The question of subsidies is central to
Bradford's analysis:
The most implacable enemy of nuclear power in the past 30 years has been the risk not to public health, but to investors' wallets. No new nuclear-power project has ever bid successfully in a competitive energy market anywhere in the world.
That's pretty damning and explains Bradford's next point: big nuclear programmes only happen when citizens sign blank cheques.
programs that states run to prevent lead poisoning and to respond to children with elevated blood levels will be eliminated.
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck South of Java, Indonesia at a depth of 75.6 km (47 miles), the quake hit at 21:27:09 UTC Friday 9th March 2012 The epicenter was 125 km (77 miles) SSE of Malang, Java,...
*When quizmaster Edward Downes (seen here at far right, next to radio-broadcast producer
Richard Mohr, with panelists for this March 1991 Texaco Metropolitan Opera Quiz: l-r, Bruce Burroughs, Speight Jenki...
"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a sourc...
*CANADIAN POLITICS TORONTO:* *PRE-BUDGET RALLY AGAINST ONTARIO AUSTERITY:* The following call-out is from the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP). ()()()()()()()()()()() *On March 16 FIGHT POVERTY A...
An official close to the Chinese Ministry of Public Security has reported that a group of 41 North Korean refugees arrested in and around Shenyang last month and held for a spell in a detention center near...
Mike Oldfield, “Tubular Bells Side A” (Part 3/3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M1Vk2hIxiY&feature=player_embedded
*INTERNATIONAL LABOUR IRAN:* *SAVE ABDOLREZA GHANBARI:* ** * *Abdolreza Ghanbari is an Iranian university professor who has been sentenced to death by the regime basically for the "crime" of receiving uns...
Letter from Drew Brees about NFL investigation ~WWL
“Colorful NGC 1579 resembles the better known Trifid Nebula, but lies much farther north in planet Earth's sky, in the heroic constellation Perseus. About 2,100 light-years away and 3 light-years across, N...
*"The Opening of Eyes"* "That day I saw beneath dark clouds The passing light over the water, And I heard the voice of the world speak out. I knew then as I have before, Life is no passing memory of what h...
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic." - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
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*"[W]hat about people like Mr. Romney? Don't they have a stake in America's future economic success, which is endangered by the crusade against education? Maybe not as much as you think. "After all, over...
Personally, I don't know why someone just doesn't tell this arrogant blimp to shut the fuck up. It's fucking New Jersey, for crissakes. You telling me the state that gave us the Jersey mob and Snooki can'...
March 9, 2012 print edition page A1. My question is, which option is true: A.) Nuclear is going down fast, but the *Wall Street Journal* editorial board is heavily invested in uranium futures and the nuc...
*And they say there is no "Greater Israel Project"! * *Contributor: "Lucilla"* Guess what likely one of the main reasons for trashing Libya really was? Remember the controversial "Greater Israel Project"? ...
As *Dawg* says, a pattern is emerging. It is more than that however. The discovery that phone calls directing voters to non-existent polling places was *targeted to a specific age group*, in this case vo...
There is a job for you at the end of this post. You can skip down there if you don't have time to enjoy my lavish metaphors. **** Since Mr. Harper and Peter MacKay pulled their MIB skin-change on the Ref...
Brad Pitt’s Make It Right development at halfway point ~Doug MacCash Details Of The NFL Bounty Scandal ~The Onion Sports Network Saints bounty mystery: Why such a puny return on such a big risk? ~Mark Mos...
"The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all your...
I was an avid mountaineer from 1993 to 95, I belonged to the Congress Mountaineers at the House of Representatives where I used to work before. We climbed so many mountains, including the two highest mount...
The gun business in America is booming because of the Obama presidency. People are rightfully scared that Obama and the shadow government criminals behind him are going to pump citizens in the United State...
Space weather forecasters say the solar storm that seemed to be more fizzle than fury got much stronger in recent hours. It is now the most potent solar storm since 2004. So far, no power outages or other...
*“Yet”* by Chet Raymo “I mentioned here several times recently Ursula Goodenough's “The Sacred Depths of Nature.” I just noticed a line in the book that I underlined when I first read it a dozen years ag...
An elderly man has been found dead in floodwaters north of Bourke in New South Wales. Police say farm workers at a property north of the town discovered a vehicle partially submerged in a causeway about 4...
For some time now I've been even more than usually ashamed to be a resident of New Jersey...because my fellow citizens elected a Governor who is one of the more repulsive tools for the ultimate representat...
Netanyahu is a dumbass. I can't believe he actually uttered those words in the White House. He also told Obama: "We are you, and you are us. We're together. So if there's one thing that stands out clearly...
Following up on yesterdays post- The “resignation” of the alleged Deputy Minister of Oil. Are you familiar with the saying “The devil is in the details”? Which is sometimes said as “God is in the details” ...
*Arizona Snowbowl’s Expansion Will Not Have a Measurable or Significant * *Economic Impact on the Flagstaff Area* By Hopi Nation Posted at Censored News KYKOTSMOVI, Ariz. – An economic analysis released b...
Osama bin Laden accepted that he may be betrayed by someone close to him and viewed death as a release from years of declining health, according to a new account of his life in Pakistan. The research by ...
Millions of viewers were stunned this morning as they tuned into a BBC breakfast news bulletin - and found the presenter apparently asleep on his desk. Simon McCoy, 50, was caught napping as cameras pann...
OK folks. This blog stands at a crossroads and I want to take it forward. I need your help to achieve this and I am touched by the emails sent my way in recent days. In essence, we aim to move the site t...
No one likes a bully, right? Well... no one sane likes a bully. Hitler had fans and there are always sycophants and self-loathers who fall under a bully's sway. But what about cowards who refuse to call a...
Over at Post Partisan, I had some fun at the expense of Republican spinners, and talked a bit about the economy and the election. At Plum Line, I looked at the upcoming WH GOP 2012 events: Kansas, Alabama,...
"In A Time Of Universal Deceit, Telling The Truth Becomes A Revolutionary Act" - George Orwell "All Truth Passes Through Three stages. First, It Is Ridiculed, Second It Is Violently Opposed, And Third, It ...
From the Advancement Project (ht to Monty Neill) Taking Back Our Classrooms: The United Struggle of Teachers, Students, and Parents in North Carolina Against High-Stakes Testing March 5, 2012 North Carolin...
