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- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 hour ago*Indigenous Alliance Without Borders urges solidarity in the battle against racism in Arizona, support Battle of Phoenix on May 29, 2010 * ** By Indigenous Alliance without Borders/Alianza Indigena Sin Fron...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 3 hours agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy The terminator has terminated futures for some 1.3 million citizens with sweeping budget cuts that affect only the poor. The terminator's cuts eliminate CalWorks, th...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 14 hours agoPOLITICS - In what can only be described as a war crime the Thai military has begun shooting protestors using snipers on rooftops in an effort to quell dissent in the capitol of Bangkok. The country of 64...
- posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 15 hours ago*We are accustomed to computers* that appear to be able to do virtually 'anything' for us. From running a TV studio up to sending a Tweet from the toilet. We are left to believe that in this world civiliza...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 15 hours agoData from Elections Canada They had to. .
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 22 hours ago** *MOHAWK WOMEN CONDEMN FASCIST ARIZONA LAW *Mohawk Nation News http://www.mohawknationnews.com MNN. May 14, 2010. On November 7, 2007 the Women Title Holders presented the Mohawk position to the Indigeno...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 22 hours agoGary Craig from CBS radio 96.5 TIC-FM in Connecticut, wrote and sang "Oil Spill World" in the style of Louis Armstrong. The Video was produced by Rose of WFSB channel 3 in Hartford Connecticut. See and h...
- posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoIf the "Avatar" writer/producer James Cameron had consulted with Pluto researcher Alan Stern, he might have introduced a new term to sci-fi audiences: the "Satellite Planet."
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAlthough life could have originated many times over, only one of those likely primordial events yielded the array of organisms living today.
- posted by Robert Lamb at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe 1974 horror film "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" kicks off with brilliant footage of solar flares and descends into violence and mayhem. While there's no evidence to suggest an actual link between increa...
- posted by Nicole Gugliucci at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAstronomers and space enthusiasts have been gazing at galaxies for decades and ESA's new space observatory, Herschel, is adding its powerful detection capabilities in the far-infrared to the effort.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoMike Wilson, Tohono O'odham who puts out water for migrants, says Tohono O'odham Chairman Ned Norris has no moral authority to speak on behalf of migrants, since Chairman Norris and other elected O'odham o...
- posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 1 day ago*Let me combine some peculiar instruments* for this weekend music post. Who then can better perform than *Carolina Eyck*, a young, incredibly talented * Theremin* player from Berlin, and Frank Müller-Brys ...
- posted by Talal Al-Khatib at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoIf you weren't able to read every story Discovery News published this week (we forgive you), not to worry. Discovery News has got you covered. Here are the top five stories that we've selected as this week...
- posted by Gene Charleton at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoBarbie is helping to new recruit women for the engineering profession.
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 1 day agoBill Maher makes no secret of his contempt for religion. Via his comedy routines, his political commentary, his film *Religulous*, and his duties as host of *Politically Incorrect* and now HBO's *Real Time...
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe 32nd and final flight for Atlantis is taking six astronauts and a lot of gear to the space station.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoYou see, I use you, Facebook, as part of my job. I'm a journalist and Web producer, and as soon as this blog goes live, I'll be posting a link to it on my professional Facebook page as well as ...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 day agoCANADA - Spending irregularities in MPs expense accounts caused Auditor General Sheila Fraser a year ago to request to see their receipts for $533 million and exactly what they're spending their money on. ...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 day ago21 Canadian MP's await their turn to address the crowd at this year's annual Fetus Festivus yesterday on Parliament Hill : Rod Bruinooge, Chairman of the Pro-Life Parliamentary Caucus, Harold Albrecht, D...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoFor the first time, scientists have recorded sounds emanating from inside living insects, such as flies, mosquitoes and ladybugs. Listen.
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 1 day agoCompliments to Madsennullo on Youtube ZZZZZzzzzzz.....
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoBy analyzing the genes of a 17-year-old girl who is the size of an infant, scientists hope to find ways to achieve eternal youth.
- posted by Jorge Ribas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoIt's a bacterium. And Escherichia coli is either completely benign or extremely toxic, depending on the strain. The harmless strains are part of the normal collection of gut-dwelling microbes that break do...
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoA 9.6 billion-year-old cluster of about 60 galaxies is seen by separate teams of astronomers.
- posted by Clark Boyd at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoBecause I cover tech for a radio program that does international news for an American audience, I end up doing a lot of stories on well meaning folks from the developed world (or the First World, as it was...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoAfter a bizarre chain of events, the zombie satellite currently drifting through geostationary orbit could interrupt US cable TV programming, possibly even one of the most anticipated finales of the year.
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe Deepwater Horizon oil spill continues to be absurdly bad. Even in the time it's taking me to write this post, thousands of gallons of oil have bled into the Gulf. The enormous leak is so challenging th...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe virtual environment created the illusion of being in someone else's skin.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoPoor flight ability suggests that early birds lived in trees and would launch themselves off branches in order to glide.
- *An airplane crash is a serious accident*. Flight is safe as long is aviation is secure. That implies much more than just the airplane involved. What about ground services and air traffic control? What ab...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe Humane Society of the United States testified before Congress today in support of legislation that would help to prevent deception in the fur-trimmed fashion industry.
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoOver one hundred brightly colored terracotta warriors have emerged from the Chinese site of the Terracotta Army in Xi'an.
- posted by James Williams at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoJust because your buddy dares you to eat something, doesn't mean you should. ESPECIALLY SLUGS. I look back to my early 20s and my own history of Proving-I-Will-Eat-That-For-A-Dollar and feel like there may...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 days ago** Photos copyright Ben Powless, Mohawk. World Peoples Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Photo 1: Bolivian President Evo Morales with Venezuelan President ...
