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"We cannot refasten the bindings because we now know that the scapegoats of sacrifice are innocent. Christ’s Passion unveiled the sacrificial origin of humanity once and for all. It dismantled the sacre...
Scientists have known for decades that hidden under those impressive vistas at sites such as Death Valley and Yellowstone National Park are magma pools that under the right conditions can trigger explosiv...
( Dr. John von Kampen blogged on increased vulcanism associated with tidal phenomena - space science - some time ago. If you`re feeling ambitious checking the archives at my.opera.com nepmak2000 blog would be a good place to check. It`s a worthwhile exercise for other reasons as well. Or you could go straight to Earth Changes Pole shift if you`re a Ning - UFO style aliens - fan.)
India's missile scientists are gearing to conduct an interceptor missile test on February 10 as part of the plans to deploy a two-layered Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) system.This will be the seventh int...
A month ago, we joked when we said that for Obama to get the unemployment rate to negative by election time, all he has to do is to crush the labor force participation rate to about 55%. Looks like the go...
THREE JUVENILES accused of assaulting a cabdriver and his passenger in Center City Saturday night while shouting racial slurs will not be charged with a hate crime, the District Attorney's Office said yes...
By L. Randall Wray Let’sfinish up the discussion of Lerner’s functional finance approach addressing twoissues: functional finance and developing nations and also the functionalfinance approach to trade d...
Academy to switch to electronic ballots in 2013 – but move from paper voting does not eliminate prospect of foul play. Computer security experts have warned that the 2013 Oscars ballot may be vulnerable ...
CALUMET CITY, Ill. (CBS) — Police in Calumet City were defending their actions Wednesday after officers shot and killed a 15-year-old boy, who has a form of autism, after he threatened them with a knife. ...
MINNESOTA— Parents in New Ulm, Minnesota vented their frustration at a school district after an inappropriate playground game came to light. It is called raped tag. The game encourages children to tag pri...
*Famous film and stage actor Ben Gazzara has gone to the heaven in New York at the age of 81.* He began his career in the theatre, starring in the original Broadway construction of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. ...
NEW TAIPEI, Taiwan - A Taiwanese man who died while playing
video games at an internet cafe appeared to have gone unnoticed by fellow gamers for up to nine hours, police said Friday. The 23-year-old chec...
Beijing (CNN) -- Anyone interested in world affairs, Chinese diplomacy and China's future should know more about Xi Jinping. Xi (pronounced "shee"), China's vice president, will be visiting the United St...
Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard began naval manoeuvres today in the latest show of force near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, the critical Gulf oil tanker route that Tehran has threatened to close in r...
Last week we sniffed around some of the stench coming off Congress when we examined the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act (STOCK). The Senate raised the white flag and only 3 of the dozens of co...
The J-20 Mighty Dragon, underdevelopment fifth generation stealth fighter jet of the Peoples Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) Read More
The tension on the Lebanese border is palpable as sworn enemies flex their military muscle. It is the front line of Israel’s deepening conflict with Iran, and beneath the snow-capped peaks of Mount Herm...
"A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you. Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you thin...
(CNN) -- 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 habi...
(CNN) -- Just as the Netscape IPO inaugurated the dotcom mania of the 90s, so Facebook's imminent IPO will trigger a hysteria with the social web. But the most interesting question isn't whether Facebook ...
A new assessment questions the notion that jellyfish and similar gelatinous creatures will dominate the seas In recent years, media reports of jellyfish blooms and some scientific publications have fuele...
The Sukhoi Su-35 Flanker-E super maneuverable fighter jet of the Russian Air Force. Read More
Image of the weapons recovered from the Taliban groups by the Pakistan Army during last week in an operation against the militant groups in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) region of Pakistan...
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck the Negros - Cebu Region, Philippines at a depth of 34.6 km (21.5 miles), the quake hit at 04:20:03 UTC Monday 6th February 2012 The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) SS...
*“The Handless Maiden: A Story for Difficult Times”* by Alex Noble “In Women Who Run With the Wolves," Clarissa Pinkola Estes, a Jungian analyst and storyteller, retells a story about a handless maiden. I...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Negros - Cebu Region, Philippines at a depth of 34.8 km (21.6 miles), the quake hit at 04:03:28 UTC Monday 6th February 2012 The epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) No...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Halmahera, Indonesia at a depth of 114.5 km (71.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:14:26 UTC Monday 6th February 2012 The epicenter was 102 km (63 miles) North of Ternate,...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 521 km (323.7 miles), the quake hit at 23:50:41 UTC Sunday 5th February 2012 The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) ENE of Ndoi Island, Fiji ...
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If you've ever seen Bob Dylan in concert, or if you are a fan of his live recordings, you know he seldom sings a song the same way twice. Subtle lyrical changes shift emphasis and perspective. New arrangem...
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*... but then again, tricky dicky Richard Nixon got one! * Act 1 Scene 1 - *Nixon In China*
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 22:05:45 UTC Sunday 5th February 2012 The epicenter was 25 km (15 miles) North...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Southern Peru at a depth of 189 km (117.4 miles), the quake hit at 20:58:46 UTC Sunday 5th February 2012 The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) WSW of Juliaca, Peru No Rep...