One of the many complications associated with climate change is the expected rise of sea levels. A projected four-feet increase is expected by the end of the century. If you happen to live on an archipelag...
Willard wins the news cycle today with his "y'all" drawl praising of grits (and other things) but I'm more interested in Newt's late night dance partyon Wednesday. He and Callista cut the old rug in an empt...
From the Right-Wing conference on self-stimulation, Preston Manning repeated *most of the Harper talking-points* on the electoral-fraud scam. He said the most important issue is to determine how to end u...
Off for the weekend but I leave you with this.....a new open thread for those able to crack our comment system! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
B-BBC contributor Alan writes... " We serve no red-coats here." The BBC no longer bother to provide links to most of its output on the Today programme.....however they seem to find the energy and time ...
*Oh yes, people still read ...* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com TUCSON -- The Tucson Festival of Books is this weekend, March 10-11, and brings together prolific and prof...
LHASA, March 9 (Xinhua) -- China's Tibet Autonomous Region has been placed into a state of alert after Nepal reported an outbreak of bird flu last month that has left at least 20,000 chickens dead, local a...
Truong Phu Son, 22, the third H5N1 patient in Vietnam this year, on March 6, left the HCM City Hospital for Tropical Diseases after two weeks of treatment. On March 7, Dr. Tran Ngoc Huu, director of the...
*"Weekly News Wrap-Up 3.9.12"* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "The big story was the meeting between the Prime Minister of Israel and the President of the United States on Monday. Netanyahu told Obama...
INDIA - The Government of India confirmed a highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreak in wild birds in India’s Bihar state. The outbreaks were reported between February 18, 2012 and February 27, 2...
*"Government Mandated Population Growth"* by Joel Bowman "What happened to all the Japanese? And where did the Russians go? Can you imagine, for one horrifying second, a world with no sushi and no vodka? ...
*“Your Government Is Killing You (Really)”* by Karl Denninger “I mean it. “We physicians with all our training, knowledge and authority often acquire a rather large ego that tends to make it difficult ...
Some helpful advice here on the BBC for female journalists how to 'be safe' in Muslim countries - by staying covered and staying fit enough to outrun the rapists. Click through to read and contribute comm...
Rick Santorum proves that preaching to the choir ain't as easy as it looks.
Mr. Pete’s house didn’t look so different from the others on the block. The single-story, white facade was decorated simply with practical hurricane shutters and little else. But where respectable homes g...
This morning, courtesy of local blogger Middle Age Bulge, I was able to track down the GQ article, entitled No Country For Young Men , which I've discussed in previous posts. My initial plan was to break t...
The straggling warriors of Breitbart's army, left leaderless by his untimely death, are doing to best to honor his legacy of fake video "stings." Faked being the operative word, as always. In yet another ...
(Reuters) - Syrian forces killed at least 54 people on Friday as they sought to quell demonstrations against President Bashar al-Assad before a peace mission by U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan, oppositi...
(Reuters) - Thousands of people protested in Libya's two biggest cities on Friday in a show of opposition to moves from some in the oil-producing east to declare autonomy from central rule. A group of ci...
I am really getting tired of being told by the mainstream media, over and over again, that Fukushima's radiation releases were significantly lower than Chernobyl's. This trivialization tactic is evident ...
*According to Anonymous: * It is often said 'Other countries have armies. In Pakistan's case, it is an army that has a country.' *The Pakistani army has become the largest land owner and the biggest corp...
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Bios: *Debra White Plume* (Lakota) is an American Indian Movement (AIM) activist and an independentconsultant for the reorganization of federally funded programs on the PineRidge Reservation. As Executive...
The figure above comes from a column by Allan H. Metzler in today's WSJ. He argues: Regardless of one's economic philosophy, the public deserves an accurate presentation of the reasons for the change in...
Mar. 9 - A vehicle bursts into flames after an Israeli airstrike on Gaza in response to rocket fire.
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 28.9 km (18 miles), the quake hit at 18:19:02 UTC Friday 9th March 2012 The epicenter was 134 km (83 miles) East of C...
(Reuters) - After weeks of raucous street demonstrations, Oakland city leaders finally decided one chilly morning last fall to remove a downtown campsite that had become a national symbol of the Occupy mo...
(Reuters) - One late-night visit by the FBI was all it took for the notorious hacker known as "Sabu" to switch sides and become a valued snitch. Hector Xavier Monsegur cooperated immediately in June, help...
(Reuters) - Banks are foreclosing on America's churches in record numbers as lenders increasingly lose patience with religious facilities that have defaulted on their mortgages, according to new data. Th...
(Reuters) - The Pakistan Taliban will attack government, police and military officials if three of the late al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's widows are not released from Pakistani custody, a spokesman fo...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 44.4 km (27.6 miles), the quake hit at 17:16:14 UTC Friday 9th March 2012 The epicenter was 171 km (106 miles) East ...
Chilling Dissent on Wall Street http://www.opednews.com/articles/Eyal-Press-Chilling-Disse-by-Tom-Engelhardt-120306-625.html Ten Companies Profiting Most from War http://www.opednews.com/populum/linkfr...
Investigative journalist Dina Rasor is now on the Buck McKeon beat-- not good news for an embattled incumbent drowning in a series of serious scandals, some just ethical, but at least one also criminal. S...
This pretty much captures where I'm at with the GOP carnival of clowns these days. [via watertiger] [More posts daily at the Detroit News.]
In my over 4 years of writing this blog, I am always finding more and more evidence of exactly who is responsible for the evil and sicknesses that this planet is experiencing today. It seems again and ag...
Eight members of a militant Islamist group were shot dead during a failed mission to rescue a British engineer and his Italian colleague they had taken hostage in Nigeria, Sky sources say. More details ...
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 25.3 km (15.7 miles), the quake hit at 17:25:33 UTC Friday 9th March 2012 The epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) North ...
Jerusalem (CNN) -- A threatened Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear program carries enormous risks for the Jewish state, including international isolation, retaliation at home and abroad, and steep economic ...
Cause of fire still unknown Reports of one death are not yet confirmed Fire located in popular tourist and residential district SEVERAL tourists have been injured by a fire at a high-rise hotel in Bangkok...
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*March 9, 2012* Contact: Howard Shanker (480) 838-9300 howard@shankerlaw.net *By Save the Peaks* *Censored News* Save the Peaks Coalition et al. File Petition for Ninth Circuit Rehearing en ban...
