KORLA, CHINA - APRIL 12: A collapsed bridge stands empty on April 12, 2011 in Korla City, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China. A bridge on National Highway 314 partially collapsed at 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday in the suburbs of Korla City, with no reports of casualties. The damaged section is 15 metres long and 24.5 meters wide. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
Three Uyghur girls at a Sunday market in the oasis city Khotan (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
es: Calles de Yangon, la antigua capital de Myanmar. en: Streets of Yangon, Myanmar. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Kandawgyi Lake, Yangon, Myanmar (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
TOKSUN, CHINA - JUNE 08: 17 vehicles pile up in a traffic accident caused by earthquake at Toksun section of Turpan-Urumqi-Dahuangshan Express Way on June 8, 2011 in Toksun County, Xinjiang Province of China. According to the China Earthquake Networks Center, an earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter Scale hit Toksun County in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region at 09:53 a.m. Beijing Time on Wednesday. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
Jewellery Market, Yangon, Myanmar (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Outdoor market, Yangon, Myanmar (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
An SVG map of China with the Xinjiang autonomous region highlighted Legend: Image:China map legend.png The orange area is Aksai Chin, a part of Xinjiang which is claimed by India. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
TOKSUN, CHINA - JUNE 08: 17 vehicles pile up in a traffic accident caused by earthquake at Toksun section of Turpan-Urumqi-Dahuangshan Express Way on June 8, 2011 in Toksun County, Xinjiang Province of China. According to the China Earthquake Networks Center, an earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter Scale hit Toksun County in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region at 09:53 a.m. Beijing Time on Wednesday. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)Politics this week | The Economist
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by others belonging to the Zetas, a rival drugs gang. The authorities said
prison officials helped the Zetas prisoners to escape, and arrested 28 guards.
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A British soldier from 2nd Battalion, The Mercian Regiment (Worcesters and Foresters), has been killed in an explosion in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence has said. The soldier was working alongside ...
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The Yomiuri Shimbun: "Govt eyes up to 30% future ratio of N-power" http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T120320004195.htm
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Police investigating the February shooting death of an unarmed black teenager by a neighbourhood watchman admitted today investigators may have missed a racial slur by the gunman during his 911 call moment...
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*ALEC Has Pushed The NRA's "Stand Your Ground" Law Across The Nation* *March 21, 2012 11:41 am ET - by Matt Gertz * The legislation apparently preventing the successful prosecution of Trayvon Martin's kill...
I've been saying for the last ten years that it feels like we're fighting the culture wars of the 60s all over again. The last two have made it all so tragically true. But we won the first time and we can ...
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One more question, folks! Do you use directories to find information online? If you ask, "What's a directory?", it's safe to say you don't use one. Thank you very much! I really appreciate it. I will sha...
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Indigenous Environmental Network with Naomi Klein while being arrested at the White House protesting the tarsands and Keystone XL pipeline Photo Tarsands ActionWhite House Press Announcement About Cushing Ev...
*Amazing Sugar-Free Mixed Berry Jam* To me, jam is a standard item that most homes would regularly have in stock, but unfortunately it is usually filled with a bunch of unneccesary processed sugars which ...
In the aftermath of Ryan's smoke and mirrors budget proposal yesterday, Raul Grijalva and Keith Ellison convened an emergency meeting of the Congressional Progressive Caucus this morning to set the budget...
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Simao v. Hankook Ilbo, 2012 ONCA 175 deals with when a civil jury verdict may be overturned as being perverse. The Court makes the high threshold for such finding very clear, especially in the context o...
March 20, 2012 Wall Street Journal p. C3 Greek credit default swaps will be payed 78.5 cents on the dollar. I believe that this is possible only because European and US Central Banks will be the ultimate...
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20120321p2g00m0dm002000c.html I wonder if Canada's uranium supplies will be a subject of conversation? How will the global nuclear mafia react if Japan makes the nation-...
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A 22-year-old who allegedly gunned down his parents and his brother at their home was captured by police yesterday after a day-long manhunt. Trey Eric Sesler, an online animation enthusiast and critic fro...
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*I am not at all comfortable with House of Commons Speaker Andrew Scheer making any rulings or decisions that have a bearing on the RoboCalls scandal. For whatever reason, Speaker Scheer has tied himself t...
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Twenty-seven passengers abandoned a flight just before take-off from Moscow after noticing what they believed to be a hole in the engine. The Boeing 737 was about to leave for the Siberian city of Krasnoy...
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Glenn Greenwald reports with his usual precision that "irony" may be a word not found in this Harvard-educated President's dictionary, although it has a hallowed place in Glenn's. As you are aware, I am a ...
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I suppose it was *all in the spirit of "giving"*. The political machine behind the man who is now Speaker of the House of Commons opened its wallet for the Guelph Conservative campaign currently under sc...
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*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* The ignorant (if not moronic) right wing is stirring up fears and spreading distortions about the First Amendment again. Rick Santorum, for example, has said that...
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This must be music to the ears of those who dream of Armageddon and impatiently await The Rapture. The Americans recently ran a war game simulation of what would follow an Israeli air attack on Iranian n...
A 15-year-old schoolboy has died after collapsing during a rugby match in Worcestershire. Ambulance crews were called after Luke Chapman, a pupil at Haybridge High in Hagley, stopped breathing on the pit...
Voter fraud is tiny fraction of 1%. It's non-existent. But we generally don't know it in this country because the mainstream media is successfully covering it up. This fact should be on the tip of all Am...
