Tuesday, March 6th, 2012 A Texas man is currently 13 1/2 years into a 20-year sentence for molesting his two young cousins. The allegations from the children were corroborated by a bit of pseudo-science quackery worthy of a spot in the
forensics hall of shame.
A personal journey to the heart of one of
South Africa's most dangerous neighbourhoods. Award-winning filmmaker Clifford Bestall goes back to the place where he grew up to explore this microcosm of chao...
I love Mondays-- at least in part because I fast on
Sundays and it's so nice to eat again on Monday. Tonight we celebrated Roland's birthday with a wonderful dinner at The Bazaar by
José Andrés, one of ou...
In the long process of rebuilding after the triple disasters, the country should focus on renewable energy.
Tokyo, Japan - In March 2011, a
9.0 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami left nearly 20,0...
Older workers have flooded into the job market since the recovery that began in the summer of 2009, TD Economics said Thursday, eclipsing other age groups in terms of gains made in the
labour market. The...
Infertile couples are exposed to three to five times higher levels of phthalates compared to fertile couples who have naturally conceived a child, finds a study from Italy. The couples had higher levels o...
A prominent environmental researcher, activist and blogger from California admitted Monday night that he had deceitfully obtained and distributed confidential internal materials from the Heartland Institu...
Abuse of the environment has created an 'absolutely unprecedented' emergency, say Blue Planet prizewinners Celebrated scientists and development thinkers today warn that civilisation is faced with a perfe...
Marine biologists and philosophers have joined forces to support a controversial declaration of rights for whales and dolphins on the grounds that their astonishing intelligence and emotional empathy puts...
VANCOUVER — If carbon dioxide emissions don’t begin to decline soon, the complex fabric of marine ecosystems will begin fraying — and eventually unravel completely, two new studies conclude. The diversit...
It's bad enough that we're doing so little to fight climate change; let's not ask teachers to lie about it too. The culture wars have been fought in the classroom for decades, waged over such issues as sc...
Researchers attending one of the world's major academic conferences 'are scared to death of the anti-science lobby' Most scientists, on achieving high office, keep their public remarks to the bland and r...
When the BC government refused to fund legal counsel for groups wishing to be heard at the inquiry into the botched investigation of serial killer Willy Pickton it was a signal that this was nothing but an...
------------------------------ *Why Can’t americans Have Democracy?* ------------------------------ March 2, 2012 | Original here Syria has a secular government as did Iraq prior to the american ...
Tribal leaders backed by armed militia have declared a semi-autonomous region in Libya, in a move which could herald the break up of the country. A conference in the eastern city of Benghazi declared the...
Ralph Zurmuhle, "Epitaph" "Epitaph" solo piano composition by Ralph Zurmuhle coupled with wilderness spirit imagery by Cecil Whitt. Video produced by Sam Henegar of Still Waters Imagery And Media, Inc.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said there are too many foreigners in France and has pledged to cut the number of new arrivals in half. As the country's presidential election campaign gathers pace, M...
I have been following the Fukushima nuclear disaster for almost a full year now, since the tsunami and reactor meltdowns that began March 11th, 2011. Since the time of the original disaster, I have been t...
Budget airline Ryanair is in trouble again for misleading customers - this time for falsely implying rival
Thomas Cook was likely to go into administration. The reprimand came in response to a string of ...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Kyrgyzstan at a depth of 1 km (0.6 miles), the quake hit at 03:03:00 UTC Wednesday 7th March 2012 The epicenter was 140 km (86.4 miles) South of Özgön, Kyrgyzstan No R...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Tajikistan at a depth of 145.3 km (90.3 miles), the quake hit at 22:43:54 UTC Tuesday 6th March 2012 The epicenter was 120 km (74 miles) SSW of Karakul, Tajikistan No ...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 41.8 km (26 miles), the quake hit at 22:35:00 UTC Tuesday 6th March 2012 The epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) NNW of Neiafu, Tonga No Tsunami Warning...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands, Russia at a depth of 39.1 km (24.3 miles), the quake hit at 22:33:18 UTC Tuesday 6th March 2012 The epicenter was 408 km (254 miles) SSW from Sever...
Here's one reason. They violated the Elections Act in 2006, paid a fine for it and then tried to sue Elections Canada. *Today they lost*. I'm sure there will be people drifting by who suggest that droppi...
“The more one analyzes people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.” - Oscar Wilde
"Now we must look upon each other as brothers and sisters. Only by joining together in a spiritual peace with love in our hearts for the Great Spirit and Mother Earth shall we be saved. If you have a way ...
"I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood. Then the knowing comes: I can...
Leaders of oil-rich eastern Libya declared it Tuesday to be a semi-autonomous region and voted for a 79-year-old former military man to lead it. "We're talking about the whole eastern region of the count...
Below is my article today in the online magazine, http://www.thelobbyist.biz/perspectives/less-gorvernment/1282-ipr-exclusivity-and-innovation . The photos are not part of the original article though, I ju...
I have submitted the following comment to the Claes Johnson blog, where commenters are still dogmatically adhering to the common, yet--to me, and to many of my readers--now known false belief, that the Ear...
The NRC figured that a 1 year old child in California would get a 40 millisievert dose to the thyroid from 1 year of consuming Iodine-131 from Fukshima fallout? Is this correct? Is this what they thought...
Via a helpful reader, one of the most disturbing things I've seen this week: I don't know Joe Couto, and I'm sure he's a perfectly decent guy in real life, but this is on behalf of the Ontario Associatio...
St. Catherine's Hospital, Cite Soleil--Photo by John CarrollThe following post is a description of two interviews I had today with young ladies that live in Cite Soleil in Port-au-Prince. My main questions...
Pediatric Cholera--Photo by John Carroll* * *Early today in pediatric clinic in Cite Soleil I had a young mother bring in her 10 month old baby boy. She told me that he started having diarrhea yesterday. H...
Screenshot of Rachel Maddow reporting on the phony ACORN media sting during her MSNBC show. Image from Democurmudgeon.What sells is legitimate:Political news is a commodityBy Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / Marc...
[image: Disaster site: The KS Endeavor rig, pictured here ablaze following the January 2012 blowout. upstreamonline.com] 6 March 2012 (BBC) – A fire that killed two workers and destroyed a gas explorati...
The once great United States of America is crumbling right before our eyes. The great American empire has reached the end of the road, with a crushing debt load that now can NEVER be repaid, rapidly risin...
I know it's late and I know the chances of this happening are slim But Harrisburg is within earshot of a lot of people and *Wednesday March 7th the Senate is going to vote on the ALEC Voter ID bill.* I sa...
This ad by the *National Iranian American Council* appeared in the Washington Post on Monday, March 5, 2012. Retired U.S. military and intelligence leaders are leading the charge for peace, diplomacy,...
