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Two American tourists who were kidnapped in the southern part of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula were freed Friday, a security official said. They had been abducted by unknown Bedouins, said Gen. Mohamed Naguib, ...
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The supreme leader of Iran issued a blunt warning Friday that war would be detrimental to the United States -- and that Iran is ready to help anyone who confronts "cancerous" Israel. "You see every now ...
The Navid observation satellite is expected to stay in orbit for 18-months, heightening tensions with western countries.
At the slick new Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis even the lights shining on the New York Giants and New England Patriots will be accounted for by renewable energy certificates.
*Paddington Academy* Website for this image On 2 February 2012, Bagehot of The Economist wrote about "*Fixing education: an inspiring school"* t From this we learn: *1.* London's Paddington Academy, sur...
*FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2012* *We hope you’ll be able to help:* Just like that, we’re half-way through our third non-annual fund-raising drive! In the past few days, we’ve seen the war that’s being conducted...
In the latest example of mainstream warmongering, in today's *The Washington Post*'s David Ignatius writes, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has a lot on his mind these days, from cutting the defense budget...
Very few people are aware that the criminal Jewish elite have a long standing plan for the elimination of some 90% of the World population, and have the survivors placed under their total control for all e...
*— Leo Fender's Stratocaster —* *THE ECONOMIST* has a fascinating tale of *Jackie Shin*. Jackie who? Considered to be *Korea's Jimi Hendrix* , Jackie had to struggle with the demands of the Korean governm...
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20120203p2a00m0na018000c.html Feb 3 [excerpted] "Many documents showing illegal labor were found, one after another, during our search. They proved many years of shady ...
* Original here* . Picador Press / *By Thomas Frank* *Why We Got Ayn Rand Inst...
The Nevada caucuses are tomorrow; the polling has all-but-certain nominee Mitt Romney way out in front. Is there any reason to pay attention? Sure. Two things to keep an eye on. First, of course, the bett...
Met officers and the FBI discussed details of investigations into ongoing cases against Anonymous and other groups. The FBI has confirmed that hackers intercepted and leaked a sensitive conference call b...
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Biased BBC contributor Alan writes; "We have long been treated to the BBC's eulogising of China and the delight and envy at its decisive decision making, unhindered by the need for public approval. Jere...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Northwest of New Zealand at a depth of 190 km (117.8 miles), the quake hit at 16:16:23 UTC Friday 3rd February 2012 The epicenter was 70 km (43.4 miles) Northeast of ...
*FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2012* *As Dylan asked, How does it feel:* This is the way Paul Krugman starts today’s column: KRUGMAN (2/3/12): If you’re an American down on your luck, Mitt Romney has a message for...
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Biased BBC's Alan asks; "Is it possible that the BBC and the Labour Party are working hand in glove to attack the Coalition government? Not just a chance meeting of minds and interests but a deliberately...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 34.9 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 15:05:59 UTC Friday 3rd February 2012 The epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) WSW of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanuatu ...
Welcome back to http://NewWorldNextWeek.com -- the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: S...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 32.9 km (20.4 miles), the quake hit at 14:25:31 UTC Friday 3rd February 2012 The epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) WSW of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanuatu ...
The conversation covers the tracking of Anonymous and other splinter groups, dates of planned arrests and details of evidence held by police. Anonymous also published an email from the FBI, showing the e...
Described on Twitter as "the most incestuous media love-in in history" and "an activists who's who", Paul Mason's party to celebrate the launch of his new book "Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: the New Glo...
The Gay Secretary Obviously, there is something much bigger than a gun smuggling investigation that has gone wrong, and as more and more of the story does come to light, coupled with the highest officials...
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[image: Seals are 'higher predators' in the Southern Ocean food chain. BAS] 2 Feb 2012 (BAS) – One of the most comprehensive studies of animals in the Southern Ocean reveals a region that is under threat...
The Gay Secretary I cringe at the use of the word "weapon", with its implication that Iran is pricing their oil in gold out of pure spite, when common sense says that Bernanke's pouring of newly created d...
American Scofflaw YOU need to forward this to everyone you know. Federal Taxes are going to increase by almost 1/3 over the next two years and even the government admits this will stagnate the US economy ...
Video: "On the Season Premiere of Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution filmed in Los Angeles and aired on April 12, 2011, Jamie demonstrates how 70% of America's ground beef contains leftover cow parts (a.k.a....
I am not a nerd. I have tried to make this abundantly clear. So what if I just watched 12 episodes of Battlestar Galactica in the last week? That doesn’t PROVE anything. But I haven’t always been a fan o...
*FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2012* *Epilogue—In four debates, nobody asked:* For perhaps the last forty years, your “press corps” has kept you entertained with its piss-pitiful novels. They tell you tales about ...
By Jim Armstrong It’s going to be a while before things get back to normal for Judy Sanchez and her three-year-old daughter. Last Thursday, a team of FBI agents swarmed her apartment building as part of ...
America Scofflaw Not around here! And I will wager not around you. Historically January sees a major rise in unemployment as the holiday seasonal help are handed their pink slips. In theory, Net Birth/Dea...
[image: This aerial photo, taken with an iPhone, shows an extensively flooded area in the New South Wales town of Moree, on 3 February 2012. More than 10,000 Australians have been stranded by flooding in...
[image: Air pollution in India.]New Delhi, 2 February 2012 (AFP) – India has the worst air quality in the world, beating even its neighbour China, according to an annual survey based at Yale and Columbia...
By: Duane Craig Where Milwaukee meets Lake Michigan there is human sewage in the water, and there has been for years. What is new, though, is that the sewage might be coming from sources not previously in...
GPS tracking gives you peace of mind, and your kid a little room to grow.
His methods for categorizing music are similar to algorithms used today by music streaming sites.
*Young woman flanked by 2 wealthy Republicans with political ambitions* In 2006 Blue America was supporting school teacher and Florida union and Democratic activist Dave Lutrin in the 16th CD against Repub...
One of the world's first solar-powered ski lifts gives "black diamond" a new meaning.
A Taiwanese man who died while playing video games at an internet cafe was left for hours after fellow gamers failed to notice his death. The body of Chen Rong-yu, 23, was found slumped in a chair at a c...
Happy Birthday to the great Maura Tierney, 47. You know, I think I've seen almost nothing she's done other than, of course, NewsRadio. Except, that is, for something else I can highly recommend: Scotland, ...
Remember this: While job growth has quickened there are no jobs for three out of every fourunemployed people and 19.3 million Americans are either out of work or underemployed. From the Bureau of Labor St...
Hong Kong (HKSAR) - A spokesman for the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) said today (February 3) that a dead peregrine falcon found in Tung Chung and a dead black-headed gull foun...
"Every member of the council has to make a decision: Whose side are you on? Are you on the side of the Syrian people? ... Or are you on the side of a brutal, dictatorial regime?" Hilary Clinton Why did...
A GROUP of US scientists warns that current research runs the risk of releasing a virus that could kill half the world's population. At a public meeting at the New York Academy of Sciences on Thursday nig...
A REGIONAL Queensland town is enduring its worst-ever flood and eight more are bracing as the deluge in the state's sodden southeast shows no sign of letting up. The swollen Maranoa River has risen and i...
The Finance Sector Union (FSU) claims that 560 jobs are set to go at Westpac Bank, with 150 of those roles going offshore. The union says the departments affected by the job cuts are technical services, ...
A critical situation is unfolding in Queensland, as the south-western town of Mitchell experiences its worst flood in history.
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When we lived in NYC, I was hugely into Netflix. The selection and convenience were terrific, and for frequent movie watching, the flat monthly fee was a great value. After moving to Canada, we joined Zip...
