Radioactive Seaweed Detected In Puget Sound, But Not Harmful

And if you think you don't eat seaweed, think again Carrageenans or carrageenins  are a family of linear sulfated polysaccharides that are extracted from red seaweeds.

Food and other domestic uses

Vatican 'accepted one billion lire' to bury crime boss in basilica next to former popes

ADAMS COUNTY COLORADO - There was a bear roaming around a neighborhood near Federal Heights Monday morning.

Thursday, April 26, 2012 Bear Drug-Darted After Climbing Tree On CU Campus
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Steamboat Springs — Colorado Division of Parks and Wildlife officers euthanized an adult male black bear Sunday in Craig after attempts to tranquilize the animal failed, an agency spokesman said.

Medical doctors working in Fukushima say lots of people are dying — “Bleeding, losing hair, and having a bad health condition” (VIDEO)

90% of urine samples contaminated with cesium in city 200km from Fukushima
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Fukushima Gov’t: Over 35% of young people tested have thyroid cysts or nodules

How Public Pension Retirement Benefits May Sink the States

Veteran Plea for Help: Bob Strait and Family

The story is here - Bob and his wife Nancy were beaten during a home invasion in March

Rioters in France (29/04/12)

Via this thread which has  a few disturbing videos pertaining to riots across the world right now
Man films himself getting shot in Egypt this morning

This post from the thread has two videos. "a man filmed himself getting shot by a soldier in Syria who was killing people in the streets. "
 Notice the guy in the end of the second video throws a rock trying to draw attention from shooters as his friends rescue a protestor who has been shot, only to be shot himself and collapses in the street.

Dependence on tramadol has been reported to be a major social problem in the Gaza Strip. The Hamas government has attempted to cut off supplies of the drug, and in April 2010 burnt 2 million tablets which had been intercepted

Gaddafi's former oil chief found dead in Austria

Workers still at risk decades after Chernobyl blast

Bob Dylan is to receive America's highest civilian honour, the Medal Of Freedom, it has been announced

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Tens of thousands of people across Spain protested Sunday against austerity measures as the country slides into an economic abyss.

Colombia, Missouri police union steps up effort to sack chief, mostly because he had the audacity to fire a cop caught on video breaking the back of an unarmed man.

Only ten companies control most of your consumer food brands

Canadian Press Tells Us What Really Happened In Cartagena And It Wasnt About Prostitutes And Secret Service

The pros and cons of smoking concentrates extracted by using solvents such as butane and isopropyl alcohol.

Making BHO - Honey oil

Wells Fargo Center, known as the “Cash Register Building” for its iconic, curving roof against the downtown Denver skyline, has been sold for $387.5 million

The Father's Day massacre was a bank robbery and shooting that took place on Sunday, June 16, 1991 at the United Bank Tower(now called Wells Fargo Center in Denver, Colorado

A Gull-eating Octopus in Victoria, BC(pics)

More people were killed in the rehearsal for the D-Day landing at Utah beach than were killed in the actual landing itself

RANCHO SANTA FE, Calif. -- Multi-million dollar homes in the North County are being raided by local teenagers for underground parties.