A magnitude 6.8 earthquake has struck the Negros - Cebu Region, Philippines at a depth of 46.6 km (29 miles), the quake hit at 03:49:16 UTC Monday 6th February 2012 The epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) Nort...
So, we worked both days this weekend, which was NOT fun. However, it was necessary because of our amazing St Maarten vacay, so I will say I am OK with the being forced to work all weekend. I would not trad...
“NGC 660 lies near the center of this intriguing skyscape, swimming in the boundaries of the constellation Pisces. Over 20 million light-years away, its peculiar appearance marks it as a polar ring galaxy....
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Jeff McQuillan: "Books before bytes" re (Michael Hiltzik) Sent to the Los Angeles Times, Feb. 5, 2012 To the Editor: Kudos to Michael Hiltzik for his column ("Hyping tech will not help students," February...
“When I first heard the song “Don’t worry- be happy” I realized it was exactly the kind of mindless philosophy that Americans would respond to. It would make a great national anthem along with “Me first.” ...
Mike deGruy and Andrew Wight, two amazing ocean cinematographers, have died in a helicopter crash in Australia. Our hearts at Discovery News go out to their families and our friends and colleagues at Natio...
*“Grimm Business”* by Chet Raymo “The American artist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was a superb draftsman. He also veered successfully towards impressionism. He could be pompously formal, or endearingl...
Seems former White House Bush spokesy, sometime Steve fluffer, and anti-Planned Parenthood campaigner Ari Fleischer was involved in vetting job applicants for the Susan G Komen For the Cure foundation, w...
*It would appear that the last thing the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation should have been doing was encouraging public scrutiny.* *by Ken* The Right-Wing Noise Machine has shown itself so effective...
February 2, 2012 Romney Isn’t Concerned Paul Krugman If you’re an American down on your luck, Mitt Romney has a message for you: He doesn’t feel your pain. Earlier this week, Mr. Romney told a startled CNN...
"The Persians": Soliloquy of the Suffering By Chris Floyd Empire Burlesque Published: February 23, 2011 As the ancient spirit of defiance against brutal -- and brutalizing -- elites waxes strong once mor...
Yesterday (4th February 2012), the English Defence League walked through Leicester to protest against the anti-indigenous policies of the City of London regime who control the fake democratic system of th...
I hate driving when I'm crying; it's so dangerous. But I was on my way to meet Digby and Stoller Saturday at the Ethiopian all-you-can-eat vegan buffet listening to a *This American Life* program about ...
After Super Bowl 42 that featured perhaps the greatest Patriots team ever assembled, I'm not making any predictions with these two teams. But suffice it to say that after another record-shattering year, B...
*It's a loser because I plunked down dough on a Boston Sunday Globe. * *But while we are out there.... * ShareE-mailPrint "Gambling priest gets 3 years prison in Vegas case" January 13, 2012|Ken Ritter, A...
*“SOPA, PIPA, The State of US Surveillance” * By Doug Horning “Lovers of liberty have seemingly had a good bit to celebrate recently. First, there was an unprecedented outpouring of negative public sentim...
Based on their 8 wins and 15 losses, the Kings are not the worst team in the NBA. That distinction goes to the 3-21 Charlotte Bobcats. Nice job, Michael Jordan. However, if you look deeper into their numb...
Let's be clear. This is a blog concerning itself with BBC bias. It is also a blog that is entirely self funding and which does not advertise or clutter the space. So, in a blatant instance of opportunism -...
Are you optimistic or pessimistic about the economy right now?
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MOSCOW—With Russians defying sub-zero cold over the weekend to demonstrate for unfettered elections, the Kremlin is employing a familiar tool—anti-Americanism—to defuse support for opposition leaders, cas...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Kai, Indonesia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 19:08:56 UTC Sunday 5th February 2012 The epicenter was 133 km (82.4 miles) East of Tual, Ke...
*"In Giant Misdirection, Americans Save More * *While Their Real Wealth Declines Faster"* by Bill Sardi "What a time for Americans to begin replenishing their savings accounts, at the exact time when they...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 18:52:44 UTC Sunday 5th February 2012 The epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) Northeast of S...
“It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all educati...
*Yeah, I wish.* "Maine figures into Ron Paul’s caucus-centric strategy" February 03, 2012|By Sarah Schweitzer FALMOUTH, Maine - He may have yet to secure a win, but Ron Paul is not without a strategy. I...
*"So Say the Rich: 'Don't Blame Us For Having All the Money!'"* by Paul Buchheit "A recent Washington Post article by James Q. Wilson is filled with the tired old defense mechanisms of people eager to jus...
Ed Balls' and Labour's whole line of attack on Coalition economic policy has been blown out of the water by the IFS 'Green Budget' report but strangely enough this is not considered 'headline news' for th...
*Hadn't planned on it, but....* "Planned Parenthood receives Komen apology; Says group will still be eligible to get grants" by Pam Belluck New York Times / February 4, 2012 The nation’s preeminent breast...
Anthony Watts criticizes a cool-headed, rational, pro-coal organization named Choose Common Sense that attempts to convince Penn State University to abolish a planned talk by Michael Mann on February 9th...