The core of a US biosecurity advisory board’s concern about two controversial, as-yet-unpublished studies on H5N1 viruses is that the studies have shown how to remove the apparent natural barrier that kee...
Football is just a game, but it's powerful ~Steve Gleason Whodat! DREW! This was as close as any Saints game! Drainage projects on Napoleon, Jefferson and Louisiana to disrupt streetcars for several mont...
Members of the US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity explain its recommendations on the communication of experimental work on H5N1 influenza. We are in the midst of a revolutionary period in...
January and February is usually the peak season for flu and some parts of Missouri are seeing a large increase in flu numbers. Several schools in Mid-Missouri and the Kansas City area were closed this week...
I probably get at least one inquiry a week from someone absolutely sure that they’ve been a victim of nepotism. The boss is hiring family members or friends. A family member is promoted even th...
The Hubble space telescope has captured an image of a "barred spiral" galaxy that could help us better understand our own Milky Way. Most of the known spiral galaxies fall into this "barred" category - wh...
Iran will help anyone willing to "cut out the cancer" of Israel, its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said today. The religious leader also told worshippers at Friday prayers that the country will ...
SAKAE, Nagano -- This village in landlocked Nagano Prefecture, struggling to recover from a big earthquake on March 12 last year, is now fighting against heavy snow this winter. Prefabricated temporary h...
OITA -- Piping in a fuel-supply system at a thermal power station here was frozen early on Feb. 3 as the temperature fell below freezing, causing all three power generators at the plant to halt, the plant...
FUKUOKA -- Three people and two firms were indicted Feb. 2 on charges of dispatching a worker to the Oi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukui Prefecture under a falsified contract in violation of the Employment Sec...
Footballer John Terry has been stripped of the England captaincy for the second time amid growing concern over his pending race abuse trial. The move follows the adjournment of the trial until July 9 - n...
A Libyan diplomat who served as ambassador to France for Muammar Gaddafi died from torture within a day of being detained by a militia from Zintan, Human Rights Watch said in a statement on Friday. Zintan...
*Minnesota Caucuses are TUESDAY, * *February 7th, 7:00pm – Be There!* *Find your caucus location >>HERE<<* Notice how the announcement doesn't mention the American Legislative Exchange Council? Looks li...
Protesters hurled rocks through clouds of tear gas and riot police fired live rounds on a second day of fighting around Egypt's Interior Ministry triggered by the deaths of 74 people in the country's wors...
Arab and Western drafters of a U.N. Security Council resolution aimed at stopping Syria's bloody upheaval revised their text on Thursday in a last-ditch effort to avoid a Russian veto, though the new draf...
Gunmen in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula kidnapped two American women on Friday in an apparent attempt to hold them for ransom, security sources said. Security in the isolated desert region has deteriorated sinc...
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday Iran would retaliate over Western-backed oil sanctions and any threat of attack, after U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was cited as saying h...
The military played a major role in turning football from an elite college sport into an American pastime.
Colombia suffers a second deadly bomb attack in as many days blamed on a renewed show of strength by FARC rebels. Paul Chapman reports.
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of just 1.3 km (0.8 miles - poorly constrained), the quake hit at 12:27:32 UTC Friday 3rd February 2012 The epicenter w...
Europe is wrong on austerity that may sink the global economy deeper into the 1930s style depression which has already begun, Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman tells Reuters in an exclusive interview.
A New Zealand court refused an appeal by the founder of online file-sharing site Megaupload.com to be freed on bail, Friday, agreeing with prosecutors there was a risk he would attempt to flee before an e...
Looking for the most comprehensive list, ever published, of ALEC members and people with affiliations to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) - past and present. Check out >>*this diary*<< on D...
Japan's Panasonic Corp warned of a record annual $10.2 billion net loss, joining beleaguered rivals Sony and Sharp in a sea of red ink as they struggle to fix their broken TV businesses and show they have...
Infowars.com February 3, 2012 Video: Lesson From Italian Cruise Ship Tragedy: The elite will always defend themselves and their interests at the cost of everyone else.
A North Carolina teacher is scheduled to appear Friday in federal court after being accused in an alleged plot to behead witnesses who testified against a would-be terrorist. Nevine Aly Elshiekh was arre...
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has come to the conclusion there is a growing likelihood Israel could attack Iran sometime this spring in an effort to destroy its suspected nuclear weapons program, a...
Rescuers were searching Friday for nearly 120 people unaccounted for after a passenger ferry sank off the east coast of Papua New Guinea, authorities said. The 238 known survivors arrived by five vessels...
Cambodia's war crimes court Friday rejected the appeal a man who ran a Khmer Rouge regime torture prison and instead increased the man's sentence to life imprisonment. Kaing Guek Eav, commonly known by h...
Six people were killed in an explosion targeting a police station in southern Colombia Thursday, authorities said. The blast in Villa Rica killed a police commander and five civilians, Cauca province Pol...
The United States accused Sudan of targeting civilians in recent airstrikes, including one that destroyed a Bible school in South Kordofan, an oil-rich Sudanese province that borders the newly-created ind...
http://www.ministryofjustice.gr/ Anonymous posted a protest against Greece's EU and IMF-inspired austerity policies on the website of the country's justice ministry today. *"You have joined the IMF agai...
Syrian army and security officers have detained and tortured children with impunity during the past year, a rights group claimed in a report Friday, as it urged the U.N. Security Council to act on Syria. ...
There are 116 people participating in Al Gore's expedition to Antarctica (whose goal is to prove that the uninhabited continent has been transformed into another Sahara by the global warming), including ...
The Federal Aviation Administration says a bright, streaking light seen in the skies over parts of Oklahoma and Texas last night was 'most likely' a meteor. Reports from people who saw the object as far ...
An ex-Marine charged with killing four homeless men in Orange County has been linked to the stabbing deaths of a woman and her son, Anaheim police said Thursday. Investigators determined there is an asso...
Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. [image: PressTV]PressTV February 3, 2012 "He has not been acting as a responsible international civil servant. He has been acting as a puppet of the United States; essentially, ...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 12.6 km (7.8 miles), the quake hit at 11:26:47 UTC Friday 3rd February 2012 The epicenter was 80 km (49 miles) ...
Frantic parents of the now 15 teens who have been showcasing worrying Tourette-like symptoms are looking for answers as to what exactly is making their children sick. Over the weekend, lawyer Erin Brocki...
For the first time, an adult is coming forward showing the same symptoms as a group of students in Upstate New York who are suffering from Tourette-like outbursts. Marge Fitzsimmons, 36, says her tics be...
Revealed: The REAL reason why Newt wants to put schoolkids back to work.
The U.S. is trying desperately to talk Israel out of an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities amidst fears that a strike could come in the next few months. The United States is leaning heavily on Israel, e...
A 15-year-old autistic boy was shot dead by police Wednesday after he reportedly attacked them in his family’s basement with his face partially covered, wielding what his father said was a butter knife. ...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Halmahera, Indonesia at a depth of 207.9 km (129.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:58:42 UTC Friday 3rd February 2012 The epicenter was 116 km (72 miles) NNE of Ternate, ...
Like some epic computer-generated movie scene, futuristic aircraft swarm around in synchronised fashion and perform impressive mid-air stunts. But the spectacle is real and the robotic nano quadrotors – d...
Two German Muslim converts today admitted entering the country with a stash of terror manuals containing instructions on how to produce homemade bombs. Christian Emde, 28, and Robert Baum, 23, were stopp...
Over 120 people have died and thousands more remain trapped in their homes as cold and icy weather has brought parts of Europe to a standstill. In Serbia, at least 11,000 villagers are reported stranded i...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 63 km (39 miles), the quake hit at 09:59:48 UTC Friday 3rd February 2012 The epicenter was 40 km (24.8 miles) South...
