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New photos of the Chinese proof of concept for Chinese high-speed trimaran Littoral Combat Ship has appeared on the
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[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 accelerate 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...
Sean Carroll offers his "wisdom" on the "anti-scientific movement". We are told that people always liked the anti-intellectual populism (which I could confirm to a large extent) but something else is goi...
*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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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 Mardi Gras celebrated across Louisiana Mardi Gras Indians Tout Generations-Old Traditions J...
*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 flight...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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*"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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**[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...
Monterrey, Mexico (CNN) -- Dozens died and 30 inmates escaped during a weekend prison riot in northern Mexico, an official said Monday. The prison's director and 18 guards have been removed from their pos...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 63.4 km (39.4 miles), the quake hit at 19:09:43 UTC Monday 20th February 2012 The epicenter was 73 km (46 miles) WSW from Suchi...
Despite their pain and suffering, Syrians' struggle against tyranny shows no signs of slowing down. A year ago, inspired by the success of revolts in the Arab world, Syrians rose against the authoritarian...
(CNN) -- The United States is not interested in providing weapons to opposition forces in Syria until it has a better picture of what those forces are, the top U.S. military officer said in an interview ...
"Invade! Invade NOW! NOW, NOW, NOW!!!!" -- Federal Reserve "Invade! Invade NOW! NOW, NOW, NOW!!!!" -- IMF "Invade! Invade NOW! NOW, NOW, NOW!!!!" -- World Bank "Invade! Invade NOW! NOW, NOW, NOW!!!!" -...
*“Here It Comes: Medicaid/Medicare, Oil Prices”* by Karl Denninger "Folks, we have to face this. I know nobody wants to. But we have to. The following story showed up this morning: "(Illinois) Aides say Q...
Timothy Peterson and Leah Graham recently published a study in the Journal of Conflict Resolution showing that, after you control for the democratic peace, similarities in human rights performance have an ...
For most journalists, the freebie press trip can offer a unique chance to explore the most exotic reaches of the globe. But not for this poor bunch. They were instead given a somewhat unglamorous tour ar...
NORFOLK -- A dead whale on the beach in Norfolk is attracting a crowd of people who want a up-close look at the mammal. The 42-foot male sei whale washed up near 1st View Street on Sunday. The Virginia A...
VANCOUVER - When dead sea mammals started washing ashore on Canada's west coast in greater numbers, marine biologist Andrew Trites was distressed to find that domestic animal diseases were killing them. ...
Bolivian volcano Uturuncu is fertile ground for research, study and fascination. UTURUNCU VOLCANO, Bolivia — The broad hill at the base of Uturuncu is unassuming. Its gentle arc fades naturally into the ...
This video literally brought tears to my eyes. This video is direct proof that Kurt speaking out, and all the backlash we have dealt with, is worth it. Our entire intent in speaking out about this was t...
Britain is facing a "massive" rise in antibiotic-resistant blood poisoning caused by the bacterium E.coli – bringing closer the spectre of diseases that are impossible to treat. Experts say the growth of...
JERUSALEM — Israel is coming under increased pressure from Washington and Europe to hold off from attacking Iran over its disputed nuclear drive and allow time for a regime of tight international sanction...
Private Prison Company to Demand 90% Occupancy By Noel Brinkerhoff and David Wallechinsky, AllGov 19 February 12 [excerpted] The nation's largest private prison company is offering cash-strapped state g...
Experts believe they may have found the most radioactive particle to be recovered so far from a beach near the Dounreay nuclear plant in Caithness. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) has be...
Four Air Force Special Operators on a spy mission over east Africa died when their U-28 plane crashed as it was returning to Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti. It’s another reminder of the hidden costs of the U.S....
A federal agency created by the Conservative government to mediate complaints about Canadian mining operations abroad has spent more than $1.1 million in the past two years, but has yet to mediate anything...
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[This is a cross-posting from Dart-Throwing Chimp.] I've just finished reading John Lewis Gaddis's terrific biography of George Frost Kennan, a towering figure in American foreign policy after World War ...
------------------------------ *Silencing The Critics* ------------------------------ February 20, 2012 | Original Here In 2010 the FBI invaded the homes of peace activists in several states and ...
------------------------------ *Poor America - P **a n o r a m a [B B C] - Broadcast Date: 13th February 2012 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suJCvkazrTc Uploaded by leenicklen on Feb 13, 2012 POO...
An insanely impossible problem is becoming just merely difficult.
[image: The rosette agent disease can cause 90% mortality in salmon species found in British rivers. ALAMY] By Richard Gray, Science Correspondent 19 February 2012 Biologists say they have found the ros..
(Reuters) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday Russia needed a stronger military to protect it from foreign attempts to stoke conflicts around its borders. In a newspaper article intended to bu...
SEOUL (Kyodo) -- The North Korean military issued a notice Sunday warning South Korean islanders living in a disputed part of the Yellow Sea to "evacuate" if the South Korean military goes ahead with a li...
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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) - 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 ...
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 ...
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...
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