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Vice President Al Gore’s positions on climate change came under fire at Apple’s annual shareholders meeting on Thursday when a non-profit group accused Gore, an Apple board member, of using his posi...
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The Wall Street Journal* is reporting today 2/23 in its print edition (p. C3) that Standard and Poor's cut Greece's long-term credit rating to "selective default." A panel is going to decide whether o...
Russia, China Confirm Boycott of NATO’s “Enemies of Syria” Conference in Tunisia; Goal is Bombing, Civil War, Failed State, Warlords on Libyan Model
Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. Tarpley.net February, 28, 2012...
Donald Trump, the American property tycoon, is bankrolling a £10million fighting fund for British anti-windfarm campaigners. The move follows proposals for 11 giant turbines off the Aberdeenshire coast, w...
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/publications/nuclear/2012/Fukushima/Lessons-from-Fukushima.pdf Must Read.
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands, Russia at a depth of 45.5 km (28.3 miles), the quake hit at 15:24:21 UTC Tuesday 28th February 2012 The epicenter was 167 km (104 miles) South from...
Watch the video and pause it at 49 seconds. Look to the left of unit 3 (which is featured). Unit 4 is in the background. An Enenews commentator believes that the black flow visible in the background bet...
*TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2012* *Part 1—King in charge:* Is your country a pitiful helpless giant, the way Dick Nixon once said? Well yes, it pretty much is! One example: As surveys are constantly showing, ...
By: Duane Craig Birmingham, Ala., has had its share of industrial activity over the centuries, and now it is wrestling with soil, water and air contamination affecting at least three residential areas,...
A man apparently high on methamphetamine entered a Sacramento welding shop and then fought with police officers before being arrested. Sacramento police responded to a call at about 12:30 p.m. Saturday t...
A man who was singing karaoke at a southwest Houston restaurant early Monday was shot to death because another patron did not like his song choice, according to Houston police. The shooting happened at Os...
I saw this article which was snipped on the front page of Think Progresstoday and thought to myself - they are an private sector / corporate enterprise member of the American Legi$lative Exchange Council - ...
Samantha Garcia was at a friend’s house to watch the Daytona 500 Sunday afternoon when she stepped outside to find out what was causing a commotion in the front yard of his house in southwest Wichita. Tha...
I received some requests for my stand-alone mashed potatoes, here they are. They are my go-to side with BBQ. They fit the theme well because they taste good just as they are. They don't need gravy or an...
*D-Wave's 512-qubit chip, code-named Vesuvius. * *The white square on the right contains the quantum goodness.* THANKS TO ALISON, DAVE AND BORIS, the sad and disgraceful tale of Stevie's criminality unfolds...
You want to be able to listen in on the phone conversations and *snoop on the internet activities of any Canadian* without the constitutional protection of a warrant. You then try to paint Canadians as ...
(Reuters) - A 17-year-old boy wounded in Monday's shooting rampage at an Ohio high school was declared brain dead, authorities said on Tuesday, following the death of another student. Russell King Jr...
I just returned from a 2-hour public debate with Dr Tomáš Sedláček [Thomas Little Farmer], the chief economist of the Czechoslovak Business Bank (ČSOB), a member of the government advisory committee called...
[image: Cover of the 'Delivering Tomorrow: Logistics 2050' study by Deutsche Post DHL, February 2012.]Berlin/Bonn, 27 February 2012 (DHL) – With its release of the study of the future, *Delivering Tomorr...
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck the Bonin Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 508.8 km (316.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:07:35 UTC Tuesday 28th February 2012 The epicenter was 302 km (188 miles) WN...
*TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2012* *Epilogue—Except when its own writers craft them:* Just for the record, the New York Times is strongly opposed to the crafting of legends! Readers learned this in two differe...
By arevamirpal::laprimavera 27 February 2012 The documentary includes footage from early days of the earthquake/tsunami/nuclear disaster that started on 11 March 2011 that I've never seen before - w...
E-mails are surfacing that show how extensively Rupert Murdoch's operators in the UK corrupted government and police officials. *News International*had claimed that the voicemail hacking was a "rogue" ope...
An explosion at a chemical factory in northern China has killed at least 13 people, state officials said. Part of the plant was flattened by the blast and witnesses said houses within a 2km diameter had ...
Feb 27, 2012 (CIDRAP News) – A 22-year-old man in Vietnam is in critical condition with an H5N1 avian influenza infection, according to media reports. Nguyen Van Vin Chau, Ho Chi Minh City's director of ...
Levees.org founder speaks to American Whistleblowers Tour today Corps of Engineers declares West Bank Levee Authority a "Minority Opinion" ~Hat Tweet @Editilla the Pun~@*bayousalvage* @*LeveesOrg* I'm sure...
I want to get this news story up and out there before it is disappeared! Why did this Syrian delegation quit the UN rights council? I am going to highlight the very big, glaring issue. It has to do with a...
Without a successor to the space shuttle or a clear roadmap for manned spaceflight, what will our scientific future look like?
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Israeli officials say they won't warn the U.S. if they decide to launch a pre-emptive strike against Iranian nuclear facilities, according to one U.S. intelligence official familiar with...
MOSCOW (AP) -- Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned against military intervention in Syria or an attack on Iran in scathing criticism of the West on Monday as he laid out his foreign policy priorities les...
SEOUL (Kyodo) -- North Korea has deployed an improved, longer-range version of its 240 mm multiple rocket launcher, a South Korean newspaper reported Tuesday, citing military sources. The Chosun Ilbo said...
(Reuters) - South Korea's main left wing opposition party, which polls say is headed for a victory in an April parliamentary election, vowed on Tuesday closer ties with North Korea and will end a sanction...
Feb. 28 - Families of earthquake victims protest in Santiago, Chile over what they say are the government's poor reconstruction efforts. Lindsey Parietti reports.
Britain has cut a deal with Kazakhstan to let it extract six billion dollars worth of equipment, including tanks and armoured personnel carriers, safely out of Afghanistan. The Brits were scrambling fo...
Wikileaks rocks - at least if you're part of the US intelligence community. They've just released a dump of e-mails from American security outfit, Stratfor, sometimes described as the "shadow CIA." Ju...
Feb. 28 - Iranian women call for better representation ahead of upcoming parliamentary elections. Nick Rowlands reports.
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama, following through on a promise to beef up enforcement of trade agreements, on Tuesday will sign an executive order creating a new government team to make sure China and...
Feb. 28 - Bondholder contracts have been changed by the government to the detriment of creditors. This makes it our duty to call a default says S&P Head of EMEA Sovereign Ratings Moritz Kraemer.
Although I have stopped being a Marxist-socialist by early 90s, somehow I still have some "hang-over" on some Marxist concepts until early 2000s. Here's one such discussion a decade ago, on the relationshi...
(Reuters) - When Lieutenant-General Juancho Sabban received an urgent phone call from an oil company saying two Chinese vessels were threatening to ram their survey ship, the Philippine commander's messag...