The idea that slight shifts in Earth's axis might have been enough to trigger the ice ages is a century old. But a Harvard earth sciences Professor Peter Huybers has finally proved it, using computer mod...
A gay teenager was yesterday found guilty of murdering a homosexual school friend who he claimed had been blackmailing him for sex. Craig Roy, 19, stabbed 16-year-old Jack Frew 20 times and slashed his t...
Hundreds of thousands of criminals will have their convictions wiped under ‘rehabilitation’ plans revealed last night. Rapists, paedophiles and even some killers will overnight be relieved of any obligat...
Iran is developing a missile with a 6,200-mile range capable of reaching Britain, it was revealed yesterday. The rogue state’s new weapon could also deliver an attack as far away as America’s East Coast....
Fighter pilot Alexander Jefferson was on another combat mission in the clear blue skies over the South of France, this time tasked with strafing German radar stations. Gunning the powerful Rolls-Royce en...
*The Hubble space telescope has captured an image of a barred spiral galaxy that could help us better understand our own Milky Way*. The occurrence of this structure may be an indication of a galaxy's a...
Energy Secretary Chris Huhne will be charged with persuading his ex-wife to accept speeding points on his behalf, the Director of Public Prosecutions revealed today. Mr Huhne and Vicky Pryce will appear ...
The announcement that Facebook, the social media giant, is planning a $5bn float on the stock market – valuing the company at $100bn – has led to a frenzy of speculation about the fortunes its young found...
He's been branded a 'conqueror', and the lead up to his visit sparked a wave protests in Argentina. But when Prince William touched down in the disputed Falkland Islands he got a warm welcome. In Argenti...
West & Arab proxies fail to swindle world with genocidal Libya-style regime change resolution at UNSC. by Tony Cartalucci February 3, 2012 - "...the UN is debating how to stop a conflict that it says has ...
Snow will sweep the country this weekend as the Arctic freeze tightens its grip. Forecasters issued a nationwide cold weather alert, with temperatures expected to plunge as low as -10c (14f) from tonight...
If you were ever after a fact which underlines just how momentous are the economic times this country is living through (and not in a good way), consider this one: It will take until 2014 for Britain's e...
*According to a study more than 25 acts for the Olympic Hackney weekend celebration. The bulk of the tickets for the event are being allocated to people living in Hackney and the nearby boroughs. Professo...
A step-by-step guide to how volcanoes in the tropics could engulf northern European towns in ice.
MARK COLVIN: The decline of the Mayan empire; the Black Death and the Great Famine in medieval Europe and the collapse of the Ming Dynasty; what's the link? The ANU's Professor Tony McMichael says it's c...
India has the worst air pollution in the entire world, beating China, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh, according to a study released during this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos. Of 132 countries whos...
The United States hopes to shift its military role in Afghanistan from combat to training during the second half of 2013, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Wednesday. But he said the US administrati...
U.S. airstrikes in Yemen that reportedly killed four al-Qaida commanders Tuesday came hard on the heels of a U.S. Navy SEAL team's Jan. 25 rescue of two Western hostages in Somalia, across the Gulf of Ade...
India's planned purchase of 126 fighters from France's Dassault marks the latest stage in a huge military procurement cycle that has turned the world's largest democracy into its biggest arms importer. T...
The United States should deploy more warships to the Gulf, arm Israel and issue tough warnings to convince Iran it is serious about possible military action to stop Tehran's nuclear program, former US law...
Last week I posted the trailer. Yesterday, Volkswagen released its much awaited sequel to its "Vader Kid" Super Bowl Commercial from last year. The original: Which do readers think is funnier? Perso...
A few years ago, back when the Constellation Program was still alive, NASA engineers discovered that the Ares I rocket had a crucial flaw, one that could have jeopardized the entire project. They panicked...
These researchers assert that the Arctic is already suffering some of the effects that, according to The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), correspond with a "dangerous climate change". Cur...
A cold snap that has killed dozens of people across Europe is testing Greece's whittled-down welfare services, which have been grappling deep cuts amid the nation's ongoing fiscal crisis. In Athens, auth...
NATO insisted Wednesday that the Taliban have been weakened as the alliance downplayed the impact of a leaked report showing the insurgents confident of victory once Western combat troops leave in 2014. ...
Among medical mysteries baffling many infectious disease experts is exactly how the deadly pneumonic plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, goes undetected in the first few day of lung infection, often until ...
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Authorities say a group of nine people swarmed a neighborhood grocery store in Syracuse and stole nearly $40,000 by distracting the clerk and blocking her view. Syracuse police tell loc...
WASHINGTON - Parents remember what it was like to grow up without the Internet, but it's a different story for their kids. Take the Internet away, and parents may be in for a temper tantrum. A recent Bri...
WASHINGTON -- With today's smartphones, more people are taking their work and personal lives wherever they go -- even to the toilet. A new study of mobile phone habits shows 75 percent of people have text...
*Reid's Palace, Luxury Hotel in Madeira, Portugal* On 1 February 2012, the UK's *Telegraph* has an article entitled: *"**The TripAdvisor hotels with a five-star critic in every room**". * According to the...
UPDATE: Although WPRI’s Matt Touchette writes that “Lucas Oil Stadium told me I had to quote, “go through the body scanners” before entering the stadium for the tour,” he now claims “they are in fact meta...
Classified log of individuals banned from flying into or within America as they are considered a threat stands at 21,000. The size of the US government's secret list of suspected terrorists who are banne...
Speaking at Herzliya Conference, Moshe Ya’alon calls the possibility of a nuclear Iran a 'nightmare to the free world,' says explosion at Iranian missile base targeted missile system that would have threa...
IRVINE, Calif. - Yum Brands Inc.'s Taco Bell chain was investigated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for involvement in a salmonella outbreak that sickened 68 people in 10 states, F...
Two British pensioners have died after contracting Legionnaires' disease while on holiday in Spain. The men died after staying at the Diamante Beach Hotel in Calpe, Spain, Saga Holidays said. One lost h...
At least two people have been shot and killed by Egyptian police in the city of Suez amid protests sparked by the deaths of 74 people at a football game. Witnesses said demonstrators were trying to brea...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 18.5 km (11.5 miles), the quake hit at 08:13:17 UTC Friday 3rd February 2012 The epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) WSW of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanuatu ...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Jujuy, Argentina at a depth of 196.2 km (121.9 miles), the quake hit at 07:18:31 UTC Friday 3rd February 2012 The epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) NNW of San Antonio de ...
*Criminal hackers have found a way round the latest generation of online banking security devices given out by banks. *In the test the majority of web security software on standard settings did not spot ...
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 24.9 km (15.5 miles), the quake hit at 06:01:41 UTC Friday 3rd February 2012 The epicenter was 126 km (78 miles) WNW of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanuatu...
Regardless of whether Anonymous was right or wrong in releasing personal data, I might suggest that Nazis lost any *reasonable expectation of privacy * somewhere between Kristalnacht and the invasion of Pol...
This is a neat bit of news. Here it is discovered that a paintingoriginally thought to be a copy of the Mon Lisa actually happens to have beenpainted at the same time as was the original. More importan...
This is an oddity andnoteworthy. The malaria parasite is agenetic outlier meaning that the layout of its DNA is so different that wecannot use established methods to determine gene function. In this ...
This is of course the worstpossible scenario and it is a scenario that is also working itself out in allother favorable habitats in the southern USA. It is just that they have not been noticedyet beca...
Biofilms appear to be gettingbetter understood. We learn the cellstake advantage of osmosis to do the job of colonizing a surface. One develops respect for this process whichalso is fundamental to a lo...
This blog entry is directly relevant for 3% of the readers only who are Czech; but others may learn something about the intellectual atmosphere in our nation. Radio Impuls – which I happen to be listening...