*by Ken* Today in his Washington Post "In the Loop" column, Al Kamen revealed the winners in the Feb. 8 'Embassy for Sale' contest, "which was to come up with ideas for what to do with the enormous, 104-...
"Is this a painting or a photograph? In this beautiful celestial still life composed with a cosmic brush, dusty nebula NGC 2170 shines near the image center. Reflecting the light of nearby hot stars, NGC 2...
"Too often going after what feels good means letting of what you know is right. And letting someone in means abandoning the walls you took so long to build. There are days that make the sacrifices seem wo...
*"Things to Think"* "Think in ways you've never thought before. If the phone rings, think of it as carrying a message Larger than anything you've ever heard, Vaster than a hundred lines of Yeats. Think th...
*“In The Presence Of Ineffable Mystery”* by Chet Raymo “An acquaintance who knows of my admiration for Thomas Merton sent me this quote, from Merton's “A Search for Solitude”: “I must get to know somethin...
*BOWSER AND BLUE* checks in on Robocalls. Ya gotta love it, it's becoming a cultural phenomenon.
Don't overreact to report that New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees is 'livid' ~Mike Triplett
Stephen Harper is despotic by design. That much is apparent in an excerpt from a letter Harper wrote in 2001 while head of the National Citizens Coalition, known as the "jackasses letter." Harper used t...
Following the destruction of the free nation of Libya, the Zionists have their eyes set on destroying Syria. The chutzpah of our enemies is such that when asked about the Lebanon, the Israeli thief-in-c...
Now it's not only way over-budget, way overdue but the Pentagon is having to lower its performance requirements so it won't have to call the F-35 a complete turkey. If the plane can't achieve its specifie...
Allen Stanford (gasp!) Receives Full Rear Swatting For Ponzi Scheme Lifestyle (But Where Is the Moolah Stashed? Caymans? Switzerland?) Rick Santorum is leading the charge in the culture war against contrac...
At PostPartisan today, I did a quick post on some of the pundit spin to ignore tonight. I also participated in some punditing of my own, participating in the Post's prediction panel. I just wish I had seen...
*"Zap! Amazing Lightning Photo Captured"* by Brett Israel "A lucky photographer captured an amazing photo of an intense lightning storm over Ikaria Island, Greece. Photographer Chris Kotsiopoulos had set ...
Faro, Portugal. Thanks for stopping by.
Is it the end of an era?Exit Olympia Snow and Andrew BreitbartBy Danny Schechter / The Rag Blog / March 6, 2012There was an eerie synchronicity in the pending resignation of veteran Maine Senator Olympia Sno...
*"Bust Reveals Government Runs Hacking Groups"* by Kurt Nimmo "The establishment media has characterized the leader of LulzSec ratting out his hacktivist comrades as betrayal, but the incident reveals som...
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied." - Claude Cockburn
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Last week we tried drawing attention to the fact that it is the same hedge fund managers and commodities speculators funding Mitt Romney's profliga...
'A European reporter questions South African Member of Parliament, Kenneth Meshoe on the charge that Israel is an apartheid state. MP Meshoe provides a very clear picture of why there is no comparison be...
*“Change The Morphic Field...Change The World!”* by Zen Gardner “There was an interesting article recently about researchers who found within the computer informational field what appears to be proof of ...
David Frum asks "When Did Our Presidents Get So Rich?" Great question, and even better applied, as he does in the post, to presidential candidates: It seems that the income gap is widening between preside...
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[image: _MCSHANE3]I was shocked to hear of the sudden death of Owen McShane yesterday. In the last couple of years I know he had been suffering from an inherited heart condition, but while he still suff...
[image: Vince Cable] Whoops. B-BBC contributor Alan detects a rather fishy smell about a BBC claim leading their news today,,, "BBC are claiming that their hero Vince Cable's letter was leaked to them...
On an earlier post (the Human Volano) about the usual topic at Wit's End - trees dying from air pollution - Anonymous left a link to a youtube video, with the comment: ...every single time I read your blo...
Biased BBC contributor Alan notes... You'll never hear Bruce Springsteen on the BBC again..... 'Just a few minutes of listening to mainstream rock music such as Bruce Springsteen and the White Stripes ...
On previous episodes of *Dean Del Mastro: Knower of Everything*, Dean didn't trust the survey results in a Peterborough newspaper poll, so he commissioned his own robo-push poll, in an effort to "protect d...
THE NSW flood crisis - in places, the worst in almost 160 years - could continue for more than a month. ''It looks like it's going into April at this rate,'' a spokesman for the State Emergency Service s...
The FBI turned a computer hacker to build its case against a group of people it alleges are responsible for a string of audacious attacks that captured the personal details of more than one million people,...
Just a week after a 40-year-old male was confirmed positive for H5N1 avian influenza (bird flu); the Bangladeshi Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) confirmed Monday two additio...
HA NOI — The local Department of Animal Health has imported 7 million doses of bird flu vaccines for reproductive poultry, said Can Xuan Binh, acting department director. The department also supplied 7,0...
PLAGUES of rats and mice are making their way from the region's semi-rural and coastal towns into Geelong. Pest controllers contacted by the Geelong Advertiser yesterday said they were run off their feet...
A decrease in water levels inside the reactor coolant system at Xcel Energy's Prairie Island nuclear power plant near Red Wing, Minn., prompted officials to declare a "notification of unusual event" earlie...
Hanoi authorities announced an outbreak of bird flu last week, one week after it was known that thousands of culled ducks had tested positive for the H5N1 virus. Nearly 2,600 ducks from a local pond were...
SOMERTON, Ariz. (AP) — Bees attacked 13 farm workers in the community of Somerton near Yuma. The workers were in a cauliflower field when the bees started stinging them repeatedly Monday afternoon. A sp...
Conakry - A cholera outbreak in western Guinea has killed at least 14 people over the past month, a source at the health and public hygiene ministry said on Monday. "The cholera epidemic that has reappea...
In the pristine frozen continent of Antarctica scientists fear an alien invasion - not from outer space, but carried in people's pockets and bags. Seeds and plants accidentally brought to Antarctica by to...
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Israel Military Industries will be barred from submitting bids for Indian defense contracts for the next ten years, along with five other firms, The Times of India reported on Tuesday. The decision follo...
(Reuters) - The head of Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) said on Tuesday a declaration of autonomy by civic leaders in an eastern province was the result of a foreign plot and risked breaking th...
*For all the good it will do in this rigged election state. I suspect Mitt will be the big winner here and nationally tonight. *
GOT A SMART PHONE? If you do banking through it, or if you access sensitive data through it, be thou aware that your phone leaks — badly. Like really bad badly. According to Tom Simonite's article, *"Eave...
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Biased BBC - 9 hours ago
So the hacking of Stratfor's emails by Anonymous and published by WikiHacks has revealed that, contrary to what we were told, Osama Bin Laden's body was not buried at sea but was in fact flown to a militar...
