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The pipeline wars are real wars, in that two or more nations are ordering their civilian and military foot soldiers, on a daily basis, into life or death contests to the finish. For the United States, it...
Fewer than one in 10 Facebook users support its plans to make its biographical “timeline” feature compulsory. As part of a major overhaul of the site, all publicly viewable messages, comments and photog...
Violent criminals have been using Facebook to taunt victims and their families from jail, it was disclosed yesterday. In the past two years, nearly 350 people have been caught posting entries on Faceboo...
Six out of ten Britons now say they are not prepared to queue for goods, as the over-55s in particular say web shopping is easier. Retailers could be losing out on 21million potential customers, research...
The chief executive of the company behind mobile gaming phenomenon, Angry Birds, has said that piracy helps companies attract more business. Talking at the annual Midem music conference, in Cannes today,...
British children under the age 12 feel ‘sad’ without an internet connection, a new study has found. Forty-nine per cent of British children aged 12 and under, would be sad without access to the web, whi...
The number of British students applying to university has plummeted by almost 44,000 following a sharp rise in tuition fees, according to new figures. Data from the Universities and Colleges Admissions ...
Churchill would be dismayed by modern Britain’s capitulation to jackboot egalitarians, says Jeff Randall. Between Christmas and New Year, the 70th anniversary of an event, which in no small way helped c...
U.S President Barack Obama's administration has started legal procedures to enable the U.S. to provide Uzbekistan with limited military aid, CA-News reported U.S Deputy Secretary of State for South and Ce...
So the Arab League has a new draft United Nations Security Council resolution to "solve" the Syrian saga. World public opinion may be fooled into believing this is an altruistic Arab solution to an Arab...
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...
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Europe's politicians are losing touch with reality. Greece is broke, and yet Brussels wants to send the country billions in new loans, to which there is growing opposition within the coalition government ...
The monopolistic web giant faces a number of lawsuits from companies in the U.S. and abroad concerning privacy and anti-trust violations. Google recently admitted to illegally collecting data in the U.S. ...
Freddie Mac, the taxpayer-owned
mortgage giant, has placed multibillion-dollar bets that pay off if homeowners stay trapped in expensive mortgages with interest rates well above current rates. Freddie be...
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Five government teams dealing with Japan's tsunami and nuclear catastrophes kept no detailed records, an official said Friday, adding to a growing picture of chaos in Tokyo's disaster response. Earlier t...
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Israel laid out a vision for an "impossible" border during exploratory talks with the Palestinians in Amman this month, a Palestinian official told AFP on Sunday. The official, who spoke on condition of ...
The sun is waking up. After several quiet years, it bombarded the Earth with two consecutive solar storms this week, which generated many nights of spectacular auroras seen from backyards around the North...
The Pentagon has a dream that it won’t give up: blasting any target on the planet with a submarine’s missile. Nothing seems to stop it, not even years of protest that the project could accidentally spark ...
Indian Defence Minister AK Antony will for the first time spend a night on the country's lone aircraft carrier INS Virat and review Navy's operational preparedness in wargames codenamed 'TROPEX' in the Bay...
Newt Gingrich doesn’t just want to lay waste to his political enemies and a large part of the news media. The former House speaker and presidential hopeful wants to bomb a significant part of the planet, ...
Elevated levels of metals have been found in groundwater near ash basins at all 14 N.C. coal-fired power plants, state regulators say after intensified monitoring. Coal ash holds metals that can be toxic...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Negros - Cebu Region, Philippines at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 04:05:38 UTC Tuesday 7th February 2012 The epicenter was 48 km (29 miles) SSE ...
A new analysis concludes that easily extracted oil peaked in 2005, suggesting that dirtier fossil fuels will be burned and energy prices will rise. Despite major oil finds off Brazil's coast, new fields ...
Defra report lists 700 impacts, including flood risk for 3.6 million people, water shortages, soil erosion and wildlife disruption. Flooding is the greatest threat to the UK posed by climate change, with ...
Ian King, BAE’s chief executive, said the company was considering a range of options to secure the deal to supply fighter jets, which could help prevent a major industrial setback for Britain. A source clo...
United States has delivered the last of 18 F-16 C/D Block 52M fighter jet to the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) and it has landed at the Pakistan Air Force Base Shahbaz in Jacobabad. Read More
The illustration of the Chinese Z-8 Super Frelon Airborne Early Warning (AEW) helicopter which will provide early warning for the Chinese aircraft carrier. Read More
Dick Morris was practically CRYING on Sean Hannity’s Fox News program about how we need to stop attacking Mitt Romney, especially the three conservative candidates in the race. Ann Coulter was up next on ...
Tiny substances called nanomaterials have moved into the marketplace over the last decade, in products as varied as cosmetics, clothing and paint. But not enough is known about their potential health and ...
This is how the military might treat burned faces in 2017: A mask, worn for several months, that’s layered with sensors, actuators and a regenerative elixir — including stem cells — to regrow missing faci...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 72.9 km (45.3 miles), the quake hit at 02:45:48 UTC Tuesday 7th February 2012 The epicenter was 103 km (64 miles) West of Tapac...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Peru-Ecuador Border Region at a depth of 54.1 km (33.6 miles), the quake hit at 02:18:26 UTC Tuesday 7th February 2012 The epicenter was 199 km (123 miles) ESE of...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Sulawesi, Indonesia at a depth of 30 km (18.6 miles), the quake hit at 00:33:40 UTC Tuesday 7th February 2012 The epicenter was 101 km (62 miles) ENE of Kendari, Sulaw...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Negros - Cebu Region, Philippines at a depth of 14.9 km (9.3 miles), the quake hit at 23:47:15 UTC Monday 6th February 2012 The epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) SSE...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Negros - Cebu Region, Philippines at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 22:35:13 UTC Monday 6th February 2012 The epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) WNW o...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Potosi, Bolivia at a depth of 172.7 km (107.3 miles), the quake hit at 13:49:24 UTC Monday 6th February 2012 The epicenter was 133 km (82 miles) WSW of Tupiza, Bolivia...
