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Code Definitions YELLOW: Volcano is exhibiting signs of elevated unrest above known background level or, after a change from a higher level,
volcanic activity has decreased significantly but continues to b...
State wildlife officials say 10 wild turkeys near the town of Olive in
Powder River County have died of the avian pox virus. Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials say the virus is most commonly contracted f...
Cristian Lopez a contractor for the Institute of Seismology has reported an increase in Activity of the volcano. He added that this does not mean increasing the alert level, which has been yellow since Oc...
This is how Krásna Hôrka, a castle in Eastern Slovakia, was known to the world for nearly 7 centuries: The castle (whose literal name is "beautiful little hill") has survived conflicts between Turks a...
A magnitude 2.7 earthquake has struck the San Francisco Bay Area, California at a depth of 5.8 km (3.6 miles), the quake hit at 17:22:59 UTC Saturday 10th March 2012 The epicenter was 0 km (0 miles) SSW f...
Normal people set their clocks ahead an hour and conservatives set their calendars back a century.
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YayaCanada - 42 minutes ago
*Contributor: "YYC"* In keeping with my new aversion to white, red and black, I am in the process of changing my blog colours. Unfortunately, when I changed the link colour the whole link disappeared. S...
Friday
Paul Krugman had everyone buzzing with a wake-up call: Ignorance Is Strength, in the *NY Times*. The best anyone can say about the
Republican Party's attitude about education is that they'll get be...
[image: Contaminated surface soil removed from an elementary school yard is buried in Minami-Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, on 6 September 2011. Kengo Hiyoshi] By arevamirpal::laprimavera 9 March 2012 Wh...
Mar. 9 - A vehicle bursts into flames after an Israeli airstrike on Gaza in response to rocket fire
*SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 2012* *Epilogue—The silence of Romney, ourselves:* At long last, Gail Collins is upset with something else about Candidate Romney. Today, she’s upset because he didn’t criticize Rush ...
Mar. 9 - A campaign against Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony sweeps the Internet, attracting support on Facebook and Twitter along with a backlash against the filmmakers. Deborah Gembara reports.
(CNN) -- A computer virus campaign is targeting opponents of Russian President-elect Vladimir Putin, according to anti-virus software maker Symantec. "A wave of spam e-mails promoting a rally" against th...
(CNN) -- Authorities continued their search Saturday for a suspect who allegedly shot a female officer, stabbed a judge and fled a Washington state courthouse. Undersheriff Rick Scott said the man gave h...
Washington (CNN) -- North Korea's agreement to halt portions of its nuclear and missile programs and accept the return of nuclear inspectors is a "modest step in the right direction," U.S. Secretary of S...
CNN) -- Yemeni air forces targeted militant hideouts in the south, killing at least 18 suspected al Qaeda insurgents, security officials said Saturday. In a separate action, 18 additional militants were k...
Gaza City (CNN) -- Hamas' armed wing threatened Israel on Saturday after airstrikes over the past two days killed at least 15 Palestinians across Gaza. Israel "will pay the price" for its actions in Gaza...
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Buckdog - 1 hour ago
*"Two secret meetings in the prime minister’s office this month should become chapters in any crisis communications manual. One is the wrong way to handle major problem files. The other highlights the c...
(CNN) -- A top diplomat came face to face Saturday with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in an attempt to stop the carnage while on the streets, security forces continued to kill with impunity. Former U...
ERIE, Pennsylvania (AP) -- An elderly gorilla that lives at a U.S. zoo has a new companion: a bunny named Panda. The Erie Zoo's gorilla, Samantha, has been without a full-time friend since the death of R...
BEIRUT (AP) -- A high-profile international mission to end the Syrian crisis stumbled Friday before it began as the opposition rejected calls by U.N. envoy Kofi Annan for dialogue with President Bashar As...
In the course of reading the newspaper clippings from July 1947, I have made a couple of interesting discoveries. None of them really affect the Roswell research as we’re carrying it out. From the *Roswel...
HIROSAKI, Aomori -- Radioactive iodine levels exceeding international limits were detected in the thyroid glands of five people who lived near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant during the meltdowns there,...
This article marks, not a further advance in the general understanding, per se, but a correction in my own. I hope it will allow those who have previously rejected my attempted correction of climate scienc...
[image: Brown bears in Europe. Photo courtesy European Wildlife]VIENNA, Austria, 7 March 2012 (ENS) – There are no more brown bears to be found in Austria, say European wildlife conservationists, despite...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Southwest of Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 16:00:52 UTC Saturday 10th March 2012 The epicenter was 166 km (103 miles) WSW from...
*... if she won't fire Harper? * *Contributor: "YYC"* From LaPresse (original in French) Google translation to English: The Queen refuses to dismiss Harper's role as PM *A Montreal woman who was fed up ...
TOKYO (AP) -- Just four hours after a tsunami swept into the Fukushima nuclear power plant, Japan's leaders knew the damage was so severe that the reactors could melt down, but they kept their knowledge s...