I want to go back again to the question of whether delegates are bound or not, and why and how it matters. Josh Putnam had a very good post recently explaining (again) the distinctions between bound and u...
by Henry Samuel In 1951, a quiet, picturesque village in southern France was suddenly and mysteriously struck down with mass insanity and hallucinations. At least five people died, dozens were interned i...
Is there a week that goes by without another sordid revelation or scandal involving the Roman Catholic church? And these assholes see fit to lecture the rest of the world about morality. What a farce. ...
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[image: Phytoplankton blooms in the Black Sea, after floods on the Danube River swept over broad stretches of farmland, 20 June 2006. NASA image courtesy of Jeff Schmaltz / MODIS Land Rapid Response Team...
*WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 2012* *The various kinds of baptism:* Maureen Dowd has been the most influential, and most destructive, print journalist of the past thirty years. As she has simpered, minced and clo...
Despite over 20 years of control by Business Roundtable education reformers, Tennessee test scores as measured by NAEP continue to hover where they were when Tennessee's corporate value-added crew took cha...
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Thank you very much to everyone who answered my social bookmarking survey. If you have not already done so, could you please answer two questions? It's research for a paper I'm writing. The survey is here...
Three studies published in Britain's most authoritative medical journal, *The Lancet*, suggest that low doses of aspirin taken daily may prevent, perhaps even treat cancer. *Prof Peter Rothwell, from Oxf...
The economic 'miracles' sweeping emerging ecopower giants like India and China were always more apparent than real. In large part that happened because we were distracted by the bright, shiny thing - thei...
*Off-topic, digitized Einstein*: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has put thousands of scanned Einstein documents to AlbertEinstein.INFO Yesterday, Fox News brought us some news that were surprising to...
Important research: http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/20/cops-more-forgetful-after-chases-or-altercations/?hpt=hp_bn10 Police officers who engage in at least 60 seconds of intense physical energy while...
I have a problem. A big problem. I love sticky notes. Always have. I find them extremely useful in scribbling quick notes, posting reminders around the house and for a quick love note. But sticky notes are...
The BBC were very active pushing the story about Conservative Mayoral candidate Boris Johnson "hijacking" the London Mayors twitter account. Yet, when it comes to Labour Mayoral Ken Livingstone, there appe...
Happy Birthday to Conrad Lozano, 61. Oh, and I didn't get around to linking to my Post Partisan post yesterday about Richard Lugar and polarization. Now, the good stuff: 1. More war on budgeting. Greg S...
The central problem the opposition parties have with Stephen Harper is that he defines the terms of the debate.He does that, first and foremost, by conducting an eternal campaign. His forces are continu...
Police, residents and experts are baffled by the source of mysterious booms and shaking that have been plaguing the town of Clintonville, Wis., for the past three days, and have caused some residents to f...
*WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 2012* *Part 2—The New York Times tries to report*: Decades ago, we did some teaching from a major publisher’s third or fourth grade social studies textbook. If memory serves, the bo...
A clash is looming at an Aboriginal "tent embassy" in Perth after the police commissioner urged the city council to order the protesters off a public reserve. Protesters have been camped at Heirisson Isl...
Jungleland: The Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans Gives New Meaning to “Urban Growth” ~Nathaniel Rich, NYTimes ~It is misleading to talk about abandoned lots in the context of the Lower Ninth Ward. Vast sect...
*Early mockup of the billboard; it's way cooler now. And the url is www.facebook.com/FrackersHeartHolden* Blue America wants to erect some billboards in northeast Pennsylvania. We'd like to see Tim Holden...
The campaign to rid the world of nuclear weapons has inspired a rare show of bipartisan unity in federal parliament. Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Wednesday moved a lower house motion to renew Australi...
Rockhampton's Disaster Management Group will meet today after the declaration of a severe weather warning for central Queensland. Torrential rain that has affected the north this week is expected to move ...
The clean-up continues in Townsville in north Queensland this morning after a tornado ripped through the city yesterday. About 80 homes were damaged in Townsville, including a number of businesses at Gar...
A young British man has been killed after colliding with a snow cannon in the French Alps. The 22-year-old, who has not been named, died on Tuesday at the French resort of Val d'Isere. He was a resort r...
The suspected al Qaeda-linked gunman who is locked in an armed stand-off with French police was broken out of a Kandahar jail in a mass prison break by the Taliban, it has been reported. Mohammed Merah,...
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*Representative Paul Ryan’s proposal* *to lower the top individual and corporate tax rates to 25 percent* *would require Congress to eliminate* *more than $2.9 trillion worth of tax breaks over the next deca...
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I wondered how long it would take before I heard that there were fears of an anti-Muslim backlash following the discovery that the murderer of the four Jews and three soldiers in Toulouse was yet another I...
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If you have not already done so, please take a moment and send a letter to the Canadian Senate, calling on them to tone down their offensive rhetoric, and stop trying to marginalize and demonize Canadians ...
“How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all our Navigations, and all our Wars are transacted, is when compared to them. A very fit c...
*"America Gone Stupid Over Iran: An Analysis*" by Lawrence Davidson "*Making The Same Mistake Twice:* It is estimated that up to a million people died as a function of George Bush Jr.’s decision to in...
Raymond Ibrahim makes me aware of a word and concept that is quite interesting - tawriya: 'Perhaps you have heard of taqiyya, the Muslim doctrine that allows lying in certain circumstances, primarily when...
*The US management will not force sanctions on Japan and 10 European Union nations that have reduced their oil imports from Iran*. The European countries that have been excused are France, Germany, Belgi...