Is Newt Gingrich helping or hurting his future ability to profit in the conservative marketplace? I'm not really talking about the whole campaign -- just post-Iowa, when he started bashing almost certain n...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Kamchatka, Russia at a depth of 80 km (49.6 miles), the quake hit at 18:00:59 UTC Sunday 5th February 2012 The epicenter was 38 km (23.5 miles)...
The "Uranium Supply Crunch" is worsening. The anticipated supply crunch has contributed to the drive for Mox fuel, in addition to the desire by the DoD to "recycle" plutonium and uranium from nuclear weap...
ROME — The death toll from the vicious cold snap across Europe has risen to more than 260, with hundreds having to be rescued after a ferry caught in a snow storm hit a breakwater off Italy. Ukraine has ...
An Israeli raid on Iran's nuclear facilities would deliver a painful shock to the global economy, revive flagging Islamist militancy and possibly drag the United States into a regional war whether it back...
(Reuters) - The United States is coming to be seen as a global threat, acting unilaterally with aggressive new market rules that critics say will hurt U.S. firms, foreign banks, and international markets ...
Euro zone finance ministers told Greece it could not go ahead with an agreed deal to restructure privately held debt until it guaranteed to implement reforms to secure a second financing package from the ...
The double veto cast by Russia and China at the United Nations Security Council on Saturday represents a clarifying moment in the Syrian uprisings. At the 2012 Munich Security Conference, U.S. Secretary o...
*Presumably you can tell from the umbrellas that there's a storm a-brewing -- well, actually, a-happening. Act III of Kátya Kabanová at St. Petersburg's Mikhailovsky Theater, December 2010.* *Vienna Phil...
The death toll from fighting between Syrian government forces and civilians rose Sunday, a day after the United Nations Security Council failed to approve a plan seeking to halt the violence. The Arab L...
It's hard to come up with something meaningful to say at this point..about the only suspense remaining is at what point everyone will concede that there's no longer any doubt about the nomination. Well, I ...
A magnitude 2.7 earthquake has struck Oregon at a depth of 14.8 km (9.2 miles), the quake hit at 17:27:52 UTC Sunday 5th February 2012 The epicenter was 12 km (8 miles) ESE of Maupin, Oregon No Reports of ...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Michoacan, Mexico at a depth of 51 km (37.2 miles), the quake hit at 17:01:10 UTC Sunday 5th February 2012 The epicenter was 33 km (20.4 miles) Northwest of Zirándaro,...
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck Mindanao, Philippines at a depth of 504.8 km (313.7 miles), the quake hit at 16:46:44 UTC Sunday 5th February 2012 The epicenter was 116 km (72 miles) West of General...
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From Lee Hyeoma, Hello! Here is a link to DAWA's new music video "A Joyful, Defiant Tone." Frank Poocha, guitar, keyboards, trumpet & vocals & Chuck Harris, lead guitar & vocals. All of the band members...
Jeremy Bowen’s Islam-friendly reporting seems to have come back to bite him on the bum. All those years of Israel-bashing and pro Palestinian propaganda, all that peculiar sucking up to Gaddafi. Now the B...
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 4.3 km (2.7 miles), the quake hit at 16:40:38 UTC Sunday 5th February 2012 The epicenter was 122 km (76 miles) West of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanuatu ...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Java, Indonesia at a depth of 81 km (50.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:52:02 UTC Sunday 5th February 2012 The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) South of Kawalu, Indonesia ...
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*By Roberto Rodriguez* *Censored News* http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com In Tucson, there is no one left to ban! . This book appears on the Cambium list of Mexican American Studies books, confirmed by di...
Newly arrived immigrants and American citizens with deep roots always have the same message for their children-- study and get a good education because that is how to succeed. Knowledge is power and educa...
Shameless self-promotion. My article on UFO sightings during wartime has appeared in Spain's "Foros del Misterio" - La Revista Digital (Issue 8). Many thanks to Carlos Barcala and Rafa Gallegos. Ot...
CALIFORNIA, NEVADA, ARIZONA: three states where water is becoming top-of-mind, because it may become rather scarce. According to Austin Troy's *Design Observer* article, *"Thirsty City"*, it's been a lon...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Molucca Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 114 km (70.6 miles), the quake hit at 14:44:49 UTC Sunday 5th February 2012 The epicenter was 214 km (132.6 miles) Northeast of Bi...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck El Salvador at a depth of 81 km (50.2 miles), the quake hit at 14:19:40 UTC Sunday 5th February 2012 The epicenter was 4 km (2.4 miles) Southwest of El Rosario, El Sal...
Scotland Yard detectives investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann are set to interview the so-called Tapas Seven. The group are friends of Kate and Gerry McCann who dined with them at a tapas ...
Last night I was re-reading a terrific little book from 1976 by Don Martin, George Overholt, and Wayne Urban: *Accountability in American Education: A Critique*. The book brings so many elements of the c...
Recon Instruments' in-goggle Micro Optic Display will act as a viewfinder for Contour HD camcorder users.
February 4, 2012 From the New York TimesIn Texas, a Backlash Against Student TestingBy MORGAN SMITH When Christopher Chamness entered the third grade last year, he began to get stomach aches before school...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – A Republican Guard commander warned that Iran will target any country where an attack against it is staged. Hossein Salami, deputy commander of the elite Revolutionary Guard, Iran's m...