I have posted the following comment on the tallbloke web site, in response to a discussion there which involves both my Venus/Earth atmospheric temperatures comparisonand the "Unified Theory of Climate" of...
*— the F-35 Fugue —* THIS JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER: according to *DEFENCETECH* *"Did Chinese Espionage Lead to F-35 Delays?"*, that's what happened. *Chinese spies apparently hacked into secure conference...
"What surrounds a hotbed of star formation? In the case of the Orion Nebula - dust. The entire Orion field, located about 1600 light years away, is inundated with intricate and picturesque filaments of dus...
Peter Kater, "Breath Of Life" “Beautiful Relaxing Music by 6 X Grammy nominated pianist/composer, Peter Kater, with Dominic Miller, Paul McCandless and Jaques Morelenbaum with great Timelapse HD Nature fo...
"Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice." - Holbrook Jackson
"Thoughtcrime is death. Thoughtcrime does not entail death. Thoughtcrime IS death." - Winston Smith, 1984. Glenn Greenwald points out that U.S. government officials are twisting reality again, but this ...
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[image: Shitycars] Americans stopped buying American cars several years ago. Mostly because they were rubbish. That didn’t bother American car makers. They kept making the shitty cars anyway and just w...
*— Mr. D. —* HARD TIMES AGAIN: that's the title to a fine article on *The American Conservative* (go figure) by Theodore Dalrymple, who contends that *"Amid the wreck of capitalism and socialism, Dickens ...
[As always, apologies for the ad.] One man refuses to leave his home in Japan's mandatory evacuation zone near Fukushima. CNN's Kyung Lah reports. Japan exclusion zone's lone resident Technorati Tags: ...
The way non-fans will often watch a major sporting event on TV, I am following the anti-Assad uprising in Syria: at a distance, not really paying attention to the plays as they take place on the field, bu...
Negro Populist organizer J. P. Rayner, early 1890's. Image from Vangobot.The hidden history of TexasPart IX: 1890-1920/2 -- The Rise and Fall of the Populist PartyBy Bob Feldman / The Rag Blog / February 6, ...
*Food Network's caption: "The Beauty Shot: A dedicated blogger, Ree shoots a winning closeup of her husband Ladd's favorite sandwich."* *by Ken* No doubt it says most about the sheltered little world I li...
New York Giants vs New England Patriotshttp://www.thisis50.com/profiles/blogs/super-bowl-giants-vs-patriots-live-nfl-stream-watch-ny-giants-vs New England Patriots vs NY Giantshttp://www.thisis50.com/profil...
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Morons like Bernard Hickey have been beating the drum for our Reserve Bank to do what every other Reserve Bank in the world has been doing: to cross their fingers and print money like there’s no tomorrow...
[image: K.S. Endeavor jackup drilling rig burning off Nigeria's coast on 16 January 2012. Photo courtesy Chevron] LAGOS, Nigeria, 6 February 2012 (AP) – The burning inferno of what used to be a Chevron ...
Central Point, Oregon, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
Ah ... *the speculation*. Let's not get ahead of ourselves — Karen Handel hasn't resigned (yet), but as pressure for her to quit grows, it seems like odd timing for the organization to post an ad that l...
*“Nature/Nurture”* by Chet Raymo "Carmen cautioned me on my supposition that the apparent male propensity for intraspecies and interspecies violence has a genetic component. This hypothesis, and others l...
The tornado of truth will land in Dallas on February 19 and in Orlando on February 26. From YouTube video description: Alex Announces latest offensive against the Globalists: Blueprint to defeat the Ne...
[image: The sperm whale - at 65ft long, the greatest that has ever existed - spends 90 per cent of its life in the profound depths, able to dive deeper than any other animal. New scientific research reve...
Tiger Woods may rule the golf course here on Earth, but when it comes to extraterrestrial golfing, Alan Shepard reigns supreme.
Keith Ellison is the US Congressional representative from CD 5 in Minnesota AND YES - he does name ALEC by name!!! Ellison today Monday (12 1/2 minutes)- February 6 at the State Capitol - press conference...
Image from National Center for Science Education.A solution to the post-Super Bowl blahs:Darwin Day 2012By Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog / February 6, 2012If you are having withdrawal from all the exciteme...
"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living. Because we are alone with the unfamiliar presence...
"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living. Because we are alone with the unfamiliar pre...
I guess it's true that you can never be thin enough. Or rich enough. And once again, the Oracle of Omaha speaks. How sorry have you been that you wasted all that time reading his books and listening to his...
The recent outbreak of mass hysteria at a school in Upstate New York is not that unique.
Guest contributor Pat Galea discusses how a starship may transmit signals across the light-years between the stars.
I am working on my Lessons from Fukushima Presentation and thought I would share a few of my findings in my blog. •American media failed to investigate and report on scientific findings on radiation cont...
*Turkey's Erdogan* IS JEWISH? *1.* Most of the top Islamists secretly work for Israel and its allies, it seems. Turkey's Erdogan, the Saudi leadership, and the leaders of the Qatar, Libya and Tunisia all...