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Buckdog - 9 hours ago
*"OTTAWA — Elections Canada investigators probing the robocalls scandal are interviewing workers on the Conservative campaign in Guelph, Ont., and trying to determine why payments made to an Edmonton voice...
March 6 - Syrian state TV shows images of people apparently returning to the Baba Amr neighborhood of Homs after nearly a month of heavy shelling. Lindsey Parietti reports
March 6 - Over 4,000 children in northern Uganda are afflicted by nodding syndrome, a disease which affects the neurological system, is of unknown origins and has no known cure. Nick Rowlands reports.
Reuters) - Black and Latino students across the United States are far more likely to be suspended than white students - and far less likely to have access to rigorous college-prep courses, according to a s...
Apparently the state of Missouri sees Rush Limbaugh as one of its greatest native sons. "*...state House Speaker Steven Tilley (R) has commissioned a statue of Limbaugh to stand among those of Harry Tru...
In a decision for sanity, Reuters is reporting that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court's decision that allows the psychiatrists treating Jared Lee Loughner, the schizophrenic who...
(Reuters) - International sanctions have a patchy history, and Iran's oil elite have been dodging them for decades. As Washington and its allies tighten the screws on Tehran over its nuclear program, Ira...
* * *Click image for larger size. * - http://www.northeastshooters.com/ • Hat tip to Alex Noble for this material.
(Reuters) - A disorderly Greek default would cause more than a trillion euros ($1.3 trillion) of damage to the euro zone and could leave Italy and Spain dependent on outside help to stop contagion spreadi...
(Reuters) - Stocks fell the most in nearly three months on Tuesday with the Dow tumbling more than 200 points as recent government data rekindled concerns about global growth and a deadline loomed for pri...
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Avalanches killed at least 37 people Tuesday in a remote northeastern province of Afghanistan and officials feared the death toll would rise. About 20 houses were smothered wi...
Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- The death toll from a sophisticated attack by Islamic extremists against soldiers in Yemen jumped to 184 Tuesday, three Yemeni officials told CNN. Air raids on militant positions s...
It was bound to happen. Prospective employers asking demanding to inspect job applicants' social network accounts. *Employers and colleges find the treasure-trove of personal information hiding behind...
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Authorities on Tuesday made wide-ranging arrests of top members of the computer hacker group "Anonymous," and its splinter groups called Internet Feds, AntiSec and LulzSec, which have cl...
(CNN) -- At least 35 people were killed in Syria on Tuesday as government forces took aim at citizens across the country, opposition activists said. The deaths included 23 people in the opposition strong...
Will Israel strike Iran in 2012? It's a simple question, but with extremely complicated answers. Everyone you ask has a different opinion. But most people don't have sources like my guest this past weeke...
(CNN) -- I'm sure if President Obama were stuck between a rock and a hard place, that would be preferable to the spot he currently finds himself in. Consider this: Most nations agree Iran cannot be allowe...
Vienna, Austria (CNN) -- The United States and other countries agreed Tuesday to resume negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program. Iran also signaled a willingness to let international inspectors vi...
I guess I understand why Barack Obama doesn't do more news conferences. There's really not a whole lot of upside for him; he's probably better off doing sit-down interviews with people who can be counted o...
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CENSORED NEWS - 10 hours ago
Photo by Andrew Iron Shell *OglalaLakota arrested at blockade* *ByDebra White Plume* Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com WANBLEE, S.D. -- OnMonday, March 5 we were called by a lady from Wanble...
Did *Anonymous* threaten Vic Toews as is being suggested? Did *Anonymous*warn Toews that, if he didn't kill C-30, it would out him over his involvement with a Manitoba judge? In other words, did they try...
Researchers have discovered a protein in human cells important for the reproduction of the influenza virus, raising hopes of more effective flue drugs. The influenza virus cannot multiply by itself, but g...
As radioactive material from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant continues to contaminate wide swathes of Japan, the health effects of radiation -- including from relatively low doses -- are a matter of con...
Among 86 public elementary and junior-high schools in three prefectures hit hardest by the March 2011 tsunami, only 15 will be moved to higher ground, a Mainichi survey has found. Twelve primary and thre...
*“Equality of Opportunity? Never Mind”* by Paul Krugman "David Firestone catches Mitt Romney denying any public responsibility to help less-fortunate Americans get an education: “It would be popular for me...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- An active fault running under the Nos. 1 and 2 reactors at Japan Atomic Power Co.'s Tsuruga nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture is at least 35 kilometers long and could trigger an earthquak...
Disgraced financier and cricket backer Allen Stanford has been found guilty of running a $7bn fraud. A court in Texas convicted the 61-year-old of 13 of the 14 charges relating to a so-called Ponzi sche...
In Washington DC, being dead is no reason not to take full advantage of one's health care benefits. A new audit by the Office of the Inspector General has revealed that the municipality spent nearly $700...
Attorney General Eric Holder says the Constitution allows the government to assassinate US citizens living abroad if they are plotting terrorist attacks against other Americans. Holder's comments broke t...
*Weekly find: For the Health Of It! Panama Beach, FL* While attending my sisters wedding in Panama Beach, FL, we were looking for a place to get some massages. We were recommended a place called 'For The ...
Courtesy of the entirely fair and balanced non-partisan Facebook page "Liberals are Hypocrites..." But somehow it's all Bush's fault.
A nurse accused of injecting dialysis tubes with bleach, killing five patients and injuring five more, goes on trial on Monday. Kimberly Saenz, 38, is charged with murder in the deaths and aggravated ass...
*Contributor: "YYC"* I'm at the public library today using their wireless. Haven't been able to read all the news using long-distance dialup, but heard that Harper categorically denied his hybrid party ha...
*TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2012* *Has Scott Brown survived his stand:* Who will win the Massachusetts senate race? We have no idea. But in this morning’s Washington Post, Rachel Weiner reports that Scott Brown h...
Police have charged the mother of a boy, 9, who allegedly brought a loaded handgun to school and accidentally shot a third-grade classmate. Jamie Lee Chaffin, 34, and her boyfriend, Douglas L. Bauer, 50, ...
A businessman was told yesterday he will spend the rest of his life in prison after being found guilty of the murder of his expectant wife in 2006. Jason Young, 37, was retried for the crime after his firs...
If there is one overarching meme of the leftist Occupy movement, it is that wealthy people (the One Percent) and huge corporations pour money into our political system, buy undue influence and get back ta...
The Common Core State Standards movement is being allowed to propagate unchecked like the cancer that it is. But there is ample evidence of what the inevitable conclusion of this insanity will produce. Fr...
Huge quantities of water vapour have been detected on a ‘super-Earth’ 40 light years away – even more water than exists here. What's more, researchers believe that it once lingered in the so-called 'Gold...