Amsterdam: A Spanish passenger jet has safely made an emergency landing at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport. Airport spokeswoman Nina Verweij says the plane, an Airbus A320 operated by Vueling airline, turne...
A REX plane flying out of Merimbula made an emergency landing at Moruya airport after one of its engines stopped working mid-flight this morning. REX flight ZL114 was delayed for half-an-hour before leavi...
The Ministry of Health has warned of an outbreak of cholera epidemic in several districts of Uganda. The acting director general of health services, Dr Dennis Lwamafa said a total of 280 cases had so fa...
Lots of blogging talk yesterday about a new paper forthcoming from Brendan Nyhan, Eric McGhee, John Sides, Seth Masket and Steven Greene showing the effects of ACA on the 2010 elections. Their finding is t...
Friday saw a new eruption of the Bezymianny volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East. Earlier in the day, the volcano spewed ash up to 8 kilometers high, seismologists said, adding that...
Scientists have found that a remote Alaska’s volcano agitation has led to an explosion. Cleveland Volcano eruption that produced this ash cloud was reported on Wednesday. The news was reported after detec...
Rome (CNN) -- Authorities from Italy to the United States arrested 10 people Thursday for allegedly capturing, viewing and disseminating images through an expansive international online pedophile network....
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Inflation in China slowed dramatically in February, as temporary price hikes related to Lunar New Year faded. Consumer prices rose 3.2% from a year ago, China's National Bureau of ...
(CNN) -- Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is threatening to kill the 73 Yemeni troops it is holding hostage if the government does not release al Qaeda prisoners. In a statement issued late Thursday, th...
(Financial Times) -- Emirates Airline, the world's largest operator of Airbus's A380 superjumbo, has lambasted the aircraft maker and plans to seek compensation after complaining of widespread disruption ...
In the UK, the coalition government has announced plans to make inter-racial adoption possible. The State has many unwanted Black children, but not enough Blacks who wish to adopt. The government is not...
It is almost exactly one full year since the earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent meltdown of at least 4 nuclear reactors at the Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) facility at Fukushima Japan. Since that time, ...
"The US government creates whatever new bogeymen and incidents are necessary to further the neoconservative agenda of world hegemony and higher profits for the armaments industry." - Paul Craig Roberts, ...
*FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 2012* *How does Blunt look to Bay Staters:* On Wednesday, we noted the fact that Elizabeth Warren has fallen behind in a series of Massachusetts polls. That doesn’t mean that she won’t ...
*FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 2012* *Part 4—Sadly, reporting is hard:* So it frequently happens. Rush Limbaugh’s attack on Sandra Fluke produced storms of outrage in the past week. As frequently happens, this distrac...
Amazing footage has been published of beachgoers rushing to the rescue of 30 stranded dolphins in Brazil. The video shows the dolphins swimming very close to the shore at Arraial do Cobo in the state of...
A teenager has been jailed for seven years for an attack on Malaysian student Ashraf Rossli during the London riots. Beau Isagba, 18, was sentenced at Wood Green Crown Court a day after his birthday. He...
A Catholic paedophile priest who used his "revered" status to wage a campaign of abuse against vulnerable young boys has been sentenced to 22 years in prison. Alexander Bede Walsh was convicted last mont...
*NORTHERN REFLECTIONS'* Owen Gray *nails* it: *"What Did He Know, And When Did He Know It?"*. Of course, we're talking about *Stevie*. Stevie does a great know-nothing, but as Owen shows, *it just ain't so...
March 9, 2012 *Looks like Britannia now rules the taxpayers. Strange world in which the people pay for their own demise.* In the UK, the chances are you're being watched. It has more CCTV cameras per ...
Why don't you sue Harper? In Federal Court? For declaratory and injunctive relief. To force Harper to take the gags off the public service and the armed forces. To allow free communications between ...
Audio: TFC & Salbuchi: The Shylock Model & Destruction of Sovereignty | Wake Up From Your Slumber Demanding your pound of flesh can kill off the client. Then who else will pay the debt? These banksters u...
Marshall Auerback's latest assessment of the ongoing Greek crisis. Watch here.
By Richard Engel, NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent 7 March 2012 It’s what an insurance company might call “a write-off” – a place that seems beyond salvation, and certainly too expensive to fix. I’...
I wasn't planning to watch this TED talk, because I didn't expect to learn anything new. But, a pile of dirty dishes had accumulated in the sink, so this morning I turned up the volume to hear over the s...
[image: Satellite view of Great Lakes ice cover on 4 March 2009. NOAA] By Deanna Conners 8 Mar 2012 Ice cover on the Great Lakes has decreased by 71% over the past four decades according to a new study...
Louisiana lawyer set to take Kenneth Feinberg's role in BP oil spill claims process Mike Ornstein's association with New Orleans Saints and bounty scandal a perplexing situation ~Jeff Duncan Hahahaha tha...
Author: Duane Craig The Environmental Protection Agency put a metal recycling company on notice for allegedly contaminating San Francisco Bay with lead, mercury, PCBs, copper and zinc, according to seve...
Simpsons Game of Thrones intro from tuan nguyen on Vimeo.
Matt Groening's *Life in Hell *comic strip is required by federal law to be posted in all grad student lounges. *There's a reason for that*.By now, acceptance and rejection letters (or emails) have begun to...
[image: Authorities in Kiribati, seen here in an aerial photo taken in 2004, have been considering several unusual options to combat climate change, including constructing sea walls and even building a f...
Saw this on Think Progress this morning (my emphasis): The Wisconsin GOP has not worn well with that state’s voters. Two GOP senators were removed from office last year in a recall election, and as many a...
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*Stephen Harper's ideologically driven corporate tax cuts have been a complete failure. After stoking the engines of big business with Billions and Billions of dollars in tax cuts, Canada has seen a decr...
Bhangra music, home of the colorful turban and the exquisite golden temple. It is a state in India where the population has prospered for many years. It has one of the lowest poverty rates in the country...
London (CNN) -- What is the Greece debt deal? Greece, the country at the center of the eurozone debt crisis, has pushed through a huge debt swap that saves it from a disorderly default and clears the way...
(CNN) -- As violence raged in Syria on Friday, China and the United Nations kicked off diplomatic initiatives to end the government's nearly year-old bloody crackdown against opponents of its regime. Ch...