Saw this on The Hill this morning and although I had thought about writing about it – I had chosen not to and then changed my mind. Mitt Romney on Tuesday harshly admonished GOP rival Rick Santorum for a ...
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*Guess what we were talking about exactly one year ago .....* The Globe & Mail - Feb 25, 2011
Angelina Jolie Actress, Director and Well known for her Humanitarian Work and the story that goes viral isn't about when she went on field missions around the world to meet with refugees or Directed her ne...
(Reuters) - HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBA.L) said on Monday it will likely face criminal or civil charges from an expanding investigation into its ties to allegedly illegal money transactions, including some ti...
The chart above shows market capitalization trends for Apple and Microsoft over just two months in 2010. To show that this trend of Microsoft's failing hegemony is not a fluke, here is another showing o...
(Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel's room for maneuver on future euro zone bailouts, in doubt after a revolt by coalition lawmakers, shrank further on Tuesday when Germany's top court raised a hurdle to...
(Reuters) - The Obama administration will not swerve from plans to move into an advisory role in Afghanistan, U.S. officials said on Monday, despite the killing of U.S. advisers over the weekend that unde...
Bee-like robots the size of quarters can be mass produced by folding layers of carbon fiber.
(Reuters) - Japan's prime minister ordered workers to remain at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear plant last March as fears mounted of a "devil's chain reaction" that would force tens of millions of ...
(Reuters) - Yahoo has demanded licensing fees from Facebook for use of its technology, the companies said on Monday, potentially engulfing social media in the patent battles and lawsuits raging across muc...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Solomon Islands at a depth of 84.8 km (52.7 miles), the quake hit at 13:02:30 UTC Tuesday 28th February 2012 The epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) WSW from Chirovang...
Jerusalem (CNN) -- The Israeli military said its forces opened fire on infiltrators while on patrol along the Egyptian border early Tuesday, killing one of them. "The suspects fired at the soldiers, who ...
Happy Birthday to Paul Krugman, 59, blogger, columnist, and, oh yeah, a pretty good economist, from what I understand. 1. Fascinating reporting on Rick Santorum's college days, by Molly Redden. 2. Dana G...
Can bacteria "observe" the stars?
Rome (CNN) -- A large French fishing ship began towing a disabled Italian cruise ship to port early Tuesday -- a day after a fire in its engine room left it adrift, the Seychelles Coast Guard said. Two t...
(CNN) -- As carnage mounted in the streets of Syria on Tuesday, government officials also continued their war of words. No regime cares more about the Syrian people than its government, Foreign Minister...
After drifting without power in the Indian Ocean, following an engine fire, the towed cruise liner is expected to reach shore by Wednesday.
Those convenient and tidy plastic cups can't be recycled and are collecting in America's landfill.
On May 20, some U.S. states and Asia will be treated to a spectacular celestial alignment between the Earth, moon and sun.
Folks across the country are talking about the Republican Presidential primary in Michigan today and the attacks on women by Republicans on the stump. From contraception to maternity care, to a women's ri...
February 26, 2012 This Stossel special will blow your mind! The government, especially the EPA is out of control as well as local prosecutors trying to make a name for themselves. *Sounds like the Stat...
*First - thanks to all of you who take the time to come and visit.* * * *Thanks for sharing my links with your friends and family. I can't tell you how excited I am when I see the various links as referral...
America's Credit and Housing Crisis: New State Bank Bills by Ellen Brown Global Research Canada, February 27, 2012 *Seventeen states have now introduced bills for state-owned banks, and others are in th...
*Foreign nationals are to be accessible free treatment for HIV on the NHS under plans backed by the government.* There are a predictable 25,000 people with undiagnosed HIV in Britain, many of whom were b...
*Firms can search tweets back to January 2010 in order to plan marketing campaigns, aim significant users or yet try to predict certain events. Confidential financial records and tweets that have been de...
Imagine David Attenborough’s version of Proud and Prejudiced. He’d most likely take the anthropologist’s view of the inhabitants of Luton. He’d examine Islamist Sayful, the dominant male, and peer at the f...
*In New Zealand, a large wiped out penguin has been reconstructed from fossil remnants discovered. The hard work was partially inspired by the bird's unusual body form, which is diverse from any other kn...
A new analysis of 20 U.S. cities pegs urban tree loss at about 4 million trees a year.
*A study shows the progressive reduction of Arctic sea frost is bringing colder, snowier winters to the UK and other areas of Europe, North America and China. It's possible that future winters will be co...
(CNN) -- While the world's attention has been focused on tumult in the Arab world, Iran has cracked down with impunity on dissent and is feared to come down even harder as elections approach, Amnesty Inte...
Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Assailants ambushed four passenger buses in northwest Pakistan, killing 18 people and injuring eight others Tuesday, police said. The attack took place in the mountainous Koh...
Kathryn Fuller, who barely survived taking contaminated cocaine that killed her 'Amazing Race' producer boss, is likely to be arrested and prosecuted by police in Uganda when she is released from the hosp...
Just when you thought unemployment was dropping and stock markets were surging back, these three analysts today sent out a stark warning to Americans to brace for another financial crash. Trend forecaste...
*"Tips For Dealing With Sadness and Depression"* by Vijai P. Sharma, Ph.D “Depression with its characteristic sad face, stooped posture, and slow movements is universal; it is found not only in humans in ...
*Alaska's Big Village Network* http://akbigvillagenetwork.blogspot.com/2012/02/alaskas-big-village-network-resist.html Protesting sHELL drilling in the ARCTIC!!! supporting the international days of actio...
British journalist Paul Conroy is "safe and sound" in Lebanon after being smuggled out of Syria, according to reports. The photographer was badly hurt in the missle attack that killed The Sunday Times cor...
An engineer has come up with macabre rollercoaster concept where passengers are thrilled and then ‘killed’. The chilling Euthanasia Coaster is a theoretical machine engineered to ‘humanely, with elegance...
It would appear to be the perfect way to show patriotic support for our sportsmen and women – and also keep the sun off. But the official Olympics scarf, unveiled yesterday, has become the latest in a lo...
A severe fire that broke out at one of Europe's largest green power station is now under control but there are fears that the blaze could continue to burn for days. Around 120 firefighters have been tack...
Britain is facing years of freezing winters because of the dramatic decline in Arctic sea ice, say scientists. Global warming means autumn levels of sea ice have dropped by almost 30 per cent since 1979 ...
A tall and elegant race of penguins inhabited what is now New Zealand 25 million years ago, scientists have learned. The bird stood over 4ft tall and was slimmer than modern penguins, with a long beak an...
A pilot successfully landed his plane with no front landing gear at New York's Newark airport last night. There were no reports of injuries among the 71 people aboard. Authorities say Flight 5124 landed ...
The teenage killer who shot two students dead at his Ohio high school and left another three injured left a chilling note on his Facebook page weeks before the shooting. TJ Lane, who classmates described...