Three friends were murdered in a quiet, suburban California house next to a golf course Saturday and police have arrested the boyfriend of the lone survivor, who cowered in a closet during the rampage. R...
When I first met Montana state Rep. Franke Wilmer, I walked away thinking how great it would be to have a woman in Congress who is so much like Barbara Ehrenreich. I've gotten to know her a lot better no...
A mother was arrested after police received a tip-off she was selling sex with her six-year-old daughter to strangers in return for drugs. The 35-year-old, from Jacksonville Beach, Georgia, was arrested a...
Farce: One Marine in charge of filing complains posted a supposedly-satirical 'Hurt Feelings Report' to their Facebook page, with reasons for filing including 'I am a cry baby' and 'I want my mommy' In th...
As much as 20% of ground level ozone in the western US is arriving from China. *Scientists have been documenting the phenomenon of pollution crossing the Pacific Ocean since the 1990s. Most research so fa...
Setting high privacy controls and de-tagging yourself in photos may not be enough to keep potential employers from having concerns about your social media self. Rather than trying to get around the pesky...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Ascension Island Region at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:05:56 UTC Tuesday 6th March 2012 The epicenter was 417 km (259 miles) SSE from Ascens...
The fate of Osama bin Laden's remains have been called into question after emails leaked from an intelligence analysis firm say the body of the terror leader was actually sent to the U.S. for cremation. ...
A fisherman is waiting to hear if he has reeled in a new world record after catching a whopping tuna fish in New Zealand. The Pacific bluefin weighed in at more than 335kg - and if approved by the Intern...
A politician who attempted to cover-up getting a nose job by telling his bosses he had been robbed and beaten has been forced to resign from his post. Anwar al-Balkimy a member of Egypt's ultraconservati...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Babar, Indonesia at a depth of 70 km (43.5 miles), the quake hit at 15:48:59 UTC Tuesday 6th March 2012 The epicenter was 227 km (141 miles) WNW of Saumlaki...
I just adore this man. Especially when his wit is at large. March 4, 2012 Schrödinger’s Tax David Cay Johnston tells us that the usual suspects on the right are arguing that it’s OK to cut corporate tax ra...
Their leaders have names such as Durnwalder, Klotz, Widmann, and Mair. Their neighbours include Swiss, Germans and Austrians. And at the moment a good many of them are wondering why they should be saddl...
I linked this this earlier without comment, but I think I'm going to have to disagree with Josh Putnam's post saying that Rick Santorum (and Newt Gingrich) *can't, *as if by a matter of arithmetic, get to ...
China’s thrill-seeking nouveau riche are being offered a £50,000 trip of a lifetime – hunting down endangered polar bears, the Daily Mail can reveal. The expensive price tag for the 10-day expedition acro...
Republicans and the women, beyond all earthly comprehension, who love them, just can't help it. Even when answering charges that her husband Willard is hopelessly and eternally out of touch with the commo...
The British ambassador to Syria has told Sky News he expects President Bashar al Assad will be out of power within a year. Speaking on television for the first time since he was recalled from Damascus la...
Global warming is expected to devastate polar bear numbers but even down toward the 49th it may bring a similar fate to pond hockey or, as we called it when I was a kid, "shinny." A new study warns that...
------------------------------ *MARCH 05, 2012* Permalink Debate: Attacking Iran, AIPAC, I...
The Gay Secretary Two centuries of first-degree premeditated murder court trials prove this. Americans plot to murder Americans every single day. Spouses plan to murder spouses, victims of crime plot to t...
This is for real, for a good cause and there's a cash prize, besides possibly having your slogan immortalized on highways across the country. Long time activist, master of pithy messaging in unexpected pla...
When I need a fantastic dish that uses very few ingredients and is easy to throw together, I turn to this. It is tasty and wonderful and it won't take you all day. You will need: 4 chicken breasts 4 c...
Some things you just have to post to the archives for future historians to study. This is one of them. On the bright side, as least he didn't try to sing it. So there's that... [More posts daily at th...
Published in the Arizona Republic Mar 5, 2012 p. A2. The brief article states that poor air quality recorded in Maricopa County AZ was caused in some cases by pollutants that originated in Asia. [excerp...
Live from Tel Aviv..... The Ben ( Netanyahu ) and Mo ( *Ahmadinejad* ) Show: Netanyahu: We demand you cease building nuclear weapons! Iran: No problem; we aren't building any. We are building a power stat...
Syrian Activists Caught Lying, Syrian Rebels Caught Committing Atrocities. by Tony Cartalucci March 6, 2012 - Why should the West intervene in Syria when it turns out "activists" giving daily body counts, ...
*TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2012* *Exactly as we told you:* There are a couple of questions we typically get. “Are you *always* right?” people will ask. “If so, how does that feel?” Normally, we change the subject...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 30.8 km (19.1 miles), the quake hit at 14:08:19 UTC Tuesday 6th March 2012 The epicenter was 234 km (145 miles) ESE ...
There is an interesting discussion over at The Great Debate concerning the efficacy of Dodd-Frank featuring our own William K. Black. Check it out!
Lisa Murkowski is very sorry. Sure she voted for the Blunt amendment but she didn't really mean it: Murkowski called the Blunt Amendment a “messaging amendment” that “both sides know is not going to pass...
*TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2012* *Part 2—We’re all the Fox News Channel now:* “Where’s the outrage?” William Bennett once asked. He wanted to know why regular folk weren’t more upset about Bill Clinton’s sexual c...
Atomfritz posted this link at Ex-SKF http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/03/discovery-of-neptunium-239-in-iitate.html Shepherd, S. & Kay, A. C. (2012). On the Perpetuation of Ignorance: System Dependence, Sy...
[image: A family enjoys mild weather on the Lake Michigan shore earlier this month. A poll released Tuesday, 28 February 2012 that found more people believe in global warming was taken before the mild wi...
A magnitude 3.3 earthquake has struck Colorado at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 13:10:21 UTC Tuesday 6th March 2012 The epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) WSW of Trinidad, Colorado No Reports o...
Iran is to allow UN inspectors access to a military complex where the United Nations' nuclear agency suspects secret atomic work is being carried out. The country's permanent envoy to the International A...
[image: Snow covers the remains of a home demolished by a tornado in Marysville, Indiana, on Monday, 5 March 2012. MSNBC] WASHINGTON, 4 March 2012 (CNHI) – National Weather Service officials said Saturd...
Patriotism: the last refuge of a scoundrel — if Stevie isn't proof by himself, just look at Vickie and the rest of the chimps. *NORTHERN REFLECTIONS* has a wonderful Stevie quote: “*Iron-fisted bully t...
Yesterday, Michael Lemonick asked of journalists at Climate Central, "should we tell the whole truth about climate change?" His answer is to ask "So where’s the right balance between telling the whole tr...
