| | Designed to protect North America from potential Soviet bomber threats, the USAF Bomarc was the first long-range surface-to-air missile defense system. www.rocket.aero/bomarc.html - ... antiaircraft missile. This controversial defence decision was one of ... two squadrons of the American Bomarc missile caused a crisis in Canadian ... www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/bomarc-missile...WMD around the world ( yep. Like SAC missions, it carried a nuke ) Welcome to the Reading List. Here are all the updates from any blogs you follow and sites you've joined using Google FriendConnect. Late last week 150 pooh-bahs from the upper reaches of the religious right-- primarily the most backward of the backward evangelical money-grubbers and bigots-- got together to pick someone, anyone, who c... *Neo-con war-makers and 9/11 conspirators are there best friends. * "Fringe Iranian bloc has well-paid allies in D.C.; Effort to reverse terrorist label for reviled group" November 27, 2011|By Scott Shane,... Steve Wosniak likes Android's voice commands and GPS better than those on the iPhone. posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 20 minutes ago *CAUGHT IN HIS OWN WEB … * By Mohawk Nation News http://www.mohawknationnews.com/ MNN. Jan. 15, 2012. In December the owner of MNN hired a webmaster to update the MNN website: Erland Campbell of Native ... *"Remembering Eisenhower's Farewell Address"* by David Krieger "January 17, 2012 was the 51st anniversary of President Eisenhower's Farewell Address to the nation in which he warned of the dangers of the ... "At UN, Turkey takes Israel to task; Blames ex-ally for fueling strife in Middle East" September 23, 2011|By Neil Macfarquhar, New York Times UNITED NATIONS - A couple of hours earlier, Iran’s president, M... *“Iran War is Only A Matter of Time”* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "Two weeks ago, Iranians were saved from pirates on their hijacked ship by the U.S. Navy. Last week, the U.S. military saved a sink... It is a good day when Chris Hedges explains why he is suing Obama for signing the National Defense Authorization Act - and the Occupiers have some fun when they arrest Senator Carl Levin. Thanks guys, for... posted by PC at Not PC - 44 minutes ago After TV3 screened the documentary ‘Inside Child Poverty’ just three days before the last election, causing screams of horror from the ruling party*, NZ on Air** is now considering*** banning broadcaster... *"Unsolvable Insolvency"* by Bill Bonner "Time and time again, Europe solves its debt problems… and every time they don’t get solved at all. Italian bond yields are edging back up. And Greece is negotiat... A giant harpoon is being developed to be deployed from a hovering spacecraft and take a sample from a moving comet. Electromagnetic Mysteries: CE-IIs By Scott Corrales In 1972, astronomer and UFO researcher J. Allen Hynek created a classification system that while not widely mentioned these days, remains... A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 57 km (35.3 miles), the quake hit at 18:30:58 UTC Tuesday 17th January 2012 The epicenter was 141 km (87.4 miles) East of Yuzhno-Kuril's... A mathematical power law may help explain the pattern of murders by serial killers. Clad in what can only be described as a 'mourning' suit, a grief-stricken boyfriend married his dead girlfriend at her funeral and then posted their wedding snaps on his Facebook page. TV producer Chadil... Punched to the ground and pummelled with his own shoes – this is the moment a 17-year-old boy was beaten while his attackers filmed his cries for help. Detectives in Chicago have launched an investigatio... A 'major winter storm' could dump up to 12 inches of snow on Seattle in two days, weather experts are forecasting. Chris Dolce, a meteorologist with weather.com, said the Northwest could take an even big... Excitedly unwrapping her Christmas present, Sundeep Sandhu was delighted to discover her husband Mark had bought her an Apple iPad2. But her joy soon turned to disbelief when the in-demand tablet computer... Indonesia has gone to imaginative extremes to try and stop commuters from illegally riding on the roofs of train - from hosing them down with red paint to threatening them with dogs. But now authorities ... A mother-of-three plagued by illness has told how her problems have been linked to an insect bite suffered 20 years ago. Adelle Huckins, 31, has been blighted by a range of medical conditions including m... "It's Entertainment, Eh?" by Karl Denninger "Oh really, that's all it is? "Deen defended her fattening cooking style - and her decision to keep her diabetes diagnosis a secret for three years - to TODAY'... A snarling President Nicolas Sarkozy refused to answer a question about France's credit downgrading four times - before criticising others for their 'lack of coolness'. In a meeting in Madrid yesterday, ... I just want to follow up on a couple of news stories- First the Pickering dungeon house (both parts accessible at link) There is a video here Was there electricity in the building? There is an electrical ... It may sound like the plot of a James Bond movie, but did a U.S. radar station accidentally zap the Phobos-Grunt Mars sample return mission? It's All About FEEDING THE SHEEP!!! Former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali turned 70 on Tuesday. The Gay Secretary So even as Leon Panetta admits that Iran does not possess nor is making nuclear weapons, even as the IAEA heads back into Iran to confirm that reality for the umpteenth time, even as the... Have you ever heard anyone ask in a moment of true pique "Where has all the money gone?" I know I thought about it constantly in the 90's. And in the double aughts? I saw the charts that explained it almos... A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Central East Pacific Rise at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:37:37 UTC Tuesday 17th January 2012 The epicenter was 1469 km (912 miles) WSW of Pue... *Who's "a skinny ghetto crackhead"?, Big Ole Butt?, a mighty "Christian" cardinal, Christmas in Jerusalem, and more* *It's the traditional Battle of the Brooms ceremony at the oh-so-holy Church of the Nat... They hover in close formation against the backdrop of a cloudy Kent sky. The two mysterious bright lights were photographed on January 6 floating over Chatham. Less than a week later four similar lights w... A Romanian immigrant who sells the Big Issue has won a landmark case that will allow her to claim housing benefit that could total £20,800 a year. Mother-of-four Firuta Vasile, 27, who lives in Bristol, h... *Two case studies (solar and climate change)* *by Eric Dennis* ►► The author holds a PhD in physics from UC Santa Barbara and is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Industrial Progress. For related posts, ... A Canadian navy intelligence officer charged with communicating information to a foreign entity or terrorist group has agreed to stay in custody for now and not make a bail application, his lawyer says. J... A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Kawke's Bay Region, New Zealand at a depth of 25 km (15.5 miles), the quake hit at 15:12:48 UTC Tuesday 17th January 2012 The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) South... Fears rose of an environmental disaster from a wrecked cruise ship in an area of outstanding natural beauty in Italy on Tuesday. A winemaker in Chile has gone above and beyond (literally) for his most recent vintage -- he's infused his wine with a meteorite for a "livelier taste." The captain of the wrecked Costa Concordia allegedly abandoned ship -- like many captains before him. A winemaker in Chile has gone above and beyond (literally) for his most recent vintage -- he's infused his wine with a meteorite for a "livelier taste." Fears rose of an environmental disaster from a wrecked cruise ship in an area of outstanding natural beauty in Italy on Tuesday. A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Central East Pacific Rise at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:27:48 UTC Tuesday 17th January 2012 The epicenter was 1495 km (928 miles) WSW of Pue... Wetlands photo courtesy Kyle GerstnerContact: Jessica Lackey: President of the Wetlands Preservation Organization, jessica.lackey@haskell.edu Kelda Britton: Secretary of the Wetlands Preservation Organiza... The Italian coast guard has said five more bodies have been found inside the capsized Costa Concordia - taking the total number of dead to 11. The bodies of four men and one woman in their 50s and 60s, a... MERCEDES MARKETING: clever, sensitive. At least, that's what Dieter thinks. The Doktor made an appearance at the Consumer Electronics Show, to proclaim a revolution in new Mercedes sleds. *Some in the au... POLITICS/TECHNOLOGY - Wikipedia, Google, Yahoo!, eBay, Facebook and numerous other websites are planning to protest two new anti-piracy laws that would make it very difficult for them to do business. Reddi... The 2,000 year-old ivory fragments feature engravings of signs of the zodiac. The Trikke Tribred is a fun, green way to get from Point A to B -- and potentially get in a workout along the way. The world's first palm-sized Hi-Fi subwoofer gives plenty of low-end bass. Lumus envisions you checking email using their glasses. * Moslems* "Via xymphora we find Maidhc Ó Cathail taking on the change of tone at Antiwar.com and there's a comment mention of the same thing at Global Research." - *Who's Your Enemy?* [image: Children o... [image: Map of ground deposition of caesium-137 for the Fukushima-Daichii nuclear accident. cerea.enpc.fr] By ALEX ROSLIN, The Montreal Gazette 14 January 2012 After the Fukushima nuclear accident, Cana... *Move Your Money – Keep the Campaign Going* Just wanted to give you an update on my dumping TCF Bank. Part of the following story is my fault – but hopefully by sharing my story and my mistakes – I can sa... [image: World gross product (percentage), 2006-2011 and projected to 2013. Three scenarios are projected: baseline, optimistic, and pessimistic. UN World Economic Situation and Prospects 2012] [Executiv... *TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2012* *Truly the worst of them all:* Did Romney do something wrong at Bain Capital? Who cares, when you can type a headline like this: “Mitt’s Big Love” As you may know, Romney has... Image from Antinews.Preventing the coming war with IranRational self-interest is not always enough to prevent what Barbara Tuchman has called 'the march to folly.'By Tom Hayden / The Rag Blog / January 17, 2... [image: Aerial view of melting permafrost. Ronald Aveling / icestories.exploratorium.edu] Moscow, January 17 (IANS/RIA Novosti) – Temperatures in Russia in the past century rose at twice the rate of war... Why SOPA and PIPA Must Be Stopped By Joi Ito and Ethan Zuckerman, Al Jazeera 16 January 12 http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/287-124/9476-why-sopa-and-pipa-must-be-stopped [image: Alliant Energy's Edgewater Generating Station in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Wikipedia / Royalbroil] By Rachel Cernansky, Energy / Fossil Fuels 17 January 2012 The EPA is still deciding how to regulat... Now that the shock of Lise St-Denis' floor crossing has worn off, it's worth looking ahead to whether Jean Chretien's old riding will stay Liberal red in the next election. Eric Grenier at 308 likes her ch... *TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2012* *In an otherwise silent world, Big Ed flounders again:* Just a guess: Mitt Romney will get to walk on the Bain Capital story. Last night, Ed Schultz whiffed again with this top... The Official Thanks-Our-New-Orleans-Saints-For-A-Great-Season Thread Lift Your Head Up High (And Blow Your Brains Out) Part 1 ~moosedenied EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS are some of the funniest people around. Check out the delightful lunacy. I was watching through this cam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyZRHekr6cg&list=LE6AG81pAkf6Lbi_1VC5NmPAA&feature=plcp I saw unmistakeable fire at the base of unit #3. The fire glowed yellow and occasiona... Workers in Indiana opposing HB 1104. Image from PR Watch.'Right to Work (for Less)' in Indiana:The historic battle against workersBy Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / January 17, 2012WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana -- Fif... Infection may have killed the more than 50 dead New Zealand fur seals, but so far there's no certain explanation. Stress levels and the number of times people check their phones for personal messages are linked. Risking it All - Oil on our Coast from Twyla Roscovich on Vimeo. An Indianapolis Power & Light substation about a half-mile from Lucas Oil Stadium caught fire late this morning after a breaker exploded. The fire was at IPL’s Center Substation at West and Morris streets ... I received a comment this morning on my "Venus: No Greenhouse Effect" page, the point of which was reaffirmed by a brouhaha at WUWT (wattsupwiththat). Instead of submitting a comment there, I offer the fol... The company is still investigating the fire, which occurred near its North Apoi oil platform, where two workers are missing An offshore rig exploring possible oil and gas fields off Nigeria's coast for ... *TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2012* *Part 2—Banalities never die:* In this morning’s New York Times, David Brooks explains what it’s like to speak with primary voters. In the process, he draws back the curtain on... I can only imagine the crap that is now going to be considered "communications" by the MN GOP. From our local right wing TV station: ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Senate Republican Caucus has named former M... Year 11 schoolgirl Lily Webster from Stowmarket, described as 'popular, active and bright', has died after collapsing midway through a trampoline lesson at a leisure centre. The 15-year-old was attendin... Jefferson Parish gives 3 garbage contracts to single Texas company?~Richard Rainey Fox 8 and WWL TeeVee is reporting Karen Parker will be in court to plead guilty to Misprison of Felony ~Slabbed 500-ye... A 15-year-old girl has died after being taken suddenly ill during a PE lesson. Lily Webster, a year 11 pupil at Stowmarket High School, collapsed during a trampolining session at Mid Suffolk Leisure Cent... By: Duane Craig Merced, California, and its Redevelopment Agency have sued numerous oil companies for their alleged part in contaminating the water supplies there with methyl tertiary butyl ether, or MTBE... As you've probably read by now, New Jersey progressive candidate Ed Potosnak withdrew his challenge to Leonard Lance yesterday to take a job as the executive director of the New Jersey League of Conservat... A few years ago, kids could only hear one thing about the climate at school: man-made climate change is making the apocalypse imminent, there is no God who could save us, and Al Gore is His prophet. ;-) ... The first video is being widely covered lately - but they are forgetting to draw the line to the second video. *John Stoessel - 2008* Please note that by playing this clip You Tube and Google will place a... Americans for Prosperity - a Koch brothers think tank - has put together a multi-million dollar ad that they are running in six states - connecting Obama and the Solyndra bankruptcy. It is running in Mic... A magnitude 5.9 earthquake has struck Samar, Philippines at a depth of 50.3 km (31.3 miles), the quake hit at 12:55:38 UTC Tuesday 17th January 2012 The epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) Northeast of Guiuan, S... A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Central Peru at a depth of 145.3 km (90.3 miles), the quake hit at 11:53:22 UTC Tuesday 17th January 2012 The epicenter was 45 km (27 miles) Southeast of Pucallpa, Peru... The nationalities of the people missing from the capsized Costa Concordia have been revealed, with 14 of the 29 still not accounted for from Germany. Rescuers