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Reuters) - Greek parties will try on Wednesday to agree to a reform deal in return for a new EU/IMF rescue to avoid a chaotic default, after repeated delays which have prompted warnings that the euro...
(Reuters) - Hiding behind a culture of "omerta" -- the Italian word for the Mafia's code of silence -- would be deadly for the
Catholic Church, the Vatican's top official for dealing with sexual abuse of ...
(Reuters) - Syrian forces thrust into the rebellious city of Homs on Wednesday, killing dozens of civilians by the accounts of opposition activists, and Turkey appeared to be preparing a new push agai...
Image: Libya after Gaddafi, is it any better? Amid growing outrage over civilian casualties in Syria, there are ever more urgent calls to aid -- or at least protect -- the uprising against President Basha...
It's the late, great
Joe Raposo's birthday, born February 8, 1937. Wonderful, wonderful, songs. Right to the good stuff: 1.
Dave Weigel has fun. Not bad. 2. Steve Kornacki, before last night, on the GOP...
A low-slung skyline. A slate gray sky. Rumbling. Close your eyes. It could be the sound of rolling thunder. Instead, it's another shell falling on a neighborhood in Homs. "You don't know if the rocket i...
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player It’s the end of the world as they know it. For a growing number of Americans, preparing for the end of days is a full-time business, whether the e...
Don't even know where to begin with this IG report ~Library Chronicles Orleans Levee District examining options for former Bally's casino Citizens Insurance to discuss hurricane judgment School Probes Con...
Emails posted on the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission website after the Fukushima disaster last March have revealed the agency was kept in the dark about the scale of the crisis. The correspondence, po...
*WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2012* *Part 3—At the Post, flub never dies:* We’re all sons and daughters of Flubber now! For that reason, we might want to understand the way flub culture works. First law in the...
Four men went on trial today accused of killing orangutans and other endangered primates at a palm oil plantation in Borneo. Phuah Chuan Hun, manager of the plantation in East Kalimantan, Indonesian Born...
Right Wingers to Learn the “Koch Truth” For those of us that have been fighting the regime of the Koch brothers and their friends – to us, this would be self-evident, but I feel I need to point it out to ...
A Nasa spacecraft has captured an avalanche of fine ice and dust thundering over a cliff near Mars's north pole. It's not the first avalanche captured by the HiRISE
camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance ...
A Chinese father has sparked anger after posting a video online which showed him forcing his son to run around and do push-ups in the snow, wearing only his underpants. Filmed in New York on Chinese New...
Two youths who started the M1 fire 'high fived' each other when they realised what destruction they had caused, a court heard today. When Luke Matthews, 18, heard how much news coverage the fire, which cl...
A pilot on an Indonesian
airline was arrested just hours before he was due to command a
flight after testing positive for crystal meth. The 44-year-old pilot for Lion Air, Indonesia's largest domestic air...
The Amelia Case: UFO Contact in Necochea (Argentina) By Guillermo D. Gimenez On February 4, 1988 a strange circle measuring over a meter and a half in diameter, covered in fungi, was found...
A bill that would make the death sentence mandatory for gays who are 'repeat offenders' was reintroduced in Uganda's parliament today. The controversial move likely to draw fresh condemnation from Western...
*(Not the progressive)* As Markos pointed out at Daily Kos yesterday, the Ohio Republican Party is looking like it's going to the bottom of the lake in November. But 'til then, they're still running the s...
Mark Mardell addresses the difficult subject of US foreign Policy without committing the new BBC crime of “Value Judgement.” Poor Obama is in a sticky spot. In a period of of electioneering, he must wrest...
BBC journalists have been told not to call hate preacher Abu Qatada an 'extremist'. Using such a term to describe the man once called 'Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man in Europe', is making a 'value judg...
Details of secret experiments by scientists who have created the most deadly form of flu in the lab will inevitably be leaked - potentially into the hands of terrorists - an expert has warned. A furore e...
Just like ALEC - right wingers experimented on Minnesotans last night at the caucus in one town. The right wing media in Minneapolis (and that is all we have) is falling all over themselves this morning t...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 70.9 km (44.1 miles), the quake hit at 13:06:49 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 125 km (77 miles) SSW of Tona...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Turkey-Iran Border Region at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:28:59 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 19 km (11.8 miles) East...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck near Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 9 km (5.6 miles), the quake hit at 11:51:36 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 20 km (12.4 miles) Southeas...
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Ecuador at a depth of 69.8 km (43.4 miles), the quake hit at 10:54:43 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) ESE of Esme...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck near Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 9 km (5.6 miles), the quake hit at 10:06:27 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 20 km (12.4 miles) Southeas...
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 9.7 km (6 miles), the quake hit at 12:01:37 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) West...
An unexpected temperature spike this week in a nuclear reactor at the embattled Fukushima plant, has required emergency countermeasures.
(Santorum won all three states last night... Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado, swing states, where Republicans sent a clear message to GOP Central: NO LIKE MITT! Voters were uncomfortable with the "I...
*Scientists in the US have successfully made human being brain cells in the lab that are a correct copy of hereditarily caused Parkinson's disease. To make the human neurons the scientists used a techniq...
*Internet addresses which tie to the video streams have been posted to a variety of admired message board sites. Feeds from thousands of Trendnet home security cameras have been breached, allowing any we...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 112.4 km (69.8 miles), the quake hit at 09:39:41 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) WSW of Tona...
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*KDE is a Linux desktop environment* that rather unexpectedly has stepped forward as a suitable alternative for the desktop experiments and developments from Ubuntu's Unity, Gnome 3 shell and (Linux Mint)...
*A scientist from the University of Queensland used time lapse photography to capture the footage. Coral might appear solid and inanimate, but unexpected new footage of a mushroom coral inflating itself ...
According to researchers noise from ships stresses whales researchers have measured stress hormones in whale faeces, and found they raised with the density of shipping. B*ut the new study, reported in th...
Up to 120 defence force personnel will leave Brisbane on Wednesday to help flooded inland towns with the massive clean-up task. Emergency Services Minister Neil Roberts says he hopes their arrival will b...
Image: ABC The South Korean government says it has written to a dozen Sydney councils asking for any information they might have about Korean nationals who are involved in prostitution at local brothels. ...
Image: AAP An E.coli warning has been issued to some parts of the NSW Central Coast after the bacteria were detected in the water supply. Residents in Kariong are being advised to boil all water used for ...
Image: AAP A severe thunderstorm warning has been issued for parts of NSW, with residents being told to prepare for large hailstorms and flash flooding. The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) issued the warning ...
A group of men has stormed the Syrian embassy in Canberra, smashing up the ground floor, as protesters attacked five other Syrian embassies in Europe and the Middle East. Australian Federal Police say ex...
There are grave fears for a woman whose car was swept away in flood waters in the inland Queensland town of Roma. But rescuers managed to save a boy who was also in the car when it was driven into the wa...