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Moody Blues, “The Story In Your Eyes” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgOtLKttDU4&feature=related
Alan Parsons Project, “Lucifer” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAGUUrgmBkQ&feature=related
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*Former X feature contestants One Direction have turn out to be the first British group to leave directly to the top of the US tune charts with their entrance album.* X Factor moderator and music executi...
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It is amazing how efficient the police can be when it comes to finding enemies of Zion. Unlike the usual slow, and lazy policing of the knuckle-scraping dimwitted buffoons of the State, when Jews are inv...
A report released on Tuesday by Cornell University’s Global Labor Institute concludes that the economic damage caused by potential spills from the Keystone XL pipeline could far outweigh the benefits of j...
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After 2007, the common sense that had governed our understanding of politics and the economy dissolved. London, United Kingdom - The common sense that governed us for a generation has collapsed. We are l...
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The US should withdraw from Afghanistan, for the sake of both the Afghan and the American people. Santa Barbara, CA - The latest occupation crime in Afghanistan was a shooting spree on March 11, reportedl...
Global threats to online free expression have diversified, attracting more public interest. San Francisco, CA - In February 2012, Twitter announced a new mechanism that would allow the company to minimis...
Brown dwarfs and so-called "nomad planets" could effectively be "rest stops" in future interstellar travel. Rutland, United Kingdom - Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is composed of billions of stars and plane...
In the US, the rich should pay more taxes so that higher education is more affordable for the middle- and lower-class. Berkeley, CA - Last week Rick Santorum called the president "a snob" for wanting ever...
The southeast Asian country's transition is quieter than Arab Spring nations - but it is no less real. Yangon, Myanmar - Here in Myanmar (Burma), where political change has been numbingly slow for a half...
Ever heard the story about the girl who sleeps with some dude and ends up getting some weird, flesh-eating disease that the doctor tells her can only be contracted through sex with a corpse? Every once i...
(CNN) -- As Iran rushes ahead with its nuclear program, some foreign policy thinkers urge Israel to accept that it must live with "incomplete" security. On Monday morning, 200,000 Israeli children spent ...
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The cost of preparing for doomsday isn't cheap. First you have to stock up on the appropriate gear, ammunition, food and shelter to survive a nuclear meltdown, asteroid, earthquake,...
A woman named Kirsten decided to look into the legality of Pinterest. After all, she's a lawyer with a passion for photography. What she found scared her so much, she shut down her Pinterest boards entir...
Berlin steps in to help resolve Central Asian water disputes Germany has offered to help Central Asian countries resolve their disputes over water supplies in the region and has offered assistance with in...
I have previously blogged about the subject of needing ID cards to vote in elections, most recently here. So I was intrigued to learn that the United Nations Human Rights Council investigated the issue of ...
Judith Tebbutt has been Freed by her Captors according to officials and is being flown to Kenya. Judith Tebbutt, from Bishop's Stortford, Herts, who was kidnapped by Somali pirates during a holiday on ne...
The best thing Illinois Governor Pat Quinn had to say in his State of the State address on February 1 was that the legislature needs to face its “rendezvous with reality.” Under a newly enacted state law ...
An online effort to ban beef containing an additive known as 'pink slime' from the federal school lunch program has garnered almost 19,000 supporters in less than four days. About 6 percent, or 7 million...
Servicemembers are giving way more cash to the anti-war GOP candidate than any other—but not for the reason you might think. Conventional wisdom on politics in the military can feel almost as age-old as t...
In memory of beloved Hawaiian elder Kumu Raylene Kawaiaea, who passed away on March 9, 2012. In this video, Kumu sings a chant of appreciation for life. This is one of the last interviews recorded with h...
The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is expected to maintain its priority in the Russian foreign policy doctrine during Putin’s presidency for the coming six years. The consolidation of the econom...
Sukabumi, West Java. An 8-year-old boy who smokes two packs of cigarettes a day has highlighted Indonesia’s failure to regulate the tobacco industry, the country’s child protection commission said on Mond...
The U.S. military has developed a new non-lethal, directed-energy weapon that makes people feel like they are burning when struck by the beam it emits, the DailyTech portal reported on Monday. The weapon...
black scooter *asset* from THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM (2007) what do we really know about who is doing/did the heinous murders in Toulouse? Currently, a 24 years old man, named as Mohammed Merah, of Algerian or...
A surfer has had a lucky escape after being bitten by a shark on Australia's Gold Coast - when he fell off his board and landed on the predator. The fish, believed to be a bull shark, bit Billy O'Leary t...
French police are engaged in a siege with a man they believe is responsible for the killings of seven people in the south west of the country. The suspect, 24, has so far refused to surrender to police f...
In the run-up to the government’s planned fuel price hike, the police are intensifying raids against hoarders, and three key labor organizations are warning of massive street protests. The price of subsi...
In order to follow through on its promises to the people, the Russian government needs to take a serious look at the country’s economy and make the changes necessary for sustainable long-term growth. Ove...
Have certain parts of the Constitution become irrelevant, as a former Republican leader once told me at a Foreign Affairs Committee hearing? At the time, I was told that demanding a Congressional declarat...
Swing skirts were in vogue, the Royals dominated the front pages, and Germany was shelling out lump sums to Europe in reparations. Was 1952 really that different from life today? According to a report b...
All for the Gulf Gulf Based Initiatives, Actions, Events, Legislation, etc. that you should know about.. by Cherri Foytlin on Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 9:28pm · There are so many inspiring community lea...
The Department of Health was last night urged to review its guidance on red meat after a study found that eating almost half the daily recommended amount can significantly increase the risk of dying early ...