For unfamiliar readers, the vast majority of published peer reviewed academic research appears in journals controlled by massive for-profit publishing houses. Academics do not see the monetary profit, th...
*According to scientists at the University of Cambridge Abnormalities in the brain may make some people more likely to become drug addicts.* Both the addicts and the non-addict siblings had the same abno...
*Website for this image* Former spy Annie Machon describes how the security services represent certain families. She describes how the spooks carry out false flag operations. The people who founded th...
*"When the Imp In Your Mind Gets Loose" * by Benedict Carey "The visions seem to swirl up from the brain’s sewage system at the worst possible times — during a job interview, a meeting with the boss, an ...
"For, finally, what is man in nature? He is nothing in comparison with the infinite, and everything in comparison with nothingness, a middle term between all and nothing. He is infinitely severed from co...
------------------------------ *The Real Economic Picture* ------------------------------ February 2, 2012 | Original here If you have any money and you want to understand the lies that “your” government...
Police hold man on suspicion of stealing five tonnes of ice from a glacier in Patagonia to sell as designer ice cubes for cocktails. Climate change sceptics have acquired a new explanation for why glacier...
*“The Charge of the Light Brigade"* Compiled By CP . “All the talk of history is of nothing almost but fighting and killing, and the honor and renown which are bestowed on conquerors, who, for the most pa...
The bacteria are more virulent than the infamous hospital MRSA, can affect otherwise healthy people and are spreading across Britain. They can be transmitted through skin-to-skin contact and hugging as we...
The world can no longer afford to ignore the environmental cost of economic growth and must redefine the very concept of national wealth, a UN panel of heads of state and environment ministers said Monday....
SAO PAULO - A group of Internet hackers says it has taken down the website of the Banco do Brasil, Brazil's largest state-run bank. It's the third such attack against financial institutions in a week. The...
House Republicans assailed the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday morning for its claims that “fracking” caused water contamination in a small Wyoming town, but the hearing was overshadowed by t...
Nearly 90 percent of major U.S. cities had lower unemployment rates in December than the same month a year earlier, a reflection of stronger hiring nationwide. The Labor Department said Wednesday that un...
I have always said that I would put up any new news about the continuing disaster at Fukushima, Japan, and any information about high radiation levels from radioactive fallout over North America when they ...
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The recent weather has been so warm that groundhogs like Phil may wake up earlier this winter. The same goes for deer, skunks and raccoons. Those are some of the findings from a study...
With January snowfall marking the third-lightest on record, unseasonably warm temperatures in recent weeks have been welcome for most humans across the U.S. But spring-like conditions in the Lower 48 are...
A gravity-mapping spacecraft orbiting the moon has beamed home its first video of the lunar far side — a view people on Earth never see. The new video was captured by one of NASA's twin Grail probes using...
*Is there a government regulation that prevents a congressman from paying for his wife's plastic surgery out of his campaign funds?* Patricia McKeon, a 70 year old strict Mormon grandma and wife of House ...
A small quantity of radioactive gas leaked inside one of the buildings at San Onofre nuclear power plant north of San Diego, according to a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The spokesman ...
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 23.8 km (14.8 miles), the quake hit at 04:33:09 UTC Friday 3rd February 2012 The epicenter was 117 km (73 miles) WNW of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanuatu...
Like father, like son. Since the recent death of Kim Jong Il, North Korean state-run media has been releasing a series of images of the "Great Successor," Kim Jong Un, visiting schools, factories, and mil...
"Over 400,000 light years across NGC 6872 is an enormous spiral galaxy, at least 4 times the size of our own very large Milky Way. About 200 million light-years distant, toward the southern constellation P...
A Florida teacher is in hot water after administrating some hot sauce-based discipline. Lillian Gomez, a special needs teacher at Sunrise Elementary School in Kissimme, Florida, had a problem with some o...
A Massachusetts woman says the FBI used a chain saw blade to cut through her door and held her at gunpoint for at least 30 minutes before agents realized they were conducting a raid at the wrong home. J...
The U.S National Archives has released long-lost audio recordings of conversations that happened on Air Force One during the flight back to Washington, D.C., following the assassination of John F. Kennedy...
Rising oil prices and chilly economic times are prompting increasing numbers of Greeks to chop down trees for winter warmth, a group of forest engineers warned Tuesday. Nikos Bokaris, a spokesman for the...
Timber production in the world's tropical countries is exceeding the forests' ability to replace the felled trees, an Australian report says. Researchers at Australian National University and James Cook U...
A Florida couple was fined $1.6 million for cutting down mangrove trees on their property without proper state and city permits. Roger and Myrna Byrd of Jupiter removed 109 mangroves, a tree Florida has ...
Long convoys of Chinese lorries laden with rice were seen entering North Korea after Beijing reportedly agreed to provide major food aid to Pyongyang's new regime, a South Korean activist said Tuesday. T...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck off the Coast of El Salvador at a depth of 59.2 km (36.8 miles), the quake hit at 04:10:46 UTC Friday 3rd February 2012 The epicenter was 129 km (80 miles) SSW of Usu...
I'm going to write more on this this weekend - cause there's a lot to process on thei one. But right now - today - you can do something Go to >>>*this page*<<<< REad the letter and if you agree - sign yo...
MEXICO CITY — A drought that a government official called the most severe Mexico had ever faced has left two million people without access to water and, coupled with a cold snap, has devastated cropland i...
When I was a kid, university graduates were as rare as unicorns, now they are more like popcorn: cheap and plentiful. No big surprise, considering there are millions of fresh ones every year to join a l...
Drought and new Three Gorges Dam blamed as fishers forced to seek other work and freight trade comes to a halt. For visitors expecting to see China's largest freshwater lake, Poyang is a desolate spectac...
The world is running out of time to make sure there is enough food, water and energy to meet the needs of a rapidly growing population and to avoid sending up to 3 billion people into poverty, a U.N. repo...
Israel has test-fired its new Arrow-3 anti-ballistic missile system, the country's main defense against Iran's Shehab-3 missiles, as it drives to boost its arsenal of about 120 of the weapons amid rising ...
Washington must obtain Baghdad's permission to use drones to watch over US facilities in Iraq, the Iraqi government spokesman said on Tuesday, adding he does not believe such a request has yet been made. ...
New research has shown that malaria is killing almost twice as many people globally than was previously thought. More than 40% of victims are older children and adults, contradicting the belief that the ...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:47:52 UTC Thursday 2nd February 2012 The epicenter was 96 km (59 miles) WNW of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanuatu ...
At least two protesters have been shot dead by Egyptian police using live ammunition in the city of Suez. Witnesses said protesters were trying to break into a police station when shots were fired. "We...
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 21.7 km (13.5 miles), the quake hit at 03:46:23 UTC Friday 3rd February 2012 The epicenter was 116 km (72 miles) WNW of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanuatu...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 9.8 km (6.1 miles), the quake hit at 21:38:34 UTC Thursday 2nd February 2012 The epicenter was 90 km (55 miles) SSW of Hihifo, Tonga No Tsunami War...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 17.4 km (10.8 miles), the quake hit at 20:26:31 UTC Thursday 2nd February 2012 The epicenter was 104 km (64 miles) WNW of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanua...
*“Books”* by Chet Raymo "An article in the NYT Business section last Sunday on the potential fate of Barnes & Noble, the county's only remaining big paper-inventory bookseller. B&N's main rival, Borders,...
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Buckdog - 14 hours ago
*-Three quarters of Canadians oppose increasing Old Age Security eligibility to 67*
Tried this tonight as the start of my workout. Only went through it once, as I wanted to bike as well. Anyway, I went into it thinking it would be super easy, as I already do all those exercises as part of...
When I did the first of many rants that I wanted to start doing last month, I had promised that I would do them on a weekly basis. However, due to a persistent bout of sinusitis and head colds due to the ...