Image: AAP Communities across northern NSW are assessing widespread damage to homes and roads on Saturday as easing weather conditions have led to floodwaters receding for the first time in five days. Bu...
Bandung - SA (37), patients who died of suspected bird flu in Hasan Sadikin Hospital this afternoon, Tuesday (02/07/2012), will be buried to a TPU Ciburuy, tomorrow. The family did not allowed to see or...
Opposition activists in Syria claim dozens of civilians have been killed by government forces in the central city of Homs following another night of shelling. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Hu...
As the continent continues to experience social, political and economic upheaval, we ask if African unity is achievable. The 18th African Union (AU) summit ends on Monday in Ethiopia with 40 heads of st...
The botched launch of Phobos-Grunt highlights Russia-US distrust, failed rockets and conspiracy theories. Los Angeles, CA - On Sunday, January 15, the sorry tale of Phobos-Grunt came to a fiery end. Afte...
Here's a story that the BBC seems to a tad reluctant to cover for some reason. B-BBC contributor Alan observes; "No mention of this story on the BBC website despite it being on 'Drudge' hours ago and th...
Beijing, China - From July 2005 until this past December, China's renminbi (RMB) appreciated steadily. But then the RMB fell unexpectedly, hitting the bottom of the daily trading band set by the Peoples' ...
Water management is a major problem in the country where many farmers risk losing their crops and income. While some areas in Thailand are still reeling from last year's floods, other areas are sufferi...
We ask if the US should reconsider its 'lock 'em up and throw away the key' approach to crime and punishment. The US has the highest prison population in the world - some of whom have been subjected to ...
The agreement aims to establish an international legal framework for targeting copyright infringement. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a global effort to protect intellectual property ...
More intense heat waves due to global warming could diminish wheat crop yields around the world through premature ageing, according to a study published Sunday in Nature Climate Change. Current projectio...
Trends can be difficult to detect in real-world data, and the noisier the data, the tougher the task becomes. A longer time series can help limit the impact of noise, but these can be difficult to come by...
Image: ©Scripps Institution of Oceanography Despite worldwide efforts to curtail plastic use — to ban plastic grocery bags, to switch to reusable water bottles instead of disposable plastic bottles, and ...
With its latest acquisitions from Washington and Europe, the Saudi Air Force will have more fighter-bombers of more advanced models that the Israeli Air Force. Deep concern over this was recently relayed ...
House prices have failed to rise in any given month since the summer of 2010. House prices have failed to record any monthly increase for a year-and-a-half, with the pressure on household budgets and th...
Carlos Fuentes, Mexico's greatest writer, claims that legalising drugs is the only way to end the devastating violence that has claimed 50,000 lives in five years. Latin America reveres its authors like...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Minahasa, Sulawesi, Indonesia at a depth of 22.8 km (14.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:52:25 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) NNE fro...
While IDF analysts at the 2012 Herzliya Conference describe the weapons aimed at Israel, instructors teach kids to put on their gas masks. While top military analysts at the 2012 Herzliya Conference descri...
Home Front Command may run out of protective kits in three months, leaving millions vulnerable to unconventional warfare. Unprepared: The Home Front Command is poised to run out of gas masks within month...
Former astronaut Janice Voss, one of only six women to make five forays into space, died Monday in Scottsdale, Ariz.
*Website for this image** * The job of the Royal Airforce is to indulge in sex orgies, kill innocent civilians and help run concentration camps? *1.* Foxy Roxy is a former RAF sergeant. Transsexual Foxy R...
North Korea's new leader Kim Jong-un has made a visit to a privileged school for the children of the party and military elite in a bid to bolster his image. Video provided by state media KRT showed Kim'...
There are moments when you listen to the BBC when the clouds suddenly part, the sun breaks through and the person being interviewed layeth a smackdown on the BBC interviewer. Such was the case this morni...
I had a very strange experience yesterday evening on the Tube. I sat down next to someone without looking who it was, got my Kindle out, and was startled to hear them ask "Good book, mate?" I looked over...
The raging debate over Mario Draghi’s credit rescue has refused to die down. A disturbingly large number of credit experts warn that the ECB life-line is not the "game-changer" that the markets seem to t...
The renewal of American leadership can be felt across the globe... From the coalitions we've built to secure nuclear materials, to the missions we've led against hunger and disease; from the blows we've d...
The Federal Reserve has now committed to keeping short-term interest rates near zero for almost three more years. They have also committed to a 2% inflation target. Some say QE3 is just around the corner,...
ALCAHUANO, Chile — Eric Pineda, a dock agent in this old port south of Santiago, peered deep into the Achernar’s hold at a measly 10 tons of jack mackerel — the catch after four days in waters once so ric...
Weakened by chronic infighting and the demise of its long-time financier Moammar Gadhafi, the African Union is turning instead to the embrace of its richest new ally: China. Col. Gadhafi, the Libyan dict...
An average salaried worker with a family of more than two would have to save 10 years of salaries to lease an apartment in Seoul's upscale Seocho district, a survey shows. According to property website D...
The number of apartments under W200 million in the Seoul metropolitan area dropped by 320,000 in the past five years (US$1=W1,124). According to property information provider Dr. Apt, out of 3.16 million ...
A study of 642 junior and senior high school students by a team of researchers from Catholic University St. Mary's Hospital showed that 9.5 percent or 61 were addicted to the Internet, most of them to onl...
Fewer people in Seoul discuss their problems with family members. The proportion of Seoul residents who said they do not turn to relatives with personal issues nearly doubled from 8.1 percent in 2007 to 1...
Media articles predicting an Israeli war on Iran are just fearmongering designed to increase sanctions and hysteria. Washington, DC - Talk about deja vu all over again. In September 2010 The Atlantic's J...
Steven Pinker, author of "The Better Angels of Our Nature", argues this may be the most peaceful era in human existence. Despite the seemingly endless stream of news stories focusing on violence, crime a...
NEWPORT BEACH - A new economic order is taking shape before our eyes, and it is one that includes accelerated convergence between the old Western powers and the emerging world's major new players. But the...
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe - From downtown shops that stock cheap clothing and shoes that fall apart after one wear, to mining concessions in platinum, gold and diamonds - the Chinese finger is now in virtually e...
Rick Santorum wins Minnesota and Colorado, and tosses in the Missouri beauty contest to boot. Yikes! I'm with everyone else: I didn't see this coming. In the last couple of days, sure -- the polling didn...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck near Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 9 km (5.6 miles), the quake hit at 06:08:43 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 20 km (12.4 miles) Southeas...
Yes they do as this story makes clear. What I find somewhat intriguing is that the total number of lived lives approaches 100 billion. Why I find that interesting is that it coincidentally is...
It appears that smart design configuration has allowed commercial grade solar cells to be produced with real efficiency in excess of 20% for the first time. Plenty of lab top efforts has been cla...
As we come to appreciate the astounding civilization of the Minoans that ended with Thera, we have also come to understand that the successor empire was Atlantis based on the delta south of Sevi...
