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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, the U.S. Postal Service's quarterly loss ballooned to $3.3 billion amid declining mail volume and the soaring costs of health benefits for future r...
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — When you head down to the beach for a little fun this summer, county officials want you to know about some updated rules. The Board of Supervisors this week agreed to lift an all-out b...
Better technology yields better data. The bad news is the extra water from 2003-2010 would fill Lake Erie eight times. Nearly 230 billion tons of ice is melting into the ocean from glaciers, ice caps, an...
Hopar glacier in Pakistan. Melting ice outside the two largest caps - Greenland and Antarctica - is much less than previously estimated, the study has found. Photograph: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images The ...
Fans pose for photos around Super Bowl Village on Feb. 3, 2012 in downtown Indianapolis, Ind., before the start of Super Bowl XLVI. (credit: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (CBS Cle...
Ray Nagin is focus of federal grand jury probe
Chinese internet video posted Jan. 25 showing sea trials for China’s first aircraft carrier, the refurbished Russian aircraft carrier Varyag. The carrier is undergoing sea trials prior to deployment exp...
CERES -- A pregnant teenager suffered nine days of being beaten, choked and threatened by a boyfriend jealous over finding a message from another man on her cell phone, police said. Richard Garibay, 21, ...
The international community may be forced to 'militarise' the crisis in Syria unless president Bashar al-Assad stops the onsalught on his people, a senior US official warned on Wednesday. The official f...
When I tell people I've been to Mali, the only people who have ever heard of it are tropical disease specialists. Even when I say "Timbuktu," and people recognize the name in a vaguely "Madagascar" sense...
Personnel working offshore on one of Brunei Shell Petroleum’s platforms, Ampa Platform 6 (AP6), made a surprising discovery onboard the facility which is located 20 kilometres away from land. Hamdi Adnan...
The allegations span South American cocaine shipments, US-used car dealerships, money-laundering in West Africa, several money-exchange houses, and end up in a Lebanese bank. In December the US justice d...
The Bank of America Plaza skyscraper in the state of Georgia, the tallest building in the southern US, is just another lamb to the slaughter after it was auctioned off for about half the amount it was wo...
Israel's propaganda machine carefully chooses its words to assert illegal ownership over Jerusalem and Palestine. The words which people use, often unconsciously, can have a critical impact upon the thou...
Newt Gingrich's controversial statement begs the question: Who invented a nationality? The Palestinians or the Israelis? It is hard to believe that anyone who defends Israel's legitimacy as a state would...
Activists says arrests by neighbouring state's army deterring more injury victims from crossing border for treatment. Only a handful of Syrians have made it to hospitals in neighbouring Lebanon, after b...
Supporters rally in Male to demand Mohamed Nasheed's return to power, a day after he was forced to quit as president. Thousands of supporters of Mohamed Nasheed, who says he was forced to resign as the ...
International pressure may have saved some bloodshed in Syria, but a lack thereof will not doom its revolution. United Nations was not a credible institution, that it is just a "game" in which countries ...
Image: Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page issued revised projections about Canada's future finances Wednesday and said Old Age Security is an affordable program in the years ahead. (Adrian Wyld/Canad...
Bank of England policy-makers will attempt to inject life into Britain's ailing economy on Thursday by announcing additional stimulus through quantitative easing, economists predict. The Bank's Monetary...
Florence Green died two weeks before her 111th birthday Photo: Masons Mrs Green passed away in her sleep at a care home in Norfolk just two weeks before her 111th birthday. The great-grandmother signed u...
A home video showing a four-year-old Chinese boy being forced by his parents to run almost naked through the snow in bitterly cold New York has sparked an online uproar. In the video, the little boy run...
Very quickly: some of you will have seen that Greece’s tax revenue from VAT collapsed by 18.7pc in January from a year earlier. Nobody can seriously blame tax evasion for this. It has happened because 60...
The rate of increase in suicides in Greece was the highest in Europe in the first half of 2011, according to figures from the country's health ministry. Experts attribute the rise to the country's economi...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Coquimbo, Chile at a depth of 52.3 km (32.5 miles), the quake hit at 02:05:22 UTC Friday 10th February 2012 The epicenter was 16 km (9 miles) SSW of Ovalle, Coquimbo, ...
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 575.5 km (357.6 miles), the quake hit at 01:47:34 UTC Friday 10th February 2012 The epicenter was 282 km (175 miles) Southeast of Lambasa...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 50.8 km (31.6 miles), the quake hit at 00:38:39 UTC Friday 10th February 2012 The epicenter was 131 km (81 miles) E...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Eastern Honshu, Japan at a depth of 105.2 km (65.4 miles), the quake hit at 21:52:02 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 27 km (16 miles) Northwest of Se...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Macquarie Island Region at a depth of 13.8 km (8.6 miles), the quake hit at 19:21:02 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 413 km (256 miles) South of ...
"Almost every object in the below photograph is a galaxy. The Coma Cluster of Galaxies pictured above is one of the densest clusters known - it contains thousands of galaxies. Each of these galaxies houses...
*"A New Creation Oratorio"* by Chet Raymo "Two centuries have elapsed since Joseph Haydn composed his magnificent "The Creation" oratorio. In all that time, no other musician has given us a better evocati...
“Father, O father! what do we here In this land of unbelief and fear? The Land of Dreams is better far, Above the light of the morning star.” - William Blake, “The Land of Dreams”
As I have stated many times, the nuclear disaster at Fukushima is far from being over, and what we are being told by our own governments, and the complicit media, is nothing but bold faced lies. Right no...
*CANADIAN POLITICS:* *ONTARIO PREMIER'S SPEECH DISRUPTED:* What does a politician have to endure these days ? Just for the simple act of bragging in front of one's numerous rich friends about the devi...
*New York's Eric Schneiderman and California's Kamala Harris, two among the small group of state AGs who held out for a better settlement with the mortgage lenders, are putting a happy face on the deal ann...
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*Photo by Adam Thomas* *Thanks for sharing with Censored News!* By Adam Thomas Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com PRINCE RUPERT -- On February 4, 2012, over a thousand people marched in Prin...
"'Epitaph' solo piano composition by Ralph Zurmühle coupled with wilderness spirit imagery by Cecil Whitt. Video produced by Sam Henegar of Still Waters Imagery & Media, Inc." - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
NOPD detail controversy escalates~WWL Corps Quixotic Yazoo River pump project case heard by federal judges in N.O. BP's blemished safety record is off-limits in trial, judge rules
With beach landings, 25 naval ships and an air assault, the United Statesand eight other countries are staging a major amphibious exercise on the US East Coast this week, fighting a fictional enemy that be...
Disclaimer: The events and characters in this article are fiction like the history of the war on terror. (Fantasy Central, Washington) - On Monday, senior Pentagon officials, speaking before a group of r...
Neil Garfield at LivingLies tells us the specifics of the deal (with the five chosen banks guilty of making billions in wrongful foreclosures and paying pittance fines) . . . Which doesn't benefit you, tax...
This is such a sweet, sentimental video. Barack and Michelle look like they came out of Hollywood Central casting and it's so touching, it makes even me feel a little weepy though I realize it is treacl...
Unfortunately, the man who single-handedly created a secret garden in the middle of Los Angeles has left us for a better place; but, his creation lives on to inspire countless others. Amir Dialameh saw a...
A stand of dying Yellow Cedars. Photo courtesy: © Paul Hennon For the past hundred years, the only name for the plague killing off economically valuable yellow-cedars has been "yellow-cedar decline." The ...
Raccoons easily adapt to challenges of life in the city. Photo courtesy: © Laurie Peterson Able to squeeze into locked garages, open secured garbage cans, unzip tents, and pry up lids on Tupperware, urb...
Photo courtesy: Manish Prabhune/CC BY 3.0 How do you know when structures are about to snap, collapse, and otherwise bust apart? Unless there are intensive inspections happening at regular intervals, usua...
My daughter and I have started preparing my balcony for our spring planting. We have already started some colder-weather seeds outside. I may be a bit optomistic; but, the weather is so mild I couldn't re...
