has just announced that rather than evict protesters from the cathedral grounds at #OccupyLondon, they will try to engage constructively about moral and ethical issues.
Protesters have been camping outside of St. Paul's cathedral in London for weeks. The church has been considering pressing legal charges against the protesters - an internally controversial decision that has spurred the resignations of the church Dean, 2 clerics and canon chancellor. One…
“I have more power than anybody other than the president, in the sense that I can get things changed, quickly,” he told Newsweek for a profile out this week.
The Newsweek story paints the picture of a successful - if self-satisfied - television host whose ratings…
As regular readers know, I’m not one for hyperbole, so perhaps some are thinking that my title is ironic. Nope, I mean it. An accumulation of events in recent months leads me to no other conclusion than that we are in fact living in a police state in the good…
FORMER Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak suffered a heart attack during questioning by prosecutors investigating graft and abuse allegations which prompted his admission to the hospital overnight, state television said.
The ex-leader was taken to a hospital in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh two days after reports that he was about to be summoned for questioning.
"Mubarak was admitted to the Sharm el-Sheikh International…
A digital camera will many times cause the sun to appear black or create a black dot in this case a hot spot do to the glare on the lens. Its caused by the camera sensor's chip being overloaded by the brightness of a hot spot and returning a 'black signal'. Explaining things with conspiracy theorys or aliens first before trying to find the most obvious answer is absolutely infuriating to me, I deleted much of what I was going to say in the hopes to…
In previous Revolution Roundups, before we were knocked offline, we featured mass protests by the people of Ireland, Italy, Britain, Austria, Greece, France and Portugal, as the Global Insurrection contagion spread throughout Europe. And now, as we have seen over the past month, North African and Middle Eastern nations have joined the movement as the people of… Continue
Added by TheLasersShadow on February 26, 2011 at 10:44pm —
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(07-12) 04:00 PDT Killingly, Conn. -- From the first time he saw Emmett "Doc" Brown fire up the Mr. Fusion home energy reactor in the "Back to the Future" movies, Dave Nichols has always wanted to make a vehicle run on garbage.
Two decades after the trilogy, the 42-year-old homebuilder and auto shop owner from eastern Connecticut isn't traveling through time in a DeLorean, yet. But he's modified his 1989 Ford F150 pickup truck to run on wood, leaves, cardboard and other… Continue
The British army has been relocating Taliban insurgents from southern Afghanistan to the north by providing transportation means, diplomats say.
The diplomats, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said insurgents are being airlifted from the southern province of Helmand to the north amid increasing violence in the northern parts of the country.
The aircraft used for the transfer have been… Continue
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The agency that licenses medicines in Britain has received 150 reports of suspected adverse reactions to the Tamiflu treatment for swine flu.
The figure was released yesterday as GPs said some patients were choosing not to take the drug because of concern about the possible side effects.
The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said the 150 reports received within the UK up until 23 July mention 241 separate side effects, most of which were mild and…
The Central Intelligence Agency withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from former Vice President Dick Cheney, the agency’s director, Leon E. Panetta, has told the Senate and House intelligence committees, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said Saturday.…
Jun 22, 2009 (Las Cruces Sun-News - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- The feds blinked first.
In May 2005, Congress passed the Real ID Act, giving states until May 11, 2008, to comply with tough new federal standards for driver's licenses, including sharing information among states for a new national database and prohibiting licenses from being issued to those in the country… Continue
Added by truth on June 23, 2009 at 3:24pm —
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From the unreleased EP "Deliverance", which was assembled by a sound designer who intended for its posthumous release on the one-year anniversary of Prince's...