off the Italian coast are also searching for s... Scientists at the National Institute of Virology (NIV) have found a new strain of bird flu that killed over 500 crows three months ago at Jharkhand. While confirming that it was avian influenza, Dr A C Mis... Hong Kong (HKSAR) - A spokesman for the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) said today (January 17) that a dead little egret found in Yuen Long on January 12 was confirmed to be H5N1... H5N1, a variant of avian influenza, is nasty stuff. It kills somewhere between 50% to 60% of the humans it infects. The good news, if you can call it that, is that while extremely lethal, H5N1 isn't parti... Taipei, Jan. 17 (CNA) The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reminded people Tuesday to avoid coming in contact with domestic birds or consuming raw poultry and eggs as a precaution to keep avian flu away ... Roe deer carcass found a few miles east of animal discovered earlier on National Trust land, which is undergoing DNA tests. The remains of another deer have been found in an area of the Cotswolds where b... The body of another dead and mutilated stallion has been found in what appears to be the third horrific attack in less than two weeks. Sammy, an 11.2hh Welsh/Arab pony, was found dead in his field near W... FIFTY-THREE dead New Zealand fur seals have been found washed up on the Eyre Peninsula. Fifty-one of the seals were juveniles and two were young adults, the Adelaide Now website reported. They were wash... Tourists and even families are paying tens of thousands of pounds to hunt giraffes and have the heads of their trophies mounted to take home. Hunters pay up to £10,000 for the giraffe-hunting expeditions,... NAPLES, Fla. -- A fourth Florida panther that was raised in captivity has died. The South Florida Sun Sentinel reported Monday the panther died Friday after being badly injured by another panther. Wildli... A new proposal to establish a market-based 'solution' to the whaling controversy misses the mark. posted by laura k at wmtc - 10 hours ago Rob Ford might be losing weight, but Toronto is losing vital public services and good jobs - *if* the mayor and his friends on City Council have their way. If you live, work, or go to school in Toronto, c... A newborn California gray whale washed ashore at Salinas River State Beach Monday, most likely separated from its mother during the peak of the annual gray-whale migration south. The 12-foot long, 1,700-... Padang, West Sumatra. Twenty-five volcanoes in Indonesia are now showing abnormal activity or have been put on alert or watch status, presidential special aide Andi Arief said here on Saturday. “Accordi... Buenos Aires: A cloud of ash caused by a Chilean volcanic eruption forced authorities to shut Bariloche airport in Argentina days after it was re-opened, according to media reports. The airport was shut f... JERUSALEM (AP) -- The Israeli and U.S. militaries have postponed large-scale war games, in part to avoid aggravating mounting tensions between the international community and Iran over its disputed nuclea... The national government will try to find all structures where 5,200 metric tons of highly radioactive gravel from near the crisis-hit Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant was used and measure the radiation... Timing is everything; I'm not sure its good to be publishing a paper about strategic narratives just as the US cuts its Advisory Commission on Public Dipomacy, although RAND have begun exploring this field... The eldest brother of North Korea's new leader says reforms needed to avert the collapse of the country's economy will lead to the end of its Stalinist regime, according to a book to be published this wee... Fighting between defected soldiers and the regular Syrian army appears to be getting closer to Damascus. The state news agency claimed an "armed terrorist group" killed six soldiers in a rocket-propelled... Wikipedia plans to take its English-language site offline on Wednesday as part of protests against proposed anti-piracy laws in the US. The user-generated news site Reddit and the blog Boing Boing have al... A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Kyrgyzstan at a depth of just 1 km (0.6 miles - poorly constrained), the quake hit at 10:40:27 UTC Tuesday 17th January 2012 The epicenter was 127 km (78.7 miles) Sout... Striking Greek workers brought the Athens metro to a standstill on Tuesday and kept ferries docked to protest against austerity as the country's lenders visited Athens to try to avert a disorderly debt de... Dhahran, Saudi Arabia (CNN) – With 260 billion barrels of oil, Saudi Arabia has more than double the proven reserves of Iran, its nearest competitor within OPEC. In an interview in Dhahran, in the Kingd... Downgrade -- the most feared word in Europe's financial lexicon. Most attention Friday was focused on France -- Europe's second largest economy -- as Standard & Poor's cut its rating on French sovereign d... At least 20 dolphins have died after washing up near several Cape Cod towns, an International Fund for Animal Welfare spokeswoman said Monday. Between 40 and 50 common and Atlantic white-sided dolphins ha... An opposition coalition said Monday it is planning mass demonstrations in Romania, following four straight days of citizen protests against government austerity measures. The coalition will meet to forma... Egypt's military-led government, struggling to manage the transition to democracy, has a rising adversary: rebellious Bedouin tribes. At a meeting last Friday in the south Sinai desert, Bedouin leaders ac... The European Commission is expected to issue a decision Tuesday on whether it considers certain reforms introduced by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government to be legal. Both the European Uni... The European Commission is expected to issue a decision Tuesday on whether it considers certain reforms introduced by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government to be legal. Both the European Uni... Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) -- An early warning radar station that is part of NATO's controversial missile defense system in Europe is now operational in Turkey, a foreign ministry spokesman said Monday. The ... A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 382.6 km (237.7 miles), the quake hit at 10:10:01 UTC Tuesday 17th January 2012 The epicenter was 498 km (309 miles) Northwest of Neiafu, ... A chemical plant in northeast China that sparked huge protests last summer amid concerns about its safety has resumed production, despite earlier assurances that it would relocated. A local government of... Divers trying to locate survivors of the Costa Concordia cruise ship used explosives to blow a hole in the hull to make an entry and exit point for search-and-rescue teams, Italian Navy officials said Tue... A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck near the South coast of Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 9.7 km (6 miles), the quake hit at 09:23:18 UTC Tuesday 17th January 2012 The epicenter was 175 km (108 miles) N... A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Mindanao, Philippines at a depth of 93.8 km (58.3 miles), the quake hit at 10:00:20 UTC Tuesday 17th January 2012 The epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) Southeast of Davao... A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Offshore Northern Californai at a depth of just 2.6 km (1.6 miles), the quake hit at 09:54:58 UTC Tuesday 17th January 2012 The epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) West of ... A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Mariana Islands Region at a depth of 63.4 km (39.4 miles), the quake hit at 09:38:14 UTC Tuesday 17th January 2012 The epicenter was 416 km (258 miles) WSW from Ha... London (CNN) -- The United Kingdom cannot deport a radical cleric linked to al Qaeda to Jordan because evidence obtained by torture could be used against him there, the European Court of Human Rights rule... posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 12 hours ago Instantly switching sessions between Linux desktop managers, like KDE, Gnome, Cinnamon, Razor or LXDE, *without* logging out first, selecting your new, different session and logging in again is very well ... The European Court of Human Rights has upheld the whole-life sentences being served by three convicted British killers. Jeremy Bamber, Peter Moore and Douglas Vinter had argued that a sentence which cond... Police in Cambodia believe they have found the bodies of a Frenchman and his four children who all went missing last year. A number of bones and skulls recovered from a car found dumped in a pond behind L... Airport security officers are to be monitored for exposure to dangerous levels of radiation from the controversial scanners which are used to screen passengers before flights. The Transport Security Admi... A woman who shot her two children, their father and a cousin before committing suicide took video of herself on her iPad as she smoked methamphetamine prior to the killings, police said today The apparen... A four-year-old girl died at her home on Sunday after a TV fell on her head. Gianna Hadjis, from University Park, Chicago, was pronounced dead at 2:54pm at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, acc... Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton has warned a report that Iran is a year away from being able to build a nuclear bomb may be too optimistic. In a radio interview today, he said: 'I... A teenage boy was given strong cider by police before being questioned over a series of burglaries, a disciplinary hearing was told. Sean Wall, 17, was taken to a police station and given alcohol before b... Mini is recalling 235,000 cars due to an electrical fault which can cause vehicles to burst into flames. Nearly 30,000 cars in the UK are understood to be affected. The move follows months of complaints f... [image: Link]An Eton-educated aristocrat who admitted having sex with a schoolgirl within days of her 16th birthday walked smiling from court yesterday after he was cleared of rape. The Honourable James ... A ‘mild-mannered’ homeowner may have snapped and killed a ‘neighbour from hell’ before suffering a fatal heart attack. Alan Taylor, 59, was pronounced dead at his home on Sunday by paramedics after he suf... A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Fiordland Region, New Zealand at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 07:40:23 UTC Tuesday 17th January 2012 The epicenter was 90 km (55.4 miles) West of ... A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck near Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 7 km (4.3 miles), the quake hit at 06:19:16 UTC Tuesday 17th January 2012 The epicenter was 20 km (12.4 miles) Southeast o... Royal Bank of Scotland was last night branded ‘deplorable’ for pulling the plug on fashion retailer Peacocks – putting 13,000 high street jobs at risk. The taxpayer-controlled bank withdrew from last ditc... * Spot the TB victim * TB exists in one in three people in the world. It lies dormant in most of these people. ( http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2087273/India-reports-cases-killer-TB-strain-res... The problem is that it appearsthat Saudi Arabiais producing flat out to sustain supply and it will not be able to add 500,000bpd on demand which it has been able to do for forty years. This means that... It is suggested that the simplerTNA may have led the development of RNA and DNA. I do not think that this particularly makesthe problem of discovering the pathway to manufacturing life any easier excep... I posted on this topic four yearsago and we had plenty of evidence then that is why these insecticides werewithdrawn in Franceand actually I believe from much of the EU. It obviously has not gotten bet... Here is another eyewitness reportof a large black bird. It also noticeablymakes little of the bird’s beak. The observations themselves supportthe existence of a nearby nesting pair, with the larger o... *Click image for larger sizes.* In previous years for Martin Luther King Day, I've featured King's words and other civil rights material (see the "MLK" category below). This year, I wanted to at least link a few pieces focused on MLK hims... Robots, dancing Rumba, and crazy CES stuff. All in another episode of This Week in Discovery News. One month after Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole. Ten weeks later, he is dead. "A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet "for sale", who can still suffer over the suffering of o... "Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But... ...if all allegedly corrupt Toronto cops wear button-fastened brown or black leather jackets with step collars? Or is it just a drug squad thing? Do the homicide folks wear trench coats? Do they go shoppi... "Our words, our thoughts, and our feelings all contribute to the creation of our reality. Our word is a two-edged sword, it can create or it can destroy. To be impeccable is to create with conscious aware... BEIRUT, Lebanon — The failure of an Arab League mission to stanch violence in Syria, an international community with little leverage and a government as defiant as its opposition is in disarray have left S... Elephant Statues Covered in India A decision by the country's election commission blankets hundreds of politically themed statues in Uttar Pradesh with pink and yellow tarps Gallery Nothing is quite as damning or convincing as photo evidence. And when James Balog looked over his time-lapse photography of an Icelandic glacier, everything he thought he knew about climate change .... ch... Country's OPEC envoy threatens "consequences" if neighbouring states make up for oil shortfall caused by sanctions. Iran has warned its neighbours in the Gulf not to make up for any shortfall in its oil e... Pakistan must end its policy of killings and kidnappings of Baloch people and recognise the importance of the region. *Washington, DC *- The behaviour of the powerful elite of Islamabad reminds me of the ... As a third-grader in Winsted, Connecticut, last year, Matthew Asselin was sick -- a lot. He was lethargic and plagued with a persistent wet cough, respiratory infections and painful headaches. As the sch... *"A Tiny Elite Owns 80% Of The Wealth Of the World"* By The Tap Blog “Ever since Benoit Mandelbrot discovered “fractals” in the 1970s, the fascinating new science of Chaos Theory has become a part of our ... LONDON — If you're not allowed to enslave people any more, or even loot their resources, then what is the point of being a traditional great power? The United States kept an army of over 100,000 soldiers i... Is the ongoing crisis surrounding the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant being accurately reported in the Japanese media? No, says independent journalist Shigeo Abe, who claims the authorities, and many ... Everyone loves chocolate. But for thousands of people, chocolate is the reason for their enslavement. The chocolate bar you snack on likely starts at a plant in a West African cocoa plantation, and ofte... Russia remains one of the least-safe countries in terms of nuclear security, although the country is making progress in securing its weapons-usable nuclear materials, a new report released Wednesday found.... Capital outflows totaled $84.2 billion last year according to data released by the Central Bank on Wednesday, the second-highest figure since 1994 and a big jump from the $33.6 billion that exited Russia i... Let's leave aside the episodes of Boehner handing out bribes on behalf of his lobbyist pals as people were voting on the House floor. One of the most notorious ones was caught in the explosive "career-en... A growing number of Korean children are being looked after by their grandparents because their parents are divorced. According to a 2010 government survey, 0.4 percent or 69,175 households in the country... Iran said Thursday that it would respond to