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wmtc - 15 hours ago
The one and only Katha Pollitt: The anti-choice movement can be so clumsy, and so weird, we forget that it is also smart and strategic and busy busy busy. Because while you were shaking your head over pin...
*The latest "Moment of Clarity" from the great Lee Camp.* *For news of a special show Lee's doing in NYC on February 18, scroll down.* *by Ken* Thinking back, I'm not sure I can overstate the importance ...
"Betrayal is a garment without seams, and one betrayal inexorably leads to another." - Robert D. King, "Treason and Traitors," Society Magazine (1989). It is not terrorism that threatens the core value...
Germering, Bayern, Germany. Thanks for stopping by.
“Hell is timely, for Hell is the thought that Hell will go on, on and on, without end. Heaven is only present, instantaneous and eternal, a mayfly, a blue dayflower, a life entirely given, complete forever ...
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has come to the conclusion there is a growing likelihood Israel could attack Iran sometime this spring in an effort to destroy its suspected nuclear weapons program, acc...
*“What I Have Learned”* by Paulo Coelho (This text, which I found on the Internet, is attributed to me. I did not write it, but I think worth reproducing here) “I’ve learned that you cannot make someone ...
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*No History Is Illegal* *A Campaign to Save Our Stories* http://www.teacheractivistgroups.org/tucson . They say shut it down. We say spread it around! As a network of Teacher Activist Groups (TAG), we beli...
Measuring over 13 inches long, they were found in waters north of New Zealand.
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*Anons hack white supremacist network* * * *Jamie Kelso and American Third Position Hacked and Destroyed; Private Emails Expose Blatant Racism and Ties to Ron Paul* *Reposted from:* http://pastebin.com/M...
*"A Clarification from Mitt Romney About Poor People"* by Andy Borowitz LA JOLLA, CA (The Borowitz Report) – "Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney today released the following letter to the Ameri...
*"Why the State Will Fail"* by Kevin Carson “To paraphrase the assessment of libertarian socialist Rosa Luxemburg a century ago, we face an imminent choice between freedom and barbarism. There are only t...
Art historians thought it was just one of dozens of replicas produced in the centuries after Leonardo's death.
* * *"How Piracy Works Against an Unnatural Monopoly"* by Joel Bowman "What the market giveth, the state rises to taketh away. One of the more striking features of this whole modern spectacle must surely b...
*— Fred —* MIDWINTER: AKA GROUNDHOG DAY. Actually, celebrating midwinter happened a long time before some American marketing weenie thought of promoting a rodent. According to *thepaganperspective*, Midw...
Linking a murky unknown circular artifact on the ocean floor to alien visitors is leap of faith wider than jumping the Grand Canyon.
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Biased BBC - 19 hours ago
Has the BBC been running with this story today? The BBC received millions of pounds from the European Union and local authorities over the past four years. The BBC admitted in a letter to a Tory MP that i...
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Not PC - 19 hours ago
*Yesterday was Rand’s Day: Ayn Rand’s birthday. Not everyone wants to celebrate that, but I do. Not every country has a reason to celebrate its birth. We are one of those happy few, yet we don’t. So ho...
If you didn't change your password on "Change Your Password Day" yesterday, I forgive you.
Earlier this morning we talked about Romney's revealing "slip of the tongue" in terms of not caring for poor people. (A tangent: people should never confuse the Christian Jesus, the one who talked a *lot...
Some time in the next two years the United States will pack up its guns and leave Afghanistan. Like Vietnam, and to some extent Iraq, it will be able to boast that its military was never defeated in batt...
Political tensions in Egypt may have helped create the atmosphere for the latest deadly incident but it's not entirely uncommon.
Well, the votes are in and I’m a little surprised. I thought *Destination Truth* (20 votes or 13%) would do better than it did. Sure, they really never find anything extraordinary but they seem to have a g...
The death by suicide of Don Cornelius of "Soul Train" fame is in the news today. The LA Times is reporting that health and money problems may have been behind Mr. Cornelius's choice to take his own life: ...
If you're going to struggle with a hooker so bad she winds up needing surgery, and if you're busted for forceable confinement of the woman, and if you're going to get caught by police with illicit drugs, a...
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Biased BBC - 20 hours ago
This was sent my way! Well worth a read... "I assume you've noticed BBC outrage re the Student Loans Company. e.g. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16854187 It reminds me of this story from 1993. htt...
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Biased BBC - 20 hours ago
You really should read this post over on Elder of Zion. It concerns the BBC's idea of what makes a hero. Or, as others might call it, a vicious savage who killed two Israeli teenagers. I suppose he had no ...
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Biased BBC - 20 hours ago
You can always count on the BBC to articulate the questions we are all thinking, right? For example... Are US Muslims abandoning domes and minarets out of fear? Then again, maybe not... Click through to ...
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- 20 hours ago
Canon Pixma: Bringing colour to life on Vimeo.
Via Brian Beutler, a wonderful quote from John McCain, showing exactly how Republicans think about budgeting: Let’s not let a domestic issue such as tax increases interfere…with our nation’s security. Th...
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Buckdog - 21 hours ago
*.... the part where they have to remove half your fucking brain!!*
Just in time for tax day, these scanners make tracking down expenses a little less mind boggling.
Two teensy-weensy PCs offer plenty of brains, braun and options.
A swarm of robots can act together, doing stunts, avoiding obstacles, and behaving like a swarm of insects.
American Scofflaw [image: Photobucket]FOOLISH CITIZEN There is still a segment of the population that confuse being told what to think with actual thinking and that beliefs imposed from above are just as ...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 31.9 km (19.8 miles), the quake hit at 19:44:35 UTC Thursday 2nd February 2012 The epicenter was 118 km (73 miles) WNW of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanua...
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Buckdog - 21 hours ago
*Two words to the Prime Minister's Office. Piss Off!! "Pat Martin wants to correct his breech of parliamentary protocol: “I should have called him an Honourable Asshole,” the NDP MP says now. [...] And no...
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Buckdog - 21 hours ago
*Two words to the Prime Minister's Office. Piss Off!! "Pat Martin wants to correct his breech of parliamentary protocol: “I should have called him an Honourable Asshole,” the NDP MP says now. [...] And no...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 10.3 km (6.4 miles), the quake hit at 19:20:45 UTC Thursday 2nd February 2012 The epicenter was 59 km (36 miles) WSW of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanuatu...
** *How have the biggest tech companies performed?*o *Apple * Total shareholder return for last year: *+ 34.53 % * *IBM * Total shareholder return for last year: *+ 20.91 % **Amazon * Total shareholder r...
The Gay Secretary 1. The embargo will hurt the EU badly - Greece in the midst of a terrible debt crisis. They import 25% of it's oil from Iran. Now that they are led by a Goldman Sachs/European technocrat ...
Over at Plum Line, my post today is a speculative one about Romney's strengths and weaknesses as a general election candidate. I've been saying he's mostly a generic Republican candidate, but I find some p...
*From Utah to CERN's cafeteria* The U.S. LHC network has launched a P.R. project called The LHC Lunch. They catch various members of the set of 1700 U.S. scientists in the CERN's largest cafeteria, the so...
The Gay Secretary The power grid has decayed to the point of collapse, along with nuclear reactors that have reached the end of their useful lives and are also facing "involuntary shutdowns" (as just happ...
First of all you have to understand one thing: The "secretive" American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) IS NOW HIDING – their member magazine. Since the last meeting they had – they are no longer releas...
Sugar is in the news in a big, sweet, delicious, debilitating way today. A paper published in the journal *Nature* suggesting that sugar should be regulated has gone viral. While there is no way that will ...