Just understanding the chemical basis and even knowing it is chemical is important in terms of understanding memory. I will go a little further. It is very important to be interested in what ...
During a Special Edition of *NBC*'s Today Show, broadcast live on Sunday before the Super Bowl, Matt Lauer interviewed Barack Obama and asked the President about a potential Israeli attack on Iran. Obama ...
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Buckdog - 8 hours ago
*REGINA -- Critical in the subtle battle for the hearts and minds of those in the so-called "new Saskatchewan" has been the portrayal of the self-entitled left of the "old Saskatchewan". Or at least, that...
With the allocation of gas masks and bomb shelter information to embassies Israel, as well as a marked deterioration in relations over the past several days between countries in the Mideast including Iran,...
"Hollywoodism and Cinema" at the 30th Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran. Image from Islamic Republic News Agency.In Iran: Meeting Ahmadinejad,trashing 'Hollywoodism,' and eating KabobBy Danny Schech...
Russia’s General Staff gears up for large-scale strategic military exercises in view of possible Israeli and U.S. attacks on Iran. Russia’s Defense Ministry has begun preparations for the Caucasus 2012 s...
Some 2 million Americans adolescents experienced a bout of Mental Health page on depression" major depression last year, but only about a third of them got any help in dealing with the sadness, irritabili...
Working 11 hours a day may not only make you more tired -- it could also make you more depressed. A study of civil servants in England found that working excessive hours was linked with more cases of maj...
UCLA's Anderson School of Management and Stanford University are among more than 100 colleges using Turnitin's database to detect plagiarism in application essays. The student's admissions essay for Bost...
Reporting from Atlanta— Ronda Storms is a Republican state senator from Florida. She is also a mom who buys the groceries for her family of four. A few months ago, Storms, 46, started noticing that some f...
A recent IRS report showing that current and retired federal employees owe more than $3.4 billion in income taxes is fueling a drive on Capitol Hill to fire -- and prohibit the hiring of -- tax delinquent...
Another in an occasional series in which Wall Street Law Blog posts excerpts from primary source documents that flat out contradict Wall Street's revisionist history of the financial crisis... Top execut...
The escalating fuel crisis pushed bakeries to close their doors on Thursday, as protesters in several governorates blocked railways and clashed in queues outside gas stations and butane gas depots. In Mi...
The official line from the United States and the European Union is that Tehran must be punished for continuing its efforts to develop a nuclear weapon. The punishment: sanctions on Iran's oil exports, whi...
The currency wars are heating up. On Wednesday, Federal Reserve boss Ben Bernanke promised speculators he would keep interest rates low until 2014: 'To support a stronger economic recovery and to help ens...
The battle over biometrics between the Unique Identification Authority of India and India's home ministry has ended in a compromise, according to a report in NDTV, India (25 Jan). The Unique Identificati...
After 40 years of economic growth based on debt, the era of “debt capitalism” has come to an end, says Wolfgang Streeck. The Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Col...
The GCC should seize the initiative and propose talks if western powers are unable to start negotiations with Iran. In spite of bluster from belligerent hawks in the United States and Israel, it is highl...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will not abandon the multibillion-dollar Iran gas pipeline project, despite the threat of sanctions from the United States if Islamabad went ahead with the plan. “There is no change...
The Obama campaign is probably too smart to take much solace in the nice-looking chart above showing his popularity rebounding among blue collar whites. Good headway but these people, while understanding ...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will not abandon the multibillion-dollar Iran gas pipeline project, despite the threat of sanctions from the United States if Islamabad went ahead with the plan. “There is no change...
BEIJING — A Chinese maritime surveillance aircraft based in Shanghai will expand its coverage this year to include areas of the East China Sea disputed with Japan, according to recent reports by local med...
Despite harsh weather conditions, the Arctic is becoming a global hot spot, with non-Arctic countries like China, India and Brazil pursuing “observer” status on the Arctic Council – an intergovernmental b...
A US drone has killed 10 suspected militants in northern Pakistan near its border with Afghanistan, according to security officials. The drone programme, which is part of US counter-terrorism efforts, was...
Argentina has vowed to formally complain to the United Nations about Britain sending one of its most modern warships to the Falkland Islands. The country's President Cristina Fernandez announced plans t...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Albania at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 04:28:22 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 16 km (9.9 miles) Southwest of Pogradec, Albania N...
A magnitude 3.3 earthquake has struck Nevada at a depth of 26 km (16.2 miles), the quake hit at 04:16:24 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 11 km (7 miles) Northwest of Trinity, Nevada No Re...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand at a depth of 54.7 km (34 miles), the quake hit at 01:58:43 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) ESE o...
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 01:53:01 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) No...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Negros - Cebu Region, Philippines at a depth of 11.8 km (7.3 miles), the quake hit at 00:41:03 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 54 km (33 miles) ...
A magnitude 3.4 earthquake has struck the Gulf of Santa Catalina, California at a depth of just 0.9 km (0.6 miles), the quake hit at 00:30:47 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 9 km (6 mile...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Svalbard Region at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 23:37:03 UTC Tuesday 7th February 2012 The epicenter was 201 km (124.6 miles) Southwest of B...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 64.6 km (40.1 miles), the quake hit at 22:30:34 UTC Tuesday 7th February 2012 The epicenter was 119 km (73 miles) West of Tapac...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Negros - Cebu Region, Philippines at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:59:15 UTC Tuesday 7th February 2012 The epicenter was 4 km (2.4 miles) Sout...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Negros - Cebu Region, Philippines at a depth of 30 km (18.6 miles), the quake hit at 20:48:12 UTC Tuesday 7th February 2012 The epicenter was 8 km (5 miles) South...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Negros - Cebu Region, Philippines at a depth of 10.2 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 20:37:44 UTC Tuesday 7th February 2012 The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) WS...
I grew up as a massive fan of the Beatles, and I felt a great loss when John Lennon was gunned down in 1980 in New York City. One of his greatest songs that had a great meaning for me was "Imagine", and i...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the King Country Region, New Zealand at a depth of 250 km (155 miles), the quake hit at 10:31:05 UTC Tuesday 7th February 2012 The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) Sou...
Some say it is an Orwellian world now - others say it's like going Through the Looking Glass...or Down the Rabbit's Hole. Some call it, Cognitive Dissonance. One thing is certain. We are being lied to, ...
This video is well worth your attention.
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*Inequality between rich and poor highlighted by UN panel* 6 February 2012 Ming Hwee Chong, pictured center, representative of the Baha'i International Community to the United Nations, addresses a panel di...
Canada is Israeli occupied territory. That, my dear readers, and especially those living right here in Canada is absolute fact and easily proven by the actions of the criminal Harper regime in Ottawa. Ou...
David Arkenstone, "Across The Great Ocean"
"Although you've surely seen it, you might not have noticed it. During a cloudless twilight, just before sunrise or after sunset, part of the atmosphere above the horizon appears slightly off-color, slight...