The Government has launched an investigation into an allegation of attempted fraud against the welfare to work company A4e. The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has started its own audit after being ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Pagan Region, Northern Mariana Islands at a depth of 224 km (139.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:46:43 UTC Friday 9th March 2012 The epicenter was 32 km (19 miles) ...
On May 8, North Carolina voters go to the polls both for their primaries and to decide the fate of the homophobic Amendment One, widely supported by bigots and most-- though not all-- Republicans. One Rep...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 35.1 km (21.8 miles), the quake hit at 11:47:03 UTC Friday 9th March 2012 The epicenter was 30 km (18 miles) ENE of Isangel, Tanna, Vanuatu No Ts...
A while ago I posted this piece about stripping as a means of protest. It seems that my example is not an isolated one and naked protests is trying to document them... There's plenty from Eastern Europe a...
Happy Birthday to Terry Mulholland, 49. After his third separate stint with the Giants, he still had seven more teams to play for. That's a career! Ah, the good stuff: 1. Sarah Posner on Bibi, Esther, and...
March 8, 2012 BlackStarNews.com Editorial Invisible Children's goals initially may have been to publicize the plight of children caught in Uganda's decades-long conflicts; lately, IC has been acting as ap...
LOS ANGELES (Kyodo) -- High levels of radioactive cesium have been detected on the ground of a former nuclear facility in the suburbs of Los Angeles called the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, where an expe...
BEIJING (AP) -- China's government vowed Friday that it will not deviate from its socialist path, defending anew its authoritarian system and saying Western capitalist political systems are not suitable fo...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The number of suicides rose sharply in May last year, a police survey showed Friday, and the government suspects that economic hardship in the aftermath of the March 2011 earthquake was r...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Japanese government was aware of the possibility of a nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on the very day the complex was hit by the earthquake and tsunami l...
Fifty-seven percent of evacuees living in temporary housing and visited by the Nuclear Damage Liability Facilitation Fund said they have not applied for compensation because the forms were confusing or fo...
Fifty-seven percent of Fukushima Prefecture residents in a survey by the Mainichi Shimbun say their life has worsened one year after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami triggered the crisis at the...
CHIBA -- Chiba Prefecture was overwhelmed with a wide variety of misfortunes and problems in the last year. Fifteen people in the city of Asahi were killed or are still unaccounted for following the huge...
A Houston woman under arrest for allegedly offering a friend $1,000 to kill her firefighter husband wanted the slaying to 'look work related,' prosecutors said Thursday. 'She wanted it done at work, so i...
Vindicated: Haley Barbour's decision to pardon 198 felons has been upheld The Mississippi Supreme Court today upheld the pardons issued by former Governor Haley Barbour during his final days in office, in...
Drug enforcement chiefs have for the first time identified the Vatican as a possible centre for money laundering from criminal activity. The report by the American State Department's International Narcoti...
A new photograph shows two atoms vibrating together inside a molecule - a first for science. Researchers used a mind-boggling technique where they turned an electron into a 'flash bulb' to capture the im...
Interested by the media frenzy over Rush Limbaugh and his recent off-colour remarks? What do you think of this piece of tape and the lefty hypocrisy it unveils?
Having stumbled upon a vast marijuana field during a patrol in Afghanistan, a group of American soldiers thought it would be a good idea to photograph themselves posing shamelessly while brandishing their...
'Hydrothermal seep-dwellers': A large tubeworm 'bush' containing more than 14,000 animals Gigantic meadows of tubeworms have been found living 5,900-feet below the ocean surface off the coast of Costa Ri...
Image: Robert Hathaway, pressurised his girlfriend Melissa Noon into joining the paedophile gang which he ran through a fake nudist website A trio of sick sex offenders who were jailed for their parts in a...
Coke and PepsiCo Inc. are adjusting the formula of their caramel colour across the U.S so they don’t have to label their products with a cancer warning to comply with California regulations. The companie...
President Barack Obama's re-election campaign plans to release a 17-minute documentary next week about his first term in office. The Road We've Traveled will be released on March 15, but until then, the ...
A man was killed by his wife and daughter after announcing he was leaving them to start a new life, a court heard yesterday. Donald Banfield mysteriously disappeared 11 years ago after he signed the cont...
Australian scientists have genetically modified bananas so the fruit is not only fully of vitamins but also rich with iron. They are now sharing the technology with Indian scientists and farmers to help ...
The Broken Creek has peaked in Nathalia in northern Victoria and so far the town's makeshift flood defences are holding. But the flood threat is not over for the 1,400 people who live there. The creek wi...
A conman created fake parking tickets using his home computer - and slapped them on 150 cars in just two hours. Christopher Povey, an unemployed father-of-three, targeted cars on roads in Sale and Timper...
Public support for GM food has halved since the mid-1990s, a poll commissioned by one of Britain’s most prestigious scientific bodies found. Just 27 per cent of Britons agree that genetically-modified foo...
The wealthiest square in Paris was evacuated today after a huge fire broke out underneath the French capital's Ritz hotel. Dozens of people were treated for smoke inhalation and at least 15 luxury cars w...
The six young men who were patrolling north-east of Lashkar Gah in Afghan’s Kandahar province on Tuesday night are likely to have been thinking of many things, but not of their imminent deaths. Corporal ...
If Joseph Kony lived in relative anonymity before this week, he's an internet star now. A video about the atrocities carried out by Kony's Lord's Resistance Army, called Kony 2012, has racked up nearly 5...
March 8, 2012 In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss boating accidents with Sharkboy and Lava Girl and a futures market to lay off your Blythe Masters risk. In the second half o...
Almost 2000 homes have been flooded and more than 17,000 people have called for emergency assistance since towns and cities across NSW began their battle with floodwaters. Of those calls, nearly 3500 peo...
The four-year-old British boy stabbed to death apparently by his mother had been drugged before he was killed, say detectives investigating the case. Austrian mum Judith Miesenbock, 31 - who had worked i...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the Molucca Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 47.4 km (29.5 miles), the quake hit at 10:01:14 UTC Friday 9th March 2012 The epicenter was 219 km (136 miles) SSW from Terna...
An activist claims to have hacked into the website of Britain’s largest abortion clinic. He claims to have the ‘entire database and contact details’ of women who had contacted the British Pregnancy Advis...