They may think of themselves as the more respectable and upstanding members of society. But the wealthy among us are in fact more likely to lie, cheat and break the law than those who have less, a study ...
Scotland Yard told Rebekah Brooks in 2006 that there were up to 110 victims of phone hacking at the News of the World, the Leveson Inquiry dramatically heard today. Police had seemed to give Ms Brooks, t...
The European Central Bank said today it would temporarily no longer accept Greek sovereign bonds as collateral for loans to banks after Greece was declared in "selective default" by a rating agency. "The...
The boss of HSBC has been forced to forfeit £1.3million of his bonus after the bank was embroiled in two of the biggest episodes of mis-selling affecting thousands of customers. The decision to strip Stu...
Foreign rapists may be slipping through the net because police are not carrying out basic background checks, an official report warns. In many cases, officers failed even to ask about previous convictions...
Foreigners will qualify for free HIV treatment on the NHS after ministers agreed a change in the law. Failed asylum seekers and foreign students are currently banned from receiving drugs for the virus in...
* Gauci * "A police officer ... testified that the fragment of timer which was used to convict Al Megrahi was planted by CIA operatives with the collusion of Scottish police officers ..." Former police ch...
Image Note: Petrol in France, Netherlands, Greece, Italy, Denmark, Norway and Turkey are Higher than the Petrol Prices in the United Kingdom. - On Diesel United Kingdom does pay more than any of the listed...
A complaint has been launched against an NHS trust after a family claimed a 42-year-old patient was attacked by a rat as he lay sedated in his hospital bed. The family of Jason Ketley say he was bitten r...
The evacuation of two injured western journalists and the recovery of Marie Colvin's body from a besieged suburb of Homs has been postponed amid more violence in the Syrian city. The Syrian Red Crescent...
The Greek debt crisis has deteriorated as the country's solvency is called into question, raising the stakes in its battle to avoid default. Derivatives body the International Swaps and Derivatives Associ...
US-based security think-tank Stratfor spied for the Dow Chemicals on the activists of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, WikiLeaks alleged today as the whistleblower website started publishing millions of confi...
Excellent film on the dangers of Genetically Modified Food. http://www.thefutureoffood.com/ The Future of Food has been a key tool in the American and international anti-GMO grassroots activist moveme...
The controversy swirling around the Kudankulam nuclear power plant has become the stuff of seasoned ‘Russia hands’ in the community of American publicists and analysts. Almost as a riposte to Indian Pri...
Russia has modernized two radars in Syria and Lebanon that could threaten U.S. or Israel’s ability to launch a surprise attack against Syria and Iran, Israeli DEBKAfile portal said on Monday. The range o...
On September 25, 2011, just eight days after the Occupy Wall Street protests began in Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, the much acclaimed CBS News program, 60 Minutes, aired a fawning look at the thousan...
On Thursday, March 20, the US will be at war with Iran, and it has nothing to do with Iran's nuclear ambitions. It's the oil. A unit within the US Treasury called the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network...
Keeping with my philosophy that healthcare is first and foremost personal and parental/guardian responsibility, not government's, I will post related articles by other authors on how we parents and guardia...
In my January column I explained that by stonewalling financial regulatory reform and imposing draconian fiscal austerity in the midst of the worst economic recession in eighty years ruling elites in Euro...
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei may control the nuclear programme, but he lacks a critical mass of Iranians. Hong Kong - The supreme war-or-peace question regarding the Iran psychodrama has got to be: W...
Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates are likely to buy up to $2 billion worth of Iranian electricity once a gas field in the Arabian Gulf is operational, a senior Iranian energy minister has said this...
John Williams just issued a warning regarding the Monetary Base vaulting to a historic high. Williams, who founded ShadowStats, also stated the reason for the expansion is directly related to a deepening ...
Image: A prison camp located in Tumen, a Chinese border city with North Korea, where defectors are allegedly held before being repatriated to North Korea. This photo was taken by a JoongAng Ilbo photograp...
Republican presidential primary hopeful Rick Santorum says he doesn’t believe in the separation of church and state, noting that a speech on the topic by former President John F. Kennedy makes him want to ...
American remains on its knees to our 911 investigation fraudsters, and the mortgage, banking and Wall Street derivatives pirates, a sad legacy to a once great country. In contrast to the cowardice and Co...
“Libya will not forgive any state that provides safe heaven to pro-Gaddafi criminals and must immediately hand them over to face trial,” said the chairman of the National Transitional Council (NTC) Mustaf...
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital say they have extracted stem cells from human ovaries and made them generate egg cells. The advance, if confirmed, might provide a new source of eggs for trea...
Despite lackluster acceptance among girls for a vaccine to prevent cancer-causing sexually transmitted viruses, the American Academy of Pediatrics is fully recommending that boys get the shots as well. B...
After more than 40 years of development and extensive use by the military, the United States has set the date when the nation’s airspace will be open for drones. Should you be scared? Short answer: No, bu...
COLUMBUS, Ga. (CBS Atlanta) — A former Columbus police officer admitted in court that he robbed a bank last year so he can get health benefits being in a federal prison. Edward Pascucci told U.S. Distric...
A supporter of the Human Rights Network group wears a mask of U.S President Barack Obama with a noose around his neck while holding the U.S flag during an anti-American rally in Karachi February 26, 2012....
NEW YORK (AP) -- At Columbia University and elsewhere, the fear that the New York Police Department might secretly be infiltrating Muslim students' lives has spread beyond them to others who find the repo...
The CDC deserves this study just because they are aggressively suppressing any form of raw milk sales whatsoever using the worst police type tactics. This study is an outright indictment of th...
I am enamored of the idea that chemistry may be written up as a language formed with chemical syllables and a natural logic that predestines the initial emergence of life and its structure. Wor...
This is rather excellent news. We now have a biological pathway for breaking down our nastiest plastic that appears likely to be useful. Artificial Taxol can be used in controlled settings thou...
What we learn again is that massive speculations have been made based on a narrow envelop of price movement that is profoundly vulnerable to a wider shift in pricing. The more serious problem i...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tattoos have long served as fashion statements, but a small number of Americans are now relying on them for a more practical, potentially lifesaving purpose: to warn first responders ab...
(New York Post) - More American households are falling back into the debt hole, this time without the safety net of home values to help bail them out, the New York Post reported Sunday. Last year, total ...
(Reuters) - A jump in energy prices is jamming the slow-turning cogs of an economic recovery in the West, but that may be nothing compared to the economic shock an Israeli attack on Iran would cause. Oil...
First high gas prices, now water. A shocking new report about the nation's crumbling drinking water system says that Americans should expect their bills to double or triple to cover repairs just to keep t...
NEW YORK – Behind the mainstream Wall Street happy talk about more stable financial markets and an improving economy are grim warnings of tough times ahead from a small cadre of doomsayers who warn that t...
China has hit out at comments by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on its stance on Syria. A foreign ministry spokesman called the comments unacceptable, and the official Communist Party newspaper de...