Global Corporate Assault on Internet Freedom Shifts from SOPA to ACTA. Nile Bowie NileBowie.blogspot.com February 5, 2012 In the wake of a public outcry against internet regulation bills such as SOPA and...
I was in high school when Barbara Tuchman's epic history of the first month of the First World War, The Guns of August, was published. I don't remember which of my teachers suggested I read it but I do re...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 46.8 km (29.1 miles), the quake hit at 13:18:58 UTC Sunday 5th February 2012 The epicenter was 102 km (63 miles) WSW of Tapachu...
Occupy Mardis Gras! ~Krewe du Vieux rolls through Marigny, French Quarter ~Hat Tweet~@small_affair~Love you #*OccupyPan* for putting up tents during 1st parade & occupying #*MardiGras* #*ows* twitpic.com/8f...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Mariana Islands Region at a depth of 129.5 km (80.5 miles), the quake hit at 13:02:24 UTC Sunday 5th February 2012 The epicenter was 260 km (161 miles) WSW of HAG...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 596.7 km (370.8 miles), the quake hit at 12:15:58 UTC Sunday 5th February 2012 The epicenter was 119 km (73 miles) SSW of Ndoi Island, Fi...
US begins reaping rewards of its 2011 campaign of Arab destabilization. by Tony Cartalucci February 5, 2012 - Reuters reported, "Tunisia "to withdraw recognition" of Syria government," and specifically tha...
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Is the BBC a political pressure group? Many, such as Booker, say it is; and I increasingly agree. Today, for example, 101 Conservative MPs - almost half the parliamentary party - have signed a letter sugge...
*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* The GOP is not a political party. It is a crime syndicate, to be sure, but also evinces characterisitcs of a kooky cult. I say that based upon my experience as a y...
Authorities were using military helicopters and a C-130 cargo plane Sunday to evacuate thousands of residents stranded by rising floodwaters in the eastern Australian state of Queensland, the government s...
Tunisia has started the procedure for withdrawing its recognition of the Syrian leadership under President Bashar al-Assad and for expelling the Syrian ambassador, the Tunisian president said on Saturday....
CAIRO — Protesters and riot police fought pitched battles in Cairo on Sunday as clashes sparked by the perceived failure of Egypt's military rulers to prevent deadly football-linked violence raged into a ...
Russia and China have handed Syria's government a "licence to kill", say opposition activists, after the two countries vetoed a UN resolution. The Syrian National Council, an opposition umbrella group, ur...
The first major snowfall in Rome for 26 years has led to the closure of the world-famous Colosseum over fears that tourists could slip on the icy ruins. The cold weather also left buses struggling to dri...
The first weekend in February marks the observance of Blogroll Amnesty Day, when we celebrate small blogs by linking some of 'em. This event was co-founded by the much missed Jon Swift (who explained its or...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake struck near the Bushehr nuclear power plant in south Iran, the U.S. Geological Survey said on its website on Sunday. The earthquake struck at 9:40 a.m. local time (06:10 GMT) on...
"The authors of the draft Syria resolution, unfortunately, did not want to undertake an extra effort and come to a consensus," Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov wrote on Twitter after Russia and Chi...
ILAM: Bird flu has been confirmed in Phakphok VDC-2 of Ilam district. An emergency meeting of the district-level bird flu disease control committee held on Sunday confirmed the avian influenza virus in Ph...
KATHMANDU:As around 8,000 chickens have died of bird flu , or H5N1 virus in the Nepal's Sunsari district in last few days, more traces of the virus have been found in the region, Xinhua reported. Though i...
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) - The South Dakota Game, Fish & Parks Department is investigating about 100 suspicious deaths in downtown Rapid City - and the victims are all pigeons. John Kanta, regional wildlife...
People bearing pitchforks, rakes and sharp sticks fetched hundreds of dead, smelly fish Saturday from two ponds in Winchester Green in western Henrico County. About 1,100 fish died mysteriously about a we...
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) - The South Dakota Game, Fish & Parks Department is investigating about 100 suspicious deaths in downtown Rapid City - and the victims are all pigeons. John Kanta, regional wildlife...
A loss of sea ice could be a cause of the bitter winds that have swept across the UK in the past week, weather experts say. The bitterly cold weather sweeping Britain and the rest of Europe has been linke...
The 2012 Screen Actors Guild Awards were held this past weekend. You can see the list of nominees and winners here. As usual, there are some worthy recipients and nominees. (I didn't watch the entire show...
China has sent a team of government officials and company executives to Libya to discuss post-war reconstruction and how to protect Chinese assets, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday. The...
Supporters of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad take to the streets to thank Russia and China for U.N. resolution veto. Masako Iijima reports.
An explosion hit a gas pipeline running from Egypt to Israel Sunday, witnesses and state television reported. The pipeline, which also supplies gas to Jordan, has come under attack at least 12 times sinc...
Three Tibetans in southwestern China have set themselves ablaze in protest against Chinese rule, Radio Free Asia reported, the latest in a series of self-immolations over the past year. The three set the...
A car bomb in the south Afghan city of Kandahar killed at least seven people and wounded 19 on Sunday, the province's media office said. Five police officers and two civilians were among the dead, it said...