A huge thanks to Stephen Messenger for the use of these photos. They are a breath of fresh air. What's more - As soon as I'm finished this blog, I'm packing my suitcase and moving! Photo courtesy: Stephe...
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*[image: Winston]Parliament is back in session, so by Mark Twain’s standards neither life, liberty nor proper should be safe. But apart from questions about Maori Party integrity and Winston Peter’s wig,...
Reno, Nevada, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
*"Thought..." * by Ken Wilber "Thought proceeds in a line, while the real world does not. Thought is sequential, successive, one-dimensional, while the real world presents itself as a multidimensional, s...
"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either, but right through every human heart, and through all human hearts. This line shifts...
Ever wonder why Big Oil doesn't take its massive profits and take over the alternative ("clean") energy business? Why do the fossil fuelers make such an expensive and concerted effort to thwart the sprea...
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[image: image] AFTER THE REPORT ON the collapse of the CTV building, everyone now wants to hang the builder and designers. “Someone is incompetent!” Is the cry. “Someone must be to blame!” “There's cr...
*"When Your Back's Against The Wall... Don't Be There"* by Zen Gardner "Just don't be there. If lt all possible you shouldn't be in a place like that. If you can avoid getting pinned against anything, tha...
“A man always has two reasons for doing anything– a good reason and the real reason.” - J.P. Morgan
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Psyche! Not *that* Tala! This Tala is a wolf pup, now a full-grown wolf. Watch more inter-species love. Thanks, James!
From soup to nuts? Were back to Syria- The veto stopped the NATO nations from gaining legitimacy, so they continue on with their illegitimate tactics. I promise at some point in time there will be other top...
National Journal's Reid Wilson says that after the vote-counting flubs in Nevada and Iowa, caucuses are and should be on their way out. Josh Putnam demolishes the "are" part of that, pointing out that it's...
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I meant to include this in my earlier post with various action alerts. It's a bit old, but very important. Since this organizing started, Parks Canada has agreed to delay their decision to study it furthe...
Tuesday evening I promised you a more complete look-- and complete with charts (not my strongest suit)-- at Buck McKeon's pernicious, unethical stock trading. When have I ever not delivered? Remember, con...
*"Self-Interest And The Pathology Of Power:* * The Corruption Of America"* by Charles Hugh Smith "The self-interest of the alcoholic is to keep drinking. Is this truly in his best interests? The answer il...
You might want to think again when you post negative comments on Facebook.
To celebrate Jules Verne's birthday, take a look at his science fiction method for blasting astronauts to the moon. Realistic? No. Inspiring? Yes.
Britain's largest space rock -- excavated 200 years ago by an archaeological dig -- was also preserved by the Ice Age.
*All because they oppose the grand designs of the EUSraeli Empire*: "Russian, Chinese firms most likely to bribe" November 03, 2011|Associated Press BERLIN - Companies from *Russia*, followed closely by t...
[image: Kenya: Due to the climate changes, drought is now a common occurrence. James Akena / OXFAM]By Abjata Khalif 3 February 2012 MARSABIT – Nomadic communities living off the dry terrain of northern...
Anonymous has released hundreds of emails after hacking into a mail server used by Syrian President Bashar al Assad's office. *Leaked documents: Part one* *Leaked documents: Part two* Anonymous not only s...
"Tymoshenko’s husband granted refuge; Had applied for political asylum in Czech Republic" by Ellen Barry | New York Times, January 07, 2012 MOSCOW - The Czech Republic granted political asylum yesterday ...
The wireless phone giant is giving parents even more room to restrict their child's phone use.
So we're almost 48 hours out from Rick Santorum's shocker big day and...where are the new endorsements? Has anyone seen any? Look -- we know how this works. Endorsements are a good indication of what part...
WASHINGTON — The United States on Thursday recognized the new government of Maldives President Mohamed Waheed as legitimate and urged him to fulfill a pledge to form a national unity government. State De...
A short while ago I commented on Sir Philip Gluckman's remarks on The Honest Broker. As science advisor to the New Zealand government he has prepared a discussion paper on science advice to government. He...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Uttaranchal, India at a depth of 25.5 km (15.8 miles), the quake hit at 19:17:33 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) NNE from Dehra Dun,...
Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- Two people were killed Thursday as hundreds of demonstrators marched in Yemen's southern province of Dhale protesting the upcoming presidential election, eyewitnesses told CNN. The ...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Northern Xinjiang, China at a depth of 21.7 km (13.5 miles), the quake hit at 18:57:07 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 235 km (146 miles) North from ...
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck the Macquarie Island Region at a depth of just 3.9 km (2.4 miles), the quake hit at 18:52:47 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 432 km (269 miles) South...
*"Debt Beats the Economy in a Growth Race"* by Bill Bonner "Get out your chopsticks! Brush up on your sushi! Learn to read backwards and upside down! Yes…we’re going to Japan! The gist of the Japanese si...
Details on the Russian drilling expedition in Lake Vostok tell of a geyser of drilling fluid that was collected at the surface after the lake was breached.
(Reuters) - Syrian government artillery barrages killed dozens of civilians in Homs on Thursday, activists said, as President Bashar al-Assad, bolstered by Russian support, ignored appeals from world lead...
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Lockdown on Peaks 2011 Photos by Youths of Peaks*Ninth Circuit court bias obvious, as Native Americans are insulted in court order upholding degradation of sacred San Francisco Peaks* *By Brenda Norrell* *...
I used to think that photography was in everything I did, but NOW after starting this project it really is in everything that I do. My husband is starting to hide his face more than ever in photos. What di...
Feb. 9 - The death toll from the heavy snow that has blanketed large parts of Japan rises to over 80. Simon Hanna reports.
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*"Scores of labour activists and seniors started occupying the offices of Conservative MPs in Ontario Thursday afternoon to protest possible changes in the retirement income system. Supporters of a so-c...
Feb. 9 - Turkey vows to help the Syrian refugees fleeing violence across the border. Nick Rowlands reports
(Reuters) - The United States has threatened action that could disrupt a French-led satellite maker's supply chain, spurred by suspicion that it illegally used U.S. know-how or parts in spacecraft launche...
Five people are dead in a village in Nepal after the same leopard attacked them.
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Tonight Question Time comes from London. David Dimbleby is joined by Defence Secretary Philip Hammond, Alastair Campbell, Shirley Williams (apparently not dead yet, it seems), Alan Partridge Steve Coogan...
The rise of the Jewish nation is inextricably linked with the rise of the banking families. In the first part of this article the positive actions of the Rothschilds were looked into. However, the relat...
A man has been charged with attempted murder after a 12-year-old girl was stabbed in Wigan, police say. The girl, who was stabbed twice in the back, was treated for a punctured lung. Her injuries are no...
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While Professor Noam Chomsky was in Tucson this week he was asked about the Mexican American Studies ban. *By DA Morales* *Three Sonorans* http://tucsoncitizen.com/three-sonorans/2012/02/08/video-noam-cho...
A Damascus resident gives DNews an exclusive interview on the chilling juxtaposition of fear and normality there.
Powerful video... and it's been watched by over 18 million people on YouTube. *Religion puts you in bondage While Jesus sets you free Religion makes you blind Jesus makes you see* I spoke to a candida...
Over at Plum Line today, I talked about the possible effects of an improved economy -- and why it's possible that conventional wisdom is too pessimistic. See Ezra Klein this morning for more on the latter ...
By Eric Johnson 8 February 2012 SEATTLE – Debris from last year's earthquake and tsunami in Japan is already washing up on Washington beaches, and much more is expected. Oceanographer Dr. Curtis Ebbsm...
A Dragons' Den 'conman' allegedly blew £230,000 on living a life of luxury instead of his satnav for skiers product that wowed the show's judges. Jean-Claude Baumgartner, 50, is charged with duping Peter ...
*Folks, you may fluff this off as just a coincidence the choreographers choose this esoteric occult theme for the half time show, but, if you do the research, you will discover the ruling elites take it ...
By: Duane Craig Dome Rock Industries was busily handling hazardous waste in Quatzite, Ariz., when it got sideways with the local environmental folks. The company recently agreed to pay a $25,000 settlemen...