FUKUSHIMA -- The 12 municipalities situated wholly or partly in the no-go zone around the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant are faced with an agonizing decision: hold out as refugee communities in hopes of on...
[image: Tropical areas that will experience more than a 5% reduction in length of growing period (LGP) by the year 2050. ccafs.cgiar.org] Areas that will experience more than a 5% reduction in length of ...
**The* “primary role of the parents in the upbringing of their children is now established beyond debate as an American tradition.”* *--Wisconsin v. Yoder* (406 U.S. 205, 215) In Texas, Colorado, New Yor...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 49.9 km (31 miles), the quake hit at 15:40:09 UTC Saturday 10th March 2012 The epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) ENE f...
http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/03/highest-radiation-in-l-a-air-yet/ Michael Collins of Enviroreporter explains that their latest hepa filter reading was 6.7X background. This is a must-read article....
Baseball statistics are so detailed that I find them bewildering but 38 pitches has gone beyond the normal to create his own statistical measure... '*PDF* = Pitchers Dominance Factor is calculated as follo...
I've always known that the Greek default wouldn't be an important event but it was such a non-event that it has surpassed all my expectations about its invisibility. On Friday, Dow Jones rose 0.11% and NAS...
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wmtc - 2 hours ago
"Cash bonuses on Wall Street are expected to drop by 14 percent during this year's 'bonus season'." Only 20 billion dollars will be doled out, with the average bonus totalling $121,000. How sad. That's bi...
Of the 3,151 people still missing in the three prefectures worst hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, local authorities have accepted obituary notices for 2,860 -- or just over 90 percent of the ...
Some 22 million metric tons of debris generated by the March 11, 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami continues to be a barrier to recovery in disaster-hit communities. Local bodies in disaster-r...
An American Airlines flight in Texas was delayed after an air stewardess had a panic attack about the plane crashing. The aircraft was still on the ground at Dallas international airport when the flight...
[image: The swollen Lachlan River rushes under the bridge in Forbes, in the central west of New South Wales, on 9 March 2012. ABC] 10 March 2012 (Radio Australia) – Towns across Australia's eastern state...
* * * * * * *Andrea Bowers*
Two people have been arrested after protesters clashed with police while Dominique Strauss-Kahn gave a lecture on economics to students at Cambridge University. The former International Monetary Fund chi...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Southweastern Iran at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 14:13:31 UTC Saturday 10th March 2012 The epicenter was 107 km (66.3 miles) Southeast of Bam, Iran...
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck the Alaska Peninsula at a depth of 17.7 km (11 miles), the quake hit at 14:10:41 UTC Saturday 10th March 2012 The epicenter was 131 km (81 miles) ENE of Chernabura Isl...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Andaman Islands, India at a depth of 31.1 km (19.3 miles), the quake hit at 12:18:30 UTC Saturday 10th March 2012 The epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) West of Port ...
A magnitude 3.1 earthquake has struck Oklahoma at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 10:11:43 UTC Saturday 10th March 2012 The epicenter was 35 km (21 miles) ENE of Shawnee, Oklahoma No Reports ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Northern Qinghai, China at a depth of 14.4 km (8.9 miles), the quake hit at 09:37:20 UTC Saturday 10th March 2012 The epicenter was 129 km (80 miles) WNW of Da Qaidam...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Cuba Region at a depth of 18.4 km (11.4 miles), the quake hit at 08:34:52 UTC Saturday 10th March 2012 The epicenter was 113 km (70 miles) SSW of Santiago de Cuba,...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 252.9 km (157.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:17:46 UTC Saturday 10th March 2012 The epicenter was 152 km (94 miles) West of NUKU`ALOFA, To...
Syria's President Bashar al Assad has told visiting UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan that "terrorist groups" are stopping a political solution to end the violence in the country. The pair have held talks...
Canadian skier Nick Zoricic has died after crashing into safety nets during a World Cup skicross event in Switzerland. He suffered fatal head injuries after going wide of the course at the final jump. T...
State Emergency Service (SES) workers have delivered some rare good news to the residents of north Victoria's flood affected communities, informing Picola locals their homes will not be inundated. Picola...
Later today -- thanks to the efforts of Mitch Green -- New Economic Perspectives will have a fresh new look with features and extras that we hope will make this an even more exciting place to visit. It is...
New Orleans Saints make some moves, get some salary cap space ~Mike Triplett Letter from Drew Brees about NFL investigation ~WWL~There is no place in the National Football League, or any sport played at an...
Invisible Children's "Kony 2012" campaign provides many of us professors with a unique opportunity to address and learn how students respond to such campaigns and engage with human rights issues. College ...
You might recall the occasion, one week ago, where a Columbus, Ohio firm, Front Porch Strategies was mentioned as *having worked for the campaign of Dean del Masto*. You might also recall that *Front Porc...
A fellow UPSE alumni and a friend in one of my discussion yahoogroups, *Gary Makasiar*, made a good argument that instead of debating by how much tax hike to slap on tobacco products, ban smoking outright....