A solar storm that had the potential to cause havoc with satellites or power grids has passed without incident. Nasa had warned that the biggest space weather storm in five years was heading towards Ea...
Kerry Green was a "blue baby," born in 1964 in Tulsa, Okla., and his family was given little hope that he would live because of a malformed aorta. But by 3 years old and several heart surgeries later, Gree...
These are the words and photos of KONSTANTINOS LIAKOS, a Greek man who wants us to know of his experiences of the crises in Greece. As a Greek 30 year old man living in Athens, I believe I hold a unique ...
There are two views on the "Arab spring" that prevail at present: democratic and conspirological. The "democratic" version is spread by almost all Western and some Russian media outlets. It’s simple, unp...
Latin America’s prison system is once again the harsh glare of the international spotlight. A horrific prison fire killed nearly 360 inmates in the Honduran city of Comayagua on February 14th. Only five d...
Less than a month after the U.S. Army ordered 1,100 micro-robots for $13.9 million, the Department of Defense placed a $1 million order for lightweight robots from iRobot Corp., it was announced Tuesday....
MOSCOW, March 6 (Reuters) - Russia warned the West on Tuesday not to expect a shift in its stance on Syria following Vladimir Putin's victory in a presidential election, saying its position had nothing to...
Under Michigan law, an emergency manager has the authority to lay off or cut the pay of employees, outsource services, merge and reorganize departments, overturn ordinances, alter the budget, cancel vendo...
Lender Processing Services has released their January 2012 mortgage statistics. Foreclosure starts increased 27.9% and foreclosure sales surged 29% in January 2012. We predicted foreclosures would massiv...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Babuyan Islands Region, Philippines at a depth of 48.7 km (30.3 miles), the quake hit at 08:45:56 UTC Friday 9th March 2012 The epicenter was 133 km (82 miles) SS...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 22.2 km (13.8 miles), the quake hit at 08:21:05 UTC Friday 9th March 2012 The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) ENE of Isangel, Tanna, Vanuatu No Ts...
Kp Index is at level 7 Scale of G3 Strong - Power systems: voltage corrections may be required, false alarms triggered on some protection devices. - Spacecraft operations: surface charging may oc...
Source: http://occupydallas.wordpress.com/ The Criminalization of Protest: Say Goodbye To Free Speech in America by Devon DB Global Research Canada, March 9, 2012 *Free speech may very well soon b...
Islamabad—With the start of a new massive military exercise along Pakistan border India on Sunday, moved its second BrahMos supersonic cruise missile regiment in Rajasthan sector close to Sindh frontier. ...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has successfully test fired ballistic missile Hatf II, According to a statement issued by Inter Services Public relations (ISPR), Pakistan had successfully test fired a short-range sur...
Recently, a resolution was passed in the US Congress to divide Pakistan and carve out an ‘independent Balochistan’. With this, an old neocon dream was revived. This time the so-called globalists and propa...
Forget the past (Saddam, Osama, Gaddafi) and the present (Assad, Ahmadinejad). A bet can be made over a bottle of Petrus 1989 (the problem is waiting the next six years to collect); for the foreseeable fu...
Commentary: The European Central Bank, the ECB, in the past few days pumped another $1 trillion or so into the European banking system, an indication that the so-called euro debt crisis is fundamentally a...
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: “The incredible gold scandal,” the German newspaper BILD began its article about the disposition of Germany’s mysterious gold holdings following the collapse of Lehman B...
Illinois’ pension problems could be worse than the numbers show. Years of under funding or borrowing to pay the annual pension obligation, coupled with a recent change in how liabilities and assets are ca...
Welcome to Police State Sacramento! by Dan Bacher I went downtown to the Capitol on Monday night to witness a scene like that of Berlin, Germany in 1933, Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1968, or Santiago, C...
KAWAUCHI, Fukushima Pref. — During a visit in late February to Shidamyo, less than 30 km from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, a few elderly residents could be seen ambling around the tranquil rural dis...
A large fraction of the most notorious climate alarmists are "only in it for the gold", if I use the self-description of one of them, Dr Michael Tobis. However, there certainly exist people who have gen...
SINGAPORE — For much of 2010 and 2011, tensions over conflicting claims to disputed islands, maritime territory and energy resources rippled through the South China Sea, embroiling several Southeast Asian...
Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Stockton, California's, City Council will be asked next week to begin the process of becoming the largest U.S. city to file for bankruptcy, according to a person familiar with the c...
March 7 (Bloomberg) -- The near-failure by U.S. states to fund rising retiree health-care costs for millions of government workers threatens to produce budget crises similar to the one that pushed Stockto...
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Today ran an item this morning marking the 75th anniversary of the publication of Orwell's "The Road to Wigan Pier" (8.22am). As you may gather from images used on these pages I am a fan of Orwell's work ...
Political machinations over the state budget dominate every legislative session, but this year's version of the annual budget game may be particularly bizarre due to a confluence of unusual factors, to wi...
Following the Suez Crisis, Nasser’s influence and reputation was enormously strengthened in the Arab, Muslim, and wider decolonizing world, while those of Britain and France were in decline. Nasser’s supp...
The Vietnam “story” has changed over time. First, it was a war story; then Vietnam became “a country” in the run-up to the normalization of US-Vietnam relations in 1995. Now the country is moving forward ...
Israel asks U.S. for arms that could aid Iran strike. (Reuters) – Israel has asked the United States for advanced “bunker-buster” bombs and refueling planes that could improve its ability to attack Iran’s ...
How primitive the Afghans are! A New York Times account of faltering negotiations over a possible “strategic partnership” agreement to leave U.S. troops on bases in that country for years to come highligh...
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player The abandoned school bus had no engine and no front wheels. But there were crude curtains in the windows, an air conditioner and even bunk beds ins...
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Los Angeles police are warning homeowners about burglars entering homes through doggie doors. Authorities said there have been at least seven to eight of these kinds of burglaries i...
Feds: Move Has Alienated People, Hurt Counter Terror Info Gathering Process NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – The head of the Newark FBI said Wednesday the NYPD’s monitoring of Muslims in New Jersey has had a chilli...
DALLAS – Think about all the personal information we keep in our cell phones: It’s something to consider after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit ruled it is now legal for police to search cel...
EAST CHICAGO | Federal agents are investigating the source of counterfeit $100 bills an Indiana Harbor first-grader allegedly handed out to fellow classmates, police said. Lincoln Elementary School offic...