Israel's 'cold war' against it - with attacks against Israelis, and possibly Jews worldwide. Iran is preparing its own answers to the string of assassinations of... We follow Ukrainian miners as they go underground to dig the last pieces of coal from exhausted mine shafts. Filmmaker: Michael Glawogger *"Work is often difficult to see, and therefore difficult to depi... "Well over a thousand galaxies are known members of the Virgo Cluster, the closest large cluster of galaxies to our own local group. In fact, the galaxy cluster is difficult to appreciate all at once becau... Magazine report claims Israeli spies used fake US spy identities to work with Pakistani fighters targeting Iran. Agents with Israel's spy agency, Mossad, have posed as CIA agents in operations to recruit... The US slapped sanctions on China's Zhuhai Zhenrong Company Thursday for engaging in energy deals with Iran. Analysts believe the US was sending a signal to Beijing, after US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithne... Certain 2012 candidates are worth hundreds of millions, others far less. *Total net worth:* $85 to $264 million With no regular day job, Romney still earns a tidy income in the form of dividends and intere... Fraudulent claims – mostly for hard-to-assess "whiplash" injuries – add about £40 a year to every honest driver's motor insurance costs but Parliament will struggle to reduce this while some doctors, lawye... Danny Alexander and George Osborne have raised what is perhaps the key issue from an economic perspective facing Scottish independence – what on earth would Scotland do about its currency? Initially, Ale... It's a breathtaking scenario. Hundreds of petrol-heads roaring across some of South America's most stunning landscapes in a grueling two-week endurance race where the competitors are at the mercy of treach... For years, doctors around the country taking an exam to become board certified in radiology have cheated by memorizing test questions, creating sophisticated banks of what are known as "recalls," a CNN i... At the Recall Walker rally in Austin: Travis Donoho, left, organizer for Education Austin (American Federation of Teachers) and Steve Rossignol, Texas State Association of Electrical Workers. Photo by Carlos... Study shows money flowing to oil lobby ahead of decision on tar sands pipeline in the November elections. New analysis of oil industry contributions to members of Congress has revealed the level of the oi... WASHINGTON (AP) — The most detailed data yet on emissions of heat-trapping gases show that U.S. power plants are responsible for the bulk of the pollution blamed for global warming. Power plants released ... WASHINGTON — When the companies that supply motor fuel close the books on 2011, they will pay about $6.8 million in penalties to the Treasury because they failed to mix a special type of biofuel into their... The captain of a cruise liner that capsized after crashing off the Italian coast ignored an order to return on board, according to 'black box' recordings. Taped telephone conversations released by authori... Wikipedia will black out its English-language site for 24 hours in protest at proposed US anti-piracy legislation. If passed the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) would give content owners and ... Homs is not a city under siege, but it is a city divided, and parts of it are besieged. Under government supervision we were taken to Homs to see the side of the Syria story it prefers to show. We can o... Former CIA counter-terrorism specialist Philip Giraldi gives a picture of "What War With Iran Might Look Like," concluding that, "A minor engagement between American and Iranian forces in the Persian Gulf,... A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Eastern Honshu, Japan at a depth of 57.3 km (35.6 miles), the quake hit at 03:30:16 UTC Tuesday 17th January 2012 The epicenter was 38 km (23 miles) North of Tokyo, Ja... The European Court of Human Rights is to rule on the whole-life sentences of three convicted British killers. Jeremy Bamber, Peter Moore and Douglas Vinter claim that a sentence which condemns them to di... An early warning radar station that is part of NATO's controversial missile defense system in Europe is now operational in Turkey, a foreign ministry spokesman said Monday. The station is located in the c... Standard & Poor's axe took another swing at Europe Monday, this time stripping Europe's bailout fund of its AAA status. The move was largely expected after S&P downgraded nine euro area governments last w... I was talking to a friend tonight about the studies and planning undertaken by the province and municipalities of the Lower Mainland of sea level rise projections. It's a complex issue comprising impa... *"Revenge: A Different Approach to Anger"* by The DailyOm "Thoughts of revenge create an energy of imbalance and is best dealt with by releasing your anger. There can be times when we get so angry with s... from sopastrike.com *by Ken* Here's a general description also from the sopastrike.com website (a project of fightforthefuture.org): January 18th is going to be amazing. Sites are striking in all differ... posted by PC at Not PC - 20 hours ago Are you burning with ambition? Or merely harbour a desire for success in your chosen field? That’s the difference that really makes the difference, you