean up the environment or protect human health from pollution. It’s unspoken, but every driver gliding around town behind the wheel...
National healthcare advocate Suzanne Somers claims she has discovered a small group of doctors who are quietly curing cancer. Somers, who battled breast cancer, says her doctors used effective alternative...
Woodland caribou herds in Canada are declining, and tar sands development is a big part of the reason why. But Canada’s national and provincial governments know what do about that: Kill the wolves. That’...
PARIS — French scientists unveiling new estimates for global warming said on Thursday the 2 C (3.6 F) goal enshrined by the United Nations was "the most optimistic" scenario left for greenhouse-gas emissi...
After vowing to take on radical environmentalists determined to stop the Northern Gateway pipeline, the Harper government has released a new anti-terrorism strategy that targets eco-extremists as threats....
Atrazine is an herbicide primarily manufactured by the multinational conglomerate Syngenta and commonly used on commodity crops, forests, and golf courses. Its potential harmful effects on human health ha...
Squid cruise through the air like rockets by forcefully squirting water out of their bodies.
*“Correction”* “The burdens of the world on my back lighten the world not a whit while removing them greatly decreases my specific gravity...” ~ A. R. Ammons, “The Selected Poems”
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Southern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 190.7 km (118.5 miles), the quake hit at 05:38:40 UTC Wednesday 22nd February 2012 The epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) East o...
"Never let your head hang down. Never give up or sit down and grieve. Find another way." - Satchel Paige
"It's not from the known, but the unknown, that creativity and inventiveness are born. Turn away from the predictable, cliché, and reliable. Brave the void where the darkness is greatest. Trust the quiet,...
It has turned out to be difficultto counter an unwelcome transplant from a foreign ecosystem. Finding the pest assemblage that controlsthe transplant is easy enough, the problem is that the cure far ...
These chaps have figured out howto do an MRI inside a battery in order to map the internal changes. This is obviously an excellent tool that willproduce far more efficient batteries. Huge resources a...
This is starting to getserious. The regulatory requirementspresently remind me of the introduction of the horseless carriage when it wasregulated that a flag man walked in front. I think that the capa...
There is a biological pathway forthe development of autism. Perhaps nowwe can quit blaming the parents as happened in the past. This is the most hopeful information I haveseen yet on this disease and i...
*Off-topic rumor via @thphysnews at Twitter*: In Moriond, both ATLAS and CMS will claim a 3-sigma Higgs signal in a new, 2-photon and 2-jet channel... ------------------------------ *Anniversary:* Google...
*Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd resigns as Foreign Minister after "attacks on credibility". ** ** **Kevin Rudd has announced this afternoon at a Washington press conference his resignation as Australia'...
I mostly try to let Fox News polemics slide past me like water off a ducks back. It was easy to dismiss Liz Trotta's first rant about the proposed changes to the US military, which will allow more women i...
Al-Qaeda: The best enemy, and friend, that the petrodollar can buy. What the Mossad and terrorist group MEK are doing together inside Iran is the same thing that the CIA and terrorist group Al-Qaeda are do...
“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we ar...
One of Britain's worst serial killers has been found dead in jail, nearly 20 years after torturing five gay men to death. Colin Ireland, 57, was known as the "gay slayer" after seducing his homosexual vi...
Afghanistan's new director of orphanages looks to clean up corruption buoyed by local officials. Decades of war have left thousands of Afghan children orphaned, but corruption through the ranks leaves e...
Prospect of elections brings little sign of unity, as some call for a separate state in the south. The prospect of the forthcoming elections in Yemen is showing little sign of bringing unity to the coun...
Can the most sparsely inhabited place on earth begin to exploit the untold riches beneath its water and ice? It is a country you almost never hear about, but there are untold riches beneath all of Green...
In the frozen peaks of Afghanistan's Kunar province, a ferocious clash for supremacy rages amid the mountaintops. Barack Obama, the US president, has pledged to withdraw American forces from Afghanistan...
Last year, on February 11, I was standing next to the main stage in Tahrir Square when the evening call to prayer rang out. All you could see was a sea of people in lines, using Egyptian flags as prayer...