Did someone actually think the Russians would go along with the condemnation of the Assad Regime? Assad gave them the naval base in the open warm water Russian foreign policy has been predicated upon sinc...
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wmtc - 7 hours ago
Thank you to everyone who participated in the recent "help me get rid of zip" discussion, both on wmtc and by email. And thanks to CNET, for this video! I started out asking about movies, but ended up with...
"Live Park 4D Art Factory" blurs the line between reality and virtual reality.
Diamond coatings on joint replacements are safe, and could make them more durable less painful.
Sites, apps and lively discussion added a few bonuses to the game.
*And the tune in the agenda-pushing paper is regime change*: "Syria’s Assad warns West to stay away" October 31, 2011|Associated Press BEIRUT - President Bashar Assad of Syria warned the Middle East will b...
Newt makes it easier for voters to vote for him/against Romney.
*“Website Can Find Your Exact Location Using Your Phone Number”* by John Brandon “Is it possible to pinpoint your location with nothing more than a cellphone number? Absolutely. Your smartphone always kno...
I'm going to lead with the caveat. It's always really hard to extrapolate from campaigning to governing. The skills are overlapping but not identical, for one thing; for another, any information we receive...
When Iranians bravely rose up in January of 2009, Republican House Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Michigan was immediately reminded of a time when he and his fellow House Republicans themselves rose up against oppr...
There have been quite a few reports in the last 2 days about Fukushima's reactor 2 heating up. The headlines can be read at Enenews and NHK http://enenews.com/news-agency-helicopters-fly-fukushima-measure-...
"Syria’s Assad insists his hands are clean" by Elizabeth A. Kennedy | The Boston Globe, December 8, 2011 BEIRUT - Syria’s president denied he ordered the deadly crackdown on a nearly 9-month-old u...
*Just as they did for Libya.* "Suicide bomb blast kills 25 people in Syria; 46 also injured in Damascus Arab League weighs action" by Alice Fordham | Washington Post, January 07, 2012 BEIRUT - At lea...
*Related: US Waitin' On Saleh* "Yemeni president Saleh opts to stay in country" January 01, 2012|By Ahmed Al-Haj SANA, Yemen - Yemen’s outgoing president has *decided to stay* in the country, *reversing ...
The love song of an extinct katydid that lived 165 million years ago has been brought back to life.
A now-grandmother reveals her 18-month affair with the president while she was a White House intern.
The Russian drilling team has successfully reached the waterline on Antarctica's Lake Vostok.
By Marshall Auerback Another day andthe markets remain fixated on whether Greece comes to a “voluntary” arrangementwith its creditors. The key word is“voluntary” because the myth of “voluntary compliance...
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*"A Saskatchewan law limiting the ability of public sector workers to go on strike has been ruled unconstitutional by a Queen's Bench judge. In a 132-page decision released Monday, Regina Justice Dennis B...
"Egypt soccer fans rush field after game, 74 dead; Hundreds hurt as police fail to intervene" by Sarah El Deeb | Associated Press, February 02, 2012 CAIRO - At least *74 people were killed* and hundreds ...
China defended its rejection of a U.N. resolution pressing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to abandon power, with a top state newspaper saying Western intervention in Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq exposed ...
"Snow traps 11,000 villagers in Serbia" Associated Press, February 03, 2012 BELGRADE - At least *11,000 villagers have been trapped by heavy snow and blizzards* in Serbia’s mountains, authorities said yest...
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has released a new report alleging that CIA-piloted drones have regularly attacked rescuers and funerals as well as high-value targets - a damning claim given Obama's...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Greece on Monday to make up its mind fast on accepting the painful terms for a new EU/IMF bailout, but the country's political leaders responded by delaying their ...
Western anger at Moscow's decision to block a U.N. resolution on Syria had approached hysteria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday, a day after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton c...
Image: It is so cold in eastern Europe that parts of the Black Sea have frozen over. The death toll from severe cold weather sweeping across Europe has risen to 420, while tens of thousands of households ...
"Finland’s *president has a largely ceremonial role with fewer powers* now than in past decades and is *not directly involved in daily politics*. However, the head of state takes the lead on non-EU matters...
“Life don't owe you nothing.” - August Wilson, “Fences”
This Canadian gentleman speaks to the heart. Mine, anyway. Monday, January 23, 2012 This Is Your World On Crisis Management Mode It’s been suggested that, if I’m so eager for good development, I should run...
*“Cell Companies Meet Physics And Lose”* by Karl Denninger “I find this story in The WSJ more than a bit amusing... "Days after buying his Samsung Electronics Co. Galaxy Nexus smartphone from Verizon Wire...
*"The Financial Crisis Of 2008 Was Just A Warm Up Act * *For The Economic Horror Show That Is Coming"* By The Economic Collapse Blog "The people out there that believe that the U.S. economy is experiencin...
I agree with Ed Kilgore completely about federal elections: [T]he right to vote, and for each vote to have equal weight, is not something we should still be “experimenting” with in this country. Yet we pe...
*Mine, too. * "In Oakland, 400 held after violent day; Occupy protesters damage City Hall" by Terry Collins | Associated Press, January 30, 2012 OAKLAND, Calif. - For weeks the protests had waned, with...
Three people were killed and eight poisoned from blast-furnace gas that built up following the stopping of a smoke scrubber at a boiler room at the thermal power department of the Illich Steel Mill in Mar...
The Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang has become the third province in Vietnam to report bird flu outbreak this year, the Department of Animal Health reported Sunday. The agency made the statement just ...
Thousands of Australians were today forced to abandon their homes as the worst floodwater for 35 years continued to rise. At least one person has been killed as residents in Queensland and New South Wale...
*"Black Hawks in Boston:* * The American Military Empire Comes Home"* By John W. Whitehead “I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. Thes...
YOU ARE HERE. Indeed. *Earth From Mars*. *This is the first image ever taken of Earth from the surface of a planet beyond the Moon.* It was taken by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit one hour before sunr...
Prosecutors want 'Captain Coward' Francesco Schettino jailed for a total of 2,697 years as they made a request to have him sent back to jail, it emerged today. Schettino, 52, is currently under house arr...
"Tight budgets hit prekindergarten programs; Enrollment has dropped in some states" by Kimberly Hefling Associated Press / January 18, 2012 WASHINGTON - The expansion in public prekindergarten programs has...
"Separating genders shows promise at Roxbury school" January 13, 2012|By Akilah Johnson Last year, many in this orderly first-grade class at Higginson-Lewis K-8 School were kindergartners who were academi...
[image: Projected Overall Capital Investment Gap for U.S. Water Infrastructure, 2010-2040. asce.org] For drinking-water, wastewater, and storm water, this figure presents past and projected spending (bl...
I guess drones count as robots, right? Oh, everyone is writing about what a corrupt sack of turd Buck McKeon is these days. Even the *L.A. Times* and *New York Times* are rumored to have stories coming...
NASA's concerns for the future financial landscape may end Europe's Martian dreams.
Madagascar poison frogs' skin contains sucrose -- and the source of the sugar may surprise you.
Wakey, wakey, it's Monday, time for another week of nuggets! Keep up with what you're missing elsewhere with our short news updates.
"Wellesley school chief resigns; Cites public concern over accounting issues" November 11, 2011|By Evan Allen and Lisa Kocian, Globe Correspondent | Globe Staff School Superintendent Bella Wong of Wellesl...
*Related: Corporate Tea Parties* *Actually, I think I'll pass.* "Hedge fund chiefs lead donors group backing Romney" by Shira Schoenberg, Globe Correspondent / February 2, 2012 Hedge fund moguls and othe...
[image: Spaceship One and White Knight in flight. Rokits XPrize gallery / wikipedia.org] [Desdemona admits to being very disappointed in Burt Rutan. Des was raised on Golden Age science fiction (“R is f...
These magnificent pictures beautifully capture the fast flowing waters of the Hukou Waterfalls in China slowly being enveloped by ice. A long winter in which the mercury rarely rose above freezing has tam...
*The amount of money spent on these activities does it to me. * "Super PACs fuel GOP attack ads; Eventual nominee could pay a price" by Brian C. Mooney | Globe Staff, February 02, 2012 In the first pres...
Briefly today...... I had mentioned the China/Russia veto was going to be washed, wrung out, beaten on the rocks and twisted in every manner possible by the West via the msm. It wasn't hard to figure ...
The Norwegian gunman who killed 77 people in twin attacks in July has demanded to be released immediately, saying his massacre was a "preventive attack against state traitors". "I do not accept imprison...
(I'm bloodlessly and painlessly beating my head against a brick wall which is some poor, deluded bastard on Facebook who still insists that Obama is the only alternative and perhaps the greatest thing sin...
*MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2012* *Never correct a typo:* Over the weekend, we made a mistake. We decided to correct a typo on our donations page. This brought our third non-annual fund-raising drive to an inst...
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Frida Kahlo Photo by Nickolas Muray*Living the truth* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com TUCSON -- There is an amazing exhibit of photos of Frida Kahlo now at the Tucson Mus...
Yesterday, I decided to take a day off for some long needed rest and relaxation, and to fight off one heck of a sinus head cold that has plagued me for almost 3 weeks now. It is due to the crazy weather ...
2 February 2012 (Al Jazeera) – The precious marine resources of some of the world's poorest people are being targeted by industrial-scale pirate fishing operations, to feed the seafood hungry markets of...
Britain has recalled its ambassador from Syria for consultations as the "doomed as well as murdering regime" of President Bashar al Assad launched a bloody assault on the city of Homs. Foreign Secretary ...
US President Barack Obama has placed stricter sanctions on Iran's government, including its central bank. In an executive order, Mr Obama said he was freezing all Iranian government assets held or traded...
[image: Atlantic sturgeon. Robert Michelson] 31 January 2012 (NOAA) – NOAA’s Fisheries Service announced today a final decision to list five distinct population segments of Atlantic sturgeon under the E...
Radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada, who was once dubbed "Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe", will be released from prison within days after being granted bail. Qatada, who is accused of posing a ...
*Robert L. Brown*, *pretty much lays down the gauntlet* over Harper's claims that the Old Age Pension is "unsustainable". In his article he refers to a report by the Chief Actuary of the OAS which actually...
------------------------------ * the**REALnews Permalink* *US Drone Strikes Destabilize Pakistan* Fred Branfman: US policy s...
I've seen a lot of people comparing Nevada turnout to 2008. Careful! Remember, context matters. Several issues...in 2008, Nevada had just moved up in the process, and so it was sort of a first-time thing, ...
*MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2012* *The road that has been widely taken:* Long ago, Katherine Boo became the sage of an age. The year was 1992. Writing for the Washington Monthly, Boo did something that just i...
I have kept the house at Wit's End at a very frosty temperature this winter...partly because I feel guilty burning fuel, but also because it's become prohibitively expensive to heat, now that I'm officiall...