[image: Deep-sea coral reef in the Mediterranean, discovered by a team headed by Professor Zvi Ben-Avraham of the University of Haifa’s Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences, October 2010. israelity....
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Buckdog - 14 hours ago
*Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall is an 'unfettered free market' kinda guy. He believes that a working person does not have a constitutional right to withhold their labour. In other words, in Brad Wall's w...
No weapons have been found in the car where a man was shot dead by police, an initial search by the police watchdog has revealed. Anthony Grainger, from Bolton, was shot in the chest by an armed police o...
Kenyan police say British colleagues have confirmed that a fugitive terror suspect wanted for her role in a bomb plot is 7/7 widow Samantha Lewthwaite. Senior anti-terror police sources in Mombasa yesterd...
A video camera that was meant to capture a man’s sleep patterns instead recorded the final hours before he died and cost him his life, according to the 25-year-old’s family. Brandon Harris, who was menta...
[image: Cover of 'Mapping Hotspots of Climate Change and Food Insecurity in the Global Tropics' by CCAFS. ccafs.cgiar.org] By Grant Potter and Graham Salinger 3 March 2012 A recent report by The Consult...
When Adam Spencer's girlfriend accepted his marriage proposal as they travelled through South America, the couple could begin thinking of a happy life together. But their dream trip soon turned into a ni...
Taylor Sauer, a teenager who was texting every 90 seconds during her four-hour commute from Utah State University to her parents’ home on January 14, made a fatal mistake while behind the wheel. Her prol...
Occupy Chicago on May 1, 2012 Has Been Cancelled *While Obama may think he can hide world leaders from dissent or shield them from our protest, our message will be heard clearly across the world - inclu...
The Moriond conference offers us updates on many searches in particle physics although the most interesting findings may be stored for later and larger conferences. Matt Strassler has mentioned an inter...
The following is an updated version of my comment submitted in response to the latest John O'Sullivan post, at climaterealists.com: *Lay readers need to know they are being fed incompetent science by all ...
Hospital patients are being forced to fork out up to £10 a day to watch their favourite programmes - while prisoners pay just £1 a week to watch shows and films in their cells. The cost of packages in so...
Image: Abdul Rauf denies trafficking for sexual exploitation An alleged sex gang was today accused of setting up a abuse ring involving thousands of men with young 'white girls in the middle', a teenager ...
A mother has escaped jail despite pretending she had eight children in a £42,000 benefits scam. Sarah Jane Smith, 41, even pretended that she and her two real children were disabled so that she could cla...
You could be forgiven for thinking that these incredible images are simply scene grabs from a computer game or film depicting some imaginary and non-existent world. But these pictures are actually photogr...
*For a long, long time now I have been ending the majority of my posts with this epilogue containing links for people to use to educate themselves on the American Legislative Exchange Council:* *–**—**–**...
Happy Birthday to Rob Reiner, 65. You're not going to see all that many starts better than Spinal Tap/The Sure Thing/Stand By Me/Princess Bride; that's four excellent movies in four tries. Also, he was ter...
Adding ocean acidification and deoxygenation into the mix of climate change predictions may turn “winner” regions of fisheries and biodiversity into “losers,” according to research released today by Unive...
Canadian government scientists are still being hampered from talking to the media about their taxpayer-funded research and that's bad news for the public, say groups representing both journalists and fede...
Barbarism Begins At Home ~moosedenied ~"That's my third monocle this week. I simply must stop being so horrified." Welp, everything sure is going according to the plan so far, don't you think? High five? Gu...
There's a memo going around stating Tim Geithner was indicted last week, in custody for a brief moment and released the same day. I haven't seen it. Yesterday we talked a little about accountability for ...
Last year the Arctic, which is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth due to global climate change, experienced its warmest twelve months yet. According to recent data by NASA, average Arctic tempera...
Seawater to a depth of up to 700 meters is warming at a pace of 0.02 degree every 10 years worldwide, according to an analysis by the Meteorological Agency. In its first analysis into deep-water temperatu...
Update, 6:11 p.m.: Monsanto spokesman Tom Helscher says the company does not think there is “sufficient data” to demonstrate a link between the use of Lasso herbicide and the symptoms Francois reported. ...
Study comes amid attempts across U.S. to ban use on playgrounds, parking lots and driveways. Children living next to driveways or parking lots coated with coal tar are exposed to significantly higher dose...
Last August, Hurricane Irene spun through the Caribbean and parts of the eastern United States, leaving widespread wreckage in its wake. The Category 3 storm whipped up water levels, generating storm surg...
It looks more like squid than steak and because it lacks the fat and protein found in real cattle, does not taste like traditional beef. So why would anyone eat meat grown in a lab? Cultured or in-vitro ...
Following Japan's nuclear disaster last year there are fears the US may be heading for a nuclear catastrophe of its own. In March 2011, a devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan caused a meltdown at...
Industrial civilisation's entire economy is based on a finite resource we treat as infinite. Oil touches nearly every single aspect of the lives of those in the industrialised world. Most of our food, clo...
RoboCon: Journalism Failure at the Globe – UPDATED | Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: "And what’s the reason that John Ibbitson, a professional journalist for a national newspaper, treats Giorno with so much r...
Naples, Italy - The once-pretty commune of Terzigno, a small town near Naples, has recently been described by its residents as "the rubbish dump of Italy". Sitting in the middle of the Vesuvius National ...
A grandmother has collapsed in court after she was jailed for helping a criminal gang make millions of pounds by effectively stealing people's homes. Surjeet Chana, 64, was among a trio of crooked offici...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Southern Sumatra at a depth of 103.1 km (64.1 miles), the quake hit at 11:36:23 UTC Tuesday 6th March 2012 The epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) Northwest of Padang, Suma...
Footage appears to show “activist” coordinating fake gunfire. *Paul Joseph Watson* Infowars.com Tuesday, March 6, 2012 Astounding footage has emerged of ‘Syria Danny’ – the dubious “activist” who appear...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 40.5 km (25.2 miles), the quake hit at 11:17:06 UTC Tuesday 6th March 2012 The epicenter was 110 km (68 miles) East...
Who is Alleged Poutygate Snitch with Vendetta? ~Canal Street Chronicles Irony: Conservative Think Tank To Bobby Jindal: The Louisiana Science Education Act Is A “Devastating Flaw” ~CenLamar The winds of c...
While entering Soleil yesterday morning (Monday, March 4, 2012) my driver Jean Claude and I noticed hundreds if not thousands of young people walking in the streets. This seemed unusual and looked like a ...
Yeah, yeah, I know. Originally I thought this was a good representation of George Smitherman's campaign, but I'm an environmentalist, and I believe in recycling, and given Mayor Stupid and Brother Dumbfuc...
Biased BBC alerts me to comments by the BBC's Mark Thompson that: '...the broadcaster would never mock Mohammed like it mocks Jesus. He justified the astonishing admission of religious bias by suggesting ...