Children of multicultural families and North Korean defectors, who often have trouble finding acceptance in South Korea's homogeneous society, are more likely to become addicted to computer games. A 2010 ...
The spread of smartphones and tablet PCs exposes children to online games at an even lower age, which can hurt their language and social development. But their parents do not seem to take the matter serio...
Arcade gambling addiction is no laughing matter, as news headlines attest. Victims can end up losing their shirt, and it isn't because of the gambling machines themselves. The percentage of wins in slot m...
Six out of every 100 fourth graders are addicted to the Internet to the point that they need counseling or treatment, and 15 percent of primary and secondary students have received messages tempting them ...
John Amato called yesterday, fuming about Santorum's hat tip-- more like a big wet smooch-- to right-wing religious zealots who believe the BuyBull dictates that we should use up the earth... literally. J...
The Korea Racing Authority predicts that this year's horse racing revenues will grow by 13 percent to W7.4 trillion from last year as people dream of the jackpot in difficult economic times. An official a...
Gambling addiction is becoming a serious social problem. According to a 2008 study by the Korea Culture & Tourism Institute, 9.5 percent of Korean adults had experienced trouble as a result of their gambl...
It used to be that schools were institutions in which one learnt to read, write and wield a hockey stick. Now, at least in nine schools in Southampton, school is also the place where 13-year-old girls can...
Middle-class parents should not be afraid of letting their children play computer games because the experience is more creative than reading, one of the country's leading playwrights claimed yesterday. ...
Bike thefts have dropped to about 22,000 per year, but at least half are never recovered. I owned a beautiful Triumph 650cc Bonneville for three weeks before it was stolen. Recently I saw one similar to ...
It would take a daring barbeque lover to look at a volcano and think, "I bet I could grill a nice steak on that sucker." That thought has erupted into a tourist-attracting business on the Spanish island ...
“Chinese human-intelligence operations primarily rely on collecting a small amount of information from a large number of people”, said Peter Grier, “Spy case patterns the Chinese style of espionage”. Alt...
How will North Korea pursue foreign relations in the post-Kim Jong-il era? It is not an easy task to predict at a time when it remains uncertain exactly who will take power and through what process. But i...
Juvenile school dropouts and runaways are emerging as a main source of school violence. According to the National Police Agency, there were only 9,390 runaways between 14 and 19 until 2006 but their numb...
About one out of five salaried workers has a second job, according to a recent survey of 1,074 salaried workers released by jobs website Incruit on Wednesday. The proportion of moonlighters has been risin...
Photo courtesy: shreddingmachines.co.uk Call me what you will - I'm a security nut. I shred everything; but, one of the things I make sure I shred is the bill attached to any delivery food. The trend toda...
Photo courtesy: Zach Beauvais/CC BY-SA 2.0 I remember driving with my parents through the extremely fertile Fraser Valley routinely as a child. We would pass field after field of hops grown almost exclusi...
An American crow. Photo courtesy: Wikipedia Most people consider crows to be the equivalent of flying rats with the added annoyance of their extremely raucous, constant cawing back and forth. However, cro...
Photo courtesy: VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Russian scientists have grown flowering plants using seeds stored by squirrels 30,000 years ago and preserved by the Siberian permafrost, a new study showed, in what ma...
Syrian activists say 100 people have been killed by government troops in a single day, as the Red Cross calls for ceasefires. Women and children were among those killed, according to monitoring group Syr...
UN nuclear inspectors have been stopped from visiting a key military site Iran. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said its officials are now leaving the country after failing to reach a d...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Southern Greece at a depth of 15 km (9.3 miles), the quake hit at 02:23:16 UTC Wednesday 22nd February 2012 The epicenter was 1 km (0.6 miles) Southeast of Kréstena, G...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 00:50:41 UTC Wednesday 22nd February 2012 The epicenter was 130 km (80 miles) West of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanu...
