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British Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing has died aged 94. A statement from her publisher, Harper Collins, said she "passed away peacefully at her London home in the early hours of this morning".
Her best-known works include The Golden Notebook, Memoirs of a Survivor and The Summer Before the Dark.
She became the oldest winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature when in 2007 she won the award for her life's work aged 88.
Jonathan Clowes, her long-time friend and agent, said she was "a wonderful writer with a fascinating and original mind".
"It was a privilege to work for her and we shall miss her immensely."
"Doris Lessing was a one of the great writers of our age," said Charlie Redmayne, CEO of Harper Collins UK.
She was only the 11th woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature
"She was a compelling storyteller with a fierce intellect and a warm heart who was not afraid to fight for what she believed in."
© CBC12-year-old Nathan Antone rides his new bicycle.
Nathan Antone parked his old bicycle in front of a Maple Ridge library on Tuesday afternoon. Thirty minutes later, it was gone.
"We saw that the bike wasn't at the bike lock thing and we assumed it was stolen," Nathan told CBC News. "I felt very upset."
Nathan's family is on a fixed income and said they weren't able to replace the bike.
The body of US president John F Kennedy should be exhumed for analysis by forensic experts to see if he was the victim of a military-style ambush by several assassins, a British author said last night.
Matthew Smith's call is backed by Cyril Wecht, America's former top pathologist who once led the country's academy of forensic sciences.
Mr Wecht sensationally discovered the president's brain was missing when he conducted an examination of highly sensitive autopsy evidence, but says his skull and remains should still be available for analysis.
As the world remembers the 50th anniversary of the assassination this Friday, Mr Taylor says the macabre demand could finally resolve the greatest mystery of the past century.
Highly respected Mr Wecht has written a foreword for Mr Taylor's fifth book on the tragedy, called simply Who Killed Kennedy?
Retired college lecturer Mr Smith has spent decades analysing all known information and is convinced Lee Harvey Oswald, 24, was not the real killer.
Mr Smith writes: "First, the members of the Kennedy family who have records placed in their protection must reveal those for public scrutiny.
"Second, as painful as it may be, President Kennedy's remains must be exhumed and re-examined, this time by the top pathologist in the nation. We will then learn about the direction of the gunfire, which will result in a decision on whether a new, thorough investigation is warranted.
© Express.co.uk/NCJohn F Kennedy was assassinated on November 22 1963 in Dallas, Texas.
Mr Wecht sensationally discovered the president's brain was missing when he conducted an examination of highly sensitive autopsy evidence, but says his skull and remains should still be available for analysis.
As the world remembers the 50th anniversary of the assassination this Friday, Mr Taylor says the macabre demand could finally resolve the greatest mystery of the past century.
Highly respected Mr Wecht has written a foreword for Mr Taylor's fifth book on the tragedy, called simply Who Killed Kennedy?
Retired college lecturer Mr Smith has spent decades analysing all known information and is convinced Lee Harvey Oswald, 24, was not the real killer.
Mr Smith writes: "First, the members of the Kennedy family who have records placed in their protection must reveal those for public scrutiny.
"Second, as painful as it may be, President Kennedy's remains must be exhumed and re-examined, this time by the top pathologist in the nation. We will then learn about the direction of the gunfire, which will result in a decision on whether a new, thorough investigation is warranted.
Comment: This is the seventh in a series of 12 articles written in 2006 commemorating (at the time) the 43rd anniversary of the assassination of JFK. This year, 2013, is the 50th anniversary of what can, in hindsight and in Truth, be called the Day America Died.
Anyone who has taken the time to study the facts about that fateful day in Dallas, TX, will already know that JFK was deliberately murdered by a cabal of psychopathic warmongers who were opposed to his plans for a more peaceful world. That same cabal is still in power today, and it has extended its reach across the globe.
We will be featuring one article per day between now and the anniversary.
You can find the rest of the JFK series on the right hand bar of Sott.net. You can also purchase a Kindle of the whole series on Amazon.
If you do nothing else, just take the time to watch the Sott.net/QFG produced version of 'Evidence of Revision', a three disc set that presents archive footage that will leave you in no doubt who killed JFK and why.
John F. Kennedy and the Psychopathology of Politics
Today I want to continue with the subject of John Kennedy; there's only one week left before the anniversary of his death, so I'm going to have to really put the pedal to the metal to get to the end of the subject on time. As it happens, now that the subject weighs so heavily on my mind, I find that there are things that constantly remind me of what America lost, the terrible state of the world today as a consequence of that loss, and the ultimate reasons behind it all.
California - A retired California state worker who claims he was interrogated by the CIA because of his psychic abilities is suing the spy agency to prove he's not making it up.
Phillip Mosier, 70, has spent most of his life savings trying to get the CIA to admit its agents questioned him in the summer of 1966 because he had stumbled upon a secret government program aimed at using telepathy as a tool for espionage.
"I don't care if I look foolish," Mosier says. "I'm telling the story the way it is, the way it happened."
Using the pen name Philip Chabot, Mosier wrote a book in 2008 about the alleged program he says was called Operation Blue Light.
Mosier said he was forced to publish the book himself because he couldn't prove what he said was true.