Yesterday the BBC informed us that: 'The progressive shrinking of Arctic sea ice is bringing colder, snowier winters to the UK and other areas of Europe, North America and China, a study shows.As global t...
US readies for possibility of intervention without UN resolution, Asharq Al-Awsat reports, citing US military official; plan to include humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees on Turkey's border The Pentagon ...
Even as it continued to talk with the U.N. nuclear watchdog, Iran continued to prepare for war over its nuclear weapons program, training for kamikaze attacks in the Persian Gulf with both planes and spee...
The White House Sunday epically failed to practice what its first lady preaches, serving the nation’s governors a more than 2,000 calorie dinner even as Michelle Obama traverses the country promoting heal...
REUTERS - The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks began publishing on Monday more than 5 million emails from a U.S.-based global security analysis company that has been likened to a shadow CIA. The emails, snat...
In exchange released by website, worker at Stratfor intelligence firm doubts validity of a source claiming an Israeli ground force had already wiped out Iran's nuclear infrastructure. The mega-leaks webs...
In a fiery lecture to thousands of followers of the Nation of Islam on Sunday in Chicago, Minister Louis Farrakhan warned that racial hatred could lead to attempts to assassinate President Barack Obama. ...
The author is a career Foreign Service Officer who has served in Tel Aviv, Baghdad and Washington. The views expressed here are his own and not necessarily those of the State Department or the U.S. governm...
*Physics-related:* I recommend you an enthusiastic interview with Sven Heinemeyer on supersymmetry. Yesterday, I summarized the current situation with the OPERA experiment in Lidovky, a leading Czech da...
Though he swept into office as an apostle of orthodoxy, Mariano Rajoy has since delved into Madrid’s ghastly accounts and concluded that it would be "suicidal" to try to slash the budget deficit from 8pc ...
A teenage girl acted as a recruiter for an Asian gang that sought sexual intercourse with under–age girls in return for alcohol, food and small sums of money, a court heard. The 17–year–old girl frequen...
In a stark warning ahead of next month’s Budget, the Chancellor said there was little the Coalition could do to stimulate the economy. Mr Osborne made it clear that due to the parlous state of the public ...
Last year Saeed Khaliif, 49, who was unemployed, was able to sign what was believed to be a £2,000 a week lease for the six – bedroom property despite having no connection with their new area Photo: WARRE...
The BBC has paid reverent, and wildly disproportionate, attention to even the most ill-informed objections to Tesco and other companies providing training to those on Jobseeker's Allowance. Gosh, how it...
Prabha Sivaraman, who works for Pall Mall Medical in Manchester, filmed during a consultation with a pregnant woman . Those who abort unwanted babies because of gender should feel the full force of the l...
(CNN) -- Senegal's octogenarian incumbent president is seeking a third term Sunday, a bid that has sparked deadly protests and threatened the nation's reputation as one of the most stable democracies in A...
Documents published online this month show that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, an organization known for its uncompromising animal-rights positions, killed more than 95 percent of the pets i...
A123 Systems, an electric car battery company once touted as a stimulus "success story" by former Gov. Jennifer Granhom, D-Mich., has laid off 125 employees since receiving $390 million in government subsi...
CHEYENNE — State representatives on Friday advanced legislation to launch a study into what Wyoming should do in the event of a complete economic or political collapse in the United States. House Bill 85...
An outbreak of syphilis in New Brunswick that has seen the number of cases rise tenfold in the last three years could get worse, a provincial health official warns. From 1993 to 2007, the province record...
The federal government could hit the debt ceiling sooner than expected — and possibly around the November election — according to a report out Friday. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill had hoped that last summer...
“We are sons of the cosmos, but our conscience, our soul, make us strangers in that same cosmos, from which we were produced, and which still remains secretly intimate to us. Earth life is unique, or at l...
And courage rises from honesty. There are times when honesty is the least desirable of all possible expedients, but it leaves nothing open to question. I teach this stuff. I train young officers to face ...
WASHINGTON – An Israeli pre-emptive attack on Iran's nuclear sites could draw the U.S. into a new Middle East conflict, a prospect dreaded by a war-weary Pentagon wary of new entanglements. That could me...
...*once again* bluntly *demonstrates* exactly why we don't want his fucking bill. An angry Vic Toews wants an investigation into whether Justin Trudeau encouraged personal Twitter attacks against him aft...
Feb 24 (Reuters) - Leaders of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas turned publicly against their long-time ally President Bashar al-Assad of Syria on Friday, endorsing the revolt aimed at overthrowing ...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands, Russia at a depth of 37.2 km (23.1 miles), the quake hit at 05:33:32 UTC Tuesday 28th February 2012 The epicenter was 144 km (89 miles) South from ...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 12.3 km (7.6 miles), the quake hit at 05:20:48 UTC Tuesday 28th February 2012 The epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) Ea...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 16 km (9.9 miles), the quake hit at 04:51:04 UTC Tuesday 28th February 2012 The epicenter was 132 km (82 miles) Sout...
Experts are warning that sleeping pills prescribed in the UK could increase in the risk of death more than four-fold. The higher the dose, the greater the risk of dying, according to new research. People...
Police have begun evicting anti-capitalist protesters from their camp outside St Paul's Cathedral in London. Occupy London was refused permission by the Court of Appeal last week to challenge orders evi...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 18.1 km (11.2 miles), the quake hit at 04:40:30 UTC Tuesday 28th February 2012 The epicenter was 144 km (89 miles) S...
I have to admit something-- I have a special place in my heart for literate candidates. Give me a well-read candidate who knows how to read and write and I'm always happiest. The first time I ever wrote a...
Bomb Iran! Speaking of attacks on Iran, I saw a report that Israel has already knocked out most of Iran's nuclear capacity in the last day or so. Since I have no verification of that, I will continue to re...
*“The Horror! The Horror! Must-See War Films”* By John W. Whitehead “You can’t show war as it really is on the screen, with all the blood and gore. Perhaps it would be better if you could fire real shots o...
*"What Is Pashtunwali?"* by Josh Alley “I took my revenge after a hundred years, and I only regret that I acted in haste.” - A Pashtun proverb. "I have had the privilege of getting to know more about my h...
"The Most Beautiful Sentence in the English Language?" by William Crawley "Earlier this week, I tweated a link to the 100 Most Beautiful Words in the English Language (as chosen by Dr. Goodword). This pro...
Ever since the Fukushima nuclear disaster occurred back on March 11th, 2011, I have claimed that what we have been told by our governments, and especially from our Jewish controlled lying mainstream media,...
Twelve-year-old daughter is the only sixth grader in her school to be chosen for her statewide honor choir so this weekend is all about her. With hotel reservations made and concert tickets purchased South...
We're just not going to talk about that right now.
*Contributor: "YYC"* Looks like I'm going to be too busy to blog for the next two or three days. Please come back on Friday. In the meantime, if you haven't seen this video now would be a good time to: ...
