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A bacteria that causes strep throat and flesh-eating diseases makes a glue that binds molecules.
There’s been an email thread going around the advertising industry in recent weekd, started when an email from the head one big agency calling his competitors “bastards”—bastards moreover who were going ...
PRESS RELEASE: FUNERAL FOR THE GULF OF MEXICO WHAT: Funeral service and procession for
Gulf of Mexico, recently murdered by BP, Transocean and Halliburton under suspicious circumstances. Several governmen...
The colorful pebble bearing a sequence of lines dates back 100,000 years and may be the first evidence of abstract art.
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*Guest post by Daniel Silva of the **Importers Institute* The Importers Institute has today asked the government to pass urgent legislation empowering the
Port of Auckland to dismiss striking port worke...
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Canada this month announced that any research on mammalian-transmissible strains of the H5N1 avian flu virus in the country’s labs would need to be done at the strictest level of biocontainment, Biologica...
------------------------------ How Greece Could Take Down Wall Street Posted on February 20, 2012 by
Ellen Brown Original Here In an article titled “Still No End to ‘
Too Big to Fail,’” William Greid...
A British photographer and French journalist wounded in an attack in Syria that killed Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin and photojournalist Remi Ochlik have appealed to be evacuated for urgent medical ...
* "How Austerity Hinders an Economy Recovery"* by Bill Bonner "This will be our last Daily Reckoning until April 17th. So, what well-chosen words can we leave you with? How about “if,” “but” and “maybe?” ...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 48.2 km (30 miles), the quake hit at 19:27:57 UTC Thursday 23rd February 2012 The epicenter was 126 km (78 miles) S...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 43.9 km (27.3 miles), the quake hit at 18:26:24 UTC Thursday 23rd February 2012 The epicenter was 170 km (105 miles) East of...
Bird flu more common and less lethal - study Bird flu is believed to be a rare disease that kills more than half of the people it infects, but a US study out today suggests it may be more common and less...
*“Janet Tavakoli - MUST SEE Internet TV”* by Karl Denninger “Another "must see" segment... Stay out of hot tubs and small private planes Janet...” - http://market-ticker.org/
Kids as young as 7 years old sustain over 100 hits in a single season.
Note: You will notice from this report that humans are the only mammals that can pick up this virus which results in flu like symptoms. Below you will see another report which seems to contradict the abo...
By L. Randall Wray This week we’re looking at thepublic purpose. Clearly, liberals and conservatives (used in the American senseof those terms) disagree on what government *ought*to do. Still, most peopl...
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Is a true democracy a natural thing for all animals to pursue?
the claim that the United States is the only nation with the "moral authority" to wage pre-emptive war on the rest of the world, because (according to FOX) the US is NOT seeking hegemony. Apparently, invad...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Halmahera, Indonesia at a depth of 42 km (26 miles), the quake hit at 16:10:19 UTC Thursday 23rd February 2012 The epicenter was 174 km (107.8 miles) East of Ternate, ...
Another 'inconvenient truth':Richard Heinberg's The End of Growth"The central assertion of this book is both simple and startling: economic growth as we have known it is over and done with." -- Richard Heinb...
Nate Silver made the case this past Sunday in the NYT Magazine that Barack Obama will run a populist campaign because, all else equal, it works best for him in the electoral college. Here's the problem wi...
[Angel Carretero’s “Andalucía Misteriosa” website (andaluciamisteriosa.es.tl) is one of the most complete and updated repositories of information available on UFO cases in the Iberian Penins...
When the so called "Underwear Bomber" "attack" took place at Christmas time, in 2009, I like most in the real truth movement looked upon it as another false flag attack for very nefarious reasons by the US...
This Saturday marks the 25th anniversary of Warhammer 40k, which is sort of a big deal if you're male between the ages of 13 and 60 who digs sci-fi violence and the sweet, seductive scent of acrylic paint.
A stick figure man with a giant phallus dubbed "the little horny man" is the oldest rock carving found yet in the Americas.
The enigmatic and ingenious Zorro of environmental activism, * FreewayBlogger *, has declared it's time for people to stop driving and I couldn't agree more. There is a contest on for slogans, with a to...
Today I mostly have some random photos to share with you. Don't forget to link up your photos too! Day 46- This photo is from a Style United party I hosted. Style United is a fantastic all over beauty sit...