Gunshots have reportedly been heard and tear gas fired outside the interior ministry in Cairo as protesters took to the streets following the deaths of at least 74 people at an Egyptian football match. ...
Maybe Rachel Maddow was right last fall when she said Mitt Romney was embracing his inner Thurston Howell III (Maddow correctly listed him as the GOP front-runner but back during Romney's first pre-New Ha...
For the first time we can peer through a glass window into a live brain and see the individual neurons up close.
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck New Zealand at a depth of 200 km (124 miles), the quake hit at 18:00:11 UTC Thursday 2nd February 2012 The epicenter was 90 km (55.8 miles) South of Opunake, New Zeala...
Seeking democratic alternatives:Gar Alperovitz's America Beyond CapitalismBy Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / February 2, 2012Historian and political economist Gar Alperovitz, author of America Beyond Capitalism...
A strange carcass washed ashore, sparking speculation about chupacabras and demons; scientists have a more earthy solution.
Criticize supposed "free market" capitalism these days and that makes you a flag-burning, god-hating, Socialist to some. There are some very wealthy capitalists who spread a bit of their wealth around to...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 20.8 km (12.9 miles), the quake hit at 17:28:47 UTC Thursday 2nd February 2012 The epicenter was 1003 km (64 miles) West of PORT-VILA, Efate, Van...
...and Rush Limbaugh wants to be that constipation. Shorter Rush: "Sh! I agree. Fuck the very poor. But don't be so obvious about it!"
After looking at some of the people who might run for Liberal leader (part 1, part 2), I figured it's worth puting the question to a completely unscientific vote. I've listed three questions below. The fi...
MICHAEL T. KLARE (January 31, 2012) No Exit in the Gulf Why Closure of the Strait of Hormuz Could Ignite a War and a Global Depression http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/01/31/no-exit-in-the-gulf/ IRAN: D...
The mother of a five-year-old girl could be facing murder charges after the child was found dead in her home with cuts and bruises from her head to her feet. Candy Flores was pronounced dead when paramed...
Excellent essay by Paul Craig Roberts http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/02/01/economic-101/ My take on the evolving economic order is available here http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/neofeudalism-book-...
http://nuclearhistory.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/fallout-from-fukushima-no-1-on-the-rise-in-january-2012-japan-times/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4mU9C1RI_g&feature=player_embedded#!
*Dr. Steve Porter has been a good friend of Blue America's since we got started in 2005. At that time he ran for Congress in northwestern Pennsylvania as a Democrat. I was somewhat naïve back then and cou...
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 22.8 km (14.2 miles), the quake hit at 17:27:07 UTC Thursday 2nd February 2012 The epicenter was 119 km (73 miles) WNW of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanua...
Police in Ontario have arrested 60 men — including a daycare worker — and charged them with hundreds of child pornography offences. The co-ordinated raids by 24 police forces across Ontario picked up the ...
As casualties mount before the brutal onslaught of Bashar al-Assad's forces against Syria's pro-democracy protesters, the Russians are being unhelpful again. In Washington and Brussels, even habitually co...
*THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2012* *With your help, we'll keep the ball rolling:* In yesterday’s Washington Post, Melinda Henneberger did a good thing. To see what she wrote, click here. In the hard-copy Washi...
A potentially habitable alien planet that orbits a triple-star system is perfectly positioned for liquid water -- and possibly life.
This has come up twice already this week, so I guess it's time for a reminder: people usually don't know why they vote for the candidates they choose to vote for, and are not particularly good at assessing...
A fourth potentially habitable planet outside our solar system – about 22 light-years from Earth – with temperatures that could support water and lifen has been discovered by international astronomers. T...
Did Rmoney's off-the-cuff comments about the poor (of whom he evidently has no real personal knowledge) seem perhaps a little bit pathological to you? (Okay. Maybe more than a little.) His smiling, good-hu...
JERUSALEM — A senior Israeli official said on Thursday that the missile testing site near Tehran that was destroyed in a huge explosion three months ago was developing missiles with a range of some 6,000 ...
Iran did not fall into Islamic despotism because of the cleverness and cruelty of the CIA and MI6 who made friends with power-hungry and equally clever Islamic Ayatollahs in Iran. No, Iran fell because o...
The Black Sea has frozen for up to 400 meters from the shore in Constanta harbor, Romania, which is currently under a Code Yellow for blizzards and Code Orange for low temperatures. The layer of ice has...
*THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2012* *We're afraid he already has:* We’ve always warned you about Nicholas Kristof. This morning, he continues his latest peculiar crusade. This passage comes near the end, but h...
*THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2012* *As it turns out, we have two skills:* This should be an embarrassing day in the neighborhood. It should be, but it isn’t. By now, it’s fairly clear that our tribe can’t be e...
[image: This image provided by NASA shows sediments in the Gulf of Mexico taken by the Aqua satellite in Sept. 2002. Nitrogen and phosphorus pollutants from the farms end up on a huge scale in the Gulf, ...
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Did you catch the movie reference? If so then you might be a mom, or just a Disney lover. :) I find some days I am fabulous at taking photos. I find other days I am lucky to snap a photo right before I ho...
*4 DIRECTIONS* *Mohawk Nation News* *http://www.mohawknationnews.co* * * * * *MNN. Jan. 31, 2012. “The future ain’t what it used to be” [Yogi Berra]. * * * *White bankers being the bosses of the world is ...
How Iran & the West Planned Islamism for Afghanistan U.S. and Iran agree: Shar'ia, or Muslim religious law, has "all the elements that are really required" for a "modern state" by Jared Israel Emperor's C...
By Dan Kervick As you read this, millions of Americans who desperately want to work either cannot find employment at all, or cannot find the quantity and quality of work they need to meet their own needs...
Rather than hibernating through freezing snowstorms, nature is being awakened by the weird warmth.
*THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2012* *Part 4—Compared to whom and to what:* Readers of the New York Times can count on two things—dogs and taxes. They can count on a stream of crackpot reports about the adventur...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:57:07 UTC Thursday 2nd February 2012 The epicenter was 124 km (77 miles) WNW of PORT-VILA, Vanuatu No Tsun...
Land plants may have brought about their own demise by triggering a series of ice ages.
Smart phones connect to a Xappr Gun for augmented-reality and shooting games.
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 13.4 km (8.3 miles), the quake hit at 13:53:45 UTC Thursday 2nd February 2012 The epicenter was 119 km (74 miles) West of PORT-VILA, Vanuatu No T...
If it's got a *pink ribbon* on it, *I'm not buying it*. Simple. As *TBogg* points out, the upper end of the Susan G Komen foundation had to know that *THIS* bombshell was being released in the same week a...
Thousands of residents in northern NSW are bunkered down in evacuation centres, as the worst floods in over 35 years hit the region. Across NSW, more than 12,000 people were isolated by rising floodwaters...
What does this mean? Cassandra explains:
Israel estimated on Thursday that Iran could make four atomic bombs by further enriching uranium it has already stockpiled, and could produce its first within a year of deciding to build one. But in his ...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 33 km (20.4 miles), the quake hit at 13:48:20 UTC Thursday 2nd February 2012 The epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) West of VILA, Vanuatu No Tsunami ...
*"Creating More Debt to Solve the Crisis"* by Bill Bonner "Readers who expect an early end to this Great Correction are going to be disappointed. There is no sign of it reaching its conclusion anytime soo...
Google's informal motto is 'don't be evil' - but a recent policy shift could see the search giant help repressive governments to pursue policies many might see as 'evil'. Bloggers who have relied on Goog...
By: Duane Craig Montgomery County, Md., is considering ways to deal with contamination from its oldest dump, according to this article on Gazette.Net. But first, it had to trade other land to the Maryland...