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I don’t know if you noticed, but Julian Assange’s Wikileaks just released a boatload of documents hacked or otherwise acquired from Stratfor Consultants, a global research firm that (in the words of *Atl...
With the return of Parliament, today was the first chance for the opposition to put the Tories' feet to the fire on Robocon. Instead, it was the Liberals who would up burning themselves with the admission ...
"Breathe in Me" from "Liquid Mind VIII: Sleep" by Liquid Mind Official Website: http://www.liquidmindmusic.com
West Bank levee authority concerns about debris in levee will be included in Corps of Engineers report as "minority opinion" **
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[image: image]If you’ve ever wanted to see and get the feel of a proper Montessori environment—there being so many Montesomething classrooms around instead, being just Montessori in name only—then this S...
*FLASHING BACK TO MY 4TH OF JULY POST, 2010:* *So THAT'S why we're in Afghanistan! It's "military Keynesianism"* * "This is what the American dream has come to? Your founders warned you about this. Warned...
*"A New H5N1 Flu Virus? This Research Should Stop Now" * by Edward J. Sylvester and Dr. Lynn C. Klotz "The risks to world health from *research to make an extraordinarily lethal avian flu virus contagious...
Poor little rich guy Willard Romney. He was the inevitable nominee. Everybody said it was supposed to his turn. The Big Mitten should have been his for the taking. But on the eve of the vote, Nate Silver...
Standard & Poor's downgraded Greece's credit rating Monday to "selective default" after the government took legal steps to impose losses on all holders of Greek government bonds. The move, which had been ...
The hefty penguin lived about 27 million years ago and weighed up to 130 pounds.
How to redirect blogger blog to blogspot.com address This is a guest post from Darssh. Darssh is a Blogger, Entrepreneur and Internet Lover. It is not a new thing since few days that your blogspot.com blo...
How to redirect blogger blog to blogspot.com address This is a guest post from Darssh. Darssh is a Blogger, Entrepreneur and Internet Lover. It is not a new thing since few days that your blogspot.com blo...
"In an atmosphere of doubt about the validity of the voting process, it appears that the entire voting process is a sham, a trick to fool the American people into accepting whatever is done to them by c...
“Big, beautiful NGC 5584 is more that 50,000 light-years across and lies 72 million light-years away toward the constellation Virgo. The winding spiral arms of this gorgeous island universe are loaded with...
Chart from Bloomberg Businessweek.Against conventional wisdom:Stock market does better under DemocratsBy Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / February 27, 2012The Republicans claim to be the party that best benef...
"The eternal silence of infinite spaces frightens me. Why now rather than then? Who has put me here? By whose order and direction have this place and time have been ascribed to me? We travel in a vast sph...
BP Liable for Civil Penalties for Oil Spill By Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press 24 February 12 [excerpted] "A federal judge ruled Wednesday that BP PLC and one of its minority partners in the blown-...
The real stars of the Oscars were about as far away from the glamor of the red carpet as you can get.
I wrote about this a while ago, but a tweet just now reminded me: InTrade's current market for "brokered convention" is absolutely insane. It's now at 20%, which is approximately 19.999% too high. OK, I'll...
*“The Burden Of Thinking”* by Chet Raymo “Let me speak for gray. Not black or white. Good or evil. Truth or falsity. Yes or no. Let me speak for maybe. Sort of. More or less. I think so. I am reluctant t...
*"The Last Rites of the Bokononist Faith"* "God made mud. God got lonesome. So God said to some of the mud, "Sit up!" "See all I've made," said God, "the hills, the sea, the sky, the stars." And I was som...
(AP Photo/Joel Ryan)Last night, the brilliant Iranian film *A Separation*took the Best Foreign Film Oscar. This AP article, picked up by the *Washington Post*, about Israeli reactions to the film reveals ...
But *Mitt Romney can!* Romney recalled he was “probably 4 or something like that” the day of the Golden Jubilee, when three-quarters of a million people gathered to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the A...
Predictably, Arizona's accidental and very tragic governor, Jan Brewer, endorsed the GOP Establishment candidate for her party's presidential nomination. That what's she's programmed to do so it would hav...
You ever have one of those days, where there is so much to do you simply don’t know where to begin with it all? This post is like that. It has to be since the situation in Syria is so complex. This post co...
It seems that when you begin to spin lies, and when you provide interviews about those lies, you have an obligation to keep the information straight. If you say the event took place in 1948, then you can’t...
At Plum Line today, I argued that ACA is unlikely to be a significant liability for Barack Obama this fall -- and at any rate, the current polling on it is unlikely to predict how it will play then. And a...
*The big man speaks*. Conservative Senator Mike Duffy says “third parties” – and not necessarily any of the political parties – could be behind election “robo-call” scandal that’s become a full-blown he...
Poole, Dorset, United Kingdom. Thanks for stopping by.
*"Regret: The Weight of the Past"* by The DailyOM "Holding onto regret is like dragging the weight of the past with us everywhere we go. It drains our energy, leaving less available for life in the prese...
"Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, whi...
*I didn't say that - * *InsideALEC magazine did.* ProgressiveVA - implied it, suggested it, supported it - but never directly said it. Bob McDonnell is an alumnus of the American Legislative Exchange Coun...
Global Post (February 18, 2012): *Virulent bird flu research to be released after another delay.** *An excerpt: 22 experts met on Thursday and Friday to discuss whether the terror risk outweighed the be...
One of the great things about Biased BBC is the tremendous expertise we have on the topic of AGW - with *Robin Horbury* in particular dissecting much of the nonsense spouted by the BBC on this issue. I wa...
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*Guest post from Citizen LBP113707* As of today I am Citizen LBP113707. I was once an individual. I was once a craftsman. But not anymore. My personal style and the techniques with which I used to ply m...
*A comment:* Folks, I don't engage in wild-eyed paranoid obsession with sensation causing subjects, which are usually used to generate more viewers and revenue for the sites that use those. I have no inter...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 574.6 km (357.1 miles), the quake hit at 20:12:10 UTC Monday 27th February 2012 The epicenter was 32 km (19 miles) North of Ndoi Island, ...
MOSCOW — A section of a nine-story apartment building in a southern Russian city has collapsed in an explosion possibly caused by natural gas, injuring at least 12 people. Rescue workers are searching th...
*"Poll: Given Choice Between Romney and Santorum,* * Most Voters Choose Suicide"* Survey Spells Trouble for GOP, Pollster Says by Andy Borowitz DETROIT (The Borowitz Report) – "With just one day until the ...
Its been a pretty quiet weekend around the chateau here but busy as well. A couple minor tasks I had been putting off around the house were finished yesterday, namely cleaning the grout on my kitchen flo...
* Charlize.* *Charlize Theron recalls 'obsessive' school days* Charlize Theron remembers bursting into tears at school because she couldn’t sit next to the “really popular girl” she was “obsessed” with. ...
*"Monumental Change Is Coming For * *Most Americans – Here’s Why"* by Lorimer Wilson "A monumental change is coming, and for most Americans, it will be painful, especially for the unprepared. Let me expla...