Normally *DWT* comes down on corrupt political hacks DCCC chair Steve Israel (NY) and DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL) because they always push wealthy, Establishment conservatives over grassroots ...
Choosing your spokesperson to launch a campaign at the United Nations is an important matter so what does it say about the Palestinian Authority that it chose the mother of 4 terrorist murderers, one of wh...
One of the consequences of renting out rooms is that you will inevitably run into difficult people. Now, having said this, I must say that so far, my venture into landlording has had very few hitches. I di...
Many, many thanks to a reader who produced this haunting, lovely video. Please visit his youtube channel for bucolic scenes from the Bowman Farm.
I wrote this post in honor of the March 8th International Women's Day, which I didn't hear a word about in the "liberal media" or virtually ANY media. Where did all these type of women go? Why aren't they...
Top 10 Things I Wish I Could Say Out Loud [originally posted at ruralteacher] *10. The State Tests, SATs, ACTs and any other High Stakes Test that you take will NOT predict your future success in life. *...
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Link: http://youtu.be/kKN67ImpO4k The YouTube Channel *EUX-TV* who uncovered the story writing: 'The European Commission this week pulled the plug on this 127.000 euro propaganda video after it was accuse...
The Cons' somewhat belated talking points about their use of the US voter contact firm Front Porch Strategies in the last election have been all about only using them for townhalls : U.S. phone firm was j...
March 10, 2012 In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss hackers and pirates as true GDP boosters and independent artists being censored by the financial industry. In the second ha...
Fourteen months ago, we talked about remarkable claims by the Tevatron's CDF collaboration that the top quarks born in their now-defunct accelerator were excessively biased, preferring to move in the direc...
Culture clash on the streets of Luton. "Who are you trying to seduce... Go and put some clothes on" "If the law of the land is Islamic, we will respect the law of the land... if not Islamic, the law of t...
Wisdom of the Sands - A Sufi Story by Osha. *A stream, from its source in far-off mountains, passing through every kind and description of countryside, at last reached the sands of the desert. Just a...
The European Union's anti-carbon-dioxide ideologues have decided to become 10 times better Stalinists than Stalin. While the ex-Soviet leader organized the life in his country (including the production ...
Judge Carl Barbier 500 Poydras Street; Room C-256 New Orleans, Louisiana 70130 FAX # 504-589-4536 Magistrate Sally Shushan 500 Poydras Street; Room B-345 New Orleans, Louisiana 70130 FAX # 504-589-4994 J...
If you look up 'lucky' in the dictionary you should see the chap in the video below from 3:05 - 3:09. The rest of the car racing accidents are scary and maybe fatal but that guy... I love the old racing c...
This is a preview of the new IFC series *Comedy Bang Bang*. I am in no position to judge how this is going to go over with the masses who are not familiar with Scott Aukerman's podcast of the same name bec...
At least 12 Palestinian militants have been killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza. Among those killed was the commander of the militant group behind the abduction of Gilad Schalit, an Israeli soldier who ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands, Russia at a depth of 101.4 km (63 miles), the quake hit at 07:15:46 UTC Saturday 10th March 2012 The epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) East from Sever...
The Gobi desert in Mongolia. Photo courtesy: Honza Soukup/CC BY 2.0 It's not quite the proverbial butterfly flapping its wings creating a hurricane across the world, but desertification in Mongolia is gene...
This is a wow phenomenon that isbeginning to get studied. What is nottoo clear is the level of effective energy release in the near spaceenvironment. One does not get the impressionof severe shock wav...
In fact, the dominant role ofprivate banking is mostly a North American phenomenon. This did not become a problem in terms ofreckless endangerment until the 1933 laws separating banking and otherfinan...
This item appears to illuminatethe concept of entanglement in a purely physical manner making it quitecomprehensible and providing insights into what can now be done with individualphotons. This is be...
We think that pollution affectsonly us and also think that getting out of its way is good enough in apinch. Yet agriculture can not dothis. What is more, agriculture dependson wild bees far more than ...
The ballroom dance called the waltz was introduced in Europe in 1813; but, probably existed as a "waltz" as early as 1781. In the 1850's in Vienna, composer Johann Strauss produced scores of new waltzes t...
A 22-year-old man and a 13-year-old boy have been arrested for filming themselves torturing dogs and puppies and posting the videos on YouTube. Joshua Moore and the young teen are accused of spinning pup...
Authorities have now recovered about $224,000 that was apparently left behind by an armoured truck security guard wanted for allegedly killing his colleague and vanishing with more than $2million in cash....
A doctor is in the middle of a homicide investigation after he performed controversial stem cell procedures that resulted in the deaths of a patient last week. Dr Zannos Grekos, a cardiologist practicing...
*Assad's forces seized these weapons in Homs.* *Russia says there are 15,000 foreign "terrorists" in Syria** * According to Russia, Syria's President Assad is battling al Qaeda-backed "terrorists" includi...