Euro zone finance ministers told Greece on Saturday it could not go ahead with an agreed deal to restructure privately-held debt until it guaranteed it would implement reforms needed to secure a second fi...
Image: A survivor of the Dominican Republic migrant boat sinking. Rescue efforts continued Sunday after a boat carrying migrants sank between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, killing at least five,...
United Nations (CNN) -- United Nations Security Council members used strong language Saturday after the council vetoed a resolution condemning Syria for human rights violations and attacks against its ci...
Dozens of U.S. Park Police officers in riot gear and on horseback converged before dawn Saturday on one of the nation's last remaining Occupy sites, with police clearing away tents they said were banned u...
A worker at a nuclear power plant fell into a reactor pool as he was leaning over to retrieve a flashlight and lost his balance. The man, who has not been named, was able to return to work at the San Ono...
A powerful winter storm that covered parts of Colorado with up to 6 feet of snow crept east across the Plains Saturday, knocking out electricity to thousands in Nebraska as the blanket of heavy, wet preci...
More than 200 passengers on two cruise ships headed to south Florida have been stricken with a rapidly spreading gastrointestinal illness. Princess Cruise Lines say two of its ships were hit with a norovi...
The handyman who walked into a police station and admitted to strangling the wife of a wealthy Detroit businessman was released from jail Friday afternoon because authorities claimed they didn't have the ...
Tens of thousands of Russians flooded Moscow city centre today to demand an end to Vladimir Putin's rule. The crowds braved -20C (-4F) temperatures to protest a month before a presidential election Mr Pu...
More than a hundred dolphins have now beached off Cape Cod as mammals continue to get inexplicably stranded on the region's beaches. Three died on Friday, meaning that of 116 common dolphins that have bea...
Apple has failed to tackle the scandalous working conditions at its supplier iPod factories in China, six years after The Mail on Sunday first exposed the company’s appalling record. Workers are continui...
Directed by Julian Gibbs and Chris Sayer, “Numb” is the third single taken from the Pet Shop Boys album “Fundamental” and was released on October 16th, 2006.
Iran has vowed to cut oil exports to some European countries in retaliation over the bloc's recent decision to ban oil imports from the Islamic Republic. It has not named the countries which will be aff...
I pull up outside a house in the Durham mining village of West Auckland to find an anonymous-looking place: a slim, three-storey family home distinguished from its neighbours only by its pretty, blue-grey...
Ralph Zurmühle, "Sonora In My Heart"
India's Finance Minister referred to the financial aid given by Britain to his country as nothing more than 'peanuts', it is claimed. It is also claimed that Pranab Mukherjee and other Indian ministers tr...
Thousands of NHS patients could be secretly monitored by the Government for symptoms of the human form of mad cow disease amid concerns that there could be another wave of infections. Experts advising th...
Airport bosses came under fire last night after cancelling a third of today’s flights at Heathrow because of severe weather – nine hours before a flake of snow had even fallen. Amid forecasts of six inch...
A UN Security Council resolution over ongoing violence in Syria has been vetoed by Russia and China. The vote - which came as angry crowds of protesters attempted to storm the Syrian embassy in London -...
Heavy snowfalls across Britain have caused transport chaos, with cars abandoned on roads and airports closed. According to Sky sources, a number of cars were abandoned on the northbound side of the M40 ...
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology has not issued any warning about volcanic eruption and tsunami occurrence in Eastern Samar, Phivolcs Director Renato Solidom Jr. said. Solidom made i...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Kyrgyzstan at a depth of 20.9 km (13 miles), the quake hit at 07:10:18 UTC Sunday 5th February 2012 The epicenter was 99 km (61 miles) West of Naryn, Kyrgyzstan No Rep...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Southern Iran at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 06:10:39 UTC Sunday 5th February 2012 The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) Southeast of Bushehr, Iran N...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 29.3 km (18.2 miles), the quake hit at 05:10:40 UTC Sunday 5th February 2012 The epicenter was 422 km ...
A magnitude 3.5 earthquake has struck Spain at a depth of just 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 04:43:17 UTC Sunday 5th February 2012 The epicenter was 6 km (3.7 miles) South of Benejúzar, Murcia, Spain ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck offshore Bio-Bio, Chile at a depth of 20.6 km (12.8 miles), the quake hit at 03:42:05 UTC Sunday 5th February 2012 The epicenter was 30 km (18 miles) Northwest of of ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia at a depth of 69.2 km (43 miles), the quake hit at 03:27:48 UTC Sunday 5th February 2012 The epicenter was 268 km (166 miles) North of Ter...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 18.6 km (11.6 miles), the quake hit at 02:27:17 UTC Sunday 5th February 2012 The epicenter was 134 km (83 miles) WNW of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanuatu...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 20.9 km (13 miles), the quake hit at 02:16:36 UTC Sunday 5th February 2012 The epicenter was 130 km (80 miles) WNW of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanuatu N...
A magnitude 6.1 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 163.4 km (101.5 miles), the quake hit at 00:15:40 UTC Sunday 5th February 2012 The epicenter was 77 km (47 miles) NNW of Isangel, Tanna, Vanuatu ...