MOSCOW (AP) — Moscow and Beijing remain opposed to any foreign interference in Syria, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday as Russia worked to shore up international support for its position ahead of a majo...
Two seals have been put down after they were discovered with "horrific" gun wounds in County Waterford. The seals were found dead on Tramore Beach on Wednesday night. Garda have said they are investigati...
Yesterday, we wondered who would wind up with a longer criminal rap sheetby November, Howard "Buck" McKeon in California or Michael "Mikey Suits" Grimm in New York. Staten Island Democrats haven't coalesce...
THREE 30 SECOND COMMERCIALS. Wonderful antidotes for BIG VICKIE. Enjoy. They show what teamwork can do to deal with problems. Stevie is a problem.
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Tonight Question Time comes from Tunbridge Wells. David Dimbleby is joined on the panel by Minister for Culture Ed Vaizey, Shadow Attorney General Emily Thornberry, UKIPs Paul Nuttall MEP, journalist Cri...
For some reason I am in a sour mood today. My brows are furrowed. It could have something to do with the news I read everyday? In as brief a period of time, I am going to cover a lot of news And awaaaayyy we...
It was the two-headed baby trout that got everyone’s attention. Photographs of variously mutated brown trout were relegated to an appendix of a scientific study commissioned by the J. R. Simplot Company, ...
Bill Kirchen performs at the KOOP Surfin' 17-A-Go-Go benefit at Antone's in Austin, Feb. 4, 2012. Photo courtesy Ted and Linda Branson / KOOP / The Rag Blog.Rag Radio:Commander Cody's Bill Kirchenis a 'Titan...
*Was Gadhafi's crime that he flouted the UCC? * *Contributor: "YYC"* Ever heard of Uniform Commercial Code? Google it. It's old as dirt and most of us don't have a clue about it. It's primarily American ...
We've been emphasizing for a few years that in the last decade, the global warming trend wasn't statistically significant and according to most datasets, it was actually negative: linear regression produ...
MP Eric Joyce has been suspended by the Labour Party after being arrested on suspicion of assault after an alleged fight in a bar in the House of Commons. A spokesman for the party said the suspension w...
[image: After the Japan tsunami of 2011, the last surviving pine tree stands in what was once a sprawling grove of more than 70,000 that towered above the white sandy shore and made it a popular tourist ...
Don't you just love reading and listening to Robert Reich's informed opinions? He's so intelligent and down to earth in his almost intimate conversations about national economic policy. Don't you wonder what...
And I do mean post mortem. Even only having sort of half watched half of the debate, one can't come to any conclusion other than the Republican party is dead. Didn't think I'd live to see the day that I ag...
*Greek Jews* There have been reports (UK's Sunday Times) of Greek rioters demanding protection money from store owners. *According to historian Richard Cottrell, the violence in Greece is a CIA-NATO 'G...
ROME, Ga. — Authorities say dozens of homes were damaged by a storm that rolled through northwest Georgia, toppling trees and knocking out power to thousands of customers. Floyd County Emergency Managemen...
[image: Fire burns on the ocean surface after the wreckage of the Chevron Nigeria gas exploration rig KS Endeavour sank. Local people fear that the fire may have contaminated the fish they normally eat. ...
The glasses will function like a smartphone and will be android-bases.
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND — Fishermen working here recently saw five ducks fly directly into a building, killing themselves. Another 120 dead ducks were found over the last six weeks. The birds’ carcasses were ...
Sixteen Army personnel, including five officers, were killed and nine others injured in two avalanches in Ganderbal and Bandipora districts of Kashmir Valley. "Massive avalanches hit two Army Posts in Ce...
------------------------------ * the**REALnews Permalink* February 21, 2012 *Greece Has a Choice - Get Out the Euro* Costas ...
Thirty-seven children were found to be suffering from lead poisoning in Shaoguan, south China's Guangdong province, and the relevant departments have yet to find the cause of the contamination, according ...
Havana, Feb 22 (Prensa Latina) Several South American countries remain today in a state of emergency due to heavy rainfall associated with La Niña weather phenomenon that has unleashed chaos in the region...
[image: A kudzu field in north Georgia. Jim Hanula, courtesy of USDA Forest Service] Contact: Qinfeng Guo, qguo@fs.fed.us, 828-257-4246, Pensoft Publishers 23 February 2012 (Pensoft Publishers) – Extensi...