Beijing, China - If everything goes right for China, it will surpass the United States as the world's largest economy, in current dollar terms (and more quickly in real terms), by 2021. Its per capita inc...
Misconceptions surrounding the dramatic events in Japan last year call for a more informed dialogue on nuclear energy. Birmingham, AL - The dramatic events that unfolded at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nucl...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 37.6 km (23.4 miles), the quake hit at 08:32:51 UTC Wednesday 21st March 2012 The epicenter was 123 km (76 miles) ES...
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I have been listening to the sneering tone from the BBC this morning as regards the imminent Osborn budget. Even Davies was tweeting that *"I wonder if an aspirin can help protect people from the Chancello...
http://unfuckwithable.ca/post/19662621518 : "This is how the 41st general election should’ve turned out if we didn’t have numerous voting irregularities and without the effects of robocalling [ source] ...
Rabbi Yisrael Dovid Weiss explains why he believes that Israel as a state is not legitimate. When Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, visited Washington last week on the eve of the Purim holida...
Nearly one-third of people who evacuated after the Tohoku disaster struck a year ago have seen their families torn apart, while about 40 percent lost their jobs, businesses or income, according to an Asah...
BEIJING -- China posted a rare trade deficit of $4.25 billion (about 348.5 billion yen) in the January-February period as exports remained stagnant due to the European debt crisis, according to statistics...
The debt restructuring last week was deemed a success, but if Greece continues in its current state with no outside economic stimulus, it will burn through that 130 billion euros in no time. FORTUNE -- F...
(CNN) -- Nearly two years ago in June 2010, the war in Afghanistan surpassed the Vietnam War to become the longest war in American history. Although the U.S. ousted the Taliban from power and killed Osama...
McDonald's said it will get its pork suppliers to phase out the use of immobilizing cages for pregnant pigs, a move that was applauded by the Humane Society of the United States, but not the pork industry...
I have not commented on the murders in Toulouse until now; firstly because it was just so horrible a story and also because I didn't want to comment before I knew who had carried out the attacks. So when I...
February 2021. It is a cold, blustery morning in Washington. The newly inaugurated Republican president of the United States is on his way to the office of the Chinese managing director of the Internation...
As many as one in 10 women in the UK claim to have been raped, according to new research by parenting website Mumsnet. The survey of 1,609 women found a tenth of those who responded had been raped and a ...
Hong Kong (CNN) – It's interesting to watch the knee-jerk reaction in the markets to China's softer growth forecast. After nearly a decade of targeting - and invariably exceeding - an 8% annual growth ra...
President Barack Obama’s energy plan involves radically increasing gas prices to the European rate of $9-10 a gallon. And he’s well on his way by more than doubling prices at the pump since entering offic...
Ponzi schemes have hit the headlines again twice this week as an American business man is convicted of conning investors out of £4.5bn and two more British men have been convicted in the con masterminded ...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Southern Alaska at a depth of 125 km (77.7 miles), the quake hit at 07:42:03 UTC Wednesday 21st March 2012 The epicenter was 6 km (4 miles) WSW from Anchorage, Alaska ...
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Well well. Turns out that the vicious assassin of those young Jewish children and their teacher, along with the French soldiers, was a Muslim called Mohammed who claims to be associated with an Al Queda af...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck offshore Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 14.8 km (9.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:44:23 UTC Wednesday 21st March 2012 The epicenter was 187 km (116 miles) West of Puerto...
*Does Genetically Modified (GM) Food Increase the Incidence of Obesity?* We previously reported: Many crops in the U.S. are now genetically modified. For example, 93 percent of soybeans grown in the US ...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck offshore Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 10.4 km (6.5 miles), the quake hit at 06:04:53 UTC Wednesday 21st March 2012 The epicenter was 190 km (118 miles) ESE of Acapulc...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck offshore Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 05:58:28 UTC Wednesday 21st March 2012 The epicenter was 162 km (100 miles) WNW of Puerto ...
in a legal case of *murder* there's a plea of DIMINISHED RESPONSIBLITY due to 'mental state' or 'drug affliction' or 'gonorrhea infection' etc... *TORTURE* is to INSERT INFORMATION/COMMANDS, not to get inf...
Sophie has volunteered to keep researching the banker resignations so I'll keep posting updates. Probably about twice a week. Sophie's studying mathematics at college so there will be times when she has...
In 2001, at an Ozar Hatorah school in Paris, a classroom was burned down. This turned out to be an inside job. The perpetrator turned out to be a pupil. (From Middle East to France, a Jewish school's jou...
*According to NASA’s science chief planetary scientists he is in there fighting for you subsequent to the swingeing cuts planned to the robotic exploration financial plan.* The NASA budget was actually t...
Emma the Embryo channels Fern Hill and DeBeauxOs at DAMMIT JANET! : "Emma is the potential everyhuman being. She is prochoice because gestation is a procreative process. She's a pragmatist because preg...
*US Engineers invented a hydrogen powered robot that moves throughout water like a jellyfish*. The robot is motorized by heat-producing chemical reactions between the oxygen and hydrogen in water and the...
Just watched an old Never Mind the Buzzcocks and saw a singer called Eliza Doolittle, never heard of her so I took a look around. Skinny Genes (2.0) - rather naughty lyrics Pack Up - ft Lloyd Wade - I l...
This is very surprising and couldwell lead to an effective way to treat Diabetes I certainly and perhapsDiabetes II. The idea that a drugpathway could exist that stimulate gut based insulin production ...
Thisis a careful analysis of the apparent DNA distribution throughout Europe. It isobserved that two groups of peoples emerged by way of naturally expandingpopulations. The Southern one ispresumed to ...