Look! Down on the ground. See that small speck at the lower left corner on this picture of Mars? It's alien technology...
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Link: http://youtu.be/WK2LpUoqX6A -- click here to see enlarged Thanks Marian for the head-up! Enjoy a good weekend, John
Yobs as young as 10 rolled a monster snowball into a busy main road as they terrorised passing drivers and pedestrians. The 20-strong gang pelted cars, buses and vans with snowballs and were confronted b...
Himalayan glaciers are melting far more slowly than predicted, according to a new satellite study from the University of Colorado Boulder. Previous estimates of ice loss in the high Asia mountains have ra...
A top food scientist jumped to his death from the roof of his work laboratory just hours after being made redundant, an inquest has heard. Dr Clive Blackburn - who developed products for big brand names i...
[image: Cover of 'The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines', by Michael Mann, 2012.] As anyone with the slightest interest in Earth’s climate knows, the *Merchants of Doubt...
A deaf girl of 10 was trafficked into the UK, repeatedly raped, kept in a cellar and treated as a virtual slave for almost a decade, a court heard today. The orphaned youngster from Pakistan, who is prof...
This photo of an Occupier at Zuccotti Park (Liberty Square) was taken several weeks after the footage of police brutality was posted on YouTube and elsewhere. Considering the government's treatment of the ci...
Ignoring the beauty contest in Missouri and taking the ballot vote in the caucus states (which he'll probably underperform in delegate selection, given that he's the least organized of the candidates), her...
Locked water tap in Kipsaraman, Kenya. Image from oxfam.org.uk.As benign as Lucifer:The privatization of waterBy Richard Raznikov / The Rag Blog / February 9, 2012Beginning about 20 years ago, it dawned on t...
I've lost track of how many times I have struggled through reading scientific research, posting the most relevant sections here on Wit's End and thought, whew, I'm done now! Surely, *this* study proves de...
Tepco Injects Boric Acid Into Reactor as Temperatures RiseBy Tsuyoshi InajimaFeb 6, 2012 Tokyo Electric Power Co. injected boric acid into a reactor at its crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to prevent an ac...
Today, Feb 9, in the WSJ print edition "Southern Nears Reactor Approvals" p. B3 "Federal regulators are expected to give Southern Co the green light on Thursday to build two nuclear reactors in Georgia, ...
*THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2012* *As always, Chris and the Times can’t explain:* Wedge issue fights can boil up fast, especially in election years. Clarity tends to take a hike. Inevitably, your nation’s bigg...
KATHMANDU — A leopard dragged away and devoured a 14-year-old girl in western Nepal in what is thought to be the fifth deadly attack by the same animal in just two months, police said on Thursday. The yo...
Nine members of an al Qaeda-inspired terror group that plotted to bomb the London Stock Exchange and build a terrorist training camp have been jailed. The group also planned to send five bombs through the ...
A man has been arrested after a 12-year-old girl was stabbed in Wigan, police say. The girl, who had been stabbed twice in the back, was treated for a punctured lung. Her injuries are not believed to be ...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Papua Region, Indonesia at a depth of 15.1 km (9.4 miles), the quake hit at 15:18:11 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) North of J...
MEXICO CITY — Officials of a Mexican political party are apologizing to 650 Indians and other people who suffered food poisoning after attending a campaign rally in southern Mexico. But the leader of the...
La Paz, Feb 8 (Prensa Latina) The alert for increased cases of dengue and hemorrhagic fever was declared on Wednesday in the Bolivian department of Beni. The head of epidemiology at the Departmental Heal...
An oil platform was partially evacuated earlier this week when a gas leak was detected, Shell has said. Of the 76 staff on the Gannet Alpha platform in the North Sea, 48 were returned to shore by helicop...
SYDNEY (AP) — A 10-foot tiger shark has attacked a swimmer off a remote beach in Australia's third attack this month. That's as many attacks as the country generally sees in an entire year. Western Austr...
Sent to the Baltimore Sun, Feb. 9 We should all “worry about overwhelming students, schools with tests” (2/7/12). As the Sun points out, the new testing will be extremely time-consuming. There is no sci...
My kid can't go - she's gotta new TV show that's failing....can you send your daughter to kill them Iranians? gotta' show to catch on Fox - now grab your rifle and kill them crazy Iranians! These "people...
------------------------------ Nevada Election Result Likely Fraudulent, Ron Paul Votes Seemingly Discarded [image: Nevada Election Result Likely Fraudulent, Ron Paul Votes Seemingly Discarded ava...
American Scofflaw Rick, Rick, Rick.....before you attempt to instill unnecessary fear into the hearts of your sheep again, we ran out of the desert camo for you but here is a left-over bright orange jumps...
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/275-42/9849-is-america-a-police-state Perhaps the real question is, "why have we allowed this to occur?"
[image: Luftverschmutzung in Liaoning China] Photo credit: lhgszch on Flickr. Back in December 2009, I wrote a post for the Duck called "Wal-mart Isn't Green." Jared Diamond had written a provocative op-ed...
After being isolated for more than 30 hours, a 37-year-old paperboy, SA, suspected of being infected with bird flu died on Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. in the isolation room of Hasan Sadikin Hospital in Bandung, ...
CAIRO: With all eyes on Egypt’s new parliament in January, 13 cases of the H5N1, or bird flu, were reported in Egypt, highlighting that the deadly virus was making a return to the North African country. ...
Shillong, Feb 9 (PTI) Eighteen days after culling of bird-flu affected poultry ended in Meghalaya's East Garo Hills, residents of a locality and government officials were in a tizzy after more than 100 pi...
VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has had only two H5N1 influenza patients in the last two years and both of them are dead. Thus, the H5N1 epidemic has returned, remarked Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh ...
Argentina should be in no doubt that Britain will "defend the Falkland Islands properly" against any threat to its inhabitants' right to self-determination, Prime Minister David Cameron has said. Mr Came...
The capsized Concordia is shifting closer to a dangerous drop off as workers scramble to contain contamination.
This week more than 200 dolphins were found dead along a 106-kilometer stretch at the beaches of Lambayeque. Authorities have not yet been able to determine the cause of the deaths. According to El Comer...
It's easy to think of the Security Council as essentially a reflection of great power interests when we see outcomes such as the failure of a resolution calling for President Assad's departure. However I...
A zero-gravity roller coaster will make you hurl...down the tracks at 100 miles an hour.
RFID tags may soon be cheap enough to stamp on paper.
*THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2012* *What the heck happened to Seamus:* This was an amazing morning on the op-ed page of the Times. As usual, Collins and Kristof bordered the page. But this morning, each scribe...
The Bank of England has agreed to extend its quantitative easing (QE) programme by £50bn to give a further boost to the UK economy. When completed, it will bring the total amount of QE stimulus to £325bn....
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Indonesia has another bizarre way to keep commuters off the roofs of trains: swat them with brooms drenched in putrid goop. "For anyone who is still up there, it'll be like a w...
Nerve Gas May Be Used on UK Rioters, Scientists Fear By Steve Connor, The Independent UK 08 February 12 http://www.readersupportednews.org/news-section2/328-121/9869-nerve-gas-may-be-used-on-uk-rioters-sc...
NEW DELHI (AP) -- India has decided to buy 126 fighter jets from France, taken delivery of a nuclear-powered submarine from Russia and prepared for its first aircraft carrier in recent weeks as it moderni...
Some 1.1 million computers have been infected with a virus that displays obscene images that can't be erased without sending money to its suspected creators, Kyoto Prefectural Police announced on Feb. 8. ...
A temporary storage site for radioactive waste generated under a model decontamination project around the disaster-struck Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant was unveiled to reporters on Feb. 9. To prevent rad...
Social/Science/Fiction preliminary course outline SIS-419.B01, Summer session 2012 Professor Patrick Thaddeus Jackson This course will meet Mondays and Wednesdays, 1:00pm-4:10pm, from 21 May until 28 June,...