Video courtesy: Yahoo!News Yet another example of animals being more intelligent than we give them credit for. If we truly understood how intelligent animals are, I doubt that we would eat them anymore. ...
A Phoenix Fox 10 reporter for was in the middle of a traffic report when the a bright white explosion of light suddenly appeared in the distance behind her. The strange blast was caught on tape and aired...
Passers-by had a lucky escape when a former nightclub by the River Tyne exploded leaving a heap of rubble across the busy street. Bizz Bar, once a popular South Shields nightspot, collapsed with a 'massiv...
As the sun sets across southern Africa, at a luxury game lodge 27 miles from Namibia’s capital city Windhoek, wealthy guests relax after a day-long safari photographing big cats in the bush. Their glasse...
Missing EastEnders actress Gemma McCluskie was murdered and her dismembered body dumped in a canal just hours after she attended a hospital opening ceremony, police revealed today. The limbless torso fou...
The playboy son of Colonel Gaddafi was yesterday ordered to hand over his £10m British mansion to the new Libyan government. Former professional footballer Saadi Gaddafi bought the neo-Georgian, eight be...
A notorious police killer is being released after 15 years – but he must be housed in an area with few police on the streets to protect his mental health. Magdi Elgizouli, 44, was diagnosed as having a p...
*Vatican website succumbs to online attack* The Vatican's official website suffered an attack by Anonymous March 7, cutting off access by users for several hours. Italian media outlets reported that the w...
Two care assistants were caught on camera beating and abusing frail dementia patients. Sonia Limbu, 26, and Pargarsh Kaur Sahota, 57, were secretly filmed by a colleague hitting, pushing and shouting at ...
A trio of top bankers are being lined up for pay packages worth a total of £42million. On a ‘day of shame’ for banks, a flurry of disclosures from the City revealed the jackpot awards for the bosses of B...
Portuguese police have launched a review of the Madeleine McCann case. A team of detectives based in Oporto has been appointed to re-examine the original investigation into the little girl's disappearance...
Falkirk MP Eric Joyce shouted at police "You can't touch me, I'm an MP" on the night he attacked four politicians in a House of Commons bar, a court has been told. The 51-year-old pleaded guilty to four...
The mayor of a small Japanese town is struggling with his own grief as he attempts to rebuild a community torn apart by the tsunami. Futoshi Toba was elected mayor of Rikuzentakata just a few weeks before...
[image: Link] Greece's private creditors have agreed to bond swap deal in the biggest debt writedown in history. It paves the way for an enormous second bailout for the country to keep Europe's economy fr...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Southern Peru at a depth of 77.4 km (48.1 miles), the quake hit at 04:21:53 UTC Saturday 10th March 2012 The epicenter was 189 km (117 miles) SSE of...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck South of the Kermadec Islands at a depth of 508.6 km (316 miles), the quake hit at 03:14:14 UTC Saturday 10th March 2012 The epicenter was 148 km (91 miles) WSW of L'...
*Know your Enemy and you will win the Battle, know Yourself and you will win the War!* Knowing the banksters they will already have come up with new stock indices on Suicide rates! This will be a new mo...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Tarapaca, Chile at a depth of 101.7 km (63.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:26:57 UTC Saturday 10th March 2012 The epicenter was 123 km (76 miles) ENE of Iquique, Tarapac...
*WINNIPEG EVENTS-WAG* *ROCK AROUND THE ROCKWELL:* Hard to say about this party, but it may be interesting. The Winnipeg Art Gallery is holding a party on March 23 to celebrate the art of Norman Rockwell ...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Eastern Honshu, Japan at a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 01:33:40 UTC Saturday 10th March 2012 The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) North of Sendai, Hons...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Chukotka, Russia at a depth of 35.6 km (22.1 miles), the quake hit at 00:15:53 UTC Saturday 10th March 2012 The epicenter was 182 km (113 miles) NNW from Provideniya, ...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck South of Java, Indonesia at a depth of 75.6 km (47 miles), the quake hit at 21:27:09 UTC Friday 9th March 2012 The epicenter was 125 km (77 miles) SSE of Malang, Java,...
*When quizmaster Edward Downes (seen here at far right, next to radio-broadcast producer Richard Mohr, with panelists for this March 1991 Texaco Metropolitan Opera Quiz: l-r, Bruce Burroughs, Speight Jenki...
*CANADIAN POLITICS TORONTO:* *KEEP THE SCHOOL HOUSE SHELTER OPEN:* Here's another callout from down Ontario way and the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP). This is an appeal and petition to keep a d...
"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a sourc...
*CANADIAN POLITICS TORONTO:* *PRE-BUDGET RALLY AGAINST ONTARIO AUSTERITY:* The following call-out is from the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP). ()()()()()()()()()()() *On March 16 FIGHT POVERTY A...
An official close to the Chinese Ministry of Public Security has reported that a group of 41 North Korean refugees arrested in and around Shenyang last month and held for a spell in a detention center near...