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's official visit on Tuesday to Army Unit 842, which handles the North's missile systems, suggests he has gained full control of Pyongyang's nuclear weapons, experts say. ...
Abu Dhabi, UAE (CNN) -- During the summer months, in the arid, subtropical coastal plains of the United Arab Emirates, temperatures rise to 40 Celsius plus -- while average rainfall is a desolate four in...
Grand Rapids, Michigan (CNN) -- In case you plan to see Wednesday's GOP debate, allow me to offer up some crib notes so you don't get lost. First, when you hear the candidates talk about "job creators," ...
(CNN) -- What happens to the bar of soap you barely used the last time you checked into a hotel room? Most certainly it's gone to waste at the end of each day. This was a shocking revelation for Ugandan ...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- U.S. troops helping in the fight against a brutal rebel group called the Lord's Resistance Army are now deployed in four Central African countries, the top U.S. special operations c...
The amount of income tax paid fell sharply last month in the first formal indication that the new 50p higher rate is not raising the expected amount of revenue. The Treasury received £10.35 billion in inc...
This evening, speaking at North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina, White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett said that folks getting and spending unemployment checks is a healthy thing...
*UK health experts believe sun-dried tomatoes could be the cause of a recent outbreak of hepatitis A. Four of the patients in this latest outbreak in England said they had consumed sun-dried tomatoes. *H...
National Security Agency director General Keith Alexander believes Anonymous could have the power to take town the United States’ electrical grid this year. The Wall Street Journal’s sources say the direc...
The federal government said Tuesday that fresh milk is 150 times more dangerous than pasteurized milk — a finding that bolsters the government’s argument as it goes after farmers who sell unpasteurized mi...
Police in Papua New Guinea's capital have used tear gas and fired shots in the air to clear a crowd of angry landowners. There were rowdy scenes outside the building that houses the prime minister's depa...
Residents of the small southeast Queensland city of Gympie are preparing to face floodwaters for the third time in two years. The Mary River, which runs through the city north of Brisbane, is expected to...
Top-down, international regulation is antithetical to the Net, which has flourished under its current governance model. On Feb. 27, a diplomatic process will begin in Geneva that could result in a new tr...
Goree island, Senegal (CNN) -- A short ferry ride away from Dakar, lies the quiet and picturesque Goree Island. Three kilometers off the coast, the Senegalese island is tiny and easily accessible by foot....
Last week Tom Chivers posted a blog in which he observed that Portugal has recorded a fifty per cent drop in “problem drug users”, since they decriminalised all drugs. Will our government take note and ac...
Violent crime so far this year in the District has spiked sharply — a 40 percent increase that includes twice as many robberies at gunpoint than at this time last year. Across the city, all police distric...
China’s prisons are more modernized than our rural elementary schools Where is this? The White House? No, this is Jiansu Province Yancheng Prison. More.......
Europe and Eurozone's fiscal problems continue to wobble their macro economy as citizens keep paying more taxes and fees while their governments keep piling up more debts to the already high debt stock. Be...
Ed Balls, the shadow Chancellor, has called for a £12bn tax cut in next month's Budget. There is not a snowball's chance in Hades of the Chancellor listening, but it nonetheless seems worth considering, g...
Employees all too often think they are "bullet-proof" when they post anything on Facebook or Twitter. But as the law stands today, if they bring their employer into disrepute, the boss of the firm is well ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 46.1 km (28.6 miles), the quake hit at 09:50:22 UTC Tuesday 6th March 2012 The epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) South...
The mansion sits in the heart of Maputo, Mozambique. From the street it looks abandoned. Its walls are crumbling, the windows are broken and overgrown shrubs and trees hide the once grand entrance. But ...
The world's first test tube hamburger will be served up this October after scientists perfected the art of growing beef in the lab. By generating strips of meat from stem cells researchers believe they ca...
Scientists have taken a first early step toward escaping the limits of a technological principle called Moore's Law by creating a working transistor using a single phosphorus atom. The atom was etched int...
Standing too many months on the unemployment line is driving Americans crazy — literally — and it’s costing taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. With their unemployment-insurance checks running out,...
Three states in Australia continue to suffer from serious flooding with 13,000 people being evacuated from homes in New South Wales alone. The floods have so far swept two people to their deaths and come...
*Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's sunflower seeds - a work made up of 10 tonnes of porcelain seed replicas has been bought by Tate Modern.* The work has been purchased for an undisclosed figure with assistance...
Alarming rise in bacteria resistant to antibiotics, Government report finds Britain is facing a "massive" rise in antibiotic-resistant blood poisoning caused by the bacterium E.coli – bringing closer the s...
NSW shoppers could face a spike in fruit and vegetable prices as heavy flooding continues to devastate prime farming areas. NSW Farmers president Fiona Simson said rural communities had suffered signific...
Fukushima Protest 2012 One Year After Fukushima: Defining and Classifying a Disaster by Lucas W. Hickson Global Research Canada, March 6, 2012 ** ** *This is the first in a series of articles dedic...
(CNN) – Ten years after the Spanish currency, the peseta, was phased out, a rural town in Spain has revolted. Against the backdrop of the ailing euro, about 30 shops in Villamayor de Santiago last month b...
I spent last Saturday comforting a friend, Sue, whose mother had been taken to Accident and Emergency following a fall. Sue’s mother, a 78-year-old widow, lives on her own outside Oxford. Sue and her fami...
Lujiazui is falling down, falling down. The price to pay for having one of the world’s most iconic skylines, Shanghai’s Lujiazui is suffering from an increasing number of mini “fault lines” radiating outw...
The gap between rich and poor in developed countries is the widest in 30 years, the OECD said in a report Monday. It said the average income of the richest 10 percent was about nine times that of the poor...
The number of indebted people is increasing across all age groups in Korea, from young couples struggling to start their own family and people with mortgages to middle-aged parents burdened with exorbitan...
With household debt totaling W900 trillion, eight out of every 100 households in the country spend more than 40 percent of their incomes to repay their loans (US$1=W1,175). Most of these households have t...
Rochford in Essex and South Lakeland in Cumbria are the only areas which have seen a rise. Rochford in Essex and South Lakeland in Cumbria are the only areas which have seen a rise, and at 1% and 0.1% re...
The Queen is right – our national religion is a force for unity and a channel of peace. William Blake famously asked “And did those feet, in ancient time, / Walk upon England’s mountains green?” The shor...
Last summer’s rains only provided brief relief - Britain is now facing the biggest water crisis since 1976. Writing about impending drought, in my experience, is a dicey business. The last time I did so ...
The residents of Nathalia are bracing for one of the biggest floods in almost a decade to hit their town, and they are being urged to get out. But those who are taking their chances, there will still be p...