A California middle school teacher has been placed on leave after administrators learned from students that the educator appears in porn videos available online. Stacie Halas, a 31-year-old science teach...
A video is making its way around the interwebs this morning from some guy claiming he figured out a way to beat our body scanners (imaging technology). I watched the video and it is a crude attempt to all...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 37.9 km (23.6 miles), the quake hit at 05:31:51 UTC Friday 9th March 2012 The epicenter was 103 km (64 miles) East o...
*Sarkozy cosies up.* Reportedly, in the 1990s, Nicolas Sarkozy was involved in a deal with Pakistan involving large 'bribes'. When Jacques Chirac came to power, 'he cancelled the Pakistani official's ki...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 35.4 km (22 miles), the quake hit at 07:36:44 UTC Friday 9th March 2012 The epicenter was 43 km (26 miles) North of Isangel, Tanna, Vanuatu Possi...
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 36.8 km (22.9 miles), the quake hit at 07:09:54 UTC Friday 9th March 2012 The epicenter was 61 km (37 miles) Northeast of Isangel, Tanna, Vanuatu...
I first heard about thisparticular puke some two decades ago and I am sure like many, had thought thathe was long dead. No such luck obviouslyand this campaign is well worth our support. The idea is si...
The squabble over supplymanagement is ongoing and poorly understood. The real problem has been the role of capital in agriculture itselfwhich has transitioned from peonising huge populations to the pres...
Work with astronauts hasestablished that salt retention is a plausible forcer of body acidity and therelated loss of calcium. They are doinga study with bicarbonate of soda to see if the effect can be...
I love unexpected results thatkick a stack of assumptions about organic material out the door. Not only does the silk conduct heat, it doesit efficiently at almost the same levels as the well known hea...
RIP Robert Sherman, a prolific provider of catchy silliness.
During the last US Presidential election the US and other media failed to subject Barack Obama to the levels of scrutiny that Republican candidates and other Democrats have and were subjected to. This year...
In November 2011, I discussed a paper about Profumo di SUSY, i.e. the Scent of a Woman Called Susy, a woman whom four playful physicists started to smell in the LHC data. They continued to train their nos...
Ah, the lyrical pleasures enjoyed in the energy of the poetry of historical calamities. How Victorian. Well, it's not the 19th Century, Rotten Boroughs are supposed to be a thing of the past and ... stu...
I'm not sure how I think. I stop a lot throughout the day and wonder how these neurons and microns throughout my nervous and intelligence systems are programmed. I doubt too much... Not my thoughts, bu...
I always get chocked up when I realize what concern our precious Dumbya had for our country's citizens' welfare during his reign of terror. And he never minded showing his behind. He always seemed proud of...
"We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be." - George Bernard Shaw
The Greek government has won enough backing for a debt swap deal that will enable the country to avoid bankruptcy and stay in the euro. Officials in Athens say 95% of bondholders have reportedly agreed t...
A very solemn anniversary is rapidly approaching... On March 11th, 2012, it will have been exactly one year since the tsunami, earthquake, and subsequent meltdown of at least 4 nuclear reactors, at Fukushi...
Brazil's economic growth slowed more than expected in 2011 but it still managed to overtake the UK as the world's sixth-largest economy. Gross domestic product grew by 2.7pc last year, down from 7.5pc gro...
A kite surfer's journey across the Red Sea turned into "Jaws" meets "Cast Away" on Friday. Polish kite surfer Jan Lisewski was reportedly stuck in the water for two days, surviving on energy bars and fen...
Hackers from the Italian branch of the group, Anonymous, took down the Vatican website in protest over Roman Catholic liturgies and doctrines, such as the church's opposition to contraception and abortion...
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta appeared at a Senate Armed Services Committee congressional hearing, where he said “legal basis” was needed to initiate a no-fly zone over Syria. Source
Esemu Paskal, of the Tim Teko farmers group, harvests a disease-resistant strain of cassava. Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian I have eaten cassava and it is very similar tastewise to potatoes - quite...
Iran and Middle East-based extremist groups are stepping up their activities in South America, aiming to make friends and score cash, a senior U.S. military official says. Tehran intends to build militar...
Big donors considering whether to work the phones raising money for President Obama’s reelection campaign might consider the fate of his 2008 bundlers. Many of them, it turns out, won plum jobs in his adm...
The Obama administration simulated a cyber attack on New York City’s power supply in a Senate demonstration aimed at winning support for legislation to boost the nation’s computer defenses. Senators from...
In a breach of tradition, a former U.S. Secret Service agent has self-published a book that savages the Clinton White House staff as arrogant and rude, suggests former first lady Hillary Clinton was aloof...
WASHINGTON -- The US offered to give Israel advanced weaponry -- including bunker-busting bombs and refueling planes -- in exchange for Israel's agreement not to attack Iranian nuclear sites, Israeli news...
Monday we wrote about the Republican War Against Women and against women's reproductive health, in terms of the insanity we're hearing from Rush Limbaugh, one of the front men for their demented party. N...
Despite receiving more than $885 million in federal economic stimulus funds since 2009, the D.C. government — whose residents face one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation — cannot say how many...
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Adult obesity rates were higher than 15% in all but three of the 190 metropolitan areas that Gallup and Healthways surveyed in 2011. McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, Texas, residents were the ...
The main super PAC supporting Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul is reassessing its heavy financial support of the Texas congressman following his disappointing Super Tuesday performance, an offic...
While college students in the morning can sometimes resemble a shambling horde of the undead, one course at Michigan State University hopes to use that imagery to a positive educational effect. Instructo...
I have not delved into the civil war which is breaking out in Syria, primarily because I have looked upon it as nothing more than an attempt by the criminal state of Israel and their slave minions in the ...
Opposition condemns government after broadcaster reveals documents said to show links between Swedish firm and Riyadh. Sweden has been secretly helping Saudi Arabia plan the construction of an arms factor...
Graham Secker from Morgan Stanley said it is rare for global stocks, oil prices and government bonds to rise in lockstep, and such exuberance becomes a "very reliable sell signal for stocks" once speculat...
A video campaign to bring an accused Ugandan war criminal to justice has taken the world by surprise after receiving over 25 million web hits. Joseph Kony, the fugitive head of the Lord's Resistance Army...