Mike Oldfield, “Tubular Bells Side A” (Part 3/3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5gDGcXIEQE&feature=related
*INTERNATIONAL LABOUR IRAN:* *SAVE ABDOLREZA GHANBARI:* ** * *Abdolreza Ghanbari is an Iranian university professor who has been sentenced to death by the regime basically for the "crime" of receiving uns...
Letter from Drew Brees about NFL investigation ~WWL
“Colorful NGC 1579 resembles the better known Trifid Nebula, but lies much farther north in planet Earth's sky, in the heroic constellation Perseus. About 2,100 light-years away and 3 light-years across, N...
*"The Opening of Eyes"* "That day I saw beneath dark clouds The passing light over the water, And I heard the voice of the world speak out. I knew then as I have before, Life is no passing memory of what h...
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic." - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Thanks for stopping by.
*"[W]hat about people like Mr. Romney? Don't they have a stake in America's future economic success, which is endangered by the crusade against education? Maybe not as much as you think. "After all, over...
Personally, I don't know why someone just doesn't tell this arrogant blimp to shut the fuck up. It's fucking New Jersey, for crissakes. You telling me the state that gave us the Jersey mob and Snooki can'...
March 9, 2012 print edition page A1. My question is, which option is true: A.) Nuclear is going down fast, but the *Wall Street Journal* editorial board is heavily invested in uranium futures and the nuc...
*And they say there is no "Greater Israel Project"! * *Contributor: "Lucilla"* Guess what likely one of the main reasons for trashing Libya really was? Remember the controversial "Greater Israel Project"? ...
As *Dawg* says, a pattern is emerging. It is more than that however. The discovery that phone calls directing voters to non-existent polling places was *targeted to a specific age group*, in this case vo...
There is a job for you at the end of this post. You can skip down there if you don't have time to enjoy my lavish metaphors. **** Since Mr. Harper and Peter MacKay pulled their MIB skin-change on the Ref...
Brad Pitt’s Make It Right development at halfway point ~Doug MacCash Details Of The NFL Bounty Scandal ~The Onion Sports Network Saints bounty mystery: Why such a puny return on such a big risk? ~Mark Mos...
"The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all your...
I was an avid mountaineer from 1993 to 95, I belonged to the Congress Mountaineers at the House of Representatives where I used to work before. We climbed so many mountains, including the two highest mount...
The gun business in America is booming because of the Obama presidency. People are rightfully scared that Obama and the shadow government criminals behind him are going to pump citizens in the United State...
Space weather forecasters say the solar storm that seemed to be more fizzle than fury got much stronger in recent hours. It is now the most potent solar storm since 2004. So far, no power outages or other...
*“Yet”* by Chet Raymo “I mentioned here several times recently Ursula Goodenough's “The Sacred Depths of Nature.” I just noticed a line in the book that I underlined when I first read it a dozen years ag...
An elderly man has been found dead in floodwaters north of Bourke in New South Wales. Police say farm workers at a property north of the town discovered a vehicle partially submerged in a causeway about 4...
For some time now I've been even more than usually ashamed to be a resident of New Jersey...because my fellow citizens elected a Governor who is one of the more repulsive tools for the ultimate representat...
Netanyahu is a dumbass. I can't believe he actually uttered those words in the White House. He also told Obama: "We are you, and you are us. We're together. So if there's one thing that stands out clearly...
Following up on yesterdays post- The “resignation” of the alleged Deputy Minister of Oil. Are you familiar with the saying “The devil is in the details”? Which is sometimes said as “God is in the details” ...
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*Arizona Snowbowl’s Expansion Will Not Have a Measurable or Significant * *Economic Impact on the Flagstaff Area* By Hopi Nation Posted at Censored News KYKOTSMOVI, Ariz. – An economic analysis released b...
Osama bin Laden accepted that he may be betrayed by someone close to him and viewed death as a release from years of declining health, according to a new account of his life in Pakistan. The research by ...
Millions of viewers were stunned this morning as they tuned into a BBC breakfast news bulletin - and found the presenter apparently asleep on his desk. Simon McCoy, 50, was caught napping as cameras pann...
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Biased BBC - 20 hours ago
OK folks. This blog stands at a crossroads and I want to take it forward. I need your help to achieve this and I am touched by the emails sent my way in recent days. In essence, we aim to move the site t...
No one likes a bully, right? Well... no one sane likes a bully. Hitler had fans and there are always sycophants and self-loathers who fall under a bully's sway. But what about cowards who refuse to call a...
Over at Post Partisan, I had some fun at the expense of Republican spinners, and talked a bit about the economy and the election. At Plum Line, I looked at the upcoming WH GOP 2012 events: Kansas, Alabama,...
"In A Time Of Universal Deceit, Telling The Truth Becomes A Revolutionary Act" - George Orwell "All Truth Passes Through Three stages. First, It Is Ridiculed, Second It Is Violently Opposed, And Third, It ...