[image: Wild emmer wheat, progenitor of all cultivated wheats. Wheats and barleys are the staple food for humans and animal feed around the world, and their wild progenitors have undergone genetic change...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Hokkaido, Japan at a depth of 6 67.9 km (42.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:26:39 UTC Thursday 23rd February 2012 The epicenter was 149 km (92 miles) Southeast from Sapp...
*THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2012* *Ruth Marcus finagles her framework:* Is the Democratic Party lousy at winning elections? Who knows? There may be better approaches the party could take. But good grief! Lo...
[image: Kerry Emanuel, atmospheric scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. MIT]By Katherine Bagley, InsideClimate News 22 February 2012 A number of prominent U.S. climate scientists who ...
Many times on this blog I have asked the reader the question - why would legislators intentionally support pro-business legislation at the cost of the citizenry that pays their salary. Many times I have i...
Janet M. exemplified everything America said was beautiful in the late 1970s. Her long, straight, flaxen tresses would have made Farrah Fawcett jealous, and they hung from the top of her pretty head, down ...
YUBARI, Hokkaido -- An art museum here partially collapsed from the weight of accumulated snow, an employee of its managing company discovered on Feb. 23. The museum was closed for the winter and there w...
[image: Grant Ferguson, from the University of Saskatchewan's Department of Civil and Geological Engineering, at the Pacific Ocean. usask.ca]Contact: Michael Robin University of Saskatchewan (306) 966-1...
SOMA, Fukushima -- City authorities here will prioritize decontamination of areas where children's external radiation exposure is estimated to be 2 millisieverts or more per year, it has been learned. Th...
After the Great East Japan Earthquake damaged and closed ports, at least 4.37 million chickens being raised in Aomori, Iwate and Miyagi Prefectures died, leading to a shortage of eggs in eastern Japan. J...
1. Why would a modern political party turn over a large chunk of influence over their nomination process to the candidate best able to...pack the room for debates, thus ensuring that his points would be in...
Speedy neutrinos are so yesterday, as Katie Yurkewicz said. What is hot today is the new accurate W-boson mass as measured by the CDF at the Tevatron. A special seminar is beginning right now, at 10 a....
I often encourage my students to distill complex analytical concepts into terse, plain English. But some things can't be boiled down to a tweet, as I discovered this week when attempting to explain Cingr...
Should I wear a mask on the plane? When Enviroreporter Michael Collins and his partner flew they recorded alpha particles, which had stuck to their masks during the flight However, wearing one of those ...
(Reuters) - German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble is in for a torrid weekend in Mexico City. Chancellor Angela Merkel is so concerned to get a second bailout for Greece approved by her parliamentary...
(Reuters) - Physicists are to run new tests in May after the CERN research institute said on Thursday that its startling findings appearing to show that one of Einstein's fundamental theories was wrong co...
*THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2012* *Part 3—Gail Collins should look in the mirror:* The analysts chuckled when they perused Sunday’s Washington Post. The Style section featured a sprawling, two-page report ab...
(Reuters) - Greece's debt problems drove a slew of heavy losses across the European banking sector on Thursday, and bosses warned the euro zone crisis would continue to threaten earnings. From France to ...
(Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog's latest mission to Iran failed to budge a defiant Tehran over its disputed nuclear program, sending oil prices to a nine-month high over fears of an increasing risk ...
(Reuters) - Ever since their first awkward encounter - a hastily arranged meeting in a custodian's office at a Washington airport in 2007 - Iran has been one of the few issues on which Barack Obama and Be...
(Reuters) - An Afghan soldier joined protests on Thursday against the burning of copies of the Koran at a NATO base and shot dead two foreign troops, Western military sources said, as the Taliban urge...
(CNN) -- An explosion at a bus stand killed 12 people and injured more than 30 others Thursday in northwest Pakistan, police said More than 10 vehicles were damaged in the attack in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa pro...
(CNN) -- A series of explosions and shootings killed 44 people and injured more than 200 in Baghdad and elsewhere Thursday morning, Iraqi police said. Police believe the wave of attacks, most of them with...