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Workers on BHP Billiton’s new building in Perth, West Australia, replicated the famous ‘Lunch Atop a Skyscaper’ photo from the thirties of workers having their lunch on a steel beam high above Manhattan....
“Love is about choices. It's about putting down the poison and the dagger and making your own happy ending, most of the time; and that sometimes, despite all your best choices and all your best intentions...
I am constantly searching for material that shows exactly WHO the real criminals are on planet Earth right now, and how they have the insane goal of world domination within their sights, and thus the tot...
*"There Was..."* by Chet Raymo "Richard Wright's classic 1945 memoir "Black Boy" recounts his childhood in the racially charged South of the 1920s. It is a heartbreaking tale of poverty, hunger, prejudic...
*Scott and Vanessa Wilk and their two children* Today Vanessa Wilk, a prominent Santa Clarita Republican and wife of GOP Assembly candidate and college board trustee Scott Wilk, himself a former top staff...
[image: Officials from Fukushima prefecture collect soil to check for radioactive contamination. AP / Yomiuri Shimbun] By arevamirpal::laprimavera 7 February 2012 There was a piece of news about 20,000...
[image: The sun rises over the Swiss and French Alps, seen from a snow-covered vineyard next to Lake Geneva, in February 2012. BBC] By Steve Connor 4 February 2012 The bitterly cold weather sweeping Bri...
"Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides." - Shakespeare, King Lear. "After religion, shame is the second bond that keeps nations united, just as shame...
Why the AGs Must Not Settle: Robo-signing Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg Posted on February 4, 2012 by Ellen Brown Original here A foreclosure settlement between five major banks guilty of “robo-signing...
The tarsier's high pitch allows him to communicate within his own private channel.
...not quite the same the way as the *folk tune* and definitely more Dave's purview, but this seems to be what happens when a bulk carrier full of raw logs meets *70 knot winds and associated water*. Found...
*Then they are made of the same stuff as AmeriKan newspapers. * "UK tabloid editor defends his ethics" Associated Press, January 13, 2012 LONDON - A former tabloid newspaper editor told Britain’s media eth...
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[image: image] Several inches of global warming have now covered Europe for eleven days. Here’s the tragedy in a headline: *Europe death toll now 400 from icy weather.* Can we now, please, begin to re...
It seems the tables have turned. Russia has replaced America as the nation that protects the free world from the evil oppressors. History is filled with irony. Video: Former General Says Russia Will No...
"Scots’ vote on independence from Britain sought for 2014" January 11, 2012|By Robert Hutton LONDON - Alex Salmond, Scotland’s nationalist first minister, said yesterday that he aims to call a referendum ...
"2 men get prison in ’93 death in Britain" January 05, 2012|By Karla Adam LONDON - A judge sentenced two white men to at least 14 years in prison yesterday for killing a black teenager 18 years ago, a case...
Colorado and Minnesota Republicans hold their caucuses tonight (and Missouri Republicans hold a beauty contest primary). How should the press cover it? It's tricky. One extreme is a tweet I just saw from ...
Northern Overexposure: JP Muckraker Slabbed Blog Slapped for Defamation Against Gay Canadian Couple ~NOLA DEFENDER To fight violent crime, New Orleans may need to get the lead out~Mark Moseley Editilla~Ne...
Preparing for Iran strike? Foreign embassies in Israel have recently started to formulate contingency plans to evacuate their citizens from the Jewish State in case of a missile attack on Israel. Senior o...
*What size bra?* "UK seeks data on breast implant breaks" January 05, 2012|By ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON - Britain’s health secretary has demanded that private UK clinics supply data by the end of the week ...
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[image: image] That’s become the question of this political term, hasn’t it, the answering of which is going to hold up the government’s flagship sell-a-little-bit programme for its power companies: Can...
Niedercorn, Luxembourg. Thanks for stopping by.
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CENSORED NEWS - 16 hours ago
Click arrows below to watch videos, Part I and II *Part 1 - Occupy the United Nations INDIGENOUS DAY OF RESISTANCE January 27, 2012* San Francisco - The Native American Community, with support from th...
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Biased BBC - 16 hours ago
Richard Black attracts a lot of attention in these pages. Biased BBC's Alan notes... "You have probably heard that the science is settled, that the debate is over....because the consensus is that AGW is r...
Our bed broke. Like snapped in half broke. I am happy to be married to a handy person because he was able to mend it with some new wood and screws. The biggest casualty was our wedding glasses that were...
"Credit is a system whereby a person who cannot pay gets another person who cannot pay to guarantee that he can pay." - Charles Dickens
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Biased BBC - 16 hours ago
A B-BBC reader from north of the border has this cry of despair for BBC Scotland; "The BBC Scotland is an organization that is so biased to one religion & a minority community in Scotland that is has no ...
*The Ninth Circuit panel says that legally established rights can't be taken away by ballot proposition just because the organizers don't approve of same-sex couples.* *by Ken* Let's be clear at the outs...
*"The Federal Reserve and Other Crimes Against Capitalism"* by Eric Fry "New York Times writer, Steven M. Davidoff, recently dubbed the Federal Reserve, “the most successful hedge fund around.” After read...
The U.S. investment in commercial space taxis will soon double.
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Biased BBC - 17 hours ago
[image: Abu Qatada, the Islamic extremist] Thoughts? "The BBC has told its journalists not to call Abu Qatada, the al-Qaeda preacher, an “extremist” in order to avoid making a “value judgment”, the cor...
* The President of Greek Cyprus, in Jerusalem* *Report: Israel will ask to station jets in Cyprus* Israeli and Greek Cypriot officials are to discuss allowing the Israeli Air Force to station jets in Cypr...
OK, so it's not real spaghetti -- it's a computer visualization of the complex magnetic field that creates Earth's magnetosphere -- but it sure looks tangled.
The razor-like rocks off the Tuscan island of Giglio have taken down more than a dozen ancient ships.
For a Tuesday, it's been a pretty eventful news day. So, culled from all over the intertubes box comes these news items straight into Pottersville Central. ------------------------------ Perhaps the bigg...
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CENSORED NEWS - 17 hours ago
Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
If you watched the Super Bowl, not that there's really something wrong with you if you didn't, you might have enjoyed the half time show. Madonna staged an elaborate presentation and did a decent job of ...
*"Why Personal Privacy is Now Public Enemy #1"* by Joel Bowman "Yes…he’s probably listening… We’d prefer to invite you to a quieter place, Fellow Reckoner…somewhere we could talk in private. A speakeasy, ...
NPR had a story this morning about the opponents of Hugo Chávez coming together to put up a single candidate to face the dictator in October's scheduled presidential election. The opposition to Venezuel...
Deforestation is not seen as a cause for snow loss on Kilimanjaro.
Why Demand Nuclear Transparency from Iran and Not Israel?
The cargo ship Dry Beam is moored at Ogden Point for repairs after losing part of its load when it was hit by a rogue wave about 480 kilometres off northern Vancouver Island on Thursday. The wave, believe...