DNews and the storm chasing community mourns the tragic loss of Andy Gabrielson (1987-2012).
[image: Animatrix, The Second Renaissance Part II. The destruction of the sky.] [Longtime readers know how Desdemona feels about most of these geo-engineering schemes: So the leaders of men conceived o...
*The January Jobs Are Statistical Artifacts* ------------------------------ February 6, 2012 | Original here Last Friday the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in the first month of this new ye...
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Buckdog - 14 hours ago
*We continue to live in a make believe country. Somehow or the other, archaic processes remain which technically links the Dominion of Canada to the monarch of a foreign nation. England's 'Elizabeth' m...
By David McNeill 3 February 2012 TOKYO – Researchers working around Japan's disabled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant say bird populations there have begun to dwindle, in what may be a chilling harbin...
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Biased BBC - 14 hours ago
Monday and time for a new one of these! The floor is yours....enjoy. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
The service uses cellphone towers and GPS signals to triangulate a person's position.
By slapping pictures of green beans on lunch trays, a school prompts kids to choose the veggies from their buffet.
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wmtc - 14 hours ago
Our photos from Quebec City, dogsledding and Montreal are on Flickr. There turned out to be more decent dogsledding photos than I thought. The city photos are just a few details here there, on our litt...
*Ron Paul is having the GOP primary "election" stolen from him, that's what your eyes and ears tell you. LOOK AROUND!!!* What happens when the actual counting occurs on live TV? Exactly what your eyes an...
*MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2012* *Part 1—Crazy proposals v. Flub Watch:* Our political culture is brainless, dumb, sad. Just consider those crazy proposals—the crazy proposals Republican candidates are allow...
The United States announced on Monday it was closing its embassy in Syria due to the worsening security situation, further isolating Damascus over its bloody crackdown on anti-government protests. The St...
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wmtc - 15 hours ago
It's been a long time since I've updated you on Tala's condition. She's made a lot of progress! In short: more activity + less medication = happier dog = happier mommy. You'll recall that when Tala's s...
With Sandy Adams now in Congress, most observers would agree that Rep. Rachel Burgin (R-Tampa), a graduate of an unaccredited Bible "School" who majored in "biblical studies," is the stupidest member of t...
Hey, it's Babe Ruth's birthday! February 6, 1895. Did you know that Fenway Park was, when he played there, an extreme pitchers' park and HRs were almost impossible to hit there? He did okay at Yankee Stadi...
Doubling water rates debated as S&WB gives away millions of gallons for free With Levees Rated ‘Unacceptable,’ Officials Along the Mississippi Fight Back File under: BWAHAHAHA! Detroit ‘Comeback' SB Ad Fil...
ITAHARI/ILAM: After the samples of dead chickens sent to London-based International Laboratory tested positive, bird flu was confirmed today in the fowls that died in Sunsari, Ilam and Panchthar districts...
The Animal Resources Development Department, along with the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation, on Sunday commenced the culling of poultry birds at the Central Poultry Development Organisation (CPDO) in Bh...
A large number of dead fish have washed up with rubbish in the famed Ho Xuan Huong Lake of Da Lat’s tourist hotspot in the central highlands’ province, Lam Dong. Many visitors complained that they could ...
As a fire at a Chevron Corp. gas rig off Nigeria's coast continues to burn, locals say they're seeing signs of its effects on the environment and the health of those living nearby. [image: Link] A nearby ...
Popular bittorrent site closes in wake of demise of Megaupload, QuickSilverScreen and others. One of the most popular bittorrent sites, BTjunkie, has been "voluntarily" shut down in the wake of last mont...
Radioactive cesium registering some 20,000 becquerels per kilogram has been found in worms 20 kilometers from the damaged Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant. The cesium was detected by a team including Motohi...
Personal health records for nuclear workers are prepared for laborers bound for the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant in this Dec. 15, 2011 photo. (Mainichi) As efforts to tame the crisis at the Fukushima No...
Clashes between protesters and security forces continue for a fifth consecutive day in downtown Cairo. Travis Brecher reports.
Severe flooding affects parts of western Queensland, with thousands of people evacuating the town of St. George. Sophia Soo reports.
Greece let yet another deadline slip on Monday for responding to painful terms for a new EU/IMF bailout as patience in Brussels wore thin over drawn-out negotiations among its feuding political leaders. ...
The Chinese government has barred the country's airlines from complying with a European Union charge on carbon emissions, escalating a dispute that officials have warned could turn into a trade war. Chin...
Hong Kong (CNN) -- The Chinese authorities have contested reports that three Tibetans set themselves on fire last week in a remote area of southwestern China. The conflicting accounts followed an increas...
(Financial Times) -- Lucas Papademos, the Greek premier, failed to make party leaders accept harsh terms in return for a second €130bn bail-out, pushing Athens closer to a disorderly default as early as n...
Bucharest, Romania (CNN) -- Romania's Prime Minister Emil Boc resigned Monday, following weeks of public protests against austerity measures, and in the wake of at least 34 deaths due to cold weather. Th...
Yemen'shighest military authority Sunday announced its willingness to open channels of dialogue with al Qaeda in hopes of reaching a long-term cease-fire agreement. The military committee was formed as p...
Sorry couldn't find a image of Gadhafi Fighters in Libya, so here is an image of Protesters instead. Tuareg tribesman who reportedly fought for Moammar Gadhafi in Libya have returned to Mali with weapons,...