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- President Barack Obama apologized to Afghan President Hamid Karzai for the burning of Qurans by NATO troops, calling the act an inadvertent error, Karzai's office and National ...
Should you be scared? Only a little.Unmanned aerial vehicles, have their dark side.
Older adults show improved cognitive abilities after playing a video game.
Satellite measurements show nitrogen dioxide levels in the atmosphere above the mining project compare to what is seen over some medium-sized cities.
New study suggests terrorism "hot spots" are moving out of the city and into the country.
(CNN) -- In a dusty campsite in central Australia more than 30 years ago, a mother's cries of "a dingo's got my baby" set the stage for one of the country's most intriguing murder mysteries. The final sc...
(CNN) -- United Nations' bodies investigating crimes and human rights violations in Syria should identify perpetrators and hold them accountable, a U.N. commission said Thursday, stressing that "urgent, ...
Benjamin "Benjy" Stacy so frightened maternity doctors with the color of his skin -- "as Blue as Lake Louise" -- that he was rushed just hours after his birth in 1975 to University of Kentucky Medical Cent...
Of the interrogation Sanglah party, according to Ken, could not be ascertained whether the WM had contact with poultry. "The family is still denying that the victims had contact with poultry. We are ther...
Seven US Marines are feared dead after two helicopters collided during a night training exercise in southeast California. They were reportedly flying over mountains when their Cobra and Huey helicopters ...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 60.6 km (37.7 miles), the quake hit at 14:09:15 UTC Thursday 23rd February 2012 The epicenter was 101 km (62.6 miles) WSW of Ta...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 628.6 km (390.6 miles), the quake hit at 13:08:35 UTC Thursday 23rd February 2012 The epicenter was 143 km (88 miles) East of Ndoi Island...
Kevin Falcon is pissed. So is Christy Clark. What has them pissed? Somebody whizzed all over their parade. That's what. In the hours since the delivering of the BC provincial budget I have tried to ration...
Venezuela: UFO Recorded in the Central Littoral Region By Hector Escalante – Ovnivenezuela CARACAS, 20 February 2012 – On Sunday, 19 February at approximately 8:00 p.m., Jimmy Ramirez managed to c...
The firm behind a controversial 'back-to-work' scheme forced desperate jobseekers to take unpaid employment at their own offices or face having their benefits stripped, it has emerged. It also sent peopl...
Syrian forces have shot dead unarmed women and children, shelled residential areas and tortured wounded protesters in hospital under orders from the 'highest level' of army and government officials, the U...
Six swans have been decapitated and butchered for their breast meat, it was revealed today. The royally protected birds were found by rangers at Alvaston Park in Derbyshire last week. Police believe they...
The body of a young man was found today at the house where double-murder suspect Stephen Farrow was arrested. As Farrow appeared in court today charged with the murder of a retired teacher and a vicar, p...
A Chinese gang of grave robbers was caught trying to sell a dead woman into marriage - days after her family had done exactly the same thing. The woman's devastated parents,from the rural Hebei Province n...
Iraq was today hit by a rapid series of attacks that killed at least 60 people in what appeared to be a strike by Al Qaeda militants determined to destabilise the country. The coordinated bombings and sh...
Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich had posts up Monday and Tuesday that I found not just interesting but very related as well. But Reich did explicitly connect them. Monday was, at least in part, a po...
Lee Zurik Investigation: S&WB ratepayers funding exec’s $1M retirement plan Insurance industry flush as coverage for policyholders cheapens BP liable for civil penalties for oil spill BP Spill Victims St...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 68.5 km (42.6 miles), the quake hit at 13:25:30 UTC Thursday 23rd February 2012 The epicenter was 117 km (73 mi...
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I'm sure you've seen this everywhere already, but *damn*, how could I not post it. I love this man and I love this music. He may be short of breath, but consider that he's almost 70 years old... and still ...
His experience as a KGB spy would come in handy for this piece of deception. Hundreds of residents appear to be giving their whole-hearted support to Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin by turning up a...
A former University of Virginia lacrosse player was today found guilty of killing his girlfriend in a drunken argument. George Huguely V was acquitted of first-degree murder, but found guilty of second-d...
Happy Birthday to the HBP king, Ron Hunt. He's 71. Managed to get himself plunked 50 times in 1971, which is 15 more than anyone has done it in the modern (post-1900) era. Dust ourselves off and head to ...