What goes up must come down. Who knew that might be the epitaph of America's once mighty Middle Class? Robert Reich sees through the latest unemployment numbers. They may look good but they're a harbi...
These animal fossils push back the date of the world's first animals another 100 million years.
The entire staff at a school in California have been suspended while authorities investigate allegations of child sex abuse. All 88 teachers and 40 support staff are being temporarily replaced at Miramon...
I want to agree with Jonathan Chait, who argues there's nothing at all hypocritical about playing by the current campaign finance rules even as one attempts to change those rules in the future. However......
One feature of climate change is the erratic arrival of weather extremes. Australia, for example, is enduring its second year of massive flooding following many years of extreme drought. Meanwhile, Euro...
Patria.cz, a server for Czech investors, published a shortened Czech translation of Andrei Shleifer's essay called Seven things I learned about transition from communism Andrei Shleifer co-authored the ...
Pressure is rising on Greece's national unity government to agree tough reforms demanded by the country's lenders. The EU, IMF and European Central Bank have made further spending cuts, labour market ref...
We have a lot of coffee drinkers in our office. The receptionist and I bring in our own creamer - I bring in whole milk and the other person brings in International Delights. We are two of the lowest p...
By: Duane Craig Through the Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. taxpayers helped Gulfport, Miss., complete an emergency cleanup of the Chemfax industrial site at Three Rivers and Creosote roads. The bil...
*“Is That Fear? (Bank Short Sales)”* by Karl Denninger “You have to wonder... "Banks, accelerating efforts to move troubled mortgages off their books, are offering as much as $35,000 or more in cash to d...
It'll be up to the US Supreme Court to decide the validity of California's ban on gay marriage. A US Federal appeals court has ruled the ban violates the US Constitution. "*...the panel found that Propos...
Daredevil adventurer Felix Baumgartner's plans to plunge 23 miles from the edge of space back to Earth.
BRATTLEBORO -- Fish taken from a lake in northern Vermont had similar levels of strontium-90 and cesium-137 as fish taken from the Connecticut River near Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon. Dur...
One Ukrainian coal miner was killed and nine were injured in a methane gas explosion at a coal mine in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, the emergency situations ministry reported Tuesday. The explo...
Farmers are being urged to spray for locusts as more become evident across areas of South Australia, including the mid-north. Biosecurity SA has had reports of high numbers near Narridy, Yacka and Spaldi...
Arne Duncan’s position on the use of value-added test scores seems to have changed in the last two years. In August, 2010, he seems to be saying that test score gains are a measure of teacher effectiveness...
VIENNA, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- Higher than normal levels of radiation Iodine 131 was measured in the air in Austria but without danger to the public health, said the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety...
SANTIAGO, Feb 7 (NNN-Prensa Latina): The Chilean Ministry of Health declared a sanitary alert in the central southern region of Bio Bio on Monday, due to an outbreak of hantavirus in the zone. The measur...
The fake news story directs users to a video, which then asks them to update their video player. The 'updated player' is in fact a Trojan that infects their PC A fake news page saying, 'U.S. attacks Iran...
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*Anonymous hacks attorneys for Marine in Iraq massacre* *"This may completely destroy the Law Firm."* Posted online by Anonymous Feb. 3, 2012 *The manifesto:* http://pastebin.com/Ca2Vshsk Fellow Pirates, it...
Sunday I was watching the Republican talk shows that show up on all the channels on Sunday mornings and happened to surf by George Will as he made the following statement. *This is the what a true Repu...
A teenage victim of sex assault hanged herself after her barrister broke strict legal rules and caused the first court case to collapse. Dana Baker, who was 16 when she died, hanged herself near a busy ro...
Russian FM Sergei Lavrov begins talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, says Syria committed to stopping violence. Nick Rowlands reports
Five workers are missing after an undersea tunnel collapses at a refinery in Japan's Okayama Prefecture. Travis Brecher reports.
Today we're kicking off a new day for our Blue America chats. Same time as always-- 11am (PT) but on Tuesday's from now on. And what better way than to start with a populist icon whose grassroots congres...
Prophetic politics:Charting a healthy role for religion in public lifeBy Robert Jensen / The Rag Blog / February 7, 2012[The Practice of Prophetic Imagination: Preaching an Emancipatory Word, by Walter Brueg...
Charles Dickens turns 200 today - or he would have were he still alive. With my admittedly plebeian tastes in literature, Dickens and Twain are a complete banquet. "*You only have to look around our s...
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Officials in Greece are under pressure to reach an agreement on a new bailout package, as the threat of a default hangs over the country. Prime Minister Lucas Papademos met with of...
CARS - China is mass producing cars and they're getting very good at copying other car manufacturers. Imagine being able to buy a Ford Mustang... it looks like a Mustang, it drives like a Mustang, heck it ...
Eco-sleight of hand may reach stratospheric proportions if Bill Gates and other members of his Club of Billionaires succeed in pushing geo-engineering as the solution to anthropogenic climate change. T...
Nobody likely envies the challenge President Barack Obama faces getting his “messaging” right on Iran. He must meet the demands of election-year politics and continue to press Tehran’s back to the wall ov...
A new study surveyed 2,500 drivers over the course of a month.
*Read this on Daily Kos this morning* In summary, most Wisconsin Republicans in the state legilsature [sic]signed legal agreements promising not to discuss public legislation in public, distributed an int...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Honduras at a depth of 24 km (14.9 miles), the quake hit at 16:16:42 UTC Tuesday 7th February 2012 The epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) Northeast of Siguatepeque, Comaya...
A magnitude 3.1 earthquake has struck Oklahoma at a depth of just 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 16:29:30 UTC Tuesday 7th February 2012 The epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) ENE of Shawnee, Oklahoma No Re...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Banda Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 415.6 km (258.3 miles), the quake hit at 15:37:41 UTC Tuesday 7th February 2012 The epicenter was 204 km (127 miles) NNE of DIL...
[image: The KS Endeavor fire at the Funiwa Field in Nigeria on 17 January 2012. Chevron] By Ejiofor Alike 7 February 2012 The damage caused by the fire on *KS Endeavour*, a drilling rig operated by FOD...
A Chevron natural gas rig still blazes off the coast of Nigeria after two weeks.
One solution to the Fermi Paradox is that there are "green aliens" that have reached a Utopian state of being in balance with nature by not generating waste products -- and are therefore undetectable.
A new think tank will foster radical ideas for big issues.
New over at the Plum Line, I ask whether Mitt Romney is about to go through a rough patch thanks to Tea Partiers in the House GOP conference. There's a long history of coordination, and lack of coordinatio...
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Go Luxemburg! According to Michael Beckley, the United States should be deeply concernedabout the power-political position of Luxemburg, Denmark, Switzerland, and others. Okay, not really. But that's th...
Imagine. The weather we've been experiencing here in the southern U.S. not actually being a "good thing" for the rest of the world. (It's 70 degrees in February at the Carolina beaches, folks!) Imagine. An...