Mitt Romney is the candidate of, by and for the rich. That simple. His statement yesterday that he's not really concerned about the very poorshouldn't come as a surprise, except in terms of how inept he is...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 60 km (37.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:29:19 UTC Thursday 2nd February 2012 The epicenter was 93 km (57.7 miles) East of Nemuro, Kuril...
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Biased BBC - 1 day ago
Tonight Question Time comes from Southport. David Dimbleby is joined by Southport by International Development Minister Alan Duncan, Shadow Justice Secretary and frequent Guido target Sadiq Khan, Labour ...
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 13:34:38 UTC Thursday 2nd February 2012 The epicenter was 122 km (76 miles) West of PORT-VILA, Vanuatu No W...
South-east Asia's most-wanted terrorist and two other senior militants were killed today in a U.S.-backed air strike in the Philippines, military chiefs said. Malaysian Zulkifi bin Hir, known as Marwan, ...
One person has died and at least 33 more have fallen ill from salmonella poisoning that is believed to be linked to eating imported watermelons. The sufferers, aged from six months to 85, have all fallen ...
Saints’ Bushrod already thinking about New Orleans Super Bowl~“We’ve got to fight to win these games because we’ve got people depending on us. We help put smiles on people’s faces. They’ve been through a l...
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Broken of Britain - 1 day ago
Happy Birthday today to Pat Tabler; he's 54. 109 PAs with the bases loaded: .489 BA. OBP/SLG of 505/693; that's an 1198 OPS, which is just a bit higher than Babe Ruth's career number. Alas, we don't know w...
A huge crustacean has been found lurking 7km down in the waters off the coast of New Zealand. The creature - called a supergiant - is a type of amphipod, which are normally around 2-3cm long. But these ...
While authorities in Northern Norway, Sweden and Finland have detected insignificant concentrations of the radioactive isotope Iodine-131, the numerous Russian nuclear industry installation on the neighbo...
Agartala : Over 6,200 poultry birds and ducks were culled in Tripura after reports of a fresh outbreak of bird flu, officials said here Thursday. The culling was done in Lembuchara area of western Tripura...
The agency of animal husbandry of Brebes district, Central Java has confirmed that the death of 88 birds recently in villages such as Terlangu, Kemaron, Kutamendala and Purwodadi was due to bird flu. Most...
A young woman has died in Vietnam's Mekong Delta of bird flu, the second human death reported in the country within two weeks due to the killer disease. A 26-year-old woman from Soc Trang province in the...
Two more cows were found dead at Walt's Meats in Woodland recently in what may be a pattern of attempted rustling in the area. Jay Houser, president of the butcher company, said the dead cattle were disco...
The Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network is investigating a series of attacks against wild pelicans that have taken place over the past month. The organization’s rehabilitative specialists examined six del...
PASSERS-BY at Greendale Creek, Curl Curl, were repulsed to see more than 20 dead eels and fish floating on the water’s surface this morning. A slick of murky liquid lined the top of the water, while plent...
NEW ORLEANS — A new study finds that Louisiana's second Gulf of Mexico dead zone stretches at least from the Chandeleur Sound off Louisiana's coast to Alabama's Dauphin Island and could extend across Alab...
MORE people are expected to be evacuated from their homes in Mitchell and the evacuation centre has been relocated to higher ground due to the rising flood waters. The evacuation centre is now at the cou...
CANBERRA Feb 2 (Reuters) - Heavy summer rains across eastern Australia prompted authorities to issue flood warnings for vast areas of Queensland and New South Wales states on Thursday, including coal mini...
Hundreds of people were trapped overnight on trains as freezing temperatures and heavy snowfalls in the centre and north of Italy caused widespread disruptions on roads, railways and at airports. Over 60...
Tokyo: Heavy snow that has blanketed northern Japan for weeks, triggering avalanches and affecting transport networks, has left at least 55 people dead, officials said on Thursday. In one of the country...
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- 1 day ago
Url movie: http://youtu.be/hB2Ft3t7ceg -- More on Godfrey Bloom here *Proud words*, but nevertheless the 'myth' is true. Indeed, too much is "believed", too little known, as the current global crisis so cl...
Cold snap across eastern Europe leaves remote areas of country cut off after blizzards. Authorities in Serbia say 11,000 villagers are trapped by heavy snow and blizzards as a cold spell grips eastern Eu...
*A huge crustacean has been found lurking 7km down in the waters off the coast of New Zealand.* Amphipods have been found alive in large numbers at the very base of ocean trenches, deep, thinny valleys i...
Russia said on Wednesday it would veto any U.N. resolution on Syria that it finds unacceptable, after demanding any measure rule out military intervention to halt the bloodshed touched off by protests aga...
Germany wants talks between six world powers and Iran over its disputed nuclear program to restart, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday. She was speaking at a joint news conference with Chinese Prem...
A car bomb allegedly detonated by FARC rebels in Tumaco, Colombia leaves five dead and levels a police station.
China is considering greater involvement in the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) and the upcoming European Stability Mechanism (ESM), Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao told journalists on Thursday. ...
A NASA orbiter has beamed back its first images of the far side of the moon, including scenes of a massive crater caused by an ancient cosmic impact, the space agency announced Wednesday. NASA released 3...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Antofagasta, Chile at a depth of 108.6 km (67.5 miles), the quake hit at 10:56:50 UTC Thursday 2nd February 2012 The epicenter was 146 km (90 miles) ESE Iquique, Chil...
Investors were unable to trade shares in scores of companies listed in Tokyo for several hours Thursday after a computer problem at the city's stock exchange. The Tokyo Stock Exchange said it had suspend...
Republican presidential candidate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich created controversy with his recent comments about setting up a permanent American base on the moon and making it the 51st state. T...
Armed with batons, four Bronx police officers were caught on camera as they set upon a teenage drug suspect and viciously beat him to the ground. Horrified witnesses can be heard screaming at the office...
A reactor at a nuclear power plant was shut down because of a possible leak but there is no imminent danger, operators said. Sensors at the San Onofre plant in California detected a possible leak in one...
A 15-year-old boy charged with murdering both of his adoptive parents had been arguing with his mother about getting suspended at school when he strangled her, a court heard. Moses Kamin, 15, was charged...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 147.2 km (91.5 miles), the quake hit at 10:44:07 UTC Thursday 2nd February 2012 The epicenter was 20 km (12 miles) Southeast from PORT-VILA, Vanu...
The neighbours of a dead teenage girl who mysteriously vanished while babysitting for them have finally been charged over her death. Couple Eric and Dea Millerberg were long suspected in the death of 16-...
A pastor charged with killing his second wife is now also being investigated for murdering his first wife, authorities have revealed. Arthur Schirmer, 63, former pastor of Reeders United Methodist Church ...
A man claiming to be an accomplice in the murder of marketing executive Jane Bashara - who was found strangled in the back seat of her Mercedes - turned himself into police yesterday and said her husband ...
This monstrous creature was poised to unleash hell on one of America’s most precious and fragile ecosystems. But with improbable luck, the vast and menacing Burmese python was caught by rangers in Florid...
An outbreak of salmonella which struck 68 people across the U.S. originated at Taco Bell, it has emerged. A government agency had previously announced that a Mexican-style fast-food chain was behind the ...
"Big Miracle" recalls the events during the Cold War, when this woman had the courage to call Russia.
Airlines tank up passenger jets with used restaurant cooking oil in an effort to make travel a bit greener.
It's a hidden world that hasn't seen the light of day for 20 million years. Russian scientists are on the brink of drilling into a lake in the Antarctic which is buried more than two miles underneath ice....
The Taliban is set to return to power in Afghanistan when British and Coalition forces end their combat role in 2014, a damning leaked confidential report reveals. Despite 10 years of fighting by NATO fo...
A woman threw white powder, apparently flour, on the leading candidate in France's presidential elections during a campaign appearance.