From the Advancement Project (ht to Monty Neill) Taking Back Our Classrooms: The United Struggle of Teachers, Students, and Parents in North Carolina Against High-Stakes Testing March 5, 2012 North Carolin...
One of the many complications associated with climate change is the expected rise of sea levels. A projected four-feet increase is expected by the end of the century. If you happen to live on an archipelag...
Willard wins the news cycle today with his "y'all" drawl praising of grits (and other things) but I'm more interested in Newt's late night dance partyon Wednesday. He and Callista cut the old rug in an empt...
From the Right-Wing conference on self-stimulation, Preston Manning repeated *most of the Harper talking-points* on the electoral-fraud scam. He said the most important issue is to determine how to end u...
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Biased BBC - 21 hours ago
Off for the weekend but I leave you with this.....a new open thread for those able to crack our comment system! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
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Biased BBC - 21 hours ago
B-BBC contributor Alan writes... " We serve no red-coats here." The BBC no longer bother to provide links to most of its output on the Today programme.....however they seem to find the energy and time ...
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CENSORED NEWS - 21 hours ago
*Oh yes, people still read ...* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com TUCSON -- The Tucson Festival of Books is this weekend, March 10-11, and brings together prolific and prof...
LHASA, March 9 (Xinhua) -- China's Tibet Autonomous Region has been placed into a state of alert after Nepal reported an outbreak of bird flu last month that has left at least 20,000 chickens dead, local a...
Truong Phu Son, 22, the third H5N1 patient in Vietnam this year, on March 6, left the HCM City Hospital for Tropical Diseases after two weeks of treatment. On March 7, Dr. Tran Ngoc Huu, director of the...
*"Weekly News Wrap-Up 3.9.12"* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "The big story was the meeting between the Prime Minister of Israel and the President of the United States on Monday. Netanyahu told Obama...
INDIA - The Government of India confirmed a highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreak in wild birds in India’s Bihar state. The outbreaks were reported between February 18, 2012 and February 27, 2...
*"Government Mandated Population Growth"* by Joel Bowman "What happened to all the Japanese? And where did the Russians go? Can you imagine, for one horrifying second, a world with no sushi and no vodka? ...
*“Your Government Is Killing You (Really)”* by Karl Denninger “I mean it. “We physicians with all our training, knowledge and authority often acquire a rather large ego that tends to make it difficult ...
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Biased BBC - 22 hours ago
Some helpful advice here on the BBC for female journalists how to 'be safe' in Muslim countries - by staying covered and staying fit enough to outrun the rapists. Click through to read and contribute comm...
Rick Santorum proves that preaching to the choir ain't as easy as it looks.
Mr. Pete’s house didn’t look so different from the others on the block. The single-story, white facade was decorated simply with practical hurricane shutters and little else. But where respectable homes g...
This morning, courtesy of local blogger Middle Age Bulge, I was able to track down the GQ article, entitled No Country For Young Men , which I've discussed in previous posts. My initial plan was to break t...
The straggling warriors of Breitbart's army, left leaderless by his untimely death, are doing to best to honor his legacy of fake video "stings." Faked being the operative word, as always. In yet another ...
(Reuters) - Syrian forces killed at least 54 people on Friday as they sought to quell demonstrations against President Bashar al-Assad before a peace mission by U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan, oppositi...
(Reuters) - Thousands of people protested in Libya's two biggest cities on Friday in a show of opposition to moves from some in the oil-producing east to declare autonomy from central rule. A group of ci...
I am really getting tired of being told by the mainstream media, over and over again, that Fukushima's radiation releases were significantly lower than Chernobyl's. This trivialization tactic is evident ...
*According to Anonymous: * It is often said 'Other countries have armies. In Pakistan's case, it is an army that has a country.' *The Pakistani army has become the largest land owner and the biggest corp...
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Bios: *Debra White Plume* (Lakota) is an American Indian Movement (AIM) activist and an independentconsultant for the reorganization of federally funded programs on the PineRidge Reservation. As Executive...
The figure above comes from a column by Allan H. Metzler in today's WSJ. He argues: Regardless of one's economic philosophy, the public deserves an accurate presentation of the reasons for the change in...
Mar. 9 - A vehicle bursts into flames after an Israeli airstrike on Gaza in response to rocket fire.
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 28.9 km (18 miles), the quake hit at 18:19:02 UTC Friday 9th March 2012 The epicenter was 134 km (83 miles) East of C...
(Reuters) - After weeks of raucous street demonstrations, Oakland city leaders finally decided one chilly morning last fall to remove a downtown campsite that had become a national symbol of the Occupy mo...
(Reuters) - One late-night visit by the FBI was all it took for the notorious hacker known as "Sabu" to switch sides and become a valued snitch. Hector Xavier Monsegur cooperated immediately in June, help...
(Reuters) - Banks are foreclosing on America's churches in record numbers as lenders increasingly lose patience with religious facilities that have defaulted on their mortgages, according to new data. Th...