A magnitude 2.9 earthquake has struck Oklahoma at a depth of 5.9 km (3.7 miles - Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 00:30:34 UTC Wednesday 22nd February 2012 The epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) ENE of O...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 544 km (338 miles), the quake hit at 00:07:47 UTC Wednesday 22nd February 2012 The epicenter was 245 km (152 miles) Southeast of Lambasa,...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Hokkaido, Japan at a depth of 54.1 km (33.6 miles), the quake hit at 20:35:42 UTC Tuesday 21st February 2012 The epicenter was 113 km (70 miles) ESE of Hakodate, Hokka...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Kashmir-Xinjiang Border Region at a depth of 69.7 km (43.3 miles), the quake hit at 19:55:40 UTC Tuesday 21st February 2012 The epicenter was 199 km (123 miles) S...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Ascension Island Region at a depth of 9.8 km (6.1 miles), the quake hit at 19:40:59 UTC Tuesday 21st February 2012 The epicenter was 465 km (288 miles) Northeast ...
Chuck Wild, "Liquid Mind, Dream Ten” "Liquid Mind" (aka Chuck Wild) originally wrote this music to deal with the anxiety and stress of overwork and the serious illness of friends. The gentle ebb and flo...
Today, February 21st, 2012, marks the 39th anniversary of the Israeli shooting down of Libyan Airlines flight 114 over the Sinai peninsula. That shootdown by Israeli Phantom 4 fighters cost the lives of ...
"What's happening over the horizon? Although the scene may appear somehow supernatural, nothing more unusual is occurring than a setting Sun and some well placed clouds. Pictured below are anticrepuscular ...
*"Free Will?"* by Chet Raymo "In an essay in the 14 May, 2009 issue of “Nature,” German biologist Martin Heisenberg asks the question: "Is free will an illusion?" And he answers: No. We are free, says He...
https://str.llnl.gov/OctNov11/kersting.html [excerpt]"Thanks to the research, the most perplexing element on the periodic table is slowly losing some of its mystery about how it travels underground faste...
"Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation, then deciding what you're going to do about it." - Kathleen Casey Theisen
*“Consequences To Expect Of A U.S./Iran War”* by Brandon Smith “Let’s be honest, quite a few Americans love a good war, especially those Americans who have never had to bear witness to one first hand. War...
Must be viewed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NblPs5QD2GU&feature=youtu.be
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*“Obviously, the Conservatives are trying to turn Toews into a victim, they’re trying to portray it that way as a smokescreen around the legislation, how offensive it is to the liberties in this country....
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I think I agree with Lindsay Mitchell and others who feel uneasy about the mawkishness of the widely publicised public commemorations one year on from Christchurch’s February 22 earthquake. As she says, ...
Reading the situation in Washington, and the course to war with Iran, is tough because there are so many layers to this complex global drama. Is the White House really opposed to war against Iran, or is it...
*That was 2003. The days of "moderation" are over.* The Supreme Court said Tuesday it will reconsider whether affirmative action may be considered when public universities choose which students to admit, ...
I was so bummed I forgot to watch The Voice last night. A woman I've known, literally since she was a baby, was on the show. But thanks to my Facebook friends who posted the video, I got to watch Naia Ke...
Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. Thanks for stopping by.
*"Moving Through Darkness: The Places We Go"* "Often it takes something major to wake us up as we struggle to maintain an illusion of control. In life, most of us want things to go to the places we have ...
By Suzanne MacNevin - February 2012. POLITICS - Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is being questioned today by French police in connection with a prostitution ring in the northern French city of Lil...
*"The Resemblance Between Your Life and a Dog"* "I never intended to have this life, believe me - It just happened. You know how dogs turn up At a farm, and they wag but can't explain. It's good if you ca...
By Brenda Norrrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Koahnic Broadcast Corp. announced today it is seeking a new host for Native America Calling, the national live daily radio broadcast, and...
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[image: image]He loves gadgets and he’s tweeted from many places around the world, but Stephen Fry was less than satisfied with government broadband here in EnZed. And he reckons we EnZedders should rise...
"They have a vision for this world. And Satan has gotten into their souls, and has led them to believe that they're like the gatekeepers of humanity, and they've gotta eliminate all these people, and carry...