A substitute teacher accused of filming himself molesting a young girl is on the run in Mexico, according to police. It has emerged that George Hernandez was investigated three times over claims he abuse...
*THE VAGINA PATROL (or American Taliban, take your pick) MASTER DEBATERS:* (Where's Ron Paul in this picture, btw? Raw Story cuts out Ron Paul or did CNN cut out Ron Paul? Huffington Post cuts out Ron Paul...
Security at a U.S. school has been stepped up after a racist video rant by two of its white female students went viral. Santaluces High School, in Lantana, Florida, is on high alert for possible retaliat...
Threatening letters claiming to contain lethal 'pathogens' have been sent to lawmakers and high-profile media personalities across America, it has emerged. Police revealed that more than 100 letters cont...
Only half of U.S. citizens pay federal income tax, according to the latest available figures. In 2009, just 50.5 per cent of Americans paid any income tax to the federal government - the lowest proportio...
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Buckdog - 8 hours ago
*(Click on graphic to enlarge ....)* *"Conservative values are Canadian values."* * Stephen Harper* * "Elections Canada has traced fraudulent phone calls made during the federal election to an Edmonton ...
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has told a mass rally of his supporters that he will not allow foreign powers to interfere in Russia's internal affairs and predicted victory in an ongoing battle for its fu...
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[image: image] The Australian climate offers opportunity especially for unique holiday houses. Like this one for photographer Marian Drew and family by Simon Laws of Anthill Construction for “a one of a...
Following the arrest of three young Anonymous hackers in Greece, the collective has attacked again the website of the Ministry of Justice, defacing its homepage. "The Republic in Greece has died. He died ...
The direct targeting of actors protected under the laws of war has been one of the most disturbing trends arising out of the Arab Spring. For example, the targeting of medical workers and ambulance driver...
Despite the massive wildfires that have swept the western U.S. in recent years, the region has barely begun paying down the huge fire deficit it has accumulated over the last 100 years.
An effigy of the U.S. President daubed with the graffiti 'black dog Obama' was set alight in a furious response to troops burning copies of the Koran. The furious Afghan protesters lifted aloft the model ...
Computer hackers could have the ability to take down the entire U.S. electrical grid within the next two years, the head of the National Security Agency has warned. General Keith Alexander expects the 'h...
An unruly Saudi teen was held down and detained by fellow passengers aboard a Continental Airlines flight after he began shouting 'Allah is great' and making references to Osama bin Laden as he swung his ...
At least 49 people were killed and more than 600 were injured today when a commuter train crashed in a busy station in Argentine capital Buenos Aires. The train, which was overcrowded with more than a tho...
A Christian pastor who converted from Islam is to be put to death for leaving Islam following the ruling of an Iranian court, it was reported today. Youcef Nadarkhani, 34, was arrested more than two year...
A graduate aged 21 has the same chance of being unemployed as a 16-year-old school leaver with one GCSE, official figures revealed yesterday. Around one in four of both groups is currently without a job....
The Syrian government has denied responsibility for the deaths of the two foreign journalists killed in Homs, as tanks move into the Bab Amr area in which they were killed. The foreign ministry said Mari...
A taxi driver was being questioned last night over the murders of two elderly widows found dead in their homes just a few streets apart. Andy Flood, 43, is believed to have handed himself in after walking...
A convicted rapist sexually assaulted a woman and exposed himself to two others despite being under police surveillance. Michael Phillips, 35, sexually assaulted a 28-year-old woman in Church Street, Bri...
Britain has drawn up plans to send an aircraft carrier, Apache attack helicopters and Royal Marines to fight pirates and terrorists in Somalia. David Cameron will announce that the UK is more than doublin...
Police have launched a second fraud inquiry involving state contracts run by David Cameron’s millionaire ‘back-to-work’ tsar Emma Harrison. Mrs Harrison’s beleaguered firm A4e volunteered details of the s...
Top secret documents concerning Britain’s multi-million pound deal to develop state-of-the-art drones have been stolen in Paris, it emerged tonight. In what had all the hallmarks of a covert operation by...
Germany is rejecting demands from an EU body that it should stop surgically castrating sex criminals - a practice that dates back to the Nazis - because it is ‘degrading’. Defying Brussels, the German go...