- posted by Teresa Shipley at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoLizard species worldwide may already have declined past the point of no return. The reason? Rising temperatures. By 2080, researchers estimate, as much as 40 percent of lizard species worldwide could be ex...
- posted by Cristen Conger at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe oldest known bat fossil yields important clues to bats' unique senses.
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 2 days ago*When I was a kid, in the 1940's, we lived in the San Joaquin valley in California. My folks operated a little convenience store and service station, for a while, that sold beer wine and convenience food...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 days agoPhoto: Gov. Jan Brewer after signing SB 1070. *With UN Statement, Backlash to Arizona Goes International * The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights issued a statement Monday in G...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe first man to walk on the moon criticizes the administration for abandoning plans to return to the moon.
- posted by Robert Lamb at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoWhat's five times hotter than the surface of the sun and capable of sending a DeLorean back to the future? Yep, the answer is a bolt of lightning.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoNegative political ads have taken a turn for the worse, and bizarre, given the current trend of using animals to make fun of your opponent.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoCould this nanobot soon be making its way to a microscopic assembly line?
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoA technology primarily used by ecologists and biologists to analyze vegetation cuts through jungle growth and produces detailed, three-dimensional views of landscapes in a matter of hours.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 days ago*Speech by Evo Morales Ayma, President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, before the G77 + China at the United Nations *May 7, 2010 By President Evo Morales I have come here to share the conclusions of ...
- posted by Teresa Shipley at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoA woman's touch can make you more likely to take risks, researchers say.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 days agoWith U.N. statement, backlash against Arizona goes international Tucson/KGUN 9/Reporter: Sheryl Kornman and Forrest Carr http://www.kgun9.com/Global/story.asp?S=12466216 TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) - The United Natio...
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoBig black holes aren't known for budging, which is why the new finding is so unusual.
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 3 days agoLast July in Embassy Mag, Foreign Affairs officials accused political staffers within the ministry of quietly adjusting Canadian policy by eliminating phrases like "gender equality" from foreign policy mi...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoIn some regions of the world, organic farms may be a losing proposition for both wildlife and food production.
- *Jupiter is not only a giant planet* but also a gigantic mystery for astronomers and physicists. Short ago amateur-astronomers noted a conspicuous anomaly when watching it through their telescopes. One of...
- posted by Emily Laut at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoA BBC natural history unit film crew captures rare footage of a walrus attacking a floating flock of sea ducks.
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoChina is playing matchmaker with survivors of a quake that claimed tens of thousands of lives in 2008.
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThe toxic chemicals found in smoked cigarette butts make steel far more resistant to corrosion.
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 3 days agoZZZZZzzzzzz.....
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoIt's hard to keep up with the Universe these days. What with all these bullied stars, rampant black holes and wobbly physics, it's little wonder astronomers always look surprised.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 days ago*Alaska Inter-tribal Council: * *Send letters to halt oil drilling, scroll down for sample letter * In Fairbanks, on Thursday May 13, 2010, at the Morris Thompson Cultural & Visitors Center, comments will b...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoModern cows milk themselves, so why tweet, too?
- posted by Suzanne MacNevin at Lilith News - 3 days agoBy Suzanne MacNevin - May 12th 2010. ENTERTAINMENT - I apologize for using the F word and I am very sorry for it. Russell Crowe is an out of shape action hero. A has been. His time has come and gone and t...
- posted by Cristen Conger at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoShakespeare wrote in The Merchant of Venice that “love is blind and lovers cannot see.” More than 400 years later, brain imaging has offered some scientific support to that iambic verse. Looking at a brain...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoTurns out we have 2-billion year old algae to thank for our beautiful blue atmosphere.
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 3 days agoCANADA/RELIGION - Is the Conservative Party of Canada getting too cozy with a right wing Christian cult? According to a new book out called "The Armagedden Factor" there are scary new elements in Canadian ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 days ago*Chief Arvol Looking Horse: A Great Urgency To All World Religious and Spiritual Leaders * My Relatives, Time has come to speak to the hearts of our Nations and their Leaders. I ask you this from the bottom...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoA young girl was raped and murdered by a local mother; the case is shocking, but how rare is it?
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThe last time one of these fish was spotted in Sweden was in 1879.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoFor the first time, a DNA test that detects the risks of developing certain diseases will be commercially available.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoFor the first time, scientists have captured an earthquake on video at Devils Hole, where rare tiny pupfish were "shaken, not stirred."
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoAs yet another version of the Robin Hood story hits movie theaters, Olly Steads considers the legend's former incarnations.
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 3 days agoHEALTH - A total of seven kindergarten children, the school's manager and their teacher were hacked to death in the city of Hanzhong in central Chinatoday in the latest in a series of bizarre attacks. It wa...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 3 days agoHEALTH - 96 bodies have been recovered from the wreckage of a plane crash at an airport outside the Libyan capital of Tripoli. The only survivor of the crash is an 8-year-old Dutch boy. The majority of the...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 days agoBy Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ In the early 1990s, I worked on staff at Farmington Daily Times in northwest New Mexico. Farmington is a city where hate crimes by whites ...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoA Canadian animal shelter has announced that hundreds of animals will be euthanized due to a virulent strain of ringworm that has infected six staff members.
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoBuilding islands may seem like a simple way to protect Louisiana's shores, but critics say it's too simple -- and won't work.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoOld computer parts serve as a reservoir to cultivate algae, which can be harvested and used to produce biodiesel.
- posted by Emily Laut at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoScientists have discovered extremely rare fossil trails left by a suckerfish feeding along a lake bottom.
- posted by Eric Niiler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoEnergy companies used to avoid methane hydrates no matter what. Now the industry may be drilling right into danger.
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