© Alexander Tidd / AFP / Getty ImagesThis US Navy handout image shows the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville (CG 62) underway on July 6, 2011 in the Arabian Sea. Two sailors aboard the guided missile cruiser Chancellorsville were injured and the ship was damaged when it was hit by a BQM-74 drone, launched from a naval base at Point Magu in Ventura County on the afternoon of November 16, a Navy official said.
Two sailors suffered minor burns in the incident, the Navy said in a statement.
A spokeswoman for the U.S. Third Fleet told the Associated Press that it is unclear what went wrong.
The ship sustained some damage and is returning to its home port of San Diego, the Navy said.
The sailors aboard the USS Chancellorsville were using the drone to test the ship's radar-tracking system, something done on a regular basis. The drone, a 13-foot-long aircraft with a wingspan of nearly 6 feet, was being controlled from Point Mugu.
Around 1:25 p.m., the drone slammed into the port side of the ship, a guided missile cruiser with a crew of about 300.
© UnknownFormer British media personality paedophile Jimmy Savile
A Tory MP last night sent a bombshell tape recording to the chairman of the BBC Trust which he says proves there was a 'cover-up' over the Jimmy Savile affair.
Rob Wilson has given Chris Patten a recording of Nick Pollard - who headed an independent inquiry into why the BBC's Newsnight programme axed its investigation of Savile.
On the tape, Mr Pollard is heard admitting that he made a 'mistake' by withholding a key detail from his report. He says he was told that BBC head of news, Helen Boaden, had personally informed director-general Mark Thompson of the sex abuse allegations against Savile in December 2011. Mr Pollard added he received the information in a letter from Ms Boaden's lawyer.
The assertion is at odds with Mr Thompson's claim that he was unaware of the allegations against Savile until after he left the BBC in September 2012. In his final report in December 2012, Mr Pollard stated that he had 'no reason to doubt' Mr Thompson's story.
But during the tape-recorded private conversation, Mr Pollard adds: 'It doesn't particularly reflect well on me that I overlooked this [the letter] in the report.'
© RIA Novosti. Valentina Elagina50 Feared Dead in Plane Crash in Russia’s Tatarstan
Irina Rossius said the jet, a Tatarstan Airlines Boeing 737 bound from Moscow to Kazan with 50 people on board, crashed at about 19:30 Moscow Time, adding that there was an explosion. According to preliminary data, all those on board died, she said.
The pilot tried to perform a go-around after an aborted landing, a spokesman for Federal Air Transport Agency Rosaviatsiya said, adding that the airport in Kazan is closed.
The Rossiya-24 TV channel reported that there were 44 passengers and six crew on board.
An investigation is under way, the Investigative Committee said, adding that it will send experts to the crash site. Committee chief Alexander Bastrykin will head to Kazan on Monday. The fire on the crash site has been extinguished, the committee said.
© CNNBishop Thomas Paprocki of Illinois is planning an exorcism for the state after it approved gay marriage.
According to a Catholic bishop in Springfield, Illinois, Satan was behind his state's recent legalization of same-sex marriage.
So, next Wednesday, at about the same time Gov. Pat Quinn signs the gay marriage bill into law, Bishop Thomas Paprocki will hold an exorcism ceremony "in reparation for the sin of same-sex marriage."
Paprocki, who's something of an expert on exorcism, says he's just following the Pope's marching orders.
When Pope Francis, then Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, was an archbishop in Argentina, he called that country's legalization of same-sex marriage "a 'move' of the father of lies who wishes to confuse and deceive the children of God."
In a statement released on Thursday, Paprocki said: "The pope's reference to the 'father of lies' comes from the Gospel of John, where Jesus refers to the devil as 'a liar and the father of lies.' So Pope Francis is saying that same-sex 'marriage' comes from the devil and should be condemned as such."
Since his election as Pope in March, Francis seems to have taken a less combative approach to homosexuality. At a news conference in July, for example, he said "Who am I to judge?" a gay person who seeks to be a good person.
Illinois politicians - including Catholics - cited the Pope's words when explaining their support for the state's same-sex marriage bill.
In September, the Pope said the church has no right to "interfere spiritually" in the lives of gays and lesbians and chided Catholics who "obsess" about fighting culture war issues like abortion and same-sex marriage.
The owner of a dog shot that was shot and killed by Colorado police officers is suing Commerce City and three cops for $1 million in damages.
The officers involved in the shooting of the chocolate lab/pit bull mix, Chloe, were cleared of any wrongdoing in a criminal trial.
The video of Chloe's killing went viral on the Internet and many people were horrified by what had happened and protested about the excessive use of force. That is just part of the reason that Gary Branson has decided to file the civil case.
Chloe helped Branson recover after undergoing triple bypass surgery in 2008.
"She motivated me," Branson said. "When you have a surgery like that, that's going to bring you down. She was always there to perk me up, whether it was by licking my toes or begging for a bone. She just brightened my day, every day."
Branson cites the severe emotional distress that he has suffered and, although he's already gotten another dog, he claims his life will never be the same.
"I can't replace Chloe," said Branson, "there are so many dogs being shot needlessly it needs to come to a stop."