Earth is set for a close encounter of the asteroid kind, with a space rock capable of causing damage equivalent to a nuclear explosion passing extremely close to the planet. But NASA scientists say we wo...
A state of emergency has been declared in Wagga Wagga with the NSW Riverina city's flood levee about to be tested by the imminent peak of the Murrumbidgee River. NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell declared a s...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russia at a depth of 17 km (10.6 miles), the quake hit at 06:49:47 UTC Tuesday 6th March 2012 The epicenter was 91 km (55.6 miles) East of Kyzyl...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the State of Yap, Fed. States of Micronesia at a depth of 45.6 km (28.3 miles), the quake hit at 06:05:50 UTC Tuesday 6th March 2012 The epicenter was 270 km (167 mil...
* “What the Greek Rescue is Really About”* by Dan Denning "In today’s Daily Reckoning, we’ll do something we can barely stand to do: we’re going to write one more time about Greece. If you can stand to re...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands, Russia at a depth of 240 km (148.8 miles), the quake hit at 03:16:38 UTC Tuesday 6th March 2012 The epicenter was 133 km (82.4 miles) West of Sever...
*A strict request for the exile of Mega upload’s creator has been filed in New Zealand by the US government. Mr. Dotcom - a German national - was released on bail 12 days ago despite protests by the US t...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Oregon at a depth of 10.3 km (6.4 miles), the quake hit at 07:13:26 UTC Tuesday 6th March 2012 The epicenter was 424 km (263 miles) WNW of Coos Bay, O...
In November 2011, we were informed about a result of the LHCb experiment, an experiment using a smaller detector at the LHC that focuses on aspects of particle physics associated with the bottom quark i.e....
*Scientists found that the fringes of Antarctica are being invaded by alien plants and minute animals. Foreign plants previously grow on the fast-warming Antarctic Peninsula. The research team believes ...
*Evie, the male nanny.* Barack Obama's nanny was a gay man. (Barack Obama's transgender nanny in Jakarta) In the late 1960s, Barack's mother appointed Evie, an openly gay Indonesian male, as Barack's...
The good news is that we know itis out there. The bad news is that weare as yet unable to do much about it. The worse news is that many have passed by over the years and we havebeen blissfully unaware....
We need to start somewhere. Urban trees are critical to the health of thesurrounding air and for local temperature moderation. This fact has slowly been understood andaccepted. Even as important are...
A reliable method of sterilizingbulk grain crops is clearly necessary and should plausibly be feasible. This is not the only bug we have to worryabout. It should also be naturallycheap. In short it ...
This suggests an explanation forthe laidback behavior of potheads. Theysimply forget the sense of urgency. Waymore important, this means that the drug is just about the last thing you wantto use whil...
March 5, 2012 Welcome to today's Capital Account. More than 25 billion applications have been downloaded from Apple's store, according to the company. Likewise, according to Apple, it's app "economy" ha...
I didn't bother to answer the last part of Matt/Anonymous's comment on my BBC bias on Global warming piece because it was so wrong it didn't seem worth it. Fortunately Derek P has done it for me. So here...
Saanich-Gulf Islands and the "irregularities" which occurred in the 2008 general election in that riding are not going away. Briony Penn, the person leading in the polls on the eve of the 2008 election i...
------------------------------ Original here *ELECTIONS 2012* | MARCH 1, 2012 Carol Paul: Election fraud confirmed Jeffrey Phelps Denver Conspiracy Examiner *Subscribe* Carol Paul breaks her silence...
Critically endangered sea creatures like Pacific turtles face extinction unless conservation zones are shifted to follow their migration paths, experts have warned. Current marine protection areas desig...
Silver appears to have the best advantage for those with less cash and are willing to follow good advice.
Romney vs Santorum vs Paul vs Gingrich has a certain amount of entertainment value for political junkies... but let's be real-- the decision by the Republican Party Establishment to select Romney as their...
European commission accuses Spain of 'serious deviation' after PM Mariano Rajoy sets deficit target of 5.8% rather than 4.4% agreed Spain is on a collision course with the European commission after Brusse...
Aerial view from a helicopter of flooded areas in Wagga Wagga in southwest NSW, Australia Photograph: Lukas Coch/EPA Sixteen river systems have flooded in NSW, with Queensland and northern Victoria also ...
Following the self-immolation of more than 20 Tibetans in the last year, the Chinese authorities say they are preparing for "a war against secessionist sabotage". At least 21 Tibetans have set themselve...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited the heavily armed border with rival South Korea and ordered troops to be on high alert, state media reported Sunday, just days after Washi...
*McGregor and Maher* pull out another one. Elections Canada investigators probing the robocalls scandal are interviewing workers on the Conservative campaign in Guelph, Ont., and trying to determine why...
US President Barack Obama has promised his "rock solid" commitment to Israel's security - but warned against any pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear capability. Mr Obama told Israeli Prime Minister Ben...
*This is cross-posted from the University of Texas website.* As the March 6 Super Tuesday Republican primary looms, foreign policyissues understandably are likely to play a marginal role in the decisions of...
Russian riot police have detained hundreds of protesters at rallies challenging Vladimir Putin's presidential election victory. The arrests came as a Downing Street spokesman said British Prime Minister ...
The wife of a retired British businessman accused of arms dealing charges has described a US judge's decision to refuse him bail as an "outrage". Christopher Tappin's wife Elaine said the move to remand h...
An "initial visual search" inside a car in which a man was shot dead by police has failed to locate any weapons, the police watchdog has said. Anthony Paul Grainger, from Bolton, died of a single gunshot ...
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck the Nicobar Islands, India at a depth of 41.7 km (25.9 miles), the quake hit at 02:52:45 UTC Tuesday 6th March 2012 The epicenter was 90 km (55 miles) Northeast of Mo...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Revilla Gigedo Islands Region at a depth of 40.8 km (25.4 miles), the quake hit at 02:32:04 UTC Tuesday 6th March 2012 The epicenter was 229 km (142 miles) ENE of...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 25.6 km (15.9 miles), the quake hit at 00:47:23 UTC Tuesday 6th March 2012 The epicenter was 104 km (65 ...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Masbate Region, Philippines at a depth of 42 km (26.1 miles), the quake hit at 23:06:31 UTC Monday 5th March 2012 The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) ESE of Masba...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Mona Passage, Dominican Republic at a depth of 180 km (111.9 miles), the quake hit at 22:52:53 UTC Monday 5th March 2012 The epicenter was 40 km (24.8 miles) SSE from...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Southern Xinjiang, China at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:57:53 UTC Monday 5th March 2012 The epicenter was 138 km (85.5 miles) West of Kashi, Xinj...
*David Akin* has extricated a letter to the editor of the Globe and Mail from John Fryer, an adjunct professor at the University of Victoria. It's pretty damning stuff. I know John Fryer. He's not taken t...