A mysterious blood-thirsty wild cat feared to have devoured at least six animals in the Gloucestershire countryside was today revealed to be a mere fox. DNA tests on two mutilated deer confirmed the kill...
A terror gang who planned a Mumbai-style bomb blitz in London could walk free in less than six years after striking an extraordinary 11th-hour plea bargain. The four Muslim fanatics intended to unleash a...
*A painting thought to be the earliest copy of Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa has been discovered at Madrid's Prado Museum. The original painting, which presently hangs at the Louvre in Paris, is obscured...
At least 74 football fans were killed and hundreds injured after a pitch invasion in Egypt last night. Trouble flared after a match in the city of Port Said when armed fans surged forward seconds after t...
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 28.7 km (17.8 miles), the quake hit at 09:32:15 UTC Thursday 2nd February 2012 The epicenter was 52 km (32 mile...
A flesh-eating form of pneumonia that is easily passed between healthy people on public transport is spreading across the UK, experts have warned. The deadly strain of MRSA called USA300 passes easily thr...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the New Ireland Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 74 km (46 miles), the quake hit at 09:16:18 UTC Thursday 2nd February 2012 The epicenter was 193 km (120 miles)...
A babysitter who wiped party drug Meow Meow on the mouth of the six-year-old girl she was looking after was today warned she could face jail. Chelsea Taylor, 17, was supposed to be looking after the girl...
This is the dramatic moment a mugger who robbed an elderly woman of her pension got rough justice - after being rugby tackled by a Good Samaritan in the middle of a car park. Violent thug Benjamin Brown ...
*According to Ofcom reports the UK's average home download speed is on the rise, but it could be still faster if more users upgraded at minimal rate*. Ofcom noted that the price difference between many of...
UAH AMSU has announced that the January 2012 global temperature anomaly was negative, -0.09 °C. The month was cooler than their average January! However, in some relatively important places on the globe ...
A new class of cyber attack is threatening PCs - emails which infect PCs without the user having to open an attachment. The user will not even be warned this is happening - the only message that appears ...
A passenger ferry with an estimated 350 people on board has sunk off Papua New Guinea. An airplane from Australia, three helicopters and six ships are scouring the search area after the MV Rabaul Queen w...
U.S. officials increasingly say they suspect that Maj. Gen. Qassem Suleimani, Iran's covert action mastermind, is operating in Syria, helping Tehran's key Arab ally, President Bashar al-Assad, crush a stu...
Iran has developed laser-guided artillery rounds designed to home in on stationary or moving targets at a distance of up to 20 kilometres (12 miles), Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi told state media Monday....
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." Sadly, those words by Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels more than 70 years ago still ring true and rema...
Here’s a strange one. It puts me in an unusual position, and could look as though I’m about to defend religious fundamentalism. That’s not what I’m trying to do. I had a message from someone who was offend...
Russia must be ready for wars in space and in networks, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Nikolai Makarov said on Saturday. "As you see, warfare center has moved to aerospace and info...
*Facebook, the world's largest social networking site, has announced plans for a stock market flotation. *Facebook filed its intention to float with the Securities and Exchange Commission after the US st...
U.S. officials say Algerian intelligence foiled an al-Qaida plot to mount suicide attacks against U.S. and European ships in the Mediterranean at a time when the jihadists are driving to expand operations...
Russia on Tuesday blamed a computer malfunction caused by the impact of cosmic rays for the failure of its Phobos-Grunt mission to Mars, one of a litany of setbacks for its embattled space programme. Ann...
Conventional and nuclear weapons pose continuing threats but the real arms race now on is in cyberspace, a new cyber defense report said. The report by Brussels think tank Security and Defense Agenda rece...
Hundreds of rare, endemic species in the Central Andes remain unprotected and are increasingly under threat from development and climate change, according to a Duke University-led international study. "T...
Villagers in China whose rebellion against local officials last year grabbed the headlines kicked off a key process on Wednesday that will see them hold their first-ever open, democratic elections. Resid...
At least 24 cargo ships carrying a total 480,000 tonnes of wheat and other grains are sitting off Iran's coast, unable to unload because of the effects of sanctions on the Islamic republic, an industry so...
Authorities in China's volatile Xinjiang region plan to recruit 8,000 extra police officers, a government official said Tuesday, as they beef up security in the remote area. The Asian powerhouse is geari...
Myanmar President Thein Sein has denied his country is trying to obtain nuclear weapons from North Korea, describing allegations of a covert programme as "unfounded". "We are not acquiring nuclear weapon...
An assessment by U.S. spy agencies concludes that Iran is prepared to launch terrorist attacks inside the United States, highlighting new risks as the Obama administration escalates pressure on Tehran to ...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — You might call it a marijuana mega mansion. Police raided a five-floor commercial building in the Bronx Tuesday afternoon that was filled with marijuana plants from wall to wall. ...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A St. Paul teacher is on paid leave after being accused of racial discrimination in his own classroom. Parents of some black students said their children have faced discrimination fo...
*CONTACT: Tony Diaz, Nuestra Palabra Director 713-867-8943 AztecMuse@aol.com* ** * * *Houston writers and activists organize a caravan of Librotraficantes to smuggle contraband books back into Arizona!* *...
Young Mexicans are being abducted from poor towns and villages and forced to work for drug gangs, rights groups say, alleging the authorities are failing to do anything to stem the problem. Stories of yo...
It’s a crime wave happening around the country and it’s hitting the Twin Cities hard. Thieves are stealing smart phones — sometimes right out of the hands of the owners while they are on the phone. Minn...
Russian activists on Wednesday briefly put up a huge banner on a building opposite the Kremlin urging Vladimir Putin to quit power, as they prepare for a march through the city later this week. Braving t...
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- At Cappuccio’s Meats in the Italian Market, the cuts of beef are cutting into the profits. “Every week when I talk to my suppliers, I’m amazed by how much it’s going up,” said owner...
The city’s Human Resources Administration has already hired 100 new employees and plans to hire another 100. Economic woes have forced at least one city agency into a hiring spree -- adding more workers ...
On 1 February 2012, our security corespondent writes about a plot against a famous Rabbi: At the home of the ring-leader police found the name and location of the plotters' target, Rabbi Burns. Torn pie...
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Two American tourists who were kidnapped in the southern part of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula were freed Friday, a security official said. They had been abducted by unknown Bedouins, said Gen. Mohamed Naguib, ...
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*Paddington Academy* Website for this image On 2 February 2012, Bagehot of The Economist wrote about "*Fixing education: an inspiring school"* t From this we learn: *1.* London's Paddington Academy, sur...
In the latest example of mainstream warmongering, in today's *The Washington Post*'s David Ignatius writes, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has a lot on his mind these days, from cutting the defense budget...
*— Leo Fender's Stratocaster —* *THE ECONOMIST* has a fascinating tale of *Jackie Shin*. Jackie who? Considered to be *Korea's Jimi Hendrix* , Jackie had to struggle with the demands of the Korean governm...
* Original here* . Picador Press / *By Thomas Frank* *Why We Got Ayn Rand Inst...
Met officers and the FBI discussed details of investigations into ongoing cases against Anonymous and other groups. The FBI has confirmed that hackers intercepted and leaked a sensitive conference call b...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Northwest of New Zealand at a depth of 190 km (117.8 miles), the quake hit at 16:16:23 UTC Friday 3rd February 2012 The epicenter was 70 km (43.4 miles) Northeast of ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 34.9 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 15:05:59 UTC Friday 3rd February 2012 The epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) WSW of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanuatu ...
posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 1 hour agoThe conversation covers the tracking of Anonymous and other splinter groups, dates of planned arrests and details of evidence held by police. Anonymous also published an email from the FBI, showing the e...
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