I have been covering this talefor four years and now there is more weighty science showing up to mobilize themainstream media. I am becoming more andmore skeptical regarding the use of any form of che...
This is another strange plant that no one has ever heard offthat is seriously interesting. A teaderived from it is powerfully indicated as an anti cancer tonic. It also appears to be a plant that coul...
You simply have to go over to *DAMMIT JANET!* Fern Hill gives Harper`s abortion stalking horse, Stephen Woodworth, a twitter flogging.
*Katrina vanden Heuvel *Opinion Writer Original here The man blocking America’s recovery By Katrina vanden Heuvel, Published: March 19 | Updated: Tuesday, March 20, 4:00 AM He is the most p...
Ukraine officials: Chernobyl decontamination ineffective March 21 http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201203200315.html [Paraphrasing and direct quote] A Ukrainian official used Chernobyl to illustrate the d...
Iran’s upcoming New Year’s Eve holiday, Nowruz, on March 20, is typically commemorated by a symbolic purging of the home and spiritual representation of creation and fertility. This year, Iran is also cele...
Why we still put hundreds of thousands of people in steel cages for pot-related offenses. John Lovell is a lobbyist who makes a lot of money from making sure you can’t smoke a joint. That’s his job. He’s...
"Seeing Red" organizer Marcia Ball, center, with Emily Haas, left, and novelist Sarah Bird at the Texas State Capitol. Photo by Susan Crews Bailey / Facebook.'Seeing Red':The Texas Taliban's war on womenBy A...
Scattered diverse and almost uniformly unfavorable and dangerous events are unfolding, as the global economy and financial structure undergoes the equivalent of endless earthquakes and bombardment of sola...
In their 2004 founders’ letter, Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google revealed a newly coined company motto. Three little words that the company insists have defined it, acted as a central pillar to their ...
A year after one of the worst industrial disasters in history - the triple reactor meltdown and spent fuel fires at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant - we still don't have a very clear idea about ...
Conflict for Profit? Nothing So Innocent! I woke up today faced with a John Pilger piece defending Julian Assange. I had heard Pilger speak in Australia, at what was supposed to be a peace conference. I ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 58.9 km (36.6 miles), the quake hit at 04:50:05 UTC Wednesday 21st March 2012 The epicenter was 133 km (...
RECENT EVENTS in Nigeria, including its presidential elections last April, have produced two narratives on the current state of that oil-rich West African nation with a history of civic turmoil. The firs...
BALTIMORE - A former TSA agent from Baltimore County has been indicted on federal child porn charges. Michael Scott Wilson, of Perry Hall , was previously charged in Baltimore County on charges of posses...
President Barack Obama is about to launch a 5,000-mile, four-state, two-day trip on Air Force One to contain the political damage caused by high gas prices. Obama is slated to fly out this Wednesday to c...
I'm getting a bit tired of the "deranged" soldier story. It was predictable, of course. The 38-year-old staff sergeant who massacred 16 Afghan civilians, including nine children, near Kandahar this week h...
From as far back as the Elenin incidents of 2011, the Coming Crisis was shouting from the mountain tops that there was some strange synchronicity to these major quakes. At first we thought it might have to...
North Korea rejected international criticism of its planned satellite launch next month as China cautioned its ally in the first sign of tension since Kim Jong Un succeeded his father as head of the total...
An experienced TV weatherman has sued CBS broadcasting for sex and age discrimination claiming his job applications were ignored purely because he isn't a 20-somthing and female. Hunter, who has been a w...
A TSA screener at Newark Airport was recently busted in a major heroin den near her workplace — still wearing her spiffy, government-issued uniform, authorities said. Samirah Saunders, 22, and two other ...
MOSCOW, March 18 (Reuters) - Russian police detained more than 100 people on Sunday, including leaders of the largest protest movement against Vladimir Putin's 12-year rule, as hundreds rallied against hi...
Five former Guatemalan soldiers have been sentenced to 7,600 years in prison for their role in a village massacre that left more than 250 men, women and children dead. The men were charged with leading a...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 10.7 km (6.6 miles), the quake hit at 04:02:36 UTC Wednesday 21st March 2012 The epicenter was 175 km (108 miles) SSW of Huajuapan de Leon...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 20.9 km (13 miles), the quake hit at 02:54:39 UTC Wednesday 21st March 2012 The epicenter was 128 km (79 miles) SSW of Huajuapan de Leon, ...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 36.2 km (22.5 miles), the quake hit at 02:34:07 UTC Wednesday 21st March 2012 The epicenter was 106 km (65 mile...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 10.4 km (6.5 miles), the quake hit at 02:25:33 UTC Wednesday 21st March 2012 The epicenter was 160 km (99 miles) ESE of Acapulco, Guerrero...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck offshore Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 10.4 km (6.5 miles), the quake hit at 02:07:45 UTC Wednesday 21st March 2012 The epicenter was 169 km (105 miles) ESE of Acapulc...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 20 km (12.4 miles), the quake hit at 00:27:49 UTC Wednesday 21st March 2012 The epicenter was 161 km (100 miles) Southwest of Oaxaca, Oaxa...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Potosi, Bolivia at a depth of 176 km (109.4 miles), the quake hit at 00:06:38 UTC Wednesday 21st March 2012 The epicenter was 161 km (100 miles) SSW of Uyuni, Bolivia ...
The lawyer for the US soldier being held over the killing of 16 Afghan civilians has said there is very little evidence against his client. After a meeting with Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, John Henry Br...