At least two people have been killed and seven others wounded after an armed man opened fire in the psychiatric unit of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre. The gunman, who has not yet been ident...
Two hostages - a Briton and an Italian - have been killed by terrorists in northern Nigeria in an attempted rescue operation. The effort to free Chris McManus, from northwest England, and his colleague ...
The United Nation's special envoy to Syria has warned against any further militarisation of the country's crisis - amid a groundswell of international support for arming anti-Assad activists. Instead, K...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 34.9 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 03:38:29 UTC Friday 9th March 2012 The epicenter was 281 km (174 miles) ESE o...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 33.7 km (20.9 miles), the quake hit at 02:24:46 UTC Friday 9th March 2012 The epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) SSE of...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Northern Peru at a depth of 32 km (19.9 miles), the quake hit at 02:03:32 UTC Friday 9th March 2012 The epicenter was 144 km (89 miles) WSW of Trujil...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Mindoro, Philippines at a depth of 211.5 km (131.4 miles), the quake hit at 02:01:02 UTC Friday 9th March 2012 The epicenter was 40 km (24 miles) West of Batangas, Luz...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Kepulauan Mentawai Region, Indonesia at a depth of 37.9 km (23.6 miles), the quake hit at 01:38:36 UTC Friday 9th March 2012 The epicenter was 222 km (137 miles) ...
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck Southern Xinjiang, China at a depth of 35.5 km (22.1 miles), the quake hit at 22:50:08 UTC Thursday 8th March 2012 The epicenter was 214 km (132 miles) SSE of Aksu, X...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 20:59:29 UTC Thursday 8th March 2012 The epicenter was 271 km (168 miles) East o...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Seram, Indonesia at a depth of 23 km (14.2 miles), the quake hit at 20:36:59 UTC Thursday 8th March 2012 The epicenter was 80 km (49.6 miles) Northeast of Amahai, Sera...
Earlier tonight, Cheater and the Rude Pundit celebrated their 1st anniversary on the Progressive Radio Network and yours truly put in a surprise appearance. I come in about 16:20 in. The cocksuckers made ...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Mindoro, Philippines at a depth of 78.5 km (48.8 miles), the quake hit at 20:03:20 UTC Thursday 8th March 2012 The epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) WSW of Batangas, Luzo...
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Buckdog - 1 day ago
Hundreds of questionable votes were cast in Eglington Lawrence Riding in Toronto.
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicab...
Rush Limbaugh, the teaparty, OWS, all the way to the seven sisters -- a deeply misguided Smith College alumna, an open feud between Barnard and Columbia... and so it goes... Bobcat Goldthwait's new dark ...
A broad expanse of glowing gas and dust presents a bird-like visage to astronomers from planet Earth, suggesting its popular moniker - The Seagull Nebula. This portrait of the cosmic bird covers a 1.6 degr...
*“The Dead Man Who Wore Pajamas”* by Paulo Coelho "I remember reading a piece of news on the Internet that a man was found dead in Tokyo on 10 June 2004, dressed in his pajamas. So what? I imagine that m...
THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2012 *PSAs pop up on Rush Limbaugh's show at WABC, New York (770)* AdAge quotes data from a Media Matters for America survey, saying that "of the 69 commercial spots on Wednesday's thre...
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor...
Out, damned spot! out, I say!—One; two: why, then 'tis time to do't.—Hell is murky ~*Lady Macbeth* Like Shakespeare's tragic Lady, Limbaugh is desperately trying to scour out the stains of the sins tha...
El-Keib obfuscates/defends Libyan support for terrorist militants in Syria. by Tony Cartalucci March 9, 2012 - Libya's Prime Minister, and British Petroleum, Total, and Shell-funded Petroleum Institute c...
San Francisco Peaks clearing by Snowbowl developmentwww.indigenousaction.org | March 8, 2012 *City of Flagstaff Administratively Renews Controversial Contract with Ski Area for Wastewater Snowmaking * *Na...
*"Natural Philosophy”* by Chet Raymo “What is the most important scientific idea of all time? Obviously, the answer to so rich a question is up for grabs, but let me opt for uniformitarianism, the idea t...
As you know, Biased BBC has gone through some changes under my tenure. I'm not finished. With problems on comments, and some other issues re the blogger platform, I am considering making a move to a dedic...
Drew Brees Reportedly Set to Skip Workouts Without New Deal ~Bleacher Report
*Wikileaks Global Intelligence Files, posted today from the Stratfor e-mails * Re: Info - Another MOSSAD Intelligence Operation ** internal useonly - pls do not forward **Email-ID98966Date2010-03-26 01:06:...
Limestone, Tennessee, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
"There are no foolish questions, and no man has become a fool until he stops asking questions." - Charles P. Steinmetz
Crazy Horse Singers singing the Highway 18 song, composed in the 1900's, ehankehan olowan wanji. wacipo wacipo, oyate kin wanna anagoptanpo, le olowan lila wasteste ca wanna wauncipelo. *Posted here as a...
“In a 2008 interview by TIME magazine, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson was asked what he thought the “most astounding fact” about the Universe was. Never at a loss for words, the famed scientist gave hi...
*"Waking"* "Get up from your bed, go out from your house, follow the path you know so well, so well that you now see nothing and hear nothing unless something can cry loudly to you, and for you it seems ev...
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that even genius has its limits." - Rita Mae Brown
*"Western Civilization: Slow Decline or Fast Fall?"* By John Mauldin “I had my nose in Niall Ferguson's newest book, Civilization: The West and the Rest, at every possible moment during my recent trip to ...
NFLPA to do own probe of Saints The Goatherders try to shut down Slabbed’s twitter account: Does Charles Leary work at the Danny Abel law firm? (Updated) ~Also~Prostate Cancer on my mind: Let’s examine the...
In England, a vast network of motorways links just about every part of the country. As the network has grown, so has the volume of traffic using it. As a result, the number of motorways and the length a...
Cliff Stearns (R-FL) is a keep-yer-head-down garden-variety careerist dirtbag. He's not going anywhere-- at least not upward. No one's thinking of him as a VP pick or a cabinet member or as someone who ou...
Unimaginable Treason at the Highest Levels of US Governance. by Tony Cartalucci March 9, 2012 - In an unbelievable act of high treason and overt criminality, the US State Department, headed by Secretary o...