Feb. 9 - One dead and 13 wounded in a truck bomb attack in Thailand’s restive south. Nick Rowlands reports
Feb. 9 - Local Maldivian television airs footage showing ousted president being led away by police. Paul Chapman reports.
(Reuters) - The second U.S. drone attack in two days in Pakistan's North Waziristan region killed five people on Thursday, including a senior militant commander with links to al Qaeda, Pakistani intellige...
Feb. 9 - A report finds the CTV building which collapsed in the New Zealand quake last year was not constructed to required standards. Paul Chapman reports.
(Reuters) - The United States is seeking more access to Philippines ports and airfields to re-fuel and service its warships and planes, diplomatic and military sources said on Thursday, expanding its pres...
(Reuters) - Syrian forces bombarded opposition-held neighborhoods of the city of Homs with rocket and mortar fire on Thursday, activists said, as divided world powers struggled to find a way to end the vi...
(Reuters) - Greek leaders clinched a long-stalled deal on reforms and austerity measures needed to secure a bailout and avoid a messy default, government sources said, hours before the country's financial...
*THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2012* *Part 4—Helene Cooper tries to explain:* “Journalists” are deeply involved in the joy of the flub. Just consider one reaction to Candidate Romney’s latest. Romney had been ...
*Castle Romeo was a lithium-deuteride fueled H-bomb** **exploded 1 March 1954 at Bikini Atoll. ** **It yielded 15 megatons and** **had a fireball 4 miles in diameter.* PAKISTAN HAS DOUBLED THE SIZE OF ITS N...
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My inbox is flooded with action alerts from all different groups, which I feel obligated to pass on, even though many (most?) people who read this blog probably get these petitions through multiple sources...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russia at a depth of 21 km (13 miles), the quake hit at 13:24:11 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 32 km (19.8 miles) Northeast o...
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Apple is facing demonstrations on Thursday at a half-dozen of its retail stores around the world from customers concerned about how Apple's suppliers treat their factory workers in ...
Kiev, Ukraine (CNN) -- Suffering in the grip of a brutal winter where temperatures have not risen above freezing in nearly a month, Ukraine has seen a wave of deaths related to the cold, and the country'...
(CNN) -- The deposed president of the Maldives was facing arrest Thursday, a former foreign minister said, as political turmoil gripped the capital following days of violent clashes in the Indian Ocean na...
Brussels, Belgium (Financial Times) -- Representatives of eurozone bail-out lenders are scrambling this morning to finalise an agreement with the Greek government after last-minute demands by Athens thre...
*Beijing (CNN)* -- Do you ever get the feeling you are being watched? Closed circuit cameras recording your movements, strange noises on the phone line, phone calls that suddenly stop, emails being monit...
A new app helps you focus on a smart phone and see where you're going at the same time.
(CNN) -- Germany is expelling four members of the Syrian Embassy, citing the arrest this week of two men suspected of spying on Syrian opposition groups in Germany, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said...
Happy Birthday -- and there are lots of great options today -- to Carole King, b. 1942. Carole King is 70! Another songwriter and performer, by the way, who has been oddly overlooked by the Kennedy Center ...
Corps to appeal EPA ruling to kill their huge, badly engineered pumps project ~Corps lackeys at the Mississippi levee board are asking a federal appeals court to revive a $220 million flood control project...
February 8, 2012 (Photo by John Carroll) *Impunity in Port-au-Prince* *By AMY WILENTZ* Port-au-Prince, Haiti IT has been painful to watch as Jean-Claude Duvalier, who inherited the brutal dictatorship t...
Fred Upton (R-MI) and Aubrey McClendon are attempting to commandeer the natural gas market. Aubrey is the CEO of the largest shale oil interest in the world, Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy; Fred is...
(CNN) -- The United Nations was expected to take up an Arab League proposal Thursday calling for a joint monitoring mission in Syria as President Bashar al-Assad escalated a devastating assault against a...
(CNN) -- Some of the bravest, noblest women and men I have met are members of the United States armed forces. To them, military intervention is not about winning a debate on television or sounding smart o...
A court has thrown out a legal bid to free whales from SeaWorld by campaigners claiming they are enslaved. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) claimed that five killer whales at the San D...
Europe's largest volcano burst into life last night - stranding a top Italian football team on the southern island of Sicily. Lava spewed down the sides of Mount Etna as home side Catania met Roma to pl...
Bold black and white stripes might help zebras evade disease-carrying flies but that's not the only benefit.
Iran today warned it is capable of carrying out military strikes on U.S. interests around the world if America attacks the Islamic Republic. The U.S. has tried to force Tehran to scrap sensitive nuclear w...
The White House said the U.S. was not considering arming rebels in Syria but that no option would be completely ruled out as the Obama administration struggled to find a way to quell violence and end the ...
This is the horrific moment a man was captured on CCTV as he attempted to abduct a seven-year-old girl in the middle of a Walmart supermarket. Brittney Baxter was in the toy aisle of the store in Bremen, ...
Groupon was hailed as a firm for the future when, valued at $15billion, it became the biggest IPO since Google. But investors who stumped up $20 per share when the online deals site went public last year...
A 'perfect storm' of rain falling on freezing ground creating roads like ice rinks has caused dozens of crashes as forecasters warn more snow will fall today. More than 97 road accidents have been report...
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Isn't this amazing? Many other wild shadow creations by Tim Noble and Sue Webster can be seen on a slideshow on Environmental Graffiti and on this *Daily Mail* story. BuzzFeed brings us examples of shad...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the Crozet Islands Region at a depth of 15 km (9.3 miles), the quake hit at 11:21:09 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 1733 km (1077 miles) Southea...
The Eleventh Hour - Why we must not allow BP to settle out of court by Cherri Foytlin They are calling it “the biggest environmental litigation in the country’s history.” And why shouldn’t they? It is the ...
The Eleventh Hour - Why we must not allow BP to settle out of court by Cherri Foytlin They are calling it “the biggest environmental litigation in the country’s history.” And why shouldn’t they? It is the ...
*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* 'Mormanism' is a cult which believes Joseph Smith is a prophet! But believing Joseph Smith a prohet is no 'kookier' than any number of unquestioned shibbboleths an...
Temperatures fell to -13 degrees Fahrenheit in Berlin as the current cold front that has claimed hundreds of lives in eastern Europe makes its way west.
The Amelia Case: UFO Contact in Necochea (Part Two) By Guillermo D. Giménez 1989 was a fruitful year for UFO sightings in the city of Necochea and throughout the region. We can also ment...
*Hoover and boy* Darwin Porter has written* 'J. Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson: Investigating the Sexual Secrets of America's Most Famous Men and Women'*. *The world's largest porn stash, under-age boy lo...
Stevie Wonder, “As”, “Songs in the Key of Life”
(Reuters) - Greek leaders failed on Thursday to agree on reforms and austerity measures, the price of a bailout to avoid a messy default, forcing Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos to go to the country's...
As the Tourette's-like illness continues to plague Le Roy school and baffle health experts, questions are now arising around the cleanup of a 40-year-old chemical spill that contaminated some of the local...
A new wonder fuel dubbed ‘fire ice’ could be buried under the Scottish coast, according to government ministers and experts. They suspect that massive quantities of methane hydrates reserves are locked o...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 34.5 km (21.4 miles), the quake hit at 09:21:57 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 33 km (20 miles) West from Miahuatlán, Oa...
A passenger plane landing at an island airport got caught-up in RAF war games involving 14 military aircraft. A report into the 'needless incident' today heavily criticised military planners and said the...
Britain hit back last night after Argentina vowed to complain to the United Nations that the Falkland Islands were being ‘militarised’. Politicians and military veterans mocked President Cristina Fernande...
A veteran TV anchor in Denver, Colorado, was rushed to the hospital after a dog that recently survived a harrowing rescue bit her in the face during a live TV segment. Max, an 86-pound Argentine Mastiff...
After more than two decades of drilling in Antarctica, Russian scientists have confirmed that they reached the surface of a gigantic freshwater lake hidden under miles of ice for some 20 million years. T...
A psychopath dubbed the ‘Cold Cat Killer’ is believed to have struck for the 34th time - after lacing chicken with anti-freeze. Dozens of moggies have died agonising deaths after ingesting the harmful li...