US think-tank admits Iran is not a threat to either US or Israeli security, devises narrative to sell unnecessary war to public. by Tony Cartalucci March 6, 2012 - The corporate media has recently portray...
...How I could just kill a man! Obama said today, or at least I think it was today, that "we have Israel's back." So have we replaced the cowboy swagger bullshit with some urban swagger bullshit? Fo shiz...
*“Hope”* “Hope is with you when you believe The earth is not a dream but living flesh, That sight, touch, and hearing do not lie, That all things you have ever seen here Are like a garden looked at from a ...
“Many wonders are visible when flying over the Earth at night. A compilation of such visual spectacles was captured recently from the International Space Station (ISS) and set to rousing music. Passing be...
*"Satan: ‘We Are Terminating Our Relationship with Rush Limbaugh’"* Radio Host Loses Longtime Sponsor by Andy Borowitz COLUMBUS, OH (The Borowitz Report) – "Embattled radio host Rush Limbaugh suffered ano...
"Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not." - Robert M. Persig
*"Epistemology"* by Chet Raymo “As an undergraduate at the University of Notre Dame in the 1950s I took a course in epistemology, the study of knowledge as knowledge: How do we know what we know? To what...
*Today, on the eve of the vulgar blood-lust orgy of luciferian satanic purim, the zionist shill and lesbian pathological liar Julia "Bestia" Gillard is announcing a new economic 'reform', (another one) th...
*Netanyahu Is A Demon From Hell* *Netanyahu, Iran, And The Nightmare of History * Blue Sky Black Death - In The Quiet Absence Of God
*"We can't give up for a year on trying to address this problem. I think we have to do something."* *-- the pride of Idaho, GOP Rep. Mike Simpson (file photo)* *by Ken* Lordy, lordy, Heath Shuler is conce...
Today on the radio I heard a snip where Romney was pushing states sovereignty for healthcare – indiovidual state programs are better than Obamacare – that’s basically what he said. He even evoked the te...
*And chokes on it*. “The Leader of the Liberal Party knows full well, every household that they called, every originating phone number they called them from, and, in fact, when those calls were made,” he...
Below find a very helpful and clearly written analysis of the blue glow phenomenon visible here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWWeOcBjX7c&feature=youtu.be Is the AIR Supposed to be Blue? By: Aaron Date...
Photo by Andrew Iron Shell Photo by Andrew Iron Shell Photo by Andrew Iron Shell Photo by Andrew Iron ShellPhoto by Andrew Iron Shell Photo by Andrew Iron Shell*Lakotas arrested blocking tarsands trucks on...
You have got to watch this video – released today Minnesota GOP Alternative to Obamacare. *GOP and DFL offer Health Insurance Proposals* (The Uptake doesn’t let you embed and I’m okay with that.) Choose t...
------------------------------ Election hacked, drunken robot elected to school board* **Experts warn e-voting systems decades away from security* By Iain Thomson in San Francisco • Get more from thi...
Poor old Mr Creosote. Steve sent his parliamentary secretary out into the House two days in a row last week to claim the Libs spent "millions of dollars" in the last election hiring a foreign voter telem...
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[image: Cathedral] Whatever your view of religion, the Christchurch Cathedral was at the heart of the city in the same way London’s St Paul’s is of that city. [image: Blitz] We remember the refusal of ...
At PostPartisan today, I'm fighting the good fight on behalf of automatic countercyclical stabilizers for state and local government spending, following up on a very good Paul Krugman column this morning. ...
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Pouty Gate Will Only Encourage New Orleans Saints to Play Harder in 2012 ~Gary Davenport, Bleacher Report Darren Sharper: Pouty Gate Investigation is a ''vendetta' ~WWL
“The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.” - Epicurus
Evil Puppet Talks With Evil Puppet About An Evil War. There is a narrative, mainly endorsed by the stupid anti-war left, that President Obama is still on the fence on a war with Iran, and is keeping Is...
Justin Hayward, “The Way of the World” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1QUrpqOAXY
*"Criminalizing Free Speech: * *Is This What Democracy Looks Like?"* By John W. Whitehead “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceab...
“Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.” - Samuel Johnson
If you watched the news this weekend you probably know that President Obama made a carefully-crafted speech at AIPAC to saber-rattle enough to sound plausible to the Zionist lobby while sounding reasonab...
*"The Privacy Problem:* * We Have Met The Enemy And He Is Us"* by John Biggs "This morning I was ready to bust some heads. I got a text message at about 8:39 from Highlight, the hot new social network thi...
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I must say, it was fascinating to hear Hone Harawira rewriting the Treaty of Waitangi this morning [audio]. Yes, it’s been rewritten before and by better men than him—one of whom, Pita Sharples, was on...
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I love Mondays-- at least in part because I fast on Sundays and it's so nice to eat again on Monday. Tonight we celebrated Roland's birthday with a wonderful dinner at The Bazaar by José Andrés, one of ou...
In the long process of rebuilding after the triple disasters, the country should focus on renewable energy. Tokyo, Japan - In March 2011, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami left nearly 20,0...
Older workers have flooded into the job market since the recovery that began in the summer of 2009, TD Economics said Thursday, eclipsing other age groups in terms of gains made in the labour market. The...
A prominent environmental researcher, activist and blogger from California admitted Monday night that he had deceitfully obtained and distributed confidential internal materials from the Heartland Institu...
Abuse of the environment has created an 'absolutely unprecedented' emergency, say Blue Planet prizewinners Celebrated scientists and development thinkers today warn that civilisation is faced with a perfe...
VANCOUVER — If carbon dioxide emissions don’t begin to decline soon, the complex fabric of marine ecosystems will begin fraying — and eventually unravel completely, two new studies conclude. The diversit...
It's bad enough that we're doing so little to fight climate change; let's not ask teachers to lie about it too. The culture wars have been fought in the classroom for decades, waged over such issues as sc...
Researchers attending one of the world's major academic conferences 'are scared to death of the anti-science lobby' Most scientists, on achieving high office, keep their public remarks to the bland and r...
------------------------------ *Why Can’t americans Have Democracy?* ------------------------------ March 2, 2012 | Original here Syria has a secular government as did Iraq prior to the american ...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said there are too many foreigners in France and has pledged to cut the number of new arrivals in half. As the country's presidential election campaign gathers pace, M...
Budget airline Ryanair is in trouble again for misleading customers - this time for falsely implying rival Thomas Cook was likely to go into administration. The reprimand came in response to a string of ...
posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 14 hours ago*Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall is an 'unfettered free market' kinda guy. He believes that a working person does not have a constitutional right to withhold their labour. In other words, in Brad Wall's w...
posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*"We can't give up for a year on trying to address this problem. I think we have to do something."* *-- the pride of Idaho, GOP Rep. Mike Simpson (file photo)* *by Ken* Lordy, lordy, Heath Shuler is conce...
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