THE CANARD "All the fake news that's fit to print." -- Los Angeles* A political science professor at University of Southern California came under fire this week for the role he may have played behind-the...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Kai, Indonesia at a depth of 45.6 km (28.3 miles), the quake hit at 00:06:00 UTC Sunday 5th February 2012 The epicenter was 47 km (27 miles) Northwest of Do...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 47.7 km (29.6 miles), the quake hit at 23:59:12 UTC Saturday 4th February 2012 The epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) N...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 90.6 km (56.3 miles), the quake hit at 22:43:04 UTC Saturday 4th February 2012 The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) NNW ...
*We don’t want to return to the bad old days of the back alley, when a poor vulnerable person who made the mistake of stepping out of line had to be forced into the shadows and have the realities explained...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Izu Islands, Japan at a depth of 54.2 km (33.7 miles), the quake hit at 22:33:39 UTC Saturday 4th February 2012 The epicenter was 228 km (141 miles) NNW of Chichi...
17 Background Radiation in St Louis Misting Rain Saturday, February 4, 2012 [excerpted] "At 5:30pm we took a sample swipe from our truck and it returned a reading of 17 times greater than background radi...
*Website for this image** -British soldiers sit on a captured gun outside of Port Said, Egypt in 1956. * Things are stirring in the part of Egypt called the Sinai, next to the Suez canal. There has been n...
*Remember Iran-Contra?* "Ok so you smell a rat, but maybe the wrong rat. "Nato needs to strengthen Iran before it leaves Afghanistan. "It needs Iran to participate in the rounding up and ethnic cleansing...
Recently, I have been over at Youtube in major discussions with my friends in the Apollo Moon Hoax group, and also checking into interesting new evidence that has come forward from researchers such as "Hun...
In 2010 Nick Ruiz ran as a Green Party write-in candidate in a central Florida district with a reactionary Democratic incumbent, Suzanne Kosmas, and an insane teabagger challenger, Sandy Adams. Nick didn'...
Homeland Fascism, November 25, 2002 - ???? "The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose. Foolish people ask you, when you h...
PLEASE keep the movement alive. Snips from Common Dreams Our money has been used to make the system worse—what if we used it to make the system better? This change, it turns out, was much more than anecd...
*Reno Rally for Leonard Peltier, photos by Carl Bad Bear Sampson/Censored News.* *Double click on images to enlarge.* Special thanks to cellphoneographer Carl 'Bad Bear' Sampson, Western Shoshone, o...
I have to admit that with all the research I do on ALEC I get a little paranoid when I hear something like this on the radio: Mark Lachs: So while we want to protect older people to have freedom of decisi...
“Sweeping slowly through the constellation Hercules, Comet Garradd (C2009/P1) passed with about 0.5 degrees of globular star cluster M92 on February 3. Captured here in its latest Messier moment, the stead...
“A wise man once said you can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it. What he meant is nothing comes without a price. So before you go into battle, you better decide how much y...
*“Personal Computing”* by Chet Raymo “I'm always running a book or two behind with John Updike, so it is only now that I'm getting to “Villages,” his 2004 novel. It's more of the same, of course. Owen Ma...
The push for war against Iran is still going on at a fever pitch.. Right now, it does appear that the criminal state of Israel is almost ready to launch their long planned aerial assault on Iran's non-exis...
REALLY? Read the news much? Paying attention? *February 1st, 2012* Washington, DC – The Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted today to repeal the portion of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) ...
*Anything that causes "my" hometown Giants' head coach, Tom Coughlin, *agita * is OK in my book. It's hard not to have some grudging professional respect for Patriots coach Bill Belichek, who has successful...
I am truly amazed these days how our so called "science" continues to twist any hard evidence to give the liars who are behind the Global Warming scam any credibility. It does seem that these so called "s...
U.S. and Israel Set Stage for False Flag and Iran Attack Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com February 4, 2012 Events over the last several days reveal that the United States and Israel plan to conduct a false flag te...
I was reading one of my favorite writer/reporter/polemicists earlier today and was thrown back immediately into times past and all that had transpired since I lost my 14-years-long, last-job-with-benefits ...
------------------------------ Michael Hudson's Blog Hudson giving an overview of current affairs with a fired up Lauren Lyster fresh back from Davos. http://youtu.be/oJUr64yPztI Cherchez la Verite
------------------------------ Michael Hudson's blog / *By* *Michael Hudson* Doomsday Scenario: What Happens When Banks Control the Economy? *Banks weren't meant to be in control of our economy and our ...
Take 5 minutes to watch this video interview done before today's VETO at the UN on the Syrian Resolution I love where he mentions the bizarre tag team of the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia.
Lois Weiner, a professor at New Jersey City University, has an excellent article in the Winter issue of *NewPolitics* titled Teacher Unionism Reborn, Weiner makes a case for occupying the unions. If teach...
Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria. Thanks for stopping by.
“One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.” - Sidney Howard
*"American Teens Can't Answer Basic Trivia"* by Laura Hibbard "If there was ever a movie to make you laugh to keep from crying, it's this one. Austin, an intrepid young student-reporter, embarks on the n...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Owen Fracture Zone Region at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:50:51 UTC Saturday 4th February 2012 The epicenter was 443 km (275 miles) East from...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 195.3 km (121.4 miles), the quake hit at 21:09:18 UTC Saturday 4th February 2012 The epicenter was 86 km (53...