A father suffocated his six-month-old son in the bath and then hanged himself, an inquest heard today. Paul McBride, 39, of Lancashire, killed baby Ollie shortly after the break-up of a ‘turbulent relati...
A father shot dead a young couple after allegedly becoming upset that they deleted his daughter on Facebook. Marvin Potter, 60, has been charged with the first degree murders of Billy Payne Jr, 36, and h...
A man who became a global internet sensation after he was caught on camera throwing an apparent fare-dodger off a train will not be prosecuted, it emerged last night. Alan Pollock was captured hauling Sa...
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:49:24 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) ENE of Visoko...
* MacArthur* On 5 February 2012, at Voltaire Network, *Thierry Meyssan has an article about the decline of the USA; and about Syria. **www.voltairenet.org/a172632** * According to Thierry Meyssan: *1.* T...
The Australian Medical Association is calling on the State Government to do something about the increasing rate of Ross River virus. The number of recorded cases in WA has doubled in the last year. The s...
A nuclear waste dump in the Northern Territory is a step closer to reality, after the ALP and the coalition revealed they had struck a deal on laws to allow a facility to be built. Despite calls from a l...
The agricultural industry is expected to suffer losses of at least $750 million as a result of the devastating NSW floods, with tens of thousands of livestock at risk. As floodwaters from Queensland and ...
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh says there is "no end in sight" to the flood crisis in St George, as the town deals with a rising river, a damaged weir and inoperable sewerage systems. The Balonne River...
Slaughter poultry of unknown origin is a risk of epidemic spread. (Inspector) - Bird flu (CGC) has made two recurrent deaths from the beginning of the year. Concerns about new varieties of the virus appea...
Alteration of H5N1 virus in poultry in the absence of vaccine against the disease is an increased risk of virus mutate to spread from person to person. Afternoon 7-2, National Steering Committee for hum...
MANILA, Philippines – Philippine officials conceded Wednesday that there was little hope of finding any survivors among 71 people still buried in landslides set off by a powerful earthquake, as jittery re...
Alain de Botton’s suggestion of a “temple to atheism” has received quite a bit of press coverage. It is just one of many suggestions that stem from his new book, Religion for Atheists, which looks at the...
In 2006 the Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet began an investigation into the curious rise of the Icelandic bank Kaupthing, which had come from a small community on a volcanic island and become an unlikely g...
I’m never been sure about Newt Gingrich. On the one hand he doesn’t recognise that Palestinians exist – a remarkably stupid and tactless thing for a potential world leader to say, as my colleague Michael ...
Inequality won’t go away. The gulf between rich and poor concerns conservative commentators more than almost any other issue, as rightly it should. Niall Ferguson was making the point over the weekend tha...
LEAKS of radioactive water have become more frequent at Japan's crippled nuclear power plant less than two months after it was declared basically stable. The problem underlines the continuing challenges ...
TOKYO, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- The operating rate of 54 commercial nuclear reactors in Japan stood at 10.3 percent in January, marking a record low, according to the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum on Friday. T...
The codfish catch is declining, and nets are coming up empty. What to do? For some, the answer is to kill the marine mammals that compete with humans for fish. In Canada, where a resurgent population of ...
AS the death toll in Syria has climbed to perhaps 7,000, proponents of humanitarian intervention are asking, quite reasonably, why the West does not intervene as it did in Libya last year. Not only was Li...
US "prepares military options" to back terrorists in Syria. by Tony Cartalucci February 9, 2012 - After world opinion categorically denied Wall Street, London, and it's NATO forces a replay in Syria of th...
(CNN) -- Europe and the Muslim world seem to be on a collision course that could have major political, economic and ideological ramifications. January 23, 2012, may well come to be remembered as the cruci...
(CNN) -- Doctors studying to become dermatologists have, for years, shared exam questions by memorizing and writing them down after the test to become board certified, CNN has confirmed. Reports of the ...
(CNN) -- Kim Stevens has a problem that affects tens of millions of Americans. If left untreated, it could lead to the death of someone she loves, someone who's part of the family. Stevens' dog Dodger, ...
(CNN) -- Kim Stevens has a problem that affects tens of millions of Americans. If left untreated, it could lead to the death of someone she loves, someone who's part of the family. Stevens' dog Dodger, ...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck of the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 46.3 km (28.8 miles), the quake hit at 07:09:40 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 123 km (76 miles) So...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Alaska Peninsula at a depth of 83.4 km (51.8 miles), the quake hit at 06:26:46 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) ESE of Cold Bay, ...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Solomon Islands at a depth of 65.5 km (40.7 miles), the quake hit at 05:59:01 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) South of Arawa, Bo...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 94.9 km (59 miles), the quake hit at 05:18:44 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 69 km (42 miles) Northeast of Luganville, Espiritu...
United Nations chief Ban Ki-Moon has warned there could be far worse bloodshed in Syria to come as he condemned the "appalling brutality" of the Assad regime. Amid fears the violence seen in Homs may be...
"Wolverine: Magneto's right: there is a war coming. Are you sure you're on the right side? Storm: At least I've chosen a side." - X-Men (2000, Director Bryan Singer/Screenwriter Tom DeSanto). "Col. Clau...
This seems to be our week for good news on the damage repair front for the human body. First nerve repair and now a way to speed heal a broken bone. Perhaps we will also see an end to the sad...
I find it difficult to believe that after a thirty year experiment in steady economic growth brought about by reforming the tax code, that any economist would suggest that a massive lift in taxes...
The rail gun is every high school student’s dream machine. The only problem with it was that it consumed the firing mechanism. Not much fun as a weapon’s platform. This work is now informing u...
What is missing in this discussion is how the Antarctic in particular drains this surplus accumulated heat and puts it all back in balance. The core of Antarctica is a close as one can get to t...
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Susan Rice: No Shame, No Honour, No Integrity. Just A Bloodthirsty, Crazy, and Wicked Witch of War. Hillary Clinton: No Patriotism, No Honesty, No Decency. Just A Bloodthirsty, Crazy, and Wicked Wi...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Seram, Indonesia at a depth of 34.9 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 05:09:11 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 281 km (174 miles) East from Ambon, Mol...
The events of 1989 are crucial to any understanding of the present world. The air is filled with noisy outrage about the moral emergency of the day. We are, according to the leaders of every major politic...
The rural population dwindled even though many baby-boomers are retiring to the countryside, falling below 3 million for the first time. The Korea Rural Economic Institute Thursday said the rural populati...
Bullying at work may be much more serious than it appears. In a survey conducted by the job portal Saramin on 2,975 office workers early this year, 45 percent of respondents said that bullying occurs in t...
Modern children 'lack the attention to read Dickens' A generation of schoolchildren lack the skills needed to read Dickens after being “reared on dreadful television programmes”, a leading author has warn...
A mysterious illness is causing calves to bleed to death on German farms. Veterinarians are stumped over what is causing the deaths: vaccines, genetically modified feed or perhaps even the first mother's ...
Trace amounts of leukemia-linked carcinogens were found in semiconductor-producing factories of Samsung Electronics Co. and other chipmakers, a governmental authority said Monday. “We found that cancer-ca...
Pope 'exorcised two men in the Vatican', claims new book Pope Benedict unwittingly performed an exorcism of two men possessed by the Devil in the very heart of the Vatican, according to the Catholic Church...
Nearly half of UK children under the age of 12 are using Facebook despite being too young to do so, according to a new piece of research. Facebook requires its members to be at least 13 years-old to use ...
Salut souverainistes. For those wanting more details on the euro break-up plan drafted by French economists, here is the link to the L’Observatoire de L’Europe website. A few extracts, loosely translated...
*Buck & Chuck* Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley hasn't exactly been some flaming prairie populist. The Wall Street/K Street axis knows he can always be counted on to do exactly what they tell him to do. Always...
About a dozen officers responded and moved all customers outside. They say the problem was a classic dilemma: supply and demand. There were 150 customers, but only 90 pairs of shoes for sale. They sold o...