On a suburban street, this is the blood-stained scene after a man brandishing a knife was gunned down by police who failed to incapacitate him with up to four Taser rounds. Last night the 25-year-old sus...
The Today website is no longer providing clips of every part of the programme. No explanation, but I assume it’s something to do with the cuts. Hmm. More importantly, as stories about failed rogue states,...
The NHS is paying GPs to look after 2.5million ‘ghost’ patients, ministers admitted last night. Doctors are receiving an estimated £162million a year – footed by the taxpayer – for non-existent patients ...
Residents of Fukushima Prefecture who evacuated following the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant are increasingly losing hope of returning to their homes. The finding came in a survey by...
The United Nations refugee agency today voiced fears for the safety of thousands of people who have fled fresh violence near the Somali capital, Mogadishu, and urged all armed groups to ensure the safety ...
More than 60,000 Liberian refugees spread in countries of the West African sub region will no longer be accepted under such status beginning July 1 this year, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, warns in a majo...
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Anyone catch this John Humphyrs interview with William Hague on Today this morning. What fascinated me was how a discussion regarding what could be done to help those people suffering under the Assad regim...
Khartoum and Juba have agreed to start the border demarcation process in order to resolve issues they started discussing before the independence of South Sudan in 2011. Khartoum — Delegations Khartoum an...
Abuja — Apparently miffed over the ease, with which Boko Haram sect attacked some military formations in the country recently, the Army high command, yesterday did a major stock taking and redeployed 72 G...
Douala — UK researchers have discovered how the drugs that are currently used to treat sleeping sickness work at the molecular level, potentially opening the way to tackling growing resistance to the drug...
Experts say the increasing use of agricultural land for settlement and commercial purposes is threatening food security. According to a new report most land owners around urban centres in the Rift Valley...
East Africa, still battling a hunger crisis, should be prepared for another dry spell and further food insecurity due to the persistence of La Ni-a weather conditions that last year brought severe drought...
After many years of legal struggle, nine widows from the Indonesian village of Rawagede have each been awarded 20,000 euros compensation by the Dutch government for war crimes committed in 1947. On their ...
Households took out more loans during the second half of last year to cover their living expenses, according to a questionnaire survey of 2,030 households released by the Bank of Korea on Thursday. "Amon...
A panhandler underscores the variety of social problems Vladimir Putin addresses in his latest policy article that is heavily focused on demographics. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin unveiled his plan on s...
The Putin era is ending, but the authorities are doing everything possible to make it a dramatic finale. The fallout from the widely discredited State Duma elections is a sign that a fundamentally new si...
Somalia's hard line Islamist rebels are reported to have taken delivery of up to 30 surface-to-air missiles smuggled to them from Libya since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi. According to intelligence sourc...
Image: The 42-year-old Iranian, Mohammad Khazaei (C), has been detained by Thai officials for his involvement in a foiled terror attack against the Israeli embassy in Bangkok. (Reuters) Iran and Lebanon’s...
Libyans took to the streets on Friday to celebrate the first anniversary of the uprising that toppled Muammar Qaddafi, with fireworks and slogans, even as their new leader vowed to act firmly against furth...
Iranian opposition group the National Council of Resistance said Thursday it has agreed to begin evacuating its long-time base in a camp in central Iraq to transfer to a U.N.-approved site near Baghdad. ...
There’s been an increase of news reports recently assessing portions of the legacy of the work and money spent by international forces along with aid workers in Afghanistan. If the book, “We Meant Well: ...
American foreign policy for the past decade has been dominated by a focus on countering the threat of global terrorism. As a 21-year-old, I hardly remember a time before the Global War on Terrorism, rovin...
Is Myanmar detaching itself from China? The question has made Western headlines recently. Reports hint that Myanmar is moving closer to the West. These are misinterpreting the changes in Asia. China is cl...
A restaurant selling a seasonal dish of dog meat hotpot was forced to remove its sign featuring a golden retriever yesterday, after dog lovers posted photos online and urged people to boycott the eatery. ...
Editor's Note: The threat of an Israeli strike against Iran, and possible US involvement in any possible war, looms large this year. Meanwhile, Iran's neighbor Syria is in turmoil. What's Iran's attitude ...
One of the current hot topics on the Chinese Internet is the forthcoming requirement for Weibo, or microblog, users to register their real names. Starting in March, no one will be allowed to post on any o...