Two French police officers investigating the murders of seven people have reportedly been hurt during a shoot-out with suspects. The elite officers sustained the injuries during a pre-dawn raid in the so...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Southern Greece at a depth of 60.8 km (37.8 miles), the quake hit at 23:51:07 UTC Tuesday 20th March 2012 The epicenter was 69 km (42 miles) Northeast of Chania, Crete...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Catamarca, Argentina at a depth of 135.5 km (84.2 miles), the quake hit at 23:00:25 UTC Tuesday 20th March 2012 The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) WNW of Catamarca, Ca...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 10.5 km (6.5 miles), the quake hit at 22:25:43 UTC Tuesday 20th March 2012 The epicenter was 34 km (19 miles) Southwest of Ometepec, Oaxac...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Kamchatka, Russia at a depth of 52.1 km (32.4 miles), the quake hit at 22:21:49 UTC Tuesday 20th March 2012 The epicenter was 218 km (135 miles) Wes...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 20.9 km (13 miles), the quake hit at 21:43:41 UTC Tuesday 20th March 2012 The epicenter was 163 km (101 miles) SSW of Huajuapan de Leon, O...
One of the key themes of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) or "man-made warming" or later revised to "man-made climate change", is that more human emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) via fossil fuel burning,...
"It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?" - Buckminster Fuller
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Tonga Region at a depth of 34.4 km (21.4 miles), the quake hit at 21:07:09 UTC Tuesday 20th March 2012 The epicenter was 301 km (187 miles) South of NUKU`ALOFA, To...
"Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others... And your very flesh shall be a great poem."...
If you read our challenge to the DCCC to change their steadfast policy of giving Paul Ryan a free pass and helping elect Rob Zerban instead... bad news. They refuse to respond. In fact when Jacquie put ou...
*Are you ready for another WORLD WAR!!!!!!!!!!!???? * "US sees peril if Israel strikes Iran; War game exercise shows probable regional conflict" by Mark Mazzetti | New York Times, March 20, 2012 WASHING...
Protest against NATO in Strasbourg on April 4, 2009. Photo by Jos van Zetten / Flickr / Wikimedia Commons.Resistance builds:NATO coming to ChicagoOrganizers and supporters will use humor and music, art and p...
"When life hands you a lemon, say "Oh yeah, I like lemons. What else you got?" - Henry Rollins
*BEGINNING MAY 1, 2012 * *NO WORK - NO SCHOOL - NO SHOPPING - NO BANKING - NO TRADING* * * *THE PEOPLE OF THE PLANET WILL TAKE TO THE STREETS* * * *Join US Here: Facebook Event* * * If you are part of un...
In my previous article (link here) about exposing the fraud of the so called "chosen people" and how they have absolutely NO "historical" claim to Palestine, making them the real "invented" people of Pales...
"Mother pleads not guilty in attack on children; ‘I did what I had to do,’ Salem woman says" Globe Staff, March 20, 2012 SALEM - When police found the woman they say had slashed the throats of her two you...
"The Sleeping Beauty galaxy may appear peaceful at first sight but it is actually tossing and turning. In an unexpected twist, recent observations have shown that the gas in the outer regions of this photo...
Two things – both of them from Ralph Nader This article posted today on OpEdNews - great article! *Nader Proposes $10 Minimum Wage to Jolt the Left and Advance the Occupy Movement* A Snip: Nader feels th...
Alan Parsons Project, “Ammonia Avenue” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK-_2G7MMgc
*“Try To Remember…”* by Chet Raymo “In a sleepless hour of the night, I was trying to remember the last name of a person I have known well for more than forty years. When my spouse stirred in her sleep, ...
Guest Post: A Doctor on Transvaginal Ultrasounds – Whatever: 'via Blog this' It is our responsibility, as always, to protect our patients from things that would harm them. Therefore, as physicians, it i...
''How do you know so much about everything?'' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was, ''By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.”...
*MARCH 19, 2012 .* *Police Arrest 73 in Occupy Wall Street Crackdown as Proteste...
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Is there any truth to the rumour that jurors failed to convict Tame Iti and his co-defendants on the charge of involvement in an "organised" criminal group because what they saw of their group looked far f...
*CANADIAN POLITICS:* *DEFEND OUR SOCIAL HOUSING:* ** True to form our present federal Conservative government is quite content to see funding for "social housing" (co-op, non-profit and public housing) g...
I have said for the past year at least, and I will say it again.. Never, ever, sign up for a "Facebook" account. This so called "social network" is nothing of the sort... It is a data mining spy network ...
This is just a fraction of the information I've been able to dig up with a cursory effort on my newest stalker, Mr. Mooser. I could do the humane thing and just give Sarah Palin the exact GPS coordinates ...
*"Forget Global Warming-* * It's Cycle 25 We Need To Worry About"* By David Rose “The supposed ‘consensus’ on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperatu...
Much the same as Day 4, with less rain: graded papers in the morning at home, went into the office (geocaching along the way, and stopping by a sporting-goods store to look at shoes) to file them and do a ...
I have made it my goal with this blog to present any news pertaining to the still ongoing disaster with the failed nuclear power reactor cores at Fukushima Japan as it becomes available. It is a fact, r...
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Blimey. The first time in my life I find it in myself to offer good words about Nick Smith, and within 24 hours he's resigned. I almost feel responsible. That said however, on the issue on which he resig...
Garry Trudeau's controversial series of Doonesbury cartoons satirized the Texas sonogram law.Taking on the abortion-rightsdeniers with satireNo other right, except for perhaps the right to organize a union, ...
*FABIUS MAXIMUS:* *"With a stroke of his pen President Hope and Change erased much of America"*. Now comes the great leap forward as Obama signs a new *Executive Order on National Defense Resources Prepar...