Intense blasts echoed through the ravaged Syrian city of Homs on Monday after a weekend bloodbath ended in hundreds of deaths there, local activists said. "It is horrible. Especially today, it is horrib...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Honduras at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:30:26 UTC Monday 6th February 2012 The epicenter was 18 km (11.2 miles) Northeast of El buen pastor, Hond...
“According to the ancient Greeks, when Hercules was a boy, just reaching the period of life when there was a question in his mind which path he should pursue, he went forth by himself and sat down and med...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Negros - Cebu Region, Philippines at a depth of 36.5 km (22.7 miles), the quake hit at 11:40:19 UTC Monday 6th February 2012 The epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) Wes...
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck the Negros - Cebu Region, Philippines at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 11:33:38 UTC Monday 6th February 2012 The epicenter was 8 km (5 miles) Northea...
* Chengdu, China (CNN)* -- Miss Chen stares curiously at the iPad. Even though she works overtime in a factory in southwestern China that manufactures them, she's never seen the finished product. "Wow, ...
A baby had a lucky escape after the buggy it was in rolled across a train platform and on to the track. CCTV footage shows the buggy roll in front of a man who was using his mobile phone. But he did no...
At least 50 people have been killed in a fresh wave of attacks by government forces on the city of Homs, according to a member of the Syrian national council. Sky's chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay, n...
Videocast #6 - Paulo Coelho talking about exchanging energy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0-1hOCiwHNA#!
Professional storm chaser Andy Gabrielson, who has survived the treacherous hunt for tornadoes for a decade, has been killed in a crash. The 24-year-old was driving home after spending two days chasing st...
*"Begetting Change: Same Choices, Same Results"* by The DailyOm "A change in perspective, behavior, or response can do so much more to help us move past issues left unresolved. Repeated bouts of adversity...
Greece will today make a last-ditch attempt to stave off bankruptcy, which would send the eurozone into economic chaos and could ultimately bring down the single currency. Parties backing the country's c...
Rescuers have found 17 bodies and 13 survivors after a boat overloaded with 70 illegal immigrants from the Dominican Republic capsized on the way to the U.S territory of Puerto Rico two days ago. Twelve ...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Rescuers dug with picks and shovels trying to reach dozens of people trapped under houses collapsed by a strong earthquake Monday that shook a central Philippine island and set ...
DUMAGUETE CITY, Philippines – At least 40 persons, including a nine-year-old girl, died in Negros Oriental during the 6.9-magnitude earthquake that hit the province and other areas shortly before noon Mo...
Warning: Hillary Clinton has warned Egypt's foreign minister that failure to resolve the dispute may lead to the loss of American aid. Egypt has referred 43 NGO workers, including 19 Americans, to trial b...
Deleted Facebook photos don't disappear but can still be accessed by anyone with a link to the images themselves. The company admits that its systems 'do not always delete images in a reasonable period o...
An American professor and expert of the Antarctic said he believes contact with a team of Russian scientists that has not made contact with colleagues in the U.S for seven days has merely been busy as the...
President Barack Obama said Sunday he does not think Israel has decided whether to attack Iran over its disputed nuclear program, a standoff that has the Middle East on edge. The president sought to assu...
A man's body has been found in his home after it lay undiscovered there for four years following his suicide. David Carter, who neighbours said was well-liked, told friends he was moving from his home in...
President Obama said Sunday that he deserves four more years in the White House in a pre-Super Bowl interview with NBC’s Matt Lauer. Mr Obama told the Today show host: ‘I deserve a second term,’ and added...
These are the snowy owls attracting quite a crowd of onlookers across America as an ‘unbelievable’ mass migration continues to grow. Bird enthusiasts are reporting rising numbers of the Arctic birds wingi...
Taxpayers were horrified to discover that their hard-earned cash is being spent on giving an artist £160 an hour to stand completely still beside a lake. Sam Firth has received £10,000 from lottery fundi...
They have long been championed as a way to combat global warming by creating clean energy. But wind farms can actually alter the climate according to a new study by a group of American scientists. The t...
Syrian troops today resumed their brutal assault on Homs with shells raining down on the restive central city every 30 seconds. The attack, which rebels claim is aimed at a makeshift hospital run by anti...
Dozens of houses were destroyed and children were crushed to death when their school building collapsed after a devastating earthquake hit the central Philippines this morning. At least 13 people were ki...
A magnitude 6.2 earthquake has struck the Negros - Cebu Region, Philippines at a depth of 35.4 km (22 miles), the quake hit at 10:10:24 UTC Monday 6th February 2012 The epicenter was 59 km (36 miles) NNW ...
Facebook and YouTube could be to blame for the spread of the mystery Tourrette’s-like illness that is blighting a town in upstate New York. Doctors said that symptoms are being ‘reinforced and magnified’ ...
Town halls are switching off half a million street lights to save money despite fears of increased crime and accidents, a Daily Mail investigation has found. The majority of county councils in England an...
The notorious terrorist who plotted a shoe-bomb attack on a plane is to be freed from jail just hours before the Olympic Games begin. Saajid Badat's release will only add to security fears at the high-pro...
A pensioner died just an hour after a nurse rejected pleas to call an ambulance from colleagues who feared he was seriously ill. War veteran Harold Massey, 83, had been transferred to a Bupa nursing home ...
Venezuela's left-wing president has raised the stakes over the Falkland Islands by pledging his armed forces would fight alongside Argentina in any conflict with Britain. The inflammatory promise from Hu...