With beach landings, 25 naval ships and an air assault, the United States and eight other countries are staging a major amphibious exercise on the US East Coast this week, fighting a fictional enemy that ...
The Senate has passed legislation that includes a provision allowing airports to replace TSA screeners with private security, opening the door for the widely loathed federal agency to be marginalized from...
(Reuters) - China is scouring the world for alternative oil supplies to replace a fall in its imports from Iran, as it seeks to negotiate lower prices from Tehran, and has been drawing heavily on Saudi Ar...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/9067025/Apocalyptic-blast-at-Russian-power-plant-stops-motorists-in-their-tracks.html
Argentine president, Cristina Kirchner, has announced Argentina will appeal to the United Nations over the Falklands Islands, claiming Britain had militarised the South Atlantic in a speech in Buenos Aire...
A California federal court is to decide for the first time in US history whether amusement park animals are protected by the same constitutional rights as humans. The issue arises from a lawsuit filed by...
A group of Republican lawmakers is protesting the removal a reference to God in the patch logo for the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO). The 35 lawmakers, led by Rep. Randy Forbes (R-Va.), wrote ...
CADDO PARISH, LA (KSLA) - The Caddo Parish Commissioner pushing for a ban on pajamas in public is not backing down. Michael Williams' proposal hasn't even been introduced yet, but it stirred up a lot o...
PAKISTAN yesterday warned Britain to help stop the American "Drone Wars" that are slaughtering hundreds of its innocent civilians. The nuclear power chillingly declared it "has the means" to retaliate un...
Two sisters have been charged in St. Croix County Court with sexually assaulting a man with a pliers and giving him urine to drink. Valerie M. Bartkey, 24, and Amanda L. Johnson, 17, both of Somerset are ...
Gunmen loyal to President Bashar al Assad murdered three entire families in Homs on Tuesday night, according to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The families were shot dead in their...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Kyushu, Japan at a depth of 44.5 km (27.7 miles), the quake hit at 03:55:21 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) SSE of Miyazaki, Kyushu, ...
A magnitude 3.3 earthquake has struck Spain at a depth of 8 km (5 miles), the quake hit at 02:51:301 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 1 km (0.6 miles) Northeast of Yeste, Albacete, Castile-...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Seram, Indonesia at a depth of 9.4 km (5.8 miles), the quake hit at 02:39:37 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 268 km (166 miles) South of Sorong, Papua...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 25.3 km (15.7 miles), the quake hit at 21:30:37 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 333 km (206 miles)...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 29 km (18 miles), the quake hit at 21:24:59 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 143 km (88 miles) SSW of Tonala, ...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands, Russia at a depth of 160 km (99.2 miles), the quake hit at 20:57:17 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 297 km (184.1 miles) East of ...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Western Turkey at a depth of 9 km (5.6 miles), the quake hit at 19:57:26 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) Northeast of Kirkagaç, Turk...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Hokkaido, Japan Region at a depth of 167 km (103.5 miles), the quake hit at 19:022:29 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 51 km (31.6 miles) Northwest ...
* "As the Earth Allows the Rain: Sitting with Feelings"* by The DailyOm Taking the time now to sit with your feelings and acknowledge them will save you much distress down the road. It can take great cour...
Sanctions: They Worked Against Saddam. Why Not Against The Tyrants in Israel And America? I don't believe in sanctions. Hell, I don't even believe in the United Nations because it is a fraud and a lie. A...
"Sometimes, you can put some night sky in your art. Captured above Japan earlier this month, a picturesque night sky was photographed behind a picturesque frosted leaf. The reflecting ice crystals on the l...
Remember this? Susan Boyle's first audition. Simply incredible...
I am always surfing through different websites and articles in my constant search for new and interesting material that I want to present to my own readers right here in this blog. I usually take a very ...
*“Wiggling A Finger”* by Chet Raymo “Do a little exercise for me. Stick out your arm in front of you. Now wiggle your index finger from side to side. Now bend it back and forth. Now wiggle your pinkie. "...
"Perhaps it is better to be un-sane and happy, than sane and un-happy. But it is the best of all to be sane and happy. Whether our descendants can achieve that goal will be the greatest challenge of the f...
Michael Mandel has done a rough estimate of the jobs created in the "app economy" since 2007 and published his results in a paper for TechNet (here in PDF). He concludes: How can the U.S. dig itself ou...
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*(Click on image to enlarge ....)* * UPDATE: Kady O'Malley: Garry Breitkreuz and the ghost of old age security debates past!*
“In 2003 the Hubble Space Telescope took the image of a millenium, an image that shows our place in the universe. Anyone who understands what this image represents, is forever changed by it.” - http://www...
Chuck Wild, Liquid Mind III, “Balance” (Galaxies) "I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so com...
House Floor today: Greg Walden (R-OR): ...some of the conferees were not available to meet because they weren't exactly in the country. So that wasn't going to happen until we were both back in session. N...
No new information was reported about the escalating issues at Fukushima building unit 2. Another unit is also having a significant increase in heat, but the unit number seems to change in the Tepco and ...
[image: Map of All Mercury Emissions from U.S. Coal-fired Power Plants, November 2011. EPA / Environment America] By Sue Sturgis 2 November 2011 Rank of coal-fired power plants among America's biggest s...
Chisinau, Republic of Moldova. Thanks for stopping by.
CRISTINA IS NOT HAPPY. According to the *Scotsman*, *"Argentina in UN protest at warship in Falklands"*. ARGENTINA’S President Cristina Fernandez last night vowed to complain formally to the UN Securit...
*And not getting very far because my BG reports have clogged the streets*: "Rolling protest ties up Moscow traffic" Associated Press, January 30, 2012 MOSCOW - Thousands of cars flying white ribbons or ball...
*"Superbug Pneumonia: 37 States, 50% Mortality Rate"* By ActivistPost "This is possibly our biggest infection control dilemma yet. Although cases of this particular pneumonia infection have been on the ri...
Bolivian President Evo Morales; United Native Americans at Occupy United Nations in San Francisco: Bad Bear's photo of Peltier rally in Reno on Saturday.*Censored News passes its 1 million hits mark, with...
*“Old Man, Old Man”* "Young men, not knowing what to remember, Come to this hiding place of the moons and years, To this Old Man. Old Man, they say, where should we go? Where did you find what you remember...
A massive swarm of asteroids may be getting swallowed by the black hole.
"British used a fake rock in Moscow spying" New York Times January 20, 2012 LONDON - A former British senior official has confirmed *Russian accusations * that the *British spy service tried to use a fake ...
“At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
*Plus a confidential to Shelly A.: Give it all up for Noot* *by Ken* "Sign of G.O.P. Unease With Romney," eh? *Ya think?* (Not to be outdone, the *Washington Post* today has Dan Balz exploring "Mitt Romn...
Severe tropical cyclone Jasmine is causing problems for Vanuatu's southern islands.
Our canine friends get us in ways that no other animals do.
* "New DHS Report: If You Love "Individual Liberty" Of If You * *"Believe In Conspiracy Theories" You Are A Potential Terrorist"* by Michael Snyder “Do you love America? Are you against a one world economy...
Not that it should be unexpected, but one of the weirdest claims coming out of the right-wing cadre of Republican governors these days-- you know, the guys who are firing public employees as fast as they...
Much is written of the Rothschild banking dynasty. For many, this family is seen as the focal point of the international menace we know as Zionism. Certainly the dynasty have been key movers in world ev...
------------------------------ *Will Iran Be Attacked?* ------------------------------ February 8, 2012 | Original here Washington has made tremendous preparations for a military assault on Iran....
Mysterious sounds heard and recorded around the world have fueled conspiracy theories.
Wikipedia also provides tools to spot mischief; learn how to use them.
At the blog of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Stephen Ezell posts up a lengthy response to Christina Romer's NYT op-ed on the non-specialness of manufacturing. Ezell writes: Romer’...
I voted for Newt here in Florida but am thrilled by Santorum's victory. This is a victory for conservatives. In the general election, I'll support any one of the 3 conservative candidates out of the 4 in t...