*Hearts of darkness* Nancy Brinker is the founder and CEO of Susan G. Komen, an organization she named after her sister, who died of breast cancer at age 36. Brinker has been part of a team that has done ...
*HISTORY:* *ROSA PARKS:* ** On this date Rosa Parks (1913-2005), the mother of the American Civil Rights Movement was born. On December 1st 1955 she refused an order from a bus driver to give up her s...
DEMOTIVATIONAL POSTERS are such a delight, especially if you have a sense of humor that is somewhat oblique. *The Demotivator* is part of the Tumblr world, and is a great collection from all sorts of pla...
January 21, 2011: No Need to Worry; No More Radiation Releases Says Jaczko “Visiting U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko said 20 December that there was no longer enough energy in...
*AMERICAN LABOUR:* *WORKERS WIN INJUNCTION AGAINST WALMART CONTRACTORS:* Here's an interesting item and an appeal for solidarity from the Making Change At Walmart group. ************************* *Wor...
*Super Bowl Military Flyover:* Question I: What's The OVER/UNDER On Military Industrial Complex Commercials and References During the Super Bowl? Question II: How many soldiers are they going to parade o...
The number of patients with swine flu (H1N1) infection has increased in Mexico. According to the representatives of the Ministry of Health, 3,000 cases of the flu have been registered since the beginning...
LEONARD COHEN has a fabulous new CD out. Love that guy, and so does Liel Leibovitz at *The Tablet*, whose review of Lenny's new oeuvre, *"St. Leonard’s Passion"* is a great read. Remember the festival at...
I'll start with the economic news, including of course the good jobs news for January. Remember as always that these numbers get revised, so everything is tentative, but certainly good economic news. One ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Northern Iran at a depth of 40 km (24.8 miles), the quake hit at 20:04:16 UTC Saturday 4th February 2012 The epicenter was 33 km (20.4 miles) Northe...
*"The One Percent Versus the Twenty Percent"* by Paul Krugman “The good folks at EPI are upset by my colleague David Brooks’s claims that the gap between the top 20 and the bottom 30, not the gap between ...
Soccer is a very gay sport. Soccer star Justin Fashanu once said that *"British soccer is packed with gays from dressing room to boardroom."* (Justin Fashanu, dribbling round ...) There are some homopho...
JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - H5NI virus or commonly known as bird flu has changed the nature or mutate, over the time that must be monitored constantly. That is what lead to one suspect bird flu from North Jakar...
*"Weekly News Wrap-Up 2.3.12"* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said that Israel might attack Iran by spring! Why he felt he had to put that out there, I’ll never know. Wh...
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck Vancouver Island, Canada Region at a depth of 12 km (7.5 miles), the quake hit at 20:05:32 UTC Saturday 4th February 2012 The epicenter was 196 km (122 miles) South o...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Oregon at a depth of 24.7 km (15.3 miles), the quake hit at 19:34:34 UTC Saturday 4th February 2012 The epicenter was 151 km (94 miles) West of Bando...
Russia and China have braved Arab and Western fury by vetoing a UN resolution calling on President Bashar al-Assad to step down. The two powers' refusal to back an Arab League plan for Syria came despite...
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck Samar, Philippines at a depth of 54.9 km (34.1 miles), the quake hit at 19:29:21 UTC Saturday 4th February 2012 The epicenter was 106 km (66 miles) North of Guiuan, S...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 157.9 km (98.1 miles), the quake hit at 19:22:30 UTC Saturday 4th February 2012 The epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) So...
MUNICH, Germany — US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned her Russian counterpart on Saturday that Syria risks plunging towards civil war if Moscow failed to back UN moves to stop the bloodshed. Cli...
The Colosseum and other ancient tourist sights closed to tourists as Rome saw snow for the first time in 26 years. Traffic in the Italian capital ground to a halt as buses struggled to climb icy hills an...
The *Miami Herald's* Leonard Pitts has captured the sorry face of today's Republican party and he did it in just a few lines: *Under Reagan, optimism about the future was the Republican brand. But that br...
The icy weather that has caused chaos across Britain is set to continue with forecasters expecting widespread snow of up to 15cm deep. Temperatures plunged as low as the Himalayas overnight, reaching 12.4...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 58.6 km (36.4 miles), the quake hit at 18:02:59 UTC Saturday 4th February 2012 The epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) E...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 13.5 km (8.4 miles), the quake hit at 18:01:46 UTC Saturday 4th February 2012 The epicenter was 1198 km (744 miles) Northeast of ...
Politics explained in five simple stages. 1) An ideologically driven movement or individual gains power by charisma or by hook or by crook. 2) In order to enact the ideological vision effectively unity mus...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 16.4 km (10.2 miles), the quake hit at 17:45:29 UTC Saturday 4th February 2012 The epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) Northwest of PORT-VILA, Efate, ...
(Reuters) - Hungary is seeking an international credit line of 15 to 20 billion ($20 to $26.3 billion) euros, the secretary of state heading the prime minister's office, Mihaly Varga, was quoted on Saturd...