David Cameron was under intense pressure last night to slash the £1billion in aid Britain gives to India after the country said it no longer wanted the money. India's finance minister Pranab Mukherjee sa...
So the BBC is focusing on right-wing terrorism Today. That’s nice. ( link ) Dr. Matthew Goodwin has created a nice politically correct name for Islamic inspired terrorism. “A.Q. terrorism.” Doesn’t that so...
Three people have been killed and dozens are believed to be trapped after a building collapsed in Pakistan's second-largest city Lahore. "The factory has completely collapsed and two houses next to it as ...
In December 2011, Wikileaks released ‘Spy Files’, a project revealing details of the burgeoning surveillance and interception industry. The list of companies providing high-tech equipment to governments i...
The report attempts to collate data on 2010 weapons sales by EU member countries. Western Europeans were the biggest arms exporters. The biggest customers were the repressive regimes of the Middle East an...
Washington loves free trade – if it produces a surplus for the U.S. In an election year, with a modest economic recovery underway, American politicians are trumpeting their credentials in saving and creat...
TEL AVIV, Israel, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- China, contemplating the possible disruption of oil supplies from Iran, appears to be making moves toward cementing its links with energy newcomer Israel, a move that cou...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's oil exports to the United States have dipped in recent months to their lowest level in nearly nine years, according to new U.S. government figures, reflecting a long-...
The possible introduction of a single currency within the future Eurasian Economic Union requires much discussion and consideration, Grigory Karasin, Russia's deputy minister of foreign affairs, said in M...
HOME prices in China fell for the fifth straight month in January as tightening measures continued to take effect, according to research released yesterday by the China Index Academy. Prices fell an aver...
The European Union may be prepared to lend Egypt up to 500 million euros ($660 million) to help it finance a budget deficit provided it successfully concludes a financial assistance agreement with the IMF...
One of the worst parts of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) was its ridiculous secrecy, under which it was easy for negotiators and industry reps to see draft text, but impossible for the pub...
Remember when the US hiked its debt ceiling on Friday courtesy of a formulaic 52 affirmative votes in the Senate, giving the Treasury $1.2 trillion in dry debt powder to attempt to grow the economy one mo...
As tensions between the US and Iran heat up, author Michael T. Winter believes the main reason behind America’s harsh stance is Tehran’s move to seek an alternative to the dollar as an oil currency. Eco...
NEW YORK ― In America, moms and dads aren’t the only ones tracking down children staying out late. Once the sun goes down, law enforcement authorities are also chasing teens on the loose. A growing numbe...
The mass protests after the parliamentary elections have changed the political situation in Russia. But not enough to prevent Vladimir Putin from becoming president for the third time. Ivan, a 20-year-ol...
The National Government condemned the arrival of the HMS Dauntless, a British warship, to the Malvinas Islands and urged the UK to “avoid falling in the temptation of engaging in discourse “that transform...
Facebook continued to show off its growing political muscle Tuesday night, as its nascent political action committee disclosed an impressive six-figure haul during its inaugural fundraising quarter. Face...
In demonstrations barely reported in the media, peasants and students in the Northeastern Indian state of Assam are fighting together against a proposed gargantuan network of dams across the upper reaches...
China, citing historical discoveries, says that the entire South China Sea should be its own exclusive economic zone. The Philippines, however, shares a long border with the sea and sees some of it as its...
Archbishop Ieronymos, the head of the Church of Greece, has taken the rare step of writing to Prime Minister Lucas Papademos to express serious concerns about the effectiveness of the government’s fiscal ...
The United States, Britain and France have begun to deploy troops in the Gulf in a move which experts say suggests preparations for a war with Iran. The first strikes could be carried out at the beginning...
Persian Gulf? Khaleej-e-Fars? Forget it; time to call it the American Gulf - to the delight of the vultures, jackals and hyenas of war, Israeli and Anglo-American. The House of Saud wouldn't be too disple...
WASHINGTON - Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) General Martin Dempsey told Israeli leaders on January 20 that the United States would not participate in a war against Iran begun by Israel withou...
Japan’s Panasonic Corp forecast a record annual net loss of $10.2 billion on Friday, joining beleaguered rivals Sony and Sharp in a sea of red ink as they struggle to fix their broken TV businesses and ov...
Following Twitter’s decision last month to begin censoring the messages of users based on restrictions of their respective countries, Google has followed suit and announced that it will begin a similar pr...
Dire Straits, “Private Investigations”
More than 20 hospitals will get a £1.5 billion taxpayer bail-out because they are at "severe risk" of failing patients, the Department of Health said today. Seven hospital trusts in areas such as London...
Probably no questions are more relevant today than those Niall Ferguson considered in his lecture on Monday (30 January 2012), hosted by the Swiss Institute of International Studies, at the University of ...
Supporters of pipelines that cross international frontiers have fervent supporters in the energy industry, who maintain that they are “win win” solutions for both energy producing nations and transit coun...
RANGOON — Burma owes US $11 billion in foreign debt—some of it decades old—and is negotiating with Japan and Italy to repay the outstanding sums, the finance minister said, disclosing the country's extern...
Lenin graces the cover of a recent issue of The Economist. The Financial Times is running an entire series on the “crisis in capitalism.” Francis Fukuyama, a recovering neoconservative, makes a plea in Fo...
Pressure on Greece's recession-stricken economy has intensified after international debt inspectors admitted an additional €15bn (£12.5bn) would be needed to fill a newly discovered black hole in the coun...
WASHINGTON – Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke defended the central bank's decision to hold interest rates at record-low levels for the next three years, during a contentious hearing Thursday before fede...