*I'm sorry the recent titles of my posts have trended towards the potty, but when that's what you are working with.... * "Islamist militants admit to London bomb plot" by Alan Cowell and John F. Burns | ...
*I hope he used a **toilet**. * "UK judge grants bail to Muslim radical" Associated Press" February 07, 2012 LONDON - A British court ruled yesterday that an extremist cleric described as one of Europe’s...
The journal *Peace Research* has just published a special issue on climate change and conflict. The introductory essay, by Nils Petter Gleditsch, says this: On the whole, however, it seems fair to say t...
*A few years back, when global warming was near the top of the national and global agendas, a surprising new activist suddenly took the field: the Pentagon. In 2009, it called climate change a “threat” t...
[image: Relative Sea-Level Rise (RSLR) trend lines for the Sabine Pass North (a) and Grand Isle (b) NOAA tide gauges 941 illustrate the significance of geological stability on RSLR, and the difference be...
Interesting post HERE on the DT from Ed West concerning the BBC; "The difference between the makers of Fox’s political programmes and the BBC is that the former believe they are in a battle of ideas while ...
A new model shows the Americas will stay in the Pacific "ring of fire," closing the Arctic Ocean and Caribbean Sea, forming the supercontinent "Amasia."
While 2011 continued the downward trend in shark attacks in the United States, other countries weren't so lucky.
We hear about presidential sex scandals more than in the past. But they're hardly new.
A public opinion poll of Greek citizens show they've lost patience with their political leaders and want new elections, as Greek party leaders continue their delayed talks on a second EU/IMF bailout. Joann...
(Reuters) - European air safety officials extended checks for Airbus A380 wing cracks to the entire superjumbo fleet on Wednesday and said the widespread defects could pose a safety risk if left unremedie...
What you're looking at appeared in full page format in the *Sydney Morning Herald. *It was published in reaction to a call by whacko global warming denier Lord Monckton for Australia's "super rich" to f...
(Reuters) - Syria's army pounded the rebel city of Homs on Wednesday as Turkey sought international action to protect civilians from former ally President Bashar al-Assad, a move that risks the wrath ...
(Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday enlisted five EU nations to help crack down on offshore tax evasion by Americans and ease the burdens the effort has imposed on many banks and financi...
It is announced that the native puppet Stephen Harper is *visiting* his colonial masters in China in order to further enhance the flow of raw materials from the Canadian colonies. Some observers suspect th...
HANOI, Feb 8 (NNN-VNS) — Vietnam’s Department of Animal Health has warned that there is a high risk of a large-scale outbreak of bird flu without drastic preventive measures in the near future. Bird flu ...
A Mississippi State University researcher has uncovered the first molecular evidence linking live poultry markets in China to human H5N1 avian influenza. Henry Wan, an assistant professor in systems biol...
*— Dassault Rafale —* 450 MILLION DOLLARS EACH, somewhere around that, is the cost of acquisition and service of Canuck F-35's over their projected lifespan, for a total around 30 billion dollars. OUCH! ...
*"We Lie With Statistics: MSM (Inflation)"* by Karl Denninger "It just never stops, does it? "The numbers are proving Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke’s critics wrong. More than a year after Repu...
Bhubaneswar: At least 38,000 poultry birds were killed in three daysn the capital city following detection of the H5N1 virus at the Government of India’s Central Poultry Development Organisation (CPDO). ...
US biosecurity board expert warns against details of H5N1 bird flu getting into wrong hands. The bioterrorism expert responsible for censoring scientific research which could lead to the creation of a dev...
POLITICS - The concept that wealth trickles down is a complete sham. Yes, technically, money flows in all directions of commerce. But tax cuts for the rich doesn't = the middle class and the poor making mo...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Kyrgyzstan at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:43:57 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 108 km (67 miles) Southeast of Os, Kyrgyzstan N...
This link was posted at Enenews, which is inexplicably down now: Rising temperatures at Fukushima raise questions over stability of nuclear plant http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/08/fukushima-ris...
Scientists have discovered why an irregularly shaped and hydrogen-shrouded starburst galaxy looks so weird.
Lorne Gunter's article on today's release of short form Census data is so bad that it necessitates a response. Point-by-point: So the 2011 census results are being released today, or at least some results...
The Arizona Republic Feb 28, 2012 p. A2 The short article quotes "activists" who claim the contamination in Nigeria is "the worst outbreak of lead poisoning in modern history." The article notes that "at ...
Sometimes you see something that just makes no sense. I stumbled across several web sites that proclaimed that Philip Corso was the highest-ranking officer to talk about Roswell. Overlooking that much of w...
WELLFLEET, Mass. -- Crews were working to rescue three more dolphins that stranded along Cape Cod beaches on Wednesday. The stranded animals were found inside Wellfleet Harbor at the Herring River. One of...
Newly formed underwater volcano offers scientific opportunities but has disastrous effect on island's fishing and tourism. The formation of an underwater volcano off the coast of El Hierro, the southern-...
*"When Emerging Markets Shape the Developed World"* by Bill Bonner “America is back,” said the President of all the Americans, “Anyone who tells you America is in decline or that our influence has waned, ...
A series of minor earthquakes which hit off Reykjanes in southwest Iceland last night and appeared to have subsided around 10 am picked up intensity and continued until 2 pm. Currently, there is no notabl...
The Natural History Museum in London, which has acquired the rare Martian meteorite, plans to unlock its secrets. Heralded by sonic booms and a fireball, the paperback-sized lump of Martian rock smashed i...
Of course the good news is that with Santorum's three (highly suspicious) wins last night, Romney's presumed ascendency to the nomination is over. Now it's a race, and Ron Paul is still very much in it des...
At least 10 people have been killed and more than 20 people injured when a car bomb exploded near a cafe in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, police say. A police commander told the BBC it was a suicide attac...
David Gibert's Love and Struggle:A brother with a furious mindBy Ron Jacobs / The Rag Blog / February 8, 2012Also see Mumia Abu-Jamal's review of David Gilbert's Love and Struggle on The Rag Blog.[Love and S...
Author and former member of the Weather Underground, David Gilbert, is a prisoner at the Auburn Correctional Facility, Auburn, N.Y. Photo from Indybay.com.David Gilbert's Love and Struggle:Days of rage, reb...
[image: Meteorologist Jeff Masters. cchronicle.com] By Christine Shearer 6 February 2012 If you are interested in weather, chances are you have visited Weather Underground and read the posts of its dir...
A Missouri teenager who was 15 when she was accused of killing her 9-year-old neighbor -- just to see what it felt like -- was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison. The case's matter-of-fact brutality r...
Residents of Homs say the Syrian army is carrying out a ferocious bombardment against helpless civilians. Residents in Homs said on Wednesday that the noose was tightening around their besieged city, wit...
At the end of last year John Nichols did a piece for *The Nation* called The Progressive Honor Roll of 2011. They gave Raúl Grijalva the title "Most Valuable Representative." Not just the most valuable in...
The total amount of ice lost to Earth's oceans from 2003 to 2010 would cover the entire United States in about 1 and one-half feet of water.
A rare species of seabird once considered extinct has been found in Japan's Ogasawara Islands, researchers have announced. A group of researchers from the Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute ...
Author and former member of the Weather Underground, David Gilbert, photographed at the Auburn Correctional Facility, Auburn, N.Y. Photo from Indybay.com.Days of Rage, Rebellion and RevolutionBy Mumia Abu-Ja...
[image: A shoe shine man sits in front of a closed shop in central Athens Wednesday, 8 February 2012. Keith Miller / worldblog.msnbc.msn.com] By Keith Miller, NBC News correspondent 8 February 2012 AT...
Hello and happy Wednesday! How did your week of letting your kind words be heard go? I have to be honest... mine did not go so well. I was doing well and then it all just kind of fell apart. At very least...
Mitt Romney enters today...in excellent shape. To be sure, he's already lost out on the goal of sweeping to an easy nomination in January and he's been forced to fight through Super Tuesday...but that happ...
Port Stanley, Falkland Islands (CNN) -- Britain on Wednesday dismissed a complaint from Argentina about the "militarization of the South Atlantic" as tensions rise over the Falkland Islands, over which th...