It is not yet clear whether Russian scientists have succeeded in their quest to drill into Lake Vostok. National media on Monday reported a breakthrough into the lake, the largest of more than 300 bodies...
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 14:20:50 UTC Tuesday 7th February 2012 The epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) SSE ...
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If you had ever told me that a recipe containing orange juice and pork could be amazing I would have raised my eyebrows, but this is seriously delicious. It is the perfect combination of sweet and savory...
*TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2012 * *Does his basic claim make sense:* Unfortunately, the terrible grimy Peter Hoekstra is running for the senate from Michigan. On Sunday, during the Super Bowl, he aired a smal...
It's going to happen. We don't have any other choice. Growth, the crack cocaine of post-war industrialism in the Western World, has (pardon the pun) outgrown its social, economic and even political util...
You need to watch this video. (Photo by John Carroll)
William K. Black talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about financial fraud, starting with the Savings and Loan debacle up through the current financial crisis. Black explains how bank executives can use ...
A medical dilemma has inspired a world-first achievement.
The twitters are all worked up this morning about the announcement that Bob Kerrey will not, after all, be returning to Nebraska to run for the open Senate seat there. Now, Nebraska Democrats are certainly...
*TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2012* *When dumb things are said by great people:* Last Wednesday, the New York Times made a mistake. Unless you read the New York Times, in which case it was Gingrich’s fault. Wit...
*TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2012* *Part 2—Bruni frisks Romney’s great grandpa:* In recent decades, American pseudo-political discourse has largely been a study in flubs. Consider what happened when Candidate K...
Now that the Super Bowl game is over, I am hoping that the American public will finally turn their attention to more important matters, such as the criminal actions of their own government in being nothing...
Achille Mbembe is a social theorist who focuses on how sovereignty(exercised by governments or organizations) in the modern era adopts anattitude and policy orientation entailing the “instrumentalization...
American Scofflaw - - - - 2 inShare Last week, the White House claimed that unemployment dropped for the fifth consecutive month to 8.3 percent — the lowest it has been in ...
[image: Floodwaters around St George, Queensland, Australia, February 2012. Queensland police service / AFP / Getty Images] 7 February 2012 (CNN) – Australian authorities on Monday pleaded with hundreds...
*From Facebook - today Tuesday, February 7* *When* Thursday Time10:00am until 1:00pm *Where * New Hampshire State House , 107 North Main Street, Concord, New Hampshire *Description * If you believe that...
American Scofflaw An FBI advisory aimed at Internet Cafe owners instructs businesses to report people who regularly use cash to pay for their coffee as potential terrorists. [image: FBI: Paying Cash For...
They just look at the pictures; women do the reading.
: Here is part one, where I argued that international relations as a field has become increasingly uncomfortable with the America’s post-Cold War hegemony and the level of force used in the GWoT, but…...
The famous waterways of Venice have frozen over as Europe continues to be gripped by a deadly chill. The big freeze has caused traffic problems throughout Europe, blocking roads and shutting down airport...
Russia's foreign minister said that President Assad is willing to seek a solution to the violence engulfing Syria - as his forces continue their attack on the city of Homs. After talks in Damascus this ...
Cao Duc Phat, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development has sent an urgent dispatch on February 6 to all provinces and cities nationwide to urge implementation of proper measures to control an H5N1 vi...
As the science of anti-doping gets tougher on would-be cheaters, so too do the standards of proof for authorities.
A unique device turns excess water pressure from reservoirs, water treatment plants and factories into electricity.
Happy Birthday to Brad Hennessey, 32. He was still hanging in there in the minors, in the Astros system, in 2011; I'm rooting for him to make it back. And now the good stuff: 1. I'm fascinated by the data...
Lots of folks use war as analogy for football (US version) or football as analogy for war, such as the blitz starting with war going to football and going back to war. How about we take a key concept from...
*THE ARK IN SPACE* proclaims itself to be *"A Compendium of Creatures"*, which it is. Take a minute and check it out. The puddy-tat above? That's a *Manul – the Cat that Time Forgot*. Really. *ROUND* pu...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 59.9 km (37.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:37:54 UTC Tuesday 7th February 2012 The epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) Ea...
State of LA releases report on sea-level rise of 3 feet by year 2100 Sen. David Vitter wants to remove Corps of Engineers from lead role in projects Fifth Circuit to hear PLF suit over EPA “vetoing” Corps...
Don't forget to check out the previous post. Massive Syrian Crowd greets Sergei Lavarov- Russian FM Thanks! "Anonymous" is clearly, and I have said it before... an arm of the military apparatus. Whoever ...
Democrats should only be so lucky! Later today we'll be talking with lifelong progressive icon, Asheville's populist city council member, Cecil Bothwell, who was at least partially responsible for driving...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Hokkaido, Japan Region at a depth of 307.1 km (190.8 miles), the quake hit at 13:30:04 UTC Tuesday 7th February 2012 The epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) ENE from Wakka...
(CNN) -- The unexplained beachings of scores of dolphins over the past month along Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is the largest "single-species event" of its kind on record in the northeastern United States, a...
A swollen river in Greece bursts its banks, flooding homes and forcing authorities to declare a state of emergency Tuesday, officials said, as rescuers scrambled to a Bulgarian village nearly washed away ...
Clues to how life evolved, not only on this planet but also possibly on alien worlds, might be found in underwater caves in the Bahamas.
NAPLES, Fla. (AP) - Officials say dead panther has been found along U.S. 41 in southwest Florida. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission reports that the remains of the 5-year-old uncollare...
Karachi: The citizens of Karachi have found another entertainment as a fisherman brought 40 feet long dead shark from the Arabian Sea. The fisherman brought the shark in Charai Fishery Karachi. Fish is st...
Beachgoers may notice a high number of dead sea birds washing ashore on the First Coast lately. Gary Anderson, a member of the Jacksonville Waterways Commission, just happened to be on the beach for a st...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Negros - Cebu Region, Philippines at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:08:05 UTC Tuesday 7th February 2012 The epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) WSW ...
Today is going to be a two post day, so stay tuned.... First this video. Throngs of ordinary Syrians greet Sergei Lavrov as his car moved through Damascus. Still believe most Syrians aren't positively thril...
A 21-year-old man has been arrested in connection with an attack on a white teenager by a gang of Asian youths. Dan Stringer, 17, was repeatedly kicked and punched by a mob of up to eight people and left...
YAOUNDE, Cameroon — Cameroon state radio says that Mount Cameroon, a volcano in the country’s southwest region, sent ashes and flames into the air in a brief explosion. Cameroon Radio Television reported...
Hackers sought $50,000 from U.S. anti-virus firm Symantec Corp in return for the stolen blueprints to its flagship products under what the company says was a sting operation run by an undisclosed law enfo...