A fire and explosion killed two navy personnel, injured one person, and left 80 percent of Brazil's Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station incinerated on Saturday.
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck near the Ryukyu Islands, Japan at a depth of 18.6 km (11.6 miles), the quake hit at 19:31:48 UTC Monday 27th February 2012 The epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) Southwes...
(Reuters) - Journalists at Britain's Sun newspaper paid large sums of cash to corrupt public officials, aware the practice was criminal, an inquiry into press ethics heard Monday - revelations that could ...
The shooting of high school students in Ohio today resulted in one dead and the gunman arrested. Why did he do it?
Guest contributor Philipp Reiss compares the Icarus starship with Columbus' Santa Maria, exploring the similar mechanisms used on two ships of different ages.
Climate change is altering the face of the Himalayas, devastating farming communities and making Mount Everest increasingly treacherous to climb.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- In a widely expected move, German lawmakers approved Monday a politically unpopular second bailout for Greece. The vote on Germany's contribution to the €130 billion rescue package ...
Michael Den Tandt in the *Vancouver Sun writes*, The Conservatives won their majority with 166 seats. That's a margin of 11. That means the legitimacy of the Tory majority is in question. It's simple math...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Central Iran at a depth of 36.4 km (22.6 miles), the quake hit at 18:48:58 UTC Monday 27th February 2012 The epicenter was 133 km (82 miles) NNW of Kerman, Iran No Rep...
[image: The BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig before the blowout and explosion on 20 April 2010. via baynews9.com] By Jef Feeley and Laurel Brubaker Calkins 25 February 2012 BP Plc (BP) officials overseeing...
Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks today started to publish more than five million confidential emails from the global intelligence company Stratfor. The emails, dated from July 2004 to late December 2011, ...
Xena, the warrior princess, thinks that the defense of the Arctic starts here, on a ship in New Zealand. Together with six other less memorable faces, Xena occupied a drillship that belongs to Shell....
I very much like Jonathan Chait's piece today about Mitt Romney's new tax plan, which as Chait says makes it clear that Republicans will once again ignore -- and explode -- the budget deficit if they get t...
Dozens of children fled in terror when a school bus burst into flames in Bispingen, Germany - after its toilet caught fire. Eight teenagers were treated in hospital for burns and smoke inhalation after t...
A 'terrorist' with strong British links has been arrested in connection with a foiled 'plot' to assassinate Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Dramatic television footage showed half-naked and evident...
A 'cowardly' serial offender who broke into a defenceless pensioner's home and strangled him to death following his release from prison on licence has been jailed for life. Cory Youlden had been out of p...
An anti-gun campaigner who received a standing ovation after a speech at the Labour Party conference in September has been found to have made up parts of her address. Narraser Gordon claimed eight member...
Two British cruise ships have been stopped from entering Argentina after visiting the Falkland Islands, it has emerged. The P&O-owned Adonia and Star Princess - each with about 3,000 passengers on board ...
A massive air and sea search is underway in Alabama for 3 missing Coast Guard members.
Women surveyed were largely blind to recent gains in weight -- raising the concern that they are less likely to try and lose weight.
(CNN) -- A gunman wounded five students, one of them fatally, at a suburban Cleveland high school Monday morning before apparently being chased out of the building by a teacher, police said at a news conf...
I wasn't planning to make this a Little Ricky the Rooster day but Santorum inserted himself so forcefully all over the news yesterday, while Obama was at church thanking God for smiling on him and Romney ...
Women in a survey were quicker than men to delete friends on their Facebook pages.
Police have released a CCTV image of a man they want to question after a shadow transport minister was assaulted on board a train. John Woodcock, the Labour MP for Barrow, was travelling from Lancaster to...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck near the Ryukyu Islands, Japan at a depth of 41.4 km (25.7 miles), the quake hit at 16:29:25 UTC Monday 27th February 2012 The epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) SSW from...
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Link: http://youtu.be/w_WW-DHqR3c *When Ubuntu's "Unity" desktop appeared* my first thought was: Ubuntu for Dummies. A nice toy for people who watch the Internet, twitter about everything, share images wi...
Chancellor Angela Merkel made clear on Monday that she disagrees with Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich, who called for Greece to quit the euro zone. His comments in SPIEGEL exposed a rift in her coal...
Alyssa Rosenberg watches a Lou Dobbs rant about...The Lorax and The Borrowers. Well, actually, about two new movies based on those classic books, which were apparently part of some sort of obscure left-win...
Climate change has been blamed for an increase in drought and animal disease in Britain as the number of farms hit by the deadly new Shmallenberg virus hits 83. An update from the Animal Health and Veter...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 30 km (18.6 miles), the quake hit at 16:30:30 UTC Monday 27th February 2012 The epicenter was 54 km (33.4 miles) Ea...
An organization to promote education for women in third world countries is using face recognition to target ads.
After a fire broke out in the engine room, the Costa Cruises ship is without propulsion in the Indian Ocean, but all are safe.
Memorial Hermann Medical Center tweets surgical updates, Twitpic photos and a helmet-cam video feed.
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck France at a depth of 1 km (0.6 miles, Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 16:31:21 UTC Monday 27th February 2012 The epicenter was 6 km (3.7 miles) Southwest Saint-...
Ya know – you have to admit that when someone makes themselves available to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) – they know what they are getting into. In most cases, almost 100% of the time...
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This editorial in the *Toronto Star* is based on the same misinformation and hysteria that led to the pit bull death sentence in the first place. If you care about this issue, please take a moment to write...
Kathmandu, Nepal (CNN) -- Three people were killed and seven others injured, two of the seriously, when an improvised explosive device went off Monday near government offices here. It is unclear who is b...
At least five students have been injured in a high school shooting in the US state of Ohio. The shooting was reported on Monday morning at Chardon High School in a small city around 30 miles east of Clev...
Terminal B at Sacramento International Airport was shut down temporarily after five people got past an unattended security checkpoint. The security breach happened Saturday when a walk-through metal detect...
[image: Rising out of the water like monsters from the deep are a 21st-century phenomenon, huge fishing boats that are among the largest in Europe. Three of the giants - the Antares, Charisma, and Zep...
It always seems like every time I make spaghetti, I have some let over. That half package of spaghetti then floats around my pantry until someone (the child) knocks it over and we end up with crunchy noo...
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Check out how the BBC reflexively sides with WikiHacks and their publishing of stolen emails from Stratfor. Stratfor is not a government agency, and has not been accused of any crime, yet the BBC opens th...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 14:54:44 UTC Monday 27th February 2012 The epicenter was 444 km (276 miles) SSW from NUKU'...
Happy Birthday to the great Kent Desormeaux, 42. I lived in Washington when Desormeaux was riding in Maryland, and, well, it doesn't get much more dominant than that. (Although I was also in the Bay Area i...
...the US Federal Government is trying to cut funds for monitoring beaches... Unbelievable. From the Washington Post "Americans love the beach, but should watch out for bacteria" [majia: and radiation!]...