(Reuters) - The Pakistan Taliban will attack government, police and military officials if three of the late al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's widows are not released from Pakistani custody, a spokesman fo...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 44.4 km (27.6 miles), the quake hit at 17:16:14 UTC Friday 9th March 2012 The epicenter was 171 km (106 miles) East ...
Chilling Dissent on Wall Street http://www.opednews.com/articles/Eyal-Press-Chilling-Disse-by-Tom-Engelhardt-120306-625.html Ten Companies Profiting Most from War http://www.opednews.com/populum/linkfr...
Investigative journalist Dina Rasor is now on the Buck McKeon beat-- not good news for an embattled incumbent drowning in a series of serious scandals, some just ethical, but at least one also criminal. S...
This pretty much captures where I'm at with the GOP carnival of clowns these days. [via watertiger] [More posts daily at the Detroit News.]
In my over 4 years of writing this blog, I am always finding more and more evidence of exactly who is responsible for the evil and sicknesses that this planet is experiencing today. It seems again and ag...
Eight members of a militant Islamist group were shot dead during a failed mission to rescue a British engineer and his Italian colleague they had taken hostage in Nigeria, Sky sources say. More details ...
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 25.3 km (15.7 miles), the quake hit at 17:25:33 UTC Friday 9th March 2012 The epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) North ...
Jerusalem (CNN) -- A threatened Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear program carries enormous risks for the Jewish state, including international isolation, retaliation at home and abroad, and steep economic ...
Cause of fire still unknown Reports of one death are not yet confirmed Fire located in popular tourist and residential district SEVERAL tourists have been injured by a fire at a high-rise hotel in Bangkok...
*March 9, 2012* Contact: Howard Shanker (480) 838-9300 howard@shankerlaw.net *By Save the Peaks* *Censored News* Save the Peaks Coalition et al. File Petition for Ninth Circuit Rehearing en ban...
Amsterdam: A Spanish passenger jet has safely made an emergency landing at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport. Airport spokeswoman Nina Verweij says the plane, an Airbus A320 operated by Vueling airline, turne...
A REX plane flying out of Merimbula made an emergency landing at Moruya airport after one of its engines stopped working mid-flight this morning. REX flight ZL114 was delayed for half-an-hour before leavi...
The Ministry of Health has warned of an outbreak of cholera epidemic in several districts of Uganda. The acting director general of health services, Dr Dennis Lwamafa said a total of 280 cases had so fa...
Lots of blogging talk yesterday about a new paper forthcoming from Brendan Nyhan, Eric McGhee, John Sides, Seth Masket and Steven Greene showing the effects of ACA on the 2010 elections. Their finding is t...
Friday saw a new eruption of the Bezymianny volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East. Earlier in the day, the volcano spewed ash up to 8 kilometers high, seismologists said, adding that...
Scientists have found that a remote Alaska’s volcano agitation has led to an explosion. Cleveland Volcano eruption that produced this ash cloud was reported on Wednesday. The news was reported after detec...
Rome (CNN) -- Authorities from Italy to the United States arrested 10 people Thursday for allegedly capturing, viewing and disseminating images through an expansive international online pedophile network....
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Inflation in China slowed dramatically in February, as temporary price hikes related to Lunar New Year faded. Consumer prices rose 3.2% from a year ago, China's National Bureau of ...
(CNN) -- Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is threatening to kill the 73 Yemeni troops it is holding hostage if the government does not release al Qaeda prisoners. In a statement issued late Thursday, th...
(Financial Times) -- Emirates Airline, the world's largest operator of Airbus's A380 superjumbo, has lambasted the aircraft maker and plans to seek compensation after complaining of widespread disruption ...
In the UK, the coalition government has announced plans to make inter-racial adoption possible. The State has many unwanted Black children, but not enough Blacks who wish to adopt. The government is not...
It is almost exactly one full year since the earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent meltdown of at least 4 nuclear reactors at the Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) facility at Fukushima Japan. Since that time, ...
"The US government creates whatever new bogeymen and incidents are necessary to further the neoconservative agenda of world hegemony and higher profits for the armaments industry." - Paul Craig Roberts, ...
*FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 2012* *How does Blunt look to Bay Staters:* On Wednesday, we noted the fact that Elizabeth Warren has fallen behind in a series of Massachusetts polls. That doesn’t mean that she won’t ...
*FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 2012* *Part 4—Sadly, reporting is hard:* So it frequently happens. Rush Limbaugh’s attack on Sandra Fluke produced storms of outrage in the past week. As frequently happens, this distrac...
Amazing footage has been published of beachgoers rushing to the rescue of 30 stranded dolphins in Brazil. The video shows the dolphins swimming very close to the shore at Arraial do Cobo in the state of...
A teenager has been jailed for seven years for an attack on Malaysian student Ashraf Rossli during the London riots. Beau Isagba, 18, was sentenced at Wood Green Crown Court a day after his birthday. He...