Posted at WeAreMany: *Still Separate, Still Unequal: Racism, Class and the Attack on Public Education * With Brian Jones Public education is under an unprecedented attack. The powerful people who want...
*I **will give you one guess who got it started again.* "Putin remarks may hurt US-Russia ties" by Kathy Lally | Washington Post, February 18, 2012 MOSCOW - A *nasty spate of anti-Americanism* set off b...
*I will give you one guess who got it started again.* "Putin remarks may hurt US-Russia ties" by Kathy Lally | Washington Post, February 18, 2012 MOSCOW - A *nasty spate of anti-Americanism* set off by...
"Long-delayed fuel removal begins on sunken liner" February 13, 2012 ROME - Underwater pumping operations began yesterday to remove some of the 500,000 gallons of fuel aboard the Costa Concordia, officials...
*I wouldn't mind getting a peek*: "Founder of faulty-implant maker arrested" New York Times, January 27, 2012 PARIS - The founder of a French company that made hundreds of thousands of*breast implants * fr...
By Avraham Baranes Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) emphasizes the Sectoral Balances approach. According to the sector balances identity: Domestic Priv. Sector Balance + Domestic Public Sector Balance + Curr...
*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...
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Today, the blogosphere was atwitter with the news that bow-tied super-douche Tucker Carlson, last night on *Fox News*, declared that "*Iran deserves to be annihilated. I think they're lunatics. I think t...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 05:08:12 UTC Thursday 23rd February 2012 The epicenter was 2585 km (1606 miles) ESE ...
Hundreds of illegal immigrants from India are sleeping rough in appalling conditions in West London, a Sky News investigation can reveal. Unable to find work after the economic downturn, the men huddle to...
Technicians monitor the air for radiation during a nuclear accident drill in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province following the Fukushima disaster in Japan last March. Photo: CFP An inter-provincial squabble over ...
Soldiers practically inhabiting the mechanical bodies of androids, who will take the humans’ place on the battlefield. Or sophisticated tech that spots a powerful laser ray, then stops it from obliteratin...
You might not want to read this article if you have a weak stomach. Most Americans have absolutely no idea what is going on in the dark corners of America, and when people find out the truth it can come a...
Any financial system that is based on debt is doomed to fail. Today, we are living in the greatest debt bubble that the world has ever seen, and if all of a sudden people could not use credit to buy thing...
Do you want to know what the future of America is going to look like? Just check out what is happening to Detroit. The city of Detroit was once one of the greatest industrial cities in the history of the ...
In the United States today, unemployment among those age 18 to age 34 is at epidemic levels and the number of young adults that are now living at home with Mom and Dad is at an all-time high. So why are s...
The stock market is way up again and many economic indicators are pointing upwards as well. Any rational judge would say that Obama's fiscal and economic policies-- despite concerted, persistent and even ...
About five years ago, my husband and I were in the investigative stages of having a stand-by generator installed on our home. I called a company that sold one of the more popular brands and asked if the g...
A recent Reuters poll revealed some interesting insights into the mindset of many Americans today. A large majority (73 percent) revealed that they believe we are “off on the wrong track”. Nearly half of ...
The United States of America is becoming more like Nazi Germany every single day. In fact, the Nazification of America is almost complete. The parallels between Nazi Germany and the United States of toda...
Barack Obama wants to disarm America. There simply is no other way to explain his reckless behavior. On Tuesday it came out that the Obama administration is considering plans to unilaterally slash the siz...
The following are 19 facts about abortion in America....Shocking #1 There have been more than 53 million abortions performed in the United States since Roe v. Wade was decided back in 1973. #2 When you to...
When most people think about America's debt problem, they think of the debt of the federal government. But that is only part of the story. The sad truth is that debt slavery has become a way of life for ...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago(CBS/AP) COLUMBUS, Ohio - Police say an animal rights activist in Ohio has been charged with soliciting a hitman to fatally shoot or slit the throat of a random fur-wearer. Meredith Lowell, 27, appeared ...
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