The Information Technology and Information Foundation, a DC-based think tank which routinely punches above its weight in policy debates over innovation, has a new report out today titled "Worse Than the...
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Here's the note from our friends at Auckland's Economics Group on tomorrow night's meeting. Tomorrow, Thursday 22nd, 6pm, Room 223 of the Uni Business School, we begin our first session of four on Economi...
*No, the Harvard thing didn't work out great, or his stewardship of the U.S. economy as Obama's economic genius, but who's to say our Larry isn't a perfect match for the World Bank? (Most of the economical...
Sent to the Seattle Times, March 20 The Rice-Klein task force (“Education woes linked to national security,” March 19) ignores the facts about American schools. There is no evidence that American schools ...
*Obama's birthplace: Classified. Osama's deathplace: Classified.* When the noble and heroic American forces conquered Baghdad, the PsyOps branch of the U.S. military took down Saddam Hussein's statue i...
Chart from Reuters / ThinkProgress.For most Americans:The recovery is a mythBy Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / March 20, 2012The Great Depression of the 1930's has a lot in common with the current Great Rece...
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* “Employers Ask Job Seekers For Facebook Passwords”* by Manuel Valdes and Shannon Mcfarland “When Justin Bassett interviewed for a new job, he expected the usual questions about experience and references...
Like a voter who keeps changing phone numbers and can't hide from CISM. From the *G&M*: RackNine Inc. chief executive Matt Meier says a web designer and marketer who operates under the name of “Rick McKni...
Hundreds of houses collapsed after a strong earthquake that rattled residents in southern Mexican resort towns and the nation's capital Tuesday, officials said. The quake had a magnitude of 7.4, accordi...
I won't embed this video from last Saturday, when a young girl was left convulsing on the ground by the NYPD after they cracked her ribs - but if you want to know why I carried this banner, that incident i...
*“Taking A Break From What You Are Doing”* by The DailyOM “Sometimes finding the answer is as easy as taking a break and stepping back from the situation. Sometimes we can get so wrapped up in our thought...
“When science discovers the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.” - Bernard Baily
*"Potential Matchup Between Black Man and Mormon Poses Dilemma for Bigots"* *Nowhere to Turn, Disgruntled Haters Say* by Andy Borowitz NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) – "With a fall presidential contest bet...
*"Bringing Justice to Felon Bankers, In Seven Easy Steps" * by Bruce Judson “It’s now a near certainty that Wall Street executives committed felonies. The recently released audits of robo-mortgage activi...
Graphic by Bill Freeland / The Rag Blog.Republican roulette:Romney vs. the rebelsBy Bill Freeland / The Rag Blog / March 20, 2012As the Republican nominating process enters its whirlwind phase -- with nearly...
Mitt Romney is expected to win tonight in Illinois, and win big. It's a loophole primary, meaning that the presidential preference election is really just a beauty contest, with delegates selected directly...
I just got home from a trip into NY today, to support OWS after the shameful fascist attacks on peaceful protesters last Saturday. In an outrageous violation of our rights to free speech and assembly, the...
Something odd about this campaign bus. Can't quite put my finger on it. Oh wait. It's missing a hubcap. [original photo] [More posts daily at the Detroit News.]
*Toulouse Rabbi **John Ramsey Speaks Out About JonBenet** * *Mumbai Rabbi * *ORANGES AND SUNSHINE Trailer - in UK cinemas 1st April 2011* * Blood splattered school in Toulouse * *Obama Implementing Marti...
I wasn't aware that Obama said this until I heard Joe Rogan mention it in his interview with Michael Ruppert from December, 2011. In an interview with CBS's 60 Minutes back in December, Obama compared the ...
(Reuters) - U.S. authorities lack proof of what occurred the night a U.S. soldier is suspected of killing 16 villagers in Afghanistan, the lawyer representing the serviceman said on Tuesday. "I'm very co...
(Reuters) - Japan and 10 European Union nations will be spared severe U.S. financial sanctions because they have significantly reduced purchases of Iranian crude oil, the U.S. State Department said on Tue...
Police believe an arm found floating in a London canal is connected to the murder of the EastEnders actress Gemma McCluskie whose headless torso was found in the same stretch of water. The limb was spott...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 10.5 km (6.5 miles), the quake hit at 20:14:39 UTC Tuesday 20th March 2012 The epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) North from Pinotepa Nacional...
This is what's happening. That's the Jet Stream at 1800Z. (Courtesy Wunderground.com) I'll let *Dr. Jeff Masters *explain. The ongoing March heat wave in the Midwest will continue to set al...
*The next bipartisan tag team to end the war on drugs?* Perhaps you remember a couple weeks ago, right-wing culture warrior and religionist charlatan Pat Robertson advocating marijuana legalization. He br...
Dutchsince found a flyer advertising a "simulated earthquake" on the same day as the quake!
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Kalimantan, Indonesia at a depth of 17.9 km (11.1 miles), the quake hit at 19:43:28 UTC Tuesday 20th March 2012 The epicenter was 143 km (89 miles) South from Tarakan,...
*“Is School Like Jail?”* by Jeffrey Tucker “The people in my community love their public schools. So too it is in most of the country. If only they knew the costs, and I don’t mean just the financial cos...
Not to worry bagel lovers, Bloomberg's bagel ban only applies to the homeless. In fact he's banned all donated food to homeless shelters. NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s food police have...