Tens of thousands of people take to the streets of Moscow to both blast and cheer Vladimir Putin as the country's presidential elections campaign officially gets going. Andrew Raven reports.
Afghans in Kandahar are angry over a new UN report saying more than 3,000 civilians were killed in the war in Afghanistan in 2011. Deborah Lutterbeck reports
Washington (CNN) -- Dressed in yellow full-body sanitation suits, members of the U.S. Park Police combed through tents in the Occupy DC camp Saturday, taking down ones violating park policies. The owners...
New high tech spy droneWeekend Edition February 3-5, 2012 Flight of the Hummingbirds Spy Drones Over Arizona by BRENDA NORRELL *TUCSON.* Arizona, already struggling to free itself from racist state officials...
Tehran (CNN) -- Iranian forces began a series of airborne war games Saturday aimed at improving combat preparedness, the semiofficial Fars News Agency reported. The drills by the Islamic Revolution Guar...
A wave of protests broke out at Syrian embassies on several continents amid reports of hundreds of deaths in one Syrian city and hours before a possible U.N. Security Council vote on a response to the vio...
A man has been arrested by police investigating the murder of retired schoolteacher Betty Yates in Worcestershire. Mrs Yates, 77, was found stabbed to death at her riverside cottage on the outskirts of B...
With John Waltz challenging Fred Upton, Lance Enderle taking on Mike Rogers, Syed Taj challenging Thaddeus McCotter and Henry Yanez opposing Candice Miller, Michigan is looking at a plethora of opportuniti...
No surprise here... BBC-An Arab and Western-backed resolution condemning the violent crackdownin Syria has been vetoed at the UN Security Council by Russia and China. The two permanent members of the c...
NASA's newest Earth-watching satellite is beaming back spectacular views of our home planet. Here's how it works.
The fundie Right doesn't hesitate to condemn Planned Parenthood for providing abortion services. *Slate's* William Saletan offers a brilliant idea on how to put Planned Parenthood out of the abortion busi...
Steve Harper's latest moral mood swing is all about China. He can't wait to get supertankers full of Athabasca bitumen sailing the vast Pacific to waiting refineries in the People's Republic. Well, toda...
[image: The bed of the Colorado River is drying up and cracking in some parts of Spicewood Beach, Texas after more than a year of drought. Ben Sklar for The New York Times] By MANNY FERNANDEZ 3 February...
A UN Security Council resolution over ongoing violence in Syria has been vetoed by Russia and China, after angry crowds of protesters attempted to storm the Syrian embassy in London. It comes after missil...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Volcano Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 81.2 km (50.5 miles), the quake hit at 16:12:38 UTC Saturday 4th February 2012 The epicenter was 264 km (164 miles) So...
Global temperatures have warmed significantly since 1880, the beginning of what scientists call the "modern record." At this time, the coverage provided by weather stations allowed for essentially globa...
Here are some of the past performances to which tens of millions of children and families were treated courtesy of the NFL during recent Super Bowls: This is the Prince performance at another recent S...
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck Samar, Philippines at a depth of 10.7 km (6.6 miles), the quake hit at 13:09:23 UTC Saturday 4th February 2012 The epicenter was 101 km (62 miles) North of Guiuan, Sa...
*SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2012* *Click that for our latest discussion:* Time does fly when you’re having big fun! Our third non-annual fund-raising drive is already half over! We want to leave history for th...
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Scientists have known for decades that hidden under those impressive vistas at sites such as Death Valley and Yellowstone National Park are magma pools that under the right conditions can trigger explosiv...( Dr. John von Kampen blogged on increased vulcanism associated with tidal phenomena - space science - some time ago. If you`re feeling ambitious checking the archives at my.opera.com nepmak2000 blog would be a good place to check. It`s a worthwhile exercise for other reasons as well. Or you could go straight to Earth Changes Pole shift if you`re a Ning - UFO style aliens - fan.)
THREE JUVENILES accused of assaulting a cabdriver and his passenger in Center City Saturday night while shouting racial slurs will not be charged with a hate crime, the District Attorney's Office said yes...
Academy to switch to electronic ballots in 2013 – but move from paper voting does not eliminate prospect of foul play. Computer security experts have warned that the 2013 Oscars ballot may be vulnerable ...
CALUMET CITY, Ill. (CBS) — Police in Calumet City were defending their actions Wednesday after officers shot and killed a 15-year-old boy, who has a form of autism, after he threatened them with a knife. ...
MINNESOTA— Parents in New Ulm, Minnesota vented their frustration at a school district after an inappropriate playground game came to light. It is called raped tag. The game encourages children to tag pri...
*Famous film and stage actor Ben Gazzara has gone to the heaven in New York at the age of 81.* He began his career in the theatre, starring in the original Broadway construction of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. ...
Beijing (CNN) -- Anyone interested in world affairs, Chinese diplomacy and China's future should know more about Xi Jinping. Xi (pronounced "shee"), China's vice president, will be visiting the United St...
Last week we sniffed around some of the stench coming off Congress when we examined the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act (STOCK). The Senate raised the white flag and only 3 of the dozens of co...
The tension on the Lebanese border is palpable as sworn enemies flex their military muscle. It is the front line of Israel’s deepening conflict with Iran, and beneath the snow-capped peaks of Mount Herm...
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