*“I Am Not I”* “I am not I. I am this one Walking beside me whom I do not see, Whom at times I manage to visit, And at other times I forget. The one who remains silent when I talk, The one who forgives, ...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Workers at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant on Tuesday raised the amount of water injected into the No. 2 reactor to the highest level since the plant achieved a stable state of...
Flip-flopping effects both politicians and voters but not in the ways you might think.
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Bio-Bio, Chile at a depth of 16.2 km (10.1 miles), the quake hit at 12:02:11 UTC Tuesday 7th February 2012 The epicenter was 140 km (86 miles) WSW of...
*"No Wrong Response: Experiences Shape Your Reactions"* by The DailyOm "There is no such thing as a right or wrong response to any given situation as we all come to it with our own experience. Our view of...
Flood waters fill the Balonne River to a record height while a makeshift levee appears to stop water from flooding an Australian town. Sophia Soo reports.
Bosnian army evacuates people by helicopter as snow continues to paralyze the country. Sophia Soo reports
(Reuters) - Iran on Tuesday denounced as "an antagonistic move" a tightening of U.S. sanctions targeting Tehran's central bank and giving U.S. banks new powers to freeze Iranian government assets, and sa...
*"Nothing Personal"* by James Baldwin "If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe. The forces thus released in the peo...
Police arrest 10 protesters at an ''Occupy Portland'' march against police brutality. Travis Brecher reports.
Spike in violent crime leaves Salvador streets empty, police strike continues. Sophia Soo reports.
Residents worry about aftershocks in the wake of 6.7 magnitude earthquake in the central Philippines. Jessica Gray reports.
(Reuters) - An Egypt run by Amr Moussa would be a civilian state with an army that enjoys respect but not "a life of its own," a vision that could challenge the privileges of generals who have been ruling...
Feb 7 (Reuters) - Trade between Asia and Iran is likely to slow as new U.S. sanctions make payments more difficult, traders said on Tuesday, although the more determined can still find a route through Mid...
[image: Link] Puyallup, Washington (CNN) -- The tragic tale of two boys killed along with their father in an apparent murder-suicide took another gruesome turn after authorities said the children suffered...
(CNN) -- Australian authorities on Tuesday told more than 2,000 residents who had left a town at the mercy of record-breaking flood waters to stay away until the danger had passed. The swollen Balonne R...
(CNN) -- The death toll climbed to 48 on Tuesday from a strong earthquake that rocked the Visayas region of the Philippines, state media reported. Another 92 people were reported missing as the nation's m...
Air France expects to cancel nearly half its long haul flights Tuesday as a strike by aviation workers enters its second day. The workers, including pilots and flight attendants, have called for a four-...
Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- Iranian lawmakers appeared ready to impose a ban on oil exports to Europe in retaliation for sanctions put in place by the European Union and the United States in January, state medi...
Greek union members are expected to go on a daylong strike Tuesday to protest new austerity measures sought by foreign lenders as the country negotiates to keep its finances afloat. Officials in Greece a...
The idyllic tourist destination of the Maldives descended into violence and political chaos Tuesday after a revolt by police officers led to the resignation of the country's first democratically elected ...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov visited Damascus on Tuesday to meet Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, days after world leaders accused Russia of helping give the Syrian government a green light to ...
Internet giants Google and Facebook removed content from some Indian domain websites today following a court directive warning them of a crackdown ‘like China’ if they did not take steps to protect religi...
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In case you missed it, the marketing geniuses at McDonald's thought it was cute to promote their latest concoction of fat, salt, sugar, and unpronounceable ingredients as being healthier than petting a dog...
The kitten born with two faces has tragically died after barely living to the age of just two days. Nash Hand and Amelia Forsythe, of Port Charlotte, Florida, named him Harvey Dent after the character’s...
Britain is to send equipment to help the opposition oust Syrian dictator Bashar Assad after William Hague said there was ‘no limit on what resources we can provide’. The Foreign Secretary announced plans...
Vigilante justice is on the rise in Detroit, according to new reports. Statistics show residents in crime-ridden neighbourhoods are taking matters into their own hands as citizens cope with alarmingly hi...
A passenger plane has landed safely after making an emergency landing at Belfast International Airport. The plane, an Airbus 320 bound for Tenerife, declared an emergency after taking off half an hour ea...
WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT Police are investigating a video showing a man being ambushed and brutally beaten allegedly because he was gay. Members of a violent Atlanta street gang filmed themselves punchin...
A city's independent traders are launching their own currency to boost local businesses and prevent it becoming another victim of 'Clone Town Britain'. Organisers hope the Bristol pound will stop big com...
The busiest crossing point for illegal immigrants into Europe is set to be blocked with a new £2.5million razor wire wall. Greek authorities plan to erect the six mile, 13ft high double fence, on an area...
Judges have quashed a notorious ruling which allowed a Nepalese killer with no wife or children to stay in the UK to protect his right to a family life. Campaigners hope the ruling in the case of Rocky G...
Seven out of eight UK ladybird species have declined over five years following the arrival of larger alien 'harlequin' ladybirds in 2004. Harlequins out-compete with other ladybirds for prey and habitat, ...
India doesn't need British aid... it's patronising, stifling and just enriches a corrupt elite. Like a cherished article of religious faith, the Coalition’s policy on overseas aid is regarded by ministers...
A leading academic has sparked outrage after comparing the Holocaust that killed six million Jews to Britain's colonisation of New Zealand. Language lecturer Keri Opai claimed that New Zealand's native in...
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have claimed that five killer whales at the San Diego SeaWorld are treated like slaves because they're forced to live in tanks and perform daily. The case, whi...
A Missouri teenager who admitted stabbing, strangling and slitting the throat of a young neighbor girl wrote in her journal on the night of the killing that it was an 'ahmazing' and 'pretty enjoyable' exp...
A court has seen a dramatic video revealing the final moments of two teenagers who died while 'car surfing' before the SUV overturned and burst into flames. Carlos Velazco and Hunter Perez, both 18, wer...
*Citizens of Oakland -* Anonymous has been watching. Since the inception of Occupy Oakland, We have been actively monitoring your behavior, and exposing the identities and sensitive information of Offic...
Two more bodies have been pulled from the rubble of a factory that collapsed in Pakistan, raising the death toll to 17. The three-storey building in Lahore, which used to manufacture veterinary medicine...
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Russian scientists have finally drilled down through four kilometres of Antarctic ice to a lake that has been sealed for the last 20 million years. Veteran Antarctic researcher Professor John Priscu says ...
A trainee chef was beaten by a gang of Asian youngsters who fractured his skull and left him for dead in what police are treating as a unprovoked 'hate crime' Dan Stringer, 17, who could lose his sight, ...
Tuesday Morning the Rotterdamse Islamitische Basisschool in the area of Kralingen-Crooswijk was evacuated after a bomb scare. The police have found No explosive. A woman entered the school with a bag and ...
You know it is a Saturday when the Lan flight from Chile touches down at the Mount Pleasant Airfield in the Falklands. The weekly shuttle flight from Chile brings goods that could not survive days at se...