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A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 18.7 km (11.6 miles), the quake hit at 19:34:12 UTC Tuesday 20th March 2012 The epicenter was 15 km (9.3 miles) WSW from Pinotepa Nacional...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Offshore Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 13.1 km (8.1 miles), the quake hit at 19:19:51 UTC Tuesday 20th March 2012 The epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) WSW from Pinotepa ...
A third man has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the stabbing of a man at a party at the home of former world champion boxer Herbie Hide. The 20-year-old man is from the Norwich area and ha...
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*It was Gandhi that said a society is judged by the way it treats its animals, right?* Harvard vows changes after 4th monkey death * * Deaths of Harvard lab animals stir criticism Harvard primate facili...
I spotted this remarkable tweet by former Question Time producer, James Macintyre *James Macintyre* @*James_Macintyre* BBC leftwing a myth. Just like "anti war"--academic studies showed BBC gave more...
"A 3-way tangle preceded shooting" March 16, 2012|By Kathy McCabe and John R. Ellement BEVERLY - In a phone conversation on the afternoon of Feb. 24, Beverly police Officer Jason Lantych offered to meet H...
TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 246 PM CDT TUE MAR 20 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN CALCASIEU PARISH IN SOUT...
Police, family still stumped by student’s disappearance Missing Boston College student’s home is searched for clues 50 join vigil held for missing Boston College student
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 93 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 255 PM CDT TUE MAR 20 2012 THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN ARKANSAS EFFECTIV...
"Disabled fear T’s plans for changes in The Ride" March 06, 2012|By Eric Moskowitz BRAINTREE - Changes in the MBTA’s *door-to-door service for the disabled*that have been proposed as part of the T’s broade...
All this news is being reported today. Coincidence? I think not. Earliest settlements in human history found in Northern Syria.... Just in time to ensure they are erased from our common humanity. The earl...
A confirmed case of H5N1 avian influenza in Egypt has taken the life of a woman from Dakahlia Governorate according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The WHO said Monday; the Ministry of Health and...
GEORGIA TECH (US) — After more than 60 years of inactivity, the magma chamber of a Greek volcano is filling up again. A picturesque island in the Aegean Sea, Santorini is a tourist magnet, famous for its...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A major earthquake struck Mexico on Tuesday, damaging buildings, scaring residents and prompting evacuations across the capital, although there were no early reports of serious dam...
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In June, Sabine Hossenfelder is organizing a workshop on nonlocality: Workshop on Nonlocality, June 27-29 (Backreaction) ------------------------------ Current registrants (Workshop's website) So far, 10 p...
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please take time out of your AUSTERITY ECONOMIES to enjoy this wonderful rantorial from Michael Rivero of WHAT REALLY HAPPENED. "You don't make a $1,000,00 a year, you're scum," so says the head of Gold...
Three Uyghur girls at a Sunday market in the oasis city Khotan (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
es: Calles de Yangon, la antigua capital de Myanmar. en: Streets of Yangon, Myanmar. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Kandawgyi Lake, Yangon, Myanmar (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Jewellery Market, Yangon, Myanmar (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Outdoor market, Yangon, Myanmar (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
An SVG map of China with the Xinjiang autonomous region highlighted Legend: Image:China map legend.png The orange area is Aksai Chin, a part of Xinjiang which is claimed by India. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
China's top meteorological authority said Tuesday that a sandstorm has hit northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region and Gansu province amid strong gales. Visibility has decreased to less than 5...
(CNN) -- India has overtaken China as the world's biggest importer of weapons, with Asian nations the most aggressive consumers of military hardware, a new report says. Between 2007 and 2011, India's bus...
(CNN) -- A car loaded with explosives rocked the Somali capital Wednesday, leaving one injured and damaging a house nearby, authorities said. The blasts targeted K-4 square, which includes an intersection...
Baghdad (CNN) -- A militant group with links to al Qaeda claimed responsibility for a deadly wave of bombings across Iraq, strikes designed to undermine government security plans for the upcoming Arab Lea...
Bogota, Colombia (CNN) -- Colombian authorities have killed dozens of leftist guerrillas in the past day, the nation's defense minister said Wednesday. Operations throughout the country led to the killin...
For most of the media, the story regarding Staff Sergeant Robert Bales has moved to American soil. The U.S. soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians is now under watch at a base in Kansas, with a ve...
BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian soldiers backed by tanks seized the eastern city of Deir el-Zour from rebels on Tuesday, the latest opposition stronghold to fall to an offensive by the better equipped Syrian milita...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Tehran will retaliate against any attack by Israeli or American forces "on the same level," Iran's top leader said Tuesday in a defiant address just moments after U.S. President Barac...
TOKYO (Kyodo) Japan's top government spokesman Osamu Fujimura urged North Korea on Wednesday to refrain from going ahead with its plan to launch a satellite in mid-April using a rocket, a move that has sp...
A decision by the Osaka Municipal Government, Kansai Electric Power Co.'s biggest shareholder, to suggest abolishing the company's nuclear power plants at a general shareholders meeting in June has stirre...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Barat Daya, Indonesia at a depth of 154 km (95.4 miles), the quake hit at 18:54:49 UTC Wednesday 21st March 2012 The epicenter was 75 km (46.5 miles) Northe...
TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 205 PM CDT WED MAR 21 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL RANKIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSI...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoGame Group is set to become the next major retailer to disappear from the High Street as it called in the administrators today. The video games retailer, which has 1,300 stores worldwide and employs 10,0...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoTV presenter Anna Ryder Richardson will be prosecuted on health and safety charges after a toddler and his mother were crushed by a tree at her zoo. Mum Emma Davies-Hughes, 28, and her son Gruff, three, w...
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