People in Homs have said the latest attack on their city is the worst in five days of shelling, and many fear the Syrian government's forces are preparing to launch a ground assault. In the areas of Bab...
If you box and want to keep your brain working, wear headgear.
Letting babies use their own hands to eat might have a positive influence on their long-term diets.
*It May be Overpriced Crap But We're Good with It. * The man now in charge of the Pentagon's weapons purchases has lambasted the F-35 programme, denouncing it as "*acquisition malpractice*." "*I can spend ...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck near Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 29.4 km (18.3 miles), the quake hit at 15:06:53 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 157 km (97 mile...
*Well, the newer and higher figure is real: the lower one may be from a silly yet pedagogical calculation of a SuperBowl organizers' anomaly by Sean Carroll but it's not far from the obsolete value (around...
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*I expect this page to disappear fairly soon .... Garry Breitkeuz.com * *UPDATE: I was right. The Conservative Party of Canada has taken the post down from Breitkreuz's website ... BUT ... Here it is from ...
"Twas brillig," saith the slithy Toews "To waterboard outside our nabe." All mimsy went the newsy slaves To hear the mome rath outgabe : "Tis Ethical Torture now, my son! - The wires that shock for me and y...
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A top Iranian military official is activily aiding the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad in suppressing popular unrest throughout the country, a top member of the National Syrian Council said on Mond...
Information coming out of Israel and Arab news outlets. We will update you as soon as possible.
That's right. Apparently the FDA has no limits on the amount of lead found in cosmetics, although it does limit the lead content that can be found in the color ingredients used in cosmetics. This is an ...
If I would be choosing among two otherwise identical candidates, I would choose the evolutionist. Although it plays a paramount role in our understanding of the pillars of biology and any historical scien...
Iraq and Afghanistan are being denied sovereignty. They are essentially colonial subjects of the US, as dramatically evidenced by this article in the Washington Post: CIA digs in as Americans withdraw fr...
Adam Greene is on his stomach as a pack of police officers pile on him, driving their knees into his back and wrenching his arms and legs. One officer knees him in the ribs; another kicks him in the face...
[image: The Balonne-feeding Maranoa River breaks its banks at Cashmere West station about 20km upstream of St George, Queensland, Australia, 9 February 2012. Lyndon Mechielsen / The Australian] By Andre...
*WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2012* *Would you have a beer with this strategist:* Monday evening, Chris Hayes guest-hosted for Rachel Maddow. At one point, he interviewed Celinda Lake, a well-known, high-rankin...
*AIM West urges support for Navajo/Apache hate crime victim* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com FRESNO, Calif. -- AIM West urges support for Patty Dawson, Navajo/Apache hat...
Guest Post by Joel Oestreich A few days ago I met the woman in the attached photograph. Her name is Karima. She is a college graduate who was born a male and, at 21, had gender reassignment surgery. Some ...
When maritime traffic quieted following the 9/11 attacks, whale stress levels plummeted.
New 'smart textile' could be used to power medical-monitoring garments and gadgets buried in your clothing.
By: Duane Craig As far back as 1994, people living near the Madison Kipp Corporation in Madison, Wisc., have complained about health concerns such as eye/nose/throat irritation, metallic taste in the mout...
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In case you missed it: Tory MP Stephen Woodworth wants human rights for unborn children A Conservative MP is defying his party’s leadership with a move to rewrite Canadian laws to extend human rights to u...
A cockroach's body chemistry could power tiny implants.
In areas lacking access to advanced eye care, glasses with liquid lenses bring new focus.
Gar Alperovitz. Image from Vimeo.America Beyond Capitalism:Rag Radio interviews Gar AlperovitzBy Thorne Webb Dreyer / The Rag Blog / February 8, 2012Political economist and historian Gar Alperovitz, author o...
So last night there was a three state primary, essentially a three state killing spree of the second inevitable nomination of Willard Romney, a man who more resembles a Stepford born-and-bred game show ho...
33.5 million or 9 million, depending on who you ask. I blame the scrapping of the mandatory long form census for this discrepancy...
(Reuters) - Iran is capable of carrying out military strikes on U.S. interests all around the world if the Islamic Republic is attacked by the United States, Iran's ambassador to Moscow said on Wednesday....
(Reuters) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday the world faced a growing "cult of violence" and Moscow must not let events like those in Libya and Syria be repeated in Russia, issuing a warnin...
*WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2012* *Why is Lawrence surprised:* We like to give credit where credit is due. Last night, on the O’Reilly Factor, Bernie Goldberg went off. He discussed an ongoing campaign to ma...
(Reuters) - The ousted president of the Maldives, credited with bringing democracy to the Indian Ocean island resort, said on Wednesday he was forced out of power at gunpoint, prompting clashes between po...
(Reuters) - Anja has been scrubbing floors and washing dishes for two euros an hour over the past six years. She is bewildered when she sees newspapers hailing Germany's "job miracle." "My company exploi...
(Reuters) - As the Obama administration weighs worst-case scenarios for Syria, one stands out: a civil war that develops into a proxy battle between Arabs and the West on one side, and Russia and Iran on ...
More people than ever are meeting online and the Internet can be a great way to find romance -- with caveats.
(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...
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 Garland Robinette's loan is a low priority for lender Fred Heebe~James Gill Just another Hump Day at the office here at Slabbed New Me...
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...
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, the U.S. Postal Service's quarterly loss ballooned to $3.3 billion amid declining mail volume and the soaring costs of health benefits for future r...
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — When you head down to the beach for a little fun this summer, county officials want you to know about some updated rules. The Board of Supervisors this week agreed to lift an all-out b...
Better technology yields better data. The bad news is the extra water from 2003-2010 would fill Lake Erie eight times. Nearly 230 billion tons of ice is melting into the ocean from glaciers, ice caps, an...
Hopar glacier in Pakistan. Melting ice outside the two largest caps - Greenland and Antarctica - is much less than previously estimated, the study has found. Photograph: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images The ...
Fans pose for photos around Super Bowl Village on Feb. 3, 2012 in downtown Indianapolis, Ind., before the start of Super Bowl XLVI. (credit: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (CBS Cle...
CERES -- A pregnant teenager suffered nine days of being beaten, choked and threatened by a boyfriend jealous over finding a message from another man on her cell phone, police said. Richard Garibay, 21, ...
The international community may be forced to 'militarise' the crisis in Syria unless president Bashar al-Assad stops the onsalught on his people, a senior US official warned on Wednesday. The official f...
Personnel working offshore on one of Brunei Shell Petroleum’s platforms, Ampa Platform 6 (AP6), made a surprising discovery onboard the facility which is located 20 kilometres away from land. Hamdi Adnan...
The allegations span South American cocaine shipments, US-used car dealerships, money-laundering in West Africa, several money-exchange houses, and end up in a Lebanese bank. In December the US justice d...
Israel's propaganda machine carefully chooses its words to assert illegal ownership over Jerusalem and Palestine. The words which people use, often unconsciously, can have a critical impact upon the thou...
Newt Gingrich's controversial statement begs the question: Who invented a nationality? The Palestinians or the Israelis? It is hard to believe that anyone who defends Israel's legitimacy as a state would...
International pressure may have saved some bloodshed in Syria, but a lack thereof will not doom its revolution. United Nations was not a credible institution, that it is just a "game" in which countries ...
Image: Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page issued revised projections about Canada's future finances Wednesday and said Old Age Security is an affordable program in the years ahead. (Adrian Wyld/Canad...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoSYDNEY (AP) — A 10-foot tiger shark has attacked a swimmer off a remote beach in Australia's third attack this month. That's as many attacks as the country generally sees in an entire year. Western Austr...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAs the Tourette's-like illness continues to plague Le Roy school and baffle health experts, questions are now arising around the cleanup of a 40-year-old chemical spill that contaminated some of the local...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA father suffocated his six-month-old son in the bath and then hanged himself, an inquest heard today. Paul McBride, 39, of Lancashire, killed baby Ollie shortly after the break-up of a ‘turbulent relati...
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