Many Chinese students flock to the US for green cards or greener pastures. But they may end up university cash cows in those pastures, ready to be milked as needed to fill the yawning budget gaps at US sc...
There aren't many Chinese camping in Zuccotti Park, the home of the ongoing Occupy Wall Street movement. Not a surprise. Chinese immigrants have long been known for being silent and invisible at political...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 526.1 km (326.9 miles), the quake hit at 08:09:13 UTC Thursday 23rd February 2012 The epicenter was 355 km (221 miles) West from NUKU'ALO...
Taxpayer-backed Royal Bank of Scotland has announced a full year loss of £2bn - further fuelling the debate about bankers' pay and bonuses. The bank, which is 82% owned by the state, posted a pre-tax los...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Talaud Indonesia at a depth of 125.6 km (78 miles), the quake hit at 06:57:27 UTC Thursday 23rd February 2012 The epicenter was 317 km (196 miles) ESE of Ge...
I do not know if this is quitewithin reach yet although it is surely in our future much sooner thanlater. Far more certain are going to bethe development of warplanes flown from a remote site. Why ris...
Well maybe, or perhaps we areteaching a computer to imitate a human pattern of thought that may or may notbe efficious. Our pattern recognitionability is hard wired in the brain and is vaster than we a...
This is an excellent experimentand it demonstrates a lot of what we have surmised. The shortening taking place needs to benoticed because there is go evidence here of the selection been affected bypred...
The take home here is thatnatural photosynthesis is only around one percent efficient, thus leaving ampleroom for improvement. Nature has had noneed to do any better and perhaps we need to encourage na...
*New people tuned in to ITV's coverage of this year's Brit Awards than have completed so in the last seven years. In the opinion of ITV it had received 170 complaints about the climax to Tuesday's teleca...
*Radioactive elements from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant have been detected in seawater and marine organisms up to 600km from Japan. Analysis revealed eminent levels of radioactive rudiments ...
Google began to redirect the blogspot.com traffic to specific national locations. So far, three nations are affected: *Australia:* motls.blogspot.com.au *New Zealand:* motls.blogspot.co.nz *India:* motls.b...
Think about this if you are a rational, calm, decent American: What could the people in Afghanistan ... or for that matter in Pakistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Wazir...
Jeremy fan at the Knicks game against the Toronto Raptors, Feb. 14, 2012. Photo by Mike Cassese / Reuters.Enter the Dragon:NBA lucks out in New Yearwith Knicks' Jeremy Lin-sanityBy Mariann G. Wizard / The Ra...
The European Union's highest court has been asked to rule on the legality of a controversial anti-piracy agreement. *In June Acta is set to be debated by the European Parliament. The agreement has so far...
*According to research from cost contrast site uSwitch, a third of homes in the UK have broadband speeds well beneath the general standard*. Hereford was the slowest city, with average speeds of 3.1Mbps. ...
I have spent the last few hours going over some of the Jewish controlled media outlets reports on their reasoning for having Iran attacked and destroyed, and what I found is disturbing.. Many of the report...
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...
Conservatives have learned how to have our party hi-jacked by the liberal minority. Now it is time to vote strategically to prevent that from happening. First this must be an election AGAINST the remaining...
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 co...
*"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. ...
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*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?
*Update:* CERN/OPERA press release (Thursday) *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 OPER...
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 longest standing 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'...
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, Andalucía 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 ...
*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...
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Canada this month announced that any research on mammalian-transmissible strains of the H5N1 avian flu virus in the country’s labs would need to be done at the strictest level of biocontainment, Biologica...
------------------------------ How Greece Could Take Down Wall Street Posted on February 20, 2012 by Ellen Brown Original Here In an article titled “Still No End to ‘Too Big to Fail,’” William Greid...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 48.2 km (30 miles), the quake hit at 19:27:57 UTC Thursday 23rd February 2012 The epicenter was 126 km (78 miles) S...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 43.9 km (27.3 miles), the quake hit at 18:26:24 UTC Thursday 23rd February 2012 The epicenter was 170 km (105 miles) East of...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoHis experience as a KGB spy would come in handy for this piece of deception. Hundreds of residents appear to be giving their whole-hearted support to Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin by turning up a...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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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