know—as actor Kevin Spacey explains… [Hat tip Dia... posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 20 hours ago Photo Boycott TUSD: Martin Luther King Day rally Tucson Brenda Norrell/Censored News Click arrows to listen to students By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com TUCSON -- High s... "Ahmadinejad faces Iran power struggle" November 01, 2011|By Brian Murphy, Associated Press TEHRAN - A scandal surrounding a *$2.6 billion bank fraud*, the biggest financial abuse case in Iran’s history, ... Why January 17th you ask? The U.S. House of Representatives convenes for the first time in 2012 on January 17th. We can’t wait until the weather gets nice and everybody has the day off.We need to be ther... The world's smallest ear can pick up noises a million times softer than any human can hear. Searching systematically through news headlines of major global newspapers provides concrete evidence of a media cover-up of the severity of the Fukushima disaster and the reality of ongoing radiation r... "If I am what I have, and I lose what I have, who then am I?" - Erich Fromm Well, I have an answer, as follows... Yeah, nothing... - CP posted by PC at Not PC - 22 hours ago If you want to get things done, then don’t work in an open plan office. Most of us now work in teams [notes the New York Times], in offices without walls, for managers who prize “people skills” above all... Daniel McAdams LewRockwell.com January 17, 2012 Poor Tamas Fellegi. Hungary's envoy to the International Monetary Fund had to spend last week enduring endless lectures on democracy and fiscal responsibili... The quote is from a Daily Beast article called, "Despite Official Line, Taliban Foot Soldiers Are Furious at Video of U.S. Troops Urinating on Dead Afghans," by Ron Moreau and Sami Yousafzai. From a war-o... What can we learn from histories of the AIDS crisis? Jacques Pépin's *The Origins of AIDS* and Nathan Geffen's *Debunking Delusions: The Inside Story of the Treatment Action Campaign* are two important con... After being exposed to antibiotics for only 2 weeks, a drastic rise in drug-resistant E. coli has been detected in guts of pigs. Beirut, Beyrouth, Lebanon. Thanks for stopping by. Dark Moon. Image from The Sage Grove.Moon Musings: Dark Moon(January 20 – 22, 2012)By Kate Braun / The Rag Blog / January 16, 201210 a.m. is the best time to perform Dark Moon magick for the garden. This m... I’ve always believed that American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) members are so loyal because somewhere along the line there’s a “lil’ somethin somethin” for them to sell off our democracy to the cor... "The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. 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The tomb of a singer for the supreme deity Amon Ra during the Twenty-Second Dynasty has been discovered in Egypt's Valley of Kings. Karl Marx stated in his book, Capital, that the inherent contradictions in the Capitalist system were the seeds of its own destruction. How right he was. Love him or loath him, Karl Marx has certainly m... Listen to more students at: http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2012/01/tucson-students-speak-out-on-forbidden.html Mexican American Studies students marched and rallied in honor of Martin Luther King Jr Day ... These headlines prove the point: Enenews reports on UC Berkeley Research: Over EPA limit: Cesium levels in San Francisco area milk now higher than 6 months ago http://enenews.com/over-epa-limit-cesium-lev... No Army Can Stop An Idea Whose Time Has Come! - Victor Hugo And speaking of real patriots (but come onnnnnnn! who dares to?): Published on BuzzFlash.org (http://blog.buzzflash.com) Global Corporations Have... “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” - Martin Luther King • I wish you all a peaceful, and thoughtful, Martin Luther King Day. - CP New York Times: Foreclosure Auctions Show Raw Form of Capitalism http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/us/foreclosure-auctions-in-phoenix-show-capitalism-at-its-rawest.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha23 Ne... *Tom Clay, “What The World Needs Now”* * (“Abraham, Martin and John”) * “Detroit DJ Tom Clay brought this out in the early 1970's and it was seen as a celebration of the message behind that spread by John ... "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a ... Martin Luther King's prophetic last speech, April 4 ,1968 *“Unicorns Are Mythical Creatures...”* by Karl Denninger “...and that pretty colored thing you're about to stick in your mouth, which came from the back side of the alleged unicorn, is *not* candy. How m... Beirut, Lebanon (CNN) -- At least 25 people are dead after a six-story building collapsed in Beirut, the country's news agency reported Monday. The collapse occurred Sunday night in the Ashrafieh neighbor... Environmental campaign group Greenpeace has warned that if oil leaks from the stricken cruise liner Costa Concordia it could cause an environmental disaster, threatening marine life including birds, whale... *“Such A Waste...”* by Bill Bonner “All over the world, the press is howling for the heads of the marines seen urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban soldiers on YouTube. Everyone is appalled. Defense i... 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