MANILA, Philippines – A strong earthquake in the central Philippines killed at least five people Monday as it destroyed buildings and triggered landslides that buried dozens of houses, trapping residents....
video platform video management video solutions video player The police came for Amelia Reyes Jimenez in 2008 to arrest her for one count of child endangerment, a misdemeanor, because she had left ...
This is a remarkably sober assessment of Russia today and a clear defining of the counter economic force of corruption. Plainly, Putin is moving toward a true systemic reform. This comes after...
At least 15 people have been killed in a fresh wave of attacks by Syrian forces on the city of Homs, according to activists and residents. Sky's chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay, near Homs, said 12 sepa...
Western society is been forced to come to grips with aspects of other societies that were never part of our own history or at least not nearly so and have long since been resolved in any case. ...
What has become obvious during the past decade is that the technology exists today to pretty well expect to salvage anything you want, if not today, inside the lifetime of the person looking. F...
Perhaps it was time and perhaps it was Europe’s turn to be strongly reminded that the climate is quite able to mix up a nasty spate of lousy weather. It can do this without a serious volcano, alt...
** The Gaza Flotilla false flag operation - "The agent who co-ordinated the NATO / Mossad Operation was Abdelhakim Belhadj, who is now in charge of NATO´s training of the so called 'Free Syrian Army'. "Fu...
*A study of researchers proves that the **risk of birth defects increases four-fold if the pregnant mother has diabetes*. There is concern that increasing levels of diabetes, particularly Type 2, could m...
*Almost 100 conventional MPs have on paper to the prime minister influence him to cut subsidies for wind turbines. Actually the government needs renewable sources, such as wind, to make available 15% of ...
*I'm more of a coffee man.* "Lobbyists have clout in Romney’s campaign circle; 14 raised $1.6m for candidate in 2d half of 2011" by Michael Levenson, | Globe Staff, February 05, 2012 Mitt *Romney*, who...
Welsh government launched a campaign to stop people smoking in cars when children’s are there. *According to chief medical officer for Wales Dr Tony Jewell children in cars were predominantly at risk fro...
"Gingrich backer says he would support Romney as nominee" February 05, 2012 LAS VEGAS - Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino executive keeping Newt Gingrich’s presidential hopes alive, has relayed * ass...
Powell is husband of missing Utah woman Susan Powell. GRAHAM, Wash. — Josh Powell sent an e-mail to his attorney Sunday with a simple message: "I'm sorry, goodbye." Minutes later he accepted his sons int...
LAHORE: The roof of a factory building caved in in Lahore when its boiler exploded, DawnNews reported. More than 30 people, including women and children, were trapped under the rubble whereas eight peopl...
MANILA, Philippines — A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck the central Philippines on Monday, killing a child and triggering a local tsunami alert. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology issu...
William Holman Hunt's The Scapegoat, 1854-56. "We cannot refasten the bindings because we now know that the scapegoats of sacrifice are innocent. Christ’s Passion unveiled the sacrificial origin of human...
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...
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 Diane Morrow “In Women Who Run With the Wolves," Clarissa Pinkola Estes, a Jungian analyst and storyteller, retells a story about a handless maiden....
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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*... 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....
Abilene, Texas, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
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 friends.
*“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 -...
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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 i...
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...
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...
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Fewer than one in 10 Facebook users support its plans to make its biographical “timeline” feature compulsory. As part of a major overhaul of the site, all publicly viewable messages, comments and photog...
Violent criminals have been using Facebook to taunt victims and their families from jail, it was disclosed yesterday. In the past two years, nearly 350 people have been caught posting entries on Faceboo...
Six out of ten Britons now say they are not prepared to queue for goods, as the over-55s in particular say web shopping is easier. Retailers could be losing out on 21million potential customers, research...
The chief executive of the company behind mobile gaming phenomenon, Angry Birds, has said that piracy helps companies attract more business. Talking at the annual Midem music conference, in Cannes today,...
British children under the age 12 feel ‘sad’ without an internet connection, a new study has found. Forty-nine per cent of British children aged 12 and under, would be sad without access to the web, whi...
The number of British students applying to university has plummeted by almost 44,000 following a sharp rise in tuition fees, according to new figures. Data from the Universities and Colleges Admissions ...
Churchill would be dismayed by modern Britain’s capitulation to jackboot egalitarians, says Jeff Randall. Between Christmas and New Year, the 70th anniversary of an event, which in no small way helped c...
U.S President Barack Obama's administration has started legal procedures to enable the U.S. to provide Uzbekistan with limited military aid, CA-News reported U.S Deputy Secretary of State for South and Ce...
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...
Europe's politicians are losing touch with reality. Greece is broke, and yet Brussels wants to send the country billions in new loans, to which there is growing opposition within the coalition government ...
Freddie Mac, the taxpayer-owned mortgage giant, has placed multibillion-dollar bets that pay off if homeowners stay trapped in expensive mortgages with interest rates well above current rates. Freddie be...
Five government teams dealing with Japan's tsunami and nuclear catastrophes kept no detailed records, an official said Friday, adding to a growing picture of chaos in Tokyo's disaster response. Earlier t...
Israel laid out a vision for an "impossible" border during exploratory talks with the Palestinians in Amman this month, a Palestinian official told AFP on Sunday. The official, who spoke on condition of ...
The sun is waking up. After several quiet years, it bombarded the Earth with two consecutive solar storms this week, which generated many nights of spectacular auroras seen from backyards around the North...
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