When Peter MacKay, misuser of RCAF aircraft and abuser of authority, comes out with *something like this* it bears doing the opposite of what he suggests. The Conservative Party does not need to look int...
I just can't understand why Republican presidential candidates don't get evolution. After all, they've mastered the ability to reverse it.
TWO asylum seekers have been diagnosed with typhoid, putting Christmas Island staff and inmates under watch. The two men arrived on different boats over the past week. One has been admitted to hospital o...
LAHORE: The report of up to 59 new dengue positive cases in different teaching hospitals of Lahore Sunday has scared not only the masses but also the government to gear up its efforts to avert any possibl...
Patna: Bihar has sounded an alert against the possible spread of avian influenza after a large number of crows died in the state from bird flu. The health department has directed all district civil surgeo...
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (AP) – A Denver-bound Frontier Airlines flight has to make an emergency landing in St. Louis after colliding with at least one bird. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports Frontier flight 297 ...
Health officials say 70 people were hospitalized after a chlorine incident at a public swimming pool in the B.C. Interior. The Cariboo Memorial Recreation Complex in Williams Lake, which houses a pool an...
Based on the types of searches that are coming through my blog - it appears that many people are trying to educate themselves on the American Legislative Exchange council (ALEC) ONE I would recommend for ...
New findings contradict the idea that women are born with a finite number of eggs.
MINAMISOMA, Fukushima -- The last four of this city's 12 elementary and junior high schools, which were evacuated to other locations as a result of the nuclear crisis, returned to their original premises a...
TOKAI, Ibaraki -- About 700 protesters surrounded the Tokai No. 2 nuclear power plant on Feb. 26, making calls against reactivating the plant and demanding the plant be decommissioned. The human chain to...
TSUKUBA, Ibaraki -- Fertilizer mixed with potassium can greatly reduce the amount of radioactive cesium absorbed by brown rice from contaminated rice paddies, researchers at the National Agricultural Rese...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 10.8 km (6.7 miles), the quake hit at 14:34:22 UTC Monday 27th February 2012 The epicenter was 454 km (282 miles) SSW from NUK...
On March 15, 2011, four days after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami hit, the government ordered residents within 20 to 30 kilometers of the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant to stay indoors f...
KABUL: A suicide car bomber killed nine people in an attack on a military airport in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, officials said, the latest bloodshed since copies of the Qoran were burned at a NATO bas...
The next victims of Steve Harper's bitumen fetish are to be thousands of grey or timber wolves. Harper passed a death sentence on them, slaughtering one species supposedly to take himself off the hook fo...
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*-Conservative scripts misdirected voters in 2011 election say call centre staff* -*Deputy Conservative Leader, Peter McKay caught trying to minimize illegal Robo call scandal*
Over 89 per cent of Syrians approved a new constitution, proposed by President Bashar al-Assad, in a referendum on Sunday, state television said on Monday. The new constitution that could keep Mr Assad in...
*[image: imagesCAJL188O]* Here is part one, where I noted Walt, the Duck, and Walter Russell Mead as the IR blogs I read almost always despite the avalanche of international affairs blogs now. Here are a...
The ship Costa Allegra is "adrift" in the Indian Ocean, about 260 miles off the Seychelles, after a "fire broke out on board." The site navigation writes Lloyd's List. Initial reports suggest some injur...
Dr. Dawg does Harper: I'm not a crook and overnight the Cons "Ooopsie, another single solitary lone independently-operating rogue bad apple" story started to leak very badly. Election Day deputy returns...
A six year old girl died in Hamburg from enterohemorrhagic E. coli bacteria, known as EHEC, Deutsche Presseagentur reported, citing the city’s health authority. While the girl’s infection has been known s...
Feb. 27 - The leading global economies tell Europe to do more to tackle its debt crisis it if wants extra help from the rest of the world. (Reuters) - Leading economies told Europe it must put up extra mon...
*They work so hard trying to peddle lies that they don't recognize the truth *. Callers on behalf of the federal Conservative Party were instructed in the days before last year’s election to read scripts ...
Feb 27 - Jalalabad airport in eastern Afghanistan is the target of a lethal car bomb blast. Paul Chapman reports.
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 500 km (310 miles), the quake hit at 13:54:52 UTC Monday 27th February 2012 The epicenter was 299 km (185.4 miles) West of NUKU'ALOFA, To...
Hong Kong (CNN) – A local airline has found itself in hot water with environmentalists over a recent cargo flight of dolphins. According to the Chinese newspaper China Daily, the airline transported five...
(Financial Times) -- Finance ministers from the world's largest economies ratcheted up the pressure on Germany to increase the size of the eurozone's €500bn rescue fund, saying the move would be "essentia...
(CNN) -- The consequences of a military strike against Iran would be disastrous, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin wrote in a wide-ranging editorial Monday. "Russia is worried about the growing threa...
(CNN) -- The private intelligence firm Stratfor called the release of 5 million of its e-mails by WikiLeaks a "deplorable, unfortunate and illegal breach of privacy." "Some of the e-mails may be forged o...
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned a suicide bombing Monday at a military airfield, the latest incident in a spike in violence following the burning of Qurans by NATO troo...
(CNN) -- The Syrian regime will announce Monday the results of its much-touted constitutional referendum, but for residents fearing for their lives in Homs -- unsure whether the next government rocket wil...
Hong Kong (CNN) – It’s the stuff of urban myth that if a billion Chinese all jumped off a chair at the same time, the earth would shift off its axis. Now the World Bank is considering just such a question...
North Korea announced that it's viewing joint training exercise "Key Resolve," going on right now between the U.S. and South Korea, as a preemptive strike on its homeland. Paula Hancocks at CNN reports P...
A shooting this morning in the cafeteria at Chardon High School in Geauga County has resulted in multiple students with injuries. According to the school superintendent, police are on the scene and have ...
It is a phenomenon that has baffled residents and tourists for more than a century: mysterious lights spotted floating in the foothills of Brown Mountain in North Carolina. Bobbing and weaving their way t...
Wyoming state representatives have voted to create a doomsday government task force in the event the state must self-sufficiently operate during a national economic or political collapse. Passing on its ...
Levees.org founder to speak at the American Whistleblower Tour BP Said to Weigh $14 Billion Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Accord LSU, Tulane get nearly $4 million more in Federal Flood rebuilding grants State ...
Saturday at the National Governors Association get-down in Tampa, Maine's accidental teabagger governor, Paul LePage, pretty much said all his party's presidential nominees make him want to throw up. E...
A rocket has been launched directly into a beautiful green aurora to measure the beautiful music composed by the sun as it interacts with the Earth's atmosphere.
A sheriff's office is confirming a shooting at a northeastern Ohio high school. Civil deputy Erin Knife with the Geauga County Sheriff's Office says the shooting was reported around 7:30 a.m. Monday at C...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:54:34 UTC Monday 27th February 2012 The epicenter was 28 km (17.4 miles) Northeast o...