A Catholic paedophile priest who used his "revered" status to wage a campaign of abuse against vulnerable young boys has been sentenced to 22 years in prison. Alexander Bede Walsh was convicted last mont...
*NORTHERN REFLECTIONS'* Owen Gray *nails* it: *"What Did He Know, And When Did He Know It?"*. Of course, we're talking about *Stevie*. Stevie does a great know-nothing, but as Owen shows, *it just ain't so...
March 9, 2012 *Looks like Britannia now rules the taxpayers. Strange world in which the people pay for their own demise.* In the UK, the chances are you're being watched. It has more CCTV cameras per ...
Why don't you sue Harper? In Federal Court? For declaratory and injunctive relief. To force Harper to take the gags off the public service and the armed forces. To allow free communications between ...
Audio: TFC & Salbuchi: The Shylock Model & Destruction of Sovereignty | Wake Up From Your Slumber Demanding your pound of flesh can kill off the client. Then who else will pay the debt? These banksters u...
Marshall Auerback's latest assessment of the ongoing Greek crisis. Watch here.
By Richard Engel, NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent 7 March 2012 It’s what an insurance company might call “a write-off” – a place that seems beyond salvation, and certainly too expensive to fix. I’...
I wasn't planning to watch this TED talk, because I didn't expect to learn anything new. But, a pile of dirty dishes had accumulated in the sink, so this morning I turned up the volume to hear over the s...
[image: Satellite view of Great Lakes ice cover on 4 March 2009. NOAA] By Deanna Conners 8 Mar 2012 Ice cover on the Great Lakes has decreased by 71% over the past four decades according to a new study...
Louisiana lawyer set to take Kenneth Feinberg's role in BP oil spill claims process Mike Ornstein's association with New Orleans Saints and bounty scandal a perplexing situation ~Jeff Duncan Hahahaha tha...
Author: Duane Craig The Environmental Protection Agency put a metal recycling company on notice for allegedly contaminating San Francisco Bay with lead, mercury, PCBs, copper and zinc, according to seve...
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Matt Groening's *Life in Hell *comic strip is required by federal law to be posted in all grad student lounges. *There's a reason for that*.By now, acceptance and rejection letters (or emails) have begun to...
[image: Authorities in Kiribati, seen here in an aerial photo taken in 2004, have been considering several unusual options to combat climate change, including constructing sea walls and even building a f...
Saw this on Think Progress this morning (my emphasis): The Wisconsin GOP has not worn well with that state’s voters. Two GOP senators were removed from office last year in a recall election, and as many a...
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*Stephen Harper's ideologically driven corporate tax cuts have been a complete failure. After stoking the engines of big business with Billions and Billions of dollars in tax cuts, Canada has seen a decr...
Bhangra music, home of the colorful turban and the exquisite golden temple. It is a state in India where the population has prospered for many years. It has one of the lowest poverty rates in the country...
London (CNN) -- What is the Greece debt deal? Greece, the country at the center of the eurozone debt crisis, has pushed through a huge debt swap that saves it from a disorderly default and clears the way...
(CNN) -- As violence raged in Syria on Friday, China and the United Nations kicked off diplomatic initiatives to end the government's nearly year-old bloody crackdown against opponents of its regime. Ch...
The Government has launched an investigation into an allegation of attempted fraud against the welfare to work company A4e. The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has started its own audit after being ...
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Code Definitions YELLOW: Volcano is exhibiting signs of elevated unrest above known background level or, after a change from a higher level, volcanic activity has decreased significantly but continues to b...
Cristian Lopez a contractor for the Institute of Seismology has reported an increase in Activity of the volcano. He added that this does not mean increasing the alert level, which has been yellow since Oc...
A magnitude 2.7 earthquake has struck the San Francisco Bay Area, California at a depth of 5.8 km (3.6 miles), the quake hit at 17:22:59 UTC Saturday 10th March 2012 The epicenter was 0 km (0 miles) SSW f...
Normal people set their clocks ahead an hour and conservatives set their calendars back a century.
Friday Paul Krugman had everyone buzzing with a wake-up call: Ignorance Is Strength, in the *NY Times*. The best anyone can say about the Republican Party's attitude about education is that they'll get be...
(CNN) -- A computer virus campaign is targeting opponents of Russian President-elect Vladimir Putin, according to anti-virus software maker Symantec. "A wave of spam e-mails promoting a rally" against th...
(CNN) -- Authorities continued their search Saturday for a suspect who allegedly shot a female officer, stabbed a judge and fled a Washington state courthouse. Undersheriff Rick Scott said the man gave h...
CNN) -- Yemeni air forces targeted militant hideouts in the south, killing at least 18 suspected al Qaeda insurgents, security officials said Saturday. In a separate action, 18 additional militants were k...
Gaza City (CNN) -- Hamas' armed wing threatened Israel on Saturday after airstrikes over the past two days killed at least 15 Palestinians across Gaza. Israel "will pay the price" for its actions in Gaza...
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