*And Harpocall is still with us! * *Contributor: "YYC"* Came home this afternoon and found all the lights gleaming on my modem! I'm back, baby. Maybe I'll write something tomorrow. But for now, I'm going...
*As Lady Liberty Lies Mortally Wounded, Obama And The Shadow State Prepare To Deliver The Final Blow: War Against Iran.* Defense Secretary Leon Panetta *admitted* to Senator Jeff Sessions that Congress...
*THE DAILY RECKONING* has a fascinating piece of deduction by Dan Denning, *"What the Greek Rescue is Really About"*. It's not about the Greeks, who rightly feel they are being left out to dry. Things are ...
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Not PC - 1 day ago
It seems the Nico Nazis understand the problems endemic in the government’s factory schools, offering this advice to impressionable youngsters: [image: SCCZEN_080312SPLSCHOOL_460x230] Story here. [Hat t...
*Thus the half-read, quarter-read, and unread Boston Globes pile up. Not that it really matters when the papers can't even get the sports scores right(!!). * *The point is made when you total the points ...
The old gasbag Rush Limbaugh has been claiming the stampede of fleeing advertisers hasn't hurt him a bit financially, and was bragging that he already had new advertisers lined up to take over the vacated ...
James Delingpole says that his experts need to be listened to, and I have submitted the following comment in response: *You are not clearing the air here, you are continuing the practice of ignoring the d...
Greece is on the cusp of what could be a real make or break moment. The nation's private sector creditors have until the end of the day to decide whether or not to accept a proposed restructuring of Greek ...
The saber-rattling between Iran and Israel conjures fears of mass casualties and a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. Israel has threatened to attack Iran to stop it from obtaining nuclear weapons. Ira...
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Biased BBC - 1 day ago
Tonight Question Time comes from Guildford. David Dimbleby is joined on the panel by Sec of State for Local Govt Eric Pickles (presumably on a reinforced chair), Shadow Sec of State for Energy and "Clima...
We have the entire website monitored 24/7, so trying to sneak in your company's name or product into the comments of our articles simply will never work: the comment entry is deleted before it ever appears...
Scott Lemieux takes on the argument I made that government should back off on regulating the political parties. It's always a pleasure to have someone I respect so much giving my stuff a critical reading. ...
WASHINGTON - A solar storm that shook the Earth’s magnetic field on Thursday spared satellite and power systems as it delivered a glancing blow, although it could still intensify until early Friday, U.S. ...
Vietnam’s fourth bird flu (H5N1) patient of the year, and the first in the Central Highlands region, is being treated at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City, the hospital’s deputy direc...
The H5N1 strain of bird flu has affected six poultry markets in the capital recently. Over the last 15 days, three workers from one of the markets have been diagnosed with the flu. However, they have reco...
Boaters are being warned to steer clear of a mother gray whale and calf that wandered off course into San Francisco Bay during spring migration. The whales were seen surfacing Wednesday off San Francisco'...
A group of scientists working in Ivory Coast may have discovered a case of infection of a human with a novel variety of an animal immunodeficiency virus, in circumstances that suggest it was a direct infe...
Israel's grand plan: 1. Accuse Iran of seeking the destruction of Israel, without providing any evidence. 2. Accuse Iran of building nuclear weapons to bomb Israel, without providing any evidence. 3. Unl...
Three horses from Swaziland are dead after contracting African horse sickness (AHS), according to a report from the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE). Swaziland is located in Southwest Africa. A...
A hotel's fish lakes, which form part of the River Lea in Bedfordshire, have been decimated by sewage from a blocked sewer in Luton. Thames Water and the Environment Agency (EA) are investigating the "si...
Senator Sessions: "We spend our time worrying about the UN, the Arab League, NATO, and too little time, in my opinion, worrying about the elected representatives of the United States." President Obama, un...
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Not PC - 1 day ago
*[image: _McGrath001]This week, Libertarianz leader Dr Richard McGrath has been sniffing minerals and evading checkpoints. Unsuccessfully.* "Sir, could you just say your name and address into this little...
*“Top 10 Genius Reasons to Keep Troops in Afghanistan”* by David Swanson “*1.* When you’re setting a record for the longest modern war, cutting it short just increases the chances of somebody breaking you...
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A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck South of Java, Indonesia at a depth of 75.6 km (47 miles), the quake hit at 21:27:09 UTC Friday 9th March 2012 The epicenter was 125 km (77 miles) SSE of Malang, Java,...
*When quizmaster Edward Downes (seen here at far right, next to radio-broadcast producer Richard Mohr, with panelists for this March 1991 Texaco Metropolitan Opera Quiz: l-r, Bruce Burroughs, Speight Jenki...
*CANADIAN POLITICS TORONTO:* *KEEP THE SCHOOL HOUSE SHELTER OPEN:* Here's another callout from down Ontario way and the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP). This is an appeal and petition to keep a d...
"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a sourc...
*CANADIAN POLITICS TORONTO:* *PRE-BUDGET RALLY AGAINST ONTARIO AUSTERITY:* The following call-out is from the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP). ()()()()()()()()()()() *On March 16 FIGHT POVERTY A...
An official close to the Chinese Ministry of Public Security has reported that a group of 41 North Korean refugees arrested in and around Shenyang last month and held for a spell in a detention center near...
*INTERNATIONAL LABOUR IRAN:* *SAVE ABDOLREZA GHANBARI:* ** * *Abdolreza Ghanbari is an Iranian university professor who has been sentenced to death by the regime basically for the "crime" of receiving uns...
*"[W]hat about people like Mr. Romney? Don't they have a stake in America's future economic success, which is endangered by the crusade against education? Maybe not as much as you think. "After all, over...
March 9, 2012 print edition page A1. My question is, which option is true: A.) Nuclear is going down fast, but the *Wall Street Journal* editorial board is heavily invested in uranium futures and the nuc...
*And they say there is no "Greater Israel Project"! * *Contributor: "Lucilla"* Guess what likely one of the main reasons for trashing Libya really was? Remember the controversial "Greater Israel Project"? ...
As *Dawg* says, a pattern is emerging. It is more than that however. The discovery that phone calls directing voters to non-existent polling places was *targeted to a specific age group*, in this case vo...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoLOS ANGELES (Kyodo) -- High levels of radioactive cesium have been detected on the ground of a former nuclear facility in the suburbs of Los Angeles called the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, where an expe...
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