Journée d'action européenne de la CES: Bernadette Ségol, Secrétaire générale de la CES, appelle à la mobilisation le 29 février. http://etuc.org/a/9724 http://etuc.org/r/1599
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals killed more than 95 per cent of animals in its care last year at a Virginia shelter, a shocking new report states. The report, released by non-profit consumer ...
A domestic dispute turned deadly when a crazed husband shot his wife and two daughters at home before turning the gun on himself, police said. The mother called 911 in Houston, Texas, on Sunday after bein...
Since the invention of radio more than a century ago, man has been broadcasting into space in the hope that any listening aliens could learn of our presence. Yet, despite waves travelling a distance of 2...
These are the desert wrecks - great hulking ships scattered across a wide expanse of sand in Central Asia. The rusting vessels once sailed proudly across the 26,000 sq mile Aral Sea between Uzbekistan an...
ETUC European Day of Action: ETUC General Secretary Bernadette Ségol call to mobilise on 29 February, 2012 More info: http://www.etuc.org/a/9648 http://www.etuc.org/IMG/pdf/Tract_T... http://etuc.or...
A suicide car bomber killed nine people after striking at the gates of an Afghan airport - in an attack insurgents said was revenge for U.S. troops burning copies of the Koran. This morning's explosion o...
Berlin wants to send German inspectors to Greece to ensure all taxes that are due are collected. The controversial move will see a 'foreign legion' of 160 or so taxmen head south to try and root out corr...
The secrets of an organisation known as the 'Shadow CIA' will be revealed in the coming hours, WikiLeaks has claimed. The anti-secrecy website this morning started publishing more than five million email...
Iain Duncan Smith’s department was told about fraud allegations at Emma Harrison’s company a month before she was appointed as back-to-work tsar by David Cameron. Her firm, A4e, informed the Department f...
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I'm posting this for Googleability. If you've received an excessive water bill, there may be an error in your reading, *even if the water meter is working correctly*. My partner and I recently filed a sm...
A killer with a 'hair fetish' convicted of murdering a British mother-of-two and a schoolgirl could now be linked to the murder of a student. The Criminal Case Review Commission is looking into whether ...
A team of Special Forces troops is providing a ‘ring of steel’ around Prince William in the Falklands amid mounting tensions with Argentina over the islands. At least 20 servicemen from the Special Air S...
Judges are failing to jail criminals who skip bail, despite many doing so more than 120 times. Tory MP Philip Davies discovered that one career criminal had 382 previous convictions and cautions - 125 of ...
When a prisoner sent his sister a letter from his cell with a strange sequence of numbers on the back, police were naturally suspicious. They feared Kieron Bryan, 23, was trying to get secret messages to ...
At least 100 families receiving housing benefit are living in luxury homes on handouts that could fund £1m mortgages, figures have revealed. More than 30 of those families are being given a staggering £1,...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck north of Halmahera, Indonesia at a depth of 96.2 km (59.8 miles), the quake hit at 11:58:03 UTC Monday 27th February 2012 The epicenter was 285 km (177 miles) NNE fro...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 37.9 km (23.6 miles), the quake hit at 11:32:05 UTC Monday 27th February 2012 The epicenter was 41 km (36 miles) So...
A reservoir of aurora-inducing electrons trapped in the magnetosphere could be 1,000 times larger than previously thought.
*MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2012* *The guild explains the guild:* Back in November, Michael Barbaro hit the front page of the New York Times with a detailed, thoughtful report about Mitt Romney’s hair style. O...
South Korea and the US have begun controversial annual joint military drills. The war games involving hundreds of thousands of troops are being held despite North Korea's calling it “provocation” and thr...
Around 100 firefighters are battling a "severe" blaze at a power station in Essex. They were called to Tilbury Power Station at about 7.46am. Some 15 fire engines and three aerial ladder platforms were ...
The head of the police's organised crime unit has told the Leveson Inquiry about a network of corrupt officials in government departments. Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers said that her investigatio...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Java, Indonesia at a depth of 67 km (41.5 miles), the quake hit at 10:53:39 UTC Monday 27th February 2012 The epicenter was 95 km (58.9 miles) Southwest of Banjar, Ind...
*MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2012* *Part 4—Sequel to earth tones:* If the historians can be believed, American “journalists” have always behaved this way. They have always enjoyed making up stupid shit—inventin...
With the help of a spinning cylinder of shallow water, it is hoped we may begin to understand what gives the most powerful stellar explosions their "kick."
*Silent movie The Artist has triumphed at the Oscars, Director Michel Hazanavicius - winning on his first ever nomination - thanked the dog, Uggie, who appears in the film. The Artist captivating five awa...
*According to US doctors it may be probable to one day make an unlimited deliver of human eggs to help fertility cure*. At present there are fixed legal and principled limitations on study on human eggs....
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player A suicide car bomber struck early Monday at the gates of Jalalabad airport in eastern Afghanistan, officials said, killing nine people in an attack...
One of the big problems with the BBC is the bias by omission that singularly characterises much of the daily output. Consider this analysis put together by B-BBC contributor Alan; "Whilst the BBC is con...
3:44 p.m., Feb. 23, 2012--The aftermath of 9/11 saw national security become a boom industry with the emergence of a massive “military intelligence complex” and no end to taxpayer-funded growth in sight, ...
SÃO PAULO—A global "currency war" will intensify this year as the world economy slows, Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega said, adding that Brazil is "well prepared" to defend its currency against u...
Feb 23 (Reuters) - Are we outsourcing repression to China? That is the fear driving stepped-up scrutiny of labor conditions at Foxconn, the consumer electronics maker that assembles products for a number ...
Santo Domingo, Feb 23 (Prensa Latina) Pentagon plans to go beyond installing a military base at Saona Island, a protected area of Del Este National Park, in the Dominican Republic, said on Thursday Narcis...
Nations are defined by what they do. For much of the post-WWII period America has been defined by wars. In almost every case these have been wars of choice rather than necessity; the Korean War, the Vietn...
Michigan is a model of fiscal recuperation. At least that’s what the headlines said as I stepped off a plane in Detroit recently: its spending was slashed so ruthlessly in the past few years that the New Y...
*Researchers have revealed the first images of the charge distribution in a single molecule, viewing an obscure dance of electrons at tiny scales. *Details are reported in the journal Nature Nanotechnolo...
Eating poisonous invasive plants whetted the appetite of eastern Australian blue-tongue lizards for invasive cane toads.
The impact of the subprime mortgage crisis and economic strain across the country has drastically increased the number of Americans living in poverty. According to the latest census data, 47 million Ameri...
In Hong Kong, for the first time, more people identify themselves as Hong Kongers, rather than Chinese. It's a feeling that's at the center of growing discontent between Hong Kong residents and native Chi...
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posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA 'terrorist' with strong British links has been arrested in connection with a foiled 'plot' to assassinate Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Dramatic television footage showed half-naked and evident...
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