The Syrian city of Homs remains under siege as the crackdown on opponents of President Bashar Assad enters a fourth day. Sky News chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay, reporting from Homs, said: "There are...
Ecological 'kings of the jungle' being toppled by forest fragmentation, severe drought and new pests and diseases. The biggest trees in the world, known as the true ecological kings of the jungle, are dy...
Rarely have so few imposed such damage on so many. When five conservative members of the Supreme Court handed for-profit corporations the right to secretly flood political campaigns with tidal waves of cas...
Thousands of people in the northwest Argentine province of La Rioja are mobilising to stop an open-cast gold mining project in the Nevados de Famatina, a snowy peak that is the semi-arid area's sole sourc...
Abubakar Muhammad Shekau was once thought to have been killed, but has re-emerged to lead Islamist group Boko Haram from the shadows as it carries out a bloody onslaught in northern Nigeria. Very little ...
Despite the fact that Iran's Central Bank has been hit with new wave of sanctions, some countries, with which Iran conducts oil trade operations, still use U.S. dollar to pay Iran. Singapore is one of the...
The authorities in India have to wake up to the reality that censorship is not a norm, acceptable in the world today. In what could be considered as one of the most controversial proceedings in the count...
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is planning to develop an application that can track the public's postings to Facebook, Twitter and other social networks, in order to aid how it predicts and ...
Apple has defended its ethical standards after a newspaper reported factories in China rely on child labour, 24 hour days and unsafe conditions to manufacture iPhones, iPads and computers. In an email r...
Goldman Sachs is the bank everyone loves to hate. In the first of our two-part investigation into the bank, we ask why they emerged as the biggest winners in the financial crisis. We also look at how they...
With the Fed announcement sending gold and silver soaring higher this week, today King World News interviewed resident expert Jim Rickards. Rickards has gained international recognition for his deadly acc...
The Obama administration’s defense strategy review, unveiled at the Pentagon on January 6th, is already under attack. Republican front-runner Mitt Romney has argued that the plan is naïve and dangerous. I...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Gulf of Aden, Yemen at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:31:22 UTC Tuesday 7th February 2012 The epicenter was 216 km (134 miles) SSW of Al Mukall...
REYKJAVIK, Jan 28, 2012 (IPS) - Three years ago, thousands of Icelanders were standing outside Iceland’s parliament building chanting "incompetent government" in an attempt to bring down the conservative ...
Hosting your cloud onshore may not protect you when American cops come knocking. Australian organisations destined for the cloud now have the dilemma of dealing with warrantless demands from US law enfor...
AUSTRALIA could be down to just one car manufacturer within the next few years, former Victorian premier Jeff Kennett has warned, saying local players will continue to struggle against declining productiv...
Indonesia lost as much as Rp 2.13 trillion ($238.6 million) to corruption in 2011, although authorities should have been able to easily detect the methods used for graft, a watchdog revealed on Sunday. D...
Although India and China agreed to avoid flare-ups along their border on January 17 this year, yet despite the 15 round of talks, the issue still remains unsettled owing to Indian obstinacy. Both the co...
LONDON – Indian Army Chief General VK Singh in a report has expressed his grave concern over Pakistan-China atomic cooperation and joint military preparations. In a detailed report submitted to Indian Pr...
Amnesty International and other prominent groups keep reporting severe human rights violations by the Libyan militia. According to the reports, prisoners from Libya and other African countries are subject...
In an act of supreme courage– or electoral suicide – President Nicolas Sarkozy last night told France to work harder for lower pay and higher taxes. Mr Sarkozy, insisting that he was speaking as Presiden...
CAIRO -- Mahmoud Yussif runs a mobile phone shop here in the Egyptian capital. He fields customers in rapid-fire succession explaining his products thoroughly, answering questions quickly and efficiently,...
As the US declared its 2013 defense budget, the Wall Street Journal reports that the Obama administration was preparing to create special-operations bases in Turkey. The claim was denied by the Pentagon an...
*"US: One Nation, Under Guard"* by Tim Cushing "Bad news about the impending police state here in America: it's already here. From the indefinite detention (without trial) of terrorism suspects both forei...
Israeli and US hawks are more interested in regime change than the country's nuclear programme Patrick Cockburn Sunday, 29 January 2012 The way in which the growing confrontation with Iran is being sold ...
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A computer programming error doomed Russia's Phobos-Grunt Mars spacecraft, a government board investigating the accident has determined.
In the end, the banks found that they could claim legal title while funding in the short term money. It really worked on their good faith that the title truly belonged to them and was assignabl...
This is obviously a huge step toward been able to read the verbalized thoughts of a vocally crippled human being who is actively cooperating. In fact it appears so promising that it seems reaso...
The actual migrations that populated Eurasia took place some 60,000 years ago or more properly from 60,000 to 40,000 years ago. This was a slow penetration and surely ran into predecessors who ...
Everyone is trying to be not to optimistic, but absolutely nothing has ever actually cured the disease of depression. This is obviously a massive improvement. It works by reacting with the g...
In recent years, the name of Craig Hogan – the proponent of the "holographic noise" – appeared several times on TRF. A year ago, I discussed a BBC program that showed Craig Hogan's Holometer or Hoganmeter,...
Need for better evaluation system Published in USA Today, Feb. 7, 2012 The article "States weaken tenure rights for teachers" emphasizes the importance of evaluating teacher effectiveness. A major problem i...
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*"The Problem with Contemporary Education"* by Bill Bonner "Several of the ‘Capitalism in Crisis’ thinkers — even those who should have known better — thought the government needed to invest more money in...
“The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.”—Steve Biko “If those in charge of our society—politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television—ca...
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...
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When the Arab League asked for U.N. Security Council endorsement of its call for a new government in Syria and sought the imposition of sanctions to pressure Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the Russians...
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player It’s the end of the world as they know it. For a growing number of Americans, preparing for the end of days is a full-time business, whether the e...
Don't even know where to begin with this IG report ~Library Chronicles Orleans Levee District examining options for former Bally's casino Citizens Insurance to discuss hurricane judgment School Probes Con...
Emails posted on the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission website after the Fukushima disaster last March have revealed the agency was kept in the dark about the scale of the crisis. The correspondence, po...
Four men went on trial today accused of killing orangutans and other endangered primates at a palm oil plantation in Borneo. Phuah Chuan Hun, manager of the plantation in East Kalimantan, Indonesian Born...
A Nasa spacecraft has captured an avalanche of fine ice and dust thundering over a cliff near Mars's north pole. It's not the first avalanche captured by the HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance ...
A Chinese father has sparked anger after posting a video online which showed him forcing his son to run around and do push-ups in the snow, wearing only his underpants. Filmed in New York on Chinese New...
Two youths who started the M1 fire 'high fived' each other when they realised what destruction they had caused, a court heard today. When Luke Matthews, 18, heard how much news coverage the fire, which cl...
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